Hindu-Muslim violence is changing: till recently riots were instrumentalised to polarise the voters & help BJP win elections; today BJP is in office: pogroms, lynchings, bulldozers are the order of the day. A great special issue of CSA explains why and how www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In this issue, you’ll find outstanding texts by Soma Basu on the Delhi riots, by Vihang Jumle on the situation of Muslims in Mumbai today, by Nidah Kaiser on the many facets of anti-Muslim persecution in UP & Fahad Zuberi on the Hindu nationalist use of bulldozer. @sciencespo

When your own university decides to highlight your work and suddenly it’s a full-on photo-sess and such… 😎 About my research and life in #Finland: www.tuni.fi/en/tau/news-... Thanks, Tampere Research Centre for Communication Sciences and @koneensaatio.fi!

Thanks, @jaffrelot.bsky.social, for this brilliant introduction to the #BASAS @csajournal.bsky.social Special Issue: New Forms of Anti-Muslim Violence in India: Hindu Xenophobia in the Post-Instrumental Era. Introduction link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“And in the face of that certainty (death), we can only love as ardently as we can, for as long as we are here.” Reminiscing about love in Kolkata cemeteries in this very cool article by @varishatariq.bsky.social for @vogueindia.bsky.social. www.vogue.in/content/gen-...

#MustRead: Nidah Kaiser's new article in Contemporary South Asia examines the transition of ethno-religious violence beyond episodic or spontaneous, toward a broader ethnocratic order. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

10 years. A love letter to diversity workers. And gratitude for my complaint collective. substack.com/@feministkil...

In my new article, I examine Delhi’s drains as “haunted infrastructures” of violence. Through sensory ethnography, I explore how everyday spaces come to hold memory, rumor, and anticipation of conflict, shaping how violence is lived, remembered, and imagined over time. #OpenAccess: bit.ly/4NulLaH

@kaarinan.bsky.social’s research explores how emotions shape how we interpret and act through media. Through her work on #MediaSolidarities, she shows how media can also generate new forms of collective connection. More about her work: shorturl.at/ygss8 #MediaStudies #TampereUniversity #Finland

💡 New Special Issue (Eds: @corneliabrantner.bsky.social, @kaarinan.bsky.social & Georgia Aitaki) explores #DigitalGeographiesOfHope: how action, solidarity, alternative futures emerge in a datafied, platformized world. From feminist & anti-war organizing to AI governance debates tinyurl.com/37rb2v6k

Thought-provoking afternoon at TARU, Tampere University, with a screening of #HumansInTheLoop. Thanks to writer-director Aranya Sahay & audiences in Finland & India (NIT Silchar) for a discussion on hidden invisible labour, language hierarchies and data colonisation. #AIEthics #PluriversalAI

Most comprehensive study yet of Assam’s Foreigners Tribunals — It reveals a legal system in deep crisis: over 165,000 people have already been declared “foreigners,” with 85,000+ cases pending and more than 1 million NRC appeals headed to these opaque tribunals. 
RSVP: forms.gle/Tr9wWaTHaTpF...

Thanks Nidah Kaiser for organising this workshop - Progressive Patriarchs: Manifestations of Patriarchy in Liberal Spaces - and giving me the opportunity to moderate the panel on Patriarchal Scripts in Intimate, Digital and Legal Lives. Such a space for solidarity and affirmative action!

📢 #CFP: Digital Mediation & Urban Spatialities in Contemporary India (Full description attached) 🗓 Abstracts (≤300w) due: July 15, 2025 📘 To be published in a peer-reviewed South Asia journal by Brill 📩 Submit: [email protected] #UrbanStudies #DigitalIndia #SouthAsia

#LatePost: @hindustan-times.bsky.social interviewed me and published a story based on my research on "crying videos". Link to the original research: bit.ly/45UIBkK Story link: www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/ar... #CryingVideos #SadBait #Selfies #MediaStudies #ScreenCultures

What does backgammon have to do with Playboy? This talk explores how 20th century media encoded masculinity, intimacy, and control through board games, tech, and leisure aesthetics. #GameStudies #MediaHistory #PlayboyArchive

Happy #WorldEnvironmentDay! Are you interested in getting published? We are currently accepting academic articles and creative work! Visit www.uwa.edu.au/limina/submissions for more information. #academicsky

@kaarinan.bsky.social+team study 290,000 messages to reveal how confusion, ridicule, and censorship are articulated in a post-truth context. Hate speech is a political struggle entwined with challenges to institutional authority and democratic norms. #HateSpeech journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The submission deadline for this very relevant and timely call (hybrid) - Manifestations of Patriarchy in Liberal Spaces - has been extended to June 1, 2025. If you are an early-career scholar or independent researcher, send a 300-word abstract to [email protected]. #Patriarchy #MeToo #GenderStudies

I warmly invite you to submit a chapt proposal for The Bloomsbury Handbook of Queering Research Methods. This volume explores how every phase of the research process: design, methods, tools, analysis, communication – can be Queered. deadline: 6/30/25 deets/submission: tinyurl.com/queeringrese...

Happy to share that my paper "Playful Somaesthetic Technology Practices" is now out in "The Journal of Somaesthetics"! I looked at playful cases of somaesthetically transformative technology practices across Arts, Alternative Game Design, and Prosthetics: journals.aau.dk/index.php/JO...

This article (in Polish) carries my two bits on the (dis)information war between India and Pakistan and how digital informality has become statecraft under the current regime in India (and elsewhere). xyz.pl/bitwa-o-praw...

NordMedia Network & Finnish Literary Copyright Society (Sanasto) list steps you can take if Meta lifted/pirated your work to train its AI Models. @maaritjii.bsky.social @annapacholczyk.bsky.social nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/...

