Rabani Garg
@rabani.bsky.social
Ph.D Candidate, University of Pennsylvania
Youth Digital Cultures | Hip Hop, Media Makers, Participatory Cultures | Critical Digital Literacies
📍Delhi | Philly
Mom, Cat Worshipper, Filmmaker. Staying with Anger.
Youth Digital Cultures | Hip Hop, Media Makers, Participatory Cultures | Critical Digital Literacies
📍Delhi | Philly
Mom, Cat Worshipper, Filmmaker. Staying with Anger.
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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
If you are at #NCTE2025, come join us to talk about Digital Texts and How to Teach Them. And scan QR to join our crowdsourced collection of mentor texts, tools, resources, & academic research on digital media @karismjones.bsky.social @sarahejerasa.bsky.social @mraleosays.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
If you are at #NCTE2025, come join us to talk about Digital Texts and How to Teach Them. And scan QR to join our crowdsourced collection of mentor texts, tools, resources, & academic research on digital media @karismjones.bsky.social @sarahejerasa.bsky.social @mraleosays.bsky.social
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THAT’S right!! @rabani.bsky.social and @karismjones.bsky.social and I are pumped our special issue will be coming out @cite-ela.bsky.social very soon!! #literacies
October 29, 2025 at 12:50 AM
THAT’S right!! @rabani.bsky.social and @karismjones.bsky.social and I are pumped our special issue will be coming out @cite-ela.bsky.social very soon!! #literacies
I have been thinking about this a lot recently— wondering if folks would be interested in collaborating on #literacies public scholarship. Building things together?
Q4: A community now is more important than ever. What ideas do you have for ways we can support and build the #literacies community through this chat?
October 29, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I have been thinking about this a lot recently— wondering if folks would be interested in collaborating on #literacies public scholarship. Building things together?
To be able situate myself and my work in the #literacies lineage has been coolest relational reveal”
Q4: A community now is more important than ever. What ideas do you have for ways we can support and build the #literacies community through this chat?
October 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
To be able situate myself and my work in the #literacies lineage has been coolest relational reveal”
A New Substack: My New Substack, "The Messy Middle: Research, Feminists, & the Everyday", and a post.
“An instinctive serendipitous selection of words that became the lens I started to see myself with…”
open.substack.com/pub/rabaniga...
“An instinctive serendipitous selection of words that became the lens I started to see myself with…”
open.substack.com/pub/rabaniga...
Feminist Understandings
A Note (2021) & an Addendum (2025)
open.substack.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:21 AM
A New Substack: My New Substack, "The Messy Middle: Research, Feminists, & the Everyday", and a post.
“An instinctive serendipitous selection of words that became the lens I started to see myself with…”
open.substack.com/pub/rabaniga...
“An instinctive serendipitous selection of words that became the lens I started to see myself with…”
open.substack.com/pub/rabaniga...
If you are a researcher or a designer working with AI and not talking to the young people around you, you are missing out on a whole slice of understanding of actual environment of use!
July 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
If you are a researcher or a designer working with AI and not talking to the young people around you, you are missing out on a whole slice of understanding of actual environment of use!
People engage/ w screens regularly in their everyday lives-recording & sharing is routine practice. @amystorn.bsky.social & I offer 3 approaches to researchers to study ways people work with/across screens. bit.ly/3ZdTEBH - Message if you are unable to access this #digitalmethods #educationresearch
June 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
People engage/ w screens regularly in their everyday lives-recording & sharing is routine practice. @amystorn.bsky.social & I offer 3 approaches to researchers to study ways people work with/across screens. bit.ly/3ZdTEBH - Message if you are unable to access this #digitalmethods #educationresearch
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Live from NASA GISS, kicking-off the Weather and Climate 100-hour livestream
Beginning Weds May 28, at 1 p.m. ET, the “Weather and Climate Livestream” will span five days, ending on Sunday, June 1, at 5:30 p.m. ET.
www.youtube.com/@wclivestrea...
Beginning Weds May 28, at 1 p.m. ET, the “Weather and Climate Livestream” will span five days, ending on Sunday, June 1, at 5:30 p.m. ET.
www.youtube.com/@wclivestrea...
May 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Live from NASA GISS, kicking-off the Weather and Climate 100-hour livestream
Beginning Weds May 28, at 1 p.m. ET, the “Weather and Climate Livestream” will span five days, ending on Sunday, June 1, at 5:30 p.m. ET.
www.youtube.com/@wclivestrea...
Beginning Weds May 28, at 1 p.m. ET, the “Weather and Climate Livestream” will span five days, ending on Sunday, June 1, at 5:30 p.m. ET.
www.youtube.com/@wclivestrea...
With @writinglit.bsky.social this Sunday, April 27. A symposium on AI and youth writing.
