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

Friends, hello! Today, a new @neverpo.st: NP EP @butterdishdemon.bsky.social talks with @jessrauchberg.bsky.social about a complicated, recurring internet-type – the lolcow – and how their notoriety perhaps reveals particular strains of ableism baked into social platforms, and society itself.

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.

some exciting news: announcing CREATOR & INFLUENCER STUDIES, the first open-access peer reviewed journal dedicated to creator and influencer culture research. I'm honoured to be named as one of the journal's inaugural associate editors. submissions open Feb 12.

heated rivalry x tegan and sara edits that aren't closer challenge!!!!!

For CBC Arts, I wrote about why I think Canada needs to revel in the beauty of its weirdest impulses www.cbc.ca/arts/canadia...

"But for people who were children in 2016, the year still holds a certain mystique. Google worked well. It was relatively easy to spot deepfakes. Teachers didn’t have to funnel all of their limited resources into determining if a student copy-pasted their homework from ChatGPT."

i feel like american academics don't need to write half-baked heated rivalry articles. let the canadians have this one, please

The reviews went out from our biggest conference in my field #ica26 Partial (AI) reviews are now a real problem. As a community we need to address this and work on standards. No one deserves AI slop as reviews.

In case you are unaware that digital images are also being manipulated to depict women and children as victims of physical violence. It's not just about bikinis.

AI companies are embracing the “power of cuteness,” and it’s not accidental. In a recent @washingtonpost.com article, FIMS professor @lukestark.bsky.social shares insight into why this design strategy works on humans — for better or worse. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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.

first week of semester looms? time to play my chem's cubicles on repeat...

super basic: Mad Men

PREDICTION: If 2026 is the year of logging off, it's also going to be the year more self-branding rhetorics move away from "self-care" (e.g., look how I'm bettering the self!) and toward "silent processes" (e.g., it's more authentic to make professional moves with less noise in between).

everything humans do is symbolic

✨dropping my brand new digital communication grad syllabus! ✨ the course is organised around digital keywords: authenticity, parasocial, viral, trend, etc. feel free to share widely! tinyurl.com/3cxx4a36

it's incredibly lovely to see that CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY is on the year-end list for @publicbooks.bsky.social not once but TWICE!! thank you to @njdames.bsky.social and @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy!! and among such amazing books!!! www.publicbooks.org/public-picks...

I wrote a new piece for @pghcitypaper.com about loving analog media in a digital world. If you’re someone who’s into vinyl, film photography, print media, and invaluable local businesses, you should check it out! I also coin the phrase “techno-bummerism” lol

Neurodivergent people can be terrible people . And there’s a deep need for a convo ( intra community ) about how the discourse around how parts of our divergence are treated . And how privilege is handled . Because the fact that this on a table is about control

Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship is in fact bad because neurodivergent people participating in technofascism will not save us. Latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Some of the language the job call uses about neurodivergent people as ‘able to see past performative ideologies’ reinforces really dangerous rhetoric that disabled people aren’t human." – @jessrauchberg.bsky.social

Very excited to announce that I am in the process of selling my first trade book to a major U.S. publisher. More information to come in the new year, and I can't wait to share the stories about what this journey entailed and tell you about the book.

authoritarianism loves to couch itself within a fiction of sameness and uniformity

See @ubiquity75.xyz’s Behind the Screen for more on the US tech industry’s outsourcing of content moderation

ISO of your favorite long-form writing on AI slop and authenticity! Thank you.

One of the biggest impacts I’ve seen from the unproven idea that people are wrongfully using disability accommodations is that people stop trusting people with disabilities and in fact further restrict, remove, and demonize accommodations for people with disabilities in general

academic shitposting on here doesn't hit like it did on The Other Place

which province is franklin the turtle from

NEW PUB ANNOUCEMENT! out today in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social, I wrote about lolcows, livestreaming, and how platform affordances and anti-fan practices catalyze digital freakery. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

I wonder how the push for tenure-track faculty "AI" lines will converge with the death of the North American university and the burst of the AI bubble....

i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle

half-baked thought but creators returning to long-form content speaks to the ways class and political power intrinsically shape creator labour. platforms know they profit when white, western, wealthier creators' work sits at the center.

I want to live in a world where an app is never a solution

a concept: being the bert mccracken of media studies