jess rauchberg
@jessrauchberg.bsky.social
Social media expert writing about labor/culture/inequalities in the creator economy. Repped by Aevitas Creative Management. Hot takes are my own!
www.jessrauchberg.com
www.jessrauchberg.com
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Calling all humilitainment scholars:
I'm putting together a panel for the Canadian Communication Association's 2026 conference on humilitainment, pleasure, & media industries with @krystenstein.bsky.social and @jessmaddox.bsky.social.
We need 1 more panelist. Is this you? DM me by 11/24!
I'm putting together a panel for the Canadian Communication Association's 2026 conference on humilitainment, pleasure, & media industries with @krystenstein.bsky.social and @jessmaddox.bsky.social.
We need 1 more panelist. Is this you? DM me by 11/24!
half-baked thought but creators returning to long-form content speaks to the ways class and political power intrinsically shape creator labour.
platforms know they profit when white, western, wealthier creators' work sits at the center.
platforms know they profit when white, western, wealthier creators' work sits at the center.
November 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
half-baked thought but creators returning to long-form content speaks to the ways class and political power intrinsically shape creator labour.
platforms know they profit when white, western, wealthier creators' work sits at the center.
platforms know they profit when white, western, wealthier creators' work sits at the center.
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I want to live in a world where an app is never a solution
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I want to live in a world where an app is never a solution
a concept: being the bert mccracken of media studies
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
a concept: being the bert mccracken of media studies
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It's people who aren't disabled who are excited by these policies & the chance to get rid of disabled people, most disabled people would take a way to live over a way to die.
Assisted Dying as Canada & parts of Europe practice it is eugenics, they push disabled people into a corner by never offering the support folks need to have dignity into their lives & say but death's right here!
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It's people who aren't disabled who are excited by these policies & the chance to get rid of disabled people, most disabled people would take a way to live over a way to die.
*evil mode activating*
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
*evil mode activating*
scholarly/professional organizations offer a double-disciplining:
1. they professionalize members into a discipline (e.g., ways of knowing/understanding/producing intellectual output)
2. they discipline members into how to behave (e.g., this is the right way to be x academic)
1. they professionalize members into a discipline (e.g., ways of knowing/understanding/producing intellectual output)
2. they discipline members into how to behave (e.g., this is the right way to be x academic)
November 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
scholarly/professional organizations offer a double-disciplining:
1. they professionalize members into a discipline (e.g., ways of knowing/understanding/producing intellectual output)
2. they discipline members into how to behave (e.g., this is the right way to be x academic)
1. they professionalize members into a discipline (e.g., ways of knowing/understanding/producing intellectual output)
2. they discipline members into how to behave (e.g., this is the right way to be x academic)
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
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“Other examples…included Lily Allen's breakup album West End Girl, which leaned into a parasocial interest in her love life, and the emergence of parasocial relationships with AI bots, which saw people treat them as a confidant, friend or romantic partner.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Parasocial is named as Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year
Examples include the parasocial interest shown by fans to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement.
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
“Other examples…included Lily Allen's breakup album West End Girl, which leaned into a parasocial interest in her love life, and the emergence of parasocial relationships with AI bots, which saw people treat them as a confidant, friend or romantic partner.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
and I want to be known for my hits, not just my misses
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
and I want to be known for my hits, not just my misses
leaving the [professional org] industrial complex
November 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
leaving the [professional org] industrial complex
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This is happening today at 1pm, presented by LUC's Beta Rho chapter of Lambda Pi Eta Honor Society! Use the QR Code to register for our Zoom!
what's the relationship between algorithmic ableism and platform polarization?
In a virtual talk I'm giving later this month at Loyola U Chicago, I trace the sticky relationship between ableism and political polarization in the platform age.
thanks to @drgyopophd.bsky.social for the invite!
In a virtual talk I'm giving later this month at Loyola U Chicago, I trace the sticky relationship between ableism and political polarization in the platform age.
thanks to @drgyopophd.bsky.social for the invite!
November 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is happening today at 1pm, presented by LUC's Beta Rho chapter of Lambda Pi Eta Honor Society! Use the QR Code to register for our Zoom!
absolutely gutted right now. alice wong, may your memory forever be a blessing:
"We are the past. We are the present. We are the future. We are forever."
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/08/14/m...
"We are the past. We are the present. We are the future. We are forever."
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/08/14/m...
