What better purchase to mark cyber Monday than a paper book about analog media? Duke is offering 50% off pre-orders of Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable until 12/8 at www.dukeupress.edu/unspooled (discount code CYBER23)
Rob Drew
- 131 Followers
- 188 Following
- 170 Posts
Communication/media professor, Saginaw Valley State U., Michigan. I study how music gets deployed and enacted in contexts of reception.
The squirrel in our backyard deserves some sort of minor Earthshot Prize for helping me clean out my peanut butter jars for recycling.
Derek KomparePace yourselves over the next year, fellow USers. Or better yet, for the rest of your lives. None of us are well-equipped for all of this (gestures in every direction).
Another Angry Woman
Devon PowersMy colleague and friend Rebekah Modrak has been working on an ongoing art project called Unproductive Solutions (https://unproductivesolutions.com/home/) and is launching their latest project - a no storage, human-powered search engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRd_FHLB9x8
Julia AngwinWe have long been told that YouTube’s recommendation algorithm pushes extreme content.
New NYU research shows that most users do not get pushed extreme content, but a small percentage (3%) do – and overall the recommendations skew toward conservative content.
In this week's newsletter I interview one of the researchers about the findings, why they don't necessarily mean past research was wrong, and how more work is needed.
https://themarkup.org/newsletter/hello-world/investigating-youtubes-ideological-rabbit-hole
Julie HollarIn the upside-down world of #nytimes liberal Pamela Paul, Ron DeSantis is a "maverick" liberals could learn a lot from, but trans critics of JK Rowling are "authoritarian" and "bullies." To Paul, it's folks like herself and Rowling who are the "vulnerable" ones, not the trans people who are facing demonization, actual violence and legislation targeting their rights and very existence.
BEING CRITICIZED ON TWITTER IS NOT EQUIVALENT TO HAVING YOUR RIGHTS TAKEN AWAY BY THE STATE.
Stan OklobdzijaIf the public university you work at is governed by one of the states in red, what's happening in Florida is exactly what you have to look forward to.
Parker MolloyJust a reminder that using "the children" and their need for "protection" has been the basis of every horrific moral panic targeting a marginalized group.
ACJOut on Wednesday. Thirteen years worth of ethnographic research. I may not quite be myself this week 🙃
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501767180/free-culture-and-the-city/#bookTabs=1
Free Culture and the City by Alberto Corsín Jiménez and Adolfo Estalella | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Free Culture and the City examines how and why free software spread beyond the world of hackers and software engineers and became the basis for an urban movement now heralded by scholars as a model...