Jackie Johnson
@jackie-johns.bsky.social
English/Film Faculty at Pitt. PhD from USC's School of Cinematic Arts. Researching/Teaching TV, digital media, and Black cultural production.
Hot sauce enthusiast who resides over a hellmouth.
Hot sauce enthusiast who resides over a hellmouth.
My last TV Analysis lecture of the semester 🥲
November 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
My last TV Analysis lecture of the semester 🥲
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I just checked to see how many episodes are left, oh wow, the first season of #ThePitt was fifteen episodes??? I feel like that never happens anymore. What a time to be alive!!!!!!
September 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I just checked to see how many episodes are left, oh wow, the first season of #ThePitt was fifteen episodes??? I feel like that never happens anymore. What a time to be alive!!!!!!
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ICYMI I wrote about #ThePitt for #Emmys week @popjunctions.bsky.social
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EMMYS WATCH 2025 — All Dr. Robby’s Children: The Spectre of Soap Opera on The Pitt — Pop Junctions
‘Emmys Watch 2025’ showcases critical responses to the series nominated for Outstanding Drama, Outstanding Comedy, and Outstanding Limited Series at that 77th Primetime Emmy Awards. Contributions to t...
henryjenkins.org
September 15, 2025 at 3:07 AM
ICYMI I wrote about #ThePitt for #Emmys week @popjunctions.bsky.social
henryjenkins.org/blog/2025/9/...
henryjenkins.org/blog/2025/9/...
ICYMI I wrote about #ThePitt for #Emmys week @popjunctions.bsky.social
henryjenkins.org/blog/2025/9/...
henryjenkins.org/blog/2025/9/...
EMMYS WATCH 2025 — All Dr. Robby’s Children: The Spectre of Soap Opera on The Pitt — Pop Junctions
‘Emmys Watch 2025’ showcases critical responses to the series nominated for Outstanding Drama, Outstanding Comedy, and Outstanding Limited Series at that 77th Primetime Emmy Awards. Contributions to t...
henryjenkins.org
September 15, 2025 at 3:07 AM
ICYMI I wrote about #ThePitt for #Emmys week @popjunctions.bsky.social
henryjenkins.org/blog/2025/9/...
henryjenkins.org/blog/2025/9/...
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Got to write about my favorite new show For @popjunctions.bsky.social Emmys week!
Next up in #EmmysWatch2025 on Pop Junctions, @jackie-johns.bsky.social contextualizes #ThePitt within the long lineage of television soap operas.
EMMYS WATCH 2025 — All Dr. Robby’s Children: The Spectre of Soap Opera on The Pitt — Pop Junctions
‘Emmys Watch 2025’ showcases critical responses to the series nominated for Outstanding Drama, Outstanding Comedy, and Outstanding Limited Series at that 77th Primetime Emmy Awards. Contributions to t...
henryjenkins.org
September 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Got to write about my favorite new show For @popjunctions.bsky.social Emmys week!
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Next up in #EmmysWatch2025 on Pop Junctions, @jackie-johns.bsky.social contextualizes #ThePitt within the long lineage of television soap operas.
EMMYS WATCH 2025 — All Dr. Robby’s Children: The Spectre of Soap Opera on The Pitt — Pop Junctions
‘Emmys Watch 2025’ showcases critical responses to the series nominated for Outstanding Drama, Outstanding Comedy, and Outstanding Limited Series at that 77th Primetime Emmy Awards. Contributions to t...
henryjenkins.org
September 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Next up in #EmmysWatch2025 on Pop Junctions, @jackie-johns.bsky.social contextualizes #ThePitt within the long lineage of television soap operas.
Got to write about my favorite new show For @popjunctions.bsky.social Emmys week!
Next up in #EmmysWatch2025 on Pop Junctions, @jackie-johns.bsky.social contextualizes #ThePitt within the long lineage of television soap operas.
EMMYS WATCH 2025 — All Dr. Robby’s Children: The Spectre of Soap Opera on The Pitt — Pop Junctions
‘Emmys Watch 2025’ showcases critical responses to the series nominated for Outstanding Drama, Outstanding Comedy, and Outstanding Limited Series at that 77th Primetime Emmy Awards. Contributions to t...
henryjenkins.org
September 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Got to write about my favorite new show For @popjunctions.bsky.social Emmys week!
Got interviewed about my fall class on Teen Film for this :)
Executives at Walt Disney studios are asking Hollywood creatives for movies aimed at teen boys, according to recent reporting in Variety. On one hand, this is hilarious, writes Nina Metz.
On the other hand, teen films as a genre are a casualty of the changing business model brought on by streaming.
On the other hand, teen films as a genre are a casualty of the changing business model brought on by streaming.
Column: Teen movies used to be a genre Hollywood took seriously, young audiences too. But good luck finding them in theaters today.
From “Rebel Without a Cause” to the many films of John Hughes, teen movies are a fascinating segment of cinema history.
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August 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Got interviewed about my fall class on Teen Film for this :)
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Column: Teen movies used to be a genre Hollywood took seriously, young audiences too. But good luck finding them in theaters today
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Column: Teen movies used to be a genre Hollywood took seriously, young audiences too. But good luck finding them in theaters today.
From “Rebel Without a Cause” to the many films of John Hughes, teen movies are a fascinating segment of cinema history.
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August 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Column: Teen movies used to be a genre Hollywood took seriously, young audiences too. But good luck finding them in theaters today
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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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I have been researching seed-oil psychos for Maintenance Phase and I love how they occasionally show signs of self-awareness
August 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I have been researching seed-oil psychos for Maintenance Phase and I love how they occasionally show signs of self-awareness
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Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
August 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
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"A lot of this infrastructure, billions of dollars of it, is being built just for a few customers and a few facilities and these happen to be the wealthiest companies in the world,” said Ari Peskoe, who directs the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard University.
