Ori Schwarz
@orischwarz.bsky.social
Sociologist at BIU (culture, theory, digital society)
Author of Sociological Theory for Digital Society http://bit.ly/Dig_Sociology
Talkin about the revolution
Author of Sociological Theory for Digital Society http://bit.ly/Dig_Sociology
Talkin about the revolution
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Ori Schwarz
@orischwarz.bsky.social
· Mar 17
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Choice has been the key social technology & ideology organizing late-modern economy, culture & society. In my new paper @theoryculturesociety.org I explore how algorithmic prediction decenters choice and what cultural & political implications this transformation could have (1/4)
Choice has been the key social technology & ideology organizing late-modern economy, culture & society. In my new paper @theoryculturesociety.org I explore how algorithmic prediction decenters choice and what cultural & political implications this transformation could have (1/4)
SO important! This new paper convincingly shows that in Norway, people from different classes recognize the same occupational status hierarchy, which is often assumed but rarely tested. However, story might well be different for more conflicted/unequal societies journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
SO important! This new paper convincingly shows that in Norway, people from different classes recognize the same occupational status hierarchy, which is often assumed but rarely tested. However, story might well be different for more conflicted/unequal societies journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Sorry for being recursive, but Dan's important work on how to study the AI hype rather than reproduce it definitely deserves a hype
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🚨New article out!
𝗖𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲: 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜’𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀
What happens in the so-called AI revolutions? And what role does hype play in them?
This article proposes a methodological framework for studying AI and its hype.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/studyhype
🧵👇
🚨New article out!
𝗖𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲: 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜’𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀
What happens in the so-called AI revolutions? And what role does hype play in them?
This article proposes a methodological framework for studying AI and its hype.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/studyhype
🧵👇
July 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Sorry for being recursive, but Dan's important work on how to study the AI hype rather than reproduce it definitely deserves a hype
Demonstrating in Tel-Aviv against the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza. Using starvation as a political tool to serve ethnic cleansing is dreadful. Most people who live here, Israelis and Palestinians alike, want this nightmare to end NOW
July 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Demonstrating in Tel-Aviv against the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza. Using starvation as a political tool to serve ethnic cleansing is dreadful. Most people who live here, Israelis and Palestinians alike, want this nightmare to end NOW
Very troubling. Not as troubling as the mass starvation in Gaza, but still: our academic freedom that we've taken for granted is threatened, more threatened than at anytime I can recall. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication
As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Very troubling. Not as troubling as the mass starvation in Gaza, but still: our academic freedom that we've taken for granted is threatened, more threatened than at anytime I can recall. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Cool paper with an great title.
Across the world, boys are much more likely to overestimate their math ability than girls.
People from high SES backgrounds do the same
www.iza.org/publications...
Across the world, boys are much more likely to overestimate their math ability than girls.
People from high SES backgrounds do the same
www.iza.org/publications...
July 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Cool paper with an great title.
Across the world, boys are much more likely to overestimate their math ability than girls.
People from high SES backgrounds do the same
www.iza.org/publications...
Across the world, boys are much more likely to overestimate their math ability than girls.
People from high SES backgrounds do the same
www.iza.org/publications...
Customers in the global north don't like the accent of low-wage workers from the global south? AI “accent translation” offers itself as a quasi-solution, grotesque yet socially consequential
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
AI is transforming Indian call centers. What does it mean for workers?
To understand how AI will reshape the future of work, there are few better places to start than India’s $280 billion business process outsourcing sector.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Customers in the global north don't like the accent of low-wage workers from the global south? AI “accent translation” offers itself as a quasi-solution, grotesque yet socially consequential
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Reposted by Ori Schwarz
Re: AI & creative writing: Least-skilled students using AI after seeing a guidance video wrote better than those who didn't use it at all *and* those who used AI w/o guidance. More skilled students didn't benefit at all & their writing got worse w/ unguided AI use
www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...
www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...
Can AI Improve Creative Writing? A Small Study Investigates.
An experiment sheds light on the process of creative writing and how AI can help or hinder.
www.chronicle.com
May 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Re: AI & creative writing: Least-skilled students using AI after seeing a guidance video wrote better than those who didn't use it at all *and* those who used AI w/o guidance. More skilled students didn't benefit at all & their writing got worse w/ unguided AI use
www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...
www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...
