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hafsha.bsky.social
Exploring how technology reshapes local governance! 🌐 As a political science researcher focused on Digital Society and Actor-Network Theory (ANT), I analyze how digital tools empower communities and bridge power dynamics. Exciting times ahead! 📚✨ #PolSci #DigitalSociety #ANT #AcademicSky
October 28, 2026 at 5:34 AM
nicholasdesuza.bsky.social
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Distorted Vortex & dyxren. - DIGITALSOCIETY
Artists links: https://soundcloud.com/dv-official https://soundcloud.com/dyxren
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October 18, 2026 at 9:36 PM
the-14.com
Are you a creature or a machine? How to live in ecological community in a time of AI
#AI #EcologicalSustainability #AGI #TechEthics #WendellBerry #Work #EnvironmentalPhilosophy #Place #DigitalSociety #Humanity #Food #Democracy #Sustainability #NuclearFission #The14Media
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Are you a creature or a machine? How to live in ecological community in a time of AI | The-14
Explore Wendell Berry’s warning about living like machines, and why AI demands deeper thinking about ecology, democracy, technology, and our common world today.
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October 15, 2026 at 9:59 PM
annajobin.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy
#introduction #update

I am an Assistant Professor at the interdisciplinary Human-IST institute (@unifr, Switzerland), where I coordinate the M.A. in #digitalsociety.

My research group SAIS is dedicated to the social Study of Algorithms, Internet, & Society. 👉 https://human-ist.unifr.ch/sais/ […]
October 10, 2026 at 11:12 AM
netopia.bsky.social
Why Are AI Companies Hiring Philosophers?
What happens to philosophy when it is bought by Big Tech?

www.linkedin.com/article/edit... #AIethics #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalPolicy #TechGovernance #Philosophy #ResponsibleAI #AIGovernance #CivilRights #Surveillance #DigitalSociety
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Login to LinkedIn to keep in touch with people you know, share ideas, and build your career.
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October 5, 2026 at 4:28 PM
fritzlabsx.bsky.social
"Attention and its Crisis in Digital Society" This work argues that attention problems in digital society should be understood through social and cultural contexts, not only as simple cognitive decline. #Attention #DigitalSociety #Cognition doi.org/10.4324/9781...
Attention and its Crisis in Digital Society | Enrico Campo | Taylor &
In the context of debates surrounding the effects of new technologies on our mental faculties, particularly the attention span, this volume addresses the notion
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September 27, 2026 at 8:36 AM
netopia.bsky.social
Why Are AI Companies Hiring Philosophers?

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#AIethics #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalPolicy #TechGovernance #Philosophy #ResponsibleAI #AIGovernance #CivilRights #Surveillance #DigitalSociety
Why Are AI Companies Hiring Philosophers?
I left Stockholm University without a diploma. Years of Culture Studies, Literature and Swedish, plus two semesters of Theoretical Philosophy with Plato, Kant and Russell.
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September 24, 2026 at 10:00 AM
cogsci.nl
On Oct 7, the @rug.nl organizes a mini conference on #AI and the #digitalsociety more broadly. 🤳👨‍💻🤖 I will close the day with a keynote about human intelligence in times of AI. 🧠 Join us! www.rug.nl/jantina-tamm... @rug-gmw.bsky.social
Tammes Talks (7 Oct)
Tammes Talks is a new initiative at the JTS. In short, they are shared Theme Coordinator events, during which we bring the JTS (sub)communities together no...
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September 22, 2026 at 8:03 AM
the-14.com
The next frontier is not artificial intelligence, it’s artificial societies
#Tech #AI #AIAgents #Automation #ArtificialSocieties #FutureOfAI #MachineLearning #AIResearch #Innovation #AIRegulation #AIRisk #Chatbots #DigitalSociety #Society #The14Media
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The next frontier is not artificial intelligence, it’s artificial societies | The-14
AI agents are evolving into artificial societies, raising new questions about trust, regulation, accountability, privacy and how humans work with machines.
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September 12, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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An invisible AI watermark is coming to your messages. Your relationships may pay the price
#AI #AIWatermarking #GenerativeAI #AITechnology #Privacy #Tech #DigitalPrivacy #Trust #FutureOfAI #DigitalSociety #AITransparency #HumanRelationships #WorkplaceTech #The14Media
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An invisible AI watermark is coming to your messages. Your relationships may pay the price | The-14
AI watermarks may make messages easier to detect but they could also undermine privacy, trust and sincerity in workplaces, friendships, families & relationships
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September 10, 2026 at 11:23 AM
wikstrombjorn.bsky.social
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That closes the series. Twenty notes, one argument: friction is not only an obstacle. Some of
it is infrastructure.
The full paper, The Age of No Resistance, is in Acta Sociologica (2026):
doi.org/10.1177/00016993261463089
#Sociology #SocialTheory #DigitalSociety
The age of no resistance: Palliation, friction reduction, and the structural erosion of social integration - Björn Wikström, 2026
This article advances a structural sociological diagnosis of contemporary late-modern societies as organized around the systematic reduction of friction. Across...
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September 7, 2026 at 4:17 PM
wikstrombjorn.bsky.social
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Which forms of friction are harmful? And which quietly hold society together?
A discriminatory barrier is not a clear boundary. Bureaucracy is not accountability. The task
is discernment: what must stay resistant enough for us to stay grounded?
#Sociology #SocialTheory #DigitalSociety
September 5, 2026 at 11:25 AM
wikstrombjorn.bsky.social
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If millions are exhausted at once, the first question probably should not be: what is wrong with people?
Which labour was transferred to individuals? Which boundaries disappeared?
Structural effects are easily misdiagnosed as personal deficits.
#Sociology #SocialTheory #DigitalSociety
September 4, 2026 at 6:07 AM
wikstrombjorn.bsky.social
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It may not be AI, automation or digitalization. It may be the systematic attempt to eliminate
resistance from everyday life.
Across healthcare, platforms and work, friction is treated as a defect to engineer away. Aworld that responds without pushing back.
#Sociology #SocialTheory #DigitalSociety
September 2, 2026 at 7:41 PM
wikstrombjorn.bsky.social
17

