It’s difficult to ensure that #AI is for everyone when some countries just don’t have the technological, commercial, and geopolitical resources to have sovereignty over their AI development. spectrum.ieee.org/ai-digital-d...
Danica Radovanović
@danicaradovanovic.bsky.social
• digital media & society. senior researcher. • Writer. • new book Digital Literacy and Inclusion @SpringerNature • GESIS Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences, former ITU, UiO, OII • https://www.danicar.info
Dr. Radovanović's essay examines the bigger picture and offers some directions for how to get something good from AI without being a superpower. As a bonus, it includes her original artwork for the illustration: spectrum.ieee.org/ai-digital-d...
When AI Literacy Becomes the New Fault Line In Global Inequality
The next AI divide is about who gets to build, govern, and benefit
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My latest @spectrum.ieee.org article is out! I explore how AI is creating a new kind of digital inequality, not just in access, but in who gets to build, shape, govern, and benefit from AI. Read more: spectrum.ieee.org/ai-digital-d...
When AI Literacy Becomes the New Fault Line In Global Inequality
The next AI divide is about who gets to build, govern, and benefit
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IEEE Spectrum@spectrum.ieee.org · 3w ago
Indonesia blocked millions of child accounts on social media, but Danica Radovanović, Ph.D. warns: True safety isn’t just a numbers game. Kids just move to other, less regulated spaces. We need cross-platform solutions and transparency! #OnlineSafety #ChildProtection t1p.de/scmp_indonesia
Just out in @spectrum.ieee.org Spectrum, @danicaradovanovic.bsky.social 's poem "Nine Lives of Nikola Tesla." Just in time of our favorite Serbian scientist's 170th birthday. You'll get a charge out of it. spectrum.ieee.org/poetry-for-e...
Poetry for Engineers: Nine Lives of Nikola Tesla
Celebrating Tesla’s 170th Birthday
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Poetry connects humans to each other and allows us to explore our relationship with technology in new, thought-provoking ways. @danicaradovanovic.bsky.social brings us new ways to explore those bonds in “Entanglement: A Brief History of Human Connection.” spectrum.ieee.org/entanglement...
My poem "Entanglement: A Brief History of Human Connection" is out in IEEE Spectrum's May issue. spectrum.ieee.org/entanglement... @spectrum.ieee.org #IEEESpectrum #Poetry #Technology #AI #DigitalHumanism #Writing #ScienceAndArt #HumanConnection
“Entanglement: A Brief History of Human Connection”
Read Danica Radovanović’s poem from our May 2026 issue
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If we remove one infrastructure of youth connection, what do we build in its place? My new essay on social media bans, youth, digital literacy, and meaningful child online protection: digitalserendipities.substack.com/p/if-we-ban-... #ChildOnlineProtection #DigitalPolicy #DigitalRights
If We Ban Social Media for Children, What Do We Offer Instead?
On youth, risk, and what comes next
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When AI agents start talking to each other, the issue isn’t consciousness. It’s governance. New essay: Moltbook and the Rise of the AI-Generated Public Sphere. Subscribe (free): digitalserendipities.substack.com/p/moltbook-a... #AIGovernance #DigitalFutures #AI
Moltbook and the Rise of the AI-Generated Public Sphere
A Digital Society Observatory Goes Down the AI Rabbit Hole
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The exposure of powerful abuse networks is a reminder: child exploitation isn’t new, technology only amplifies it when accountability fails. On #SafeInternetDay, I reflect on this in my weekly Substack column: substack.com/home/post/p-... #COP #childsafety
What Does “Safe” Really Mean for Children?
Today is Safe Internet Day.
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I wrote a short reflection on child online protection, TikTok, and the limits of global digital governance in practice. If this kind of policy thinking is useful, you can read and subscribe here: digitalserendipities.substack.com/p/child-onli... #DigitalGovernance #ChildOnlineProtection #Policy
Child Online Protection, TikTok, and the Limits of Global Digital Governance
Behind the scenes of a new policy research paper
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My new paper is out in Digital Society (Springer Nature): “Navigating Child Online Protection in Indonesia.” Global COP frameworks don’t travel intact — norms are negotiated and reshaped locally. #Openaccess link.springer.com/article/10.1... #DigitalGovernance #ChildOnlineProtection #GlobalSouth
Navigating Child Online Protection in Indonesia: International Norms, Local Realities, and the TikTok Factor - Digital Society
Digital Society - This paper examines child online protection (COP) initiatives in Indonesia, focusing on normative implications and methodological challenges for computational social science. It...
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NPC livestreams on TikTok may look like play, but they reveal much deeper shifts in digital labor and power. After my interview with for Euronews Serbia, I wrote a Substack column unpacking what this trend tells us about creativity, survival, and techno feudalism. open.substack.com/pub/digitals...
