UC San Diego Department of Communication

Audrey Geisel University Librarian Erik Mitchell describes the new curbside pickup options, how to connect to electronic reserves and more services available while Library facilities are temporarily closed due to COVID-19. #ucsdlibrary Read more

Assistant Professor Alexander Fattal discusses his latest book "Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Columbia" and film "Limbo" https://youtu.be/jVFWp713Yp8

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Associate Professor Lilly Irani was recently featured in a Vice article on San Diego streetlight surveillance. Read more at this link: https://www.vice.com//streetlight-spy-cameras-have-led-to-

Professor Patrick Anderson has recently been featured in the news for his work on the new Commission on Police Practices. Last week he hosted a virtual community roundtable with over 50 local groups represented. Read more at the link below.

Opportunity for UC San Diego folx!

Watch and replay October discussion between Professor Zeinabu irene Davis and other independent filmmakers Julie Dash and Barbara McCullough at Yale experimental film conference with Angela Davis and series co-curator, Simone Leigh.

The Fall 2020 inaugural issue of our departmental newsletter is now available! Read at our news page with links to download text versions. Welcome back everyone! https://unquote.ucsd.edu/comm/fall-quarter-2020-newsletter/

Would you like to spend five weeks in the world’s most livable city, Vienna, Austria, while studying global digital media and comparing European media systems? Attend UC San Diego's "Journalism in Central Europe" Global Seminar in summer 2021. Join the information session: Tuesday, October 13, 3:00 - 4:30 pm on Zoom. You'll get to meet Professor Thomas Schmidt, learn more about program courses and excursions, and find out about funding options and the application process. Reg...ister for the Zoom link and read additional program information on the Global Seminars website: https://studyabroad.ucsd.edu//global-sem/vienna/index.html Included courses: COMM 30GS: Global Digital Media Literacy COMM 104GS: Comparing Media Systems: Europe Vienna, with its central location in Europe at the crossroads of east and west, north and south, offers invaluable opportunities for understanding the role of the media in shaping not just European, but global issues such as immigration, global warming, and cultural change. During excursions you will have a chance to engage with a variety of journalists, spokespeople from international organizations (e.g. United Nations), and international non-profits (International Press Institute) as well as travel to Prague and explore the city’s rich cultural and political heritage. If you are interested in joining the info session but are unable to attend, we plan to post a recording of the session on the Global Seminars website. You can also contact the Study Abroad virtual front desk https://studyabroad.ucsd.edu/s/advising-services/index.html to set up an appointment with one of the Global Seminars coordinators. We would be happy to answer any questions you may have! Like us on Facebook! https://urldefense.com//__;!!Mih3wA!SNXfHi5iqmjsbyMBkSWgCl Follow us on Instagram: @ucsdgs Read about student experiences with Global Seminars on our student-run blog: ucsdgs.blogspot.com

Professor Zeinabu irene Davis @zeebee50 was recently featured in a webinar on: "Filmmaking in Troubled Times" Filmmakers Julie Dash, Zeinabu irene Davis, and Barbara McCullough, pioneering artists whose early work created in the context of this movement has until recently been overlooked and undervalued, join in conversation with Angela Davis and series co-curator, Simone Leigh. The discussion will be followed by a screening of a selection of early works from the women of t...he LA Rebellion movement. https://arts.princeton.edu//combahee-experimental-celebra/ #zeinabudavis #zeinabuirenedavis #filmmaking #blackdirectors #blackfemaledirectors #blackfilmmakers #experimentalfilm #cinematography #shortfilms #filmfestival #angeladavis #blacklivesmatter #blacktranslivesmatter #simoneleigh #juliedash #barbaramcculloh #larebellion #ucsdcommunication #ucsd #communication #ucsandiego #ucsd

