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Healthy Users: The Governance of Well-Being on Social Media with Niall Docherty (U California Press, 2025)

We are often told that social media well-being is simply the result of individual users making healthy digital choices. All it takes is a little self-discipline. In Healthy Users: The Governance of Well-Being on Social Media (U California Press, 2025) Niall Docherty looks closely ... Show more

. 22min 17sec

AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex with Anthony King (Princeton UP, 2025)

Will artificial intelligence soon be fighting our wars for us? Could a machine ever command an army? Anthony King is skeptical. In AI, Automation, and War: The Rise of a Military-Tech Complex (Princeton University Press, 2025), he argues that AI is changing war less by replacing ... Show more

. 53min 5sec

Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life with Mona Sloane (U California Press, 2026)

How AI is rewiring our social fabric—and how we can better shape our future. The age of AI is not what you think. Rather than ushering in a fourth Industrial Revolution, AI has become a crucial social infrastructure of everyday life. It's embedded in the tools, platforms, and sys ... Show more

. 40min 46sec

Governance by Emulation: The Oversight Board, the Digital Services Act, and the Struggle for Platform Accountability with Moritz A. Schramm (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Social media giants like Meta and transnational regulators such as the European Union are transforming private governance by creatively emulating public law frameworks. Drawing on exclusive interviews and in-depth analysis of Meta's Oversight Board and the EU's Digital Services ... Show more

. 43min 42sec