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Mike Adorjan
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Mike Adorjan @zensurfer.bsky.social · Dec 7
I don’t shine
If you don’t shine

#TheKillers Read My Mind
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yanghu.co.uk
Journals - this is so important: Please make this a condition for someone to accept a review invitation, not just part of the review submission. Thank you. 😀
December 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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crs-journal.bsky.social
Wiley has produced author guidelines regarding #artificialintelligence #ai that authors are encouraged to review before submitting their manuscripts to The Canadian Review of Sociology. Please see these guidelines here:

www.wiley.com/en-ca/publis...
AI Guidelines
Explore AI guidelines that address best practices and ethical standards. Equip yourself with the knowledge to harness AI responsibly and effectively.
www.wiley.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
zensurfer.bsky.social
3rd podcast of The Sociological Imagination @UCalgary featuring Dr Robert Stebbins, with some delays, is now up!
#sociology

arts.ucalgary.ca/sociology/ab...
Sociological Imagination Podcast
arts.ucalgary.ca
December 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
zensurfer.bsky.social
Parasocial engagement online is not always experienced as parasocial. @gems-lab.bsky.social @itds-csa.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Reposted by Mike Adorjan
crs-journal.bsky.social
Beginning in December 2025, The Canadian Review of Sociology will be publishing In Memoriam pieces. Regardless of type of submission, all pieces must be submitted through the manuscript submission system. Please see link below:

www.csa-scs.ca/news/canadia...
Canadian Sociological Association
www.csa-scs.ca
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
zensurfer.bsky.social
UCalgary sociologist Alex Bierman on Global News podcast Connect discussing Black Friday shopping from a sociological perspective! #sociology #sociologicalimagination

open.spotify.com/episode/3DZW...
Has Black Friday shopping made us jerks?
open.spotify.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
zensurfer.bsky.social
Cyberrisk PSA for parents on #sharenting @itds-csa.bsky.social @gems-lab.bsky.social

www.famouscampaigns.com/2025/11/camp...
Campaign warns on the dangers of sharenting
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission have launched a powerful campaign that urges parents to “Pause before you Post”. The striking film, by Core, dramatizes the hidden dangers of sharenting – where we...
www.famouscampaigns.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Reposted by Mike Adorjan
crs-journal.bsky.social
The 4th issue of Volume 62 of The Canadian Review of Sociology is out, including two committing sociology articles and three original research articles - please see the link below! @csa-scs.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1755618x...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
zensurfer.bsky.social
Can’t recall when “our menu options” haven’t changed.
November 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Reposted by Mike Adorjan
writerlaurabee.bsky.social
Gmail users!!

They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.

Pass it on!!

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
zensurfer.bsky.social
Rocket 🚀 away Qian Liu, new member of the Board of Trustees, Law and Society Association- congratulations !🎉
@qianliuedu.bsky.social
@lawandsociety.bsky.social
lawandsociety.bsky.social Law and Society Association @lawandsociety.bsky.social · 26d
Congrats LSA Class of 2028 Board of Trustees!

@monicacbell.bsky.social, @yale.edu
@meeradeo.bsky.social, Southwestern
Howard Erlanger, @law.wisc.edu
Jonathan Liljeblad, ANU
@qianliuedu.bsky.social, @ucalgary.bsky.social
OTA Shozo, Meiji Uni
Mary Rose, UTAustin
@mwyarbrough.bsky.social, CUNY
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 AM
zensurfer.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1093/gero...
Fahimeh Mehrabi examines social robots helping to alleviate loneliness in later life! #sociology #gerontology #openaccess @itds-csa.bsky.social
Wired for Companionship: A Meta-Analysis on Social Robots Filling the Void of Loneliness in Later Life
AbstractBackground and objectives. Loneliness is a significant public health concern affecting over a quarter of older adults worldwide. Emerging research
doi.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
zensurfer.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Trent Bax on the #algopticon under #surveillancecapitalism @itds-csa.bsky.social
#sociology
Rise of the algopticon: the algoptic gaze in the age of algorithmic governance and surveillance capitalism - AI & SOCIETY
This paper introduces the concept of an algopticon to theorize surveillance in the age of algorithmic governance and surveillance capitalism. Building on earlier surveillance models— panopticon, synop...
link.springer.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
zensurfer.bsky.social
@michaelhoffman.bsky.social posted with permission
#bluejays #art
November 2, 2025 at 3:58 AM
zensurfer.bsky.social
“They’re still losing” at the door. #halloween #bluejays
November 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Reposted by Mike Adorjan
giovannamas.bsky.social
evidence is piling up that LLMs are culturally biased, since traiend on data from Western, Educated, Industrialized,
Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) countries, thus unsuitable to understand people from different regions and cultures, study finds: coevolution.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/file...
coevolution.fas.harvard.edu
October 31, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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csa-scs.bsky.social
Join us for the Meet the Author Series in November!
Register for each event separately.
November 5 - www.csa-scs.ca/news/meet-th...
November 21 - www.csa-scs.ca/news/meet-th...
October 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
zensurfer.bsky.social
Same #students circulating this soon eligible to vote in #Alberta. #abpoli #ABTeachersStrike
Students circulating call to support teachers in Alberta
October 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
zensurfer.bsky.social
Rising #sociology #cybercriminology star Mohana Mukherjee!

sociology.arizona.edu/person/mohan...
Mohana Mukherjee
sociology.arizona.edu
October 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
zensurfer.bsky.social
Do not update #nvivo beyond 15.2.0 - figures no longer appear at all for files and coding references.
October 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Reposted by Mike Adorjan
csa-scs.bsky.social
Don't miss our upcoming October webinars!

Learn more about these and additional virtual events at www.csa-scs.ca/news/webinar...
October 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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wytang.bsky.social
Tinder for teens: Youth digital intimate cultures and tech facilitated violence on #snapchat by
@betsymilne.bsky.social @jessicaringrose.bsky.social @tanyah.bsky.social & Kaitlynn Mendes
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Tinder for teens: Youth digital intimate cultures and tech facilitated violence on Snapchat
Snapchat has long been a pivotal space for youth digital intimate and sexual cultures, as well as gendered and sexual risks and harms. Despite being o…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
zensurfer.bsky.social
Pre-teen boys disagreeing that #kpopdemonhunters fandoms shouldn’t include boys - this is a good start to combatting wider magnets of misogyny as they get older. #masculinity #golden #algorithmliteracy
October 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
zensurfer.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

New article examining youth use of Snapchat and tech faciliated digital violence in Computers in Human Behavior!

Authored by Betsy Milne, Jessica Ringrose, Tanya Horeck and Kaitlynn Mendes

#openaccess #sociology
October 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM