Join us tonight at 7 p.m. ET for a webinar on “Challenging Authoritarianism Through People Power” to learn more about what’s at stake in this moment and how we mobilize and organize to protect our kids, families and communities. Sign up ⬇️ aft.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Challenging Authoritarianism Through People Power. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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Our Critical Data Studies group at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social has a few talks this semester: March 27th: Jonathan Gray: Public Data Cultures April 1st: Amelia Acker: Archiving Machines: A Material History of Data Storage April 29th: Sophie Bishop: Influencer Creep See eventbrites below

🚨 New article out in New Media & Society🚨 Super proud to share our work @emilianotrere.com and @fcomun.bsky.social on the contradictions & creative tensions at the heart of #climateactivism Check it out here 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A media ecology of ecological media? Conceptualizing environment-oriented communication and its digital footprint in climate change activism - Arianna Bussoletti, Emiliano Trerè, Francesca Comunello, ...

Recognizing the role-played by mainstream social media (i.e. Instagram, Facebook, etc.) in climate activism, this article focuses on how FridaysForFuture (FFF) ...

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Our second ECR session is upcoming on 25 February 👀

Activism Communication and Social Justice@acsj-ica.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Voices of Change - Next Emerging & Early Career Researchers Session! The session will address mental wellbeing, resilience, available resources for ECRs, and practical support, followed by a Q&A. 25 Feb 2026 | 10:00–11:30 CET | Zoom Register now to join the discussion! cts.ku.dk/projects/to-...

In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically. rdcu.be/dbFbB

Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution — we need to change the narrative

Drastically reduce emissions first, or carbon dioxide removal will be next to useless.

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"This is a glaring issue that will be faced by every hyperscale data centre coming through the planning system..." aprs.scot/press-releas...

Edinburgh Data Centre Refused - Action to Protect Rural Scotland

A few minutes ago the Development Management sub-committee at Edinburgh City Council refused Planning Permission in Principle for a 210MW data centre at the Gyle, Edinburgh. Here are some observations...

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All welcome to drop by the final last talk on datafied civil society and environmental action in China as we’re wrapping up for the year. This seminar is in hybrid format. See the zoom link in the comment section below.

Sociological and Cultural Studies, University of Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Join us for the next PEFF Seminar where Yu Sun, our colleague within the Division, examines how the public use of environmental data in China transforms public advocacy and contentious politics. Discussant: Kat Fradera (Law). Friday, 12 December, 11:30am–12:30pm, ARC 225.

This is still an ongoing project with Dr Wilfred Yang Wang @ichbinwill.bsky.social We try to conceptualize techno-moral governance in digital China. It’s exciting work but find theorizing empirical evidence is so challenging! Hopefully, will get there gradually! Welcome to attend if you are around🥂

Holly Snape@hollysnapewang.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Scottish Centre for China Studies autumn seminar series starts next week Dr Yu Sun (Uni of Glasgow) Rating villagers’ morality via data scoring systems: everyday surveillance and techno-moral governance in rural China Wed 24 Sept, 4–5.30pm Register online: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Following the fruitful discussions at ICA, another VoC seminar with senior colleagues sharing experiences and offering advice on navigating early academic life is upcoming on 25 June. Registration is still open, see below.

Jun Liu@jliu2024.bsky.social · last yr.

Join #VoC# ECRs & Emerging Scholars session June 25, 10:00-11:30 (CET) via Zoom, w. keynotes @profweiyu.bsky.social + @pauljreilly.bsky.social on navigating challenges of early academic life w. @yu-ys.bsky.social @icahdq.bsky.social @ecreacomdem.bsky.social Registration: cts.ku.dk/tim-talks/20...

great PhD opportunity - Migration, Border Securitization, and Citizenship in the Global South. at Dublin City University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ996/d...

DCU PhD Scholarship - Migration, Border Securitization, and Citizenship in the Global South. at Dublin City University

At jobs.ac.uk, you can apply for a DCU PhD Scholarship - Migration, Border Securitization, and Citizenship in the Global South.. Explore our diverse range of PhD opportunities today.

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The ACSJ interest group of the ICA has now joined this bright place and abandoned what we felt was no longer a good environment for research into social justice and activism. Let’s make this site a lively forum for exchange together. ACSJ members and friends - please follow us here

The ACSJ Interest Group Call for award nominations is open until February 20 Outstanding Dissertation Award: Open to dissertations completed in the past two years Outstanding Book Award: Honoring the best book (sole or co-authored) on themes central to ACSJ, published within the past two years.

Awards 2025

The ICA Interest Group on Activism, Communication, and Social Justice (ACSJ) invites nominations for the Outstanding Dissertation Award and Outstanding Book Award to be given at the ACSJ business meeting at the 2025 ICA Conference in Denver.

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You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

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The symposium 'The Politics of Governance by Quantification Infrastructure,' co-edited by @jliu2024.bsky.social and me, is now out in Critical Sociology, featuring 4 articles exploring the middle ground between subjects and systems of quantification globally. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Voice of Change second webinar is coming on 19 February, featuring on effective climate communication.

ECREA Communication & Democracy section@ecreacomdem.bsky.social · 2y ago

✨thrilled for the second webinar of the "Voices of Change" talk series, co-organized by ICA Activism, Communication & Social Justice & @ecreacomdem.bsky.social! @ipostas.bsky.social on “Effective climate communication: from eco-anxiety to eco-action” 👉Please register at eur.nl/en/eshcc/eve...