Applications are now open for the 2026 Theory and Method Winter School (January 6–8, Doha, Qatar) on "Media Policy and Governance," hosted by #IAS_NUQ at @nuqatar.bsky.social. Deadline: Sept 15, 2025 Apply here: bit.ly/2026winterschool

POMEPS is pleased to call for proposals for the POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops to be held in a virtual format throughout the academic year 2025-2026. The deadline to apply is Sept. 15. More info: pomeps.org/pomeps-junio...

Not convinced. Citing your paternal lineage only works as a flex if you can credibly do it in a language with formal conventions for it, eg Arabic "Andrew, Ibn Mario Ibn Andrea" or Icelandic, "I'm Andrew Mariosson"

www.chronicle.com/article/the-...? @aaup @aaupmason.bsky.social

My latest! "Some film-makers have been wary of US cultural imperialism happening through the market dominance of Netflix and other US streamers. Others have rushed to the streamer to sign deals that will gain their films and TV shows a global audience." theconversation.com/netflix-give...

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group. aoir.org/riskyresearc...

Introducing SHAMS — the Society for Humanistic Arab Media Studies! Launched under the AIMS initiative at #IAS_NUQ & funded in part by @carnegiecorp.bsky.social, SHAMS advances humanistic research on Arab media. 🗓 May 14, 2025 ⏰ 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. 📍 Gefinor Rotana, Beirut

Join me this Sunday to watch a rly good doumentary on the class struggle and labour movement that led up to the 1975 outbreak of civil war in Lebanon. www.patreon.com/login?ru=%2F...

📢 TIMEP joins 59 Lebanese and international partners in solidarity with independent media outlets Daraj and Megaphone amid a coordinated defamatory campaign by Lebanon's banking sector lobby intended to target them for their financial accountability reporting timep.org/2025/03/26/i...

Very happy to see my essay on Mohamed Zayani and Joe Khalil's The Digital Double Bind is now out: "A New Footing for the Study of Digital Media in the Arab World," t.co/VgzH5iN1Uk the book is here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:

Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!

On the allure of "technocratic government" and elite capture

This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

The Platform Lab’s third public report, on Platform Regulation, is out!! Edited by Colin Crawford and featuring some brilliant insights & ppl writing short reflections on episodes and issues of platform regulation. Do read! www.theplatformlab.com/platform-reg...

When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.

“When a ceasefire is announced, I will just run. No one ask me where. I myself don’t even know. I will just run, and run. …the important thing is to arrive at a quiet place: a place that allows me to weep for a long time.”

On behalf of Sensory Studies legend & ringleader David Howes, re-sharing the Uncommon Senses V cfp, happening May 7-10 @ Concordia U in Montreal. Deadline is Jan 20. A wonderful conf & v welcoming community. Please circulate & happy to answer questions! www.concordia.ca/cunews/artsc...

✨ Two-year postdoc opportunity ✨ Please spread word about our postdoc at @annenbergcargc.bsky.social. We are particularly interested in candidates whose work connects media industries, the production and circulation of popular cultural forms, and novel expressions of citizenship.

Prepping for my spring grad media industries seminar, I put together my latest "recent industry books" list (2023-2025). docs.google.com/document/d/1... *Lots of great ones but PLEASE let me know if you have suggestions for additions! *What new media industries books do you recommend assigning?

Zeina Al-Halabi for Megaphone News - "Scenes from Post-Assad Damascus" www.instagram.com/p/DD7icALPbr...

My dept has a search for a senior medical anthropologist (joint with the medical school) please spread the word academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14528

The CFA for 2025-2026 CARGC Postdoctoral Fellowship is now open: bit.ly/cargcpostdoc2025 ! Please share with your networks and send us applications by February 1, 2025.

“This crackdown on NYU faculty is part of a..pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech...The AAUP condemns this practice & we will fight to defend academic freedom & the right of faculty, students, & staff to peacefully assemble..." @AAUP @ProfTWolf www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...

