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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 21d

Universities:
- Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers
- stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research
- stop pretending AI usage is inevitable.

I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 21d

“university leaders … must act to help us collectively turn back the tide of garbage software, which fuels harmful tropes (e.g. so-called lazy students) and false frames (e.g. so-called efficiency or inevitability) to obtain market penetration and increase technological dependency”

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...

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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · Sep 5

🌟 Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium 🌟
The Center for Digital Culture and Society is now accepting abstract submissions for our upcoming symposium.

📝 Deadline: December 1, 2025
📧 Submit to: [email protected]

More information: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium

www.asc.upenn.edu

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Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · Sep 2

Call for Papers: Control, Survival, Struggle: Rethinking and Renewing Vincent Mosco’s Political Economy of Communication. A special issue of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalization I'm co-editing w/ @ursulahuws.bsky.social, Leslie Shade, and Catherine McKercher wolg.wordpress.com/special-issu...

Call for papers: special issue on the legacy of Vincent Mosco

Special issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation on Control, Survival, Struggle: Rethinking and Renewing Vincent Mosco’s Political Economy of Communication The theme When…

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · Aug 27

📣 Final Reminder: Call for Papers! Deadline Soon!

ACTIVATE's next hybrid seminar explores Alternative Media Archives and the long-term challenges of preserving media activism.
📅 Oct 23–24 | CEU Vienna + Online
📢 CFP open until Aug 31
📩 [email protected]
#MediaActivism #Archives #ACTIVATEproject

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Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social · Aug 26

New call out for the fellowship I'm currently doing. Highly recommended - Aarhus is lovely, @aiasdk.bsky.social folks are wonderful and Aarhus University is a great place to work on your research. Apply! ✨

Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) @aiasdk.bsky.social · Aug 26

🔊Up to 10 individual AIAS-AUFF FELLOWSHIPS are open for application by curiosity-driven and talented researchers from all over the world, from any research discipline & with 2-10 years of experience after completion of their PhD.
📆APPLY by: 28 October at 12:00 (noon, CET)
aias.au.dk/events/show/...

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Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social · Jul 31

so depressing :/

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Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social · Jul 15

The ICA Activism, Communication and Social Justice Division (@acsj-ica.bsky.social) is looking for a new Secretary and a new International Liaison (both in office 2026-2028). Could that be you?

More info about the roles: www.icahdq.org/page/div-ig-...

Division & Interest Group: Information for election candidates

Leadership at ICA comprises a robust group of ICA members bringing together varied professional methodologies, expertise, unique talents, and diverse cultural influences, from around the globe. With a Board of Directors of fifty individuals, five elected leadership roles per thirty-three divisions and interest groups, and a number of standing committees and task forces, our association is truly member driven. We are guided by, and grateful for, those who contribute to the association’s success through service.

www.icahdq.org

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Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social · Jul 15

If you're interested, send your candidate statement (max 2000 characters, with info about you & what you'd like to do if elected) to Rasha El-Ibiary ([email protected]) and me ([email protected]). Deadline: July 22nd.
You must be a member of ICA to be nominated.
DM/email if you have questions!

Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social · Jul 15

The ICA Activism, Communication and Social Justice Division (@acsj-ica.bsky.social) is looking for a new Secretary and a new International Liaison (both in office 2026-2028). Could that be you?

More info about the roles: www.icahdq.org/page/div-ig-...

Division & Interest Group: Information for election candidates

Leadership at ICA comprises a robust group of ICA members bringing together varied professional methodologies, expertise, unique talents, and diverse cultural influences, from around the globe. With a Board of Directors of fifty individuals, five elected leadership roles per thirty-three divisions and interest groups, and a number of standing committees and task forces, our association is truly member driven. We are guided by, and grateful for, those who contribute to the association’s success through service.

www.icahdq.org

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Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social · Jun 20

Yesterday, at the wonderful @aiasdk.bsky.social Summer Gathering, we opened an exhibit of images that bridge science and art. My contribution is a composite of different drawings from my visual focus groups w activists, researchers and techies.
Read more about this work here: tinyurl.com/5bdb7upn

3 people stand next to a totem pole, talking to each other. The totem displays 3 printed images and accompanying text.

Print of 5 drawings. On the left hand side, three smaller drawings of what individuals think the internet is like. On the right hand side, two larger drawings of what groups would like the internet to be.

5 drawings. On the left hand side, three smaller drawings of what individuals think the internet is like. On the right hand side, two larger drawings of what groups would like the internet to be.

Accompanying text that explains the preceding images. Title of the image: "Imagined internets". Author: Elisabetta Ferrari, AIAS-AUFF Fellow, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University.
Explanatory text: "This composite image displays different drawings created by a group of activists and researchers in a “visual focus group” (Ferrari, 2024) held at the Internet Freedom Festival in Valencia, Spain, in 2019.
On the left are drawings of what three participants thought the internet was like. Each drawing emphasizes different aspects, such as the role of corporations or nation states.
On the right are two group drawings. After completing their individual drawings, participants in each group discussed what they wanted the internet to look like in the future. Values such as transparency and openness are highlighted."

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Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social · Jun 17

I really enjoyed your presentation on descriptive research!

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Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social · Jun 13

Hey #ica25, at 3pm I'm presenting some of my work on mutual aid activism in an @acsj-ica.bsky.social session titled "Activism, Technology, Hybridity and Social Media". Join us! We are at the Grand Hyatt, room Mt. Blue Sky (in the other building, across from valet parking).

