jordan kraemer phd
@jordanaut.bsky.social
anthropologist of digital tech & urban space; Data & Society affiliate; she/they.
book: Mobile City (Cornell UP 2025)
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501778704/mobile-city/
www.jordankraemer.com
book: Mobile City (Cornell UP 2025)
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501778704/mobile-city/
www.jordankraemer.com
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We’ve Reached the End of Social Media
Facebook became popular in the mid-2000s as a space for friendship and connection, especially among young people. Despite its ignominious origin as a site
www.counterpunch.org
New Op-Ed in @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social!
We've Reached the End of Social Media
Social media were supposed to build social connection; instead they’ve become tools of division and polarization.
We've Reached the End of Social Media
Social media were supposed to build social connection; instead they’ve become tools of division and polarization.
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Hear from experts @alicetiara.bsky.social, @mkgerchick.bsky.social, and @thakurdhanaraj.bsky.social, moderated by @jordanaut.bsky.social — as they share strategies for ethical, effective research that centers marginalized communities. Register:
Advocating with Evidence: Lessons for Tech Researchers in Civil Society
Advocating with Evidence: Lessons for Tech Researchers in Civil Society November 13, 2025, 10-11am ET online As technology and the tech industry evolve, civil society is struggling to address the unintended consequences of change, including tools that can be used to erode democracy, amplify bias, and accelerate hateful ideologies. Timely, accessible findings are necessary to […]
cdt.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Hear from experts @alicetiara.bsky.social, @mkgerchick.bsky.social, and @thakurdhanaraj.bsky.social, moderated by @jordanaut.bsky.social — as they share strategies for ethical, effective research that centers marginalized communities. Register:
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Hear from experts @alicetiara.bsky.social, @mkgerchick.bsky.social, & @thakurdhanaraj.bsky.social, moderated by @jordanaut.bsky.social — as they share strategies for ethical, effective research that centers marginalized communities.
Register: cdt.org/events/advoc...
Register: cdt.org/events/advoc...
October 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Hear from experts @alicetiara.bsky.social, @mkgerchick.bsky.social, & @thakurdhanaraj.bsky.social, moderated by @jordanaut.bsky.social — as they share strategies for ethical, effective research that centers marginalized communities.
Register: cdt.org/events/advoc...
Register: cdt.org/events/advoc...
Very excited for this book event next Thursday in Brooklyn!
NEXT THURSDAY join @jordanaut.bsky.social, author of MOBILE CITY, in conversation with @jaykaydee.bsky.social at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn, NY
Thurs., April 17th at 7 - 8 pm EDT
Learn about this book: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Register here: lu.ma/15mfh68a
Thurs., April 17th at 7 - 8 pm EDT
Learn about this book: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Register here: lu.ma/15mfh68a
April 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Very excited for this book event next Thursday in Brooklyn!
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DHS has removed manual guidance barring investigations solely based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ.
news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ.
news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
DHS Scraps Ban on Surveillance Based on Sexual Orientation (1)
A Department of Homeland Security unit eliminated policies prohibiting personnel from conducting intelligence activities based solely on a person’s gender identity or sexual orientation.
news.bgov.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:02 AM
DHS has removed manual guidance barring investigations solely based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ.
news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ.
news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
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As Trump and Elon Musk signal menacing new intentions on numerous fronts, a scholar of democratic breakdown explains how we’re now seeing textbook signs of a country’s slide into authoritarian rule.
Trump-Musk Threats Darken as Their Anger at Enemies Takes Ominous Turn
As Trump and Elon Musk signal menacing new intentions on numerous fronts, a scholar of democratic breakdown explains how we’re now seeing textbook signs of a country’s slide into authoritarian rule.
newrepublic.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
As Trump and Elon Musk signal menacing new intentions on numerous fronts, a scholar of democratic breakdown explains how we’re now seeing textbook signs of a country’s slide into authoritarian rule.
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The circus is starting: Jim Jordan, Taibbi & Shellenberger are congratulating themselves on Twitter Files.
Jordan opens by gloating ab getting Stanford Internet Observatory shut down. Yes: the congressman got 1A protected research shut down. That's censorship.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7G5...
