Cindy Ma

One week left to submit to our conference!

Discursive Misdirection AI is not intelligent and AI is not creative. But it is about labour.

Dusted up the PhD hat to co-author a piece with @nsalem.bsky.social about everyone’s (least) favourite topic - #AI. First of (we don’t know how) many.

Follow her tech timescapes stack for more of her work too.

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Thanks to the brilliant @rpaulint.bsky.social for the artwork. Hit him up for your poster needs! 👨‍🎨

🎨🎤 Excited to share the poster and confirmed keynotes for our Race & Media Conference @leedsunimedia.bsky.social next April! We are currently accepting proposals for papers, panels, and practice-based presentations. Find out more: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/raceandmedia...

Thanks to the brilliant @rpaulint.bsky.social for the artwork. Hit him up for your poster needs!

We've moved the CfP to a designated conference site, so please ignore the link above and use the following url instead: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/raceandmedia/

Thanks for your patience! You should now be able to find the CfP here:
conferences.leeds.ac.uk/raceandmedia/

Thank you for flagging! The page has been taken down as we set up a proper website for the event. I will share the updated link once it's available.

Race and Media Conference A major international conference exploring how race is constructed, represented and contested in media today, bringing together leading scholars across disciplines and methodologies

New CfP! 🚨📣 Excited to announce colleagues @leedsunimedia.bsky.social are organising a Race and Media conference on 22-23 April 2026. We're currently accepting proposals for papers/panels, including ones centred on creative practice. More details here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Toby has programmed a stellar lineup of speakers at the CAMRI seminar this term! Looking forward to sharing thoughts and observations from an early-stage project on ESEA digital activism in the wake of covid-19. I'll be in conversation with the brilliant Diana Yeh. Please come by, all welcome!

University of Waterloo says two PhD students killed in Gaza airstrike The University of Waterloo says twin sisters, who were set to start their PhD studies at the school, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.

"In the last few days, the twins were vibrant, bubbly, excited and full of dreams and ambitions. They constantly talked about their PhD study, jokingly calling each other Dr. Sally and Dr. Dalia, and talking about the things they want to do in Canada." 💔
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Right-wing studies’ time has come "Factual accuracy is a necessary but insufficient goal of professional journalism. Journalists need to compile facts into a vision of reality that is more compelling than that offered by right-wing me...

My latest for @niemanlab.org!

The Mis/Disinformation Paradigm has proven insufficient for understanding and counteracting Trump's appeal.

Journalism should embrace right-wing studies instead.

www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/righ...

My apologies to Wicked (and Cynthia Erivo in particular) I was absolutely not familiar with your game

I'm so happy to hear that! Please let me know if they have any interesting responses. And thanks again for coming!

Overcoming Far-Right Respectability: The Case for Systemic Approaches to Studying White Supremacy This contribution to the Forum collection traces the rhetorical strategies taken up by far-right actors to cast white supremacist ideas as “respectable” in the post-civil rights era, including the ...

It was a pleasure to reflect on the themes of the Anti-Racist Media Manifesto, alongside Maitrayee Basu! A thread running through our conversation: the "centre" has never been unproblematic or neutral, an idea I explore further in a recent essay for PolComm: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thank you for coming and for the kind words!

Last June, I was honoured to have @gavant.bsky.social serve as one of the examiners for my PhD viva. And tomorrow I'll get to (partly) return the favour as a respondent at the launch of his book, co-authored with @francescasobande.bsky.social & Anamik Saha. Come by if you're in Leeds! 📚💭

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Overcoming Far-Right Respectability: The Case for Systemic Approaches to Studying White Supremacy This contribution to the Forum collection traces the rhetorical strategies taken up by far-right actors to cast white supremacist ideas as “respectable” in the post-civil rights era, including the ...

The last 2 pieces of our special Forum section of Political Communication are now out!
@cindyxma.bsky.social argues that euphemistic labels and taking far-right reactionary claims at face value, affords respectability to positions rooted in white supremacy.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Political Communication Research is Unprepared for the Far Right In this introductory piece to a special issue of the Forum, we explore the inadequacies of the field of political communication in addressing the rising threats posed by illiberalism and the far ri...

Proud to have organized this forum w/ friends @qrdknpfr.bsky.social and @dkreiss.bsky.social inspired by some big questions we’ve been asking about how to better define, theorize and study the far-right. We invited four incredible scholars working from different paradigms on this question to join us