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Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social · 3d

We had an amazing f2f and online audience of 400 pr so. I hope we can do morr events like this.

MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social · 6d

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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MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social · 6d

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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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 9d

🗓 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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Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social · 11d

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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Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social · 15d

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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Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social · 24d

Great link! I have the deepest respect for Sara Ahmed's work

Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social · 24d

If you are in the London area, hope you can come to this!

LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 27d

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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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 27d

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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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

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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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Aug 17

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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Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social · Aug 16

How we risk ignoring children's rights in our digital design aka trashing the future

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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Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social · Aug 14

An important battle

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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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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Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social · Aug 7

This is a really important debate, more important than ever given recent US moves

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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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Aug 7

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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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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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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Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social · Jul 31

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

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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Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social · Jul 22

I am thrilled too! Thanks to @lsemedia.bsky.social for all its support over the years!!

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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Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social · Jul 21

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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Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social · Jul 18

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

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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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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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Mar 22

Love to refuse a prompt. static1.squarespace.com/static/53a4b...

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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · Mar 27

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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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · Mar 16

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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Julia Rone = Юлия Роне @juliarone.bsky.social · May 8

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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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · May 7

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

buff.ly/ONF3UUX

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 @camri.bsky.social · May 20

#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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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · Jun 13

Congratulations to Professor @couldrynick.bsky.social for being awarded the 2025 Dallas Smythe Award 🏆

A prominent & prolific sociologist of media & culture, he will be delivering the Dallas Smythe lecture on Saturday 21 June @uniondemcomm.bsky.social

Find out more: www.democraticcomm.org

Union for Democratic Communications

www.democraticcomm.org

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