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New video abstract: Ori Schwarz introduces the Theory, Culture & Society article 'The Post-Choice Society: Algorithmic Prediction and the Decentring of Choice'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ting...
Ori Schwarz on 'The Post-Choice Society: Algorithmic Prediction and the Decentring of Choice'
YouTube video by Theory, Culture & Society
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May 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
New video abstract: Ori Schwarz introduces the Theory, Culture & Society article 'The Post-Choice Society: Algorithmic Prediction and the Decentring of Choice'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ting...
tinyurl.com/TCS25OS
What does the decentring of choice through algorithmic prediction mean for subjectification? My new paper suggests AI interpelates a 'system-1 cognition' self, assuming our quick automatic responses are who we really are, while consciousness/reflection is mere self-deception 1/
What does the decentring of choice through algorithmic prediction mean for subjectification? My new paper suggests AI interpelates a 'system-1 cognition' self, assuming our quick automatic responses are who we really are, while consciousness/reflection is mere self-deception 1/
March 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
tinyurl.com/TCS25OS
What does the decentring of choice through algorithmic prediction mean for subjectification? My new paper suggests AI interpelates a 'system-1 cognition' self, assuming our quick automatic responses are who we really are, while consciousness/reflection is mere self-deception 1/
What does the decentring of choice through algorithmic prediction mean for subjectification? My new paper suggests AI interpelates a 'system-1 cognition' self, assuming our quick automatic responses are who we really are, while consciousness/reflection is mere self-deception 1/
710 Palestinians killed in two days, 70% of which are women and children, to buy 7 votes of extreme right Israeli MPs on the budget bills. 101 fatalities per vote (and counting). I cannot breath with these levels of cynicism
March 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
710 Palestinians killed in two days, 70% of which are women and children, to buy 7 votes of extreme right Israeli MPs on the budget bills. 101 fatalities per vote (and counting). I cannot breath with these levels of cynicism
tinyurl.com/TCS25OS
Choice has been the key social technology & ideology organizing late-modern economy, culture & society. In my new paper @theoryculturesociety.org I explore how algorithmic prediction decenters choice and what cultural & political implications this transformation could have (1/4)
Choice has been the key social technology & ideology organizing late-modern economy, culture & society. In my new paper @theoryculturesociety.org I explore how algorithmic prediction decenters choice and what cultural & political implications this transformation could have (1/4)
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March 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Choice has been the key social technology & ideology organizing late-modern economy, culture & society. In my new paper @theoryculturesociety.org I explore how algorithmic prediction decenters choice and what cultural & political implications this transformation could have (1/4)
Choice has been the key social technology & ideology organizing late-modern economy, culture & society. In my new paper @theoryculturesociety.org I explore how algorithmic prediction decenters choice and what cultural & political implications this transformation could have (1/4)
Granting & revoking civil rights based on AI evaluation of one's social media activity doesnt sound very promising for democracy. Unless of course you spell it 民主 or דמוקרטיה. Yet, as Cheney-Lippold's Jus Algoritmi paper on revoking protections shows, it's not quite new
www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...
www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...
Scoop: State Dept. to use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas"
The effort includes AI-assisted reviews of tens of thousands of student visa holders' social media accounts and marks a dramatic escalation in the U.S. government's policing of foreign nationals' cond...
www.axios.com
March 8, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Granting & revoking civil rights based on AI evaluation of one's social media activity doesnt sound very promising for democracy. Unless of course you spell it 民主 or דמוקרטיה. Yet, as Cheney-Lippold's Jus Algoritmi paper on revoking protections shows, it's not quite new
www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...
www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...
Some thoughts on Weber and the AI-coup: We all have intuition, a gut feeling based on past experiences that often hits the mark. Bureaucracy prohibited relying on intuition in governance, insisting instead on using standing promulgated rules to achieve fairness, transparency & accountability 1/5
February 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Some thoughts on Weber and the AI-coup: We all have intuition, a gut feeling based on past experiences that often hits the mark. Bureaucracy prohibited relying on intuition in governance, insisting instead on using standing promulgated rules to achieve fairness, transparency & accountability 1/5
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Must read: Anatomy of an AI Coup by @eryk.bsky.social 👇
"This coup is not taking place in the streets. (...) It's taking place cubicle by cubicle in federal agencies and in the mundane automation of bureaucracy."
www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...
