Check out the MST SIG's new spotlight in @jcmsjournal.bsky.social! Gary Kafer @gkafer.bsky.social and Patrick Brian Smith @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social take us through the history and future of @scmsmst.bsky.social. Read more here: quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/i...

On Thurs 1/29 from 4:30-5:30EST I will be co-hosting a book event with @gkafer.bsky.social for @scmsmst.bsky.social! We will be in dialogue w/ Anna Munster (UNSW) and Sarah Murray (UMich) about their new books on AI: "DeepAesthetics" and "Powered by Smart". Join us! berkeley.zoom.us/j/94576327580

JORB! Open-rank professor position in Media Industries at UMich careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

IT HAS A COVER! Pleased to announce that _The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity For the Rest of Us_ is coming from @sunypress.bsky.social in Feb. With 25 chapters from over 40 contributors, the book tackles everything from anti-DEI laws to consultants and cuts to campus violence (1/2)

My response to Ring's decision to roll back reforms and go back to surveillance on behalf of police as a business model. This is part of a trend of companies bending over backwards to get in on the techno-authoritarian money/power grab that comes with being a lapdog of the carceral state.

Really proud to see that the special dossier "Perspectives on Global Surveillance" which I edited for JUMP CUT is now online! It features a timely selection of texts from a wonderful range of scholars. Link here for the introduction: www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue...

AI has entered its empire era. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-in-i...

Thrilled to see my article on speculative media-making practices using generative AI appear in the latest issue of @jcmsjournal.bsky.social! Check it out here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/349/arti...

Really great read about the contradictions of state archives of surveillance.

Calling all grad students in SCMS! Please consider submitting to the Media, Science, Technology SIG Grad Essay award. I’ll be on the judging panel. Let me know if you have any questions!

For my inaugural post on this platform, I'm excited to share my recent publication in Cultural Studies on the use of weather data in predictive analytics, including predictive policing and social media sentiment analysis. Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

My new book Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore's Surveillance Experiment is now out @ucpress.bsky.social. Let me tell you a bit about what's in it.

My Surveillance Studies Starter Pack is evolving and expanding rapidly... go.bsky.app/HYGu6oX