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Irish Learning Technology Association @iltasky.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

An invitation to conversation: to design differently, deploy differently and refashion our relationships to edtech from @discoursology.bsky.social acknowledging fragility and strengthening our human bonds at #edtech26.

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Felicitas MacGilChrist @discoursology.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

“And it’s something that theorists can be experts in: tendering compelling ideas”, with metaphors, images, aesthetics. Said @annakornbluh.bsky.social www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo... #counteraesthetics #activism #academia

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Felicitas MacGilChrist @discoursology.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

The problem if we assume that freedom means individual sovereignty is that we either deny freedom (when we realise humans are not sovereign) or, as is happening now, we think “that the freedom of one [hu]man or a group can only be purchased at the price of the freedom of others.” Hannah Arendt

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John Dalton - brain marinated in woke sauce. They/them @johndaledalton.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I trust Turnberry will receive the same treatment now Janey Godley is no longer with us.

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Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪 As part of LMT's 20th anniversary, in this editorial eight current and former editors reflect on the journal's achievements and consider its future. Read more: tinyurl.com/yk7k2hkf

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Sektion Medienpädagogik der DGfE @medienpaed-dgfe.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Reminder: Wer sich für Fragen rund um Technologien, Medien, Bildung, Gesellschaft, Nicht-Nachhaltigkeit und Planetare Grenzen interessiert, ist herzlich zum Online-Workshop am 6.6. eingeladen. Organisiert von: @ngruenberger.bsky.social & @discoursology.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/medi...

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Felicitas MacGilChrist @discoursology.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

On the current crises and conspiracy theories: “immediacy is our most treacherous problem: our t has permeated all forms of the social and hence has effectively dismantled the social as a form.” Alenka Zupančič, Disavowal.

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Happy to celebrate #mayday2025 with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social! We start talking about antifascism, which now has to include all types of mutual aid and direct action. What does it mean to meet fascists in the streets when they control every lever of federal government?

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Felicitas MacGilChrist @discoursology.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

What is "participation" in participatory research? New publication (in German), co-written with inspiring colleagues! partizipation-als-zu-mutung.de

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Partizipation als Zu-Mutung – Positionspapier

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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 11/04/2025

A new study has examined 8 million speeches from 140 years of Congress, showing a massive decline in evidence-based language since the 1970s. www.iflscience.com/use-of-facts...

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"Gut Feeling" Is Outweighing Evidence-Based Rhetoric In US Politics"

A new study has examined 8 million speeches from 140 years of Congress, showing a massive decline in evidence-based language since the 1970s.

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Miriam Vollmer @miriamvollmer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Gut, die Union ist eh Team Ausländer raus, aber gibt es eigentlich für die SPD überhaupt keine Grenze nach unten?

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Die Linke im Bundestag @dielinkebt.de · 09/04/2025

Die Vorsitzende der Linken im Bundestag informiert im Pressestatement zu aktuellen politischen Themen. @heidireichinnek.de und @inesschwerdtner.bsky.social sprechen zur Vorstellung des Koalitionsvertrages. youtu.be/COP6n-g_lHs

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Koalitionsvertrag von CDU, CSU & SPD: Die Menschen verdienen etwas Besseres! (Pressestatement)

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Felicitas MacGilChrist @discoursology.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

@mrs-frazzled.bsky.social ‘s analysis of the recent reinterpretation of civil rights laws (that all schools have to stop DEI activities too): “obeying in advance” is going to be a key problem. I thought there was only a German phrase for this. #vorauseilenderGehorsam

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Felicitas MacGilChrist @discoursology.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Replace “games” and “art” with “education” and “teaching”, and the article sounds like it’s about the future of the profession #edtech

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Design Informatics @designinf.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Join us in the next @braiduk.bsky.social x IDI Online Seminar, where @danmcquillan.bsky.social from @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social will argue that having a responsible approach to #AI means #decomputing. 📅 Thu 24 Apr ⏰ 4 – 5pm 📍 Online via Zoom 🎟 edin.ac/40zUOao

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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This free event is part of the @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social Making Waves Event Season, and is run in collaboration with @braiduk.bsky.social! 📅 Thursday 10 April at 18.00 📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute & online 🎟️ Tickets & more info ▶️ edin.ac/3WJhuUH

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Technomoral Conversations: AI & Creative Labour - Edinburgh Futures Institute

A conversation about the role of AI in creative practice and culture.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Dean Jackson writes that the country’s democratic crisis can no longer be treated as acute, with relief hiding one or two elections away; it is plainly chronic.

