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Anne Kaun

@annekaun.bsky.social

Prof of media and communication studies //// interested in Digital Activism, Prison Media, Automated Decision-Making, Algorithms, AI /// Co-host of @MPodden

494 Followers  |  51 Following  |  10 Posts  |  Joined: 02.10.2023
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THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole.

Why?

Because an algorithm said so. 1/

11.04.2025 01:00 — 👍 10526    🔁 4677    💬 483    📌 582
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It’s soon publication day for our book. Very excited to see it in print.

30.01.2025 11:51 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Finally my article on temporalities of welfare automation is out. I am exploring three temporal tropes. The manuscript was initially lost in some kind of review loop but is finally seeing the light. Time in academia is weird thing...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

22.01.2025 16:48 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Updated Keywords for Media, Culture & Information textaural.com/keywords/ with Resistance Stefania Milan; Programmable politics @simonlindgren.bsky.social en.bsky.social @annekaun.bsky.social sky.social; Convenience @msteinbrg.bsky.social brg.bsky.social @joshua-neves.bsky.social eves.bsky.social

17.12.2024 18:22 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Künstliche Intelligenz im öffentlichen Sektor Der UNESCO Fachbeirat "Ethik der Künstlichen Intelligenz" lädt in Kooperation mit dem Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung der ÖAW und der ÖAW-Kommission „Demokratie in Digitalen Gesellschaften“ zu ...

🔮 @annekaun.bsky.social will give a keynote on #AI in the #publicsector on 10th March in #Vienna. Afterwards we'll discuss in a panel with @allhutter.bsky.social @bprainsack.bsky.social Stefanie Büchner and Peter Biegelbauer. #UNESCO @oeaw.bsky.social

www.oeaw.ac.at/detail/veran...

19.12.2024 21:12 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Forskare behöver ta mer plats i det offentliga rummet - Universitetsläraren Att akademin och offentligheten glider ifrån varandra är skadligt för både forskningen och demokratin. Arbetsgivare behöver därför uppvärdera ”den tredje uppgiften” och göra den meriterande. Lärosäten...

Skrivit i facktidningen om Pirates of the Caribbean II: Dead man’s chest. Även om forskarens roll som offentlig intellektuell. universitetslararen.se/2024/12/18/f...

18.12.2024 09:39 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Check out our paper on how we now live in an age of Programmable Politics #programmablepolitics @annekaun.bsky.social

17.12.2024 15:23 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Vanishing act: The disappearance of printed newspapers - Fredrik Stiernstedt, Anne Kaun, 2024 Although it has been said for some decades that printed newspapers are dying, they are still in existence; however, Swedish newspapers have entered a new era. T...

our article on the disappearance of printed news is out! you can print it out if you prefer paper or read it on screen. in any case read it.

Fredrik Stiernstedt & Anne Kaun (2024). Vanishing Act: The Disappearance of Printed Newspapers. Journalism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

10.12.2024 20:32 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Artificiell intelligens i offentlig sektor – ja, men på rätt sätt | Dagens Arena Utvecklingen måste ske på rätt grunder med välfärd och medborgarintresse i centrum.

Jag skrev en sak som kopplar ihop AI kommissionens färdplan för Sverige med Försäkringskassans AI verktyg för att identifiera bidragsfusk. Trodde att just det senare skulle få mer uppmärksamhet i den offentliga debatten. Men tydligen inte.

www.dagensarena.se/opinion/arti...

09.12.2024 12:01 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Programmable politics in the aftermaths of the pandemic - Simon Lindgren, Anne Kaun, 2024 This Crosscurrent contribution presents programmable politics as an emerging keyword for understanding the complex interplay between technology, society and pol...

Me and @annekaun.bsky.social have published a piece introducing the notion of "Programmable Politics" as an emerging keyword that highlights the impact of platform architectures, algorithms, AI, and non-human agency on the political landscape 🤖 doi.org/10.1177/0163...

