"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...

AI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companies

In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans.

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Today, Palantir posted their manifesto to millions. I published an analysis of exactly this text in @sciasculture.bsky.social, arguing it functions not as political theory but as a corporate manifesto for the nationalist-militarist faction of the tech oligarchy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Heading to 4S in Toronto this October? Join our open panel "The Global Politics of Digital Health" with Luca Marelli (University of Milan), Jay Shaw (University of Toronto), and Abril Saldaña-Tejeda (Universidad de Guanajuato). Call for abstracts closes April 30: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

I am a new Expert Voices columnist @science.org and my first article just came out! In it, I argue that scaling technology has a dark side, particularly when it comes to alleviating inequality and injustice. And I suggest what scientists, engineers, and policymakers can do about it.

Beware the drive to scale technology

When it comes to technology, scalability—its capacity to be standardized and then distributed en masse and across contexts—is the ultimate goal. Scientists and engineers view scalability as the route ...

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💹 As the political underpinnings of value creation become ever more pressing, Science as Culture is making available free access the commentary "On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation," by Fabian Muniesa, released almost ten years ago. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

On the Political Vernaculars of Value Creation

Published in Science as Culture (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2017)

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How do evolving practices of valuation shape the assetization of digital health data over time? In this paper we look at the role of 'proxy work' in a digital health startup: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Making data markets: Assetization, valuation, and proxy work in a digital health start-up - Joseph Donia, Jennifer Gibson, James A Shaw, 2025

Digital data are increasingly framed as essential resources in health and medicine, implicating diverse actors who work to transform them into different forms o...

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I'm thrilled to announce that Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, co-authored and co-edited with my amazing collaborator Neda Atanasoski, is officially out now from Duke University Press! You can download the first chapter and buy the book here: www.dukeupress.edu/technocreep-...

New review in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social. I unpack 5 normative logics of algorithmic accountability in health care, looking at what kinds of 'work' accountability is expected to do, who's meant to do it, and how they configure the algorithm as an object of reference journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

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Intervention — “The Assetization of Research: How Publishers are Selling Our Work to the AI Industry” by Maxim Tvorun-Dunn (University of Tokyo) antipodeonline.org/2025/04/07/t...

Intervention — “The Assetization of Research: How Publishers are Selling Our Work to the AI Industry” - Antipode Online

Maxim Tvorun-Dunn (University of Tokyo) It is no secret that academic writing is built on unequal and exploitative relations with the publishing industry, wherein the largely unpaid act of producing a...

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Not sure if ‘depressingly relevant’ or ‘disturbingly prescient’ are the appropriate accolades, but am glad to have finally read this.

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Is Fort Knox's gold gone? Is X-DOGE QAnon's ultimate Quantum Financial System? Here! Your 2025 Guidebook! www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Just out! My new paper w/ @damolaadediji.bsky.social on #bigtech #personaldata and #competitionpolicy in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social || "Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Undermining competition, undermining markets? Implications of Big Tech and digital personal data for competition policy - Kean Birch, ‘Damola Adediji, 2025

Many countries and jurisdictions are reforming their competition policies in response to growing political and public concerns about market concentration, espec...

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New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Co-Design in Practice: Bringing STS to Post-Brexit Agricultural Policy" by Judith Tsouvalis, Charlotte Burns, José Fajardo-Escoffié, David Christian Rose, Sue Hartley and Ruth Little #Brexit #landmanagement #participation journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Co-Design in Practice: Bringing STS to Post-Brexit Agricultural Policy - Judith Tsouvalis, Charlotte Burns, José Fajardo-Escoffié, David Christian Rose, Sue Hartley, Ruth Little, 2025

Following the Brexit referendum, the United Kingdom's Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) began to

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I was always troubled by the participation craze in data governance, especially in countries/communities/groups where neither participation (voice) nor exit is a realistic option. Here are some reflections on data justice & its potential to defy datafication’s dehumanisation. More to come on this!

Information, Communication & Society@icsjournal.bsky.social · 2y ago

#OutNow in #iCS Azadeh Akbari's "The Politics of Data Justice: Exit, Voice, or Rehumanisation?" examines responses to data injustices, critiquing the neoliberal focus on individual choice and advocating for rehumanizing approaches to data justice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Brussels Affect: For Europe, being the 'universal standard' for tech regulation has become an end unto itself; write @petroster.bsky.social and @jvh.bsky.social.

A Brussels Affect | TechPolicy.Press

For Europe, being the 'universal standard' for tech regulation has become an end unto itself, write Petros Terzis and Joris van Hoboken.

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New paper – through an empirical case it looks at some of the essential junctures that shape an AI technology as it progresses through development and use, and offers some key questions for responsible policy and governance link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Lifecycles, pipelines, and value chains: toward a focus on events in responsible artificial intelligence for health - AI and Ethics

Process-oriented approaches to the responsible development, implementation, and oversight of artificial intelligence (AI) systems have proliferated in recent years. Variously referred to as lifecycles...

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"money has flowed to tech giants and others in their orbit... [and] raises an uncomfortable prospect: that this supposedly revolutionary technology might never deliver on its promise of broad economic transformation, but instead just concentrate more wealth" www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

ChatGPT’s $8 Trillion Birthday Gift to Big Tech

Two years in, generative AI’s value to the world is still unclear. But these charts show that it’s been a bonanza for the largest tech firms.

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