We are organizing an open panel on the futures of data activism at this year's @4sweb.bsky.social 4S conference in Toronto. Applications are welcome until the end of April. We invite you to submit proposals and share this call! More info: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

New Research Alert! The report “Trans digital rights: Improving data visibility, privacy and belonging for gender-diverse communities” ✨ 💫🌈 Our research asks: If we could reimagine digital rights that center the needs of gender-diverse communities, what would they look like?

The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren’t enough skilled tradespeople in the US to keep up. www.wired.com/story/why-th...

The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians

The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren’t enough skilled tradespeople in the US to keep up.

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My latest article "The Consequences of Data Activism: Data Sustainability Package in Air and Biodiversity Data Politics" has just been published in "Social Movement Studies," in which I discuss what are the opportunities and threats associated with the use of data by activists.

Just trying out ChatGPT 4.5, and out of nowhere it started making "jokes" about the text I was discussing with it, putting the words "explicit" and "explicitly", end with:

super excited to see a photo of the actual book that is the Polish translation of @vicclarke.bsky.social and my @sagepub.com book Thematic Analysis: A Practical Guide! Sadly I have zero words of Polish! @amymaher.bsky.social 🥰 #ThematicAnalysis #Qualitative

💪‼️🥳 The update to 1.0 of #OpenQDA, our software and research infrastructure for coding #qualitative #data, is out: In addition to a new interface, the code system can now be managed easily and intuitively, and much more. #QDA #opensource zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/openqda-1...

OpenQDA 1.0 – A Major Update for a Better User Experience!

We are excited to announce the release of OpenQDA 1.0! This major update brings numerous improvements that make working with OpenQDA even more intuitive, efficient, and enjoyable.

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16 PhD scholarships in POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY Faculty of Political Science and Sociology Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence, Italy) Closing date: 13th March 2025 www.sns.it/en/phd-admis...

what the hell 😅

Stereogum@stereogum.com · 2y ago

Congrats to the Beatles and Rolling Stones on their 2025 Grammy wins

Less than three days after CEJST was taken offline, EDGI and fellow members of Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) stood up an unofficial but functional copy, restoring public access.

Trump Removes Access to CEJST, Our New Coalition Restores It – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative

Last week the Trump administration removed access to the Council on Environmental Quality’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST). The public web tool allowed users to see on a map which...

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I’m going to try to avoid posting “OMG did you see what Trump/Musk did?” content unless really relevant to Europe getting its shit together. There’s only a limited amount of energy in my life and I know where it needs to be focused.

In this new format of the recently launched SAGE journal Dialogues on Digital Society, our @mitpress.bsky.social book Algorithms of Resistance shorturl.at/deLVW has been reviewed by 3 scholars to which we then respond. Smart way to dust off book reviewing! All Open Access, including our book :)

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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Tiziano Bonini@tbonini.bsky.social · 2y ago

our book (with @emilianotrere.com) Algorithms of resistance (MIT press 2024) has been reviewed by three amazing scholars for the journal Dialogues on Digital Society. Here is the latest review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... and here is our response: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Last season of the USA is gonna be epic

Wow, finally, climate change has stopped being real. Whew!

Before PhD: I don't know During PhD: that is beyond the scope of my current knowledge After PhD: I don't know

just learned that Eagle Eye Cherry was his NAME (and that he’s Don Cherry’s son?)

Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-than-human Worlds is available open access w/ @manchesterup.bsky.social: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781... You can order the book in hardcover and paperback, too, if you need a last minute Christmas present: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/

Wonderful teaching resource with further reading suggestions by @robkitchin.bsky.social, Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods! This is so useful for building a fundamental understanding of everything data-related before getting into more complex discussions.

Critical Data Studies

Critical Data Studies has come of age as a vibrant, interdisciplinary field of study. Taking data as its primary analytical focus, the field theorises the nature of data; examines how data are produce...

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🤡 “The action could allow data centers to exceed pollution limits, open federal lands to data center construction and give data centers priority access to available power supply, the people said. One of the sources said the policy under discussion would take the form of an executive order”

POLITICO Pro: White House weighing executive action to spur data centers

The exact nature of the action is still under discussion, said two people familiar with the matter.

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🌐 Digital ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds is OUT NOW with @manchesterup.bsky.social! 🍃 Eds: @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @admsrl.bsky.social, Henry Anderson-Elliott & @evahaifa.bsky.social. 🎁 Get yours in time for Christmas! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170347/ #DigitalEcologies

Manchester University Press - Digital ecologies

Digital ecologies - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Digital ecologies by Jonathon Turnbull

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CFP: Digital Sociology: New Theoretical Approaches, New Methodological Perspectives, New Research Areas studiasocjologiczne.pl/p,482,call-f...

#books #bookrecommendations #authors #privacy

📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't. @smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇 nature.com/articles/s41...

I just joined Bluesky. I’m an environmental macrosociologist at UBC studying the societal drivers of the climate crisis. Hope to link up with others here with similar interests. #climate #ClimateCrisis #sociology #Political-Economy #inequality

Our special Issue on platforms, power & friction is officially out with shiny volume and issue numbers in @icsjournal.bsky.social, just in time for thinking about the interplay between platform power and authoritarianism www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/2...

Information, Communication & Society

Special Issue: Platforms, Power, and Friction. Guest Editors: Pawel Popiel and Krishnan Vasudevan. Volume 27, Issue 10 of Information, Communication & Society

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At last, there's a searchable directory of Bluesky starter packs, courtesy of @mubashariqbal.com! Just one more way third-party developers are helping to make this place better. Search starter packs by keyword, and sort by "Uses" to see which ones people are finding the most helpful

All - Bluesky Directory

A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

blueskydirectory.com

Interesting read. Paul Bialski's (@bialski.bsky.social) Middle Tech: Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough (Princeton University Press). So much of life is all about good enough (rather than excellence or perfection) due to the mess of compromises to get by press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Middle Tech

Why software isn’t perfect, as seen through the stories of software developers at a run-of-the-mill tech company

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