This article I co-authored with Dr. Ali Honari will be out soon in Public Understanding of Science. It’s about the politicisation of science on Twitter. Here’s the manuscript already.
Tag: Twitter
Fieldwork blog: contesting Istanbul’s identity on social media
Artist, Burak Akbay, created and shared this piece online, saying on Twitter that he had made it as a new logo for Istanbul, since the city has a new symbol: the Arab hair transplant tourist.
Symposium on the Politics of Twitter at the University of Amsterdam
Yesterday I dropped by an inspiring symposium on Public Lives/Private Platform: The Politics of Twitter organized by Matt Cornell and co. at the University of Amsterdam. Was a great, self-organized space for activists, academics, journalists, and critical tech enthusiasts of many sorts. The keynote lecture by Jillian York on the history of the hashtag was very cool and it was a pleasure to meet her.
Donya Alinejad 