Call for Papers! "Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts"-a special issue of Poetics, coedited with @jticona.bsky.social + Angèle Christin www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pla...

Hey friends, as the semester is about to start soon, I will be more active on here again.

To remove media from historical contexts is a disservice to studying the cultural, economic, and political moments which shape the ways information is shared and interpreted. The study of media means we must feel toward the past before we move forward.

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

🚨 Join us, in collaboration with the BTS Critical Reader and GYOPO, on August 17th in LA to celebrate our first print issue! ✨Stop by for boba, snacks, panels, a dance workshop, and the opportunity to purchase our inaugural issue in print! RSVP now to save your spot: givebutter.com/bangtanremixed

Nice little surprises at Fushimi Inari: i encountered one kitty on my way climbing up Mt Inari, and another kitty on my way down 😻😻

Meet Coco in Kyoto 🐈‍⬛🇯🇵

So happy to wake up early on the sweet Coast to watch this epic match and support Coco 🎾💜✨

i would've done the same thing lmao

Meet my new neighborhood cat friend: Midnight 🐈‍⬛💜✨

🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛

Sign me up for these neighborhood cat meetings / gatherings 🙋🏻‍♀️

Today’s kitty encounter 🐱✨

Media studies/film studies/visual culture folks, can you recommend me some writing and analysis of 360 videos or panoramic images? Ideally, close reading, but open to anything. Much appreciated 🙏

"When I’m... walking[,] I try to cultivate the most bored state of mind imaginable. A total void of stimulation beyond the immediate environment... now believe with all my heart that it’s only in the crushing silences of boredom... that you can access your deepest creative wells."

End of April timeline cleanse

Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume! "At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics" It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓

Honored to serve as a scholar for NCA's Institute for Faculty Development this summer! Join me virtually in July to discuss teaching creator studies and digital culture in the undergraduate classroom! ✨Open to comm/media faculty of all ranks. Learn more below! ⤵️ www.natcom.org/event/instit...

Today’s timeline cleanse: did you spot the cat?

Monday late afternoon encounter 🐈‍⬛☀️

Friends in LA, come join us Friday May 2 & Saturday May 3~ fccwla.org/peer2peer-a-...

Friday encounter: sleepy 🐱

Today’s cat encounter 😼

Orange cat encounter during a gloomy day 🍊🐱✨

Today’s encounter with neighborhood cats 🐈 🐈‍⬛

Yesterday’s encounter 🐱✨

Documenting my quick morning neighborhood walk encounter.

I wrote about shitposting and academic labor for @mid-theory.bsky.social! Really the weirdest and most vulnerable thing I’ve ever published so please handle with care 🫠✨💕 mid-theory.com/2025/04/03/o...

As #SCMS25 starts tomorrow, I want to reshare this thread that I created on African film and media scholarship being presented at the conference.

🚨 Just opened up a few more advance RSVPs for our 7pm Thursday screening of THE WAITING ROOM at Abbott Hall downtown. Hoping to see some #SCMS25 #SCMS2025 attendees make it to the film's first screening in over 50 years! Q&A w/ dir. Karen Sperling, @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social & Peter Alilunas 😱

Spring break = me playing Little Kitty, Big City 🐈‍⬛🐟🪶💜

My latest: Generative AI is enabling a brute force attack against the algorithms that control reality. AI slop is taking over every algorithmically controlled social media platform and search platform, and the tech platforms are helping: www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a...

Meta's strategy of "anything goes" on Instagram is simply not going to work. We've found dozens of accounts where people are stealing videos of women, face swapping AI images of women with Down Syndrome onto them, and creating OnlyFans to sell AI nudes of them www.404media.co/people-are-u...

Call for chapters for an edited volume published by Amsterdam University Press, tentatively titled Cozy Media. The book will investigate the various meanings of coziness across media. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ cozymedia.net/call-for-pap...

bit.ly/4i5q6Nn Check out my new, co-authored piece out now in New Media and Society. This new article is based on collaborative research with folks at Carnegie Mellon’s HCI Institute. It explores technologies of surveillance in the domestic work industry and was truly a labor of love.

We have two job openings in the Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Non tenure-track, of interest for those who work in cultural studies or critical media, don't mind a full-time lecture schedule, and enjoy working with grad TAs. It's a three-year renewable post. Please circulate!

Gritty and excellent 2001 documentary about young bohemians in Beijing as they struggle with drugs, money, family and police. There is so much good Chinese film sitting free on Youtube...

The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.

McDonald's has fired Hong Kong activist-artist Luke Ching after he called for the fast food franchise to reinstate paying workers for their meal breaks. In full: https://buff.ly/4he9Dqq

En route to another campus visit on Lunar New Year’s Eve. LAX at 4am was much easier to navigate. Here’s to a smooth 2-part travel 🥂

if you're an artist / art worker living in los angeles that has been impacted by the recent fires, applications for the LA arts community fire relief fund just went live. up to 10k in unrestricted funds (w/ proof of full time residency required); apps open until 2/18: www.cciarts.org/relief.html

Not sure why a school would choose to send out student evals from last semester after this semester has already started. Not sure how I feel about reading these one day before I teach. Luckily, they were mostly very positive. Still, I am experiencing a whole new level of stress and panic.

For those who don't know me, a quick intro to my work! This is Deepwater Alchemy, published this year via @uminnpress.bsky.social! You can grab a copy and hear me talk about it on The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social and the UMN Podcast under the extras here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791594...

“…agents like Operator essentially work by taking screenshots of a user’s browser and sending the images back to OpenAI for analysis.”

We can stop reading the NYT and WaPo any time and support independent journalism instead.

The Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2025. Applications for OLH funding of up to £500 are welcomed from individuals or organisations and may be used to help fund events, projects or activities on #OA or with an #openaccess component. 📅 Deadline 30/06: www.openlibhums.org/news/781/

🚨 CFP: *Convergence* Special Issue Utopian Media Studies: Research for collective forms of becoming otherwise New media scholars do not just diagnose current issues around media, they also provide strategies for hope. 500 word abstracts due 1 March 2025 textaural.com/utopianmedia...

Kernel — a young critical technology magazine I admire! — is seeking nonfiction and creative proposals for its fifth issue on RULES