tanteI have a problem with the whole "Zuckerberg/Meta are playing 16 dimensional chess with Threads" narrative. Like those are the people who lit more than 20 billion USD on fire for Metaverse. They aren't the geniuses they want you to believe they are.
Didem Turkoglu
@didem
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Sociologist. Works on politics and social movements. Teaches stuff to college students.
We are now holding our breath for the presidential runoff tomorrow in Turkey. Opposition's hope for the first round win was crushed and past two weeks were focused on getting our morale back. There are still too many unknowns, too many obstacles& unfair practices against the opposition. There are some very lazy opinion pieces out there talking about how Erdogan masterminded a win. Please don't give credit to "one man super power" narrative of pundits served with some social science sauce on top.
Rob Bossome Good Omens news delivered via musical parody. @neilhimself is involved, pretty cool.
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New article alert! If you are interested in political polarization and social media, or upcoming elections in Turkey, or take on combining computational methods with qualitative ones, this article might be for you: "Political polarisation on social media: Competing understandings of democracy in Turkey" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13608746.2023.2200901
Political polarisation on social media: Competing understandings of democracy in Turkey
Heightened political polarisation threatens democratic stability. While prior studies find polarisation in competing groups’ deployment of different terminologies to describe the same topic, we emp...
Dr. Leta Hong FincherI'm excited to announce that
Bloomsbury is publishing a fully updated, 10th anniversary edition of my book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China. Coming November 2, but please consider pre-ordering now! https://bookshop.org/p/books/leftover-women-the-resurgence-of-gender-inequality-in-china-10th-anniversary-edition-leta-hong-fincher/19969491?ean=9781350323636
Bloomsbury is publishing a fully updated, 10th anniversary edition of my book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China. Coming November 2, but please consider pre-ordering now! https://bookshop.org/p/books/leftover-women-the-resurgence-of-gender-inequality-in-china-10th-anniversary-edition-leta-hong-fincher/19969491?ean=9781350323636
Ann Lipton"Louisiana Republican Party officials ... argu[ed] in a resolution ... that classes examining 'inglorious aspects' of United States history are too divisive."
We're ... really being overt about the goal here, then.
Administrative accountAs more academics reach Fedi, please PLEASE consider not doing research on users here without explicit opt-in consent
This isn't a zoo
It's not just condescending for you to treat us that way, it's also against a lot of instances' terms of use
See "Use of Scholar Social for research" at the following link for an example:
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Have been here about 3 weeks now, so am happy to share some information with new arrivals.
1. The T in Mastodon is silent to discourage the use of letters found in the word Twitter
2. That guy in the corner is Abe, he bites redheads and shouldn't be woken between 2pm and 9.15pm
3. The colour verdigris is not banned but is strongly discouraged
4. Question marks are now commas
5. Jokes must be exactly 173 characters long and/or in rhyming couplets
6. Fun is mandatory but rationed, for safety
Eugen RochkoI've made a deliberate choice against a quoting feature because it inevitably adds toxicity to people's behaviours. You are tempted to quote when you should be replying, and so you speak at your audience instead of with the person you are talking to. It becomes performative. Even when doing it for "good" like ridiculing awful comments, you are giving awful comments more eyeballs that way. No quote toots. Thank's
199,430 is the number of new users across different Mastodon servers since October 27, along with 437 new servers. This bring last day's total to 608,837 active users, which is without precedent the highest it's ever been for Mastodon and the fediverse.