Reposted by Hatim El-HibriTanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026CFP for 2027 Media Industries Conference, held June 14-16 in Madrid, hosted by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Submission deadline: Monday 14 September 2026. Details of CFP as link_attached as images w/ alt-text or summary. Direct Qs to media-industries@kcl.ac.uk. media.licdn.com/dms/document... 186
Reposted by Hatim El-Hibridanah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026PhD candidates/new grads: Postdoc opportunity with me focused on political economy and tech. See details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32502academicjobsonline.orgCornell University, Department of Communication Job #AJO32502, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US 16562
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/ 5763152017
Hatim El-Hibri @sayshatim.bsky.social · 09/08/2026@simongandrew.bsky.social any idea what this might be? 110
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriJason Scott @textfiles.com · 04/07/2026OK, let's start the search. Adrienne Shaw is on the lookout for two titles of early LGBTQ software that predate Caper in the Castro. One is called VAPOR PALACE. The other features Tom of Finland art but has no discovered name yet. The search is on - if you know more details or... have a copy? ping. 419391
Reposted by Hatim El-Hibrialice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I am hiring a qualitative postdoc to start this fall for the @datasociety.bsky.social project AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge. Fully remote but must be US-based. Interested in youth, scams, hustle/financial/consumer culture? More here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...job-boards.greenhouse.ioPost-Doctoral Fellow, AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security ChallengeRemote 13640
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriMiddle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social · 29/04/2026NEW ISSUE: Campus Politics--Palestine and the New University Order is out today! The issue features a suite of articles reflecting on two years of student encampments and struggles for academic freedom and against authoritarianism in the US, Europe and the Middle East.buff.lyCampus Politics–Palestine and the New University OrderSpring 2026 02721
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriJames Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Bears mentioning that everything everyone on this site feared Trump would do to Iran yesterday, Israel is doing to Lebanon today. 6427189
Hatim El-Hibri @sayshatim.bsky.social · 08/04/2026A fantastic piece by @nargesbajoghli.bsky.social, explaining where those viral Iranian AI lego videos came from, and the generational experiences informing them. Narges is one of the best placed researchers to explain the social worlds of Iranian media and digital life 1/2 nymag.com/intelligence...nymag.comIn the Room With Iran’s Social Media SavantsThe new generation of IRGC content creators is younger, quicker, and less afraid of the U.S. 132
Hatim El-Hibri @sayshatim.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Support MERIP! One of the best sources for perspectives on the SWANA/MENA region, that gives you complexity with you needing to already be an expert 0103
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriLisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...upress.umn.eduThe Inattention EconomyRevealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economyThe Inattention Economy challenges the wides... 2168100
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriAAUP @aaup.org · 17/03/2026“The VA General Assembly voted to give over half a million public sector workers collective bargaining rights. But not me. I'm an adjunct faculty member who was just left behind to endure the exploitation of higher education.” @abigailspanberger.com, please correct course & add us back in.theeduledger.comCollective Bargaining is One Solution to Ending Higher Ed Worker Exploitation – I Should Know.One adjunct professor argues that without the legal leverage of collective bargaining, she is a 'sitting duck' for institutions to profit from her expertise while leaving her vulnerable to financial i... 111446
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriEsmat Elhalaby @esmat.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Postdoc in Palestine Studies at the University of Toronto for next academic year. Applications are due April 6. Please share and apply. 098
Reposted by Hatim El-Hibriغراب غريب عجيب @strangecrow.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Hello, if you are looking for reliable resources to follow as things escalate in Lebanon, I've got you ! Now is an especially good time to check out these accounts since there is very little media coverage of what's going on in Lebanon ! go.bsky.app/Bwe7hSf 44740
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriMiddle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social · 02/02/2026PITCH US: MERIP's editors are inviting open pitches for our Summer 2026 issue on Visual Art and Cultural Production in the Middle East and North Africa! Read more and pitch at the link below.buff.lyCall for Pitches—Visual Art & Cultural Production in the Middle East and North AfricaMERIP is seeking pitches for our Summer 2026 issue exploring visual art and cultural production in the Middle East and North Africa. We invite submissions that center artistic practices and cultural… 2811
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriLaleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Re: Trump seizure of Venezuelan oil and its sale via traders Vitol and Trafigura means that the money goes into a Qatari bank account and out of the hand of Venezuela’s creditors. Vitol and Trafigura have been big donors to Trump. So, the oil capture benefits *some* capitalists, but not others. 25328
