Aaron Shapiro
@bricolageyumyum.bsky.social
assistant professor of technology studies, UNC Comm
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“Should our media system primarily serve democracy, or profit?”
NEW in @thenation.com: the team behind our new report argue the answer must be democracy—and lay out what it’ll take to break up corporate media and rebuild public media: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
NEW in @thenation.com: the team behind our new report argue the answer must be democracy—and lay out what it’ll take to break up corporate media and rebuild public media: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
December 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“Should our media system primarily serve democracy, or profit?”
NEW in @thenation.com: the team behind our new report argue the answer must be democracy—and lay out what it’ll take to break up corporate media and rebuild public media: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
NEW in @thenation.com: the team behind our new report argue the answer must be democracy—and lay out what it’ll take to break up corporate media and rebuild public media: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵
December 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵
I do love getting a lil tiny bit high and watching ken burns docs. The american rev has some decent materialist analysis! Needle drop when narrator names the land speculators with investments west of the appalachians pissed at the british for closing the frontier (it's the founding fathers)
December 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I do love getting a lil tiny bit high and watching ken burns docs. The american rev has some decent materialist analysis! Needle drop when narrator names the land speculators with investments west of the appalachians pissed at the british for closing the frontier (it's the founding fathers)
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Super excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social
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November 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Super excited to announce a new piece out in the world: States and platform capitalisms: A conversation. This is a collaboration with some amazing thinkers and friends- led by @sayshatim.bsky.social Joe Khalil @linzhang.bsky.social & @rahmuk.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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a Friday surprise! my beloved book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, is now officially back in print AND ON SALE! #othernetworks if you know folks who have been trying to track down a copy, I'd love it if you'd repost shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
Lori Emerson - Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook. Mexican Summer & Anthology.
Buy Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook by Lori Emerson on Mexican Summer & Anthology.
shop.mexicansummer.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
a Friday surprise! my beloved book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, is now officially back in print AND ON SALE! #othernetworks if you know folks who have been trying to track down a copy, I'd love it if you'd repost shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
What’s the difference between “extractive assemblage” and “predatory formation” anyway?
November 7, 2025 at 3:01 AM
What’s the difference between “extractive assemblage” and “predatory formation” anyway?
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How I feel about my contemporaries turning 40..
October 14, 2025 at 3:04 AM
How I feel about my contemporaries turning 40..
… students at a Logan Square school were at recess when they were rushed inside after an ICE agent threw tear gas at a nearby car. And that afternoon one Southwest Side charter school went on lockdown because of a report of an ICE agent in a vehicle outside. chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...
Chicago Public Schools creates command center to monitor ICE activity
The school district is facing pressure to do more to help schools and families navigate federal immigration activity and concerns about attendance.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
… students at a Logan Square school were at recess when they were rushed inside after an ICE agent threw tear gas at a nearby car. And that afternoon one Southwest Side charter school went on lockdown because of a report of an ICE agent in a vehicle outside. chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...
Looks awesome @ppopiel.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The network dialectic: the digital divide and the contradictions of Philadelphia's digital equity strategy
This study examines the political economy, discursive legitimations, and effectiveness of the primary U.S. policy response to narrowing the digital divide: public subsidies for internet service. Us...
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October 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Looks awesome @ppopiel.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Now that I got tenure, lemme start the list of journal publishers I ain’t submitting to or reviewing for
Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.
Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.
Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.
Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors
The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).
www.thebookseller.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Now that I got tenure, lemme start the list of journal publishers I ain’t submitting to or reviewing for
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Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.
Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.
Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.
Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors
The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).
www.thebookseller.com
September 19, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.
Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.
Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.
3yo wants to be a “reckoning ball” for Halloween. We support
October 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
3yo wants to be a “reckoning ball” for Halloween. We support
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Our latest issue just out and, we think we can say this, it is a banger. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/c... feat. @philiproscoe.bsky.social @ulissess.bsky.social @cibled.bsky.social @maijutanninen.bsky.social @busedoyu.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social @theobourgeron.bsky.social &&
October 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Our latest issue just out and, we think we can say this, it is a banger. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/c... feat. @philiproscoe.bsky.social @ulissess.bsky.social @cibled.bsky.social @maijutanninen.bsky.social @busedoyu.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social @theobourgeron.bsky.social &&
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BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...
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September 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
BREAKING: WE WON!!!
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
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1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
September 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
just discovered r/pickles www.reddit.com/r/Pickles/
Pickles: the world is a giant pickle
r/Pickles
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August 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
just discovered r/pickles www.reddit.com/r/Pickles/
Watching the pianist, unbiddenly thinking of Gaza, and feeling nothing but shame and rage against the exterminationist policies of Israel.
August 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Watching the pianist, unbiddenly thinking of Gaza, and feeling nothing but shame and rage against the exterminationist policies of Israel.
Why does the movie juror #2 feel like it was made in 2005?
August 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Why does the movie juror #2 feel like it was made in 2005?
Rich instructions for book reviewers coming from Taylor & Francis: "You have been chosen as an expert in your fields and should not be using generative AI for analysis or summarization of the submitted proposal ... in the creation of your review"
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Taylor & Francis AI deal sets "worrying precedent"
The publisher didn’t give authors any notice before selling access to its data to Microsoft for $10 million. The agreement could improve academic research, but it further entrenches the predatory natu...
www.insidehighered.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Rich instructions for book reviewers coming from Taylor & Francis: "You have been chosen as an expert in your fields and should not be using generative AI for analysis or summarization of the submitted proposal ... in the creation of your review"
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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🚨 I’m excited to announce that, “The Enshittification of Work: Platform Decay and Labour Conditions in the Gig Economy” is now available online !
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Enshittification of Work: Platform Decay and Labour Conditions in the Gig Economy
This study investigates the mechanisms by which gig platforms degrade labour conditions over time, building on the concept of platform decay, or ‘enshittification’, initially developed in the context...
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August 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🚨 I’m excited to announce that, “The Enshittification of Work: Platform Decay and Labour Conditions in the Gig Economy” is now available online !
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
So glad the arbiters of democracy are speaking up
August 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
So glad the arbiters of democracy are speaking up
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I don’t practice trans sharia/I ain’t got no crystal ball… 🎶
I don’t practice trans sharia/I ain’t got no crystal ball… 🎶
Singing "trans sharia" to the tune of "My Sharona"
meanwhile, on twitter
June 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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I don’t practice trans sharia/I ain’t got no crystal ball… 🎶
I don’t practice trans sharia/I ain’t got no crystal ball… 🎶
Love me some Dr John of course but isn’t it the Louis Armstrong intl airport ? And by rights I’m pretty sure Toussaint or one/all of the Nevilles would take it
I love how certain cities hold their most iconic musicians as patron saints and part of the city's identity. Minneapolis has Prince. We in Austin Have Willy. New Orleans has Dr. John.
Genuinely curious: Who is your city's musical patron saint?
Genuinely curious: Who is your city's musical patron saint?
June 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Love me some Dr John of course but isn’t it the Louis Armstrong intl airport ? And by rights I’m pretty sure Toussaint or one/all of the Nevilles would take it