Rocco Bellanova
@ikkibop.bsky.social
Research Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). PI of the ERC DATAUNION project - www.dataunion-project.eu. Views my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
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🚨 Roundtable alert! 🚨 Wed 25 June 2-3pm BST
We are delighted to announce our next roundtable on ‘Digital Sovereignty in the EU and the UK’ where our expert panel will discuss how legal frameworks, tech infrastructures and policy measures are shaping digital autonomy
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We are delighted to announce our next roundtable on ‘Digital Sovereignty in the EU and the UK’ where our expert panel will discuss how legal frameworks, tech infrastructures and policy measures are shaping digital autonomy
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June 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🚨 Roundtable alert! 🚨 Wed 25 June 2-3pm BST
We are delighted to announce our next roundtable on ‘Digital Sovereignty in the EU and the UK’ where our expert panel will discuss how legal frameworks, tech infrastructures and policy measures are shaping digital autonomy
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We are delighted to announce our next roundtable on ‘Digital Sovereignty in the EU and the UK’ where our expert panel will discuss how legal frameworks, tech infrastructures and policy measures are shaping digital autonomy
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couldn't have asked for a smarter and nicer group of humans - thanks to everyone for coming zu Zurich and sharing your work!
w/ Bernd Kasparek, Stefanie Büchner, Stefania Milan, @nannathylstrup.bsky.social, @robkitchin.bsky.social, @heimstaedt.bsky.social, Margo Boenig-Liptsin, @ikkibop.bsky.social
w/ Bernd Kasparek, Stefanie Büchner, Stefania Milan, @nannathylstrup.bsky.social, @robkitchin.bsky.social, @heimstaedt.bsky.social, Margo Boenig-Liptsin, @ikkibop.bsky.social
The CURATE team is meeting up with an amazing group of interdisciplinary scholars in Zurich for a two-day workshop to reflect on human-data interactions.
The weather and the view are on our side - and so are the draft papers 😍
The weather and the view are on our side - and so are the draft papers 😍
June 12, 2025 at 6:49 AM
couldn't have asked for a smarter and nicer group of humans - thanks to everyone for coming zu Zurich and sharing your work!
w/ Bernd Kasparek, Stefanie Büchner, Stefania Milan, @nannathylstrup.bsky.social, @robkitchin.bsky.social, @heimstaedt.bsky.social, Margo Boenig-Liptsin, @ikkibop.bsky.social
w/ Bernd Kasparek, Stefanie Büchner, Stefania Milan, @nannathylstrup.bsky.social, @robkitchin.bsky.social, @heimstaedt.bsky.social, Margo Boenig-Liptsin, @ikkibop.bsky.social
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Holy smokes! Our article is on the cover of The Lancet!!!!!!!!!! Nbd 💅
June 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Holy smokes! Our article is on the cover of The Lancet!!!!!!!!!! Nbd 💅
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We look forward to welcoming our panel of experts! @jessrmorley.bsky.social (Yale University); @kzenner.bsky.social (EU Parliament); @ikkibop.bsky.social (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); @markscott.bsky.social (Atlantic Council); Huw Roberts (Oxford Internet Institute/RUSI)
June 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
We look forward to welcoming our panel of experts! @jessrmorley.bsky.social (Yale University); @kzenner.bsky.social (EU Parliament); @ikkibop.bsky.social (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); @markscott.bsky.social (Atlantic Council); Huw Roberts (Oxford Internet Institute/RUSI)
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We have some news to share with you. 🥄
Today we took legal action to challenge our termination, filing an appeal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. We did this because we believe the elimination of 18F violated safeguards that exist to protect a nonpartisan civil service.
Today we took legal action to challenge our termination, filing an appeal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. We did this because we believe the elimination of 18F violated safeguards that exist to protect a nonpartisan civil service.
18F files legal challenge
A statement about 18F’s appeal filed with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board.
18f.org
May 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We have some news to share with you. 🥄
Today we took legal action to challenge our termination, filing an appeal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. We did this because we believe the elimination of 18F violated safeguards that exist to protect a nonpartisan civil service.
Today we took legal action to challenge our termination, filing an appeal with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. We did this because we believe the elimination of 18F violated safeguards that exist to protect a nonpartisan civil service.
