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Sulafa Zidani @zidani.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Attention Northwestern U undergrads, I am hiring a summer part-time research assistant (remote). Official ad coming soon. Hit me up if you are interested!

I am looking for a Northwestern undergraduate research assistant to work with me on an archival digital research project this summer (remotely). If you or a friend want to help me uncover some digital cultural history, hit me up! job ad link coming soon. Attention: applicants must be a Northwestern students, must love digital rabbit hole, the pay is $20 per hour with a $2000 limit.

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Sulafa Zidani @zidani.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Attention Northwestern U undergrads, I am hiring a summer part-time research assistant (remote). Official ad coming soon. Hit me up if you are interested!

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I am thrilled to see “From interAsian to transAsian digitalities” out: lnkd.in/dgVfbZRT qatar.northwestern.edu/news/article... This issue of First Monday is the culmination of @iasnuq.bsky.social 's #InterAsianDigitalities initiative in partnership with #ACSS

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Sulafa Zidani @zidani.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

how have i survived 20 years in academia without using zotero?

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

"These companies are at an inflection point.... If Senate Republicans now vote to prohibit states from regulating A.I. for 10 years, Silicon Valley’s impunity will be enshrined in law, cementing these companies’ empire status." - @karenhao.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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Opinion | Silicon Valley Is at an Inflection Point

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Sulafa Zidani @zidani.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Listen to me talk about Pope memes on the 21st Show! This was such a fun conversation. Thank you for having my on the show!

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Sulafa Zidani @zidani.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Attention Northwestern folks, I’m offering this grad seminar again! Preregistration starts Monday!

the Imperial Internet is a graduate seminar course offered in fall 2025 under the course codes MTS 525 and COMM ST 425. It will be held on Thursday from 2pm until 4:50pm.

Course description: From its early days, the internet was imbued in liberatory and democratizing promises. Yet, it was constructed with a set of desires, namely, of American elites, and is situated within a set of unequal relationships. In this class, we will examine the links between the internet and imperialism–the ideological and material expressions of conquest and domination, which divide the world between zones of extraction and centers of capital.
We will be discussing different facets of the internet: from its history and material infrastructures, to its culture and labor relations, and its design and uses. The course will include readings on surveillance, content moderation, predictive algorithms, AI targeting systems, creative uses to counteract censorship and critique politics, as well as foundational texts on technology and imperialism and post/colonialism.

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Sulafa Zidani @zidani.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

My article on “layered surveillance” and creative ways activists maneuvered it in the 2021 #SaveSheikhJarrah movement is now out in @ijoc-usc.bsky.social This was a great collab with Dana Hasan and Amal Nazzal @ Birzeit university, so please check their other work as well! ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

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Beating Algorithmic Discrimination: Maneuvering Digital Surveillance to Indigenize the Narrative | Hasan | International Journal of Communication

Beating Algorithmic Discrimination: Maneuvering Digital Surveillance to Indigenize the Narrative

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Sulafa Zidani @zidani.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I was told you guys are alright so I came back to bluesky

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Sulafa Zidani @zidani.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

If you are wondering how to help a family in Gaza directly, go to www.gazafunds.com All the campaigns there have been vetted.

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Gaza Funds Spotlight Campaign

Find vetted fundraisers for Gaza here

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Sulafa Zidani @zidani.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

In my latest publication, I examine a dataset of 600 tweets from June 2021 which use the hashtag #Tweet_Like_Its_Free #غرد_كانها_حرة to explore collective imagining online as a civic media practice. Please message me if you don’t have access, I can send you a copy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Tweet Like It’s Free: Civic Imagination in the 2021 Palestinian Unity Intifada

In June 2021, in the midst of the Palestinian Unity Intifada, Twitter users took to the platform to imagine a desired future in which Israel’s apartheid occupation and barriers fragmenting Palestin...

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Sulafa Zidani @zidani.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🎤🎤 Are there any undergraduate students on here? If you know any Northwestern students, please share my new class w them!

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