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Thomas Hillman
@thomashillman.bsky.social
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Professor of Applied IT for Education. Researching platforms, data, AI, & epistemic change at University of Gothenburg. https://www.credtech.se
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olofsundin.bsky.social
Är du lärare i sve/sva eller SO-ämnen (7-9, gy), eller skolbibliotekarie, som vill bidra med en timme av din tid per termin till ett forskningsprojekt om informationssökning och AI? I så fall söker vi dig, oavsett var du bor i landet. Mer information finns i bifogad fil. Dela gärna vidare!
October 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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lmt-journal.bsky.social
🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪

In this paper @chrilo.bsky.social, @rensfeldt.bsky.social & @thomashillman.bsky.social examine how highly platformized classroom activities give rise to what the authors call platform bureaucratization.

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Platform bureaucratization as pedagogy in highly platformized classrooms by Christina Löfving , Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt and Thomas Hillman ABSTRACT This article examines the rise of platform bureaucratization in highly digitalized classrooms. Drawing on an ethnographic study in a Swedish lower secondary school, we examine how teachers and students navigate digital platforms, integrated into routine classroom activities such as attendance management, assignment submission, and plagiarism detection, giving rise to bureaucratic forms of teaching and learning. Employing Sefton-Green’s concepts of textualization, templatization, and trainability, we explore how platforms impose rule-bound, procedural logics onto educational practices. Our findings suggest that these platform-driven bureaucratic processes, although seemingly mundane, reconfigure teacher-student interactions, redistribute pedagogical authority, and introduce complex layers of administrative work into everyday schooling. The article highlights the critical role of teacher knowledge in navigating, interpreting, and occasionally resisting platform-driven standardization, emphasizing the need for educational approaches that critically engage with the political and normative dimensions of platform infrastructures. By conceptualizing platform bureaucratization as pedagogy, the study contributes to discussions on the implications of educational platformization, calling for pedagogies that equip teachers and students to navigate and shape these evolving digital bureaucratic landscapes critically.
October 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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lmt-journal.bsky.social
In their analysis of Stack Overflow threads Seredko, @thomashillman.bsky.social & Lundin illustrate how epistemic objects are locally produced as sociomaterial accomplishments and are intertwined with the broader material context of a professional domain.

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Collectively produced epistemic objects and their necessary incompleteness for professional learning on a large-scale online platform ABSTRACT This article presents a theoretical approach to examining professional knowledge practices on online platforms, employing the concept of epistemic objects and their incompleteness, and analysing how objects are actively produced and negotiated through interactions among users and the platform. We illustrate this approach by conducting an interaction analysis of two threads from Stack Overflow, a prominent online platform where millions of software developers ask and answer programming-related questions. The findings demonstrate that the incompleteness of epistemic objects is central to understanding how professionals collectively engage with and produce knowledge online. They also highlight the role of specific technical features of platforms and the embeddedness of objects – and, thereby, the platforms themselves – in the broader professional domain. The article discusses the potential of the theoretical approach for investigating online platforms as sites for professional learning and calls for educational programs and platform designs that support professionals’ engagements with epistemic objects.
April 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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alexortegren.bsky.social
🔊 Submissions open for the 7th NordicSTS conference June 11-13, 2025. Many interesting panels, e.g. "Critical Education and Technology Studies" organized by @rensfeldt.bsky.social, @thomashillman.bsky.social et al. Deadline for abstracts: March 1. CfA here: www.nordicsts.se/call-for-abs...
Call for Abstracts – 7th Nordic STS Conference 2025
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January 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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hcai.bsky.social
🚀 What role does #AI play in amplifying and augmenting human abilities? @nelmqvist.bsky.social joins the #HCAI Podcast to discuss the intersection of data visualization, #HCI, and AI tools that empower, not replace, us.
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HCAI Podcast Episode 11 - Ubiquitous HCAI with Niklas Elmqvist | Human-centered AI @ GU
In this episode, we discuss the evolving intersection of human-computer interaction and AI with Niklas Elmqvist, a professor at Aarhus University and expert in data visualization. Niklas shares his in...
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November 22, 2024 at 9:46 AM
thomashillman.bsky.social
Marie Utterberg Modén talking about a method I like a lot: ’Provotypes’ (provocative prototypes) to engage teachers in thinking about what they want AI in the classroom to be #wasphs #wasp-hs
November 20, 2024 at 8:31 AM
thomashillman.bsky.social
Struck by @coeckelbergh.bsky.social ’s argument that AI means less shared experience & authoritarianism. Control over information and therefore perspectives is necessary for totalitarianism and I wonder how we prioritize ’shared experience’ without ending up there by accident? #wasphs #wasp-hs
November 19, 2024 at 12:55 PM
thomashillman.bsky.social
Coeckelbergh’s historicization of authoritarian tendencies through technology is helpful for thinking through where we might end up with AI #wasp-hs
November 19, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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hcai.bsky.social
The fifth episode of the #HumanCenteredArtificialIntelligence podcast is now available. In this episode, we talk about anthropomorphising #artificialintelligence with Jonas Ivarsson hcai.se/podcast/24-0...
HCAI Podcast Episode 5 - Anthropomorphising AI with Jonas Ivarsson | Human-centered AI @ GU
The fourth episode of the HCAI podcast in which we talk about how artificial intelligence agents are anthropomorphised with Jonas Ivarsson.
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March 27, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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neilselwyn.bsky.social
Why did Twitter so quickly fall apart as a site for scholarship? Why is Bluesky not providing academics with a similar social buzz? How can researchers use Chat GPT as a genuinely useful interlocutor? Listen to this *really* interesting conversation with Mark Carrigan: soundcloud.com/eetheducatio...
March 13, 2024 at 11:20 AM