Michael Klontzas
@michaelklontzas.bsky.social
@MichaelKlontzas@mastodon.social
Goldsmiths, University of London. Researching media/comms policy, #mediatechnology, #PSM. Views are mine. Managing Editor of the Journal of Digital Media and Policy #JDMPJournal. Reposting, following ≠ endorsement.
Goldsmiths, University of London. Researching media/comms policy, #mediatechnology, #PSM. Views are mine. Managing Editor of the Journal of Digital Media and Policy #JDMPJournal. Reposting, following ≠ endorsement.
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@38degrees.bsky.social have released a public survey about the future of the BBC. The more responses the better. form.eu.typeform.com/to/m7Vde5zv @
A few quick questions
I just made my voice heard with 38 Degrees. Click here to have your say too.
form.eu.typeform.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
@38degrees.bsky.social have released a public survey about the future of the BBC. The more responses the better. form.eu.typeform.com/to/m7Vde5zv @
Preaching to the choir perhaps, but some perspective at last thanks to Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/10/16/p...
Pluralistic: The AI that we’ll have after AI (16 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
October 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Preaching to the choir perhaps, but some perspective at last thanks to Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/10/16/p...
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Gaza doesn't have an army
Gaza doesn't have a navy
Gaza doesn't have an airforce
Gaza doesn't have drones
Gaza doesn't have quadcopters
Gaza doesn't have a dome
Gaza doesn't have shelters
Gaza doesn't have food electricity fuel
Gaza doesn't have military state backing
IT'S NOT A WAR
IT'S GENOCIDE
Gaza doesn't have a navy
Gaza doesn't have an airforce
Gaza doesn't have drones
Gaza doesn't have quadcopters
Gaza doesn't have a dome
Gaza doesn't have shelters
Gaza doesn't have food electricity fuel
Gaza doesn't have military state backing
IT'S NOT A WAR
IT'S GENOCIDE
What Israel is doing to Gaza is abhorrent.
Anyone who defends it and still say they "Stand by Israel" is evil.
Including Starmer and this 'Labour' government.
It's not war it's GENOCIDE.
Anyone who defends it and still say they "Stand by Israel" is evil.
Including Starmer and this 'Labour' government.
It's not war it's GENOCIDE.
July 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Gaza doesn't have an army
Gaza doesn't have a navy
Gaza doesn't have an airforce
Gaza doesn't have drones
Gaza doesn't have quadcopters
Gaza doesn't have a dome
Gaza doesn't have shelters
Gaza doesn't have food electricity fuel
Gaza doesn't have military state backing
IT'S NOT A WAR
IT'S GENOCIDE
Gaza doesn't have a navy
Gaza doesn't have an airforce
Gaza doesn't have drones
Gaza doesn't have quadcopters
Gaza doesn't have a dome
Gaza doesn't have shelters
Gaza doesn't have food electricity fuel
Gaza doesn't have military state backing
IT'S NOT A WAR
IT'S GENOCIDE
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An illegally occupying army builds a concentration camp for every man, woman and child of an occupied land and decrees that those who will not be voluntarily interned in that camp will be ELIMINATED. Is there a more accurate definition of GENOCIDE?
July 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
An illegally occupying army builds a concentration camp for every man, woman and child of an occupied land and decrees that those who will not be voluntarily interned in that camp will be ELIMINATED. Is there a more accurate definition of GENOCIDE?
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
We can vote for our favourite #Eurovision songs 20 times in the final and more in the two semis at 15p a vote. PSB is really in funding crisis. Winter Eurovision next.
May 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We can vote for our favourite #Eurovision songs 20 times in the final and more in the two semis at 15p a vote. PSB is really in funding crisis. Winter Eurovision next.
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New open access books published in 2025 in my book series Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies: Des Freedman & @michaelklontzas.bsky.social (Eds.): Media Pasts and Futures: Critical Reflections on "Power Without Responsibility" (by James Curran and Jean Seaton): doi.org/10.16997/boo...
May 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
New open access books published in 2025 in my book series Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies: Des Freedman & @michaelklontzas.bsky.social (Eds.): Media Pasts and Futures: Critical Reflections on "Power Without Responsibility" (by James Curran and Jean Seaton): doi.org/10.16997/boo...
