René König

Feminist Futures of Work: Reimagining Labour in the Digital Economy by @3Lmantra, @usharaman and @R_Koenig offers insights that can help us think through inclusive and feminist futures of work. @NewBooksNetwork @NewBooksSoc @AmsterdamUPress newbooksnetwork.com/feminist-futur…

@saschadickel Von mir auch alles Gute! Sehr verdient.

Superbrands are often in the spotlight for bad working conditions. But are underdogs really the better alternative? A conversation with #CSR specialist Linnea Thompson challenged @r_koenig’s perspective. Find out why. #superbrands femlab.co/2021/04/02/sup…

Read why @3Lmantra thinks #honour has no place in the world of labour: “No human being should be valued based on what work they engage in, rather it should be on the level of integrity they bring to that job". #futureofwork femlab.co/2020/10/31/the…

🤖New @BKCHarvard paper together with @JonasKaiser - about problems with automatic #bot detection tools. Conclusion: as social scientists we should be extremely cautious with these tools 🧵👇papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

I wouldn´t count on universities when it comes to fighting gaming citations. They are part of the problem. businessinsider.com/best-college-r…

What are the potential side-effects of an #antitrust lawsuit against #Google, e.g. for @mozilla? This question should get more attention. #GOOGLEANTITRUST

Klage gegen #Google: "Es könnte sich um das größte kartellrechtliche Verfahren in den USA seit Jahrzehnten handeln." Wird spannend. spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unt…

“The practical and ethical challenges in acquiring and sharing digital trace data: Negotiating public-private partnerships” by @MattEagle09, @LibbyBishopPhi & @ka_kinder journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… #trackedsociety

“The emotive politics of digital mood tracking” by @luke_stark twitter.com/luke_stark/sta… #trackedsociety

Very happy our special issue “The Tracked Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches on Online Tracking” is out at New Media & Society. Edited by myself & @ABIDA_DE colleagues Steffen Uphues, Verena Vogt, Barbara Kolany-Raiser. #trackedsociety journals.sagepub.com/toc/nms/22/11

Die @tagesschau stellt ab sofort ausgewählte Videos unter Creative Commons und ermöglicht damit eine komfortable und rechtssichere Nutzung zu nicht-kommerziellen Zwecken: tagesschau.de/multimedia/vid…

In my last blog I have argued for a more optimistic perspective on #digitalplatforms. But of course, a lot remains to be done. I totally agree with my @FemlabC colleague @pallavibansal9's call for "humanizing algorithms".

Human Rights Watch recently revisited the social-media evidence it had cited in its public reports between 2007 and 2020. It found that 11% of it had vanished econ.trib.al/kzP8hP3