Introducing We Are Civic Media to the world! During a period of misinformation, distrust in media, and unjust media practices, this book presents stories of how civic media is leveraged as a tool to (re)imagine a more community oriented and human centered approach.

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🚨Among other atrocities nestled in the massive budget bill, just voted through in the US House, is a massive security budget for the 2026 FIFA World Cup ($625 million) & the LA 2028 Olympics (a whopping $1 billion). These events will enable the intensification of ICE raids & state repression.

Paper is out in International Journal of Communication! In this provocation, we discuss the relationship between error and the incessant jump towards technology to fix it, but at what cost? Why is a tool that leads to *more* accurate calls so controversial and unpopular?

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Last week at the Int’l Association for Communication and Sport in Chicago, I presented a sociotechnical analysis of #VAR, raising the concerns of error and objectivity of tech in sport.

Does seeking and correcting error through technology take away our joy? 🤔

@alx-alvarado.bsky.social

"From an activist perspective, the main lesson would be to organize early & often." As LA prepares to host the 2028 Olympics, activists are fighting back. “There is a common thread...the expansion of the police state.”-Stop LAPD Spying, part of @nolympicsla.bsky.social. by @phineasjfr.bsky.social

I have passed my qualifying exam and prospectus defense! I am officially ABD 😀

Feeling very loved by supportive friends, family, and committee

Queue UEFA champions league anthem

From an NLG Legal Observer:

"Apple Intelligence can now read Signal messages on new iPhones. If you have a newer iPhone, 15 or 16, and you have downloaded iOS 18.1, please either disable Apple Artificial Intelligence under settings, or go under Siri/AI and ensure it is not enabled for Signal."

Besides the ridiculousness of CLEAR scanning people's eyeballs at the airport and then cutting in front of everyone. I recommend folks just decline to have their faces scanned by TSA, the officers usually are super nice about *and* it is usually quicker to opt out anyways.

Police pepper spraying players on the field is a dangerous precedent. Any on field altercation will end in a disaster if this response becomes normalized.