Aaron Shapiro
@bricolageyumyum.bsky.social
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assistant professor of technology studies, UNC Comm
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Kylie Jarrett
9 days ago
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...
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LivePlatforms: Livelihoods in the Platform Economy Ecosystem
LivePlatforms: Livelihoods in the Platform Economy Ecosystem
https://www.ucd.ie/ics/vacancies/staffvacancies/seniorresearcherforliveplatformsproject/
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Roosevelt Institute
23 days ago
āShould our media system primarily serve democracy, or profit?ā NEW in
@thenation.com
: the team behind our new report argue the answer must be democracyāand lay out what itāll take to break up corporate media and rebuild public media:
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Chokely Carmichaelš„
25 days ago
šØNew pub alert!šØ 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. š§µ
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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)
27 days ago
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Marc Steinberg
about 2 months ago
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/...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/29768624251395354
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Lori Emerson
about 1 month ago
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...
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Lori Emerson - Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. Mexican Summer & Anthology.
Buy Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson on Mexican Summer & Anthology.
https://shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898-lori-emerson-other-networks-a-radical-technology-sourcebook
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Whatās the difference between āextractive assemblageā and āpredatory formationā anyway?
about 2 months ago
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Eric Brandom
2 months ago
blessed freedom
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How I feel about my contemporaries turning 40..
3 months ago
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⦠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...
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Chicago Public Schools creates command center to monitor ICE activity
The school district is facing pressure to do more to help schools and families navigate federal immigration activity and concerns about attendance.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/10/08/cps-ice-immigrant-student-families
3 months ago
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@ppopiel.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The network dialectic: the digital divide and the contradictions of Philadelphia's digital equity strategy
This study examines the political economy, discursive legitimations, and effectiveness of the primary U.S. policy response to narrowing the digital divide: public subsidies for internet service. Us...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2561026#abstract
3 months ago
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Now that I got tenure, lemme start the list of journal publishers I aināt submitting to or reviewing for
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Andy Brockman
over 1 year ago
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.
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Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms āno opt-out" for authors
The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authorsā content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/wiley-set-to-earn-44m-from-ai-rights-deals-confirms-no-opt-out-for-authors?fbclid=IwY2xjawFY2NZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHSRkX0ZHFCt1CQYy-pT9vDOlmI-dLeKZgPVYvh-RW-e5tL8xKW0Ath3NoA_aem_SikrRWEqW9Z5kzNm5jXdTw
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3yo wants to be a āreckoning ballā for Halloween. We support
3 months ago
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Journal of Cultural Economy
3 months ago
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
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AAUP
3 months ago
BREAKING: WE WON!!! š„ š„ š„ 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:
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Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law ā #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) ā CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69784731/261/american-association-of-university-professors-v-rubio/
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Till Eckert
3 months ago
1/ Iām Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, Iāve 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 š
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What itās like running an academic program during Trump 2.0 | Opinion
Funding for humanities scholarship of all sorts is drying up, and central topics like DEI have become political playthings that decimate their intellectual value.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/higher-education-humanities-funding-cuts-trump-20250830.html
4 months ago
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just discovered r/pickles
www.reddit.com/r/Pickles/
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Pickles: the world is a giant pickle
r/Pickles
https://www.reddit.com/r/Pickles/
4 months ago
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Watching the pianist, unbiddenly thinking of Gaza, and feeling nothing but shame and rage against the exterminationist policies of Israel.
4 months ago
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Why does the movie juror #2 feel like it was made in 2005?
5 months ago
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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 yourāÆreview"
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Taylor & Francis AI deal sets "worrying precedent"
The publisher didnāt give authors any notice before selling access to its data to Microsoft for $10Ā million. The agreement could improve academic research, but it further entrenches the predatory natu...
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2024/07/29/taylor-francis-ai-deal-sets-worrying-precedent
5 months ago
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Michael Maffie
5 months ago
šØ Iām excited to announce that, āThe Enshittification of Work: Platform Decay and Labour Conditions in the Gig Economyā is now available online !
