I don't normally advertise each panel, but this is a special one. If you're around #ICA26 at noon today, please come join @acsj-ica.bsky.social panel on reflecting on activism/activist scholarship at ICA as a one-year-old division 🥳

I am incredibly honored to see my book recognized by the academic community that has been my academic home. Thank you for this award! #ica26

I'm in Cape Town for #ICA26 and will be at (almost) all the @acsj-ica.bsky.social events. Come say hi!

A good time to grab a copy of my book 😉https://www.ucpress.edu/books/appropriate-negotiate-challenge/paper

Finally.

Orbán took power in April 2010. We organized our first protests against him that December. I was 22, in undergrad, lucky to be in a community of students ready to resist. Looking back, no wonder this moment feels so heavy. 🧵

Writing a book is having—and forgetting—the same epiphany over and over until you die or finish the book, whichever comes first.

Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...

There’s little weirder to me about this moment than seeing wired, the publication that for decades paved the road to US technofascism with their ridiculous propaganda of “tech optimism” & technolibertarianism, running articles like this. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they are—it’s just ironic as hell

The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania mourns the passing of Monroe E. Price, J.D., retired Professor of Communication and a towering figure in the field of international communication:

(credit: @lizandmollie.bsky.social)

Voices of Change - Next Emerging & Early Career Researchers Session! The session will address mental wellbeing, resilience, available resources for ECRs, and practical support, followed by a Q&A. 25 Feb 2026 | 10:00–11:30 CET | Zoom Register now to join the discussion! cts.ku.dk/projects/to-...

Over the past 6 years, whenever Americans have faced a crisis – from the pandemic to weather emergencies to state violence – they have turned to grassroots solidarity to help each other. From the streets of Minneapolis to each and every neighborhood, mutual aid is here to stay. #mutualaid

in a system that tells us to get ours that tells us the american dream is success for yourself that people with money are the ones who’ve won mutual aid is a rejection of the core capitalist values we were supposed to learn mutual aid is interdependence and interdependence is how we’ll survive

It’s ironic that this is framed as being about “Giving Tuesday”, when so much of mutual aid is critical of this vertical model of charity, but this is a good article, with nice stories from activists, about the power of #mutualaid in these dark times. apnews.com/article/mutu...

I had a lot of fun talking about my @ucpress.bsky.social book on this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! Thanks to Megan Finn for letting me chat about Silicon Valley, activism, and the book on mutual aid I'm writing now. 🎧 in your fave podcast app or here: newbooksnetwork.com/appropriate-...

Got questions about your #ICA26 reviews? We got you! We are partnering with the Global Communication and Social Change (GCSC) Division to offer an online Reviewer Workshop, where you can hear from experienced reviewers. 🗓️ Nov 20th at 2pm GMT Sign up at: docs.google.com/forms/d/1GFR...

I am hiring for two postdocs in the creator economy, hosted at Aarhus University. One is on monetization and governance with flexible methods and area focus: www.au.dk/om/stillinge... #commsky #academicchatter #polisky

Founding director, @sristovska.bsky.social, and advisory board member, @riana.bsky.social, discussed the legal issues that AI and deepfakes pose in The Nation. Read more about the implications of this technology for justice, civil rights, and human rights here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Very excited to be part of this fun and engaged group of researchers for the next three years! ✨

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!