Simon Lindgren

@simonlindgren
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Critical Theory • Data Science • Technopolitics • Professor of Sociology
wwwsimonlindgren.com; digsum.org
Our Journal of Digital Social Research has a #cfp out for a special issue on Methodological Developments in Visual Politics and Protest https://www.jdsr.io/call-for-papers

My first ever toot!

Seems appropriate to announce it here first: I'm co-organizing a symposium on algorithmic amplification at the Knight Institute at Columbia. Paper workshop on Apr 27 + public event on Apr 28. Send abstracts by Jan 2.

"Optimizing for What? Algorithmic Amplification and Society" https://knightcolumbia.org/blog/call-for-participation-optimizing-for-what-algorithmic-amplification-and-society

What a day to announce it — one of the foremost teams researching amplification has been gutted. But that only makes studying it all the more important.

Call for Participation: Optimizing for What? Algorithmic Amplification and Society

Fascinating happenings at Twitter tonight. This tweet of mine, which quoted the internal layoff email, was getting retweeted every ten seconds and then suddenly dropped STONE COLD dead.

You know, free speech and all.

International Creative Research Methods Conference

Helen Kara
We have an open position for a PhD candidate to focus on digital technology and politics at DIGSUM — Centre for Digital Social Research at Umea University. Deadline for application: 21 November #phd #research #socialjustice https://digsum.org/phd-digital-politics
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