Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈
Post-doc in polarisation, populism, fandom, identity and all the feels with @snurb at QUT DMRC.
🇩🇰 in 🇦🇺, residing on Turrbal and Yugara country.
QaF.
Plant🪴dad. Once and future cat person.
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- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈I'm working on a single graphic that illustrates how participatory propaganda becomes policy in the second Trump administration, particularly around the case of "They're Eating the Pets". Still hoping we'll get to take that last label away before those ?s resolve.
- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈Why should renters like me have to trade away our privacy just to get a roof over our heads? | Samantha Floreani
- What is happening in Iran is horrifying. And the silence is deafening. The people of Iran deserve to have their fight and plight seen and heard - at the very least.
- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈It was clear during the first few hours after Alex Pretti’s killing that the government’s spin machine wasn’t gaining much traction in their efforts to blame the victim. Even on X, the most salient frames were critical of ICE/CBP and sympathetic towards Pretti.
- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
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- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈Following the Digital Darkside symposium at The DIGSUM Centre for Digital Social Research at Umeå University last year, I'm co-editing a special issue of Journal of Digital Social Research on the topic of digital darkside. For further info see the CFP at www.digsum.org/digsum-feed/...
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- Share a tv show that raised you
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- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now. Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations. Source: dr.dk
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- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈Planning to start a PhD in Media and Communications in 2026? Come work with me and others at the @qutdmrc.bsky.social! ✨
- PhD scholarship applications are open for a project investigating how public opinion is formed in online spaces, with a focus on the deliberative quality of discussions, social influence dynamics, and platform affordances and governance across major digital platforms. www.qut.edu.au/.../strength....
- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈Book Launch: Fandom Nationalism: Participatory Censorship and Performative Patriotism in East Asia Date: 4 February 2026 (Wednesday) Time: 2:30pm-4:00pm Venue: C-Centre (NAH313, Humanities Building, CUHK) cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view...
- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈📢 PhD Scholarship at QUT to join my DECRA project "Democratic Resilience Online: Strengthening Public Opinion Formation Amid Digital Threats" @qutdmrc.bsky.social 📅 Applications close: 13/03/2026 More info here: www.qut.edu.au/study/fees-a... Please share and reach out if you have questions!
- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
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- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
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- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈A devastating story about the life and death of Lia Smith, a transgender woman and college student targeted by conservatives online because she briefly participated on the school's diving team. Lia was found dead by suicide last fall at the age of 21. (Unlocked article below)
- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈NEW from Important Context: Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S. www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...
- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈hey! hey!!! if you are an academic of any rank in the critical tech studies space who cares about how money, finance, and business structures work in science and technology, i want to see your abstracts for a collected volume! they're due tomorrow!!! https//oddletters.com/tech-money/
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- --Think Différant-- Since mainstream analytic philosophy is clearly struggling to wrap its head around the writing of #LLM #AI, a better approach might be to consult the one philosopher who took WRITING seriously as a philosophical problem: Jacques Derrida. doi.org/10.1007/s001...
- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US
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- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈My wish for 2026 is that Europeans will be as critical and vigilant about authoritarianism and racism in their own country as they are about them in the U.S. and that Americans will be as critical and vigilant about authoritarianism and racism in the U.S. as Europeans are.
- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈The Academic Work Tracker spreadsheet is now updated with 2026 dates! If you don't already, 2026 is a great time to start treating your academic work like the wage job where you are paid to work a certain amount of hours that it actually is: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares) - Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈Hello! I’m seeking volunteers to be interviewed for my PhD thesis on the cultural significance of the tailored suit within queer communities during the 1970s and 1980s. If you’re interested and would like more information, please contact me. Thank you, and feel free to share this with your networks!
- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈Denmark lost more troops per capita in the post 9/11 war on Afghanistan. Saying they “are not a good ally” because they won’t surrender their territories to the US is lunacy. We are betraying our allies to satisfy the whims of a would-be Emperor for whom the US is not enough.
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- Reposted by Sebastian F. K. Svegaard 🏳️🌈Well, it’s the day after Wallace and Gromit rode again – and it’s the 31st anniversary of the first appearance of the greatest sound effect in the history of the motion picture, so here’s the story of how (I found out how) they made it...
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