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Meant to be a joke btw. And we're urbanized multi-ethnic fam for references

My sister asked my dad for angpao (红包) for spring festival and my dad be like nah I'm Thai but he refered to his grandpa as gong, his grandma as ma. Basically we use ethnicity for convenient

MilkTeaAlliance

ཉེ་ཆར་གྱི་ #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#MilkTeaAlliance དང་མནའ་མཐུན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ལ་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་བྱ་དགོས།
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Original tweet by @NantEiThandar
Link: twitter.com/1356586842770956288/status/1867099049238859928

The Milk Tea Alliance · Columbia Global Reports Why are activists in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Burma willing to court danger to help one another? The political situations in Burma, Thailand, and Hong Kong are radically different. Only Burma is in a ...

Excited to have my 2nd @columbiagr.bsky.social book going into proofs: globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-mi.... It focuses on youth activists in/from Bangkok, Hong Kong, & Burma, but addresses themes relevant to protests in other settings from today’s Seoul to the Soviet bloc during the Cold War

People may think I'm doing a qualitative research 😂 but a fun fact is my thesis uses computational textual analysis

Another study about moral emotion (which they use cultural emotion) in Thai politics in qualitative will use LOVE instead of care but the sense it gives, acc to the political realm, is similar

My thesis statement is as simple as "Emotions especially when it ties to moral judgement are important in the protest mobilization especially in care-related emotions eg. Compassion in Thai middle and highschoo protests. It could be well because if we were to protest, we need to care about the cause

And let's not forget that Chenjerai was hired to teach *journalism* at NYU, because he is an award-winning broadcaster. For doing the thing he was hired to teach, he is now being being declared "PNG" at NYU. Wild stuff.

Had a fantastic time at #NCA24 in New Orleans catching up with old friends and making some new ones ⚜️📿🎷

@yaseminbeykont.bsky.social @marandagoke.bsky.social @erikasolis.bsky.social @clctroy.bsky.social @saeeddabbour.bsky.social @v2902s.bsky.social #NCA2024

It was lovely to meet @saeeddabbour.bsky.social and @v2902s.bsky.social and cannot wait to get together again in future conferences!

@sydneyforde.bsky.social @erikasolis.bsky.social

Just got proof that I really did a presentation in #nca2024 thanks

Related/ not related, one of the things I really admired the HK press corps for over the last few years is that most of them have been actively, passionately documenting the demise of their own freedoms

Niao's post got me thinking of this protest rally by Hong Kong journalists and their supporters in July 2019. One of my memories if it involves Claudia Mo standing quietly by while others said their piece. (A member of the Hong Kong 47, Ms Mo was a journalist before becoming a politician-activist.)

C: 沒有暴徒 只有暴政
E: "No rioters, only tyranny"/ "There are no rioters, only a tyrannical regime"

Slogan born from the HK govt first branding protestors on 12 June as 'rioters', and later popularised by 1 Jul Legco occupiers with their banner

Source: TG (L: Jul 19, R: Oct 19)

I'm going to start collecting threads on HK protest art in one place. Easier to walk down memory lane, even if they be filled with tears and teargas.

Having these in many places mean the images are harder to erase. And harder to forget.

Also I'm very bad at networking, can I just do research and no talk?

First time #nca24 and first time #NOLA + US. Sleepy cause didn't have a good sleep because of my thesis(due this sunday/beijing time) and this flight (14+ hours from shanghai) for a single presentation 😭💀

I understand where this came from but source please

Abstract: This interview with Randall Collins explores the role of interaction rituals (IR) in our increasingly digital world. For Collins, IR is a micro-sociological mechanism that provides both the glue that holds social groups together and the energy that fuels disputes and domination. Crucially, Collins posits that IRs are most effective under face-to-face or “bodily copresent” conditions. The pivotal question of this interview is how well this proposition holds in an age where interaction increasingly takes place through and with technologies. The interview begins with Collins explaining how he became interested in IR, before moving on to consider topics such as whether bodily copresence is as important today as it was when he wrote Interaction Ritual Chains (2004); the relative importance of online and offline IRs; how AI might change our ritual landscape; the role of materiality in the ritual process; and whether IR theory will continue to be as relevant in the future.

🚨New publication🚨
My interview with Randall Collins has been published in Theory and Society. In it, we discuss the relevance of his interaction ritual theory in our increasingly digital age. The interview can be read open access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#Sociology #commsky

Suddenly change from Beijing time zone to the other part

Update from NZ: 30k people are in

Photo from friend

Our new working paper shows how a single choice by many social media platforms—to treat all resharing as if from the original poster—can drastically reshape our understanding of the social dynamics on those platforms.

doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Election Reveals Right-Wing Shift of Social Media Platforms If the election underscored anything about the internet, it was the ascendancy of social platforms for the right. That puts Democrats at a disadvantage.

Right wing social media?

“political discourse online has increasingly shifted to an array of mostly right-wing sites that have built up their audiences and stoked largely partisan conversations.”

commsky polcom

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/t...

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New event
📆20th Nov
🕖7pm Taiwan Time

Join @newbloommag.net for conversation:
"Giving Burmese voices an outlet to the world, a conversation about Insight Myanmar" with Insight Myanmar founder Joah McGee on the current situation in Myanmar
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Moral Media – April 2025 Moral Media Conference Call for Papers We are excited to announce the eighth meeting of the Moral Media conference to be held April 11-13, 2025, in Buffalo, NY. This meeting is jointly sponsored by…

Media psych folks interested in morality, come join us in Buffalo in April! moralmedia.org/annual-meeti...

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The November 2024–January 2025 issue of @mekongreview.bsky.social is out, so here I am to share some of what you'll find in the magazine.

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I use vpn so I guess it could be buggy sometimes but I don't think the other platforms (not xyZ) are working as bad as here? 😐

🚨 FINAL CALL - Call for Papers: Special Issue on Digital Femininities – Journal of Femininities – ABSTRACT DUE NOVEMBER 20th 🚨 brill.com/fileasset/do...

am I the only one experiencing the buggy here?