GloTech News: New publication by GloTech Lead Burcu Baykurt entitled 'Corporate Capture' published in Data & Society anthology: buff.ly/44p0rtB

By framing the crisis in Gaza as predominately a humanitarian issue, we are avoiding the uncomfortable and political drivers of Israel’s seven-month miliary onslaught.

bond.org.uk/news/2024/05/i… Bond

Grateful to Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK for a great thread contextualizing the suit Knight First Amendment Institute and I are bringing against Meta in the context of 'adversarial interoperability': pluralistic.net/2024/05/02/kai…

The fight against Big Tech has a lot of tactical diversity: EU regulations, antitrust investigations, state laws, tinkerers and toolsmiths like Zuckerman, and impact litigation lawyers coming up with cool legal theories.

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Commission. These. Students. Also, for international students, many of them can't freelance for US publications, but likely would be great correspondents for outlets back home (and likely already are doing this).

They are not sources, they are reporters.

I talked to Mashable and Meera Navlakha about the White House’s hypocrisy of signing a TikTok ban into law while simultaneously using TikTok for Joe Biden’s re-election campaign.

mashable.com/article/white-…

Military is the missing word in AI safety discussions via Financial Times
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If you're thinking of coming to the launch of #DataGrab at LSE on May 14 (face-to-face or via live stream), this joint blog may whet your appetite: blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofboo… Penguin Books UK Ebury Publishing LSE Media & Communications

'There is nowhere the trauma backstory is present in higher concentrations than in the long-form serial television drama.' Elizabeth Alsop explores the ubiquity—and limitations—of the trauma 'backstory.' lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-pa…

'What does deliberation look like when it gives appropriate room not just to our arguments but also to our personal lives?'

A powerful piece by Markus Holdo & Zohreh Khoban on why deliberative democrats should not only talk the talk but walk the walk.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Algorithms of Resistance (The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social) (OA: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547420/… with Emiliano Treré) - has been nominated for 2024 edition of the international Media and Democracy Karol Jakubowicz Award: ptks.pl/en/awards/the-…
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Motivation 👇

Generous and generative 👇🏽 we’re excited Heesoo is coming to UMass!

On our complicity 👇🏽

The kids are alright. In fact they’re leading the way.

So deeply honored to speak at the Southeast Asian elections conference here New York University with Pinoy excellence Sheila Coronel and Justin ✨ 🇵🇭

In our book about Chinese creator culture (Wanghong, 2021), we described the impending TikTokalypse as 'platform nationalism'. It pains me to admit we were right. Platform nationalism refers to ...

#GloTechLab Community Lead Prof. Seyram Avle Seyram Avle and co-author Prof. Jean Hardy Jean Hardy discuss techno-optimism in the latest The Conversation U.S. article. Read here: tinyurl.com/mr2tt4w8

So thrilled to finally meet the amazing Bilge Yesil also visiting New York University today. On our must list of visitors to GloTech Lab next year to talk about her forthcoming book. 👋🏼 Burcu Baykurt ✨

The Marcos political program is to preserve the family name: they’re happy to cozy back up with the U.S. to gain the family international respectability. - Sheila Coronel New York University 🔥

Happening now: Elections and Political Change in Southeast Asia Conference at New York University featuring Sheila Coronel discussing Philippine middle-classes’ disenchantment with democratic promises 🔥