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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

State election results made me think of this 1967 Adorno lecture that was published in 2019. I’ll leave this here.

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!” Im still giggling (sorry)

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Amazinggg! Congrats Rahel 🥳🥳

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’ll be around 🙃 looking forward to seeing you again!

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We bring together long-standing AoIR members @couldrynick.bsky.social , @paufder.bsky.social , Kevin Driscoll, @aramsinn.bsky.social & @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy for this roundtable. Join us! 📅 1 September 2026 ⏰ 17:00-18:30 (UTC) 📍Zoom 🔗Register here: members.aoir.org/event-6769944

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Association of Internet Researchers - AoIR Lecture Series - A Roundtable On Alternative Platforms

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's Internet Studies meets Internet Ethics meets do-it-yourself Internetworking, AoIR-style.We will talk about that moment in AoIR history and the highs and lows of running our AoIR.social.

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This roundtable discussion features several AoIR members who decided to take matters into our own hands and run our own social media: aoir.social, a Mastodon instance that enables Twitter-like communication but across a non-capitalist, community-run network.

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

October 26, 2022: Elon Musk carried a bathroom sink into Twitter's headquarters. A few days later, in Dublin, Ireland, many of us at AoIR were finally letting it sink in: Twitter, one of the most important channels AoIR members had used to communicate, was now owned by a technofascist.

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Jean Peters @jea.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Exklusiv: Wir haben die KI Maschine der AfD gefunden, Weidel nutzt sie. Und dann haben wir von der AfD Testzugänge bekommen. Das Ding verstößt gegen alle US-Tech-Firmen die es nutzt. Deren Reaktion und wem der AfD Mann sonst seine Dienste anbietet, lest ihr im Text: correctiv.org/aktuelles/ge...

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Die Propaganda-KI der AfD

Eine Firma des AfD-Bundesvorstands hat eine KI gebaut, die auf Knopfdruck Propaganda erzeugt. CORRECTIV testete die AfD-KI-Propaganda undercover.

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Briefly coming out of my vacay mode to say: wtf

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Channeling my Germanness this bank holiday weekend with a Spaghetti Eis cone 😌

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Was a mixed bag this year. I’m co-author of a paper that is part of an accepted panel that has average around 90 so yeah, panels got really competitive this year :/

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

German train system DB be like: hold my Signalstörung 🛑

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Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

What can decades of internet research teach us about where we’re headed next? Dr Nancy Baym will share her journey, insights, and the evolution of digital scholarship in this AoIR Legacy Talk. 🗓 26 May, 2026 | 8:30AM EDT |Zoom 🔗 Register here : members.aoir.org/event-6628000 Don’t miss it ! ✨

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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 24/04/2026

🆕 I am exceptionally pleased to announce the release of the 'twitter' issue of M/C Journal, which I co-edited with @hermida.bsky.social. This celebrates / commiserates / memorialises / laments the 20th anniversary of what used to be #Twitter. #mcjournal journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc...

M/C Journal 'twitter' issue cover image, created by Alfred Hermida using Google Nano-banana.

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Happening on Monday! With a stellar line up @annettemarkham.bsky.social @riederb.bsky.social & @snurb.info 🔥 Still time so sign up 👇

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

little timeline cleanse for everyone (yes of course I fed it some green fresh grass after taking this pic)

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Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Join us for the first AoIR Roundtable Series on Methods 🔓📊 🤖 featuring long-standing AoIR members Dr. Annette Markham, Dr. Bernhard Rieder, and Dr. Axel Bruns - moderated by Dr. Meg Jing Zeng 🎉 🗓 13 April, 2026 🕒 18.00-19.30 CEST (Berlin) 🔗 Register: www.members.aoir.org/event-6612843

Poster for the “AoIR Roundtable Series on Methods” by the Association of Internet Researchers. The design features a yellow and orange theme with photos of speakers: Dr. Bernhard Rieder (University of Amsterdam), Dr. Annette Markham (Utrecht University), and Dr. Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology). The moderator is Dr. Meg Jing Zeng (University of Zurich). Event details: 13 April 2026, 18:00–19:30 CEST (Berlin). It is open to AoIR members only. A QR code and link is included for registration.

