JOB FAIRY: Reminder that I am hiring a Senior Researcher (2 years postdoctoral experience - 5 year post) for the ERC funded LivePlatforms research project exploring how people make livelihoods in platform work in Ireland. Please apply or share widely! Closing date Jan 5. www.ucd.ie/ics/vacancie...

“Should our media system primarily serve democracy, or profit?” NEW in @thenation.com: the team behind our new report argue the answer must be democracy—and lay out what it’ll take to break up corporate media and rebuild public media: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵

I do love getting a lil tiny bit high and watching ken burns docs. The american rev has some decent materialist analysis! Needle drop when narrator names the land speculators with investments west of the appalachians pissed at the british for closing the frontier (it's the founding fathers)

Super excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

a Friday surprise! my beloved book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, is now officially back in print AND ON SALE! #othernetworks if you know folks who have been trying to track down a copy, I'd love it if you'd repost shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...

What’s the difference between “extractive assemblage” and “predatory formation” anyway?

blessed freedom

How I feel about my contemporaries turning 40..

… students at a Logan Square school were at recess when they were rushed inside after an ICE agent threw tear gas at a nearby car. And that afternoon one Southwest Side charter school went on lockdown because of a report of an ICE agent in a vehicle outside. chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...

Looks awesome @ppopiel.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Now that I got tenure, lemme start the list of journal publishers I ain’t submitting to or reviewing for

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News. Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

3yo wants to be a “reckoning ball” for Halloween. We support

Our latest issue just out and, we think we can say this, it is a banger. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/c... feat. @philiproscoe.bsky.social @ulissess.bsky.social @cibled.bsky.social @maijutanninen.bsky.social @busedoyu.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social @theobourgeron.bsky.social &&

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

just discovered r/pickles www.reddit.com/r/Pickles/

Watching the pianist, unbiddenly thinking of Gaza, and feeling nothing but shame and rage against the exterminationist policies of Israel.

Why does the movie juror #2 feel like it was made in 2005?

Rich instructions for book reviewers coming from Taylor & Francis: "You have been chosen as an expert in your fields and should not be using generative AI for analysis or summarization of the submitted proposal ... in the creation of your review" www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

🚨 I’m excited to announce that, “The Enshittification of Work: Platform Decay and Labour Conditions in the Gig Economy” is now available online ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

So glad the arbiters of democracy are speaking up

🎶 I don’t practice trans sharia/I ain’t got no crystal ball… 🎶

Love me some Dr John of course but isn’t it the Louis Armstrong intl airport ? And by rights I’m pretty sure Toussaint or one/all of the Nevilles would take it

The best scientific evidence is that the 2020 BLM protests helped defeat Trump in the election. These protests are likely doing the same. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This is me 👇🏼

applying for jobs again

Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume! "At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics" It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓

One thing to be bullish about

Nice piece by @rooseveltinstitute.org fellow @jessicacalarco.bsky.social on the current attempt to cargo cult prosperity with the trappings of midcentury manufacturing but none of what actually built the (white) middle class. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Why do I unwind with the most stress inducing shows on television?

How NC voters on the Griffin List (or anyone worried about their future vote) can update their voter file Please share with everyone in NC you know triangleblogblog.com/2025/04/05/h...

For shame

another reminder why bikes are an extraordinary means of transportation www.404media.co/email/8fbe3b...

So happy this is out, and that it's in an OA journal! And thanks to Kean for his feedback on earlier drafts of this paper!!

Lil write up I did about my surveillance & soc article for @survstudiesnet.bsky.social about price surveillance and inflation medium.com/surveillance...

My 2.5 yr old is singing “I like to poop it poop it” (to the tune of “I like to move it”)

I am looking for help locating the origins of a quote—it's something like, good research/scholarship separates things that are lumped together and connects things treated as separate.. something tells me Mauss?? seems so small in the grand scheme but I'd super grateful for any help

“Aligned with Hamas” literally is about viewpoint, while being written to make it seem like he’s being detained for reasons related to terrorism. This is absolutely atrocious.

❤️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

sad. they don't know boolean

Love this letter from David Velasco (the former Artforum editor fired for publishing an open letter against the carnage in Gaza) responding to that Harper’s piece lamenting the contamination of contemporary art by politics.

When your student in a Sound Studies class works the register at the bagel shop

The call is now officially out for a new editorial team for @estsjournal.bsky.social ! Please share widely, and email me to chat if you are interested in leading @4sweb.bsky.social's diamond OA journal. I am happy to help you put together your proposal and team! #STS 4sonline.org/news_manager...

With the picture and the headline, I really thought this was an Onion post

So glad I did, I dunno, a dozen reviews for ICA before my own extended abstract was rejected. Fun system!

this is how i solo-parent: bribes all the way down