@rasmuskleis.bsky.social
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ONLINE FIRST! This article by @antoniskalog.bsky.social, @richardfletcher.bsky.social, and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social compares inequalities in #news use in traditional offline and #online news #media environments over time among #internet users in six countries.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Inequalities in Offline and Online News Media Environments Across Six Countries: The Role of Social Class and Interest in News
In this article, we present a comparative analysis of inequalities in online and offline news media systems across a strategic sample of six countries. Using survey data from 10 annual Digital News...
www.tandfonline.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:45 AM
ONLINE FIRST! This article by @antoniskalog.bsky.social, @richardfletcher.bsky.social, and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social compares inequalities in #news use in traditional offline and #online news #media environments over time among #internet users in six countries.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The digital news media environment does not only reproduce old class structures. It reinforces them
That is the key finding in new paper led by @antoniskalog.bsky.social analyzing social inequalities in offline and online news use across 6 countries over 10 years www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
That is the key finding in new paper led by @antoniskalog.bsky.social analyzing social inequalities in offline and online news use across 6 countries over 10 years www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 8, 2026 at 2:05 PM
The digital news media environment does not only reproduce old class structures. It reinforces them
That is the key finding in new paper led by @antoniskalog.bsky.social analyzing social inequalities in offline and online news use across 6 countries over 10 years www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
That is the key finding in new paper led by @antoniskalog.bsky.social analyzing social inequalities in offline and online news use across 6 countries over 10 years www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"What do you do in a world where the technology never centers you, the platforms never pay you, and there is no guarantee of visibility? Many newsrooms in the Global Majority have been living in this world for years" @jaemark.co writes, others could learn from them. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/as-a...
As AI sharpens media’s class divide, lessons from the global majority
"Perhaps it's time to look to organizations that have long been working at the margins as operating models in a more constrained future."
www.niemanlab.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
"What do you do in a world where the technology never centers you, the platforms never pay you, and there is no guarantee of visibility? Many newsrooms in the Global Majority have been living in this world for years" @jaemark.co writes, others could learn from them. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/as-a...
“Users don't want more control over their own experience. [They] want to have control over the experience of others [so] no matter how much content moderation I offer, and customize, and add different layers to, they're unlikely to be satisfied.”
Sharp observation from @aaron.bsky.team #PlatGovNet
Sharp observation from @aaron.bsky.team #PlatGovNet
December 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
“Users don't want more control over their own experience. [They] want to have control over the experience of others [so] no matter how much content moderation I offer, and customize, and add different layers to, they're unlikely to be satisfied.”
Sharp observation from @aaron.bsky.team #PlatGovNet
Sharp observation from @aaron.bsky.team #PlatGovNet
New report out on use of and perception of generative AI in Denmark, documenting rapid growth in use, more optimism than pessimism, but very differentiated expectations across different sector - with reservations about AI use by public authorities, media, politicians caisa.dk/forskning/ge...
December 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
New report out on use of and perception of generative AI in Denmark, documenting rapid growth in use, more optimism than pessimism, but very differentiated expectations across different sector - with reservations about AI use by public authorities, media, politicians caisa.dk/forskning/ge...
“Over-moderation [by platforms designated under the DSA] may negatively affect civic discourse and create risks of negative effects on the fundamental right to freedom of expression and information.”
That’s not a quote from J.D. Vance or Elon Musk. It is a quote from an EU report 1/5
That’s not a quote from J.D. Vance or Elon Musk. It is a quote from an EU report 1/5
December 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
“Over-moderation [by platforms designated under the DSA] may negatively affect civic discourse and create risks of negative effects on the fundamental right to freedom of expression and information.”
That’s not a quote from J.D. Vance or Elon Musk. It is a quote from an EU report 1/5
That’s not a quote from J.D. Vance or Elon Musk. It is a quote from an EU report 1/5
Content moderation may be basically “unsolvable from a centralized standpoint, because there's no agreement on what is the problem for which [it] would be the solution. The way we deal with this at Reddit is by devolving the authority to take down content to the users”. Jessica Ashooh/PlatGovNet2025
December 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Content moderation may be basically “unsolvable from a centralized standpoint, because there's no agreement on what is the problem for which [it] would be the solution. The way we deal with this at Reddit is by devolving the authority to take down content to the users”. Jessica Ashooh/PlatGovNet2025
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Anyone interested in platform & AI governance check out the third annual PlatGov conference Mon/Tue - all online, free & truly global 🌍🌎🌏⌨️💽🤓
Here’s the program:
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Here’s the program:
platgov.net/assets/site/...
platgov.net
November 30, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Anyone interested in platform & AI governance check out the third annual PlatGov conference Mon/Tue - all online, free & truly global 🌍🌎🌏⌨️💽🤓
Here’s the program:
platgov.net/assets/site/...
