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jwyg.bsky.social
looking forward to winter book events for public data cultures in coming months ❄️📗💜✨
jonathangray.org/2026/01/05/b...
including with @digitalmethods.net @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social @internetarchive.eu @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social @cimethods.bsky.social @mctd.bsky.social #dmi26
winter book events for public data cultures ❄️📗
Looking forward to some winter book events for public data cultures in coming weeks and months. ❄️📗
jonathangray.org
January 5, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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lseblogs.bsky.social
Is there an alternative to Big Tech’s control of the #SocialMedia space?

The Space of the World by @couldrynick.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social offers a radical vision that counters the profit-driven space we know.

#Review by Dawa Tshering @edithcowanuni.bsky.social @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social
Is there an alternative to Big Tech’s control of the social media space? - LSE Review of Books
Nick Couldry's The Space of the World explores Big Tech's control over social media & calls for a radical, non-commercial redesign of our shared digital spaces.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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bloodravenlib.bsky.social
May need to add this to my #TBR list, though I know my cooler than me colleagues could not care less, or just brush aside the #tech issues because "it is so cool. It writes your stuff for you, blah blah."

And may still order for our library anyhow.

#books #reading #Internet 💙📚
politybooks.bsky.social Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · Aug 14
“How might we develop digital #technology that is better for people, communities and the planet?”

Find out in Neil Selwyn’s ‘Digital Degrowth’. Out now!

www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

@neilselwyn.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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davidgunkel.bsky.social
Excellent advice from Leif Weatherby.
And pretty much what Mark Coeckelbergh and I also argue in "Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social uk.news.yahoo.com/advice-sam-a...
My advice to Sam Altman: read Jacques Derrida
The bold claims made about the new version of ChatGPT are yet more big tech hyperbole
uk.news.yahoo.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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politybooks.bsky.social
“A powerful new introduction from two pioneers of #digital methods. …you will come away feeling more than ready to give this a go.” @noortjem.bsky.social

@tommv.bsky.social and Richard Rogers’ Digital Methods is out now!

www.politybooks.com/...
June 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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davidgunkel.bsky.social
In "Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social, @coeckelbergh.bsky.social and I identify 2 ways to respond to the crisis of authorship with #LLM #AI: 1) put the author function on life support or 2) pull the plug & give up the ghost. We opt for the latter; @floridi.bsky.social goes with the former.
June 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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mkmayhall.bsky.social
I’m part of the way through this and am convinced it should be required reading for college faculty. Demystifies and explains the technology and the various contexts in which it’s been created and used. Really, really good.
@coeckelbergh.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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jilltxt.bsky.social
Chapter 3 of my (open access) book about machine vision is about the heated debates when Oak Park, a town just outside Chicago city borders, introduced Flock licence plate cameras. Debates have flared up again after Texas police searched Illinois camera data to track a woman who'd had an abortion.
July 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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madianou.bsky.social
I recently discovered this wonderful book club co-liberative-computing.github.io organised by @payberah.bsky.social that brings a justice approach to computing. I'm happy to join the book club today to discuss my new book 'Technocolonialism' www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Co-liberative Computing
Co-liberative Computing Research Group
co-liberative-computing.github.io
June 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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aramsinn.bsky.social
📚🚨 I am super chuffed to announce that Neil Perry and I just signed a contract to write a book on #Apple for @politybooks.bsky.social, as part of their Digital Media and Society series!
Digital Media and Society
Each book in the Digital Media and Society series takes a particular theme or phenomenon and considers the complex interplay of technologies and the ways in which they are used, in their social and cu...
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May 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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davidgunkel.bsky.social
Stopped by the @politybooks.bsky.social exhibit booth at #ICA2025. They had "An Introduction to #communication and #AI" but "Communicative #AI" has not yet shipped in North America. It will two days after the conference ends : ( For now all we got is this flyer.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
June 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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politybooks.bsky.social
Congratulations @davidgunkel.bsky.social and @coeckelbergh.bsky.social, it's fantastic to see this book out in the world! 🥳📚
davidgunkel.bsky.social David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · May 15
The "Communicative #AI" book launch in Prague 🇨🇿 went extremely well. Really good turnout with insightful and interesting questions/comments from those in attendance.
@politybooks.bsky.social @coeckelbergh.bsky.social

