Tanja Wiehn
@postdigitanja.bsky.social
Assistant Prof @ Lund University
Interested in digital culture, platforms and (synthetic) data
Our anthology “Beyond Privacy - People, Practices, Politics” is out: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/beyond-privacy
Interested in digital culture, platforms and (synthetic) data
Our anthology “Beyond Privacy - People, Practices, Politics” is out: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/beyond-privacy
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An English translation of our book "Trigger Points. Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society" will come out @brisunipress.bsky.social: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/triggerpoints
It studies the social bases of political divides over migration, climate, diversity & redistribution
It studies the social bases of political divides over migration, climate, diversity & redistribution
Trigger Points
Trigger Points - Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Is society really polarized? This book explores key conflicts...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
An English translation of our book "Trigger Points. Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society" will come out @brisunipress.bsky.social: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/triggerpoints
It studies the social bases of political divides over migration, climate, diversity & redistribution
It studies the social bases of political divides over migration, climate, diversity & redistribution
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✨Looking so much forward to welcoming @whkchun.bsky.social at @ucph.bsky.social next week to discuss the politics of data loss w our @erc.europa.eu Data Loss project. Please feel more than welcome to join us for Chun's public lecture June 19, 14-15.30 co-organized w @mariaa.bsky.social @aicentre.dk.
June 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
✨Looking so much forward to welcoming @whkchun.bsky.social at @ucph.bsky.social next week to discuss the politics of data loss w our @erc.europa.eu Data Loss project. Please feel more than welcome to join us for Chun's public lecture June 19, 14-15.30 co-organized w @mariaa.bsky.social @aicentre.dk.
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The contributors to "Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen," edited by Neda Atanasoski & @nassimparvin.bsky.social , capture the ambivalence of new and emerging technologies that provoke a sense of creep. #CulturalStudies #CriticalEthnicStudies
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April 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The contributors to "Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen," edited by Neda Atanasoski & @nassimparvin.bsky.social , capture the ambivalence of new and emerging technologies that provoke a sense of creep. #CulturalStudies #CriticalEthnicStudies
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In the German system, the professor is
- supervisor
- employer
- examiner
of "their" PhD students.
Plus, they usually function as gatekeeper to the relevant scientific community.
What can possibly go wrong? 🤔
- supervisor
- employer
- examiner
of "their" PhD students.
Plus, they usually function as gatekeeper to the relevant scientific community.
What can possibly go wrong? 🤔
“There is far too much power in the hands of professors in the German system,” says @leising.bsky.social.
My latest @nature.com story digs into efforts to tackle the entrenched structural heirarchy that enables academic bullies.
My latest @nature.com story digs into efforts to tackle the entrenched structural heirarchy that enables academic bullies.
Can Germany rein in its academic bullying problem?
Researchers and administrators are exploring ways to restructure a rigid hierarchy that can breed power abuses.
www.nature.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
In the German system, the professor is
- supervisor
- employer
- examiner
of "their" PhD students.
Plus, they usually function as gatekeeper to the relevant scientific community.
What can possibly go wrong? 🤔
- supervisor
- employer
- examiner
of "their" PhD students.
Plus, they usually function as gatekeeper to the relevant scientific community.
What can possibly go wrong? 🤔
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I contributed some #dataloss research for this great piece by @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @richove.bsky.social in the NYT today!
The deletion of websites and other government data is a dangerous attack on knowledge, harming democracy. My colleague @nannathylstrup.bsky.social & I contribute a guest essay in @nytimes.com today: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...
Opinion | The Trump Administration’s Data Purges Weaken America
The Trump administration has started purging the government’s digital memory. Democracies die without proper archiving and public records.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I contributed some #dataloss research for this great piece by @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @richove.bsky.social in the NYT today!
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Any students interested in critical perspectives on datafication? This fall I am giving a newly minted course: "The Data-driven Society: Social, Political, and Ethical Aspects of Datafication" (3 ECTS, in English, part-time) at Lund Uni. Apply before April 15!
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April 1, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Any students interested in critical perspectives on datafication? This fall I am giving a newly minted course: "The Data-driven Society: Social, Political, and Ethical Aspects of Datafication" (3 ECTS, in English, part-time) at Lund Uni. Apply before April 15!
www.antagning.se/se/search?pe...
www.antagning.se/se/search?pe...
Uncovered: Abuse at top German science institution
The Max Planck Society is Germany's preeminent research organization, boasting 31 Nobel laureates. But insufficient oversight leaves international scientists exposed to abuse and the whims of the institutes' directors.
www.dw.com/en/abuse-eli...
The Max Planck Society is Germany's preeminent research organization, boasting 31 Nobel laureates. But insufficient oversight leaves international scientists exposed to abuse and the whims of the institutes' directors.
www.dw.com/en/abuse-eli...
