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Zenia Kish

@zeniakish.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Communication & Digital Media Studies, Ontario Tech U. I study finance, food, agriculture, and now dirt. Associate Editor at Journal of Cultural Economy.

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Jazmine Ulloa @jazmineulloa.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Some immigrants have gone a week without showers. Others sleep on bare floors. Medications have gone unprovided. As detentions have soared, former detainees, lawyers, family members and lawmakers tell us conditions in facilities across the country have become intolerable.
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Concerns Grow Over Dire Conditions in Immigrant Detention
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Jason P. Steed @profsteed.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
please stop using AI
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 22/05/2025
CFP: Farmers and Rural Lifeworlds in Current Narratives and Discourse, Bolzano, Italy, 4-5 Dec 2025 networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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Farmers and Rural Lifeworlds in Current Narratives and Discourse | H-Net
Eurac research Farmers and rural lifeworlds in current narratives and discourse Interna􀆟onal Workshop in Bolzano, Eurac Research, Ins􀆟tut for regional development, Drususallee 1, 39100 Bolzano/Italy 2...
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
fun fact three fighter jets is roughly equivalent to the NEA’s 2024 budget
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Zenia Kish @zeniakish.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
📢TOMORROW: Understanding Authoritarianism: Lessons from Ukraine and Europe online panel with Marina Levina, Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, David Boromisza-Habashi and me exploring how communication studies can contribute to countering authoritarian rhetorics and fictions www.natcom.org/zoom-meeting...
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NCA VLO: Understanding Authoritarianism: Lessons from Ukraine and Europe. - National Communication Association
Understanding Authoritarianism: Lessons from Ukraine and Europe. Registration is required for this event. If you have not registered, please click here to do so. Title: Understanding Authoritarianism:...
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Zenia Kish @zeniakish.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Upcoming: Canadian Environmental Crime Symposium at Ontario Tech U to launch the new Canadian Environmental Crime Research Network May 8 & 9 in person and online. Register at link.
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Canadian Environmental Crime Symposium
Get Tickets on Humanitix - Canadian Environmental Crime Symposium hosted by Ontario Tech Faculty of Social Science and Humanities. Ontario Tech University, Bordessa Hall, 55 Bond St E, Oshawa, ON L1G ...
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Zenia Kish @zeniakish.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
*Upcoming Event* Understanding Authoritarianism: Lessons from Ukraine and Europe hosted by the National Communication Association, 23 Apr. 3-4:30pm EST. Learn from comm scholars about how culture & communication connect rising authoritarianism in Europe & the US. Free Registration; please share!
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NCA VLO: Understanding Authoritarianism: Lessons from Ukraine and Europe. - National Communication Association
Understanding Authoritarianism: Lessons from Ukraine and Europe. Registration is required for this event. If you have not registered, please click here to do so. Title: Understanding Authoritarianism:...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This is very, very, very bad
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Pamela @zengaian.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
In the Bay Area, pedestrian cross-walk signal voices were hacked to imitate Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, and not in a good way. Here’s a sample in Redwood City:
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Rural Reconciliation Project @rural-reconcile.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This month's roundup shares scholarship by @emilyreisman.bsky.social, @landstuff.bsky.social, @zeniakish.bsky.social on agrarian platform capitalism, news and commentary on recent rural-related happenings, a map of news access across the state of Nebraska, and more!
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Roundup: April 11, 2025 — The Rural Reconciliation Project
A periodic collection of recent research, analysis, and other notable rural items.
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Zenia Kish @zeniakish.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
"The Ethiopia lawsuit is one of the only measures of accountability Meta currently faces in the Global South for how its platform has been weaponized by military and paramilitary groups to destabilize nations and target ethnic minorities."
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Kenyan lawsuit against Meta will test Big Tech accountability
A Kenyan court will hear a $1.6 billion lawsuit that alleges Facebook helped incite genocide in Ethiopia. The case could be a model for those looking to hold platforms responsible for online hate and ...
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Columbia gives Trump basically all he asks for, fires their president when it seems she may not comply fast enough, and then still gets all its remaining funding frozen. These demands are not good-faith demands about antisemitism. They are efforts to break universities.
