The Media and Politics Initiative at JHU SAIS. An interdisciplinary platform at the intersection of politics and news, social, visual, and entertainment media
Joined February 2022
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22 Aug 2024
Deadline is Sept 2 to apply for a conference on visuality and violence hosted by AUB Media Studies.
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5 Aug 2024
OUT NOW! The first empirical article in our upcoming Special Issue on 'Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media'. It's about RuPaul Drag Race, Westernness & whiteness, by @ZaneAWillard & Rachel E Dubrofsky. academic.oup.com/ccc/advance…
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6 Aug 2024
This looks to be a super interesting and important project on small social media platforms. Great to see research in this vein looking beyond big tech.
@ERC_Research is taking applications for four postdoc positions, check it out!
6 Aug 2024
Inviting applications for four #postdoc positions in the new @ERC_Research Consolidator Project on small social media platforms w/ ethnography & data science. Deadline for applications: 31 Aug '24. bit.ly/ERCpostdocSMALLPLATFO… Looking forward to having you on my team :)
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19 Apr 2024
Join us @SAISHopkins Thurs May 2nd at 5:30pm to discuss intersections of media diversity and democracy.
Featuring @wyoumans (GWU), @leannagarfield (GLAAD), @TamaraGilkes (The Economist) and Amalia Córdova (Smithsonian). @LiselHintz moderating.
Register: eventbrite.com/e/media-diver…
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28 Mar 2024
Join us today at 5:30pm! We're hosting Prof. @joekhalil to unpack the digital turn in the Middle East.
Co-hosted by our SAIS Media and Politics Initiative and the SAIS MENA Club @SAISmpi @saismenastudies
Register: eventbrite.com/e/the-digital…
28 Mar 2024
Today! I am thrilled to join @LiselHintz and Dr. Narges Bajoghli at the Bloomberg Center for an engaging conversation on the relationship between digital technology and socio-political dynamics in the Middle East. @NUQatar @NU_SoC #digitaldoublebind eventbrite.com/e/the-digital…
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25 Mar 2024
Join us Thursday March 28 at 5:30pm to discuss The Digital Double Bind with Prof. @joekhalil.
Rich, important insights on the interplay of information technology, people, and power that shaped the Middle East's digital turn.
Register: eventbrite.com/e/the-digital…
25 Mar 2024
Let's explore "The Digital Double Bind" together at @SAISHopkins in Washington, DC. Looking forward to an enriching conversation with SAIS MPI co-directors @LiselHintz and Dr. Narges Bajoghli on technology, society, and the Middle East. @SAISMiddleEast eventbrite.com/e/the-digital…
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11 Mar 2024
Deadline extended for our Media Diversity and Democracy Workshop on May 3!
Please submit abstracts by Friday March 15. Early career scholars of all disciplines encouraged to apply. Travel funding available.
Details here: liselhintz.com/sais-mpi.html.
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26 Feb 2024
Abstracts due Friday for our Media Diversity and Democracy Workshop on May 3.
Early career scholars of all disciplines encouraged to apply. Travel funding available.
Details here: liselhintz.com/sais-mpi.html.
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14 Feb 2024
DC area folks, join us at our next event!
On Monday Feb 19, we host Samantha Majic to discuss her fascinating and important new book on celebrities' anti-trafficking activism. Lisel Hintz and Sarah Parkinson will moderate the event.
Link to register: eventbrite.com/e/sais-media-…
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9 Feb 2024
Call for papers! We are hosting a research workshop on media diversity and democracy on Friday, May 3rd. Abstracts due March 1st. Limited funding available to support grad student travel. Please circulate.
Details here: liselhintz.com/sais-mpi.html.
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7 Feb 2024
Join us tomorrow Feb 7 for our event on social media and democratic reform in Kazakhstan with @colleenwood_ and @LiselHintz!
Link to register: eventbrite.com/e/social-medi…
31 Jan 2024
DC area folks: Join us next week for our first SAIS Media and Politics Initiative event of the year. @LiselHintz hosts @colleenwood_ on Wed Feb 7 from 4:45-6:00pm to discuss social media and democratic reform in Kazakhstan. Reception follows.
Register: eventbrite.com/e/social-medi…
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31 Jan 2024
DC area folks: Join us next week for our first SAIS Media and Politics Initiative event of the year. @LiselHintz hosts @colleenwood_ on Wed Feb 7 from 4:45-6:00pm to discuss social media and democratic reform in Kazakhstan. Reception follows.
Register: eventbrite.com/e/social-medi…
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11 Aug 2023
New book alert!
Finally a hard copy of Mainstreaming Gays! Discusses how LGBTQ content was mainstreamed due to rise of digital media, fan cultures, & commercial interest, what this has meant for media production & culture rutgersuniversitypress.org/m…
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11 Aug 2023
Hülya Adak and Murat Akser's thought provoking article on Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Wild Pear Tree was Cambridge University Press's most downloaded article for July in Middle East Studies. Congratulations to our authors! And it is open access & available here. bit.ly/44LNaKD
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26 Jul 2023
New book alert!
26 Jul 2023
I'm thrilled to have received my copy of Gaza on Screen, edited by Nadia Yaqub, and featuring great work by both scholars and filmmakers. My chapter is "The Elisions of Televised Solidarity in the 2014 Lebanese Broadcast for Gaza". Check it out t.ly/poY-x @DukePress
ALT Gaza on Screen, edited by Nadia Yaqub
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21 Jul 2023
New book alert!
21 Jul 2023
Excited to share the happy news that my latest book, which took several years of hard work, is finally out. I hope it is up to your expectations.
bloomsbury.com/.../political… Foreword by Charles Tripp... Many thanks to my publisher @BloomsburyBooks @BloomsburyAcad @IBTauris
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18 Jul 2023
Documentarian Can Candan @yunusunbabasi has been unjustly dismissed for the third time(!!) from his position at Boğaziçi University. We hosted Prof. Candan for a screening of Benim Çocuğum (My Child), and stand in solidarity.
#KabulEtmiyorVazGeçmiyoruz
#WeDoNotAcceptWeDoNotGiveUp
18 Jul 2023
Since the appointment of a trustee rector to
@unibogazici_en in 2021, I’ve been dismissed from my position twice and have been reinstated twice following court decisions annulling those dismissals. On July 16, 2023, I’ve been unjustly and unlawfully dismissed for the 3rd time!
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7 Jul 2023
New book alert! With over 40 contributions on media and culture in MENA
7 Jul 2023
“The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East” is here, edited by @joekhalil, Gholam Khiabany, Tourya Guaaybess, and @BilgeYesil. Explore the diverse perspectives and groundbreaking research we’ve curated. #MediaCultureME #NewRelease #MediaStudies
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4 Jul 2023
(Yet another!) Important and timely article from @ergincloud and medical anthropologist Başak Can on the different spaces and ways in which misogyny affects pro-feminist journalists in Turkey. Kalemlerinize sağlık!
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