Jordan opens by gloating ab getting Stanford Internet Observatory shut down. Yes: the congressman got 1A protected research shut down. That's censorship.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7G5...
The Censorship-Industrial Complex
YouTube video by House Committee on the Judiciary
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The circus is starting: Jim Jordan, Taibbi & Shellenberger are congratulating themselves on Twitter Files.
Jordan opens by gloating ab getting Stanford Internet Observatory shut down. Yes: the congressman got 1A protected research shut down. That's censorship.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7G5...
Jordan opens by gloating ab getting Stanford Internet Observatory shut down. Yes: the congressman got 1A protected research shut down. That's censorship.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7G5...
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Horrific. Reporters are beginning to collect the names of specific people that Musk and Trump have killed by abruptly terminating USAID—in this case Pe Kha Lau, a Burmese woman living in Thailand
February 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Horrific. Reporters are beginning to collect the names of specific people that Musk and Trump have killed by abruptly terminating USAID—in this case Pe Kha Lau, a Burmese woman living in Thailand
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BREAKING
The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders.
The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.
The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders.
The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.
Trump maintains funding freeze at NIH, defying court order
The Trump administration is still prohibiting National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff from issuing virtually all grant funding, an NIH official tells Popular Information.
popular.info
February 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
BREAKING
The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders.
The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.
The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders.
The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.
New op-ed at @techpolicypress.bsky.social! US state lawmakers should focus on 3 areas that haven't been addressed at the federal level: support for victims of hate and harassment, social media transparency, and stopping misguided legislation against moderating hateful and harassing content.
February 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
New op-ed at @techpolicypress.bsky.social! US state lawmakers should focus on 3 areas that haven't been addressed at the federal level: support for victims of hate and harassment, social media transparency, and stopping misguided legislation against moderating hateful and harassing content.
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"Far-right populists are significantly more likely to spread fake news on social media than politicians from mainstream or far-left parties, according to a study which argues that amplifying misinformation is now part and parcel of radical right strategy"
Verifiably: right wingers are liars
Verifiably: right wingers are liars
Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study
Amplifying misinformation is now part of radical right strategy, says Dutch study of tweets by MPs in 26 countries
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
"Far-right populists are significantly more likely to spread fake news on social media than politicians from mainstream or far-left parties, according to a study which argues that amplifying misinformation is now part and parcel of radical right strategy"
Verifiably: right wingers are liars
Verifiably: right wingers are liars
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IES is one of the country’s largest funders of education research, and the slashing of contracts could mean a significant loss of public knowledge about schools.
New, from @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @propublica.org
New, from @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @propublica.org
Elon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Department Arm That Tracks National School Performance
The Trump administration canceled $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, which partners with scientists and education companies to compile and make public data abou...
www.propublica.org
February 11, 2025 at 5:35 AM
IES is one of the country’s largest funders of education research, and the slashing of contracts could mean a significant loss of public knowledge about schools.
New, from @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @propublica.org
New, from @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @propublica.org
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Before the month is over, don't miss the new books published in January 2025 including:
MOBILE CITY by Jordan H. Kraemer
ANIMAL PEOPLE by Adam Reed
STRONG COMMANDERS, WEAK LEADERS by Phillip A. Martin
and
FRAGILE KINSHIPS by Kathryn E. Goldfarb
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/new-books-pu...
MOBILE CITY by Jordan H. Kraemer
ANIMAL PEOPLE by Adam Reed
STRONG COMMANDERS, WEAK LEADERS by Phillip A. Martin
and
FRAGILE KINSHIPS by Kathryn E. Goldfarb
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/new-books-pu...
January 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Before the month is over, don't miss the new books published in January 2025 including:
MOBILE CITY by Jordan H. Kraemer
ANIMAL PEOPLE by Adam Reed
STRONG COMMANDERS, WEAK LEADERS by Phillip A. Martin
and
FRAGILE KINSHIPS by Kathryn E. Goldfarb
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/new-books-pu...
MOBILE CITY by Jordan H. Kraemer
ANIMAL PEOPLE by Adam Reed
STRONG COMMANDERS, WEAK LEADERS by Phillip A. Martin
and
FRAGILE KINSHIPS by Kathryn E. Goldfarb
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/new-books-pu...
