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Kath Bassett

@kathrithm.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Sociology at York. I research tourism as a key site of digitisation, tracing how mobilities, hospitality work, and urban economies are governed by algorithms and platforms.

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Kath Bassett @kathrithm.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Excited and honoured to now be an Associate Editor for JCE! 😊
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Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Good to see this bad boy out in the world!! New article from me on drone delivery, AI testbeds, and the long history science and technology testing in the colony. Online first and gloriously open access ✨ doi.org/10.1177/2976...
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Yiannis Kalaitzis @yianniskalaitzis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Given what is happening with X, it's a good time to propose for anyone interested to read the "Algorithms of Resistance" by T. Bonini & E. Trere. It offers ways to challenge the logic of the platform, and there is a lot of research backing up the arguments of the book. It's open access too!
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Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power
How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control
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Mozilla @mozilla.org · 08/11/2025
Imagination is resistance, @ruha9.bsky.social reminds us that, " we need to reject the gospel that says technology is inevitable, that the train has left the station... In an error of automated bullshit, it’s time to become bullshit detectors," #MozFest
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
also: "a debate at the University of Dar es Salaam about excellence counterposed to relevance. Relevance is not universal in its claims. It’s particular, place specific, time specific. The single-minded pursuit of excellence can give rise to a World Bank/IMF-type cookie-cutter logic..."
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
"The administration ballooned, and inside the administration the financial technocrats took over. There was less and less sympathy with Columbia as a place of thought. It was more about Columbia as an enterprise..." www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
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Mahmood Mamdani Doesn’t Want to Talk About Zohran
The Columbia scholar, and father of the mayor-elect, on politics, academe, and antisemitism.
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Pantéa Javidan, JD, PhD @pjavidan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
My chapter examines the profound socio-economic impacts of Long COVID, particularly in education and employment, from the perspective of systemic inequities and social determinants of health, and exposes the harms of pandemic non-interventionism.
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Kath Bassett @kathrithm.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Launch for Alex Gillett & @kevindtennent.bsky.social book "Foundations of Managing the British Olympics". Congrats to you both! Such a fascinating presentation and I'm looking forward to reading. #ccbhs #uoy
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
When I was researching Beside the Seaside I built quite a good digital archive of images of railway travel posters relating to Yorkshire. One of them was this one which I don't think I've seen online since. A penny a mile would make a return trip to the coast from West Yorkshire about 12/- or so
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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
What are the ethical responsibility of algorithms? How might we think about forms of power, order, and rationality beyond the story of alliances between big tech and the state? Join @amoorelouise.bsky.social and Audrey Borowski Mon. Oct. 20 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
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Select tickets – "On Cloud Ethics and Beyond": Louise Amoore in conversation with Audrey Borowski – Zoom
"On Cloud Ethics and Beyond": Louise Amoore in conversation with Audrey Borowski – Zoom, Mon 20 Oct 2025 - Machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society....
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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 21/10/2025
and it's *clear*! great examples of how close reading helps us make sense of things—it takes work, but you can do it—it's not some mystical operation
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Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Nice to be included in this company! Critics of AI are growing but certainly need to give each other support
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
"The tech elites who got rich in the last 20 years have the world at their fingertips, but they can't stand the touch." GotDAMN. Thank you Jacob.
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Kath Bassett @kathrithm.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Wish I could join!
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Kath Bassett @kathrithm.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Starting to read for a chapter I'll be writing.
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joe gerlach @joegerlach.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics - out now, open access in e-book form: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza... @edinburghup.bsky.social
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Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/10/2025
Definitely nothing can go wrong with OpenAI having a full record of your sexy chatbot interactions.
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Kath Bassett @kathrithm.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Adapting to iPad reading = fewer printed PDFs, a happier university budget, and perhaps a small nod from nature. Though with the energy footprint of our devices and data centres, I’m not sure what counts as the “sustainable” choice anymore…
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Madeleine Chalmers, French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn - @edinburghup.bsky.social, December 2024 hardback and open access; paperback forthcoming in June 2026 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-french-... two interviews in next post
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French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn
French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn
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Mark Graham @geoplace.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Friends and colleagues in Oxford, join us for this event at the end of the month. festivalofsocialscience.com/events/unvei...
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 02/10/2025
What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

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	Meta will use conversations people have with its chatbots to personalise advertising and content across its platforms, in a sign of how tech companies plan to make money from artificial intelligence.

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Wednesday said it would use the content of chats with its Meta AI to create advertising recommendations across its suite of apps.

“People will already expect that their Meta AI interactions are being used for these personalisation purposes,” said Christy Harris, privacy and data policy manager at Meta.
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Maxim Samson, Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way - @profilebooks.bsky.social, August 2025; @uchicagopress.bsky.social, October 2025 profilebooks.com/work/earth-s... press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Earth Shapers
The globetrotting story of how humans have harnessed the geographical landscape and written ourselves onto our surroundings. Mountains, meridians, rivers, and borders—these are some of the features th...
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Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I think the AI 'industry' can afford it, or does the free market and property rights only work in certain circumstances.
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Kath Bassett @kathrithm.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Nobody does it better than Lady Gaga. Had a blast at the Mayhem Ball in Manchester last night. Unfortunately, it's back to (heteronormative) reality now...
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The "Good Tourism" Blog (and The "GT" Travel Blog) @goodtourism.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
‘Authenticity’ is the ideal for many travellers, influencers, and commentators. But what is it? Can destination marketers and tourism professionals package it and sell it … authentically? " #GoodTourism " #travel #tourism #authenticity www.goodtourismblog.com/2025/09/auth...
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What is 'authenticity' in travel & tourism? - The "Good Tourism" Blog
‘Authenticity’ is the ideal for many travellers, influencers, and commentators. But what is it? Can destination marketers and tourism professionals package it and sell it … authentically? Thanks to Pr...
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Kath Bassett @kathrithm.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
What a beautiful city I inhabit ✨
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 04/10/2025
The AI bubble is gonna tank the economy. The ironic future of AI is to throw us backwards into a great depression. Let’s gooooo www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...
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Kath Bassett @kathrithm.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Teaching 'Living in Digital Cultures' this week, our first year students explored how social + locative media leave hidden trails across cities. From Snap Maps to Google reviews, they mapped the infrastructures that quietly shape how we move, meet, and imagine place.
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Don’t miss out! Abstract submissions invited for the BSA’s 75th anniversary conference, 8-10 April 2026, University of Edinburgh – a fixture in the sociological calendar unlike any other. Submission deadline: TOMORROW, Friday 3 October 2025 tinyurl.com/23sjk4nh #sociology
Image text: Don’t miss out! Abstract submissions invited for the BSA’s 75th anniversary conference, 8-10 April 2026, University of Edinburgh – a fixture in the sociological calendar unlike any other. Submission deadline: THIS FRIDAY, 3 October 2025 tinyurl.com/23sjk4nh #sociology
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The printed version is out today! Here we discussed how social credit system, an Orwellian Chinese Other, becomes a stand-in for Western anxieties about authoritarianism, technology goes wrong, quantification of everyday life, and shifting global power. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Techno-orientalism in the US media: the case of ‘China’s social credit system'
The portrayal of China’s Social Credit System (SCS) as an Orwellian scoring scheme through which the Communist Party controls citizens’ every step proliferates in Western media, despite scholarship...
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michael veale @michae.lv · 01/10/2025
Either real-time bidding data or app SDK data is being bought and used by ICE to seize people from the streets. If you didn’t believe that the adtech stack is a human rights concern, I’m not sure what more evidence you need. www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
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Kath Bassett @kathrithm.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Very, very late to the bluesky party.
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