86 Followers
138 Following
36 Posts
always-on-the-move-academic; 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇱🇺 transcultural/global 📺 media Industries; xHE: #survivor2019 🇩🇪#WIASN #Jayhawk #firstgen she/her/they/them🌈

I may try to do a bit more posting about #SCMS23 today - at the last in-person conference I was at, I was a bit better at live-tweeting but I think the pandemic years of zoom conferences have fried my brain a bit.

I'll use the #SCMS23 hashtag so if you want to avoid me spamming your timeline, you can add a filter to the phrase (but I think that everyone's talking about cool stuff and might want to follow along!)

Yandong Li's paper "Peasants, Workers, and Proeuctivity: a Cultural History of Greenhouses" views greenhouses as "energy objects" which prioritize the un-ending improvements of efficiency, production, and extracting more and more from nature.

#SCMS23

More #SCMS23 updates: session G23 on Digital Political Economies

Starting out with Sarah Edwards surveying apps like “Fuck you pay me” designed for influencers to manage payments and make their labor more visible.

She’s also trying to set the record for most times “fuck” is said in a presentation

#SCMS23

And now another powerhouse UW-Madison presentation: Lesley Stevenson analyzing iCarly (2007) and iCarly (2021) and their depictions of precarious creative labor

And the final paper on this panel, Patrick Vonderau’s “Grey Zone Research: An Ethnography of Big Tech Lobbying”

As what should come as no surprise, mega tech companies actively try to influence political processes. Tech lobbying to the EU is more money than the pharmaceutical or oil industries

#SCMS23

This morning with the sweetest four year old boy:

*dances like mad to 9 To 5*

“Mama can there be more 9 to 5s?”

“I’m…not sure what you mean, boo. There’s kind of infinite 9 to 5s.”

“Like more of dis. Songs. Dat lady songs.”

“Dolly Parton? Yeah, baby. There’s a few more.”

Five minutes later: “MAMA WHAT’S A JOLENE?”

Fictionalizing the past is key in all types of political projects. Thus, for example, when the present is compared to an idealized past, the idea of national decay is dramatized. This constitutes justification of actions considered necessary to recover that past and illusory reality. So, events from a remote past can be freely taken as justification for present-day political decisions.
@academicchatter @histodons @sociology
See this interesting article by Micah Zenko ⤵️
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/10/nostalgia-is-a-national-security-threat/
Nostalgia Is a National Security Threat

By idealizing the past, Americans have made themselves unsafe in the present.

Foreign Policy
Musketeers had a blast on the road and are now enjoying #scms23

Wordle 632 2/6

🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

@brfaucette my bestie arrived!!!! Woohoo!!!! 🎉 can’t wait for us three to hang again - SOON!!!