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From the nursery to the prison, from the clinic to the commune, MOTHER MEDIA tells the story of how our contemporary understanding of what a mother is came to be and how understandings of “bad” mothering formed our contemporary panics about “bad” media. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049559/…

My department is hiring! Confirmation path, permanent position for Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies. Come join us by the ocean, mountains and DIY Skate capital of Aotearoa/NZ otago.taleo.net/careersection/…

I'm extremely pleased to share my new article in Surveillance & Society, where I document my experience working briefly as a data collector in the retail "price monitoring" industry ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surv… 1/

Hey look, my first collaboration w/ michael veale on governance in the AI model hosting ecosystem - presented at FAccT, floating around for a while as a preprint - is officially now out #LIT 🚨 Super proud of this work, stay tuned for more soon… tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…?

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 below post (and the replies/quotes) is making me think about how David Noble defined Luddism as being about seeing “technology in the present tense.” Imagining tech in some post-capitalist utopian future is too often a way to avoid confronting how it exists in the present.

I am hiring a postdoc! Excellent research support, minimal teaching load, and an overall wonderful set up. The research focus is flexible as long as some part of your practice involves critical making or hands-on research in some form. (1/3)

I've posted Governing the Company Town (revised), which contextualizes contemporary enclaves—like Elon Musk's TX municipal incorporations, Disney's FL special district & global private city movements—within a longer history of capital-governed communities: bit.ly/4hi449O

Happening next week! Join me online to hear about my newest work on testbeds, innovation nationalism, and drone delivery trials in Australia

publicera.kb.se/jdsr/article/v… New piece in a very cool JDSR special issue '(Un)stable diffusions', *open access* - also ft. [email protected] McKelvey Thao Phan Luke Stark (lukestark.bsky.social) Alison Powell @[email protected] & more - where I talk about how genAI is being legitimised through dramas and rituals of 'realness'. Thread:

The core dynamic of an oligarchy: the public's money flows to the oligarchs' companies, and the top boss gets a cut. Crucially, real power is held by the boss, not the oligarchs. Oligarchs suspected of disloyalty can easily fall out of favor and end up dead or jailed, while

Good on Ethan to correct this viral misinformation. People really want to believe that AI is decimating software jobs, because it feels like poetic justice, but fortunately or unfortunately that narrative is nonsense (so far). There's a simple reason why AI's labor impact so far