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José Lizárraga (Dr ThemBot) @drthembot.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Launch day! Our co-edited book (with @aaminahm.bsky.social) Cultivating New Futures for Girls in STEM is out now. Available on amazon + Teachers College Press (15% off w/ GIRLSTEM). Links in thread. So excited to share this with you all.

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José Lizárraga (Dr ThemBot) @drthembot.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Just received the advance copies of the beautiful book that @aaminahm.bsky.social and I co-edited! Buy yours today and use GIRLSTEM for 15%off. www.tcpress.com/cultivating-...

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José Lizárraga (Dr ThemBot) @drthembot.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

*our not "your." tho it is now released to the world...so I guess it's yours too ;-).

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Anna Smith @anna-phd.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Tonight is speculative pedagogies night in Critical Perspectives in Tech in Edu! We're starting with the work of @drsmarturo.bsky.social & @drthembot.bsky.social. Check out our convo with them two years ago at about.illinoisstate.edu/edunowlab/cr...

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Creatively Critical Tech Speaker Series – Education Now Lab

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José Lizárraga (Dr ThemBot) @drthembot.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Thrilled to announce that your piece "Rogue Jotería Platformization: co-constructing queer futurities in Latinx digital drag ecologies" is published and open-access! Super proud of this collaboration with @drsmarturo.bsky.social and Mariel Reyes-Galvez. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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José Lizárraga (Dr ThemBot) @drthembot.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Our book, co-edited with @aaminahm.bsky.social, is now in production! Forward by Carol D. Lee. Part of TCP's Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies Series, edited by @djangoparis.bsky.social. Stay tuned for book tour events! Pre-order here: www.tcpress.com/cultivating-...

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Phil Nichols @philnichols.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities—edited by me and @anterobot.bsky.social—is out today! 🎉 It's been an absolute privilege to work with so many brilliant people, over multiple years, to make this book a reality. www.routledge.com/Literacies-i...

Cover of the book, Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities, edited by T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia, and published in the 'Expanding Literacies in Education' series at Routledge.

Text from the Table of the Contents.
List of Figures, List of Tables, Contributor Biographies, Series Editors’ Introduction, Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Literacies in the Platform Society by T. Philip Nichols and Antero Garcia

PART I — Histories
New Towers of Babel: A Conceptual Argument for
Digital Platforms as Unstable Linguistic Constructs by Tom Liam Lynch and Mark A. Sulzer

Literacy as a Framework for Computing Education: Affordances, Constraints, and New Directions by Jennifer Higgs, Sepehr Vakil and Charles Logan

Waiting on the Platform: The Journey to and From
Manuscript Central by Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant

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Racialized Labor and Digital Sites of Struggle on Asian American College YouTube by Sonia Kim

Rethinking Affordances and Constraints in the Platform Era by Bradley Robinson

PART II - Pedagogies

Teachers’ Use of Technological Applications and Platforms: Classroom Management, Data Literacy,and Unexpected Labor by Jessica Zacher Pandya and Gwen Shaffer

Human and Non-human Agency in Elementary Literacy Classrooms: Examining ClassDojo as Part of Pedagogical Practice by Evie Poyiadji and Stavroula Kontovourki

Platforms as Texts: Restorying Platforms as Collective Resistance by Amy Stornaiuolo and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

Proceduralized Ideologies in Teacher Education: An Analysis of Student Teaching Simulation Software by Earl Aguilera and Mighty Chen

Transforming Pedagogies Across Digital Platforms: Playgrid Ecologies as Sites of Emergent Identities and Literacies for Pre-service Teachers by José Ramón Lizárraga, Arturo Cortez, and Kaitlin Baca

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Part 3 - Possibilities

As We May Mark by Remi Kalir

Reimagining Digital Social Platforms and Youth Agency in Schools: Youth Participatory Design Research as an Agentic Curricular Approach by Emily Southerton

Between Structure and Collective Care: A Humanizing Approach to Resource Curation by Shelley E. Rose, Mary Frances (Molly)
Buckley-Marudas and Calida O’Brien

Toward a Critical Race Algorithmic Literacy: Preparing Black Youth to “Talk Back” to Algorithmic Bias and Platformed Racism by Tiera Tanksley

Afterword: Some Theoretical and Methodological Notes on Platform Literacies by Kris Gutiérrez

Index

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José Lizárraga (Dr ThemBot) @drthembot.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

#AERA attendees! Make sure to mark your calendars for @krisgu ‘s Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award Lecture. This is the PREMIER acknowledgment of outstanding success in the field and the lecture is bound to be phenomenal!

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RuPawl Growles @rupawl.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Our holiday card, inspired by 1950’s illustrations, is out!

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José Lizárraga (Dr ThemBot) @drthembot.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Table set. Intimate gathering, flexing my Martha Stewart muscle.

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Being Reese @beingreese.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading.

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José Lizárraga (Dr ThemBot) @drthembot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Happiest of birthdays to Mama Ru! Yes, she's that tall...I'm 5'11".

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José Lizárraga (Dr ThemBot) @drthembot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

you know you can always come over to cook some yumminess and drink way too much wine.

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José Lizárraga (Dr ThemBot) @drthembot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Our neighbor asked if we have any plans for Thanksgiving. I told him I go "All Martha Stewart." He didn't quite understand.

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José Lizárraga (Dr ThemBot) @drthembot.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Lil RuPawl is also now on this app! bsky.app/profile/rupa...

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José Lizárraga (Dr ThemBot) @drthembot.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Coming to NCTE in Boston? Join the brilliant Cliff Lee and me for a conversation on Youth Ingenuity and Artificial Intelligence.

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Dr Tiera Tanksley @drtanksley.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

As AI proliferates in higher ed, we must ask how (& if) these tools - riddled w biases, rooted in carceral violence, used for surveillance more often than for learning, & reliant upon environmental destruction - can manifest the equitable futures Big Tech promises us All this & more on Nov 15 💪🏽

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José Lizárraga (Dr ThemBot) @drthembot.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Colegas, Raza! Join me for a conversation on Decolonizing AI as part of the Techqueria Latiné Heritage Month Summit! Registration is FREE. hopin.com/events/techq...

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