Unfortunately, the article (link in the comments) is not open access, but please contact me if you are interested in a copy!
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The article describe the concept of * #negative #relational #labor *: producing social relation through practices such as #reducing interactions or #concealing information online. ‘Negative’ is borrowed from photographic image, whose negative allows it to stand out through empty spaces. 🌚🌝
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#Academic work is great, but usually takes an incredibly long time for just about everything. This is sometimes not only frustrating but also penalizing - especially if still looking for #job stability like me. 🥴 That's why I'm happy about this publication, which has grown with me over the years 🫶
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🎊 Finally, after more months (and rounds of review) the publication is out! I would like to sincerely thank the #editors for their trust, and the two anonymous #reviewers who appreciated my work and helped me to significantly improve the final output of the article.
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❤️🩹 Then, the first #rejection from a major journal arrived several months after the first #submission. Although I was disappointed at the time, I am grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their feedback, which helped me to restructure the text in a more robust way.
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🎒 First, the time needed to adapt the text from the main chapter of my doctoral thesis to a scientific article (yes, unfortunately, not all #PhD programs adopt a paper-based approach).
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💥 I am happy to share that my article: "Never Reveal Anything”: On Negative #Self-Branding and Relational Labor Practices of Journalists on #Platforms has been published in #Journalism Practice! 🥳
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This articles took years - literally- to see the light of day👇
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📣My analytical op-ed in @ForeignPolicy on AI-powered information warfare. Is the window for combating AI-driven propaganda is closing? Local, open-weight models let State, non-state and micro-operators run industrial-scale influence ops with no central points. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/18/a...
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INDL-8 Conference (Uma Rani)
This is "INDL-8 Conference (Uma Rani)" by ILO on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
📌 Mark your calendars: See you at the International Labor Organization in Geneva for INDL-9, September 9–11, 2026!
(Video of ILO senior economist Uma Rani announcing INDL-9 at our community gathered in Bologna, Italy: vimeo.com/1117788308/8...)
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To Fight Misinformation, We Need to Teach That Science Is Dynamic
Science is a social process, and teaching students how researchers work in tandem to develop facts will make them less likely to be duped by falsehoods
8. This has been a short and honestly rather peevish thread, so if you want read more that has been written in a more equanimous tone, here's a short piece that I coauthored a few years ago, precisely about how we deal with this kind of duplicity.
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die
July 21, 2025
AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024.
Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years.
We refuse to watch them die.
One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.”
Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness.
Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.”
Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%.
AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
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A recent study by researcher Yaakov Garb, published on the Harvard Dataverse, examines Israeli military estimates of Gaza’s population. The data reveals a sharp decline from 2.2 million to just 1.85 million.
Source: “Aid Distribution Compounds In Gaza” by Harvard Dataverse
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Opinion | Big Tech Is Finally Losing
I bring you a tiny bit of good news — courts are finally reining in Big Tech in significant ways.
We could actually be on the cusp of a totally transformed tech landscape - after 30 years of total lack of constraints.
My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link)
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YouTube video by The Internet is Crack
#33 Built to Divide
On @theinternetiscrack.bsky.social, D&S's @alicetiara.bsky.social talks about how online communication is warped by profit-driven systems, why bad actors thrive in digital spaces, and what makes civil discourse so elusive in the age of algorithmic manipulation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQvz...
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AI Models Show Signs of Falling Apart as They Ingest More AI-Generated Data
As CEOs trip over themselves to invest in AI, the models are falling apart at the seams and going mad from cannibalism.
I remember writing a couple a years ago on Twitter about how this would happen.
More AI slop published online means the AI itself consumes more AI slop as source material, which causes the AI slop to become even sloppier.
futurism.com/ai-models-fa...
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The title of the primer “ScamGPT: GenAI and the Automation of Fraud,” by Lana Swartz, Alice E. Marwick and Kate Larson, surrounded by line drawings of a dreamy-looking woman, a man holding a phone, fish hooks ensnaring various technological objects, and a hand holding a phone displaying an AI program alongside some cash.
