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Simon Dawes

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Lecturer UVSQ, France. Journal Editor, Media Theory & French Cultural Studies. #FreePalestine. #JeNeSuisPasCharlie

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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
CFP for Media Realities Conference ju.se/samarbeta/ev...
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Media Realities International Symposium 2026
Photo banner: Adhyani Wirajuda. Organisers: Annette Hill (MKV, Jönköping University) and Hario Priambodho (Lund University) Dates: 29-30 April 2026 Venue:...
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Media Theory @meejatheory.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Last chance to register for the Media Theory at the Coach House Conference ! mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/
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Media Theory at the Coach House Inaugural Conference  November 7-8, 2025 Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto “Media theory seems eclipsed by the ubiquity of its objects” (…
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 25/06/2025
‘Given the size of Palestine Action and the breadth of support so far expressed for it, proscribing it could lead to a significant proportion of civil society being criminalised, including MPs, journalists and NGOs.’ New on the blog: Daniella Lock on Palestine Action. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
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Daniella Lock | Heavy Power
During a parliamentary debate on the Terrorism Bill in 2000, MPs asked whether the legislation could be used to...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 13/06/2025
‘The LAPD trains with soldiers from the IDF, and you can see, in their response to the protesters, the same libidinal thrust of disproportionate force that’s turned against children throwing rocks at tanks in the West Bank.’ Anahid Nersessian on ICE in LA: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
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Anahid Nersessian | ICE’s War on Home
The protests that broke out last weekend in Los Angeles are at once an autonomous phenomenon and a continuation of the...
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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Rabea Eghbariah on the "ongoing Nakba" - almost 80 years of apartheid and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. New article in The Guardian after his "controversial" article in the Columbia Law Review. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... columbialawreview.org/content/towa...
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The two-state solution is a delusion | Rabea Eghbariah
Israel controls the lives of all Palestinians, without equal rights or equal representation: this is an entrenched one-state reality
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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Gideon Levy in Haaretz, a liberal Israeli newspaper, calling for full sanctions against Israel: "... the pressure and the punishment must be directed at Israel in its entirety... In Israel, all of us are now Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. All of us." archive.ph/6SiZV#select...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The Israeli defense minister is openly threatening the life of GretaThunberg and other unarmed peace activists on an aid ship. Where the f**k are the world’s leaders? The world’s media?
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Media Theory @meejatheory.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Join us for our inaugural conference! Here's the call for papers: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/
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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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The UK media discover Israel is off the leash
Britain’s national press finally realise that Israel might be a problem but still fail to recognise their own role in legitimising atrocities in Gaza.
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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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Dangerous Connections: Technology and Gender Violence in the Digital Age
Sociologia della Comunicazione is calling for submissions to a Special Issue on Cyber-VAWG!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
This is a must-read: The Trump administration's use of anti-semitism to attack immigrants and higher education mirrors plans by a group of Christian nationalists in the Heritage Foundation (which produced Project 2025). 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
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The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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Our Mutual Friend: The BBC in the Digital Age | Briefing | Common Wealth
The upcoming BBC Charter Review is an opportunity to transform the BBC into a public service mutual, founded on a genuinely democratic relationship with the public.
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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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« Gaza : nous refusons le silence »
Tribune d'étudiants en journalisme.
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Media Theory @meejatheory.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Inaugural conference! Media Theory at the Coach House November 7-8, 2025 Centre for Culture and Technology - University of Toronto Keynote speakers: Dr. Shane Denson (Stanford) Dr. Alessandra Renzi (Concordia) Abstracts due: June 30. CFP: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/
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Media Theory at the Coach House Inaugural Conference  November 7-8, 2025 Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto “Media theory seems eclipsed by the ubiquity of its objects” (…
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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Be a Trans Ally
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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
RIP Robert McChesney www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died
The academic and activist inspired generations of people to challenge corporate power and support a media reform movement that lives on.
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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
...the federal government is undermining two fundamental principles of the American university: the right of academic departments to self-government and the freedom of members of the faculty to express their views... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The US government has sent Columbia University a ransom note | Sheldon Pollock
Like a mob boss, the government threatens to cut off two of the university’s fingers: academic freedom and faculty governance
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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
On the Trumpist agenda of “free speech except Palestine” and “free of DEI except Zionism” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How antisemitism avoided the fate of antiracism | Jeff Melnick and Jessie Lee Rubin
The promotion of Israel’s national narrative remains exempt from Trump’s wholesale attack on DEI
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Roger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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PLATFORM: NRx: A Brief Guide for the Perplexed
The rise of J.D. Vance to the Vice Presidency of the United States marks a significant, unsettling turn in American politics, reflecting the mainstreaming of neoreactionary (NRx) ideologies that seek ...
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
'Elon Musk, Nazi salutes and the reactionary redefinition of fascism' New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by #Identities co-editor @aaronwinter.bsky.social www.identitiesjourna...
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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
"'disinformation' as a concept does not capture the true scale of Israel's war on truth. I propose the concept of "alethocide" (killing of truth) to fully capture deliberate, systemic lying in service of genocide" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #gazagenocide
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Evidencing alethocide: Israel’s war on truth in Gaza
This paper examines Israel’s systematic deployment of disinformation during its war on Gaza since October 2023, introducing the concept of ‘alethocide’ – the systemic destruction of truth. Using a ...
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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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Genocide, neutrality and the university sector - Rafeef Ziadah, 2025
The ongoing destruction in Gaza demands urgent academic and ethical reckoning, exposing the complicity of universities and scholarly disciplines in sustaining s...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese: "Settler colonialism is intimately, quintessentially genocidal, because it will result, sooner or later, in the annihilation of the indigenous people if it succeeds. Look at the United States..." Incontrovertible.
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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
On "how model minority authoritarianism borrows a gloss of “multicultural” progressiveness to lend respectability to, and animate, highly reactionary, anti-equality, right-wing politics" 🔥
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Simon Dawes @simondawes2.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
What is the significance of Arendt’s reflections for us, scholars in “the zone of interest” that is the Western academy? As Arendt argued, "those who cherish values and hold fast to moral norms and standards are not reliable: we now know that moral norms and standards can be changed overnight..."
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French Cultural Studies @frculturalst.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
FCS 36.1, Feb 2025: Out Now! Including racial capitalism & French universalism, laughing about race in “colorblind” France, Abdellatif Kechiche’s La Graine et le Mulet, Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligé & Les Soleils des Indépendances, and François Bayle & electroacoustic music
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Piotr Szpunar @pszpunar.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
New Pub! The gist: The shape imaginaries take pivot not only on what media make clearly visible but on what they offer up for speculation at their eco-technological edges. Open Access @meejatheory.bsky.social journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...
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Mediated Futures in Anesthetic Space: Noise, Speculation, and Lowell’s Telescope | Media Theory
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M. Beatrice Fazi @mbfazi.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
My article “Machines That Create: Contingent Computation and Generative AI” is now published in Media Theory. journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt... There I address the claims proposed in my 2018 book Contingent Computation vis-à-vis the AI developments that have occurred since ✨
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Media Theory @meejatheory.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Out now - Standard issue featuring articles by M. Beatrice Fazi, Mark B. N. Hansen, Piotr M. Szpunar, and Raymond L. M. Lee. journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt
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