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Philipp Weitzel
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💻 Doctoral Candidate & Lecturer w/ Andreas Reckwitz, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 💡 #practicetheory #AI #algorithms #affect #materialculture #temporality. 💬 Content My Own. 🌈 He/Him.

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Andreas Reckwitz is a German sociologist and cultural theorist. He is professor at the institute of social sciences at Humboldt University Berlin.

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Yang Hu @yanghu.co.uk · 11d
From work-family conflict to privacy loss, rapid digitalisation has unleashed heightened forebodings about digital technologies' ramifications. Who's concerned? How do digital literacy & exposure matter? @yueqiansoc.bsky.social & I tried to find out doi.org/10.1080/1369...

@sriucl.bsky.social
Who is concerned about digitalization? The role of digital literacy and exposure across 30 countries
Rapid digitalization has unleashed widespread digital concerns, namely concerns about the potential harms associated with digital technology use, such as privacy loss, blurred work-family boundarie...
www.tandfonline.com

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Oliver Nachtwey @onachtwey.bsky.social · 12d
Das ist ein wichtiges Paper zum Verständnis der Gegenwart: Große Ungleichheit führt zu (falschen) Aufstiegsträumen und damit zur Ablehnung von Umverteilung (weil man in diesem Traum selbst einmal reich ist) - und damit zur Stabilisierung von Ungleichheit.
Von Reichtum träumen
Große Ungleichheit sorgt für einen unrealistisch optimistischen Blick auf die Chancen für einen sozialen Aufstieg. Diese Fehleinschätzung führt zu weniger Unterstützung für politische...
www.wzb.eu

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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 22d
“we estimate employment-weighted share of Americans using AI at work has fallen by a percentage point & now sits at 11%. Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses, those employing +250 people. 3 yrs into the genAI wave, demand looks surprisingly flimsy” www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
www.economist.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27d
How big tech is creating its own friendly media bubble to ‘win the narrative battle online’
How big tech is creating its own friendly media bubble to ‘win the narrative battle online’
At a time when distrust of big tech is high, Silicon Valley is embracing an alternative ecosystem where every CEO is a star
www.theguardian.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Nov 23
When OpenAI adjusted ChatGPT’s settings to appeal to more people, some users were left spiraling. Kashmir Hill, who reports on technology and privacy, describes what the company has done about the users’ troubling reports. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...

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netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik.org · Nov 14
Die Europäische Kommission arbeitet an Plänen für einen Kahlschlag bei ihren Regeln für die digitale Welt. Das belegen unter anderem Dokumente, die wir veröffentlicht haben. Im Europäischen Parlament und in der Zivilgesellschaft formiert sich dagegen massiver Widerstand.
Digitaler Omnibus: „Größter Rückschritt für digitale Grundrechte in der Geschichte der EU“
Die Europäische Kommission arbeitet an Plänen für einen Kahlschlag bei ihren Regeln für die digitale Welt. Das belegen unter anderem Dokumente, die wir veröffentlicht haben. Im Europäischen Parlament ...
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Max Czollek @maxczollek.bsky.social · Oct 27
Update zum Endlos-Clusterfuck #Humboldtforum: der Bundesgerichtshof hat nun entschieden, dass Ehrhardt Bödeckers – ein Großspender der Berliner Schlossfassaden - tatsächlich Rechtsradikaler und Antisemit war und die Kritik daran u.a. durch Philipp Oswalt gerechtfertigt gewesen ist. 1/

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Oct 22
‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’
‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’
The ad campaign for the wearable AI chatbot Friend has been raising hackles for months in New York. But has this companion been unfairly maligned – and could it help end loneliness?
www.theguardian.com

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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · Oct 14
Walmart is partnering with OpenAI to let shoppers buy products directly through ChatGPT. The new integration will allow users to link their Walmart accounts, browse items ,and instantly check out — all within the chatbot.
You'll soon be able to shop Walmart from ChatGPT | TechCrunch
Walmart is partnering with OpenAI to let shoppers buy products directly through ChatGPT. The new integration will allow users to link their Walmart accounts, browse items ,and instantly check out — all within the chatbot.
techcrunch.com

philwei.bsky.social
Philipp Weitzel @philwei.bsky.social · Oct 2
My focus: technology imaginaries—how we can counter the #data doxa of our algorithmic present through everyday practices & stories. Grateful to be part of this initiative. Stay tuned for insights & publications as we rethink narratives in culture & society.

philwei.bsky.social
Philipp Weitzel @philwei.bsky.social · Oct 2
Our team will map overlaps between sociology & literary studies while opening new terrain: from the epistemological value of literature to the sociological use of narratology. It’s about cultivating an exciting, interdisciplinary field.

