Jiarui Sun
@jiarui-sun.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @UChicago
digital ethnography, linguistic anthropology, media theories, disability studies
digital ethnography, linguistic anthropology, media theories, disability studies
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Jiarui Sun
@jiarui-sun.bsky.social
· May 22
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article argues that social actors' media ideologies about digital interfaces are key to the enregisterment of online activities. Focusing on an online register emergent from user activities arou....
doi.org
NEW PUBLICATION: I'm happy to announce that my article “Patriotic rabbits or toxic men? Media ideology, entextualization, and enregisterment on Chinese interfaces” is published on the journal of @soclinganth.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/jola...
It's open access, feel free to check it out!
It's open access, feel free to check it out!
Many thanks to @journaloflinganth.bsky.social for featuring my recent article on online nationalism in China. It was a great opportunity to think further about the relationship between mass media and personal lives!!
youtu.be/VnzcaUWU-LY?...
youtu.be/VnzcaUWU-LY?...
September 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Many thanks to @journaloflinganth.bsky.social for featuring my recent article on online nationalism in China. It was a great opportunity to think further about the relationship between mass media and personal lives!!
youtu.be/VnzcaUWU-LY?...
youtu.be/VnzcaUWU-LY?...
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Trump's Justice Department won’t seek an injunction to block T-Mobile's acquisition of U.S. Cellular.
One of the largest wireless providers will now get even bigger.
With that size comes more power — and less freedom for you. https://youtu.be/twdgxIJZDns?si=teRWdFu28u7I5EYf
One of the largest wireless providers will now get even bigger.
With that size comes more power — and less freedom for you. https://youtu.be/twdgxIJZDns?si=teRWdFu28u7I5EYf
How Monopolies Secretly Steal Your Freedom (ft. Lina Khan)
What is freedom? Are you really free if your groceries or medicine are so expensive that you can’t afford them? Or if yo
youtu.be
July 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Trump's Justice Department won’t seek an injunction to block T-Mobile's acquisition of U.S. Cellular.
One of the largest wireless providers will now get even bigger.
With that size comes more power — and less freedom for you. https://youtu.be/twdgxIJZDns?si=teRWdFu28u7I5EYf
One of the largest wireless providers will now get even bigger.
With that size comes more power — and less freedom for you. https://youtu.be/twdgxIJZDns?si=teRWdFu28u7I5EYf
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You could not find a more gifted researcher on the planet to write this book. Sure to be a banger!
July 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
You could not find a more gifted researcher on the planet to write this book. Sure to be a banger!
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MPs we’re outside Parliament on one of the hottest days of the year!!
Kill this Bill now!!
Stop #TakingThePIP
@disrightsuk.bsky.social
Kill this Bill now!!
Stop #TakingThePIP
@disrightsuk.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
MPs we’re outside Parliament on one of the hottest days of the year!!
Kill this Bill now!!
Stop #TakingThePIP
@disrightsuk.bsky.social
Kill this Bill now!!
Stop #TakingThePIP
@disrightsuk.bsky.social
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Jacobin sat down with former labor secretary Robert Reich to talk about his new documentary, The Last Class, democratic socialism, and why we’re possibly in an even more unequal Gilded Age than the original.
Robert Reich Teaches One Last Class to the Next Generation
Jacobin sat down with former labor secretary Robert Reich to talk about his new documentary, The Last Class, democratic socialism, and why we’re possibly in an even more unequal Gilded Age than the original.
jacobin.com
July 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Exactly what my dissertation is trying to understand...
From escape rooms to beach resorts, emotions are now products. Hochschild, Ahmed, Illouz, Giddens, Massumi, Rosa—they all warned us: #identity, #meaning, and #feeling are #upforsale.
When was the last time you paid to feel something?
Let’s talk #affect and #capitalism.
When was the last time you paid to feel something?
Let’s talk #affect and #capitalism.
June 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Exactly what my dissertation is trying to understand...
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In "Interface Frictions," Neta Alexander explores how ubiquitous design features in digital platforms such as playback speed, autoplay, and night mode, reshape, condition, and break our bodies. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/3jeUBzN #DisabilityStudies
June 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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This book is riveting and so, so infuriating. It follows 5 families in Atlanta who are struggling to remain housed and paints deeply compassionate portraits of each unit. It reads almost like a novel but is outstanding journalism
June 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This book is riveting and so, so infuriating. It follows 5 families in Atlanta who are struggling to remain housed and paints deeply compassionate portraits of each unit. It reads almost like a novel but is outstanding journalism
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Linguistic anthropology, language in culture starter pack!
Please share and let me know if you want to be added
go.bsky.app/MQijNGW
Please share and let me know if you want to be added
go.bsky.app/MQijNGW
November 14, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Linguistic anthropology, language in culture starter pack!
Please share and let me know if you want to be added
go.bsky.app/MQijNGW
Please share and let me know if you want to be added
go.bsky.app/MQijNGW
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Tip for PhD applicants reaching out to prospective advisors: Don’t use an LLM to write these emails. It’s not a great first impression to express your admiration for a recent paper the faculty member published if that paper does not exist.
June 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Tip for PhD applicants reaching out to prospective advisors: Don’t use an LLM to write these emails. It’s not a great first impression to express your admiration for a recent paper the faculty member published if that paper does not exist.