Here’s the program:
platgov.net/assets/site/...
This Thanksgiving, professionally, I’m thankful for the opportunity to join the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at @harvard.edu as a Faculty Affiliate shorensteincenter.org/person/rasmu...
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen - The Shorenstein Center
shorensteincenter.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This Thanksgiving, professionally, I’m thankful for the opportunity to join the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at @harvard.edu as a Faculty Affiliate shorensteincenter.org/person/rasmu...
One week till we kick off PlatGovNet 2025, with civil society, industry leaders, practitioners, and scores of researchers coming together to discuss platform governance. Proud that @ucph.bsky.social can help host this online conference.
Register here to join us: ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register here to join us: ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
One week till we kick off PlatGovNet 2025, with civil society, industry leaders, practitioners, and scores of researchers coming together to discuss platform governance. Proud that @ucph.bsky.social can help host this online conference.
Register here to join us: ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register here to join us: ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Yesterday, a "Digital Sovereignty Summit" in Berlin that Markus Beckedahl described as "largely a farce" and where Bruna Martins dos Santos described a "feeling [of] utter disappointment" in civil society. 1/4
November 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Yesterday, a "Digital Sovereignty Summit" in Berlin that Markus Beckedahl described as "largely a farce" and where Bruna Martins dos Santos described a "feeling [of] utter disappointment" in civil society. 1/4
Interested in platform governance, a defining issue of our time?
Dec 1-2, PlatGovNet is hosting its 2025 online conference. 60+ presentations, conversations with civil society, Reddit, Bluesky. It is free to attend.
Program platgov.net/assets/site/...
Registration ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Dec 1-2, PlatGovNet is hosting its 2025 online conference. 60+ presentations, conversations with civil society, Reddit, Bluesky. It is free to attend.
Program platgov.net/assets/site/...
Registration ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
platgov.net
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Interested in platform governance, a defining issue of our time?
Dec 1-2, PlatGovNet is hosting its 2025 online conference. 60+ presentations, conversations with civil society, Reddit, Bluesky. It is free to attend.
Program platgov.net/assets/site/...
Registration ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Dec 1-2, PlatGovNet is hosting its 2025 online conference. 60+ presentations, conversations with civil society, Reddit, Bluesky. It is free to attend.
Program platgov.net/assets/site/...
Registration ucph-ku.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
"These are all sensible, incremental proposals. [But] if public authorities really want to act they need to commit significant funding. It’s not clear the Democracy Shield represents a real qualitative jump in terms of money". Spoke with RTE about the EU's Democracy Shield www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
EU Democracy Shield: the slings, arrows of disinformation
Officials say the Democracy Shield is designed to support frontline accession countries but also to galvanise European societies into recognising the threat posed to democracies, writes Tony Connelly.
www.rte.ie
November 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
"These are all sensible, incremental proposals. [But] if public authorities really want to act they need to commit significant funding. It’s not clear the Democracy Shield represents a real qualitative jump in terms of money". Spoke with RTE about the EU's Democracy Shield www.rte.ie/news/2025/11...
“I have always felt it was important to take research out of academic journals and into the public sphere, to share with people what research has to offer, how it can help them make their own choices”.
Wonderful lecture from Sun Sun Lim as she accepts her honorary professorship at U of Copenhagen.
Wonderful lecture from Sun Sun Lim as she accepts her honorary professorship at U of Copenhagen.
November 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
“I have always felt it was important to take research out of academic journals and into the public sphere, to share with people what research has to offer, how it can help them make their own choices”.
Wonderful lecture from Sun Sun Lim as she accepts her honorary professorship at U of Copenhagen.
Wonderful lecture from Sun Sun Lim as she accepts her honorary professorship at U of Copenhagen.
What should be distributed to who, how, on what basis, why, and so what?
These are six basic questions that must be answered if news is to receive public subsidies.