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

This sounds fab! I assume this is 11-1 pm Dublin time?

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I will be listening to Enya until further notice

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The first installment of the #AoIR legacy talks with Steve Jones - co founder of AoIR - is happening tomorrow! Are you joining? Still time to sign up (members only) 😊

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Suhrkamp Verlag @suhrkamp.de · 14/03/2026

Jürgen Habermas ist heute im Alter von 96 Jahren in Starnberg verstorben.

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Avishai Green @avishaigreen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Social media is full of talk of values... but what do we 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 when we talk about 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠, and what do we use the term to 𝑑𝑜? A new @icsjournal.bsky.social #OpenAccess paper from DigitalValues team+co-authors analyzes the meanings and functions of 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 on Twitter www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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How to do things with a keyword: a cross-cultural analysis of the meanings and functions of ‘values’ on Twitter

While people regularly employ the term values in mundane interactions and political debates on social media, little is known about its function in public communication. Approaching values as a keyw...

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Academics in 2026

Mugatu meme:

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So hot right now

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Ben Whitelaw @benwhitelaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Come for the 2000s pop rock episode title, stay for @blakeplease.bsky.social’s razor sharp insights and American eagle impression. This week’s Ctrl-Alt-Speech is live! podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...

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Panic! At The Discord - Ctrl-Alt-Speech

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by Dr Blake Hallinan, Professor of Platform Studies in the Department of Media &am...

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The 2026 @aoir.bsky.social Flashpoint is in Malmö on 11-12 August, with wonderful keynotes by @annettemarkham.bsky.social, Susana Tosca, @katjungnickel.bsky.social and @ubiquity75.xyz Submit abstracts by 30 March.

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Governing TikTok - A US Power Play 🎭 Check out our new analysis published in Tech Policy Press wrapping up the last year of US tech policy shenanigans leading up to the #TikTokdeal that closed last week. Shout out to @alexturvy.bsky.social for leading this endeavor!

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Wonderful @com-ai.bsky.social talk by @madianou.bsky.social sharing insights on her work on techno colonialism. Inspired to practice some mundane resistance :)

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

“there are windmills all over euprope. there are windmills are all over the place.“ yes, indeed, Donald

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dr courtney tabor @academiuhhh.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

rip aaron swartz you wouldve loved journal editors getting together and deciding submission fees is how we combat AI in academia

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Preprints are uncharted territory for me, I very much enjoy reading the ones of fellow platform governance research colleagues, so if you have thoughts/comments/critique, please reach out!

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

In this study, @reynoldscj.bsky.social , @vasilisak.bsky.social, @blakeplease.bsky.social @ckatzenbach.bsky.social and I compare the values articulated in the EU AI Act 🇪🇺, and (GenAI) policies from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI, Meta AI, and Mistral AI.

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

New Preprint: Value-driven AI Governance Excited to share a preprint of a collaborative article on value-driven AI governance: osf.io/preprints/so... #AIAct #AIGovernance #Values

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Late to the party, but this is hands down best internet news in a bazillion years. Martha Root also created a website with leaked data from those right wing dating profiles (88% men) okstupid.lol chapeau #CCC futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Woman Hacks "Tinder for Nazis," Tricks the Racist Users Into Falling in Love With AI Chatbots

A hacker targeted a white supremacist dating website, lured users with an AI chatbot, and deleted the platform entirely live on stage.

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The #AoIR2026 Call for Papers is officially up on the www: aoir.org/aoir2026/ This year marks AoIRs' first time in Mexico and it will be the second bilingual AoIR. Please share with your networks. 🌮

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AoIR 2026 |

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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

So sorry for your loss, Sarah 💔

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

When I was a student, I used to look up dissertations by people whose work I admired, and I loved reading their acknowledgements to get a glimpse into their life (I actually still love doing that). So if even one person ends up doing the same with mine someday, I’ll be happy. 🙃

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Each piece stands on its own, but I am still excited to see my dissertation out in the world as a single piece.

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