Feeling A Bit Evil This Morning

we wouldn't have demo lovers without mayonaise

pleased to say I haven't stopped thinking about them

hot takes that shouldn't be hot takes: porn is a cultural industry

We are also accepting submissions for three special issues: Reconsidering visibility and value in the creator economy; Misogynoir, the manosphere, and content creation as Black media battlegrounds; and Health Professionals as Creators and Influencers. More info here: link.springer.com/journ…

REMINDER!! Creator & Influencer Studies is open for article submissionsI also have 20 article process charge (APC) waivers to use before the end of the year, so submit now!

This should be known nationally as The Pretzel Belt

currently working on a project about this and it says so much about the memefication of automation (spoiler alert: IT'S NOT GOOD)

I'm not falling for the good culture cottage cheese industrial complex. real ones know: it's turner's

CFP!! Society for the Study of Affect's MAKE conference in Vancouver: October 23-25, 2026. Consider submitting your proposals to any one of 26 streams. But I am particularly partial to number 8...we are looking for some very dirty submissions! Send it to us by May 29! Links to follow:

update: it's loading...officially.

Blaming Fetterman’s and Dart’s politics on brain injury is a form of ableism that allows people to avoid the way their politics perfectly align with a hegemonic vision of white masculinity.

my chem tegan & sara the front bottoms the smashing pumpkins the hallucination green day robyn torres the mountain goats wolf parade (pending...)

new subjectivity might be loading. key word on might.

there's a better way to do all of this. we cannot build a better internet studies if we're just using peer review to tear down our colleagues.

For the reviewer 2s of the world: if you want to be jerks, you do you. But ways people in a smalle, niche field can figure out it’s you: 1. You only recommend your own work as things to improve the quality of the submission. (Continued)

some of you don't use peer review to be peers and it shows!

FWIW this isn’t about effects on scholarship so much as ppl. It’s ridiculous to req scholars to generate a book-length argument that other scholars say makes an original contribution to a specialized field AND is deemed marketable enough to whomever to merit publication w/in a set window of time.

see also: academic journals and the kinds of work they (don't) accept

i can't stop thinking about the montreal canadiens

you know what the real data center is. the human mind. thank you,

sometimes i think my cat doesn’t appreciate the many and varied songs i’ve come up with for her at all

And I start laughing like a child And I mark their faces one by one Transfiguration's gonna come for me at last And I will burn hotter than the sun

“…what happens when institutions stop valuing the cumulative work of forming vocation + jdgmnt— the kind of work that takes time? Grad students have never only been workers. Their role in academic prgms has also been one of the ways fields induct new ppl into their practical + interpretive culture”

HCI friends: I'm searching for work on algorithmic sensitivity and outrage. does this exist? (so far in media studies, I'm coming up short!)

writing like a social scientist is so difficult ngl

becoming a habs fan wasn't on my 2026 bingo card and yet... here we are

As a kid who went to a mid-tier SLAC on scholarship, and then went to a good, but not Ivy, public university, I am always amazed at the fact that we don't talk about this kind of class/status/resource stratification. When I step onto campus at an Ivy, I feel ill-at ease. 1/4

FAN STUDIES FOLKS: I'm looking for literature addressing cultural practices, rituals, rules, and norms in online fan fiction communities. Who's writing in this area? Please share your favourites!

Excited for the Kalshi plugin, enabling punters to predict my calorie deficit for the week. Who needs biopolitics when you've got ✨futures✨?

Sylvia Wynter, still pretty sharp, turns out!

🚨 Public scholarship alert! 🚨 Have you seen prediction markets in the news? In the 18 months since prediction markets on elections were legalized in the U.S., it seems like Polymarket and Kalshi can't stop making news and making money.

fyp as method

pgh peeps: best fish fry in the east end??

listening to wolf parade feels a lot like running down a hill iykyk

Think bigger than theory and reading and arguing on the internet, think embodiment and art and different ways of living and moving through the world. Think sharpness and tenderness, interdependence and community. Liberation for some is justice for none.

Today is the 36th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl and disabled people are still fighting for basic rights in a society that's actively working to undermine them, surrounded by systemic disablism. (This is a corrected thread TY to the person who flagged that I said 26th, not 36th!)

Folks, I'm in a position where I could really use any work. I'm an academic who can teach film, media & communications, and a writer who covers tech, film, and politics. Editors, etc hire me to do anything in those realms. Keep me in mind for anything you think I could be good for!

So excited to be working on this fantastic project with @jessrauchberg.bsky.social!

very cool and exciting news: my debut book, PLATFORM HYGIENE, is now under contract with @dukepress.bsky.social!

My takeaway from the BAFTA incident is that those in charge of that broadcast at the BBC don't give a damn about any of us -- Black folks, disabled folks, folks who are both, the public. Now we're on a third day of racist and ableist discourse. Structural racism and ableism operating in tandem. 🤦🏾‍♀️🤬

new year, old me! for better or for worse, I'm trying my hand at professional content creation again on IG. (Especially after *finally* nuking my Twitter account.) Follow along for updates and halfbaked takes on digital culture. Same handle as here: @/JessRauchberg.

Containment Technologies of Holding, Filtering, Leaking meson.press/books/contai...

i bet it would feel so good if we could put our bodies into low power mode

hot take: newspapers should not be run by people who dislike reading and thinking

new essay on platform authoritarianism, disability, and class in creator economies out now in comm & critical/cultural studies! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/P8HRY...

Remembering Fobazi Ettarh‬ by reading her brilliant work. I read about vocational awe in my last year of library school & she provided the vocabulary I needed to describe some of my observations & experiences as a BIPOC worker. She will be missed. www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocatio...

Journalism schools need to desperately hire more freelancers as lecturers to teach students how to make money, including gig comms work, while reporting on this side. I've had this thought for a while, but especially as a paper of record gets decimated.