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Printing this one out to hang on my office door.

Lolol if I had a $ for everytime someone on the internet told me I shouldn’t be teaching because of the content I teach I probably actually could leave the profession and be fine 😂😂😂

In a new paper for Convergence Journal, Pam Briggs & I examine the challenges Instagram & TikTok creators at risk of de-platforming face when holding onto communities, arguing that these spaces' turn towards entertainment & selling is producing fatigue: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

I know academic twitter aint poppin like it used to... but if anyone is here - that could help us with a black cyber/digital feminism reading list (or if you have one already). that would be dope! and feel free to add sections and edit! Jihan Johnston-McGlotten , M.Ed. 🔜 Grind Pretty docs.google.com/document/d/1Pu…

From Ukraine🇺🇦 to Gaza🇵🇸, Syria🇸🇾, Lebanon🇱🇧, and now India🇮🇳 & Pakistan🇵🇰, creators use SM platforms to make their conflicts more visible. They're curators, eyewitnesses, and living archives of atrocity. We (Moa Eriksson Krutrök) call them *War Influencers*; OA paper Platforms & Society 🧵

I’m telling you, the thing that may turn the tide on AI in higher ed is when students realize how much their professors use AI, esp for things like rec letters (I don’t). Meanwhile on vacation I got an email with this in it;

In nightmare fuel I can’t prove, I got this YT dog toy ad last night that looks like it asked AI to combine my two dogs into one

The extremely online mid-thirties experience of accidentally singing the Miss Rachel alphabet song to the tune of Espresso Macchiato

Heads up Alabama folks for bad weather tonight!

we funneled a massive number of students into STEM programs, lowered the standards of those programs to accommodate the influx, and now we have a generation of graduates who barely understand what they “studied,” and therefore can’t get a job in the field or get into grad school

Mood.

The last paragraph is something like a Hippocratic oath for humanities professors

Us real ones always knew The All-American Rejects would be back.

idk who needs to hear this but ballerina farm is a BRAND & this is an AD hannah neeleman is selling you something: branded flour & raw milk (more obvious) and rich homestead motherhood & mormonism (more subtle)

This is simply an admission your industry isn't legitimate. It's built entirely on theft and plagiarism. It deserves to die.

And Alix Earle, Kai Cenat, and others in the creator economy are there. I wonder if the show isn’t considered “legit” because of that

Today Mitch Goldstein and I published the results to our survey about what it's really like to work in social media right now. We found out social marketers have an average screen time of 7.33 hours per day and are having trouble cracking TikTok. Here's what else we learned:

One day I want to pitch a conference panel on leaving your academic job and finding a new one. Time to bring the hush hush logistics out in the open.

Recent adventures in cooking: 1. Kimchi fried quinoa and tofu 2. Okra and bean stew 3. Tofu schnitzel and vegan red pepper sauce with homemade mashed potatoes 4. Vegan lasagne

If she didn’t want to do a carousel, I don’t think it would have fit in the caption. Something about a letter in the website also feels more “final” (at least to me). I’ve talked a lot about the platformization of Taylor Swift but this feels like a limitation of that