Professor Zeinabu irene Davis will be featured in a webinar along with Julie Dash, Barbara McCullough, Angela Davis, and Simone Leigh! October 7 at 6 PM Filmmaking in Troubled Times REGISTER FOR OCTOBER 7 WEBINAR... Filmmakers Julie Dash, Zeinabu irene Davis, and Barbara McCullough, pioneering artists whose early work created in the context of this movement has until recently been overlooked and undervalued, join in conversation with Angela Davis and series co-curator, Simone Leigh. The discussion will be followed by a screening of a selection of early works from the women of the LA Rebellion movement. https://arts.princeton.edu//combahee-experimental-celebra/

Jean Piaget (1896-1980) in his office. Shout out to all those who didn't tidy their office before the start of the school year.

Graduate Alumna Dr. Monika S. Jones (2020) PhD Awarded 2020 Dean’s Fellowship Prize for Humanistic Studies Dr. Monika Sengul-Jones who defended her dissertation earlier this year, has been selected as the winner of the UC San Diego Dean’s Fellowship Prize for Humanistic Studies. This is a competitive award awarded to one graduate doctoral student annually in the humanistic or humanistic social sciences. Sengul-Jones joined a Zoom call with her committee in full prepared t...o have a conversation about her dissertation when they surprised her with the good news. I was floored, Sengul-Jones said. Sengul-Jones was nominated for perseverance in her research of women writing on the internet by her doctoral thesis committee: Lisa Cartwright (Communication, Visual Arts, Science Studies), Dan Hallin (UCSD Communication), Lilly Irani (UCSD Communication & Science Studies), Martha Lampland (UCSD Sociology & Science Studies), Liz Losh (William & Mary, English) and Kalindi Vora (UC Davis, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies). Read the full story here: https://unquote.ucsd.edu//graduate-alumna-dr-monika-s-jon/ #ucsd #ucsdtritons #ucsdcommunication #college #undergraduate #mediaproduction #mediastudies #criticaltheory #criticaldesign #politicalscience #politicaltheory #democracylab #communicationsmajor #communications #ucsdcomm #journalism #socialtheory #sociology #sciencestudies #scienceandtechnology #sts #storytelling #popularculture #wikipedia #feministstudies #genderstudies #feminism

The deadline for artists and scholars has been extended!

Huge congratulations to our own alumna Dr. Monika Sengul-Jones who defended her dissertation earlier this year and has now been selected as the winner of the UC San Diego Dean’s Fellowship Prize for Humanistic Studies. This is a competitive award awarded to one graduate doctoral student annually in the humanistic or humanistic social sciences. Read more about Dr. Sengul-Jones' award at this link: https://unquote.ucsd.edu//graduate-alumna-dr-monika-s-jon/

A sketch included the original 1969 Central Library building report prepared by William Pereira & Associates. Link to full report included on our Geisel Library 50th anniversary website here: https://geisel50.ucsd.edu/about/architecture.html. #geisel50 #ucsdlibrary

Professor Gary Fields has been featured in the Spring 2020 issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies. Congratulations!

I mentioned scientific journals to a friend recently and they asked oh like National Geographic? And I realized lots of people might not be familiar with the ...academic publishing process, or the difference between popular press and scientific literature! Here’s my attempt at a hand drawn comic-style infographic: EDIT: All of these images are freely available for download on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/188445124@N06/ A poster version is available for purchase on my etsy page: https://www.etsy.com/shop/dataworthseeing And follow my Data Worth Seeing page for future infographic and data viz projects: https://www.facebook.com/Data-Worth-Seeing-111304250582204 Thank you all so much for sharing and for keeping the comments overwhelmingly positive. Being open and kind is the best way to reach people.

Professor Gary Fields has written a piece for the San Diego Union Tribune. Check it out! "The knee of Derek Chauvin on George Floyd’s neck is uncomfortably similar to what is a daily routine in Israel violent Israeli police applying the same tactic to the necks of Palestinians. Blacks in America and Palestinians under the control of Israel share a similar fate at the hands of police in both countries. U.S. police forces killed over 1000 people last year, a disproportionate number being African American. During the last 2 years, Israeli police and security forces killed 423 Palestinians."

