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Some colleagues are processing Duterte's arrest with anxiety and ambivalence. I don’t think that we should shame folks working thru these emotions. 1/5

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

Cited in this @gqmagazine.bsky.social piece on Chaotic Twinks as the Archetype of the Moment. Proud to show interdisciplinarity and impact to opine on unshaming our kinks to burn it all down in public and private lives. My Dean will be thrilled. 😘 www.gq.com/story/how-th...

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Excited to be speaking in this timely event at MIT on Platforms & Justice with the brill @zoeglatt.bsky.social, @norasuren.bsky.social & @joncong.bsky.social; I'll bring the experiences of Palestinian and Jewish creators being culturally misread, flagged & muted—by both algorithms & humans; Join!👇🔥

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

📢📢📢 My brilliant friend @danijaradent.bsky.social and I have released a report (from our TCRN event) shedding light on the structural inequalities that shape the experiences of Latin American creators on TikTok. Their reality is one of constant struggle; see 🧵 tiktokcultures.com/latam-report/

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

It is precisely the Global Majority’s aversion to techno-legal fixes that gives rise to the creativity of its civil society. The world should take note. https://buff.ly/3E0Dunu @joncong.bsky.social & #GloTechLab advance a Global Majority-driven agenda on disinformation.

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Trump nationalizing TikTok should light up a big, flashy neon sign ✨Platform Opportunism✨ It shows how quickly demonized platforms turn into tools of power when conditions align. As @jessmaddox.bsky.social points, we must confront these shifts with nuance and resist the lure of saviorism👇

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

🤩 The CfP for the 7th Deliberative Democracy Summer School is out now 🤩 A toast to our colleagues from the University of Zurich for hosting the European version of the summer school. Grants available for students with limited institutional support. www.ipz.uzh.ch/en/study/doc...

submitted 155 days ago • 1 comment

What does a Global Majority agenda look like for tech and democracy? It's one that is civil society-driven and not dependent on techno-legal solutions from Washington DC or Brussels. @dwj88.bsky.social and I discuss GloTech Lab's South-to-South study for @ssrc.org👇 mediawell.ssrc.org/articles/the...

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

Civil society in the Global Majority is leading bold new approaches to counter-disinformation, prioritizing resilience, accountability, and creativity. Learn more in this article by @joncong.bsky.social and @dwj88.bsky.social : mediawell.ssrc.org/articles/the...

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

Discussing fact-checking. But at a deeper level offering solar plexus chakra healing 🌞 #OracleOng 🔮

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

The Philippines’ Vera Files reports below their fact-checking partnership with Meta is still on for 2025. This is important as it’s a big election year! Their editor quotes me and @tomdivon.bsky.social’s critique of big tech philanthrocapitalism 👇🏽 verafiles.org/articles/no-...

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

Great choice of thumbnail to accompany our op-ed about Zuckerberg’s techbro power play flexing exceptional American values against calls for global tech justice. Co authored with my own academic “bro” @tomdivon.bsky.social 🔥💪🏽

submitted 123 days ago • 1 comment

🔥 piece on Meta's global responsibility: "Rather than investing in culturally informed moderation with local language and regional expertise, Meta opts for a hands-off strategy, leaving fragile ecosystems to navigate a worsening crisis of truth." @jonathanong.bsky.social @tomdivon.bsky.social

submitted 123 days ago • 2 comments

This is a great piece! I'm less surprised by the alliance between Silicon Valley and DC, though (how new is this era?) And I hope over time we can better figure out why philanthrocapitalism and [corporate] content moderation have lost their appeal for Silicon Valley giants.

submitted 123 days ago • 2 comments

with my academic bro @joncong.bsky.social: “Rather than investing in regional expertise, Meta opts for a hands-off strategy, leaving fragile ecosystems to navigate a worsening crisis of truth. What they call "letting users decide" is, in reality, just responsibility dodging dressed as empowerment”👇

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Great choice of thumbnail to accompany our op-ed about Zuckerberg’s techbro power play flexing exceptional American values against calls for global tech justice. Co authored with my own academic “bro” @tomdivon.bsky.social 🔥💪🏽

submitted 123 days ago • 1 comment

Mark Zuckeberg’s announcement of sweeping changes to content moderation at Meta signaled a new alliance between Silicon Valley and Washington against global tech regulation, write Tom Divon and Jonathan Corpus Ong. The stakes are immense, especially in the Global South.

submitted 123 days ago • 3 comments

Academic Bros (me + @joncong.bsky.social) vs. Tech Bro: Zuckerberg says 'fact-checking,' but what he really means is: 🔥 Philanthrocapitalism is a trap 🔥 Free speech? Pure hypocrisy 🔥 Meta needs precarious regions to become digital props Check it out 👇

submitted 124 days ago • 1 comment

New op-ed with the amazing @tomdivon.bsky.social discusses the global implications of Zuckerberg's techbro flex of Silicon Valley's alliance with Trump 2.0. We critique the framing of exceptional American values as shield against global tech justice 1/3 www.techpolicy.press/tech-bro-pow...

submitted 124 days ago • 1 comment

It is now all the more important to articulate a tech justice vision for / from the Global South. Big Tech’s Americanization era under Trump 2.0 pushes back hard against global regulation. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

🇵🇭 Pinoy teachers and students cramming their media and comm syllabus for the new semester should check out the free resources available at www.siglaresearch.org/syllabus. Syllabus curated by a team of sociologists, comm researchers with database and explainer videos built by media literacy wizards 👇🏽

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

"The Global Engagement Center, a State Department unit established in 2016, shuttered on Monday at a time when officials and experts tracking propaganda have been warning of the risk of disinformation campaigns from US adversaries such as Russia and China" www.france24.com/en/live-news...

submitted 138 days ago • 7 comments

Congrats Sanja with your new book. Would love to host you at GloTech / UMass for your US book tour!

submitted 153 days ago • 1 comment

CEO shooter erotics unmasked for us the collective id and unshamed that the darkest kink we seem to share is to fck up the whole corrupt system and fck while everything burns to the ground

submitted 155 days ago • 0 comments

My job has kinda destroyed my 🧠 this year, so I haven't published much — but I do think I've partly extemporized a bunch of talks that speak to the moment. First, this DH keynote on bldg sociotechnical networks for tumultuous times + resisting AI inevitability [1/6] wordsinspace.net/2024/08/09/s...

submitted 163 days ago • 5 comments

Excited for this Mel! Perfect companion for my long-haul flight this week 🤩

submitted 160 days ago • 1 comment

Last day of Qualitative Research Methods graduate class @sbs-umass.bsky.social. We obvs had to share final reflections over breakfast buffet in the famous Umass dining hall 😛

submitted 160 days ago • 1 comment

Follow our wonderful UMass colleague / GloTech Fellow @heesoojang.bsky.social for thought analysis of political situation in South Korea. Her CNN interview 👉🏽 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF-X...

submitted 161 days ago • 1 comment

“Worryingly, critical researchers and specialist organizations are redirected by donors away from healing initiatives to conflict frames. 💔”

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If you're curious to dive deeper into these questions, check out the new GloTech report PLUS tomorrow's (11/20) webinar, 10 am ET, on Reforming Tech and Democracy Programs for the Global Majority: events.zoom.us/ev/AkC04t2rm...

submitted 175 days ago • 0 comments

This event with @joncong.bsky.social tomorrow looks great!

submitted 175 days ago • 2 comments

"Global North philanthropies contribute a high quantity of top-down, tools-and-tech-first, and short-term projects"

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