As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act
Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers.
apnews.com
August 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"A lot of this infrastructure, billions of dollars of it, is being built just for a few customers and a few facilities and these happen to be the wealthiest companies in the world,” said Ari Peskoe, who directs the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard University.
This upcoming semester I get to teach the class I have been training for all my life
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Teen Film Fall 25
Draft long list for my fall class on teen film and media. Main topics include 1 Teen as Identity, 2 Social Hierarchies and High School, 3 Teen Sex and Sexuality, and 4 Adaptation, Genre Mixing, and No...
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August 8, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This upcoming semester I get to teach the class I have been training for all my life
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Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
Kids today are learning that the fastest and easiest way to make money—the key value that has been modeled to them in America society—is to scam others, cheat your way through, and attract negative attention online that can be monetized. My endless sympathy to parents
August 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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Is the theme of 2025 giving people things they never asked for, don’t want, and will make life just a little bit worse?
Microsoft and Mercedes‑Benz are working together to let people access Teams from the car.
Benz is the first car maker to enable in-car camera use for Teams while a car is being driven.
The companies are also partnering to put Microsoft 365 Copilot into vehicles.
www.theverge.com/news/708481/...
Benz is the first car maker to enable in-car camera use for Teams while a car is being driven.
The companies are also partnering to put Microsoft 365 Copilot into vehicles.
www.theverge.com/news/708481/...
Mercedes-Benz will let you use an in-car camera in Microsoft Teams while driving
The all-new CLA gets this first
www.theverge.com
July 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Is the theme of 2025 giving people things they never asked for, don’t want, and will make life just a little bit worse?
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Philly’s own Jazmine Sullivan has CANCELLED her headlining set at today’s Welcome America concert in solidarity with striking DC 33 workers “until the city and union find a way to bring fair living wages to our working class. I love my city and believe in you” www.nbcphiladelphia.com/entertainmen...
July 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Philly’s own Jazmine Sullivan has CANCELLED her headlining set at today’s Welcome America concert in solidarity with striking DC 33 workers “until the city and union find a way to bring fair living wages to our working class. I love my city and believe in you” www.nbcphiladelphia.com/entertainmen...
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A message from the striking municipal workers of Philadelphia:
July 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A message from the striking municipal workers of Philadelphia:
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"Per the study, one glaring safety gap is the bots' inability to respond appropriately to users clearly at risk of self-harm or suicide."
Trump's budget bill, currently in the Senate, would impose a 10-year moritorium on AI regulation. They have so little regard for human life.
Trump's budget bill, currently in the Senate, would impose a 10-year moritorium on AI regulation. They have so little regard for human life.
Stanford Research Finds That "Therapist" Chatbots Are Encouraging Users' Schizophrenic Delusions and Suicidal Thoughts
A new pre-print study from Stanford researchers finds that AI chatbots used for therapy routinely fail at providing safe, ethical care.
futurism.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"Per the study, one glaring safety gap is the bots' inability to respond appropriately to users clearly at risk of self-harm or suicide."
Trump's budget bill, currently in the Senate, would impose a 10-year moritorium on AI regulation. They have so little regard for human life.
Trump's budget bill, currently in the Senate, would impose a 10-year moritorium on AI regulation. They have so little regard for human life.
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We have this one a little twisted. Totally reasonable.
But, folks have been pushing for this category for several years. Believe it or not, the idea is that traditional country would favor more women, people of color who are often pushed out of country and into Americana/folk country.
But, folks have been pushing for this category for several years. Believe it or not, the idea is that traditional country would favor more women, people of color who are often pushed out of country and into Americana/folk country.
June 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
We have this one a little twisted. Totally reasonable.
But, folks have been pushing for this category for several years. Believe it or not, the idea is that traditional country would favor more women, people of color who are often pushed out of country and into Americana/folk country.
But, folks have been pushing for this category for several years. Believe it or not, the idea is that traditional country would favor more women, people of color who are often pushed out of country and into Americana/folk country.
Making plans for the fall 😅
March 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Making plans for the fall 😅
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🚨 What happens if the Internet Archive goes dark?
From KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian Brewster Kahle talks about the challenges of preserving digital history, and why the Internet Archive’s mission matters more than ever.
🎧 Listen now ⤵️
www.kqed.org/news/1203198...
From KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian Brewster Kahle talks about the challenges of preserving digital history, and why the Internet Archive’s mission matters more than ever.
🎧 Listen now ⤵️
www.kqed.org/news/1203198...
What Happens if the Internet Archive Goes Dark? | KQED
For decades, the Internet Archive has preserved our digital history. Lately, journalists and ordinary citizens have been turning to it more than ever, as the Trump administration undertakes an ideolog...
www.kqed.org
March 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🚨 What happens if the Internet Archive goes dark?
From KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian Brewster Kahle talks about the challenges of preserving digital history, and why the Internet Archive’s mission matters more than ever.
🎧 Listen now ⤵️
www.kqed.org/news/1203198...
From KQED's new podcast, Close All Tabs, digital librarian Brewster Kahle talks about the challenges of preserving digital history, and why the Internet Archive’s mission matters more than ever.
🎧 Listen now ⤵️
www.kqed.org/news/1203198...
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Ramell Ross really is a cinematic philosopher. I have to believe people will find and appreciate NICKEL BOYS in due time
And I need him and André Holland to make something together in future
And I need him and André Holland to make something together in future
March 3, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Ramell Ross really is a cinematic philosopher. I have to believe people will find and appreciate NICKEL BOYS in due time
And I need him and André Holland to make something together in future
And I need him and André Holland to make something together in future
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Justice for CHALLENGERS
March 3, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Justice for CHALLENGERS