Paloma Viejo Otero
@palomaviot.bsky.social
YUFE Fellow at ZeMKI. University of Bremen.
I look at how structural discrimination is embedded in digital technological systems.
I read, write, scroll and link. I also make coffee .
I look at how structural discrimination is embedded in digital technological systems.
I read, write, scroll and link. I also make coffee .
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Happy to announce that Platform Governance and Social Justice will be out in 4 days (18th of November). Pre Order here lnkd.in/dsx3dh7j or get a 30% discount with the code EME30 via Emerald Bookstore.
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Reposting another recently published paper in which @palomaviot.bsky.social and @rscarlets.bsky.social write about how Alt Right platforms reinterpret the value of safety journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
‘We do not marshal your feed’: How Alt Tech platforms (re) conceptualise safety - Paloma Viejo Otero, Rebecca Scharlach, 2025
This article explores how Alt Tech platforms – Parler, Truth Social, Gab, Rumble, BitChute, Odyssey, Gettr, and Minds – conceptualise a core social media value:...
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April 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Reposting another recently published paper in which @palomaviot.bsky.social and @rscarlets.bsky.social write about how Alt Right platforms reinterpret the value of safety journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Pure genius! By @ellecordova.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Pure genius! By @ellecordova.bsky.social
New publication in Platforms and Society Journal “We do not marshal your feed’: How Alt Tech platforms (re)conceptualise safety” coauthor with @rscarlets.bsky.social . Read here! doi.org/10.1177/2976...
#AltTech #PlatformGovernance #ContentModeration #PlatformValues
#AltTech #PlatformGovernance #ContentModeration #PlatformValues
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March 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
New publication in Platforms and Society Journal “We do not marshal your feed’: How Alt Tech platforms (re)conceptualise safety” coauthor with @rscarlets.bsky.social . Read here! doi.org/10.1177/2976...
#AltTech #PlatformGovernance #ContentModeration #PlatformValues
#AltTech #PlatformGovernance #ContentModeration #PlatformValues
Bravo for all airport strikers in Germany! 100% affected as I was going to fly tomorrow, had the chance to take a train to Paris instead, but this is what I call a good strike. Strikers are asking for €350 more per month. Which according to circumstances it is not much to ask.
March 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Bravo for all airport strikers in Germany! 100% affected as I was going to fly tomorrow, had the chance to take a train to Paris instead, but this is what I call a good strike. Strikers are asking for €350 more per month. Which according to circumstances it is not much to ask.
Solidarity with American universities. We all know how these bans will permeate into funded projects. Similar concerning trends are (re)emerging in Europe, where Horizon funding for LGBTQ+ studies was recently removed from the draft budget. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
www.nytimes.com
March 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Solidarity with American universities. We all know how these bans will permeate into funded projects. Similar concerning trends are (re)emerging in Europe, where Horizon funding for LGBTQ+ studies was recently removed from the draft budget. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Reposted by Paloma Viejo Otero
I look forward to this conversation tomorrow 11 Feb, 15:00 GMT w/ the NLP-CoP group @merltech.bsky.social about my new book, 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful'. Current events make issues around technology & aid ever more urgent. Open to all, but you must register ⬇️
Feb 11, @madianou.bsky.social will talk with the NLP-CoP about her book Technocolonialism. This will be a good space for a convo about tech, humanitarianism, and colonialism. We planned it last year + it's so relevant now. Personally, I'd love some nuance on the topic. merltech.org/humanitarian...
Join us for a special NLP-CoP members-only event with: Mirca Madianou, author of Technocolonialism - MERL Tech
Join the Humanitarian AI+MERL Working Group and Mirca Madianou to discuss her new book on "Technocolonialism."
merltech.org
February 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I look forward to this conversation tomorrow 11 Feb, 15:00 GMT w/ the NLP-CoP group @merltech.bsky.social about my new book, 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful'. Current events make issues around technology & aid ever more urgent. Open to all, but you must register ⬇️
Submit your proposals!!!
AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025
From Platform Governance to Generative AI:
Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance
Date: 3-4 June 2025. Bremen, Germany.
Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology, Centre for Media platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...
AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025
From Platform Governance to Generative AI:
Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance
Date: 3-4 June 2025. Bremen, Germany.
Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology, Centre for Media platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...
AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025 – Lab Platform Governance, Media and Technology (PGMT)
platform-governance.org
January 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Submit your proposals!!!
AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025
From Platform Governance to Generative AI:
Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance
Date: 3-4 June 2025. Bremen, Germany.
Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology, Centre for Media platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...
AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025
From Platform Governance to Generative AI:
Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance
Date: 3-4 June 2025. Bremen, Germany.
Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology, Centre for Media platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...
Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research" session, happening again online this coming 28th of January 3-4pm CEST. We have the power of Blake Hallinan & CJ Reynolds!!. platform-governance.org/online-talk-...
Session 15: Hallinan/Reynolds: Malcontents as method: How bad actors offer an alternative vision of good governance on social media – Lab Platform Governance, Media and Technology (PGMT)
platform-governance.org
January 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research" session, happening again online this coming 28th of January 3-4pm CEST. We have the power of Blake Hallinan & CJ Reynolds!!. platform-governance.org/online-talk-...
As quote follows: given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality". What appears to be happening here is that Meta is making space for religious voices to make arguments against LGBTQ individuals under the guise of 'religious discourse'.
January 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
As quote follows: given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality". What appears to be happening here is that Meta is making space for religious voices to make arguments against LGBTQ individuals under the guise of 'religious discourse'.
