PGMT LabWe are excited to share the news that lab member @rscarlets got elected to the 2025-2027 @AoIR Executive Committee (Open Seat)! The Committee will take office in October 2025 at #AoIR2025 conference in Brazil.
Rebecca Scharlach
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Postdoctoral Researcher PGMT lab @ Uni Bremen | CITAP affiliate | Platform Governance research |
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Tama LeaverYour 2025-2027 @AoIR Executive Committee, taking office in October 2025 at #AoIR2025 ...
President: Sarah Roberts
Vice President: Andra Siibak
Immediate Past President: Nicholas John
Secretary: Nathalie Schäfer
Treasurer: Robert W. Gehl
Graduate Student Rep: Lynrose Jane Genon
Open Seats: Admire Mare, Rebecca Scharlach, & Meg Jing Zeng.
Looks like the future of AoIR is in great hands! Thanks to everyone who ran, and everyone who voted!
We are hosting the #AoIR2025Symposium (small conference) with the PGMT Lab here in Bremen!
Two packed days "From Platform Governance to Generative AI", with plenary speakers Tarleton Gillespie, @Nhelberger, @tpoell, @ubiquity75, @jilliancyork.
We have just published the detailed programme and opened registration for non-speakers:
📆 3-4 June 2025, Bremen, Germany
ℹ️ Info and Programme: https://platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpoint-symposium-2025/
✍️ Direct Link to Registration (10-50$): https://members.aoir.org/event-6113333
See you in Bremen!
📘 “We do not marshal your feed’: How Alt Tech platforms (re)conceptualise safety”
New paper by our lab members @Palomaviejo and @rscarlets published today in the Platforms & Society Journal!
This study dives deep into how #AltTechPlatforms reinterpret the #value of #safety challenging mainstream social media norms.
Using a mixed-method approach, the authors reveal that these platforms reject traditional safety measures, framing them as #censorship.
👉 Full article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29768624251327703
📣 Online Talk Series (15): @blakeplease & @reynoldscj - “Malcontents as method: How bad actors offer an alternative vision of good governance on social media”
🗓️January 28, 2025 🕛3-4 pm (CET) 📍Online Event
👉 To the Event and Registration: https://platform-governance.org/online-talk-series/session-15-blake-hallinan-cj-reynolds-malcontents-as-method-how-bad-actors-offer-an-alternative-vision-of-good-governance-on-social-media/
📣 Together with @AoIR, we are pleased to announce the next #AoIRFlashpointSymposium, entitled "From Platform Governance to Generative AI: Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance", which will be hosted by the PGMT Lab in Bremen, on 3 and 4 June 2025.
Submissions are now open. The deadline is 15 February 2025.
The complete Call for Papers, more information on the symposium and the link for submissions are available here: https://platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpoint-symposium-2025/
📄 “The TikTok Ban Paradox: How Platform Restrictions Create What They Aim to Prevent”
Check out our lab member @rscarlets's new blog post on the paradox of the TikTok ban, co-authored with Alex Turvy for @techpolicypress: https://www.techpolicy.press/the-tiktok-ban-paradox-how-platform-restrictions-create-what-they-aim-to-prevent/
Alex Turvy & I wrote a piece out now in Tech Policy Press exploring the paradoxes of social media bans. We focus on the looming US #tiktokban but also discuss Australia’s upcoming age-based social media restrictions.
Excited about this collab and happy to see it out in the world. :)
I'm prepping for my 1st expert interview and this recorder gives me melancholic flashbacks. Back in my BA, I used to be a tutor for "media practice" at the University of Siegen and would teach fellow undergrads how to operate cameras and zoom audio recorders to create short films and podcasts 🥹
