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Episode 82 is up. It features an interview with Dr Rianna Walcott of University of Maryland and BCaT Lab about her PhD thesis on Black Twitter, plus discussion of identity online and off, Black feminist theory and its influence and lots more... spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/8jHX15k0k1b
Episode 82 is coming soon and it's an interview with Rianna Walcott of BCAT www.bcatlab.org about Black Twitter, language, community & identity online and lots more.
Fighting for my life sounding out the IPA
Twice in a week, infiltration of the field is going pretty well I think
bsky.app/profile/chri...
If you would like to hear me impersonating a sociolinguist look no further 🫶🏾👇🏾
Thank you so much!!
Super happy to see our paper (w/ @riannawalcott.bsky.social) in Journal of Sociolinguistics: "‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’ 🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🚨🚨🚨bashment horns🚨🚨🚨
unboxing Public Data Cultures book
Copies of the book on a train in Totoro bag.
Front and back cover of Public Data Cultures with quotes and book blurb.
Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p...
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜
White men starting to approach with interest, time to say farewell to these braids 😪
Frank Ocean and hotdog water are the same name if you really think about it
Huge pleasure to meet members of the DISCO network (Aaron, Jeff, Kevin and Rianna) in London last night to celebrate their really important book Technoskepticism!!!
✨ book launch ✨ – join us to celebrate "Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal" by @disconetwork.bsky.social on 21st May, 5:30pm 🎊📖
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/techn...
with @riannawalcott.bsky.social @drdavidadelman.bsky.social @lnakamura.bsky.social
@lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social & more
📚 Join us at King’s College London on 21 May for the launch of Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal, a book by @disconetwork.bsky.social exploring the possibilities that technoskepticism can create.
📍 Strand Campus and online, 17:30
🔗 Sign up: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/techn...
Promotional image for a book launch for Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal. On the left, the book cover features a pale blue background with abstract dark shapes at the bottom. To the right, the words "BOOK LAUNCH" stand prominently in large, blue capital letters above details for the event.
UPCOMING: A panel discussion of Technoskepticism coming soon to a King's College London near you!
This is a hybrid event, to be held on Wednesday, May 21st from 5:30-7 PM (BST).
View details below, thank you to @kingsdh.bsky.social & @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social for hosting 7 of our co-authors.
Link to event page & registration below: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/techn...
Co-authors in attendance: @riannawalcott.bsky.social, A. Joseph Dial, Kevin C. Winstead, Jeff Nagy, @drdavidadelman.bsky.social, @lnakamura.bsky.social, & @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social
Event poster for the “Technoskepticism Book Launch Party” event on Friday, February 14, 2025 at Weiser Hall 10th Floor & Zoom. Transcribed text: Lunch with the Authors | 12:30 - 1:30 PM Join us for lunch and conversation with seven co-authors. Author Panel | 1:30 - 3:00 PM Huan He (Vanderbilt University), Rayvon Fouché (Northwestern University), Rianna Walcott (University of Maryland), M. Remi Yergeau (Carleton University), Lida Zeitlin Wu (Old Dominion University) Co-authors of Technoskepticism will discuss their new book about how marginalized communities have navigated the tension between embracing and rejecting emerging technologies. They will also explore how to reconfigure writing in the humanities into a collective practice. This panel will be moderated by Oliver Haimson and Wells Lucas Santo. Workshop | 3:00 - 4:00 PM Jeff Nagy (York University) and Lisa Nakamura (University of Michigan) In this interactive workshop, attendees will apply the principles of technoskepticism to current and emerging technologies, with a special focus on AI. About Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal: From Munchausen by TikTok to wellness apps to online communities to AI, the DISCO Network explores the possibilities that technoskepticism can create. This is a book about possibility and refusal in relation to new technologies. Though refusal is an especially powerful mode—particularly for those who have historically not been given the option to say no—people of color and disabled people have long navigated the space between saying yes and saying no to the newest technologies. Technoskepticism relates some of these stories to reveal the possibilities skepticism can create. Register to attend on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/W5m4R
Join us one week from today in celebrating the publication of Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal! We'll be hosting a panel and AI workshop with seven out of fourteen brilliant co-authors on February 14th from 1:30-4:30 PM (EST).
For more info and link to register: myumi.ch/W5m4R
Co-authors in attendance: @lnakamura.bsky.social, Jeff Nagy, @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social, @remiyergeau.bsky.social, @riannawalcott.bsky.social, Rayvon Fouché, and @huandirection.bsky.social
@stanfordpress.bsky.social
In a world of increasingly polarised online spaces, what are the challenges when building communities online?
👨👨👦👦 Join us at Digital Culture Talks 2025 - our panel will discuss this - and provide timely advice:
@rowiek.bsky.social
@riannawalcott.bsky.social
https://buff.ly/3Cw7kzR
Hyping myself to meet my new class by mumbling ‘they’re more scared of you than you are of them’
doesn’t work as well on public speaking as it does on spiders, but they seem very nice 🫶🏾
Updated my Macbook and seeing the Apple Intelligence integration, wanted to know what I'm up against so I can 'AI proof' my Spring teaching where possible and all I can say is this is all getting impossibly more annoying.
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“A meditative, lyrical work – Owusu encourages us to be and think outside our current possibilities in favor of a belief in, and commitment to, making the intentions & dreams of the marginalized tangible.”
@riannawalcott.bsky.social on Melz Owusu’s powerful new book ↓
tinyurl.com/57parbc4
Mushroom and tofu curry and naan
It’s lonely at the top of your game. 😮💨🙏🏾
Homemade garlic and cheese naan next to six balls of dough
I’ve perfected my naan. 😮💨
It’s over for the hoes, I fear. All I do is win 😔
It's always a good day when I can introduce students to the dope work happening through the www.bcatlab.org! Also hyped to be reading/discussing Jessica Liu's and @steelecat717.bsky.social crucial article "Joy Is Resistance: Cross Platform Resilience and (re)Invention of Black Oral Culture Online.
A gentle reminder that new year resolutions don’t have to be about positive changes. You can commit to be more petty, seek revenge, and disrespect your enemies.
EIGHT eggs in a bowl
how much egg you fry??
EIGHT BOMBARASSCLAAT EGGS??? YU NYAM EIGHT EGG??
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