Drawing on the works of Dr. Palashi Vaghela and Dr. Murali Shanmugavelan, I plan to investigate the barriers, both intentional and otherwise, in recognizing and moderating caste-based hate speech on Reddit. I'm excited to discuss and develop this further at #NCA2025 with other #PolComm scholars!

If you're in Denver for the International Communication Association's annual meeting, see work by and connect with CDSC people. @yibin.bsky.social, @callofdyuti.bsky.social, @mako.cc, Haomin Lin, and Jeremy Foote are all around! #ICA25 blog.communitydata.science/come-check-o...

Politeness does not act against fascists.

POV: You're 16, believe being in advanced placement math class means you're a once in a generation genius, and have just discovered Reddit.

okay, it’s time for me to finally weigh in: it’s probably a bad sign that guys are just doing sieg heils in public again

Usha Vance, is that you?

Not being able to speak your language is a pain that immigrants know very well. The farther I move away from home, the harder my diction grows roots on my tongue.

All those pundits who said Trump was too lazy to be a dictator really underestimated the possibility of a lazy man delegating all the dictator shit to a megalomaniac who does a lot of cocaine

I have been listening to floor speeches made by US Congresspeople for a project and the amount of mental gymnastics R congressmen partake in to argue against any kind of gun control is honestly infuriating. How do people not see through this?

Thrilled to share that I will be at Denver, CO this summer for #ICA25 discussing a cross national comparison of resilience strategies used by women against gendered cyberhate.

One of the things that got me into a PhD program.

I remember I had posted something very happy about my then newborn niece who lives in a village and a well known IIT-D sociologist had quoted that tweet with something to do with female infanticides.

This - "How to Think Like a Sociotechnical Researcher" from Ranjit Singh at @datasociety.bsky.social - is one of my favorite pieces of the year. Belongs on every syllabus. Not just every socio-technical-adjacent course but like, all of the courses. datasociety.net/points/how-t...

🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE ALERT 🚨 Working on disinformation and (generative) AI? I am editing a special issue with Aqsa Farooq as part of our EDMO work. 🗓️ Deadline: December 31, 2024 Please share 🫶🏼 #disinformation #academicsky #commsky #polcom #csssky edmo.eu/edmo-news/ca...

I am thrilled to share that a paper by Ryan Funkhouser and I has finally come out as a chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Conflict and Peach Communication. Here we provide a robust overview of research at the intersection of communication, resilience, and peacebuilding. Read: tinyurl.com/muc5brpm

The widespread idea that posting screenshots of Trump’s relevant policy announcements is somehow “platforming” Trump is ridiculous. The man is the President-elect. Actual resistance requires looking at reality as it actually is, not engaging in denial and magical thinking.

📸 kokonananya

There is truly no match for a sunny winter day stroll. Walked around the neighborhood with a friend, got a sandwich, and saw something that reminded me of framing theory.

I absolutely loved @reedvanschenck.bsky.social 's presentation at #AoIR2024 about collective harassment by trolls and the role of fringe platforms in hosting and facilitating collective harassment, blurring the divide between online and offline.

I'm going to try to post more about papers I read. This morning I read "Stoking the Flames: Understanding Escalation in an Online Harassment Community" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/.... In the paper, @kejsitake.bsky.social and co-authors look at the harassment community Kiwi Farms.

If you have to threaten students with deportation to make them attend your classes, maybe learn to teach better. Also, plain disgusting to use deportation as a threatening tactic for international students. Some of you should not be in positions of power and it shows.

📣Vacancy announcement: we are looking for a recent graduate to join the #Gender & #Disarmament programme at UNIDIR (aka the #pushforward team). Deadline for applications: 25 November Help us spread the word! 👉 unidir.org/who-we-are/j...

Organized by PhD and Postdoc fellows @annenbergcargc.bsky.social, a conf. focused on the role of media and communication scholarship in times of global crises: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/.... Please spread the word! Also, we're lucky to have Nabil Echchaibi as our keynote speaker!

I am so glad this site is finally bringing in the juice.

Updated list of global media+comm scholars. Lmk if you want to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/Avb3yM

In the same category, Brian Lara kissing the ground after making 400 runs against England in 2004. #CricketSky

The man in this photo sent shudders down the spines of batsmen for years.

... but getting beaten to third place by the New York Times, by just over 1,000 follows.

I’ve created a starter pack for #scholars of (digital) #activism and social movements. Please check it out to find people you might be interested in connecting with! Let me also know if you’d like to be included in the pack. #protests #research #AcademicSky go.bsky.app/DN73Mqz

I am accepting graduate students this year. Please contact me if you are interested in joining our PhD and Masters program fantastic program in beautiful #Tucson

New users of #Bluesky will find comfort in the functional similarities with Twitter as they figure their way around. But there are also many interesting #differences. Here’s a useful #guide to using Bluesky’s unique features and making this a nicer experience. www.theverge.com/24295933/blu...

As a grad student mentored by @jeremydfoote.com, he has really mastered the way of being incredibly kind while giving very constructive feedback that makes you want to do better work. As an international student working with him has been super fun and inspiring.

Here is a @github.com repo where I will share tutorial notebooks on how to retrieve and analyze data from @bsky.app @atproto.com Feedback, suggestions, and contributions are welcome! github.com/brianckeegan...

Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about. 1) What makes some types of hate speech more effective than the others? 2) The birth of new deities in migrant communities.

Hello everyone! I am Dyuti, a Communication PhD student in my third year. I study online communities, hate speech, and online toxicity. If any of that, or my fascination with films/TV interests you, say hi!

Can't wait to see @tupur.bsky.social's first book in print soon! Follow her, get your libraries to buy the book, and invite her for talks!

There's a field (blue sky) beyond the ideas of right (mastodon) and wrong (x). Meet me there. ~ Rumi