Yesterday, the NEH posted new FAQs about how compliance with executive orders may impact funding for research and teaching. See diff by clicking "Text Changes" at the top of the page: https://visualping.io/diff/764625674?disableId=zy1p7IiHb0Ofklp

️ 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

Tonight at 6pm in Washington, #DC, free and open to the public:

See me and @jesse discussing our new book THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA with @time reporter Andrew Chow at American University School of Communication.

Register here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-secret-life-of-data-by-aram-sinnreich-jesse-gilbert-tickets-1144789198309 #books #event #data #bookstodon #commodon

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/

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

cc @communicationscholars #genAI #commodon #mediaStudies

New publication!

Information, Communication & Society just published our study “Mainstreaming and transnationalization of anti-gender ideas through social media: the case of CitizenGO” w/ @nicolarighetti, @Bruna, Zsófia Cseri, Sofia Iriarte, & Kateryna Maikovska

50 open-access copies are available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/V9SRJQFI5SV5ZNVKZJHZ/full?target=10.1080/1369118X.2025.2470229

This study is particularly relevant in light of the current wave of traditionalist radicalism.
#commodon #computationalsocialscience

Publication alert! Actually it's a review, of Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution by Eleanor Patterson, in Technology and Culture

Good book for folks in media studies, fan studies, distribution studies, also Star Trek & wrestling fans?

@commodon

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/951070

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/

@academicchatter @communicationscholars

I just finished organizing the Communication Law & Policy division of the #ICA2025 conference in Denver this year.

Now suddenly I'm getting emails from international scholars with "concerns about traveling to the U.S. for the conference in light of the political climate after the elections."

We're cutting ourselves off from our allies, our peers, our friends, our families. Which is undoubtedly the point.

Immensely chuffed to announce that my department at American University School of Communication will be welcoming the brilliant @rohangrover to our faculty this Fall as our newest Assistant Professor! #commodon #academia #mediastudies #internetstudies #surveillancestudies #dataprivacy

Fellow #MediaStudies #CommunicationStudies #Journalism #SoundStudies #PoliComm #PoliSci #Commodon #podcast scholars:

Check out this brand new #CFP for journal articles from Arthur Soto-Vásquez, Kim Fox, and myself:

https://beaweb.org/wp/the-turn-to-podcasts-as-a-mass-campaign-medium-special-issue-of-the-journal-of-radio-and-audio-media/

Please share widely!

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.

https://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/TUW

As Los Angeles burns, the fossil fuel industry is both on the defensive & turning to some particularly ugly rhetorical behavior to escape scrutiny.

I write about their appropriation of environmental justice advocates' language of civil rights in a brand-new pub:
https://academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ccc/tcae055/7950795?guestAccessKey=98151a17-ab55-4145-91fe-a4671a94229d

The year is 1927. The Federal Radio Commission (forerunner to the FCC) has just been formed and America's airwaves are still a morass of largely unregulated broadcasters. The Commission must decide which ones are providing quality content.

Commissioner Henry Adams Bellows, already exasperated, gives an early account of the thankless nature of content moderation:

(Quoted in Erik Barnouw's "A Tower in Babel.")

@communicationscholars #commodon

It's not too late to buy "The Secret Life of Data" for that special layperson in your life.

You know—the one whom you've tried to explain a bunch of times why they should care about #data #privacy, shun Musk, join Mastodon, unplug Alexa, avoid NFTs, listen to #AI critics & maybe stop tagging you on Facebook all the time.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048811/the-secret-life-of-data/ #books #gifts #commodon

NEW from me: Can academic freedom survive Donald Trump’s plans for thought control?
The president’s aim to remove power from universities and punish so-called “woke” ideology has chilling implications for free speech globally
https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2024/12/academic-freedom-survive-donald-trump-plans-thought-control-universities-colleges-education/ #academicchatter #commodon #education #highered #trump #freespeech #AI