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by Nick Couldry

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Very excited to announce that my paper 'Human Life as Terra Nullius' with @jcmagalhaes.bsky.social on colonial implications of Facebook's early patents is out: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Has been a privilege to work with Joao on this and develop the concept of 'socially blind engineering'
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by Nick Couldry

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We had an amazing f2f and online audience of 400 pr so. I hope we can do morr events like this.
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MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social · 12d
Fantastic event last night with @couldrynick.bsky.social and Baroness Kidron. A genuine exchange of ideas and concerns around policy and the core issues involved in tackling Big Tech’s business model. A sliver of hope.
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mjlira.bsky.social
Fantastic event last night with @couldrynick.bsky.social and Baroness Kidron. A genuine exchange of ideas and concerns around policy and the core issues involved in tackling Big Tech’s business model. A sliver of hope.
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lsemedia.bsky.social
🗓 Event details:
📍 In person (Old Theatre, LSE) & online
🕡 Thurs 2 Oct | 6:30–8pm (UK)
🎤 Speakers: @couldrynick.bsky.social Baroness Beeban Kidron
🎙 Chair: @myriageorgiou.bsky.social
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by Nick Couldry

couldrynick.bsky.social
This interview (available in English and Portuguese) with the Brazilian journal Algorithms and Society reflects on my recent work on data colonialism and social , and also my current work on AI: periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/al... @lsemedia.bsky.social
Entrevista com Nick Couldry | Algoritmos & Sociedade
periodicos.ufmg.br
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by Nick Couldry

couldrynick.bsky.social
on 2nd October I'll give an LSE lecture on the future of social media based on my recent book The Space of the World www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b.... Baroness Beeban Kidron will respond and Myria Georgiou will be chairing. Do come: there'll be a live stream too! www.lse.ac.uk/events/the-s...
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by Nick Couldry

couldrynick.bsky.social
Great link! I have the deepest respect for Sara Ahmed's work

by Nick Couldry

couldrynick.bsky.social
If you are in the London area, hope you can come to this!
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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · Sep 12
We’re hosting the book launch of 'The Space of the World', our first public event of the term!

🌍 Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media?
w/ @couldrynick.bsky.social, Baroness Beeban Kidron @myriageorgiou.bsky.social

🗓️ Thu 2 Oct | 6.30–8pm
📍LSE + Online

🔗 Register: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...
The space of the world: can-human-solidarity-survive-social-media?
6.30pm Thurs 2 Oct | Nick Couldry | Ticket Required |Free public event at LSE
www.lse.ac.uk
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lsemedia.bsky.social
We’re hosting the book launch of 'The Space of the World', our first public event of the term!

🌍 Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media?
w/ @couldrynick.bsky.social, Baroness Beeban Kidron @myriageorgiou.bsky.social

🗓️ Thu 2 Oct | 6.30–8pm
📍LSE + Online

🔗 Register: www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...
The space of the world: can-human-solidarity-survive-social-media?
6.30pm Thurs 2 Oct | Nick Couldry | Ticket Required |Free public event at LSE
www.lse.ac.uk
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Reposted by Nick Couldry, Olivier Klein, Paul G. Lewis , and 4 more

benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
Another day, another hackneyed eulogy for college on its death at the hands of AI.

Striking here is that these thoughts did not originate from a college freshman’s own mind. These are talking points this student has been fed for years. What freshman says this?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Like the other members of his class, Lieber did experience a bit of college life before ChatGPT appeared. Even then, he said, at the very start of his freshman year, he felt alienated from some of his introductory classes. “I would think to myself, What the hell am I doing, sitting watching this professor give the same lecture that he has given every year for the last 30 years?” But he knew the answer even then: He was there to subsidize that professor’s research. At America’s research universities, teaching is a secondary job activity, at times neglected by faculty who want to devote as much time as possible to writing grants, running labs, and publishing academic papers. The classroom experience was suffering even before AI came onto the scene.
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by Nick Couldry

couldrynick.bsky.social
How we risk ignoring children's rights in our digital design aka trashing the future
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Children and Screens @childrenandscreens.bsky.social · Aug 6
NEW! #ScreenDeep Host Kris Perry sits down with Sonia Livingstone, OBE, FBA, @sonialivingstone.bsky.social to explore the intersection of children’s rights, online safety, parenting around child media use, #AI design, and public #policy in the digital world.

