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Jiarui Sun @jiarui-sun.bsky.social · 25d

Many thanks to @journaloflinganth.bsky.social for featuring my recent article on online nationalism in China. It was a great opportunity to think further about the relationship between mass media and personal lives!!
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RedBeez @redbeez.bsky.social · Jul 11

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jul 11

Trump's Justice Department won’t seek an injunction to block T-Mobile's acquisition of U.S. Cellular.

One of the largest wireless providers will now get even bigger.

With that size comes more power — and less freedom for you. https://youtu.be/twdgxIJZDns?si=teRWdFu28u7I5EYf

How Monopolies Secretly Steal Your Freedom (ft. Lina Khan)

What is freedom? Are you really free if your groceries or medicine are so expensive that you can’t afford them? Or if yo

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Jack Whalen @jackwhalen.bsky.social · Jul 9

You could not find a more gifted researcher on the planet to write this book. Sure to be a banger!

Ethnomethodology and Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis @ethno-inquiries.bsky.social · Jul 9

ETA 3 months today

www.routledge.com/Harvey-Sacks...

Harvey Sacks and Ethnomethodology: The Prospect of an Alternate and Adequate Sociology

Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis have made major inroads into the disciplines that make up the social sciences. Although commonly run together under the title of EMCA, what their relationshi...

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Alison Glasspool @alisonglasspool.bsky.social · Jul 1

MPs we’re outside Parliament on one of the hottest days of the year!!
Kill this Bill now!!
Stop #TakingThePIP
@disrightsuk.bsky.social

Protestors outside Parliament. People in wheelchairs and a sign that says. And Dan speaking to us all.
There’s a sign that says
NO CUTS TO DISABILITY BENEFITS

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Jiarui Sun @jiarui-sun.bsky.social · Jul 1

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · Jun 27

Jacobin sat down with former labor secretary Robert Reich to talk about his new documentary, The Last Class, democratic socialism, and why we’re possibly in an even more unequal Gilded Age than the original.

Robert Reich Teaches One Last Class to the Next Generation

Jacobin sat down with former labor secretary Robert Reich to talk about his new documentary, The Last Class, democratic socialism, and why we’re possibly in an even more unequal Gilded Age than the original.

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Jiarui Sun @jiarui-sun.bsky.social · Jul 1

Hope you enjoy reading Sacks! His writing can be kooky but at the same time so interesting 😆

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Jiarui Sun @jiarui-sun.bsky.social · Jun 30

Exactly what my dissertation is trying to understand...

Michael O. Johnston @professorjohnst.bsky.social · Jun 29

From escape rooms to beach resorts, emotions are now products. Hochschild, Ahmed, Illouz, Giddens, Massumi, Rosa—they all warned us: #identity, #meaning, and #feeling are #upforsale.

When was the last time you paid to feel something?

Let’s talk #affect and #capitalism.

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Jiarui Sun @jiarui-sun.bsky.social · Jun 25

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Jun 25

In "Interface Frictions," Neta Alexander explores how ubiquitous design features in digital platforms such as playback speed, autoplay, and night mode, reshape, condition, and break our bodies. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/3jeUBzN #DisabilityStudies

Cover of Interface Frictions: How Digital Debility Reshapes Our Bodies by Neta Alexander. The background is black with iridescent pastel graphics and text. Four digital interface icons appear vertically: a sun symbol, a play button, a circular arrow, and an accessibility figure with outstretched arms. The title is placed centrally in a thin, sans serif font, with the author’s name to the right of the icons.

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · Jun 25

This book is riveting and so, so infuriating. It follows 5 families in Atlanta who are struggling to remain housed and paints deeply compassionate portraits of each unit. It reads almost like a novel but is outstanding journalism

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Jiarui Sun @jiarui-sun.bsky.social · Jun 23

Good luck!!!

