✨dropping my brand new digital communication grad syllabus! ✨ the course is organised around digital keywords: authenticity, parasocial, viral, trend, etc. feel free to share widely! tinyurl.com/3cxx4a36

it's incredibly lovely to see that CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY is on the year-end list for @publicbooks.bsky.social not once but TWICE!! thank you to @njdames.bsky.social and @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy!! and among such amazing books!!! www.publicbooks.org/public-picks...

I wrote a new piece for @pghcitypaper.com about loving analog media in a digital world. If you’re someone who’s into vinyl, film photography, print media, and invaluable local businesses, you should check it out! I also coin the phrase “techno-bummerism” lol

Neurodivergent people can be terrible people . And there’s a deep need for a convo ( intra community ) about how the discourse around how parts of our divergence are treated . And how privilege is handled . Because the fact that this on a table is about control

Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship is in fact bad because neurodivergent people participating in technofascism will not save us. Latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Some of the language the job call uses about neurodivergent people as ‘able to see past performative ideologies’ reinforces really dangerous rhetoric that disabled people aren’t human." – @jessrauchberg.bsky.social

Very excited to announce that I am in the process of selling my first trade book to a major U.S. publisher. More information to come in the new year, and I can't wait to share the stories about what this journey entailed and tell you about the book.

authoritarianism loves to couch itself within a fiction of sameness and uniformity

See @ubiquity75.xyz’s Behind the Screen for more on the US tech industry’s outsourcing of content moderation

ISO of your favorite long-form writing on AI slop and authenticity! Thank you.

One of the biggest impacts I’ve seen from the unproven idea that people are wrongfully using disability accommodations is that people stop trusting people with disabilities and in fact further restrict, remove, and demonize accommodations for people with disabilities in general

academic shitposting on here doesn't hit like it did on The Other Place

which province is franklin the turtle from

NEW PUB ANNOUCEMENT! out today in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social, I wrote about lolcows, livestreaming, and how platform affordances and anti-fan practices catalyze digital freakery. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

I wonder how the push for tenure-track faculty "AI" lines will converge with the death of the North American university and the burst of the AI bubble....

i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle

half-baked thought but creators returning to long-form content speaks to the ways class and political power intrinsically shape creator labour. platforms know they profit when white, western, wealthier creators' work sits at the center.

I want to live in a world where an app is never a solution

a concept: being the bert mccracken of media studies

It's people who aren't disabled who are excited by these policies & the chance to get rid of disabled people, most disabled people would take a way to live over a way to die.

*evil mode activating*

scholarly/professional organizations offer a double-disciplining: 1. they professionalize members into a discipline (e.g., ways of knowing/understanding/producing intellectual output) 2. they discipline members into how to behave (e.g., this is the right way to be x academic)

Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?

“Other examples…included Lily Allen's breakup album West End Girl, which leaned into a parasocial interest in her love life, and the emergence of parasocial relationships with AI bots, which saw people treat them as a confidant, friend or romantic partner.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

and I want to be known for my hits, not just my misses

leaving the [professional org] industrial complex

This is happening today at 1pm, presented by LUC's Beta Rho chapter of Lambda Pi Eta Honor Society! Use the QR Code to register for our Zoom!

absolutely gutted right now. alice wong, may your memory forever be a blessing: "We are the past. We are the present. We are the future. We are forever." disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/08/14/m...

Calling all humilitainment scholars: I'm putting together a panel for the Canadian Communication Association's 2026 conference on humilitainment, pleasure, & media industries with @krystenstein.bsky.social and @jessmaddox.bsky.social. We need 1 more panelist. Is this you? DM me by 11/24!

swapping "social" media for girlbossing these days

lower yourself into a cranberry bog it’s time

Apropos of .... nothing at all..... The postdoctoral laborers bill of rights is a project I collaborated on way back in 2019. It aims to clarify some of the purposes of postdoctoral positions and offers guidelines for designing successful positions. works.hcommons.org/records/9twr...

i think--i think i'm gonna have to write about the pope's tech discourse

what's the relationship between algorithmic ableism and platform polarization? In a virtual talk I'm giving later this month at Loyola U Chicago, I trace the sticky relationship between ableism and political polarization in the platform age. thanks to @drgyopophd.bsky.social for the invite!

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

everyone i know is making fun of me for wanting to go to cleveland. they just don't understand the rust belt's magic!

feeling personally victimized by the libby outage

had a two hour long gossip session and I'm healed now

my chemcial rhizome

went on instagram for the first time in months and god how are y'all handling those platform logics

reply guy: what do you mean me: *deletes post*

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

*discourse voice* the best my chemical romance song is I never told you what I do for living, followed closely by fashion statement and demo lovers

I am interested in starting to hear from care workers on SNAP about your concerns. I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter. Please be in touch. My email is [email protected] and my Signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts are appreciated.

genAI warps the boundaries between fact and fiction, authenticity and fakery. and that blurring holds pretty substantial consequences for our political realities.

Worth noting that Harvard et al massively expanded their PhD programs in the 1990s, poaching extensively from major public R1s in the process, ultimately to cash-in on PhD research funding. The effects were not always good for the state of higher ed.

maturity is changing your mind about the foucault-chomsky debates

enhance your Halloween season reading with this rich, textured, and magickal collection of essays on algorithms and the occult, edited by yours truly with @tamigraph.bsky.social and @briana-v.bsky.social !

for @asapjournal.bsky.social, @thechristinet.bsky.social and I think through algorithmic conspirituality, genAI, and hopecore as a response to platform polarization! asapjournal.com/node/hope-co...

so uhh SNAP is apparently not going to be able to pay November benefits if the shutdown continues past 27 Oct fellow faculty- if that happens, we're about to see a lot of hungry students on our campus. now's a good time to look into what your institution has available if you don't know already