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Michal Berg @michalberg.cz · 30/09/2025

Naprosto skvělý rozhovor s @mariher.bsky.social "Za agresi je zodpovědná všudypřítomná beznaděj, za beznaděj pak společenská situace. Sociální sítě za ni ale zodpovědné nejsou, ty ji jen reflektují a nabízejí rychlá řešení." denikreferendum.cz/clanek/23795...

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Za agresi může beznaděj, ne sociální sítě, říká antropoložka Heřmanová

Letošní Inspirační fórum jihlavského festivalu dokumentárních filmů se věnuje radikalizaci. Jakou roli v tom hrají sociální sítě? Jaký mají dopad na naši schopnost porozumět si? Hovořili jsme s antro...

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

btw tohle je akademický výsledek našeho dva roky starého výzkumu Společnost nedůvěry pro Český Rozhlas. Akademické publikování je pomalé, ale minimálně v tomto případě důkladné...

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Really happy to see this in a preprint and hopefully on the way to publication!

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

V dnešní Vinohradské na téma influencerů, mj. o kauze "Čína platí influencery" a o tom, že influenceři stejně jako každá jiná profese můžou svojí práci dělat dobře nebo taky úplně blbě, vidět je víc možná to druhé, ale těch prvních je víc:

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I feel like I can finally post this bc it finally feels like it's really happening?? (if the gods of Brexit allow and I get a visa) I'm moving to London this summer as MSCA/UKRI fellow at UCL Anthropology and it's both a dream come true and super stressful ✌️

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Matouš Pilnáček @matouspilnacek.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Se nám vrátil vědeckej článek, který píšeme s @luccej.bsky.social @josefslerka.bsky.social @mariher.bsky.social a Paulínou Tabery, o tom, proč lidé věří konspiračním teoriím z recenzí a některý věty se čtou hezky:

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I'm giving an online talk followed by Q&A tomorrow at UNC Centre for European Studies: europe.unc.edu/event/gender... The topic is a follow-up on my Fulbright project at UNC - if interested, it's on Zoom at 10:30 AM EST/4:30 PM CET (registration at the link below).

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Gendered Disinformation and Disinformation about Gender in Europe

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Přijďte na Novinářské fórum:

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

1. I'm so tired of these hot takes. Social media is going through the same cycle as every new technology before - uncritical enthusiasm, moral panic, adaptation. Everyone always knew that looking at trees makes you feel better than looking at feed - same way we know eating fruit is better for you

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Zeptej se vědce @zeptejsevedce.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Kroky politické reprezentace USA otřásají tamní vědou. Poslední týdny probíhá nátlak na univerzity, aby se vzdaly autonomie a svobody bádání a snahu cenzurovat vědecké poznání, které se z ideologického hlediska nehodí. Ač jsme obvykle apolitičtí, sepsali jsme toto vyjádření 👇 1/3

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Lidi, se kterými jsem byla v USA minulý semestr, už jsou někteří bez stipendia (netýká se to - zatím - lidí z ČR, protože stipendia vyplácí Fulbrightova komise v Praze). Neumím si představit, jak stresující je tam najednou zůstat bez prostředků, spousta lidí si nemůže jen tak koupit letenku domů.

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

There's at least one thing you can do besides feeling horrified, powerless and exhausted and that is to support Ukraine financially: u24.gov.ua (this is the official fundraising campaign, there are many int and local NGOs working in Ukraine in need of support)

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UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine

UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Today is a reminder of Zelensky's superhuman stamina and strength. He deflected deeply unfair vile attacks in his 3rd language and kept it together while two bullies threatened his country's existence and repeated the tired but infuriating propaganda tropes of the aggressor.

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Sara Reinis @sarareinis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Despite people's impressions of the tech world and religion being quite separate spheres, this has been brewing for a long time. We will only see more of this as tech leaders seek some sort of cosmic moral framework to justify their actions and deflect criticism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/b...

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Silicon Valley is Embracing Christianity (With the Help of Peter Thiel)

When tech luminaries talk about their Christian faith, people listen.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

No matter how enshitted you think it is, social media is more popular and more influential than it's ever been. It's also now an inherently right-wing space. And telling people to "log off" cannot fix that. www.garbageday.email/p/so-based

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

"Most of us imagine YouTube as this place where millionaires give away prizes in a Squid-Game-style contest, but when you want to have a conversation about YouTube and its place in our society, we need to look at the ways it's used, not just the ways it's consumed." www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

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How a computer that 'drunk dials' videos is exposing YouTube's secrets

YouTube is about to turn 20. An unusual research method is unveiling statistics about the platform that Google would rather keep hidden.

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I am a big fan of 404 Media, but this is misleading at best. You can't post your way out of fascism, but you can and should organize, meet people and learn important info via social media. Doomscrolling is not activism, but activism can be done online and social media can be useful.

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Same. As ECR, all my research is funded by grants. I wouldn't be able to pay for groceries if this happened to me. It's so scary. (And of course, we need publicly funded research to understand why this is happening, why democracy loses against authoritarianism. They don't want us to know).

