Christoph Lutz
@lutzid.bsky.social
Professor at BI Norwegian Business School & Co-Director of the Nordic Centre for Internet & Society. Research on privacy, digital inequality, AI & emerging tech. Check out my Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KI9IybAAAAAJ&hl=en
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This is nuts. Too much money is going to specific grants about AI and STEM, and all the others need to fight for scraps.
We need more funding for social sciences and the arts immediately.
We need more funding for social sciences and the arts immediately.
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This is nuts. Too much money is going to specific grants about AI and STEM, and all the others need to fight for scraps.
We need more funding for social sciences and the arts immediately.
We need more funding for social sciences and the arts immediately.
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Our paper “The scale of artificial intelligence literacy for all (SAIL4ALL)” is out!
🎉We (@angulobrunet.bsky.social , @lutzid.bsky.social and I) present a new tool to assess AI literacy in the general adult population. Find it open at:
👉 nature.com/articles/s41...
🎉We (@angulobrunet.bsky.social , @lutzid.bsky.social and I) present a new tool to assess AI literacy in the general adult population. Find it open at:
👉 nature.com/articles/s41...
The scale of artificial intelligence literacy for all (SAIL4ALL): assessing knowledge of artificial intelligence in all adult populations - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - The scale of artificial intelligence literacy for all (SAIL4ALL): assessing knowledge of artificial intelligence in all adult populations
nature.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Our paper “The scale of artificial intelligence literacy for all (SAIL4ALL)” is out!
🎉We (@angulobrunet.bsky.social , @lutzid.bsky.social and I) present a new tool to assess AI literacy in the general adult population. Find it open at:
👉 nature.com/articles/s41...
🎉We (@angulobrunet.bsky.social , @lutzid.bsky.social and I) present a new tool to assess AI literacy in the general adult population. Find it open at:
👉 nature.com/articles/s41...
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Hoffmann, C. P., Lutz, C., & Ranzini, G. (2016). Privacy Cynicism: A new Approach to the Privacy Paradox. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 10(4), Article 7. doi.org/10.5817/CP20...
Cyberpsychology
doi.org
October 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Hoffmann, C. P., Lutz, C., & Ranzini, G. (2016). Privacy Cynicism: A new Approach to the Privacy Paradox. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 10(4), Article 7. doi.org/10.5817/CP20...
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📢 New OA article with @lutzid.bsky.social 🚨 Online politics are often criticized as performative. We examine the role of impression management in political expression on Facebook – and find some interesting relationships re. age, gender and political interest 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Blasting and posturing: How impression management contributes to inequalities in political expression on Facebook
Social media provide opportunities for political engagement. Yet, previous research has shown that political engagement on social media remains social…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
📢 New OA article with @lutzid.bsky.social 🚨 Online politics are often criticized as performative. We examine the role of impression management in political expression on Facebook – and find some interesting relationships re. age, gender and political interest 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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3 💡 conclusions from this @timeshighered.bsky.social piece based on @altmetric.com data:
1️⃣ Academic twitter is dead
2️⃣ Bluesky is the most promising alternative
3️⃣ There is a lot of underused 🦋 potential with many dormant (institutional) accounts
#academicsky
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
1️⃣ Academic twitter is dead
2️⃣ Bluesky is the most promising alternative
3️⃣ There is a lot of underused 🦋 potential with many dormant (institutional) accounts
#academicsky
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
X’s Altmetric Hegemony Ceding to Bluesky
The alternative social media platform is matching engagement of Elon Musk’s X in ways that “would have seemed unthinkable until recently,” says study.
www.insidehighered.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:43 AM
3 💡 conclusions from this @timeshighered.bsky.social piece based on @altmetric.com data:
1️⃣ Academic twitter is dead
2️⃣ Bluesky is the most promising alternative
3️⃣ There is a lot of underused 🦋 potential with many dormant (institutional) accounts
#academicsky
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
1️⃣ Academic twitter is dead
2️⃣ Bluesky is the most promising alternative
3️⃣ There is a lot of underused 🦋 potential with many dormant (institutional) accounts
#academicsky
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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1. In the editorial we introduce the special issue and the Comparative Privacy Research Framework (CPRF) as a conceptual foundation for context-sensitive #privacy research.