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Enshittification of Work: Platform Decay and Labour Conditions in the Gig Economy
This study investigates the mechanisms by which gig platforms degrade labour conditions over time, building on the concept of platform decay, or āenshittificationā, initially developed in the context...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjir.70004
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So glad the arbiters of democracy are speaking up
5 months ago
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Vince Mancini
6 months ago
š¶ I donāt practice trans sharia/I aināt got no crystal ball⦠š¶
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Love me some Dr John of course but isnāt it the Louis Armstrong intl airport ? And by rights Iām pretty sure Toussaint or one/all of the Nevilles would take it
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7 months ago
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Jake Grumbach
7 months ago
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....
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7 months ago
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no.
8 months ago
applying for jobs again
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Fernando DomĆnguez Rubio
8 months ago
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! š¤
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Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.At a time w
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/5957/FragilitiesEssays-on-the-Politics-Ethics-and
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One thing to be bullish about
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9 months ago
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Stephen NuƱez
9 months ago
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...
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Opinion | The manufactured nostalgia of Trumpās tariffs
Those who credit manufacturing jobs for a glorious past America mistake correlation for causation.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-tariffs-manufacturing-jobs-stock-market-rcna200058
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Why do I unwind with the most stress inducing shows on television?
9 months ago
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Triangle Blog Blog
9 months ago
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...
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How voters on the Griffin List (or anyone concerned about their future votes) can update their voter file - Triangle Blog Blog
A group civics blog covering town council, education, transportation, and recreation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.
https://triangleblogblog.com/2025/04/05/how-voters-on-the-griffin-list-or-anyone-concerned-about-their-future-votes-can-update-their-voter-file/
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For shame
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9 months ago
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another reminder why bikes are an extraordinary means of transportation
www.404media.co/email/8fbe3b...
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How Three Alleged Tesla Vandals Got Caught
Automatic license plate readers, Instagram captions, and fingerprints.
https://www.404media.co/email/8fbe3b8c-d43b-46d6-bd79-5627a73e6cd6/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
9 months ago
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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!!
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10 months ago
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Lil write up I did about my surveillance & soc article for
@survstudiesnet.bsky.social
about price surveillance and inflation
medium.com/surveillance...
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Inflationās spies
In this post, Aaron Shapiro reflects on his article āPrice Monitoring, or Where Surveillance Studies Meets the Sociology of Priceā¦
https://medium.com/surveillance-and-society/inflations-spies-aeb1a17a01bc
10 months ago
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My 2.5 yr old is singing āI like to poop it poop itā (to the tune of āI like to move itā)
10 months ago
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I am looking for help locating the origins of a quoteāit'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
10 months ago
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Andrew Selbst
10 months ago
āAligned with Hamasā literally is about viewpoint, while being written to make it seem like heās being detained for reasons related to terrorism. This is absolutely atrocious.
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SoftBank: empire-building, capital formation & power in Asian digital capitalism
Venture capital (VC) firms in Silicon Valley have long enabled digital enterprises from Meta to Google. This article investigates SoftBank, a Japanese conglomerate whose Softbank Vision Fund (SVF1)...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13563467.2025.2462139
11 months ago
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sad. they don't know boolean
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11 months ago
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Brian Goldstone
11 months ago
Love this letter from David Velasco (the former Artforum editor fired for publishing an open letter against the carnage in Gaza) responding to that Harperās piece lamenting the contamination of contemporary art by politics.
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When your student in a Sound Studies class works the register at the bagel shop
11 months ago
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Nicole C. Nelson
11 months ago
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
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With the picture and the headline, I really thought this was an Onion post
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11 months ago
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So glad I did, I dunno, a dozen reviews for ICA before my own extended abstract was rejected. Fun system!
11 months ago
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this is how i solo-parent: bribes all the way down
12 months ago
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