Aarushi Bhandari
@sushiaarushi.bsky.social
Asst. Professor of Sociology at Davidson College. Pop culture enthusiast. 🍉 Author of Attention and Alienation: The International Political Economy of ICTs - Columbia UP, Honorable Mention, Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award, ASA Marxist Section.
So honored! Thanks for the shoutout! 😊
Columbia University Press@columbiaup.bsky.social · 2w agoWe are pleased to announce that Aarushi Bhandari's ATTENTION AND ALIENATION is the Honorable Mention for the 2026 Paul Sweezy Sociology Book Award from the Marxist Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. buff.ly/K67tzYu #Attention #Technology #ReadUP @sushiaarushi.bsky.social
Our resolution not only passed today, it was actually was voted as one of the top three to head to the floor here at the AFT Convention! More details soon, but for now we're going to celebrate! @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org @mtmiller.bsky.social @bletiecq.bsky.social
So thrilled to receive honorable mention from ASA’s Marxist section for my book!!! “Through novel applications of Marxist theory to understand the contemporary internet and today’s mass data regimes, Bhandari illuminates the capitalist heart of today’s techno-plutocracy.
Wondering why dating apps suck and what dystopian future lies ahead for romance with AI in the mix? Check out our latest podcast ep where we mix sociological analyses (me) with real world experience with online dating (my friends). If you enjoy it please follow us! open.spotify.com/episode/3usb...
I'm too sleepy! Dating in your thirties
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I know there is like nobody on this app but ftr being a Nepali in the US feels like mild schizophrenia. Separate group chats blowing up over Nepali revolution 2.0 and Charlie Kirk. The human mind is not designed to respond to so many group chats about separate world historical events simultaneously.
Nepali millennials living through: revolution at 15, fascism at 25, pandemic at 30, genocide at 33, more extreme fascism at 34, a second revolution at 35. Therapy will never be enough, we need utopia.
I am looking for outlets to write about the Nepal protests, please send any leads my way.
Now available! A bold and incisive critical analysis, ATTENTION AND ALIENATION considers how to reclaim the potential of the internet and design new systems that prioritize collective well-being. buff.ly/l0Jo65N #SocialMedia #AttentionEconomy #Nepal #Marx
Tomorrow, I turn 35. I have spent 34 years — in my academic work and my personal goals — dedicated to unlocking the keys to collective flourishing. Want to know only two things I have found to be True? 1. Noone has “the” answer. 2. Flourshing and capitalism cannot coexist.
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NC professor explores how to make internet a more caring place
The internet can be a lonely and mentally harmful place, but one North Carolina professor is imagining how to change that.In her new book,
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Is there hope for the internet? ASA member Aarushi Bhandari @sushiaarushi.bsky.social @davidsoncollege.bsky.social questions whether compassion, cooperation, and collective flourishing are still possible.
Is there any hope for the internet?
The author of the new book ‘Attention and Alienation’ wonders if the online world can ever become a place where kindness and human flourishing are the prevailing ethos.
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The ability to meet and interact with others online as fully realized, three-dimensional human beings would go a long way toward creating a more empathetic, cooperative internet, according to sociologist @sushiaarushi.bsky.social
Is there any hope for the internet?
The author of the new book ‘Attention and Alienation’ wonders if the online world can ever become a place where kindness and human flourishing are the prevailing ethos.
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Zohran Mamdani won in a rare W for us utopians. Maybe the only day of I told you so in our life times, but we got one and we better parade it fast.
Having an out of body experience seeing my book at the local bookstore. And they wrote a little blurb for it! 🥹
I appeared on The Colin McEnroe show to discuss the political economy of meme culture vis-a-vis Handbag dupes. For more great takes on trauma, rage, class consciousness and collective behavior, you can read by book Attention and Alienation! :) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
From totes to Birkins, handbags hold the keys to the world (along with your wallet and phone)
Podcast Episode · The Colin McEnroe Show · 06/04/2025 · 49m
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Feeling sad about Twitter takeover. My book would have generated much buzz there; here on Bluesky, I am talking to myself. Academic Twitter used to be funny, quirky and relatable while boosting visibility for us junior scholars. It should have been a public good. Damn you, Telecom Act of 1996. 😭
🚨‼️🔔 Just received this @columbiaup.bsky.social my book is now a REAL! I can’t believe I did it — a daughter of child brides from Nepal. Breaking generational constraints, I share all my wisdom with the annals of history. I hope it’s moving and healing. 💕 Preorder cup.columbia.edu/book/attenti...
ASA members in the news are exploring subjects ranging from attacks on higher ed to grandparenting to Birkin bags.
The Society Pages@thesocietypages.bsky.social · last yr.How are elite handbags, DIY lawyering, & dishwasher debates all sociological? From the Walmart “Birkin” to grandparents parenting, Sociologists in the news weigh in: @musaalgharbi.bsky.social, @sushiaarushi.bsky.social, Michelle Janning, Madonna Harrington Meyer, & more! 🔗 bit.ly/4iokhdJ 🔗
Really amazing slide from students in my Sociology of the Good Place class.
How are elite handbags, DIY lawyering, & dishwasher debates all sociological? From the Walmart “Birkin” to grandparents parenting, Sociologists in the news weigh in: @musaalgharbi.bsky.social, @sushiaarushi.bsky.social, Michelle Janning, Madonna Harrington Meyer, & more! 🔗 bit.ly/4iokhdJ 🔗
Good morning academic and sociology friends. My first book Attention and Alienation is coming out on July 1 with @columbiaup.bsky.social. I am looking for speaking opportunities for Fall 2025, and would really appreciate a wide share. Please DM me if you are interested!
I am really thrilled, humbled and awed to share that I have received an NSF: CAREER award for my Sociology project synthesizing social psychology and political economy around digital mindfulness apps. This work feels like my life’s purpose, and I am so grateful to have the support to complete it.
Never thought I would say these next words but I wish I had seen the Oscars last night. From the standing ovation to the acceptance speeches, I have chills. 😭 youtu.be/3gzo7PiFiaM?...
'No Other Land' Wins Best Documentary Feature Film | 97th Oscars Speech (2025)
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The library representative helping my advanced quant class with lit reviews just said “JSTOR is the TJMaxx of academic research.” Genius framing.
*into the void once agian* free to use means you are the product. This app will almost certainly teach you anxiety it’s not even a joke. 💯
Daniel Benneworth-Gray@danielgray.com · last yr.oh cool I’ve been meaning to learn anxiety
🙋🏽♀️ Attention and Alienation provides a blueprint for utopian visions of digital technologies.
Søren Mau@sorenmau.bsky.social · last yr.who has written something good about the potential uses of digital technologies in a post-capitalist world, from a perspective that is critical of FALC/accelerationism-style tech-optimism yet also does not reject that digital technologies might come in handy under communism?
