I want to recommend reading this paper on “Digital infrastructures for education: On sociotechnical entrenchment, pedagogy and the public interest”.

#edtech #datafication #privacybydesign
#platformisation #mediaeducation

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/14749041251332664

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:

- Will the future digitalised mobility be sustainable?
- Will it be inclusive for everyone in our societies?
- Will it be affordable and really serving the public?

These are some of the guiding questions of the workshop 𝗠𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 on 26 March 2025 in Prague, organised by Karol Kurnicki and Iwona Janicka.

Interested to join? Register now! https://leibniz-ifl.de/en/institute-1/news/dates-and-events/details/mapping-ethical-questions-of-future-mobility

From the kick-off of molo.news - our platform for local news, whose nationwide launch we are now testing, with a team at @zemki, HBI and Media and Communication Studies at the University of Leipzig. With funding from VIP+ @bmbf_bund, we want to further develop the platform for local media, collectives and officials so that it is interesting for as many cities as possible. More at https://molo.news/ #Platformisation #LocalJournalism #journalism #pioneerjournalism #PlatformCoop

"..attending to these hidden intermediaries demystifies the way that a firm like Amazon builds power—not simply by bringing old relations “online,” but by shifting onto others the responsibility and risk of sustaining them" - Moira Weigel's recent report with @datasociety:
https://datasociety.net/library/amazons-trickle-down-monopoly/

Hello fellow #commodon researchers! I’ll be posting about #children #youth #media #platformisation #datafication #practices and would love to hear about interesting people to follow.