Rik Adriaans

Lecturer in Media Anthropology at @UCLanthropology. Research on Armenian music, Hungarian memes and Eurorack modular synthesizers, PhD from @CEU.

[Rik Adriaans @anthrorik]

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 https://t.co/rzQRG7yp3K

[Ana Ivasiuc @anaivas]

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

[James Bradley @DrBradBrad]

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

🧵1/n
@qm_ucu @ucu #ucuRISING #UCUstrike

[Rafael Labanino @labaninorp]

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 🧵

[Rik Adriaans @anthrorik]

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

[Rik Adriaans @anthrorik]

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.

[Haidy Geismar @haidygeismar]

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 https://t.co/h3uzK3wSWm

[Rik Adriaans @anthrorik]

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.

[UCL Press @UCLpress]

Congratulations to @georgieborn et al! The #openaccess book #Music and Digital #Media: A planetary #anthropology publishes today! https://t.co/vEStcOuGue @UCLanthropology

[Haidy Geismar @haidygeismar]

#StopRwanda #standuptoracism @UCLanthropology protesting outside the royal courts of justice against the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda with @anthrorik

[Elisabetta Costa @elisax00]

Exciting! Our volume will be out in the fall, with @draluchadora, @pglange, @jolynnasinanan and many other amazing authors
https://t.co/rJByrekMgD

[UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies @UCLSSEES]

UCL launches new Fellowships supporting academics displaced by the conflict in Ukraine- please share widely: https://t.co/DdGabprKhg

[andrew burn @andrewburn1]

Fascinating presentation in today’s ReMAP research conversation by @anthrorik on analogue synthesiser culture, especially in post-Soviet Europe. @DAREcollaborate @himonides

[Rik Adriaans @anthrorik]

Come join us at UCL -- three year position in Digital Anthropology, especially welcoming applicants with a focus on gender and/or social media https://t.co/qzMqzbMac0

[Christo Grozev @christogrozev]

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.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

🇷🇺 ' 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

[Rik Adriaans @anthrorik]

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

[Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger @tichy_e]

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.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

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