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EU tech law
EU Commission issues draft guidelines on protection of children online under Digital Services Act - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
EU Commission issues draft guidelines on protection of children online under Digital Services Act - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Daily News 13 \/ 05 \/ 2025
Commission publishes draft guidelines on protection of minors online under the Digital Services Act \nToday, the Commission launched a public consultation on draft guidelines for the protection of min...
ec.europa.eu
May 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
EU tech law
EU Commission issues draft guidelines on protection of children online under Digital Services Act - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
EU Commission issues draft guidelines on protection of children online under Digital Services Act - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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Tonight Danny Snelson told me about his forthcoming book, The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats — and I am so incredibly stoked for this 💥
The Little Database
A poetics for reading the everyday objects that populate a hard drive Bespoke online archives like PennSound and Eclipse host an astounding array of “old m...
www.upress.umn.edu
May 3, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Tonight Danny Snelson told me about his forthcoming book, The Little Database: A Poetics of Media Formats — and I am so incredibly stoked for this 💥
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We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group.
aoir.org/riskyresearc...
aoir.org/riskyresearc...
May 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group.
aoir.org/riskyresearc...
aoir.org/riskyresearc...
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What a lovely Monday present ! Thanks @illinoispress.bsky.social for sending the physical copy of the very good looking Feminist Digital Humanities edited by @lmrhody.bsky.social and Susan Schreibman! The good news is that it’s also OA: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
April 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
What a lovely Monday present ! Thanks @illinoispress.bsky.social for sending the physical copy of the very good looking Feminist Digital Humanities edited by @lmrhody.bsky.social and Susan Schreibman! The good news is that it’s also OA: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
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"Any chair is useful but a very striking looking chair—something that isn’t like a usual chair—can make people perhaps more flexible in their attitudes to accept more things—to become more democratic about what a chair is. They may even become more democratic about what a person is."
April 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
"Any chair is useful but a very striking looking chair—something that isn’t like a usual chair—can make people perhaps more flexible in their attitudes to accept more things—to become more democratic about what a chair is. They may even become more democratic about what a person is."
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Today's the day! I invite close readers to see if they can find the places where I channeled the most rage into this project. It is supposed to make you uncomfortable. You are supposed to try to dismiss it as "praxis" vs. "theory" and then you are supposed to be convinced otherwise.
In Poetry's Data, @mmvty.bsky.social explores why literary studies must confront digital mediation.
Out now. Learn more about this engaging book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Out now. Learn more about this engaging book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
April 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Today's the day! I invite close readers to see if they can find the places where I channeled the most rage into this project. It is supposed to make you uncomfortable. You are supposed to try to dismiss it as "praxis" vs. "theory" and then you are supposed to be convinced otherwise.
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Divorce, death, a big move, illness: Food may not fix anything, but these lovingly prepared meals can bring some much-needed comfort and nourishment. nyti.ms/3EpVEPW
April 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Divorce, death, a big move, illness: Food may not fix anything, but these lovingly prepared meals can bring some much-needed comfort and nourishment. nyti.ms/3EpVEPW
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Just out! Open access article with @nieborg.bsky.social on "Analyzing institutional platform power" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #power #platforms #digital #bigtech Preparing the ground for our book on Platform Power!
Analyzing institutional platform power: Evolving relations of dependence in the mobile digital advertising ecosystem - David B Nieborg, Thomas Poell, 2025
This article calls for systematic analysis of the accumulation and exercise of institutional platform power in the digital economy. We examine how the relativel...
journals.sagepub.com
April 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Just out! Open access article with @nieborg.bsky.social on "Analyzing institutional platform power" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #power #platforms #digital #bigtech Preparing the ground for our book on Platform Power!
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CJEU, new cases, data protection law
Does a lapsed Catholic have a right under the GDPR to change the data in the baptism register?
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
Does a lapsed Catholic have a right under the GDPR to change the data in the baptism register?
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
April 7, 2025 at 7:58 AM
CJEU, new cases, data protection law
Does a lapsed Catholic have a right under the GDPR to change the data in the baptism register?
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
Does a lapsed Catholic have a right under the GDPR to change the data in the baptism register?
