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Media Theory @meejatheory.bsky.social · Jun 27

Last chance to register for the Media Theory at the Coach House Conference !

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Media Theory at the Coach House Inaugural Conference November 7-8, 2025 Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto “Media theory seems eclipsed by the ubiquity of its objects” (…

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jun 25

‘Given the size of Palestine Action and the breadth of support so far expressed for it, proscribing it could lead to a significant proportion of civil society being criminalised, including MPs, journalists and NGOs.’

New on the blog: Daniella Lock on Palestine Action. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Daniella Lock | Heavy Power

During a parliamentary debate on the Terrorism Bill in 2000, MPs asked whether the legislation could be used to...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jun 13

‘The LAPD trains with soldiers from the IDF, and you can see, in their response to the protesters, the same libidinal thrust of disproportionate force that’s turned against children throwing rocks at tanks in the West Bank.’

Anahid Nersessian on ICE in LA: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Anahid Nersessian | ICE’s War on Home

The protests that broke out last weekend in Los Angeles are at once an autonomous phenomenon and a continuation of the...

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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · Jun 13

Rabea Eghbariah on the "ongoing Nakba" - almost 80 years of apartheid and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

New article in The Guardian after his "controversial" article in the Columbia Law Review.

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The two-state solution is a delusion | Rabea Eghbariah

Israel controls the lives of all Palestinians, without equal rights or equal representation: this is an entrenched one-state reality

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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · Jun 13

Gideon Levy in Haaretz, a liberal Israeli newspaper, calling for full sanctions against Israel:

"... the pressure and the punishment must be directed at Israel in its entirety... In Israel, all of us are now Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. All of us."

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Jun 8

The Israeli defense minister is openly threatening the life of GretaThunberg and other unarmed peace activists on an aid ship.

Where the f**k are the world’s leaders? The world’s media?

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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · May 27

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The UK media discover Israel is off the leash

Britain’s national press finally realise that Israel might be a problem but still fail to recognise their own role in legitimising atrocities in Gaza.

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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · May 19

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Dangerous Connections: Technology and Gender Violence in the Digital Age

Sociologia della Comunicazione is calling for submissions to a Special Issue on Cyber-VAWG!

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Media Theory @meejatheory.bsky.social · May 19

Join us for our inaugural conference! Here's the call for papers: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · May 18

This is a must-read: The Trump administration's use of anti-semitism to attack immigrants and higher education mirrors plans by a group of Christian nationalists in the Heritage Foundation (which produced Project 2025). 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement

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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · May 8

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Our Mutual Friend: The BBC in the Digital Age | Briefing | Common Wealth

The upcoming BBC Charter Review is an opportunity to transform the BBC into a public service mutual, founded on a genuinely democratic relationship with the public.

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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · May 6

www.acrimed.org/Gaza-nous-re...

« Gaza : nous refusons le silence »

Tribune d'étudiants en journalisme.

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Media Theory @meejatheory.bsky.social · May 5

Inaugural conference!

Media Theory at the Coach House
November 7-8, 2025
Centre for Culture and Technology - University of Toronto

Keynote speakers:

Dr. Shane Denson (Stanford)

Dr. Alessandra Renzi (Concordia)

Abstracts due: June 30.

CFP: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/

CFP

Media Theory at the Coach House Inaugural Conference November 7-8, 2025 Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto “Media theory seems eclipsed by the ubiquity of its objects” (…

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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · Apr 17

Be a Trans Ally

Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · Mar 27

RIP Robert McChesney

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Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died

The academic and activist inspired generations of people to challenge corporate power and support a media reform movement that lives on.

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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · Mar 24

...the federal government is undermining two fundamental principles of the American university: the right of academic departments to self-government and the freedom of members of the faculty to express their views...

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The US government has sent Columbia University a ransom note | Sheldon Pollock

Like a mob boss, the government threatens to cut off two of the university’s fingers: academic freedom and faculty governance

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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · Mar 16

On the Trumpist agenda of “free speech except Palestine” and “free of DEI except Zionism”

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How antisemitism avoided the fate of antiracism | Jeff Melnick and Jessie Lee Rubin

The promotion of Israel’s national narrative remains exempt from Trump’s wholesale attack on DEI

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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · Mar 6

'Elon Musk, Nazi salutes and the reactionary redefinition of fascism'

New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by #Identities co-editor @aaronwinter.bsky.social

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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · Mar 6

"'disinformation' as a concept does not capture the true scale of Israel's war on truth. I propose the concept of "alethocide" (killing of truth) to fully capture deliberate, systemic lying in service of genocide" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #gazagenocide

Evidencing alethocide: Israel’s war on truth in Gaza

This paper examines Israel’s systematic deployment of disinformation during its war on Gaza since October 2023, introducing the concept of ‘alethocide’ – the systemic destruction of truth. Using a ...

