Kath Bassett
@kathrithm.bsky.social
Lecturer in Sociology at York. I research tourism as a key site of digitisation, tracing how mobilities, hospitality work, and urban economies are governed by algorithms and platforms.
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Good to see this bad boy out in the world!! New article from me on drone delivery, AI testbeds, and the long history science and technology testing in the colony.
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Good to see this bad boy out in the world!! New article from me on drone delivery, AI testbeds, and the long history science and technology testing in the colony.
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
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Given what is happening with X, it's a good time to propose for anyone interested to read the "Algorithms of Resistance" by T. Bonini & E. Trere. It offers ways to challenge the logic of the platform, and there is a lot of research backing up the arguments of the book. It's open access too!
Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power
How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control
direct.mit.edu
January 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Given what is happening with X, it's a good time to propose for anyone interested to read the "Algorithms of Resistance" by T. Bonini & E. Trere. It offers ways to challenge the logic of the platform, and there is a lot of research backing up the arguments of the book. It's open access too!
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Imagination is resistance, @ruha9.bsky.social reminds us that, " we need to reject the gospel that says technology is inevitable, that the train has left the station... In an error of automated bullshit, it’s time to become bullshit detectors,"
#MozFest
#MozFest
November 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Imagination is resistance, @ruha9.bsky.social reminds us that, " we need to reject the gospel that says technology is inevitable, that the train has left the station... In an error of automated bullshit, it’s time to become bullshit detectors,"
#MozFest
#MozFest
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also: "a debate at the University of Dar es Salaam about excellence counterposed to relevance. Relevance is not universal in its claims. It’s particular, place specific, time specific. The single-minded pursuit of excellence can give rise to a World Bank/IMF-type cookie-cutter logic..."
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
also: "a debate at the University of Dar es Salaam about excellence counterposed to relevance. Relevance is not universal in its claims. It’s particular, place specific, time specific. The single-minded pursuit of excellence can give rise to a World Bank/IMF-type cookie-cutter logic..."
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"The administration ballooned, and inside the administration the financial technocrats took over. There was less and less sympathy with Columbia as a place of thought. It was more about Columbia as an enterprise..."
www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
Mahmood Mamdani Doesn’t Want to Talk About Zohran
The Columbia scholar, and father of the mayor-elect, on politics, academe, and antisemitism.
www.chronicle.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
"The administration ballooned, and inside the administration the financial technocrats took over. There was less and less sympathy with Columbia as a place of thought. It was more about Columbia as an enterprise..."
www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
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My chapter examines the profound socio-economic impacts of Long COVID, particularly in education and employment, from the perspective of systemic inequities and social determinants of health, and exposes the harms of pandemic non-interventionism.
Now published! My edited book ‘Long COVID and Society’ - my introduction is free to read for everyone. Download from the link below and check out the others chapters too (Chapter 14, about LC children and families, is also open access)
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Long COVID and Society
This is the first book to bring together academics and activists living with Long COVID to explore the social impacts of the new complex chronic condition.
link.springer.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
My chapter examines the profound socio-economic impacts of Long COVID, particularly in education and employment, from the perspective of systemic inequities and social determinants of health, and exposes the harms of pandemic non-interventionism.
Launch for Alex Gillett & @kevindtennent.bsky.social book "Foundations of Managing the British Olympics". Congrats to you both! Such a fascinating presentation and I'm looking forward to reading. #ccbhs #uoy
October 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Launch for Alex Gillett & @kevindtennent.bsky.social book "Foundations of Managing the British Olympics". Congrats to you both! Such a fascinating presentation and I'm looking forward to reading. #ccbhs #uoy
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When I was researching Beside the Seaside I built quite a good digital archive of images of railway travel posters relating to Yorkshire. One of them was this one which I don't think I've seen online since. A penny a mile would make a return trip to the coast from West Yorkshire about 12/- or so
October 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
When I was researching Beside the Seaside I built quite a good digital archive of images of railway travel posters relating to Yorkshire. One of them was this one which I don't think I've seen online since. A penny a mile would make a return trip to the coast from West Yorkshire about 12/- or so
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What are the ethical responsibility of algorithms?
How might we think about forms of power, order, and rationality beyond the story of alliances between big tech and the state?
Join @amoorelouise.bsky.social and Audrey Borowski
Mon. Oct. 20 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK
www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
How might we think about forms of power, order, and rationality beyond the story of alliances between big tech and the state?
Join @amoorelouise.bsky.social and Audrey Borowski
Mon. Oct. 20 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK
www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
Select tickets – "On Cloud Ethics and Beyond": Louise Amoore in conversation with Audrey Borowski – Zoom
"On Cloud Ethics and Beyond": Louise Amoore in conversation with Audrey Borowski – Zoom, Mon 20 Oct 2025 - Machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society....
www.tickettailor.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
What are the ethical responsibility of algorithms?
How might we think about forms of power, order, and rationality beyond the story of alliances between big tech and the state?
Join @amoorelouise.bsky.social and Audrey Borowski
Mon. Oct. 20 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK
www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
How might we think about forms of power, order, and rationality beyond the story of alliances between big tech and the state?
Join @amoorelouise.bsky.social and Audrey Borowski
Mon. Oct. 20 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK
www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
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and it's *clear*! great examples of how close reading helps us make sense of things—it takes work, but you can do it—it's not some mystical operation
Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read
October 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
and it's *clear*! great examples of how close reading helps us make sense of things—it takes work, but you can do it—it's not some mystical operation
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Nice to be included in this company! Critics of AI are growing but certainly need to give each other support
Very grateful to fellow travelers who are trying to temper enthusiasm for AI, especially in the halls of the academy. @janerosenzweig.bsky.social @melhogan.bsky.social @eryk.bsky.social @histoftech.bsky.social @criticalai-journal.bsky.social @jeddobson.bsky.social @couldrynick.bsky.social and more
October 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Nice to be included in this company! Critics of AI are growing but certainly need to give each other support
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"The tech elites who got rich in the last 20 years have the world at their fingertips, but they can't stand the touch." GotDAMN. Thank you Jacob.