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The United States Needs a Democratic Vision for Its Post-Democracy Era | TechPolicy.Press

Democracy in the US requires more than analysis; it requires faith, writes Dean Jackson.

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Felicitas MacGilChrist @discoursology.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

“On 15 February, a memo from the US General Services Administration removed an explicit ‘Prohibition of Segregated Facilities’ (like waiting rooms, restaurants and drinking fountains) for federal contractors.“

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Susanna K. @susannakohonen.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

🤩🤩 #AcademicSky, too!

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Felicitas MacGilChrist @discoursology.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

New book on radical democracy and education. So so so necessary right now. Looking forward to reading. In German, edited by W. Friedrichs, @larakierot.bsky.social, D. Lange & @olivermarchart.bsky.social. Radikale Demokratiebildung: Postfundamentale Streifzüge. Springer. doi.org/10.1080/0305...

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Felicitas MacGilChrist @discoursology.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

“The real antidote to exclusion isn’t inclusion, it’s commoning.” Bcos keeping the binary “does nothing to challenge the fundamental premise on which exclusionary solutions are based.” Am just re-reading the end of @danmcquillan.bsky.social’s Resisting AI for a talk tmrw. #commons #civictech

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Felicitas MacGilChrist @discoursology.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Edith Weigert on working as a psychoanalyst in Germany in the 1930s:”At that time, I wondered how we could possibly work towards the goal of mental health in an insane society.”

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Felicitas MacGilChrist @discoursology.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Epistemic fracture—the broken relationship between information and its source. “Hannah Arendt defined this epistemic “loneliness” as a hallmark of totalitarianism.”

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Ingo Dachwitz @roofjoke.netzpolitik.org · 25/03/2025

Wir haben das Verhandlungspapier von Union und SPD zur Innen- und Migrationspolitik analysiert und veröffentlichen es hier in Gänze. Um es kurz zu machen: Es ist eine Katastrophe für Menschen- und Bürgerrechte. netzpolitik.org/2025/koaliti...

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Koalitionsverhandlungen: Gruselprogramm für Grund- und Freiheitsrechte

Union und SPD wollen Überwachungen aller Art ausbauen und das Migrationsrecht drastisch einschränken. Bei manchen Punkten sind sich die zukünftigen Koalitionäre noch nicht einig. Wir veröffentlichen u...

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Felicitas MacGilChrist @discoursology.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

What to do when “critique” becomes so smooth and acceptable?

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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

New Dig: Second episode in two-part series with @iliasalami.bsky.social and @70sbachchan.bsky.social on global geopolitical and geoeconomic conjuncture. Why economic weapon failed against Russia and China, struggle to control energy transition, and so much more! www.thedigradio.com/podcast/new-...

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New World Order w/ Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay

Featuring more analysis from Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay on the shape of global geopolitics and geoeconomics. We discuss: the fault lines of the green energy transition; the US and China battle for domi...

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Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

🟨Volume 50, Issue 1 (2025) of LMT🟪 Let's introduce our new Special Issue! In their editorial @jkom.bsky.social, @keanbirch.bsky.social & Sam Sellar intruduce the dynamics of #rentiership and #assetisation in the digitalisation of education. Read all articles: tinyurl.com/a8bvzkxe

Learning, Media and Technology Mapping rentiership and assetisation in the digitalisation of education Edited by Janja Komljenovic, Kean Birch and Sam Sellar This special issue builds on emerging work on rentiership and assetisation in education to address the lack of analytical attention on these dynamics and to begin mapping a future research agenda for the field. To date, research in this field has introduced key concepts for understanding assetisation and has illuminated potential challenges for the digitalisation of higher education (Komljenovic 2021, 2022). Other areas of investigation include: how assetisation relates to other economic processes in education and how it remakes educational processes and subjects as com- modified entities (Grimaldi, Ball, and Peruzzo 2023); how automated interventions in education are calculated based on assetised resources (Hansen and Komljenovic 2023); the potential for, and challenges of, digital disruption in digital economies organised subject to assetised governance (Komljenovic et al. 2024a); the assetisation strategies of edupreneurs as they collaborate with edu- cation and research sectors (Ideland and Serder 2023); the futuring activities of EdTech investors (Komljenovic et al. 2023; Komljenovic, Sellar, and Birch 2024b; Williamson and Komljenovic 2023); and the translation of tuition fees into assets (Milyaeva and Neyland 2020)

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

A big part of the problem is stupid people have been convinced by rich people that AI is God, when AI is closer to an automatic dog food dispenser.