Uncovered: Abuse at top German science institution – DW – 03/13/2025
The Max Planck Society is Germany's preeminent research organization, boasting 31 Nobel laureates. But insufficient oversight leaves international scientists exposed to abuse and the whims of the inst...
www.dw.com
March 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Uncovered: Abuse at top German science institution
The Max Planck Society is Germany's preeminent research organization, boasting 31 Nobel laureates. But insufficient oversight leaves international scientists exposed to abuse and the whims of the institutes' directors.
www.dw.com/en/abuse-eli...
The Max Planck Society is Germany's preeminent research organization, boasting 31 Nobel laureates. But insufficient oversight leaves international scientists exposed to abuse and the whims of the institutes' directors.
www.dw.com/en/abuse-eli...
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Sucks when people take your stuff and use it to make their stuff and don’t pay for it, eh?
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft
www.ft.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Sucks when people take your stuff and use it to make their stuff and don’t pay for it, eh?
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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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CFP: "Depression in Popular Music," an interdisciplinary conference from Jun 26-27 2025 at @sorbonne-universite.fr Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, co-organized by myself and iPLesp. Proposals due Feb 15. See CfP for details:
depressioninpopconference2025.com
depressioninpopconference2025.com
December 30, 2024 at 9:04 AM
CFP: "Depression in Popular Music," an interdisciplinary conference from Jun 26-27 2025 at @sorbonne-universite.fr Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, co-organized by myself and iPLesp. Proposals due Feb 15. See CfP for details:
depressioninpopconference2025.com
depressioninpopconference2025.com
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Da kann er noch so suffisant gucken, hier ist meine Zusammenfassung der Causa #Mischke . Mit zahlreichen Gründen dafür, warum es um mehr als nur eine problematische Personalie geht. Danke @uebermedien.de für den Stall!
uebermedien.de/101568/ein-b...
uebermedien.de/101568/ein-b...
Ein Bro für die Kultur: Die Berufung von Thilo Mischke zu „ttt“ ist ein schlimmes Signal | Übermedien
Gegen den Moderator spricht nicht nur sein Buch „In 80 Frauen um die Welt“, sondern vor allem, wie er sich seitdem über Männer und Frauen äußert.
uebermedien.de
December 24, 2024 at 10:27 AM
Da kann er noch so suffisant gucken, hier ist meine Zusammenfassung der Causa #Mischke . Mit zahlreichen Gründen dafür, warum es um mehr als nur eine problematische Personalie geht. Danke @uebermedien.de für den Stall!
uebermedien.de/101568/ein-b...
uebermedien.de/101568/ein-b...
Very glad to be part of this dialogue section on synthetic data and surveillance! Many thanks to the editors @bcnewell.bsky.social and @empo11on.bsky.social for facilitating this collection and the other authors for their wonderful contributions!
The new Dialogue on Synthetic Data/Media and Surveillance in Surveillance & Society @survstudiesnet.bsky.social includes 5 stellar pieces from @susser.bsky.social & Jeremy Seeman, Louis Ravn, Renée Ridgway & Nicolas Malevé, Tanja Wiehn, and Andrew Fitzgerald. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
Vol. 22 No. 4 (2024): Open Issue
| Surveillance & Society
ojs.library.queensu.ca
December 11, 2024 at 6:58 AM
Very glad to be part of this dialogue section on synthetic data and surveillance! Many thanks to the editors @bcnewell.bsky.social and @empo11on.bsky.social for facilitating this collection and the other authors for their wonderful contributions!
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A fabulous new issue of Surveillance & Society is out now, the last one of 2024. This open issue offers six original articles, a special Dialogue Section on the surveillance dimensions of “Synthetic Data,” and two book reviews. #surveillance #data #academicsky
ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
Vol. 22 No. 4 (2024): Open Issue
| Surveillance & Society
ojs.library.queensu.ca
December 6, 2024 at 11:31 PM
A fabulous new issue of Surveillance & Society is out now, the last one of 2024. This open issue offers six original articles, a special Dialogue Section on the surveillance dimensions of “Synthetic Data,” and two book reviews. #surveillance #data #academicsky
ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
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The Journal of Continental Philosophy has just published my latest article, “The Computational Search for Unity: Synthesis in Generative AI”.
I address the representational reality of LLMs through the philosophical concept of synthesis.
Online First PDF here:
www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
I address the representational reality of LLMs through the philosophical concept of synthesis.
Online First PDF here:
www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
November 18, 2024 at 4:32 PM
The Journal of Continental Philosophy has just published my latest article, “The Computational Search for Unity: Synthesis in Generative AI”.
I address the representational reality of LLMs through the philosophical concept of synthesis.
Online First PDF here:
www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
I address the representational reality of LLMs through the philosophical concept of synthesis.
Online First PDF here:
www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...