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🥳 We’re sending major congratulations to Ideas on Fire author Iván Chaar López! Iván’s book The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion is out now from Duke University Press.

https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-cybernetic-border

#LSA2024 #LatinxStudiesAssociation #LatinAmericanStudies #ChicanxStudies #HistoryOfTechnology #MediaStudies #LatinxMediaStudies #TechnologyStudies #IoFAuthors #DukeUP #ReadUP #NewBookAlert

Cover of The Cybernetic Border, with drone footage of the US-Mexico border arranged in a checkerboard pattern

#AcademicJob / #PhDStudentship

Two Interdisciplinary PhD positions @ Young Academy Groningen 2024 for the project "Academia in a bind: Data surveillance practices in scholarly publishing."

Deadline: 20/03/2024

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/192803

CC @academicchatter

#LibraryScience #InformationManagement #PoliticalEconomy #CriticalBusinessStudies #PoliticalTheory #Publishing #MediaIndustries #DataScience #MediaManagement #ScienceStudies #TechnologyStudies #ethics #Anthropology #DigitalHumanities

Join us in celebrating #IoFAuthor Raven Simone Maragh-Lloyd! Raven’s book Black Networked Resistance: Strategic Rearticulations in the Digital Age is available from #UCPress. It would make a great addition to reading lists in #BlackStudies #MediaStudies and #TechnologyStudies.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520390034/black-networked-resistance?utm_content=bufferb5b07&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

#NewBookAlert #AfricanAmericanStudies #DigitalStudies #BlackHistory #AmReading #CiteBlackWomen #ReadUP

🎬 Join us for the final online talk that the #technologystudies group at the University of St. Gallen is hosting!

☑️ @francislee will be presenting on absences and their politics
☑️ Friday 12 January 2024 at 14:15 CET
☑️ more information & link: https://rb.gy/ukmm7s
☑️ organized by #AnnaMann as part of her research project on “(Im-)Possibilities of Letting Life End”

#STS #absences #exclusion #Zika #politicsoftechnology

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Recommended reading:

Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents

A brilliant synthesis in which Rogers Brubaker charts the social consequences of a world in which everyone and everything are connected to everyone and everything else, everywhere and all the time.

Tailor-made for teaching!

#Commodon #MediaStudies #STS #Sociology #Digitalization #Technology #TechnologyStudies #SocialMedia

The cover of Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents

Check out this *free* conference on "Everyday Life in Digitalized Worlds"

When: October 25-27, 2023

Where: Oslo, Norway

Registration deadline: August 15

#STS #Anthropology #Commodon #Digitalization #TechnologyStudies #MediaStudies

Fun fact: nuclear tests were a tourist attraction in 1950s Vegas

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/atomic-tourism-nevada/ #Oppenheimer #histodons #sts #history #Nuclearweapons #vegas #histtech #TechnologyStudies

A group of people watching a nuclear blast from a distance

🥕 New publication “At first, I was only a subscriber”: re-mediating food citizens’ #Solidarity practices through digital technologies with #AlineStehrenberger #TechnologyStudies #UniversityofStGallen
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/yc6xcebr
#Sustainable #FoodSystems #DigitalFoodStudies

@markigra More disciplines currently supported by the Find Academics on Mastodon (https://find.sciences.social/) tool.

#Philosophers and #PhilosophyTeachers
#PoliticalScientists
#Psychology
#PublicPolicy
#Science and #TechnologyStudies ( #STS )
#SemanticWeb
#Sociology

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#twittermigration #academics

Join us for an online lecture series on '#assetization in practice' at #TechnologyStudies team based at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences supported by the Swiss Association for the Study of Science, Technology & Society. The series focuses on the variety of practices involved in assetizing #food and #music. No prior registration required.