Students engaged in a full academic publishing cycle including formal proposals, anonymous peer review, and revision, producing essays on works ranging from Detroit: Become Human and Terminator 2 to M3GAN, Stray, and Iron Man. #StudentScholarship #AcademicSky
A peer-reviewed open-access anthology of original #MediaCriticism produced by my students! Each chapter applies critical methods to analyze how film, TV, and video games reflect, reinforce, or resist cultural anxieties about #ArtificialIntelligence. #OER openbooks.fitchburgstate.edu/critiquingai...
My kiddos will be playing and selling their softball showdown game at the Indie #boardgame Showcase in #boston this Saturday. Come play with us! Use the code “softball” for 10% off tickets. www.eventbrite.com/e/indie-boar...
Check out my post about using a custom class instance of Mastodon to teach about the ethics of social media and moderation: www.socialmediaalternatives.org/2026/01/12/t...
@bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social
Publisher page: www.bloomsbury.com/us/livejourn...
Happy to talk/teach on this topic in 2026–27. #academia #BookSky
It's priced for academics, so if that's out of your budget, I'd really appreciate it if you could recommend it to your campus library or local city library. Most have "suggest a purchase" forms. It really helps! #libraries
A key concept in this book is epistemic sabotage. I create a taxonomy that argues these strategies move beyond disinformation and fake news and work instead to destabilize knowledge systems so audiences can’t easily tell what’s true #posttruth #platformstudies
My new book is out: LiveJournal and Russian Disinformation: The Rise of Epistemic Sabotage (Bloomsbury). It traces how LiveJournal became an early testing ground for influence tactics that later scaled outward. Please consider reposting to share! #misinformation #disinformation #mediastudies
This was a fun read: Body Slams, Curated: Pro Wrestling Enters Its Museum Era www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/a...
Anyone else think it’s sort of funny how AWS laid off 40% of its DevOps staff in July because AI made them “redundant” and then it suffered a catastrophic outage?
Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation
Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e
Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.
I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
Just as COVID never ended so too the Spanish flu pandemic never ended either. But we now have the technology to end them both with an indoor air revolution. Two birds, one stone #COVIDisAirborne #InfluenzaIsAirborne
public goods
"47% have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher ed institutions, w a net positive rating of 33—up 13 points since 2023. more confidence in higher ed than in the police (44%), the medical system (38%)+large tech companies (25%)"
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
It looks like that memorandum has been replaced by a different one unless I’m missing something? But the way back machine still has the original.
How many recognized @jimmykimmel.com's opening line was a tribute to Jack Paar? "As I was saying before I was interrupted," was Paar's opener upon his return after walking off the Tonight Show for 7 weeks in 1960 when NBC censors cut a joke about a water closet (bathroom). youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY?...
Love to give this guy control over a video streaming platform
www.404media.co/larry-elliso...
I meant this deeply: My work now is all dissent work. I write for a future I likely will not see.
New post: ALFA Class: Technologies of Truth: Russian History from Cyrillic to Cyberwar jjsylvia.com/alfa-class-t...
I’m doing this! I’ve been working on it for months. All my newsletters, pub updates, gallery announcements, etc, are moving over to RSS. Then I’m unsubscribing from, like, 3000 mailing lists + quitting social media. Reverting to my Google Reader days, w/o the Google part 📬🍻🏖️
it looks like the only way to have honest media is directly support them. i currently subscribe to WIRED and rolling stone, and about to subscribe to 404 media. any other WOKE and antifa media orgs i should support?
When we told you democracy was on the ballot we weren’t lying.
As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
Headline from the New York Times, 1939: “Goebbels ends careers of five “Aryan“ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime.”
www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2003/j...
One of Putin’s first acts after he solidified power was to silence all media outlets that criticized him.
You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."
Russia's latest with AI and disinformation: www.404media.co/russian-stat...
Russia designated the 'LGBT Movement' as a terrorist organisation. They know there is no such group; that's the point. It means they can choose to arrest ANYONE with any association with LGBT issues and treat them as a terrorist.
The fact that 'antifa' is not a group should not be a comfort here.
