One of the things that feels impossible to get my head around is that there is simply No. Need. For. Any. Of. This. Violence.

This isn’t a natural disaster, it an entirely man made catastrophe, one that can be stopped by simple CHOICE. The choice to bring this war to an end. Yet

Glad to finally share this work, just published open-access 🔓 in Policy and Internet:

As a lockdown side-project, Patrick Marple and I dug into 2020-21 parliamentary e-petitions to explore conspiracism in relation to pandemic governing. Link below ⤵️

doi.org/10.1002/poi3.3…

1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is too silent about the ongoing war in Gaza. Here is how I see things based on reading hundreds of articles and watching thousands of videos and images about the war. This tweet chain contains my conclusions as a sort of executive summary.

Finally. But what an embarrassing mess this has been. Australia instantly jumped at the Israeli gov request, walking away from Palestinians when they needed it most - only now to say UNRWA can be trusted (as facts proved all along) & funding restored. How shameful Senator Penny Wong

New (open access) paper 🚨 Prof Steven Roberts, Brady Robards and I explore masculinities in Australian neo-Nazi Telegram channels, finding that a strong, white, and combat-ready masculinity is idealised, and alternative masculinities are cast as weak and deviant.

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This was so utterly predictable, and yet the international community continues to do so little to intervene. What do you say at this point? Sickening and heartbreaking.

Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating is officially published w/Stanford Press! Launch party on March 7 — virtual + in person registration here events.umich.edu/event/115995 University of Michigan UM Digital Studies Institute UM Communication and Media future events will be posted here notmytype.info

maybe I can just use twitter from here on out to complain about LinkedIn

📡We're hiring! 📡

Come join BDFI 🌎

Four roles:

▶️ Professor in Digital Futures
▶️ Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Digital Futures and AI
▶️ Lecturer in Digital Futures (x2)

Deadline: 4 Feb

More info on LinkedIn:
bit.ly/3HcU9lW

starting to think logging on to a shoddily maintained app captured and ransacked by my enemies and turned into a shrieking psychic prison might be bad for me

Where do you draw the line ABC News re what’s “controversial”? Are staff allowed to retweet this UN report?

New publication ‼️

I was always fascinated by the storytelling done from a single data point... 'Narratives in numbers' explores how memory anchors self-tracking practices and shapes identity.

Available (OA🔓) in Memory, Mind & Media 📑⤵️ doi.org/10.1017/mem.20…

A must share video! Perhaps the most important part of the South Africa case against Israel at the ICJ today presented.

The UN reports the entire population of occupied Gaza is facing crisis levels of hunger due to the Israeli-imposed food crisis, with half the population starving and over 570,000 people experiencing catastrophic levels of hunger.
#GazaGenocide
#Netanyahu
#Netanyahu TheButcher

James Baldwin: 'The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.'

We're hiring! The QUT GenAI Lab is a new research initiative focused on cultural & social aspects of Generative AI. Two jobs now open, both full-time for four years, close 20 Dec: Research Fellow (Level B); Machine Learning Engineer (HEW8). More: linkedin.com/posts/jeanburg…

With each day that passes, more lives are lost, and the humanitarian catastrophe worsens in #Gaza if the violence doesn’t stop. Sign our petition to demand a #CeasefireNOW amnesty.org/en/petition/de…

The sociology department at my university (The University of Manchester, UK) is hiring a Lecturer in Sociology focused on digital sociology. They are great people and you would work on the same campus where I work. 😁 jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

.Melbourne Sociology is seeking a Level B academic who can teach into the sociology and social policy programs and join our growing discipline. Please reach to me or my colleagues in the discipline or contact the Head of School and Political Sciences TASA jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/914488/…

A statement from CriticalIndigenousStudies MQ to Macquarie University in response to and the result of the referendum. Published by Croakey News Centre for Global Indigenous Futures
croakey.org/statement-from…