The session will kick off with a 10-minute storytelling session describing Chris and Isobel’s investigation of Silicon Valley’s capture of journalism, labour, culture, and creativity. We’ll brin...
Events - big tech
Technology dominates our daily lives, from how we communicate to how we make sense of the world. Big Tech companies and their leaders have major sway in national and global politics, an influence that...
As one of Big Tech’s most prominent critics, Carole Cadwalladr has long understood the importance of collaborating with academics to expose the scale and subterfuge of the very largest online platfo...
German media scholar Martin Andree shares a pressing warning about the media: they have only a short window of approximately five years before major American tech giants like Google and Meta seize ful...
News or noise? The competing visions for journalism in an AI-mediated society
Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, his dismantling of its content moderation processes, his frequent vilification of legacy media and his use of the platform to support Donald Trump in the US presi...
This year, changes to the platform formerly known as Twitter have led many journalists and news consumers to seek greener pastures. In an increasingly fragmented online environment, journalists must d...