Double J

@jjsylvia
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Associate Professor of Sending Emails. I teach about posthumanism, critical data studies, creative coding, and communication law and ethics. Remaining COVID vigilant. Views are my own.
Websitehttps://www.jjsylvia.com
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OER Book: Introduction to Communication and Media Studieshttps://rotel.pressbooks.pub/comm-media-studies/
OER Book: The Data Renaissance: Analyzing the Disciplinary Effects of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Beyondhttps://rotel.pressbooks.pub/datarenaissance/
New post: Exploring AI in Media: A Thematic Class Approach https://jjsylvia.com/exploring-ai-in-media-a-thematic-class-approach/
J.J. Sylvia IV: Exploring AI in Media: A Thematic Class Approach

Last year, in my Media Criticism class, I tried adding a theme (AI) to our viewing selections for the first time. Overall, I’m relatively happy with how this process went, and we created an e…

J.J. Sylvia IV
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. Students engaged in a full academic publishing cycle including formal proposals, anonymous peer review, and revision. #StudentScholarship #OER https://openbooks.fitchburgstate.edu/critiquingaimedia/
Critiquing AI in Media

Students explore how AI is presented in film, TV, and video games.

Critiquing AI in Media
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. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indie-board-game-showcase-in-boston-tickets-1978640384654
Indie Board Game Showcase in Boston!

Come play different games built by local Boston-area designers and meet the brilliant minds who created them.

Eventbrite
New post: Middle School Film Course https://jjsylvia.com/middle-school-film-course/
J.J. Sylvia IV: Middle School Film Course

Each semester my kids select a special topic area they want to explore in detail. This semester, they decided they wanted to learn more about film, with a particular emphasis on learning how to mak…

J.J. Sylvia IV

Cory Doctorow is featured in the Guardian with a lengthy essay on AI. It summarizes much of what he's been saying for a while now. Great that he's reaching a wider audience! #AI #enshittification @pluralistic

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

The Guardian

RE: https://sciences.social/@altsocialmedianet/115888227913946469

Please check out my post about teaching with Mastodon on the Alternative Social Media Researchers Blog! I cover how I approached it incorporating a class instance in my ethics class as a way to discuss moderation, as well as takeaways and lessons learned for others who might be interested in trying something similar.

I'm also happy to offer talks or teaching related to the book if you'd like to have me.
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
Over the past year, my lab has hosted a cohort of people from around the world who are trying to move their communities to online tools under their control. OUT TODAY: Learn about their thinking and doing in our collectively authored Open Social Network Cookbook. https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2025/11/03/open-social-network-cookbook