Katie Moylan
@analogadjacent.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Media, University of Leicester. Own views, albeit in a deeply mediated world.
Such an inspiring keynote from Andrea Medrado, drawing on the Favel IA project, exploring, repurposing and activating deployments and understandings of empathy alongside technologies and practices of care in the Global South @meccsa.bsky.social #meccsa2026
Leicester Media & Communication@deptmedialeic.bsky.social · 2w agoA great story of AI use by marginalised communities in the Global South, by our second keynote speaker Dr Andrea Medrado. #Meccsa2026
Sonic publics panel! Conceived of by Stacey Copeland @scopeland.bsky.social with thought-provoking papers from Gurvinder Aujla-Sidhu, Deborah Gay @dwgay.bsky.social and Elena Kaliberda exploring voice, attention and participation at @meccsa.bsky.social
Deborah Gay@dwgay.bsky.social · 2w agoThank you @meccsa.bsky.social and @deptmedialeic.bsky.social you’ve been amazing
Prof. Anamik Saha giving a keynote on how diversity became hegemonic and how that hegemony so easily began to collapse. Covers the push for more representation and hiring in the 2010s. Really appreciate seeing this period put into context as hegemony. #MeCCSA2026 @deptmedialeic.bsky.social
Woken at 4am by wildfire smoke filling the house. Southeast Wales, one of the UK's wettest regions, is shrouded in smoke today. You can feel it in your lungs. The climate crisis is now.
@flirtfm.ie The best use of compliance activities: www.marfapublicradio.org/podcast/marf...
Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep
Marfa Public Radio is literally never asleep. It operates 24/7 (except when lightning strikes) and there’s so much that goes on behind the scenes to make this happen– fundraising, compliance, protocol...
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I think Colbert has been using music in one of the most personal ways to engage with art, which is to allow it to reflect back your own feelings in a way that clarifies them. Your circumstances are new, but—in this case—your defiant frustration mixed with exuberance is legible to other people.
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis is fucking epic and actually made me burst into tears. Fight fire with fire. youtu.be/EtvKvmTIaQU?...
on my birthday I took to the newsletter to write about the AI commencement address backlash, and how growing anger at AI is now irreversibly tethered to justified rage at the extraction class -- whether AI boosters like it or not
AI Rage Is Inextricably Fused With Justified Loathing Of The Extraction Class. 'Deal With It'
Commencement AI booing reflects growing class revolt now tightly tethered to AI -- whether the technology's biggest proponents like it or not.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center, which is best known for its tracking of hate groups, said that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the nonprofit regarding their use of informants.
Southern Poverty Law Center says it is under Justice Department investigation
The nonprofit on Tuesday said it is “the latest organization targeted by this administration.”
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I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 5mo ago"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
The most horrifying part of this is buried at the end. Like half the “citations” are just slapped on to give a false veneer of credibility.
Futurism@futurism.com · 5mo agoThis is catastrophic.
A short piece I did for the Sonic Anthropology Radio podcast with Thomas Miller with some great clips from NOLA radio! sonic-anthropology.mixlr.com/recordings/2...
Sonic Anthropology | Voices of the People - The cultural work of New Orleans community radio with Katie Moylan
In this episode of Sonic Anthropology Radio, media scholar Katie Moylan shares her thoughts on New Orleans community radio and what makes it so special.
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BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
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Mamdani aside, it’s results across the Hudson River in New Jersey that show MAGA is in deep shit. In counties like Passaic looking like Hispanic support has completely collapsed & reversed only a year later. Dem Mikie Sherrill won governor far better than expected. www.latintimes.com/latinos-sour...
Latinos Sour on Trump and GOP as Democrats Sweep Key Elections from Virginia to New Jersey, New York and Cincinnati
Democrats celebrated a clean sweep in Tuesday's elections across Virginia, New Jersey, New York City and Cincinnati, powered by a dramatic shift among Latino voters who have turned sharply against Don...
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Steven Beschloss@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 11mo agoTrump will deny it’s a referendum on him. But it’s a referendum on him and his disgraceful regime that couldn’t care less about the needs of people.
This is rotten news: Teen Vogue had become a touchstone for independent political coverage--just like a publication for young women should be.
Lex McMenamin (they/them)@lexmcmenamin.com · 11mo agothank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
Google rolled out AI Overviews earlier this year. Many users now see AI-generated summaries above traditional search results. This doesn’t just risk spreading unreliable answers, it could also divert traffic away from independent media and threaten media pluralism: algorithmwatch.org/en/google-ai...
UCU (@ucu.org.uk) has called a national demonstration against the planned redundancies at the University of Leicester. Please come and march alongside us in Leicester on 12 November. All welcome!
After Hurricane Beryl devastated Jamaica’s grid last year, officials at the island’s sole utility vowed to fortify it. But the company’s initiatives were only in the planning + early implementation stages when Hurricane Melissa hit. Story @bloomberg.com, gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Jamaica’s Grid Was Not Ready for Hurricane Melissa
The massive storm underscores the challenges in keeping up with the quickening pace of climate change.
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It’s Public Radio Music Day. It’s a celebration of art over algorithms. It’s a celebration of discovery, diversity, and deep listening. Keep the music playing in stations across the nation. Stand up for the NPR Network’s commitment to free, public-access music at the link here: n.pr/47jpe4d
If anyone wants an article about what it is like to be in a hotel while applying for asylum (this is pandemic era but much still applies) then our article last year covers some of this from the perspective of those in the hotels
“Are we criminals?” – everyday racialisation in temporary asylum accommodation
This paper critically examines the placement of people seeking asylum in temporary accommodation during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is based on a 14-month collaborative ethnography conducted between ...
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This is deranged and dangerous from the Conservatives, and similarly from Reform. If they could enact it, it would rip British society apart, destroy the economy & NHS, & make the UK an international pariah. Every decent politician & political journalist/commentator needs to push back hard.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 11mo agoThe draft legislation is crackers. It would fail immediately if we stayed in the ECHR but it disappears the human rights act. if passed after that it would involve mandatory loss of ILR for up to 400,000 people + refusal of 2-3 million others, though without no credible means to identify or remove
Love this story in Editor and Publisher on innovative website Adopt a Station, showing how much public media TV and radio stations relied on federal funding. No surprise, many of those most dependent serve rural, indigenous and Black communities. READ: https://loom.ly/oY2Jmt0
After Congress yanks $1.1B from CPB, a one-page site starts saving stations - Editor and Publisher
When lawmakers rescinded $1.1 billion in public media funding, hundreds of local NPR/PBS outlets — especially rural and Indigenous stations — were pushed to the brink. Enter Adopt-A-Station, a simple dashboard that spotlights the most at-risk outlets and turns clicks into gifts; in its first month, it drew 40,000 visitors and funneled donors directly to stations like KTNA in Alaska — proof that a lean tool can move real money, fast.
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The #AoIR2025 conference dinner is not like other conference dinners
For anyone still wondering: THIS IS WHY WE’RE HERE. Welcome to our family, and thank you for welcoming us to yours. #AoIR2025
