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Ben Birkinbine

@birkinbine.bsky.social
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Asst. Prof of Journalism at UW Oshkosh. Research: Political Economy of Communication, Global Media Giants, digital commons, free and open source tech

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Ben Birkinbine @birkinbine.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Wisconsin, to Elon.
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a cartoon character from the simpsons is pointing at a building and saying ha-ha
ALT: a cartoon character from the simpsons is pointing at a building and saying ha-ha
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Ben Birkinbine @birkinbine.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I’ve been teaching First Amendment law to journalism students for nearly 15 years. Khalili’s detention is the most egregious violation of I’ve seen in that time. Anyone who cares about free speech and the First Amendment should be *deeply* concerned.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/02/2025
Breaking News: Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former president, was charged with overseeing a vast scheme to overturn the 2022 election he lost.
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Brazil Charges Bolsonaro With Attempting a Coup
Brazil’s attorney general charged the former president Jair Bolsonaro with trying to overturn the 2022 elections.
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Matt Davies @halcyene.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Public compute — state provision of computing resources — could be a powerful tool for reshaping the AI sector. In our report, Jai Vipra and I offer an overview of existing approaches, and recommendations for avoiding industry capture, reducing environmental harms, and delivering public value 1/5
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Ben Birkinbine @birkinbine.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The children’s section in Brazil just hits different.
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Ben Birkinbine @birkinbine.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Forgive the naïveté, but does your university pay external reviewers of doctoral dissertations? Doesn’t matter how much. Just curious
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 02/01/2025
👋 Hey, journalists, how's your digital security looking for 2025? Track your progress with our checklist.
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The 2025 journalist’s digital security checklist
Our digital security training team's checklist to help journalists secure their digital life.
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Ben Birkinbine @birkinbine.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Some Popeye, TinTin, Hitchcock, Hemingway, Faulkner, Christie, and more will enter the public domain in 2025 www.theverge.com/2025/1/1/243...
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Popeye and Tintin are now in the public domain
There are some new Mickey Mouse animations, too.
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Ben Birkinbine @birkinbine.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
2025 could see a wave of mergers and acquisitions in media industries: “There is no shortage of smaller companies for these media mammoths to scoop up.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/b...
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Comcast and Warner Bros. Discovery Set the Stage for 2025 Deal-Making
Comcast and Warner Bros. Discovery are rearranging their businesses for mergers and acquisitions. Experts say the next year could transform the media industry.
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Ben Birkinbine @birkinbine.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Judge in my former home of Reno, NV denies Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to consolidate control of family trust (incl News Corp, Fox News, NY post, etc) for son Lachlan. All four of his children set for equal control. Real life Succession stuff here, folks www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/b...
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Rupert Murdoch Fails in Bid to Change Family Trust
A Nevada commissioner ruled resoundingly against Mr. Murdoch, who was trying to give full control of his empire to his son Lachlan and lock in Fox News’s right-wing editorial slant.
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Union for Democratic Communications @uniondemcomm.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
UDC 2025: The Future We Want: Resistance and Resolve June 19 - 22, 2025 | Call for Papers is LIVE: www.democraticcomm.org
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IAMCR @iamcr.org · 05/12/2024
IAMCR is now on Bluesky and letting you all know that we are receiving proposals for our 2025 conference in Singapore. See the conference website at singapore2025.iamcr.org and submit your abstract before 7 February.
Communicating Environmental Justice: Many Voices, One Planet
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Ben Birkinbine @birkinbine.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Friendly reminder to invite your friends to use Signal for messaging. 😁 (Excerpt from NYT story on the Salt Typhoon hack)
Portion of a news story, describing how hackers could not access messages on encrypted apps like WhatsApp or Signal but could access phone calls and text messages sent between iPhones and Android devices
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Media Studies at CU Boulder @cumediastudies.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The Department of Media Studies at CU Boulder is hiring! We’re seeking an open-rank scholar with a critical, interdisciplinary approach to media, culture, and the environment. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
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Professor in Environmental Media Studies
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Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Updated list of global media+comm scholars. Lmk if you want to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/Avb3yM
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Aswin Punathambekar @aswinp.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Please spread the word, and do send us an abstract if you are reflecting on solidarity, worldmaking, media and communication infrastructures, and figures like Bruce Lee, Kwame Nkrumah, and Jawaharlal Nehru.
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Ben Birkinbine @birkinbine.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
CfP for IAMCR 2025 in Singapore is now live! Here is the link for Political Economy Section CfP: iamcr.org/singapore202...
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Political Economy Section - Call for Proposals 2025 | IAMCR
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Ben Birkinbine @birkinbine.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
PhD from Oregon…but Madison is home. One of the perks of being back in my home state. Game time. Go Bucky!
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Sydney L Forde @sydneyforde.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Calling all CPEC Scholars! [Please comment suggestions/self nominate below to be added folks] go.bsky.app/FXVfoLf
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hailey @hailey.at · 15/11/2024
bluesky engineers: perhaps today it’ll be a little slower, we’ll catch our breath the internet: MORE!!
user growth chart. it shows we are currently at around 800 users per minute, but we are spiking - multiple times - at 1000-1350 accounts per minute
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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Job Position, Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and Digital Technologies, University of Toronto (Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy) jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Assistant Professor - Social Sciences and Digital Technologies
Assistant Professor - Social Sciences and Digital Technologies
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Ben Birkinbine @birkinbine.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
In case you know folks who are still holding on to their “other” account, let them know TODAY (or better, yesterday!) is a great day to shut it down. ToS updates go into effect today 11/15 mashable.com/article/twit...
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PSA: Your Twitter/X account is about to change forever
If you don't want Elon Musk to feed your tweets to his AI, now might be the time to leave the app formerly known as Twitter.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 14/11/2024
“X is really teaching everyone the importance of who owns the sites that we use and rely on to communicate online,” EFF’s Rory Mir told NBC News. “What people are seeing with X is that it has subjectively deteriorated in value.”
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X sees largest user exodus since Musk takeover
X users are weighing the decision to keep their followings or build them back up on alternative platforms after the election.
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Ben Birkinbine @birkinbine.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Public service at it’s best 🤣. Tip o the hat, Onion. The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’
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Ben Birkinbine @birkinbine.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Recycling material to get started! My book, Incorporating the Commons, has been published by the Univ. of Westminster Press, and is available via open access here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
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Incorporating the Digital Commons: Corporate Involvement in Free and Open Source Software
<p>The concept of ‘the commons’ has been used as a framework to understand resources shared by a community rather than a private entity, and it has also inspired social movements working against the e...
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