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Philipp K. Masur @masurphil.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Hey #ica26, I recently wrote a little something that I believe might be interesting to many. Over years I tried to find a way to properly keep up to date with new journal publications across those journals that are most important to me... (1/n)

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Lukas Röseler @aufdroeseler.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

If you have conducted a replication that has been part of a large-scale project, you can submit it to @r2journal.bsky.social.

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Israel's Supreme Court just issued a landmark ruling on AI in government: "the AI hallucinated" is not a valid defense for a public authority: csrcl.huji.ac.il/blog/when-ai...

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Good comparative #privacy survey research needs good validated instruments. @masurphil.bsky.social , @kelly-quinn.bsky.social and I validated shorter versions of the Online Privacy Literacy Scale (#OPLIS) for EN & DE. It's now out as a preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

This analysis of papers from 1980 to 2025 goes beyond LLMs, but notes one challenge that arises when research questions rely on the same tools and datasets: “the adoption of AI seems to induce authors to converge on the same solutions to known problems rather than create new ones.”

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AI has supercharged scientists—but may have shrunk science

Analysis of 41 million papers finds that although AI expands individual impact, it narrows collective scientific exploration

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/12/2025

Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other. buttondown.com/apperceptive...

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"AI" is bad UX

teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...

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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Interested in platform governance, a defining issue of our time? Dec 1-2, PlatGovNet is hosting its 2025 online conference. 60+ presentations, conversations with civil society, Reddit, Bluesky. It is free to attend. Program platgov.net/assets/site/... Registration ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I wrote an updated guide on which AIs to use right now, & some tips on how to use them (and how to avoid falling into some common traps) A lot has changed since I last wrote a guide like this in the spring, and AI has gotten much more useful as a result. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...

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An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now

What AI to use in late 2025

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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 20/08/2025

A median of 72% of adults across 25 nations say the spread of false information online is a major threat to their country. Concern about this issue is widespread in both high- and middle-income countries, and it has remained relatively stable over time.

A chart of 25 countries with horizontal green bars showing that majorities see false information on the internet as a significant threat

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Global Network Initiative @thegni.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

🌐 Want to understand how countries are prioritizing key issues ahead of WSIS+20? GNI and @gpdigital.bsky.social have published a new summary infographic offering a quick visual guide to where countries stand on key WSIS+20 issues. globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-and-gpd-...

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GNI and GPD Launch New Summary Infographic on WSIS+20 Country Positions - Global Network Initiative

Understand country approaches to internet governance and stakeholder engagement at a glance.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

July roundup on tech policy litigation from Tech Justice Law Project’s Melodi Dinçer! This month covers key legal discussions in generative AI and “digital replicas,” section 230 protections, privacy law enforcement, demise of FTC’s click to cancel, and a resolution in Cambridge Analytica.

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July 2025 Tech Litigation Roundup | TechPolicy.Press

Melodi Dinçer, Policy Counsel for the Tech Justice Law Project, highlights key developments in tech litigation.

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Jana Bernhard-Harrer @janabernhard.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

🚨 New publication! 🚨 Do people really trust the government? It depends on how you ask. Happy to share that our paper on why Question Form Matters with KatharinaPfaff (@stawi-univie.bsky.social‬) is now out in @jssam.bsky.social 📊🇦🇹 🔗 academic.oup.com/jssam/advanc...

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Question Form Matters: Examining Trust in Government through Open and Closed Survey Items

Abstract. How we ask questions in surveys significantly impacts the answers. While previous research has examined differences between open-ended and closed

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

New special issue, "Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy," edited by #CPRN is now published in Social Media + Society! journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec... w/ @lutzid.bsky.social, Lemi Baruh, Kelly Quinn, @masurphil.bsky.social, Carsten Wilhelm (comparativeprivacy.org)

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Judgitbu the abstract, this seems like an interesting read..

