Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
UPenn-Annenberg Prof doing Media, Social Movements, Tech, Race, Gender (and vibes) | Black Celebrity, Racial Politics & the Press (2014), #HashtagActivism (2020), Next book loading…| Co-director Media, Inequality & Change Center
Yesss! I’ve written a little about it here:
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Thank you. I said that the journalists on the ground are being targeted and murdered so we don’t get clear/standard photojournalistic images like we are used to, at the same time the platforms are censoring the citizen journalism, so I’m not surprised this AI image has become a substitute!
Me sneaking the Zapatistas into everything
My experience is academics w/ deep expertise are often afraid of being misquoted or misinterpreted so they shy away from media. I wish folks understood those cases are rarely (though occasionally) malicious but the result of imperfect norms & procedures. An interview is not a journal article!
There is a thing we are trained to do as scholars that is all about nuance that in my experience often doesn’t translate to sound bites. And it’s good to know that when you do media some of the things you say will be left out! But yes I also said those other things!
Ok, great lesson for academics doing media. I told this journalist (who is lovely!) my concerns about AI and the ways AI is linked to mis/disinformation and deprives artist-activists work. That didn’t make the story. The frame is not focused on AI and editorial decisions were made! It happens!
Why the ‘All Eyes on Rafah' is Going Viral on Social Media
Nearly 45 million Instagram users have shared an AI-generated image of tent camps and a slogan “all eyes on Rafah."
time.com*that and ugh at autofill can I turn it off it constantly gets me
Exactly what the husbands of tradwives say, “she’s the one in charge here, man *guffaw*”
No seriously, Alito and Thomas saying they their wives moods and whims lead them to do ill-advised things is like 🤝 with the idea that women are irrational and need Christian nationalist values to control them. Blaming women is all of the point.
Those hysterical ladies ya know! Nothing to do but take away their right to bodily autonomy! *laugh track plays*
No, the same uber wealthy donors who threatened to withdraw b/c of the protests are doing so anyway because the riot police weren’t called *fast enough* for them.
(There is a separate category of not uber wealthy people I think you are nodding to I mentioned in the thread.)
Uber rich folks with PR staff, not ordinary alumni, that is my interpretation also
Also kudos to these student journalists for covering a different phenomenon that the NYT has yet to discover, the hundreds of alumni withholding donations because they support student protesters.
So just so we’re clear. If universities don’t call the riot police on student protestors they might lose donors, but also, if universities do exactly what those donors want and call the riot police on protesters they’ll still stop donating. Got it.
Penn alumni, donors withdraw support from University following response to campus activism
The encampment — and Penn's response to it — prompted further scrutiny of the administration after several alumni withdrew financial support from the University last fall.
www.thedp.comI feel I must add for the scene, I was listing to Sia, Cheap Thrills
Lol. I have definitely had encounters with bushes and tree branches while yelling at people on the internet
Lol. Yall it was way wetter than that cement, I didn’t make an imprint, I sank up to my ankles 🥴 the guys all started yelling and the nice coffeeshop owner nearby brought me two gallons on water and bar towels I could ruin to try to clean myself up. Passerbys gasped 🙃
Anyway, noise cancelling headphones work, it you jay walk to avoid construction look around for other construction, and hey guys pouring cement, maybe put up a barricade or something 😩
Through an almost impossible combination of circumstances I just stepped squarely into wet cement being freshly poured from the cement truck. Wearing sandals. I’m sure other people feel like certain shit only happens to them, but hello, hi 👋🏽
Real classy people making life or death decisions about democracy
We played this at my mom’s funeral. It was her favorite/theme song in life and she helped curate a playlist of the songs she loved most before she died. Definitely quite a few others people thought were weird for a funeral 🤷🏾♀️
Don’t ever let anyone tell you that a huge part of being an academic isn’t having meetings about the formation of committees that have meetings to report to other committees in meetings. But also task forces and initiatives, with meetings to report to committees.
I reshare this every Memorial Day
The First Decoration Day
Article. By David W. Blight. 2011. The people's history of Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina during Reconstruction.
www.zinnedproject.orgabortionfunds.org/find-a-fund/
One of the most impactful and helpful things you can be doing right now to ensure that people can have access to abortion services is to DONATE AND RAISE MONEY FOR ABORTION FUNDS. The FUNDS ARE THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ACCESS along with Independent clinics. Yet people are NOT showing up for them.
So I’m guessing the Saudi prince who just followed me on here is not real
(Quite a weekend for spam accounts)
Ah is this why a dude popped in and asked me for my citations on something men say all the time yesterday?
It was mostly harmless except the piles of cottonwood seeds would accrue in the gutters of streets and build up against the curbs in parking lots so sometimes even if you lit a pile away from vehicles the fire would travel under and near them for quite a distance. Again, don’t recommend kids!
Definitely cottonwood, signed someone who went to cottonwood high school and used to light the piles of fluffy spores on fire for entertainment with the other bored 15 year olds (don’t do it, highly flammable)
I definitely wasn’t saying by design of the Illuminati or something! But by design of policy makers, the ownership class, and members of the public invested in social hierarchy who design rules, policy, and norms that entrench rather than alleviate inequality b/c of fear of losing political power.
Sorry I said 2, but 3: see work on sharecropping, outsourcing, sweatshops, and farmworkers on how keeping people precarious is don’t intentionally to ensure a workforce that doesn’t challenge the terms of ownership and production that produce unregulated, cheap products and wealth for the wealthy.
Recent and more mainstream examples across other fields: Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow and Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law both show how racist policy was designed w/ the intent to maintain economic inequality and deprive folks of political power ranging from school boards to voting.
I guess I’d say Marx and the legions of work that has critiqued and/or extended his work including a lot of recent work on labor organizing which documents how bosses intentionally threaten workers w/ employment and benefit to prevent them organizing unions and achieving their political demands. 1/2