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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · Jul 28

📘 New Publication: “Priorities and exclusions within Trust and Safety industry standards” - lead by @blakeplease.bsky.social, and in collaboration with our lab member @rscarlets.bsky.social.

👉 Read the full article #openaccess in New Media & Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · Jul 10

⏰ Call for Papers: The #PlatGovNet2025 conference is accepting submissions now!

Key info:

🗓️ The conference will take place on December 1–2, 2025.

📝 Abstracts (800–1,000 words) are due September 2

💯% free and online!

👉 Details and submission link here: platgov.net/conferences/...

2025 Conference Call for Submissions — PlatGov

2025 Conference Call for Submissions

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · Jul 10

📘 New Publication: “Negotiating AI(s) futures: competing imaginaries of AI by stakeholders in the US, China, and Germany” by Vanessa Richter, @ckatzenbach.bsky.social, and Jing Zeng, published in the @jscicom.bsky.social.

👉 Read the full article here: jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · Jun 4

Our incredible #AoIR2025Symposium is almost over…

We are grateful for the opportunity to host so many brilliant scholars who share our passion for researching platform governance, content moderation, and generative AI.

Already looking forward to what comes next. Let’s keep the momentum going!

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · Jun 2

🥳 We're kicking off the #AoIR2025Symposium tonight in Bremen!

Thank you to everyone joining us for the next two days to critically explore the evolving landscape of platform and AI governance.

We look forward to lively discussions!

👉 platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · Jun 2

We are getting ready for you! #AoIR2025Symposium platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · May 30

🎉Next week, we will kick off our #AoIR2025Symposium in Bremen with a fantastic program and lineup, and we have almost reached capacity!

This is your last chance to secure one of the remaining seats: members.aoir.org/event-6113333

See you next week!

👉 platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · May 29

He is author of the widely cited 2010 essay, “The Politics of ‘Platforms’”, and his current work investigates how social media platforms and other algorithmic information systems shape public discourse.

Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · May 29

Tarleton is co-founder of the blog Culture Digitally, co-editor of Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society (MIT, 2014), and author of Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions that Shape Social Media (Yale, 2018).

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · May 29

Tarleton Gillespie is a Senior Principal Researcher at @msftresearch.bsky.social New England and an affiliated Associate Professor at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. He is also author of Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (MIT, 2007).

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · May 29

🔎 Finally, we are delighted to introduce Tarleton Gillespie as the final keynote speaker of our #AoIR2025Symposium Welcome Conversation, "Where Do We Stand, and How Did We Get Here?"

Welcome!

👉 Full conference program and registration (few seats remaining): platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · May 28

In her capacity as information law expert, Natali regularly advices the @ec.europa.eu, @europarl.europa.eu, @coe.int, OSCE, @unesco.org, and national governments, regulators and civil society organisations.

Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · May 28

Natali co-founded the @aimediademlab.bsky.social and is a founder and Principal Investigator of the Research Priority Area Information and Communication in the DataSociety (ICDS). Her research focuses on how AI and ADS are changing democratic societies and the implications for law and governance.

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · May 28

Natali is Professor of Information Law and Digital Technology at the University of Amsterdam, with a special focus on AI. She is a board member at the @ivir-uva.bsky.social and one of the leaders of the Human (e) AI’ Research Priority Area.

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · May 28

🔎 Re-meet @natalihelberger.bsky.social, one of the keynote speakers in the "Where Do We Stand, and How Did We Get Here?" Welcome Conversation of our #AoIR2025Symposium.

Welcome Natali Helberger!

👉 Full conference program & registration (few seats remaining): platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · May 27

Sarah is author of Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP, 2019).

Informed by feminist STS perspectives, she is keenly interested in the way power, geopolitics and economics play out on and via the internet, reproducing global inequities and social injustice.

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · May 27

She is the faculty director and co-founder of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2), co-director of the Minderoo Initiative on Technology & Power, and a research associate of the @oii.ox.ac.uk‬.

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · May 27

Sarah T. Roberts is a full professor at UCLA (Gender Studies, Information Studies, Labor Studies), specializing in Internet and social media policy, infrastructure, politics and culture, and the intersection of media, technology and society.

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · May 27

🔎 Amazing @ubiquity75.xyz will complete our #AoIR2025Symposium Concluding Plenary Panel, "Where Do We Go From Here?,” on Wednesday.

Welcome to Bremen Sarah T. Roberts!

👉 Full conference program and registration (few seats remaining): platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · May 26

Thomas is co-author of Platforms and Cultural Production (Polity, 2022) and The Platform Society (OUP, 2018). Finally, he is a member of the editorial board of Social Media + Society, Digital Journalism, Platforms & Society, Journal of Digital Social Research, and Communication and the Public.

Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · May 26

Leveraging social media data and digital methods, Thomas has studied how the use of digital platforms is affecting the mobilization, organization, and communication of protest around the globe. He has built a conceptual framework to analyze how platforms and AI are reshaping the cultural industries.

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · May 26

Thomas Poell is Professor of Data, Culture & Institutions at the University of Amsterdam. He is program director MA Media Studies, co-founder of the Research Priority Area on Global Digital Cultures, and faculty lead for the national Human(e) AI & the Datafied Society sector plan.

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · May 26

🔎 We proudly present @tpoell.bsky.social ‪as a plenary speaker at our public Evening Panel on Tuesday, "Power and Politics in Tech Governance,” at #AoIR2025Symposium!

Welcome Thomas Poell!

👉 Full conference program & registration (few seats remaining): platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · May 23

Jillian is a founding member at the Deep Lab collective and currently serves on the Advisory Council of the @opentechfund.bsky.social, the International Advisory Board of the International Free Expression Project, and the Advisory Board of @openrightsgroup.bsky.social.

Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · May 23

Jillian is a fellow at the Center for Internet & Human Rights in Berlin, a visiting professor at the @collegeofeurope.bsky.social Natolin, and her writing has been published by @motherboard.bsky.social, @technologyreview.com, and @wired.com, among others.

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