[Air-L] Workshops on social media, AI and politics

[Ira Solomatina]

Dear colleagues,


We at LMU’s Small Platforms research group are organising a series of
workshops on the state of social media platforms and AI that may be of
interest to your BA and MA students. The workshops will take place in
Berlin, London and Nairobi during May and June 2026.


We would appreciate it if you could share information about the workshops
with your students. A full description is below.


Feel free to write me if you have any questions at all.


Many thanks!


*Relevant dates:*


13–15 May, London @ Goldsmiths


19–21 May, Berlin @ silent green


10–12 June, Nairobi @ British Council


All the best,

Ira Solomatina, postdoctoral researcher i.solomatina at lmu.de



Social Media, AI and Politics – An immersive Workshop

How do we understand social media and AI as communicators? What have they
done to our social and political life? How do we untether ourselves and
reflect on what binds us to social media and AI—each day and every
instance—of this hypermediated attention economy?


Join us for this immersive 3-day workshop where we will deep dive into one
of the most important conversations of our time. The workshop features
masterclasses, learning seminars, interactive games, and collaborative
exercises—to together think through AI and social media. You will create
and analyze fakes, play games, participate in lectures, do podcasts and get
busy with “data”. Participation is free. No travel bursaries will be
offered to participants. Lunch, snacks and drinks will be served on all
three days of the workshop. With the participants’ consent, selected
discussions and interactive sessions conducted during the workshop can
contribute to the facilitators’ ethnographic research on media, technology
and society. The consent form will be handed out on the first day of the
workshop. Participation is voluntary. All information will be treated
confidentially. The workshop is hosted by Center for Digital Dignity, LMU
Munich, Germany, and organized as part of the European Research Council
Project, SMALLPLATFORMS, Facilitators: Sahana Udupa (Principal
Investigator), Ira Solomatina, Job Mwaura, Craig Ryder and Neelabh Gupta
(Postdoctoral Researchers), and Bastian Buitkamp (Research Associate).



SMALLPLATFORMS (“Beyond the Big Tech: Contentious Speech on Small
Platforms”) is a 5-year project (2025-2029) funded by the European Research
Council Consolidator Grant. It explores small social media platforms in a
cross-cultural context, through fieldwork in Germany, India, Kenya and the
UK. Using a critical cultural model, the project explores whether and in
what way forms of contentious speech are associated with practices on small
platforms and how they differ from dynamics on big platforms. For more
information, see https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101122348.



Register for Berlin:
https://www.small-platforms.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/workshop/social-media-ai-and-politics-an-immersive-workshop-in-berlin/


Register for London:
https://www.small-platforms.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/workshop/social-media-ai-and-politics-an-immersive-workshop-in-london/


Register for Nairobi:
https://www.small-platforms.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/workshop/social-media-ai-and-politics-an-immersive-workshop-in-nairobi/
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