"Tinkering with/ Tripping it up: Youth Shift, Interrupt, and Challenge Conceptualizations Around their AI Use."
Curious to learn more? click the link below.
👉 bit.ly/449Gwkd
@aeraedresearch.bsky.social
"Tinkering with/ Tripping it up: Youth Shift, Interrupt, and Challenge Conceptualizations Around their AI Use."
Curious to learn more? click the link below.
👉 bit.ly/449Gwkd
@aeraedresearch.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
With @writinglit.bsky.social this Sunday, April 27. A symposium on AI and youth writing.
"Tinkering with/ Tripping it up: Youth Shift, Interrupt, and Challenge Conceptualizations Around their AI Use."
Curious to learn more? click the link below.
👉 bit.ly/449Gwkd
@aeraedresearch.bsky.social
"Tinkering with/ Tripping it up: Youth Shift, Interrupt, and Challenge Conceptualizations Around their AI Use."
Curious to learn more? click the link below.
👉 bit.ly/449Gwkd
@aeraedresearch.bsky.social
Coming on April 27th. Symposium: Cross-Platformization, Digital Media Platforms As Global Ecosystems, and the Shifting Understandings of Critical Platform Practices with @mclsig.bsky.social
See details of the panelists here: bit.ly/449Gwkd
@aeraedresearch.bsky.social
See details of the panelists here: bit.ly/449Gwkd
@aeraedresearch.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Coming on April 27th. Symposium: Cross-Platformization, Digital Media Platforms As Global Ecosystems, and the Shifting Understandings of Critical Platform Practices with @mclsig.bsky.social
See details of the panelists here: bit.ly/449Gwkd
@aeraedresearch.bsky.social
See details of the panelists here: bit.ly/449Gwkd
@aeraedresearch.bsky.social
Excited to be at @aeraedresearch.bsky.social I'll be sharing work from my dissertation on hip hop collectives in Delhi & social media research & our team research on Writing with AI & youth writing, in collaboration with @amystorn.bsky.social & in conversation with phenomenal scholars bit.ly/449Gwkd
April 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Excited to be at @aeraedresearch.bsky.social I'll be sharing work from my dissertation on hip hop collectives in Delhi & social media research & our team research on Writing with AI & youth writing, in collaboration with @amystorn.bsky.social & in conversation with phenomenal scholars bit.ly/449Gwkd
Friends in Detroit stop by tomorrow -- super excited to be on this panel of Asian hip hop ethnographers talking method, place, and sound across disciplines. The panel is also hybrid.
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March 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Friends in Detroit stop by tomorrow -- super excited to be on this panel of Asian hip hop ethnographers talking method, place, and sound across disciplines. The panel is also hybrid.
aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/soli...
aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/soli...
Delusional is the cool kid in town ;) We all seem to want to be best friends with this one!!
March 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Delusional is the cool kid in town ;) We all seem to want to be best friends with this one!!
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ChatGPT just gained 200 million users in the last two months.
"By November 2023, ChatGPT had reached another milestone of 100 million weekly active users, which grew to 300 million by December 2024, then 400 million in February 2025." techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/c...
"By November 2023, ChatGPT had reached another milestone of 100 million weekly active users, which grew to 300 million by December 2024, then 400 million in February 2025." techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/c...
ChatGPT doubled its weekly active users in under 6 months, thanks to new releases | TechCrunch
OpenAI's flagship AI chatbot, ChatGPT, returned to solid growth in the latter half of 2024, according to a new report published on Thursday by VC firm
techcrunch.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
ChatGPT just gained 200 million users in the last two months.
"By November 2023, ChatGPT had reached another milestone of 100 million weekly active users, which grew to 300 million by December 2024, then 400 million in February 2025." techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/c...
"By November 2023, ChatGPT had reached another milestone of 100 million weekly active users, which grew to 300 million by December 2024, then 400 million in February 2025." techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/c...
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When I started at D&S last Sept I didn't even know what genAI red-teaming was (events where users systematically prompt LLMs to reveal bias, inaccuracy etc). This report covers the history of red-teaming, various ways the public is involved, and how to improve it. Huge kudos to the team!
📣 New! In this report, we examine how red-teaming methods are being adapted to evaluate generative AI, and offer a vision for red-teaming in the public interest. 1/4 datasociety.net/library/red-...
February 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
When I started at D&S last Sept I didn't even know what genAI red-teaming was (events where users systematically prompt LLMs to reveal bias, inaccuracy etc). This report covers the history of red-teaming, various ways the public is involved, and how to improve it. Huge kudos to the team!
The first big shift might have been to bring most Indians online, and that is in itself an important goal. But the devices they use to get online do matter too because they affect what we're able to do with the internet, and that could be the next big shift. www.dataforindia.com/email/62354e...
