CFP alert! 💻 My Center is currently accepting abstract submissions for our spring symposium, "Good Vibes Only? How Affects and Emotions Are Mediated for Justice in Digital Culture." Submit by 12/1! More info: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

In a new essay for the Forum section of Celebrity Studies, I share some thoughts on how YouTube music critic and digital celebrity Anthony Fantano employs memes to build his dedicated fanbase, and how it relates to his murky digital history: dx.doi.org/10.1080/1939...

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

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

Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates. www.aaup.org/news/new-rep... 🧵1/9

Calling all music critics! Please take the Critical Minded Pop Music Critic Survey! Your answers will be part of a report by Critical Minded, a grantmaking and learning initiative fiscally sponsored by Allied Media. Feel free to share/DM me any questions! LINK: csulb.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

And of course thanks to UPenn for getting me here to get this cheesesteak. Excited to present tomorrow with @lumarch.bsky.social @jessmaddox.bsky.social @adrishaw.bsky.social and more.

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

Another day where the presidents of every R1 university in the country should be our loudly & collectively in front of microphones calling out the authoritarianism, condemning the budget cuts that are an existential crisis for 🇺🇸 higher education & science, & doing anything other than more silence.

They don’t want women getting PhDs, they want them pregnant

Here is the program of our 4/25 Symposium on Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/.... @annenbergcargc.bsky.social

Next Wednesday, 2/19 at 12pm, higher ed workers from across Philly are rallying to tell Senator McCormick: Hands Off our Healthcare, Research, and Jobs! Science and education are under attack. Join us at 2000 Market Street to fight back! RSVP here: labor4highered.org#register

Fascinating convo in the replies here

A wonderful opportunity for new PhDs in digital culture 😊

"Meta’s HR team is deleting internal employee criticism of new board member, UFC president and CEO Dana White, at the same time that CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced to the world that Meta will 'get back to our roots around free expression,' 404 Media has learned" www.404media.co/facebook-del...

CDCS postdoc @lumarch.bsky.social recently spoke to @teenvogue.bsky.social about the social media reactions to the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting:

Hey! The Cultural Studies Association just released its call for papers for its meeting in LA in 2025. Pls amplify! @academic-chatter.bsky.social @ejcs-journal.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social @jcultecon.bsky.social @culturalstudies.bsky.social www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/conference.h...

@cdcspenn.bsky.social postdoc @lumarch.bsky.social spoke to @washingtonpost.com about how grieving One Direction fans are processing Liam Payne’s death online: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

We're premiering on Bluesky with an announcement of our upcoming symposium on Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk? Jointly organized with @ascmediarisk.bsky.social www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...