Calling all educators in journalism and media studies!
I'm a molecular biologist at #PennState. In the spring I am piloting a new general education course for non-science majors: "Science in Media."
The aim is to combine media literacy skills with hard science topics, through the lens of our shared experience consuming science media during the COVID-19 pandemic.
I am looking for introductory texts on "media" writ large. What has worked for you?
I've found Campbell, Martin, & Fabos; Ott & Mack; Long & Wall; and Deuze. Which do you like? What have I missed?
Any other effective, insightful readings you can recommend?
Het interdisciplinaire top-team van School voor Sociale Wetenschappen aan Universiteit Hasselt is op zoek naar nieuwe ZAP ‘Communicatiewetenschappen en Digitalisering’, in de graad van docent (tenure track), hoofddocent of hoogleraar 👀
Functie is gericht op maatschappelijke aspecten van mediatechnologie en digitalisering #mediastudies#STS, met #digitalmethods als pluspunt 🤖
ANTI-PRESENCE. I just watched Jill, Uncredited on Mubi. It’s about film extra Jill Goldston’s appearances—literally just momentary appearances—in countless films. Taken as a scored sequence, the 18 minute short is an eerie statement about how scattered likenesses get preserved in media amber; never forgotten but never recalled, like ghosts in a televisual bardo.
Subsurface surfing. With the help of the maintenance staff, we went underground, following the maintenance track that connects all buildings on our Ruhr campus.
In total, it’s more than 8 km, we walked 2.5 km, from the uni datacentre to our faculty building.
This was a part of our cozy hybrid workshop in Bochum on data infra, knowledge creation and planetary matter. Thanks to all participants for a great experience,
🪧 #CFP for the Inaugural Disability Communications and Media Preconference at #ICA2024 in a hybrid and accessible format.
The twin goals of this preconference will be (1) to spotlight emerging research at the intersections of disability and media/communications and (2) provide an avenue for mentorship.
🎙️New Imagine Otherwise episode alert! We dive into the relationship between Big Tech and mortality.
Host Cathy Hannabach interviews media scholar Tamara Kneese @tamigraph about her new Yale University Press book Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond.
Somewhere on a #mediastudies course a student (or perhaps staff researcher?) is organising a piece of comparative work looking at how the #MorningShow and the #Newsreader each (and differently) are telling the story of power & #gender in the TV #newsroom.
Certainly one is set in contemporary #America & the other is set in 1980's #Australia, but the covergence of themes is pretty striking (watching them back-to-back).
And if no one is doing it; there's a project ready to go for someone!
My guess is that NYT photo editors are thrilled to have any image that attracts attention and generates clicks.
But we can/should push back against the aesthetic stylization of American fascism. When the candidate is made to look like a pop star, it’s no wonder so many rush the stage to hear his next single and “greatest hits.”
📢 The University of Virginia is launching a fully-funded PhD in Media Studies. Applications for Fall 2024 are now open!
🔭 This interdisciplinary research degree investigates texts, audiences, industries, and tech in relation to economic, political, and social systems of power.
💸 Funding covers tuition, fees, health insurance, and an annual stipend of $30K for up to 5 years.
📖 Caterina Cucinotta published a paper about the Italian filmmaker Rino Lupo, where she explores “his period in Russia and Poland (1916–21), when Lupo began to expand his cinematographic activity beyond directing movies to creating a journal and a film school, the first in Warsaw.”
Total scenes over on the #MECCSA mailing list, as they're having a mass brawl over - you guessed it - #Gaza, #Hamas and #Israel.
Not quite sure how any of this benefits the victims of a still unfolding tragedy, but it's always fun to see British academia having a collective bitchfest via e-mail.
in which I narrate the weird story of Google's late-aughts entry into the radio industry and argue that the recession, on top of "traditional" media consolidation, played a decisive role in spurring the rhetorical and infrastructural separation of the streaming/platform model as a "new" medium
Dan Golding, Taylor Hardwick, and myself have throughout this year been working on this research project for Creative Australia to map the size and scope of the Australian game music sector. We did a heap of interviews and a big survey, and discovered a heap of stuff about how composers and musicians are working with game developers across Australia.
We've now published a huge report, that you can download and read for free. It's about Australia, but I imagine will be just as interesting/valuable for understanding how these dynamics work globally, too.
I've created an aoir.social account, so here's an #introduction post for this corner of the fediverse!
I'm a PhD candidate in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I'm studying how individual people relate to corporations, governments, etc. through various types & layers of technology.
My dissertation is about how individual people are constructed as "Users" on the internet.
September 19, the 90th birthday of the great #DavidMcCallum, would've been the perfect time to post this, but it slipped right past me. At any rate, this essay (which appears in the academic anthology COMMON SENSE) has a very special place in my geeky heart. :hearthands: :trek_tos_spock:
✨ New paper in Information, Communication & Society: Multi-site domestication: taming technologies across multiple institutional settings ✨
The article proposes the concept of multi-site domestication to capture how technologies can require different "taming" processes when used across institutional settings with different and at times opposing norms, rules, values, and logics.
"Rather than try to fit robots into the existing categories (...,) Gunkel argues for a revolutionary reformulation of the entire system, developing a new moral and legal ontology for the twenty-first century and beyond."
Open-Rank TT Position in Media Ethics & Law | UMass Amherst Journalism Department
Posting is flexible regarding approach to the subject matter. Please spread widely within your networks. Feel free to direct questions to me, as I'm chairing the search. I'm happy to call UMass home. I ❤️ my colleagues and students. A lovely, exciting place to work.