06.12.2024 13:26 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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NEW from @davidthewid.bsky.social @meredithmeredith.bsky.social and I in Nature: we break down the political economy around ‘open’ AI and how it’s been wielded in corporate lobbying to exacerbate rather than reduce corporate concentration. Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

02.12.2024 18:44 — 👍 98    🔁 45    💬 6    📌 1
The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection | Nordicom “The digital backlash” covers a range of social and cultural practices of digital disconnection, as well as critiques of the impact of digital technologies and platforms in the world today. Through ca...

The first entry in #AskeXmas:

"The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection", edited by @krisalbris.bsky.social, @annekaun.bsky.social, and others. A whole book about the cultural pushback against the thorough digitalization of modern life.

www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publicati...

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01.12.2024 14:00 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Sweden’s Suspicion Machine Behind a veil of secrecy, the social security agency deploys discriminatory algorithms searching for fraud epidemic it has invented

Hot off the presses! New investigation from @lhreports.bsky.social reveals that "secretive algorithms deployed in Sweden's vaunted welfare system cast suspicion on innocent women & migrants while ignoring men & the affluent." www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

27.11.2024 13:01 — 👍 62    🔁 29    💬 3    📌 9
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I do a lot of FOIA and I’m used to stonewalling. But Sweden surprised me. After 3 years of telling me no, a high level official at Sweden’s welfare agency Försäkringskassan accidentally left me on cc, writing “Now we must hope that we are done with him.”

27.11.2024 12:55 — 👍 168    🔁 71    💬 6    📌 21
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OpenAI is funding research into 'AI morality' | TechCrunch OpenAI is funding academic research at Duke into algorithms that can predict humans' moral judgements.

Arsonists funding research on fire safety.

23.11.2024 16:09 — 👍 179    🔁 51    💬 7    📌 10
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CHRISTINA GRATORP: Millenniumhaveriet är bara ett exempel Varför liknar så ofta teknikupphandlingar i offentliga sektorn en arbetsmaknadsåtgärd för ingenjörer? Christina Gratorp påminner om pusselbiten som saknas: marknadsekonomin.

Har skrivit om den offentliga sektorns många havererade IT-upphandlingar
www.expressen.se/kultur/ide/m...

21.11.2024 06:28 — 👍 100    🔁 39    💬 17    📌 6
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Om du bara har tid med en debattartikel idag, läs den här! www.dn.se/debatt/nar-d...

19.11.2024 07:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mera bildning åt alla. Läs vår nya sommarkurs Digitala medier, desinformation och källkritik på distans! Sista ansökningsdag imorgon 15/3. Högt aktuell och redan ganska stark söktryck men det finns plats till dig med: www.sh.se/program--kur...

14.03.2024 10:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Vi skriver i dagens arena om kriminalvård och teknologi som icke-lösning: www.dagensarena.se/opinion/tekn...

22.02.2024 07:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Are you enjoying your in between days of drifting but are starting to get a bit bored? Perfect state for reading an accessible article on the role of Swedish welfare service centers for the digitalization ideology varsågod journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

28.12.2023 08:59 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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MKV-podden is back with a new episode! This time with our dear friend Jannie Møller Hartley discussing her latest book on Data Publics open.spotify.com/episode/4kMW...

02.12.2023 18:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This first review of our book Prison Media published by @mitpress.bsky.social in the distribution matters series ed. by Joshua Braun and Ramon Lobato really moved me. It came at the very right moment. mitpress.mit.edu/978026254549...

15.11.2023 20:44 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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DN Debatt. ”En trygg vård kräver människor – inte maskiner” Fem experter på vård och samhällsfrågor om riskerna med att den som ringer 1177 möts av en chattbot och inte en person.

Bra inlägg om automatiserad vård och vårdrådgivning av bl.a. @annekaun.bsky.social

16.10.2023 10:43 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0