I realize that I haven't shared much in the past few years about my previous work at the UVM Comp. Story Lab, where we studied phenomena like incels, k-pop, and linguistic turbulence on platforms like #Reddit and #Twitter. Explains why I know so much obscure internet lore 😅 Enjoy:
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.
Sure, let's make more announcements at 8:30pm on a Tuesday night, why not.
Hey, people! I'm on the editorial board of #Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, and we are seeking submissions. Please think about putting something in if you are an academic, artist, or ghastly hybrid working on #sound#SoundStudies#SoundArt
I just watched a few episodes of a k-drama (masked girl or sth idk i watched with Turkish audio) on Netflix and don't know how to process it just wow are they really doing this? Appreciating aesthetic operation over mental health? WTFWTFWTF?
Here is the thing, these k-dramas I watched on Netflix in last 2 months was not align with that theory. They all need all of my attention due to social media details. I mean some key conversations were available to understand via just subtitle. There were things I need to catch up by actually LOOKING the screen, audio was not enough. Isn't it interesting?
The Communication #Law & #Policy division at @ICAHDQ is having an election for new officers. Please consider applying for one of these roles:
✅ Secretary
✅ International Liaison
✅ Student & Early Career Representative
Please email the Division Chair Nina Li (luzhou.li@monash.edu) ASAP if you want to nominate yourself or someone else. Include a 300-word bio & statement.
Probably the 1st US sitcom with multiple gay central roles. Predictably, this 1984-89 series wasn’t on broadcast TV but on premium cable: on Showtime, which later gave us QUEER AS FOLK and THE L WORD.
It dealt with 3 working-class brothers. The youngest, Cliff, comes out as gay on the day he was supposed to marry a woman. Joe is a retired football player who runs a bar, and Lou is a gruff, comically clueless construction worker. The 2nd gay regular, Donald, is a strong queen, the character who most seems to have his life "together." Rounding out the cast are Joe's daughter, Penny, and a wisecracking employee of Joe's, Kelly.
BROTHERS was first in development around 1980 at ABC, which commissioned a script but not a pilot. Given the realities of 80s TV, an ABC version would have been more inhibited and apologetic. https://youtu.be/F-TifU7910Q
Sometimes research projects basically write themselves up I guess?!
Adam Mosseri confirming that a big component of what they hope will make Threads distinctive is mood management and calibration so as to keep the platform clean from anger, negativity, and bad vibes (and in so doing make it super brand-friendly I suppose) #AoIR#mediastudies#commodon
The first edition of ALTERNATE CHANNELS came out 23 years ago today, on July 5, 2000. The original publisher was generally great to deal with but insisted on a sensationalist subtitle and left out all the photos I'd found.
A revised 20th-anniversary edition, subtitled "Queer Images on 20th-Century TV," contains about 100 photos from classic TV shows.
Hung out yesterday in Seattle with queer TV historian extraordinaire Matt Baume, author of the new book HI HONEY, I'M HOMO, an entertaining, well-researched history of queer characters on American sitcoms and TV specials. He's a nice, smart guy who is clearly enthusiastic about his subject matter. Check out Matt's videos on YouTube.
At the coffee shop, he showed me his dog-eared, heavily annotated copy of my own book, Alternate Channels, which was awfully sweet of him.
Tom Snyder's late-night talk show marked Pride Week (and the Stonewall Riots' 7th anniversary) by interviewing author/activist Karla Jay and two gay magazine publishers: David Goodstein (then owner of The Advocate) and Don Embinder (publisher of Blueboy).
By the way, if anyone has video of this broadcast and is willing to share, please DM me. 😀
We are the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR), an archive preserving materials from the entertainment industries. We are home to over three hundred collections from playwrights, television and movie writers, producers, actors, designers, directors, and production companies.
Housed in the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Library-Archives Division, the WCFTR is one of the world’s most accessible #archives and is regularly visited by researchers from around the world. Research undertaken in its collections has revolutionized the scholarship of American #cinema, #theater, and #television.
We use social media to share news about new collections, upcoming events, interesting materials we've found, and projects that we're working on -- as well as learning about what you're working on!
#PublicSphere#MediaStudies: "“The” public sphere is now irretrievably fractured into a multiplicity of online and offline, larger and smaller, more or less public spaces that frequently (and often serendipitously) overlap and intersect with one another. This diverse array of what have been described variously as public spheres, public spherules, platform publics, issue publics, or personal publics nonetheless serves many of the same functions that were postulated for the public sphere itself. However, while the communicative structures, functions, and dynamics of many such spaces have been studied in isolation, we still lack a more comprehensive model that connects such case studies in pursuit of an overarching perspective. This article sets out a fundamental toolkit for the development of such an empirically founded model of the contemporary spaces for public communication. It identifies the crucial conceptual building blocks and empirical approaches that may be combined to produce genuinely new insights into how the network of such spaces is structured, and in turn structures our everyday experience of public communication." https://academic.oup.com/ct/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ct/qtad007/7199747?login=false
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Lantern, the MHDL's full-text search platform, enables researchers to query specific words or phrases within scanned pages.
We hope the MHDL has had a transformative impact on the study of film & broadcasting history. The sources we have digitized for open access, and the large-scale queries that our platforms allow, have enabled ambitious research projects and the production of new knowledge.
We look forward to sharing interesting content from our collection and learning about projects that use the MHDL.
Harvey Fierstein, one of the very few out-of-the-closet queer celebrities in early 1992, guest starred as Rebecca's old high school sweetheart. Rebecca, oblivious to the fact he's gay, hopes they'll get back together.
Queer regular characters were still pretty rare back then, but this sort of likable guest role (a regular's old friend or lover who's now openly gay/bi/trans) was an acceptable way to "do something different" for one episode.
Two years earlier, Fierstein had been in negotiations with CBS about a potential sitcom about the friendship between a gay man and straight woman. The network executives said they loved the script (except for one gay character who didn't like or trust straight people), but they said they couldn't put it on the air because they thought advertisers would boycott it.