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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

We are at an inflection point with AI & moving from technopanics, to the urgency of being “AI-ready,” to an emerging acceptance of AI as ambient & inevitable. And yet, alongside this inevitability, I find myself noticing a parallel movement, quieter & persistent open.substack.com/pub/rabaniga...

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We Are Going to Want to Be in the Same Room

On AI, inevitability, and the quiet return to shared, human spaces

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CITE (English) @cite-ela.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Congrats to our guest editors @karismjones.bsky.social, @sarahejerasa.bsky.social, @rabani.bsky.social and contributor @mraleosays.bsky.social for receiving the National Technology Leadership Initiative Fellowship for their project "Digital Texts and How to Teach Them: #HackYourStack Initiative."

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CITE (English) @cite-ela.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Check out our guest editors’ @karismjones.bsky.social, @sarahejerasa.bsky.social, and @rabani.bsky.social editorial introduction to our new special issue series, outlining “The Complexities of Teaching with Digital Texts for ELA Teachers and Teacher Educators”!

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Editorial: The Complexities of Teaching With Digital Texts for ELA Teachers and Teacher Educators – CITE Journal

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

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Howard University AI Panel

YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley

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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

If you are at #NCTE2025, come join us to talk about Digital Texts and How to Teach Them. And scan QR to join our crowdsourced collection of mentor texts, tools, resources, & academic research on digital media @karismjones.bsky.social @sarahejerasa.bsky.social @mraleosays.bsky.social

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Sarah Jerasa @sarahejerasa.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

THAT’S right!! @rabani.bsky.social and @karismjones.bsky.social and I are pumped our special issue will be coming out @cite-ela.bsky.social very soon!! #literacies

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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I have been thinking about this a lot recently— wondering if folks would be interested in collaborating on #literacies public scholarship. Building things together?

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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

To be able situate myself and my work in the #literacies lineage has been coolest relational reveal”

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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

A New Substack: My New Substack, "The Messy Middle: Research, Feminists, & the Everyday", and a post. “An instinctive serendipitous selection of words that became the lens I started to see myself with…” open.substack.com/pub/rabaniga...

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Feminist Understandings

A Note (2021) & an Addendum (2025)

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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

If you are a researcher or a designer working with AI and not talking to the young people around you, you are missing out on a whole slice of understanding of actual environment of use!

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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

People engage/ w screens regularly in their everyday lives-recording & sharing is routine practice. @amystorn.bsky.social & I offer 3 approaches to researchers to study ways people work with/across screens. bit.ly/3ZdTEBH - Message if you are unable to access this #digitalmethods #educationresearch

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Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Live from NASA GISS, kicking-off the Weather and Climate 100-hour livestream Beginning Weds May 28, at 1 p.m. ET, the “Weather and Climate Livestream” will span five days, ending on Sunday, June 1, at 5:30 p.m. ET. www.youtube.com/@wclivestrea...

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YouTube

Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

With @writinglit.bsky.social this Sunday, April 27. A symposium on AI and youth writing. "Tinkering with/ Tripping it up: Youth Shift, Interrupt, and Challenge Conceptualizations Around their AI Use." Curious to learn more? click the link below. 👉 bit.ly/449Gwkd @aeraedresearch.bsky.social

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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Coming on April 27th. Symposium: Cross-Platformization, Digital Media Platforms As Global Ecosystems, and the Shifting Understandings of Critical Platform Practices with @mclsig.bsky.social See details of the panelists here: bit.ly/449Gwkd @aeraedresearch.bsky.social

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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Excited to be at @aeraedresearch.bsky.social I'll be sharing work from my dissertation on hip hop collectives in Delhi & social media research & our team research on Writing with AI & youth writing, in collaboration with @amystorn.bsky.social & in conversation with phenomenal scholars bit.ly/449Gwkd

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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Friends in Detroit stop by tomorrow -- super excited to be on this panel of Asian hip hop ethnographers talking method, place, and sound across disciplines. The panel is also hybrid. aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/soli...

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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Delusional is the cool kid in town ;) We all seem to want to be best friends with this one!!

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 06/03/2025

ChatGPT just gained 200 million users in the last two months. "By November 2023, ChatGPT had reached another milestone of 100 million weekly active users, which grew to 300 million by December 2024, then 400 million in February 2025." techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/c...

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ChatGPT doubled its weekly active users in under 6 months, thanks to new releases | TechCrunch

OpenAI's flagship AI chatbot, ChatGPT, returned to solid growth in the latter half of 2024, according to a new report published on Thursday by VC firm

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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

When I started at D&S last Sept I didn't even know what genAI red-teaming was (events where users systematically prompt LLMs to reveal bias, inaccuracy etc). This report covers the history of red-teaming, various ways the public is involved, and how to improve it. Huge kudos to the team!

