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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Deadline extended to 10 December. Workshop on #Digital Authoritarianism in the Global South and East. #ecpr #ecprjs26 #polisky #digital #asia #africa #latinamerica #europe

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Qian Huang 黄倩 @qianhuang.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

After 2 years of dedicated work, our special issue is finally out! We present to you 19 articles in Convergence. Together with my brilliant co-editors — Jing Zeng, Hiromi Tanaka & @saifshahin.bsky.social — we rethink digital visibility negotiation grounded in Asia. Read our intro: shorturl.at/4xLZJ

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Many congratulations to my dear friend @paufder.bsky.social on the publication of her new book, ‘Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy.’ Must read if you’re interested in the US #documentary industry and its social impact. www.ucpress.edu/books/kartem...

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Kartemquin Films by Patricia Aufderheide - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

#newPub #academicSky #commSky We extend Debord’s powerful concept of the ‘spectacle’ to #digital media but also identify its limitations in our comparative analysis of #Korean and English-language posts/networks about the Seoul stampede. Read #openAccess at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

It was a pleasure to share my research at #asen2025 on the role of bottom-up #digital nationalism — or what I call “user-generated nationalism” — in online hashtag wars between pro- and anti-Trump partisans. Looking forward to another day of insightful talks and discussions. #academicsky

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Landed today in Budapest for the #asen2025 conference. Couldn’t wait to get to the Danube. Lovely weather too!

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We’re guest editing a #special issue of Chinese Journal of Communication on Transnational #Migration to/from #China: The Role of #Digital Platforms, Publics, and Policies. Manuscript #deadline is 31 July. Please share widely. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... #AcademicSky #CommSky

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

#AcademicSky #CommSky My article with Jin-A Choi on the spectacle of #suffering has been accepted in Convergence. We find stark differences in narratives about the Seoul stampede across #English and #Korean language posts. Lemme know if you want to a copy of the #preprint.

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Brooke Foucault Welles @foucaultwelles.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

🚨New paper alert! 🚨 We all know activism is a marathon not a sprint. New paper shows how environmental activists maintain momentum over time. Hope you like it!

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Delighted and proud to see @j-nakahara.bsky.social and Jing Cai come out with this interesting and timely study in New Media & Society on the intersection of Chinese nationalism and feminism online. Way to go!

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

#CallforPapers from #Digital South Research Lab Mingyi Hou, Sagnik Dutta & I are editing a special issue of Chinese Journal of Communication on “Transnational #Migration to/from #China: The Role of Digital Platforms, Publics, and Policies” think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... #AcademicSky

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Transnational Migration to/from China

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

We launched the #Digital South Research Lab on Friday with scholars from across Netherlands joining us in a couple of amazing sessions. Many thanks to all my colleagues, students and friends who supported this endeavor. Learn more about our projects, team and calls at shorturl.at/jb5fD

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

#newPub #openAccess #academicSky #commSky Delighted to see this article finally published in Social Media + Society. #StopAsianHate as Hashtag #Activism: Provocateurs, Celebrities, and #Fan Practices of Collective Action Against #Racism journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Key findings 🧵👇🏽

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I’m starting the #Digital South Research Lab along with colleagues @tilburg-university.bsky.social with a hybrid event on 21 February, 11am - 3pm. Session 1. Securitization of the academia Session 2. Book talk by Mingyi Hou Full program and registration at shorturl.at/1ZDPa #academicSky #bookSky

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Digital South Research Lab launch

Friday 21 February, 11 am — 3 pm on the campus of Tilburg University View the full programme

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I’m guest editing a Chinese Journal of Communication SI on “Transnational #Migration to/from #China: The Role of #Digital Platforms, Publics, and Policies.” Please consider submitting or circulating the call in your networks. #callforpapers #cfp #academicsky #commsky #socialmedia #communication

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Wishing my scholarly friends lots of publications, citations and grants in the 2025. May your h-index explode and i10 shoot through the roof! #happynewyear #happy2025 #academicsky #commsky

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

It’s not the merriest of Christmases in Gaza and Santa doesn’t have much to give to children, but he still visits them, shakes their hands and listens to their stories. Spare a thought for how families in Palestine, the land where Jesus was born, are spending Christmas as you enjoy the festivities.

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Looking forward to attending #asen2025. Just got the notice that my submission, ‘The #Border Within: Political #Partisanship as User-Generated #Nationalism in the #UnitedStates,’ has been accepted. #academicsky #commsky #polisky #race #ethnicity #socialmedia #tech

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Everyone who has ever submitted a manuscript with two or more figures will empathise with Tom Paris. #saturday #academicsky #design #startrek

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

One Hundred of Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my favourite novels of all time. #Netflix recently released an 8-part series based on it. I’m too scared to watch as I expect them to have caricaturized the characters and butchered the story. Has any watched it? Did you like it?

