Job: Assistant Professor in media studies and data analytics in my own fantastic department at UMBC! apply.interfolio.com/151370

Nana Osei-Opare and I are excited to announce our upcoming conference, Energy, Waste and the Environment in West Africa, taking place at Rice University on September 12th and September 13th. Please review the conference schedule here: ewewa.org

"[...]The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination." In this paper, Prof Gina Neff and I describe how the tech industry uses the language of magic to manipulate people’s perceptions of AI systems. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

💥#Breaking: Histadrut Union leader Arnon Bar David announces a general strike of indefinite length to protest the Netanyahu's government's general failure in the war, starting tomorrow at 6 am. From schools to Ben Gurion airport– shut. Histadrut Global

Every university administrator who is pouring untold resources into the AI hype machine while shutting down humanities programs should be asked about why they made such horrible decisions at every single event they do for the rest of time.

We are celebrating Labor Day by announcing that a supermajority of our over-600 person union signed a pledge of support for a strike. We have scheduled a strike authorization vote 🗳️ 🪧

We're hiring for an assistant professor of climate change solutions (broadly conceived). Plz apply! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04196

Looking forward to presenting this Friday Work, Employment & Society with Valeria Pulignano and James Farrar on meaningful work, moderated by Surviving Work . Details below!

For TIME I wrote about the particular kind of attention Americans have become used to paying to college campuses — and why maybe they should stop time.com/7016826/campus…

There is still time to sign up for my workshop this Sunday! workshops4gaza.com/calendar/beyon…

We get a lot of questions about the nature of AI's environmental impacts... So my amazing colleagues MMitchell and Bruna Trevelin wrote a handy primer to explain them! huggingface.co/blog/sasha/ai-… Check it out to learn more about the water, energy and natural resources used to

Applications for the Palestinian Journalist Fellowship are now open. Logic(s) has partnered with/ Arab Reform Initiative / مبادرة الإصلاح العربي to administer the program. Expedited Deadline: October 16th Final Deadline: November 27th logicmag.io/palestinian-jo…

BREAKING: The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the long-running, closely watched copyright case over the scanning and lending of print library books. Full story to follow.

Spite funding ftw 💅🏼

An academic book that makes you want to read more books. Hard to pull off, Dan Sinykin. Well done!

We're hiring Sanford School of Public Policy and I'm on the search committee! We're looking for an Associate/Full Professor of Technology Policy. Applications are due November 1. Please share widely! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28301

Microsoft built data centers near the drought stricken city of Colon—Mexico gave it subsidies & just one facility was allocated 25 million liters of groundwater a year. That's ~25% of what the general public gets. My colleague Diana Baptista visited:context.news/ai/video/forge…

The deadline to apply for a NHC residential fellowship for the 2025–26 academic year is quickly approaching. Applications are due October 3, 2024. bit.ly/nhc-fellowships

The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology at the University of Toronto Mississauga is seeking applications for a tenure-stream Assistant Professor in the area of game studies. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississaug…

Will be interesting to see how many more bills pop up protecting dead creative workers from having their likenesses or styles replicated by AI variety.com/2024/tv/news/c…