all the photos and videos of Brazil from friends at #AoIR2025 have been so lovely! thanks for sharing for all of us doing remote this year 🇧🇷
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Christopher J. Persaud
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Variously thinking, reading, and writing some combination of queer media studies, critical race and digital studies, STS, AI, and platform governance stuff.
writing lately has been alternating between spending an hour to write three sentences or three paragraphs
I am back to working on my dissertation revisions and edits before submitting later in the summer! this has been the hardest academic thing I’ve ever done but slowly making progress to the finish line 🫡
Center for Media Engagement UTHow do we know if research on digital platforms, like social media, is conducted ethically? Our new report examines current platform studies ethics and provides future recommendations: https://bit.ly/CMEPlatformResearchEthics
Platform Research Ethics for Academic Research - Center for Media Engagement
There’s been a lot of research on digital platforms. But how do we know these studies were conducted ethically? And what does it mean to conduct ethical research? We examine the state of current platform studies ethics.
Writing up my dissertation in a year has been the hardest academic thing I’ve ever done, and felt really lonely versus my usual experiences with collaborative research, so it really means a lot to get this kind of attention after feeling isolated with my thoughts for so long about all this
Going through detailed comments and edits from my committee on my first drafts of my dissertation papers and feeling so touched by how much they care about making my work better ðŸ˜
Glad there are virtual options and co-authoring with pals though! Hoping to be able to visit Brazil in 2025 though :)
Hmm I may have to take a break from in-person conferences until next year, the end of the PhD and in-between until being employed later in the years introduces so much weirdness with travel funding
Daniel JosephReally excited to share @nieborg, Chris Young & I's new OA article in the International Journal of Communication. This paper brings platform and app studies into dialog with long standing debates about geopolitics and coloniality of media, communication, and technology. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/21476
Christian KatzenbachOur Special Issue on "Artificial Intelligence Controversies" is coming to life, and with a blast: Lucy Suchman on why AI is so remarkably uncontroversial and wildly controversial at the same time. Or: Why AI has accomplished to be taken-granted and push tech-centred discourses on its impact and integration and society.