Jenna Burrell

Something I wish more people would realize.

The implicit messages we get about neutralizing emotion in our scholarship (even when writing about deeply emotional events) has always bothered me. Ruth Behar's 'Anthropology that breaks your heart' (1996) is a classic, but it's well past time to revive the conversation. Can't wait to read this.

apply.interfolio.com/195460 new post-doc at Princeton: AI as a "cultural technology" — its role across arts & humanities & knowledge infrastructures, AI's societal effects on creative & cultural industries (literature, music, film, visual arts). Looking humanistic approaches to AI systems!

Cornell Information Science is hiring! Specifically looking for folks studying "the role of computing and AI in education and learning, including in global environments beyond the United States." academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/33075

An Arizona judge awarded nearly $70,000 in damages to a man who sued for wrongful death of an embryo after his ex-wife had a wanted abortion at 8 weeks pregnant. It's a chilling escalation in fetal—or in this case, embryonic—personhood. This and more in our weekly news roundup:

Thank you to the mathematicians like @louigi.bsky.social fighting back. www.ahmath.org/statements

choice quote: "The tech oligarchs have somehow managed to enshittify thinking."

The idea in here that business schools inherently train people to devalue labor reminds me that the same critique was made when the first business schools in America were started, which I mention here: www.elizabethspiers.com/the-anti-int...

Good. Keep the pressure on ... let's reconsider where we have our academic conferences. It was great to go Tokyo direct to Toronto for 4S. Next year it's in Taipei. After that I've heard two possibilities, both non-USA. Lots of benefits to decentering the USA in our scholarly communities.

I am a type 1 diabetic, and last night Dexcom forced me to agree to a new terms of use in order to continuing using the app and view my blood glucose data. Glad I had the foresight to "view agreements" and then copy the entire document. Because there appears to be NO WAY TO VIEW IT AGAIN. And...

The professor is Carolyn Marvin, one of the founders of media history research in the US, one of my subfields. Now leading the resistance against robot replacement of human labor. 

I've read and cited Carolyn Marvin's book "when old technologies were new" many times. Good to know what historians of technology get up to once they retire. Love it!

“According to Altman, we will either jump-start digital intelligence “and then fade into an evolutionary tree branch, or we can figure out what a successful merge looks like.” In other words, humans have a choice: face extinction or merge with machines” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

this basically amounts to giving corporations more rights and power... we cover this very argument in this 2024 paper firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

It is.

“A college in Illinois tried to cancel its Flock contract—Flock refused to take its cameras down so Elgin Community College covered them. The company snuck back to uncover them” www.theverge.com/tech/1009411...

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

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Yes! I'm in this book full of stellar chapters ... mine talks about embodied rural masculinity in the workplace and how it's challenged by and reconciled with digital tech!

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

A major structural hazard with extreme media ownership concentration is that oligarchs impose their ideological agendas--which almost always skew to the far right--on everyone. This capture of core info and communication infrastructures must be dismantled if we're to have any semblance of democracy.

one of the 21st century’s great tragedies is seeing a media industry gutted by decisions made by the tech industry elevate a bunch of industry shills as the people meant to help the public understand how tech works and what impacts it’s having on the world

So-called “effective altruism” actually just cuts the global poor out of the conversation entirely. Great piece: dear-humanity.org/effective-al...