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Esteban Morales
@estebanmorales.bsky.social
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Assistant professor @rug.nl

Latinoamericano studying digital culture, platformized violence, and critical data studies.

Website: https://esteban-morales.com/
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Next week (Tuesday, Dec 2, at 17:45h CET), on #PlatGovNet2025, I will present (with João Magalhães) our paper: "Bottom-up moderation as ideological protest: Making sense of Redditors' ban of X links after Musk’s 'Nazi salute'"
Title slide of our presentation. The title is "Bottom-up moderation as ideological protest: Making sense of Redditors' ban of X links after Musk’s “Nazi salute”"
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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📝 New publication! 📝

"Stop Being so Fkn Soft": Masculinity, Politics, and the Acceptance of Gender-Based Online Violence Myths Among Young Canadian Men

Coauthored with Jaigris Hodson, Yimin Chen, Kaitlynn Mendes, George Veletsianos, and Chandell Gosse.

Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1177/2056...
September 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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El próximo 2 de junio participaré en un conversatorio en línea sobre nuestro proyecto Dialogando Sobre Datos: Un Audiolibro sobre el Colonialismo de Datos (que pueden encontrar aquí: www.tierracomun.net/dialogando-s...).

Un proyecto con colegas del colectivo Tierra Común, ¡bienvenid@s!
Poster para el evento Dialogando sobre Datos. El evento sera el 2 de Junio de 2025.
May 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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✨Last class of the 2024-2025 academic year✨

And it was a fun one to plan and teach—a review of software, critical data and platform studies.
Slide from today’s lesson, saying “software, data, platforms”
May 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Groningen showed up to protest against the budget cuts!
Protests at Groningen. Protests at Groningen
March 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Tomorrow, I will join my colleagues at the University of Groningen to strike against the proposed budget cuts to higher education in the Netherlands!

#doehetniet
Poster of the strikes, noting that I am going on strike against the cuts to higher education on March 18.
March 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Every time I open this app.
A meme of a bear saying “unfortunately the vibe is continuing to deteriorate”
March 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Read on Reddit. Maybe let’s not do conferences in the US for the foreseeable future?
Post from Twitter that says “Conference in the U.S. is hiding presentation titles to protect presenters from anti-DEl actions or having visas denied. Perhaps time to take conferences elsewhere? This is from ICA25 in Denver: "we have done a new run of (invitation) letters without the title of the paper mentioned; papers are identified by submission ID number so that your research topics are not mentioned". If it's this bad surely international societies can host elsewhere going forward (recognizing that many are in multi-year contracts with facilities)?”
February 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Guess who is having a scholarly identity crisis? This guy!
Whiteboard where I am revisiting my scholarly identity, outlining the topics, theories, and methodologies that I want to center in 2025.
January 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Winter break!
Cartoon, where a firefighter says to a person in the burning building “Flagging this for sure! Let's circle back after the holidays."
December 20, 2024 at 12:22 PM
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So looking forward to reading this! @palomaviot.bsky.social
Book cover: Platform Governance and Social Justice Governing Hate Speech On Social Media By Paloma Viejo Otero
December 11, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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It is this time of the year, again.
A poem by Joseph Fasano, which reads: Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work.
December 4, 2024 at 10:13 AM
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Reviewing somebody's writing, and they say "In this text, I review how algorithms create filter bubbles and echo chambers"

My internal notes:
PDF comment that says "Ew. No."
November 28, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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Can’t wait to read Wronged, by @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social

(Will try to leave some notes and reactions here).
Book cover: WRONGED: THE WEAPONIZATION OF VICTIMHOOD by LILIE CHOULIARAKI
November 28, 2024 at 1:28 PM
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The title of this chapter by @snurb.bsky.social is particularly relevant these days.
Book chapter, titled “FILTER BUBBLE The Dumbest Metaphor on the Internet?”
November 19, 2024 at 1:47 PM
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Very much my mood these days
A cartoon by Poorly Drawn Lines, where a mouse says that everything is going according to plan, and the plan is that he just hopes everything goes according to plan.
September 20, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #592,692! (Not a very cool number, but kinda cool I guess).
September 17, 2024 at 3:47 AM