Editorial: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
CPRF: doi.org/10.1080/0197...
Editorial: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
CPRF: doi.org/10.1080/0197...
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August 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
1. In the editorial we introduce the special issue and the Comparative Privacy Research Framework (CPRF) as a conceptual foundation for context-sensitive #privacy research.
Editorial: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
CPRF: doi.org/10.1080/0197...
Editorial: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
CPRF: doi.org/10.1080/0197...
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New special issue, "Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy," edited by #CPRN is now published in Social Media + Society!
journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
w/ @lutzid.bsky.social, Lemi Baruh, Kelly Quinn, @masurphil.bsky.social, Carsten Wilhelm (comparativeprivacy.org)
journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
w/ @lutzid.bsky.social, Lemi Baruh, Kelly Quinn, @masurphil.bsky.social, Carsten Wilhelm (comparativeprivacy.org)
journals.sagepub.com
August 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
New special issue, "Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy," edited by #CPRN is now published in Social Media + Society!
journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
w/ @lutzid.bsky.social, Lemi Baruh, Kelly Quinn, @masurphil.bsky.social, Carsten Wilhelm (comparativeprivacy.org)
journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
w/ @lutzid.bsky.social, Lemi Baruh, Kelly Quinn, @masurphil.bsky.social, Carsten Wilhelm (comparativeprivacy.org)
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New paper!! Hermann Wigers and I used OpenAI to generate and analyse 11,800 stories "from" 236 countries: Norwegian stories, Chinese stories, American stories, etc. We found that GPT-4o-mini tells the same story over and over. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...
open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu
July 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
New paper!! Hermann Wigers and I used OpenAI to generate and analyse 11,800 stories "from" 236 countries: Norwegian stories, Chinese stories, American stories, etc. We found that GPT-4o-mini tells the same story over and over. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...
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New article on privacy protection behavior, using a large sample (3K) survey of Italians conducted in 2022. Very relevant for those who study privacy and digital inequality. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
July 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
New article on privacy protection behavior, using a large sample (3K) survey of Italians conducted in 2022. Very relevant for those who study privacy and digital inequality. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Studying short-term rental platform perceptions and use through a digital inequality lens
Frontiers
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...
Frontiers
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...
Frontiers | Studying short-term rental platform perceptions and use through a digital inequality lens
Short-term rental (STR) platforms hold promise for promoting inclusive tourism, although the digital divide risks barring certain groups from reaping these b...
www.frontiersin.org
May 28, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Studying short-term rental platform perceptions and use through a digital inequality lens
Frontiers
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...
Frontiers
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...
🤗 A. Fedosov, @aureliatamo.bsky.social E. Fosch-Villaronga, A. Čartolovni and and I recently completed our Digital Society (Springer Nature) topical collection (TC) "Privacy-friendly and trustworthy technology for society"
🔗 link.springer.com/collections/...
Short 🧵with an overview follows.
🔗 link.springer.com/collections/...
Short 🧵with an overview follows.
April 11, 2025 at 7:09 AM
🤗 A. Fedosov, @aureliatamo.bsky.social E. Fosch-Villaronga, A. Čartolovni and and I recently completed our Digital Society (Springer Nature) topical collection (TC) "Privacy-friendly and trustworthy technology for society"
🔗 link.springer.com/collections/...
Short 🧵with an overview follows.
🔗 link.springer.com/collections/...
Short 🧵with an overview follows.
📖 Our article "A technological construction of society: Comparing GPT-4 and human respondents for occupational evaluation in the UK" with P. Gmyrek and @gemmanewlands.bsky.social has been included in the March 2025 issue of the British Journal of Industrial Relations!
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/bjir...
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🔗 doi.org/10.1111/bjir...
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February 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
📖 Our article "A technological construction of society: Comparing GPT-4 and human respondents for occupational evaluation in the UK" with P. Gmyrek and @gemmanewlands.bsky.social has been included in the March 2025 issue of the British Journal of Industrial Relations!
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/bjir...
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🔗 doi.org/10.1111/bjir...
