Friends, I'm happy to announce that my paper with Dr. Émile P. Torres (Dr. Émile P. Torres), The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence, is finally out on this issue of First Monday.
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New issue of First Monday just dropped w/ articles on AI by Abeba Birhane Frank Pasquale, Jose Van Dijk & @[email protected] on Mastodon Dr. Émile P. Torres & a terrific looking article by Esther Mwema & Abeba Birhane on underseas cables as the new frontiers of digital colonialism in Africa firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…

Excited for our book to be linked to the #SuperConnected tour and look forward to catching up with Tim Arnold down the road

Get Data Grab from Penguin Books UK #SuperConnected #DataGrab

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Do join me and Ulises Ali Mejias if you are in the NYC area on Wednesday night. This new book develops our previous work on #datacolonialism for the age of GenAI and for a general audience! Look forward to seeing you

Great analysis by @[email protected] of growing crisis Goldsmiths, University of London and UK/US university sectors generally, drawing on my dear friends Des Freedman Des Freedman and @henrygiroux2. A generation-defining struggle where Goldsmiths management is on the wrong side theguardian.com/education/2024…

A ‘decolonise’ conference that’s rejected a panel on Palestine because they only want topics that aren’t divisive 🙃 tells you everything you need to know about ‘decolonisation’ and UK universities 🫠

Excited to be part of this. Thanks to stefania milan (@[email protected]) for steering this great special issue through to the finishing line!

It's here! I'm thrilled to announce that my new book 'Counting Feminicide: Data Feminism in Action' with The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social is here! mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048873/…
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This deeply moving reflection by my dear former colleague Angela McRobbie is a devastating and searching analysis not just of what has gone wrong at Goldsmiths, but across the whole UK university sector. Do read if you care about the coming disaster: versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/ne…

If you're interested in hearing about my #DataGrab book with Ulises Ali Mejias in a new context, check out this video recorded with UK musician Tim Arnold - Super Connected for his upcoming #SuperConnected tour. Was great fun!! youtube.com/watch?v=H-mG1i… and podcast here bit.ly/3TLsAWC

Am thrilled the first event in Ulises Ali Mejias's and my mini East coast tour to celebrate the launch of Data Grab (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…) will be at Emerson College, Boston next Tuesday, thanks to my dear friend Russ Newman. To register, sign up here: forms.gle/RTo9HrWFejBhin…

Most lives could be much shorter, too, if we insisted on measuring their worth against brutal, joyless utilitarian metrics.

What happens when AI gets hyped like crazy as an automated educator? It leads to a 'belief that you can just deliver a quality, higher education experience through the punch of a button' - and bust strike action to boot
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A truly important book

Really excited to be back in New York and back at IPK next month to present my and Ulises Ali Mejias 's new book #datagrab

If you’re interested in reading more about the #Smartphone Vs humanity debate, go to the #SuperConnected site (bit.ly/3S8qwGt) and look for Offerings/Books from these amazing writers douglas rushkoff Sherry Turkle NICK COULDRY MASTODON @[email protected] Jonathan Haidt Johann Hari Nir Eyal

This interview gives a good summary of Ulises Ali Mejias and my framework of #datacolonialism : lse.ac.uk/research/resea…

I got to know Achille Mbembe's work in NICK COULDRY MASTODON @[email protected] class at LSE on media, data and social order.

He's one of the foremost thinkers of postcolonial Africa.

I'm happy that He becomes Africa’s first Holberg Prize laureate

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💡 Do we really know how much data we’re giving away?
In this #LSEResearchForTheWorld article NICK COULDRY MASTODON @[email protected] explores how big tech companies use our data and repackage it to manipulate our views, track our movements & discriminate against us.
Read it here👇
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