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Malcolm X (not to be confused with Twitter) and Muhammad Ali. #legends #blacksky

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ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

🤖 Bias found in AI system used to detect UK benefits fraud: "An artificial intelligence system used by the UK government to detect welfare fraud is showing bias according to people’s age, disability, marital status and nationality." www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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Revealed: bias found in AI system used to detect UK benefits fraud

Exclusive: Age, disability, marital status and nationality influence decisions to investigate claims, prompting fears of ‘hurt first, fix later’ approach

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

As a #Muslim I think this is awful. #Islam values human #dignity and #equality above everything else. And dignity and equality is what the #LGBTQ+ community wants as well. To deny them that is unIslamic. #ManU should have followed on their plans to support the LGBTQ+ community. #sportsky #football

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Asvatha @asvatha.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

In 2021, @saifshahin.bsky.social & I wrote about how over use of the technical flaws rhetoric allowed companies to argue they just needed time to get better (which was followed by the toning down of the legislation opposing use of FR by cops in San Francisco www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...

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CHAPTER 13 ‘Not Ready for Prime Time’: Biometrics and Biopolitics in the (Un) Making of California’s Facial Recognition Ban Biometrics and Biopolitics in the (Un) Making of California’s Facial Re...

Asvatha Babu, Saif Shahin, ‘Not Ready for Prime Time’:, AI for Everyone?, pp. 223-246

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 03/12/2024

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research. A Place of Joy.

‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky
Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03784-6

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Graph of the day. For those wondering whether the over-performing Dutch universities need more or (even) less funding. This red line is the government investment per student. More, not less, funding is needed. #DoeHetNiet @woinactie.bsky.social source: @universiteitennl.bsky.social 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#academicsky #academicchatter #phdsky High on the list of words I avoid using is “academician.” Sounds too much like “politician.” My preferred form is “academic,” which can also imply “moot” or “irrelevant.”

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Their problem with Assad is his current alliance with Iran. Their problem with Assad isn’t his mass atrocities. Both the US and UAE are responsible for genocide in Gaza and Sudan - mass atrocities are not a concern for them.

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Anton Woronczuk @bullshivik.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This is happening under a Democratic presidency, under a Democratic governor, and a Democratic state's attorney.

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Social Media + Society has accepted my article with Mingyi Hou on the #StopAsianHate movement against anti-Asian #racism during the pandemic. We use #machineLearning to analyse a corpus of Twitter posts about the #movement. A thread 🧵 👇 [1/n] #AcademicSky #CommSky #activism #digital #socialmedia

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

They said #technology will set you free. It’s doing the exact opposite, building more cages to trap and control our lives. 👇🏽 #digital #surveillance #capitalism

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Study shows economists’ #partisan leanings influence the #language they use to present results of academic #research & even their variable estimates “such that the implied #policy prescription is consistent with partisan leaning.” academic.oup.com/ej/article/1... #AcademicSky #Politics #Economics

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Week of events against scholasticide in Gaza, until Friday 29 Nov, LSE.

Week of events against scholasticide - activities until Friday 29 Nov held at LSE and London universities

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

That’s the opinion of the mainest of mainstream American #press. Basically, there’s no difference between Fleet Street and a Russian troll farm. #media #journalism #news #disinformation #fakenews #AcademicSky

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Some 20,000 teachers, #students and staff marched in The Hague today to #protest ridiculous budget cuts to higher #education in The Netherlands. #activism #movement #solidarity #academicsky #poliscisky

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Tom Saunders @tomsaunders.me · 24/11/2024

Want to dip your toe into #programming? This free 6 hour intro to #Rstats online curriculum is a great entry point and we get good feedback when teaching it to researchers. Don't worry about the 'for ecologists' bit, that's just the flavour of dataset. #academicsky #research #science

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Data Analysis and Visualization in R for Ecologists: Summary and Setup

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The name #Bluesky comes from Mandarin Lantian; it started out to represent the Twitter bird freed into an #open ecosystem; its 20 full-time staff are now operating at a million users per head; and other interesting anecdotes and factoids about your favourite #platform 👇🏽

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

If you didn’t know why #space aliens have refrained from paying us a visit, now you do. #philosophy #science #nasa #trump #bluesky

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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Social media grew everywhere last 10 yrs. How abt considering #trust in news declined because #news organizations propagate lies? Why are #media scholars so unwilling to hold mainstream media & journalists to account for #disinformation? #mediasky #commsky #fakenews #academicsky #academicchatter

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 23/11/2024

Bluesky's firehose is a treasure trove of public data for researchers and developers, and it's completely free. Check out our developer docs: docs.bsky.app

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Bluesky Documentation | Bluesky

Explore guides and tutorials to the Bluesky API.

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