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I would like to thank Steve Watson and Erik Brezovec for their thoughtful response to my article Generative AI—The Transgression of Technology, and particularly for their faithful representation of my theoretical arguments and their well-informed acceptance of its central premises. Read their response: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sres.70170  My…

Translation of an op-ed originally published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten May 1. 2026 by Jesper Tække. Across schools and universities, students are increasingly unsure whether using artificial intelligence counts as learning or cheating. Teachers, meanwhile, face a different problem: if assignments can now be…

Reflections after Axel Bruns’ Visit When Axel Bruns visited the Centre for Internet Research for our 25th anniversary, his lecture challenged some of the most commonly repeated metaphors in contemporary media discourse: “echo chambers” and “filter bubbles.” Since then, I have been reflecting on his…

In this short essay, concerning why we are tracking, I will try to frame tracking as an evolutionary developed skill that humans need to survive. From an evolutionary point zero life must reflect upon itself in regard to its surrounding world as a kind of…

With Facebook we see a built in commercialization of our communication infrastructure to an unprecedented degree. Instead of choosing transparency, Facebook chooses to build its own business motives invisibly into the software architecture, so that it becomes a nonhuman actor. Behind our back Facebook monitors…