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Elisabetta Ferrari
@bettyferrari.bsky.social
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AIAS-AUFF Fellow @ Aarhus University (DK). Vice-chair @acsj-ica.bsky.social.
Research: social movements & digital media | mutual aid | politics of tech.
Book: https://elisabettaferrariphd.com/ancbook/
Hobbies: getting angry at the Philadelphia 76ers
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Elisabetta Ferrari @bettyferrari.bsky.social · Nov 19
My book, Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge, is out today from @ucpress.bsky.social!

It’s a book about the politics of digital technologies and why they matter, for social justice activists and for all of us.

Order it here: www.ucpress.edu/books/approp...
Graphic on black background with the cover of a book titled "Appropriate Negotiate Challenge: Activist imaginaries and the politics of digital technologies". The author is Elisabetta Ferrari and it's published by University of California Press. At the top, "Out today" is written in bold letters. There is a QR code which links to the book's page on the University of California Press website.
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visualevidencelab.bsky.social
Founding director, @sristovska.bsky.social, and advisory board member, @riana.bsky.social, discussed the legal issues that AI and deepfakes pose in The Nation. Read more about the implications of this technology for justice, civil rights, and human rights here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Our Racist, Terrifying Deepfake Future Is Here
A faked viral video of a white CEO shoplifting is one thing. What happens when an AI-generated video incriminates a Black suspect? That’s coming, and we’re completely unprepared.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
bettyferrari.bsky.social
Very excited to be part of this fun and engaged group of researchers for the next three years! ✨
friasunifreiburg.bsky.social Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social · 27d
✨With our newly established Young Academy for Cultures and Societies Research (YAC), FRIAS is creating a space for new perspectives on what a good life and a good society might mean today. Stay tuned for updates!✨
uni-freiburg.de/frias/resear...
uni-freiburg.de Universität Freiburg @uni-freiburg.de · 27d
Zehn PostDocs erforschen an neuer Akademie Fragen des „guten Lebens“: Das @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social richtet mit der Young Academy for Cultures and Societies Research (YAC) eine neue Plattform für hochqualifizierte PostDocs aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen und Ländern ein.
➡️ ufr.link/yac-frias
October 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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smittermeier.bsky.social
Universities:
- Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers
- stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research
- stop pretending AI usage is inevitable.

I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.
irisvanrooij.bsky.social Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Sep 19
“university leaders … must act to help us collectively turn back the tide of garbage software, which fuels harmful tropes (e.g. so-called lazy students) and false frames (e.g. so-called efficiency or inevitability) to obtain market penetration and increase technological dependency”

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Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these col...
doi.org
September 20, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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cdcspenn.bsky.social
🌟 Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium 🌟
The Center for Digital Culture and Society is now accepting abstract submissions for our upcoming symposium.

📝 Deadline: December 1, 2025
📧 Submit to: cdcs@asc.upenn.edu

More information: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium
www.asc.upenn.edu
September 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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nicolecohen.bsky.social
Call for Papers: Control, Survival, Struggle: Rethinking and Renewing Vincent Mosco’s Political Economy of Communication. A special issue of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalization I'm co-editing w/ @ursulahuws.bsky.social, Leslie Shade, and Catherine McKercher wolg.wordpress.com/special-issu...
Call for papers: special issue on the legacy of Vincent Mosco
Special issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation on Control, Survival, Struggle: Rethinking and Renewing Vincent Mosco’s Political Economy of Communication The theme When…
wolg.wordpress.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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archivum.org
📣 Final Reminder: Call for Papers! Deadline Soon!

