On the last day of this year, I’m proud to share the tool I’ve spent the better part of year co-creating with my RA to let anyone make what I call “redactive poetry” from legal documents. I’d be thrilled if you tried our Redactive Layering Technology (ReLaTe): www.tepski.tech/redaction

Together, we will establish goals to maximize our leadership team with more Associate Vice Provosts.

In these troubling times, it is necessary to disrupt our experts.

We will align recommendations to invest in efficiency.

No one can see “what types of ideas you’re communicating” just by looking at the syllabus b/c they don’t get the classroom discussion & full context. I often assign readings that have been influential that I think are completely wrong. Putting it on the syllabus is not an endorsement of the ideas

ok y'all i am teaching theory to literature MA students, and i can fit in one (1) #FanStudies thing during reader response week. what should it be?

deadass?

when you see it…

ok who is out there telling people to submit to journals with their [Name] and [Affiliation] in brackets? i have gotten at least 5 articles like that at TWC lately.

This Peter Pan panto: “everybody relax it’s Not copyrighted” Me: actually that is a complicated question.

Editorial cartoonist @dennisgoris.bsky.social is exceptional. Please follow and share (&credit his work).

Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...

TikTok is removing clips of the leaked 60 Minutes segment. The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

oh my god

SIG members: We're compiling a list of fan- and audience studies publications by our members that came out in 2025. Enter yours here by Dec. 31, and we'll compile a list to share: forms.gle/V7zsgTowJahU...

You know what? I'm willing to empirically test this as many times as it takes to reach statistical certainty about any conclusions we reach

Best suggestions for an undergrad-level introduction to postcolonialism (esp in film and media)? A student emailed after the semester ended to ask for additional readings. ❤️

The kind .. you find … in a second hand store

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

The deadline is approaching for 2(!) upcoming special issues CFPs! Both Music Fandom and Latin American Fandoms have a January 1st submission deadline--don't miss your chance! Find more information on our front page:

Adventures in modern authorship.

Remember, kids, if you’re a fan using Disney IP without authorization that’s a crime. But if you’re a predatory tech company, they will give you a billion dollars.

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

Thank goodness the semester's over, said 100 media industry professors scrambling to keep track of who wants to own what.

Our students are raising money to keep their magazines going after the University of Alabama suspended them for foregrounding the voices of women and African Americans. If you've got the means, please support them. givebutter.com/F0LNOA

So so so many, but one that comes up more frequently than you might think is Yes YES The tiger is out

Everyone in media, film, popular culture and cultural studies needs to read and assign this book.

Journal of Fandom Studies 13.2 is out now! Book Reviews include: Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture, Mel Stanfill (2024) By Maria K. Alberto doi.org/10.1386/jfs_...

Just going to keep saying this: everybody in higher ed needs training about this. Everybody. From TAs to presidents, what to do it it’s you and how to respond when it’s somebody else.

Departments, faculty: we have to get our heads out of the sand. We have to understand the political landscape and take concerns seriously. Our students and NTT colleagues need our help and support. Retreating to a silo is giving up just when active support is necessary. 10/end

This is a terrible story--both because of the trap that was set (either in advance or ret-conned to seize a moment) for this graduate student but also because the student's department failed her. The 1st problem is easy to see, but I want to explain the 2nd one. 1/x

Bingo. Every university needs a comprehensive policy for responding to harassment of faculty, from outrage farming to stalking.

my 2020 book with @anasalter.bsky.social, "A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy: The Construction of Authorship in Transmedia Franchises," is 50% OFF for December 1 and 2. makes a great gift for all the nerds in your life. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/A-Po...

nonbinary people* talking about how anybody who teaches or administers at any level needs to learn about this kind of harassment bait and how to navigate. *who have studied this

see also, parasocial is Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year and this article recycled something i said to @tchotchke.bsky.social for NatGeo last year www.firstpost.com/explainers/c...

parasocial is Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year, and EL PAÍS interviewed me about it: english.elpais.com/lifestyle/20...

And that’s how Calvin got a degree in physics at OU

Titivillus phishing. No paleographer would fall for this

I heard there was a secret verse That David used to make AI worse But you don't really want to pub that, do ya

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...

No idea why an Afghan refugee shot National Guard soldiers within walking distance of the White House, but this new USCIS directive was revealed on Monday. Worth noting.

Today's the day! TEACHING AI IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES, with @melstanfill.bsky.social, is officially out from @routledgebooks.bsky.social! Full contents in replies. www.routledge.com/Teaching-AI-...

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I am looking for a Senior Researcher (at least 2 years postdoctoral exp.) for the LivePlatforms project into how people make livelihoods in the platform economy; a 5-year FT post based in the School of Info and Communication Studies at UCD. Do share widely! universityvacancies.com/university-c...