a concept: demolition lovers son, alpha couple daughter

In their research on how AI is reshaping modeling work, D&S researcher @cariatida.bsky.social and affiliates Zoë West & Sanjay Pinto find a situation ripe for labor exploitation. datasociety.net/points/fashi...

frank iero covering 2004-10 tegan and sara when???

If you want the full history of why MTV stopped playing music videos to go all in on Johnny Bananas, Lauren Conrad, & Snooki, have I got the book 4 u! The Introduction can be read for free on the @dukepress.bsky.social website so u can see if it's your thang! www.dukeupress.edu/millennials-...

people rejecting me/my intellectual output should know that spite is forever my greatest motivator! I can feel the next level-up in my bones...

two years flew by so damn quickly!

working on my book and just used the phrase "in the early 2020s" 😭

To remove media from historical contexts is a disservice to studying the cultural, economic, and political moments which shape the ways information is shared and interpreted. The study of media means we must feel toward the past before we move forward.

Excited to share that I got to chat with @nbcnews.com about the rise of man-on-the-street interviews and their transformation into a popular social media trend. The segment went live this summer—check it out here:

getting ready for the upcoming academic year with my new personal website! I highlight my research, teaching, press, and consulting opportunities. Check it out! 🫶💕⤵️ jessrauchberg.com

great new blog post from the brilliant @krystenstein.bsky.social (and a sneak peak about our autoethnographic project about disability and academic labour! 👀)

It reminded me of a collaborative autoethnography I’m co-authoring with my dear friend and colleague @jessrauchberg.bsky.social currently under review. We write about what it’s like to attend academic conferences while living with chronic illness

“These stations are not just media outlets, they are cultural infrastructure.” - Native Public Media President Loris Taylor

I wrote about these line of dolls and Mattel’s intention here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We can't underestimate the relationship between the wellness industry and algorithmic conspiracy. The platform is now a divinatory space where users seek (medically unverified) answers for bodily/cognitive ailments, while influencers and platform companies alike profit.

pittsburgh is my current favourite american city, followed closely by cincinnati

The recent hype surrounding TikTok romantic multi-parters (see WTF did I marry, in love with my psych) indicates that audiences are *still* captivated by serial storytelling. In the platform age, who gets to tell these tales (and *how* the telling is told) looks much different.

maturity is loving danger days

are we going to not talk about the mit media lab/joi ito/n*ri oxm*n thing ever again or

mayonaise is the perfect song

I'm looking for readings that theorize the politics of visibility in creative labor. ("social media" works too.) What do you love? What's foundational to this concept?

shooting my shot: I'm available to speak to journalists writing about what I like to call the "Trisha Paytas Industrial Complex"

starting drama on linkedin, as a bit

When I started my job, grad students got more annual funding than faculty do now. I believe in the power of in-person (with safety) as part of a palette of practices, but it was never equitably accessible & despite so much effort,* has only gotten moreso. *(I notice which orgs have even tried)

budgeting for an upcoming (domestic) conference and it's going to be about a minimum 2K for the whole thing. how is the average academic worker supposed to afford this?

Btw @jeffreymoro.com, @briana-v.bsky.social + I have a forthcoming special issue on Algorithms + the occult w/ @xrw.bsky.social @drs.bsky.social AX Mina @thechristinet.bsky.social @jessrauchberg.bsky.social @aketchum22.bsky.social @serife.bsky.social @emmaquilty.bsky.social Xandro Segade + more

For lifestyle influencers, the platform workspace is always open. This 24/7 labour cycle is obfuscated by rhetorics of entrepreneurship: being one's own boss, working "flexible" hours. But when your consumer audience can track you at any time, is it freedom?

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

at the stage of book writing where all I can do is get the words out on the paper and hope they'll make sense eventually

It's syllabus season, so here's a revised version of my undergrad-level Gender & the Media course! We're covering feminist media theory, popular representations, consumer culture... pretty much a dream syllabus. Feel free to share widely! ✨ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Nothing good will come from this decision. There are so many Americans that RELY on public media to not only keep them informed, but to keep them safe. Rural Americans will be hit the hardest by this. The same base that this administration pretends to care about. Sickening decisions all about.

For this week’s nl I talked to the great Jessica Defino about going beyond the “Sephora tweets” panic to think critically about kids and skincare

Never left. Positive & negative eugenics have been consistent features of U.S. economic, social, and health policy. - Work requirements - How "families"/"households" are defined for the purpose of eligibility for benefit (e.g. tax credits) - The coupling of employment status & healthcare insurance

a very cool data viz from a talk I gave last week at McMaster University! thanks to Melanie Parlette-Stewart for bringing my presentation to life. ✨recorded lecture coming soon...

If you get a 3% wage increase at work, and the annual cost of your healthcare, housing and your kids’ college tuition goes up 9%, then you didn’t really get a raise at work. We need to organize for reparative public goods so your wage means something.

Some places will have to start rationing water - to enable AI slop. "A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day" Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

today in 1970 the Young Lords staged a 12-hr takeover of the Bronx's Lincoln Hospital—overcrowded, overrun by rats, called the "butcher shop" b/c medical residents trained on poor people of color the takeover led to one of the first patients' bill of rights in history, and other wins @teenvogue.com

adding a “theory bro’s worst nightmare” to my vita

If seasons are industries in and of themselves, what does that mean for influencers, who don’t necessarily work in a physical space?

my new (old) bit: romanticizing hamilton, ontario

There’s so much wrong here, but in particular it’s noted in the article that the creator of this project met with a bunch of stakeholders who told him the idea was shit, and he did it anyway.

Disabled people are 11 times more likely to die during labor/in the postpartum period than non-disabled people. Better education and smashing ableism is how we get out of this horrible stat. For the past year, I’ve been looking into the topic of disability and pregnancy for @motherjones.com 🧵

dead media! in the green belt

"Perhaps we need a new vocabulary to better account for the range of people's productive or creative practices and experiences, and enable us to confront most efficiently the structures and discourses that organize them." -Kathi Weeks

gearing up for NCA's annual institute for faculty development, where I'm facilitating a seminar on feminist media and humanistic approaches to teaching about digital media histories and industries!

The Perfect Storm 1. The National Weather Service vacancy rate at its Texas offices doubled since Trump took office. 2. Kerr County (which voted 77% for Trump) did not have a warning system because local residents didn’t want to spend the money. 3. Climate change is making this happen more often.

I’m an absolute bagel snob and yet the best bagel I’ve ever had is in Tampa

If the wage is a disciplinary tool that simultaneously emphasizes the worker’s importance to production and offers a pathway toward leisure, what does this mean for the lifestyle influencer, whose value and purpose is tied to a future that they may never quite reach?

excited that our study on platforms, mediation, and disability is now published in New Media & Society!! PDF copy ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #CommSky #AcademicSky