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Veronika Karnowski @vkarnowski.bsky.social · Jan 17

Still very much thinking in hashtags (like me) and looking for #ica25? I created a feed for you to follow! #commsky
bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social · May 27

On Monday I'm giving a talk on my ongoing research on mutual aid activism at @aiasdk.bsky.social.
You can attend online 💻 – just click on the link below to see how!
See you there :)

Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) @aiasdk.bsky.social · May 27

🧐Interested in digital technologies and activism such as grassroots mobilization? Join the next AIAS seminar w/ AIAS-AUFF Fellow @bettyferrari.bsky.social to get insights from her research on mutual aid and digital technologies in the US, Italy and the UK.
📆2 June at 11:00
aias.au.dk/events/show/...

AIAS Seminar: 'Don’t abandon each other: Mutual aid activism and the pandemic'

Speaker: Elisabetta Ferrari, AIAS-AUFF Fellow

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Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social · May 19

my book is 6 months old today! ✨
No better way to celebrate this half birthday than grabbing a copy in the @ucpress.bsky.social Spring Book Sale (40% with code MAY40) 😉
www.ucpress.edu/books/approp...

Picture of a book on a bench in front of purple flower bush. The title of the book, in black and orange print is "Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge
Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies", the author is "Elisabetta Ferrari".

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Prof David Farrell, UCD @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social · May 15

What a crazy world when the two countries that, between them, host the best universities in the world are seeking to destroy their university sectors.

Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · May 15

Numbers crunched on a 6% levy on international student fees by @patrickjack.bsky.social. A £41.5m bill for UCL, £27.3m for Manchester, £21.8m for King's - but impact may be greatest for smaller unis www.timeshighereducation.com/news/big-uni...

Big universities ‘face £20 million bill’ from foreign student tax

English sector facing total bill of £620 million a year, if government goes ahead with plan to take cut of international earnings

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social · May 8

"How did we collectively memory-hole an event this big? And what does that tell us about race and policing even today?"
Excellent podcast on this devastating piece of Philly history.
www.npr.org/2025/05/07/1...

40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV : Code Switch

We're looking back on the day a Philadelphia police department helicopter dropped a bomb on a rowhouse in a middle-class neighborhood. Even though that bombing and the fire it set off killed eleven pe...

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Fabio Giglietto @fabiogiglietto.bsky.social · May 9

Serving on the PhD admission committee this year. We're offering two scholarships in Digital Culture and Communication—one specifically for international candidates.

Know talented candidates passionate about digital culture? Send them our way!

Details: www.uniurb.it/concorsi/9085

Abbiamo pubblicato un nuovo bando nella sezione PhD - Dottorati di Ricerca / SU. Per informazioni, clicca qui.

Avviso pubblicato il giorno 8/5/2025 con scadenza 10/6/2025

www.uniurb.it

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Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social · May 8

"How did we collectively memory-hole an event this big? And what does that tell us about race and policing even today?"
Excellent podcast on this devastating piece of Philly history.
www.npr.org/2025/05/07/1...

40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV : Code Switch

We're looking back on the day a Philadelphia police department helicopter dropped a bomb on a rowhouse in a middle-class neighborhood. Even though that bombing and the fire it set off killed eleven pe...

www.npr.org

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Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social · May 2

We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group.

aoir.org/riskyresearc...

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Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety

AoIR Risky Research Working Group

Contributors: Alice Marwick, Dafna Kaufman, Jacob Smith, Patricia Aufderheide, Jessica
Beyer, Emma L. Briant, Coppélie Cocq, Laura Dilley, Sam DiBella, Radhika Gajjala, Kamile
Grusauskaite, Alex D. Ketchum, Zelly Martin, Janice Metzger, Erin McInerney, Rachel Moran,
John McNutt, Suay Melisa Oezkula, Victoria O’Meara, Riccardo Nanni, Carolina Parreiras,
Katy Pearce, Ryan Payne, Meredith Pruden, Christian Sandvig, Caighlan Smith, Sam Srauy,
Zeerak Talat, Leonie Tanczer, Robert Tynes, Antonia Vaughan, Shenja van der Graaf, Courtney
Vowles, Michele White.

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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · Mar 30

It is easier to AI-generate the end of the world than the end of capitalism

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · Mar 24

I bet the chat was named like "war boys" or "pete's posse" or something

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Eszter Hargittai @eszter.com · Mar 17

I'm hiring for a postdoc! 🌟 pls help spread the word
Senior Research and Teaching Associate (PostDoc)
with a focus on Internet Use and Society
details here: webuse.org/postdoc/

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Grace Hurford PhD @ghurford.bsky.social · Mar 17

“If the dice lands wrong and it is you or someone you love next, you will hope – at the very least – there will be help on the way. That long Covid sufferers know there won’t is not simply the pandemic’s dark shadow, but its mark of shame.”

Long Covid SOS @longcovidsos.bsky.social · Mar 17

“In 2025, Long Covid is the public health crisis no one wants to talk about, taking a wrecking ball to people’s lives, the economy and the health service while those with power pretend there’s nothing to see here.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Long Covid is the pandemic’s dark shadow. Why does no one in power in Britain want to talk about it? | Frances Ryan

Five years after the first lockdown, millions of lives are still being ruined by this debilitating disease. You wouldn’t know it, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

www.theguardian.com

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