Mastodawn

Reading @wishcrys's 'Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online' today. It's a great (though now slightly dated) introduction to celebrity culture on social media. #MediaStudies

cs 18h ago

🎧 Revisiting this Think rebroadcast from May 2025, where host Krys Boyd talks with The Atlantic’s Sophie Gilbert about how “girl power” keeps getting packaged, polished, and sexualized for mass consumption. Still a sharp look at who shapes empowerment and why.
#GirlPower #MediaStudies #Feminism #CultureCritique #PublicRadio https://think.kera.org/2025/12/19/the-sexualization-of-girl-power/

Josh Braun Dec 19

Aymar Jéan Escoffery's (@ajescoffery) new book, Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture, is now out! An incredibly important title that reimagines how movies, TV, and a broader array of media can be made and distributed in ways that include more people and move beyond the extractive models so common to contemporary streaming and social media. #OpenAccess

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553261/reparative-media/

#commodon #mediaStudies @communicationscholars

Harald Sack Dec 18

The @nfdi4culture community has published their report about the very successful 2025 Culture Community Plenary: CCP 5: “Shared Data – Shared Practice – Shared Knowledge” and the Voices of the Community, at the Akadiemie der Wissenschaften und Literatur in Mainz, summarized by Zahia Schlott

https://nfdi4culture.de/news/ccp-5-shared-data-shared-practice-shared-knowledge-and-the-voices-of-the-community.html

#nfdirocks @NFDI @NFDI4Memory @Textplus @fizise @tabea @heikef @epoz #researchdata #culturalheritage #dh #musicology #arthistory #mediastudies #architecture #performingarts

FID Darstellende Kunst Dec 16

#callforpapers

"THE WORLD RITUAL ARTS SYMPOSIUM: Performance, Practice, and Presence"

22–24 May 2026
Ulster University, Derry, Nothern Ireland (UK)

Deadline: 31 January 2026

👉 Further information: https://www.performing-arts.eu/de/news/newsstream/call-for-papers-the-world-ritual-arts-symposium-performance-practice-and-presence/

#performance #performancestudies #filmstudies #mediastudies #drama #ritual #performingarts #ulsteruniversity

CALL FOR PAPERS: "THE WORLD RITUAL ARTS SYMPOSIUM: Performance, Practice, and Presence" | 22–24 May 2026 at Ulster University, Derry, Nothern Ireland (UK) | Deadline: 31 January 2026 • FID Darstellende Kunst

Diamond Books Dec 15

मीडिया और भाषा — समाज की आवाज़ को समझने की एक गहन पड़ताल।
डॉ. शिवशंकर अवस्थी की यह पुस्तक बताती है कि भाषा, लिपि और मीडिया कैसे साहित्य और जनचेतना को आकार देते हैं।

Media Aur Bhasha
🛒 Buy Now: www.diamondbooks.in

#MediaAurBhasha #HindiBooks #MediaStudies #LanguageAndMedia

Double J Dec 12

My new book is out with Bloomsbury: LiveJournal and Russian Disinformation: The Rise of Epistemic Sabotage. It uses LiveJournal as an early case of how platform affordances were weaponized and develops a framework (“epistemic sabotage”) for knowledge-system destabilization. If you want access without the academic price tag, please request it through your library. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/livejournal-and-russian-disinformation-9781666954555/ #disinformation #platformstudies #mediastudies #libraries #digitalhumanities #Bookstodon

The Internet is Crack Dec 10

Social Media and ADHD: The Alarming Link Parents Should Know

#ADHD #ChildHealth #TechEthics #ScreenTime #MediaStudies #TheInternetIsCrack

RC Trustworthy Data Science Dec 10

📢 Prof. Joe Walther (UC Santa Barbara) will speak in Duisburg on 11 Dec, 10:00 (LE 104) about online hate — and why it often targets fellow haters rather than victims. 💥👥
Curious how this affects discourse and trust online? Join us for insights that matter beyond academia.
➡️ What’s your biggest question about online hate?
#OnlineHate #DigitalSociety #CommunicationResearch #MediaStudies #UARuhr #ResearchTalk #SocialMediaStudies #TrustOnline

Photo: Joseph Walther

Media of Cooperation Nov 28

New publication explores contemporary digital politics

As a follow-up publication to the CRC lecture series in summer 2024, the special issue on Digital Sovereignty has now been published at communication +1, edited by Christoph Borbach and Tristan Thielmann.

🔗 https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/cpo/issue/221/info/ (open access)

#DigitalSovereignity #DigitalPolitics #AI #ResponsibleAI #HCI #STS #MediaStudies #OpenAccess #SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation