Network Politics

We explore the role of digital networks in creating new forms of politics. Newcastle University/Winchester School of Art

[danmcquillan (@[email protected]) @danmcquillan]

LLMs like GPT4 will empower employers to sack workers, who will later be reemployed in precarious lower paid roles to fix the ensuing problems. Never mind 'Prompt Engineer' you can look forward to 'GPT Output Cleaner' & 'BARD Sanitation Operative'.
#gpt #precarity #carework

[danmcquillan (@[email protected]) @danmcquillan]

I'm all in favour of a reasoned dismantling of disingenuous bullshit like the 'pause AI' letter, as long as we remember it isn't going to be resolved by discourse. This is a political struggle which will ultimately be decided in our workplaces, communities and streets
#resistAI

[Network Politics @networkpolitics]

New article in Javnost - @josshands discusses the revival of public reason during the COVID 19 pandemic - but also the threats of the right misusing notions of postmodernism and reason to undermine meaningful deliberation. https://t.co/xMZUqzHa7D

[Bill Dutton @BiIIDutton]

Introduction to A Research Agenda for Digital Politics: https://t.co/Qkv41omD86 @Elgar_Politics @networkpolitics @LSEpoliticsblog

[Jamie Ranger @jamieandhisego]

My review of @josshands' excellent book 'Gadget Consciousness' is available now at: https://t.co/H5zA37o0eC. Required reading for anyone interested in radical political responses to the age of social media and the internet of things.

[Pluto Press @PlutoPress]

‘Pluto was never set up to be some mega-rich super successful publishing house. It was set up to empower authors to get their works published and to empower people to learn from it.' - @jeremycorbyn

We think our books matter. Help us continue our work: https://t.co/tiZkY0xXWo

[Pluto Press @PlutoPress]

We've launched a Patreon! As bookshops and warehouses close around the world, our future hangs in the balance. Your subscription will help us keep radical ideas alive and accessible to all, and will allow us to keep publishing books that change the world👉 https://t.co/9jtO747PEs

[Geert Lovink @glovink]

Digital socialism, Reimagining social democracy for the 21st century by Evgeny Morozov (on how to reduce the power of Google and Facebook and the ownership and control of infrastructure) https://t.co/XMms3EA7jR

[Neural @_neural]

#Neural [#bookreview] #Gadget #Consciousness: Collective Thought, Will and Action in the Age of #SocialMedia - @josshands - @PlutoPress - review > https://t.co/P0tNgNS1Kp

[Joana Moll @joana_moll]

Happy to launch a new project! "The Hidden Life of an Amazon User" sheds light on the environmental costs of Amazon’s aggressive monetization of its users: the user is not just exploited by means of free labor, but is also forced to assume the energy costs of such exploitation.

[Network Politics @networkpolitics]

Amnesty: "How the business model of Google and Facebook threatens human rights"
https://t.co/drPSA0gfLO

[Tom Cardoso @tom_cardoso]

Breaking: We've seen @sidewalklabs's "yellow book," a document from 2016 that lays out the company's founding vision, including a social credit system, tracking and predicting people’s movements, and data-driven criminal justice processes
https://t.co/aAzPVLPU9X #topoli

[jonathan w. y. gray 🐼 @[email protected] 🐘 @jwyg]

Fantastic article on "Homophily: The Urban History of an Algorithm" in e-flux by @laurakurgan @darebrawley @h0use @jiazhang @whkchun, including discussion on "racial attitudes", omitted data, conceptual inflection points, early "like" buttons & more: https://t.co/Lqq4WNwZ33

[Network Politics @networkpolitics]

"To make visible the ongoing call-for-action for equal rights and fair payment in the arts, the researchers and artists Ahmet Öğüt and Burak Arıkan founded the outstanding online platform Code of Acquisitions."
https://t.co/veWTdTENvT

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

.@AOC: Could I run ads on Facebook targeting Republicans in primaries saying that they voted for the Green New Deal?

Mark Zuckerberg: I don’t know the answer to that off the top of my head. I think probably.

[Anne Helmond @silvertje]

👉We are very excited to announce the launch of the special issue of Computational Culture on “Apps and Infrastructures” (open access🔓), eds. @cgrltz, @silvertje, @gamespacenl, & @fvandervlist)! 👉We also revamped the journal’s website!✨ https://t.co/1iKPKuM8N1 (thread below)