14. What can Berlin’s story tell us about the broader relationship between technology, culture, and the places we live? @jordanaut.bsky.social is the author of a book that tries to answer these questions and more called Mobile City: Emerging Media, Space, and Sociality in Contemporary Berlin.

Hear from experts @alicetiara.bsky.social, @mkgerchick.bsky.social, and @thakurdhanaraj.bsky.social, moderated by @jordanaut.bsky.social — as they share strategies for ethical, effective research that centers marginalized communities. Register:

Hear from experts @alicetiara.bsky.social, @mkgerchick.bsky.social, & @thakurdhanaraj.bsky.social, moderated by @jordanaut.bsky.social — as they share strategies for ethical, effective research that centers marginalized communities. Register: cdt.org/events/advoc...

Very excited for this book event next Thursday in Brooklyn!

DHS has removed manual guidance barring investigations solely based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

As Trump and Elon Musk signal menacing new intentions on numerous fronts, a scholar of democratic breakdown explains how we’re now seeing textbook signs of a country’s slide into authoritarian rule.

The circus is starting: Jim Jordan, Taibbi & Shellenberger are congratulating themselves on Twitter Files. Jordan opens by gloating ab getting Stanford Internet Observatory shut down. Yes: the congressman got 1A protected research shut down. That's censorship. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7G5...

Horrific. Reporters are beginning to collect the names of specific people that Musk and Trump have killed by abruptly terminating USAID—in this case Pe Kha Lau, a Burmese woman living in Thailand

BREAKING The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders. The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.

New op-ed at @techpolicypress.bsky.social! US state lawmakers should focus on 3 areas that haven't been addressed at the federal level: support for victims of hate and harassment, social media transparency, and stopping misguided legislation against moderating hateful and harassing content.

"Far-right populists are significantly more likely to spread fake news on social media than politicians from mainstream or far-left parties, according to a study which argues that amplifying misinformation is now part and parcel of radical right strategy" Verifiably: right wingers are liars

IES is one of the country’s largest funders of education research, and the slashing of contracts could mean a significant loss of public knowledge about schools. New, from @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @propublica.org

Before the month is over, don't miss the new books published in January 2025 including: MOBILE CITY by Jordan H. Kraemer ANIMAL PEOPLE by Adam Reed STRONG COMMANDERS, WEAK LEADERS by Phillip A. Martin and FRAGILE KINSHIPS by Kathryn E. Goldfarb www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/new-books-pu...

I spoke to @techpolicypress.bsky.social’s @justinhendrix.bsky.social about my new book on social media and urban space in Berlin, on how digital platforms are shaped by the people and places that use them.

They removed resources for LGBTQ institutions to get support when threatened with violence. The message is clear, MAGA can now threaten and commit terrorism against the LGBTQ community with impunity.

New Op-Ed in @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social! We've Reached the End of Social Media Social media were supposed to build social connection; instead they’ve become tools of division and polarization.

Before folks start comparing this to European autocracies, pause and ask why so many folks - Black and white - didn’t know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Or the Wilmington Coup. Or the Colfax Massacre. Or the Elaine, Arkansas massacre. Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.

An excerpt from my book Mobile City is out this week on @ssrc.org's Just Tech platform!

New, from me: So much is happening, so quickly. The purpose of shock and awe is to bewilder and overwhelm. It is important not to look away, or get discouraged. Try to discern the what is a big and real threat. Here is my best effort to do so. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/meditation...

Not to put too fine a point on it, but a week ago, the CSU closed 6 departments (among them, philosophy, women's and gender studies, and economics) and fired 46 tenure-line faculty at Sonoma State. One of those faculty studies AI ethics. They fired the AI ethics professor. Then, this.

In 2010, Viktor Orbán launched a power grab nearly identical to Trump's. It led to the death of democracy in Hungary. Hungarians I spoke with pleaded with me to learn from their experience — and act before it's too late. www.vox.com/politics/398...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Are you talking to colleagues impacted by executive branch targeting? Here’s a thread 🧵 w/ simple tips about how to show support—what to say that is likely to help, rather than make things worse. (The tips are simple, but I try to explain the rationale behind them. So please follow to the end.) 1/

If you are a gov employee please do not use your gov devices to coordinate. Do not use standard messaging on your Android or Apple devices. Don’t use WhatsApp. These CEOs will likely give your messages if asked by the administration. Please use Signal and set your messages to autodelete.