Listen NOW: bit.ly/4fnvefI
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by Nick Couldry

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An important battle
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Aug 14
There's an intense debate in Brazil about how tech firms & algorithms promote sexual & romantic engagement with children (adultização). Without guardrails, the big firms will absolutely pursue this practice. Lula & allies are trying to get legislation passed.

revistaforum.com.br/politica/202...
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iansociologo.bsky.social
There's an intense debate in Brazil about how tech firms & algorithms promote sexual & romantic engagement with children (adultização). Without guardrails, the big firms will absolutely pursue this practice. Lula & allies are trying to get legislation passed.

revistaforum.com.br/politica/202...
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by Nick Couldry

couldrynick.bsky.social
This is a really important debate, more important than ever given recent US moves
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Aug 6
Thrilled to guest host @poltheoryother.bsky.social this week!

I interviewed @ceciliarikap.bsky.social about what digital sovereignty really means, how we might build it, and how it would benefit so many countries currently dependent on US tech. podcasts.apple.com/podcast/digi...
Digital Sovereignty and resisting the tech giants w/ Cecilia Rikap
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 08/06/2025 · 1h
podcasts.apple.com
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Reposted by Nick Couldry, Sonia Livingstone, Göran Bolin , and 1 more

claesdevreese.bsky.social
Out in the open: the US administration’s attempt to undermine the EU Digital Services Act (and other regulations) was evident.

Now it has been elevated to formal policy and goal of diplomatic efforts.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Exclusive: Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law
President Donald Trump's administration has instructed U.S. diplomats in Europe to launch a lobbying campaign to build an opposition to the European Union's Digital Services Act, which Washington says stifles free speech and imposes costs on U.S. tech companies, an internal diplomatic cable seen by Reuters showed.
www.reuters.com
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parismarx.com
Thrilled to guest host @poltheoryother.bsky.social this week!

I interviewed @ceciliarikap.bsky.social about what digital sovereignty really means, how we might build it, and how it would benefit so many countries currently dependent on US tech. podcasts.apple.com/podcast/digi...
Digital Sovereignty and resisting the tech giants w/ Cecilia Rikap
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 08/06/2025 · 1h
podcasts.apple.com
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Reposted by Nick Couldry, Sonia Livingstone

childrenandscreens.bsky.social
NEW! #ScreenDeep Host Kris Perry sits down with Sonia Livingstone, OBE, FBA, @sonialivingstone.bsky.social to explore the intersection of children’s rights, online safety, parenting around child media use, #AI design, and public #policy in the digital world.

Listen NOW: bit.ly/4fnvefI
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by Nick Couldry

couldrynick.bsky.social
you re right to pick up on this nonsense. Imagination without content or reference is not imagination!

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lsemedia.bsky.social
🎉 We're delighted to announce Professor @couldrynick.bsky.social has been elected as a @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the humanities & social sciences.

Read more about the British Academy Fellowship: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...
The British Academy welcomes 92 new Fellows in 2025
92 distinguished scholars have today been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
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by Nick Couldry

couldrynick.bsky.social
I am thrilled too! Thanks to @lsemedia.bsky.social for all its support over the years!!
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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · Jul 22
🎉 We're delighted to announce Professor @couldrynick.bsky.social has been elected as a @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the humanities & social sciences.

