AH, you are too kind Marcus! Hope to see you soon, somewhere in a random spot of the world.
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AH, you are too kind Marcus! Hope to see you soon, somewhere in a random spot of the world.
Ha, but you should definitely restart your blog!
(just a random thought: I feel like "writing in a blog" is the equivalent for academics of "let's start a band.")
Thank you so much for sharing! (And yes, blogging is fun! It felt like recovering the love for writing.)
"Now what? We can immerse ourselves in endless streams of horrendous videos or try to increase our resistance in order to being better equipped to withstand, recover, and continue functioning somewhat clearly despite the cognitive assaults."
Thank you so much my friend!
War is now a content format.
We scroll past bombings between selfies and sponsored posts. The platforms framing it for us are not neutral: they shape whose suffering registers and whose deaths we're taught to ignore.
New (first?) blog post! esteban-morales.com/blog/the-spe...
In Latin America is still ongoing. Sadly.
FANTASTIC! Thank you so much. (Hope you are doing alright! Has been a while since we ran into each other at a conference).
THANK YOU! I will share this with them :) but you definitely set a high standard.
I am teaching a digital culture research seminar this term and I shared @jessmaddox.bsky.social newsletter with the students—they absolutely loved it.
Students are now asking me if I know of any other similar newsletters. Any recommendations? I am trying to compile a public list.
Some personal news, as they say.
Get your submissions ready for when our portal opens February 12. As the founding editor-in-chief of the new Springer Nature academic journal Creator and Influencer Studies, I’m thrilled to welcome them.
link.springer.com/journal/44538
Congrats!!!
The hallucination loop we live in.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
¿Pero por qué?, ¿por sentir que el cambio que imaginamos de izquierda no es posible o que no es deseable? Pregunto porque yo ando pensando un poco en lo mismo.
Spending some time in Colombia makes me weak. It's 18°C and I AM COLD.
Meme of 1984 calendar edited to say every fuckign year since 1890 with "the US is attempting regime change in Latin America"
waking up in 2026
Sí, lo mismo. Qué carajos.
Ah shit.
Same friend, same.
Peer review requests are a tad out of control this month, huh?
Of course it f&&king is. Please don't use GenAI for news. Please don't use Grok for anything.
Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting www.theverge.com/news/844443/...
This kind of statements—when read within the historical framework of coloniality—are so horribly cynical.
I am going to start counting the number of academic papers, books, or theses that begin with a quote from Calle 13's "Latinoamerica." So far, it's FOUR—that I know of.
(It is such a great song tho, I get it) www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkFJ...
[It has been a while, BUT] New annotated resource on #SocialMediaViolence:
The intimacy triple bind: Structural inequalities and relational labour in the influencer industry, by @zoeglatt.bsky.social
Read my notes here: esteban-morales.com/lit-review-v...
As an institution you don't have to just be sad about stuff. You can also refuse to comply, go to court, fight, or shut yourself down.
At least this year they also called me old. That’s new.
In brief, we review how digital cultures have evolved over two decades, involving key shifts:
• A pluralization of voices and perspectives
• Expanding methods + theories for studying digital life
We created a short OA booklet with the key findings, available here: pressbooks.bccampus.ca/ccdw/
New resource: Culture & Communication in Digital Worlds: A 2025 Review
In 2004, Macfadyen et al. published a major review of research on culture and communication in online environments. Twenty years later, we revisit the field to ask what has changed.
More info: digitalcultures.ca
