Christina Hecht

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New article out in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social!
"Toward a platform–labor–territory nexus: Platform-driven deterritorialization and reterritorialization processes in the Chilean Andes"
by #sfb1265 PhD Scholar @jyelee.bsky.social 👇📰
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New Publication with my wonderful colleagues Kübra Gencal and Emma Luna Brahm
Beyond remembrance - Spatial dynamics in commemorating racist violence in #Solingen and #Rostock
Abstract:
This paper explores the conflicting commemoration practices surrounding #far-right and racially motivated, 1/

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Call for Papers: Mixed Methods Research for Socio-Spatial Studies - Vivien Sommer, Daniela Stoltenberg, Ludovica Tomarchio, 2025

📢 Call for Papers: Together with @viviensommer.bsky.social and Ludovica Tomarchio, we are editing an interdisciplinary Special Issue on Mixed Methods Research for Socio-Spatial Studies in the Journal of Mixed Methods Research. Full papers welcome until 28 February 2026!
doi.org/10.1177/1558...

PhD position in the field of Political Economy of Technological Change bei Hochschule für Politik München The Professorship Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Timo Seidl) invites applications for a PhD position in the field of Political Economy of Technological Change

🚨 Want to join me at the Technical University of Munich? I’m hiring a PhD student (100%) in the area of the political economy of technological change!

📅 Apply by 18 May | Start Date: July (flexible)

🔗 More info & how to apply: hfp.heyrecruit.de?page=job&id=...

❓Reach out if you have any questions

The mental tyranny of AI writing An arduously long blog post

I wrote a very long blog post about AI writing. I hope you'll read it.

meresophistry.substack.com/p/the-mental...

📢Das neue Schwerpunktheft zu „StadtRaum und Eigentum“ ist soeben im Berliner Journal erschienen. Mit Beiträgen aus dem #sfb1265 zu Airbnb und Wohnungspolitik!

people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙

Digitale Plattformen und Gentrifizierung: „Ostberlin ist in der Hand von Airbnb“ Welchen Einfluss hat die Vermietungsplattform auf Großstädte wie Berlin? Ein Interview mit den So­zio­lo­g:in­nen Christina Hecht und Simon Pohl.

„Ostberlin ist in der Hand von Airbnb“
#sfb1265 Forschende Christina Hecht & Simon Pohl sprechen im Interview mit Jonas Wahmkow über Regulierungsversuche und den Einfluss der Vermietungsplattform in Berlin und anderen Städten⬇️
#airbnb #wohnen #gentrifizierung #taz
taz.de/Digitale-Pla...

The Digital Space of Berlin’s Housing Market: A Look at Twitter  - SFB 1265 „Re-Figuration von Räumen“ “Nice and loud protest outside of #Meuterei in #Kreuzberg! Great weather and good atmosphere! #MeutereiStays #SyndikatStays #PotseStays #DrugstoreStays #Liebig34Stays #g17Stays #RummelbuchtStays #Dies...

📢New Blogpost!
Where do Twitter users locate the #HousingCrisis?
#sfb1265 postdoc @dstoltenberg.bsky.social offers some insights from her new book "The spaces of public issues" on the links between digital media and the way places are invoked in political debates⬇️
sfb1265.de/blog/the-dig...

ich suche Literaturtipps für ethnographische Beobachtungen von Großdemonstrationen.

Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences This study explores how researchers’ analytical choices affect the reliability of scientific findings. Most discussions of reliability problems in ...

Why haven't I read this earlier?

t.co/pTrQvEhZBT

Cartography of generative AI:
cartography-of-generative-ai.net

Yes, give me the map-splaining. Give me the materiality of digital media. Show me the labour.

hello bsky historians: are there any good resources for tips about how to navigate gaining access to corporate archives?

Gut, dann hört der ganze Quatsch hoffentlich bald auf!

Danke 💕🐢

Zugezogen maskulin - Tanz auf dem Vulkan (aber nur kurz in einer Zeile)

Art meme depicting three ladies, probably from the 18th or 19th century. One of them says "You look great! What's your secret?". Then she answers "boundaries".

Also:
- enough rest
- hobbies
- not overidentifying with my inner academic

Yours?

#academicsky

"Puzzling Spaces and Theoretical Puzzles" - Together with Stefan Kirchner I wrote a short piece for the @sfb1265.bsky.social blog describing how we work with spatial figures in our project on spatial conflicts in the platform economy, namely Airbnb: sfb1265.de/blog/puzzlin...

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Dreijährige 75% WiMi Stelle in Bremen in meinem Projekt. Qualitative Sozialforschung, Gesellschaftstheorie, Verschwörungstheorietheorie: sagt es weiter und bei Fragen: gern Email an mich.

www.uni-bremen.de/universitaet...

How AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Bard work – visual explainer In the last year, chatbots powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) are everywhere and even … useful. But how do they work?

Brilliant explainer on how Large Language Models work.

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

It’s time to start talking about how much compute we actually need as a society, instead of how much major tech companies are incentivized to force us to collectively use.