1/2 Join the book launch of 'The Politics of Platformization', a series of Amsterdam-based interviews, and the roundtable with Anne Helmond Thomas Poell @bodobalazs Paddy Leerssen @nielsvdoorn @nielstenoever Geert Lovink @Molly_Ulysses stefania milan Davide Beraldo Giovanni Rossetti Martijn de Waal

Can't we simply stop calling them "question rounds" and start calling them "comments rounds" to avoid the whole "more than a question this is a comment (optionally disguised as question)" thing? #QuestionTime

The comment section of a (itself decent) L'HuffPost post about 'Will "AI" make us useless' reminds me how we live in a society where people are terrified at the idea that robots will make us work less. If only a dude with a long beard had put some thoughts on it 150y ago...

Am I just being paranoid or does is it really look like #chatGPT will make everybody work less except for teachers - who will actually have to work more? #CorCazzo

📢Looking back at our #DigitalEconomy Symposium of Dec 2022 - exploring the frontiers of #research on #sharing, #platforms and #regulation 📺Watch all recorded talks: youtube.com/watch?v=AKZxao… 📄Read the conference report here: plamadiso.weizenbaum-institut.de/symposium-repo… 🙏Share, like, subscribe!🚀

Insightful and entertaining event put together by Gianmarco Cristofari at Spui25 on the #platformization in the EU - and the Amsterdam way to study it (too many speakers to tag...)

Maybe the problem with platform capitalism has less to do with platforms, and more to do with capitalism #PlatformMarxism

Funda.nl just advertised to me a 4 million euros house and nirvana t-shirt in the same page. We sure live in the surveillance society, but maybe they are not as smart as we think 🤔

And, yet again, the most acute, deep, thought-provoking sociopolitical critique of our times comes from... #SouthPark #ChatGPT #BigTech youtube.com/watch?v=GbIk5G…

1 year since our marking strike, our colleagues are still being replaced. Casual UvA is organizing a demonstration as a first expression of our continuing frustrations. This demonstration is for those who are unfamiliar with our struggle and who wish to learn. See you all there!

Join the demonstration TOMORROW to raise your voice against the treatment of teachers as disposable employees 📢 📍 REC, 17:00 Explainer: why we are organizing the demonstration (1/4) 🧵

Excited to present 2 trackingexposed papers at #AoIR2023 w/ Miazia Schueler, Salvatore Romano, & Davide Beraldo: "The Impact of TikTok Policies on Information Flows during Times of War" & a TikTok observatory tool on "Cross-National Content Prioritization & Platform Mediated Proximities" :)

BREAKING: Casual UvA re-activates the marking strike! (1/10) casual-uva.nl/posts/casual-u…

#justpublished This explores the impact of different watch strategies on YouTube's preference for conspiracy videos, following the idea that, in order to study personalization, one must really study personalization (with Roan Schellingerhout and Maarten Marx) #algorithms #youtube

in theory, there is a difference between theory and practice. in practice, there is not #theory #practice #paradox

thrilled to announce the publication of the #SI on #movements in the datafied society in Social Movement Studies Journal (SPECIAL ISSUE 📌)! Edited by Davide Beraldo, myself & C. Flesher Fominaya, it includes 10 articles by Emiliano Treré tiziano bonini @tbonini.bsky.social @couldrynick Dmitry Muravyov (@dmuravyov.bsky.social) david s. meyer & more! tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/23/3

They crossed the line. #uvaprotest

Wanna know what really happened at UvA Amsterdam this week? Read this account from faculty members who were there. And yes we have receipts for all of this.

🤖⁉️🧠 Open PhD position at ILLC on "making (non)sense with AI" -- deadline 20 November vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Po…