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Cindy Ma@cindyxma.bsky.social · last yr.

🎨🎤 Excited to share the poster and confirmed keynotes for our Race & Media Conference @leedsunimedia.bsky.social next April! We are currently accepting proposals for papers, panels, and practice-based presentations. Find out more: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/raceandmedia...

Dusted up the PhD hat to co-author a piece with @nsalem.bsky.social about everyone’s (least) favourite topic - #AI. First of (we don’t know how) many. Follow her tech timescapes stack for more of her work too. open.substack.com/pub/tedoex/p...

Discursive Misdirection

AI is not intelligent and AI is not creative. But it is about labour.

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🎨🎤 Excited to share the poster and confirmed keynotes for our Race & Media Conference @leedsunimedia.bsky.social next April! We are currently accepting proposals for papers, panels, and practice-based presentations. Find out more: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/raceandmedia...

New CfP! 🚨📣 Excited to announce colleagues @leedsunimedia.bsky.social are organising a Race and Media conference on 22-23 April 2026. We're currently accepting proposals for papers/panels, including ones centred on creative practice. More details here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Race and Media Conference

A major international conference exploring how race is constructed, represented and contested in media today, bringing together leading scholars across disciplines and methodologies

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For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

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Toby has programmed a stellar lineup of speakers at the CAMRI seminar this term! Looking forward to sharing thoughts and observations from an early-stage project on ESEA digital activism in the wake of covid-19. I'll be in conversation with the brilliant Diana Yeh. Please come by, all welcome!

Toby Bennett@tgpb.bsky.social · 2y ago

30 Jan. CAMRI Seminar with Cindy Ma (@cindyxma.bsky.social) and Diana Yeh. On East and Southeast Asian Online Activism www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/visibility...

"In the last few days, the twins were vibrant, bubbly, excited and full of dreams and ambitions. They constantly talked about their PhD study, jokingly calling each other Dr. Sally and Dr. Dalia, and talking about the things they want to do in Canada." 💔 kitchener.ctvnews.ca/university-o...

University of Waterloo says two PhD students killed in Gaza airstrike

The University of Waterloo says twin sisters, who were set to start their PhD studies at the school, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.

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My latest for @niemanlab.org! The Mis/Disinformation Paradigm has proven insufficient for understanding and counteracting Trump's appeal. Journalism should embrace right-wing studies instead. www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/righ...

Right-wing studies’ time has come

"Factual accuracy is a necessary but insufficient goal of professional journalism. Journalists need to compile facts into a vision of reality that is more compelling than that offered by right-wing me...

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My apologies to Wicked (and Cynthia Erivo in particular) I was absolutely not familiar with your game

Last June, I was honoured to have @gavant.bsky.social serve as one of the examiners for my PhD viva. And tomorrow I'll get to (partly) return the favour as a respondent at the launch of his book, co-authored with @francescasobande.bsky.social & Anamik Saha. Come by if you're in Leeds! 📚💭

Media and Communication @ University of Leeds@leedsunimedia.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣 Join us for the launch of The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto, where the authors explore transforming media systems to confront racism and offer key strategies for an anti-racist media future with Anamik Saha @gavant.bsky.social @francescasobande.bsky.social. More here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

The last 2 pieces of our special Forum section of Political Communication are now out! @cindyxma.bsky.social argues that euphemistic labels and taking far-right reactionary claims at face value, affords respectability to positions rooted in white supremacy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Overcoming Far-Right Respectability: The Case for Systemic Approaches to Studying White Supremacy

This contribution to the Forum collection traces the rhetorical strategies taken up by far-right actors to cast white supremacist ideas as “respectable” in the post-civil rights era, including the ...

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Proud to have organized this forum w/ friends @qrdknpfr.bsky.social and @dkreiss.bsky.social inspired by some big questions we’ve been asking about how to better define, theorize and study the far-right. We invited four incredible scholars working from different paradigms on this question to join us

Political Communication Research is Unprepared for the Far Right

In this introductory piece to a special issue of the Forum, we explore the inadequacies of the field of political communication in addressing the rising threats posed by illiberalism and the far ri...

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