RE: https://scholar.social/@Aepasek/116432864586994103

This's pretty good – Anne Pasek

'Some of my colleagues have begun to speak in quasi-geological terms of a historical boundary condition created by the introduction of generative text and image outputs to the web. There is a before and an after to a world with trash AI, and this peculiarly post-anthropocenic informational layer is contaminated with generative slop. This informational pollution is a problem for large language models themselves, with pre-AI web data privileged in some circles as a way to avoid recursive collapses'

#genAI #technology #research #academia #slop #mediaStudies

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

https://apply.interfolio.com/182234

#jobs #academia #mediastudies #communication

☝️ 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/

#communication #mediastudies #FID

📢 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

@sebgiessmann

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

#communication #mediastudies #retrocomputing