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professor @ Northwestern affiliate @ Harvard Berkman Klein jury @ Peabody Awards co-founder @weareotv BOOKS: Reparative Media, MIT Press Fall 2025 Media Reparations, coming soon on Polity The Cookout, out now ⬇️ http://linktr.ee/ajescoffery
> Blacksky didn’t begin with a pitch deck or a promise of disruption. It began with something much older and more enduring – a principle of mutual aid.
Mandatory reading for anyone that wants to work with or for @blackskyweb.xyz in the future.
Activists from Get Free holding a pride flag, a Juneteenth flag, and a banner with "History is under attack - fight back" written on it
BREAKING: This morning, our activists dropped a banner in NYC's American Museum of Natural History to ring the alarm over the MAGA regime’s whitewashing of our history & attacks on hard-won freedoms & rights.
If you're too hot for a fascist future, join us: www.getfreetogether.org/toohotforafa...
Hands holding a copy of "Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture" by Aymar Jèan Escoffery on a plain background. The cover features purple, blue, and pink illustrations of people holding tools for filming media.
"Aymar Jèan Escoffery is one of the most important thinkers and creators of our time. [Reparative Media] is the roadmap we need to repair from the deep divisions the internet has created among us." — @safiyanoble.bsky.social
Available #OpenAccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255326...
Bluesky community! This is my official NYC mayor account. I’ll be posting updates on what’s happening at City Hall and how we’re delivering for New Yorkers. It’s great to be here.
The cover of Reparative Media. It features a painting, in red, blue, and black, of a diverse cast of performing artists and filmmakers. They appear to be on a set and are variously operating and performing for filmmaking equipment.
The newest book from @ajescoffery.blacksky.app, Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture, is out! It reimagines how movies, TV, and a broader array of media can be made and distributed in inclusive and non-extractive ways. #openAccess
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Hats off to Barathunde Thurston for starting this conversation about the REAL story of the founding of democracy. Colonizers got the idea of democracy from Indigenous confederates but took out the feminism and true equality. atmos.earth/political-la...
Special insights from BlackSky founder @rude1.blacksky.team and regulars @sjjphd.bsky.social @morganelisej.thetriibe.com and host of other brilliant folks!!
Excited to release my project from my year as a visiting scholar at BKC Harvard! This report and the accompanying podcast asks: how can communities come together on social media platforms, and what barriers stand in the way of solidarity?
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Check out a new report on “Social Media & Tech Solidarity” from @ajescoffery.blacksky.app & The Media and Data Equity (MADE) Lab.
With wisdom from our own @deeptidoshi.bsky.social & Jeremy Knight!
“Community leaders are critical infrastructure for guiding and shaping norms, but they need support.”
why not opt-in? just ask permission first
if this is truly a positive feature then surely copyright holders will be happy to participate and have their work included if asked
just ask permission first
Blacksky the feed will always be Black only.
Blacksky-only posts on blacksky.community will be Black only.
you can think of Blacksky Algorithms the company as Reddit for AT Protocol. We will make other “subreddits”
Community been here for 2 years and company for 1 year. Im the founder of both.
As a former Washington Post reporter I’m ashamed of this news. There is nothing false or inflammatory in anything Karen Attiah wrote.
Canceling my subscription. I’m appalled by our democratic organizations’ inability to protect free speech for all in the face of rising fascism.
lol!
Proud to have worked with you!!
Speaking of which, the latest entry in MIT's Distribution Matters series (which I co-edit with Ramon Lobato) is "Reparative Media" by the ever-amazing @ajescoffery.bsky.social. It now has a gorgeous cover and a pre-order page (hint). So proud to have had the opportunity to work with Aymar. #commsky
Remember how I keep saying you have no business on Substack? You have no business on Substack.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-e...
We deserve our own.
I understand the allure of wanting to be a "carry guns and wear leather jackets" Black Panther but there's a case to be made that the most dangerous ones were the "feed kids breakfast and teach them about settler colonialism" Black Panthers
As part of this month's forum on Media & Fascism, @ajescoffery.bsky.social explores how experimental, community-based media practices can help us revitalize and reconstruct democracy. Check it out!
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I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.
Love this. We are going to watch the shit out of Ironheart, fam. Giving this the chance it missed due to COVID, production schedule backflips, leading man bullshit, moneymaking nonsense...
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So proud of you!
It was an honor to be hooded by my chair @ajescoffery.bsky.social
My book has a cover!
Reparative Media argues we can reimagine how we make media, how we connect through technology, and how we generate knowledge to heal our culture.
Cruel Capitalism: a forum on media and fascism by AJ Bauer and Paula Chakravartty in Communication, Culture and Critique: This article introduces a forum on "media and fascism" by reading tech oligarch and right-wing political operative Elon Musk as a nexus of international fascist tendencies. It notes contradictions in the affective promises of capitalism vis a vis the elimination of racialized and gendered state regulatory and social welfare functions and describes the role of violent repression in sustaining right-authoritarian political formations in the US and around the globe.
Check out my latest, with @paulachak.bsky.social, in @ccc-journal.bsky.social!
It introduces a forum we co-edited on "Media and Fascism," with a star-studded lineup! See the 🧵 below:
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This was so fun to write! Using Du Bois and reconstruction to talk about how media could help us survive authoritarianism.
@ajescoffery.bsky.social writes about reconstruction and reparative media.
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So I’m going to social media to ask my professor friends: is this true? Are y’all removing books by Black authors critiquing structural harm from your syllabi for fear of retribution?
The final nail in the coffin was when they said we would have to pay thousands of dollars to the press because no one would buy the book due to the anti-DEI backlash in the States.
Imagine: asking Black scholars to pay a white press money to publish a book about reparations!
