Assistant Professor job in Media Studies and Digital Humanities

https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000AP3P

#digitalhumanities #Digitalmedia #platformsociety #dh

It seems that #Paypal no longer permit password resets via mail but force users to scan an #idcard and their #face for #verification. Is it even lawful that users are no longer given any other option? And what's the role of #facialrecognition more generally in the #platformsociety? Insights from the #web experts out there are welcome!

Born on this day. Otto Dix, 2 December 1891, one of the most important painters of Expressionism and New Objectivity in Germany during and after the Weimar Republic.

The question to ask is, if he was around today would he be happy for his work to be used in genart training sets? Would he be using DALLE 3? If he was a musician, would he put his tracks on Spotify? Do you think his searing scorched earth anti war anti corruption anti fascism messages would go across well on those platforms? Do you think he'd tweet some of his paintings? Would he have a big following on Instagram?

Does the communication medium impact the quality of the message? Do we trivialise everything through the extractive capitalism of our digital platforms?

#politics #art #platformsociety #digitalsociety #capitalism #arthistory

(new blogpost) A time will shortly be upon us when we must decide, make a choice about how we might want our interweb to look and be in the near future and beyond. I think it boils down to a single catch-all choice: who owns the content and interactions of the Internet. ...

#fediverse #platformsociety #datasociety #socialmedia

https://penworks.net/blog/billionaire-platform-society-and-you

#Mastodon e il #fediverso sono la prova che i #social in sé non sono il male, ma lo è il modo in cui si sono evolute le piattaforme proprietarie. La #platformsociety si è accentrata nelle mani di poche grandi aziende che hanno assunto il controllo del #web grazie all'enorme mercato dei dati, acquistando la competizione, rafforzando sempre di più il loro oligopolio e infine convincendoci che il social l'avevano inventato loro. Un altro social oggi è possibile.
#culturedigitali #digitalcultures

Vite interconnesse. Relazioni sociali e identità nell’età della mediatizzazione profonda https://www.carmillaonline.com/2019/09/13/vite-interconnesse-relazioni-sociali-e-identita-nelleta-della-mediatizzazione-profonda/ #mediatizzazioneprofonda #rappresentazionedelsé #CosimoMarcoScarcelli #piattaformesocial #Viteinterconnesse #relazionisociali #MarshallMcLuhan #platformsociety #GioacchinoToni #MichelaDrusian #MartijndeWaal #PaoloMagaudda #JaineVincent #JoséVanDijck #LeslieHaddon #SherryTurkle