He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.

I've collected accounts from trans folks inside US prisons facing Trump's brutal crackdown: trans women rounded up + placed in solitary before transfer to men's prisons; canceled medical appointments + loss of vital healthcare; vicious taunting "You're going to be a man," one guard told trans women

Solidarity with my former co-workers!

Keep calling. Every single day. Even (especially) when there isn’t an active emergency to respond to. Let them know we are watching and we won’t get tired.

Every single report on the Trump funding freeze — every report on Medicare portal, Head Start, homeless veterans programs — needs to mention immediately WHY. The freeze is in order to complete an ideological purge of so-called “woke” programming. This is IMPORTANT, y’all.

It also means that the air you breathe will be soup. Climate change is important. But so is clean air.

Hey while megaretailers profiting one of the richest men in world are out here doing this shit www.advocate.com/news/amazon-... maybe it's a fun time to switch to @librofm.bsky.social for audiobooks. Select the indie bookstore you'd like to support, listen away. Comp prices to aforementioned jerks

I spoke with @cornellupress.bsky.social about my new book on social media in Berlin, including a favorite anecdote about Spargel and how #anthropology can better engage with tech policy.

It's officially publication day for our January 2025 books! Including MOBILE CITY by Jordan H. Kraemer; ANIMAL PEOPLE by Adam Reed; THE HUNGRY CITY by Marie A. Kelleher; STRONG COMMANDERS, WEAK STATES by Philip A. Martin; + more. See the full lineup: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/new-books-pu...

63% of Americans support deporting undocumented immigrants so the NYT splashes this on the front page as a mandate to do just this. It becomes urgent—the will of the people. 71% of Americans support universal pre-K and 69% support Medicare For All but this mysteriously provides no such mandate.

this washes away any residual doubt. the real motivation behind Meta’s policy changes isn’t some misguided conception of free speech, it’s just discrimination.

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Today's the day! So excited for the publication of my book, Mobile City: Emerging Media, Space, and Sociality in Contemporary Berlin www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Meta already wasn't doing enough to stop harassment against LGBTQ+ users, Jews, people of color, or women on its platforms (a thread).

Birth control is also going to be on the chopping block soon, and they won’t be done there, either. We’re been saying it and saying it: All our freedoms are intertwined. All our struggles are one. Solidarity and collective liberation or bust, literally. We can do this:

People often ask me what the red lines are where we should be really worried One of them is for sure the part where we start glorifying the rewriting of history and the control of historical narrative

What does the evidence say about what's effective at decreasing misinformation - Fact-Checking or Community Notes? We've reviewed dozens of studies over the past two years and, while Notes have the edge, both have limitations. Our new review of the evidence: www.prosocialdesign.org/blog/primer-...

Local Facebook groups and other online spaces for towns & neighborhoods can be amazing, or awful. This new guide from our team at @newpublic.substack.com is full of advice for mods and admins who want to make their spaces more uplifting & inclusive newpublic.substack.com/p/just-launc...

“You kill someone in May, and two months later you send a bill for damages you caused?” said Samuel Williams' sister, Sha-Sha Prince. “It felt like getting punched in the stomach not once but twice.”

🧵New paper out on MIDDLEWARE‼️What is it? 3rd party tools that can interact with, in this case, social media platforms, on behalf of users. Maybe to curate your feed in a particular way. Maybe to moderate, labeling & hiding content or users that you don't want to see. www.thefai.org/posts/shapin...

The US under both Republican and Democratic administrations has been arguing against legally-binding climate treaties at the COPs since at least 1998. Now Biden's lawyers are doing it at the International Court of Justice. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Kinda feel like an oligarch trying to shut down an anti-corruption agency should be phrased that way

Starter pack for good group of Science & Technology Studies scholars involved with @sthv.bsky.social go.bsky.app/L7FTy5w

Great news! CIP now has a starter pack that showcases our current and past team members! Give them a follow!

New podcast: President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Rep. Jim Jordan and other MAGA Republicans are engaged in an ongoing campaign to target researchers studying disinformation and hate speech. Duke University professor Philip Napoli is documenting their strategy and tactics.