Message from the Future: Disabled Oracle Society
On August 6, 2020 I gave a talk, “The Last Disabled Oracle,” as part of Assembly for the Future, a project of The Things We Did Next collaboration based in Melbourne, Australia. …
disabilityvisibilityproject.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
absolutely gutted right now. alice wong, may your memory forever be a blessing:
"We are the past. We are the present. We are the future. We are forever."
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/08/14/m...
"We are the past. We are the present. We are the future. We are forever."
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/08/14/m...
Calling all humilitainment scholars:
I'm putting together a panel for the Canadian Communication Association's 2026 conference on humilitainment, pleasure, & media industries with @krystenstein.bsky.social and @jessmaddox.bsky.social.
We need 1 more panelist. Is this you? DM me by 11/24!
I'm putting together a panel for the Canadian Communication Association's 2026 conference on humilitainment, pleasure, & media industries with @krystenstein.bsky.social and @jessmaddox.bsky.social.
We need 1 more panelist. Is this you? DM me by 11/24!
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Calling all humilitainment scholars:
I'm putting together a panel for the Canadian Communication Association's 2026 conference on humilitainment, pleasure, & media industries with @krystenstein.bsky.social and @jessmaddox.bsky.social.
We need 1 more panelist. Is this you? DM me by 11/24!
I'm putting together a panel for the Canadian Communication Association's 2026 conference on humilitainment, pleasure, & media industries with @krystenstein.bsky.social and @jessmaddox.bsky.social.
We need 1 more panelist. Is this you? DM me by 11/24!
swapping "social" media for girlbossing these days
November 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
swapping "social" media for girlbossing these days
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lower yourself into a cranberry bog it’s time
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
lower yourself into a cranberry bog it’s time
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Apropos of .... nothing at all.....
The postdoctoral laborers bill of rights is a project I collaborated on way back in 2019. It aims to clarify some of the purposes of postdoctoral positions and offers guidelines for designing successful positions.
works.hcommons.org/records/9twr...
The postdoctoral laborers bill of rights is a project I collaborated on way back in 2019. It aims to clarify some of the purposes of postdoctoral positions and offers guidelines for designing successful positions.
works.hcommons.org/records/9twr...
Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights
The Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights offers guidelines for those developing or applying for postdoctoral positions in the humanities. This document is designed for those who are creating postdocto...
works.hcommons.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Apropos of .... nothing at all.....
The postdoctoral laborers bill of rights is a project I collaborated on way back in 2019. It aims to clarify some of the purposes of postdoctoral positions and offers guidelines for designing successful positions.
works.hcommons.org/records/9twr...
The postdoctoral laborers bill of rights is a project I collaborated on way back in 2019. It aims to clarify some of the purposes of postdoctoral positions and offers guidelines for designing successful positions.
works.hcommons.org/records/9twr...
i think--i think i'm gonna have to write about the pope's tech discourse
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
i think--i think i'm gonna have to write about the pope's tech discourse
what's the relationship between algorithmic ableism and platform polarization?
In a virtual talk I'm giving later this month at Loyola U Chicago, I trace the sticky relationship between ableism and political polarization in the platform age.
thanks to @drgyopophd.bsky.social for the invite!
In a virtual talk I'm giving later this month at Loyola U Chicago, I trace the sticky relationship between ableism and political polarization in the platform age.
thanks to @drgyopophd.bsky.social for the invite!
November 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
what's the relationship between algorithmic ableism and platform polarization?
In a virtual talk I'm giving later this month at Loyola U Chicago, I trace the sticky relationship between ableism and political polarization in the platform age.
thanks to @drgyopophd.bsky.social for the invite!
In a virtual talk I'm giving later this month at Loyola U Chicago, I trace the sticky relationship between ableism and political polarization in the platform age.
thanks to @drgyopophd.bsky.social for the invite!
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
everyone i know is making fun of me for wanting to go to cleveland. they just don't understand the rust belt's magic!
November 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
everyone i know is making fun of me for wanting to go to cleveland. they just don't understand the rust belt's magic!
feeling personally victimized by the libby outage
November 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
feeling personally victimized by the libby outage
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had a two hour long gossip session and I'm healed now
November 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
had a two hour long gossip session and I'm healed now
my chemcial rhizome
November 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
my chemcial rhizome
went on instagram for the first time in months and god how are y'all handling those platform logics
November 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
went on instagram for the first time in months and god how are y'all handling those platform logics
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reply guy: what do you mean
me: *deletes post*
me: *deletes post*
November 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
reply guy: what do you mean
me: *deletes post*
me: *deletes post*