ACTIVATE's next hybrid seminar explores Alternative Media Archives and the long-term challenges of preserving media activism.
📅 Oct 23–24 | CEU Vienna + Online
📢 CFP open until Aug 31
📩 archivum@ceu.edu
#MediaActivism #Archives #ACTIVATEproject
August 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
bettyferrari.bsky.social
New call out for the fellowship I'm currently doing. Highly recommended - Aarhus is lovely, @aiasdk.bsky.social folks are wonderful and Aarhus University is a great place to work on your research. Apply! ✨
aiasdk.bsky.social Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) @aiasdk.bsky.social · Aug 26
🔊Up to 10 individual AIAS-AUFF FELLOWSHIPS are open for application by curiosity-driven and talented researchers from all over the world, from any research discipline & with 2-10 years of experience after completion of their PhD.
📆APPLY by: 28 October at 12:00 (noon, CET)
aias.au.dk/events/show/...
August 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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bettyferrari.bsky.social
The ICA Activism, Communication and Social Justice Division (@acsj-ica.bsky.social) is looking for a new Secretary and a new International Liaison (both in office 2026-2028). Could that be you?

More info about the roles: www.icahdq.org/page/div-ig-...
Division & Interest Group: Information for election candidates
Leadership at ICA comprises a robust group of ICA members bringing together varied professional methodologies, expertise, unique talents, and diverse cultural influences, from around the globe. With a Board of Directors of fifty individuals, five elected leadership roles per thirty-three divisions and interest groups, and a number of standing committees and task forces, our association is truly member driven. We are guided by, and grateful for, those who contribute to the association’s success through service.
www.icahdq.org
July 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
bettyferrari.bsky.social
The ICA Activism, Communication and Social Justice Division (@acsj-ica.bsky.social) is looking for a new Secretary and a new International Liaison (both in office 2026-2028). Could that be you?

More info about the roles: www.icahdq.org/page/div-ig-...
Division & Interest Group: Information for election candidates
Leadership at ICA comprises a robust group of ICA members bringing together varied professional methodologies, expertise, unique talents, and diverse cultural influences, from around the globe. With a Board of Directors of fifty individuals, five elected leadership roles per thirty-three divisions and interest groups, and a number of standing committees and task forces, our association is truly member driven. We are guided by, and grateful for, those who contribute to the association’s success through service.
www.icahdq.org
July 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
bettyferrari.bsky.social
Yesterday, at the wonderful @aiasdk.bsky.social Summer Gathering, we opened an exhibit of images that bridge science and art. My contribution is a composite of different drawings from my visual focus groups w activists, researchers and techies.
Read more about this work here: tinyurl.com/5bdb7upn
3 people stand next to a totem pole, talking to each other. The totem displays 3 printed images and accompanying text. Print of 5 drawings. On the left hand side, three smaller drawings of what individuals think the internet is like. On the right hand side, two larger drawings of what groups would like the internet to be. 5 drawings. On the left hand side, three smaller drawings of what individuals think the internet is like. On the right hand side, two larger drawings of what groups would like the internet to be. Accompanying text that explains the preceding images. Title of the image: "Imagined internets". Author: Elisabetta Ferrari, AIAS-AUFF Fellow, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University. Explanatory text: "This composite image displays different drawings created by a group of activists and researchers in a “visual focus group” (Ferrari, 2024) held at the Internet Freedom Festival in Valencia, Spain, in 2019. On the left are drawings of what three participants thought the internet was like. Each drawing emphasizes different aspects, such as the role of corporations or nation states. On the right are two group drawings. After completing their individual drawings, participants in each group discussed what they wanted the internet to look like in the future. Values such as transparency and openness are highlighted."
June 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
bettyferrari.bsky.social
Hey #ica25, at 3pm I'm presenting some of my work on mutual aid activism in an @acsj-ica.bsky.social session titled "Activism, Technology, Hybridity and Social Media". Join us! We are at the Grand Hyatt, room Mt. Blue Sky (in the other building, across from valet parking).
June 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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vkarnowski.bsky.social
Still very much thinking in hashtags (like me) and looking for #ica25? I created a feed for you to follow! #commsky
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January 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM
bettyferrari.bsky.social
On Monday I'm giving a talk on my ongoing research on mutual aid activism at @aiasdk.bsky.social.
You can attend online 💻 – just click on the link below to see how!
See you there :)
aiasdk.bsky.social Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) @aiasdk.bsky.social · May 27
🧐Interested in digital technologies and activism such as grassroots mobilization? Join the next AIAS seminar w/ AIAS-AUFF Fellow @bettyferrari.bsky.social to get insights from her research on mutual aid and digital technologies in the US, Italy and the UK.
📆2 June at 11:00
aias.au.dk/events/show/...
AIAS Seminar: 'Don’t abandon each other: Mutual aid activism and the pandemic'
Speaker: Elisabetta Ferrari, AIAS-AUFF Fellow
aias.au.dk
May 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
bettyferrari.bsky.social
my book is 6 months old today! ✨
No better way to celebrate this half birthday than grabbing a copy in the @ucpress.bsky.social Spring Book Sale (40% with code MAY40) 😉
www.ucpress.edu/books/approp...
Picture of a book on a bench in front of purple flower bush. The title of the book, in black and orange print is "Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies", the author is "Elisabetta Ferrari".
May 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social
What a crazy world when the two countries that, between them, host the best universities in the world are seeking to destroy their university sectors.
May 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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bettyferrari.bsky.social
"How did we collectively memory-hole an event this big? And what does that tell us about race and policing even today?"
Excellent podcast on this devastating piece of Philly history.
www.npr.org/2025/05/07/1...
40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV : Code Switch
We're looking back on the day a Philadelphia police department helicopter dropped a bomb on a rowhouse in a middle-class neighborhood. Even though that bombing and the fire it set off killed eleven pe...
www.npr.org
May 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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fabiogiglietto.bsky.social
Serving on the PhD admission committee this year. We're offering two scholarships in Digital Culture and Communication—one specifically for international candidates.

