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Charlton McIlwain is the Vice Provost for Faculty Engagement and Development at New York University. In this role, he advances NYU’s academic excellence by supporting faculty recruitment, retention, and career […]
Dr. Michelle Ferrier is the founder of TrollBusters.com, a just-in-time service that helps journalists fight online abuse, and has advocated on behalf of journalists worldwide at the United Nations, SXSW, […]
Nikki Usher, Ph.D. is an associate professor at The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the College of Media’s Journalism Department (with affiliate appointments in the Communication and Political Science). Her […]
Catherine Knight Steele is an educator, researcher, award-winning author, and sought-after speaker specializing in race and media, with a particular emphasis on Black discourse, culture, technology, and social media. As […]
Allissa Richardson complicates our understanding of Black mobile journalism as a great equalizer — pushing us to consider also what we lose when we lean too heavily on video testimony as a liberatory tool amid an era of growing surveillance capitalism.
Hector Amaya is a professor of communication and director of the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California. He has authored three books and has published dozens […]
Diana J. Nucera, a.k.a. “Mother Cyborg,” is a multimedia artist who uses music, performance, DIY publishing, community organizing tactics and popular education methods to elevate collective technological consciousness and agency. […]
Tara Conley is an interdisciplinary scholar and mediamaker with an established research agenda in the field of communication and media. She is also an assistant professor of media studies at […]
Hashtag activism happens when large numbers of postings appear on social media under a common hashtagged word, phrase or sentence with a social or political claim. The temporal unfolding of […]
On today’s episode, we’re joined by Guobin Yang to discuss the edited collection Engaging Social Media in China: Platforms, Publics, and Production. Thanks for tuning in.
Introducing the concept of state-sponsored platformization, this volume shows the complexity behind the central role the party-state plays in shaping social media platforms. The party-state increasingly penetrates commercial social media […]