U.S. media history is pretty straightforward, honestly.
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PhD Students at the Universität Basel!
Fields of Study:
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Deadline: April 27, 2025
OUT NOW: My new monograph: Feeling Colour: Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture, 1950s–1960s. Explore how midcentury cinema's vibrant colours reshaped sensory engagement, emotions & cultural perceptions. Blending media studies, biology & emotion theory, this interdisciplinary study is perfect for film scholars & beyond! Discover here: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0380
#filmstudies #mediastudies #colourTheory #colourculture @OpenBookPublish
www.openbookpublishers.comFeeling Colour: Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture, 1950s–1960sThe shift back from quasi monochrome to coloured motion picture during the 1950s and 1960s famously provided moviegoers the dazzling opportunity to more fully engage their senses, all the while opening new modes of affective possibilities for filmmakers. Set against the intersection of media studies, emotion theory, biology, and digital humanities, Feeling Colour: Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture (1950s-1960s) delves into the role colour played in the oft-fraught relationship between cinema and its audiences. This transnational analysis of an extensive range of midcentury cinematography examines the multilayered effects which extend beyond the silver screen, offering a high-level theoretical elaboration and in-depth historical exploration of both experimental and mainstream movies.
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Today is the deadline for submitting chapter abstracts for the book proposal "Victimhood Identities in Mediatised Politics and Culture".
Follow the link for more information and submit a short 200 word abstract. 
https://affectemotionandmedia.wordpress.com/publications/
#Commodon #mediastudies
Affect, Emotion and Media · PublicationsCall for Chapter Abstractsfor a book proposal to Palgrave by the Temporary Working Group Affect, Emotion & Media Victimhood Identities in Mediatised Politics and Culture Edited by Manuel Menke …
Come to Lisbon and let's talk about affect, emotion and media 
Submit your abstract until 28. February to contribute with your research! https://www.icnova.fcsh.unl.pt/call-for-abstracts-2025-ecrea-workshop-of-the-temporary-working-group-affect-emotion-media/
ICNOVA · Call for Abstracts: 2025 ECREA Workshop of the Temporary Working Group Affect, Emotion & Media - ICNOVACall for Abstracts: 2025 ECREA Workshop of the Temporary Working Group Affect, Emotion & Media Lisbon, Portugal, 05.06.2025 – 06.06.2025 Beyond Information: Affective Strategies for Impactful Media and Quality of Life From climate change awareness to political engagement, media have always played an essential role in giving people the tools to make informed decisions to...
Of the many directions one's thoughts could take in listening to this, I'm thinking most of Andrew McStay's book, "Emotional AI." Quick thread… 1/8
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/podcasts/the-daily/ai-chatgpt-boyfriend-relationship.html
The New York Times · She Fell in Love With ChatGPT. Like, Actual Love. With Sex.
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Ana Knežević explores the intersection of internet memes and art history, analyzing how memes appropriate classical artworks and redefine their meaning in digital culture. Read her study in the INSAM Journal: https://doi.org/10.51191/issn.2637-1898.2022.5.8.150
doi.orgInside Out: The Meming of Art and the Art of Meming: Inside out: ogled iz umetnosti mimova i mimovanja umetnosti
| INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology
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Also by her:
“Writing and Reading Digital Art History” by Ana Knežević examines the evolution of art history in the digital age, highlighting changes in media while arguing that core methodologies remain unchanged. It explores authorship, collective writing, and distant reading in digital projects.
https://www.academia.edu/38335846/Writing_and_Reading_Digital_Art_History
In 1973, a brilliant critic named Stuart Hall created a diagram that changed the way we study media, and could help you survive this moment. Just dropped: the second letter in my series about how to analyze the media in a time of crisis. It's all about codes. https://buttondown.com/thehypothesis/archive/the-man-who-discovered-media-codes-and-how-to/ #media #stuarthall #mediastudies #discourse
I'm (hopefully) finishing my book manuscript this semester and have started a blog where I'll informally post ideas I'm working through. If you're having a particularly boring Saturday night, here's the first post (which gives a big nod to @ftripodi ).
https://unevenly-distributed.ghost.io/distribution-and-procedural-rhetoric/
Unevenly Distributed · Distribution and Procedural RhetoricIn his subversively titled 2006 book, Everything Bad is Good for You, Steven Johnson (2006, pp. 31–32) recalls demonstrating the game SimCity to his six-year-old nephew. For the uninitiated, SimCity is an open-ended simulation game, instantly familiar to people of a certain age, in which the user plays the
Wie blickt eigentlich eine #KI auf den #OpenMediaStudiesBlog? Unsere studentische Hilfskraft Lars Hadeler hat sich dieser Frage angenommen: https://mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6710 #MediaStudies #DigitaleMethoden #OpenAccess
For anyone bringing #AI into their teaching this term, Tom Haigh just shared the syllabus for a new course titled "A Short History of Artificial Intelligence" (based on his forthcoming book). The supplemental readings offer a nice slice through the literature, from subject area experts to popular perspectives.
www.tomandmaria.comA Short History of Artificial Intelligence (TU Vienna, Winter 2024) | Thomas Haigh. Historian of Computing.
