Lastly, new 📕 on believability:

"the politics of believability takes on new significance in a digitally mediated society, wherein everything seems so much more doubtable than it once was"

https://www.politybooks.com/blog-detail/believability

#Commodon #NewBook #FeministMediaStudies

UC San Diego is also hiring in #media, culture, and law: "We seek an interdisciplinary scholar, artist, or practitioner who engages with the study and design of laws and policies related to media, communication, and culture with a focus on Native American/Alaska Native/Pacific Islander, Indigenous, Black, and/or migrant futures."

#academia #academicjobs #academicchatter #communication #commodon
Assistant level: https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03665  
Associate level: https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03696

The Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke is searching for candidates at the Assistant or Associate level for a new position focusing on ethics and technology. It sounds like the committee is considering a wide range of cross-cutting expertise including public health, media, democracy, privacy, etc. (cc @RobynCaplan)
#academia #academicjobs #academicchatter #communication #commodon
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/24895

Some professional news:

I'm very happy to share the news that the book, "A History of Digital Journalism" and authored by myself, Eugenia Mitchelstein, and Danielle Brown, is now under contract with Polity Press! Beyond the actual work on the substance of the book, I am really excited to work with these brilliant scholars. 1/x

#journalism #commodon

🚨 ACADEMIC JOB ALERT 🚨

Open-Rank TT Position in Media Ethics & Law | UMass Amherst Journalism Department

Posting is flexible regarding approach to the subject matter. Please spread widely within your networks. Feel free to direct questions to me, as I'm chairing the search. I'm happy to call UMass home. I ❤️ love my colleagues and students. A lovely, exciting place to work.

https://careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/job/520380/open-rank-tenure-track-journalism-ethics-and-law

@academicchatter @communicationscholars @phdstudents #commodon #mediaStudies #academicChatter

Recommended reading:

"The Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics" by Amy Orben

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1745691620919372

#STS #Sociology #Commodon #MediaStudies

Sure, let's make more announcements at 8:30pm on a Tuesday night, why not.

Hey, people! I'm on the editorial board of #Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, and we are seeking submissions. Please think about putting something in if you are an academic, artist, or ghastly hybrid working on #sound #SoundStudies #SoundArt

https://online.ucpress.edu/res/pages/About

@academicchatter #CulturalStudies @ecologies #Histodons #STS #Commodon #MediaStudies

With the danger that "AI could choke on its own exhaust as it fills the web" (per an article someone just shared), it feels like we are back to Adrian Johns' argument that, no, it wasn't the printing press (i.e. technology/distribution infra) that allowed knowledge to flourish but rather *an elaborate sociotechnical system of trust and authority*...

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo3645773.html

#Commodon #STS #Histodons

Reading list:

Sociological research is often criticised for providing "excuses" for people doing bad things, preventing them from being rightfully blamed and punished. This special issue looks at social scientific debates about such "exculpatory" consequences:

https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/esta/24/3

#SocialTheory #Sociology #STS #Commodon #MediaStudies #Anthropology @sociology

✨ jobs ✨ - we are looking to hire for five new roles in our department - please help us share with those who might be interested! 💌

Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073449-lecturer-in-digital-media-and-culture-education-aep

Lecturer in Social and Cultural AI
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073450-lecturer-in-social-and-cultural-ai-aep

Lecturer in Lecturer in Digital Media
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073465-lecturer-in-lecturer-in-digital-media-education-and-research

Lecturer in Cultural Computation Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073467-lecturer-in-cultural-computation-education-aep

Lecturer in Digital Economy and Innovation Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073468-lecturer-in-digital-economy-and-innovation-education-aep

#digitalmedia #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ai #softwarestudies #culturalstudies #algorithmstudies #newmedia #platformstudies #internetstudies #commodon #sts #mediastudies #jobs

Thrilled to see that @meryl's new book "Kids Across the Spectrums" is available Open Access! Read it here: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5626/Kids-Across-the-SpectrumsGrowing-Up-Autistic-in

#STS #commodon #Mediastudies #autism

@kissane #Commodon? ⬆️

What can memes tell us about society?

#meme #memes #Media #Commodon #AcademicChatter

What tools/strategies do y'all use to manage your own projects + advisee projects?

#commodon
#academia

My article on the high level of education of youtubers. If you know of a fact-based youtuber, please let me know. I am trying to identify as many as I can

https://www.uts.edu.au/research/centre-media-transition/news/so-you-want-be-youtuber

[independent YouTube content creator who talks face to camera about societal, political, economic etc issues].

#YouTube #youtuber #journalism #journalist #NewsMedia #Commodon #University #Career #UTS #CMT

Mastodonians, who's doing exciting research on the use of ChatGPT/LLMs in higher education?

I'm especially interested in sociological, pedagogical, or ethical research, but feel free to make all types of recommendations!

#STS #ChatGPT #commodon #Mediastudies

What does it take to be a youtuber? A bachelor degree, a Masters, or a PhD?

#YouTube #youtuber #journalism #journalist #commodon #university #study #career

https://www.uts.edu.au/research/centre-media-transition/news/so-you-want-be-youtuber

I spoke to @mahliann for Critical Distance's Keywords in Play podcast about my new book, The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist:

#gamestudies #commodon #mediastudies #gamedev

https://criticaldistance.podbean.com/e/keywords-in-play-episode-31-brendan-keogh/

@cbeunas
Let me be the first to say that #WaPo is not a "source" 😀

But the article was one the first to "agglomerate" such a two-third figure from ~activists.
It was in 2008 and then Eric #Zemmour took it to help grow his showing 😠

#FRPol #polemics #commOdon #racePolitics

The video of my panel from the #CambridgeDisinformationSummit is now live. I was very privileged to be on a panel with some incomparable scholars — @emmalbriant and R. Marie Santini, with Henry Friedman chairing — to discuss the spread of #disinformation for profit. https://youtu.be/cLLuxs9WxjA

#commodon