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

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Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher

Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This is one last (unplanned) result of my Fulbright fellowship at CITAP. If you feel like reading a thorough analysis of how authoritarian tendencies overcome our democracies and what the US can learn from Central and Eastern Europe, click below (featuring among others, @ivan-kalmar.bsky.social)

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The reason “cute winter boots” is taking off isn’t because it’s some secret code (the code has already been revealed and all of MAGA tiktok has made videos on it) it’s bc using product-focused language allows users to circumvent algorithmic downranking. They’re hijacking TikTok’s e-commerce push.

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TikTok's 'cute winter boots' trend explained

As the U.S. government seeks to enact stricter controls over online speech, TikTok users are adopting more coded 'algospeak' to criticize and resist the government

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I see this all over my FYP now and it's so sad, but also an important reminder that social media play an important role in facilitating connections and mobilizing people. Banning an app is never about "protecting the kids" - it is about silencing the voices that someone does not want to be heard.

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I wrote about all the ways Jonathan Haidt gets it wrong and how early Haidt would not have been happy with later Haidt. newrepublic.com/article/1903...

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Are Cell Phones Really Destroying Kids’ Mental Health?

Jonathan Haidt once heralded an “ultrasocial” world. Now he’s one of social media’s most prominent critics.

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

A great example of how power shifts between legacy media and content creators (also a great investigation, academic level research included):

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Jay Hightman @jay.hightman.org · 17/01/2025

This webpage seems to offer the best options on Windows and Mac. I very much do not like Microsoft's intrusive data collection and analysis in their applications and operating systems, making it a point to turn it off where I can. www.digitalbulls.com/can-you-disa...

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Can You Disable Microsoft Copilot? A Complete Guide for Windows, Mac, and iOS |

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I wrote about how American and Chinese internet users are accidentally cobbling together a techno-utopian version of the “global village,” even if it’s unlikely to last.

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The Techno-Utopian Dream of the 1990s Is Alive on RedNote (For Now)

Will Americans actually use an app where the captchas aren't even in English?

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

great overview by @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social the #TikTokRefugees trend is funny and political at the same time - which is why no one ever would willingly move from TikTok to Instagram (a famously not funny and expressly non-political platform) www.garbageday.email/p/america-s-...

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

4.2. dorazíme do Brna s @bartkovskym.bsky.social a společně s Milošem Gregorem z MUNI si budeme povídat na téma "Jak zkrotit sociální sítě", moderuje Michael Rozsypal. Vstupné zdarma, Knihovna Jiřího Mahena, od 17h, FB event tu: fb.me/e/2dcF6Xrik

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Excellent critique of Atlantic article on the Internet as a justification machine by @danwphilosophy.bsky.social. Key point: "assign[s] too much weight to the internet...rewriting historical events—and reality more broadly—in self-serving ways is as old as recorded human history"

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Is the internet worse than a brainwashing machine?

A recent article in The Atlantic argues that the internet functions as a transformative "justification engine" rather than a "brainwashing machine." The truth is more complicated.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Zuckerberg, Bezos, etc. aren't failing to realize that the thermostatic pendulum of American politics could swing back to Democrats who could be harsher when they regain power, the tech billionaires are betting that there won't be another free and fair election now that coup plotters retook power.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

In the end, it's all about make-believe, and that's why these people love genAI so much. You can now turn you dumbest ideas into glossy pictures for your startup website or powerpoint pitch deck. AI is the aesthetics of digital fascism & grifter culture, and both have become indistinguishable 6/

Screenshot from the Praxis website: The Next America. Built on the Internet, background: AI image of a neogothic city on a mountain

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I likely missed the discourse around this. There are some sentiments I agree w/ here, but since my own work is the critical study of the all too often lauded concept of "the public sphere" I'd like to say a few things about the opening claim here that people fleeing X are "giving up" on that ideal

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Opinion | Bluesky Is Different From X. For Now. (Gift Article)

Users are looking for a more curated experience on a platform that is not constantly trying to get them to interact with brands.

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

But...why? Why would anyone even want to take this class (and pay for it??) what is the point of education if this is how you do it? We are so doomed, not because AI exists but because people exist who think this is a good idea.

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

btw we have applied for the same type of funding with the same /very similar project twice before, third time was the charm (as a reminder for anyone who needs to hear it, don't give up)

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Thrilled to share that we have received funding from the Czech Science Foundation for our project "Gender aspects of disinformation dissemination and reception from the perspective of the theory of social media performativity and identity theory" with a team based at Charles University in Prague🎉

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 28/11/2024

Your regular reminder that the kids and social media, "anxious generation" fears are a classic moral panic grounded in misleading and misreading data.

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Radoslav Krivak @rdkbio.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Trying to collect scientists in/from Czech Republic who are here. Let me know who should I add! go.bsky.app/EqXkwj2

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This is a great opportunity for postdocs/fresh PhDs with an interest in platforms and internet governance (working with great people, in one of the best cities in Europe): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

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Two postdoctoral positions in platform studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)

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jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

my latest with @jessmaddox.bsky.social is out this morning in @femmediastudies.bsky.social! We propose influencer snark as a feminist media practice to address concerns of credibility, authenticity, and representation in the influencer industry. please share!!! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XZSZD...

The abstract for Jess and Jess's article on influencer snark

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Marie Hermanova @mariher.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

(*hi, it's me, I'm that person who studies influencer cultures and its relationship to journalism*) It's not an entirely new and unexpected thing though, we have research on this - my colleagues have recently created the first Content Creators Scholars network, you can follow us here: www.ccsn.site

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