Can't wait to be in Glasgow next week for the #SMSociety2026! Besides being in the organizing committee (with awesome people ⬇️), I will be presenting my work on discursive violence amid "good vibes" digital cultures.

International Conference on Social Media & Society@socialmediaandsociety.org · 4w ago

With only 5 days left to go, it is my pleasure to introduce the #SMSociety conference chairs! Please come say hello #socialmedia @zoetanja.bsky.social @harrytdyer.bsky.social @markwong.bsky.social @devinasarwatay.bsky.social @estebanmorales.bsky.social Irida Ntalla @yingwenwang.bsky.social Yue Qin

With only 5 days left to go, it is my pleasure to introduce the #SMSociety conference chairs! Please come say hello #socialmedia @zoetanja.bsky.social @harrytdyer.bsky.social @markwong.bsky.social @devinasarwatay.bsky.social @estebanmorales.bsky.social Irida Ntalla @yingwenwang.bsky.social Yue Qin

International Conference on Social Media & Society@socialmediaandsociety.org · 5mo ago

Meet the 2026 #SMSociety 2026 Organizing Committee socialmediaandsociety.org/about/ #ComSky #SocialMediaResearch

McDonald’s CEO says potential customers cooking burger at home are on a very dangerous path.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last mo.

ANTHROPIC CEO WARNS OPEN-SOURCE AI IS ON A "VERY DANGEROUS PATH"

Last Sunday, Colombia elected Abelardo de la Espriella, a figure with a documented history of political, gendered, and animal violence. So how does someone with that record win? His campaign didn't deny the violence. It convinced people it didn't matter. esteban-morales.com/blog/look-at...

Some great news! Very thankful to our colleagues at the Canadian Communication Association for this honour.

McGill-Queen's University Press@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to Katherine M.A. Reilly, Esteban Morales, and María Julia Morales González for winning the Canadian Communication Association 2026 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize! Communing Data Literacy: Tools and Concepts for Social Engagement buff.ly/2mIscXW

Currently trying to write an introduction to a paper that justifies why this particular phenomenon is worth researching. Aaaand I am struggling to just say "I was online and thought that this was quite interesting and important. So I did research on it. And here we are."

Today, the biggest guy on the gym asked me to spot him and the oldest guy nodded at me. Is this community?!

So shocked and sad to hear about the passing of @raulpachecovega.bsky.social . He was one of the most generous scholars I have ever known. I didn't even meet him in person, but his advice truly shaped how I write (and think about writing). Que en paz descanse.

Yo tengo muy clara mi alineación política. Pero también tengo muy claro que uno, como persona que no vive en el país, no está en ninguna posición para hacer pedagogía política.

See you at #AoIR2026! 🎉

“AI literacy”

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 3mo ago

"Never hallucinate or make anything up." yes, you can just demand that the LLM not make errors that's definitely how the technology works

The irony of this article being accompanied by Elsevier's "reading assistant."

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Study finds that students using chatGPT learned and remembered less than students who did not use it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Qué tristeza escuchar que se murió Rossana Reguillo. Una de las pensadoras latinoamericanas que más informaron mi forma de pensar las violencias y sus mediaciones.

#PlatformExtractivism is available for 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 (out Oct 20)! Thrilled to share what @geoplace.bsky.social has to say about the book: "A grounded and uncompromising account of the infrastructures and workers that sustain AI." 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤: www.ucpress.edu/books/platfo... #BookRecommendation #Books

Thrilled to share that our special issue on NMS (co-edited with @tomdivon.bsky.social & Martin Lundqvist) is officially out! 🎉🎉🎉 10 empirical pieces + an introductory article exploring the contextual nature of violence on digital platforms. journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/28/4

New Media & Society - Volume 28, Number 4

Table of contents for New Media & Society, 28, 4

journals.sagepub.com

When was the last time you opened the news or your social media and DIDN'T feel fear and anger? I cannot remember, really. But seeing the news today... *sigh*

Such an important study. "White men reported feeling the least close to their best friends in comparison to all other ethnoracial-gender groups, and white men who were higher class and/or whose best friend was another man reported even lower levels of closeness."

Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Fascinating new study about men’s friendships. There’s a lot of evidence here that the “male loneliness crisis” is actually a white, wealthy man problem. Other men are building friendships with similar depth to women’s friendships.

A fantastic read on Grammarly's so-called expert review: "Most of my published work appears already to be inside these models, shaping their outputs in ways I never agreed to and will never fully understand. Grammarly just had the bad manners to put my name on it."

Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEWS: Grammarly tells me it will let "experts" like me opt out of having their names used against their will and for no compensation as part of its "expert review" feature www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

"Now what? We can immerse ourselves in endless streams of horrendous videos or try to increase our resistance in order to being better equipped to withstand, recover, and continue functioning somewhat clearly despite the cognitive assaults."

Marcus Bösch@boesch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

For the LOLz, the vibes, the giggles, the shrugging, the outrage. Flooding the zone. Feeding the algorithms. understanding-tiktok.com

War is now a content format. We scroll past bombings between selfies and sponsored posts. The platforms framing it for us are not neutral: they shape whose suffering registers and whose deaths we're taught to ignore. New (first?) blog post! esteban-morales.com/blog/the-spe...

I am teaching a digital culture research seminar this term and I shared @jessmaddox.bsky.social newsletter with the students—they absolutely loved it. Students are now asking me if I know of any other similar newsletters. Any recommendations? I am trying to compile a public list.

Some personal news, as they say. Get your submissions ready for when our portal opens February 12. As the founding editor-in-chief of the new Springer Nature academic journal Creator and Influencer Studies, I’m thrilled to welcome them. link.springer.com/journal/44538

The hallucination loop we live in. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal

Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers

theguardian.com

Spending some time in Colombia makes me weak. It's 18°C and I AM COLD.

waking up in 2026

Ah shit.

Peer review requests are a tad out of control this month, huh?