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📢 CDI-TV Double Line-Up 📢 05.03 | 17:00-18:00 GMT Digital Disconnection feat. Alessandro Gandini 06.03 | 17:00-18:00 GMT Reality Engineering feat. Noortje Marres, Matias Valderrama Barragan & Greta Timaite Join Onsite: Warwick Media Lab (FAB 1.16) | Online: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cdi

Reality engineering after the tech lash? Can't wait to discuss at @cdi-warwick.bsky.social on March 6 w @michael-dieter.bsky.social @mvaldeb.bsky.social et al Does tech today dismantle societal structures? Is social reality being engineered through AI, or its fantastical twin, the virtual society?

New article with @mvaldeb.bsky.social out now in the @jcultecon.bsky.social: "(Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry". shorturl.at/HzPCi We explore how influencer marketing companies and their algorithmic tools define and measure “influence”.

Artificial Societies: Confronting Social Engineering after the Techlash hybrid symposium. Part of the Sociological Review Seminar Series. 6 Mar livestream @cdi-warwick.bsky.social buff.ly/0kKfgSJ 7 Mar event buff.ly/QsnXR9J @michael-dieter.bsky.social @mvaldeb.bsky.social @noortjem.bsky.social‬

Centre for Digital Inquiry

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

🚨 Pleased to share a new pub with Niall Docherty in International Journal of Cultural Studies. Drawing on Elias, we analyse Meta's guides as a corporate curriculum that reframes platform issues as individual failures of resilience & manners – to civilize, not empower users. doi.org/10.1177/1367...

Thrilled to see this article with Arturo Arriagada out now. If you’re interested in how the influencer industry works in Chile, have a read :)

The Sociological Review Foundation

Looking forward to this event! Gente de Chile, pueden conectarse a este evento mediante la CDI TV! warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

Thrilled to share that I was recently interviewed for the Digital Journalism newsletter. Many thanks to the editors — and especially to @tomasdodds.bsky.social — for the opportunity!

Last hours to register for the Artificial Societies Symposium! If you are interested in the social implications of design and engineering in digital settings or the state of the social(s) after the digital, this is the place #sts #digitalmedia #digitalsociology warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

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Social life is increasingly shaped by engineering in digital environments, often without accountability. This event, co-organised by Warwick’s CIM and the Edinburgh Futures Institute, fosters interdis...

A hybrid streaming initiative from Centre for Digital Inquiry.

Finally, the newsletter includes a new episode in our series of interviews with first-time authors. We speak with Matías Valderrama Barragán (@mvaldeb.bsky.social) about his co-authored paper “From Industry Hype to Emerging Criticism: Analysing Chilean News Media Coverage of Artificial Intelligence”

New! (Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry @arturoarriagada.bsky.social & @mvaldeb.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Journal of Cultural Economy

Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking of going to Trump’s America: don’t do it Just before the graphic artist Rebecca Burke left Seattle to travel to Vancouver, Canada, on 26 February, she posted an image of a rough comic to Instagram. “One part of travelling that I love is seeing glimpses of other lives,” read the bubble in the first panel, above sketches of cosy homes: crossword puzzle books, house plants, a lit candle, a steaming kettle on a gas stove. Burke had seen plenty of glimpses of other lives over the six weeks she had been backpacking in the US. She had been travelling on her own, staying on homestays free of charge in exchange for doing household chores, drawing as she went. For Burke, 28, it was absolute freedom. Within hours of posting that drawing, Burke got to see a much darker side of life in America, and far more than a glimpse. When she tried to cross into Canada, Canadian border officials told her that her living arrangements meant she should be travelling on a work visa, not a tourist one. They sent her back to the US, where American officials classed her as an illegal alien. She was shackled and transported to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention centre, where she was locked up for 19 days – even though she had money to pay for a flight home, and was desperate to leave the US. Continue reading...

This article examines how influencer marketing companies and their algorithmic tools define and measure ‘influence' in Latin America. Drawing on Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot's ‘orders of wort...