I spoke to @techpolicypress.bsky.social’s @justinhendrix.bsky.social about my new book on social media and urban space in Berlin, on how digital platforms are shaped by the people and places that use them.
New podcast! How do digital media practices reshape urban life? And what can Berlin’s story tell us about the broader relationship between technology, culture, and the places we live? Jordan H. Kraemer is the author of Mobile City: Emerging Media, Space, and Sociality in Contemporary Berlin.
Online Lives, Space and Place: Exploring the Mobile City | TechPolicy.Press
A discussion with Jordan H. Kraemer, author of Mobile City: Emerging Media, Space, and Sociality in Contemporary Berlin.
www.techpolicy.press
February 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I spoke to @techpolicypress.bsky.social’s @justinhendrix.bsky.social about my new book on social media and urban space in Berlin, on how digital platforms are shaped by the people and places that use them.
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They removed resources for LGBTQ institutions to get support when threatened with violence.
The message is clear, MAGA can now threaten and commit terrorism against the LGBTQ community with impunity.
The message is clear, MAGA can now threaten and commit terrorism against the LGBTQ community with impunity.
February 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
They removed resources for LGBTQ institutions to get support when threatened with violence.
The message is clear, MAGA can now threaten and commit terrorism against the LGBTQ community with impunity.
The message is clear, MAGA can now threaten and commit terrorism against the LGBTQ community with impunity.
New Op-Ed in @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social!
We've Reached the End of Social Media
Social media were supposed to build social connection; instead they’ve become tools of division and polarization.
We've Reached the End of Social Media
Social media were supposed to build social connection; instead they’ve become tools of division and polarization.
We’ve Reached the End of Social Media
Facebook became popular in the mid-2000s as a space for friendship and connection, especially among young people. Despite its ignominious origin as a site
www.counterpunch.org
February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
New Op-Ed in @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social!
We've Reached the End of Social Media
Social media were supposed to build social connection; instead they’ve become tools of division and polarization.
We've Reached the End of Social Media
Social media were supposed to build social connection; instead they’ve become tools of division and polarization.
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Before folks start comparing this to European autocracies, pause and ask why so many folks - Black and white - didn’t know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Or the Wilmington Coup. Or the Colfax Massacre. Or the Elaine, Arkansas massacre.
Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.
Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.
NEW: The removal of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 database signals the Trump administration’s intention to not only spare his supporters any further consequences for their role in the riot, but to erase the event from the record.
By @alecmac.bsky.social
By @alecmac.bsky.social
Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish?
The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of cases against Capitol riot defendants places those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own…
propub.li
February 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Before folks start comparing this to European autocracies, pause and ask why so many folks - Black and white - didn’t know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Or the Wilmington Coup. Or the Colfax Massacre. Or the Elaine, Arkansas massacre.
Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.
Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.
An excerpt from my book Mobile City is out this week on @ssrc.org's Just Tech platform!
Managing Digital Infrastructures: Tactics of Getting Online in a Once-Divided City
In her recent book <i>Mobile City: Emerging Media, Space, and Sociality in Contemporary Berlin</i>, Jordan Kraemer examines how young adults in Berlin in the first decades of this century used social ...
just-tech.ssrc.org
February 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
An excerpt from my book Mobile City is out this week on @ssrc.org's Just Tech platform!
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New, from me:
So much is happening, so quickly. The purpose of shock and awe is to bewilder and overwhelm. It is important not to look away, or get discouraged. Try to discern the what is a big and real threat. Here is my best effort to do so. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/meditation...
So much is happening, so quickly. The purpose of shock and awe is to bewilder and overwhelm. It is important not to look away, or get discouraged. Try to discern the what is a big and real threat. Here is my best effort to do so. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/meditation...
Meditations in an Emergency
It's good to be shocked, but don't be awed
donmoynihan.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
New, from me:
So much is happening, so quickly. The purpose of shock and awe is to bewilder and overwhelm. It is important not to look away, or get discouraged. Try to discern the what is a big and real threat. Here is my best effort to do so. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/meditation...
