Political economy of digitalisation
Scholars working on the political economy of digital technologies. Including: interest groups, regulation, lobbying, law & political economy. Work in progress, (self-)recommendations accepted!
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@matteonebbiai.bsky.social
@ppopiel.bsky.social
Media policy + platforms + political economy | Assistant Prof @ Murrow College of Communication, Washington State University | Affiliate @ MIC Center, UPenn and CITAP, UNC | Philly expat | pawelpopiel.com
@econgeo.bsky.social
Economic Geography Professor: global commodity chains | financialization/agriculture | race-economy-inequality | African economic futures | Wrote a book on global money, farming & institutional landcapes www.institutionallandscapes.org | www.winra.org
@ludovico-rella.bsky.social
@GeogDurham Postdoctoral Research Associate http://algorithmicsocieties.org on Machine Learning, Recognition, Attribution and Inference
@nannathylstrup.bsky.social
Associate Prof @ University of Copenhagen. Author of: "The Politics of Mass Digitization" (MIT Press), editor of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (MIT Press) and "(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art" (Sternberg)
@gbeaumier.bsky.social
Assistant professor in politics and international studies @ENAP | Postdoc @Georgetown & @McGill | PhD @PAISWarwick @ulaval Studies new technologies, data, AI & global governance https://enap.ca/a-propos/bottin/guillaume-beaumier-professeur-adjoint
@bhaggart.bsky.social
Professor, Political Science, Brock University Knowledge governance, IPE, Sydney Swans tragic Co-author, with Natasha Tusikov, The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).
@ntusikov.bsky.social
She/her. Assoc. prof at York University in Toronto. Crime, law, regulation & tech. All things tech governance, especially internet of things, smart cities, femtech & platform governance. Book: The New Knowledge: Information, Data & Remaking of Global Power
@pculpepper.bsky.social
Professor of Government and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
@felixsimon.bsky.social
Research Fellow in AI and News, Reuters Institute, Oxford University | Research Associate & DPhil, Oxford Internet Institute | AI, news, misinfo, tech, democracy | Affiliate Tow Center, CITAP | Media advisor | My views etc… https://www.felixsimon.net/
@randomwalker.bsky.social
Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/ BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
@gorwa.ca
Researching global tech policy at the WZB Berlin. 📕: The Politics of Platform Regulation - How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation (out now OA 🔓) https://academic.oup.com/book/56385
@dmugge.bsky.social
Professor of Political Arithmetic at Uni of Amsterdam | Political economy of AI governance | Leader of the RegulAite project (https://www.regulaite.eu)
@rachelgriffin.bsky.social
researching EU social media regulation @ sciences po | blue haired feminist, FT reading socialist & other clichés | paris/berlin, she/sie/elle | send me your enticing open postdoc positions 👉👈 | free palestine 🍉
@fredericmerand.bsky.social
Directeur @sciencepo-UdeM.bsky.social Author of The Political Commissioner: A European Ethnography (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-political-commissioner-9780192893970?cc=ca&lang=en&)
@keanbirch.bsky.social
Obsessed with assets & assetization + into science & technology studies, political economy, economic sociology: https://keanbirch.net/ Director, Institute for Technoscience & Society: https://www.yorku.ca/research/its/
@abenewman.bsky.social
W/Henry Farrell, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt 2023/Penguin); Georgetown; This is a private account.
@rosiecollington.bsky.social
political economy, states, finance, knowledge, climate crisis | IPE post-doc @ CBS | PhD from UCL IIPP | co-author 'THE BIG CON' | views own etc etc | www.rosiecollington.work
@nsrnicek.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy at KCL. New book out in 2025: 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI'.
@FrankPasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Author of The Black Box Society & New Laws of Robotics; law professor at Cornell Law School & Cornell Tech. [bridged from https://mastodon.social/@FrankPasquale on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@jathansadowski.com
senior lecturer at Monash /// co-host of This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + (climate) risk governance /// new book on the political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
@salome.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at Michigan Law || I think about how the law thinks about data || pro science and technology, anti scams
@ksabeelrahman.bsky.social
Law prof @ Cornell Law School Formerly - OIRA Associate Administrator; President, Demos
@superwuster.bsky.social
Professor Columbia University & contributing opinion writer for the NY Times. Author of "The Curse of Bigness," "The Attention Merchants" Forthcoming book: THE AGE OF EXTRACTION (the rise of the platforms) (Nov 2025)
@dianecoyle1859.bsky.social
Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
@himself.bsky.social
http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com Now out with Abe Newman, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
@celestebny.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. @Sciences Po Lille | @gruecollectif.bsky.social coordinator | Political science & sociology | Working on EU digital regulation, digital capitalism & cultural industries | I can (and will) talk about copyright and EU decision-making forever
@mkemmerling.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher @ Cologne Center for Comparative Politics | Political Economy | Digital Capitalism | Business Power | Text-as-data | Previously @mpifg.bsky.social he/him
@timoseidl.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Economy Political Economy—Technological Change—Ideas in History—Computational Text Analysis https://www.timoseidl.com #firstgen
@matteonebbiai.bsky.social
tech & political economy & EU regulation | PhD King's College London | GPEP Fellow at Georgetown University | previously at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna https://matteonebbiai.site/ https://matteonebbiai.substack.com/