This interview and more, including the latest installment of Sage Your Algorithm highlighting a dynamic YouTube researcher and commenter, as well as staff rec content from @techpolicypress.bsky.social, @npquarterly.bsky.social, @dissentmag.bsky.social, and @defector.com. Happy reading!
25.02.2026 22:07
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"There is real everyday media that we don’t think is that important. My goodness, if somebody could look at the stuff on your phone a hundred years from now — some of it, not all of it — what it would share about how we live and what we believe would just be incredible!" - Jacqueline Stewart
25.02.2026 22:07
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Professor Jacqueline Stewart, a Hyde Park native, founded the SSHMP in 2005, after developing an interest in non-theatrical and “orphan” films, as well as creative reuse of personal media. 20 years later, the archive is still growing.
25.02.2026 22:07
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Resisting Archival Silences & Dispossession: The South Side Home Movie Project
A conversation with Jacqueline Stewart
The newest edition of The Revival Letter visits the South Side Home Movie Project and their efforts to resist archival silences and dispossession.
www.therevivallab.org/resisting-ar...
25.02.2026 22:07
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Capture Hearts, Not Data
By Dr. Reagan Nicole Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and, if you’re single, you may be tempted to download (or re-download) a dating app to meet someone new. If you decide to turn to online…
"All I want for Valentine's Day is for you, dear reader, to hold your biometric data close."
Dating apps are becoming surveillance tools. Dr. Reagan Nicole explains the connections between Match Group, facial recognition, and government surveillance @revivallab.bsky.social:
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Judge advances Black residents’ lawsuit against Louisiana parish
Organizations allege that St. James Parish has discriminated against Black residents by allowing chemical facilities in “Cancer Alley”
Black residents’ lawsuit against Louisiana parish may proceed, judge rules. Community organizations allege that St. James Parish has discriminated against Black residents by allowing chemical facilities in majority Black areas, dubbed “Cancer Alley,” ray levy uyeda reports.
12.02.2026 19:35
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Capture Hearts, Not Data
By Dr. Reagan Nicole
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and, if you’re single, you may be tempted to download (or re-download) a dating app to meet someone new. If you decide to turn to online dati...
New in today's Revival Letter: It's almost Valentine's Day and we have a dystopian love story about the relationship between dating apps and surveillance tech. Match Group is working with a company that is also quite cozy with DHS. www.therevivallab.org/capture-hear...
11.02.2026 21:44
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"The dating app experience is a particularly vulnerable one. Users provide data to online platforms in hopes of finding meaningful connections, and they deserve safety, which includes safety from surveillance." www.therevivallab.org/capture-hear...
11.02.2026 21:44
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Match Group owns 5 of the 6 largest dating apps, and 45 in total. "Little competition also means that Match Group has less incentive to invest in robust data security," says Dr. Reagan Nicole. www.therevivallab.org/capture-hear...
11.02.2026 21:44
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Capture Hearts, Not Data
By Dr. Reagan Nicole
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and, if you’re single, you may be tempted to download (or re-download) a dating app to meet someone new. If you decide to turn to online dati...
New in today's Revival Letter: It's almost Valentine's Day and we have a dystopian love story about the relationship between dating apps and surveillance tech. Match Group is working with a company that is also quite cozy with DHS. www.therevivallab.org/capture-hear...
11.02.2026 21:44
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"Did you know a Black woman by the name of Hazel Scott had a nationwide TV show in 1950 where she addressed all of the United States as her peers? I didn’t. And maybe that’s because McCarthy didn’t just blacklist her, he erased her." - Cristina Escobar
Read more: pressingissues.org/5-things-i-l...
10.02.2026 20:35
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This is tonight! Join @aapf.org and @freepress.bsky.social for a "The Story of Us" virtual broadcast and live talkback.
11.02.2026 15:00
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Really great breakdown reminding folks that Ring has a LONG history of privacy violations and shady partnerships with law enforcement.
10.02.2026 17:30
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Listen to @pastorkathleen.bsky.social and read @andreagrimes.com 's latest:
www.theflytrapmedia.com/dehumanizing...
10.02.2026 14:47
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"The violent attacks DHS has unleashed on our streets have left me reflecting on the work of my friend, Brandi Collins-Dexter, to make sense of our nation's ongoing crisis."
@josephtorr.bsky.social on @revivallab.bsky.social: https://www.therevivallab.org/media-power-and-my-friend-brandi/
07.02.2026 14:34
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Thank you to @freepress.bsky.social and @josephtorr.bsky.social for helping spread the word about The Revival Lab and the work of Brandi Collins-Dexter. We're working to build something she'd be proud of.
03.02.2026 20:15
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"We know it's possible to create Black media and tech outlets that support the community's well-being, since such outlets have existed for 200 years." -
@josephtorr.bsky.social
Join @revivallab.bsky.social's newsletter for timely analysis of media, race, and tech: www.therevivallab.org#/portal
03.02.2026 15:43
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"Brandi knew that consolidation resulted in the loss of Black-owned media outlets that had provided public spaces for the nourishment of Black political thought." -
@josephtorr.bsky.social
Read more from @revivallab.bsky.social: www.therevivallab.org/media-power-...
03.02.2026 15:37
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Free Press reflects on the work of Brandi Collins-Dexter.
@revivallab.bsky.social is Brandi's brainchild: A research and storytelling initiative demanding information justice, dignity, and opportunity for all.
@josephtorr.bsky.social writes on her legacy: www.therevivallab.org/media-power-...
03.02.2026 15:34
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Media, Power, and My Friend Brandi
By Joseph Torres
The violent attacks the Department of Homeland Security has unleashed on our streets have left me reflecting on the work of my friend, Brandi Collins-Dexter, in an effort to make sen...
Thank you @revivallab.bsky.social (Revival Lab) for the honor in allowing me to write this column about my friend, the late Brandi Collins-Dexter, and the impact she had on me and on the struggle for media justice.
29.01.2026 17:13
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”For decades, media consolidation has been the silent war waged on Black communities. When people try that hard to steal your voice, we all ought to be worried.”
This and so much of Brandi Collins-Dexter's brilliance, lifted up in this essay by @josephtorr.bsky.social for @revivallab.bsky.social
29.01.2026 18:48
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Brandi's Dream
Brandi Collins-Dexter didn’t take to public speaking naturally. She was an introvert, and early in her career, Brandi used to workshop press quotes and speeches with me. I cherished those moments and…
"Now is the time to go back out into the world and resume rewriting the script."
Our 2025 Parker Award recipient Brandi Collins-Dexter spent her life fighting for media that serves all of us.
@revivallab.bsky.social — her final project — will carry that work forward.
29.01.2026 21:09
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