Very much looking forward to this event in Barcelona !
Do traditional media theories still hold up in a digital world? 🌐
Join #BartCammaerts at for his book launch, Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory.
🗓️ Tues 31 March 6.30-8pm
📍 LSE + Online
🎟️ Register: www.lse.ac.uk/events/media-1
#LSEMedia #MediaTheory #London @routledgebooks.bsky.social
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LSE Department of Media and Communications
This is very important and much needed research
brilliant blog overnight by @parismarx.com on Sam Altman's hubristic thinking about intelligence as private utility: disconnect.blog/make-em-dumb...
Tengo ganas de regresarme a Barcelona el viernes para este impresionante congreso
Well said @histoftech.bsky.social
Nick Couldry
Am speaking at LSE Festival of Ideas on rebuilding social media and the implications of social media's ills for building a better politics on the climate emergency and everything else. Two events on Saturday June 20, tickets on sale NOW! www.lse.ac.uk/events/lse-f... www.lse.ac.uk/events/lse-f...
INCA an EU-based project has just launched a terrific documentary on data (I'm pleased to be part of it - thanks to Niccolo Cuppini). The film is called “Data Revolution!” Please circulate to students, friends . .
Trailer: lnkd.in/e2ewHcnP
Full video: lnkd.in/ePzbnVEr
Project page: lnkd.in/eZkpUWnh
Once academics were told to upload teaching materials to digital learning platforms, universities and tech firms alike were always going to monetize it. Now AI is being used to amplify the assetization of those digital archives of academic content. codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/a...
Powerful.
Via AP: "Leo raised the trans-Atlantic slave trade in relation to what he called the new forms of slavery and colonialism that the digital revolution is fueling..." A phenomenon @karenhao.bsky.social, @couldrynick.bsky.social, Ulises Mejias, & others (including myself) have documented.
Nick Couldry
Nick Couldry
Sam Altman wants intelligence to be a utility that you pay him for
Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash A new AI-driven digital learning platform launched by Arizona State University has set off alarm bells among academics for its exploitation of scholarly work. AS…
PARADA 3️⃣ Una jornada per entendre com es disputa el poder global.
🗓️ 28 maig, 10 a 20 h: Amb @couldrynick.bsky.social, @avilarenata.bsky.social, @rochaisabela.bsky.social i molts més.
ℹ️ ja.cat/geopol%C3%AD...
Organitza: Javier Toret, TRANSIC/ @uocuniversitat.bsky.social, Ajuntament BCN i Canòdrom.
PARADA 3️⃣ Una jornada per entendre com es disputa el poder global.
🗓️ 28 maig, 10 a 20 h: Amb @couldrynick.bsky.social, @avilarenata.bsky.social, @rochaisabela.bsky.social i molts més.
ℹ️ ja.cat/geopol%C3%AD...
Organitza: Javier Toret, TRANSIC/ @uocuniversitat.bsky.social, Ajuntament BCN i Canòdrom.
This isn’t like letting kids use a calculator, this is more akin to letting kids smoke. The whole point here is pushing an addictive product and getting kids hooked on it early—not educational best practices.
www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...
“I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives down the block,” Jessica Winter writes. Read her report on the push for A.I. in educ...
Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way.
Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery
The role of #GenAI in children’s development is ambivalent, and their opportunities (scaffolding learning) can easily turn into harmful consequences (deskilling and disempowerment). Read more here researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/13... #SaferInternetDay
Mar Hicks
Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery.
