Benjamin Peters

With John Behrens and Alexi Orchard, I co-wrote, for the latest issue of the IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, this short reflection on teaching Generative AI through a multidisciplinary framework while technological systems change continuously. doi.org/10.1109/MTS....

Letter: Let’s remember a good life is marked by service Let us earn the calluses of public service — on our hands from helping, on our voices from speaking up, on our feet from organizing and showing up, says Benjamin

A couple of recent pieces:

a local newspaper op-ed and anti-trump speech:

tulsaworld.com/opinion/lett...

a piece coauthored with my dad on an unlikely moment in Rome:

www.wayfaremagazine.org/p/light-and-...

Making Media Futures: Machine Visions and Technological Imaginations Making Media Futures offers a multi-perspectival exploration of how imaginaries and knowledge of the future are constructed in and through various media. The volume addresses the discursive dimensions...

New book alert!

I'm delighted & humbled to author the foreword to /Making Media Futures: Machine Visions and Technological Imaginations/, eds. Phillip H. Roth et. al. (Routledge 2025). A brilliant, timely, & evergreen collection: check it out, from your library?

www.routledge.com/Making-Media...

The lives and afterlives of community-created bots on Twitter: A minor history - Dominique Carlon, Jean Burgess, Kateryna Kasianenko, 2025 This article presents a minor history of the beneficial community-created bots that once flourished on Twitter, showcasing their important but overlooked role i...

Remember when social media was sometimes good, thanks to users and what they built? We do! Please check out this 'minor history' of Twttr and its community-created bots from @domcarlon.bsky.social @kkasianenko.bsky.social & me, out now in Convergence journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is an output of the @admscentre.org.au project Platform Governance Of and By Bots. In theorising, we've been inspired by work from a couple of great Bens: @bjpeters.bsky.social and @qutdmrc.bsky.social's Ben Nicoll; as well as @silvertje.bsky.social, & the praxis of @samplereality.bsky.social

Out now - Standard issue featuring articles by M. Beatrice Fazi, Mark B. N. Hansen, Piotr M. Szpunar, and Raymond L. M. Lee.

journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt

Cannot wait to dive in!

La cultura algoritmica prima di Internet - Ted Striphas La cultura algoritmica prima di Internet analizza in chiave storico-genealogica la condizione di vita umana e sociale caratterizzata dall’intreccio tra computing e cultura.

(1/2) Just learned that the Italian translation of Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet was just published earlier this month by Mimesis. I knew it was in the works but wasn't aware that it was out. Exciting! 🇮🇹 www.mimesisedizioni.it/libro/979122...

Open access & just published:

Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society. Methods and Practices for Investigation and Intervention (Amsterdam University Press 2024) www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

The United States now has:
• 45,020 reporters
• 275,550 public relations specialists

For every reporter, there are now six PR people.

(data via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

ah shucks, thank you!

#computerfire was such a treat to be part of!

And yes, huge fan of the indomitable @sunhahong.bsky.social

New collab volume alert:
/The Planning Moment: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories/ eds. by Blacker, Brownell, Nag, Schluender, van Beurden, & Verran
www.fordhampress.com/978153150663...
ToC: Charcoal, famine, hackathons, parasites, weeds...
My bit: computing is not computers or computation

Thrilled to hold in hand this brand new book from the inimitable Ksenia Tatarchenko:

/Soviet SCI_BERIA: The Politics of Expertise and the Novosibirsk Scientific Center/

www.bloomsbury.com/us/soviet-sc...

Perhaps blurb authors may reshare their blurbs too?

From First Cause to Faithful Cause A Tale of Logic, Beans, and the Credible Beliefs Between

Recent publication alert:

My primer on what "abductive reasoning" means

Short version: I don't know and I doubt Peirce knew either, but this piece was a hoot to write for a new community magazine

Enjoy!

www.wayfaremagazine.org/p/from-first...

The Planning Moment Empires and their aftermaths were massive planning institutions; in the past two hundred years, the natural and social sciences emerged—at least in part—...

I suspect you might groove to Egle's book, which examines the intellectual and institutional alternative genealogies of 20c "prediction" sciences...

Here's another recent publication that strays from "prediction" to "planning"

www.fordhampress.com/978153150663...

Afterword Afterword was published in Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society on page 261.

Recent open-source publication alert: Share?

/Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society/ ed Mirko Tobias Shaefer, Karin Es, and Tracey Lauriault

Delighted to have penned the afterword for this sterling volume building better collaborative data practices:

www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

RT: a new publication on prediction, statistics, and society in historical and global relief!

Rindzeviciute's /The Will to Predict/ in a roundtable conversation with Ashe, Boldryev, Tatarchenko, and me here:

networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Book:
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Seeking a Sociotechnical Systems Postdoc to start July 2025 Microsoft Research New England is looking for a postdoctoral researcher interested in bringing sociotechnical perspectives to analyze critical issues of our time. APPLICATION DEADLINE: November 22,…

Our group is hiring a postdoc. Applications due Nov 22. It’s a sweetheart job, self-directed research, mentoring, great colleagues and so many opportunities to learn new things. socialmediacollective.org/2024/10/07/s...

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