Just sent in the manuscript for our book Understanding China through Digital Anthropology, Edited by Daniel Miller and Xinyuan Wang. To be published by UCL Press. Very happy with the amazing contributions that I think really challenge the meaning of the word digital.

Check out this GQ Magazine feature on Chaotic Twinks as the archetype of the moment. Got quoted below on my apparent expertise on, um, unshaming kinks for chaos in both public and private lives 😝

How have you been processing news of Duterte’s arrest? Do you notice some expressing relief or elation, while other allies anxiety or apprehension? We Sigla Research Center celebrate this hard-won victory while also unshaming hard-to-process emotions some of our allies are working thru.

Congrats to Jane Pyo, GloTech Lab’s inaugural postdoc for her new tenure track post at Tulane. For sure she will have a long list of visitors, community partners, and prospective mentees booking their flights to Nola and Mardi Gras already. #followmynola 🎭

The global significance of the protests in Turkey: 1) The world is shifting to the far right and Erdoğan is the only far-right leader in an electorally competitive context who has had an uninterrupted 23-year rule. 2) There were several electoral victories, uprisings and coup

On my sabbatical reading list! 👇🏽theory-building piece grounded in critical global south research.

Link below 👇🏽 DM for text behind paywall foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/09/abu…

🌐Counter-disinformation funding in the Global Majority is broken, Jonathan Corpus Ong & Dean Jackson argue. What can be done to fix it? Read their full piece in the new #DigitalDemocracyNetwork compendium for Carnegie Endowment⤵️ carnegieendowment.org/research/2025/…

Great to be part of this Carnegie Endowment volume edited by @stevejfeldstein, featuring colleagues Janjira Irene P. Poetranto. My chapter is “How CounterDisinfo funding in the Global Majority is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It”, from GloTech Lab research. bit.ly/4lcxisX 👇🏽

Congratulations Jonathan!

🚨 New publication! 🚨 ‘Political Finance and Patronage Behind Disinformation: Evidence From India’s Election Campaigns’ in International Journal of Communication Part of a special issue on ‘True Costs of Misinformation’ edited by Jonathan Corpus Ong and Joan Donovan. Open access: ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc…