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Susan Murray @murraysd.bsky.social · 2d

NYU-MCC is hiring! Asst. Prof in the area of “Media and Global Cities.” Please help us get the word out.
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elena razlogova @erazlogo.bsky.social · 8d

Journal of Sonic Studies CFP on sound and radical organizing. www.researchcatalogue.net/view/558606/...

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 19d

Feels like this week signaled the permanent reorientation of legacy media industries. There's no sustainable business model to "fire successful talent to obtain ephemeral political points with no tangible dividend."

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Andy K Stuhl @akstuhl.bsky.social · Aug 25

Tomorrow I start as an Asst Prof in Communication, Media and Arts at Seton Hall. Last spring, news that this opportunity would pan out coincided very closely with the passing of my advisor, Jonathan Sterne. Some overdue reflections on that, mostly on Jonathan, here: akstuhl.net/blog/2025-08...

Jonathan Sterne; romantic pragmatism; job news

When my beloved PhD advisor, Jonathan Sterne, entered hospice care this past March, waves of appreciation and then mourning rippled out from the many communi...

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Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social · Aug 22

I'm excited to share that I'm on episode 1005 of the long-running and amazing podcast Kreative Kontrol, speaking with @vishkhanna.bsky.social about my recent book MUSIC IN ORBIT.

We chatted at a skatepark and discussed streaming music, Bob Dylan, playing in punk bands in York Region + more.

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Andy K Stuhl @akstuhl.bsky.social · Jul 31

@cmorari.bsky.social Congratulations, Codruța!

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · Jul 16

Media academics! I'm putting together a 6-7 week media studies unit for our intro class (called Intro to Film and Media but historically taught as Intro to Film) and would appreciate any sample syllabi you're willing to share, or suggestions of readings/topics that *absolutely must* be covered.

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Tim Cowlishaw @timcowlishaw.co.uk · Jul 16

A lot of this feels like "manager brain" to me - LLMs are an idea of intelligence for and by people who have been adulated all their lives as visionary or creative for _telling other people to do things for them_, and now can't tell the difference between giving an order and actually doing the thing

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · Jul 16

My god these guys are such spectacular morons

gizmodo.com/billionaires...

Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber who no longer works at the company, appeared on All-In to talk with hosts Jason Calacanis and Chamath Palihapitiya about the future of technology. When the topic turned to AI, Kalanick discussed how he uses xAI’s Grok, which went haywire last week, praising Adolf Hitler and advocating for a second Holocaust against Jews.

“I’ll go down this thread with [Chat]GPT or Grok and I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics and then I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it’s vibe physics,” Kalanick explained. “And we’re approaching what’s known. And I’m trying to poke and see if there’s breakthroughs to be had. And I’ve gotten pretty damn close to some interesting breakthroughs just doing that.”

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Andy K Stuhl @akstuhl.bsky.social · Jul 14

Many thanks to @burrata.bsky.social and Sounding Out for this nail-on-the-head Jonathan remembrance. Even the most serious work he did had playfulness at its core, animating those spry jumps across methodologies – and of course his very lively teaching, too soundstudiesblog.com/2025/07/14/i...

“Keep it Weird”: Listening with Jonathan Sterne (1970-2025)

Dr. Jonathan Sterne passed away earlier this year. He was, in many ways, a model scholar and colleague. The intellectual ferment of the field now called “sound studies” is often traced to the sonic…

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Katherine (Kate) Rye Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · Jul 10

I am not done counting yet, but I'm trying to get a sense of the big picture of when colleges started investing in FM broadcasting:

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Media Theory @meejatheory.bsky.social · Jul 6

Out Now - Media Theory 9.1

Full issue: journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · Jun 19

A great editorial opportunity! Also, Field Notes give you some wiggle room to experiment. Pop music scholars, apply!

IASPM-US @iaspm-us.bsky.social · Jun 19

JPMS needs some editors!!!!