Congratulations to Professor Zeinabu Irene Davis for winning Best Narrative from the 1904 Deaf Visual Arts Festival in St. Louis, MO & 1st runner up in the Narrative feature competition at the Seattle Deaf Film Festival for her 2010 feature film Compensation! This is Compensation's 20th Anniversary!

Authored by alumna Tara-Lynne Pixley!

Check out this event hosted by University of California Humanities Research Institute this Friday. There is movement. In the air and on the ground. Movement in bodies gathering together in collective demand for change or fleeing threat. Movement in the travel of language within and across boundaries and borders, carrying histories and horizons. Movement in the dense networks of everyday social relation evoking our mutual responsibility and reliability. Movement that preclude...s and makes possible. On Friday, July 17, at 12:00 pm PDT, join UCHRI on Zoom for Race at Boiling Point: Movement We Make, a conversation with Patrisse Cullors (co-founder, Black Lives Matter/Dignity and Power Now), Ruth Wilson Gilmore (City University of New York), AbdouMaliq Simone (University of Sheffield), Rafeef Ziadah (University of London), and moderator Avery Gordon (UC Santa Barbara). Please RSVP to receive a personalized link to join the Zoom webinar or at this link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WbWslUA_SWyuNsSgYuYQXQ

In a vote of 20-1-0, Associated Students has voted to express their support for defunding the UCSD Police Department and to further show solidarity with the African American community.

#Repost @jtknoxroxs Remember, as you continue in dialogue and solidarity with the black Neurodivergent community, true advocates and allies please take note: To be Pro Neurodiversity is to be Anti Racist. We’ve had this conversation before: For The Black NeuroFam the target of inequity is bigger. 50% of people killed as a result of unjust policing are people with disabilities. To be Black and Autistic is to be a direct target in America today. We’re not always sa...fe, understood and accepted by many. This fist integrated with the Neurodiversity symbol is the first step of an anti racist artist/advocate/ally collective I’m building to amplify BIPOC. I am half Puertorrican so Latinx, Caribbean voices must be included. #Neurodiversity #AutismAcceptance #AutisticJoy #BlackAutisticJoy #blacklivesmatter #BlackDisabledLivesMatter #ladieswhodesign @ UC San Diego See more

Happy Juneteenth! #Repost @ucsdbrc Happy Juneteenth! Recognize, Celebrate, and by all means, REST! . .... . Love, the UCSD Black Resource Center #ucsd #ucsdtritons #ucsdcommunication #college #undergraduate #mediaproduction #mediastudies #criticaltheory #criticaldesign #politicalscience #politicaltheory #democracylab #communicationsmajor #communications #ucsdcomm #journalism #socialtheory #disabilitystudies #scienceandtechnology #sts #storytelling #popularculture #juneteenth #blacklivesmatter #blacktranslivesmatter #blackdisabledlivesmatter

#Repost @mutualaiducsd To donate directly (and avoid GoFundMe fees), please donate to our cashapp $mutualaiducsd This cashapp will only be used for Mutual Aid UCSD donations/requests.

#Repost @ucsdvisarts #repost @3bcollective Now at the @ucsandiego Visual Arts Facility. Thanks to Oscar Magallanes and other MFA students, and 3B Collective which Oscar is a part of. Black Lives Matter at UCSD #nojusticenopeace #blm #ucsd #uclavisualart #yaleartgallery #lgbtqlivesmatter #vcuarts #uclaalumni #aaronestrada #gustavomartinez #alfredodiaz #oscarmagallanes #adrianalfaro #fdt ... @ucsdvisarts @nimexica @mdnght_toker @los.angeles.film @aarondestrada @x31a13x #ucsdmfa #ucsdvisualarts @ UC San Diego See more

