Lucy March, PhD
@lumarch.bsky.social
I study popular music and digital culture 💾🎶 PhD in Media and Communication from Temple University, postdoc at
@cdcspenn.bsky.social
@cdcspenn.bsky.social
CFP alert! 💻 My Center is currently accepting abstract submissions for our spring symposium, "Good Vibes Only? How Affects and Emotions Are Mediated for Justice in Digital Culture." Submit by 12/1! More info:
www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium
www.asc.upenn.edu
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
CFP alert! 💻 My Center is currently accepting abstract submissions for our spring symposium, "Good Vibes Only? How Affects and Emotions Are Mediated for Justice in Digital Culture." Submit by 12/1! More info:
www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
In a new essay for the Forum section of Celebrity Studies, I share some thoughts on how YouTube music critic and digital celebrity Anthony Fantano employs memes to build his dedicated fanbase, and how it relates to his murky digital history: dx.doi.org/10.1080/1939...
“Ya’ll know this is just my opinion, right?”: Anthony Fantano’s cultivation of authenticity and digital celebrity through memes
Published in Celebrity Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
dx.doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 5:32 PM
In a new essay for the Forum section of Celebrity Studies, I share some thoughts on how YouTube music critic and digital celebrity Anthony Fantano employs memes to build his dedicated fanbase, and how it relates to his murky digital history: dx.doi.org/10.1080/1939...
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When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
academic.oup.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
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Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates.
www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
🧵1/9
www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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New Report Calls for Faculty Control in AI Decisions
Today, the AAUP released a new report, Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions, sharing survey findings and calling for the establishment of policies in colleges and universities that pri...
www.aaup.org
July 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates.
www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
🧵1/9
www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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Calling all music critics! Please take the Critical Minded Pop Music Critic Survey! Your answers will be part of a report by Critical Minded, a grantmaking and learning initiative fiscally sponsored by Allied Media. Feel free to share/DM me any questions! LINK: csulb.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Critical Minded Pop Music Criticism Report
This survey covers the conditions and challenges faced by pop music critics.
csulb.qualtrics.com
July 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Calling all music critics! Please take the Critical Minded Pop Music Critic Survey! Your answers will be part of a report by Critical Minded, a grantmaking and learning initiative fiscally sponsored by Allied Media. Feel free to share/DM me any questions! LINK: csulb.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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And of course thanks to UPenn for getting me here to get this cheesesteak. Excited to present tomorrow with @lumarch.bsky.social @jessmaddox.bsky.social @adrishaw.bsky.social and more.
CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture
CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture
www.asc.upenn.edu
April 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
And of course thanks to UPenn for getting me here to get this cheesesteak. Excited to present tomorrow with @lumarch.bsky.social @jessmaddox.bsky.social @adrishaw.bsky.social and more.
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For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.
March 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.
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Another day where the presidents of every R1 university in the country should be our loudly & collectively in front of microphones calling out the authoritarianism, condemning the budget cuts that are an existential crisis for 🇺🇸 higher education & science, & doing anything other than more silence.
The federal government is attempting to dictate to a private university which departments it may have. If this flagrant first amendment violation doesn’t lead Columbia to grow a backbone and sue, I don’t know what will.
I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
March 14, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Another day where the presidents of every R1 university in the country should be our loudly & collectively in front of microphones calling out the authoritarianism, condemning the budget cuts that are an existential crisis for 🇺🇸 higher education & science, & doing anything other than more silence.
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They don’t want women getting PhDs, they want them pregnant
Heritage: "reducing federal higher education subsidies and loan cancellation that place the federal thumb on the scale in favor of spending years in postsecondary work of questionable value will help young Americans to start and expand their families." www.heritage.org/education/re...
Education Policy Reforms Are Key Strategies for Increasing the Married Birth Rate
The fertility rate in the United States has dropped to 1.6,
www.heritage.org
March 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
They don’t want women getting PhDs, they want them pregnant
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Here is the program of our 4/25 Symposium on Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/.... @annenbergcargc.bsky.social
CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture
CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture
www.asc.upenn.edu
March 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Here is the program of our 4/25 Symposium on Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/.... @annenbergcargc.bsky.social
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Next Wednesday, 2/19 at 12pm, higher ed workers from across Philly are rallying to tell Senator McCormick: Hands Off our Healthcare, Research, and Jobs!
