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[Morten Hansen @Hansen_edu]

🧠🔒💰is the emoji version of my latest writing on 'cognitive lock-ins.' Read the full open-access commentary in @BigDataSoc.

https://t.co/LoMWQQwDY4

#LLM #GAI #attention #economy

[Christian Lundahl @DrLundahl]

I’m very happy to announce that the book that I, @SotiriaGrek @joakimlandahl and M Lawn have been working on for the past few years is now published: The World as a Laboratory. Torsten Husén and The Rise of Transnational Research in Education 1950-1990s https://t.co/D70hu17a9a

[Big Data & Society @BigDataSoc]

Our new #commentary by @Hansen_edu 👉 introduces the concept of ‘cognitive lock-in’ to explore how #platforms like #ChatGPT create technological dependencies, questioning the future of #AI #monetization beyond the attention economy. Check it out 🔗 https://t.co/sb6kvcBBoy

[Morten Hansen @Hansen_edu]

https://t.co/UH7wP76s2v via @nplusonemag

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

People seemed to appreciate this reading list, so I'm posting it again (with a small update).

It's the 10 key books in the reading list for my course, "Development Economics", which I teach at Cambridge.

[Morten Hansen @Hansen_edu]

My suggestion for a framework for understanding how digital capitalism is changing: https://t.co/dFZvCcvd9V

[Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov]

Will either "surveillance capitalism" or "techno-feudalism" framework survive the rise of generative AI? I very much doubt it: both seem less relevant/accurate today than they did a few years ago. A thread on what we've learned about their deficiencies.

[Janja Komljenovic @J_Kom_]

Our paper on university datafication has just been published. We analyse university struggles in making data useful and becoming data-powered organisations. Written with @keanbirch and Sam Sellar. Available open access: https://t.co/fJUxS1sfNu

[Journal of Education Policy @JEdPolicy]

📣 Latest research article

@UsersAreGhosts, Moscovitz, @Rocio_Fdezug, @Hansen_edu, Hughson, Marfán & @OudaiTozan examine UNESCO’s construction of a commons approach to global education.

#OpenAccess

https://t.co/MACOWJbFh0

[Liz McFall @allartmarkets.bsky.social @allartmarkets]

My longish review of Michel Callon's Markets in the Making (in which I sidle from Salman Rushdie to the Waterboys by way of Benjamin, Akrich, Foucault, Rorty @BlokAnders all all that) is finally out in @jcultecon https://t.co/J4KSSx1MKV

[Paul Ayris @ucylpay]

UKRI project to support book publishers to transition to open access models, especially learned society, subject association, and smaller specialist publishers. https://t.co/LdjUTGpAn2 @profgeraintrees @KurtDeketelaere @uclpress @UCLopenscience @TiberiusIgnat @ignasi @schallierw

[Morten Hansen @Hansen_edu]

Great seeing this @ResearchCGHE report out! Lots of insights for those interested in the digital economy of HE.

[Janja Komljenovic @J_Kom_]

New report on digitalisation and datafication of UK universities and the #EdTech industry with findings from the Universities and Unicorns project. It’s aimed at HE and EdTech stakeholders and policymakers. With @Hansen_edu, Sam Sellar and @keanbirch. https://t.co/R2Fbkq81ci

[Valuation Studies @Val_Studies]

VS theme call! "Comparing, categorizing, valuating: entangled modes of ordering" -- edited by Thomas Müller, Leopold Ringel, Elisa Ronzheimer and Jørgen Sneis https://t.co/wkxY2UTLRR

[UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @IIPP_UCL]

Interesting piece by @Hansen_edu, Teaching Assistant at IIPP, on the importance of writing from a teacher's perspective. He asks "what does the usage of automated reasoning do to the student experience?"

Read his reflective piece here: https://t.co/qWgIQDAgkr

[Morten Hansen @Hansen_edu]

I wrote about writing👇🖊���👇

[LSE Impact Blog @LSEImpactBlog]

💥New: Pockets of humanity in a world of automated research writing

@Hansen_edu #AcWri #GenerativeAI https://t.co/FOxJb866lK

[Ingrid H. Kvangraven @ingridharvold]

Hey friends!

@devikadutt and I are teaching our Decolonising Economics module for the first time this term (inspired by our book with @cacrisalves and @SurbhiKesar).

In case anyone's interested, we've made the syllabus publicly available 😊

https://t.co/M0Dx7rgs66

[Prof. Michael Tanchum @michaeltanchum]

The Cable Wars undersea chessboard in one map👇

⚠️Trans-Atlantic financial information exchange via fiber optic cable encompasses $10 trillion per day

[Sociology Journal @sociologyjnl]

We are now open to Special Issue Proposals!

Have an exciting, engaging new insight that you would like to share with the Sociology audience? Submit now!

Deadline 3 October 2023

Details below!
https://t.co/I32tXKGgAx

[Alex Bols @alexbols]

What role should governing bodies have in academic governance and assurance? I’m speaking today at the @cdbuni conference Whose Universities? I’ll be building on my earlier @HEPI_news Policy Note and blog https://t.co/Iuyy2ghCaH

[Tristan McCowan @MccowanTristan]

Sorry for the cliché, but #TheDawnOfEverything (David Graeber and @davidwengrow) really is a book that everyone should read.
Completely changed my view of human history and consequently of what we are capable of building together in the future.

[Adam Tooze @adam_tooze]

Venture capital investment into defence tech companies has boomed in recent years on hope of US gov contracts. US investment in defence start-ups surged from less than $16bn in 2019 to $33bn in 2023, PitchBook data shows.
https://t.co/meYQdyJJAg