In 2021, I wrote an article for RTÉ analyzing the affair between Zuckerberg and Trump in the aftermath of the Capitol. I predicted their story wasn't over then. Recent developments brought this chapter to an end.https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/0119/1190648-donald-trump-mark-zuckerberg-facebook/
January 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
In 2021, I wrote an article for RTÉ analyzing the affair between Zuckerberg and Trump in the aftermath of the Capitol. I predicted their story wasn't over then. Recent developments brought this chapter to an end.https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/0119/1190648-donald-trump-mark-zuckerberg-facebook/
Great Podcast www.techpolicy.press/imagining-20...
Imagining 2025 and Beyond with Dr. Ruha Benjamin | TechPolicy.Press
Dr. Ruha Benjamin is the author of Imagination: A Manifesto (Norton Shorts, 2024).
www.techpolicy.press
December 23, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Great Podcast www.techpolicy.press/imagining-20...
Online Talk Series is back!
Diyi Liu will be responding to the question How are the rules and norms that enable or constrain online speech legitimized, and by whom? 👉 To the Event and Registration: platform-governance.org/online-talk-...
Diyi Liu will be responding to the question How are the rules and norms that enable or constrain online speech legitimized, and by whom? 👉 To the Event and Registration: platform-governance.org/online-talk-...
December 12, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Online Talk Series is back!
Diyi Liu will be responding to the question How are the rules and norms that enable or constrain online speech legitimized, and by whom? 👉 To the Event and Registration: platform-governance.org/online-talk-...
Diyi Liu will be responding to the question How are the rules and norms that enable or constrain online speech legitimized, and by whom? 👉 To the Event and Registration: platform-governance.org/online-talk-...
"I think the model still holds, and that's because the kind of political will and power to intervene concepts are fluid enough that they can hold for different regime types, different political situations with of course, unique wrinkles in each context"
www.techpolicy.press/robert-gorwa...
Robert Gorwa Tackles the Politics of Platform Regulation | TechPolicy.Press
Robert Gorwa is the author of a new book from Oxford University Press.
www.techpolicy.press
December 8, 2024 at 7:45 PM
"I think the model still holds, and that's because the kind of political will and power to intervene concepts are fluid enough that they can hold for different regime types, different political situations with of course, unique wrinkles in each context"
www.techpolicy.press/robert-gorwa...
I’m very saddened to hear about Thomas Hylland Eriksen’s passing yesterday. Globalisation: Studies in Anthropology was and it is influential to me. Those who know him say that he was warm, generous and constantly curious thinker. A rare kind.
November 28, 2024 at 2:02 PM
I’m very saddened to hear about Thomas Hylland Eriksen’s passing yesterday. Globalisation: Studies in Anthropology was and it is influential to me. Those who know him say that he was warm, generous and constantly curious thinker. A rare kind.
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Unique professorship. Please share 🫶♾️
Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.
Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile.
📆: deadline February 17!
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Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.
Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile.
📆: deadline February 17!
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Professorship in Digital Communication with a Focus on Digital Society
Application Deadline: February 17, 2025.
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November 27, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Unique professorship. Please share 🫶♾️
Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.
Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile.
📆: deadline February 17!
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Digital communication & society professorship @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social.
Excellent conditions, extraordinary startup package. Interdisciplinary profile.
📆: deadline February 17!
fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Platform Governance and Social Justice, is now available digitally and print copies will be available from tomorrow.
As a part of the promotion process,Emerald is happy to provide digital review copies to relevant journals, which can be requested here: emeraldinsight-ereviews.eb20.com/Requests
As a part of the promotion process,Emerald is happy to provide digital review copies to relevant journals, which can be requested here: emeraldinsight-ereviews.eb20.com/Requests
November 17, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Platform Governance and Social Justice, is now available digitally and print copies will be available from tomorrow.
As a part of the promotion process,Emerald is happy to provide digital review copies to relevant journals, which can be requested here: emeraldinsight-ereviews.eb20.com/Requests
As a part of the promotion process,Emerald is happy to provide digital review copies to relevant journals, which can be requested here: emeraldinsight-ereviews.eb20.com/Requests
📣 Online Talk Series (13): Robyn Caplan - "Studying Networked Platform Governance: A Multi-Perspective Approach”
🗓️November 26, 2024 🕛3-4 pm (CET) 📍Online Event
with Robyn Caplan’s on multi-perspective approach to studying platforms
👉 To the Event and Registration: lnkd.in/gU5J-Xye
🗓️November 26, 2024 🕛3-4 pm (CET) 📍Online Event
with Robyn Caplan’s on multi-perspective approach to studying platforms
👉 To the Event and Registration: lnkd.in/gU5J-Xye
November 14, 2024 at 1:33 PM
📣 Online Talk Series (13): Robyn Caplan - "Studying Networked Platform Governance: A Multi-Perspective Approach”
🗓️November 26, 2024 🕛3-4 pm (CET) 📍Online Event
with Robyn Caplan’s on multi-perspective approach to studying platforms
👉 To the Event and Registration: lnkd.in/gU5J-Xye
🗓️November 26, 2024 🕛3-4 pm (CET) 📍Online Event
with Robyn Caplan’s on multi-perspective approach to studying platforms
👉 To the Event and Registration: lnkd.in/gU5J-Xye
Happy to announce that Platform Governance and Social Justice will be out in 4 days (18th of November). Pre Order here lnkd.in/dsx3dh7j or get a 30% discount with the code EME30 via Emerald Bookstore.
November 14, 2024 at 8:41 AM
Happy to announce that Platform Governance and Social Justice will be out in 4 days (18th of November). Pre Order here lnkd.in/dsx3dh7j or get a 30% discount with the code EME30 via Emerald Bookstore.