I am thrilled to see “From interAsian to transAsian digitalities” out:
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This issue of First Monday is the culmination of @iasnuq.bsky.social 's #InterAsianDigitalities initiative in partnership with #ACSS
me every 7 months
how have i survived 20 years in academia without using zotero?
"These companies are at an inflection point.... If Senate Republicans now vote to prohibit states from regulating A.I. for 10 years, Silicon Valley’s impunity will be enshrined in law, cementing these companies’ empire status."
- @karenhao.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Listen to me talk about Pope memes on the 21st Show!
This was such a fun conversation. Thank you for having my on the show!
Ok about to go do the same
the Imperial Internet is a graduate seminar course offered in fall 2025 under the course codes MTS 525 and COMM ST 425. It will be held on Thursday from 2pm until 4:50pm.
Course description: From its early days, the internet was imbued in liberatory and democratizing promises. Yet, it was constructed with a set of desires, namely, of American elites, and is situated within a set of unequal relationships. In this class, we will examine the links between the internet and imperialism–the ideological and material expressions of conquest and domination, which divide the world between zones of extraction and centers of capital. We will be discussing different facets of the internet: from its history and material infrastructures, to its culture and labor relations, and its design and uses. The course will include readings on surveillance, content moderation, predictive algorithms, AI targeting systems, creative uses to counteract censorship and critique politics, as well as foundational texts on technology and imperialism and post/colonialism.
Attention Northwestern folks, I’m offering this grad seminar again! Preregistration starts Monday!
I see I’m in good company ♥️
Activists don’t let that stop them. In our interviews with them, they shared the creative textual and visual maneuvering tactics they use: from creative emoji usage to chopping up words.. while this does not tear down layered surveillance, activists use these tactics to gain agency over narrative
What we conceptualize as “layered surveillance” are the compounding structures that simultaneously overlay Palestinian speech: social media companies’ surveillance, the colonial Occupation, the authoritarian gov, the workplace, and familial or societal networks. Check out our paper for more
My article on “layered surveillance” and creative ways activists maneuvered it in the 2021 #SaveSheikhJarrah movement is now out in @ijoc-usc.bsky.social
This was a great collab with Dana Hasan and Amal Nazzal @ Birzeit university, so please check their other work as well!
ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
I was told you guys are alright so I came back to bluesky
If you are wondering how to help a family in Gaza directly, go to www.gazafunds.com
All the campaigns there have been vetted.
@zidani.bsky.social examines a dataset of tweets that used the hashtag #Tweet_Like_Its_Free during the 2021 Unity Intifada. She notes that “tweeting, as a practice in digital civic imagination, is rehearsing for liberation.”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thank you 🌱☀️
In my latest publication, I examine a dataset of 600 tweets from June 2021 which use the hashtag #Tweet_Like_Its_Free #غرد_كانها_حرة to explore collective imagining online as a civic media practice. Please message me if you don’t have access, I can send you a copy
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Omg cool! Did not know about starter packs
#alttext #tl;dr my new undergraduate seminar in communication studies at Northwestern University titled Going Viral examines the complex interplay between media, virality, visibility, economy, and power on the internet.
Thank you!
Is there no #alttext option on BlueSky? I couldn’t find it!
🎤🎤 Are there any undergraduate students on here? If you know any Northwestern students, please share my new class w them!
I don’t think it’s very niche. But maybe I’m just in a similar niche 😐
wait till you hear about content moderators
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