Universities: - Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers - stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research - stop pretending AI usage is inevitable. I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.

🌟 Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium 🌟 The Center for Digital Culture and Society is now accepting abstract submissions for our upcoming symposium. 📝 Deadline: December 1, 2025 📧 Submit to: [email protected] More information: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Call for Papers: Control, Survival, Struggle: Rethinking and Renewing Vincent Mosco’s Political Economy of Communication. A special issue of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalization I'm co-editing w/ @ursulahuws.bsky.social, Leslie Shade, and Catherine McKercher wolg.wordpress.com/special-issu...

📣 Final Reminder: Call for Papers! Deadline Soon! ACTIVATE's next hybrid seminar explores Alternative Media Archives and the long-term challenges of preserving media activism. 📅 Oct 23–24 | CEU Vienna + Online 📢 CFP open until Aug 31 📩 [email protected] #MediaActivism #Archives #ACTIVATEproject

New call out for the fellowship I'm currently doing. Highly recommended - Aarhus is lovely, @aiasdk.bsky.social folks are wonderful and Aarhus University is a great place to work on your research. Apply! ✨

The ICA Activism, Communication and Social Justice Division (@acsj-ica.bsky.social) is looking for a new Secretary and a new International Liaison (both in office 2026-2028). Could that be you? More info about the roles: www.icahdq.org/page/div-ig-...

The ICA Activism, Communication and Social Justice Division (@acsj-ica.bsky.social) is looking for a new Secretary and a new International Liaison (both in office 2026-2028). Could that be you? More info about the roles: www.icahdq.org/page/div-ig-...

Yesterday, at the wonderful @aiasdk.bsky.social Summer Gathering, we opened an exhibit of images that bridge science and art. My contribution is a composite of different drawings from my visual focus groups w activists, researchers and techies. Read more about this work here: tinyurl.com/5bdb7upn

Hey #ica25, at 3pm I'm presenting some of my work on mutual aid activism in an @acsj-ica.bsky.social session titled "Activism, Technology, Hybridity and Social Media". Join us! We are at the Grand Hyatt, room Mt. Blue Sky (in the other building, across from valet parking).

Still very much thinking in hashtags (like me) and looking for #ica25? I created a feed for you to follow! #commsky bsky.app/profile/did:...

On Monday I'm giving a talk on my ongoing research on mutual aid activism at @aiasdk.bsky.social. You can attend online 💻 – just click on the link below to see how! See you there :)

my book is 6 months old today! ✨ No better way to celebrate this half birthday than grabbing a copy in the @ucpress.bsky.social Spring Book Sale (40% with code MAY40) 😉 www.ucpress.edu/books/approp...

What a crazy world when the two countries that, between them, host the best universities in the world are seeking to destroy their university sectors.

"How did we collectively memory-hole an event this big? And what does that tell us about race and policing even today?" Excellent podcast on this devastating piece of Philly history. www.npr.org/2025/05/07/1...

Serving on the PhD admission committee this year. We're offering two scholarships in Digital Culture and Communication—one specifically for international candidates. Know talented candidates passionate about digital culture? Send them our way! Details: www.uniurb.it/concorsi/9085

"How did we collectively memory-hole an event this big? And what does that tell us about race and policing even today?" Excellent podcast on this devastating piece of Philly history. www.npr.org/2025/05/07/1...

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...

It is easier to AI-generate the end of the world than the end of capitalism

I bet the chat was named like "war boys" or "pete's posse" or something

I'm hiring for a postdoc! 🌟 pls help spread the word Senior Research and Teaching Associate (PostDoc) with a focus on Internet Use and Society details here: webuse.org/postdoc/

“If the dice lands wrong and it is you or someone you love next, you will hope – at the very least – there will be help on the way. That long Covid sufferers know there won’t is not simply the pandemic’s dark shadow, but its mark of shame.”

Privacy isn’t about hiding—it’s about trust and control over our own information. In her #SXSW 2025 Keynote, Signal President, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social breaks down why our privacy matters.

