Also noting that we have edited a book that deals with the same topic, currently in press and it should be out early next year!

Thank you, Mervi & Elis, for the collaboration, and also Iida Lähdekorpi for the invaluable help in the data collection! This research was funded by @researchcouncilfinland Research Council of Finland, @koneensaatio.fi and Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities HSSH (ERBIT). (5/5)

At the same time, they mostly remain silent about their own environmental footprint and increasing emissions, particularly in the rise now driven by AI investments. Considering the current state of environmental politics in the US I doubt we will even get these discourses in the future. (4/x)

💡 Using a combination of computer-assisted text mining and qualitative text analysis of corporate blogs, we show how the platform companies adopt the topic of environmental sustainability to depict themselves as ‘climate leaders’, moving from greening themselves to greening the planet.

🌎 This paper dives into the topical question of big tech and environmental sustainability by studying how the platform companies’ public communication on the climate crisis and their discursive legitimation strategies have developed over 20 years. (2/x)

doi.org/10.1177/2976...

😅 Europe is a small continent? 🤔 I won't be on Brazil though, unfortunately!

Ohh! I'm in Copenhagen and this entire event popped up in my feeds only today! I hope it was a blast, but with these speakers I couldn't expect anything else 🤩