Roopika Risam

@roopikarisam.bsky.social

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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

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1h

Suddenly DEEPLY invested in mixed relay biathlon.

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 3h

was just admiring the luge drone myself!

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 3h

We haven’t yet gotten to 2015 level of snow where we had to shovel it into garbage cans, haul them onto my deck and dump them over the railing into the patio!

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 4h

I have not figured out the logistics

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 4h

I know!!!

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 5h

Not American enough?

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 5h

When your mom calls to tell you that she was partying with @electrostani.bsky.social’s parents last night.

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 5h

We have nowhere to even PUT all of it! It’s stressful!

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 5h

Got shamed by my friends for saying I was making tortellini tonight, so once the driveway was clear, I went out to get steak and baked potatoes.

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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 5h

There is a live #Badbunny concert on tv tonight and apparently they’ll be some football before and after? 🤷🏽‍♀️

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 6h

It seems great to have a driveway that can fit 6 cars in the middle of a city… when we aren’t getting hammered with snow.

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 6h

Hit the jackpot with the latest storm - another foot. But thanks to my new best friend Alex (the guy I hired to shovel) and my 100 lb. industrial tub of pet safe ice melt, three of us got my massive driveway under control in under an hour even though there is literally nowhere to put anymore snow.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 8h

As a totally anecdotal measure of how normies are fed up: I’m on a peloton Super Bowl ride right now where 80 people are riding with #AbolishICE as their leaderboard tag

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 21h

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.)

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 21h

I am so here for Yuma Kagiyama ⛸️

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d

I was just in the jackpot on the North Shore in MA for the second big storm in a row 😭

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should write a book that literally ends here.

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d

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

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d

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

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 1d

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.

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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...

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d

The Italians can put on a banging Opening Ceremony.

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.

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 1d

One of my students at the Olympics! 💚

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2d

Lost opportunity

Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2d

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2d

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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