Attention Coms & Media Studies scholars (and others, too). Designing your syllabi for the fall term? The @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca supported Global Media & Internet Concentration Project's data visualization tool and other resources available on our website make for great teaching tools.

Prof. @daniellecitron.bsky.social argues that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is weaponizing privacy by monitoring online speech the agency says could endanger its mission. @wsj.com

How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics

The agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.

wsj.com

This looks interesting. 👇👇👇

Robert Tally@roberttally.bsky.social · 18h ago

Today is the official publication day for the new book. I haven't received my own copies yet, and it's way too expensive for humans to buy, but if you can order it for your local library, that'd be great! www.routledge.com/Geocritical-...

Attention Coms & Media Studies scholars (and others, too). Designing your syllabi for the fall term? The @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca supported Global Media & Internet Concentration Project's data visualization tool and other resources available on our website make for great teaching tools.

Attention Coms & Media Studies scholars (and others, too), designing your syllabi for the fall term? The @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca supported Global Media & Internet Concentration Project's data visualization tool and other resources available on our website make for great teaching tools.

The work done by @adewaard.bsky.social, Shawna Kidman, @mirandabanks.bsky.social, @itstv.bsky.social, @ppopiel.bsky.social & others on this report from MACRO Lab challenging Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery is excellent. It's a great example of engaged, policy relevant scholarship.

Pawel Popiel@ppopiel.bsky.social · yesterday

Just as a corrective to the Ellison PR machine, some empirical data and analysis of the significant, pervasive, and detrimental impacts of the merger to the U.S. media system: macrolab.ucsd.edu/paramount-wa...

It will depress you! Sorry about that but it’s kind of my jam. I selected well-written books, some of them are even wryly funny at times — if you come from a culture with macabre humor. Still, the issue is big, complex, and scary. All the more reason for us to face it together.

John Robinson@jrobin.bsky.social · 2d ago

A reading list that I know will depress me, but one that also seems vital to understand (and fight this version of) the future. From the brilliant @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

Without comment. finance.yahoo.com/small-busine...

Arizona State launches degree on becoming an influencer — exactly the career more than half of Gen Z adults dream of

Influencers are earning about as much as nurses, on average, with top content creators raking in millions. Now, Arizona State University is offering a degree in it.

finance.yahoo.com

From the cultural industries to the creator economy, some things don't: "This is why 'the Creator Economy is growing' can feel false to many creators. The market is expanding @ the platform, ad, & infrastructure level, but the income distribution remains brutal." newmarketpitch.com/blogs/news/c...

Is the Creator Economy growing now?

The Creator Economy is growing, but not how creators expect. See why ad spend, AI tools, TikTok Shop, and creator commerce are booming while average creator income stays fragile.

newmarketpitch.com

The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe

The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.

reut.rs

Nice write-up of the "AI has gone rogue" gambit by @karlbode.com, why Altma, Amodei, Musk, and their ilk lean into it ... hard, and who wins and loses from its use.

Anthony B,@swearyanthony.bsky.social · 6d ago

In @karlbode.com's scathing write-up of the "OpenAI rogue hacker" marketing stunt, he highlights the underreported detail that this extremely responsible AI company ran their exploit kit with safety guardrails disabled. Once again, I ask: why haven't they been charged? karlbode.com/ai-doomsday-...

“The world's richest man is also one of the world's most vociferous and vocal bigots," says Chris Hayes.

Musk to pour millions into GOP races as his extremist posts draw new scrutiny

YouTube video by MS NOW

youtube.com

Tapping the sign: perspectivesjournal.ca/megaprojects...

Why Does Canada Develop Megaprojects Instead of Innovation Systems? | Perspectives Journal

Canada’s political economy is characterized by the “staple trap” — a longstanding struggle to develop systems of complementary technology and industries against the pull of resource extraction lock-in...

perspectivesjournal.ca

Michael Karanicolas@karanicolas.bsky.social · 6d ago

If our federal and provincial governments were like, a shade more forward thinking they'd be capitalizing on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to recruit young global talent. Instead we're gutting research funding and immigration because screw the tech economy - resource extraction forever!!!

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...

There’s a Blue-Collar Hollywood—and the Paramount Merger Will Kill It

Hollywood isn’t all glamour. It’s thousands of line workers. And a Paramount takeover of Warner will make their lives even more precarious.

newrepublic.com

PM @mark-carney.bsky.social govt's letter notifying the Fed. Crt of Appeal of its intention to “eliminate the base contribution requirement on streaming services" is the most egregious betrayal of regulatory independence I've seen in 30 yrs studying such matters. www.thewirereport.ca/2026/07/28/b...

Ottawa to scrap base contribution requirements for U.S. streamers - The Wire Report

In a recent letter to the Federal Court of Appeal, the government outlined its intention to “eliminate the base contribution requirement on streaming services and to provide government funding to repl...

thewirereport.ca

PM @mark-carney.bsky.social govt's letter notifying the Fed. Crt of Appeal of its intention to “eliminate the base contribution requirement on streaming services" is the most egregious betrayal of regulatory independence I've seen in 30 yrs studying such matters. www.thewirereport.ca/2026/07/28/b...

