Just published in "Information, Communication & Society" about how hate sites stay online when they get kicked off the internet. If you've ever heard of Kiwi Farms before, it'll be an interesting read, and if you have not, I'm jealous. Grab a free copy here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6G987...

Replatformization and the expansion of the alt-tech ecosystem on kiwi farms

This paper develops ‘replatformization’ to evaluate the re-constitutive practices of alternative platforms. Alt-tech platforms that cater to ‘deplatformed’ reactionary users characterize themselves...

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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero weren't murdered because of car pursuits. They were murdered because the men driving those cars felt comfortable recklessly killing. None of this ends until we shut down ICE completely.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 3w ago

BREAKING: ICE orders officers to stop pursuing people in vehicles after fatal shootings in Maine and Texas, according to a current senior DHS official and two former senior DHS officials.

La semana pasada salí en las noticias RTVE para hablar de la situación de estadounidenses trans... dime que opinas! Last week, I was in the national news of Spain to talk about the situation trans folks in the USA are facing... let me know what you think! www.instagram.com/reels/DaJGc2...

RTVE Noticias on Instagram: "🔸En Estados Unidos muchos miembros del colectivo trans deciden irse de su país y venir a España ante el acoso de la administración Trump que les está quitando parte de los...

1,131 likes, 114 comments - rtvenoticias on June 28, 2026: "🔸En Estados Unidos muchos miembros del colectivo trans deciden irse de su país y venir a España ante el acoso de la administración Trump que...

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CITR just submitted a request to intervene on behalf of technology researchers in the X v. European Commission case to explain the importance of the DSA’s data access rules to the CJEU. (⅓) independenttechresearch.org/citr-members...

New from me: We need to update our priors and start thinking about the problem of online political violence as it is, not as it once was. So I am nailing this to the wall: 14 Theses Concerning Online Political Violence medium.com/the-berger-d...

14 Theses on Online Political Violence

The old world of content safety practices is dead, and the new one is struggling to be born.

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The Alt-Right is dead, but its horrible agenda for public life never died. Read all about it in The Reactionary Web, now available for preorder! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-reaction...

The Right doesn't seem to agree on whether starting a war in Iran which guts the global economy is, uh, good or bad. Spoiler alert: We do not, in fact, have to hand it to the ones who think it's bad. Listen to @rstromolsen.bsky.social and I break it down! rolfstromolsen.substack.com/p/ep-08-the-...

Ep. 08 The Right Wing Case For – and Against –the Iran War

While Our Students Are Sleeping: a Podcast about Theory and Politics

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Check out my review of Calum Matheson's "Post-Weird: Fragmentation, Community, and the Decline of the Mainstream," an excellent book of psychoanalytic rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and overall anti-rhetorical weirdness if I do say so myself! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Post-Weird: Fragmentation, Community, and the Decline of the Mainstream

Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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New article dropped! In Critical Studies in Media Communication, I write about how trans people have made 4chan their own and how queer media scholars should deal with online queer subcultures when they fail to show up as icons of progress. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What does anon want of me? De-idealizing transgender digital media on 4chan’s /lgbt/ imageboard

Popular narratives centered on online trans communities implicitly associate transgender digital networks with forwardness and social radicalism. This association has become idealized, or taken as ...

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@reedvanschenck.bsky.social and I popped another red pill and suffered mild neurological damage by reading more Curtis Yarvin. This time, we look at his views on climate change, Keynesianism, and race - and how they are surfacing as policy. rolfstromolsen.substack.com/p/ep-06-curt...

Ep. 06 Curtis Yarvin Knows a Thing or Two about Race (among other things)

While Our Students Are Sleeping: a Podcast about Theory and Politics

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Rolf and I are on a roll! Everything you never wanted to know about Curtis Yarvin, the cartoonishly-evil thinker behind the tech right with even more cartoonish ideas about U.S. history.

Rolf Strom-Olsen@rstromolsen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Did you know the American Revolution was a bad thing, or that the US Civil War was about distinct but legitimate moral orders? @reedvanschenck.bsky.social and I explore Curtis Yarvin’s take on history. Also: Cyndi Lauper makes a surprise appearance. rolfstromolsen.substack.com/p/ep-05-curt...

Reed @reedvanschenck.bsky.social and I have been reading Curtis Yarvin for our podcast so you don't have to. The first part looks at all the reasons why you should be thankful for that. rolfstromolsen.substack.com/p/ep-04-curt...

