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Kirsten Drotner
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Professor em. @ University of Southern Denmark. Media history | audiences | digital creativity | museum communication

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Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social · Feb 2
A COUP is going on in real time in the heart of the US government. If only the UK press would notice, instead of focussing on the surface froth. This great piece lays out the details clearly: www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...
Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous
Remember how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter by ripping apart its infrastructure without understanding it? Now imagine that same playbook applied to the federal government. It’s happening, and th…
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Kirsten Drotner @kirstendrotner.bsky.social · Dec 28
Trump defines a new and scary era of what I call “post propaganda”. I define what it means and how we can learn from media history to avoid it in today’s column in the Danish newspaper Politiken

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Kirsten Drotner @kirstendrotner.bsky.social · Dec 11
Congrats, Ranjana. Timely and topical

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Kathy Hirsh-Pasek @kathyhirshpasek.bsky.social · Dec 4
Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation has sparked widespread discussion, but are the data as solid as they seem? Top expert Candice Odgers offers a critical analysis of Haidt’s claims. Dive into their debate here: www.techdirt.com/2024/10/11/j...
Jonathan Haidt’s Claims On Kids & Tech Crumble Under Scrutiny From Top Expert, Candice Odgers
Jonathan Haidt’s incredibly well-timed decision to surf on the wave of a moral panic about kids and social media has made him a false hero for many parents and educators. In my review, I noted that…
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ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · Nov 27
Our upcoming public panel 'What is a Public Service Media Algorithm, and Why Might We Need One?' will foreground critical discussion around automation's role in the future of public service media, featuring ADM+S AI James Meese alongside industry experts from our partner organisations ABC & Google.

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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · Nov 26
Many of the most popular benchmarks for AI models are outdated or poorly designed.
The way we measure progress in AI is terrible
Many of the most popular benchmarks for AI models are outdated or poorly designed.
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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · Nov 22
100 years ago tomorrow.

New York Times, November 23, 1924: “The automobile looms up as a far more destructive piece of mechanism than the machine gun. The reckless motorist deals more death than the artilleryman. … Immediate action [is necessary] to halt the homicidal orgy of the automobile.”

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · Sep 20
From the FT the other day. I had no idea.
Creative industries are worth more than life sciences, motor manufacturing, aeropsace and oil and gas in the UK economy, says the FT

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Stine Liv Johansen @stineliv.bsky.social · Nov 18
Hello Bluesky!

Allow me to dedicate my first post here to our new book (Oct. 24), which might interest those of you engaged in children, youth, and digital media:

"Social Media Across Everyday Contexts
Digital Childhood and Youth in the Nordics"

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