Another round young scholars who started research careers Microsoft Research Bangalore in Social Media and Society are now PhD students. A 100% record of placement at top programs, and a place to study contemporary issues in tech I cannot recommend enough 🧵 microsoft.com/en-us/research…

First, Zainab Akbar, who did breakthrough work on radicalization on social media around the first wave of COVID-19 is a PhD student now at Bowling Green State University working Here is a link to her fantastic paper on COVID misinformation as window into predudice in India: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…

First Conference ad a PhD student feels different! Not so overwhelming when you learn to navigate! #ICA2023

Thread: a tad delayed, but here as promised for anyone who was interested in the #ICA23 session on Methods in Visual Politics & Protest. Yesterday's session featured...

And Radhika Gajjala's big team work on using computational tools for feminist intersectional “small data” research.

Radhika beautifully represented her acada babies at #ICA2023 in Toronto🤭. Team DH, Digital Archiving & Data Feminism rocks 🎉 Zainab Akbar Debipreeta Rahut Cyberdivalive Anna DeGalan

📢We're looking for WhatsApp group admins from India/ Bangladesh to talk about their experiences of maintaining WA groups 📲 Participants will be compensated for their time💸 Plz RT/ share within your circle 🙌🏽 Feel free to dm/ email ([email protected]) for any queries📩

Talking about citation values in todays writing class: 1) Diversity isn’t just a numbers game 2) It’s important to center marginalized ideas, voices and scholars.

Major hazards with academic jobs: Critical faculties wax and our supportive faculties wane We are always better at pointing out what people are doing wrong than enabling people to do better. #AcademicTwitter

Dorsey on the Indian government's attempts to undermine journalists on Twitter, calling out the Farmer's protests. Our piece "Rihanna versus Bollywood" which showed coordinated messaging by Indian celebs and sportspersons on behalf of the govt. arxiv.org/pdf/2102.04031…

Full papers & recordings of all talks at "Social Media and Society in India" covering topics from caste, gender, and hate speech to travel, activism, and online financial advice in India from influencers, academics, industry practitioners now public: 🧵 joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/influencers.htm

Activist Bezwada Wilson addressed the use of sensational and dehumanizing imagery in the way mainstream media presents manual scavenging, and the need to recalibrate media towards greater systemic justice for the disempowered A link to his talk: youtube.com/watch?v=IAJZW8…

Educator Vikas Divyakirti shared personal experiences with his content going viral online, and the ways in which this impacted his life and practice, remaining optimistic overall on the positive potential of social media. A link to his talk: youtube.com/watch?v=okQ-M3…

Hepatologist discussed the challenges promoting evidence-based medicine on social media, debunking medical misinformation by individuals and the alternative medicine industry in India A link to his talk: youtube.com/watch?v=EhiA6n…

Journalist Abhinandan Sekhri talks about the role of algorithms on news consumption, on ways the internet and social media have created new avenues and responsibilities for journalists to speak truth to power. A link to his talk at University of Michigan youtube.com/watch?v=VkcVVO…

Politicians are choosing to be interviewed by YouTubers instead of journalists. This will change the face of political interviewing in the 2024 elections and undermine professional journalism during the campaign cycle A thread, & link to the research joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/?p=1375

The Social Media & Society in India symposium Apr 8-9, 2024 University of Michigan is free to attend online or in person. A great line-up of speakers, plus attendees get office hours with speakers, plus consultations on doing social media research. 🧵 Register here: joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/influencers.htm

The Social Media & Society in India conference University of Michigan is on Apr 8-9, 2024, the largest conference of its kind featuring talks and workshops on culture, politics, industry, policy, and misinformation. Register free to attend: influencers.conference.si.umich.edu

Announcing Social Media and Society in India 2025 in Ann Arbor April 4-5, 2025 in Ann Arbor at University of Michigan A workshop, research papers, talks and 1:1 sessions with politicians, actors, journalists, activists, musicians, influencers! Register online or in person free. Thread🧵