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"The chapters, constructed as 'multispecies stories,' ... consider ecologies & infrastructure together in novel ways that challenge our conceptual separations between the two. Readers will find a theoretically exciting & vibrantly composed read with OIL BEACH" 🛢️🏖️📙

ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/articl

Thank you for this lovely review, Shelley Tuazon Guyton & IJOC!

Here's the book:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/b

#Commodon #STS #EnvHist @ecologies @sts #OilBeach #multispecies #CriticalLogistics

📢 New publication!

Information, Communication & Society just published our study “Mainstreaming and transnationalization of anti-gender ideas through social media: the case of CitizenGO” w/ @nicolarighetti, @Bruna, Zsófia Cseri, Sofia Iriarte, & Kateryna Maikovska ✨

50 open-access copies are available at: tandfonline.com/eprint/V9SRJQF

This study is particularly relevant in light of the current wave of traditionalist radicalism.
#commodon #computationalsocialscience

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'I don’t think an opinion adhering to institutional conventions can be considered an “unpopular take.” Positioning it as unpopular masks a common opinion as marginalised. This type of perception skewing is reminiscent of Christian conservatives claiming God-fearing values are under attack despite Christianity dominating every echelon of American society.'

Inigo Laguda on language and grammar: yoursinigo.com/p/better-than-y

@writing @sociology

Yours, Inigo · the liar's languageBy Inigo Laguda

I just finished organizing the Communication Law & Policy division of the #ICA2025 conference in Denver this year.

Now suddenly I'm getting emails from international scholars with "concerns about traveling to the U.S. for the conference in light of the political climate after the elections."

We're cutting ourselves off from our allies, our peers, our friends, our families. Which is undoubtedly the point.

For anyone bringing #AI into their teaching this term, Tom Haigh just shared the syllabus for a new course titled "A Short History of Artificial Intelligence" (based on his forthcoming book). The supplemental readings offer a nice slice through the literature, from subject area experts to popular perspectives.

tomandmaria.com/Tom/TUW

www.tomandmaria.comA Short History of Artificial Intelligence (TU Vienna, Winter 2024) | Thomas Haigh. Historian of Computing.

The year is 1927. The Federal Radio Commission (forerunner to the FCC) has just been formed and America's airwaves are still a morass of largely unregulated broadcasters. The Commission must decide which ones are providing quality content.

Commissioner Henry Adams Bellows, already exasperated, gives an early account of the thankless nature of content moderation:

(Quoted in Erik Barnouw's "A Tower in Babel.")

@communicationscholars #commodon

It's not too late to buy "The Secret Life of Data" for that special layperson in your life.

You know—the one whom you've tried to explain a bunch of times why they should care about #data #privacy, shun Musk, join Mastodon, unplug Alexa, avoid NFTs, listen to #AI critics & maybe stop tagging you on Facebook all the time.

mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048811 #books #gifts #commodon

MIT PressThe Secret Life of DataIn The Secret Life of Data, Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert explore the many unpredictable, and often surprising, ways in which data surveillance, AI, and t...