alice e marwick

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In the early 2010s, I formed the Selfie Researcher Network with a bunch of other great comm/media/internet scholars. This week my dear husband fixed all the broken links and added it to Github. Witness 2014's most cutting edge scholarship: www.selfieresearchers.com

Shocking to no women in academia

I've read so many sci-fi novels where coffee becomes nonviable due to this, what will i do if this comes true

Feb 26: Join researchers @livgar.bsky.social & @briana-v.bsky.social, in conversation with Luca Belli, @mbogen.bsky.social & @marlynnweimd.bsky.social, as they explore ongoing research on mental health and chatbots, and how to navigate a profound shift in care. datasociety.net/events/menta...

UPDATE: ThredUp got back to me and despite claiming my bags were still stained and unfit to sell, credited me $100 for them. I am satisfied with that outcome but still won't be using the site again.

NO we totally should. Except now all my clothes have gone to ThredUp lol

At this point, I am going back to Goodwill/Buy Nothing. And I'm continuing to rent most of my clothes so that I don't accumulate clothes I don't wear. Even high end clothing has almost no resale value. There's just too much of it.

I washed both bags before sending and they were pristine. Guess which two items were rejected? Yup, those two. Why? For being "stained and/or unclean." Meanwhile, all the other stuff got listed. Redditors had warned me about employees stealing high-end stuff & selling it but I didn't listen.

I read a lot of Reddit threads and ascertained that the Premium bag would make the most sense. You send in a bag of clothes, they take $30 off the top and anything you make after that you keep. I sent mall fashion (Lulu, Madewell) plus two high value items: a Longchamp bag & Marc Jacobs diaper bag.

So I have a lot of clothes and am always experimenting with reselling. I don't have time/energy to sell on Poshmark (love buying there). RealReal is fine for high end. I used to do Beacon's/Crossroads/Buffalo but now I don't have time and they don't take much. So I tried ThredUp....

Not as much on the moon

On the other hand-- our invitations? METICULOUSLY DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTED. Still think they were the prettiest invitations I've ever seen.

I hired a wedding planner for my wedding (13 years ago) and thank god I did. Even with that I was bad at making decisions. Like, what flowers do I want? I don't know. I don't care. White roses are fine.

I LOVED Wuthering Heights. I could go on about this all day, but I'm dismayed at the "online discourse" - it seems to be a) style over substance (yes, that's why the audience was all sobbing) b) unfaithful adaptation (absolutely the first time a filmmaker has ever done this) c) not enough sex (??!!)

Bonus: read my two papers on ConspiracyTok: In Social Media & Society [OA] journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... and the Journal of Info Tech & Politics tiara.org/wp-content/u... [PDF on my website]

What’s in the Epstein files? For Tiktokers, a content gold mine Driven by both institutional mistrust and the need to go viral, Epstein theories are clogging up TikTok.

I'm in @theverge.com today talking about how QAnon, ConspiracyTok, and actual conspiracies are colliding in the Epstein files: www.theverge.com/tech/878380/...

Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’

“Faculty are walking on eggshells. Administrators are walking on eggshells. Students are walking on eggshells. And what you get is the opposite of free speech.” #USA #highered #academia #surveillance www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

By the way, Gelerntner has been a longtime critic of women in the workforce and also a longtime favorite of the tech-right; in 2016, Peter Thiel nominated him for the role of Science Advisor to the President, although his influence in Silicon Valley long predates that.

New! Anuli Akanegbu’s report “(404) Job Not Found” interrogates what it means to be perceived as “AI literate” in today’s labor market, & how those perceptions are shaping the career outcomes of Black workers who are already navigating a wide range of inequities. 1/6 datasociety.net/library/404-...

Congrats, how exciting!

Age Verification Is Reaching a Global Tipping Point. Is TikTok’s Strategy a Good Compromise? TikTok’s new age-detection tech seems like a better solution than automatically banning youth accounts. But experts say it still requires social platforms to surveil users more closely.

TikTok’s age-detection tech “will inevitably expand systematic data collection, creating new privacy risks without any clear evidence that it improves youth safety,” Director of Research @alicetiara.bsky.social tells @wired.com. www.wired.com/story/age-ve...

As they should dude

I gotta hire those Etsy witches ✨

That’s gotta be it. Could not possibly have something to do with JK Rowling turning into the queen of TERF island and alienating her entire lefty/queer/feminist/weirdo fan base, who now refuse to read the books to their kids

OK now i'm going to waste several cycles today thinking about how i would answer this and why it's O RLY

dude you're in Sweden!! That's so awesome

i bought em

i mean, i am personally hilarious but i don't think my bsky accurately reflects my effervescent personality

I’ve been listening to Answer Me This for a million years, I was so happy when they revived it

My husband @harryh.bsky.social in his unlikely role as an @opennewyork.org influencer www.instagram.com/reel/DTx756L...