Gen Z thinks the most romantic date spot is a graveyard Haunted and eerie? More like cosy and serene. Gen Z is bringing their love stories to life among the dead

“And in the face of that certainty (death), we can only love as ardently as we can, for as long as we are here.”

Reminiscing about love in Kolkata cemeteries in this very cool article by @varishatariq.bsky.social for @vogueindia.bsky.social.

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Grateful to the editors and reviewers at @csajournal.bsky.social for a thoughtful and rigorous peer review.

Anti-Muslim violence in India’s religious ethnocracy -This article examines the changing nature of anti-Muslim violence in India under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), by building on the concept of a ‘religious ethnocracy’. It argues that, since 201...

#MustRead: Nidah Kaiser's new article in Contemporary South Asia examines the transition of ethno-religious violence beyond episodic or spontaneous, toward a broader ethnocratic order. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sara Ahmed (@feministkilljoys) Ten years ago this month, I resigned from my post and my profession in protest at the failure of my institution to deal with the problem of sexual harassment. It was a lot to give up. But it was neces...

10 years. A love letter to diversity workers. And gratitude for my complaint collective. substack.com/@feministkil...

Phantoms of the drains: imaginations of conflict in everyday infrastructures This article traces how the network of ordinary municipal drains (nullahs) in Northeast Delhi became a ‘trauma trove’ in the aftermath of the 2020 Delhi pogrom. Drawing on three years of sensory et...

In my new article, I examine Delhi’s drains as “haunted infrastructures” of violence. Through sensory ethnography, I explore how everyday spaces come to hold memory, rumor, and anticipation of conflict, shaping how violence is lived, remembered, and imagined over time. #OpenAccess: bit.ly/4NulLaH

Media and emotions are at the center of Professor Kaarina Nikunen’s research. | Tampere universities Professor Kaarina Nikunen never runs out of research ideas. She is interested in human encounters and the ways that emotions shape our relationship with the media.

@kaarinan.bsky.social’s research explores how emotions shape how we interpret and act through media. Through her work on #MediaSolidarities, she shows how media can also generate new forms of collective connection. More about her work: shorturl.at/ygss8

#MediaStudies #TampereUniversity #Finland

Digital Geographies of Hope: Situated Futures in a Data-Driven World | Editorial | Media and Communication Cornelia Brantner, Kaarina Nikunen, Georgia Aitaki

💡 New Special Issue (Eds: @corneliabrantner.bsky.social, @kaarinan.bsky.social & Georgia Aitaki) explores #DigitalGeographiesOfHope: how action, solidarity, alternative futures emerge in a datafied, platformized world. From feminist & anti-war organizing to AI governance debates tinyurl.com/37rb2v6k

Thought-provoking afternoon at TARU, Tampere University, with a screening of #HumansInTheLoop. Thanks to writer-director Aranya Sahay & audiences in Finland & India (NIT Silchar) for a discussion on hidden invisible labour, language hierarchies and data colonisation.

#AIEthics #PluriversalAI

Most comprehensive study yet of Assam’s Foreigners Tribunals — It reveals a legal system in deep crisis: over 165,000 people have already been declared “foreigners,” with 85,000+ cases pending and more than 1 million NRC appeals headed to these opaque tribunals.

RSVP: forms.gle/Tr9wWaTHaTpF...

Thanks Nidah Kaiser for organising this workshop - Progressive Patriarchs: Manifestations of Patriarchy in Liberal Spaces - and giving me the opportunity to moderate the panel on Patriarchal Scripts in Intimate, Digital and Legal Lives.
Such a space for solidarity and affirmative action!

Call for paper - full description

📢 #CFP: Digital Mediation & Urban Spatialities in Contemporary India (Full description attached)
🗓 Abstracts (≤300w) due: July 15, 2025
📘 To be published in a peer-reviewed South Asia journal by Brill
📩 Submit: digitalmediationindia@gmail.com

#UrbanStudies #DigitalIndia #SouthAsia

#LatePost: @hindustan-times.bsky.social interviewed me and published a story based on my research on "crying videos".

Link to the original research: bit.ly/45UIBkK

Story link: www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/ar...

#CryingVideos #SadBait #Selfies #MediaStudies #ScreenCultures

What does backgammon have to do with Playboy? This talk explores how 20th century media encoded masculinity, intimacy, and control through board games, tech, and leisure aesthetics. #GameStudies #MediaHistory #PlayboyArchive

Happy #WorldEnvironmentDay!

Are you interested in getting published? We are currently accepting academic articles and creative work!

Visit www.uwa.edu.au/limina/submissions for more information.

#academicsky

Contested Meanings of Hate Speech and the Post-Truth Condition on Digital Platforms - Kaarina Nikunen, Paula Haara, Heidi Kosonen, Aleksi Knuutila, Reeta Pöyhtäri, Tuija Saresma, 2025 In the everyday context, the term “hate speech” has become increasingly politicized and emotionally charged, yet these vernacular constructions of hate speech r...

@kaarinan.bsky.social+team study 290,000 messages to reveal how confusion, ridicule, and censorship are articulated in a post-truth context. Hate speech is a political struggle entwined with challenges to institutional authority and democratic norms.
#HateSpeech
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call for paper for symposium on patriarchy in liberal spaces

The submission deadline for this very relevant and timely call (hybrid) - Manifestations of Patriarchy in Liberal Spaces - has been extended to June 1, 2025. If you are an early-career scholar or independent researcher, send a 300-word abstract to nk.52@soas.ac.uk. #Patriarchy #MeToo #GenderStudies

I warmly invite you to submit a chapt proposal for The Bloomsbury Handbook of Queering Research Methods. This volume explores how every phase of the research process: design, methods, tools, analysis, communication – can be Queered.

deadline: 6/30/25
deets/submission: tinyurl.com/queeringrese...

Congratulations, Aska! Can’t wait to read.

The image shows a screenshot of a webpage, featuring the title " Playful Somaesthetic Technology Practices. Characteristics, Conditions, and Frameworks across Arts, Games, and Augmentation", author information and a DOI link, as well as an Abstract. The abstract reads: "This paper explores playful instances of somaesthetic technology practices. Based on a multiple case study strategy, a preliminary framework will be provided for playfulness in technology practices which are focused on somaesthetic experience, appreciation, and transformation. To illustrate the understanding of playful somaesthetic technology practices, three selected cases are introduced (Alternative Game Controllers, Medical Performance Art, Human Tail Augmentations), their playful features defined, and their conditions of practice analysed."

Happy to share that my paper "Playful Somaesthetic Technology Practices" is now out in "The Journal of Somaesthetics"! I looked at playful cases of somaesthetically transformative technology practices across Arts, Alternative Game Design, and Prosthetics:
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Bitwa o prawdę. Dezinformacja rozkręca konflikt Indii z Pakistanem szybciej niż rakiety Odkryj, jak prorządowe media w Indiach kreują wydarzenia w konflikcie z Pakistanem. Poznaj mechanizmy cenzury mediów.

This article (in Polish) carries my two bits on the (dis)information war between India and Pakistan and how digital informality has become statecraft under the current regime in India (and elsewhere).

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Meta Used Books and Research Papers to Train Its AI - Was Yours One of Them? - NordMedia Network Meta has illegally used millions of books and scientific papers to train its AI models. We explain how to check if your work has been pirated, and what steps you can take if it has.

NordMedia Network & Finnish Literary Copyright Society (Sanasto) list steps you can take if Meta lifted/pirated your work to train its AI Models.

@maaritjii.bsky.social @annapacholczyk.bsky.social

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Before shit hit the fan... Facing increasing pushback on mainstream platforms like Twitter and Facebook, right-wing groups turned to domestic alternatives such

Draft in process, tempted to finalise the sub head.

In Oslo on the 24th of April, for this timely conference on academia and activism (with the co-founder of the BDS movement)

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It is spring 2025 and the book is today officially out ✨💫

I hope it will be useful to those of you who are interested in exploring how our ways of seeing impact on how we relate to each other, our selves, and the various worlds we inhabit.

If interested, you can save 20% by using code 25ESA1

I am moderating this round table on social media moderation policies. Register below! We have a great lineup of speakers @muendges.bsky.social @ovinhas.bsky.social @sandervdwaal.bsky.social @waag.bsky.social
Sarah Eskens, MacKenzie fomer @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Meta Oversight Board.

Best mail is books arriving in mail! I was excited to blurb this book - although they do tend to cut 70% of the nice, thoughtful things you have to say 😁. The Kids Are Online by @ysabel.bsky.social is smart, carefully researched, compassionate to varying anxieties in this space and so so timely

📰 #NewPublication

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In @thewire.in, I examine Tamil Nadu's resistance to Hindi imposition through C.N. Annadurai’s Rajya Sabha speeches (1963–65) and argue that his warnings on linguistic domination and federalism remain relevant amid the National Education Policy (2020).

🎙️ Hear me ramble about work (& life) in this #10DaysOfConflictMemory interview series with John Coster, director of the Documentary Media Centre, Leicester!

☀️ Thanks @pauljreilly.bsky.social @katjalehtisaari.bsky.social @vsalojarvi.bsky.social @docmediacentre.bsky.social @kaarinan.bsky.social.

Vol 18 Nro 3 (2024): Queerit kriisit / Queer Crises

Bilingual Special issue Queerit kriisit/Queer Crises edited by myself and Jarmo Jantunen is out! I will do a thread to introduce each piece in due course. It is Open Access accessible from the link: #queer #disasterstudies #crises #sqslehti

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