Please join us on Wed. April 22 for a conversation with Sarah Murray and @rahmuk.bsky.social about Dr. Murray's new book, POWERED BY SMART: A PREHISTORY OF EVERYDAY AI, a critical feminist history of the techno-cultural evolutions that make AI possible
"Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution" (MIT Press) is available on 20% discount with this code "READMIT20" at the Penguin Random House link: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/814367...
Looking forward to conversing with Sarah Murray about her remarkable new book "Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI" as part of the Humanities Center event at Penn on April 22: wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/murray
Thanks, Anne!
"Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution" is published today. Readers with US mailing address can get a 30% discounted copy with this discount code "MITP30" for orders made today (Mar 31) on this PenguinRandomHouse link: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/814367...
A new piece in Rest of World by Daniela Dib and Rina Chandran discusses the uneven global geographies of AI, its appearance as infrastructures, and its human foundations: restofworld.org/2026/ai-push...
My CIMS department at Penn is hiring for a Visiting Assistant Professor position in Media Studies: apply.interfolio.com/180872
Not on FB but was told this is the link: www.facebook.com/MUNGenderStu...
Thanks, Marc! Your scholarship is very important for this book!
"When a 65-year-old tree in Parker’s front yard died of oak wilt, he cut the trunk into “wood cookies” + transformed them into playable records, each encoded with migratory birdsong... The project emerged from Parker’s recognition that his grief for the tree echoed the loss of his father to cancer"
Few pre-book copies of "Unlimited: Aspirational Politics and Mobile Media Distribution" arrived in package, and some kind endorsements from scholars whom I deeply respect. The book is going to be published in late March through MIT Press.
The Media, Science and Technology (MST) SIG is in Spotlight, thanks to an insightful piece by Gary Kafer and Patrick Brian Smith, explaining the relationship between the three constitutive terms, each of which as we all know can mean a lot of different things: quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/i...
Super excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social
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A latergram about a wonderful visit to Concordia University to deliver a talk related to my forthcoming book. Many thanks to Marc, Josh, and Ishita for the invitation and their hospitality. It was amazing to engage in conversations with Montreal's vibrant media and communication studies community.
I wrote a fresh paper on financial intermediaries in the loan app ecosystem based on interviews with data analysts, lending platform professionals, consumer rights groups, and financial journalists for Platforms & Society journal: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
“Whatever the cause, the energy industry’s crystal balls often produce overcooked figures.”
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Title page of paper, with author's name, title, abstract and keywords
How is the fungibility of money<->data in #credit relations intermediated? Writing about #India, in a recent paper Rahul Mukherjee traces the #platform #intermediation processes in the loan app ecosystem. Read more here journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...