The crisis in British higher education is acute + painful right now. If you are in it you already know this, but for those who are not I want to share what is going on. As strikes start at Newcastle Uni + others will doubtless follow, now is a time for solidarity + resistance

There's so much stuff happening that deserves our rage, but this story has to be my Roman Empire. Whenever I think I've read the worst of it, I find out there's more. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The #Digital South Research Lab webpage is live ahead of tomorrow’s kickoff at Tilburg University. Please take a look to learn more about our #team members, ongoing #research projects, and #calls for papers and abstracts. www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/hum... #AcademicSky #TechSky

In her debut book, Annenberg alum @bettyferrari.bsky.social examines how social movements use technology in their organizing. We spoke with her about recent developments in technology & politics, political groups from Hungary all the way to Philly, and much more: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Hey #commsky, give @acsj-ica.bsky.social a follow!

It stands to reason that if a strong strand of tech thought in SV thinks that technology will "save the world" and that anyone who disagrees are "garbage people," they wouldn't let trifling things like democracy or the rule of law get in their way of implementing their "life altering technologies"

Want to know more about my @ucpress.bsky.social book? Read this Q&A I did with @asc.upenn.edu where I talk about research, activism and digital tech!

Want to know more about my @ucpress.bsky.social book? Read this Q&A I did with @asc.upenn.edu where I talk about research, activism and digital tech!

Thou shalt accept that DEI didn't hold your career back -- you're just mid, bro.

✨thrilled for the second webinar of the "Voices of Change" talk series, co-organized by ICA Activism, Communication & Social Justice & @ecreacomdem.bsky.social! @ipostas.bsky.social on “Effective climate communication: from eco-anxiety to eco-action” 👉Please register at eur.nl/en/eshcc/eve...

Just got my paper copy of this book we wrote as the DISCO network. Sections on munchausen by TikTok, platform nostalgia and black and Asian early social sites, and AI as a Black technology to be refused and or adopted.

Our Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF) project just launched its website. Get to know what we are doing on the role of AI in media, culture and arts industries criticaldigitalmethods.ca/creative-lab...

Really cool fellowship opportunity at @aiasdk.bsky.social for artists to partner up with researchers at Aarhus University. Come join us! aias.au.dk/opportunitie...

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California? Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

Very excited to be in Warsaw to give a talk about my book! www.asc.uw.edu.pl/event/decemb...

New book by alum Elisabetta Ferrari (Ph.D. '19) out now!

Still so exciting - and surreal - to see this book out in the world! Get your copy from @ucpress.bsky.social here: www.ucpress.edu/books/approp...

the sweetest (and tiniest) reader! 🥰

We are missing something big about the political effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. I’m not even sure we can empirically isolate it from other incidental events and structural processes, but it seems to have both mobilized and radicalized some parts of the elites and masses.

Our special Issue on platforms, power & friction is officially out with shiny volume and issue numbers in @icsjournal.bsky.social, just in time for thinking about the interplay between platform power and authoritarianism www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/2...

Congratulations to former CDCS postdoctoral fellow & @annenbergpenn.bsky.social alum @bettyferrari.bsky.social on the release of her book Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies from Univ of California Press! www.ucpress.edu/books/approp...

My book, Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge, is out today from @ucpress.bsky.social! It’s a book about the politics of digital technologies and why they matter, for social justice activists and for all of us. Order it here: www.ucpress.edu/books/approp...

The Aarhus sunset tonight 😍

From the brilliant @isarock.bsky.social

Personal/professional update: in September I am moving to Denmark to join the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies @aiasdk.bsky.social @aarhusuni.bsky.social as AIAS-AUFF fellow. See you all on the other side of the North Sea! aias.au.dk/events/show/...

I am still conducting interviews for my research on mutual aid. I’m looking for people who’ve been involved in #MutualAid during/after 2020 in 🇬🇧 & 🇺🇸. If this is you, learn more about my project and sign up for an interview here: linktr.ee/mutualaidres... Please share!

Interested in expanding your research skills? I'm offering a week-long, virtual course in "Creative Research Methods" at the @ecpr.bsky.social Methods School, July 22-26 2024. It will be interactive, practical and fun! To find out more about the course and register: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...