#Repost @nativelikewater In So Cal, the defined term of localism, in current times, is poco loco. We must truly include the 20,000 years of coastal culture. Think about these contributions and how we may benefit as a human family. Locations benefit, education benefits. Think about restorative justice for both humans and environment. What a great horizon to begin sharing with one another. A swell to ride in unity. #indigenizeeducation #sincecreation. . Paddler: ...David Streamer, M.A. UCLA , ASU Law , Cahuilla/Los Coyotes/So Cal Local from da mountain to da sea. Indigenous. @theslipperysaltwaterchronicles See more

@ucsandiego alumna Professor Angela who is also Professor Emerita at @ucsantacruz -- #Repost @blavity This is a very exciting moment. I don't know if we have ever experienced this kind of global challenge to racism and to the consequences of slavery." || @channel4news, #RP @blavitypolitics

#angeladavis #blacklivesmatter #blacktranslivesmatter #lgbtqia

Congratulations to the 2019-2020 Honors Students on their upcoming Presentations! Thursday, June 11th 11:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m.... To request a zoom invitation please email [email protected] Program: Mariana Dhelomme: Advisor: Prof. Stefan Tanaka; Social Media and Insecurity: The Effects of Speed in our Modern Society Haley Higa: Advisor: Prof. Matilde Córdoba Azcárate; Stay HomeTodayTo Travel Tomorrow: The Geopolitics of Tourist Infrastructure Space Michelle Mkhlian: Advisor: Prof. Zeinabu Davis; Hayaser! : Armenian-Americans’ views on life, love, and marriage post- trauma. * Armenian for someone who loves their culture/ is patriotic. Haya meaning Armenia and ser meaning love. Melissa Posada: Advisor: Prof. Angela Booker; Spaces of Expression and Growth for QPOC Students in Higher Education and on Social Media. Megan Shimizu: Advisor: Prof. Kelly Gates; Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Yuxin Yang: Advisor: Prof. Caroline Jack; Understanding Young Adults’ TikTok Usaage----Real People, Creative Videos that Make Your Day Audrey Yeung: Advisor: Prof. Matilde Córdoba Azcárate; #NoGeotag: An Analysis on Wanderlust and Geotagging in an Influencer’s Social Media Toolbox

Textual analysis of the chaos vs order descriptions of news coverage of the protests.

turn your sound on! Grad student @gluzmania documents a George Floyd Protest passing under a bridge in Balboa Park, June 4, 2020. Audio description: an immense crowd chants "Black Lives Matter!" Image description: very dark video of the backs of protester's heads walking forward within a huge crowd walking under a bridge at night. - - - -... - #blacklivesmatter #blacklivesmattersandiego #ucsd #ucsandiego #communication #criticaltheory #culturalstudies #mediastudies #journalism #newsmedia #blacklivesmatter #TanishaAnderson #AhmaudArbery #SandraBland #JonathanCoronel #AtatianaJefferson #CharleenaLyles #TonyMcDade #AlfredOlango #AiyanaStanleyJones #BreonnaTaylor #JonathanFVasquez - - Read our Commitments to Actions in Response to the Murder of George Floyd at the following link or in bio link: https://communication.ucsd.edu/about/blm.html

LA #blacklivesmatter

"Say his name -- GEORGE FLOYD! Say his name -- GEORGE FLOYD!" 20,000 in San Diego this afternoon with the will to resist and make change.

UCSD Department of Communication Commitments to Actions in Response to the Murder of George Floyd The Department of Communication is outraged, aggrieved, and heartbroken by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police. We say his name and the names of so many other precious Black lives that have been lost at the hands of state and state-sanctioned extrajudicial violence. Tanisha Anderson. Ahmaud Arbery. Sandra Bland. Jonathan Coronel. Atatiana Jefferson....Continue reading

Request for help: is there a writing that specifically mentions white Women’s inappropriate claims of friendship and intimacy with Black women? Ie, assuming we are friends and pushing into Black women’s space acting like friends when we have not earned that friendship?