@techpolicypress.bsky.social
"This coup is not taking place in the streets. (...) It's taking place cubicle by cubicle in federal agencies and in the mundane automation of bureaucracy."
www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...
@techpolicypress.bsky.social
Anatomy of an AI Coup | TechPolicy.Press
DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.
www.techpolicy.press
February 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Must read: Anatomy of an AI Coup by @eryk.bsky.social 👇
"This coup is not taking place in the streets. (...) It's taking place cubicle by cubicle in federal agencies and in the mundane automation of bureaucracy."
www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...
@techpolicypress.bsky.social
"This coup is not taking place in the streets. (...) It's taking place cubicle by cubicle in federal agencies and in the mundane automation of bureaucracy."
www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...
@techpolicypress.bsky.social
Wow. The fact that trained academics collaborate and take part in this purge is a disgrace
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Wow. The fact that trained academics collaborate and take part in this purge is a disgrace
So apparently, the Turkish translation of my book, Sociological Theory for Digital Society, is out now! Which is great news: I happened to read & enjoy quite a lot of Turkish sociology, and it seems like a thriving community. Here's the link:
www.ayrintiyayingrubu.com/kitap/dijita...
www.ayrintiyayingrubu.com/kitap/dijita...
February 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
So apparently, the Turkish translation of my book, Sociological Theory for Digital Society, is out now! Which is great news: I happened to read & enjoy quite a lot of Turkish sociology, and it seems like a thriving community. Here's the link:
www.ayrintiyayingrubu.com/kitap/dijita...
www.ayrintiyayingrubu.com/kitap/dijita...
This is the Silencing Bill that will be discussed today in the Knesset Education Committee. If the committee brings it to the next reading, faculty organizations intend to strike.
www.timesofisrael.com/arab-mks-aca...
www.timesofisrael.com/arab-mks-aca...
December 10, 2024 at 6:06 AM
This is the Silencing Bill that will be discussed today in the Knesset Education Committee. If the committee brings it to the next reading, faculty organizations intend to strike.
www.timesofisrael.com/arab-mks-aca...
www.timesofisrael.com/arab-mks-aca...
Yes, it could be worse (in Gaza Netanyahu's govt exercised scholasticide, physically destroying all 19 colleges/unis) but new bill to silence Israeli academia, forcing unis to dismiss dissident faculty for alleged 'support of terrorism' w/o criteria/legal process is frightening. We won't b silenced!
December 9, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Yes, it could be worse (in Gaza Netanyahu's govt exercised scholasticide, physically destroying all 19 colleges/unis) but new bill to silence Israeli academia, forcing unis to dismiss dissident faculty for alleged 'support of terrorism' w/o criteria/legal process is frightening. We won't b silenced!
Thanks for sharing! It's always so nice and reassuring to find out people (esp. those we appreciate) actually use our printed thoughts... Also, it's making me feel slightly less guilty for this modest contribution of mine to deforestation
I used Sociological Theory for Digital Society by @orischwarz.bsky.social for my seminar on Cultural Sociology and highly recommend it www.wiley.com/en-be/Sociol...
Sociological Theory for Digital Society: The Codes that Bind Us Together
<p>The digital revolution has not only transformed multiple aspects of social life – it also shakes sociological theory, transforming the most basic assumptions that have underlain it. In this t...
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November 27, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Thanks for sharing! It's always so nice and reassuring to find out people (esp. those we appreciate) actually use our printed thoughts... Also, it's making me feel slightly less guilty for this modest contribution of mine to deforestation
20 years ago, we witnessed mass immigration from Myspace to Facebook, resulting in classed and racialized platform differentiation. Now we witness another mass immigration wave, from X to bsky, this time resulting in *political* differentiation. Politics is now shaping network structure. But: (1/2)
November 24, 2024 at 8:42 AM
20 years ago, we witnessed mass immigration from Myspace to Facebook, resulting in classed and racialized platform differentiation. Now we witness another mass immigration wave, from X to bsky, this time resulting in *political* differentiation. Politics is now shaping network structure. But: (1/2)