In diesem Jahr fehlen uns noch 250.000 Euro. Wir brauchen deine Unterstützung, denn unsere Arbeit ist fast ausschließlich spendenfinanziert.
Spende jetzt unter:
netzpolitik.org/digitalfights
Kann aus eigener Erfahrung sagen: super Team + Einbindung in den @sfb1265.bsky.social = wunderbare Möglichkeit, um zu Airbnb/Plattformen zu forschen! Beantworte gerne Fragen dazu :)
📣 Job alert! 📣
For my Emmy Noether group on local digital public spheres, I'm hiring 3 predoc research associates who are interested in doing qualitative/mixed-methods research on local communication environments. Apply until 02 Jan 2026!
www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...
Time to share some news I've been sitting on: starting in January, I will lead a @dfg.de Emmy Noether Group at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social! We will investigate how local public spheres are constituted under conditions of digitalization & globalization.
www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/research/...
Datenzugänge für Forschung wegvereinfachen…und damit auch unser Verständnis von Plattformen.
📢Call for applications! #jobs
With our next funding phase due to start in January, we are now looking to fill a range of positions!
If you're interested in socio-spatial change and are looking for a PhD, postdoc or student assistant position, take a browse here:
sfb1265.de/en/aktuelles...
We’re thrilled to share that the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (@dfg.de) will fund the #SFB1265 for a third funding phase! 🚀🎊🎉
This support allows us to continue our research on socio-spatial change and deepen our interdisciplinary work!
More to come soon!
www.tu.berlin/news/pressem...
What drives polarization in public discourse? I suggest looking at how social figures are constructed and used in the media and everyday political conversations. “The climate activist” in German media and popular discourse serves as a good example.
More here: doi.org/10.1162/euso...
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: 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...
🚨 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
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. 💙
„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...
📢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.
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)
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...
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...