So much is happening, so quickly. The purpose of shock and awe is to bewilder and overwhelm. It is important not to look away, or get discouraged. Try to discern the what is a big and real threat. Here is my best effort to do so. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/meditation...
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but a week ago, the CSU closed 6 departments (among them, philosophy, women's and gender studies, and economics) and fired 46 tenure-line faculty at Sonoma State. One of those faculty studies AI ethics.
They fired the AI ethics professor. Then, this.
They fired the AI ethics professor. Then, this.
“The rollout will cover 23 campuses of the largest public university system in the United States, enabling students to access personalized tutoring and study guides through the chatbot, while the faculty will be able to use it for administrative tasks.”
OpenAI targets higher education in the U.S. with ChatGPT rollout at California State University
Microsoft -backed OpenAI said on Tuesday it will roll out an education-specific version of its chatbot to about 500,000 students and faculty at California State University as it looks to expand its user base in the academic sector and counter competition from rivals like Alphabet .
www.reuters.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Not to put too fine a point on it, but a week ago, the CSU closed 6 departments (among them, philosophy, women's and gender studies, and economics) and fired 46 tenure-line faculty at Sonoma State. One of those faculty studies AI ethics.
They fired the AI ethics professor. Then, this.
They fired the AI ethics professor. Then, this.
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In 2010, Viktor Orbán launched a power grab nearly identical to Trump's. It led to the death of democracy in Hungary.
Hungarians I spoke with pleaded with me to learn from their experience — and act before it's too late.
www.vox.com/politics/398...
Hungarians I spoke with pleaded with me to learn from their experience — and act before it's too late.
www.vox.com/politics/398...
Their democracy died. They have lessons for America about Trump’s power grab.
Hungarians who lived through Viktor Orbán’s 2010 power grab warn Americans: Act now, before it’s too late.
www.vox.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
In 2010, Viktor Orbán launched a power grab nearly identical to Trump's. It led to the death of democracy in Hungary.
Hungarians I spoke with pleaded with me to learn from their experience — and act before it's too late.
www.vox.com/politics/398...
Hungarians I spoke with pleaded with me to learn from their experience — and act before it's too late.
www.vox.com/politics/398...
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Are you talking to colleagues impacted by executive branch targeting? Here’s a thread 🧵 w/ simple tips about how to show support—what to say that is likely to help, rather than make things worse.
(The tips are simple, but I try to explain the rationale behind them. So please follow to the end.) 1/
(The tips are simple, but I try to explain the rationale behind them. So please follow to the end.) 1/
January 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Are you talking to colleagues impacted by executive branch targeting? Here’s a thread 🧵 w/ simple tips about how to show support—what to say that is likely to help, rather than make things worse.
(The tips are simple, but I try to explain the rationale behind them. So please follow to the end.) 1/
(The tips are simple, but I try to explain the rationale behind them. So please follow to the end.) 1/
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If you are a gov employee please do not use your gov devices to coordinate.
Do not use standard messaging on your Android or Apple devices. Don’t use WhatsApp. These CEOs will likely give your messages if asked by the administration.
Please use Signal and set your messages to autodelete.
Do not use standard messaging on your Android or Apple devices. Don’t use WhatsApp. These CEOs will likely give your messages if asked by the administration.
Please use Signal and set your messages to autodelete.
An EPA staffer says this message is going around re: latest Microsoft computer update:
"It’s likely your status on Teams is being monitored, and a hint was dropped to us by someone higher up in EPA that they may be monitoring Teams calls.
We now have to be careful of what we say on Teams calls."
"It’s likely your status on Teams is being monitored, and a hint was dropped to us by someone higher up in EPA that they may be monitoring Teams calls.
We now have to be careful of what we say on Teams calls."
February 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
If you are a gov employee please do not use your gov devices to coordinate.
Do not use standard messaging on your Android or Apple devices. Don’t use WhatsApp. These CEOs will likely give your messages if asked by the administration.
Please use Signal and set your messages to autodelete.
Do not use standard messaging on your Android or Apple devices. Don’t use WhatsApp. These CEOs will likely give your messages if asked by the administration.
Please use Signal and set your messages to autodelete.
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He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.
January 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.