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Cornelia Brantner Aug 12, 2024

Geomedia Speaker Series!
Nick Couldry will explore how Big Tech, especially social media platforms, have reshaped the spaces of our social world, transforming the way we live, connect, and engage in civil society. This talk is a must for anyone interested in understanding the profound impact of digital platforms on our daily lives and the future of human solidarity.
Don't miss this opportunity to engage with one of the leading voices in media and cultural studies!
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Cornelia Brantner Jul 2, 2023

Kate Starbird Jul 2, 2023

In ~2014, my colleague & I argued that social media (esp. Twitter) had become part of the critical infrastructure of disaster response. People were turning to Twitter during crises to share information about impacts and resources. Disaster responders were using the data shared there for situational awareness, and were communicating in real-time with their constituents. Today’s events underscore just how dangerous it is for society to come to rely on private platforms as critical infrastructure.

Cornelia Brantner Mar 28, 2023

Francois Heinderyckx Mar 27, 2023

Terrific article by @natematias in WIRED suggesting to learn the lessons of failures in public health policies to avoid repeating them in the area of big tech:
“public health, like the technology industry, has systematically failed marginalized communities in ways that are not accidents.”
“The tech industry, like public health, has encoded inequality into its systems and institutions.”
#BigTech #Regulation #Policy

https://www.wired.com/story/tech-governance-public-health/

To Hold Tech Accountable, Look to Public Health

The field of public health has transformed medicine, yet failed the most vulnerable. This trajectory can be avoided.

WIRED

Cornelia Brantner Mar 6, 2023

5 days left to submit! #Geomedia 2023 on Digital Geographies of Hope. We encourage critical investigations of digital geographies that seek to identify hope and hopeful constellations in the current digitized world. https://events.tuni.fi/geomedia2023/

Geomedia 2023 | Digital Geographies of Hope | Tampere Universities

Digital Geographies of Hope on Geomedia 2023…

Geomedia 2023

Cornelia Brantner Feb 20, 2023

Francois Heinderyckx Feb 19, 2023

Rumman Chowdhury: “Musk’s Twitter is simply a further manifestation of how self-regulation by tech companies will never work, and it highlights the need for genuine oversight. We must equip a broad range of people with the tools to pressure companies into acknowledging and addressing uncomfortable truths about the AI they’re building. Things have to change.” @ruchowdh https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/02/elon-musk-twitter-ethics-algorithm-biases/673110/

I Watched Elon Musk Kill Twitter’s Culture From the Inside

This bizarre episode in social-media history proves that it’s well past time for meaningful tech oversight.

The Atlantic

Cornelia Brantner Jan 31, 2023

netzpolitik.org Jan 27, 2023

Die gemeinnützige Organisation AlgorithmWatch möchte den intransparenten Algorithmus von TikTok durchleuchten. Sie bittet darum, persönliche Daten an AlgorithmWatch zu spenden https://netzpolitik.org/2023/tiktok-algorithmwatch-ruft-zu-datenspenden-auf/

TikTok: AlgorithmWatch ruft zu Datenspenden auf

Wie steuert TikTok den Feed seiner Nutzer:innen? AlgorithmWatch möchte diese Frage beantworten und ruft zu Datenspenden auf.

netzpolitik.org

Cornelia Brantner Jan 15, 2023

Damian Trilling Jan 15, 2023

Jobs for assistant professors in communication on "Communication, information and social inequalities in a digital world" at the University of Groningen: https://www.rug.nl/let/sectorplan/positions-in-prosperity-participation-and-citizenship-in-a-digital-world @communicationscholars #commodon (deadline 31 januari)

Positions in Communication, information and social inequalities in a digital world

This theme focuses on how digital media and technologies change communication and public debate. How are social, cultural and political participation...

University of Groningen

Cornelia Brantner Jan 15, 2023

Wolfie Christl Jan 13, 2023

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🚨NEW: The @[email protected] has told people facing deportation they must scan their fingerprints several times a day using devices installed with GPS technology.

Campaigners say this is "another step towards the total surveillance of migrants."
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/13/potential-deportees-fingerprint-scanners-gps-tracking-home-office-plans?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NicolaKelly/status/1613920235177877504

UK plans GPS tracking of potential deportees by fingerprint scanners

Charities say 24/7 monitoring for people on bail from immigration detention risk ‘total surveillance’

The Guardian