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New data finds Americans are more likely to support labor unions over Big Business than at any time in the past 60 years.
We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power.
If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.
We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power.
If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.
May 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
New data finds Americans are more likely to support labor unions over Big Business than at any time in the past 60 years.
We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power.
If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.
We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power.
If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.
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Along with most professors in Texas, I’m frequently refreshing Texas legislature updates on SB37, which passed the senate and is about to be voted on in the House. It would fundamentally change higher education—curriculum, hiring, governance—for the worse. And proponents aren’t hiding their aims.
May 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Along with most professors in Texas, I’m frequently refreshing Texas legislature updates on SB37, which passed the senate and is about to be voted on in the House. It would fundamentally change higher education—curriculum, hiring, governance—for the worse. And proponents aren’t hiding their aims.
NEW PUBLICATION: I'm happy to announce that my article “Patriotic rabbits or toxic men? Media ideology, entextualization, and enregisterment on Chinese interfaces” is published on the journal of @soclinganth.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/jola...
It's open access, feel free to check it out!
It's open access, feel free to check it out!
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article argues that social actors' media ideologies about digital interfaces are key to the enregisterment of online activities. Focusing on an online register emergent from user activities arou....
doi.org
May 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
NEW PUBLICATION: I'm happy to announce that my article “Patriotic rabbits or toxic men? Media ideology, entextualization, and enregisterment on Chinese interfaces” is published on the journal of @soclinganth.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/jola...
It's open access, feel free to check it out!
It's open access, feel free to check it out!
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The GSUS Los Angeles chapter is hosting a potluck on June 1st from 11:00am - 2:00pm at the LA State Historic Park in Chinatown. Stop on by and meet the community. We also encourage mutual aid and grassroots organizers to stop on by ❤️
#losangeles #generalstrike #potluck #mutualaid
#losangeles #generalstrike #potluck #mutualaid
May 20, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The GSUS Los Angeles chapter is hosting a potluck on June 1st from 11:00am - 2:00pm at the LA State Historic Park in Chinatown. Stop on by and meet the community. We also encourage mutual aid and grassroots organizers to stop on by ❤️
#losangeles #generalstrike #potluck #mutualaid
#losangeles #generalstrike #potluck #mutualaid
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A critical thread 🧵
Hey all, here's a post at @ssrc.org about how anti-trans talking points are getting wrapped into Google's AI search results.
AI search not only cites anti-trans disinfo, but sanitizes it, making practices like conversion therapy sound legitimate and safe.
AI search not only cites anti-trans disinfo, but sanitizes it, making practices like conversion therapy sound legitimate and safe.
Anti-Transgender Disinformation in the Age of Algorithmic Search Summaries
Recently Google introduced a feature in its search engine that algorithmically creates summaries of one's search results. Though it could be viewed as a useful tool, researcher Anna Beers argues this ...
just-tech.ssrc.org
May 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
A critical thread 🧵
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Excited to share our edited volume out today free/open access! Sex & Gender:Toward transforming scientific practice brings together perspectives from 40 interdisciplinary scholars on pressing issues including the weaponization of gender & sex impacting us all today. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
May 19, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Excited to share our edited volume out today free/open access! Sex & Gender:Toward transforming scientific practice brings together perspectives from 40 interdisciplinary scholars on pressing issues including the weaponization of gender & sex impacting us all today. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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If you’re in #Chicago and seeing this wild dust storm, please wear a mask if you’re outside!
Did a lead test in my yard soil just recently and the contamination right on the surface is HIGH—that “dust” you see def has heavy metals in it!
Indoors, close your windows and filter your air.
Did a lead test in my yard soil just recently and the contamination right on the surface is HIGH—that “dust” you see def has heavy metals in it!
Indoors, close your windows and filter your air.
May 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
If you’re in #Chicago and seeing this wild dust storm, please wear a mask if you’re outside!
Did a lead test in my yard soil just recently and the contamination right on the surface is HIGH—that “dust” you see def has heavy metals in it!
Indoors, close your windows and filter your air.
Did a lead test in my yard soil just recently and the contamination right on the surface is HIGH—that “dust” you see def has heavy metals in it!
Indoors, close your windows and filter your air.
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Please support!
Authors are auctioning signed books to raise money for Crips for eSIMs for Gaza
lithub.com/authors-are-...
Donate:
chuffed.org/project/crip...
Authors are auctioning signed books to raise money for Crips for eSIMs for Gaza
lithub.com/authors-are-...
Donate:
chuffed.org/project/crip...
Authors are auctioning signed books to raise money for Crips for eSIMs for Gaza.
Sheila Heti, Omar El Akkad, Madeleine Thien, and Sarah Bernstein are among the dozens of prominent authors who are auctioning off signed editions of their books to benefit Crips for eSims for Gaza,…
lithub.com
May 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Please support!
Authors are auctioning signed books to raise money for Crips for eSIMs for Gaza
lithub.com/authors-are-...
Donate:
chuffed.org/project/crip...
Authors are auctioning signed books to raise money for Crips for eSIMs for Gaza
lithub.com/authors-are-...
Donate:
chuffed.org/project/crip...
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Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
May 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”
Not sure if this platform takes cat tax but here is Miyu and she is a very wise catademic. Thank you for your appreciation
May 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Not sure if this platform takes cat tax but here is Miyu and she is a very wise catademic. Thank you for your appreciation