📣 Just published! This primer by @lanalanalana.bsky.social, @alicetiara.bsky.social and Kate Larson maps what we know about generative AI’s role in scams, the communities most at risk, and the broader economic and cultural shifts at play. 1/4 datasociety.net/library/scam...
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The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI
Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
“Ton-That, who obsessed over race, IQ, and hierarchy, solicited input from eugenicists and right-wing extremists while building Clearview (…)
he and his associates discussed deploying the tech against immigrants, people of color, and the political left” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Welcome Geert Lovink to @upf.edu > Conference "From Platform Brutality to Social Media Alternatives” March 31 - 10.00 hs More info here: eventum.upf.edu/132602/detai... @jainamarguerrero.bsky.social @valvevalen.bsky.social @lauraperezaltable.bsky.social @cpontsorribes.bsky.social
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Elon Musk seeks Italian presidential meeting to salvage Starlink deal
Domestic political opposition to $1.5bn deal for secure communications has mounted amid transatlantic diplomatic tensions
The Italian deal with Musk’s Starlink for secure satellite communications threatens European security. Europe needs a ‘Buy European Act’ for defense and critical digital infrastructure. www.ft.com/content/ea7e...
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Another industry facing the threat of AI automation: drone shows
restofworld.org/2025/dubai-d...
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That video is symbolic of an aggressive, exaggerated and hallucinatory communication strategy designed to stun us into believing that there is a King of the World. Spoiler alert: there is not. What does exist is people power.
27.02.2025 11:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Whenever that riviera video garbage passes before my eyes, I can't help but think of #UrsulaK.LeGuin 's quote: "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings".
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Professor of Political Communication - University of Vienna
Europe observer.
Brussels correspondent/columnist for NRC, Foreign Policy, De Standaard, EUobserver. www.carolinedegruyter.eu
Book: what the EU can learn from the Habsburg Empire - available in five languages
It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Postdoc Researcher in Sociology
University of Milan
gianmarco.peterlongo@unimi.it
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PhD and PostDocs @ University of Naples in Ethics and Tech implications of AI, Governance and Digital society
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Consistenze/Coesistenze Seminars and Summer School | 02-06/25
European Research Council, set up by the EU, funds top researchers of any nationality, helping them pursue great ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. #HorizonEU
We are a collaborative journalism network devoted to pursuing the work of silenced reporters around the world.
https://forbiddenstories.org/
Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
A brand new interdisciplinary, international journal exploring how digitalisation has changed our world. Articles are in dialogue format with each article having peer commentary. https://journals-sagepub-com.may.idm.oclc.org/home/DDS
Research associate in social media governance and internet more generally @CMPF @EUI
Author of a growing pile of books (Solidarity; The Age of Insecurity; Remake the World; Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss it When It's Gone; The People's Platform), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
New here.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
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Whatever works in life and pronouns. Author of Silicon Elsewhere (University of California Press, 2026). https://www.ucpress.edu/books/silicon-elsewhere/paper
Platforms & Society hosts critical social science and humanities research on platforms and platformization, examining their impacts on and embeddedness in economies, cultures, and institutions around the world.
The Data Workers’ Inquiry is a community-based research project in which data workers lead their own inquiry in their respective workplaces.
https://data-workers.org
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📚Research Fellow at University of Naples “Federico II” 👾 gameoftech.eu
📖Visiting Fellow at Data Justice Lab
📣Org. Tech Workers Coalition Italia
📰EiC “Feminisms” liberopensiero.eu
Professor of Political Theory. Technology, politics, ethics and war are my main preoccupations. Lately also the Apocalypse.
Associate Professor, Deputy Head @lsemedia.bsky.social
Research on digital journalism/ war reporting/ mediated history/ communication geopolitics
Editor @ Middle East Journal of Culture & Communication
The Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @nuqatar.bsky.social produces & promotes evidence-based storytelling focused on histories, cultures, societies, & media of the Global South.
