Lecturer in Media Anthropology at @UCLanthropology. Research on Armenian music, Hungarian memes and Eurorack modular synthesizers, PhD from @CEU.
Joined July 2013
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9 Nov 2022
Three years in the making, today our article on memes, propaganda and liberalism in Hungary is finally out in Cultural Anthropology @Minnastiina @culanth #mediaanthropology #memestudies #digitalanthropology doi.org/10.14506/ca37.4.04
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10 Feb 2023
The closure of OLIve - the @ceu Open Learning Initiative for refugees - is deeply worrying in a world that is increasingly turning hostile towards refugees.
This is not the CEU we supported when it was itself threatened by closure.
#IStandwithOLIve
EASA stands with OLIve #IStandwithOLIve easaonline.org/publications/…
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24 Nov 2022
We accept that salary is deducted for strike days, however something UNIMAGINABLE is happening at @QMUL 🤯🤬🥴
QMUL are threatening to dock 100% of salary INDEFINITELY until staff make up the teaching cancelled due to strike
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@qm_ucu @ucu #ucuRISING #UCUstrike
24 Nov 2022
Today I am ON STRIKE to demand better pay & conditions for everyone across the sector
Specifically to address:
🪙 35% cut to pension
💸 25% pay cut since 2009
🔨 Workloads spiralling to unsafe levels
📢 Precarious contracts & job insecurity
🛑 Equality pay gap
#ucuRISING
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25 Nov 2022
This "let's throw Hungary out from the EU" is a bit disturbing, as it deflects responsibility. Would Hungary be allowed to join the EU today? Of course not. Yet, the Orbán-regime could not had been realized as it was outside of the EU. It is in fact a distinct EU-phenomenon. A 🧵
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24 Nov 2022
A sample of some of the memes produced by the wonderfully creative students and staff today at the @UCLanthropology @UCL_UCU #anthrostrike. This was part of the TikToking the Strike: Meme Magic for a Better University teach-out, taught by myself and @ElenaLiber #ucuRISING
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23 Nov 2022
Here's the program of tomorrow's teach-outs in front of the @UCLanthropology department as part of #ucuRISING -- Kafka and the future of the university, and a TikToking / strike memes session taught by @ElenaLiber @brantropologist and myself.
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27 Sep 2022
Delighted to announce our annual @DigiAnth lecture will be given by @katrienpype on october 3 at 5pm @UCLanthropology both live streamed and in person #digitalanthropology #africantech ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/event…
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12 Sep 2022
Excited to see this landmark volume in the anthropology of music and digital media by @georgieborn and collaborators finally out with @UCLpress -- open access, so free to download for all.
Congratulations to @georgieborn et al! The #openaccess book #Music and Digital #Media: A planetary #anthropology publishes today! ow.ly/b9Bf50KrWHc @UCLanthropology
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5 Sep 2022
#StopRwanda #standuptoracism @UCLanthropology protesting outside the royal courts of justice against the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda with @anthrorik
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4 Apr 2022
Exciting! Our volume will be out in the fall, with @draluchadora, @pglange, @jolynnasinanan and many other amazing authors
routledge.com/The-Routledge-…
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UCL launches new Fellowships supporting academics displaced by the conflict in Ukraine- please share widely: ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/mar/ucl-…
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10 Mar 2022
Fascinating presentation in today’s ReMAP research conversation by @anthrorik on analogue synthesiser culture, especially in post-Soviet Europe. @DAREcollaborate @himonides
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4 Mar 2022
Come join us at UCL -- three year position in Digital Anthropology, especially welcoming applicants with a focus on gender and/or social media jobs.ac.uk/job/CNL006/lectur…
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3 Mar 2022
Russian "court" approved today Russia's censor RosComNadzor's fine imposed on @bellingcat for not branding itself "foreign agent". The fine is half a million rubles.
We will wait one week and then gladly pay the 10 cents.
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2 Mar 2022
🇷🇺 ' The Russian regime's police have just arrested Yelena Osipova, a survivor of the Second World War, for demonstrating against the war. There are already more than 6000 detainees in three consecutive days of protests, regardless of age. Brutal. ' - #Putler
2 Mar 2022
La policia del régimen ruso se acaba de llevar detenida a Yelena Osipova, una sobreviviente de la segunda guerra mundial, por manifestarse en contra de la guerra. Ya hay más de 6000 detenidos en tres dias seguidos de protestas, sin importar la edad. Brutal.
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2 Mar 2022
A very insightful take on the role of maps and their unwitting circulation by Western media as a technology of persuasion in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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1 Mar 2022
This morning in the UN Human Rights Council more than 140 diplomats refused to listen to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov’s futile attempt to justify unacceptable military aggression. Watch them leave the Council Chamber.
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28 Feb 2022
Go to Google Maps. Go to Russia. Find a restaurant or business and write a review. When you write the review explain what is happening in Ukraine.
Idea via @Konrad03249040
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