Join us for the VICES workshop on the Externalities of EU's digital transition for (semi)peripheral countries!
From lithium mining in Serbia to Hungary's contested battery bet and data extractivism and neo-colonialism in the Global South. The bad examples are many. But maybe also the alternatives?

very happy to be part of this report by the fantastic Critical Infrastructure Lab & REDE.
The title of my short essay is
"We have never been sovereign? EU’s Digital transition from a CEE perspective"
www.criticalinfralab.net/wp-content/u...
It's not a bad read for an academic text :)

I'm desperate to read in-depth analyses of Israel's war with Iran & potential consequences. It seems to be really (!) important. But I don't see much.
Is this the result of algorithmic filtering, people being less active on Bluesky or low salience? I'm sure it's not because non-experts have shut up

"Europeans have reverted to instinctive support for Israel, championing its right to self-defence despite U.S. intel indicating that Iran is not actively pursuing nuclear weapons.
What Europe is really backing is Netanyahu’s survival quest and dreams of remaking the Middle East"

🧵👇

I am very excited to be in Amsterdam at the VU next week thanks to @juliarone.bsky.social . Am also giving a lecture in Utrecht the previous afternoon. Always a delight to be in Holland.

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...

VU protest march through the Zuidas
#WOinActie #DoeHetNiet @vuamsterdam.bsky.social #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs

🚨 Want to join me at the Technical University of Munich? I’m hiring a PhD student (100%) in the area of the political economy of technological change!

📅 Apply by 18 May | Start Date: July (flexible)

🔗 More info & how to apply: hfp.heyrecruit.de?page=job&id=...

❓Reach out if you have any questions

Read this paper👇

Sick & tired of tech oligarchs & how disinformation is monetised? Check out the paper by Julia Rone (and follow her on Bluesky!) & I published today in @cogitatiomac.bsky.social: “Reversing the Privatisation of the Public Sphere: Democratic Alternatives to the EU’s Regulation of Disinformation” 👇

Basically, we argue that the EU regulates a lot but it's mainly regulations that miss the mark - they are both bureaucratically burdensome and completely inadequate to challenge the business power of Big Tech, since the latter has been deeply involved in the regulatory process itself.

First post on Bsky after a very successful detox from social media.
Paradoxically, a post on our paper with @alvarooleart.bsky.social on how the EU failed to invest in alternatives and why it *did not* become a normative leader in regulating Tech.
Out today:
www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...