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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 5d

They are using AI before coming to class?

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 5d

Oh! I want to chat with you about this.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford.

Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 7d

Committee for the First Amendment in 1947 looking good

Bogart Bacall henried and more walking in DC

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 16d

The Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture conference has a website!

Join us in New Orleans this February!

blackmedia.tulane.edu

Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture Conference | Tulane University

blackmedia.tulane.edu

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Sep 8

"It is my view and the view of this administration that parents should be free to decide whether they want their children oppressively strapped into a two-ton vehicle or liberated head-first through the windshield."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

The Head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Explains Why It’s No Longer Recommending the Use of Seat Belts

“In the seven months since he was sworn in, Mr. Kennedy has delivered a lukewarm endorsement of the measles vaccine; dismantled a panel of experts ...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 8

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thrilled the documentary 'The Eyes of Ghana' opened the Toronto Film Festival last week. It features the work of Chris Hesse and Anita Afonu to preserve Ghana's film heritage. After collaborating with them for years, I'm excited to see them celebrated on the big screen. deadline.com/video/the-ey...

Oscar Winner Ben Proudfoot Brings Hidden Historic Film Archive To Light Through ‘The Eyes Of Ghana,’ With Assist From Obamas – Toronto Studio

'The Eyes of Ghana,' directed by Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot and produced by the Obamas' High Ground, reveals a long-hidden historic film archive.

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · Sep 8

I agree. Great doc.

Damien Droney @ddroney.bsky.social · Sep 8

If you find yourself needing a little pick-me-up this week, you should know that there's a Devo documentary on Netflix.

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · Sep 7

Has someone made a short, approachable video about the ills of AI? There's lots of great written resources I could assign students, but I think showing them something in class might be more effective.

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · Sep 3

I’ve been using group quizzes in my intro course and I think they do the work of making quizzes into active learning opportunities. Happy to share with you my assignments for examples.

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · Aug 20

Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now.

www.weherepress.org

Book cover. The top of the image is covered in overlapping black&white and sepia photographs of Black pas from the early to mid 20th century. Below that, against a seafoam green or robin's egg blue (depends on your view I suppose!), the book's title "The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is printed in black. There is a small white rectangle inset that reads "Dorothy Berry"

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · Aug 1

A few more hours to apply for membership fee waiver! @scmstudies.bsky.social

Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · Jul 31

*** Colleagues: PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! ***

Co-chair of the Precarious Labor Organization of
@scmstudies.bsky.social here! DEADLINE for membership fee waivers is rapidly approaching — Friday, 1 August by 5pm CT.

Details re: eligibility + lottery entry here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · Jul 30

I worked on a digitisation project around a decade ago. Earlier this year, I found that host organisation subsequently lost the digital files, but the physical archive (which was also restored in the project) is still there.

UNR Special Collections and University Archives @unr-scua.bsky.social · Jul 30

Occasionally we remind people that paper is the most stable long-term storage medium* and it's always a surprise.

*Unless you're into carving your own stele, in which case you might have some significant long-term storage SPACE problems.

Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · Jul 28

Removable media that I still have from the 90s/00s and its survival rate at bringing data from then into the 2020s.

3.5" Floppy Disks: 30%
5.25" Floppy Disks: 70%
CDR/RWs: 5%
DVDR/RWs: 10%
Syquests: 0%
CF/SDs: 20%
Zip Disks: 96%

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · Jul 29

I will never forget watching Bushman (1971) this evening in Lagos. Watching a film about a Nigerian living in 1968 San Francisco, with images of the Bay that brought me back to a region that will forever be my home, I felt like I was crisscrossing through time and space with the film’s circulations.

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udadisi.bsky.social @udadisi.bsky.social · Jul 26

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · Jul 12

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Lisa Jacobson @lisawj.bsky.social · Jul 12

For my fall course prep, I've been rereading our teaching dossier on ungrading. Let me shout out Part I again, edited primarily by @jennblaylock.bsky.social and secondarily by me. We really wanted to make something thoughtful, honest, and above all USEFUL—so please read and share with abandon!

Journal of Cinema and Media Studies - Browse Volume/Issue

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · Jul 3

I was so honored to be part of this group researching in the Sembène and Vieyra archives this summer. Olivier Barlet's insightful recount of the workshop is captured here: africultures.com/a-la-decouve...

A la découverte des archives de Sembène et Vieyra à Bloomington | Africultures

L’atelier sur les archives d’Ousmane Sembène et Paulin Soumanou Vieyra aux Etats-Unis a réuni une dizaine de chercheurs internationaux. Il s’inscrit dans les événements organisés à l’occasion du centenaire de la naissance de Vieyra et fut précédé d’une table-ronde au festival de Cannes. Un atelier à Bloomington Cela a commencé par un appel à participationLire la suite

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Jun 27

Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language.

Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.

At no point in this study did I use AI. This includes the literature review, logical organization, writing, analysis, and proofreading. I do not cite any studies that use AI, to the extent that it is possible to know.

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · Jun 27

@annarosestamm.bsky.social so great to see you talk about your research on local television women’s shows!

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · Jun 26

On my way to @cp25atlanta.bsky.social. This is my first time attending and I’m super excited!

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Jun 18

What are the African values and ethical theories that can inform responsible data science practices in Africa?...We conduct a thematic analysis [and]...derived an ethical framework consisting of six major principles rooted in the realities of data science work in Africa arxiv.org/html/2502.16...

African Data Ethics: A Discursive Framework for Black Decolonial Data Science

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · Jun 17

Just deleted Instagram. Feeling good!

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