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The Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee deals with some of the most important policies affecting British society, culture and democracy.
The Committee must tackle decades of policy failure & become a strong voice for the public.
Read our submission to the Committee's 'State of play' inquiry:
The Committee must tackle decades of policy failure & become a strong voice for the public.
Read our submission to the Committee's 'State of play' inquiry:
Media Reform Coalition
Media Reform coordinates the work of advocacy groups campaigning to protect the public interest in light of the Leveson Inquiry and Communications Review.
www.mediareform.org.uk
February 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee deals with some of the most important policies affecting British society, culture and democracy.
The Committee must tackle decades of policy failure & become a strong voice for the public.
Read our submission to the Committee's 'State of play' inquiry:
The Committee must tackle decades of policy failure & become a strong voice for the public.
Read our submission to the Committee's 'State of play' inquiry:
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Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro
March 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro
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Know your history.
February 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Know your history.
Is it just me, or have the organised Defund the BBC trolls started working overtime lately? Either they got an intern, or there is something else going on.
February 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Is it just me, or have the organised Defund the BBC trolls started working overtime lately? Either they got an intern, or there is something else going on.
Launch party time! 👇 Details of the new edition of 'Power Without Responsibility' are here: www.routledge.com/Power-Withou... and 'Media Pasts and Futures' is available as an open access title here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono... . We hope to see you there.
February 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Launch party time! 👇 Details of the new edition of 'Power Without Responsibility' are here: www.routledge.com/Power-Withou... and 'Media Pasts and Futures' is available as an open access title here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono... . We hope to see you there.
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Announcing the Media Democracy Festival 2025! Join us in London on 31 May & join the movement to fix our broken media.
Feat. @sangitamyska.bsky.social, @zackpolanski.bsky.social, Peter Oborne, @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social, @thebristolcable.bsky.social & more!
Book your free ticket on Eventbrite:
Feat. @sangitamyska.bsky.social, @zackpolanski.bsky.social, Peter Oborne, @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social, @thebristolcable.bsky.social & more!
Book your free ticket on Eventbrite:
Media Democracy Festival 2025
Join us at Media Democracy Festival 2025 for a day of panel debates, workshops and keynotes to build the movement to fix our broken media
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Announcing the Media Democracy Festival 2025! Join us in London on 31 May & join the movement to fix our broken media.
Feat. @sangitamyska.bsky.social, @zackpolanski.bsky.social, Peter Oborne, @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social, @thebristolcable.bsky.social & more!
Book your free ticket on Eventbrite:
Feat. @sangitamyska.bsky.social, @zackpolanski.bsky.social, Peter Oborne, @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social, @thebristolcable.bsky.social & more!
Book your free ticket on Eventbrite:
Out today, open access. More relevant than ever. Details about the book launch will follow soon.
Nearly there! Media Pasts and Futures, edited by @desfreedman.bsky.social and me, is due out on 4 Feb around the same time as the publication of James Curran and Jean Seaton's Power without Responsibility. Open access, packed with 26 chapters by established scholars. www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Media Pasts and Futures: Critical Reflections on 'Power Without Responsibility"
<b>FORTHCOMING February 4, 2025</b> This collection of short essays from leading media scholars reflects on critical issues of media history, power, ownership, influence and impact. The book uses the ...
www.fulcrum.org
February 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Out today, open access. More relevant than ever. Details about the book launch will follow soon.
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Please come to this meeting at Goldsmiths on the huge grass roots protest movement in Serbia that’s shaking the government. It's been going on for 3 months & the media have finally started to wake up to the fact there's a mass popular revolt in the heart of Europe www.eventbrite.com/e/revolution...
Revolution Won't be Reported: Student Protests in Serbia
Panel discussion about the current, anti-government, student-led protest in Serbia and why the UK media are not reporting the event
www.eventbrite.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Please come to this meeting at Goldsmiths on the huge grass roots protest movement in Serbia that’s shaking the government. It's been going on for 3 months & the media have finally started to wake up to the fact there's a mass popular revolt in the heart of Europe www.eventbrite.com/e/revolution...
