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Agustin Ferrari Braun

@ferraribraun.bsky.social
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PhD researcher at the University of Amsterdam | Studying digital infrastructures, power and media in Europe | No business as usual during genocide 🇵🇸 | he/him

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Catastrophe In Brazil with the far right surging State races, senate and congress races all going for the far right Presidential race going to a second round thankfully with bolsonaro’s son under 50 percent www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Erik Bugge @erik.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
Is this how the @ec.europa.eu is making sure that European businesses will be able to compete on a levelled digital playing field? Deregulation led by the US incumbents will not make Europe more competitive, which should be totally obvious for anyone working on policy.
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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hoe vinden Meta-medewerkers hun eigen Meta-bril? (Samen met @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social)
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SMD's pension @anothersmd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
amazing how all these 'AIs' went rogue all at the same time and all these tech ceos are crying for the same thing
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Max Read @maxread.info · 15/09/2026
i would like to have a lot fewer high-breathlessness low-details confessional letters/essays/tweets/resignations from big ai and a lot more specificity & transparency
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/09/2026
I think one of the easiest ways to spot Anthropic's insincerity or basic cultishness is how they've actively enabled + done deals with immediately deadly fossil fuel projects to power their data centres, zero qualms Real dead brown people aren't really on their radar ketanjoshi.co/2026/05/13/w...

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Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
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The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear
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NEW: xAI appears to have added more than 500 MW (!) of unpermitted gas turbines to its Colossus 2 campus in a matter of weeks, according to internal emails between the company and regulators
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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I've received no less than five (5) push notifications today from newspapers covering the Anthropic bozo. He seems awfully chill for someone that genuinely believes that he has ushered the end of times
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“It’s impossible that Jason Arday could have got his post without DEI,” say people about an industry which can find 200 academics willing to sign a letter in support of David Miller and another 200 academics willing to support Nathan Cofnas.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
i don’t want “accelerated”, “increased-speed” or “fast-paced” research. in fact, am not interested in any shortcuts to mindful, intentional, and slow science
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🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪 @chateaucat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Dorothea Lange, Young mother of twenty five says "next year we'll be painted and have a lawn and flowers", rural shacktown, near Klamath Falls, Oregon, 1939
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is so incredibly insightful. Like every other instance where we look to the US, our right-wing press are just pound-shop US fash.
Tweet by CSZ: it’s a small thing but the fact the british media involved all use DEI as opposed to EDI tells you how much of all of this is downstream of downloading or playing to the american culture war template vs having actual direct experience in how UK universities are run
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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I just finished Jäger's Hyperpolitics, didn't really like it for a variety of reasons but one stood out...
Cover of the English edition of Anton Jäger's Hyperpolitics
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
No, that is not the alternative The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places
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advait @advaitarun.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This piece is very much born from a lot of the conversations I've had with data center-skeptical policymakers and advocates, some of whom think that market transparency into this secretive sector will tilt the playing field in their favor. And I really just don't know if that's right!
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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
𝗪𝗮𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝗯𝗲𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗷𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝗮𝗿 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗮𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗷𝘃𝗲𝗻?🤔 Sprak met UvA Gedrag & Maatschappij over @sidnfonds.bsky.social project rond Digitale Autonomie met @decorrespondent.nl & @ftm.nl www.uva.nl/shared-conte...
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Hoe komen nieuwsmedia af van het Big Tech-infuus?
Nieuwsmedia zijn grotendeels afhankelijk van Big Tech. UvA‑onderzoeker Hannes Cools werkt met De Correspondent en Follow the Money aan meer digitale autonomie door middel van Europese en open‑source t...
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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Attention Coms & Media Studies scholars (and others, too). Designing your syllabi for the fall term? The @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca supported Global Media & Internet Concentration Project's data visualization tool and other resources available on our website make for great teaching tools.
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Merijn Oudenampsen @merijnoudenampsen.org · 30/07/2026
Today my book on the Dutch neoliberal turn is officially out with Verso Books! Thanks for the wonderful blurbs from @quinnslobodian.com, @mkonings.bsky.social, Stephanie Mudge, Niklas Olsen and @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social. Will be presenting the book in september. More info below
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No Nonsense
In the 1980s, Dutch politics underwent a neoliberal turn overseen by the Christian Democrat Ruud Lubbers. It formed part of an interna­tional trend, famously spearheaded by Reagan and Thatcher. What w...
