Listening to a room full of experts on journalism, ethics and AI is very invigorating. The live streaming is still ongoing! (See the link below)

UW-Madison SJMC
ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/2024-journalis…

Thrilled that 'Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire' has been adjudged as the winner of the The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities by AIIS
ucpress.edu/book/978052039…
indiastudies.org/aiis-2024-book…

Our annual symposium 'Everyday Forms of Digital Activism and Resistance' is happening in 3 weeks 🥳 Checkout this amazing lineup and exciting program. Open to all!

Teach-in talk/zine-making workshop on White Paper movements at Univeristy of Chicago

Many thanks to the Center for East Asian Studies at Univeristy of Chicago as well as amazing colleagues Julie Chu, Paola Iovene & Zhiying Ma 马志莹

This event is a collaboration between the Raah Lab at Concordia and the Centre for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Really grateful to see this article out! It started as my guilty pleasure during Covid's first lockdown, then turned into understanding how internet service providers drive the Philippines’ imagining of and desires for high-speed internet infrastructure. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15…

Important new research by Lauren E. Bridges! Annenberg School

So proud of my colleague (and an extremely fun human being & all time hockey fan!) Doug McLeod UW-Madison SJMC 💕💫🥳

Please join us next week as we discuss our research on “The Black Press Now.” I’m looking forward to sharing my work and learning from other contributors.

Alert: if you want to 'waste' time in quality shows, here's a superb list from faculty UW-Madison L&S UW-Madison SJMC!

My entry: Wave Makers 人选之人/造浪者

On my list: Bocchi the Rock!; One Day Mike Wagner ; The Last of Us
ls.wisc.edu/news/7-shows-t…

Read this new book on “slow productivity”, a concept inspired by the slow food movement in Italy. Author Cal Newport definitely makes a point here when talking about the natural pace of work!

#productivity #productivity tips #ProductivityHacks #academia

Here is a recording of our Manchester China Institute talk + discussion

Excuse low energy vibes — we were both sick on the day of the talk!

Hopefully useful for scholars in linguistic anthropology & sociology of religion

Funded by The Leverhulme Trust & The British Academy

youtu.be/uk8v4FrHeBw?si…

Here is the poster for our upcoming retrospective on 30 years of the internet in China. This is only Part 1 of a series. Part 2 will be on Zoom & will be announced later. Scan QR code for details. Annenberg School Center on Digital Culture and Society PennCSCC Sociology at Penn

The cfp for the International Communication Association 2024 Pre-Conference 'Repressed Histories of Communication and Media Studies' has been extended to 15 February 👇
icahdq.org/mpage/ICA24-re…
Emily Keightley Clovis Bergere Usha Raman Aswin Punathambekar Marwan M. Kraidy @[email protected] Jing Wang

💫 new pub alert 💫

During #A4Revolution , protestors used blank white paper to express their voices while remaining in the shadows of the state censorship and surveillance.

Check out this essay from anthropology-news.org/articles/what-…

💫New Publication

My article 'Small apps for digital futures: Podcasting ecology in contemporary China' examine podcasters’ use of what I call small app infrastructures and other digital platforms.

#podcast #SmallApps #China

go.shr.lc/3vlEfDb

Jing Wang explores how podcasters in China make use of small app infrastructures to build community, and how they navigate the tension between aspirations for autonomy and tight regulations, censorship, and platform dominance.

Excited to see this article on podcasting ecology in China in the stage of final proof for Radio Journal. Can't wait to see the final version soon 💕