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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · Mar 5

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Genocide, neutrality and the university sector - Rafeef Ziadah, 2025

The ongoing destruction in Gaza demands urgent academic and ethical reckoning, exposing the complicity of universities and scholarly disciplines in sustaining s...

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Feb 5

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese: "Settler colonialism is intimately, quintessentially genocidal, because it will result, sooner or later, in the annihilation of the indigenous people if it succeeds. Look at the United States..."

Incontrovertible.

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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · Feb 4

On "how model minority authoritarianism borrows a gloss of “multicultural” progressiveness to lend respectability to, and
animate, highly reactionary, anti-equality, right-wing politics"

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Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social · Jan 27

Out now: my new article ‘Model Minority Authoritarianism: Social Mobility and the New Anti-Equality Agenda’ in South Atlantic Quarterly @dukepress.bsky.social (1/9) read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...

Model Minority Authoritarianism: Social Mobility and the New Anti-equality Agenda

This article puts forward a cultural‐political formation it terms “model minority authoritarianism.” The idea of the model minority has both been venerated as the virtuous face of immigration and/or n...

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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · Feb 4

What is the significance of Arendt’s reflections for us, scholars in “the zone of interest” that is the Western academy?

As Arendt argued, "those who cherish values and hold fast to moral norms and standards are not reliable: we now know that moral norms and standards can be changed overnight..."

Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · Feb 3

Arendt, Gaza and Personal Responsibility Under Genocide (especially in the academy) -->

With many thanks to Critical Legal Thinking for republishing my article.

criticallegalthinking.com/2025/02/03/a...

Arendt, Gaza and Personal Responsibility Under Genocide

In an essay crafted in 1964, “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship,” Hannah Arendt reflects on a set of moral issues concerning our capacity to

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · Feb 3

Arendt, Gaza and Personal Responsibility Under Genocide (especially in the academy) -->

With many thanks to Critical Legal Thinking for republishing my article.

criticallegalthinking.com/2025/02/03/a...

Arendt, Gaza and Personal Responsibility Under Genocide

In an essay crafted in 1964, “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship,” Hannah Arendt reflects on a set of moral issues concerning our capacity to

criticallegalthinking.com

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French Cultural Studies @frculturalst.bsky.social · Jan 28

FCS 36.1, Feb 2025: Out Now!
Including racial capitalism & French universalism, laughing about race in “colorblind” France, Abdellatif Kechiche’s La Graine et le Mulet, Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligé & Les Soleils des Indépendances, and François Bayle & electroacoustic music

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Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social · Jan 27

Out now: my new article ‘Model Minority Authoritarianism: Social Mobility and the New Anti-Equality Agenda’ in South Atlantic Quarterly @dukepress.bsky.social (1/9) read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...

Model Minority Authoritarianism: Social Mobility and the New Anti-equality Agenda

This article puts forward a cultural‐political formation it terms “model minority authoritarianism.” The idea of the model minority has both been venerated as the virtuous face of immigration and/or n...

read.dukeupress.edu

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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · Jan 18

i'm only just now doing it lyself but i THINK that you can choose, so you go to either your followers or following page and it scans them, then you can add all to bluesky (or pick n choose)

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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · Jan 18

you can use sky follower bridge to transfer twitter followers to bluesky

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Piotr Szpunar @pszpunar.bsky.social · Dec 18

New Pub! The gist: The shape imaginaries take pivot not only on what media make clearly visible but on what they offer up for speculation at their eco-technological edges. Open Access @meejatheory.bsky.social
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Mediated Futures in Anesthetic Space: Noise, Speculation, and Lowell’s Telescope | Media Theory

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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · Dec 18

My article “Machines That Create: Contingent Computation and Generative AI” is now published in Media Theory.

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There I address the claims proposed in my 2018 book Contingent Computation vis-à-vis the AI developments that have occurred since ✨

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