Thrilled for @allyfield.bsky.social and this triumph of a book!

@alyxvesey.bsky.social just made my day, truly the media music/sound magic of #SCMS26 is happening! Head to the audio/sound/music media happy hour at Chicago Athletic Association Game Room (second floor) tonight, 5-7!

Happy Conference Week! We will be hosting a joint social event with the RAMP (Radio, Audio Media, and Podcasting) SIG on Thursday, March 26, from 5–7pm. Check your group messaging email for details.

#SCMS26 folks interested in sound studies, music studies, audio media, radio, podcasting, film/tv/game music, music videos, etc.—join the Sound & Music and Radio, Audio Media, & Podcasting scholarly interest groups for a happy hour tonight @ Chicago Athletic Association Game Room (2nd floor), 5-7pm!

Looking forward to roundtabling with this fine company at #SCMS26 this week! @alyxvesey.bsky.social @askjerseth.bsky.social

If you teach media, comm, and/or journalism, this short book will be great for your students - full of practical, evidence-based advice for navigating the hidden curriculum from college, to internships, to your first job link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

🚨 humanities conference on podcasting 🚨 criesandwhispers2026.wordpress.com

Art history+ colleagues, Susan Laxton and I invite you to submit an abstract for consideration in our College Art Association (Chicago, 2/18–21/26) session, "Artistic Presets: Technology, Labor, and Innovation." See caa.confex.com/caa/2026/web... to submit; we'll let you know by 9/16. Details below!

New special issue from JPMS!! This was one of the last things that @ehphd.bsky.social, @ericdharvey.com and I started before finishing our terms. Congratulations to Alisha Lola Jones, @burrata.bsky.social, Matthew Jones for their work with Georgina Born and @anthroposound.bsky.social on this!!

Congrats, @askjerseth.bsky.social! This SIG is in "sure" hands.

the industrial design on the OG walkman goes crazy

Please RT! Radio/sound scholars: June 15 is LAST CALL to sign up for the @rptf.bsky.social /BEA/RAMP SIG mentorship program. Senior scholars looking to mentor grad students/ECRs for a 1 year term are especially encouraged to join. Sign up at the BEA website: bea.memberclicks.net/login#/login

"We should practice close reading because it is good to read for truth and beauty, and even better without the pressure to instrumentalize this goal for economic ends—a criterion [...] that becomes more difficult for students to recognize with each passing year." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

"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."

Eric wins the Internet today

Writing about push-button car radio presets has made me yearn for push-button tuning… and push-button everything again in cars.

Have had many great conversations with @jimbuhler.bsky.social about this that are also informing my book--lucky to have Jim as a series editor!

Starting in 15 minutes! If you’ve ever wondered why microwave popcorn instructs consumers *not* to use the microwave popcorn setting, have I got the talk for you!

Tue Apr 22, 5 pm ET, in the Popular Music Books series: @askjerseth.bsky.social on tech and cultural "presets" shaping meaning thru radio, samplers, Auto-Tune, vocaloids, Instagram, AI etc. w/ Catherine Provenzano. In memory of @jonathansterne.bsky.social. iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

Writing a book indebted to Jonathan’s thinking (solidarity to his grad students) is freighted and weighted with memory. “What would Jonathan do,” as Mack Hagood said on Phantom Power recently? Today I encountered Jonathan's humility and humor in advice on “good” writing: superbon.net/2021/04/13/o...

Jonathan Sterne made space for all of us, and we must do the same for others. As so many shared in our #scms25 L6 roundtable tribute yesterday: be generous, be political, break some rules, open up your home for meals, be a steadfast and empowering mentor. We miss you, Jonathan. Everyone say kittens!

Of course @alyxvesey.bsky.social can make us all dance to Madonna at a very insightful and fun 9am Sunday #SCMS25 panel on MTV

By 4/3, please send me memories of Jonathan Sterne for slides I’ll display at #SCMS25 in session L6 on 4/5. So far, I’ve received social media/email screenshots + short written memories; I’ll also share the slides afterwards here. Either dm on social media or email amy(dot)skjerseth(at)ucr(dot)edu

As part of the tribute to Jonathan Sterne in #SCMS25 session L6 (formerly “Rewinding Tape Across Media"), I invite everyone to send in a memory, photo, song, etc., that you associate with Jonathan. I’ll display the slides at L6 and share them virtually. Email amy(dot)skjerseth*at*ucr(dot)edu by 4/3.

Exciting news: "𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞" is now offered FREE of tuition, with travel stipend! Deadline now 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟓; please share: sites.google.com/view/reframi... @colleenlaird.bsky.social @barbarazecchi.bsky.social

Putting on my @soundmusicscms.bsky.social hat on for a sec ahead of next week's @scmstudies.bsky.social conference in Chicago We're hosting a mixer with the Radio, Audio Media, and Podcasting SIG on Thursday night, 4/03, beginning at 7:45! See the SIG-wide e-mail or contact me for the location

Linda’s work was a revelation to me as a new MA student trying to navigate academia (thank you to Ara Osterweil for the most brilliant introduction to Linda’s work). Linda’s lucid writing on urgent topics transformed what was possible in the humanities for many generations, now and still to come.

Oh boygenius, you’re still the one youtu.be/01NExGVZHbc?... (gorgeous cover of Shania Twain’s You’re Still the One)

Do you want to learn how to make video essays in a fun immersive two-week workshop this June? Applications for the 2024 Scholarship in Sound & Image workshop at Middlebury College are now open! Check it out at sites.middlebury.edu/videoworkshop/ and spread the word!

Heard Cher’s Christmas album yet? Waiting for Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce news? Never fear: my Journal of Popular Music Studies article is here, but it’s not about those two things—too recent even for the lightning-fast pace of @kgoldschmitt.bsky.social, @ehphd.bsky.social, & @ericdharvey.bsky.social!

Alan Warburton’s brilliant new video essay! vimeo.com/theodiuk/the...

Announcing a free special issue in Journal of Popular Music Studies on podcasting and gender edited by @kategalloway.bsky.social, Morgan Bimm, and me. Big thanks to our authors and to @kgoldschmitt.bsky.social , @ehphd.bsky.social, & @ericdharvey.bsky.social! Link: online.ucpress.edu/jpms/issue/3...