Government Communication on Social Media:

Research Foci, Domains, and Future Directions

www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...

📢✨ New OA book out now with Amsterdam University Press: Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values, edited by José van Dijck, @kfvanes.bsky.social, @silvertje.bsky.social, & @fvandervlist.bsky.social. Access: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Super useful for qualitative/humanities scholars writing for audiences who are more quantitative - ways to respond to reviewers who don’t quite get your methods. I’m bookmarking for our PhD students (and myself)

Special issue call on "Post-Platform Education"

If "Big Tech is asserting control over the material infrastructures, discursive framings, & economic logics undergirding educational digitalization," then how can we "reimagine digital education ecosystems"? think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Important research on the use of algorithms for profiling by the Swedish Social Insurance authority #forsakringkassan.
My contribution to this effort was reported by Svenska Dagbladet: www.svd.se/a/QMPexQ/fn-...

www.linkedin.com/posts/vdignu...

📣 2-years postdoctoral position in the study of digital interfaces of mobilization and participation in the INTERFACED project at the Department of Communication - University of Copenhagen 👉🏽 employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

Join our friendly and supportive research environment in Bergen, Norway, to research perceptions of AI in media. Please tell students looking for a fully funded PhD with salary and good conditions!

#CommSky

New folks, read below so you know where you're setting up camp. FWIW, I wouldn't *not* bet on the users...but nor will I be deleting my Mastodon account anytime soon

I feel so proud to announce that my first book - The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life - will be published in March 2025, by @ucpress.bsky.social 🫶🏼

AI is unlikely to be as transformative in education as many edtech, big tech, and investment companies hope. Because they have no understanding of the history of tech being oversold and underused in schools. But it's still a huge problem for education right now. A long post and a tl;dr thread:

Are you enjoying your in between days of drifting but are starting to get a bit bored? Perfect state for reading an accessible article on the role of Swedish welfare service centers for the digitalization ideology varsågod journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"even the AI experts are struggling with a dizzying feeling that for all the talk of its transformative potential, so much about this technology is veiled in secrecy" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/10/ai-technology-secrecy-transparency-index/675699/

We absolutely cannot wait to host #AoIR2024 next year in beautiful, green Sheffield 🍃🍁🌱 we’re so proud to be your hosts and can’t wait to show you around. We want to express our tremendous thanks to AoIR folks for their guidance so far, and to our local team. See you in 2024! 🇬🇧