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  • 👀 Waiting for the Crash – Sketching the Enshittified Future of Large Language Models 

  • The psychoticizing potential of social media

  • Is big tech a driver of inflation?

  • 📱🚫 On withdrawal from social media

  • Turn-based interaction in LLMs is a design decision

  • Academic networks need to prepare for waves of enshittification

  • The enshittification of enshittification

  • On being realistic with students about platformisation

  • We are building a ship in a bottle, sitting on Elon Musk’s desk to entertain him when he’s bored and to help him make money

  • Why hasn’t Twitter/X died yet?

  • How the concept of platform shaped my research

  • On platform and agency

  • The old web is dying, while the new web struggles to be born

  • Notes on the conceptual grammar of platforms

  • The things which bring us together

  • Social media is reshaping universities’ value systems in a scramble for likes and shares

  • Why academics need to organise, collectivise, and ‘socialise’ social media

  • New Chapter: Growing Up in a World of Platforms

  • What sorts of experiences do social platforms generate?

  • New Book: The Public and their Platforms

  • How would John Dewey have understood the socialising influence of digital platforms?

  • The relevance of Erich Fromm for online learning during a pandemic

  • What is a platform?

  • Taking tech firms seriously as sources of moral ideas

  • The supersurfaces of social media

  • George Soros on the threat of techno-fascism

  • Datafication and discipline in educaiton

  • You can’t have your ‘facts’ back

  • Open science and platform capitalism: a love story?

  • The governance of platforms

  • Cambridge as a platform city

  • Fascinating call for papers on infrastructural politics 

  • Call for Papers: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

  • Why we shouldn’t take social media metrics too seriously

  • Human agency beyond platform structuralism and platform voluntarism

  • The Political Ontology of Platforms

  • Call for Papers: Capitalism, Social Science and the Platform University

  • The epistemic privilege of platforms

  • The Sociology of Platforms

  • The duality of the platform: users and workers

  • Varoufakis on the monopoly power of platforms

  • How do Americans define the sharing economy?

  • What happens in an internet minute?

  • Digital Capitalism and the Platform Wars

  • Uber’s managed labor force

  • The Platform Wars

  • Are social media algorithms killing online activism?

  • Amongst Algorithms: Technical Fieldwork between Software Studies and Digital Methods

  • is Twitter making the Internet local again?

  • the rhetoric of the sharing economy and uber’s plans for world-domination

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