David Wright
@davwright.bsky.social
Researching and teaching about creative industries and cultural policy at the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, SCAPVC, University of Warwick.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/staff/david/
If you want me, I'll be at the cricket.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/staff/david/
If you want me, I'll be at the cricket.
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We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.
It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.
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“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
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I see we have reached the ‘build a robot army and collect your bonus’ stage of capitalism.
November 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
I see we have reached the ‘build a robot army and collect your bonus’ stage of capitalism.
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Our second research seminar of the term. Andrea Wallace discussing
‘Intellectual Property Restitution: reorienting cultural property in a digital age’
‘Intellectual Property Restitution: reorienting cultural property in a digital age’
November 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Our second research seminar of the term. Andrea Wallace discussing
‘Intellectual Property Restitution: reorienting cultural property in a digital age’
‘Intellectual Property Restitution: reorienting cultural property in a digital age’
No, I refuse to believe this and will continue to use it as a metaphor for all organisational life. If anything, I might do it more.
Whoa, “When Prophecy Fails” debunked? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
No, I refuse to believe this and will continue to use it as a metaphor for all organisational life. If anything, I might do it more.
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#OtD 4 Nov 1811 Luddites attacked machinery in Bulwell, England. While 'Luddite' is used today to mock those who don't like/know how to use technology, the Luddites didn't oppose technology as such, but how capitalists used it to make them unemployed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1046...
November 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
#OtD 4 Nov 1811 Luddites attacked machinery in Bulwell, England. While 'Luddite' is used today to mock those who don't like/know how to use technology, the Luddites didn't oppose technology as such, but how capitalists used it to make them unemployed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1046...
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
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Come and work with us in #Sociology at University of Glasgow! #Lecturer in the Sociology of Social Justice and Inequalities, LTS 2 year post. Teach to change societies! #SocialJustice #Inequalities @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Lecturer in the Sociology of Social Justice and Inequalities (LTS)
College of Social Sciences School of Social & Political Sciences Lecturer in the Sociology of Social Justice and Inequalities (LTS) Vacancy Reference: 184933 Salary, Grade 7, £41,064 - £46,04...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Come and work with us in #Sociology at University of Glasgow! #Lecturer in the Sociology of Social Justice and Inequalities, LTS 2 year post. Teach to change societies! #SocialJustice #Inequalities @uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Our former @ccmpswarwick.bsky.social and @sociowarwick.bsky.social graduate Dr. Sun Park is now doing great things at @ucdischool.bsky.social - including leading this amazing PhD project on AI & Heritage 👇
www.ucd.ie/ics/vacancie...
www.ucd.ie/ics/vacancie...
PhD scholarship in AI and Heritage Futures
PhD scholarship in AI and Heritage Futures
www.ucd.ie
October 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Our former @ccmpswarwick.bsky.social and @sociowarwick.bsky.social graduate Dr. Sun Park is now doing great things at @ucdischool.bsky.social - including leading this amazing PhD project on AI & Heritage 👇
www.ucd.ie/ics/vacancie...
www.ucd.ie/ics/vacancie...
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A great turn out for our first research seminar of the year, featuring @sociowarwick.bsky.social's Akane Kanai, talking about "Legible feminine subjectivities in online culture"
October 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
A great turn out for our first research seminar of the year, featuring @sociowarwick.bsky.social's Akane Kanai, talking about "Legible feminine subjectivities in online culture"
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Come work with us! We are hiring 3 postdoctoral researchers working in cultural game studies from the beginning of 2026 until the end of 2027. Read more and apply by 31.10.2025 (at 23.59.00 EET / UTC+2):
3 Postdoctoral Researchers (cultural game studies) / 3 tutkijatohtoria (kulttuurinen pelitutkimus)
tuni.rekrytointi.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Come work with us! We are hiring 3 postdoctoral researchers working in cultural game studies from the beginning of 2026 until the end of 2027. Read more and apply by 31.10.2025 (at 23.59.00 EET / UTC+2):
Quite the treat to see @warringtonruncorn.com at the Boat Club tonight. If you like electronica and town planning nostalgia this is the night out for you. New album sounded great
warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com/album/public...
warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com/album/public...
Public Works and Utilities, by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan
6 track album
warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Quite the treat to see @warringtonruncorn.com at the Boat Club tonight. If you like electronica and town planning nostalgia this is the night out for you. New album sounded great
warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com/album/public...
warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com/album/public...
