🔮 #OracleOng is spinning the Wheel of Fortune from the beautiful beaches of #Krabi for a gentle-enough start to an ambitious year. 🇹🇭
🌩️ Big life shake-ups do have a dramatic way of erasing the body of evidence we’ve built for ourselves as powerful agents on a deliberate path. I wish we all commit to new practices of compassion and gentleness with ourselves—and feeling through the silly, the erotic, the simple, and the soul-elevating as all coequal parts to the funny human drama. 🎭
There are always two types of people: my best friend Jon—who finds the tickets, plans the fits, figures out the logistics, and rallies the crowd—and me, who just says yes and knows some of the lyrics.
Lady Gaga… what a night, what a show.
🇧🇷🇵🇭We’re looking to interview current and former media / democracy / development workers and discuss how they’ve worked thru foreign aid shocks in the past year.
🫶🏽 Our interview compares the civil society landscape in Brazil and the Philippines in terms of resilience and sustainability. Our project’s human-focus is especially keen to explore themes of worker wellbeing and activist burnout: How do media/development workers imagine democratic futures in their societies. How do they see themselves participating in political or civic life? Or have they grown disillusioned from both shocks and slow-burn of democratic backsliding in global context?
🙏 We hope y’all share this call for respondents far and wide and help us put together practical proposals pertaining to organizational sustainability as well as worker justice and movement-building in the Global South.
👋🏼 We wanna hear your story! Pls contact [email protected] / [email protected] / [email protected]!
🗣️🔊 We are proud to announce the Call for Papers for the next special issue, “Decoloniality in Media and Cultural Studies: Looking Back, Looking Forward”. Swipe to know more about the topics of interest and the timeline for submission of abstracts and full papers.
🌍 Please share this call for papers widely and feel free to @ that colleague who can make a great contribution to decoloniality in media and cultural studies! 👩🏾🏫🧑🏻🏫👨🏽🏫
#callforpapers #media #culturalstudies
🇲🇾 Even grand national landmarks and Michelin bib gourmand restaurants are super chill here in Kuala Lumpur. Thanks for the gentle welcome #Malaysia #trulyasia 😚
💫 At GloTech Lab, we’re all about building bridges with different centers and institutions, and creating intellectual partnerships around globally minded and community-driven approaches in media and technology research.
🌍 Part of our network-building initiative is finding ways to amplify Global South advocacies within “mainstream” Global North institutions. We’re proud we get to link up GloTech affiliate @thales.lelo ’s research with our colleagues at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center and share the latest collaborative projects on media and democracy @joncong .
More to come soon!