Ottawa to scrap base contribution requirements for U.S. streamers - The Wire Report

In a recent letter to the Federal Court of Appeal, the government outlined its intention to “eliminate the base contribution requirement on streaming services and to provide government funding to repl...

thewirereport.ca

This is good op-ed from Canada's former Deputy PM, Crysta Freeland. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o...

Opinion | ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’ (Gift Article)

Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?

nytimes.com

A version of Australia’s eSafety Commissioner could be a better way to tackle the online harm experienced by under-16s – and New Zealanders of all ages.

The jury’s out on social media bans. Here’s a better idea NZ can borrow from Australia

theconversation.com

Want to know who the top 10, 20, 50 or more biggest media, communications and internet companies are in the world, the U.S., China or any of the 36 countries covered by the Global Media & Internet Concentration Project (GMICP)? Check out the GMICP's new data dashboard --> gmicp.org/dashboard/

Youth "deserve our full support & imagination. What they have received instead is a moral panic about social media, one that steers the conversation away from the structural failures of housing, climate, economic inequality, & democratic exclusion, & onto the devices in young people's hands."

Silencing a Generation: Youth power, the Milk Tea Alliance and the rise of age-gating laws in Asia-Pacific | Manushya Foundation

manushyafoundation.org

The case for why Paramount's bid to takeover Warner Bros Discovery is a bad deal and against the law. Data from our @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca supported Global Media and Internet Concentration Project gets a camro or two in this briefing (if it's similar to other versions I've seen).

more tacos, please@tvbookstvbooks.bsky.social · 3w ago

Media scholars from around the country (myself included) have worked with MACRO Lab on an extensive new report: "The Costs of Consolidation: Arguments and Evidence for Blocking the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger.” macrolab.ucsd.edu/paramount-warner-merger

Open-weight models are not open source. Much about them is never disclosed. Canada’s consultation on AI transparency will look at many issues, including how much model makers should have to disclose. robertdiab.ca/posts/ai-tra...

Nice, and way to go @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social in pushing back hard against Trump's speech/press freedom chilling suit.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · last wk.

BREAKING: Trump's trust is ordered to turn over financial documents "from the date of January 1, 2023, to the present" responsive to a subpoena issued in Trump's defamation case against the BBC. The first production is due in 10 days.

Thinking about this again, I see people every day saying something like "Canada needs to" followed by ideas of collective action, bolstering social safety nets, and preparing for a rocky independence. Actions that are in reality opposite of what the gov is doing. Good ideas are out there.

Blayne Haggart@bhaggart.bsky.social · 2w ago

New from me, in which I invite the federal government and others to abandon the belief that the way to deal with a bad-faith partner who ripped up your trade agreement is another, better trade agreement. Canada needs a reality-based strategy. And a Royal Commission is the best way to develop it.

#BrockU Political Science Professor @bhaggart.bsky.social spoke with @cdnpress.bsky.social about the public’s opposition of data centres and people’s view of #AI as disruptive technology. #CdnPoli www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/science/oppo...

Opposition brewing as data centre capacity is set to explode across Canada

OTTAWA - Across Canada, plans are underway for a massive boom in construction of the huge new data centres needed for artificial intelligence technology.

thecanadianpressnews.ca

The Trump administration tried to use visa denials and deportation to silence researchers who study social media. A court just said no. Sunday Tagliasacchi and Elisabeth Snyder, former legal externs at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, break down the CITR v. Rubio ruling.

Trump Cannot Use Immigration Law to Silence Technology Researchers

Sunday Tagliasacchi and Elisabeth Snyder detail an initial court victory for the Coalition for Independent Technology Research in CITR v. Rubio.

techpolicy.press

The case for why Paramount's bid to takeover Warner Bros Discovery is a bad deal and against the law. Data from our @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca supported Global Media and Internet Concentration Project gets a camro or two in this briefing (if it's similar to other versions I've seen).

more tacos, please@tvbookstvbooks.bsky.social · 3w ago

Media scholars from around the country (myself included) have worked with MACRO Lab on an extensive new report: "The Costs of Consolidation: Arguments and Evidence for Blocking the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger.” macrolab.ucsd.edu/paramount-warner-merger

The reckoning for these thieves is going to have to be thorough and brutal. We tried the "back to normal" approach with Biden and we ended up with a wholesale Republican attack on the country www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump administration admits pulling grants from states that didn’t vote Republican

The Trump administration previously claimed the funding cuts were meant to stop wasteful spending and were not influenced by politics

independent.co.uk

RE the MAHA/public health discourse. MAHA is clearly tapping into something on the part some members of the public that the medical system isn't satisfying. The problem is that MAHA -and the administration - are offering it in bad faith. From me last year: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...

Opinion | Holy Water Couldn’t Save My Husband. MAHA Wouldn’t Have, Either. (Published 2025)

I believe in medical science, but when my husband had cancer, I found myself trying to cure him with holy water and MAHA-like remedies.

nytimes.com

Why is radio still popular in Africa (elsewhere, too). It's cheap, has star personalities znd doesn't chew up data plans,.... Telecoms is typically neglected in communication & media studies. It shouldn't be.

The Economist@economist.com · 2w ago

Rather than hurt African radio, the internet may be helping its stars. Big-name presenters have become social-media celebrities