Prof. Pradeep Nair shares a study showing that film-based interventions significantly improve climate knowledge among middle-school students, with the largest gains among those most vulnerable to climate change. DOI: doi.org/10.1017/aee....

Love Lundy and Erykah Benson examined how food and transportation insecurity relate to the use of contactless pick-up and on-demand delivery. The survey analysis was published in Volume 22, Michigan Journal of Public Affairs (Issue: Public Power and the Public Good). mjpa.umich.edu/2026/06/14/m...

Dr. Elif Birced from MIT is sharing her new article in Poetics, which examines how human intermediaries play a considerable role in reproducing social inequalities in cultural production through evaluation. 🔗: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Jenny Davis & Apryl Williams new book is out with University of California Press. "The Injustice of Fairness: Algorithmic Reparation and the Case for Redress" 🔗: www.ucpress.edu/books/the-in...

The Injustice of Fairness by Jenny Davis, Apryl Williams - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

ucpress.edu

Dr. Dragoș Obreja elaborates on the theory of the double ideological strata on social media, where he explains that social media rests on a double ideological strata - libertarian promises of freedom coexist with corporate-algorithmic governance. 🔗: doi.org/10.1093/ct/q...

Is algorithmic reform possible? Theorizing the double ideological strata

Abstract. Numerous stakeholders, including critical scholars, and digital-rights NGOs, contend that social media platforms operate as sites where the liber

doi.org

Ori Schwarz is sharing his paper, exploring why Israel needed AI for indiscriminate killing & destruction in Gaza, how it impacts our view of AI as a technology of distinction or personalization, and why it must shift critical algorithm studies' agenda beyond bias and error. doi.org/10.1177/2053...

Technologies of distinction for indiscriminate killing: What can the Israeli war on Gaza teach us about the social meaning of AI - Ori Schwarz, 2026

AI is widely viewed as a technology of distinction and personalization. This article challenges this view by looking closely at the Israeli intelligence's ...

doi.org

Prof. Lynette Ong is sharing her co-authored Cambridge Element that examines how the Chinese state outsources digital surveillance to private firms, contributing to research on digital repression and state-business relations. Available for free download in the first two weeks: shorturl.at/lVpmw

Outsourcing Surveillance

Cambridge Core - Political Economy - Outsourcing Surveillance

shorturl.at

Dr. Josiah Kidwell is currently working on the final edits of his forthcoming book exploring a Las Vegas-based megachurch through the lens of critical theory. The book is expected to be published by Bloomsbury in Fall 2026. 🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/us/megachurc...

The Megachurch-Industrial Complex

A Las Vegas megachurch transforms faith into spectacle to attract the unchurched, even as its iconoclastic approach strains longstanding religious and cultural…

bloomsbury.com

Coming May 18th, the 2nd Edition of Introduction to Media Sociology by Andrew Lindner (Skidmore College) and Stephen Barnard (Butler University). 🔗 www.routledge.com/Introduction...

Introduction to Media Sociology: All Media Are Social

From streaming platforms to smartphone apps to good old-fashioned newspapers, media are nearly omnipresent in contemporary life and act as a powerful social institution. In this new edition of Introdu...

routledge.com

Professor Tamara Kay from the University of Pittsburgh is sharing her new book Kay, Tamara. 2025. Sesame Street Around the World: Culture, Politics, and Transnational Organizational Partnerships. Oxford University Press (Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics Series). global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Congratulations to Jun Zhou at the University of Michigan on the publication “Constructing Replaceability: Authenticity Regimes and the Automation of Emotional Labor.” A timely contribution to debates on AI, labor, authenticity, and the future of work. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1177/07308884261446669

Constructing Replaceability: Authenticity Regimes and the Automation of Emotional Labor - Jun Zhou, 2026

Why does the same AI technology replace identical emotional labor in one context but not another? Existing explanations focus on the nature of the task or the c...

doi.org

Prof. Pradeep Nair is leading a project on sediment sources, erosion, and hydrologic pathways using geomorphic analysis, geospatial mapping, and community-based field data to identify areas of environmental vulnerability and runoff-related impacts. thrivingearthexchange.org/project/mart...

Healthy Watershed, Healthy Martinez: Evaluating Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for Watershed Climate Resilience in the Alhambra Creek Watershed

Martinez, California lies within the Alhambra Creek watershed, a waterway in the East Bay region of the ​San Francisco Bay Area. The watershed is historically affected by urban stream syndrome causing...

thrivingearthexchange.org

Michelle Cosens from the University of Michigan is sharing her paper exploring how social class shapes the ways students use social media before and after their transitions to college, tracing how class inequalities on college campuses are reproduced in digital spaces. doi.org/10.1093/socp...

“Visibility Work” in College: How Class and Capital Shape Student Profiles on Instagram

Abstract. How does social class shape students’ social media presence in college? Scholarship has focused on the ways lower-income and historically margina

doi.org

Dr. Julian Posada (Yale University) is sharing the forthcoming publication of his book, 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐦: 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, available this October from the 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬. 𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧!

Dr. Shane Tilton is sharing his latest book on the sociological impact of internet celebrities, examining how they shape online social interactions through the personalities they present, the content they create, and the networks they cultivate. 🔗: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Digital Culture in the Platform Era

This textbook uses the roles of celebrities in society to frame discussions about digital culture in the platform era.

link.springer.com

Dr. Arvind Karunakaran (Stanford University) is sharing a new article, “Artificial Intelligence at Work: An Integrative Review on the Impact of AI on Workplace Inequality.” Welcome to read and exchange thoughts! Open Access: par.nsf.gov/servlets/pur... DOI: doi.org/10.5465/annals.2023.0230

In a new paper, Loredana Loy @loredanaloy.bsky.social and Rachel Wetts @rachelwetts.bsky.social provide evidence that conservative climate media mobilize class-based resentment by linking climate initiatives to elite groups and their practices. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spag003

“Let them eat kale!”: Appeals to class-based resentment in American conservative opposition to climate change solutions

Abstract. How do conservative media commentators provoke public opposition to climate change solutions in the US? We provide evidence that appeals to class

academic.oup.com

Prof. Pradeep Nair from Uppsala University, Sweden - Earth System Governance Project, is sharing a recent paper titled Voices of the marginalized in the climate change crises - Towards Equitable Climate Futures? Welcome to read and exchange thoughts: 📌DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.14984.69122

(PDF) Voices of the marginalized in the climate change crises -Towards Equitable Climate Futures? Voices of the Marginalized Webinar Series IMPRESUM PUBLICATION TITLE: Voices of the Marginalized in th...

PDF | "Voices of the Marginalized in the Climate Change Crises – Towards Equitable Climate Futures" is a research publication and initiative from COST... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

researchgate.net