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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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Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you so much!

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Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social · 8d

I saw this! And I was in SF yesterday and saw several Waymos. Chuckled darkly imagining a driverless car chase all around the city.

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Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social · 8d

Color Protocols is out today!

MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 8d

"Color Protocols," edited by Carolyn L. Kane and @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social, explores how color intersects with problematic histories of racial encoding in linguistic, visual, and algorithmic media: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255350...

A copy of "Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media" edited by Carolyn L. Kane and Lida Zeitlin-Wu on a plain background

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Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social · Sep 1

Goethe (1810): "Skin color directly corresponds to moral character. The Black man is inferior, while the white man is the best and most beautiful."

Google AI summary (2025): "Goethe never wrote about race."

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Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social · Aug 28

NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.

We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.

I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.

Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · Aug 27

SCMS congratulates Carolyn L. Kane and Lida Zeitlin-Wu on their edited volume, Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media, out on September 30 from MIT Press and available for pre-order now!

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Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social · Aug 25

Color Protocols is out from @mitpress.bsky.social on 9/30! If you have a US mailing address, you can use the discount codes below on orders placed through Penguin Random House:
a. MITP30: 30% off on publication day
b. READMIT20: 20% off at any time after publication.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · Aug 21

Someone make a bot that about once a week posts “Butlerian Jihad is a Dune thing; it’s not a Judith Butler thing. “ It’ll do numbers every time.

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Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social · Aug 18

Have been waiting for this book to come out for years! Congrats @netalexander.bsky.social

Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Aug 18

Save 30% on #NewBook "Interface Frictions" by Neta Alexander, which explores how ubiquitous design features in digital platforms such as playback speed, autoplay, and night mode, reshape, condition, and break our bodies. buff.ly/qGM7NVC

Cover of Interface Frictions: How Digital Debility Reshapes Our Bodies by Neta Alexander. The background is black with iridescent pastel graphics and text. Four digital interface icons appear vertically: a sun symbol, a play button, a circular arrow, and an accessibility figure with outstretched arms. The title is placed centrally in a thin, sans serif font, with the author’s name to the right of the icons.

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Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social · Aug 18

*controversy, oops

Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Of course, my favorite part of this ridiculous stunt is Stuart Semple's commitment to his feud with Kapoor (now going 10 years strong post-Vantablack controversey)

Is a Man Trapped in Anish Kapoor's 'Bean'? | Artnet News

A fringe group insists—without evidence—that a man has been living in Chicago's “Cloud Gate” for two decades.

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Aug 14

Quaker Cornskis (1967-circa 1970): A line of crunchy, cheddar and sour cream-flavored corn snacks, that featured a distinctive "scooping" shape with a little handle for dipping. Leaned into a Soviet-themed marketing campaign, as "The snack that escaped from Siberia"

A man in a fur coat and Russian-style hat stands out in the middle of a frozen, snowy tundra, snow covering his bushy mustache, glaring sidelong at us. He is holding an orange bag filled with corn chips that reads "Cornskis", below the ad copy, "I bring you Cornskis."

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 5

fellow UC alums, sign and share

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · Aug 5

this is good: sites.google.com/view/ucstand...

top of faculty website saying, "University of California: Stand up for our values"

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Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social · Aug 5

We have a cover! Color Protocols will be out next month from @mitpress.bsky.social

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Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social · Aug 5

I mean... this is already happening.

Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · Aug 5

I do expect GenAI to widen the class gap even further and schools split between elite colleges with small classes and human instructors providing degrees that employers care about and other colleges to fall into degree mill status and leave students with little but debt.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · Jul 25

In my 10 years as a university student, I never had a professor remotely like this.

In my 17 years as a university professor, I’ve never had a colleague remotely like this.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Jul 24

Literally making up a guy to get mad at

Let me tell you about the saddest figures in the American university. They wear black jeans and Chuck Taylors to class, except maybe on the first day, when they stroll in wearing semi-ironic suits designed to contrast with their ample tattoos. Their syllabuses are printed in Helvetica. They mention Chappell Roan in the first fifteen minutes of the first day of class. They tell their students, with a wink, that they don't believe in grades - why, who are they to judge their students! They encourage everyone in class to call them by their first names, or perhaps a contrived nickname. They hope to blow everyone's minds when they theatrically announce that in their classes, students pick the readings, because the students are the ones who really know what's worthy of their time. They describe themselves as "friends" or "guides" or "partners," not as teachers or professors. They disdainfully invoke the words "rigor" and "standards" only with ironic scare quotes and want you to know that they don't believe in deadlines. They subtweet the provost on BlueSky. They are the Cool Professors. And they are frauds.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Jul 24

“AI” is not simply creating a cognitive crisis in learners; it’s also failing to deliver on its own terms (pedagogical “efficiency”) bc it demands that those still committed to educational quality devise nonsensical workarounds, turning our classrooms into bizarre Rube Goldberg learning machines.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jul 23

Keep shoving this unwanted AI shit on teachers and we’ll go back to fucking quills and inkwells

Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Jul 23

“…faculty members will be able to click an icon that connects them with various AI features…, like a grading tool, a discussion-post summarizer… Canvas’s parent company, Instructure, is also in partnership w/ OpenAI… so instructors can use generative-AI technology as part of their assignments.”

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Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social · Jul 24

My former student is seeking diverse perspectives to better understand how people emotionally and contextually relate to color in digital spaces for his graduate capstone project in UX/UI design, "HueManize." You can access this brief survey here: forms.gle/HFJE39t2gpx3...

HueManize Research Survey

HueManize: A Qualitative Study on Color, Emotion, and Cultural Perception This survey explores how people perceive and emotionally connect to color across different cultural and personal experiences....

forms.gle

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Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social · May 25

Yep, just read @lnakamura.bsky.social 's "Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronics Manufacture"

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Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social · May 25

😍

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Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social · May 24

Ordered immediately.

Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · May 24

It’s hard to express how perfectly this book is aimed at my demographic: Bechdel superfans who are tearing their hair out about rising fascism and the devolution of cable TV and also, who sit around wondering what’s up with the characters from Dykes To Watch Out For:

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Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social · May 21

This is so creative and cool!

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Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social · May 19

A mouth-watering, slightly campy delight. Definitely adding to the syllabus the next time I teach my food film/media course! www.netflix.com/title/81918362

Watch La Grande Maison Tokyo | Netflix

Determined to attain three stars, a middle-aged female chef teams up with a disgraced Michelin-starred chef to start a new restaurant together.

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Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social · May 16

Media archaeology?

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