Alessandro Gandini
@afrontiercity.bsky.social
“Your favorite sociologist’s favorite sociologist” (cit). Researching platforms, work, digital cultures & methods @ University of Milan. PI of @ercresearch.bsky.social funded "CRAFTWORK" - https://craftwork.unimi.it/
We discuss their decisive role in determining which issues of public interest gain salience and which news sources and interpretations are selected and amplified, and question the issues at stake. A few years in the making, but seems to be still quite relevant (for all the wrong reasons!).
March 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
We discuss their decisive role in determining which issues of public interest gain salience and which news sources and interpretations are selected and amplified, and question the issues at stake. A few years in the making, but seems to be still quite relevant (for all the wrong reasons!).
Bravo to Silvia Keeling and @urbanz.bsky.social for their decisive work in carrying the ball over the line! We propose a comprehensive theoretical framework that captures how social media algorithms shape, facilitate, or obstruct public opinion formation as a process and as a product.
March 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Bravo to Silvia Keeling and @urbanz.bsky.social for their decisive work in carrying the ball over the line! We propose a comprehensive theoretical framework that captures how social media algorithms shape, facilitate, or obstruct public opinion formation as a process and as a product.
Thank you for having me! It was fun!
March 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Thank you for having me! It was fun!
We suggest that the pandemic has newly put under question the (Western) conception of enjoying and deriving meaning from one’s work, based on the neoliberal ideal of self-realisation, and show how this online forum has been able to aggregate a set of conversations aiming at «resisting work». Enjoy!
January 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM
We suggest that the pandemic has newly put under question the (Western) conception of enjoying and deriving meaning from one’s work, based on the neoliberal ideal of self-realisation, and show how this online forum has been able to aggregate a set of conversations aiming at «resisting work». Enjoy!
We qualitatively analyse the top 100 posts (which obtained the most upvotes) that appeared on the reddit.com/r/antiwork subreddit between March 2021 and March 2022, and develop a thematic categorisation of those posts based on the interplay of personal experiences and cultural conceptions of work.
January 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM
We qualitatively analyse the top 100 posts (which obtained the most upvotes) that appeared on the reddit.com/r/antiwork subreddit between March 2021 and March 2022, and develop a thematic categorisation of those posts based on the interplay of personal experiences and cultural conceptions of work.