A New Substack: My New Substack, "The Messy Middle: Research, Feminists, & the Everyday", and a post. “An instinctive serendipitous selection of words that became the lens I started to see myself with…” open.substack.com/pub/rabaniga...

If you are a researcher or a designer working with AI and not talking to the young people around you, you are missing out on a whole slice of understanding of actual environment of use!

People engage/ w screens regularly in their everyday lives-recording & sharing is routine practice. @amystorn.bsky.social & I offer 3 approaches to researchers to study ways people work with/across screens. bit.ly/3ZdTEBH - Message if you are unable to access this #digitalmethods #educationresearch

Live from NASA GISS, kicking-off the Weather and Climate 100-hour livestream Beginning Weds May 28, at 1 p.m. ET, the “Weather and Climate Livestream” will span five days, ending on Sunday, June 1, at 5:30 p.m. ET. www.youtube.com/@wclivestrea...

With @writinglit.bsky.social this Sunday, April 27. A symposium on AI and youth writing. "Tinkering with/ Tripping it up: Youth Shift, Interrupt, and Challenge Conceptualizations Around their AI Use." Curious to learn more? click the link below. 👉 bit.ly/449Gwkd @aeraedresearch.bsky.social

Coming on April 27th. Symposium: Cross-Platformization, Digital Media Platforms As Global Ecosystems, and the Shifting Understandings of Critical Platform Practices with @mclsig.bsky.social See details of the panelists here: bit.ly/449Gwkd @aeraedresearch.bsky.social

Excited to be at @aeraedresearch.bsky.social I'll be sharing work from my dissertation on hip hop collectives in Delhi & social media research & our team research on Writing with AI & youth writing, in collaboration with @amystorn.bsky.social & in conversation with phenomenal scholars bit.ly/449Gwkd

Friends in Detroit stop by tomorrow -- super excited to be on this panel of Asian hip hop ethnographers talking method, place, and sound across disciplines. The panel is also hybrid. aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/soli...

Delusional is the cool kid in town ;) We all seem to want to be best friends with this one!!

ChatGPT just gained 200 million users in the last two months. "By November 2023, ChatGPT had reached another milestone of 100 million weekly active users, which grew to 300 million by December 2024, then 400 million in February 2025." techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/c...

When I started at D&S last Sept I didn't even know what genAI red-teaming was (events where users systematically prompt LLMs to reveal bias, inaccuracy etc). This report covers the history of red-teaming, various ways the public is involved, and how to improve it. Huge kudos to the team!

The first big shift might have been to bring most Indians online, and that is in itself an important goal. But the devices they use to get online do matter too because they affect what we're able to do with the internet, and that could be the next big shift. www.dataforindia.com/email/62354e...

I just emailed a student about pedagogical zines and shared these from Shirin Vossoughi and colleagues. The zines are "Designed by and for educators working to sustain the dignity, imagination and collective well-being of children, youth, and families..." Posting this beautiful collection here too:

Our write4change community has truly grown into an incredible intergenerational community of researchers! We are coming out with some incredible digital writing and play literacies research!

🤖NEW BLOG🤖 The rise of metrics-based school discipline: How ClassDojo is changing discipline practices in schools by @jamiemanolev.bsky.social, Anna Sullivan, & Neil Tippett: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/the-ris... The blog previews their new article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Chai and मोर There I said it! I had been been dying to say this all day long!

CARGC is pleased to announce Gholam Khiabany (Goldsmiths, University of London), Anis Rahman (University of Washington), and Anastasia Kavada (University of Westminster) will join the center as visiting scholars this spring. Read more about their research at www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/....

We are building something cool! Take a look!

if AI is coming for all of our jobs, can it first fix my printer so that I can print out a return label on the first goddamn try

1/n For the last 2 decades+, I’ve been surrounded by entrepreneurs. Early/late/in-between. Almost all of them will say: 1. It was/is lonely journey 2. Money is not/ cannot be the reason instead have a larger purpose 3. Learning to self-mange the biggest skill learnt. —similar to a PHD’s journey

Cityscapes

MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here: archive.org/details/mit_...

Join #literacies chat at 8pm EST/7pm CST/5pm PST tonight as we discuss The Work Continues: Critical Civic Literacies Within and Beyond Election Season.

Is it just me or did #Twitter actually do something about its algorithm!! My feed this evening has been so much better than it has in years!! Did the @bsky.app echo chamber get them worried ;)

This collective of scholars looking at digital writing is the stuff dreams are made off! :)

My new book from @mitpress.bsky.social, Gaming Democracy: How Silicon Valley Leveled Up the Far Right, is out today! The book explores how play and gaming culture have mainstreamed far right ideology through social media platforms. #digitalculture #games #politics #platforms

Joy is— sharing some of my work around emergence of youth-led collectives & their collective literacy practices| what educators/researchers/policy-makers working with youth could learn about creating/ supporting intergenerational third spaces. #ncte24 #ncte204 Picture cred @clarabbott.bsky.social

There is nothing wrong with trying to find a social media platform that connects you with people who share similar values to you. This is not a desire for an echo chamber. It is desire for a community.

At #ncte2024. Will be talking about youth Digital writing, AI in classrooms, critical media literacy, and intergenerational writing communities and platforms! Come join in! And if you are here, do tag yourself! Let’s meet :)

Oh no, this echo chamber I'm stuck in is full of amazing art, generous, kind people, and joy. What ever shall I do?

Me vs. November 2024

🤔There are ~50M Black folk in the US. At peak, ~1 in 5 Black US folk was a Twitter user. 1 in 5 of 50M is 10M Black US users. 500K BlackSky users is 1 in 20 of those 10M Black users. That's... a lot. And it's growing... Of course, not all BlackSky is US based, but still.

Seriously though: since all these thinkpieces are being written about bluesky, hi editors and journalists, I wrote a whole book about Twitter (among other research on social media) and am tracking the migration here from a cultural/political perspective so if you want to talk to me I’m here 😇

How can the first post be anything but this. A full moon, autumn leaves. A transition.

New to bluesky and want to follow smart people who study the internet? I made this starter pack to get you going! This one is full at the app’s limit, but please make your own and share widely! go.bsky.app/LVrPemK

Please join the South Asian film and media studies community here! Please add friends and colleagues, and let me know if you'd like to be included. go.bsky.app/7n3AdXG