New post on the Kinomatics blog all about Boxing Day cinemagoing in Australia: https://kinomatics.com/projects/australian-cinema/putting-the-box-office-in-boxing-day/

We look through the last 10 years of box office data to see how well the festive period is holding up as a key date in the Australian cinema calendar. The short version: Boxing Day was more important than ever during the pandemic, but its recovery hasn't really materialised.

This post is the first in a series of data-driven pieces we'll be doing on the Australian film industry.

Please boost if you think people in your network would be interested in this - I'll need extra help getting seen now I'm on my own little server!

#cinemastudies #mediaindustries #mediastudies #filmindustry #dataviz

Reposting my #introduction, since I'm seeing a lot of fresh faces recently. I'm an associate professor at UMass Amherst, where I teach about #journalism and #MediaIndustries. My research focuses on media distribution and, occasionally, dysfunction in the adtech industry.

I also co-edit a book series on the civic impacts of media distribution for The MIT Press. Feel free to hit me up if you're working on a relevant project!

#commodon #mediaStudies #ScienceJournalism #linux #emacs #zettelkasten

#AcademicJob / #PhDStudentship

Two Interdisciplinary PhD positions @ Young Academy Groningen 2024 for the project "Academia in a bind: Data surveillance practices in scholarly publishing."

Deadline: 20/03/2024

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/192803

CC @academicchatter

#LibraryScience #InformationManagement #PoliticalEconomy #CriticalBusinessStudies #PoliticalTheory #Publishing #MediaIndustries #DataScience #MediaManagement #ScienceStudies #TechnologyStudies #ethics #Anthropology #DigitalHumanities

Another great primer on the state of the #mediaindustries to give to students at the start of the semester, this one on @nprfreshair with @Lucas_Shaw

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fresh-air/id214089682?i=1000621799893

Possibly a good podcast to assign for the first week of a #mediaindustries course?

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/plain-english-with-derek-thompson/id1594471023?i=1000621676674

Great article from @askhalid on the latest Spotify shake-ups.

I'm left wondering: What will this mean for the consumer? I can't see paid subscribers happy about DAI or extra host adverts. Could we see a split of Spotify Music/Podcast akin to Apple? An increase in sub fees?

#podcaststudies #commodon #mediaindustries

https://www.theverge.com/23768886/spotify-podcast-strategy-mistakes-joe-rogan-exclusives-trevor-noah

Reposting my #introduction, since I'm seeing a lot of fresh faces recently. I'm an associate professor at UMass Amherst, where I teach about #journalism and #MediaIndustries. My research focuses on media distribution and, occasionally, dysfunction in the adtech industry.

I also co-edit a book series on the civic impacts of media distribution for The MIT Press. Feel free to hit me up if you're working on a relevant project!

#commodon #mediastudies #ScienceJournalism #linux #emacs #zettelkasten

A plan for the future of #Twitter in @TheConversationUS:

«Twitter: how to remove Elon Musk and reinvent the company»
https://theconversation.com/twitter-how-to-remove-elon-musk-and-reinvent-the-company-197932

#BirdSite #MediaIndustries #MediaManagement @communicationscholars