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Zenia Kish @zeniakish.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Upcoming event with some stellar communication colleagues organized by the fantastic Marina Levina. More details coming soon! Online and open to all.
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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This is a very clear explainer of the structure of university Boards for those outside academia. This is who is bowing to the Trump administration.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/03/2025
That facial recognition system at Madison Square Garden sure has been REALLY great for proving that all the worst predictions and fears us researchers have had about facial recognition were accurate and valid: www.theverge.com/news/637228/...
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Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design
MSG uses tools like facial recognition on attendees.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
New Rubio order (leaked to me) directs the State Department to spy on student visa holders and applicants social media for "a hostile attitude toward U.S. citizens or U.S. culture (including government, institutions, or founding principles).” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
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Exclusive: Trump Admin Spies on Social Media of Foreign Students
Ideological purge of foreign students revealed in new leaked directive
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 28/03/2025
Three Ways to Support Detained Farmworker Organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez: labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/03/2025
NEW: It’s unclear whether new NIH guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future funding of studies focused on the health effects of climate change. One climate health expert called the directive “catastrophic.” @anniewaldman.bsky.social/@fastlerner.bsky.social
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NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...
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Zenia Kish @zeniakish.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
A great injustice has been served in denying Dr Steven Thrasher tenure. Defend academic freedom wherever you have the power to do so.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 20/03/2025
Virtually every leading First Amendment scholar in the country--conservative and liberal--has joined this statement warning that the Trump administration's threats to Columbia University risk deterring and suppressing constitutionally protected speech.
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Zenia Kish @zeniakish.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Excellent fellowship opportunity for Ukraine scholars at the University of Basel, Switzerland: uris.ch/news/call-fo...
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Call for Applications: Two URIS Fellowships at the University of Basel (2026)
Apply now for a six-month research and teaching stay at the University of Basel! Open to scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and cultural studies with a focus on Ukraine. Deadline: 28 April 2...
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Northwestern should be ashamed that they've bowed to political pressure, thereby threatening us all. They hired Steven, in part, for the very social justice activism they are now denying him tenure over. I'm proud to call @thrasherxy.bsky.social a friend and appreciate his courage.
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Zenia Kish @zeniakish.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Pleased to share this new collaboration with colleagues who research questions of access and inequality in digital agriculture across diverse geographies in Nature Food. What would inclusive and just ag innovation look like? @naturefood.bsky.social @landstuff.bsky.social @janeezirigwe.bsky.social
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Digital agriculture will perpetuate injustice unless led from the grassroots
Nature Food - Situating digital agriculture within recent histories of uneven agrarian development reveals its potential to perpetuate injustice. To avoid this outcome, we argue for innovation...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 18/03/2025
Israel killed at least 174 children in its ceasefire-shattering assault on Gaza on Tuesday, making it one of the deadliest 24 hours for children in Gaza’s history.
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Israel’s Assault Marks One of the Deadliest Days for Children in Gaza History
“Israeli forces have signed a death warrant for Palestinian children in Gaza,” one rights group worker said.
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Angella MacEwen @angella.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I love this piece on beefing up Canada's food systems resilience in the face of Trump's threats to our sovereignty: theconversation.com/why-canada-m...
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Why Canada must treat its food system as a matter of national defence
Faced with both a trade war and annexation threats, Canada must confront whether its domestic food systems can feed its population in a crisis.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
An entire @nytimes.com video on the need for power at AI data centers (& on tech companies now procuring energy) which never even mentions the words #ClimateChange, let alone notes that we need to phase out fossil fuels now to halt heating at a relatively safe level. I'm so tired.
A video still of the NYT reporter Karen Weiss, with the caption:

