Excited and honoured to now be an Associate Editor for JCE! 😊

Journal of Cultural Economy@jcultecon.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🥁 We have had a lot of changes in our editorial line-up in the last few months - check out the new host of AEs www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjc... including @taschn.bsky.social @provokedeconomy.bsky.social Janet Roitman @kathrithm.bsky.social Horacio Ortiz and Lena Pelladini-Simanyi 🥳

Good to see this bad boy out in the world!! New article from me on drone delivery, AI testbeds, and the long history science and technology testing in the colony. Online first and gloriously open access ✨ doi.org/10.1177/2976...

Given what is happening with X, it's a good time to propose for anyone interested to read the "Algorithms of Resistance" by T. Bonini & E. Trere. It offers ways to challenge the logic of the platform, and there is a lot of research backing up the arguments of the book. It's open access too!

Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power

How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control

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Imagination is resistance, @ruha9.bsky.social reminds us that, " we need to reject the gospel that says technology is inevitable, that the train has left the station... In an error of automated bullshit, it’s time to become bullshit detectors," #MozFest

also: "a debate at the University of Dar es Salaam about excellence counterposed to relevance. Relevance is not universal in its claims. It’s particular, place specific, time specific. The single-minded pursuit of excellence can give rise to a World Bank/IMF-type cookie-cutter logic..."

"The administration ballooned, and inside the administration the financial technocrats took over. There was less and less sympathy with Columbia as a place of thought. It was more about Columbia as an enterprise..." www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...

Mahmood Mamdani Doesn’t Want to Talk About Zohran

The Columbia scholar, and father of the mayor-elect, on politics, academe, and antisemitism.

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My chapter examines the profound socio-economic impacts of Long COVID, particularly in education and employment, from the perspective of systemic inequities and social determinants of health, and exposes the harms of pandemic non-interventionism.

Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD@dalupton.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Now published! My edited book ‘Long COVID and Society’ - my introduction is free to read for everyone. Download from the link below and check out the others chapters too (Chapter 14, about LC children and families, is also open access) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Launch for Alex Gillett & @kevindtennent.bsky.social book "Foundations of Managing the British Olympics". Congrats to you both! Such a fascinating presentation and I'm looking forward to reading. #ccbhs #uoy

When I was researching Beside the Seaside I built quite a good digital archive of images of railway travel posters relating to Yorkshire. One of them was this one which I don't think I've seen online since. A penny a mile would make a return trip to the coast from West Yorkshire about 12/- or so

What are the ethical responsibility of algorithms? How might we think about forms of power, order, and rationality beyond the story of alliances between big tech and the state? Join @amoorelouise.bsky.social and Audrey Borowski Mon. Oct. 20 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...

and it's *clear*! great examples of how close reading helps us make sense of things—it takes work, but you can do it—it's not some mystical operation

Dan Sinykin@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read

Nice to be included in this company! Critics of AI are growing but certainly need to give each other support

Lisa Messeri@lmesseri.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Very grateful to fellow travelers who are trying to temper enthusiasm for AI, especially in the halls of the academy. @janerosenzweig.bsky.social @melhogan.bsky.social @eryk.bsky.social @histoftech.bsky.social @criticalai-journal.bsky.social @jeddobson.bsky.social @couldrynick.bsky.social and more

"The tech elites who got rich in the last 20 years have the world at their fingertips, but they can't stand the touch." GotDAMN. Thank you Jacob.

Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 10mo ago

You must buy the book. There are lots of versions of this story and more coming (hell I'm writing a piece of it). But Jacob's is the best because he's been following the players for so long that he can show how DOGE is one big Twitter takeover. We've been let this sinked in as a nation. Humiliating.

Wish I could join!

Edinburgh Futures Institute@edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Join us for this upcoming TravelTech Meetup at Edinburgh Futures Institute! ✈️ Traveltech/E-corner Meetup 🗓️ Wednesday, 22 October | 12:30 - 14:00 📍Room 2.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute 🎟️ https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/traveltech-e-corner-meetup/

Starting to read for a chapter I'll be writing.

Spinoza's Geographical Ethics - out now, open access in e-book form: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza... @edinburghup.bsky.social

Spinoza's Geographical Ethics

Spinoza's Geographical Ethics

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Definitely nothing can go wrong with OpenAI having a full record of your sexy chatbot interactions.

Adapting to iPad reading = fewer printed PDFs, a happier university budget, and perhaps a small nod from nature. Though with the energy footprint of our devices and data centres, I’m not sure what counts as the “sustainable” choice anymore…

Madeleine Chalmers, French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn - @edinburghup.bsky.social, December 2024 hardback and open access; paperback forthcoming in June 2026 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-french-... two interviews in next post

French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn

French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn

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Friends and colleagues in Oxford, join us for this event at the end of the month. festivalofsocialscience.com/events/unvei...

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

Maxim Samson, Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way - @profilebooks.bsky.social, August 2025; @uchicagopress.bsky.social, October 2025 profilebooks.com/work/earth-s... press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Earth Shapers

The globetrotting story of how humans have harnessed the geographical landscape and written ourselves onto our surroundings. Mountains, meridians, rivers, and borders—these are some of the features th...

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I think the AI 'industry' can afford it, or does the free market and property rights only work in certain circumstances.

The Verge@theverge.com · last yr.

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Nobody does it better than Lady Gaga. Had a blast at the Mayhem Ball in Manchester last night. Unfortunately, it's back to (heteronormative) reality now...

‘Authenticity’ is the ideal for many travellers, influencers, and commentators. But what is it? Can destination marketers and tourism professionals package it and sell it … authentically? " #GoodTourism " #travel #tourism #authenticity www.goodtourismblog.com/2025/09/auth...

What is 'authenticity' in travel & tourism? - The "Good Tourism" Blog

‘Authenticity’ is the ideal for many travellers, influencers, and commentators. But what is it? Can destination marketers and tourism professionals package it and sell it … authentically? Thanks to Pr...

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What a beautiful city I inhabit ✨

The AI bubble is gonna tank the economy. The ironic future of AI is to throw us backwards into a great depression. Let’s gooooo www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

Teaching 'Living in Digital Cultures' this week, our first year students explored how social + locative media leave hidden trails across cities. From Snap Maps to Google reviews, they mapped the infrastructures that quietly shape how we move, meet, and imagine place.

Don’t miss out! Abstract submissions invited for the BSA’s 75th anniversary conference, 8-10 April 2026, University of Edinburgh – a fixture in the sociological calendar unlike any other. Submission deadline: TOMORROW, Friday 3 October 2025 tinyurl.com/23sjk4nh #sociology

The printed version is out today! Here we discussed how social credit system, an Orwellian Chinese Other, becomes a stand-in for Western anxieties about authoritarianism, technology goes wrong, quantification of everyday life, and shifting global power. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Techno-orientalism in the US media: the case of ‘China’s social credit system'

The portrayal of China’s Social Credit System (SCS) as an Orwellian scoring scheme through which the Communist Party controls citizens’ every step proliferates in Western media, despite scholarship...

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Marianne von Blomberg@mariannevblomberg.bsky.social · 11mo ago

It's here! @cliu.bsky.social and I found Techno-orientalism in the public media debate. Turns out the imaginary Chinese Social Credit System is useful for U.S. audiences to come to terms with domestic fears of tech development, state surveillance, and China's rise papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....