Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

Memes detach culture from authorial intent, fueling both extremist communities and creative democratic discourse, writes Reed Van Schenck.

Memes detach culture from authorial intent, fueling both extremist communities and creative democratic discourse, writes Reed Van Schenck.

Reed Van Schenck, author of 'The Reactionary Web', argues that Truth Social’s paid Truth API gives wealthy traders advance access to Trump’s market-moving announcements, highlighting how the commodifi...

This probe examines the memetic uptake of MGMT’s song ‘Little Dark Age’ as a challenge to research on meme culture which emphasizes the message in lieu of the medium and its biases. Despite the song’s...

This paper develops ‘replatformization’ to evaluate the re-constitutive practices of alternative platforms. Alt-tech platforms that cater to ‘deplatformed’ reactionary users characterize themselves...

1,131 likes, 114 comments - rtvenoticias on June 28, 2026: "🔸En Estados Unidos muchos miembros del colectivo trans deciden irse de su país y venir a España ante el acoso de la administración Trump que...

Members of the Coalition for Independent Technology Research today requested leave to intervene in X v. European Commission. X’s Digital Services Act violations have prevented researchers from using p...

The old world of content safety practices is dead, and the new one is struggling to be born.

While Our Students Are Sleeping: a Podcast about Theory and Politics

Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Popular narratives centered on online trans communities implicitly associate transgender digital networks with forwardness and social radicalism. This association has become idealized, or taken as ...

While Our Students Are Sleeping: a Podcast about Theory and Politics

While Our Students Are Sleeping: a Podcast about Theory and Politics

Edited by Reed Van Schenck and Elaine Venter New platforms always invite new subversions of human agency, from Facebook spying on us to AI taking our jobs. This special section invited scholars in med...

This paper evaluates how live-streaming content creators use debate to hail their audience into “gamer publics,” deliberative spheres shaped by the practices of gaming culture. In the wake of react...

Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.

Breaking Culture Live is hosted by Sean Johnson Andrews. Each week we talk to a cultural studies scholar about the breaking news and their latest work in the field. We especially draw upon activists, ...

While Our Students Are Sleeping: a Podcast about Theory and Politics

Philosophy Podcast · A podcast with a couple of political theory professors that explores the thinkers, ideas and debates that inform our modern political landscape. rolfstromolsen.substack.com

Europe faces growing pressure from U.S. tech and politics, but its strength lies in upholding democratic values through rights-based regulation and autonomy, writes Reed Van Schenck.

In the clash between Charlie Kirk and Nick Fuentes, the Pepe people prevailed.

Addressing Authoritarianism: A Resource Library This resource library has been compiled by NCA members and others to provide public resources to teach, think, and write about the current rise of autho...