The Syrian Archive will be celebrating 10 years of its work next week with a webinar on archiving and legal accountability on Wednesday December 11th at 17:00 CET. You can sign up here for the webinar, which I'll be joining as a panelist. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Assad didn't build a single bomb shelter for Syrian citizens, yet his brother invested enough to build thousands of shelters into just this one bunker: Maher Al-Assad's bunker: (1/3)

From Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at GMU "FOR FREEDOM, JUSTICE, AND DEMOCRACY AT GMU: A Joint Statement on the Targeting of Student Activists". This is the topic of the article in The Intercept (previous post). See the list of signatories www.instagram.com/p/DDJHUXxslQ...

On the unfolding situation at George Mason. If you are more concerned about freedom of speech and academic freedom than Palestine, now is the time to become equally concerned.

Useful: starter packs for, say, "Korea Experts" allow you to click the tab that says "posts," and now you have an incredible feed of experts either weighing in on a major crisis (or wondering why people are following them). go.bsky.app/U3Nm5FX

Organized by PhD and Postdoc fellows @annenbergcargc.bsky.social, a conf. focused on the role of media and communication scholarship in times of global crises: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/.... Please spread the word! Also, we're lucky to have Nabil Echchaibi as our keynote speaker!

Incredibly excited: In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround is now out!!! 4 years in the making, co-edited by @joshua-neves.bsky.social and me, this OA volume is full of chapters that will make you rethink the oft-used word. Please read & circulate! networkcultures.org/blog/publica...

It rained yesterday in Lebanon, washing away the smear of smog over Beirut. I just spoke w/someone in the mountains with a view of the city who described how this clarity means today's very intense IDF assault leaves individually identifiable plumes of smoke where people and buildings used to be

An exciting opportunity for a scholar of Palestine at my alma mater! For more information on this new two year postdoctoral associate position, check out: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29312

Elon admits that any post on X with a link is throttled He advises you to upload content directly to X instead, where he can monetize it Musk is the richest person in the world and his view is everyone should work for him for free

ACAB includes terfs

For those just arriving here, I have 3 starter packs (bsky only allows 150 people/pack): 1. #Surveillance Studies Starter Pack (full): go.bsky.app/HYGu6oX 2. #Surveillance Studies Extension Pack (growing): go.bsky.app/HoDHyNe 3. Critical #SmartCities Starter Pack (growing): go.bsky.app/H1Xd6SL

Please spread the word, and do send us an abstract if you are reflecting on solidarity, worldmaking, media and communication infrastructures, and figures like Bruce Lee, Kwame Nkrumah, and Jawaharlal Nehru.

Lebanon’s historic southern port city of Sur — one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and one of the most cherished among the Lebanese — has come under heavy bombardment by Israel over the past couple of months. thepublicsource.org/liberation-d... #Sur #Tyre #SouthLebanon

I'm so thrilled to begin sharing some of the inspiring and beautiful AIDS videos by so many stellar artists and friends, now digitized from their VHS shells: activismvhs.omeka.net/home. There will be a hybrid option to participate via Zoom. If you are interested reach out to me.

give me names to put in this, please and thank you go.bsky.app/R2yT544

"The Archive of Silence... has been cataloguing some of the repercussions of the current atmosphere in 🇩🇪, documenting 100s of occurrences in the last year alone. Artists including Jumana Manna, Emily Jacir, ... and Mohammed Al-Hawajri have had exhibitions cancelled bc they made pro-🇵🇸 stmts"

Okay so so far we have starter packs for Lebanon bsky.app/starter-pack... Palestine bsky.app/starter-pack... via @danaelkurd.bsky.social Egypt bsky.app/starter-pack... via @maitelsadany.bsky.social

surveillance self-defense tips before, during, and after attending a protest--->https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest

Me in @placesjournal.bsky.social : “Repair can help us move beyond the ideas of techno-solutionist decarbonization that tend to dominate tech industry greenwashing + to look instead at practices, institutions + architectures that can extend the lives of systems through refurbishment + repurposing”

From PalFest: The full version of Ta-Nehisi Coates' conversation at the historic Riverside Church on 11/10/24 with the fiery Noura Erakat and incisive Keeanga Yamahtta-Taylor on Palestine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDmF....