Kean Birch

keanbirch.bsky.social

26 July 2026 08:30

Just out w/ @jacobhell.bsky.social - "Cloud assets and the “unit of compute”: Market dominance in commercial computing" #assetization #cloudcomputing #datacentres #bigtech || journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ben Williamson

benpatrickwill.bsky.social

09 June 2026 15:40

This is a line in it that @jkom.bsky.social would appreciate too - "asset-based logics have taken hold, for example, in universities where researchers are managed as reputational assets whose visibility and citation counts shape the organisation’s market position."

Karen Gregory

karengregory.bsky.social

26 May 2026 15:19

Happy to organise this event with @jkom.bsky.social THE LABOUR THE LAW FORGOT. THE COMMODIFICATION OF EVERYONE’S COGNITIVE-RELATIONAL WORK IN THE AI ECONOMY www.de.ed.ac.uk/event/michel... cc @uoe-sps.bsky.social

Katie Lumsden

katiejlumsden.bsky.social

05 May 2026 13:46

I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.

Ben Williamson

benpatrickwill.bsky.social

30 April 2026 13:15

Once academics were told to upload teaching materials to digital learning platforms, universities and tech firms alike were always going to monetize it. Now AI is being used to amplify the assetization of those digital archives of academic content. codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/a...