Michiel de Lange
@mdelange.bsky.social
Associate Professor New Media at Utrecht University | digital media and urban culture | [urban interfaces] | The Mobile City | ‘Inclusion in the datafied city’
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Michiel de Lange
@mdelange.bsky.social
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Michiel de Lange (@[email protected])
150 Posts, 567 Following, 168 Followers · Assistant Professor New Media at Utrecht University | mobile media, urban culture | cofounder [urban interfaces] & @themobilecity
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Hello! Just in. Interested in #digitalculture #mediacities #mobilemedia. Working @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social in the department of Media & Culture Studies.
Also on Mastodon sciences.social/@mdelange but hoping for some more (inter)action here.
Also on Mastodon sciences.social/@mdelange but hoping for some more (inter)action here.
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Shocked and surprised. Did not see that coming. 🥸
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Shocked and surprised. Did not see that coming. 🥸
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The contracts usually prevent the council/PD/HOA/retailer from physically interacting *in any way* with these camera installations.
The Evanston, IL case is just one example that illustrates just how untrustworthy #Flock is as a vendor and why we should avoid/cancel contracts with them.
The Evanston, IL case is just one example that illustrates just how untrustworthy #Flock is as a vendor and why we should avoid/cancel contracts with them.
City covers Flock cameras while waiting for removal - Evanston RoundTable
A Flock camera on the south side of Emerson Street, east of McCormick Boulevard, is seen on Sept. 24 covered up by black plastic secured with tape to the
evanstonroundtable.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The contracts usually prevent the council/PD/HOA/retailer from physically interacting *in any way* with these camera installations.
The Evanston, IL case is just one example that illustrates just how untrustworthy #Flock is as a vendor and why we should avoid/cancel contracts with them.
The Evanston, IL case is just one example that illustrates just how untrustworthy #Flock is as a vendor and why we should avoid/cancel contracts with them.
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💡 New publication alert!
“On the Controversiality of AI: The Controversy Is Not the Situation” by @noortjem.bsky.social , @ckatzenbach.bsky.social , @anderskristianm.bsky.social, and @annajobin.bsky.social is out now.
📖 Read it open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
“On the Controversiality of AI: The Controversy Is Not the Situation” by @noortjem.bsky.social , @ckatzenbach.bsky.social , @anderskristianm.bsky.social, and @annajobin.bsky.social is out now.
📖 Read it open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
On the controversiality of AI: The controversy is not the situation - Noortje Marres, Christian Katzenbach, Anders Kristian Munk, Anna Jobin, 2025
Do public controversies about AI matter? Can they really make a difference to how AI is taken up or imposed on society? This introduction to the Special Issue o...
journals.sagepub.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
💡 New publication alert!
“On the Controversiality of AI: The Controversy Is Not the Situation” by @noortjem.bsky.social , @ckatzenbach.bsky.social , @anderskristianm.bsky.social, and @annajobin.bsky.social is out now.
📖 Read it open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
“On the Controversiality of AI: The Controversy Is Not the Situation” by @noortjem.bsky.social , @ckatzenbach.bsky.social , @anderskristianm.bsky.social, and @annajobin.bsky.social is out now.
📖 Read it open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The unity around “sovereignty” in Europe masks a deeper question that inevitably follows and underpins the current broad agreement: sovereignty for what purpose, and in service of whose political project? asks @openfuture.bsky.social’s Zuzanna Warso.
Building Digital Sovereignty: What Does Europe Need and How to Achieve It | TechPolicy.Press
The EU should not re-do the entire digital stack but confront the structural bottlenecks that sustain Europe’s digital dependence, writes Zuzanna Warso.
www.techpolicy.press
October 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The unity around “sovereignty” in Europe masks a deeper question that inevitably follows and underpins the current broad agreement: sovereignty for what purpose, and in service of whose political project? asks @openfuture.bsky.social’s Zuzanna Warso.
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De politiek achter de AI-bubbel, en wat het voor ons betekent
www.doorbraak.eu/de-politiek-...
