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hannahhopkins.bsky.social
Rhetoric & Writing PhD Candidate at UT Austin. Into data centers, climate, infrastructure, storytelling, and my dog.
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My first solo-authored article is up now in RSQ! This piece was a dream to work on. I'm so humbled by the generosity of the RSQ reviewers and editors, and even more sure that my crackerjack home team of friends + colleagues is the best in the game. Check it out! bit.ly/hhopkinsrsq

AI, but for choosing a first day icebreaker that won’t mortify me or anyone else

AI, but for predicting how and where I’ll mess up the lyrics when I sing in my car

Is the Instagram targeted ads team… okay?

I line-dried my laundry today. It is December 29.

In the end, maybe the undeletable Microsoft Word section breaks are the friends we made along the way

AI, but for predicting how often I’ll forget about the tea I just brewed (it’s every time, help)

WHO HOG

A bunch of terrific scholars, practitioners, writers, and more are joining together on Dec. 6 for an online conference exploring some of the social, political, and environmental contexts & consequences of AI. Free to attend (register by Dec. 5): uva.theopenscholar.com/rethinking-t...

AI, but for telling me which journal’s online reading interface will make me the most enraged

The Oracle for Transfeminist Technologies is back in stock! A perfect gift for anyone interested in radical imagination, transfeminism, design, play, ecological futures, etc cc @codingrights.bsky.social store.alliedmedia.org/products/the...

I wasn't sure if anyone has done this yet, but I went ahead and created a starter pack for #TechCommSky for folks from #TechComm who are slowly but surely migrating to this space. It's not perfect or comprehensive. Please forgive me.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Historian of Computing: The cup was created by, and remains an essential part of, the military industrial complex

New article alert! "Imagination, Identification, Intensification: Rhetorical Strategies for Climate Fiction on Television" is out now in Environmental Communication. Check it out if you're interested in environmental rhetoric and popular media & culture. doi.org/10.1080/1752...

DEADLINE EXTENDED: December 9 is the new CFP deadline for the Computers & Writing Conference 2025 at the University of Georgia! Read the CFP here and get those proposals submittted! We want you in Athens in May! engl.franklin.uga.edu/computers-an...

✨ including grad students in your academic starter packs as praxis ✨

Excited to share that Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice, which Susan Schreibman & I coedited, has a publication date and will be available fully OA on 4/8/2025!! @illinoispress.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0....

If you had to introduce yourself with only a list of three books, what would they be?

AI, but for calculating the exact amount of cranberry sauce to make in order to eat it with every meal for a month

For sale: ship of theseus Condition: used, like new

Seth's tool now lets you convert a starter pack into either a regular (content) list or a block (moderation) list! Thanks, @wandrme.paxex.aero

I'm the guest editor of a special issue for Surveillance & Society: Resisting #Surveillance through #Data Visibility & Invisibility. Looking for articles building upon the critical theories of #data #feminism, #justice, & #colonialism. Papers due March 2025. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Thrilled that everyone can get to know my friend and collaborator @trentwintermeier.bsky.social on THE DATA FIX! Check it out, y'all.

I think I have the world's most bizarre, delightful Facebook Marketplace algorithm. Today's recs: I need this on a spiritual level: www.facebook.com/share/13m78G7aHX/ Missing Yellowjackets? Merry Christmas: www.facebook.com/share/1B9tG2dctw/ 👏: www.facebook.com/share/18BMHLmxKy/

Is there a starter pack of starter packs yet?

Lauren Williams has launched a 🌟 new interactive project, Making Room for Abolition - featuring essays, dispatches, and (my favorite) a collection of artifacts that embody abolitionist principles www.makingroom.online

AI, but for recommending a pen/highlighter combination that won't smudge everywhere

“At times, it is cloaked in the verdant imagery of urban ecological harmony or buoyed by soaring rhetoric about the power of public space in facilitating protest or tenuous ideas of democracy. But, by and large, the spatial disciplines go where capital flows.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"We read mud like a diary, transcribing it with equations, time series, and maps. All this is a story.... We are not just extracting a geologic archive for data points... All of us live as part of the landscape. And in our unknowing, with all our wonder and fear, we form community."