Chafic Tony Najem

📱🔒 Smuggled phones are reshaping life in Lebanon’s prisons.

chaficnajem.bsky.social‬ shows how inmates use illicit tech to reclaim mobility, share realities, & resist confinement - showing the power & limits of digital connectivity.

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My latest, Digital Carceral Mobilities, is out now with @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social!
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I may not have a lot of interesting things to say, but I sure know how to act like I do!
@iamcr.org was hectic, but fun!

Arab Digitalities is on at #IAMCR2025 a panel organized by @chaficnajem.bsky.social for the @iasnuq.bsky.social at @nuqatar.bsky.social Chafic is the first speaker, on Buying Time and Temporal Capital

Now @iasnuq.bsky.social postdoc @chaficnajem.bsky.social presenting his work on Digital Carceral Mobilities at #IAMCR2025 @nuqatar.bsky.social

Yesterday’s @iasnuq.bsky.social #ICA25 preconf Echoes & Overlaps in Arab & African Thought on Media & Culture in partnership with the Center for Media, Religion, & Culture in Boulder featured stimulating & generous conversations on an important yet understudied topic.

Prison media mobilization: smuggled technologies and media practices in Lebanese carceral spaces

Read our latest article by @chaficnajem.bsky.social'on smuggled digital technologies and how incarcerated people in Lebanon make their voices heard. With lessons for those interested in abolition media everywhere! Now available from @ccc-journal.bsky.social!

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