"In 2005 the face value of a ticket for “general standing” at an Oasis gig was the equivalent of three hours’ work at the median hourly wage. These days, you’d have to graft for pretty much a whole day: seven hours and 56 minutes, to be precise."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The best gig I ever saw cost £4. Spiralling concert prices are a cultural disaster | John Harris
Tickets for big tours have vastly outstripped inflation, while smaller artists and venues struggle. The magic is in danger of being snuffed out entirely, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
"In 2005 the face value of a ticket for “general standing” at an Oasis gig was the equivalent of three hours’ work at the median hourly wage. These days, you’d have to graft for pretty much a whole day: seven hours and 56 minutes, to be precise."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down
NVIDIA and OpenAi:
Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“
@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“
@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
October 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down
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VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (13 months, starting Jan 2026)
Closing date: 20 Oct 2025
Teaching PG modules on ‘Social Theory: Structure, Relations & Interaction’ & ‘Research Design’.
@britsoci.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Closing date: 20 Oct 2025
Teaching PG modules on ‘Social Theory: Structure, Relations & Interaction’ & ‘Research Design’.
@britsoci.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
October 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (13 months, starting Jan 2026)
Closing date: 20 Oct 2025
Teaching PG modules on ‘Social Theory: Structure, Relations & Interaction’ & ‘Research Design’.
@britsoci.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Closing date: 20 Oct 2025
Teaching PG modules on ‘Social Theory: Structure, Relations & Interaction’ & ‘Research Design’.
@britsoci.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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My take (from Friday) on the digital ID proposals. I don't think it's relevant to say, "but other countries have ID cards, why can't we?" The critical questions here are implementation-based and it seems like they are up for grabs
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...
Unpacking Digital ID - can the government deliver on its ambitions? — Careful Industries
A look at what has been proposed, how it might work, and whether it will be effective.
www.careful.industries
September 29, 2025 at 6:46 AM
My take (from Friday) on the digital ID proposals. I don't think it's relevant to say, "but other countries have ID cards, why can't we?" The critical questions here are implementation-based and it seems like they are up for grabs
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...
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OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
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The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
August 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Catering costs on an FEC-ed project grant?
Microsoft copilot for Excel has a warning not to use it for “business critical” calculations because the answer may not be accurate.
Would someone explain why I might *ever* want to use a spreadsheet where results are unreliable?
Would someone explain why I might *ever* want to use a spreadsheet where results are unreliable?
August 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Catering costs on an FEC-ed project grant?
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MPs have launched a fan-led review of live music - with an online survey, which you will find via: committees.parliament.uk/committee/37...
August 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
MPs have launched a fan-led review of live music - with an online survey, which you will find via: committees.parliament.uk/committee/37...
Very good this. Should be of interest to the 'culture and foundational economy' folk.
'King Street Social Club in North Shields is structured not to make a profit beyond its upkeep. It’s the only place I’ve ever been to where I’ve seen a sign warning that the price of beer is about to be reduced in the next month.'
Community Ownership can Save our #GrassrootsVenues
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Community Ownership can Save our #GrassrootsVenues
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August 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Very good this. Should be of interest to the 'culture and foundational economy' folk.
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'An 1812 letter from the Luddites described their mission as fighting against “all Machinery hurtful to Commonality.” That remains a strong standard by which to judge technological gains.'
Always quite proud to live a brisk stroll away from Arnold where the Luddites kicked off.
Always quite proud to live a brisk stroll away from Arnold where the Luddites kicked off.
Today, the word “Luddite” is used as an insult to anyone resistant to technological innovation. But a recent book argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.
Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I.
Brian Merchant’s new book, “Blood in the Machine,” argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.
www.newyorker.com
August 9, 2025 at 7:32 AM
'An 1812 letter from the Luddites described their mission as fighting against “all Machinery hurtful to Commonality.” That remains a strong standard by which to judge technological gains.'
Always quite proud to live a brisk stroll away from Arnold where the Luddites kicked off.
Always quite proud to live a brisk stroll away from Arnold where the Luddites kicked off.
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hoping that when they say the LLM talks like a Ph.D.-level expert, they mean "holds indecipherable decades-long academic grudges expressed largely in the form of questions that are actually more of a comment"
August 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
hoping that when they say the LLM talks like a Ph.D.-level expert, they mean "holds indecipherable decades-long academic grudges expressed largely in the form of questions that are actually more of a comment"