CFP for MOSAICS Symposium:
https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/call-papers
Event: October 15-16, 2026
Proposal Deadline: May 29, 2026
For the MOSAICS Symposium we seek work from scholars and practitioners that draws from (and ideally cuts across) the #arts, #humanities, social sciences, information science, & community activism.
#ai #artificialintelligence #mediastudies #science #technology #history #sociology #anthropology #socialscience #geography #culturalstudies #genderstudies #postcolonialism #STS
My dept at UVA is recruiting a professor of Media Studies for a 3-year, non-tenure-track position focused on undergrad teaching, esp. introductory courses in media studies, film and TV studies, streaming, media history, and global media studies
☝️ Don’t miss! We start our series with a lecture by Olga Gorinuova.
🎤 Olga Gorinuova: "Ideal Subjects. The Abstract People of AI"
📍Universität Siegen, AH-A 215 & webex
🕑 15 April, 2:15 pm - 3:45 pm
🔗 info & registration: https://u-si.de/bAlBg
#SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation #LectureSeries #MediaStudies #AI #ResponsibleAI #PersonalData #ResearchMethods
📣 Der Fachinformationsdienst @fidmedia startet in diesem Sommersemester 2026 mit einem spannenden FID Media Bites-Programm und vielversprechenden Vorträgen rund um Themen wie Publishing, Archivarbeit, Annotations- und KI-Tools.
📅 Den ersten sommerlichen Wissenshappen stellt Maximilian Heimstädt (Hamburg) am 8. Mai 2026, 11 Uhr, vor: "Predatory Publishing. Ein kleines Bestiarium des Raubtierverlegens".
➡️ Infos zur Veranstaltungsreihe: https://blog.fid-media.de/2026/03/30/online-vortragsreihe-fid-media-bites-im-sose-2026/
📢 The programme of our new lecture series »Cooperative Methodologies: Studying Sensory Media & AI« is out, and we are excited about all the contributions!
📍Universität Siegen & online via WebEx
🔗 info & registration for online attendance: https://u-si.de/bAlBg
#SFB1187 #MediaOfCooperation #LectureSeries #MediaStudies #AI #ResponsibleAI #ResearchMethods #GenerativeAI #MixedMethods
This week's recommendation:
🎙️ Sebastian Gießmann: “Infrastructures and/as Environments: Practices and Ecologies of Circulation”
📍microform. Der Podcast des Graduiertenkollegs Literatur- und Wissensgeschichte kleiner Formen
🔗 www.kleine-formen.de/infrastructures-and-as-environments/
#SFB1187 #MedienderKooperation #podcast #networks #mediastudies #mediahistory
You know why the #tabloids hate the idea of #MediaStudies degrees?
Let me explain, I did a media and communication diploma (not even a full degree) and I have never bought a tabloid since. Everytime I look at them all I can see is the bullshit manipulations and lies.
Governments rely on us swallowing that bullshit and asking for more, tabloids would go broke if we stopped believing them.
That is why they ridicule and denigrate the field.
Stumbled across a beautifully illustrated book about Communications among various portable Amstrad computers (and a dusty DECmate) in The Wee Museum of Memory in Edinburgh 📚
https://www.livingmemory.org.uk
New three-part publication set presenting a comprehensive system-theoretical framework for the structural reconstruction of the Voynich Manuscript:
Monograph: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19410209
Entry Note: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19410808
Executive Summary: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19410495
Author ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1546-7234
#Voynich #AcademicResearch #SystemsTheory #Musicology #Archaeology #Philology #CognitiveScience #MediaStudies #DigitalHumanities
This monograph presents a comprehensive structural reconstruction of the Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS 408) based solely on its observable formal properties. Using a systemic, transcription‑independent analytical framework, the study demonstrates that the manuscript does not encode linguistic, cryptographic, botanical, medical, or cosmological content. Instead, it constitutes a functional, multimodal system integrating modular motoric sequences, cyclical diagrammatic architectures, layered operational structures, and resonance‑based dynamics. The analysis identifies the manuscript as a bimanual motoric notation system whose internal logic corresponds to the technique of a Gothic harp with a double‑string bordun. Glyph sequences function as modular action units; diagrams provide cyclical and spatial form models; iconographic elements depict bodily coordination, acoustic resonance, and regenerative procedures. Together, these components form a coherent operational ecology for the execution of structured acoustic and motoric processes. The study situates the manuscript within a premodern workshop environment involving multiple scribes, embedded in a socially coordinated acoustic practice rather than a textual or symbolic tradition. This contextualization supports the manuscript’s authenticity and explains its multimodal, practice‑oriented structure. The monograph offers the first internally consistent explanation of the manuscript’s architecture, providing a reproducible analytical method, a functional classification, and a complete reconstruction of its structural logic.
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Jeffrey Yost
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Media of Cooperation
NFDI4Culture
In Search of a Better World
J. A. Jones