Little-known media history oddity: The Fleischmann's Yeast company started both The New Yorker magazine & the CBS broadcast network... and Theranos? It's a strange story. The Latest in The Lint Trap. linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/how-fleisc...

Now available online! A CENTURY IN 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA (eds. Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson) from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. Featuring 23 essays on diverse uses and applications of the small gauge format worldwide! Available in print in early 2026. academic.oup.com/book/61621

Media studies folks! Can anyone recommend a short, accessible-to-first-years reading that introduces the historical periods generally referred to as TV I, TV II, and TV III?

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes. Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

In case you missed it, new issue of Film History: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55594

In case you missed it, new issue of Film History: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55594

New work out (written in Chinese)! Together with the amazing game designer and scholar @molleindustria.org , we discussed why all games are political, how certain logic of games infect real-time thinking of politicians, and how to make better politics possible with better games. Hold our grounds!

An informed electorate is a cornerstone of whatever comes next, something that can’t be attained without significant U.S. media reform, notes Victor Pickard, professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. www.theverge.com/tech/656653/...

Hey that’s where I grew up.

Interested in the Journal of Appalachian Studies special issue on materiality in Appalachian studies? Read the intro by guest editors Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth (Old Dominion University) + Zada Komara ( @universityofky.bsky.social ) to get a preview scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jas/arti...

Just applied for my first academic job. I feel…mostly nerves

I love the zine format as a method to disseminate academic work !

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New issue of MEDIA INDUSTRIES dropped! journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/

Some folks have given some good ones down below. I’d love to learn about more though!

I wrote a thing about going to see the Superman movie and then not actually seeing the Superman movie.

What are some conferences that are good alternatives to #SCMS?

Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now. www.weherepress.org

Still time to submit proposal!

Highly recommend

4. More horror authors should read Kier la Janisse, Carol J. Clover, Susan Stryker, etc. Going past thinkpiece depth in your understanding of the genre really does wonders for your work.

I worked on a digitisation project around a decade ago. Earlier this year, I found that host organisation subsequently lost the digital files, but the physical archive (which was also restored in the project) is still there.

Little known fact about me: I love them bats

My first paper is published!🤩 In it, I analyze how 20th century plant morphologist Agnes Arber understood teleology in plants.🪴 Spoiler: I think that she had two different notions of teleology and only liked one of them. Read more here: rdcu.be/d5xPI or in the following thread! 🧵 (1/5) 🌱🐋 #HistSci

Capital #gamestudies #bookmark

And it’s run by just some guy. 10/10 website.

On local television, public broadcasting, and responses to Mexican immigration: @rodolfofernandez.bsky.social and I wrote about how locally produced documentaries tackled their communities' anxieties about the "sudden" appearance of Mexicans in their towns. pub.dartmouth.edu/journal-of-e...

Requesting recommendations for work on state broadcasters associations (e.g. Kentucky Broadcasters’ Association). It seems like only local historians have touched on these. Am I missing something?

Requesting recommendations for work on state broadcasters associations (e.g. Kentucky Broadcasters’ Association). It seems like only local historians have touched on these. Am I missing something?

Anyone got any reading recs about 'crunchy mums/moms' or the 'crunchy to far-right pipeline'?

JPMS needs some editors!!!!

CFP: Call for Proposals to present at the 2026 Orphan Film Symposium, "Crisis and Community," April 8-11, 2026, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

Join us for our inaugural conference! Here's the call for papers: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/

(1/1) New! Film Atlas (filmatlas.com) is an online encyclopedia of film as a physical medium, featuring essays + images contributed by 200+ authors from 25+ countries.

Look, I know ArchiveGrid exists, but how can we make Finding Aids easier to find

It's been a couple wks since the various reports of Trump's incursions at the LoC. In that time, I've been backing up the OCR text of Chronicling America, just in case I documented my process on my blog. Just sharing in case others want/need to back up Chron Am for their own peace of mind

My favs Harlan Ellison and Ursula K. Le Guin on pointe once again

How is global TV production shaped by private equity? Peter Arne Johnson follows the financial threads behind #PaganPeak to unpack the paradoxes of capital investment. #OnlineFirst journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

We’re thinking small! Today's collection spotlight showcases some of the tiniest books we have. Our criterion: They must fit in the palm of our hands! 🔍 According to the Library of Congress’s Miniature Books Ruler, our selection ranges from Micro-Miniature (1/4 in-1 in) to Miniature (1-3 in).

This baby rocks

So sad to have missed this exhibition, so glad to have read this review by Brislin

Red building Waldo, AR

I passed my quals defense. I thought I would cry or puke during them, but I held on by god.

Very cool article on horror & comedy: doi.org/10.1386/host...

yeah if it was cronenberg vs carpenter i think i give the edge to carpenter. cronenberg might be more limber and faster on his feet but you can't underestimate the advantage from 4 extra inches of reach. oh you meant their movies

Hello academics of any media, arts, or performance-based fields: if you were teaching an upper-level class/seminar on the arts and activism—broadly speaking—what topics, readings, and/or authors would you suggest for the syllabus? (Thanks in advance for all recommendations!)

I don’t think I could’ve done the research I’ve done without NEH funded projects.

Praying my fellow friends at #SCMS25 can find their way. I need 10x more signage to understand this hotel’s interior.