Bay Area friends: I'm very excited to announce the Tech, Culture, and Power Speaker Series. We have an amazing list of speakers, and we start this Thursday at 4pm with Mara Mills. RSVP and info here, come join us! https://pacscenter.stanford.edu/event/technology-culture-and-power-speaker-series/

@msbernst @jugander

This is the kind of reporting that makes me very happy to financially support ProPublica. Behind the scenes at UnitedHealthcare's coverage denials. https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-insurance-denial-ulcerative-colitis

🚨 Dream job alert 🚨

Lee Rainie is retiring from the Pew Research Center, so they are looking to hire a new Research Director of Internet and Technology. https://pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CenterExternal/job/Washington-DC-Pew-Research-Center/Research-Director--Internet-and-Technology_R002016

“Main character energy” is such a great expression now I can’t unsee it

I struggled with this a lot, and this is why I’m sharing my feelings. There’s nothing wrong with writing a pop culture book on tech or business management, or an academic book; it’s just sad that those of us who don’t want to are pressured out of the boys club and redirected to the more “acceptable” outlets. /end

Seriously, CHI reviewers are asking someone (not me) to quantify prevalence in ethnographic fieldwork and bashing abductive analysis as non scientific? Back to the 70s I see. I'm kind of furious on behalf of this young scholar with an AMAZING project 😤

@JanetRoitman @keanbirch @fabiomattioli @fcooi @Angelec @jamesmeese @ludens @lydianobbs @gleemie @adms

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@emilymbender and @mmitchell_ai your event this afternoon is SOLD OUT online, and 200 in-person tickets + DONUTS were also SOLD OUT by 7:30, but we have CUPCAKES, stickers, and KitKats, and Cemex has room for more students, drop me a line if you want to come in person!

I gave a talk at the University of Washington iSchool earlier this week and a couple of folks asked for copies of my slides.

I've given versions of this talk MANY times, but it has a new title! "Remember the human" is one of the first rules of netiquette (also reddiquette) but is also how I've come to think about internet research ethics. https://drive.google.com/file/d/13R2xVhaeJY2Bcn5SFPVrSbeVUohEfK65/view

my favorite account by far on this site has got to be @pomological. a reliable, true delight to encounter on the timeline every single day

Preparing to teach ethnographic methods again! Do people have recs for papers/chapters on digital, virtual, or hybrid ethnography?

Quelques mots à propos de « Aramis, ou l’amour des techniques », ce livre que Bruno Latour chérissait tant.

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/superfail/aramis-un-hommage-de-superfail-a-bruno-latour-5792707

@jboy Oh I love that it was written by Christine Smallwood, whose book "The Life of the Mind" is one of my faves!!!

@henrikornebring yes that one was just the best, also planning to use it one day!!!

Ok I have to share another email that made me laugh so hard: "Hi there! I will be away XXX. All email received during this period will be deleted <gasp> unless it is marked 'URGENT'..." EXCELLENT ENERGY, I FULLY SUPPORT

Just received an email saying "I’m afraid my day has collapsed and I will need to reschedule..." and I think this is the best formulation ever, I'm planning to use it in the near future

Guess I'm here too 🙂