Why A.I. Companies Are Turning Into Energy Companies

Tech companies have been building data centers around the country, Karen Weise, Laura Bult, James Surdam and Ramon Dompor
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
ICE is now just straight-up torturing green-card holders
“It was just said that his green card was flagged,” said Astrid Senior, his mother. She said she didn’t hear from her son directly until Tuesday, when she learned he’d been hospitalized.

Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

“He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn’t feeling very well and he collapsed,” said Senior.
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Zenia Kish @zeniakish.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Are you thinking about/with soil? Resharing our CFP on the politics and poetics of soil with @newformations.bsky.social, co-edited by Eva-Lynn Jagoe and yours truly. Please share and submit by April 1! We have room for a few creative projects (literary, visual) in addition to scholarly essays.
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Sam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Today was a good day for 🇺🇦 diplomacy: 🇺🇸 arms and intel support are restored, political pressure shifts to 🇷🇺, at the cost of a notional commitment to a ceasefire, with no territorial concessions and, as yet, no minerals deal. Things get harder from here, though. (A 🧵) /1
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Things you could do: -NSJP has called for a day of action 3/11; hold a rally or protest. -send senior faculty to meet with admin and demand guarantees they won’t coordinate with ICE or admin -have all campus unions demand admin non-cooperation or compliance with Trump agenda
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This piece explains in a nutshell the staggering failure of capitalism to address the climate crisis. “No capitalist,” Marx wrote, “ever voluntarily introduces a new method of production… so long as it reduces the rate of profit.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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BP dropping its green ambitions is a travesty. But that’s exactly how capitalism works | Brett Christophers
The failure to deal with the climate emergency is not a problem of greedy individual companies, but a system rigged against positive change, says Brett Christophers, a professor of economic geography
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Chris York @chrisdyork.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If you're absolutely gobsmacked with what's just happened, ashamed of Ukraine seemingly being abandoned, and wondering how you can help — please consider supporting @kyivindependent.com so we can continue working in absolutely crucial — and dark — times. kyivindependent.com/membership/
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The Kyiv Independent
Your support allows us to bring independent, locally-sourced news about Ukraine to the world
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ Slava Ukraini.
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Donate to Ukraine’s defenders
The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
The Cybertruck is such a flop that Tesla has refused trade-in's and slowed production to a crawl. Musk's solution: Dump thousands of them on the federal government.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 09/02/2025
Alberta is a crime scene.
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Zenia Kish @zeniakish.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Are you researching, thinking, or writing about soil, dirt, earth, dust or other close relatives? Please help spread this CFP seeking interdisciplinary soil engagements, including novel theoretical and empirical approaches as well as creative/artistic work @newformations.bsky.social
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Call for Papers “Grounded Futures: The Poetics and Politics of Soil in a Changing World”
Call for Papers: “Grounded Futures: The Poetics and Politics of Soil in a Changing World”Rich with past histories of abundance and scarcity, composed of cycles of death and regeneration…
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Apropros of nothing, I’m reupping my @theemancipator.org article arguing that the so-called “anti-DEI movement” is a segregationist movement, and journalists should state this clearly. There is no need to help evil by adopting their language. theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...
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Eliminating DEI isn't just racist — it's segregationist
New segregationists’ need to use euphemisms shows the weakness of their intellectual position and the Civil Rights Movement’s moral clarity.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
'Our own voice': Organization supporting Indigenous journalists launches in Canada 5 longtime Indigenous storytellers establish Indigenous Media Association of Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'Our own voice': Organization supporting Indigenous journalists launches in Canada | CBC News
Eden Fineday, publisher of Indigenous media outlet IndigiNews, will lead the association with the help of fellow journalists Francine Compton, Kerry Benjoe, Maureen Googoo and Katherine Ross.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I'm really gonna need folks to pay attention to the anti-disability language that Donald Trump used today. You can read @metrauxjulia.bsky.social for details. It is as central to what he's doing as the misogyny and racism and homophobia and .... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump responds to Washington plane crash with racist, ableist diatribe
The president used the tragedy, which killed 67, to deliver a bigoted and self-promoting tirade about DEI.
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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 30/01/2025
To be clear: this article is a free, public resource and you can do whatever you want with it (as long as you credit me). Print out 1000 copies and give them to community centers. Sell the zine in your bookstore. Send it to all of your relatives. You have my permission to distribute in any way.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Want to do something about Trump’s anti-immigrant executive orders? Download a community defense playbook at defendandrecruit.org, sign up for a training, and check out this op-ed in Teen Vogue today.
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Justin Rawlins @justinrawlins.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Are you interested in the deconstruction of "acting" discourse this Oscar season? I've got just the solution for you: buy the audio version of my book, Imagining the Method, while it is on sale! t.co/SOZ7DXIuh2
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
18(1) is OUT and it is a monster www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/1... Featuring contribs from @jessaloomis.bsky.social & @dcockayne.bsky.social; @stevethreadgold.bsky.social et al; many more we can't tag
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Journal of Cultural Economy
Volume 18, Issue 1 of Journal of Cultural Economy
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Justin Rawlins @justinrawlins.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Love this movie! Love this episode w/ @herberthistory.bsky.social, @zeniakish.bsky.social, and @emilycontois.bsky.social!
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Zenia Kish @zeniakish.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Had a lovely time chatting with @herberthistory.bsky.social and @emilycontois.bsky.social about Chef and other food films on Historians At The Movies Podcast - subscribe to this fun podcast!!
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