"Despite much research, hate speech detection in under-resourced languages, particularly regional languages, is limited." - Interesting review on online toxicity by Gautam Kishore Shahi and Tim A. Majchrzak. #fightonlinehate arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14264

And also another chapter in the same Handbook on Gender and Digital Media: Abused and silenced: how free speech and online platforms fail women by Kyla Garrett Wagner and Caitlin Ring Carlson #fightonlinehate www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

Looks like a great new resource for researching online hate: Digital media and emerging tactics of gendered harassment by Ingrid Bachmann, Dustin Harp and Jaime Loke in the Handbook on Gender and Digital Media www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b... #fightonlinehate

Discussing #Algorithmic Bias and Social Justice with Dr. Safiya Noble at Wayne State University on Wed, Oct. 22 at 2 pm #Detroit #researchmatters events.wayne.edu/2025/10/22/d...

Excited for #ICA26? Check out all the essential conference logistics—venue details, schedules, registration info, and more—to make the most of your time in Cape Town. buff.ly/PnA7RVS

Call for Submissions: Antifaschistische Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft. 6. Tagung des Netzwerks Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft vom 16.–18.04.2026 an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena krikowi.net/cfs_jena/ #krikowi

Vor 25 Jahren begann die NSU- Mordserie. „Die Medienversteher“ sprechen in einer neuen Folge über den NSU-Terror und thematisieren die Rolle der Medien, die jahrelang die Stigmatisierung der Opfer nicht etwa angeprangert, sondern teilweise noch angeheizt haben. youtu.be/M6C6pl4hloM?...

CollegeWatch is a new weekly newsletter by the Columbia Journalism School to deeply report on the challenges shaping colleges and universities in the US. Edited by Michael Shapiro and Nushin Rashidian. #highered #journalismmatters collegewatch.substack.com?r=nqgqy&utm_... @tanjev.bsky.social

Thrilled!!! 🤩 Our #ica26 pre-conference "Intersectional Political Economy: New Directions for Research and Teaching" in Cape Town is accepted! We're so looking forward to discussing teaching and researding feminist and intersectional political economy with you. @icahdq.bsky.social #CapeTown

📽️ Relive the conference! A few full session recordings are now available on our YouTube channel.

The #wealthtax is key topic in #elections in #Norway – Almost uniquely among democratic nations, the tax returns of named individuals are public, in a database that all citizens can access. Likewise, information on companies is detailed and reliable. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... #TaxtheRich

Heute vor 25 Jahren wurde Enver Şimşek in Nürnberg vom NSU ermordet. Es war der erste Mord einer rechtsterroristischen Anschlagsserie, die insgesamt zehn Menschen, darunter neun mit Migrationsgeschichte und eine Polizistin, das Leben kostete. 1/3

A US federal appeals court upheld a $83.3 million jury award against Trump for defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019, after she accused him of a decades-old rape in a Manhattan department store—an attack for which he was separately found liable for sexual abuse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...

The latest ICA Newsletter is now available! 🗞️ buff.ly/HW5G4Sn

Sounds interesting to #fightonlinehate: Systematic literature review of 31 articles to identify suitable strategies to improve cyberbullying detection. Three areas for improvement: detection methods, socio-behavioral aspects, regulatory influences. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #onlinehate

We are now accepting submissions across 36 sections—covering everything from media, technology, and AI to health, political, organizational, intercultural, and beyond. 🌍✨ 📢 Explore all 36 CFPs and find the perfect fit for your work. ⏳ Submit before the deadline (3 Nov).

📢 #ICA26 Theme Call for Papers: Communication and Inequalities in Context 📝 Explore how power, identity & access shape communication locally & globally. Prepare your work to submit after 2 September & join the conversation! buff.ly/ZJrtqQI

🗳️ ICA 2025 Elections open mid-September! Members can vote online for association-wide, division & interest group roles, plus bylaws revisions (if applicable). Polls stay open ~6 weeks. Make your voice count! 🌍 buff.ly/Fj0jgqF

"New forms of online harassment such as deepfakes and non-consensual sharing of images are out-pacing the law." Especially vulnerable are women of color, LGBTQ+ person and those living in rural or low-income settings, new legal study finds. #fightonlinehate onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

As a tourist generator, Western Europe was down 2.3%, with visitors from Denmark dropping by 19%, from #Germany by 10%, & from France by 6.6%. A similar pattern surfaced in Asia, where US data showed double-digit decreases from Hong Kong, Indonesia & the Philippines. www.mlive.com/news/2025/09...

Vogue names Chloe Malle, editor of its website and co-host of its podcast, as the new editor of American Vogue, replacing Anna Wintour after 37 years (Jessica Testa/New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY. We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration. I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.

It has been 60 years since the Julie Andrews classic “The Sound of Music” opened in movie theaters. It still enchants American viewers, but, despite bringing millions of dollars in tourism revenue to their country each year, it befuddles many Austrians. #Austria www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

In Deutschland leben 3,8 Millionen Menschen mehr als 1990 Im Osten ist die Zahl der Einwohner*innen zurückgegangen, im Westen gestiegen. Von 2017 bis 2022 wanderten erstmals mehr Menschen von den westdt. in die ostdt. Länder. 2023 kehrte sich diese Tendenz wieder um. www.spiegel.de/panorama/ges...

Countries where men take on more household labor & child care have higher fertility rates, a new paper by Nobel Prize-winning economist Claudia Goldin at Harvard found: “Reversing progressive change” could have the opposite effect and “lower the birthrate even further.” 19thnews.org/2025/08/fert...

The Austrian government’s belief is that the program can help keep people in the work force. It also follows in the European tradition of sanitariums specializing in long-term care and recuperation, while sprinkling in touches of spa and #wellness culture. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/w... #Austria

35 Jahre nach der deutschen Wiedervereinigung wachsen die Lohnunterschiede zwischen West und Ost wieder: Der Durchschnitts-Bruttolohn für Vollzeitbeschäftigte liegt in Ostdeutschland mehr als 13.000 Euro oder 21 Prozent unter dem in den alten Bundesländern. www.rnd.de/politik/lohn...

And this doesn't include grad students on top of these numbers: 1.4 million undergraduate students are single mothers, making up 9% percent of America’s undergraduates. There are more than 19 million college students in the US. Most are well removed from wealth/power. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...

President Trump lashed out on social media late Sunday against ABC and NBC, putting the nation's top broadcast regulator once more at the center of his culture wars. From @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

I still can't believe we lost Boris. "His colleagues and students alike will remember him as someone who not only took pride in his own academic work but who also championed the success of others." www.legacy.com/us/obituarie... @waynestateclas.bsky.social

Even with EU law each country combats #onlinehate differently as a new paper on France indicates, describing: "a reactive approach: a rapidly changing technological and social environment gives rise to a rapidly changing, increasingly complicated and detailed legal environment" real.mtak.hu/221583/

Online hate remains a big problem. How can NGOs help? How do targeted persons cope with experiences? Join for a guest lecture by Hannah Ötting of @uni-muenster.de this Wed Aug. 27 @ 5 pm at Wayne State University #Detroit #fightonlinehate @waynestateclas.bsky.social events.wayne.edu/main/2025/08...

Bummer. Postal services in #Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Italy said they will stop shipping most merchandise to the U.S. effective immediately. France and #Austria will follow on Monday. #Trumptariffs #tariffs #USA apnews.com/article/us-t...

The late disability justice co-founder & activist Stacey Park Milbern is the latest pioneering woman to receive her own quarter from the U.S. Mint. Milbern is the first woman in a wheelchair featured on U.S. currency & the first person whose wheelchair is actually shown 19thnews.org/2025/08/stac...

The data you depend on – about jobs, weather, health, water and more – is quietly vanishing from federal sites. Here’s how it’s happening and how you can join efforts to help save it: buff.ly/GIa2psq

Vor der Polizei konservativ geschätzte 3.000 Menschen und eine riesige #Regenbogenfahne beim #CSDMagdeburg. Laut, bunt fröhlich.

🎈🎈🎈 Es ist geschafft! ✨️✨️✨️ #AntonWilhelmAmoStraße #AmoFest

Journalism can be helpful to victims: In a new study on #onlinehate against men politicians in Malta, they described unique coping ways such as seeking reconciliation with perpetrators and deriving meaning from public service through investigative journalism. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New very interesting paper on regulating #onlinehate speech in #Austria where fundamental rights & cyberbullying regulation are calibrated to protect individuals while respecting freedoms essential to democracy. Austrian law offers ways for victims to seek protection & redress real.mtak.hu/221575/

A really tough, difficult day as our wonderful, wonderful colleague Boris Baltes passed so suddenly yesterday. We were running in his honor at the Wayne State 5k Warrior Pride Run. It was good to be with kind colleagues in this moment. @waynestateclas.bsky.social @waynestateresearch.bsky.social

"it is urgent for Congress to immediately pass new laws to protect Americans by preventing their likenesses from being used to do harm. ...Why should tech companies’ profits rule over our rights to our own images and voices?" #USA #fightonlinehate #dataprivacyrights www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

The student-led protests had been largely peaceful for months but turned violent this week to protest what they allege is police brutality. The situation has pressured #Serbia ’s increasingly autocratic president Vucic, who has refused to call an early election. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

#Detroit's #Woodbridge neighboorhood has a rich history that is recorded and kept alive through the new Woodbridge Oral History Archive. Celebrate its launch on Aug. 26! woodbridgedigitalarchive.omeka.net #historymatters #researchmatters @detroitnews.com @wdet.bsky.social @freep.com @metrotimes.com

I learnt a lot about the relationships between labor movements, its organizers, the labor press, media & labor journalists. Thank you Labor@Wayne for putting these fabulous panels together in the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social! @uawarchivist.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social @waynestateclas.bsky.social

Thousands gathered in cities at more than 300 events and rallies across the US to protest Trump's plan to keep control of Congress after the 2026 #midterms by pushing Republican-led states to redraw their congressional maps in favor of Republicans. #USA www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...

Scores of demonstrators took to the streets of Washington DC on an oppressively hot and humid Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops. #USA www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...

Saw it too and also found something similar from @martafraile.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1017/S174...

An interesting framework for the context of #onlinehate: "similar to the 'there is no alternative' to neoliberalism argument...the gendered construction of cyberlibertarianism presents online freedom as the only game in town, at least when it comes to online hate." academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

Interesting new ethnographic study on dynamics of large-scale online attacks against feminists, in the European context: "The lack of platform intervention exacerbates the issue, contributing to a sense of constant surveillance for targets." #Spain #surveillance journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

„healing journey“ — ich verstehe den Versuch, den Fokus auf das Positive zu legen, nur: Ich habe diese Reise nicht gebucht — im Gegenteil! www.apotheken-umschau.de/krankheiten-...