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📜New publication📜A special issue of @memorystudies - Remembering Activism: Explorations in the Memory-Activism Nexus - coedited with Ann Rigney. Working on this with Ann & others was a work highlight of my year. It’s here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/MSS… & much of it is #openaccess
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Our latest superb special issue:
REMEMBERING ACTIVISM
Explorations in the Memory-Activism Nexus
Edited by @socmerrill and Ann Rigney
journals.sagepub.com/toc/mss…
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Happy and proud to see my article 'My Body My Choice, The Hostile Appropriating of Feminist Cultural Memory in American Anti-Vaccine Movements' published alongside fascinating contributions in the new special issue of Memory Studies.
📜New publication📜A special issue of @memorystudies - Remembering Activism: Explorations in the Memory-Activism Nexus - coedited with Ann Rigney. Working on this with Ann & others was a work highlight of my year. It’s here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/MSS… & much of it is #openaccess
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PEGIDA is back: After years of decline, the far-right protest group plans to take to the streets for its 10th anniversary on 20 October
Wonder why PEGIDA is still (somewhat) alive? Read on for my explanation of this curious case of movement persistence tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
The special issue represents a collaboration between Utrecht University’s ReAct Project (rememberingactivism.eu) and Umeå University’s Department of Sociology and Centre for Digital Social Research (digsum.org/).
Go check it out and let us know what you think!
This was a fun one. Big thanks to the editors!
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Listened to a great recent episode of @trashfuturepod with @jason_koebler as guest and they talked about AI as the aesthetic of modern fascism, and I've been thinking about that all week
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Robin Ekelund
on doing memories in Facebook!
@socmerrill's hybrid practices
@andrewhoskins' memory ecologies & grey memory
@DALupton's data selves
In: @BN_Jacobsen @riksmit86 @TaylorAnnabell's
fab Platformization of Memory Collection
Gold Open Access
doi.org/10.1017/mem.2024.17
🚨job klaxon 🚨 I’m hiring a two-year post-doc for the project Never Forget vs. Never Happened: Holocaust Commemoration & Contestation on Social Media. Focus on EN, SV & DE linguistic settings with interviewing & computational methods. Deadline 23 Aug
umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-…
Reposting this! Post-doc position on one of my projects at @digsum @umeauniversity. Deadline 23 Aug.
🚨Job Klaxon🚨I’m hiring a two-year post-doc for the project Never Forget vs. Never Happened: Holocaust Commemoration & Contestation on Social Media. Focus on EN, SV & DE linguistic settings with interviewing & computational methods. Deadline 23 Aug
umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-…
📜New publication📜: The Shifting Image of Sweden Abroad: Framings of the 2022 Swedish Election in Traditional and Far-Right Online Media from the United States, Germany, India, and China. With too many coauthors to list on X!
Available #openaccess here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
🚨Job Klaxon🚨I’m hiring a two-year post-doc for the project Never Forget vs. Never Happened: Holocaust Commemoration & Contestation on Social Media. Focus on EN, SV & DE linguistic settings with interviewing & computational methods. Deadline 23 Aug
umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-…
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We’ve got a book cover! Thanks to Shona Illingworth for the beautiful image @andrewhoskins @OxUniPress
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🗺️Affect and the Response to Terror: Commemoration and Communities of Sense
✍️@angharadcloss @martincoward @socmerrill @bajak70
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If you haven’t seen already. We are looking for two post-docs for the past-forward project including the one below ! Deadline 7 May.
🚨Job Klaxon🚨We're hiring two post-docs for the project PastForward: The political uses of the past in digital discourses about Nordic futures. Here's the one I will supervise at Umeå University. Finnish, Swedish&English language desirable! Deadline 7 May umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-…
🚨Job Klaxon🚨We're hiring two post-docs for the project PastForward: The political uses of the past in digital discourses about Nordic futures. Here's the one I will supervise at Umeå University. Finnish, Swedish&English language desirable! Deadline 7 May umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-…
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Deadline extended to 3 April! Submit to our pre-conference at the 2024 @ECREA_eu conference in Ljubljana. Together, we want to dive into victimhood identities and their mediated negotiations in the past, present, and future. More information here: affectemotionandmedia.wordpr… #ecrea24