Draft in process, tempted to finalise the sub head.

In Oslo on the 24th of April, for this timely conference on academia and activism (with the co-founder of the BDS movement) www.saih.no/no/saih-conf...

It is spring 2025 and the book is today officially out ✨💫 I hope it will be useful to those of you who are interested in exploring how our ways of seeing impact on how we relate to each other, our selves, and the various worlds we inhabit. If interested, you can save 20% by using code 25ESA1

I am moderating this round table on social media moderation policies. Register below! We have a great lineup of speakers @muendges.bsky.social @ovinhas.bsky.social @sandervdwaal.bsky.social @waag.bsky.social Sarah Eskens, MacKenzie fomer @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Meta Oversight Board.

Best mail is books arriving in mail! I was excited to blurb this book - although they do tend to cut 70% of the nice, thoughtful things you have to say 😁. The Kids Are Online by @ysabel.bsky.social is smart, carefully researched, compassionate to varying anxieties in this space and so so timely

📰 #NewPublication thewire.in/politics/thr... In @thewire.in, I examine Tamil Nadu's resistance to Hindi imposition through C.N. Annadurai’s Rajya Sabha speeches (1963–65) and argue that his warnings on linguistic domination and federalism remain relevant amid the National Education Policy (2020).

🎙️ Hear me ramble about work (& life) in this #10DaysOfConflictMemory interview series with John Coster, director of the Documentary Media Centre, Leicester! ☀️ Thanks @pauljreilly.bsky.social @katjalehtisaari.bsky.social @vsalojarvi.bsky.social @docmediacentre.bsky.social @kaarinan.bsky.social.

Bilingual Special issue Queerit kriisit/Queer Crises edited by myself and Jarmo Jantunen is out! I will do a thread to introduce each piece in due course. It is Open Access accessible from the link: #queer #disasterstudies #crises #sqslehti journal.fi/sqs/issue/vi...

Transcript journeys through Sápmi, from Jåhkåmåhkke to Vájsáluokta: ”By questioning what we should take with us to the next world, "The End of This World" suggests the importance of collective grieving: the need to come together to elaborate and process experiences of collective trauma and loss.”

I'll discuss my research on why people cry on Insta/TikTok at this online symposium on TikTok (Insta), grief, and connection on March 10th. Keynotes: @moaerikssonkrut.bsky.social & Johanna Sumiala. Organizers: Larissa Hjorth, Katrin Gerber & Crystal Abidin. Register: tinyurl.com/3t9sx7e9

#NewPublication 📣 Politicization of the sexual and not sexualization of the political (discourse): through an ethnography of prngraphic sites, I attempt to explore how ethnicized intimate erotic fantasies are entwined with the vision of a Hindu Rashtra. journals.openedition.org/samaj/9764#t...

No is not a lonely utterance. Written with affection. And other fighting feelings! feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/no-is-not-...

CFP #openculturalstudies issue on Challenging nihilism: an exploration of culture and hope. The aim of the issue of is to ask how to defy nihilism and speak of hope in the current conjuncture. DL April 30 Edited by Juan A. Tarancón. degruyter.com/culture

Excited to share that my 2023 research on why people cry passionately on Insta/TikTok was featured in this BBC article. Huge thanks to @aidanwalker.bsky.social for reaching out & articulating my insights so thoughtfully in this fascinating piece on 'sadbaiting': www.bbc.com/future/artic...

“EVERYBODY PLEASE STOP REPLYING ALL”

Stealing a few moments away at the “cafe for existentialist” from the wrap-up convening of a 4-year project that will always stay very special. So long, Paris! ♥️💫

Been a while, but issue #77 is now live! Last of 2024, and that's 405 articles we've put out now. Tune in on your e-device to read about the Kierkegaardian demonic, Schellingian freedom, Freudian art, and what happens when we confuse the political and the rational. epochemagazine.org/issues/77/

This CFP is closing soon: app.konstfack.se/dgs2025/?fbc... #philosophy #Europe #humanities

CFP/ GeoMedia Conference 2025 *Transforming Passions* exploring passion’s significance in media, visual cultures and artistic practices, technologies, platforms, places, territories and other spatial formations. Sep 17-19 Karlstad Sweden Abstract DL April 14 2025 www.kau.se/transforming...

And here's a subset of the global collection, flagging journalists reporting on parts of the world that don't traditionally get the same level of algorithmic boosting as those from North America and Western Europe do. go.bsky.app/3xhVp2Z

Here's the first collection of journalists from around the world who've made the move to BlueSky. You might want to give it a week or two, because it's likely to get more globally diverse. And I'll reshare once the first pack is full. go.bsky.app/KSBmCmz

Thrilled to announce the @datasociety.bsky.social Generative AI & Labor Primer by Aiha Nguyen & Alexandra Mateescu. It covers how GenAI impacts many forms of work, the human labor behind GenAI & AI's impact on worker control & surveillance. A labor/tech must-read! datasociety.net/library/gene...

For those folks (aka philosophy & critical theory aficionados) that are interested in my #digital #cartography of #newmaterialisms after today’s #UCCFutures talk, do check out the navigable app here (best watched on pc): dhstatic.hum.uu.nl/digicart/

Digital Mental Health Symposium organized by @marjokolehmainen.bsky.social et al is just starting with Ady Evans' keynote on good vibes. Join here bit.ly/48scfgG if inclined, mine is on mental health, authenticity & social media tomorrow on the same stream at 10:15 FI time

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-myth-of-... 🗃️ #DirtyData

I am collecting examples of the most thoughtful writing about generative AI published in 2024. What’s yours? They can be insightful for commentary, smart critique, or just because it shifted the conversation. I’ll post some of mine below as I go through them. #criticalAI