Cindy Ma
@cindyxma.bsky.social
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assistant prof. in race & media at university of leeds | UNC CITAP affiliate | sociotechnical systems, political discourse & racial inequity
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One week left to submit to our conference!
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🎨🎤 Excited to share the poster and confirmed keynotes for our Race & Media Conference @leedsunimedia.bsky.social next April! We are currently accepting proposals for papers, panels, and practice-based presentations. Find out more: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/raceandmedia...
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Dusted up the PhD hat to co-author a piece with @nsalem.bsky.social about everyone’s (least) favourite topic - #AI. First of (we don’t know how) many.

Follow her tech timescapes stack for more of her work too.

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Discursive Misdirection
AI is not intelligent and AI is not creative. But it is about labour.
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Thanks to the brilliant @rpaulint.bsky.social for the artwork. Hit him up for your poster needs! 👨‍🎨
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🎨🎤 Excited to share the poster and confirmed keynotes for our Race & Media Conference @leedsunimedia.bsky.social next April! We are currently accepting proposals for papers, panels, and practice-based presentations. Find out more: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/raceandmedia...
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Thanks to the brilliant @rpaulint.bsky.social for the artwork. Hit him up for your poster needs!
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We've moved the CfP to a designated conference site, so please ignore the link above and use the following url instead: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/raceandmedia/
Race and Media Conference
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Thank you for flagging! The page has been taken down as we set up a proper website for the event. I will share the updated link once it's available.
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New CfP! 🚨📣 Excited to announce colleagues @leedsunimedia.bsky.social are organising a Race and Media conference on 22-23 April 2026. We're currently accepting proposals for papers/panels, including ones centred on creative practice. More details here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Race and Media Conference
A major international conference exploring how race is constructed, represented and contested in media today, bringing together leading scholars across disciplines and methodologies
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Toby has programmed a stellar lineup of speakers at the CAMRI seminar this term! Looking forward to sharing thoughts and observations from an early-stage project on ESEA digital activism in the wake of covid-19. I'll be in conversation with the brilliant Diana Yeh. Please come by, all welcome!
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"In the last few days, the twins were vibrant, bubbly, excited and full of dreams and ambitions. They constantly talked about their PhD study, jokingly calling each other Dr. Sally and Dr. Dalia, and talking about the things they want to do in Canada." 💔
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University of Waterloo says two PhD students killed in Gaza airstrike
The University of Waterloo says twin sisters, who were set to start their PhD studies at the school, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
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My apologies to Wicked (and Cynthia Erivo in particular) I was absolutely not familiar with your game
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I'm so happy to hear that! Please let me know if they have any interesting responses. And thanks again for coming!
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It was a pleasure to reflect on the themes of the Anti-Racist Media Manifesto, alongside Maitrayee Basu! A thread running through our conversation: the "centre" has never been unproblematic or neutral, an idea I explore further in a recent essay for PolComm: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Overcoming Far-Right Respectability: The Case for Systemic Approaches to Studying White Supremacy
This contribution to the Forum collection traces the rhetorical strategies taken up by far-right actors to cast white supremacist ideas as “respectable” in the post-civil rights era, including the ...
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Thank you for coming and for the kind words!
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Last June, I was honoured to have @gavant.bsky.social serve as one of the examiners for my PhD viva. And tomorrow I'll get to (partly) return the favour as a respondent at the launch of his book, co-authored with @francescasobande.bsky.social & Anamik Saha. Come by if you're in Leeds! 📚💭
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📣 Join us for the launch of The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto, where the authors explore transforming media systems to confront racism and offer key strategies for an anti-racist media future with Anamik Saha @gavant.bsky.social @francescasobande.bsky.social. More here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto Poster
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sjjphd.bsky.social
Proud to have organized this forum w/ friends @qrdknpfr.bsky.social and @dkreiss.bsky.social inspired by some big questions we’ve been asking about how to better define, theorize and study the far-right. We invited four incredible scholars working from different paradigms on this question to join us
Political Communication Research is Unprepared for the Far Right
In this introductory piece to a special issue of the Forum, we explore the inadequacies of the field of political communication in addressing the rising threats posed by illiberalism and the far ri...
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