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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 1d

I'll be going as a delegate for MMU UCU this Friday and Saturday to The World Transformed in Manchester - if you are planning to go please let me know!

Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 2d

Frankly absurd that Bratton somehow woke up one morning and thought the problem slowing down the sovereigntist European AI industry was media studies.

Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 2d

"European academic discourse did not create that dynamic: labor insecurity and the AI industry did."

mail.cyberneticforests.com/is-the-media...

Is the Media Studies Cabal in the Room With Us Right Now?

I read Benjamin Bratton's book, The Stack, in 2020 as a grad student in ANU's Applied Cybernetics program. I give it credit for directing my attention to the interaction between layers of digital and ...

mail.cyberneticforests.com

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 8d

So my more measured take is that this is a clear reflection of the geopolitical-economic priorities of the Saudi Public Investment Fund & Jared Kusher's investment fund. We wrote about this broader dynamic over here in relation to the PIF investment in esports www.emerald.com/tpm/article/...

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 8d

some fast&excellent analysis from @superjoost.bsky.social yesterday also looked at the way that Scopely used their warchest to drastically increase the revenue of Monopoly Go!. Not many ownership groups have 1 trillion in the fund to dump money into marketing superjoost.substack.com/p/electronic...

Electronic Arts' $55B buyout doesn't add up

Power and prestige over profits.

superjoost.substack.com

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 8d

after our analysis we argued that the Saudi PIF is interested in income diversification AND sportswashing / branding / soft power.

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 8d

So my more measured take is that this is a clear reflection of the geopolitical-economic priorities of the Saudi Public Investment Fund & Jared Kusher's investment fund. We wrote about this broader dynamic over here in relation to the PIF investment in esports www.emerald.com/tpm/article/...

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 9d

Jared Kushner and the Saudi PIF buying EA wasn’t on my bingo card

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 15d

Some crack reporting from the Financial Times on the current real world impact of AI tools on contemporary businesses. It's funny to see businesses admit the very limited impact, and very high risks, of AI deployment on.ft.com/3IEuXJr

America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides

FT analysis of hundreds of filings suggest the S&P 500 businesses are clearer about the risks than benefits

on.ft.com

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 25d

Really excited to announce that Chris Young, David Nieborg and I just published a new OA paper in Platforms & Society developing the concept of the "workflow monopoly". To do this we conducted a platform historiography of the Unity game engine / workflow suite journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Workflow monopolies: A platform historiography of Unity in the immersive app economy - Chris J Young, Daniel J Joseph, David B Nieborg, 2025

This article discusses the relationship between cultural production and platform companies by mapping the rapidly evolving political economy of the real-time an...

journals.sagepub.com

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 25d

Really excited to announce that Chris Young, David Nieborg and I just published a new OA paper in Platforms & Society developing the concept of the "workflow monopoly". To do this we conducted a platform historiography of the Unity game engine / workflow suite journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Workflow monopolies: A platform historiography of Unity in the immersive app economy - Chris J Young, Daniel J Joseph, David B Nieborg, 2025

This article discusses the relationship between cultural production and platform companies by mapping the rapidly evolving political economy of the real-time an...

journals.sagepub.com

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · Aug 18

I think the norm is 3-4 months of broken but reasonable sleep. around 4-5 months they become torture specialists. We listened to... some very random podcasts at 3 in the morning

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · Aug 18

you will but you have to bare knuckle these 3-5 months!!! let us know if you need some food ok

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Sophie Bishop @sophiebishop.bsky.social · Aug 14

My book, Influencer Creep, is a Publishers Weekly (@publisherswkly.bsky.social) Pick! Thank you for engaging so deeply with the themes of the book. The verdict? “those in the art world will find plenty to chew on”. Read here: www.publishersweekly.com/9780520402706

Influencer Creep: How Optimization, Authenticity and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture by Sophie Bishop

In this uneven debut treatise, media studies scholar Bishop analyzes how social media influencer culture impacts the art world. ...

www.publishersweekly.com

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · Aug 4

too bad it's not getting spent on trains or housing. Nope, just chatbots.

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · Aug 4

really important aspect of the piles of money that tech have is that they are currently burning piles of it to build AI infrastructure. pretty much every major infrastructure investment like this is one day written down - but it's important that this gets built if capitalism is to keep "working"

Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · Aug 4

So far this year, "capital expenditures on AI added more to US economic growth than all consumer spending combined... spending on IT for AI is so big it might be making up for economic losses from the tariffs, serving as a private sector stimulus program." www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-bub...

The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)

Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · Aug 4

niche post

Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · Jul 30

Game File reporting how Krafton wants PUBG to become a "gamplay platform" www.gamefile.news/p/krafton-pu...

Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · Jul 30

i think the real challenge with this series is that it's not always easy to find a paperback of anything past novel number 5

Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · Jul 29

did some peer reviewin'

Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · Jul 29

😂

Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · Jul 29

i just want these free speech freaks to tell me what they want on our campus. race science? something else?

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · Jul 29

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · Jul 28

big congrats Madison! And welcome to being a Media Studies person in Sociology 😂

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · Jul 21

Microsoft is basically slowly decommissioning Xbox as a distinct platform with exclusives. They will still sell hardware for another generation I think but the old console model is mostly dead

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · Jul 21

Just reposting a few weeks out now - but hey if you’re interested in how and why a state inserts itself into sports and video games our article is just the ticket. Importantly, we call for a refocus on the nation state as a key player in digital capitalism.

Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · Jun 27

I'm in Montreal on annual leave right now but really happy to share Tom Brock, Will Partin, & I's new article out in Team Performance Management: 'Towards a geopolitical economy of esports: making sense of Saudi Arabia’s investments' www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

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