In 2021, whistleblower Frances Haugen shared internal Facebook documents with Congress. The Facebook Papers form part of the archive I use to write a new political history of the company, including how growth came at the expense of the Global South. This platform playbook is now repeating in AI.

EJIR@ejir.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣 Out in EJIR: new open-access article by @swatisrivastava.bsky.social on how “platform rule” governs networked publics and why the Global South bears the costs. Read it here: t1p.de/ak68e

Cyber barons, tech overlords, digital empires: Big Tech is associated with rule, but what does this mean? My new article theorizes Platform Rule through a political history of Facebook. I argue for a macro social science in the tradition of Mann, Tilly, and Scott to study tech power. Open access!

For those warriors still around for the last slot of #ISA2026 we will have some spicy takes on the status of constructivism to close out the conference

A roundtable on AI, coming up at #ISA2025

Congratulations to Hendrik Spruyt, the latest HIST Distinguished Scholar! Come celebrate with us at the panel honoring Hendrik Tuesday 4:00PM and at the HIST Reception Tuesday 7:15PM. #ISA2025. With @dhnexon.bsky.social @mladabee.bsky.social @swatisrivastava.bsky.social @aysezarakol.bsky.social

This is amazing. Harvard has amassed a 16TB collection covering more than 311K datasets and a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov - with ongoing updates. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...

Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab

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Meta may well get what it wanted--the demolition of a growing competitor and the migration of its users. The 2020 India TikTok ban is instructive: an early flowering of alternatives, followed by consolidation at Instagram and YouTube. But many creators simply failed to rebuild elsewhere.

David Carroll@davidcarroll.org · 2y ago

“TikTok’s ban in the United States will probably help its American competitors. As much as 85% of TikTok’s U.S. revenue ($10B) is expected to quickly move to Instagram, which is owned by Meta, and YouTube, which is owned by Google, analysts and advertisers said.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/t...

Rising scholars - interested in getting published in @foreignaffairs.com and receiving a $5K cash prize?!?! Check out the @perryworldhouse.bsky.social & FA Emerging Scholars Policy Prize and apply! Let me know if you have any questions. global.upenn.edu/perryworldho...

Perry World House-Foreign Affairs Emerging Scholars Policy Prize | Penn Global

| Perry World House-Foreign Affairs Emerging Scholars Policy Prize

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Damn and now Drake is going to have to pay a 25 percent tariff on that beef?

📣 @swatisrivastava.bsky.social, @jfmorin.bsky.social and I are inviting applications to take part in a workshop on "Emerging technologies and global governance". Deadline to apply: December 1st, 2024. For more information: www.wire-series.com/call-proposals 👈

Hello new followers! Welcome to the Xodus.

Thrilled for The Insiders' Game publication day. After so many years of work, looking forward to hearing reactions from the many scholars, students, and friends who helped along the way. Intro available on the @princetonupress.bsky.social page (hubs.ly/Q02p8-zc0). Use code P325 for 30% off. Polisky

Hey polisky, The paperback of my book, Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics, is out! I will be giving away 2 copies at each of my ISA panels next week. Book summary, reviews, & podcasts: www.swatisrivastava.com/book.html 30% discount with free U.S. shipping: www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

IO has revised its policies regarding word limits: we no longer include references/works cited as part of the word count. See our full submission guidelines here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

ISA-Northeast has a new president (🙋🏽‍♀️) and program chair (@elifkalay.bsky.social)!

Speaking at the Denver Democracy Summit this morning on advancing democratic use of technology

Had a great conversation about hybrid sovereignty with @labdelaaty.bsky.social — such a cool initiative!

My latest for Inkstick Media - We nuke types love to cite Carol Cohn, but we don't use her methods!

The Limiting Language of Nuclear Strategists

By refusing to use gender as an analytical tool, the field of nuclear policy has constructed itself to be self-contained.

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Hey @profmusgrave.bsky.social could you add me to Polisky? Thanks!