Any friends putting together panels for @AoIR 2025 and need an extra person?

I might be biased though. Nick Taylor was my teacher in grad school and his approach to graduate student mentorship is still one that I aspire to every day. I think his deep, earnest, and empathic engagement comes through in the book and will make a similar impact on readers.

Excited to teach Nick Taylor’s The Grounds of Gaming this spring. The book is amazing - highlighting how spaces of play and material infrastructures shape gaming, exclude others, and reify patriarchy, colonialism, capitalism, and White supremacy. Get a copy now! #videogames #gamestudies

Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website https://tcrn.ch/4jMOfdi

I feel like this is the archetype and pinnacle of experiences we all have every so often with digital files. I cringe while reading and feel this man's pain, like a familiar old wound is stinging. https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-landfill-excavation-james-howells-judge-ruling/

@AoIR That's great news. Thanks for the reply and excited to see what the committee has come up with.

@violetblue The announcements out of Meta this week have been unhinged 😱 🤮

"For those of us observing this spectacle in a sort-of state of self-aware, displaced horror reserved for those moments when life and sci-fi dystopia cross shadows, it has never been more clear that Facebook's ideas about organizing society are wholly broken." Me, 2014: https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-unethical-untrustworthy-and-now-downright-harmful/

Has @AoIR released any updates on the policy for adopting official policies? I haven't seen anything since we were all requested to leave feedback on the draft document and am wondering when the next version might be announced and/or be put into effect.

@taylorlorenz The good news from Meta just keeps rolling in. Now users can say LGBTQ+ identity is a "mental illness" on the platform again. https://www.wired.com/story/meta-immigration-gender-policies-change/

New year, same old Meta. Great article from @taylorlorenz. Always ambivalent about seeing the research from by book The Digital Closet (bit.ly/digitalcloset) continue to hold true. #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #censorship #queerbooks https://www.usermag.co/p/instagram-blocked-teens-from-searching

@michael Thanks, Michael. I passed this along.

@laurawatts Thanks Laura. I sent her a link to Goldsmiths' MA in Gender, Media & Culture that I think a lot of folks from the Centre for Feminist Research teach in. I was bummed to realize the Queer History MA had been axed though - I hadn't heard much of the news out of Goldsmiths before then and am only getting up to speed now.

I have a student that wants to do an MA in Women's and Gender Studies in either Ireland or the UK. Anyone have recommendations for MA programs to look into?

Just got done listening to @alexmonea give a book talk about The Digital Closet. It's a deep critique of the underlying technologies of content moderation used by #Google and #Meta. Such important work!

the book is free to read, too!

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545952/the-digital-closet/

@aram Plz tell me this means I can describe you as "Aram Sinnreich, a face-sitting scholar" whenever I cite you in my future writing?

@crystaljjlee Thanks, Crystal! We actually left one of my panelists' in the room after our panel and nobody has turned it in to lost and found so I'm trying to replace it for her.

Has anyone found a place near the conference to buy a USB C to HDMI dongle? #AoIR2024

Friday at 9am: In “Cultivating Brave Spaces: Alternative Approaches To Sexual Content Moderation” Zahra Stardust examines how new and emerging indie platforms moderate sexual content and the difficulty of maintaining an alternative, sex positive, business model in our political economy. #AoIR2024

Friday at 9am: In “Moderate, Manage, Market: Content Moderation As Worker Management On Adult Labour Platforms” @hanne and Rébecca Franco examine erotic webcam streamers and document the ways in which webcam platform policies work to discipline the labor of erotic webcam streamers. #AoIR2024