New open-access paper by Ellen Berrey, Nathan Kim, Kristen Bass, and me over at Socius -- We analyzed over 16,000 news articles using a machine-assisted system, yielding a dataset of 5,553 higher ed protest events, and university and police responses. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231241297447

When Elon bought Twitter, we saw an immense migration from that platform to here. When Trump got elected, I've seen nothing but increases to BlueSky. The Fediverse really missed a window.

AI and Fascism go hand-in-hand. New newsletter post.

The AI/Fascism Nexus

The AI/Fascism Nexus By Alex Oops, we did it again. I can't say that I'm terribly surprised, as Harris ran a center right campaign and tossed a mig...

New preprint! Ellen Berrey, Kristen Bass, Nathan Kim, and I present some trends from our new dataset of higher ed protests from 2012 to 2018 in the US and Canada. Some initial findings... 1. Higher ed protests concern university governance, anti-racism, and labor. 2. US protests are often national in nature, but take local instantiations, esp. wrt to racist police violence. 3. Canadian protests focus on public tuition and anti-austerity measures by provinces.

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