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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The first big shift might have been to bring most Indians online, and that is in itself an important goal. But the devices they use to get online do matter too because they affect what we're able to do with the internet, and that could be the next big shift. www.dataforindia.com/email/62354e...

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Going online

In India's internet story, one big shift is already well known - over the last decade, India has gone from having fewer than 100 million internet subscriptions to having over 900 million internet subs...

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I just emailed a student about pedagogical zines and shared these from Shirin Vossoughi and colleagues. The zines are "Designed by and for educators working to sustain the dignity, imagination and collective well-being of children, youth, and families..." Posting this beautiful collection here too:

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zines — Blue Dandelion

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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Our write4change community has truly grown into an incredible intergenerational community of researchers! We are coming out with some incredible digital writing and play literacies research!

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Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

🤖NEW BLOG🤖 The rise of metrics-based school discipline: How ClassDojo is changing discipline practices in schools by @jamiemanolev.bsky.social, Anna Sullivan, & Neil Tippett: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/the-ris... The blog previews their new article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The rise of metrics-based school discipline: How ClassDojo is changing discipline practices in schools — Civics of Technology

Civics of Tech Announcements Book Club on Feb 18th: Allie Thrall will be leading a discussion of The Propagandists' Playbook . Register to attend on the events page . Next Te...

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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Chai and मोर There I said it! I had been been dying to say this all day long!

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Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) @annenbergcargc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

CARGC is pleased to announce Gholam Khiabany (Goldsmiths, University of London), Anis Rahman (University of Washington), and Anastasia Kavada (University of Westminster) will join the center as visiting scholars this spring. Read more about their research at www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/....

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The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Welcomes Three Visiting Scholars for Spring 2025

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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

We are building something cool! Take a look!

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Crystal Lee @handle.invalid · 20/12/2024

if AI is coming for all of our jobs, can it first fix my printer so that I can print out a return label on the first goddamn try

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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

1/n For the last 2 decades+, I’ve been surrounded by entrepreneurs. Early/late/in-between. Almost all of them will say: 1. It was/is lonely journey 2. Money is not/ cannot be the reason instead have a larger purpose 3. Learning to self-mange the biggest skill learnt. —similar to a PHD’s journey

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 01/12/2024

MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here: archive.org/details/mit_...

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AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Join #literacies chat at 8pm EST/7pm CST/5pm PST tonight as we discuss The Work Continues: Critical Civic Literacies Within and Beyond Election Season.

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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Is it just me or did #Twitter actually do something about its algorithm!! My feed this evening has been so much better than it has in years!! Did the @bsky.app echo chamber get them worried ;)

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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

This collective of scholars looking at digital writing is the stuff dreams are made off! :)

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Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

My new book from @mitpress.bsky.social, Gaming Democracy: How Silicon Valley Leveled Up the Far Right, is out today! The book explores how play and gaming culture have mainstreamed far right ideology through social media platforms. #digitalculture #games #politics #platforms

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Gaming Democracy

How play and gaming culture have mainstreamed far right ideology through social media platforms.From #Gamergate to the ongoing Big Lie, the far right has gon...

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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Joy is— sharing some of my work around emergence of youth-led collectives & their collective literacy practices| what educators/researchers/policy-makers working with youth could learn about creating/ supporting intergenerational third spaces. #ncte24 #ncte204 Picture cred @clarabbott.bsky.social

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

There is nothing wrong with trying to find a social media platform that connects you with people who share similar values to you. This is not a desire for an echo chamber. It is desire for a community.

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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

At #ncte2024. Will be talking about youth Digital writing, AI in classrooms, critical media literacy, and intergenerational writing communities and platforms! Come join in! And if you are here, do tag yourself! Let’s meet :)

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Vampire Step-Dad @handle.invalid · 16/11/2024

Oh no, this echo chamber I'm stuck in is full of amazing art, generous, kind people, and joy. What ever shall I do?

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Me vs. November 2024

woodblock print, woman being swallowed by giant carp kite

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 16/11/2024

🤔There are ~50M Black folk in the US. At peak, ~1 in 5 Black US folk was a Twitter user. 1 in 5 of 50M is 10M Black US users. 500K BlackSky users is 1 in 20 of those 10M Black users. That's... a lot. And it's growing... Of course, not all BlackSky is US based, but still.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Seriously though: since all these thinkpieces are being written about bluesky, hi editors and journalists, I wrote a whole book about Twitter (among other research on social media) and am tracking the migration here from a cultural/political perspective so if you want to talk to me I’m here 😇

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Rabani Garg @rabani.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

How can the first post be anything but this. A full moon, autumn leaves. A transition.

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Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

New to bluesky and want to follow smart people who study the internet? I made this starter pack to get you going! This one is full at the app’s limit, but please make your own and share widely! go.bsky.app/LVrPemK

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Aswin Punathambekar @aswinp.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Please join the South Asian film and media studies community here! Please add friends and colleagues, and let me know if you'd like to be included. go.bsky.app/7n3AdXG

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