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The paper also attempts to popularize(?) the term "slothwashing", coined in a Twitter discussion of #California oil lobbyist behavior!
Out now in Communication, Culture & Critique 
#MediaStudies #Petrocultures #EnvHum (?)
@commodon
That link 
is open access right now but I don't know if it's limited in how many clicks, etc. If it's not working & you want to see the paper, lmk!
One of the most incessant statements you hear from right-wingers is that they think the left pathologizes their ideas and motivations.
But as usual, this is just deflection.
Reactionaries absolutely love pathologizing progressives. But they're really terrible at it since they don't have sociological data, so usually it just devolves into fundamentalist gibberish, as in this profile of historian Niall Ferguson.
It's absolutely laughable: https://archive.ph/RoSNu
![Atheism is a religious faith, as opposed to the simpler I-know-nothing helplessness of agnosticism. In my view atheism requires much more magical thinking, a much more radical ordering, or disordering, of the facts of life and the universe, to sustain itself than does Christian belief. Often in an atheist life, there’s a crisis of unbelief, a sudden realisation of the terrifying void of nothingness, the existential nihilism, that atheism postulates. It goes without saying there are countless good people who are atheists. But human beings are believing and searching creatures; the sense of God lies deep in every human heart.
Back to [Niall] Ferguson: “The first phase was that as a historian I realised no society had been successfully organised on the basis of atheism. All attempts to do that have been catastrophic. That was an insight that came from studying 18th, 19th and 20th-century history. But then the next stage was realising that no individual can in fact be fully formed or ethically secure without religious faith. That insight has come more recently and has been born of our experience as a family.”](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/785/731/619/023/029/original/a95876350afad828.png "Atheism is a religious faith, as opposed to the simpler I-know-nothing helplessness of agnosticism. In my view atheism requires much more magical thinking, a much more radical ordering, or disordering, of the facts of life and the universe, to sustain itself than does Christian belief. Often in an atheist life, there’s a crisis of unbelief, a sudden realisation of the terrifying void of nothingness, the existential nihilism, that atheism postulates. It goes without saying there are countless good people who are atheists. But human beings are believing and searching creatures; the sense of God lies deep in every human heart.
Back to [Niall] Ferguson: “The first phase was that as a historian I realised no society had been successfully organised on the basis of atheism. All attempts to do that have been catastrophic. That was an insight that came from studying 18th, 19th and 20th-century history. But then the next stage was realising that no individual can in fact be fully formed or ethically secure without religious faith. That insight has come more recently and has been born of our experience as a family.”")
"What makes this a cultural event isn’t that somebody killed a CEO, but that millions of people refused to respond the way they were supposed to respond."
"What happens when the news is no longer a thing that flows from an authority figure’s televised lips the way clean water flows from a faucet, but instead a kind of game you participate in?"
https://howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com/p/luigi-and-the-memes
How To Do Things With Memes · Luigi and the memes
From:
The Day Book (newspaper)(1916)
Why was this for "young girls"?
What is meant by "desperate measures" for those over 30?
Challenge:
Re-write this for your culture.
Source:
The Day Book, June 21, 1916.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1916-06-21/ed-1/seq-13/
#sociology #culture #society #teaching #education #news #media #medialiteracy #philosophy #socialnorms #socialmedia #mediastudies @edutooters @sociology @communicationscholars
I've been working on a research project on the #freefediverse
movement for several years now and it's finally published! Thank you to everyone I interviewed and spoke with. This was such a wonderful learning experience through it, I came to love the fediverse, FOSS, and the communities that make them even more.
"Closing the door to remain open: The Politics of Openness and the Practices of Strategic Closure in the Fediverse" : https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051241308323
Does anyone know of any papers on the German #children's show #Sandmännchen and its totally casual approach to diversity and inclusion?
Exhibit A: the biracial lesbian mothers going camping with their two kids.
In other episodes you have kids with different disabilities, ethnicities or faiths hanging out with each other and doing everyday stuff. The take home message is always the same: be kind.
Also, every episode is available with German Sign Language.
TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY
Disruption of CBS EVENING NEWS - 12/11/1973
"Gay Raider" Mark Segal disrupted a live CBS newscast on this date in 1973 to protest CBS entertainment shows' degrading portrayals of and references to gay people.
Amanhã, na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, começam dois dias de reflexão e debate sobre a relação entre a Revolução dos Cravos e a afirmação de um conjunto de indústrias e práticas culturais na metrópole portuguesa a partir de 1961: "O Princípio do Fim: Cultura e Media em Portugal de 1961 a 1974".
