‼️ The deadline (December 1, 2025) for our Call for Abstracts on “THE IMAGINATIVE #LANDSCAPE OF #AI – VISIONS, POSITIONS, CONFLICTS” is approaching.
I am very happy to edit this thematic issue of @ijoc-usc.bsky.social with @ntnsndr.in
#openaccess.
More information:
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Great thanks to @julianejarke.bsky.social and her team for inviting us!
You can find more information about us here: comai.space/en/
I am very much looking forward to exciting discussions with everyone – sharing our enthusiasm in this great research unit, discussing the possible #futures of #AI, and forging our plans for the coming year!
how socio-material #constitution and #appropriation come together 🤲 in a process of #artificialintelligence #emergence, and much more.
This will be followed by our #ComAI doctoral 👩🎓👨🎓 summer school.
I have just arrived in 🚊Graz, where we are meeting for the (late) summer ☀️retreat of our @com-ai.bsky.social
Until Wednesday, we want to discuss what #research has been carried out in the projects over the last 6️⃣ months, what the challenges of #triangulating #methods 🔣 are,
#CfP THE IMAGINATIVE LANDSCAPE OF AI – VISIONS, POSITIONS, CONFLICTS
❓ What are the #future #visions and #imaginaries of #communications, #society, and social #change in diverse #global contexts in relation to #AI, #AGI and #ComAI?
📣 Submissions invited to #IJoC:
comai.space/en/call-for-...
‼️ #JobAlert: Computer Science / Computational Social Science / Media and Communications
At @zemki.bsky.social we are looking for a research assistant for developing web-based tools for collecting and visualising data on communicative #AI.
More information: comai.space/stellenaussc...
Hi David, Thanks a lot for your interest! A first piece is this: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Another is with minor revisions at Communication Theory. Please send me an email and I can send you the submitted version. Best, Andreas
It is fragmented, diverse, and highly contradictory.
How strongly the Bay Area is currently preoccupied not only with questions of #AGI, but also with ideas of complete change and job losses, is demonstrated by the advertising campaigns of various corporations.
By ‘imaginative landscape of AI,’ we mean the entirety of visions, positions, and conflicts seen in relation to #AI. This is not just about the technological side but about broader ideas for the #future of communications and society with AI, as well as possible dangers for humans.
While #OpenAI has released GPT-5, our research into the ‘imaginative landscape of AI’ in #SiliconValley / the San Francisco Bay Area is progressing.
#ComAI
📣 Warum brauchen wir kleine und große #Visionen 🌈 🤖 🌳 der #Zukunft? Welche Rolle kann #KI dabei spielen?
🗞️ In der aktuellen Wochenausgabe der @taz.de habe ich dazu einen Artikel anhand des Beispiels der #Expo in #Osaka, #Japan, geschrieben:
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This talk is tomorrow - on ‘The Future of Communicative AI: Why Societal Communication Matters and What This Means for Media and Communication Research’, #ComAI, #AI, #pioneercommunities, #Future: aimeetshss.acdh-ch-dev.oeaw.ac.at/conference/a...
In retrospect, this still says a lot about the imagination of technology and innovation.
Corona is now a little behind us, but it remains remarkable how members of pioneer communities such as the Maker movement were staged as ‘heroes’ during the pandemic and what fantasies existed about solving the problems of the pandemic with 'Do It Yourself'.
I am very pleased that our article "Solving the crisis with 'do-it-yourself #heroes'? The media coverage on pioneer communities, #Covid-19, and technological #solutionism" is now also available in print: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
molo war auf der @re-publica.com – und fällt gleich auf!
Wie beim MDR zu lesen ist: #rp25 ist ein Gegenentwurf zu großen sozialen Medien wie #Facebook, #Tiktok oder #X. Wer uns ausprobieren will: molo.news
Der Beitrag des MDR zur #rp25 findet sich hier: www.mdr.de/nachrichten/...
#ICA25 will still take place in Denver
BREAKING:
"Given these circumstances, we have decided not to hold another ICA conference in the United States during this administration and have delayed our contract with Chicago until May 2029."
#ICA25
It was great to be able to give the presentation at Hitotsubashi University in #Tokyo. It's always great to learn more from colleagues about the different global perspectives on #SiliconValley and #pioneercommunities.
Am 7.5.2025 hält @ahepp.bsky.social
am Institute for Global Governance Research (GGR) der Hitotsubashi University, Tokio, einen Vortrag zum Thema der digitalen Zukünfte und welcher Forschungsperspektive es bedarf, diese zu erforschen.
zemki.uni-bremen.de/forschungsau...
Die Erforschung der digitalen Transformation fragt meist nach deren Folgen. Der Wandel ist aber schon im Gange, deshalb sei die Medien- und Kommunikationsforschung der Konsequenz um eine der Emergenz zu ergänzen, schreibt @ahepp.bsky.social im Berliner Journal.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
On Tuesday (22 April) I will be at @unibremen.bsky.social for a panel discussion hosted by @zemki.bsky.social Looking forward to hanging out with @ahepp.bsky.social and colleagues to talk about LLMs and the death of the author.
zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/open-disc...
I will be working with multiple scholars and labs including @ahepp.bsky.social, Christian Katzenbach, and Andreas Breiter to better understand how AI is changing our world and people navigate these changes.
We are very much looking forward to welcome you @zemki.bsky.social!
🛫 💪 On February 25 & 26, 2025, we had our Kick-Off of the Research Unit @com-ai.bsky.social “Communicative AI: The transformation of societal communication” at @zemki.bsky.social - together with our partners at HBI, University Graz, @univie.ac.at & ifib.
We couldn't have wished for a better start!
It is noteworthy that Elon #Musk is trying to play the 'open' (“charity”) vs. 'commercial' (“for-profit”) card in his takeover bid for #OpenAI – and how Sam #Altman reacts to it. What is true, however, is that Twitter was once worth more: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Fresh back from our great retreat with the @zemki.bsky.social Lab Mediatization and Datafication - 2 days of intense discussion, great ideas and lots of fun. Thanks for that!
These were two exciting days among bright smart colleagues: annual retreat of the #Datafication and #Mediatization Lab @zemki.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social on the ambivalences of #comai at Gut Bredbeck
💪‼️🥳 The update to 1.0 of #OpenQDA, our software and research infrastructure for coding #qualitative #data, is out: In addition to a new interface, the code system can now be managed easily and intuitively, and much more.
#QDA #opensource
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