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Vikki Katz 🎗️ @vikkikatz.bsky.social · Jun 16

It’s been such an honor ❤️

J Children and Media @journalcam.bsky.social · Jun 15

We would like to warmly thank @vikkikatz.bsky.social as she concludes her time as editor of JOCAM. Thank you, Vikki, for your care and commitment to the journal; we are so grateful for your dedication to the community and efforts to make JOCAM more representative of the field's diverse scholarship.

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J Children and Media @journalcam.bsky.social · Jun 15

We would like to warmly thank @vikkikatz.bsky.social as she concludes her time as editor of JOCAM. Thank you, Vikki, for your care and commitment to the journal; we are so grateful for your dedication to the community and efforts to make JOCAM more representative of the field's diverse scholarship.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · Apr 9

This isn't The Art of the Deal.
It's insider trading with a bad comb-over.

Step 1: Tank the Market, Scare the Non-Millionaires
Step 2: Let the Aristocrats Feast
Step 3: Flip, but say ‘Winning’
Step 4: Pretend None of This Ever Happened & Get Your Media Dregs To Do The Same

Rinse, Enrich, Repeat.

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Nate Blouin @nateforutah.bsky.social · Apr 5

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Apr 5

To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.

—With love,
Your American allies.

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Vikki Katz 🎗️ @vikkikatz.bsky.social · Mar 27

It’s horrifying. I think most either are in Fox World and not seeing what we are seeing, and it’s inexcusable

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Vikki Katz 🎗️ @vikkikatz.bsky.social · Mar 27

Abducted in broad daylight for an op-ed in Tufts’ newspaper, is a children & media scholar I know. She’s not a terror sympathizer and it should terrify us all that this happened to her.
This isn’t about combating antisemitism—it is much more sinister and dangerous
Gift article: wapo.st/3Y68yJv

Masked officers whisk away Tufts student from sidewalk, video shows

The widely circulated video of Turkish doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk’s arrest in the Boston area has sent shock waves throughout the academic community.

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Vikki Katz 🎗️ @vikkikatz.bsky.social · Mar 25

🚨 New pub— if you’re interested in campus life after 10/7 and what makes for meaningful, civil discourse about the I-P conflict, please read & share: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Unsettled Ground: How Jewish Undergraduates are Negotiating Identity Shifts and (Un)civil Campus Discourse after October 7

The post–October 7th period has been a period of redefinition for many Jewish American undergraduates and particularly for those who identify as politically left-of-center and who found themselves ...

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · Mar 4

Democrats should hold 435 town halls this weekend. The ones in Republican districts hosted by local Dems or nonpartisan local officials or even ex-Republicans, with everyone, Democrats and independents and Republicans, invited.

Politico @politico.com · Mar 4

The chair of the House GOP's campaign arm told Republican lawmakers to stop holding in-person town halls amid a wave of angry backlash over the cuts undertaken by President Donald Trump's administration.

No more in-person town halls, NRCC chief tells House Republicans

Rep. Richard Hudson issued the edict after a spate of testy episodes.

www.politico.com

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Vikki Katz 🎗️ @vikkikatz.bsky.social · Mar 4

🚨 new pub: #digitalinequality explains most variance in which UGs delayed graduation after 2 yrs of pandemic learning—more than #firstgen status, #race/ethnicity or other s-d markers. Just out in @plosone.org with @abjordan.bsky.social & @ognyanova.bsky.social! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Digital inequalities and U.S. undergraduate outcomes over the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated major and rapid changes to undergraduate student learning conditions, but the longer-term consequences of those changes have yet to be fully understood. We assess ho...

journals.plos.org

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · Feb 26

It is really hard to watch people willfully tear down an infrastructure that allowed us to double lifespans, drastically reduce poverty, and become one of the richest countries in the world.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Feb 27

Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.

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Vikki Katz 🎗️ @vikkikatz.bsky.social · Jan 27

My thoughts on an agenda for researchers concerned about young ppl, political polarization & social media, free to access in @journalcam.bsky.social -

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Through the (distorted) looking glass: Priorities for research with young people and social media in politically polarized times

Published in Journal of Children and Media (Vol. 19, No. 1, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · Jan 25

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

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Vikki Katz 🎗️ @vikkikatz.bsky.social · Jan 21

So much better here. Welcome!

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Jan 11

"When Mexico sends its people, they're sending their best. They're sending firefighters to help solve American problems. They're bringing fire fighting uniforms. They're bringing fire fighting equipment. They're bringing kittens down from trees. And all, I assume, are good people."

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Vikki Katz 🎗️ @vikkikatz.bsky.social · Jan 11

@latimes.com should be ashamed of itself for not being free to view in the midst of a local disaster

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Vikki Katz 🎗️ @vikkikatz.bsky.social · Jan 11

I am so so proud of this special issue. If kids and tech are your thing, read these 16 commentaries by brilliant scholars on where the field must go next—

J Children and Media @journalcam.bsky.social · Jan 8

🎉 The special issue celebrating JoCAM’s 18th birthday it out! The issue brings together 16 commentaries showcasing the incredible diversity and creativity of CAM research and practice from all over the world. 🔓Open access for six months! (1/3) www.tandfonline.com/journals/rch...

Coming of age with children and media: Journal of Children and Media at 18

Explore the article collection: Coming of age with children and media: Journal of Children and Media at 18. Published in Journal of Children and Media.

www.tandfonline.com

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J Children and Media @journalcam.bsky.social · Jan 8

🎉 The special issue celebrating JoCAM’s 18th birthday it out! The issue brings together 16 commentaries showcasing the incredible diversity and creativity of CAM research and practice from all over the world. 🔓Open access for six months! (1/3) www.tandfonline.com/journals/rch...

Coming of age with children and media: Journal of Children and Media at 18

Explore the article collection: Coming of age with children and media: Journal of Children and Media at 18. Published in Journal of Children and Media.

www.tandfonline.com

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · Jan 6

I really don't understand the insistence of some people to that Israel was founded solely a colonial project. This is just erasure of history.
You can denounce Israel occupation and crimes against Palestinians, while recognizing it was founded as a refugee state. Not mutually exclusive.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Jan 1

A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · Dec 29

This analysis concludes that in 2024 “voters […] opted for greater freedom and closer ties with the West and rejected attempts at intimidation, manipulation and disinformation”.

Largely true. But the same “West” made a number of largely opposite choices.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Democracy in 2024 was noisy and chaotic. It was also resilient.

Democracy in 2024 worked as it always has. It was messy and noisy and produced muddled results. .

www.washingtonpost.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Dec 28

Can we just admit that we NEED immigrants for our economy to run, from agriculture to high tech?

We’re a goddamn nation of immigrants, aren’t we? Let’s be proud of our immigrant heritage!

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Vikki Katz 🎗️ @vikkikatz.bsky.social · Dec 22

December holidays & the Pacific

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Sonia Livingstone @sonialivingstone.bsky.social · Dec 21

🤖 What @Roblox's safety updates mean for its users

🆕Read Sara M. Grimes’ post for the #Parenting4DigitalFuture blog: blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4di...

#gamedesign #ROBLOX #microsoftxbox

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digi…

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