“De hele AI-hype is een hallucinatie gebleken, en binnenkort gaan er miljarden dollars verdampen als ook de markt zich dat realiseert.
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“De hele AI-hype is een hallucinatie gebleken, en binnenkort gaan er miljarden dollars verdampen als ook de markt zich dat realiseert.
De politiek achter de AI-bubbel, en wat het voor ons betekent | Doorbraak.eu
De investeringen in zogenaamde “AI” zijn een enorme bubbel. Het is slechts een kwestie van tijd voordat die barst. En we weten nu al: het kapitaal wil dat gebruiken om de economie grondig te herbouwen...
www.doorbraak.eu
October 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
De politiek achter de AI-bubbel, en wat het voor ons betekent
www.doorbraak.eu/de-politiek-...
“De hele AI-hype is een hallucinatie gebleken, en binnenkort gaan er miljarden dollars verdampen als ook de markt zich dat realiseert.
www.doorbraak.eu/de-politiek-...
“De hele AI-hype is een hallucinatie gebleken, en binnenkort gaan er miljarden dollars verdampen als ook de markt zich dat realiseert.
Great to see this CfP "The Synthetic City" #urbanAI for @mediapolis.bsky.social w/ guest editors @scott-rodgers.bsky.social @marcospdias.bsky.social & colleagues.
mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
Abstract deadline 30 November 2025.
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Abstract deadline 30 November 2025.
CFP: ‘The Synthetic City’ Dossier for Mediapolis Journal
The Synthetic City A Dossier for Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture Guest Editors: Scott Rodgers, Helena Atteneder, Lou Therese Brandner, Marcos Dias, Diogo Pereira Henriques and Sara Tren…
mediacitytwg.wordpress.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Great to see this CfP "The Synthetic City" #urbanAI for @mediapolis.bsky.social w/ guest editors @scott-rodgers.bsky.social @marcospdias.bsky.social & colleagues.
mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
Abstract deadline 30 November 2025.
mediacitytwg.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/c...
Abstract deadline 30 November 2025.
Join us next week on Wed 8 October 20:00-20:45 CEST for the Master's Open Day @uumediaculture.bsky.social if you are interesting in our international Master program about #digitalmedia #digitalculture #digitalfutures www.uu.nl/en/masters/n...
Register here: www.uu.nl/en/masters/g...
Register here: www.uu.nl/en/masters/g...
October 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Join us next week on Wed 8 October 20:00-20:45 CEST for the Master's Open Day @uumediaculture.bsky.social if you are interesting in our international Master program about #digitalmedia #digitalculture #digitalfutures www.uu.nl/en/masters/n...
Register here: www.uu.nl/en/masters/g...
Register here: www.uu.nl/en/masters/g...
Dutch Tax Administration and Customs completely switch to Microsoft Cloud. Motivation letter full of 'efficiency' and 'productivity' rhetoric but not a word about national or EU data/platform sovereignty.
Belastingdienst en Douane gaan - ondanks alle zorgen over Amerikaanse techbedrijven en wens Tweede Kamer om naar alternatieven te kijken - volledig over naar de cloud van Microsoft.
Link: www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken...
Link: www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken...
October 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Dutch Tax Administration and Customs completely switch to Microsoft Cloud. Motivation letter full of 'efficiency' and 'productivity' rhetoric but not a word about national or EU data/platform sovereignty.