Ep. 04 Curtis Yarvin Takes a Red Pill

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"Who's city is it Chief? Bovino: "It's our fucking city." And that, in a nutshell, is the problem. It is not a democracy when men with guns and uniforms believe they have more control over a city than its residents.

Adam Parkhomenko@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Seems like a good video for his trial

I'm very proud to announce that "Digital Platforms and Agency" is live! Check out the special section published by Lateral, the journal of the Cultural Studies Association. My colleague Elaine and I worked very hard to curate this selection of essays. csalateral.org/archive/sect...

Digital Platforms and Agency - Lateral

Edited by Reed Van Schenck and Elaine Venter New platforms always invite new subversions of human agency, from Facebook spying on us to AI taking our jobs. This special section invited scholars in med...

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Grab your free copy of "Gamer Publics," one of my recent publications about live-streamed debate and argument among gamers. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QSI6X...

Gamer publics: live-stream debate networks and the mediation of argument in the digital attention economy

This paper evaluates how live-streaming content creators use debate to hail their audience into “gamer publics,” deliberative spheres shaped by the practices of gaming culture. In the wake of react...

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Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7mo ago

DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome." @pcgamer.com #CES www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...

Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business

Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business

Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.

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I'm going live at the top of the hour to discuss queer critical challenges to/through AI on Breaking Culture! Join us www.youtube.com/@BreakingCul.... Or if you want to join the Zoom to ask a question, DM me.

Breaking Culture Live

Breaking Culture Live is hosted by Sean Johnson Andrews. Each week we talk to a cultural studies scholar about the breaking news and their latest work in the field. We especially draw upon activists, ...

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In our latest podcast episode, @reedvanschenck.bsky.social and I look at Shmitt's "The Concept of the Political" and explore how his idea of the Friend/Enemy dynamic is increasingly relevant to the volatile polarization in our modern democracies. rolfstromolsen.substack.com/p/179403645?

Carl Schmitt's Concept of the Political

While Our Students Are Sleeping: a Podcast about Theory and Politics

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It's finally live! Listen to "While Our Students Are Sleeping." Join me and Rolf as we dissect political theory for our students. Our first few episodes are about Carl Schmitt, trad-cath Nazi jurist. All relation to current events is strictly non-coincidential. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

In IE Insights today, I write that Europe needs to de-risk from the U.S. or face a major, digitally-mediated identity crisis. www.ie.edu/insights/art...

Europe Must Confront Donald Trump – or Lose Its Identity | IE Insights

Europe faces growing pressure from U.S. tech and politics, but its strength lies in upholding democratic values through rights-based regulation and autonomy, writes Reed Van Schenck.

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New article just dropped! "Christian Nationalism as Media" explores how the political identity of Christian Nationalism retrieves racist and sexist ideas of the human through its obsession with owning and controlling the media. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

Just pasted the whole book in 1 word doc. I only have to trim a minimum of 800 words! I'd like to thank my 10th grade English teacher.

They are priming themselves to lead MAGA after Trump, a kind of fascist theocracy.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 11mo ago

"We're going to go after the NGO Networks" JD Vance and Stephen Miller openly outline how they are going to crackdown on civil society and use the government to crush political opposition.

Pretty crazy how "America is a legit, no bullshit fascist country" is now a NYT headline.

White House Plans Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups

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In 2019 Nick Fuentes' neo-Nazi "Groypers" engaged in a systematic campaign to harass Charlie Kirk at his events for not being racist enough. He responded by becoming more racist. www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-gr...

How the Groypers Won

In the clash between Charlie Kirk and Nick Fuentes, the Pepe people prevailed.

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Check out this resource library NCA has launched! "Addressing Authoritarianism" is a resource to enable successful pedagogical, research, creative, and administrative interventions into authoritarianism and fascism. www.natcom.org/addressing-a...

Addressing Authoritarianism: A Resource Library - National Communication Association

Addressing Authoritarianism: A Resource Library This resource library has been compiled by NCA members and others to provide public resources to teach, think, and write about the current rise of autho...

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Check out my review of @transform6789.bsky.social's fascinating and all-too-timely book Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason's Siege. And if that doesn't sound like too much nausea for a summer, read the book!!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"This silence has made a mockery of the slogan 'Never again,' transforming its meaning from an assertion of resistance to inhumanity wherever it is perpetrated to an excuse, an apology, indeed, even a carte blanche for destroying others by invoking one’s own past victimhood."

@omerbartov.bsky.social · last yr.

My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Wow @reedvanschenck.bsky.social absolutely killing it on the top papers of ethnicity race & comm panel w their paper on white supremacists, Telegram, and interfaces