Michael Tasseron

Researcher focused on media and conflict, visual communication, marathon running. PhD. Views my own, RTs not endorsements. Ex @LEEDSUNIMEDIA

[International Communication Association @icahdq]

Heading to #ICA26 in Cape Town? Join us at the Nanyang Reception, hosted by NTU Singapore's Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI)!

📍 Ballroom East, CTICC 1
🗓️ Sat, 6 June 2026 | 8–10 PM

🔗 https://t.co/o3iNTtSYLz

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇸 🏃‍♂️ After a three-year pause due to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Palestinians gathered along Gaza’s Al-Rashid Street — the main coastal road running north to south along the Mediterranean Sea — for the Palestine Marathon on Thursday.

Held simultaneously in Gaza and the West Bank, the event drew more than 2,500 runners in Gaza alone, including amputees and some 350 children.

Dina Ismail of Gaza’s Ministry of Women’s Affairs told Drop Site that one of the marathon’s main goals was to highlight Israeli restrictions on Palestinian freedom of movement across the occupied territories and call on the international community to uphold Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which guarantees the right to freedom of movement.

🎥 Filmed for Drop Site by @AbdSabbah91 in Gaza.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Today, more than 2,600 Palestinians ran in Gaza — including amputees — and 11,000 in Bethlehem in the West Bank, including 1,000 foreign runners, as part of the 10th Palestine International Marathon.

[Michael Tasseron @mrtasseron]

@shaunrein Totally agree! As a tourist destination China is in many ways unmatched - the hospitality of the people is incredbile, amazing sights, affordable, safe, excellent public transport and convenience. Just got back from Chengdu and Xian.

[The Empire Files @EmpireFiles]

EARTH'S GREATEST ENEMY NOW STREAMING FOR YOUTUBE MEMBERS 📽️
https://t.co/AX5PWd5iZ7

[Dr. Shahira S. Fahmy @shahiraf]

Thrilled to share our paper in Online Media and Global Communication!

We analyzed 450 memes tagged with #copticmemes to explore how immigrant Copts express their identities. Thanks to Petra Zaky for her contributions!

https://t.co/ghTvncApmj (https://t.co/ghTvncApmj)

[Andy Boreham 安柏然 @AndyBxxx]

TYPICAL: All the Amazon reviews for my book from VERIFIED PURCHASERS are 5-star, and every negative review, like the one below, comes from a troll who didn't read it. Go figure!

If you bought a copy of my Wumao Handbook, please help me by writing an honest review on Amazon.

[Michael Tasseron @mrtasseron]

@Jingjing_Li Good to see! China is, in my opinion, one of the most exciting tourist destinations in the world! Friendly locals, convenient, affordable, safe with incredible sights.

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

Four years ago today I received my advance reader copy of Light in Gaza. Little did I know then that this anthology would be one of the last works to capture stories and experiences from and about Gaza before the genocide. Little did I know that Refaat's words in it would be among his last in writing. Or that this work, which began as a humble attempt to push for a conversation on Gaza against the backdrop of immense forgetfulness and erasure, would become a key reference for so many. I'm honored to have worked on it, and I'm eternally grateful to @haymarketbooks, the co-editors, the authors, and everyone who helped make it a reality. You can get your copy here, including a free e-book: https://t.co/fuOHKPWzPB

[Michael Tasseron @mrtasseron]

@thecyrusjanssen Totally agree! Just got back from Chengdu and Xian. Fantastic all round!

[Atsuko S 🍉 @atsyjp]

戦争が終わっても私はすぐに旅行に行けるような状況じゃないけど、行けるようになったら、どこより先にイランに行こう🇮🇷
ペルシャ語やり直そう。
私、生まれて初めて丸ごと一冊訳したの、ペルシャ語の本だったのに、今はほとんど忘れちゃったから。

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

Grieving Parents in Iran Spend Every Night at the Graves of Their Children, Killed by U.S. Strike

Mahmoud Aslan reports from Minab, Iran for @DropSiteNews

https://t.co/uP6D1Q4AZO

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I am glad that +972 gave me the opportunity to speak to an Israeli public.

Despite the horror and darkness, the world is changing: impunity won’t last forever.

https://t.co/7GQmrHHRCR

[David McNeill @DavidMcNeill3]

Next week (Jan 26), a group of graduates from Japan's National Defense Academy will go on hunger strike to protest Japan's purchase of Israeli attack drones. Here's their Instagram post: https://t.co/KPAnfTULJn

[川上泰徳：中東ジャーナリスト／映画『壁の外側と内側』 @kawakami_yasu]

＜予約受付中＞1月17日（土）夕のパレスチナ関連の＜ミュージック&トークライブ➤17:30～21: 00、東京・国分寺「カフェスロー」（国分寺駅より徒歩5分）で＜戦場のメリークリスマス2026「GAZA・ガザはいま：終わらない占領の下のパレスチナ」＞にトークで登壇します。
■ミュージックライブ： ▽生田まんじ&SoSo『A Requieｍ for GAZA』など ▽ジンタらムータ with 谷森一寸※ゲスト小笠原もずく
■トークライブ ※手話通訳・文字通訳あり
▽川上泰徳　中東ジャーナリスト・映画監督「占領・封鎖・攻撃続くガザ・パレスチナ」
▽豊田直巳　フォトジャーナリスト・映画監督「ディアスポラのパレスチナ人たち」
※前売：2500円 ＋ワンドリンク　
※当日：3000円 ＋ワンドリンク　　
※共催:カフェスロー&戦場のメリークリスマス
※予約:[email protected] 042-401-8505

[Andy Boreham 安柏然 @AndyBxxx]

Here are some more photos from today to finish off.

Please like and share if you found this useful. 😎

[Michael Tasseron @mrtasseron]

“The global environmental impact of the rapidly spreading [“AI”] technology has been estimated in research published on Wednesday, which also found that AI-related water use now exceeds the entirety of global bottled-water demand”.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Funniest (and truest) thing I’ve read about AI and organizations 😂

[IntellectBooks @IntellectBooks]

Intellect is pleased to announce that Visual Political Communication 11.2 is out now! 📰

Special Issue: ‘Self-Authorized Discourses: The Case of Stickers’

Including 'Taking a stance with laptop stickers' by Cornelia F. Bock and Florian Busch

👉https://t.co/5d1OPMCohK

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING: A new UN report finds that Israel’s assault on Gaza - with the destruction of health care, education, infrastructure, even the banking system - has erased 69 years of human development, marking the worst economic collapse ever recorded.
This is not war: it is genocide.