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Piotr Szpunar
@pszpunar.bsky.social
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Assc. Prof. @ UAlbany | media, memory, political violence

Currently writing about environmental media, futures, landscapes

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American journalism has serious problems. But how did we get here? @bzelizer.bsky.social’s new book 📚 How the Cold War Broke the News📚 uncovers the surprising roots of journalism’s decline and offers a plan to make it better. Pre-order now: bit.ly/4mqcr68
book cover with a red background featuring four missile silhouettes. The title "HOW THE COLD WAR BROKE THE NEWS" is displayed in white capital letters at the top. Below the title is an image of a folded newspaper. The subtitle reads "The Surprising Roots of Journalism's Decline." At the bottom, the author's name "BARBIE ZELIZER" is written in white capital letters.
August 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Join us online or in person for two talks in association with the Stirling, Dep of Psychology, May 15 and June 5, 2025 - Professor Donna Rose Addis and Associate Professor Celia Harris leading researchers on memory and cognitive science.
Join Us: Memory Summer Seminars | Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory
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April 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
"... AI hype has emerged in the context of such fatigue. Promising to automate a workforce for each of us, this hype, like crypto hype before it" — and big data hype before that, and... — "reinforces a future of individualized economic power with a sexier allure than attending a town hall."
Future Fatigue: How Hype has Replaced Hope in the 21st Century | TechPolicy.Press
To resist AI hype, we must not reassert the fiction that we could “return” to a functional democracy, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
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March 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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andrewhoskins.bsky.social
We said something like this in 2009
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January 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
"In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs... To understand the dynamics around this fast-developing market, [Ithaka is] launching a tracker of these licensing deals."
Tracking the Licensing of Scholarly Content to LLMs
ITHAKA has developed a tool that tracks publisher deals to license scholarly content for use as training data by LLMs
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
December 18, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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meejatheory.bsky.social
Out now - Standard issue featuring articles by M. Beatrice Fazi, Mark B. N. Hansen, Piotr M. Szpunar, and Raymond L. M. Lee.

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December 18, 2024 at 3:27 PM
pszpunar.bsky.social
New Pub! The gist: The shape imaginaries take pivot not only on what media make clearly visible but on what they offer up for speculation at their eco-technological edges. Open Access @meejatheory.bsky.social
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Mediated Futures in Anesthetic Space: Noise, Speculation, and Lowell’s Telescope | Media Theory
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December 18, 2024 at 8:35 PM