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💭 How did the shift to the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model reflect broader economic and technological trends? 🔔 Find out more at our next Higher Seminar with Aaron Shapiro from the University of North Carolina. 🗓️ 12 September, 13-16.30 CET 📍Live in campus or on Zoom

🥳On 12th November, 2pm, the Work Futures Research Group will hold a session called: "Conversations with Michael Burawoy." This is an in person only event in Bristol: an interview, Q&A, and refreshments! Get in touch with me, if you would like to attend. RT, please.

“The fight for higher education is bigger than just us.” — AAUP president Todd Wolfson laying out a new vision for the future of higher education today in Philadelphia. Higher Education Labor United (HELU) AFT NEA UAW SEIU AFSCME AFT Higher Ed #defendhighered

Duke football players were out helping signatures to join the union. A Union got NFL players the right to collectively bargain and get 48% of revenue that the league makes. Makes sense considering the players put their bodies on the line to make the product. We are next! #union

⭐️ new paper with Jacob Smith out now in Social Media+Society! ⭐️ we analyzed videos from the "dating wrapped" trend on tiktok to discuss how online trends serve as ways for individuals to reflect & learn about intimate relationships, check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

dailytarheel.com/article/2024/0… the coolest thing about UNC Department of Communication is its organic interdisciplinarity, and especially the multiple stage productions joseph megel coordinates and directs every year

My contribution to the platform/platformization debate 🫣 Being a “Global Music Platform”: Platform Work in Light-Tech Capitalism in Social Media+Society 📚 Check it out here: 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… #PlatformEconomy #TechCapitalism #DigitalLabor #PlatformStudies

come work with me and the media & technology studies unit UNC Department of Communication! job call highlights cultural studies of tech, disability queer communities, environment & tech, feminist media studies, and more unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/289193

The results are in! With 99% of members voting, the New Yorker Union has unanimously passed a strike-authorization vote. The New Yorker and Condé Nast management must come to the table and bargain in good faith—otherwise, we will see them on the picket line. Fair contract now!

Me, as professor, on last day of class 🤷

university building found not guilty despite having things and organizations in it unc.edu/posts/2024/10/…

MC Forelle & I wrote a paper about #assetization in the automotive sector, forthcoming in Engaging Science, Technology & Society. "Driving into a paywall: The subscriptionization of consumer vehicles." Pre-print here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Has anyone written about the disjuncture btw coldwar strategic decentralization in the US (suburbanization, the internet) and the geographic concentration of US critical infrastructure/supply chains in climate-vulnerable sun-belt due to anti-union R2W policies?

Really interesting new paper on assetization of cars. This is a very logical outcome of the automotive platformization process and its resulting parasitism that Sam Hind and I described in our 2022 paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

On my way to Sheffield - excited for my first AoIR ➡️ 🐘 @[email protected]. On Friday at 11am I'll discuss a relational view of cloud providers and tech startups. It's a great panel on Infrastructures. If you are at AoIR and want to meet up let me know!!

big data peripheries, a la @zgtcooper.bsky.social (follow me there)

to the fella storming out of wegman's muttering he'll never vote for kamala because how shitty and expensive supermarkets are... i see you, i hear you, but i blame supermarkets and a political economic system that allows corporations to get away with this shite, you blame a... vp

Really pleased to announce the publication of my latest article "Evidencing alethocide: Israel's war on truth in Gaza" in Third World Quarterly. In it I argue that 'disinformation' as a concept does not capture the true scale of Israel's war on truth. I propose the concept of

📣 New Publication Alert: “Surveillance in Trump’s America” ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surv… This #openaccess paper sketches some of the key surveillance dangers presented by the second Trump presidency. #surveillance #censorship #disinformation #racism

Ran into Senator Katie Britt and asked her if she would vote no on the reconciliation bill — which will cut Medicaid and re-segregate higher education. “A lot of people are going to die and it’s going to be because you voted for it. Senator do you hear me? Just a blank stare?”