The AI revolution can seem powerful and unstoppable, extracting data from every aspect of our lives and subjecting us to unprecedented surveillance and control. But at ground level, even the most advanced ‘smart’ technologies are not as all-powerful as either the tech companies or their critics would have us believe. From gig worker activism to…

Looking back on convergence culture It’s weird and slightly tiring to realise that it’s now more than ten years since Henry Jenkin’s book Convergence Culture was published (also precipitating Henry’s entry into blogging, by the way). Back then, it highlighted the potential as well as the pragmatic and political challenges of a changing new media landscape…

Three one-year postdoctoral research jobs at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden. The Centre for Gender Research is a research intense unit, consisting of about 20 researchers from different disciplines. We are now recruiting additional post-docs for full-time, one-year positions. Successful applicants have some kind of “double” competence – gender research and science…

Someone around the office told me just now, in exceedingly poor taste mind you, that Steve Irwin’s last words were ‘crikey, that hurt’. Update: I’ve just heard that this story was leaked to the media before Steve’s wife could be located and notified. That’s crappy if it’s true.

I am so deeply angry and upset about this. And the fact that Aunty Delmae Barton should feel she had to say “But I was wearing good clothes” makes me want to disappear. Shame on us.