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May 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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davidgunkel.bsky.social
"Communicative #AI" - Finland 🇫🇮
Book launch of the simultaneously published Finnish translation of "Communicative #AI" @rosebudbooks.bsky.social

www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
May 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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jwyg.bsky.social
"Public Data Cultures" now has a cover! It nurtures critical and creative engagements with data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of transnational politics. Out with @politybooks.bsky.social this autumn & now available for pre-order. 🌱📗✨🎊💜 jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...
Book cover for Public Data Cultures (Polity, forthcoming 2025).
May 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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swaisbord.bsky.social
My book An Introduction to Journalism: Thinking Globally will be out in April 2025 (UK)/ June 2025 (US). I draw ideas from my teaching, original research, scholars, colleagues, and friends.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
April 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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hollykruse.bsky.social
If you're tagged in the comments, you may be contacted with a request to blurb this book, thanks to the monster list I provided, and for that I'm sorry. I think? Remember that "no" is a complete sentence. But you're all so awesome that I had to include you.
Screenshot of gender and technology book from book catalog.
April 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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hollykruse.bsky.social
I cannot tell you how much an imminent @politybooks.bsky.social book deadline is allowing me to mostly shut out currents events by not being online, except to find out things like how to cite Ban Zhao's circa 80 CE essay "Lessons for Women" in Chicago style. 100% recommend this approach.
February 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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jwyg.bsky.social
How study collections of images - from images circulating on platforms to genAI visual outputs? Looking forward to exploring with Gabriele Colombo (Milan) and Sabine Niederer (Amsterdam) on Thursday 27th March. ✨
📖 Talk: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/visua...
🎨 Masterclass: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/visua...
Visual Methods for Digital Research: An Introduction
Visual Methods for Digital Research is the first textbook to bring the fields of visual methods and digital research together.
www.kcl.ac.uk
March 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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neilselwyn.bsky.social
I am preparing a few slides for a keynote at a big European EdTech fair - one of the main messages is that other ways of thinking about digital tech are possible (and, indeed, gaining in prominence). Any other recent books that you'd expect to see listed?
February 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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politybooks.bsky.social
‘Three major figures in analysis of #race in contemporary culture have joined forces to craft a powerful critique of recent mutations in mediated #racism.’
- David Hesmondhalgh

Anamik Saha, @gavant.bsky.social, @francescasobande.bsky.social ‘The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto’ is OUT NOW!
December 3, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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robkitchin.bsky.social
New open access book – Critical Data Studies: An A to Z Guide to Concepts and Methods – published by Polity Books. 413 key terms defined & described. Also available as a paperback or hardback. To download or buy visit the publishers website: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
January 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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couldrynick.bsky.social
We should NEVER have allowed commercial corporations to design our world of social interaction, our 'space of the world', commercial social media. Really enjoyed making this podcast about my new book. Thanks @markhurst.bsky.social (and sorry for the typo earlier)
markhurst.bsky.social Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · Feb 18
Really enjoyed speaking with @couldrynick.bsky.social on techtonic.fm about his new book "The Space of the World," on how social media is destroying society and politics - worldwide.

Stream the show:
wfmu.org/archiveplaye...

Episode page with links:
www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Nick Couldry, author, "The Space of the World": Techtonic with Mark Hurst
Audio & playlist from February 17, 2025
www.wfmu.org
February 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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coeckelbergh.bsky.social
Happy to announce that Communicative AI, the book about #LLMs I wrote with @davidgunkel.bsky.social and that will soon be published by @politybooks.bsky.social, will simultaneously be published in Finnish (by Terra Cognita)

www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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February 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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davidgunkel.bsky.social
Writing is a fundamental problem for Western philosophy. And this is precisely why writing machines--especially #LLMs and #GenAI-- disrupt and deconstruct everything. COMING SOON
tinyurl.com/mtzkme4n
Communicative AI: A Critical Introduction to Large Language Models
Communicative AI: A Critical Introduction to Large Language Models, Large Language Models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s LaMDA, are some of the most disruptive and controversial technologi...
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March 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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drtvlotz.bsky.social
Now available everywhere –
Media Industries in the Digital Age w/Tim Havens

The linked post explains a lot of what the book is up to, happy to answer questions in replies #disruption #media
www.politybooks.com/blog-detail/...
Also links to the Preface and Teaching resource in next ...
www.politybooks.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM