Cory Barker 🆗
@corybarker.bsky.social
Media studies researcher, Penn State professor, past and future television blogger.
Book 📖: SOCIAL TV: MULTI-SCREEN CONTENT AND EPHEMERAL CULTURE
Newsletter 📰: TV PLUS
Book 📖: SOCIAL TV: MULTI-SCREEN CONTENT AND EPHEMERAL CULTURE
Newsletter 📰: TV PLUS
introducing the RTV students to an icon today
February 9, 2026 at 5:26 PM
introducing the RTV students to an icon today
Dying that the four coaches are three Antetokounmpo brothers...and Mookie Betts.
February 3, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Dying that the four coaches are three Antetokounmpo brothers...and Mookie Betts.
Happy to see this article on virtual watch parties for films that were *in theaters* when COVID hit finally see the light of day in New Review of Film and TV Studies.
February 3, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Happy to see this article on virtual watch parties for films that were *in theaters* when COVID hit finally see the light of day in New Review of Film and TV Studies.
I use the National Film Registry a lot in my lower-division film courses. Fun to see them embrace video a bit more. Today's (shutdown-delayed) announcement of the 2025 honorees is great: www.loc.gov/item/video-1...
2025 National Film Registry Announcement
The Library of Congress has selected 25 films worthy of preservation in the National Film Registry for 2025, based on their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance. The selections date back to the ...
www.loc.gov
January 29, 2026 at 4:28 PM
I use the National Film Registry a lot in my lower-division film courses. Fun to see them embrace video a bit more. Today's (shutdown-delayed) announcement of the 2025 honorees is great: www.loc.gov/item/video-1...
Every company wants to be the same fucking thing
January 22, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Every company wants to be the same fucking thing
Having to take out a second mortgage thanks to @homefield.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Having to take out a second mortgage thanks to @homefield.bsky.social
Consistently surprised to see people who claim (and definitely do) support journalism and criticism get so mad about $5-10 paywalls.
January 20, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Consistently surprised to see people who claim (and definitely do) support journalism and criticism get so mad about $5-10 paywalls.
Reading articles on the World Wide Web is better than ever
January 14, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Reading articles on the World Wide Web is better than ever
Some good news: NEWS OVER NOISE is back for a fourth season! The first episode is a roundtable discussion with great media literacy educators about (ugh) generative AI: newsliteracy.psu.edu/podcasts/bes...
Best Frenemies: AI’s Ambivalent Impact on News and Democracy - News Literacy Initiative
Artificial intelligence is reshaping how we create, consume, and trust information. In this special crossover episode of News Over Noise, Cory Barker and guest
newsliteracy.psu.edu
January 13, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Some good news: NEWS OVER NOISE is back for a fourth season! The first episode is a roundtable discussion with great media literacy educators about (ugh) generative AI: newsliteracy.psu.edu/podcasts/bes...
Yinzer, Hoosier, King
Cignetti: "I'm really not thinking about the next game, I'm thinking about cracking open a beer."
January 10, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Yinzer, Hoosier, King
ABC, desperate to beat CBS to the punch, is framing this news as great news for “free and fair elections” in Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 1:40 PM
ABC, desperate to beat CBS to the punch, is framing this news as great news for “free and fair elections” in Venezuela.
Big Meritocracy at it again
More than 90% of streaming shows created by white people, study shows
Annual UCLA study finds declines in cultural diversity behind and in front of the camera since last year
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Big Meritocracy at it again
One of my favorite things to do in class is ask my students to rank our screened materials at the end of the semester. The results are not often surprising, but they're still interesting/instructive.
The results from my 200-level Film History & Theory course this semester.
The results from my 200-level Film History & Theory course this semester.
December 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
One of my favorite things to do in class is ask my students to rank our screened materials at the end of the semester. The results are not often surprising, but they're still interesting/instructive.
The results from my 200-level Film History & Theory course this semester.
The results from my 200-level Film History & Theory course this semester.
First @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat in a while, but it's a good one. Chopped it up with @michaelddwyer.bsky.social about his really great book, TINSEL AND RUST: HOW HOLLYWOOD MANUFACTURED THE RUST BELT newbooksnetwork.com/tinsel-and-r...
Michael D. Dwyer, "Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt" (Oxford UP, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
First @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat in a while, but it's a good one. Chopped it up with @michaelddwyer.bsky.social about his really great book, TINSEL AND RUST: HOW HOLLYWOOD MANUFACTURED THE RUST BELT newbooksnetwork.com/tinsel-and-r...
Adam Schefter is truly one of the worst to ever do it.
December 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Adam Schefter is truly one of the worst to ever do it.
I hate to be that person, but it *does* annoy me that #StrangerThings is using the 765 area code when it was, in fact, not created until the late 90s in Indiana.
“Stranger Things” is the latest show to offer Easter eggs for viewers who try to call a fictional character. If you call the number, it really does sound like you have reached through time, space and the barrier between fiction and fact.
When the Phone Number in That TV Show Actually Connects Somewhere
Passing on the classic 555 number, “Stranger Things” is the latest show to offer Easter eggs for viewers who try to call a fictional character.
nyti.ms
December 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I hate to be that person, but it *does* annoy me that #StrangerThings is using the 765 area code when it was, in fact, not created until the late 90s in Indiana.
The CFB committee explaining why Alabama is in the playoff
December 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The CFB committee explaining why Alabama is in the playoff
It’s weird, though I guess unsurprisingly, how quickly we’re operating as if the Netflix/WB deal will be approved and without any changes to the deal. A press release isn’t a done deal!
December 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
It’s weird, though I guess unsurprisingly, how quickly we’re operating as if the Netflix/WB deal will be approved and without any changes to the deal. A press release isn’t a done deal!
I think they should do a World Cup draw every month. Don't even play the matches. Just put worse and worse celebs up there to rip balls
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I think they should do a World Cup draw every month. Don't even play the matches. Just put worse and worse celebs up there to rip balls
That ugly 0-0 result against Turkiye is going to HIT
BREAKING: The USMNT World Cup group is set
🇺🇸 United States
🇦🇺 Australia
🇵🇾 Paraguay
🇪🇺 Winner of Turkiye/Romania/Slovakia/Kosovo
Very favorable draw given potential options.
🇺🇸 United States
🇦🇺 Australia
🇵🇾 Paraguay
🇪🇺 Winner of Turkiye/Romania/Slovakia/Kosovo
Very favorable draw given potential options.
December 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
That ugly 0-0 result against Turkiye is going to HIT
FINE. I'll be the head football coach @pennstateuniv.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
FINE. I'll be the head football coach @pennstateuniv.bsky.social
Talking about stardom in rom-coms this week, and I've decided that this image should be illegal, or put in every city center
October 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Talking about stardom in rom-coms this week, and I've decided that this image should be illegal, or put in every city center
Nearly $500 million on administrator salaries, with another round of serious academic cuts coming soon.
University of Nebraska now spends more on administrators and managers than on faculty
At first glance, they look like raises. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a music professor’s salary jumped $13,000 in the past decade.
apnews.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Nearly $500 million on administrator salaries, with another round of serious academic cuts coming soon.