Interesting Call: Special Issue on "Data Centre Urbanism" eura.org/news-urp-25c... Deadline for Abstract submission: November, 30 2025 #CfP #datacenters
URP Call for Papers "Data Centre Urbanism"
Call for papers!
eura.org
September 30, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Interesting Call: Special Issue on "Data Centre Urbanism" eura.org/news-urp-25c... Deadline for Abstract submission: November, 30 2025 #CfP #datacenters
Interesting ethnographic exploration of the materiality and situatedness of the Internet, rugged data bunkers for ethereal ‘cloud’ storage, data loss as cultural fear, and eternal data selves, by @aretaylor.bsky.social
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Underground data fortresses: the nuclear bunkers, mines and mountains being transformed to protect our ‘new gold’ from attack
Bunkers, bomb shelters, mines and mountains all play critical roles protecting against our latest existential threat: the terrifying prospect of data loss.
theconversation.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Interesting ethnographic exploration of the materiality and situatedness of the Internet, rugged data bunkers for ethereal ‘cloud’ storage, data loss as cultural fear, and eternal data selves, by @aretaylor.bsky.social
theconversation.com/underground-...
theconversation.com/underground-...
The book is out! “Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values”
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #governingthesigitalsociety
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@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #governingthesigitalsociety
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Book launch Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values
GDS organizes a festive book launch of the edited volume Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values.
www.uu.nl
September 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The book is out! “Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values”
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #governingthesigitalsociety
www.uu.nl/en/events/bo...
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social #governingthesigitalsociety
www.uu.nl/en/events/bo...
At the #AIindeStad conference in Breda.
(Re)thinking the relation between Ai and urban life. Main question for me today: how can #urbanAI be made more civic?
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(Re)thinking the relation between Ai and urban life. Main question for me today: how can #urbanAI be made more civic?
indestad.ai
September 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
At the #AIindeStad conference in Breda.
(Re)thinking the relation between Ai and urban life. Main question for me today: how can #urbanAI be made more civic?
indestad.ai
(Re)thinking the relation between Ai and urban life. Main question for me today: how can #urbanAI be made more civic?
indestad.ai
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sharing our new article on the role of regulation for #AI therapist chatbots.
with @jasonetucker.bsky.social and @petterericson.bsky.social
AI Policy Lab @Umeå University
#ResponsibleAI #AIgovernance
with @jasonetucker.bsky.social and @petterericson.bsky.social
AI Policy Lab @Umeå University
#ResponsibleAI #AIgovernance
“The problem is not only in how people use AI systems or in which setting, but in how these systems are built to stimulate attachment without accountability. With regulation still lacking… it often appears that ‘everything goes,’” write Virginia Dignum, Petter Ericson, and Jason Tucker.
AI Chatbots Are Not Therapists: Reducing Harm Requires Regulation | TechPolicy.Press
Virginia Dignum, Petter Ericson, and Jason Tucker call for urgent regulation of AI chatbots to prevent mental health harms.
www.techpolicy.press
September 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
sharing our new article on the role of regulation for #AI therapist chatbots.
with @jasonetucker.bsky.social and @petterericson.bsky.social
AI Policy Lab @Umeå University
#ResponsibleAI #AIgovernance
with @jasonetucker.bsky.social and @petterericson.bsky.social
AI Policy Lab @Umeå University
#ResponsibleAI #AIgovernance
Interesting that 50% of respondents are "more concerned than exited", and only 10% univocally "more exited than concerned". Based on how "AI" is featured in many media you'd think it would be the inverse.
How Americans view AI and its impact on people and society
How Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society
Americans are worried about using AI more in daily life, seeing harm to human creativity and relationships. But they’re open to AI use in weather forecasting, medicine and other data-heavy tasks.
www.pewresearch.org
September 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Interesting that 50% of respondents are "more concerned than exited", and only 10% univocally "more exited than concerned". Based on how "AI" is featured in many media you'd think it would be the inverse.
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In Gaza vechten gewonde of ernstig zieke kinderen voor hun leven. Zij wachten soms weken zonder geholpen te worden. Wij kunnen dat in Nederland wél.
Wij hebben de morele plicht om kinderen te helpen die nú zorg nodig hebben.
Teken de petitie: groenlinkspvda.nl/petitie/ziek...
Wij hebben de morele plicht om kinderen te helpen die nú zorg nodig hebben.
Teken de petitie: groenlinkspvda.nl/petitie/ziek...
September 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
In Gaza vechten gewonde of ernstig zieke kinderen voor hun leven. Zij wachten soms weken zonder geholpen te worden. Wij kunnen dat in Nederland wél.
