starting now....join if you can! i'll be talking about pizzagate and TikTok so it's at least guaranteed to be weird...

Join us on zoom in about 30 min! 🤩

Hi Center for Countering Digital Hate, I work on digital hate and respect what you do, but I am shocked you haven't responded to Rachel Riley's Islamophobic, anti-Palestinian posts & maintain a relationship with her. This spreads hate & misinformation, including about those protesting hate and violence.

looking forward to talking digital methods and extremism with the good people of C-REX & PERIL next week!

I'll be thinking through the methodological & ideological shifts since Alan Finlayson, Cassian Osborne-Carey and I published our 'trap of tracking' paper in 2021

The scale of cuts/closures in UK Unis should be national talking point. Key local economic anchor institutions, & a major export industry, are collapsing because of government regulation (& its ideological hostility to the maintenance of national culture).
qmucu.org/qmul-transform…

These are the same direction

Stop calling everything trad.

One of these women is a tradwife, the other is not. Here’s why it matters:

I have a paper on covid-scepticism and conspiracy theories in Russell Brand's YouTube comment section coming out soon, and I think it's good, but now I'm doing the proofs, I'm wondering what I'm doing with my life, and where things went wrong, and whether anything matters

the last three sentences of the intro to Anna Kornbluh's immediacy book are a fine model of academic writing:

'In the extremity of too late capitalism, distance evaporates, thought ebbs, intensity gulps. Whatever. Like the meme says: get in, loser.'

Book launch imminent! Join us at KCL next week to toast the release of Ego Media: Life Writing and Online Affordances. Looking forward to catching up w/ some co-authors and collaborators & discussing developments in digital identity work
tickettailor.com/events/centref…

great paper on 'Russian disinformation' from Bharath Ganesh and Nicolò Faggiani:

'The goal of the IRA appears less to be spreading disinformation' than in 'enveloping users in an affective economy' of transnational far right & white supremacist narratives

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

'Platformization, Digital Disinformation and Non-Democratic Politics: Belarus in Comparative Perspective' EHU Summer School, Vilnius, July 16-27 2024. Apply/share to those who might be interested. I'll be there with Rob Topinka, discussing quali-quant methods and misinformation!

tl;dr: I believed the student.

Also the panic around AI is a symptom of a broader crisis in UK universities - stressed-out, debt-burdened students, overworked, casualised lecturers, and a goverment with an uncanny ability to make things worse.

'Have you ever wondered how woke came about?'

this guy doesn't even know woke is an adjective and he wants to teach you a class on it. someone please tell him the noun form is wokeness before the term starts.

The Market Village in Stratford has been at the heart of the community for 30 years.
It shut abruptly leaving traders without their businesses after the company that owns the site went into administration.
Please sign this petition to help save the site
change.org/p/urge-unex-to…