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Philipp Weitzel @philwei.bsky.social · Oct 2
Honored to join the @princeton.edu — @humboldtuni.bsky.social research project “#Socionarratology — Mapping a Field Between Literary Studies & Social Sciences.” A 2-year initiative exploring how literature & sociology intersect to shape knowledge & society.

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Philipp Weitzel @philwei.bsky.social · Sep 24
Excited to present @lancasteruni.bsky.social's #practicetheory & #power workshop! I'll explore #algorithm as practices for cracking open #blackbox myths. I propose to read #code as cultural texts and am looking forward to exciting exchanges and meeting fellow praxeologists. #sociology #phdlife

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Aug 25
CONTRIBUTE: The Sociological Review’s #openaccess digital magazine is inviting early career scholars to submit pitches for our #ResearchInsights series.

Editors Iris Pissaride & @juliettephd.bsky.social are seeking proposals for our December issue. Pitch deadline is 5 September.

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"A vintage green typewriter with a blank yellow sheet of paper inserted, set against a solid red background."

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · Aug 13
Join us in the Royal Irish Academy and online for a conference exploring the future of AI and education across the post-primary and higher education sectors on Tuesday 23 September. Book your tickets now. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalirishacademy/1804710
Select tickets – The future of AI and education – Royal Irish Academy
Join us for a conference exploring the future of AI and education across the post-primary and higher education sectors. About t...
www.tickettailor.com

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Matt Davies @halcyene.bsky.social · Aug 13
Interesting work from Turing, adding to the growing evidence that significant performance gains — and possibly real-world utility — can still be gleaned from smaller and previous-generation foundation models

www.turing.ac.uk/blog/why-we-...
Why we still need small language models – even in the age of frontier AI
Lean, locally run models can unlock huge benefits for public sector and compute-constrained environments
www.turing.ac.uk

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Jul 18
Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction by @bnjacobsen.bsky.social in The Sociological Review journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Data, algorithms and the asymmetric politics of extraction - Benjamin N. Jacobsen, 2025
The last few years have seen the rollout of several generative AI applications. Yet, it is often claimed by commentators and social scientists that these have o...
journals.sagepub.com

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jul 10
We say that we “decide” to get married, to have children, to live in particular cities or embark on particular careers, and in a sense this is true. But how do we actually make those choices?
The Art of Decision-Making
Your life choices aren’t just about what you want to do; they’re about who you want to be.
www.newyorker.com

philwei.bsky.social
Philipp Weitzel @philwei.bsky.social · Jul 6
The way we write shapes our thinking. We process the world through the composition of text [...]. It’s possible that the ability to write original and interesting sentences will become only more important in a future where everyone has access to the same A.I. assistants. share.google/JhKEPrOpqext...
What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?
The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.
share.google

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criticalinquiry.bsky.social
Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social · May 13
"To put it most provocatively, we’ve moved from a moment of masochism to one of sadism." Read Wendy Hui Kyong Chun's "Our Cruel Crude Techne?" on the CI blog.
critinq.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/o...
Our Cruel Crude Techne?
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Our moment seems marked by cruelty: from best-selling books warning Christians against “toxic empathy” towards immigrant families to online trolls who gleefully torture their v…
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Anna Schjøtt @annaschjoett.bsky.social · May 5
The first paper is a short reflection by @alexcampolo.bsky.social titled 'State-of-the-Art: The Temporal Order of Benchmarking Culture', which explores how benchmarks produce certain temporal values and expectations link.springer.com/article/10.1...
State-of-the-Art: The Temporal Order of Benchmarking Culture - Digital Society
This commentary situates the epistemic values of machine learning’s culture of benchmarking and evaluation within larger temporal structures. Beyond questions of validity, whether model comparisons ar...
link.springer.com

