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Anne Kaun

@annekaun.bsky.social

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Prof of media and communication studies //// interested in Digital Activism, Prison Media, Automated Decision-Making, Algorithms, AI /// Co-host of @MPodden

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Apr 11

THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole.

Why?

Because an algorithm said so. 1/

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Anne Kaun @annekaun.bsky.social · Jan 30

It’s soon publication day for our book. Very excited to see it in print.

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Anne Kaun @annekaun.bsky.social · Jan 22

Finally my article on temporalities of welfare automation is out. I am exploring three temporal tropes. The manuscript was initially lost in some kind of review loop but is finally seeing the light. Time in academia is weird thing...
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Juliane Jarke @julianejarke.bsky.social · Dec 19

🔮 @annekaun.bsky.social will give a keynote on #AI in the #publicsector on 10th March in #Vienna. Afterwards we'll discuss in a panel with @allhutter.bsky.social @bprainsack.bsky.social Stefanie Büchner and Peter Biegelbauer. #UNESCO @oeaw.bsky.social

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Künstliche Intelligenz im öffentlichen Sektor

Der UNESCO Fachbeirat "Ethik der Künstlichen Intelligenz" lädt in Kooperation mit dem Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung der ÖAW und der ÖAW-Kommission „Demokratie in Digitalen Gesellschaften“ zu ...

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Saga Hansén @sagachansen.bsky.social · Dec 18

Skrivit i facktidningen om Pirates of the Caribbean II: Dead man’s chest. Även om forskarens roll som offentlig intellektuell. universitetslararen.se/2024/12/18/f...

Forskare behöver ta mer plats i det offentliga rummet - Universitetsläraren

Att akademin och offentligheten glider ifrån varandra är skadligt för både forskningen och demokratin. Arbetsgivare behöver därför uppvärdera ”den tredje uppgiften” och göra den meriterande. Lärosäten...

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · Dec 17

Updated Keywords for Media, Culture & Information textaural.com/keywords/ with Resistance Stefania Milan; Programmable politics @simonlindgren.bsky.social en.bsky.social @annekaun.bsky.social sky.social; Convenience @msteinbrg.bsky.social brg.bsky.social @joshua-neves.bsky.social eves.bsky.social

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Simon Lindgren @simonlindgren.bsky.social · Dec 17

Check out our paper on how we now live in an age of Programmable Politics #programmablepolitics @annekaun.bsky.social

Media, Culture & Society Journal @mcsjournal.bsky.social · Dec 17

In this new #OnlineFirst article, @simonlindgren.bsky.social and Anne Kaun discuss the transition from digital politics to programmable politics, a concept that highlights the impact of platform architectures, algorithms, AI and non-human agency.
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Media, Culture & Society Journal @mcsjournal.bsky.social · Dec 17

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Anne Kaun @annekaun.bsky.social · Dec 10

our article on the disappearance of printed news is out! you can print it out if you prefer paper or read it on screen. in any case read it.

Fredrik Stiernstedt & Anne Kaun (2024). Vanishing Act: The Disappearance of Printed Newspapers. Journalism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Vanishing act: The disappearance of printed newspapers - Fredrik Stiernstedt, Anne Kaun, 2024

Although it has been said for some decades that printed newspapers are dying, they are still in existence; however, Swedish newspapers have entered a new era. T...

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Anne Kaun @annekaun.bsky.social · Dec 9

Jag skrev en sak som kopplar ihop AI kommissionens färdplan för Sverige med Försäkringskassans AI verktyg för att identifiera bidragsfusk. Trodde att just det senare skulle få mer uppmärksamhet i den offentliga debatten. Men tydligen inte.

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Artificiell intelligens i offentlig sektor – ja, men på rätt sätt | Dagens Arena

Utvecklingen måste ske på rätt grunder med välfärd och medborgarintresse i centrum.

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Simon Lindgren @simonlindgren.bsky.social · Dec 6

Me and @annekaun.bsky.social have published a piece introducing the notion of "Programmable Politics" as an emerging keyword that highlights the impact of platform architectures, algorithms, AI, and non-human agency on the political landscape 🤖 doi.org/10.1177/0163...

Programmable politics in the aftermaths of the pandemic - Simon Lindgren, Anne Kaun, 2024

This Crosscurrent contribution presents programmable politics as an emerging keyword for understanding the complex interplay between technology, society and pol...

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Sarah Myers West @smw.bsky.social · Dec 2

NEW from @davidthewid.bsky.social @meredithmeredith.bsky.social and I in Nature: we break down the political economy around ‘open’ AI and how it’s been wielded in corporate lobbying to exacerbate rather than reduce corporate concentration. Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Aske Kammer @askekammer.dk · Dec 1

The first entry in #AskeXmas:

"The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection", edited by @krisalbris.bsky.social, @annekaun.bsky.social, and others. A whole book about the cultural pushback against the thorough digitalization of modern life.

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The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection | Nordicom

“The digital backlash” covers a range of social and cultural practices of digital disconnection, as well as critiques of the impact of digital technologies and platforms in the world today. Through ca...

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · Nov 27

Hot off the presses! New investigation from @lhreports.bsky.social reveals that "secretive algorithms deployed in Sweden's vaunted welfare system cast suspicion on innocent women & migrants while ignoring men & the affluent." www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

Sweden’s Suspicion Machine

Behind a veil of secrecy, the social security agency deploys discriminatory algorithms searching for fraud epidemic it has invented

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Gabriel Geiger @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social · Nov 27

I do a lot of FOIA and I’m used to stonewalling. But Sweden surprised me. After 3 years of telling me no, a high level official at Sweden’s welfare agency Försäkringskassan accidentally left me on cc, writing “Now we must hope that we are done with him.”