With John Behrens and Alexi Orchard, I co-wrote, for the latest issue of the IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, this short reflection on teaching Generative AI through a multidisciplinary framework while technological systems change continuously. doi.org/10.1109/MTS....

A couple of recent pieces:

a local newspaper op-ed and anti-trump speech:

tulsaworld.com/opinion/lett...

a piece coauthored with my dad on an unlikely moment in Rome:

www.wayfaremagazine.org/p/light-and-...

New book alert!

I'm delighted & humbled to author the foreword to /Making Media Futures: Machine Visions and Technological Imaginations/, eds. Phillip H. Roth et. al. (Routledge 2025). A brilliant, timely, & evergreen collection: check it out, from your library?

www.routledge.com/Making-Media...

Remember when social media was sometimes good, thanks to users and what they built? We do! Please check out this 'minor history' of Twttr and its community-created bots from @domcarlon.bsky.social @kkasianenko.bsky.social & me, out now in Convergence journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is an output of the @admscentre.org.au project Platform Governance Of and By Bots. In theorising, we've been inspired by work from a couple of great Bens: @bjpeters.bsky.social and @qutdmrc.bsky.social's Ben Nicoll; as well as @silvertje.bsky.social, & the praxis of @samplereality.bsky.social

Out now - Standard issue featuring articles by M. Beatrice Fazi, Mark B. N. Hansen, Piotr M. Szpunar, and Raymond L. M. Lee.

journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt

(1/2) Just learned that the Italian translation of Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet was just published earlier this month by Mimesis. I knew it was in the works but wasn't aware that it was out. Exciting! 🇮🇹 www.mimesisedizioni.it/libro/979122...

Open access & just published:

Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society. Methods and Practices for Investigation and Intervention (Amsterdam University Press 2024) www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

The United States now has:
• 45,020 reporters
• 275,550 public relations specialists

For every reporter, there are now six PR people.

(data via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

New collab volume alert:
/The Planning Moment: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories/ eds. by Blacker, Brownell, Nag, Schluender, van Beurden, & Verran
www.fordhampress.com/978153150663...
ToC: Charcoal, famine, hackathons, parasites, weeds...
My bit: computing is not computers or computation

Thrilled to hold in hand this brand new book from the inimitable Ksenia Tatarchenko:

/Soviet SCI_BERIA: The Politics of Expertise and the Novosibirsk Scientific Center/

www.bloomsbury.com/us/soviet-sc...

Perhaps blurb authors may reshare their blurbs too?

Recent publication alert:

My primer on what "abductive reasoning" means

Short version: I don't know and I doubt Peirce knew either, but this piece was a hoot to write for a new community magazine

Enjoy!

www.wayfaremagazine.org/p/from-first...

Recent open-source publication alert: Share?

/Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society/ ed Mirko Tobias Shaefer, Karin Es, and Tracey Lauriault

Delighted to have penned the afterword for this sterling volume building better collaborative data practices:

www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

RT: a new publication on prediction, statistics, and society in historical and global relief!

Rindzeviciute's /The Will to Predict/ in a roundtable conversation with Ashe, Boldryev, Tatarchenko, and me here:

networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Book:
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Our group is hiring a postdoc. Applications due Nov 22. It’s a sweetheart job, self-directed research, mentoring, great colleagues and so many opportunities to learn new things. socialmediacollective.org/2024/10/07/s...

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