A society can become highly connected while becoming less socially integrated.
Connection is the availability of contact. Integration is stable relationships and mutual
obligation. You can receive hundreds of messages and lack durable recognition.
#Sociology #SocialTheory #DigitalSociety
September 1, 2026 at 5:31 PM
questionclass.bsky.social
Mass personalization makes life smoother, faster, and more relevant. But when every person receives a different version of reality, society has to ask a harder question: what must stay shared?

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#questionclass #MassPersonalization #AI #DigitalSociety #Technology
September 1, 2026 at 1:13 PM
wikstrombjorn.bsky.social
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The institution became an algorithm. The manager became you.
Managerial power does not disappear on platforms. It moves into rankings, metrics and
opaque allocation. Autonomy in name, continuous self-regulation in practice.
#Sociology #SocialTheory #DigitalSociety
August 31, 2026 at 12:38 PM
wikstrombjorn.bsky.social
15

Every efficiency gain reorganizes interaction. Sometimes it removes what produced stability.
Automating a decision changes who can explain it. Removing a meeting changes where
disagreement becomes visible. Efficiency is an institutional choice.
#Sociology #SocialTheory #DigitalSociety
August 28, 2026 at 11:08 AM
hiigberlin.bsky.social
Wer sich im Internet bewegt, weiß, wie lästig #Datenschutz sein kann. Doch schützt Datenschutz wirklich Daten? Auf dem #DigitalSociety Blog erklärt Max Lukat, warum es eigentlich Nutzer*innenschutz heißen müsste & wer für wirksamen Datenschutz verantwortlich ist.

Lesen 👉 www.hiig.de/warum-der-da...
August 21, 2026 at 7:19 AM
wikstrombjorn.bsky.social
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Without stable constraints we have to invent our own direction continuously. More
exhausting than it sounds.
Orientation is never produced alone. Schedules, roles and limits supply the coordinates.
Remove them and choice expands while direction weakens.
#Sociology #SocialTheory #DigitalSociety
August 17, 2026 at 10:57 PM
wikstrombjorn.bsky.social
13

Negotiation, disagreement, waiting and boundaries are not only inconveniences. They are
social experiences.
Disagreement confirms the other has a perspective of their own. Resistance is how we learn
we exist among others, not inside a responsive machine.
#Sociology #SocialTheory #DigitalSociety
August 16, 2026 at 10:44 PM
wikstrombjorn.bsky.social
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Vinyl. Film. Paper notebooks. Perhaps they reintroduce meaningful resistance into daily life.
A roll of film has a fixed number of exposures. The medium pushes back. Not nostalgia, but
bounded engagement with a natural stopping point.
#Sociology #SocialTheory #DigitalSociety
August 15, 2026 at 5:07 PM
wikstrombjorn.bsky.social
11

Better sleep. Better focus. Better habits. At what point does self-care become another fulltime job?
When every state is measurable, discomfort stops being ordinary and becomes evidence that
more intervention is needed. Care turns into obligation.
#Sociology #SocialTheory #DigitalSociety
August 13, 2026 at 11:07 AM
wikstrombjorn.bsky.social
10

When nothing around us sets stable limits, we become our own continuous monitoring
system.
Structure lets attention rest. Without it there is no reliable point at which scanning can stop. A
smooth environment can produce a restless subject.
#Sociology #SocialTheory #DigitalSociety
August 12, 2026 at 7:00 AM
wikstrombjorn.bsky.social
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Digital systems remove visible work. Planning, choosing, remembering, monitoring and
regulating remain.
The question is not whether digitalization saves labour. It is whose labour it saves, and where
the rest gets relocated.
#Sociology #SocialTheory #DigitalSociety
August 11, 2026 at 9:17 AM