#technopolitics — Public Fediverse posts

Pluralistic: William Gibson vs Margaret Thatcher (17 Mar 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/17/technopolitics/

Our information landscape and opaque black box systems

The AI Con, debunking myths of the AI revolution, a review

“A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.”
"But that is precisely why some in power want to hand decision‑making capacity to computers: it promises a sunlit utopia of profit without blame. Once AI is mainlined into our veins, we may be too doped up to care."
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna by Bodley Head
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/19/the-ai-con-by-emily-m-bender-and-alex-hanna-review-debunking-myths-of-the-ai-revolution
#AI #LLMs #KMS #DigitalHumanities #OpaqueBlackBox #SyntheticTextExtruding #machines #PoliticalSubjects #accountability #transparancy #language #extractivism #DataEconomy #technopolitics

Tomorrow I'll be #lectureship on #DigitalRights & #DigitalCitizenship in 5th ed Digital Global Humanities at @MondragonUnibertsitatea

This module is grounded in a research trajectory developed across 4 books on #SmartCities #technopolitics #AI

📚 #ActionResearch→Teaching→Practice

Tomorrow I'll be #lectureship on #DigitalRights & #DigitalCitizenship in 5th ed Digital Global Humanities at @MondragonUnibertsitatea

This module is grounded in a research trajectory developed across 4 books on #SmartCities #technopolitics #AI

📚 #ActionResearch→Teaching→Practice

Tomorrow I'll be #lectureship on #DigitalRights & #DigitalCitizenship in 5th ed Digital Global Humanities at @MondragonUnibertsitatea

This module is grounded in a research trajectory developed across 4 books on #SmartCities #technopolitics #AI

📚 #ActionResearch→Teaching→Practice

Tomorrow I'll be #lectureship on #DigitalRights & #DigitalCitizenship in 5th ed Digital Global Humanities at @MondragonUnibertsitatea

This module is grounded in a research trajectory developed across 4 books on #SmartCities #technopolitics #AI

📚 #ActionResearch→Teaching→Practice

Tomorrow I'll be #lectureship on #DigitalRights & #DigitalCitizenship in 5th ed Digital Global Humanities at @MondragonUnibertsitatea

This module is grounded in a research trajectory developed across 4 books on #SmartCities #technopolitics #AI

📚 #ActionResearch→Teaching→Practice

New #Book just arrived!

#DatafiedDemocracies & #AIEconomics Unplugged: #TechnoPolitics in #SmartCities & Datafied #NetworkStates

https://link.springer.com/book/9783032118875

📢 Nov-Dec 2024 Recap:

Thrilled to have served as an #InvitedProfessor at the @SGHWarsaw, delivering #PhD #Doctoral #Courses on #AI #PublicPolicy #TechnoPolitics #DigitalRights

Grateful for this impactful experience! 🙌

#DigitalInnovation #Warsaw

https://www.igorcalzada.com/invited-keynote-speaker-in-warsa-poland-on-28-and-29th-november-2024-at-warsaw-school-of-economics-sgh/ @anthropology @economics @politicalscience @politicaltheory @geography

@decidim

Can't any of the institutions (city councils, universities) supporting/using Decidim be persuaded to fund/host a #PeerTube instance? That would make a lot more sense in terms of #Decidim 's statements of #technopolitics rather than supporting a #GAFAM that is trying to make viewing ads obligatory. As a fraction of the overall #BarcelonaCity budget, the cost of maintaining a PeerTube instance can't be that much.

https://joinpeertube.org

#BlueSky finally appeared in #Warsaw full #Monday today while #lecturing at #PhD #Doctoral Programme on (i) #Political & #Constitutional System of the #State and (ii) #Public #Sectoral #Policies by updating #technopolitics of #AI #Web3 at @SGHWarsaw

https://t.co/4PFlgcpXu1

🛢️ 📦 📻 New instance, new #introduction, many hashtags. Hi! I'm an #STS #technopolitics scholar, also thinking w #anthropology #geography #EnvHist #Commodon

