@chicagojournals.bsky.social Thank you for including my new book in your list of "New and Upcoming Titles of Interest to Social Work and Social Welfare Scholars"! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

My new book is out! "Digital Equity Ecosystems: How Community Coalitions Reduce Inequality and Strengthen Democracy" available at @ucpress.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/digita...

BREAKING: the Massachusetts House just passed one of the best data privacy bills in the country. It includes a total ban on the sale of precise location data and includes a private right of action allowing people to sue Big Tech over data abuses. HUGE WIN! But there’s more work to do 🧵

It was an honor to work with the visionary digital equity leader, Kyla Williams Tate on our new essay published today at @techpolicypress.bsky.social #SaveTheDigitalEquityAct

Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins. (Published Oct. 2025)

My book just arrived! Available from UC Press on June 9! #digitalequityecosystems

"Inequity is Not Inevitable: Save the Digital Equity Act" publicknowledge.org/inequity-is-...

Curious about the status of early gay organizing in national library associations? I've uploaded "Gays In Library Land" written in 1990 by library LEGEND Barbara Gittings about the early days (1970s) of ALA's Gay and Lesbian Task Force. It's a good read. archive.org/details/gays...

Excited to share that my book, "Digital Equity Ecosystems: How Community Coalitions Reduce Inequality and Strengthen Democracy" is available for pre-order! Use promo code: UCPSAVE30 at checkout. www.ucpress.edu/books/digita...

THE @agomezfcc.bsky.social cited the work I did with the amazing @crhinesmith.bsky.social and Madison Bishop on affordability in her statement on Lifeline and Link Up reform! I'm humbled and honored every time I see that my work has real policy implications! docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...

House Speaker Mike Johnson denied a request for the late Jesse Jackson to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol. “Mike Johnson will defend a president who wants to unlawfully nationalize elections but won’t authorize a civil rights legend to lie in honor,” said NAACP President Derrick Johnson.

I will be giving my first book talk on Wednesday, Feb 18th at 11am (EST) at the Quello Center at Michigan State University. Here is the link to the event on the Quello Center’s website: quello.msu.edu/event/digita...

In these facilitator-led conversations, you will further explore the insights discovered in the Sustaining Wellbeing sessions. Connect with peers who get your day-to-day and walk away with practical tools and strategies. #ALAVirtual26 Secure your spot today. www.ala.org/virtual-event

"There is something particular about realizing that war is moving closer to you. The images, the emotions, the sounds, even the smells. The way we slowly grow accustomed to new forms of violence." Powerful story from Venezuela in @globalvoices.org globalvoices.org/2026/01/05/a...

Join the #iSchoolUI! We invite applications for the Director of Recruitment and Admissions, who will be responsible for the overall recruitment, admissions, and yield operations for the School. Submit your application by January 16 ▶️ bit.ly/44z76mf

#iSchoolUI Associate Professor @crhinesmith.bsky.social has been elected to serve on the iSchools Board of Directors, where he will assist in developing the strategic direction of the iSchools organization. Congratulations, Colin! ▶️ bit.ly/4iSvwwV

In this new podcast, #iSchoolUI Associate Professor Colin Rhinesmith and Allison Lester, host of the Thinking Through... Podcast, reflect on what gets overlooked in conversations about the digital divide. ➡️ bit.ly/4pmMtl2

Thrilled to announce that my new book, "Digital Equity Ecosystems: How Community Coalitions Reduce Inequality and Strengthen Democracy" will be published by @ucpress.bsky.social in June 2026! www.ucpress.edu/books/digita...

This is a very sad reality of our current moment in U.S. history. #publicbroadcasting www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is so clearly immoral that it *feels* like it should be illegal. But current IP laws (state-level rights of publicity) aren't up to the task & ratcheting them up would risk impinging on artistic freedom. What we need instead is an anti-deepfake law, which Congress has tried and failed to pass.

Thrilled to share the design for the cover of my new book, which will be published by the University of California Press in 2026! Many thanks to the UC Press creative team and Vanessa Rhinesmith for heavily informing the final design. #digitalequity

Data centers for AI and cloud computing don’t just use a lot of electricity – they also use enormous quantities of water as well, to cool down all those servers. buff.ly/KtLcLZ2

Canceling Colbert is just another egregious example of why we can't entrust our major media institutions in the hands of profit-driven oligarchs. Such concentrated power over media is especially dangerous under growing authoritarianism, muffling dissent precisely at the moment when we need it most.