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

On politics and policy preferences of tech workers: In a preprint of a study lead by Gilad Be'ery and co-authored with @raanan-sk.bsky.social we show that, despite some similarities, techies do not have a universal policy agenda; developers are particularly distinct. osf.io/preprints/os...

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The immense political influence possessed by the tech elite perfectly demonstrates how free and fair elections may coexist with and even foster a political system that privileges the policy preferences of a select few, writes Surya Gowda.

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What Makes A Democracy A Democracy? | TechPolicy.Press

Tech elites' political clout shows how free elections can still favor the policy preferences of a powerful few, writes Surya Gowda.

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Grok’s “sudden ideological reorientation” underscores that the “anodyne political character” of other chatbots is also a construction, @jwherrman.bsky.social writes. It's a reminder that all chatbots are the product of "people deciding what they should and shouldn’t say.” nymag.com/intelligence...

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How Grok Learned to Be a Nazi

The chatbot’s sudden turn to antisemitism and Hitler fandom came from the data — and, maybe, from the top.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 29/06/2025

If the power grid around St. Petersburg and Moscow went down for a while, we imagine many "Western" social media accounts would suddenly go quiet, too.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 28/06/2025

Our free Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School is open to graduate students, researchers, journalists, and analysts interested in CSS, textual, and network analysis of social media data — no prior experience is needed! socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/28/2...

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2025 Social Media Lab - Computational Social Science Summer School - Online [July 14-16, 2025 via Zoom] - Social Media Lab

Where: online (via Zoom) When: July 14-16, 2024 Contact Info info@socialmedialab.caBsky @SMLabTO INSTRUCTORS Join us for the Social Media Lab’s 2025 Computational Social Science (CSS) Summer School. E...

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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Working on platform governance? Join for PlatGovNet 2025 Free online conference Dec 1-2 Extended abstracts (800-1000 words) due Sep 2 Amazing community, opportunity to share work, get feedback, meet others working in this area. Glad to be part of organizing it Details: platgov.net/conferences/...

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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🎉 Excited to share the APSA Technology & Politics Section Award winners! 🏆 📚 Best Book The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies by @sabinamihelj.bsky.social & @vstetka.bsky.social. You can access it, it is in open access! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... 🧵

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The Illiberal Public Sphere

This book uncovers the media's role in global illiberalism through cutting-edge analysis of recent developments in Eastern Europe.

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The Diplomat @thediplomat.com · 20/05/2025

This is no longer a contest over AI models alone, but over standards, adoption, and the architecture of global digital ecosystems. buff.ly/WrOKnN9

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The Communication & Technology Division of ICA @icacat.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

#ICA25 ICA CAT panel: Building Bridges in Privacy Research: Comparative Perspectives and Collaborative Insights - 14-Jun-25, 10:30 AM in Mineral G (Regency 3).

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 09/04/2025

Canadians are split on GenAI’s net societal impact (39% positive, 34% negative, 27% neutral), but unite around key concerns—security and privacy (72%), reliability of information (68%), job displacement (68%), and effects on higher education (68%). socialmedialab.ca/2025/04/08/n...

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[New Report] The State of Generative AI Use in Canada 2025: Exploring Public Attitudes and Adoption Trends - Social Media Lab

TORONTO — April 2025 — A majority of Canadians (66%) have experimented with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools less than three years after ChatGPT’s public debut, according to a new repo...

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I am really pleased to see our meta-analysis of media literacy interventions (160 studies!) has been published in HCR. Unsurprisingly, there is a lot of nuance. One piece of good news is that the interventions work longitudinally. Free download here: academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...

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Media literacy interventions: meta-analytic review of 40 years of research

Abstract. We conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis of 160 media literacy interventions from 1983 to 2023, finding overall positive effects. Effects were

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Manuel Puppis @manuelpuppis.ch · 27/03/2025

Already fed up with AI in Google search? "Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of all the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus." tedium.co/2024/05/17/g...

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How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search

Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. You just need one URL parameter.

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Reuters Institute @reutersinstitute.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

🚨 More than 1,400 people have signed up to watch our free conference on AI and the future of news Our day-long event features presentations and panel discussions with experts from @ox.ac.uk and journalists from around the world Sign up now

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AI and the Future of News 2025

A one-day conference with speakers from journalism and academia.

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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Webinar - State Privacy Legislation 2.0: New Directions and Legislative Challenges (Tues, Mar 18, 12 PM ET) – Daniel Solove chats with Monique Priestley (VT Legislature). Register free: teachprivacy.com/webinar-stat...

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Webinar - State Privacy Legislation 2.0: New Directions and Legislative Challenges

State Privacy Legislation 2.0: New Directions and Legislative Challenges Tues, March 18, 2025, at 12 PM ET In this webinar, Professor Daniel Solove

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 03/03/2025

I'm hiring! I'm looking for 1️⃣ pre-doc and 2️⃣ post-docs. If you're fascinated by media effects, quantitative methods, and open science, please consider applying 🙂 International applications welcome! Application Pre-doc: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... Application Post-doc: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

About the position
• 3-year Ph.D. position (60%, paid according to cantonal salary scheme)
• Can be extended by another 17 months
• Workplace is Zurich

What will be your main tasks?
• Conduct a Ph.D. thesis in the field of communication, media psychology, and media effects
• Publish in leading academic journals; present at conferences; engage in outreach
• Teach courses on media effects, methods, and statistics at BA and MA levels
• Take part in doctoral training programmes offered by UZH and IKMZ
• Participate in organisational or administrative tasks as required

What should you bring to the team?
• Master’s degree in communication science, psychology, or a related discipline
• Strong interest in research on media effects, including topics such as social media, well-being, privacy, AI, or media effects theory
• Expertise in quantitative research methods
• Proficiency in (or openness to learn) R, open science practices, and advanced statistics
• Proficiency in English; knowledge of German is desirable but not mandatory

What do we offer you?
• Great background and support for high quality research
• Much freedom to develop your own research interest within the topics of the division
• Dynamic and supportive team with a collegial and inspiring working atmosphere
• Excellent track record of the department in academic career development

How to apply
Please send the following documents as a single PDF file using UZH’s job portal (see link in post):
• Letter of motivation (including ideas for your Ph.D. project; max. 2 pages)
• Your CV (including a list of scientific publications and presentations, if applicable)
• MA thesis or equivalent, research publications if already applicable
• Copies of degrees and relevant transcripts

Deadline for applications is March 16, 2025
Applications arriving later will also be considered if no candidate has been selected until then
The position starts in April or by agreement

About the position
• 3-year postdoctoral position (80%, paid according to cantonal salary scheme)
• One position can be extended up to 3 years, the other up to 6 years
• Workplace is Zurich

What will be your main tasks?
• Conduct research in the field of communication, media psychology, and media effects
• Lead your own projects and collaborate in team projects
• Publish in leading academic journals; present at conferences; engage in outreach
• Teach courses on media effects, methods, and statistics at BA, MA, and Ph.D. levels
• Take part in supporting and training predocs at the division
• Engage in third party funding activities
• Participate in organisational or administrative tasks as required

What should you bring to the team?
• Doctoral degree in communication science, psychology, or a related discipline
• Strong interest in research on media effects, including topics such as social media, well-being, privacy, AI, or media effects theory
• Expertise in quantitative research methods
• Proficiency in (or openness to learn) R, open science practices, and advanced statistics
• Proficiency in English; knowledge of German is desirable but not mandatory

What do we offer you?
• Great background and support for high quality research
• Much freedom to develop your own research interest within the topics of the division
• Dynamic and supportive team with a collegial and inspiring working atmosphere

Please send the following documents as a single PDF file using UZH’s job portal (see link in post):
• Letter of motivation (including ideas for future research projects; max. 2 pages)
• Your CV (including a list of scientific publications and conference presentations)
• Full-texts of up to three sample publications & PhD dissertation
• Copies of degrees and relevant transcripts