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Happy to announce the open-access volume "Voice Assistants in Private Homes. Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse", edited by Stephan Habscheid, @dagmarhoffmann.bsky.social, David Waldecker and myself. You can download it here: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
January 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Happy to announce the open-access volume "Voice Assistants in Private Homes. Media, Data and Language in Interaction and Discourse", edited by Stephan Habscheid, @dagmarhoffmann.bsky.social, David Waldecker and myself. You can download it here: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
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🎆 New Publication on comparative privacy research!
After almost 5 years, we (that is @thinkmacro.bsky.social, Kelly Quinn, Carsten Wilhelm, Lemi Baruh, @lutzid.bsky.social and myself) are proud to have published this article:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
After almost 5 years, we (that is @thinkmacro.bsky.social, Kelly Quinn, Carsten Wilhelm, Lemi Baruh, @lutzid.bsky.social and myself) are proud to have published this article:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Comparative privacy research: Literature review, framework, and research agenda
The ways in which privacy is understood, defined, perceived, and enacted are contingent on cultural, social, political, economic, and technological settings. Yet, privacy research is often criticiz...
www.tandfonline.com
January 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🎆 New Publication on comparative privacy research!
After almost 5 years, we (that is @thinkmacro.bsky.social, Kelly Quinn, Carsten Wilhelm, Lemi Baruh, @lutzid.bsky.social and myself) are proud to have published this article:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
After almost 5 years, we (that is @thinkmacro.bsky.social, Kelly Quinn, Carsten Wilhelm, Lemi Baruh, @lutzid.bsky.social and myself) are proud to have published this article:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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If you are interested in digital #privacy and resignation, this collection will be a treasure trove.
Thank you @noradraper.bsky.social, @cphoffmann.bsky.social, @lutzid.bsky.social, @giuliaranzini.bsky.social and Joe Turow for masterfully steering this venture! Proud to be part of it.
Thank you @noradraper.bsky.social, @cphoffmann.bsky.social, @lutzid.bsky.social, @giuliaranzini.bsky.social and Joe Turow for masterfully steering this venture! Proud to be part of it.
📣 We are very happy to announce that our special theme in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social on Digital Resignation and Privacy Cynicism is complete!
👇 It features 10 novel and exciting contributions on how individuals and organizations grapple with digital privacy.
journals.sagepub.com/page/bds/dig...
👇 It features 10 novel and exciting contributions on how individuals and organizations grapple with digital privacy.
journals.sagepub.com/page/bds/dig...
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January 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
If you are interested in digital #privacy and resignation, this collection will be a treasure trove.
Thank you @noradraper.bsky.social, @cphoffmann.bsky.social, @lutzid.bsky.social, @giuliaranzini.bsky.social and Joe Turow for masterfully steering this venture! Proud to be part of it.
Thank you @noradraper.bsky.social, @cphoffmann.bsky.social, @lutzid.bsky.social, @giuliaranzini.bsky.social and Joe Turow for masterfully steering this venture! Proud to be part of it.
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📣 We are very happy to announce that our special theme in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social on Digital Resignation and Privacy Cynicism is complete!
👇 It features 10 novel and exciting contributions on how individuals and organizations grapple with digital privacy.
journals.sagepub.com/page/bds/dig...
👇 It features 10 novel and exciting contributions on how individuals and organizations grapple with digital privacy.
journals.sagepub.com/page/bds/dig...
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
journals.sagepub.com
January 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
📣 We are very happy to announce that our special theme in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social on Digital Resignation and Privacy Cynicism is complete!
👇 It features 10 novel and exciting contributions on how individuals and organizations grapple with digital privacy.
journals.sagepub.com/page/bds/dig...
👇 It features 10 novel and exciting contributions on how individuals and organizations grapple with digital privacy.
journals.sagepub.com/page/bds/dig...
🎯 My newest book chapter just dropped! "Social Inequalities and Artificial Intelligence: How Digital Inequality Scholarship Enhances Our Understanding" came out recently in the wonderful Routledge volume "Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond" www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
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December 11, 2024 at 3:59 PM
🎯 My newest book chapter just dropped! "Social Inequalities and Artificial Intelligence: How Digital Inequality Scholarship Enhances Our Understanding" came out recently in the wonderful Routledge volume "Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond" www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
Short 🧵
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It’s publication day!! Thrilled that my new monograph - #Parents talking #Algorithms: Navigating #Datafication and #Family life in #Digital societies is now published. Thanks to the fab testimonial writers and to BUP! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/parenting-in...