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
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Come and work with me in Brussels @crisresearch.bsky.social! I’m looking for a postdoc specialised in children’s rights and digital #criminology. Please repost& send to anyone who might be interested.
Deadline 9th of May
#digitalcriminology #surveillance
jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...
Deadline 9th of May
#digitalcriminology #surveillance
jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...
Postdoctoral Researcher Children's Rights and Online Child Sexual Abuse Investigations
Postdoctoral Researcher Children's Rights and Online Child Sexual Abuse Investigations
jobs.vub.be
April 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Come and work with me in Brussels @crisresearch.bsky.social! I’m looking for a postdoc specialised in children’s rights and digital #criminology. Please repost& send to anyone who might be interested.
Deadline 9th of May
#digitalcriminology #surveillance
jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...
Deadline 9th of May
#digitalcriminology #surveillance
jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...
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I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
March 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
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We are mourning the loss of Jonathan Sterne: author, editor, contributor, mentor, and friend.
buff.ly/HcoVX9x
buff.ly/HcoVX9x
March 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We are mourning the loss of Jonathan Sterne: author, editor, contributor, mentor, and friend.
buff.ly/HcoVX9x
buff.ly/HcoVX9x
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The politics of #dataloss ... This is the insidious violence of infrastructural erasure.
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
March 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The politics of #dataloss ... This is the insidious violence of infrastructural erasure.
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Interested in publishing a special issue with @jird-jour.bsky.social? We have now an annual call for special issues - have a look at our website for more details.
Thinking about publishing with JIRD? We have a thematically open annual Special Issue call with a deadline set for 🚨 October 30 🚨 More details on how to put together a proposal for a JIRD SI can be found here: shorturl.at/0RGlc
March 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Interested in publishing a special issue with @jird-jour.bsky.social? We have now an annual call for special issues - have a look at our website for more details.
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Great project at VUB! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘You are free again’: farewell letters of executed Belgian resistance fighters found, 80 years on
Last words shed new light on the lives and deaths of the ‘ordinary people’ who stood up to Nazi regime
www.theguardian.com
March 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Great project at VUB! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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TechCrunch writes that OpenAI will charge $20,000 a month for access to an AI agent that can do “PhD level research”. Maybe all the PhDs and postdocs recently fired by DOGE should band together and sell their services as “AI agents” - apparently some people will pay more for robots than people.
March 6, 2025 at 6:17 AM
TechCrunch writes that OpenAI will charge $20,000 a month for access to an AI agent that can do “PhD level research”. Maybe all the PhDs and postdocs recently fired by DOGE should band together and sell their services as “AI agents” - apparently some people will pay more for robots than people.
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BREAKING: We're sending an open letter to universities across the country, offering support and urging them to reject pressure to punish international students and faculty for exercising their First Amendment rights.
Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.
Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.
March 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
BREAKING: We're sending an open letter to universities across the country, offering support and urging them to reject pressure to punish international students and faculty for exercising their First Amendment rights.
Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.
Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.
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De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology now published as open access. I've written a short essay on #facialrecognition exploring how FRT structures & alters suspicion. The book is worth reading for the great range of essays in this developing area of criminology
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology
The De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology examines how digital devices spread and cut across all fields of crime and control. Providing a glossary of key theoretical, methodological and criminolo...
www.degruyter.com
March 5, 2025 at 7:23 AM
De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology now published as open access. I've written a short essay on #facialrecognition exploring how FRT structures & alters suspicion. The book is worth reading for the great range of essays in this developing area of criminology
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
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🚨🚨 #Greenland: “We strongly support your right to determine your own future,” Trump tells Greenlanders — before vowing he’ll “try and get” the territory ‘one way or the other. Trump's respect for a any state's or region's self-determination only goes so far... 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/us-w...
www.politico.eu/article/us-w...
US will take Greenland ‘one way or the other,’ Trump says
“We strongly support your right to determine your own future,” Trump tells Greenlanders — before vowing he’ll “try and get” the territory.
www.politico.eu
March 5, 2025 at 7:35 AM
🚨🚨 #Greenland: “We strongly support your right to determine your own future,” Trump tells Greenlanders — before vowing he’ll “try and get” the territory ‘one way or the other. Trump's respect for a any state's or region's self-determination only goes so far... 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/us-w...
www.politico.eu/article/us-w...