You must buy the book. There are lots of versions of this story and more coming (hell I'm writing a piece of it). But Jacob's is the best because he's been following the players for so long that he can show how DOGE is one big Twitter takeover. We've been let this sinked in as a nation. Humiliating.
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
Release Date: 10/7/25
www.jacobsilverman.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"The tech elites who got rich in the last 20 years have the world at their fingertips, but they can't stand the touch." GotDAMN. Thank you Jacob.
Wish I could join!
Join us for this upcoming TravelTech Meetup at Edinburgh Futures Institute!
✈️ Traveltech/E-corner Meetup
🗓️ Wednesday, 22 October | 12:30 - 14:00
📍Room 2.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute
🎟️ https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/traveltech-e-corner-meetup/
✈️ Traveltech/E-corner Meetup
🗓️ Wednesday, 22 October | 12:30 - 14:00
📍Room 2.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute
🎟️ https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/traveltech-e-corner-meetup/
October 17, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Wish I could join!
Starting to read for a chapter I'll be writing.
October 17, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Starting to read for a chapter I'll be writing.
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Spinoza's Geographical Ethics - out now, open access in e-book form: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza... @edinburghup.bsky.social
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics
edinburghuniversitypress.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Spinoza's Geographical Ethics - out now, open access in e-book form: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza... @edinburghup.bsky.social
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Definitely nothing can go wrong with OpenAI having a full record of your sexy chatbot interactions.
October 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Definitely nothing can go wrong with OpenAI having a full record of your sexy chatbot interactions.
Adapting to iPad reading = fewer printed PDFs, a happier university budget, and perhaps a small nod from nature. Though with the energy footprint of our devices and data centres, I’m not sure what counts as the “sustainable” choice anymore…
October 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Adapting to iPad reading = fewer printed PDFs, a happier university budget, and perhaps a small nod from nature. Though with the energy footprint of our devices and data centres, I’m not sure what counts as the “sustainable” choice anymore…
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Madeleine Chalmers, French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn - @edinburghup.bsky.social, December 2024
hardback and open access; paperback forthcoming in June 2026
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-french-...
two interviews in next post
hardback and open access; paperback forthcoming in June 2026
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-french-...
two interviews in next post
French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn
French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn
edinburghuniversitypress.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Madeleine Chalmers, French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn - @edinburghup.bsky.social, December 2024
hardback and open access; paperback forthcoming in June 2026
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-french-...
two interviews in next post
hardback and open access; paperback forthcoming in June 2026
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-french-...
two interviews in next post
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Friends and colleagues in Oxford, join us for this event at the end of the month.
festivalofsocialscience.com/events/unvei...
festivalofsocialscience.com/events/unvei...
October 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Friends and colleagues in Oxford, join us for this event at the end of the month.
festivalofsocialscience.com/events/unvei...
festivalofsocialscience.com/events/unvei...
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What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...
October 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...
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Maxim Samson, Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way - @profilebooks.bsky.social, August 2025; @uchicagopress.bsky.social, October 2025
profilebooks.com/work/earth-s...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
profilebooks.com/work/earth-s...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Earth Shapers
The globetrotting story of how humans have harnessed the geographical landscape and written ourselves onto our surroundings. Mountains, meridians, rivers, and borders—these are some of the features th...
press.uchicago.edu
October 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Maxim Samson, Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way - @profilebooks.bsky.social, August 2025; @uchicagopress.bsky.social, October 2025
profilebooks.com/work/earth-s...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
profilebooks.com/work/earth-s...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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I think the AI 'industry' can afford it, or does the free market and property rights only work in certain circumstances.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I think the AI 'industry' can afford it, or does the free market and property rights only work in certain circumstances.
Nobody does it better than Lady Gaga. Had a blast at the Mayhem Ball in Manchester last night.
Unfortunately, it's back to (heteronormative) reality now...
Unfortunately, it's back to (heteronormative) reality now...
October 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Nobody does it better than Lady Gaga. Had a blast at the Mayhem Ball in Manchester last night.
Unfortunately, it's back to (heteronormative) reality now...
Unfortunately, it's back to (heteronormative) reality now...
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‘Authenticity’ is the ideal for many travellers, influencers, and commentators. But what is it? Can destination marketers and tourism professionals package it and sell it … authentically?
" #GoodTourism " #travel #tourism #authenticity
www.goodtourismblog.com/2025/09/auth...
" #GoodTourism " #travel #tourism #authenticity
www.goodtourismblog.com/2025/09/auth...
What is 'authenticity' in travel & tourism? - The "Good Tourism" Blog
‘Authenticity’ is the ideal for many travellers, influencers, and commentators. But what is it? Can destination marketers and tourism professionals package it and sell it … authentically? Thanks to Pr...
www.goodtourismblog.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
‘Authenticity’ is the ideal for many travellers, influencers, and commentators. But what is it? Can destination marketers and tourism professionals package it and sell it … authentically?
" #GoodTourism " #travel #tourism #authenticity
www.goodtourismblog.com/2025/09/auth...
" #GoodTourism " #travel #tourism #authenticity
www.goodtourismblog.com/2025/09/auth...
What a beautiful city I inhabit ✨
October 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
What a beautiful city I inhabit ✨