mattsalzano.bsky.social
🤖 DEI + AI at Stony Brook University - School of Communication and Journalism / Alda Center for Communicating Science
🚨doctor of communication available for rhetorical emergencies
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📍 Long Island
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wow!
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@drledford.bsky.social this could be your entry point back into the humanities
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I was like this is great for four people flying internationally! then realized it was buffalo<>boston 😭
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TV! Hulu. 2019 I think
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But what about Normal People????
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myles! are you the target audience?
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You can also win a copy of both books as part of the Digital Rheotric Social Hour
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yes, the Alf dong has been covered at length (ha, ha) at this point
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4. All the reactions reminded me of early days (like 2007) on Twitter, which was a blast if a little overwhelming: I learned a lot about the platform, its users and memes, and it made me want to begin the full switch here and off of X/Twitter. Long live Bluesky, for now?
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I couldn’t disagree more - he’s curious and entrepreneurial beyond the classroom and he is an advocate for viewpoint diversity and dialogue on campus. He is a great example of why I like being an educator.
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3. Plenty expressed animosity toward the student: he must be a Nazi/idiot/never been on Bluesky. As far as I know, he’s neither of the first two, and I’m not sure he’s been here (I’ll have to ask). Some suggested he was a snowflake/bad sign of kids these days.
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2. Most assumed the student was right-wing, and didn’t want to interact with smart liberals! I thought this was fascinating. The opposite was the case: the student worried that only elites were on these platforms, which would make them limited for progressive coalition building and organizing.
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cheers! 😁
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thanks!! I would love to be included please 🙏
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🙋♂️ me please! thanks for putting it together!
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I actually think this student is trying to account for how a platform that facilitated/hosted too much intellectual posturing could be bad for progressive politics (especially after the latest US election)
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I shall make an alt and return 😆🫡🥵
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Threads is maybe worse than LinkedIn (hot take?)
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after today, I will! and I think he may be happy to hear it.
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your likes are private, much to my disappointment!
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incredible response 😂
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I have received my Alf education today (unfortunately)
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same to you! + thanks!
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I would be happy to be in the pack if there’s room for me 🤩
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I think the many kinds of discourse is what they were (and I am) looking for. their point, as I understood it, was they thought politics would not be good on a platform exclusively for symbolic capitalists, even if it’s better moderated than Twitter, because it wouldn’t include diverse perspectives.
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this tracks for me completely. mastodon is totally social media era equivalent to linux! ha!
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thank you! now that it’s cold weather i’m back to baking them :-)
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ha! good to know!!
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how very goldilocks
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I saw the porn accounts had become to come to bluesky, which seems like a sign of something (though I don’t know what exactly)
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Funny you say that, because this student was actually trying to think about where progressive discourse could thrive and was saying Bluesky and Mastodon weren’t good fits. I’m not sure yet.
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I was hoping the Twitter migration would transform LinkedIn but no such luck so far
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thank you for doing the good work
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lol
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that’s my sense too. but will academics being the early adopters influence the future of bluesky? who was first on twitter? I think it was journalists, tech ppl, Obama 2008, celebrities/fans, and academics were just a small subgroup.
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I think the student sought discussion among more-than-academics, or maybe just discussion in plain terms regardless of participants. Either way, I think I’m learning that’s not a problem here!
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like, the twitch streamers? have they not yet arrived?
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The student was lamenting the demise of Twitter, but I can see how you could read it that way
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Do I want to know?
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That was my experience when I joined 6+ months ago too. The quotes/replies to my post are definitely showing me the changes, LOL