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Jeremy Littau

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I'm not like a regular media sociologist. I'm a cool media sociologist. • Associate Prof Journalism & Comm @LehighU • Near-term futurism scholarship on digital media, internet culture, and society • Exvie wanderer • M-I-Z • http://jeremylittau.substack.com

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · Jul 4

Reminder I have this starter pack created months ago for MassComm/Jour academics. I added anyone who fit the category and asked to be added until it was full.

I trimmed it to drop some people who haven't posted in months, so if you're in JMC academia and are posting regularly, DM me to be added.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1h

Mizzou football games don't officially start until they've ripped my heart out.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 4h

Somewhat related, I got the new iPhone and this is my first without the notch … really like the score bug feature on the dynamic island display!

Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 4h

Today we find out how good Mizzou really is.

kermit the frog is covering his mouth with his hand and looking at the camera .

ALT: kermit the frog is covering his mouth with his hand and looking at the camera .

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 6h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 5h

Hans Moleman from the Simpsons on the phone and saying "I need the biggest metaphor you have." Then "No, that's too big"

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Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 5h

In a world full of UT-Austins, be an MIT or a Dartmouth...

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 6h

Three million years of cognitive evolution learning new ways to save our own asses, wasted by a guy with a golden toilet.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 7h

I like to think of Ratto as blogging before the form was invented. It’s utterly perfect he landed at Defector.

Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 7h

A highlight of my first year in journalism was getting to cover a 49ers game he and all the other major Bay Area media were at. I grew up reading those folks and was in awe. He was holding court before the presser and was … exactly how you’d expect based on his writing. 😂 But a generous person.

Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 7h

Last long run of the training program. Race is a week from tomorrow and I think I’m going to try for 2:15:00 as a goal, 2:10:00 as a stretch goal.

And I broke in new shoes in advance because … say it with me … nothing new on race day.

8 days until my first half. #hmtraining #runsky

Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 10h

MARINERS ❤️ 🔱

Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 20h

So we have a quarterback and a nickelback ... seems like we could cut costs and juice profits by just having two nickelbacks?

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 20h

Pope Leo DESTROYS clickbaiters with this one weird trick.

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 20h

Yeah I mean it works if it's something we can describe in clinical terms I guess? Though still bad for a world of mobile headline surveillance. But there doesn't seem to be any line where it's time to break the glass on typical news routines and maybe shake up how we present information.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 20h

Some people have hobbies. I get jealous of the other people's prose.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 20h

For those of us who write for a living, sometimes reading a killer sentence by someone else just triggers your impostor syndrome. Such is the case with "They lost to the Giants and scored fewer points as a team than an inflatable children's playhouse named 'Cam Skattebo' ..."

Ratto gonna Ratto

Eagles Fans Can Go Ahead And Freak Out Now | Defector

In the immortal words of Comrade Xu, “There’s no need to overcomplicate things.” In discussing how the Philadelphia Phillies failed to beat the Los Angeles Thanos, that simple sentence explained in ne...

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 21h

In other words, the lie and all the ills the lie is fashioned to justify has to be the frame of this story. If you're going to try to stay in referee mode, this is at least a useful use of framing to create an informed public rather than one that frustrated by competing claims about faraway cities.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 21h

But the underlying claim serving as justification is *not* true. The media knows this. So we have military occupation and oppression without a truthful justification, and the public should at the very least be told this clearly over and over if journalists aren’t going to call it fascism.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 21h

This isn’t just garden variety politicians bending the truth. He is claiming a city is on fire and describing it as war-torn. That is a vivid image in the public imagination that is harrowing if true, but also one being used to justify a whole host of oppressive military actions.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 21h

The news is not an argument about reality if one party’s claims are provably false. It’s an asymmetric discussion that requires different tools than a policy disagreement. It requires calling a lie a lie, to describe the liar as untethered from provable reality, and to ask what this means.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 22h

A neutral press can only offer a conflicting account to a public habituated to treat competing information with equal weight. But if the goal of journalism is to give non-Portland citizens what they need to decide, is a neutral press what we need? Or ought a pro-citizen press do more?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

Stepped outside to first frost this morning (33 degrees!) and this is going to be my first crock pot chili weekend of the fall. October-November stretch remains undefeated.

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Thanks!

Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

I wonder how fast you'd be if you did an all-out 5K the day before your half in January. You probably are at your peak speed-wise! Not that knocking yourself out before 13.1 is smart, mind you.