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Max Czollek @maxczollek.bsky.social · Apr 27
Wolfram Weimer, Gründer des für ausgewogene Berichterstattung bekannten Magazins Cicero soll Kultusminister werden. Damit hat Merz sich für eine Eskalation im rechten Kulturkampf entschieden. Weimer ist nämlich ein Hardliner. & zwar schon lange /x
www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/wolfr...
Wolfram Weimer wird neuer Kulturstaatsminister
Der ehemalige Focus-Chefredakteur und Verleger Wolfram Weimer soll neuer Kulturstaatsminister werden. Dass sich der Medienunternehmer für Kultur interessiert, war bislang nicht bekannt.
www.sueddeutsche.de

philwei.bsky.social
Philipp Weitzel @philwei.bsky.social · Apr 5
Desire, pleasure, control — A deep dive into the contradictions we live every day: "Neoliberalism represents a stage in social formation that is no more liberal than a Hail Mary pass in football is a form of prayer." 👉 hedgehogreview.com/issues/after...
Captives of Desire
Neoliberalism rejected the assessment that the absence of constraints on desire undermined systemic viability.
hedgehogreview.com

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Apr 3
Sneak preview of the program for our exciting @algosoc.org conference The Future of Public Values next week in Amsterdam.

Featuring @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Tamar Sharon, @natalihelberger.bsky.social @ppverbeek.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social @dvshah.bsky.social and MANY MANY more 👏🏼

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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · Mar 31
Data in Motion: Creating the Possibility for Other-than-human Worlds by Katherine Reilly, Gillian Russell and Rachel Horst in Somatechnics www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...
Data in Motion: Creating the Possibility for Other-than-human Worlds | Somatechnics
www.euppublishing.com

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netzpolitik.org
netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik.org · Mar 24
Der Bundesrat will, dass die Polizei bundesweit Palantir als Software einsetzt. Das Unternehmen gehört dem rechten Milliardär und Strippenzieher Peter Thiel. Diesem Feind der Demokratie Geld und Daten in den Rachen zu werfen, ist unverantwortlich. Ein Kommentar.

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Palantir: Wer jetzt bei Peter Thiel Software kauft, hat wirklich nichts verstanden
Der Bundesrat will, dass die Polizei bundesweit Palantir als Software einsetzt. Das Unternehmen gehört dem rechten Milliardär und Strippenzieher Peter Thiel. Diesem Feind der Demokratie Geld und Daten...
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philwei.bsky.social
Philipp Weitzel @philwei.bsky.social · Mar 24
#KI -Bildgeneratoren dienen nicht nur der Desinformation, sondern der optimierten #Affekt -Bewirtschaftung: Sie stilisieren „echte Emotionen“ zu lesbaren Bildern. Sie sind #Nostalgiemaschinen & Klischeeverstärker. #mustread bei @g-d-gegenwart.bsky.social

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Echte Emotionen. Gene­ra­tive KI und rechte Weltbilder
Die radikale Rechte liebt generative KI. Trump wie Musk teilen massenhaft KI-generierte Bilder auf ihren Plattformen, und auch die AfD hat schon lange den Nutzen von Midjourney & Co. für ihren Wahlkam...
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humboldtuni.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social · Mar 24
🗯️ Warum treffen manche Gruppen bessere Entscheidungen als andere? 🗯️ Mit dieser Frage setzt sich eine neue, in der Fachzeitschrift Scientific Reports veröffentlichte Studie von Forschenden des Exzellenzclusters @scioi.bsky.social auseinander.
Weiterlesen 🔗 www.hu-berlin.de/de/pr/nachri...
BU: Mohsen Raoufi (rechts im Bild) von der HU und Vito Mengers (links) von der TU Berlin forschen gemeinsam am Exzellenzcluster "Science of Intelligence" (SCIoI) Foto: SCIoI

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Mar 17
"Ice Geographies" by Jen Rose Smith @sprucehen.bsky.social centers ice to critically study racialization, land dispossession, and Indigenous knowledge production about icy places, both historically and in the modern moment of climate change. Read the intro for free now! #Environment
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Cover of Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic. The cover features an abstract art piece by Darcie Bernhardt. The piece is titled Beluga Hunting and depicts a light pink, green, and blue marbled pattern. Forked green and white lines within the pattern evoke topographic striations.

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Georg Restle @georgrestle.bsky.social · Mar 5
Weiß nicht, was einem größere Sorgen machen sollte: Die weltfremde Rede eines US-Präsidenten, der sich für seinen Staatsstreich feiern lässt oder das infantile Gejohle und Gekreische seiner ihm hörigen republikanischen Abgeordneten. Ein williger Hofstaat, der seine eigene Entmachtung feiert.