Read more about the British Academy Fellowship: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...
The British Academy welcomes 92 new Fellows in 2025
92 distinguished scholars have today been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
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by Nick Couldry

couldrynick.bsky.social
Have a new blog for @lsemedia.bsky.social which reads Mark Zuckerberg' recent pronouncements on Meta's implications for advertising through lens of data colonialism: blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202.... If you're interested in my other recent blogs, they're collected here: www.nickcouldry.org/blog-1
When the hypernudge becomes the rule in platform advertising - Media@LSE
LSE's Professor Nick Couldry uses the framework of data colonialism to reflect on Zuckerberg's claim that Meta can replace ad agencies using AI-driven processes
blogs.lse.ac.uk
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by Nick Couldry

couldrynick.bsky.social
I am thrilled to say that I will be one of the new British Academy fellows. I look forward to joining colleagues to continue raising the profile of critical media research in Britain and internationally @lsemedia.bsky.social
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Jul 18
The British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in 2025 – a higher number than in previous years due to new Fellowship places for candidates whose research spans more than one discipline www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...
The British Academy welcomes 92 new Fellows in 2025
92 distinguished scholars have today been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
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britishacademy.bsky.social
The British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in 2025 – a higher number than in previous years due to new Fellowship places for candidates whose research spans more than one discipline www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/agm-wel...
The British Academy welcomes 92 new Fellows in 2025
92 distinguished scholars have today been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
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Reposted by Nick Couldry

sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
Love to refuse a prompt. static1.squarespace.com/static/53a4b...
REFLECTIONS ON AI IN THE CLASSROOM: How We are Not Using Al in the Classroom By Sonja Drimmer & Christopher J. Nygren Premise Prompt engineering is a term that has become commonplace since the widespread availability of generative Al applications like ChatGPT. The idea is that the outputs of the large language models (LLMs) on which these applications are based are only as good as the prompts that are input: vague prompts result in equally vague outputs. And thus was born the race to train for careers in prompt engineering. Unfortunately, the bubble seems to have burst before even the first generation of students was trained for this career outcome. We were given a prompt as an invitation to participate in this newsletter: "How are you using Al in the classroom?" While we have accepted this invitation, we are engaging in the most humanistic act we can imagine—refusing the prompt.”
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victorpickard.bsky.social
As a dear friend, comrade, mentor, and hero, Bob McChesney has meant the world to me. I am heartbroken by this irreplaceable loss, but Bob's vision for a truly democratic media system lives on. To honor him, we must continue the struggle.

Here's a wonderful tribute by @nicholsuprising.bsky.social
Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died
The academic and activist inspired generations of people to challenge corporate power and support a media reform movement that lives on.
www.thenation.com
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If you're new here: a critical tech and Internet culture starter pack I made last year, featuring some of my favourites. There are a few bigger accounts here, but the point is mostly to point folks to voices and people they might not otherwise find go.bsky.app/VFxSES6
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Reposted by Nick Couldry, Ben Crum

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Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media?

Join us next Friday, May 16, 3pm at the VU Amsterdam to discuss Nick Couldry's new book "The Space of the World"

with the amazing @couldrynick.bsky.social @alvarooleart.bsky.social, Pascal Koenig and Fieke Jansen!

www.eventbrite.com/e/tickets-th...
The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media?
Come join us as we explore the impact of social media on human solidarity in today's world at The Space of the World event!
www.eventbrite.com
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Reposted by Nick Couldry

lseinequalities.bsky.social
The root of all our problems with social media? The fundamental decision to delegate the design of our social spaces to profit-seeking businesses, writes @couldrynick.bsky.social #LSEInequalitiesBlog

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The battle to rebuild our social media has started
The harms of social media platforms are well known. But the root cause is not: namely, letting profit-seeking businesses design our social spaces.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
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camri.bsky.social
#UoWMEDIA50 Conference keynote speakers are Payal Arora, @couldrynick.bsky.social, @linadencik.bsky.social and @guobin-yang.bsky.social

camri.ac.uk/50-years-of-...
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