Isabelle Langrock
isarock.bsky.social
Isabelle Langrock
@isarock.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Sociology, Middlebury College
Formerly Sciences Po Paris post doc, PhD from Annenberg Penn Researching information & activism & all things "open"
a must read 🥳 Congrats, @bettyferrari.bsky.social
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...
November 20, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Reposted by Isabelle Langrock
US schools: The waves of book bans (disprop. written by authors of color) can be understood as a form of political action in increasingly contested local contexts rather than as effective censorship. Paper: Marcelo S O Goncalves, Isabelle Langrock, J. LaViolette, Katie Spoon doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
Book bans in political context: Evidence from US schools
Abstract. In the 2021–2022 school year, more books were banned in US school districts than in any previous year. Book banning and other forms of informatio
doi.org
June 12, 2024 at 4:43 PM
New pub!! 🥳
Click through for our paper on the rise of book bans in US schools.
1/ New paper out today in PNAS Nexus! This large-scale study of U.S. book bans started at a summer school 2 yrs ago with @msoligon.bsky.social @isarock.bsky.social Jack LaViolette. This has been such a fun and meaningful project!

🔓Open access paper: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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June 11, 2024 at 3:04 PM