Deadline for applications is March 16, 2025
Applications arriving later will also be considered if no candidate has been selected until then
The position starts in April or by agreement

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

"... innovation (...) doesn’t actually happen in a vacuum. The reason Silicon Valley became Silicon Valley wasn’t because a bunch of genius inventors happened to like California weather. It was because of a complex web of institutions that made innovation possible: ..." 1/2

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Ever wondered whether all those health-related apps are any good? Spoiler: not so much. We just showed it in: "An App a Day will (Probably Not) Keep the Doctor Away: An Evidence Audit of Health and Medical Apps Available on the Apple App Store" link.springer.com/ar... OA: papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

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An App a Day will (Probably Not) Keep the Doctor Away: An Evidence Audit of Health and Medical Apps Available on the Apple App Store

Minds and Machines - There are more than 350,000 health apps available in public app stores. The extolled benefits of health apps are numerous and well documented. However, there are also concerns...

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icajsd.bsky.social @icajsd.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The #ica25 program is online now: Check it out and build your own schedule for Denver! #academicsky #comsky #Denver #researchmatters #conferencing @icahdq.bsky.social ica2025.abstractcentral.com/s1agxt/com.s...

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Ben Collier @susansegfault.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ever tried to fix the whole Internet? We look at efforts by a small group of network engineers to get a standard set in the late 90s (BCP38) - but never fully applied - adopted around the world, with surprising success. Result is a big change to global DDoS.

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Peer(ing) pressure: maintenance, care, and infrastructural capital in a cybersecurity intervention at Internet scale

We discuss a successful intervention in the management of Internet infrastructure – a campaign which has achieved genuine traction against a cybercrime issue that has dogged the network engineering...

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Check out another installment of the Global Digital Policy Roundup for January 2025 from the experts at Digital Policy Alert. Tommaso Giardini and Maria Buza highlight tech policy developments in four key areas: content moderation, artificial intelligence, competition, and data governance.

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Global Digital Policy Roundup: January 2025 | TechPolicy.Press

Drawing from the Digital Policy Alert’s daily monitoring of G20 countries, the roundup summarizes the highlights in four core areas of digital policy.

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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Excited to see this resource: Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 #datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. See lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02... #publichealth

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Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Extremely excited and proud to see this published! Really looking forward to see how others will engage with the Comparative Privacy Research Framework we are proposing. #privacy #commsky

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Viktoria Cologna @colognaviktoria.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

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Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

We are hosting the 2025 @aoir.bsky.social Flashpoint Symposium in Bremen! 🎯 CfP "From Platform Governance to Generative AI: Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance" 📆 3-4 June 2025, Bremen, DE 🗒️ Deadline for Abstracts: 15 February 2025 platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

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The Communication & Technology Division of ICA @icacat.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

PhD students whose work connects with Communication and Technology and/or Mobile Communication theories, methods, and topics are encouraged to apply to the Doctoral Consortium, an #ICA25 pre-conference to be held on Thurs Jun 12.

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2025 ICA CAT/Mobile DC

Overview The Doctoral Consortium (DC) sponsored by the Communication and Technology and Mobile Communication Divisions of the International Communication Association will bring together PhD…

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Veronika Karnowski @vkarnowski.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Still very much thinking in hashtags (like me) and looking for #ica25? I created a feed for you to follow! #commsky bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Dima Epstein @thinkmacro.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

If you are interested in digital #privacy and resignation, this collection will be a treasure trove. Thank you @noradraper.bsky.social, @cphoffmann.bsky.social, @lutzid.bsky.social, @giuliaranzini.bsky.social and Joe Turow for masterfully steering this venture! Proud to be part of it.

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

📣 Together with @aoir.bsky.social, we are pleased to announce the next #AoIRFlashpointSymposium, entitled "From Platform Governance to Generative AI", which will be hosted by the PGMT Lab in Bremen, on 3 and 4 June 2025. Submissions are now open: platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

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