Going online
In India's internet story, one big shift is already well known - over the last decade, India has gone from having fewer than 100 million internet subscriptions to having over 900 million internet subs...
www.dataforindia.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The first big shift might have been to bring most Indians online, and that is in itself an important goal. But the devices they use to get online do matter too because they affect what we're able to do with the internet, and that could be the next big shift. www.dataforindia.com/email/62354e...
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I just emailed a student about pedagogical zines and shared these from Shirin Vossoughi and colleagues. The zines are "Designed by and for educators working to sustain the dignity, imagination and collective well-being of children, youth, and families..." Posting this beautiful collection here too:
zines — Blue Dandelion
www.bluedandelion.org
February 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I just emailed a student about pedagogical zines and shared these from Shirin Vossoughi and colleagues. The zines are "Designed by and for educators working to sustain the dignity, imagination and collective well-being of children, youth, and families..." Posting this beautiful collection here too:
Our write4change community has truly grown into an incredible intergenerational community of researchers! We are coming out with some incredible digital writing and play literacies research!
Yesterday I got to talk zines, writing with AI, and creating brave spaces for youth writing and artwork at the Penn Ethnography Forum with @amystorn.bsky.social @rabani.bsky.social, and the rest of our fab intergenerational research team. Still smiling!
February 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Our write4change community has truly grown into an incredible intergenerational community of researchers! We are coming out with some incredible digital writing and play literacies research!
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🤖NEW BLOG🤖 The rise of metrics-based school discipline: How ClassDojo is changing discipline practices in schools by @jamiemanolev.bsky.social, Anna Sullivan, & Neil Tippett: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/the-ris...
The blog previews their new article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The blog previews their new article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The rise of metrics-based school discipline: How ClassDojo is changing discipline practices in schools — Civics of Technology
Civics of Tech Announcements Book Club on Feb 18th: Allie Thrall will be leading a discussion of The Propagandists' Playbook . Register to attend on the events page . Next Te...
www.civicsoftechnology.org
February 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🤖NEW BLOG🤖 The rise of metrics-based school discipline: How ClassDojo is changing discipline practices in schools by @jamiemanolev.bsky.social, Anna Sullivan, & Neil Tippett: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/the-ris...
The blog previews their new article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The blog previews their new article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Chai and मोर
There I said it! I had been been dying to say this all day long!
There I said it! I had been been dying to say this all day long!
February 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Chai and मोर
There I said it! I had been been dying to say this all day long!
There I said it! I had been been dying to say this all day long!
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CARGC is pleased to announce Gholam Khiabany (Goldsmiths, University of London), Anis Rahman (University of Washington), and Anastasia Kavada (University of Westminster) will join the center as visiting scholars this spring. Read more about their research at www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/....
The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Welcomes Three Visiting Scholars for Spring 2025
www.asc.upenn.edu
January 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
CARGC is pleased to announce Gholam Khiabany (Goldsmiths, University of London), Anis Rahman (University of Washington), and Anastasia Kavada (University of Westminster) will join the center as visiting scholars this spring. Read more about their research at www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/....
We are building something cool! Take a look!
Still a WIP but I’ve been working with @karismjones.bsky.social, @rabani.bsky.social, @carolinebr.bsky.social, @deewellington1.bsky.social, Sarah Jerasa & some other folks on a repository of digital mentor texts/practices. Here’s mine on VE.
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Video Essays | Notion
Genre Overview
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December 25, 2024 at 6:45 AM
We are building something cool! Take a look!
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if AI is coming for all of our jobs, can it first fix my printer so that I can print out a return label on the first goddamn try
December 20, 2024 at 4:15 AM
if AI is coming for all of our jobs, can it first fix my printer so that I can print out a return label on the first goddamn try
1/n For the last 2 decades+, I’ve been surrounded by entrepreneurs. Early/late/in-between. Almost all of them will say:
1. It was/is lonely journey
2. Money is not/ cannot be the reason instead have a larger purpose
3. Learning to self-mange the biggest skill learnt.
—similar to a PHD’s journey
1. It was/is lonely journey
2. Money is not/ cannot be the reason instead have a larger purpose
3. Learning to self-mange the biggest skill learnt.
—similar to a PHD’s journey
December 8, 2024 at 9:33 AM
1/n For the last 2 decades+, I’ve been surrounded by entrepreneurs. Early/late/in-between. Almost all of them will say:
1. It was/is lonely journey
2. Money is not/ cannot be the reason instead have a larger purpose
3. Learning to self-mange the biggest skill learnt.
—similar to a PHD’s journey
1. It was/is lonely journey
2. Money is not/ cannot be the reason instead have a larger purpose
3. Learning to self-mange the biggest skill learnt.
—similar to a PHD’s journey