Mike Serazio
@michaelserazio.bsky.social
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Writes about media and culture, Boston College Department of Communication Professor
Hell yeah - viva alt-weeklies
www.cjr.org/analysis/don...
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Donāt Mourn the Death of Alt-Weeklies. Theyāre Alive and Well.
In some communities, alt-weeklies have outlasted the daily paper.
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/dont-mourn-death-alt-weeklies-alive-well-village-voice-dallas-aan.php?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9mTMcvzMj1VCALafdzovvEdBC3aJ-vr6qEFKoGDY2_-wN2vffubKzZ1HgxkX8_bKHtouq9jAPRE9nT9ED4yGsXDWPCXQ&_hsmi=365272749&utm_content=365272749&utm_source=hs_email
5 months ago
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Kicker āgraph goes on my gravestone
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What College Graduates Need Most in the Age of AI
What students need the most, beyond LLMs, is space to strengthen those muscles of focus, writes Michael Serazio.
https://time.com/7288866/college-graduates-ai-essay/
6 months ago
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The doublespeak farce covering for our 1st Amendment crisis
www.salon.com/2025/03/18/t...
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The āfree speechā facade fronting political censorship
The more censorship Trump pursues, the louder his boasts about āfree speechā will get
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/18/the-free-speech-facade-fronting-political-censorship/
8 months ago
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reposted by
Mike Serazio
John Kenny
9 months ago
The articles from the forthcoming SI on Political Authenticity - edited by myself,
@sofiabrei.bsky.social
& Michael Lewis-Beck - at
@polityalsberuf.bsky.social
are now online. In the introduction (
doi.org/10.1086/734784
) we set out its contribution and summarise each article 1/12
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In physics as in governance, it is so much faster and easier to break things than to build them.
10 months ago
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Just once in my life Iād love to uncheck the āemail me about sales and promotionsā box and have it actually mean something.
10 months ago
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āA quick glance over the past 200 years suggests that most people will eagerly substitute cheap, mass-produced anything for a lovingly handcrafted version thatās more expensiveā¦. Political and cultural elites [will] fight to maintain their status.ā
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | On the brink of an unimaginable AI future
Technological change is about to speed up, perhaps beyond our ability to adapt.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/03/technology-internet-ai-future/
10 months ago
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āIrony is a medicine, not only to lift and brighten others, but also ourselves, because self-mockery is a powerful instrument in overcoming the temptation toward narcissismā¦The best advice in front of a mirror is to laugh at ourselves. It is good for us.ā
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/o...
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Opinion | Pope Francis: There Is Faith in Humor
The best thing to do in front of a mirror is to laugh at ourselves. It is good for us.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/opinion/pope-francis-humor.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
11 months ago
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ā[Memes are] the lingua franca of modern audiences. Theyāre how we share ideas, signal belonging and make meaning.ā
digiday.com/marketing/th...
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The year the memes took over reality ā and marketing followed
Subcultures arenāt niche anymore -- theyāre the culture. And for marketers, that changes everything.
https://digiday.com/marketing/the-year-the-memes-took-over-reality-and-marketing-followed/
11 months ago
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I always feel like a fraud when using āCheersā as a email sign-off, but never more so than when corresponding with an actual British person.
11 months ago
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An abiding, anxious befuddlement, post-GPT: If reading and writing are no longer skills that education should practice and idealize, because you can outsource that intellectual work⦠what the heck is education for now? ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ Anyhow, the AI version of this would be like, TL; DR, bro
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Artificial intelligence and the efficiency trap - The Boston Globe
AI systems that summarize everything from newspaper articles to novels herald the time youāll save. By forsaking real reading, hereās what you stand to lose.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/05/opinion/artificial-intelligence-efficiency-trap/
12 months ago
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Among many post-election journalism takes, this one feels especially wise
www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/im-a...
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Iām a journalist and Iām changing the way I read news. This is how.
Sometimes it's healthy to do something you love less, and differently.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/im-a-journalist-and-im-changing-the-way-i-read-news-this-is-how/
12 months ago
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Feels very Elder Millennial to still nostalgically long for social media that recreates late-aughts Facebook vibes - though, prolly less the platform as the phase of lifeā¦
www.vox.com/technology/3...
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Bluesky brings the fun, weird vibes of old Twitter back to life
As more users flee X, a clearer, sunnier social media age is dawning.
https://www.vox.com/technology/385433/what-is-bluesky-twitter-social-media-use-future
12 months ago
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