NPC Livestreams, Digital Creativity, and the Rise of Technofeudalism
My interview for Euronews Serbia
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New essay for World Children’s Day 2025. On how children grow up inside algorithms, and what we owe them: protection, digital literacy, and ethical tech by design. Full column → digitalserendipities.substack.com/p/world-chil... #WorldChildrensDay #ChildSafety #DigitalLiteracy #DigitalInclusion
World Children’s Day 2025: Building a Safer Digital World
Digital Society Observatory
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Big news: Digital Literacy and Inclusion is being translated into Chinese Tsinghua University Press. This Winter 2025. Digital literacy = human right. Technology should connect, not divide. open.substack.com/pub/digitals... #DigitalLiteracy #DigitalInclusion #GlobalEducation #AI #AIEducation
Exclusive News: Digital Literacy and Inclusion in Chinese
Digital Society Observatory: some exciting things coming up!
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This week I’ll be at #MethodsNet 2 in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Together with Lynda Sifer-Rivière, Arnim Bleier, and Felix Soldner, I’ll co-facilitate an interactive panel on mixed #CSS methods. .If you’ll be there, come say hello open.substack.com/pub/digitals... #DigitalSociety
Bridging Methodological Divides in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Digital Society Observatory
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If you don’t want your child to read a certain book, then don’t let them. Other parents may wish to make a different choice, and should be free to do so.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.Reform councillor’s boast about removing ‘trans-ideological’ books from children’s library sections falls flat
Each of us has the power to shape the online environment for the better, says digital transformation expert Danica Radovanović, PhD @danicaradovanovic.bsky.social. Every interaction contributes to the kind of internet we want to have. 🎧 Listen to the full episode: ready-living-podcast.captivate.fm
Truth loves an inquisitive mind. Critical thinking is asking questions, being curious, and not taking things at face value, says digital transformation expert Danica Radovanović, PhD @danicaradovanovic.bsky.social. Listen to the full episode with Danica here: ready-living-podcast.captivate.fm
I’m excited to share my recent interview on the Ready Living Podcast, hosted by Andrea Weckerle! We discussed why digital skills are essential in today’s digital society, and explored ways to build a more ethical internet. lnkd.in/e2t3jSRu #DigitalLiteracy #DigitalRights #Ethics #EthicalTech
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Andrea Weckerle@aweckerle.bsky.social · last yr.Information & digital literacy are essential human rights crucial for building resilient societies, says @danicaradovanovic.bsky.social. She explores our ethical responsibilities in an age of mis- and disinformation, AI, and digital fatigue. 🎧 Listen here: ready-living-podcast.captivate.fm
Information & digital literacy are essential human rights crucial for building resilient societies, says @danicaradovanovic.bsky.social. She explores our ethical responsibilities in an age of mis- and disinformation, AI, and digital fatigue. 🎧 Listen here: ready-living-podcast.captivate.fm
#GESISGuide #AI #LLM 🧠 New to #prompting LLMs or want to level up your skills? This guide dives into prompting techniques—from basics to advanced strategies like reasoning models & persona prompting. Includes examples, combos, and key limitations to watch out for. https://t1p.de/yv10f (PDF)
The Ethics when working w/ Digital Behavioral Data (DBD)-new working paper. My colleagues @johannesbreuer.com, @jolukito.bsky.social and I at @gesis.org explore the ethical maze of researching #DBD.Link to full paper in the post open.substack.com/pub/digitals... #DigitalEthics #ResearchEthics
"Social media use in adolescents with and without mental health conditions" was one of our top-rated articles on @altmetric.com this past week. Read the OA article published in @nathumbehav.nature.com here: http://spklr.io/63323CrJX
Social media use in adolescents with and without mental health conditions - Nature Human Behaviour
Using a nationally representative UK sample of adolescents with clinical-level mental health symptoms, this Registered Report examined differences in social media use. The results suggest that adolescents with mental health conditions spent more time on social media and were less happy about online friends than adolescents without conditions.
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The latest publication on the research ethics with #digitalbehavioraldata #dbd, #css #gesis #guidestodbd
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften@gesis.org · last yr.Out now: GESIS Guides to DBD #14: Overview of Ethical Considerations when Working with Digital Behavioral Data by @jolukito.bsky.social, @sebstier.bsky.social, Mareike Wieland, @danicaradovanovic.bsky.social, Frank Mangold, and @johannesbreuer.com. www.gesis.org/filead...
New publication in the @gesis.org Guides to Digital Behavioral Data by @jolukito.bsky.social, @sebstier.bsky.social, Mareike Wieland, @danicaradovanovic.bsky.social, Frank Mangold, and me: "Overview of Ethical Considerations when Working with Digital Behavioral Data" rrr.is/dbdethics
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This week for the first time installed R studio and learnt basics on Quarto. As Qual. person, this is very interesting, curious what next #opensource #quarto
Serbian students block Belgrade road junction to increase pressure on Vučić
Serbian students block Belgrade road junction to increase pressure on Vučić
Farmers bring tractors in support of protest, in echo of fall of former president Slobodan Milošević Serbian students have staged a daylong blockage of a major traffic intersection in Belgrade with the support of farmers, stepping up pressure on the…
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