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Roopika Risam
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Author of DATA EMPIRE (Harper & Torva, July 2026), Chair of Film & Media Studies at Dartmouth 💚, equestrian🐴, https://roopikarisam.com

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Roopika Risam is an associate professor of film and media studies and of comparative literature and faculty in the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement cluster at Dartmouth College. She was formerly Chair of the Department of Secondary and Higher Education and Associate Professor of Education at Salem State University. She is a scholar of digital and postcolonial humanities. .. more

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Dec 8
AAAAAAAAAAH. Publisher's Weekly named DATA EMPIRE one of the top 10 history books to look for Spring 2026!!!!!!!! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: History
This season, culture wars and their origins are dissected, fascism and its opponents are profiled, and enclaves of the rich and famous are infiltrated.
www.publishersweekly.com

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 10h
Someone needs to tell Ilia that if you call yourself The Quad God, we want to see the quad axel. (As I sit here, having just injured my shoulder by walking across my kitchen.)

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 10h
I am so here for Yuma Kagiyama ⛸️

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 13h
I was just in the jackpot on the North Shore in MA for the second big storm in a row 😭

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 16h
Someone should write a book that literally ends here.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 17h
Strong cauldron game, Milano Cortina. 💯 Deeply regretting that my beloved dinged a trip to this Olympics for February break because going somewhere warm is our coping mechanism for living in New England.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19h
Tech deployed at the border “includes everything from hyper-visible tethered aerostats — massive blimp-like detection platforms hovering thousands of feet over the desert — to stealthy devices like unattended ground sensors to detect footsteps, and license plate scanners disguised as traffic cones.”
How AI Surveillance Tech is Creeping From the Southern Border Into the Rest of the Country
Surveillance technology has long been part of policing the border. ICE’s growing raids are bringing it to many other areas.
www.themarshallproject.org

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 21h
Even more granular… some Massachusetts privates see higher enrollments of Black and Latinx students increase, potentially a cascade effect from more selective institutions admitting lower numbers of Black and Latinx students.
‘Harvard’s loss was Boston College’s gain.’ How Black and Latino college enrollment has shifted since Supreme Court ruling. - The Boston Globe
Multiple factors are complicating the higher education enrollment landscape.
www.bostonglobe.com

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 22h
TL;dr: Major drop in Black and Latinx student enrollment at elite institutions and rise in enrollment of Black and Latinx students at public flagships.
Colleges See Major Racial Shifts in Student Enrollment
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Jean Burgess, Roopika Risam

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22h
We should stop saying “AI,” at least without a qualifier like “commercial” or “generative.”

Precisely naming the tools that work & the ones that don’t & their use cases & their social & environmental consequences would go a long way towards improving our communal understanding.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 22h
What awful news. This was one of the first journals I published in (a dream come true) and a space for great scholarship. Publishing in it let me experiment with voice and interdisciplinarity in ways that wouldn’t have worked anywhere else.
james3neal.bsky.social James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 1d
"First Monday will cease publication, after 30 years, with the May 2026 issue, volume 31, number 6, scheduled for release around the first Monday of May, 4 May 2026" firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 1d
"First Monday will cease publication, after 30 years, with the May 2026 issue, volume 31, number 6, scheduled for release around the first Monday of May, 4 May 2026" firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
The Italians can put on a banging Opening Ceremony.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
Got hit in the face with a snowball on the way to dinner. My beloved wanted to chase down the teenage perps. I said no, I used to teach high school, I’ll go have some words with them. Fairly certain they will never throw snowballs across a busy pedestrian mall in the middle of a festival ever again.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
One of my students at the Olympics! 💚
A woman skiing

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
Lost opportunity

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
Have so many beaux that you can’t manage them by text alone? Signup Genius thinks I do!
Signup Genius spam email about planning Valentine’s Day

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
Being able to watch streamer replays of Olympics coverage gives a much more realistic sense of how much hurry up and wait actually happens than regular coverage. As an Olympics geek, I love being able to just watch the replays though!

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
I feel so less demoralized than I did two hours ago.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d
Just heard a GREAT conversation between Christopher Eisgruber and Laurie Patton (who I worked for at Emory's faculty development center!) on free speech. Really needed their perspective on how colleges and universities are getting a lot RIGHT. Thanks to FAN & @faculty.bsky.social for organizing 🥰

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2d
Already bought cookies from your troop last week 🥰

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2d
Went into a whole tailspin about whether I booked our vacation hotel wrong (I hadn’t) and after 15 minutes of that, my beloved walked out of the room, returned with a box of Exploremores™️ and said, “Here, eat one.” Then, everything was fine.
roopikarisam.bsky.social Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2d
My beloved brought home Girl Scout Cookies, the perk of having an educator in the family. This week just improved.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2d
My beloved brought home Girl Scout Cookies, the perk of having an educator in the family. This week just improved.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2d
Praise be to Molt!
a man wearing glasses and a vest is making a funny face .
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a vest is making a funny face .
media.tenor.com

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2d
Though now that I think about it, I might take my chances with The Church of Molt over most US Protestant denominations…

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2d
That was a cool article so I just reshared! Thank you!

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2d
For people who might actually be concerned, @ekazakos.bsky.social shared this, which explains the mechanisms (and, for the record, I’m sticking with more an indictment of humans and Reddit than actual concern about being converted to the Church of Molt) www.benvigoda.com/2026/02/01/w...

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2d
Oh I just see it as bots programmed to mimic humans mimicking humans. I am not actually concerned. Yet. But absolutely will read.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2d
Your words to God’s (Molt’s?) ears!

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2d
Yup, hence my second comment bsky.app/profile/roop...
roopikarisam.bsky.social Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2d
An indictment of humans and Reddit more than anything.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2d
SAME. I literally went “huh?” then started looking at it and was confused… but there is an Arden!