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Zainab Akbar

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PhD student @bgsu | ex-Researcher @MSFTResearch | Researching misinformation, social media, influencer culture, media manipulation! But first, coffee!

Joined July 2010
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The Social Media & Society in India conference @UMich is on Apr 8-9, 2024, the largest conference of its kind featuring talks and workshops on culture, politics, industry, policy, and misinformation. Register free to attend: influencers.conference.si.umich.edu

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The Social Media & Society in India symposium Apr 8-9, 2024 @UMich is free to attend online or in person. A great line-up of speakers, plus attendees get office hours with speakers, plus consultations on doing social media research. 🧵 Register here: joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/influencers.htm

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Politicians are choosing to be interviewed by YouTubers instead of journalists. This will change the face of political interviewing in the 2024 elections and undermine professional journalism during the campaign cycle A thread, & link to the research joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/?p=1375

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Journalist @AbhinandanSekhr talks about the role of algorithms on news consumption, on ways the internet and social media have created new avenues and responsibilities for journalists to speak truth to power. A link to his talk at @UMich youtube.com/watch?v=VkcVVO…


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Hepatologist @theliverdr discussed the challenges promoting evidence-based medicine on social media, debunking medical misinformation by individuals and the alternative medicine industry in India A link to his talk: youtube.com/watch?v=EhiA6n…


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Educator Vikas Divyakirti shared personal experiences with his content going viral online, and the ways in which this impacted his life and practice, remaining optimistic overall on the positive potential of social media. A link to his talk: youtube.com/watch?v=okQ-M3…


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Activist @BezwadaWilson addressed the use of sensational and dehumanizing imagery in the way mainstream media presents manual scavenging, and the need to recalibrate media towards greater systemic justice for the disempowered A link to his talk: youtube.com/watch?v=IAJZW8…


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Full papers & recordings of all talks at "Social Media and Society in India" covering topics from caste, gender, and hate speech to travel, activism, and online financial advice in India from influencers, academics, industry practitioners now public: 🧵 joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu/influencers.htm

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Dorsey on the Indian government's attempts to undermine journalists on Twitter, calling out the Farmer's protests. Our piece "Rihanna versus Bollywood" which showed coordinated messaging by Indian celebs and sportspersons on behalf of the govt. arxiv.org/pdf/2102.04031…

Former Twitter CEO @Jack Dorsey in an interview to @esaagar @krystalball on Breaking Points talks about Worlds Largest Democracy, “India for example, India is one of the country which had many requests around farmers protests, around particular journalists which were critical of…



Major hazards with academic jobs: Critical faculties wax and our supportive faculties wane We are always better at pointing out what people are doing wrong than enabling people to do better. #AcademicTwitter


Talking about citation values in todays writing class: 1) Diversity isn’t just a numbers game 2) It’s important to center marginalized ideas, voices and scholars.

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📢We're looking for WhatsApp group admins from India/ Bangladesh to talk about their experiences of maintaining WA groups 📲 Participants will be compensated for their time💸 Plz RT/ share within your circle 🙌🏽 Feel free to dm/ email (fs468@cornell.edu) for any queries📩

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Thread: a tad delayed, but here as promised for anyone who was interested in the #ICA23 session on Methods in Visual Politics & Protest. Yesterday's session featured...


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And Radhika Gajjala's big team work on using computational tools for feminist intersectional “small data” research.

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Radhika beautifully represented her acada babies at #ICA2023 in Toronto🤭. Team DH, Digital Archiving & Data Feminism rocks 🎉 @SyedaZainabA @DebipreetaRahut @cyberdivalive @ADeGalan

And Radhika Gajjala's big team work on using computational tools for feminist intersectional “small data” research.

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First Conference ad a PhD student feels different! Not so overwhelming when you learn to navigate! #ICA2023

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First, @SyedaZainabA, who did breakthrough work on radicalization on social media around the first wave of COVID-19 is a PhD student now at @bgsu working Here is a link to her fantastic paper on COVID misinformation as window into predudice in India: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…

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Another round young scholars who started research careers @MSFTResearch Bangalore in Social Media and Society are now PhD students. A 100% record of placement at top programs, and a place to study contemporary issues in tech I cannot recommend enough 🧵 microsoft.com/en-us/research…


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