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Jiarui Sun @jiarui-sun.bsky.social · Jun 6

May I please be added to this pack? Thank you @tyanna.bsky.social

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Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · Nov 14

Linguistic anthropology, language in culture starter pack!

Please share and let me know if you want to be added

go.bsky.app/MQijNGW

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · Jun 5

Tip for PhD applicants reaching out to prospective advisors: Don’t use an LLM to write these emails. It’s not a great first impression to express your admiration for a recent paper the faculty member published if that paper does not exist.

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Jiarui Sun @jiarui-sun.bsky.social · Jun 5

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · May 27

New data finds Americans are more likely to support labor unions over Big Business than at any time in the past 60 years.

We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power.

If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.

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Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social · May 24

Along with most professors in Texas, I’m frequently refreshing Texas legislature updates on SB37, which passed the senate and is about to be voted on in the House. It would fundamentally change higher education—curriculum, hiring, governance—for the worse. And proponents aren’t hiding their aims.

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Jiarui Sun @jiarui-sun.bsky.social · May 22

By demonstrating a platform-informed semiotic approach to study the impact of digital media, this article will be a relevant reading for courses on digital media, platform economy, popular culture, youth, and contemporary populism and nationalism.

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Jiarui Sun @jiarui-sun.bsky.social · May 22

In this article, I show people's understandings of platforms' infrastructure are crucial for the making of social figures like the "patriotic youth." Instead of focusing on the media text itself, I highlight how registers are formed around the text, and how such registers obtain social meanings.

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Jiarui Sun @jiarui-sun.bsky.social · May 22

NEW PUBLICATION: I'm happy to announce that my article “Patriotic rabbits or toxic men? Media ideology, entextualization, and enregisterment on Chinese interfaces” is published on the journal of @soclinganth.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/jola...

It's open access, feel free to check it out!

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library

This article argues that social actors' media ideologies about digital interfaces are key to the enregisterment of online activities. Focusing on an online register emergent from user activities arou....

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General Strike US @generalstrikeus.bsky.social · May 20

The GSUS Los Angeles chapter is hosting a potluck on June 1st from 11:00am - 2:00pm at the LA State Historic Park in Chinatown. Stop on by and meet the community. We also encourage mutual aid and grassroots organizers to stop on by ❤️

#losangeles #generalstrike #potluck #mutualaid

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Hannah Dahlberg🦇Dodd, PhD @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social · May 20

A critical thread 🧵

Anna Beers @beeeeeers.bsky.social · May 19

Hey all, here's a post at @ssrc.org about how anti-trans talking points are getting wrapped into Google's AI search results.

AI search not only cites anti-trans disinfo, but sanitizes it, making practices like conversion therapy sound legitimate and safe.

Anti-Transgender Disinformation in the Age of Algorithmic Search Summaries

Recently Google introduced a feature in its search engine that algorithmically creates summaries of one's search results. Though it could be viewed as a useful tool, researcher Anna Beers argues this ...

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Zachary DuBois @zacharydubois.bsky.social · May 19

Excited to share our edited volume out today free/open access! Sex & Gender:Toward transforming scientific practice brings together perspectives from 40 interdisciplinary scholars on pressing issues including the weaponization of gender & sex impacting us all today. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

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Katherine 😷 @solidaricats.bsky.social · May 16

If you’re in #Chicago and seeing this wild dust storm, please wear a mask if you’re outside!

Did a lead test in my yard soil just recently and the contamination right on the surface is HIGH—that “dust” you see def has heavy metals in it!

Indoors, close your windows and filter your air.

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Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social · May 17

Please support!

Authors are auctioning signed books to raise money for Crips for eSIMs for Gaza

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Donate:

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Authors are auctioning signed books to raise money for Crips for eSIMs for Gaza.

Sheila Heti, Omar El Akkad, Madeleine Thien, and Sarah Bernstein are among the dozens of prominent authors who are auctioning off signed editions of their books to benefit Crips for eSims for Gaza,…

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