Drawing on the works of Dr. Palashi Vaghela and Dr. Murali Shanmugavelan, I plan to investigate the barriers, both intentional and otherwise, in recognizing and moderating caste-based hate speech on Reddit.
I'm excited to discuss and develop this further at #NCA2025 with other #PolComm scholars!
If you're in Denver for the International Communication Association's annual meeting, see work by and connect with CDSC people. @yibin.bsky.social, @callofdyuti.bsky.social, @mako.cc, Haomin Lin, and Jeremy Foote are all around! #ICA25 blog.communitydata.science/come-check-o...
Politeness does not act against fascists.
POV: You're 16, believe being in advanced placement math class means you're a once in a generation genius, and have just discovered Reddit.
okay, it’s time for me to finally weigh in: it’s probably a bad sign that guys are just doing sieg heils in public again
Advice column in the Washington Post about an Indian American woman married to a white man who wants her to abandon her racial/ethnic identity and not pass it on to their children.
Usha Vance, is that you?
Not being able to speak your language is a pain that immigrants know very well. The farther I move away from home, the harder my diction grows roots on my tongue.
All those pundits who said Trump was too lazy to be a dictator really underestimated the possibility of a lazy man delegating all the dictator shit to a megalomaniac who does a lot of cocaine
I have been listening to floor speeches made by US Congresspeople for a project and the amount of mental gymnastics R congressmen partake in to argue against any kind of gun control is honestly infuriating. How do people not see through this?
It feels strange to share academic achievements amidst the increasing hate towards women, queer, and immigrants in this country. Amidst an ongoing genocide and scholasticide of a generation of academics whose absence isn't even mourned.
Thrilled to share that I will be at Denver, CO this summer for #ICA25 discussing a cross national comparison of resilience strategies used by women against gendered cyberhate.
One of the things that got me into a PhD program.
I remember I had posted something very happy about my then newborn niece who lives in a village and a well known IIT-D sociologist had quoted that tweet with something to do with female infanticides.
This - "How to Think Like a Sociotechnical Researcher" from Ranjit Singh at @datasociety.bsky.social - is one of my favorite pieces of the year. Belongs on every syllabus. Not just every socio-technical-adjacent course but like, all of the courses. datasociety.net/points/how-t...
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🗓️ Deadline: December 31, 2024
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I am thrilled to share that a paper by Ryan Funkhouser and I has finally come out as a chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Conflict and Peach Communication. Here we provide a robust overview of research at the intersection of communication, resilience, and peacebuilding.
Read: tinyurl.com/muc5brpm
The widespread idea that posting screenshots of Trump’s relevant policy announcements is somehow “platforming” Trump is ridiculous.
The man is the President-elect.
Actual resistance requires looking at reality as it actually is, not engaging in denial and magical thinking.
A cat with a straw hat sitting next to a huge box of tomatoes.
📸 kokonananya
There is truly no match for a sunny winter day stroll. Walked around the neighborhood with a friend, got a sandwich, and saw something that reminded me of framing theory.
I absolutely loved @reedvanschenck.bsky.social 's presentation at #AoIR2024 about collective harassment by trolls and the role of fringe platforms in hosting and facilitating collective harassment, blurring the divide between online and offline.
I'm going to try to post more about papers I read. This morning I read "Stoking the Flames: Understanding Escalation in an Online Harassment Community" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/....
In the paper, @kejsitake.bsky.social and co-authors look at the harassment community Kiwi Farms.
A reddit post on r/professors where a user mentions that no one showed up for their class on the Monday of Thanksgiving week and they deliberately did not post the lecture slides online, even though the final exam is next week (presumably to teach the students a lesson about missing classes). The second paragraph is about how the professor threatened international students with deportation to make them attend their class.
If you have to threaten students with deportation to make them attend your classes, maybe learn to teach better.
Also, plain disgusting to use deportation as a threatening tactic for international students.
Some of you should not be in positions of power and it shows.
📣Vacancy announcement: we are looking for a recent graduate to join the #Gender & #Disarmament programme at UNIDIR (aka the #pushforward team).
Deadline for applications: 25 November
Help us spread the word!
👉 unidir.org/who-we-are/j...
Organized by PhD and Postdoc fellows @annenbergcargc.bsky.social, a conf. focused on the role of media and communication scholarship in times of global crises: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/.... Please spread the word! Also, we're lucky to have Nabil Echchaibi as our keynote speaker!
I am so glad this site is finally bringing in the juice.
Updated list of global media+comm scholars. Lmk if you want to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/Avb3yM
Thank you!