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriJosh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Bill Siemering, founding program director of NPR, author of its mission statement, has asked me to inquire if any profs might be interested in a Zoom class visit? No honorarium necessary. Bill founded All Things Considered, Fresh Air, won a MacArthur, etc.nytimes.comA Founding Father of NPR Worries About Its Fate 11318147
Reposted by Hatim El-Hibridr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 01/12/20251/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...theintercept.comTrump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible TimeBy the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS. 5605333
Hatim El-Hibri @sayshatim.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Everyone so often you have a conversation with people that really makes the world make more sense, and so this conversation turned into an article that tries to recreate that. what a joy to have worked on this with @msteinbrg.bsky.social @linzhang.bsky.social @rahmuk.bsky.social and Joe Khalil! 141
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Excellent op-ed by environmental sociologist Eric Bond and Viktor Newby. "We submitted FOIA requests to every Virginia locality we could identify w/ an existing, approved, or proposed data center. We found that... 25 out of a total of 31 localities have NDAs." virginiamercury.com/2025/04/30/d...virginiamercury.comData centers, non-disclosure agreements and democracy • Virginia MercuryWe fear that the widespread use of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and a larger ethic of secrecy regarding data-center development curtails meaningful debate and impairs local democracy, write guest ... 27347
Hatim El-Hibri @sayshatim.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Funded opportunity for graduate students and early career scholars! 021
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriSchneier on Security @schneier.com · 17/10/2025A Surprising Amount of Satellite Traffic Is Unencrypted Here's the summary: We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky and carried out the most comprehensive public study to date of geostationary satellite communication. A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being…schneier.comA Surprising Amount of Satellite Traffic Is UnencryptedHere's the summary: We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky and carried out the most comprehensive public study to date of geostationary satellite communication. A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being broadcast unencrypted, including critical infrastructure, internal corporate and government communications, private citizens' voice calls and SMS, and consumer Internet traffic from in-flight wifi and mobile networks. 12712
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriInstitute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Applications are now open for the 2026 Theory and Method Winter School (January 6–8, Doha, Qatar) on "Media Policy and Governance," hosted by #IAS_NUQ at @nuqatar.bsky.social. Deadline: Sept 15, 2025 Apply here: bit.ly/2026winterschool 145
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriPOMEPS @pomeps.bsky.social · 15/08/2025POMEPS is pleased to call for proposals for the POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops to be held in a virtual format throughout the academic year 2025-2026. The deadline to apply is Sept. 15. More info: pomeps.org/pomeps-junio...pomeps.orgCall for Proposals: POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops 2025-2026 - Project on Middle East Political ScienceThe Project on Middle East Political Science is pleased to call for proposals for the POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops to be held in a virtual format throughout the academic year 2025-... 046
Hatim El-Hibri @sayshatim.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Not convinced. Citing your paternal lineage only works as a flex if you can credibly do it in a language with formal conventions for it, eg Arabic "Andrew, Ibn Mario Ibn Andrea" or Icelandic, "I'm Andrew Mariosson" 040
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriBethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 23/07/2025www.chronicle.com/article/the-...? @aaup @aaupmason.bsky.socialchronicle.comOpinion | The Plot to Oust the President of George Mason UniversityThis campaign is not about policy. It’s about power. 054
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriTom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...queensu.caQueen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission. 1918981418
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriAssociation of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social · 02/05/2025We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group. aoir.org/riskyresearc... 5151113
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriInstitute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Introducing SHAMS — the Society for Humanistic Arab Media Studies! Launched under the AIMS initiative at #IAS_NUQ & funded in part by @carnegiecorp.bsky.social, SHAMS advances humanistic research on Arab media. 🗓 May 14, 2025 ⏰ 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. 📍 Gefinor Rotana, Beirut 121
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriAyman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Join me this Sunday to watch a rly good doumentary on the class struggle and labour movement that led up to the 1975 outbreak of civil war in Lebanon. www.patreon.com/login?ru=%2F... 32311
