OnlineFirst - "An emerging epistemic community: Power relations in international sustainability standardisation" by Assiya Kenzhegaliyeva and Asbjørn Karlsen:

#standards #epistemiccommunity #powerrelations #experts #circulareconomy

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X261447121

Digital autonomy ?

"Australia’s digital policy shouldn’t be dictated by large platforms or external geopolitical actors."

"The “digital sovereignty” movement in the European Union (EU) can show us the way. European countries are gradually breaking up with American tech giants and pushing for local AI development, all in the name of achieving digital autonomy."

"The ultimate goal here is digital autonomy. It means reducing reliance on systems vulnerable to growing geopolitical and economic risks. If you make your own devices and host your data locally, you’re not at the mercy of multinational corporations whose interests may not align with your own."

"Decentralised social media ecosystems allow independently operated communities to communicate across shared protocols without being controlled by a single corporation. One such example is the Fediverse, which includes platforms like micro-blogging site Mastodon and video sharing site PeerTube." >>
https://theconversation.com/nearly-everything-we-use-online-is-owned-by-big-tech-theres-a-better-way-forward-282969

Federated Networks (The Fediverse):
https://jointhefediverse.net/learn/?lang=en-us

But in Bellingen, NSW they are clinging to foreign owned platforms. Here communication communicates via facebook or its is not. (Could be a Niklas Luhmann quote)
#communication #CommunicationSystems #DigitalSpaces #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalCommunities #DataSovereignty #OpenSource #DataPortability #BigTech #platforms #EconomicImperatives #PlatformCapitalism #MonopolisticPlatforms #CorporateOwnership #SeigniorialPower #seigneurialism #manorialism #PowerRelations #AI #SocialMedia #fediverse #governance #DiscursiveSpace #democracy #autonomy #agora #PublicSphere #PublicSpheresOfProduction

“…everything we do is also geopolitical…”

Can’t remember who (sorry!) suggested this ‘Why little Lithuania has big plans for space tech’ article by MaryLou Costa (published by the BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation, link below) but I was struck by Dominykas Milasius’ concluding statement:

‘ "And everything we do is also geopolitical… we have to build up critical value offerings, sciences and other critical technologies, to make our allies understand that it's probably good to protect Lithuania." ‘

Wondering what it is that any country, or group of countries, has to offer allies/ potential allies; or specifically what the US has (left) to offer? 😐

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2ezl7xqyo

#MaryLouCosta #BBC #Lithuania #spaceTech #allies #geopolitical #powerRelations #USPol

@fixatedpersonsunit

Totally agree & think this shift in power (biggest losers being commercial old media) needs to be explored more… it’s a big change in some thinking (some previously set-in-cement assumptions that have conditioned a lot of actions). John Quiggin refers to it as: “the exposure of Newscorp as a paper tiger”.

#commercialOldMedia #AusPol #AusPol2025 #powerRelations #NewsCorp #ReconnectingConsequencesToCauses

Happy Tenth Birthday Canadian Food Studies!

#HappyBirthday #TenYearsOld

GMO doublespeak: An analysis of power and discourse in Canadian debates over agricultural biotechnology

Wesley Tourangeau

#GMO #Discourse #Agriculture #Canada #Biotech #GeneticallyModified #PowerRelations

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/208

GMO doublespeak: An analysis of power and discourse in Canadian debates over agricultural biotechnology

Wesley Tourangeau

#GMcrops #GMO #GeneticallyModified #Biotechnology #Agriculture #Canada #CanAg #PowerRelations #Discourse

#OpenScholarship from Canadian Food Studies (CFS)

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/208/180

CRITICAL LIBRARIANSHIP IN PRAXIS
instructor: Emily Drabinski

Apply using QR code or link in bio!

#critlib #criticallibrarianship #librarianship #powerrelations #libraries #archives #librarywork #libraryworkers #criticaltheory #criticalstudies #continuingeducation #cataloging #classification #libraryjustice #justice #socialjustice #praxis #futurity

Somebody (I forget who) asked me about that Dr. David Smail quote the other day. I brought up the Adverse Childhood Experience Study (ACE). Well, here is this also. It's only 9 minutes and really good.

#MentalHealth #PowerRelations

Why Hierarchy Creates a Destructive Force Within the Hunan Psyche, by Dr. #RobertSapolsky:

https://youtu.be/A4UMyTnlaMY