CrAIC Launch Workshop is a success! 🌟

Our two-day event @exeter.ac.uk was packed full of great presentations and conversations. We're really excited to build on the connections made, grow our network, and push forward this research in Critical AI together.

Quick wrap up of the sessions in thread 🧵

My department is hiring a full-time and permanent(!) Lecturer in Media and PR!! ✨
The team you'd be joining is inspiring, energetic, and incredibly supportive.

If you have any questions about what it's like working at the University of Exeter, feel free to reach out!
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👋 What's the CrAIC? Come find out what we have been up to in critical AI studies at our launch event, featuring a lineup of stellar speakers, on Wednesday 8th October (University of Exeter / hybrid). Register at the link!

I am so proud of what we've achieved in this project, and grateful to have collaborated on it with such a supportive and brilliant team! <3

While we hope this report is the start of a conversation (and please do reach out if you want to chat about any of it!), it also marks the real end of my work on Olav Velthuis and @tpoell.bsky.social project on the webcamming industry.

@alisonboden.bsky.social and Madelaine Thomas (@imageangel.bsky.social) joined us to share their incredibly helpful reactions to our work and urged us all to fight for fair labour standards in this industry.

Earlier this week @emilijajok.bsky.social
@bexxxie.bsky.social and I launched our report 'Webcam work: Policies, Practices and Platforms' to over 60 industry insiders: from platform representatives, industry lawyers, and performers to academics and other experts. Read it here: plexxxi.org/report/

This is today! And it's not too late to still register here: tinyurl.com/5dsjwews

The registration link to our report launch is now up: tinyurl.com/5dsjwews

Join to hear about the findings from our research and the discussion by Alison Boden of @fsc.bsky.social
and Madelaine Thomas, the founder of @imageangel.bsky.social

The report will be available right after the launch

Congratulations!! I'm so excited to read this! ☀️✨

You can now register for the launch of our report: tinyurl.com/5dsjwews

✨ Come along to hear findings and recommendations on webcamming work!

With brilliant discussants @alisonboden.bsky.social and Madelaine Thomas!

🗓️🚨SAVE THE DATE🚨🗓️
Sept 9th at 5:00 PM CET / 11:00 AM EST / 8:00 AM PST (45 minutes)

Report launch "Webcam Work: Policies, Practices and Platforms" which outlines recommendations for platforms & policymakers - drawn from extensive research by @emilijajok.bsky.social, @bexxxie.bsky.social & myself!

Vier nieuwskoppen van de afgelopen weken.

Tech companies only have five ideas: robot slave (actually just human slaves), hallucinatory counter-reality, untaxable money, The Everything App, and Clippy

I really appreciate this piece by @myrannosaurus.bsky.social on Sweden’s OF ban. It’s worth a read!! Here’s the English translation of the article arbetet-se.translate.goog/2025/05/19/s...

research has already clearly shown that client criminalisation does not help or protect sex workers offline. it won't do so online either. to learn more, read ESWA and RUS' statement on this harmful piece of legislation here: www.eswalliance.org/statement_sw...

the swedish parliament accepted legislation to expand client criminalisation to digital sex work. this legislation will harm sex workers. it will expand digital surveillance, negatively impact livelihoods, and restrict access to services and community. www.thelocal.se/20250521/don...

thank you!! ✨✨

New article from Hanne Stegeman & I: "Locating online labour: the salience of the national scale in remote digital work" (Environment & Planning A)

We theorise nation-scale cultural & infrastructural norms & practices as still constitutive of online-only work.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

dankjewel!! ☺️

thanks ✨

thank you!!

last week i officially joined @uniofexetercomms.bsky.social as a lecturer. i'm so happy to join this inspiring, brilliant and supportive team! ✨💓