In this piece for @reutersinstitute.bsky.social I outline a possible approach
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/taxes-n... 1/2
These are six basic questions that must be answered if news is to receive public subsidies.
In this piece for @reutersinstitute.bsky.social I outline a possible approach
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/taxes-n... 1/2
From taxes to news: How Denmark is rethinking public funding for private publishers
The Nordic country is creating a model to decide which outlets should receive subsidies, how and on what basis. Rasmus Nielsen explains how it could work.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
What should be distributed to who, how, on what basis, why, and so what?
These are six basic questions that must be answered if news is to receive public subsidies.
In this piece for @reutersinstitute.bsky.social I outline a possible approach
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/taxes-n... 1/2
These are six basic questions that must be answered if news is to receive public subsidies.
In this piece for @reutersinstitute.bsky.social I outline a possible approach
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/taxes-n... 1/2
"Europe is preparing to roll back parts of its landmark digital rules, long seen as global benchmarks for privacy and AI" @ramshajahangir.bsky.social writes, as EU Commission prepares to unveil the “Digital Omnibus” which could reshape GDPR, AI Act, and more. 1/4 www.techpolicy.press/eu-set-the-g...
EU Set the Global Standard on Privacy and AI. Now It’s Pulling Back | TechPolicy.Press
The draft Digital Omnibus could weaken core data protections and give tech companies more leeway in using European data, reports Ramsha Jahangir.
www.techpolicy.press
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM
"Europe is preparing to roll back parts of its landmark digital rules, long seen as global benchmarks for privacy and AI" @ramshajahangir.bsky.social writes, as EU Commission prepares to unveil the “Digital Omnibus” which could reshape GDPR, AI Act, and more. 1/4 www.techpolicy.press/eu-set-the-g...
"Conversations about “internet sovereignty” should not mistakenly assume that the exercise of sovereign state power over corporations will necessarily translate into greater agency for its people", @prateekwaghre.com writes www.techpolicy.press/indias-searc...
India’s Search for Digital Sovereignty | TechPolicy.Press
Prateek Waghre discusses India’s push for tech sovereignty amid volatile US ties, digital dependence, and global shifts in trade.
www.techpolicy.press
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
"Conversations about “internet sovereignty” should not mistakenly assume that the exercise of sovereign state power over corporations will necessarily translate into greater agency for its people", @prateekwaghre.com writes www.techpolicy.press/indias-searc...
Apropos...
1) For all its challenges the BBC is the single most widely used source of news in the UK and is highly and broadly trusted across much of the political spectrum,. See e.g. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism research here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/bbc-und... 1/3
1) For all its challenges the BBC is the single most widely used source of news in the UK and is highly and broadly trusted across much of the political spectrum,. See e.g. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism research here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/bbc-und... 1/3
The BBC is under scrutiny. Here’s what research tells about its role in the UK
The BBC is the most widely used source of news in the UK. It has lower reach among the young and the less formally educated.
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Apropos...
1) For all its challenges the BBC is the single most widely used source of news in the UK and is highly and broadly trusted across much of the political spectrum,. See e.g. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism research here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/bbc-und... 1/3
1) For all its challenges the BBC is the single most widely used source of news in the UK and is highly and broadly trusted across much of the political spectrum,. See e.g. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism research here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/bbc-und... 1/3
A striking feature of Mamdani's victory is that a democratic socialist whole-heartedly campaigned on arch-capitalist social media platforms, and clearly felt better able to convey what he stood for and wanted via them than by engaging with news media politiken.dk/kultur/medie... 1/3
Det centrale er ikke, at han vandt, men hvordan han vandt
Medier | Følg med i Politikens dækning af medier og mediebranchen. Fra de store morgenaviser, radio og tv til the dark web, ai og de nyeste sociale medier.
politiken.dk
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
A striking feature of Mamdani's victory is that a democratic socialist whole-heartedly campaigned on arch-capitalist social media platforms, and clearly felt better able to convey what he stood for and wanted via them than by engaging with news media politiken.dk/kultur/medie... 1/3
As COP30 gets underway, a good time to read @waqasejaz.bsky.social & co on how mainstream news use is associated with stronger pro-climate behavioural intent across eight countries covered in their study (Brazil, France, Germany, India, Japan, Pakistan, UK, US) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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November 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
As COP30 gets underway, a good time to read @waqasejaz.bsky.social & co on how mainstream news use is associated with stronger pro-climate behavioural intent across eight countries covered in their study (Brazil, France, Germany, India, Japan, Pakistan, UK, US) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Maybe people sometimes enjoy synthetic things? “As the entertainment magazine recently pointed out, at least one AI or AI-assisted artist has charted in each of the past four weeks, a “streak suggesting this trend is quickly accelerating.” futurism.com/future-socie...