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Haunted Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · Jun 18

media scholars only start fixating on the interface between themselves and their computers when they’re in distress

a pen plotter drawing out the recorded path of my cursor from a morning of work and doomscrolling

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Andy K Stuhl @akstuhl.bsky.social · Jun 18

I'm definitely hopeful about the retro web / handwritten html stuff taking on a broader charm as more people get disgusted with LLM-voice on the web (which is of course was just an acceleration of the already dominant SEO-voice)

(also thanks for the blog share!)

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · Jun 18

The question is whether @akstuhl.bsky.social s thesis still applies and the next step is again more freedom and experimentation

akstuhl.net/blog/2022-11...

„• A medium is emergent; its socio-technical protocols are open to and in need of definition
• Protocols stabilize to a point that they become "transparent;" they succeed as a medium
• Protocols and routines become so stable that many of them can be automated
• A feedback loop of automation and capitalist predation can begin to strip out the internal work that differentiates meaningful channels within the medium, increasing its homogeneity
• Users/audiences and capitalists increasingly abandon the medium
• The medium's protocols and resources are left under-used and once again appear available for exploratory uses“

Source: https://akstuhl.net/blog/2022-11-01-medium-metadiscourse.html

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · Jun 7

Charging $90,000 annual tuition for a chatbot subscription sorta feels like blasting bad music when you want people to leave the bar

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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · Jun 4

Join the Professional Development Committee’s “How to Prepare for the Job Market” virtual workshop this Friday, June 6 at 1PM EDT. Guidance on preparing materials, cover letters, and research/teaching statements. Sign up to receive the Zoom link: forms.gle/GENr6MkLGzi1....
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Andy K Stuhl @akstuhl.bsky.social · Jun 3

I rank I-55 through Illinois as worse than Western KS, but I've done the former more often. Hays, KS has a nice main drag with good brewpub.

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · Jun 3

📣 CFP DROP: SIGCIS 2025 ONLINE: POWER SURGE // 9/25-27 📣

the best conf in the biz for computer history ppl. CFP due 6/30. ft. keynote @lilygeismer.bsky.social PLUS ➕➕ SIGCIS is bringing back Works in Progress sessions for grad students! This is a great organizing team 🔜 APPLY!

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SIGCIS Meetings

SIGCIS invites scholars and independent researchers across the disciplinary spectrum to explore the historical conditions of computation.

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Sound & Music SIG @soundmusicscms.bsky.social · Jun 2

Happy to announce that we are accepting submissions for the 2025 Claudia Gorbman Graduate Student Writing Award through 8/1. This award recognizes outstanding scholarship by a graduate student in sound and/or music media, and the winning essay is published in Music, Sound, and the Moving Image.

Claudia Gorbman Graduate Student Writing Award 2024

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Andy K Stuhl @akstuhl.bsky.social · Jun 2

came away from this semester more or less agreeing with the "paper assignments no longer work as a measure of thought" line, but also really not sure where the thought is now supposed to happen that used to happen in the course of composing/revising the paper

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Landon Palmer @landonpalmer.bsky.social · May 23

I’m finishing my term this summer as co-chair of the Sound and Music scholarly interest group of @scmstudies.bsky.social. I’d like to leave it in good hands. Here’s how to get involved:

Sound & Music SIG @soundmusicscms.bsky.social · May 23

We will be holding an election in June for a new Co-Chair to serve a three-year term as I have reached the end of my term as Co-Chair.

If you are interested in serving as Co-Chair, please send an e-mail to Landon Palmer at [email protected] with the following information:

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elena razlogova @erazlogo.bsky.social · May 23

Just renewed my subscription to The Wire--independent music journalism at its best, well beyond experimental music. You get access to the entire back run of the magazine for your subscription, by the way.

The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · May 23

An urgent message from The Wire magazine

Running an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support

www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

An urgent message from The Wire magazine - The Wire

Running an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support

www.thewire.co.uk

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · May 22

I wrote about my mom dying and my street getting leveled by a tornado in the same week (gift link).

First My Mother Died. Then My Home Got Hit by a Tornado.

My street got leveled by 150-mph winds. Why do I feel somehow at ease?

www.theatlantic.com

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Andy K Stuhl @akstuhl.bsky.social · May 20

hardly hating, but fascinated to know how this happens to someone in 2k25

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