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriThe Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy @timep.bsky.social · 26/03/2025📢 TIMEP joins 59 Lebanese and international partners in solidarity with independent media outlets Daraj and Megaphone amid a coordinated defamatory campaign by Lebanon's banking sector lobby intended to target them for their financial accountability reporting timep.org/2025/03/26/i...timep.orgIn Solidarity with Daraj and Megaphone Amid A Coordinated CampaignTIMEP joins 59 of partners in solidarity with Daraj and Megaphone amid a coordinated defamatory campaign by Lebanon's banking sector lobby. 074
Hatim El-Hibri @sayshatim.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Very happy to see my essay on Mohamed Zayani and Joe Khalil's The Digital Double Bind is now out: "A New Footing for the Study of Digital Media in the Arab World," t.co/VgzH5iN1Uk the book is here: global.oup.com/academic/pro... 050
Reposted by Hatim El-Hibridr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 12/03/2025New from me in LitHub: The lack of solidarity from the American media has led directly to its current death spiral. Where is the moral courage at newspapers and journalism schools? Where is the outrage of the press corps? Silence = death, lithub.com/stenographer...lithub.comStenographers of Empire: Where is the Moral Courage in the American Media?On February 25, the White House decreed it would decide which journalists have access to President Donald Trump in the press pool, a responsibility which for a century has been handled by the White… 1022173
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriJustin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE: 2361383412
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriRob Davis @robwdavis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!boards.greenhouse.ioComputational JournalistNew York, New York, United States 14672052361
Hatim El-Hibri @sayshatim.bsky.social · 19/02/2025On the allure of "technocratic government" and elite capture 030
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/02/2025This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op 91119202689
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/20251. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...grants.nih.govNOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost RatesNIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD 25470014078
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriMarc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025The Platform Lab’s third public report, on Platform Regulation, is out!! Edited by Colin Crawford and featuring some brilliant insights & ppl writing short reflections on episodes and issues of platform regulation. Do read! www.theplatformlab.com/platform-reg...theplatformlab.comPlatform Regulation — The Platform Lab 2248
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriJustin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 20/01/2025When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944. 4855981948
Reposted by Hatim El-Hibrisophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 15/01/2025“When a ceasefire is announced, I will just run. No one ask me where. I myself don’t even know. I will just run, and run. …the important thing is to arrive at a quiet place: a place that allows me to weep for a long time.” 831301282
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriDave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 08/01/2025On behalf of Sensory Studies legend & ringleader David Howes, re-sharing the Uncommon Senses V cfp, happening May 7-10 @ Concordia U in Montreal. Deadline is Jan 20. A wonderful conf & v welcoming community. Please circulate & happy to answer questions! www.concordia.ca/cunews/artsc...concordia.caCall for Papers: Uncommon Senses V - Concordia University 2106
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriJuan Llamas-Rodriguez @llamasjr.bsky.social · 07/01/2025✨ Two-year postdoc opportunity ✨ Please spread word about our postdoc at @annenbergcargc.bsky.social. We are particularly interested in candidates whose work connects media industries, the production and circulation of popular cultural forms, and novel expressions of citizenship.asc.upenn.eduInternational Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication 05743
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriAlisa Perren @aperren.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Prepping for my spring grad media industries seminar, I put together my latest "recent industry books" list (2023-2025). docs.google.com/document/d/1... *Lots of great ones but PLEASE let me know if you have suggestions for additions! *What new media industries books do you recommend assigning?docs.google.comMedia Industry Books, 2023-2025.docxMedia Industries Books, 2023-2025 This list consists of books featuring a range of approaches to the media industries. In an effort to be as expansive as possible, I have included everything from sch... 24015
Hatim El-Hibri @sayshatim.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Zeina Al-Halabi for Megaphone News - "Scenes from Post-Assad Damascus" www.instagram.com/p/DD7icALPbr... 050
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriGabriella "Biella" Coleman @biella.bsky.social · 19/12/2024My dept has a search for a senior medical anthropologist (joint with the medical school) please spread the word academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14528academicpositions.harvard.eduTenured Professor in Medical AnthropologyThe Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School seek to appoint a tenured professor in Medical Anth... 01912
Reposted by Hatim El-HibriDr. Manhattan @thenewthinker.bsky.social · 18/12/2024chuffed.org/project/crip...chuffed.orgCrips for eSims for GazaCrips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong. 153