Science and education are under attack. Join us at 2000 Market Street to fight back!
RSVP here: labor4highered.org#register
Science and education are under attack. Join us at 2000 Market Street to fight back!
RSVP here: labor4highered.org#register
February 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Next Wednesday, 2/19 at 12pm, higher ed workers from across Philly are rallying to tell Senator McCormick: Hands Off our Healthcare, Research, and Jobs!
Science and education are under attack. Join us at 2000 Market Street to fight back!
RSVP here: labor4highered.org#register
Science and education are under attack. Join us at 2000 Market Street to fight back!
RSVP here: labor4highered.org#register
Fascinating convo in the replies here
Music journalists, can we think about this?
Unfortunately the stuff that most people are consuming online to distract themselves from politics (or because they don’t care about politics at all or think politics are going swimmingly) is also a covert pipeline designed to make them more conservative. Lifestyle, entertainment, pop culture, etc
January 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Fascinating convo in the replies here
A wonderful opportunity for new PhDs in digital culture 😊
We are inviting postdoctoral fellowship applications. Please apply by Feb 14 www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
Center on Digital Culture and Society Call for Applications - Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2025-2026
www.asc.upenn.edu
January 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
A wonderful opportunity for new PhDs in digital culture 😊
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"Meta’s HR team is deleting internal employee criticism of new board member, UFC president and CEO Dana White, at the same time that CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced to the world that Meta will 'get back to our roots around free expression,' 404 Media has learned" www.404media.co/facebook-del...
Facebook Deletes Internal Employee Criticism of New Board Member Dana White
"Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE."
www.404media.co
January 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"Meta’s HR team is deleting internal employee criticism of new board member, UFC president and CEO Dana White, at the same time that CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced to the world that Meta will 'get back to our roots around free expression,' 404 Media has learned" www.404media.co/facebook-del...
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CDCS postdoc @lumarch.bsky.social recently spoke to @teenvogue.bsky.social about the social media reactions to the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting:
What the UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting Memes Tell Us
The internet has been completely obsessed with this case.
www.teenvogue.com
December 17, 2024 at 7:03 PM
CDCS postdoc @lumarch.bsky.social recently spoke to @teenvogue.bsky.social about the social media reactions to the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting:
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Hey! The Cultural Studies Association just released its call for papers for its meeting in LA in 2025. Pls amplify! @academic-chatter.bsky.social @ejcs-journal.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social @jcultecon.bsky.social @culturalstudies.bsky.social www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/conference.h...
Conference
Each spring, CSA holds an international annual conference. As with other professional organizations, the conference members an opportunity to meet and network with other professionals in the...
www.culturalstudiesassociation.org
December 9, 2024 at 2:54 AM
Hey! The Cultural Studies Association just released its call for papers for its meeting in LA in 2025. Pls amplify! @academic-chatter.bsky.social @ejcs-journal.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social @jcultecon.bsky.social @culturalstudies.bsky.social www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/conference.h...
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@cdcspenn.bsky.social postdoc @lumarch.bsky.social spoke to @washingtonpost.com about how grieving One Direction fans are processing Liam Payne’s death online: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Grieving One Direction fans return to where they last met — online
Liam Payne’s death brought on real grief for Gen Z fans. The only ones who understand how they process it -- sometimes with dark humor -- are fellow Directioners.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2024 at 9:21 PM
@cdcspenn.bsky.social postdoc @lumarch.bsky.social spoke to @washingtonpost.com about how grieving One Direction fans are processing Liam Payne’s death online: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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We're premiering on Bluesky with an announcement of our upcoming symposium on Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk? Jointly organized with @ascmediarisk.bsky.social www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk?
Join the Center for Media at Risk and the Center on Digital Culture and Society for a symposium examining the relationship between social media and the academy.
www.asc.upenn.edu
November 18, 2024 at 3:50 PM
We're premiering on Bluesky with an announcement of our upcoming symposium on Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk? Jointly organized with @ascmediarisk.bsky.social www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...