✨ New journal officially launched! Welcome to Platforms & Society! Read our inaugural editorial and submit your article - or even a multimedia piece! The editors (we are an editorial collective!) are me, Niels van Doorn, Cheryll Soriano, andrea pollio & Julie Yujie Chen journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS

Keynote on AI and creativity from my brilliant colleague Tanner Mirrlees

Prof. Tanner Mirrlees offers a creative, courageous & view of a scholar in command of his craft in this account of the evolution of culture & creativity over 2000 years til now. Will creativity survive AI? youtube.com/watch?v=nT9mw5…

My 'Automating Creativity? Questioning AI's Impact on the Arts (for Educators)' keynote is now available on YouTube! Ontario Tech Social Science and Humanities Communication and Digital Media Studies youtu.be/nT9mw5Xd1Fk?fe… #AI #AI art #AI Education

Expect more pathways research as SSHRC funded our Insight Grant, 'Greenwashing and the Energy Transition: A Framework for Assessing Net Zero Communication in the Canadian Oil Sands Sector”. Looking fwd to working with Melissa Aronczyk (@aronczyk.bsky.social), Kathryn Harrison & Chris Russill #cdnpoli

The Canadian military built its own internet. My new journal article explores how its design was shaped by Canada’s pursuit of national identity amid fears of US influence & rising demands for self-determination within Indigenous & Québécois nations 🧵
bit.ly/4aMpyZf

From Montreal, 3:28pm

.Tanner Mirrlees and Imre Szeman have a new 8-episode podcast series, 'Tech-Bros and Tech-Utopias', supported by a SSHRC Connections Grant and in partnership with Cited Media Productions. Check it out: bit.ly/3VQT4ZQ. Communication and Digital Media Studies

Thank you Andréane Williams for this investigative story on labor conditions in the reality TV industry (and for the interview) ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/20591…

💥Call for Papers:
Rethinking the Inevitability of AI: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Computing in Historical Context

April 22, 2024: 300-500 word paper proposals due

July 18, 2024: Date of online conference

uva.theopenscholar.com/rethinking-the…

Remembering Vincent Mosco’s Critical-Humanist Political Economy of Communication:
doi.org/10.31269/tripl… Vincent Mosco

Excited to say that I am giving a keynote for this AI and climate conference at UVA, along with the fabulous Mél Hogan 😷 🏳️‍🌈 🍪. Thanks to Mar Hicks and Erik Linstrum for the invitation!

hello 'x' or whatever, here's Sophie Bishop & I's new journal article in Media, Culture & Society! It's about the political economy of advertising in platform governance. We hope you enjoy it journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

Ontario Tech digital media and communications researcher Tanner Mirrlees comments on how social media platforms can be used to counter mis- and disinformation.
nationalobserver.com/2024/03/14/new…

A thoughtful recap of last week's Re.Climate webinar, 'From Fringe to Foreground: How the Far Right is Influencing Canada's Climate Conversation', with me, Geoff Dembicki, Dr. Chris Russill and Dr. Ghadah Alrasheed: reclimate.ca/from-fringe-to…

My new essay on the economic, geopolitical and cultural dimensions of the US-China 'digital tech war' is published in SR24! Thank you Greg Albo and Steve Maher for the excellent feedback and thoughtful discussion. socialistregister.com/index.php/srv

“AI is making data centers more power hungry. AI eats up a lot of electricity, and that’s driving up data centers’ energy use. It’s also changing the physical footprint of data centers and making it harder for companies to hit their sustainability goals, the NYT reports.”

Mark your calendars for the 2024 Smythe Lecture, delivered by Ya-Wen Lei from Harvard: 'The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China.' Reception to follow!