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Mark Carrigan and I are organising a workshop on the future of LLMs in Manchester on July 7<sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 16px;">.</span></div>

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<span style="font-size: 16px;">The title is almost self-explanatory: 'Waiting for the Crash – Sketching the Enshittified Future of Large Language Models</span>’<span style="font-size: 16px;">. The idea is to invite colleagues, at any stage in their career,

 to come up with <i>speculative case studies </i>on how LLMs will transform vis-à-vis expectations of the AI bubble bursting and emerging monetization strategies.</span></div>

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Travel and accommodation funding will be available to participants without other sources of support.</div>

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<p style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 9pt; color: black;"><b>João C. Magalhães</b></span></p>

<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 9pt; color: black;">Senior Lecturer in AI Trust and Security

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 of Art, Languages, and Cultures</a></span></p>

<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Head of the AI Trust and Security Cluster |

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Centre for Digital Trust and Society</a></span></p>

<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 9pt; color: black;">University of Manchester</span></p>

<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(4, 74, 145);"><u><a style="color: rgb(4, 74, 145); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-ogsc="rgb(4, 74, 145)" data-outlook-id="b4de41b2-6bfe-455f-b25f-b6bea272a87d" title="https://jcmagalhaes.com/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA204ae5d3-4dc5-f12c-71b4-8af7442cc66b" href="https://jcmagalhaes.com/">https://jcmagalhaes.com/</a></u></span></p>

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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 7pt; color: black;"><b>Selected publications</b>:

</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 7pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-outlook-id="0caa067b-c91d-4416-b1ad-5b6a9fa01a56" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA76c14c96-e5d8-5711-16ff-0ab124a8f293" href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448261424889?_gl=1*97g6hw*_up*MQ..*_ga*OTU5MTk5NDYwLjE3NzM3NDkzMTc.*_ga_60R758KFDG*czE3NzM3NDkzMTYkbzEkZzAkdDE3NzM3NDkzMTYkajYwJGwwJGgxOTcyNDIyMDEy">The

 emergence of platform illiberalism, 2026 </a></u></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 7pt; color: black;">(<i>New Media & Society</i>, w/ Clara Iglesias Keller and Rob Gorwa) |

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Socially blind engineering in Facebook's foundational technologies, 2025</a> (<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9.33333px;">Philosophy<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 7pt; color: black;"> & Technology,

 w/ Nick Couldry) </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9.33333px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">|

</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 7pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-ogsc="rgb(5, 99, 193)" data-outlook-id="ad817393-e667-4c2c-8d78-de75ba662005" title="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2025.2522281#d1e238" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA6ae5ea8e-d78e-cbf0-382b-284ddd1136e3" href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2025.2522281#d1e238">Open-ended

 technological inevitability in journalistic discourses about AI, 2025</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 7pt; color: black;"> (<i>Digital Journalism</i>, w/ Rik Smit) |

</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 7pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-ogsc="rgb(5, 99, 193)" data-outlook-id="53743763-875e-48f1-a01c-27f828305e0a" title="https://academic.oup.com/joc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/joc/jqad015/7204763?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=joc&utm_medium=email&guestAccessKey=fe630b65-d137-4378-bfb2-44026df942a7&login=false" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA8b45903f-a0d7-c6bc-14fd-a9b115bba2b8" href="https://academic.oup.com/joc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/joc/jqad015/7204763?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=joc&utm_medium=email&guestAccessKey=fe630b65-d137-4378-bfb2-44026df942a7&login=false">A

 history of objectionability in Twitter’s moderation practices, 2023</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 7pt; color: black;"> (<i>Journal of Communication</i>, w/ Emillie de Keulenaar, Bharath Ganesh) |

</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 7pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-ogsc="rgb(5, 99, 193)" data-outlook-id="3d4f791a-91ea-44bb-a92d-b2e3825b871f" title="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2022-0040/html" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA306da749-d12c-0264-788a-d4f4235d554e" href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/commun-2022-0040/html">Social

 media, social unfreedom, 2022 </a></u></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 7pt; color: black;">(<i>Communications</i>, w/ Jun Yu) |

</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 7pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-ogsc="rgb(5, 99, 193)" data-outlook-id="eb4e9d2e-b5e3-49d5-9de4-0a67f966f420" title="https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/15995" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA79de1cc3-8815-c25b-8505-f06b199cd3f7" href="https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/15995">Big Tech,

 data colonialism and the reconfiguration of social good, 2021</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 7pt; color: black;"> (<i>International Journal of Communication</i>, w/ Nick Couldry) |

</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 7pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-ogsc="rgb(5, 99, 193)" data-outlook-id="967ad251-040e-408b-860b-793fbd62e18e" title="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305118768301" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA435ea916-34bc-b346-a8b4-fa87652932a3" href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305118768301">Considering

 algorithmic ethical subjectivation, 2018</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 7pt; color: black;"> (<i>Social Media + Society</i>)</span></p>

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