Thrilled to have a new article published in the Journal of Information Policy co-authored with my wonderful colleagues Dr. Pierrette Renée Dagg, Dr. Megan Knittel, and Joon Oh. #digitalequity #digitalinclusion #broadband doi.org/10.5325/jinf...

"Federal damage to affordable, equitable broadband and digital inclusion" via @bentoninstitute.bsky.social #digitalequity #digitalinclusion #broadband #SaveTheDigitalEquityAct uccmediajustice.org/federal-dama...

BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out after being released from ICE detention. "The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.

A significant development (via Wall Street Journal)... "One of the first coordinated public efforts from the business community to push back on some of the Trump administration’s moves." Business Leaders Call Trump Attacks on Universities a Competitive Threat

I am excited to share that our 2019 paper, titled “The Ability to Pay for Broadband” (Rhinesmith, Reisdorf, & Bishop) is now available open access in the journal Communication Research and Practice. #digitalequity #broadband #digitalinclusion www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"The artificial intelligence boom means the Environment Agency has no idea how much water England will be short of in future decades, as datacentres do not have to report how much they are using to cool their servers."

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

Your regular reminder tariffs are taxes paid by American consumers. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/u...

Unbelievable. The supposedly progressive state of MA, where I reside, is sharing teenagers' biometric data with FBI and ICE. Multiple students have recently been detained by ICE in Chelsea, MA. We have a bill to stop this: H.1657 / S.1058. Please send letters: actionnetwork.org/letters/emai...

One of the reasons this program is so popular is the Whittier Public Library also offers free summer meals for kids and teens. So ICE decided to show up the day the summer reading and free meal program for children began. Absolute ghouls. www.whittierlibrary.org/Home/Compone...

"By threatening to defund Digital Equity Act programs, Trump has declared war on a program that benefitted many of his own supporters." #digitalequity #digitaldivide progressive.org/latest/trump...

This piece in the NY Times correctly hones in on why international students are vital to US interests Kicking them out will destroy the research & development pipeline that has propelled the US into global leadership in science & tech

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"State Plans Show Us the Cost of Eliminating the Digital Equity Act" #digitaldivide #digitalequity #SavetheDigitalEquityAct www.benton.org/blog/state-p...

At least 31 gender and sexuality based resource centers have shuttered across 23 college campuses. Read the full story here ⤵️

Thrilled to share my new article with Sangha Kang-Le, titled "Understanding the Value of a Digital Equity Researcher-Practitioner Collaboration Using Participatory Action Research" just published in the Journal of Participatory Research Methods. #digitalequity jprm.scholasticahq.com/article/1290...

[1/5] We're launching a new thing @ the Metro NY Library Council: The Cross-Reference Coalition is an experimental school tracing exuberantly🤗 interdisciplinary links btw NYC's libraries + archives; connecting its knwldg workers, grad students, artists + designers. We'll also make a rad book...

Tribal colleges and universities have endured decades of chronic underfunding, relying heavily on federal support to stay afloat. Now, the Trump administration’s broad cuts to federal programs are hitting Indian Country hard, posing a serious threat to the future of these vital institutions.

1. Our paper examines what literacies people need to challenge big tech companies. We selected key digital rights practitioners to share from their experience what works and what doesn't work when trying to mobilize people to challenge Big Tech -> www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The big bill the House passed today *does* include the 10-year ban on state AI regulation, I've confirmed. And it can pass the Senate without Democrats' help. But there is one group that could still stop it: Senate Republicans. My newsletter today: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Here are the federal Digital Equity Act grant programs we have lost under this administration. #digitalequity web.archive.org/web/20250420...

While $2.75 billion approved by Congress to advance access to the internet, computers, and digital skills was eliminated, the President's new domestic policy bill includes "$175 billion in new spending to enforce President Trump’s ambitious anti-immigration agenda." www.nytimes.com/article/hous...

Unfortunately Collins plus King plus two Dems doesn't equal a meaningful bipartisan pushback. It's been almost two weeks since states got their Digital Equity Act grant cancellation notices -- total of $1.4 billion. Why aren't blue-state attorneys general in court about it?

"Maine's members of Congress argue that terminating the Digital Equity Act and related grants 'will have an outsized impact on Maine families, small businesses, and communities.'" #digitalequity #digitaldivide www.pressherald.com/2025/05/21/m...

At a subcommittee hearing titled "AI Regulation and the Future of US Leadership," House Republicans and Democrats sparred over a proposed 10-year moratorium on enforcing state AI laws that passed out of Energy & Commerce as part of a budget reconciliation package last week. Transcript: