Perfect timing (end of the semester + holiday stress) for a new pub! Thanks to @stefcraps.com, Rick Crownshaw and Rebecca Dolgoy for editing fantastic special issue on Climate Witnessing. "The Temporality of Climate Witnessing: Ice, Simulation, Image", - message for pdf. brill.com/view/journal...

American journalism has serious problems. But how did we get here? @bzelizer.bsky.social’s new book 📚 How the Cold War Broke the News📚 uncovers the surprising roots of journalism’s decline and offers a plan to make it better. Pre-order now: bit.ly/4mqcr68

Join us online or in person for two talks in association with the Stirling, Dep of Psychology, May 15 and June 5, 2025 - Professor Donna Rose Addis and Associate Professor Celia Harris leading researchers on memory and cognitive science.

"... AI hype has emerged in the context of such fatigue. Promising to automate a workforce for each of us, this hype, like crypto hype before it" — and big data hype before that, and... — "reinforces a future of individualized economic power with a sexier allure than attending a town hall."

We said something like this in 2009 @benoloughlin.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs... To understand the dynamics around this fast-developing market, [Ithaka is] launching a tracker of these licensing deals."

Out now - Standard issue featuring articles by M. Beatrice Fazi, Mark B. N. Hansen, Piotr M. Szpunar, and Raymond L. M. Lee. journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt

New Pub! The gist: The shape imaginaries take pivot not only on what media make clearly visible but on what they offer up for speculation at their eco-technological edges. Open Access @meejatheory.bsky.social journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt...