Yess! It took a while but now we finally have lift off! So excited to start this journal with the other editors and our amazing editorial board. 🥳🤜🏼💥🤛🏼

We look forward to receiving your submissions! 🙏🏻❤️

E insomma, per 50 anni i liberisti ci hanno raccontato la teoria del 'gocciolamento', cioè che tagliando le tasse ai ricchi ce ne saremmo beneficiati tutti.
Hanno tagliato le tasse ai ricchi per 50 anni ed erano tutte balle.
cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-… via @cbsmoneywatch

Grindr faces legal action by hundreds of users who will allege that the dating app shared highly sensitive personal info including in some cases their HIV status with advertising companies.

Another day, another adtech case exploiting ppl's data.
theguardian.com/technology/202…

Ecco il testo integrale del monologo di Antonio #Scurati sul 25 aprile, censurato dalla Rai:

'Giacomo Matteotti fu assassinato da sicari fascisti il 10 di giugno del 1924. Lo attesero sottocasa in cinque, tutti squadristi venuti da Milano, professionisti della violenza assoldati

Solidarity with Columbia University students:

'What is the value of news for a platform', Jesper Doub, ex-Meta, is asked. 'None', he answers. Adds it might even be 'negative, a cost', given the friction. Points out his former employer seems able to walk away from news with no commercial loss (at least short-term). #ijf24

AI businesses in China are creating “deathbots” to help bereaved users speak to their dead loved ones, resurrected as AI avatars

New from Viola Zhou
restofworld.org/2024/china-ai-…

L’Università di Buenos Aires, la più importante in lingua spagnola al mondo, 347.000 studenti, cinque premi Nobel, è sul punto di chiudere a causa dei tagli (in alcuni servizi fino all’80%) contro l’università pubblica voluti da Javier #Milei .
#Argentina

“The reason websites continue to load, bank transfers go through, and civilization persists is because of the thousand or so people living aboard 20-some ships stationed around the world, who race to fix each cable as soon as it breaks” theverge.com/c/24070570/int…

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/…

📚 In academic publishing, the publication venue strongly affects the work's visibility. Topical fit, prestige and impact matter most in submission decisions but something else often goes under the radar: the role and user-friendliness of the publisher. Here's a comparison and 🧵

'the evidence for banning mobile phones in schools is weak and inconclusive' #MarilynCampbell #ElizabethEdwards QUT

4 studies 'a slight improvement in academic achievement ' esp. for disadvantaged students; 3 studies reported no benefit.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digi… #MobileBan #P4DF

So excited to host this The Digital Ethnography Collective event with Dr. Brooke Erin Duffy Sophie Bishop and Angèle Christin next month!! 💖

You can read more info and book tickets here: tinyurl.com/2ee6ztdk

su Radio Blackout ho parlato dell'inchiesta pubblicata su IrpiMedia riguardo il centro CRAIM della polizia italiana, di come utilizza tra le altre cose anche il riconoscimento facciale sulle fotografie prese dai social, e del connubio accademia-polizia radioblackout.org/podcast/craim-…

Europe’s Gaza betrayal has broken the trust of millions of people in the global south theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

'AI is just today’s buzzword for “outsourcing,” and it comes with the same problems that have plagued outsourced companies and workforces for decades.'
Fantastic piece from Janet Vertesi in Tech Policy Press!

techpolicy.press/dont-be-fooled…

We’re super excited to announce the international seminar ‘Socio-technical intermediaries & platformization of culture’ on 12 April, Paris. We hope to launch discussions on the meso-layer of cultural intermediaries involved in platformization. Reg & info: mcusercontent.com/fbd34d23cdce4b…

CARTOGRAPHY OF GENERATVE AI · The popularisation of AI has given rise to imaginaries that invite alienation & mystification .. Estampa

👉🏻 cartography-of-generative-ai.net

our article with Emiliano Treré on the different forms of algorithmic political activism has been published by Social movement studies and we have 50 free access to it: tandfonline.com/eprint/ETEJUWX…

AlgoRes in Argentina! Presentaré en Jujuy y Salta 'Algorithms of Resistance' escrito con tiziano bonini The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social + los resultados del proyecto financiado por SSHRC 'grassroots visualizations of data on the margins'. Libro shorturl.at/deLVW Proyecto rb.gy/oj389g