Billboard Says at Least One AI-Generated "Artist" Is Charting Every Week Now
At least one AI artist has charted on Billboard in each of the past four weeks, a "streak suggesting this trend is quickly accelerating."
futurism.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Maybe people sometimes enjoy synthetic things? “As the entertainment magazine recently pointed out, at least one AI or AI-assisted artist has charted in each of the past four weeks, a “streak suggesting this trend is quickly accelerating.” futurism.com/future-socie...
What if people appreciate having an abundance of content and communication, more than they feel overloaded by it?
@annisch.bsky.social et al decided to have a look. Their results? "We found that appreciation for abundance was about twice as common as overload".
Paper: journalqd.org/article/view...
@annisch.bsky.social et al decided to have a look. Their results? "We found that appreciation for abundance was about twice as common as overload".
Paper: journalqd.org/article/view...
October 31, 2025 at 9:33 AM
What if people appreciate having an abundance of content and communication, more than they feel overloaded by it?
@annisch.bsky.social et al decided to have a look. Their results? "We found that appreciation for abundance was about twice as common as overload".
Paper: journalqd.org/article/view...
@annisch.bsky.social et al decided to have a look. Their results? "We found that appreciation for abundance was about twice as common as overload".
Paper: journalqd.org/article/view...
’Mediestøtte for borgerne – demokratisering, fremtidssikring, og forenkling’
The report from the Commission on the Future of Media Subsidies that I have chaired in Denmark is now out kum.dk/fileadmin/_k...
In near future I'll write a bit about this in English too - stay tuned!
The report from the Commission on the Future of Media Subsidies that I have chaired in Denmark is now out kum.dk/fileadmin/_k...
In near future I'll write a bit about this in English too - stay tuned!
October 29, 2025 at 5:39 AM
’Mediestøtte for borgerne – demokratisering, fremtidssikring, og forenkling’
The report from the Commission on the Future of Media Subsidies that I have chaired in Denmark is now out kum.dk/fileadmin/_k...
In near future I'll write a bit about this in English too - stay tuned!
The report from the Commission on the Future of Media Subsidies that I have chaired in Denmark is now out kum.dk/fileadmin/_k...
In near future I'll write a bit about this in English too - stay tuned!
What kinds of creators work on news and around news?
Many defy categorisation, but, on the basis of open survey responses, Nic Newman & co have developed an audience-based typology of news-creators and news-adjacent creators
Read the report here reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news-creator...
Many defy categorisation, but, on the basis of open survey responses, Nic Newman & co have developed an audience-based typology of news-creators and news-adjacent creators
Read the report here reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news-creator...
October 28, 2025 at 9:33 AM
What kinds of creators work on news and around news?
Many defy categorisation, but, on the basis of open survey responses, Nic Newman & co have developed an audience-based typology of news-creators and news-adjacent creators
Read the report here reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news-creator...
Many defy categorisation, but, on the basis of open survey responses, Nic Newman & co have developed an audience-based typology of news-creators and news-adjacent creators
Read the report here reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news-creator...
How direct, at risk of producing shocking, offensive, disturbing content, are different AI chatbots?
Read review of major AI chatbots by @jordicalbad.bsky.social & co here, documenting range from very blunt to "softly moderated" bots like Alibaba's and DeepSeek futurefreespeech.org/wp-content/u...
Read review of major AI chatbots by @jordicalbad.bsky.social & co here, documenting range from very blunt to "softly moderated" bots like Alibaba's and DeepSeek futurefreespeech.org/wp-content/u...
futurefreespeech.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
How direct, at risk of producing shocking, offensive, disturbing content, are different AI chatbots?
Read review of major AI chatbots by @jordicalbad.bsky.social & co here, documenting range from very blunt to "softly moderated" bots like Alibaba's and DeepSeek futurefreespeech.org/wp-content/u...
Read review of major AI chatbots by @jordicalbad.bsky.social & co here, documenting range from very blunt to "softly moderated" bots like Alibaba's and DeepSeek futurefreespeech.org/wp-content/u...