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Trobriand @trovador.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Se supone que parte fundamental de la tarea de los medios de comunicación es precisamente cuestionar estos ejercicios de simplificación, y hacer pedagogía sobre los procesos complejos. Por el contrario, nos encontramos con medios regados con millones de euros haciendo difusión del negacionismo.
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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🤦 𝐀 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐲𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐑 𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡. So no, The New York Times, the AI didn't "go rogue" or "attack" a digital library. These are the kinds of dystopian frames tech companies use to anthropomorphize AI, to make us believe these systems…🧵
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AI, Media & Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
📄 The report summarizing last year's workshop organized by @algosoc.org, @article19.bsky.social, and our lab is now out! It's a useful read for de-tangling the dynamics of Europe's digital infrastructural dependencies through expert insights and case studies. Read here: algosoc.org/results/reth...
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Rethinking European media infrastructures | AlgoSoc
Rethinking European media infrastructures
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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It's almost as if the whole point of the past seven years of law and policy on this issue was neither protecting children nor fixing social media nor curbing big tech, but building both a domestic surveillance tech sector and a captive market for it. internet.exchangepoint.tech/the-dog-that...
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The Dog that Caught the Car: Britain's 'World-Leading' Internet
Billed as a “world-leading” child-protection law, the UK’s Online Safety Act has instead normalized surveillance and ID checks. “Tech policy wonk" Heather Burns writes that the model is spreading acro...
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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🎉𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 "𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐅𝐢𝐭𝐬" 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐚 2 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐲 SIDN fonds!🎉 We'll be investigating how media organisations can adopt open-source LLMs to reclaim control over their distribution & audience relationships. All info: www.sidnfonds.nl/nieuws/de-tr...
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billie @billieprofane.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Athenaeum Boekhandel is not happy with me--that's okay, I'll still keep reading that garbage.
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AI, Media & Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
👏 Congratulations to Agustin! Putting an important spotlight on how the adoption of "invisible" cloud infrastructure can become an unexpected way for dominant providers to exert their power. Give the paper a read! 👇
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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Paper out! The first paper of my PhD, on the reasons why media organisations have adopted cloud infrastructures, is finally out on Open Access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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“Reliable and Cheap”?: Examining the adoption of the cloud by European news media companies - Agustin Ferrari Braun, 2026
Since the middle of the 2010s, an overwhelming majority of European news media companies have adopted cloud infrastructures. While a growing number of scholars ...
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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I'll be co-leading this session with @natalihelberger.bsky.social! Do come if you're interested in the politics of digital infrastructures and how we can build different, autonomous systems.
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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Vandaag kondigen De Correspondent en Follow the Money aan dat ze gaan samenwerken om onafhankelijker te worden van Amerikaanse big tech ✨ @casperwolfert.bsky.social decorrespondent.nl/16752/de-cor...
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De Correspondent en Follow the Money gaan samenwerken om onafhankelijker te worden van Amerikaanse big tech
Al jaren schrijven we kritisch over onze afhankelijkheid van Amerikaanse techbedrijven. En wij vinden: wie daarin geloofwaardig wil zijn, moet ook bereid zijn het zelf anders te doen. Daarom starten w...
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AI, Media & Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
📰 New preprint! By @ferraribraun.bsky.social and @ccs.bsky.social, highlighting the hidden influences of European news media's reliance on the cloud infrastructures of Big Tech. For news work, autonomy is decreasing, while vulnerabilities are increasing. Read here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🚨 PAPER OUT 🚨 The first paper of my PhD just got published as a pre-print. Co-authored with @ccs.bsky.social, it looks at the ways in which cloud infrastructures are changing the business operations of European news media companies. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Clouded Judgments: Problematizing Cloud Infrastructures for News Media Companies
Over the past decade, most European news media companies have adopted hyperscaler cloud infrastructures-digital infrastructure services offered by Amazon, Micro
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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
[sombrely, with tears in eyes] "truly the people of Iran embody the great spirit of Flumpo The Fart Wizard" - author of Flumpo The Fart Wizard
hateful woman JK Rowling - "Iran appears to be unusually full of Gryffindors"
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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
"the entire exercise has less to do with actual resource imperialism than Trump’s feckless reality TV Cosplay resource imperialism. He likes demonstrative acts of violence. He likes to claim immediate economic paybacks". open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...
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Chartbook 423 Some topical material on Venezuela. Hopefully useful.
