Maggie Jack

Remote work spurs grassroots environmental action in New York City | NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Tandon blog post here: engineering.nyu.edu/news/remote-...

Full paper here (please email for pdf if you need it!): dl-acm-org.proxy.library.nyu.edu/doi/full/10....

Remote work spurs grassroots environmental action in New York City | NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Presenting work today at Aarhus Critical Computing about my volunteer activities at 45 St Green Space over the past 5 years. In the paper, I describe the links between post-pandemic work from home trends and changes to collective organizing and New Yorkers' relationship to space.

The guidance will be split into current empirical/tactical knowledge of social media use in social movements, theoretical innovations, and ethical and safety guidance for researchers working in this field. To join, please fill in the Google form on our website. Hybrid participation is welcome.

This will be a design workshop style sprint to create a list of guidance for researchers who study the links between social media and social movements, based on the collective knowledge-making of researchers and activists interested in varied social movements across global contexts.

Alex Lu, Priyank Chandra, Adrian Petterson and I are hosting a workshop at Aarhus Critical Computing on 18 Aug: Reimagining Social Media and Social Movements in Crisis: A Workshop on Empirics, Theory and Research Guidance. Please join us!

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I gave a talk about my book "Media Ruins" last week and it is now available as a webinar for members of ASIS&T -- please feel free to view (if a member) here: www.asist.org/meetings-eve...

will you be giving a book talk in the city?

@allergyphd.bsky.social & @lmesseri.bsky.social are putting together a roundtable for AAA: "Specters of Technology.” They are looking for 3-5 participants to reflect on the sociotechnical “collisions of scholarship, pedagogy, and life that do not always take center stage in our published research"

A fun excuse to come visit us @nyutandon.bsky.social next Friday -- all are welcome. I think we all need some hands on DIY play these days...

Zohran Mamdani's instagram video ads for mayoral candidacy are something else. If this guy doesn't become mayor, we should definitely give him an Internet TV show

A book cover with a standing piano player in a white shirt, and the title “Bangkok After Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies” in front of orange and green shapes.

Oh hey it’s the cover of my new book, “Bangkok After Dark” (May 2025, @dukepress.bsky.social).

I love the design! I am beyond excited for you to read this thing.

Hope to see some of you at IPK tonight! In these confusing times, it is only more important to come together and celebrate members in our community who are doing good and important work. Cyborg synthesizes some of the best STS feminist scholarship for students, scholars, and the public.

AAS 2025 Prizes - Association for Asian Studies The AAS is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s prize competitions and offer congratulations to all honorees. Please join us at the AAS 2025 Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony to recog...

Honored that Media Ruins was awarded an Honorable Mention for the Benda Prize (for a first book in English on Southeast Asia) by the Association of Asian Studies. Please check out the books awarded this year -- what an amazing collection! I want to read them all. www.asianstudies.org/aas-2025-pri...

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

It’s time to organize: “The internet has conditioned us to constantly seek new information, as if becoming a sponge of bad news will eventually yield the final piece of a puzzle. But there is also such a thing as having enough information.”

www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

Flu spikes Influenza-like illness hits a second peak

"Last week, outpatient influenza data was missing, so I visited the websites of all 50 state health departments... That data was later brought back online, but then CDC’s main data repository (data.cdc.gov) was taken down. For the second week in a row, I was back to rounding up data by hand."

Congrats - this looks wonderful

I heard this this morning too and it put me in a total tizzy

Where are folks getting their news? I'm getting a much clearer interpretation of the impacts of what's going on from personal networks close to institutions affected by EOs than any news source. I want to keep better track but everything feels disaggregated - any tips appreciated.

hey all! i'm organizing an open panel at 4S in Seattle this year on the tech entrepreneurs who are trying to build new cities/states (e.g., Prospera, California Forever)

For more info, click here (www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...) The panel is #185 :)

Based on 5 years of engagement in a community greenspace (through the pandemic), I've been thinking & writing about how urban life has become increasingly mediated/isolated & what this means for the hopes for - and inequalities in - place-based environmental activism. LMK if you'd like to join!

The NY Metro Seminar Environmental History is workshopping a new paper about why remote and independent workers have found solace from alienated lives in community gardening. We'll meet at 2 pm 2/12 on Zoom with @marcdo.bsky.social

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Upcoming NYU IPK event to celebrate
@allergyphd.bsky.social
& Laura Forlano's brilliant-concise-MIT top seller book "Cyborg" on 2/13 at 5:30 pm, moderated by me and
@daveparisi.bsky.social

Join us!

ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

I am hiring a postdoc! Excellent research support, minimal teaching load, and an overall wonderful set up. The research focus is flexible as long as some part of your practice involves critical making or hands-on research in some form. (1/3)

LaborTech End-Of-Year Showcase Announcement *End-Of-Year Showcase* Labor Tech Research Network Come join LaborTech’s virtual End of Year Showcase December 12-13! Help celebrate the work our members have done this year, and the beautiful diver...

🚨EVENT!🚨 LaborTech's End-of-Year Showcase!

**Happening Thurs, Dec 12-Fri, Dec 13**

Come for discussions on how to organize, research, & teach around labor + tech issues, with spotlights on South Asia and Latin America!

For more info/to RSVP: bit.ly/4fIoBE2

As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write

"Many women in academia weren’t delaying parenthood by choice. Rather, they found themselves unable to reconcile their biological clocks with the unpredictable, demanding pace of an academic career."

www.science.org/content/arti...

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like

If there are other lists of scholars/activists in the STS/ critical HCI space, I'd love to follow : )

Labour & Technology Scholars Join the conversation

Excited to move into this app. For academics studying work & tech who want to make the switch from T/X: @mathewiantorno.com has made it even easier for us! He created a Labor and Technology "starter pack” here: go.bsky.app/UMaa7T3