Visioning · Petter Törnberg on how AI is remaking the attention economy

Group tech houses have proliferated across the San Francisco Bay Area in the artificial intelligence boom. One of the most prominent has also racked up an extensive police record.

Wereldwijd worden journalisten geïntimideerd, gearresteerd en zelfs vermoord. Ondertussen blijven zij machthebbers die hén monddood willen maken de microfoon geven. Nu de democratie op het spel staat,...

Grounding · Petter Törnberg on what the competition for attention does to democracy

Grounding · Petter Törnberg on what the competition for attention does to democracy

The political right's shift toward authoritarianism and norm-breaking better explains democratic crisis than the "polarization" concept, which wrongly assumes symmetry between parties. 🏛️⚠️📉

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Rethinking democracy for the age of AI and information abundance. A working group of the Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science. Click to read Informational Democracy, a Substack public...

Rethinking democracy for the age of AI and information abundance. A working group of the Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science. Click to read Informational Democracy, a Substack public...

Logan and Molotch's “urban growth machine” remains foundational in urban theory, describing how coalitions of landowners, developers, and politicians promote urban growth to raise land values. This p...

Petter Törnberg shows how social media use in the USA has changed in the period 2020 – 2024 creating a smaller more polarised and less diverse public sphere.

Petter Törnberg shows how social media use in the USA has changed in the period 2020 – 2024 creating a smaller more polarised and less diverse public sphere.

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for automated text annotation in tasks ranging from academic research to content moderation and hiring. Across 19 LLMs and two experiments totaling m...

<p>The Humane AI research priority area of the University of Amsterdam is looking for a new PostDoc to amend our existing team (<a href="https://humane-ai.nl/">https://humane-ai.nl/</a>). AI is everywhere. Chatbots, translation tools, shopping assistants, hyper-personalised services - as Large Language Models become widely accessible, they're reshaping how we live, work, play and connect. This rapid shift sparks big questions: Whose norms and values shape this AI-driven society—and who gets left behind? What are the rules that govern the development and deployment of Generative AI different sectors of society, and towards what kind of society will they steer us? Is the risked-based approach to AI. </p>

Logan and Molotch's “urban growth machine” remains foundational in urban theory, describing how coalitions of landowners, developers, and politicians promote urban growth to raise land values. This p...

Digital Modernity’s New Forms of Power -- By Petter Törnberg and Justus Uitermark -- Routledge, 2025

On Wednesday 10 december (18:00-19:30), Petter Törnberg (Assistant Professor, Institute for Language, Logic and Computation, UvA) and Justus Uitermark (Professor of Urban Geography, Faculty of Social ...

Climate misinformation today is increasingly conveyed through multimodal content, where images and text interact to shape meaning, emotional resonance, and enhance credibility. Yet, research on cli...

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in the social sciences to simulate human behavior, based on the assumption that they can generate realistic, human-like text. Yet this assumption rem...

See this interview to discover Petter Törnberg’s insights on algorithmic tyranny, digital modernity, and how platforms reshape power.

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