It’s been a busy weekend which put me in mind of a classic quip:
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
On twitter, Macron is pretending that a popular uprising finally removed Maduro, what shameful gaslighting, and a joke of European strategic autonomy
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AI, Media & Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
✨ New preprint: The facets of data in news organizations Our researcher @ferraribraun.bsky.social co-authored this study looking at the role of data as the intermediary layer between journalists and AI technologies, and unpacking how it's embedded in practices. Read here: osf.io/preprints/so...
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What is Data? A Conceptual and Empirical Inquiry of the Facets of Data in News Organizations
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 12/11/2025
The central argument in this excellent paper & thread is that the open-access turn has neglected profit; indeed, it turbo-charged publishers’ margins. As political economists who know a thing or two about profit and power we should speak up a lot more. As it says below: What we’re doing is crazy.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
As a scholar I rarely offer electoral guidance. But today I do: DO NOT USE AI CHATBOTS AS YOUR VOTE ADVICE APPLICATION AHEAD OF (THE DUTCH) ELECTIONS Full of errors, bias and lack of transparency. @ernesto-deleon.com @favstats.eu @theoaraujo.bsky.social and🙋unpack why algosoc.org/results/1-in...
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1 in 10 Dutch citizens are likely to ask AI for election advice. This is why they shouldn't | AlgoSoc
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Jaap Kooijman @jaapkooijman.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
ASCA, the research school of which I’m the director, has been “blacklisted” by the state of Florida, as reported by @foliacivitatis.bsky.social. We were informed of this in a letter, dated 7 October 2025, which we “ter kennisgeving hebben aangenomen” ("have accepted for information purposes").
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UvA blacklisted by US state of Florida
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Marijn Sax @marijnsax.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Rechter: Instagram en Facebook moeten algoritmevrije optie krijgen - nos.nl/l/2584891
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Rechter: Instagram en Facebook moeten algoritmevrije optie krijgen
Bits of Freedom eiste dat in een rechtszaak en kreeg gelijk van de Nederlandse rechter.
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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Really happy to be joining the AIMD Lab, one of the most exciting research spaces in Europe to study tech and media!
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Vera Moreijn @veramoreijn.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Ik herhaal ook hierover weer mijn plea: media, alsjeblieft, BESTEED HIER AANDACHT AAN. Wilders' programma staat vol met punten die voor trans mensen het leven volstrekt onmogelijk zouden maken. Ik heb er NIET EEN krant of tv-programma over gehoord. Nogmaals, ik licht het desnoods punt voor punt toe.
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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
"Every sovereign AI initiative should be mandated to serve the public good. These systems must legally demonstrate that they fulfill publicly defined goals, with their performance measured and reported openly" 🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Merijn Oudenampsen @merijnoudenampsen.org · 25/09/2025
Goede repliek op dat rare item over eenkennige universiteiten van @nieuwsuur.nl.
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Opinie: De universiteit is geen talkshowtafel
De druk op academische vrijheid komt niet vanuit studenten, maar vanuit politieke partijen die zich willen bemoeien met de inhoud van colleges. Ook media dragen daar aan bij door onvoldoende kritisch ...
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publictechmedialab.bsky.social @publictechmedialab.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The @publictechmedialab.bsky.social just got bigger! Welcome @ferraribraun.bsky.social, who is joining us as a research fellow!  Agustin is a PhD researcher at the AlgoSoc Consortium, affiliated with Media Studies and the @ivir-uva.bsky.social at UvA. See more info: ptml.sjmc.wisc.edu
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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Been talking nonstop about this shameful episode for the past two days & this point needs to be underscored: It's the culmination of longstanding structural defects in our media, not simply the bad actions of bad actors. What happened to Jimmy Kimmel is a downstream manifestation of systemic probs:
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Daniël de Zeeuw @ddzeeuw.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Together with Marc Tuters and @robtoes.bsky.social I wrote an essay on the Charlie Kirk assassination, the Groypers - Nick Fuentes connection and the state of memetic political violence today oilab.eu/frozen-antag...
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Frozen Antagonisms: Charlie Kirk, Groypers, and the Meme Politics of Violence – OILab
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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I really believe that disentangling this apparatus is the task for social sciences and the humanities in the foreseeable future. Nothing else is as urgent as this
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Guus Valk @guusvalk.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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Agustin Ferrari Braun @ferraribraun.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Picked this up last year to quickly check a couple of facts and I simply couldn't put it down. Strongly recommend it
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