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Christian Katzenbach
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Prof in Media and Communication // Editor-In-Chief New Media &Society // Director MA Digital Media and Society // Wonderful team @pgmt.bsky.social // platform governance, AI hype, discourse

https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/person/christian-katzenbach/ .. more

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Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social · Feb 13
We are hosting the 2025 @aoir.bsky.social Flashpoint Symposium in Bremen!

🎯 CfP "From Platform Governance to Generative AI: Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance"
📆 3-4 June 2025, Bremen, DE
🗒️ Deadline for Abstracts: 15 February 2025
platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

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Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social · 10h
Sorry that I forgot to add the link. I lost the routine of micro-blogging post-Twitter and that seems to show. Thanks for this write-up, I couldn't agree more!

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Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social · 10h
Here is the link: reflectingwide.blogspot.com/2026/09/no-a...
Thinking in Public
No, AI will not kill us all. But handing companies control without accountability might. In the last few days, several journalists from at...
reflectingwide.blogspot.com

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Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social · 18h
"No, AI will not kill us all. But handing companies control without accountability might." I have read quite a few good takes about the new wave of "our products are so powerful that they are getting too dangerous" discourse. But the best one is by @vdignum.bsky.social, I think.
Screenshot of Text Fragment: "All in all, the most important questions AI raises are not about the technology but about us: what we value, what we are prepared to demand, and what we are willing to accept as inevitable. The narrative of inevitability, whether it arrives as a promise of superintelligence or a threat of extinction, is itself a product, and it serves the people selling it. The paradox is that the more we are told the future is decided by the machines, the more it is in fact decided by a small number of organisations, and by our willingness or unwillingness to hold them to the same standards we apply to everyone else."

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Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social · 18h
"Global Experiences of Risk and Agency in Algorithmic Governance". Ashwin Varghese is pushing forward our joint work on this topic with a call for ISA 2027. I am very happy to collaborate with Ashwin as part of my affiliation with @cghrcambridge.bsky.social. isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc20...
Session: Global Experiences of Risk and Agency In Algorithmic Governance (XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology (July 4 - 10, 2027))
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Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social · 2d
TMW you realise you apparently hope for small mistakes in student work, like omission of the verb — probably as indication of manual writing. But it was my bad, I read the sentence wrongly, it was all fine 😔