Sakshi
@sakshi-bhalla.bsky.social
your friendly neighbourhood spider 🕷️// non resident alien 👽 // #polcomm #news #media #politics #commsky | PhD student at Illinois. Alum LSR-DU/JNU | she/her | work/contact: http://sakshi-bhalla.github.io/
PSA. If you are writing a(n academic) book, please be kind to your reader and have the notes and references as a footnote or chapter endnotes. Do not make me scroll to the end of your book!!!
August 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
PSA. If you are writing a(n academic) book, please be kind to your reader and have the notes and references as a footnote or chapter endnotes. Do not make me scroll to the end of your book!!!
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One of the things I keep thinking about—even two months after ICA Mobile Preconference—is our workshop on digital disconnection policies. We had to think about kids’ education, ages, and contexts—and we kept circling back to the role of "teachers" who would actually deliver those policies!
Media literacy is often seen as a key solution to preparing people to navigate a complex media environment. But is it taught equitably? Our new article examines how an Illinois mandate requiring media literacy instruction is being implemented across schools. digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/vol17/i...
Classroom contexts: Teachers talk teaching media literacy
In this study, we examine the lived experiences of educators who engage with youth through media literacy education. While prior research has examined the efficacy of media literacy education interven...
digitalcommons.uri.edu
August 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
One of the things I keep thinking about—even two months after ICA Mobile Preconference—is our workshop on digital disconnection policies. We had to think about kids’ education, ages, and contexts—and we kept circling back to the role of "teachers" who would actually deliver those policies!
Media literacy is often seen as a key solution to preparing people to navigate a complex media environment. But is it taught equitably? Our new article examines how an Illinois mandate requiring media literacy instruction is being implemented across schools. digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/vol17/i...
Classroom contexts: Teachers talk teaching media literacy
In this study, we examine the lived experiences of educators who engage with youth through media literacy education. While prior research has examined the efficacy of media literacy education interven...
digitalcommons.uri.edu
August 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Media literacy is often seen as a key solution to preparing people to navigate a complex media environment. But is it taught equitably? Our new article examines how an Illinois mandate requiring media literacy instruction is being implemented across schools. digitalcommons.uri.edu/jmle/vol17/i...
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My article examines Starlink’s expansion into one of the world’s largest telecommunications markets and calls for a shift away from techno-optimist hype toward a more grounded understanding of the legal and sovereign challenges posed by foreign control over the Indian airwaves.
In surrendering control of key communications infrastructure to a private, foreign corporation run by a billionaire who has challenged sovereign authorities in other democracies, a nation risks more than lost bandwidth, writes University of Calgary researcher Anurag.
Starlink in India: Connectivity, Control, and the Politics of the Sky | TechPolicy.Press
In surrenderingg control of communications to a private corporation, a nation risks more than lost bandwidth, writes University of Calgary researcher Anurag.
www.techpolicy.press
May 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
My article examines Starlink’s expansion into one of the world’s largest telecommunications markets and calls for a shift away from techno-optimist hype toward a more grounded understanding of the legal and sovereign challenges posed by foreign control over the Indian airwaves.
Weather the heat well 😎
June 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Weather the heat well 😎
I think there's not nearly enough focus on how gen AI bots are replacing writing. I am sure we are all noticing how AI writing is percolating into homework assignments, journal articles and reviews. Most of it is shallow, dull and un-insightful.
June 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I think there's not nearly enough focus on how gen AI bots are replacing writing. I am sure we are all noticing how AI writing is percolating into homework assignments, journal articles and reviews. Most of it is shallow, dull and un-insightful.
Summertime appeal to the skincare world: sun block needs to come in much much bigger bottles than 50ml (1.7 oz)!
This is a hot take. (get it 😅🫣)
This is a hot take. (get it 😅🫣)
May 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Summertime appeal to the skincare world: sun block needs to come in much much bigger bottles than 50ml (1.7 oz)!
This is a hot take. (get it 😅🫣)
This is a hot take. (get it 😅🫣)
Seeing the m-dash everywhere. In journal articles, reviews, tweets, reddit posts, new book... This can't be good.
May 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Seeing the m-dash everywhere. In journal articles, reviews, tweets, reddit posts, new book... This can't be good.
That's the curious part! Why hasn't Word been supercharged yet? What with being partners with OpenAI and owning copilot...
thought i'd try out sending my paper through gpt for spellchecking/grammar/confusing phrases/etc.
1. it's good at it, not a huge surprise; better than Word
2. i thought i saw it incorrectly correcting me on a common phrase but it turns out i am wrong. TIL that it's "free rein" not "free reign"
1. it's good at it, not a huge surprise; better than Word
2. i thought i saw it incorrectly correcting me on a common phrase but it turns out i am wrong. TIL that it's "free rein" not "free reign"
May 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
That's the curious part! Why hasn't Word been supercharged yet? What with being partners with OpenAI and owning copilot...
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Identification police, the future is yours.
"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.
April 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Identification police, the future is yours.
The bots are here! This place must be thriving..
February 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The bots are here! This place must be thriving..
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The supply of and demand for cruelty are both much higher than I'd once thought
February 6, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The supply of and demand for cruelty are both much higher than I'd once thought
Need a bookmark button!
February 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Need a bookmark button!
We are truly in the end times of the Internet.
I can't express how much libgen and another platform (rhymes with shybub) helped me back in India during (and beyond) my masters program.
I can't express how much libgen and another platform (rhymes with shybub) helped me back in India during (and beyond) my masters program.
so these fuckboys will go after libgen if we use it, but they blatantly excuse it when they need to scrape data for their fucking AIs?
Holy shit this filing update is wild! It states that:
1. Zuckerberg gave the ok to train off copyrighted works
2. Engineers wrote scripts to remove copyright info
3. Meta downloaded illegal torrents to train models of
GenAi is a house of cards, I swear.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/m...
1. Zuckerberg gave the ok to train off copyrighted works
2. Engineers wrote scripts to remove copyright info
3. Meta downloaded illegal torrents to train models of
GenAi is a house of cards, I swear.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/m...
January 13, 2025 at 12:33 AM
We are truly in the end times of the Internet.
I can't express how much libgen and another platform (rhymes with shybub) helped me back in India during (and beyond) my masters program.
I can't express how much libgen and another platform (rhymes with shybub) helped me back in India during (and beyond) my masters program.
I'm genuinely curious -- who is asking to interact with AI profiles on social media? Who is the intended audience?!!
January 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I'm genuinely curious -- who is asking to interact with AI profiles on social media? Who is the intended audience?!!
This has been the warmest, sunniest Christmas of my life!
December 26, 2024 at 8:06 PM
This has been the warmest, sunniest Christmas of my life!
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get ready for a column educating the public on the dangers of diff-in-diff
December 6, 2024 at 6:47 PM
get ready for a column educating the public on the dangers of diff-in-diff
Picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.
November 17, 2024 at 4:52 AM
Picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.
I love these starter packs!
November 15, 2024 at 9:42 PM
I love these starter packs!
paranormal distribution
Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change...
"Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪
"Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪
November 14, 2024 at 1:47 AM
paranormal distribution
Is this a safe space yet?
November 11, 2024 at 5:46 AM
Is this a safe space yet?