Alex Madva

YouTube video by Digital Humanities Consortium @ CPP The Future of Human Attention in the Age of AI

If you're interested in AI and questions of how it's changing the way we think, focus, and learn, make sure to watch the recording of Carlos Montemayor's (@mainomenous.bsky.social) talk, Cultivating Attention in the Age of AI!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtLC...

How to Lose Loudly: What the Left can Learn from the NRA Episode 2577: Michael Brownstein on how anyone can create social change

Aside from having to record it in my overheated closet, this was a really fun interview with Andrew Keen. Appreciated the hard questions--like whether there can be a science of social change--and occasional pushback.
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Hello Broncos! On Monday, the Digital Humanities Consortium will be hosting an event on interviewing across disciplines. Come to enhance your interviewing skills, or even just to learn about the art of interviewing. Details included in the link attached!

What to read on International Day of Non-Violence Several books on peace and reformation for International Day of Non-Violence.

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Chicagoland Friends! Two weeks from today I'll be in town at The Seminary Coop to talk about social change and my new book. It would be great to see you! It's from 4-5pm Thursday 10/16, and I will probably be thirsty afterwards.

www.semcoop.com/event/daniel...

Philly peeps and Main Liners! Let's celebrate the pending domination of the Dodgers with a no-notes 10-out-of-10 discussion on 10/10, about social change and book bans, at Main Point Books!

The Democrats’ shutdown strategy is terrible. Here’s a better one. Talk less about health care, more about authoritarianism.

I have had it with Democratic leadership. Their shutdown strategy is a disaster, the worst of all possible worlds.

If they want to salvage anything from this mess, they need to start talking — loudly and clearly — about fighting Trump's authoritarian takeover

www.vox.com/politics/463...

"One way to recruit people, despite a lack of immediate prospects, is a tactic called 'losing loudly': making a spectacle of a battle they know they can’t win, one that motivates others to take action."

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3D promotional image of "Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change" by Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly.

The "Somebody Should Do Something" book tour heads to Pennsylvania! Join co-author Alex @madva.bsky.social at The End Bookstore on Tuesday, October 7th when he will be in conversation with Aimee Saunders, from @redwineblueusa.bsky.social: theendbooks.co/event/2025-1... @playbooks.bsky.social

Shopping Differently Won't Solve the Climate Crisis | Common Dreams Large companies like BP have taught us to track what we buy, and take responsibility for what we do with the stuff we buy, so that they won’t have to stop making and selling the stuff we buy from them...

Here’s an excerpt from our book about carbon footprints and how the dark arts of corporate PR appropriate ideas about individual choice and personal responsibility www.commondreams.org/opinion/cons...

Common Ground Initiative: 'Somebody Should Do Something' With Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly Learn how social change happens with authors Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly at this Common Ground event at The Westport Library.

Not too far from Westport CT and itching for something to do next Monday night 10.6? Hanging out with Alex Madva and me at the Westport Public Library wouldn't be your worst option. @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky

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Michael Brownstein & Alex Madva SOMEBODY SHOULD DO SOMETHING: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change Our guests today on this edition of Forthright Radio are co-authors of a new book, SOMEBODY SHOULD DO SOMETHING: HOW ANYONE CAN HELP CREATE SOCIAL CHANGE, published by MIT Press. Michael Brownstein…

Either/or thinking, pluralistic ignorance, satire, the view of racism as a habit, intersectionality, and "practicing politics the right way," in a truly (!) wide-ranging convo @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social and I had with Joy LaClaire on Forthright Radio @kzyx.bsky.social

bit.ly/kzyx-forthri...

Kailey Tse-Harlow's post on LinkedIn of the book Somebody Should Do Something in Porter Square books

Sighting of our book in Porter Square, which we'll be visiting on 10/15!

Love the placement here...

"If anyone builds it, everyone dies: Why superhuman AI would kill us all"

"Somebody should do something!"

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Either mental health or social change? Or maybe both/and? Looking forward to the rest of the episode and catching up on @zerlinamornings.bsky.social

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And... of course I sent the wrong link to register for Prof. Montemayor's talk. This is the correct one: bit.ly/AI-attention

Let me make it up to you with a cat photo...

Tune into Sirius XM Progress this morning to hear my coauthor my @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social and me! (You can also catch up later on the Sirius XM app -- which comes with a 90 day free trial if you download!)

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Tuesday tidings! W/ @zerlinamaxwell.bsky.social: @crow.house.gov of CO-06, @repstansbury.bsky.social of NM-01, Digital Media Strategist @espiers.bsky.social + Authors & Philosophers Michael Brownstein & Alex Madva!

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Join us IRL at Cal Poly Pomona or in Zoomsville on Monday 9/29 (10am PST) to discuss "Cultivating Attention in the Age of AI" with @mainomenous.bsky.social!

Register here: bit.ly/ai-dhc

#AI #Attention #AIandSociety #DigitalHumanities #Philosophy #CalPolyPomona

This is how Trump ends democracy The past week has revealed Trump’s policy road map to veto one-party rule. Will Americans let him follow it?

The past week has shown us something scary — the concrete and specific outlines of a durable authoritarian state in America.

Here's what this state would look like, and the precise policy levers Trump is pulling to get there from here.

www.vox.com/politics/462...

NJ friends: come by the Montclair Book Center tomorrow at 2p to talk about social change!

www.montclairbookcenter.com/pages/events...

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"the song we couldn't write, this is what it sounds like"

And we're off!

New Good Is In The Details on the limits of individual responsibility & how choice is impacted by cultural and legal structures. Phil Professors Dr. Madva & Dr. Kelly discuss their book Somebody Should Do Something.

And…a nod to introverts :)

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Grateful for opportunity on @profdolske.bsky.social and Rudy Salo's podcast! bit.ly/good-deets

Longer form gave us breathing room to get deeper into the philosophy and social science

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Book cover for Somebody Should Do Something next to a photo of Alex's cat on a bookshelf

Check your mailboxes, folks! 👀

Time to make some room on the bookshelf!

somebody-book.com

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(maybe read the book first, and then make room)

The cover of a book called Somebody Should Do Something

It's pub day for Somebody Should Do Something! @madva.bsky.social, @dryan149.bsky.social, and I started working on it almost 5 years ago. A bajillion people helped us along the way. Thank you everyone. Never a better time than now to go fight for change together.
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In "Somebody Should Do Something," @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social, Alex @madva.bsky.social, & Daniel Kelly (@dryan149.bsky.social) combine compelling stories with science to show how personal choices, when linked with collective action, can drive structural change: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204978...

Thanks Leda!!

This book by @madva.bsky.social, @dryan149.bsky.social and @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social magically appeases both my worried, Skeptical Academic Self, and my much more hopeful and admittedly atrophied Organizer Self. Go buy it!