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POROI’s CMS experienced an issue yesterday that prevented some users from creating new accounts. That issue should now be resolved. I want to ensure that anyone who may not have registered before still have the chance to submit work, so the submission window will stay open until Monday, May 19th.

Reminder that 500-word proposals for the special issue of POROI are due next week on May 15th (Thursday).

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully.

You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers.

Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

Speaking of exactly this excellent point: my students spent the semester seeking out solutions-based positive news (like that in the @fixthenews.com.web.brid.gy newsletter) and posting "hopescrolls" instead of doomscrolls and I'm reading their reflection essays today. Intentionality is amazing.

Five years in the making, @plaidsicle.bsky.social and my article on Twitch and User Experience Research is finally out (ch. 12) in the edited collection Collaborations and Partnerships in User Experience: wac.colostate.edu/books/tpc/ux/

at long long last, a work-in-progress becomes a real publication! it was so fun to write and think about this with @cjreimer.bsky.social --
thanks for lending your games-studies clout to my random curiousness and helping make this piece. :)

I know the world is on fire, but @nobugsnous.bsky.social and I wrote an article about GenAI, the work of Timnit Gebru, and linguistic justice, and it's out today in _Peitho_. You can find "Linguistic Justice and Storying Resistance to Generative AI" here: wac.colostate.edu/docs/peitho/...

Congratulations to Anna Tsing & Paul Edwards, awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize of @4sonline.bsky.social, the Society's lifetime achievement award in #STS. The citations are now online along with a rousing acceptance by @avastmachine.bsky.social

@aussts.bsky.social @sthv.bsky.social #anthro

Hello world! We’re a new nonprofit that brings together academic, libraries & university-based publishers. We’ll be launching a large collection of hundreds of HSS diamond #openaccess journals in Jan. 2026.

Today we launch the Open Journals Collective, an equitable, sustainable, community-led alternative to the big deals offered by corporate academic publishers. Proud to be part of it! 🙌

🔗 www.openjournalscollective.org

📖 Read the accompanying blog post: shorturl.at/H6p0M

#openaccess #scholcomm

Smithsonian Open Access | Smithsonian Institution Learn more about Smithsonian Open Access

Reminder that Smithsonian Open Access [currently] allows you to download, share, and reuse millions of images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. The Mar 27 EO may endanger this access. www.si.edu/openaccess?f...

Had a really fruitful conversation with @melhogan.bsky.social on the Data Fix podcast about “extractive AI” and Indigenous AI and what kind of futures these technologies propose for us. If you haven’t started listening to the Data Fix podcast, now’s the time. It’s a smart community critical scholars

Highly recommend anything @collinbjork.bsky.social is doing.

A bald white man wearing black rectangular glasses leans against a wall. He is wearing a red linen button-down shirt. His arms are crossed and he is smiling mischieviously.

Cover of Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment by Jonathan Sterne. Cover features a photograph of a dork-o-phone in its faux-leather case, with lanyard attached. Colors are a hazy blue, red, and green.

We are mourning the loss of Jonathan Sterne: author, editor, contributor, mentor, and friend.
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... Nathan R. Johnson, David Depew, John Angus Campbell, André Brock, Blake Scott, Judy Z. Segal, Lisa Keränen, Jeanne Fahnestock, and the late Herbert W Simons. Honourable company indeed.

Special 25th anniversary issue of POROI, reprinting a dozenish of its most influential articles. Very pleased to be between its covers with the likes of @leahcecc.bsky.social, @creekthinker.bsky.social, @rhetorologist.bsky.social, and @zoltanmajdik.bsky.social
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So honored to be a part of this special issue, and thanks to @nathanjohnson.us for his leadership! This article was a key part of the impetus for my book and ongoing work on where food, health, and embodiment intersect in racialized rhetorics

pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/issue/...

Please distribute widely. POROI is publishing a special issue with 19.1:
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In addition, a related CFP set to publish next year and setting the agenda for the future is available here: tinyurl.com/POROI-25

Is climate change ungovernable? Abstract. Climate governance spans multiple levels of socio-political organisation, from global institutions to local governments and non-governmental enti

In his article, @avastmachine.bsky.social explores failures and weaknesses of governance modes, arguing that the most effective climate ‘policy’ is infrastructural change.

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How A.I. Is Changing the Way the World Builds Computers Tech companies are revamping computing — from how tiny chips are built to the way they are arranged, cooled and powered — in the race to build artificial intelligence that recreates the human brain.

The rebuilding of computer systems to accommodate AI represents "the most fundamental change to computing since the early days of the World Wide Web." It's “reshaping not just technology but also finance, energy and communities.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

An InterLibrary Loan poster depicting a mostly-submerged iceberg; the above-the-surface part is labeled "what we have"; the submerged part is labeled "what we can get"

Also: this great inter-library loan (one of the world's treasures!) poster from my September visit to Macalester College

The Routledge Handbook of Ethics in Technical and Professional Communi Featuring specially commissioned chapters from scholars and practitioners across the field, this handbook serves as a touchstone for those who wish to do

Hot off the press.

Sonja K. Foss: Invitational Rhetoric as a Feminist Challenge to the... Sonja K. Foss is a professor emeritus in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver. Her research interests include contemporary rhetorical theory and criticism, feminist ...

Enjoyed reading this open-access interview with Sonja Foss about invitational rhetoric: journals.openedition.org/aad/7975?lan...

PhD in Media Studies (PhD MS) Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

In light of the fact that some U.S. universities are pausing admissions to their PhD programs, the Media Studies PhD Program in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at Western University (London, Ontario) is welcoming late applications from American applicants. www.fims.uwo.ca/programs/gra...

Second this. It's important to have someone who is trained to think about access points to reading and has a little distance from the content.

Peter Elbow, Professor Who Transformed Freshman Comp, Dies at 89 His struggles with writer’s block led him to create a process that favored an expressive, personal approach over rigid academic conventions that often stifled students.

“The first time I was given a free-writing exercise, I didn’t know what to do with it,” one of his students told NYT in 1983. “There was a feeling that this can’t go on too long. But after the first few times, the exercise began to make sense and writing became a little bit easier.”

Great photos.