Why not submit an abstract for our special issue on #AI and policy at #JDMPjournal ? You have until the end of February.
Journal of Digital Media & Policy
Journal of Digital Media & Policy; This peer-reviewed journal explores the digital media landscape, with an emphasis on structures, institutions, markets and governance, publishing content ranging fro...
www.intellectbooks.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Why not submit an abstract for our special issue on #AI and policy at #JDMPjournal ? You have until the end of February.
For a moment, I thought this was from The Onion. Can't tell satire any more.
Trump Reinstates Executive Order Mandating ‘Classical’ Architecture for Government Buildings
President Donald Trump has reinstated a controversial executive order aimed at keeping modernist styles out of federal buildings.
www.artnews.com
January 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
For a moment, I thought this was from The Onion. Can't tell satire any more.
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This is your periodic reminder that:
"AI" is artificial, but not currently intelligent
"hallucinations" are actually incorrect or misleading output (errors)
"AI" cannot "join the workforce" any more than a broken clock can
When we use their marketing terms we only help them perpetuate the scam.
"AI" is artificial, but not currently intelligent
"hallucinations" are actually incorrect or misleading output (errors)
"AI" cannot "join the workforce" any more than a broken clock can
When we use their marketing terms we only help them perpetuate the scam.
January 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
This is your periodic reminder that:
"AI" is artificial, but not currently intelligent
"hallucinations" are actually incorrect or misleading output (errors)
"AI" cannot "join the workforce" any more than a broken clock can
When we use their marketing terms we only help them perpetuate the scam.
"AI" is artificial, but not currently intelligent
"hallucinations" are actually incorrect or misleading output (errors)
"AI" cannot "join the workforce" any more than a broken clock can
When we use their marketing terms we only help them perpetuate the scam.
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Important 🧵 on platforms' strategy to create regulatory capture on a global level by framing any attempt at governance as incompatible with free speech and US interests.
#platformgovernance #mediapolicy
#platformgovernance #mediapolicy
1/15 🚨 @davidallengreen.bsky.social analysis of Big Tech’s regulatory strategy is insightful but stops short of its full implications. Let’s examine what’s missing from this important piece...
The coming battle between social media and the state
https://www.ft.com/content/917c9535-1cdb-4f6a-9a15-1a0c83663bfd
https://www.ft.com/content/917c9535-1cdb-4f6a-9a15-1a0c83663bfd
January 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Important 🧵 on platforms' strategy to create regulatory capture on a global level by framing any attempt at governance as incompatible with free speech and US interests.
#platformgovernance #mediapolicy
#platformgovernance #mediapolicy
So, someone paid a non-profiling search engine to advertise firearms cleaning to anyone searching for 'clean'. What are the chances (outside the US)?
January 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
So, someone paid a non-profiling search engine to advertise firearms cleaning to anyone searching for 'clean'. What are the chances (outside the US)?
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Late to the party with this one but a very cool idea...
Meet 'Daisy' an AI tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman & speaks to all the scammers calling your batphone –at length – so you don't have to.
Meet 'Daisy' an AI tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman & speaks to all the scammers calling your batphone –at length – so you don't have to.
This 'AI Granny' Bores Scammers to Tears
After a survey found that 71% of Brits want revenge on scammers, mobile operator O2 deploys Daisy, an AI tool that keeps fraudsters on the line to waste their time.
au.pcmag.com
December 14, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Late to the party with this one but a very cool idea...
Meet 'Daisy' an AI tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman & speaks to all the scammers calling your batphone –at length – so you don't have to.
Meet 'Daisy' an AI tool that mimics the voice of an elderly woman & speaks to all the scammers calling your batphone –at length – so you don't have to.
Amazing how big tech are happy to risk reputational damage not to be seen lagging behind in AI innovation hype. And when caught, it's almost like it doesn't make a difference.
BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline
Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 14, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Amazing how big tech are happy to risk reputational damage not to be seen lagging behind in AI innovation hype. And when caught, it's almost like it doesn't make a difference.