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Chanders

@Chanders@sciences.social

Professor of Sociology. Interests include publics, assemblages, middlebrow culture, where Europe & the new world meet. Mann, Bolano, Charlie Parker, Virginia Woolf.

Associate Editor of the International Journal of Press/Politics and Sociologica.

(he/him).

I’m from New York, live in Bologna, Italy, and work in Milan. There’s a lot of stuff I miss about the USA and a lot I don’t. I miss cornmeal and Mexican food primarily.

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In two weeks I'm flying to Philly for . Starting to get quite nervous...

Chanders,
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@nik just don’t listen to @inquiline

Chanders,
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@inquiline @nik yes, that was what I meant 😉. In all honesty Philly is a great city and I think it is a great place for AOIR. wish I could be there.

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For those who would like to deny the existence of a universal culture, I would just like to point out that children have been waking up reluctantly on weekdays and early on weekends across all cultures at all all times since the invention of childhood. Including my child today.

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@CatherineFlick our nearly four year old spent the whole school week being woken up at 7am by me when sound asleep before I left for work. Today she chose to wake up at 6:30. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Kudos to AOIR for this.

https://aoir.org/aoir2023onmastodon/

“we will not be tweeting during the conference. Instead, we will be posting on AoIR’s Mastodon instance (aoir.social).”

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@josh @inquiline watcha working on?!?

Chanders, to random
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Pretty disgraceful behavior on the part of Horizon 2020.

From: @glynmoody
https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/111104790611887686

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“It must be very complicated being George Lucas. On the one hand, you get to wake up inside a vast Scrooge McDuck money vault every morning. On the other, you have to live with the absolute mess Disney has made of your life’s work.”

https://amp.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/sep/07/oh-dear-george-lucas-why-the-star-wars-universe-is-going-from-bad-to-worse

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@julieofthespirits oh it’s 100% comeuppance no doubt. Also I just love a deeply nasty review.

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“That raises an awkward question. What if globalisation, far from promoting democracy in China, undermined democracy in the US? It would be an amusing historical irony — if we were not living with the consequences.”

https://on.ft.com/3t0QofP

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“[Zadie Smith’s] two paths for the novel have become a perfect circle: What could be more avant-garde in an age of data harvesting and identity politics than a heartfelt 19th-century novel?” https://www.vulture.com/article/zadie-smith-the-fraud-review.html?ueid=b637f759312c7fe8bc635947e83b971b&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Cover%20Drop%20-%20September%2011%2C%202023&utm_term=NYMag%20-%20Paywall

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Some professional news:

I'm very happy to share the news that the book, "A History of Digital Journalism" and authored by myself, Eugenia Mitchelstein, and Danielle Brown, is now under contract with Polity Press! Beyond the actual work on the substance of the book, I am really excited to work with these brilliant scholars. 1/x

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From our proposal:

"We argue that, after more than forty years of digital developments in the news industry, it is past time to start thinking of the “future of news” as something with a past as well as a future. Understanding these developments in a historical sense allows for an examination of what happened to the news business globally and what developments really mattered and which ones that seemed important at the time turned out to have been nothing more than marketing hype." 2/3

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"Academics and communications scholars of a certain age may feel they know this history intuitively, but they sometimes lack a clear and compelling overview of the topic. Students today, meanwhile, have lived through multiple generations of digital change. To many of them, the founding of ProPublica or the invention of Twitter is ancient history and needs to be treated just like any historical development." 3/3.

Stay tuned for updates as we work on this project!

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(given the death of academic twitter and my lack of presence on I am kind of enjoying the idea that the news of this project will percolate through the intellectual community, by rumor and word of mouth) ...

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@dankennedy_nu Many thanks Dan. This will be a largely synthetic work, rather than based on new empirical research, so your books will be key to telling the story.

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"X isn’t the old Twitter anymore. Bluesky, Threads, and Mastodon don’t yet fill the old Twitter niche either. But at this point, staying on Twitter because there’s no replacement is a bit like saying “I still drive my old gas guzzler because I can’t afford a new car,” when the old gas guzzler is missing a tire and the steering wheel. …Dude, accept it. You just don’t have a car anymore."

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/does-anyone-think-twitter-gets-better?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=387131&post_id=136791650&isFreemail=true&r=15ki&utm_medium=email

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Right, this is annoying.

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Man Sinéad O’Connor really nailed it on the Catholic Church huh? Two decades ahead of her time.

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@dankennedy_nu good point and fair enough. Tbh I remember a lot from those days as a (non-Catholic kid in S Jersey) and the discourse was just really bizarre. Teenagers made “jokes” if you can call it that about the church - or at the very least it was well known. And somehow never really talked about. Hard to explain.

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Definitely seeing a larger than usual number of academic follows in the past few days. Hi everyone!

A lot of them seem to be from folks who have joined for a while but who have been mostly quiet. Not sure if this is related to the "X" debacle, problems at other sites (BlueSky, Threads, etc) or just wanting to try again.

Anyway welcome to all.

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People who fade out here, you think it's usually cause they get bored? If so, is that just an inevitable side effect of asking people to "be the algorithm"?

Chanders,
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@misc @design_law since at least 2016, Twitter was an endless shitpile of political fights, the main character of the day repeated every day, ambient friend content and the excuse that you could be on there “for work.” It is deliberately and algorithmically designed to be very addictive.

I find I’m on here in waves. Sometimes a lot and sometimes I don’t think about it for a week at a time. In that way it’s like everything else in my life that’s not family or work.

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It’s 29c at 10pm and I’m reading Joan Didion write about The Doors. .

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There will be lot of folks reading- or pretending to read- “American Prometheus”- as Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” hits the big screen.

But let me also put in a plug for Richard Rhodes “Making of the Atomic Bomb,” one of the great non-fiction books of the 20th century, up there with “The Power Broker” and Taylor Branch’s books on MLK.

https://www.amazon.com/Making-Atomic-Bomb-Richard-Rhodes/dp/1451677618

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“reflexive contrarianism is, as the economist Adam Ozimek puts it, a “brain rotting drug.” Those who succumb to that drug “lose the ability to judge others they consider contrarian, become unable to tell good evidence from bad, a total unanchoring of belief that leads them to cling to low quality contrarian fads.””

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/opinion/robert-kennedy-jr-silicon-valley.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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