she/her
Somerville, MA
academic [digital sociology/STS/communication]
proud supporter of jury nullification
One amazing thing about late pregnancy and engaging with spaces for pregnant people is how they are built around accessibility as a starting point; my needs as a person who can't move good are anticipated and expected. I wish more spaces were like this.
The wild thing is that my current visible physical disability feels like it's read as "virtuous" in a way that other kinds of disability aren't. It gets really icky really fast.
🚨🚨Check out my new piece with Krishna Vasudevan, tracing how frictions within platform capitalism illuminate the shifting shapes of actually existing platformization AND introducing fantastic studies that constitute our Info, Comm & Society Special Issue on the subject 🔥
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/3GE4XHGAQZFYKEKCYCUI/full?target=10.1080/1369118X.2024.2361095
Me: huh, wonder why I haven’t been seeing all these weird Google AI issues
Me, five minutes later: oh right, I switched to Duck Duck Go last year ✨✨
Cat's out of the bag: Twitch is replacing its (paid) expert safety advisory council with (probably unpaid) streamer ambassador program. This is also a year after Twitch laid off "50 employees responsible for monitoring abusive, illegal or harmful behavior" including 15% of T&S.
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher “Governing the Digital Society”.
GDS promotes research on the socio-technical and political-economic processes of datafication, algorithmisation and platformisation and AI.
More information: https://uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/postdoctoral-researcher-governing-the-digital-society
Deadline: 9 June.
I have eaten
the brain
that was in
RFK Jr
and which
he was probably
saving
to run for President
forgive me
it was delicious
and I am just
a worm
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