We are at an inflection point with AI & moving from technopanics, to the urgency of being “AI-ready,” to an emerging acceptance of AI as ambient & inevitable. And yet, alongside this inevitability, I find myself noticing a parallel movement, quieter & persistent open.substack.com/pub/rabaniga...

We Are Going to Want to Be in the Same Room

On AI, inevitability, and the quiet return to shared, human spaces

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Congrats to our guest editors @karismjones.bsky.social, @sarahejerasa.bsky.social, @rabani.bsky.social and contributor @mraleosays.bsky.social for receiving the National Technology Leadership Initiative Fellowship for their project "Digital Texts and How to Teach Them: #HackYourStack Initiative."

Check out our guest editors’ @karismjones.bsky.social, @sarahejerasa.bsky.social, and @rabani.bsky.social editorial introduction to our new special issue series, outlining “The Complexities of Teaching with Digital Texts for ELA Teachers and Teacher Educators”!

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

Howard University AI Panel

YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley

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If you are at #NCTE2025, come join us to talk about Digital Texts and How to Teach Them. And scan QR to join our crowdsourced collection of mentor texts, tools, resources, & academic research on digital media @karismjones.bsky.social @sarahejerasa.bsky.social @mraleosays.bsky.social

THAT’S right!! @rabani.bsky.social and @karismjones.bsky.social and I are pumped our special issue will be coming out @cite-ela.bsky.social very soon!! #literacies

I have been thinking about this a lot recently— wondering if folks would be interested in collaborating on #literacies public scholarship. Building things together?

AERA Writing & Literacies SIG@writinglit.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Q4: A community now is more important than ever. What ideas do you have for ways we can support and build the #literacies community through this chat?

To be able situate myself and my work in the #literacies lineage has been coolest relational reveal”

AERA Writing & Literacies SIG@writinglit.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Q4: A community now is more important than ever. What ideas do you have for ways we can support and build the #literacies community through this chat?

A New Substack: My New Substack, "The Messy Middle: Research, Feminists, & the Everyday", and a post. “An instinctive serendipitous selection of words that became the lens I started to see myself with…” open.substack.com/pub/rabaniga...

Feminist Understandings

A Note (2021) & an Addendum (2025)

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If you are a researcher or a designer working with AI and not talking to the young people around you, you are missing out on a whole slice of understanding of actual environment of use!

People engage/ w screens regularly in their everyday lives-recording & sharing is routine practice. @amystorn.bsky.social & I offer 3 approaches to researchers to study ways people work with/across screens. bit.ly/3ZdTEBH - Message if you are unable to access this #digitalmethods #educationresearch

Live from NASA GISS, kicking-off the Weather and Climate 100-hour livestream Beginning Weds May 28, at 1 p.m. ET, the “Weather and Climate Livestream” will span five days, ending on Sunday, June 1, at 5:30 p.m. ET. www.youtube.com/@wclivestrea...

Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · last yr.

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

With @writinglit.bsky.social this Sunday, April 27. A symposium on AI and youth writing. "Tinkering with/ Tripping it up: Youth Shift, Interrupt, and Challenge Conceptualizations Around their AI Use." Curious to learn more? click the link below. 👉 bit.ly/449Gwkd @aeraedresearch.bsky.social

Coming on April 27th. Symposium: Cross-Platformization, Digital Media Platforms As Global Ecosystems, and the Shifting Understandings of Critical Platform Practices with @mclsig.bsky.social See details of the panelists here: bit.ly/449Gwkd @aeraedresearch.bsky.social

Excited to be at @aeraedresearch.bsky.social I'll be sharing work from my dissertation on hip hop collectives in Delhi & social media research & our team research on Writing with AI & youth writing, in collaboration with @amystorn.bsky.social & in conversation with phenomenal scholars bit.ly/449Gwkd

Friends in Detroit stop by tomorrow -- super excited to be on this panel of Asian hip hop ethnographers talking method, place, and sound across disciplines. The panel is also hybrid. aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/soli...