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Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org · 18/03/2025

"Radical change and consultation involving the whole academic community is required." - Mandy Hill, Managing Director We are conducting a 'radical' review of open research to identify sustainable solutions that support innovation and researchers’ needs. Read more 🔗 cup.org/4iWtV87

Shield graphic with a dark Cambridge blue background and Cambridge blue dots. Text overlay says "Join our radical review".

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Felicitas MacGilChrist @discoursology.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Very important reflections here on "Postdigital Science and Education & The Majority World" by @nicolasruiz.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy, @michaelgallagherr.bsky.social & R. Najjuma. I wonder what they say to scholars concerned that *any* concept to group a region is the problem doi.org/10.1007/s424...

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Why are we not pressuring people more to divest from Twitter like Tesla? It's not enough to make a personal choice to leave Twitter you need to ask societies or institutions you are in to leave too. "I'm happy to work with you/speak at your event but not for you to share anything related on X"

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Felicitas MacGilChrist @discoursology.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

“Asked about the importance of the humanities as an academic field, the Holberg Laureate stressed that the humanities must be supported because they teach the practice of learning rather than necessarily the production of knowledge.” Very relevant thought for #criticalAI

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 13/03/2025

A French University is funding a Safe Place For Science program meant to recruit scientists who cannot continue their work in the US. www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/a...

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

🚨Last week Helyeh Doutaghi, a scholar in international law, was barred from Yale and put on administrative leave: ‘The decision came three days after a news site powered by artificial intelligence, published a story calling her a member of a terrorist group.’ www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 12/03/2025

🗣️ Voices from around the world, delivered to your inbox! Get the latest on equity, freedom of expression, and social transformation. 🌎📩 Subscribe now: globalvoices.org/contact/emai...

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About the Global Voices Newsletter Global Voices newsletters help you stay in touch with the latest in citizen-produced stories and news on power and representation, justice, equity, the internet and....

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Felicitas MacGilChrist @discoursology.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Returning to this. Now the use of “respect” last Friday makes sense.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism? Here is an answer: Good Things. Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine. Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it. The more we build community, the less it can take root. 🧵

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Felicitas MacGilChrist @discoursology.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

“But casting AI as autonomous is not just misleading, it is dangerous. Recognising this truth is critical for tackling the ethical and societal challenges AI presents today.” #criticalAI

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Felicitas MacGilChrist @discoursology.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

This is definitely not the most scandalous part of the paper from initial coalition talks (Germany), but why on earth do they consistently say that more digital technology (“Digitalisierung”) will reduce bureaucracy? Have they tried any of these systems recently? #sondierungsgespräche

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Anna Berg @bergdame.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Mein Herz ist bei allen, die direkt von der Herzlosigkeit und grausamen Kälte dieser neuen Regierung betroffen sein werden. Die gerade da sitzen und einfach nur Angst haben. Ich habe keine Lösung, keine Idee. Ich sehe euch. Aber ich habe keine Idee. 🫂

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Felicitas MacGilChrist @discoursology.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Sondierungsgespräche setzen die Verbesserung des Alltags der Menschen und den gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt also nur an letzter (dritter) Stelle. Kann nur gut gehen.

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Rob Farrow @rfarrow.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Call for Papers: Reclaiming 'Open' and 'Distance' Education in a ‘Digital’ world ojs.uni-oldenburg.de/journals/ojs...

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Call for Papers: Reclaiming 'Open' and 'Distance' Education in a ‘Digital’ world | Journal of Open, Distance, and Digital Education

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Some round numbers: Amount invested on the premise that LLMs would built AGI: $500 billion Number of massive LLMs that have thus far led to AGI: 0 Amount Nvdia’s market cap has lost from its peak: $1 trillion

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