Northwestern University Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) Statement on Anti-Blackness and Police Brutality We, the affiliates of the Ce...nter for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) at Northwestern University, mourn the murders of Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, George Floyd, and David McAtee. They died at the hands of police, like so many other Black people in the United States, including those, like Laquan McDonald, Rekia Boyd, and many others killed by police here in Chicago. CNAIR supports the important work of the Black Lives Matter movement, which leads the way in organizing against police violence. We, as both a Center and individuals, recognize the crucial importance of not looking away and of taking up our responsibility to actively support Black liberation. We recognize that non-Black Indigenous people benefit from and perpetuate anti-Blackness. Black and Indigenous communities have been looted and plundered for centuries in the name of imperial capitalism, and police forces continue to function as an occupying military, while struggles for freedom and justice are labeled as domestic terrorism. We hear Black Lives Matter’s call to defund the police, and like the return of Indigenous land and resources, achieving this level of commitment to justice is often disregarded as impractical and impossible. A better world is possible. We support the development of fundamentally new, community-led strategies for ensuring true safety and community care. CNAIR condemns anti-Blackness and is committed to serving as a safe space for Black and Black/Indigenous students, faculty, staff, and community members as kin. We value scholarship in pursuit of collective liberation and believe that visions for decolonizationseven generations into the future and beyondshould always include Black wellness. After all, the development of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) as a scholarly field has benefitted much from the insights of Black thinkers. We recognize that expressing solidarity with only words is not enough; as such, CNAIR commits to the actions outlined below. We ask that all CNAIR affiliates commit to donating both now, and in the long-term, to local Black organizations, especially those that are youth-centered. Some of the organizations in Minneapolis, and here in Chicago, include: Black Visions Campaign: https://www.blackvisionsmn.org Reclaim the Block: https://www.reclaimtheblock.org/home Assata’s Daughters: https://www.assatasdaughters.org Chicago Freedom School: https://chicagofreedomschool.org/support-us/ Brave Space Alliance: https://www.bravespacealliance.org/donate Equity and Transformation: https://www.eatchicago.org Chicago Community Bond Fund: https://chicagobond.org We also ask our affiliates to join organizing efforts led by: Local chapters of Black Lives Matter, https://blacklivesmatter.com/chapters/ The Movement 4 Black Lives Week of Action, https://m4bl.org CNAIR also commits to ongoing conversations and actions, which include the following: Support the student call for Northwestern University to invest in Black Students and divest from law enforcement and ask our affiliates to add their individual signatures to this petition, too. Support Black and Black/Native students and their scholarship. We commit to supporting the work of a Black or Black/Native undergraduate and graduate student each year with at least one CNAIR fellowship. Warmly invite and welcome Black students and faculty members to the CNAIR house in an effort of kinship. Support the work of NU’s Department of African American Studies and work to advance its faculty, students, and initiatives. Revise our Land Acknowledgements to recognize that the United States is built upon both stolen land and stolen labor. We commit to publicly acknowledging the distinct and entangled experiences of Indigenous, Black, and Black/Indigenous people under settler colonialism. #CiteBlackWomen, whose theories, frameworks, and concepts have been instrumental in the conversations around Indigenous sovereignty domestically and globally. We seek to ensure credit is given where due. Engage our own Indigenous nations to commit to supporting the Black Lives Matter Movement through letter writing and demands for meaningful societal transformation. In addition, we will amplify and center the voices of Black Natives. Black Lives Matter.

Reposted from March For Black Womxn San Diego. March For Black Womxn San Diego is officially launching our Black Womxn Deserve fund. This is work that we have done throughout the years in providing emergency financial support to Black Womxn in crisis. In light of COVID-19 and the way the systems are once again failing Black Womxn, we knew we wanted to show up for our larger community and share that this resource is available. Hundreds of people took to the streets with us ...on March 8th saying they would love us through action and have been waiting on next steps. This is a DIRECT ACTION that would uplift all four of our demands. We do this in legacy of our ancestors who created networks of support out of necessity and love. We show up for each other because we know the system will not prioritize us and our struggles are bound together. Please share these graphics with your newtworks and let Black Womxn know this resource is here. All funds can be sent to KelseLiv (PayPal/Venmo/CashApp) w/ the memo Black Womxn Deserve. If you are interested in donating in other ways please email [email protected] ***If you or a Black womxn and/or femme you know is in need, please fill out this short form to describe how we can support you: bit.ly/BWDmutual #m4bwsd #bwsml #blackwomxndeserve #mutualaid #sandiego @ San Diego, California @ UC San Diego

SHARE AND DONATE! March For Black Womxn San Diego is officially launching our Black Womxn Deserve fund. This is work that we have done throughout the years in p...roviding emergency financial support to Black Womxn in crisis. In light of COVID-19 and the way the systems are once again failing Black Womxn, we knew we wanted to show up for our larger community and share that this resource is available. Hundreds of people took to the streets with us on March 8th saying they would love us through action and have been waiting on next steps. This is a DIRECT ACTION that would uplift all four of our demands. We do this in legacy of our ancestors who created networks of support out of necessity and love. We show up for each other because we know the system will not prioritize us and our struggles are bound together. Please share these graphics with your newtworks and let Black Womxn know this resource is here. All funds can be sent to KelseLiv (PayPal/Venmo/CashApp) w/ the memo Black Womxn Deserve. If you are interested in donating in other ways please email [email protected] ***If you or a Black womxn and/or femme you know is in need, please fill out this short form to describe how we can support you: bit.ly/BWDmutual #m4bwsd #bwsml #blackwomxndeserve #mutualaid #sandiego @ San Diego, California

Friday 3pm. Reposted from @ucsd.gsa

Don’t order from third party delivery services, ask if they do takeout or delivery!

UCSD Mutual Aid is organizing to support students, staff, and contingent faculty members in need of emergency food, finances, delivery of groceries and supplies, and/or academic and social support. This pandemic has greatly exacerbated the structural vulnerabilities that many face due to lack of adequate compensation and financial aid, rising tuition and fees, unaffordable and substandard living conditions, and punitive actions against grad student organizing. We encourage th...ose with access to resources and stability - especially full-time faculty in our community - to share resources in solidarity with those who have been made vulnerable to this crisis. We are prioritizing folks who are immunocompromised, disabled, quarantined without pay, elderly, undocumented, queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color. If you would like to request aid or want to volunteer, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/khGughX4FYY1QxZX9 Where will the money go? 100% of donations will be disbursed to those in our community most impacted by COVID-19 through direct funds, groceries, pre-made meals, and supplies, as requested. We have an incredible opportunity to crack open the culture of silence and build networks of solidarity and mutual aid on our campus that can last beyond this crisis moment. To contact UCSD Mutual Aid, please email us at [email protected]

From UCHRI: The nation and the world are bearing witness to yet another spate of police violence against Black people. Heavily armored vehicles roll through city streets. The long-historical fissures of American life and justice are now nakedly visible. This is an urgent moment, one that calls for resolve, thought, and action. This Friday, June 5, at 1:00 pm PST join us on Zoom for The Fire This Time: Race at Boiling Point, a conversation with Angela Y. Davis (Emerita, UC San...ta Cruz), Herman Gray (Emeritus, UC Santa Cruz), Gaye Theresa Johnson (UC Los Angeles), Robin D.G. Kelley (UCLA), and Josh Kun (USC). RSVP to receive a personalized Zoom link to join the webinar. https://uchri.org//the-fire-this-time-race-at-boiling-poi/ #uchri #thefirethistime