Delusional is the cool kid in town ;) We all seem to want to be best friends with this one!!

ChatGPT just gained 200 million users in the last two months. "By November 2023, ChatGPT had reached another milestone of 100 million weekly active users, which grew to 300 million by December 2024, then 400 million in February 2025." techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/c...

ChatGPT doubled its weekly active users in under 6 months, thanks to new releases | TechCrunch

OpenAI's flagship AI chatbot, ChatGPT, returned to solid growth in the latter half of 2024, according to a new report published on Thursday by VC firm

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When I started at D&S last Sept I didn't even know what genAI red-teaming was (events where users systematically prompt LLMs to reveal bias, inaccuracy etc). This report covers the history of red-teaming, various ways the public is involved, and how to improve it. Huge kudos to the team!

Data & Society@datasociety.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 New! In this report, we examine how red-teaming methods are being adapted to evaluate generative AI, and offer a vision for red-teaming in the public interest. 1/4 datasociety.net/library/red-...

The first big shift might have been to bring most Indians online, and that is in itself an important goal. But the devices they use to get online do matter too because they affect what we're able to do with the internet, and that could be the next big shift. www.dataforindia.com/email/62354e...

Going online

In India's internet story, one big shift is already well known - over the last decade, India has gone from having fewer than 100 million internet subscriptions to having over 900 million internet subs...

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I just emailed a student about pedagogical zines and shared these from Shirin Vossoughi and colleagues. The zines are "Designed by and for educators working to sustain the dignity, imagination and collective well-being of children, youth, and families..." Posting this beautiful collection here too:

zines — Blue Dandelion

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Our write4change community has truly grown into an incredible intergenerational community of researchers! We are coming out with some incredible digital writing and play literacies research!

Clara Abbott@clarabbott.bsky.social · last yr.

Yesterday I got to talk zines, writing with AI, and creating brave spaces for youth writing and artwork at the Penn Ethnography Forum with @amystorn.bsky.social @rabani.bsky.social, and the rest of our fab intergenerational research team. Still smiling!

🤖NEW BLOG🤖 The rise of metrics-based school discipline: How ClassDojo is changing discipline practices in schools by @jamiemanolev.bsky.social, Anna Sullivan, & Neil Tippett: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/the-ris... The blog previews their new article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The rise of metrics-based school discipline: How ClassDojo is changing discipline practices in schools — Civics of Technology

Civics of Tech Announcements Book Club on Feb 18th: Allie Thrall will be leading a discussion of The Propagandists' Playbook . Register to attend on the events page . Next Te...

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Chai and मोर There I said it! I had been been dying to say this all day long!

CARGC is pleased to announce Gholam Khiabany (Goldsmiths, University of London), Anis Rahman (University of Washington), and Anastasia Kavada (University of Westminster) will join the center as visiting scholars this spring. Read more about their research at www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/....

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Welcomes Three Visiting Scholars for Spring 2025

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We are building something cool! Take a look!

Trevor Aleo@mraleosays.bsky.social · 2y ago

Still a WIP but I’ve been working with @karismjones.bsky.social, @rabani.bsky.social, @carolinebr.bsky.social, @deewellington1.bsky.social, Sarah Jerasa & some other folks on a repository of digital mentor texts/practices. Here’s mine on VE. reminiscent-attention-b9e.notion.site/Video-Essays...

if AI is coming for all of our jobs, can it first fix my printer so that I can print out a return label on the first goddamn try

1/n For the last 2 decades+, I’ve been surrounded by entrepreneurs. Early/late/in-between. Almost all of them will say: 1. It was/is lonely journey 2. Money is not/ cannot be the reason instead have a larger purpose 3. Learning to self-mange the biggest skill learnt. —similar to a PHD’s journey

Cityscapes

MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here: archive.org/details/mit_...