Wij hebben de morele plicht om kinderen te helpen die nú zorg nodig hebben.
Teken de petitie: groenlinkspvda.nl/petitie/ziek...
Wij hebben de morele plicht om kinderen te helpen die nú zorg nodig hebben.
Teken de petitie: groenlinkspvda.nl/petitie/ziek...
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Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium
“Good Vibes Only? How Affects and Emotions Are Mediated for Justice in Digital Culture”
www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
“Good Vibes Only? How Affects and Emotions Are Mediated for Justice in Digital Culture”
www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium
www.asc.upenn.edu
September 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium
“Good Vibes Only? How Affects and Emotions Are Mediated for Justice in Digital Culture”
www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
“Good Vibes Only? How Affects and Emotions Are Mediated for Justice in Digital Culture”
www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
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We have a book chapter forthcoming in Dec 2025 - "External Intelligence: Oracles, Divination and Animism, and the Use of #LLMs /Generative #AI; Michael D. Fischer, Sally A. Applin, and Sridhar Ravula" in Symbolic Interaction and AI bookstore.emerald.com/symbolic-int... #GenAI
September 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
We have a book chapter forthcoming in Dec 2025 - "External Intelligence: Oracles, Divination and Animism, and the Use of #LLMs /Generative #AI; Michael D. Fischer, Sally A. Applin, and Sridhar Ravula" in Symbolic Interaction and AI bookstore.emerald.com/symbolic-int... #GenAI
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Elysium wasn’t supposed to be a blueprint.
San Francisco’s nicest park is a homeless-free surveillance state in the sky
One critic says Salesforce Park was designed “from the get-go” to exclude homeless people. Parkgoers don’t seem to mind.
www.courthousenews.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Elysium wasn’t supposed to be a blueprint.
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In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV...
"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"
"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"
September 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV...
"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"
"the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"
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One more time... If you are a parent of a young child and you have allowed them to interact with some kind of generative AI tool, I would love to chat with you!
Hello parents! I'm interested in talking to people with kids <8 about how they're thinking about introducing (or not) their kids to Generative AI.
Do you let your kid talk to ChatGPT? Are you trying to keep childhood AI-free?
I'd love to chat! DMs open/Signal in bio/[email protected]
Do you let your kid talk to ChatGPT? Are you trying to keep childhood AI-free?
I'd love to chat! DMs open/Signal in bio/[email protected]
September 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
One more time... If you are a parent of a young child and you have allowed them to interact with some kind of generative AI tool, I would love to chat with you!
Interested in #newmedia and #digitalculture?
Join the online Master Open Day on Oct. 8 2025 @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social www.uu.nl/en/events/ma... [registration open soon!]
Our session is at 20:00-20:45 CEST.
Join the online Master Open Day on Oct. 8 2025 @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social www.uu.nl/en/events/ma... [registration open soon!]
Our session is at 20:00-20:45 CEST.
Master's Open Day 8 October 2025 (online)
The Master's Open Day at Utrecht University.
www.uu.nl
September 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Interested in #newmedia and #digitalculture?
Join the online Master Open Day on Oct. 8 2025 @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social www.uu.nl/en/events/ma... [registration open soon!]
Our session is at 20:00-20:45 CEST.
Join the online Master Open Day on Oct. 8 2025 @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social www.uu.nl/en/events/ma... [registration open soon!]
Our session is at 20:00-20:45 CEST.
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#CfP: Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” of the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (WJDS), co-edited by @strippel.bsky.social & Magnus Rust. Submission deadline: November 17, 2025.
More: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...
More: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...
Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI”
The Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society calls for papers for a special issue marking the 60th anniversary of ELIZA, one of the first chatbots developed by Joseph Weizenbaum.
www.weizenbaum-institut.de
August 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
#CfP: Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” of the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (WJDS), co-edited by @strippel.bsky.social & Magnus Rust. Submission deadline: November 17, 2025.
More: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...
More: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...