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Piotr Szpunar @pszpunar.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Perfect timing (end of the semester + holiday stress) for a new pub! Thanks to @stefcraps.com, Rick Crownshaw and Rebecca Dolgoy for editing fantastic special issue on Climate Witnessing. "The Temporality of Climate Witnessing: Ice, Simulation, Image", - message for pdf. brill.com/view/journal...

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Media@Risk @ascmediarisk.org · 20/08/2025

American journalism has serious problems. But how did we get here? @bzelizer.bsky.social’s new book 📚 How the Cold War Broke the News📚 uncovers the surprising roots of journalism’s decline and offers a plan to make it better. Pre-order now: bit.ly/4mqcr68

book cover with a red background featuring four missile silhouettes. The title "HOW THE COLD WAR BROKE THE NEWS" is displayed in white capital letters at the top. Below the title is an image of a folded newspaper. The subtitle reads "The Surprising Roots of Journalism's Decline." At the bottom, the author's name "BARBIE ZELIZER" is written in white capital letters.

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Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Join us online or in person for two talks in association with the Stirling, Dep of Psychology, May 15 and June 5, 2025 - Professor Donna Rose Addis and Associate Professor Celia Harris leading researchers on memory and cognitive science.

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Join Us: Memory Summer Seminars | Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

"... AI hype has emerged in the context of such fatigue. Promising to automate a workforce for each of us, this hype, like crypto hype before it" — and big data hype before that, and... — "reinforces a future of individualized economic power with a sexier allure than attending a town hall."

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Future Fatigue: How Hype has Replaced Hope in the 21st Century | TechPolicy.Press

To resist AI hype, we must not reassert the fiction that we could “return” to a functional democracy, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

"In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs... To understand the dynamics around this fast-developing market, [Ithaka is] launching a tracker of these licensing deals."

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Tracking the Licensing of Scholarly Content to LLMs

ITHAKA has developed a tool that tracks publisher deals to license scholarly content for use as training data by LLMs

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Media Theory @meejatheory.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Out now - Standard issue featuring articles by M. Beatrice Fazi, Mark B. N. Hansen, Piotr M. Szpunar, and Raymond L. M. Lee. journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt

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Piotr Szpunar @pszpunar.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

New Pub! The gist: The shape imaginaries take pivot not only on what media make clearly visible but on what they offer up for speculation at their eco-technological edges. Open Access @meejatheory.bsky.social journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...

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Mediated Futures in Anesthetic Space: Noise, Speculation, and Lowell’s Telescope | Media Theory

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