This is my non-chattery account for research updates, topics may include:
#feministSTS #multispecies #anticolonial #California #trucks #internet #port #SupplyChain #MediaActivism #labor #FreeRadio #CommunityMedia #SoundStudies #soundscapes #ClimateCrisis #LowPower #LosAngeles #oil #InfrastructureStudies #CriticalLogistics #Radio #FOSS #hacking #Energy #ToxicLA

Online First - "Settler ecologies and more-than-One Health: From malaria to avian flu in the Hula Valley, Palestine-Israel" by Irus Braverman:

#UBuffalo #UBuffaloLaw
#settlerecologies #Hulawetland #H5N1 #technopolitics

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/25148486241232525

At this #Christmas time, if you are interested in the intersection around #DigitalCitizenship #DatafiedState #Technopolitics #DigitalIdentity #AI #Blockchain #Emancipation #FoundationalEconomy #Democracy #DigitalGeography #PoliticalGeography #UrbanGeography #DataMigration #ChatGPT #DAOs #Metaverse #DataCooperatives
Here my #Book published by Emerald Publishing #AcademicChatter
https://books.emeraldinsight.com/book/detail/emerging-digital-citizenship-regimes/?k=9781803823324&fbclid=IwAR01Ze9ndHzyWyKdqbUmG8QAny99VIg_-CwgfBSmz-2azfvp7OEpJkD517U @anthropology @economics @politicalscience @sociology @politicaltheory

#Citizens’ #DataPrivacy in #China:
The State of the Art of the Personal Information Protection #Law #PIPL

https://mdpi.com/2624-6511/5/3/57

#SocialCreditSystem #SmartCities #GDPR #CCPA #Benchmarking #DAOs #Shenzhen #Technopolitics #AI #DigitalCitizenship #OpenAccess #AIAct #Geopolitics @digitalhumanities @DigitalEU @anthropology @politicalscience @economics

#Citizens’ #DataPrivacy in #China:
The State of the Art of the Personal Information Protection #Law #PIPL

https://mdpi.com/2624-6511/5/3/57

#SocialCreditSystem #SmartCities #GDPR #CCPA #Benchmarking #DAOs #Shenzhen #Technopolitics #AI #DigitalCitizenship #OpenAccess #AIAct #Geopolitics @digitalhumanities @DigitalEU @anthropology @politicalscience @economics

OnlineFirst - "Technopolitics of future-making: The ambiguous role of energy communities in shaping energy system change" by Fredrik Envall and Harald Rohracher:

#communityenergy #powerstruggles #technopolitics #JustTransition

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486231188263

"On 8th of March 2023, we call for a Counter Cloud Action Day."

⬇️

https://anarchaserver.org/8m/

On this day, we will try to withhold from using, feeding, or caring for The Big Tech Cloud. The #strike calls for a hyperscaledown of extractive digital services, and for an abundance of collective organising. We join the long historical tail of international feminist strikes, because we understand this fight to be about labour, care, anti-racism, queer life and trans★feminist techno-politics.

#8mars #march8th #grevefeministe #cloud #feminism #technopolitics #transfeminism

#ResearchTopic
#CfP 

Open for #Submissions 📢



#Postpandemic Technopolitical Democracies



🗓️15 January 2023 for manuscripts


👉https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/28882/postpandemic-technopolitical-democracies

#geography #digitalgeography #politicalgeography #politicalscience #COVID #technopolitics #democracy #datasovereignty #digitalrights #datacooperatives #biosurveillance #smartcities #CriticalDataStudies #misinformation #cybercontrol

#AcademicMastodon

Here my #Mastodon #introduction:
I am #PrincipalResearchFellow / #Reader at #CardiffUniversity, School of #SocialSciences, WISERD & SPARK.

Complementarily, I am now in #California undertaken my #Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence.

I carry out #transdiciplinarity #actionresearch intersecting #digital #urban #political #transformations: Emerging forms of #DigitalCitizenship #eDiaspora #DataCooperatives #SmartCities #AI #Cities #DigitalRights #DatafiedState #Technopolitics

https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/2498171-calzada-igor