Parents Talking Algorithms
Parents Talking Algorithms - Navigating Datafication and Family Life in Digital Societies; This book explores the intersection of parenthood and the digital age, where algorithms shape daily decisions...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
December 10, 2024 at 10:14 AM
It’s publication day!! Thrilled that my new monograph - #Parents talking #Algorithms: Navigating #Datafication and #Family life in #Digital societies is now published. Thanks to the fab testimonial writers and to BUP! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/parenting-in...
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this is going to be one of those pieces i end up citing in everything: it’s not just a digital participation gap! @minaemme et al (2018): https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JICES-02-2018-0014/full/html
November 25, 2024 at 4:25 PM
this is going to be one of those pieces i end up citing in everything: it’s not just a digital participation gap! @minaemme et al (2018): https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JICES-02-2018-0014/full/html
⏰ Only a few days left to apply! We have fully-funded 4-year PhD positions in communication in the Department of Communication and Culture, BI Norwegian Business School (Oslo, Norway)
👇 Submit your application by 1 December 2024: bi.easycruit.com/vacancy/3397...
📣 Please help spread the word!
👇 Submit your application by 1 December 2024: bi.easycruit.com/vacancy/3397...
📣 Please help spread the word!
November 26, 2024 at 8:32 AM
⏰ Only a few days left to apply! We have fully-funded 4-year PhD positions in communication in the Department of Communication and Culture, BI Norwegian Business School (Oslo, Norway)
👇 Submit your application by 1 December 2024: bi.easycruit.com/vacancy/3397...
📣 Please help spread the word!
👇 Submit your application by 1 December 2024: bi.easycruit.com/vacancy/3397...
📣 Please help spread the word!
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most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true
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November 24, 2024 at 4:26 PM
most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true
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Interested in perceptions of AI? We are hiring a PhD candidate for our new project IMAGINE, to work with @erikknudsen.bsky.social on citizen panel data. Fully funded, good working conditions and a supportive research environment in beautiful Bergen! #CommSky
PhD position in media studies - IMAGINE (270652) | University of Bergen
Job title: PhD position in media studies - IMAGINE (270652), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Tuesday, December 10, 2024
www.jobbnorge.no
November 22, 2024 at 7:40 AM
Interested in perceptions of AI? We are hiring a PhD candidate for our new project IMAGINE, to work with @erikknudsen.bsky.social on citizen panel data. Fully funded, good working conditions and a supportive research environment in beautiful Bergen! #CommSky
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In 2023, Harvard Business School suspended a star professor over charges of research misconduct.
As it happens, one of her papers also had funny data from a *different* B-school superstar -- a "mad, fraudulent unicorn,” per @jamesheathers.bsky.social... (1/3)
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
As it happens, one of her papers also had funny data from a *different* B-school superstar -- a "mad, fraudulent unicorn,” per @jamesheathers.bsky.social... (1/3)
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Fraudulent Science of Success
Business schools are in the grips of a scandal that threatens to undermine their most influential research—and the credibility of an entire field.
www.theatlantic.com
November 19, 2024 at 4:20 PM
In 2023, Harvard Business School suspended a star professor over charges of research misconduct.
As it happens, one of her papers also had funny data from a *different* B-school superstar -- a "mad, fraudulent unicorn,” per @jamesheathers.bsky.social... (1/3)
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
As it happens, one of her papers also had funny data from a *different* B-school superstar -- a "mad, fraudulent unicorn,” per @jamesheathers.bsky.social... (1/3)
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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November 20, 2024 at 9:43 AM
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Our publication '(Un)disclosed brand partnerships: How platform policies and interfaces shape commercial content for influencers' - a multidisciplinary collaboration with @laade.bsky.social & @cgoanta.bsky.social - is now available open access policyreview.info/articles/ana... ⤵️
November 18, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Our publication '(Un)disclosed brand partnerships: How platform policies and interfaces shape commercial content for influencers' - a multidisciplinary collaboration with @laade.bsky.social & @cgoanta.bsky.social - is now available open access policyreview.info/articles/ana... ⤵️