Know talented candidates passionate about digital culture? Send them our way!

Details: www.uniurb.it/concorsi/9085
Abbiamo pubblicato un nuovo bando nella sezione PhD - Dottorati di Ricerca / SU. Per informazioni, clicca qui.
Avviso pubblicato il giorno 8/5/2025 con scadenza 10/6/2025
www.uniurb.it
May 9, 2025 at 7:28 AM
bettyferrari.bsky.social
"How did we collectively memory-hole an event this big? And what does that tell us about race and policing even today?"
Excellent podcast on this devastating piece of Philly history.
www.npr.org/2025/05/07/1...
40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV : Code Switch
We're looking back on the day a Philadelphia police department helicopter dropped a bomb on a rowhouse in a middle-class neighborhood. Even though that bombing and the fire it set off killed eleven pe...
www.npr.org
May 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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aoir.bsky.social
We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group.

aoir.org/riskyresearc...
Cover Image for: Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety AoIR Risky Research Working Group Contributors: Alice Marwick, Dafna Kaufman, Jacob Smith, Patricia Aufderheide, Jessica Beyer, Emma L. Briant, Coppélie Cocq, Laura Dilley, Sam DiBella, Radhika Gajjala, Kamile Grusauskaite, Alex D. Ketchum, Zelly Martin, Janice Metzger, Erin McInerney, Rachel Moran, John McNutt, Suay Melisa Oezkula, Victoria O’Meara, Riccardo Nanni, Carolina Parreiras, Katy Pearce, Ryan Payne, Meredith Pruden, Christian Sandvig, Caighlan Smith, Sam Srauy, Zeerak Talat, Leonie Tanczer, Robert Tynes, Antonia Vaughan, Shenja van der Graaf, Courtney Vowles, Michele White.
May 2, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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notsaved.bsky.social
It is easier to AI-generate the end of the world than the end of capitalism
March 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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dmgreene.bsky.social
I bet the chat was named like "war boys" or "pete's posse" or something
March 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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eszter.com
I'm hiring for a postdoc! 🌟 pls help spread the word
Senior Research and Teaching Associate (PostDoc)
with a focus on Internet Use and Society
details here: webuse.org/postdoc/
March 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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ghurford.bsky.social
“If the dice lands wrong and it is you or someone you love next, you will hope – at the very least – there will be help on the way. That long Covid sufferers know there won’t is not simply the pandemic’s dark shadow, but its mark of shame.”
March 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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sxsw.com
Privacy isn’t about hiding—it’s about trust and control over our own information. In her #SXSW 2025 Keynote, Signal President, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social breaks down why our privacy matters.
March 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM