I am officially writing an article about Alamo Drafthouse (anti-)fandom and their buyout and anti-labor policies in the broader context of media consolidation. If you are a fan of the drafthouse, current or present employee, etc and you would be interested in speaking about this, please reach out!

IndieWire@indiewire.com · 4mo ago

Once America's most promising movie theater chain, the Alamo Drafthouse has become a QR-coded symbol of corporate enshittification.

Media scholars friends, if you were interviewed by a journalist about Heated Rivalry, would you drop the article link below? I am collecting articles that specifically approached academics for expert context.

It’s fun to meet up with folks at an academic conference and be like “so what’s the main crisis at your institution?”

If you missed our #SCMS26 workshop on writing in the media studies classroom - you can check out our handout complete with keywords, slides, and assignment shares! Thanks to everyone who came for a wonderful discussion (and sometimes vent session). docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Making Writing Matter in the Media Classroom

Making Writing Matter in the Media Studies Classroom SCMS 2026 Workshop leaders: Stephanie Brown, Washington College Peggy Davis, UCLA Lisa Wells Jacobson, Georgia Tech Laurel Westrup, UCLA Vocabula...

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we out here. @melisser3.bsky.social talking Gen X on Aca-Media After Dark www.bloomsbury.com/us/generatio... #SCMS26

Starting now-ish! Come on by!

Aca-Media@aca-media.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're helping to kick off #SCMS26 tonight -- and you can help too! Come record a short chat about any new publications with @chrisbecker.bsky.social and @stephbrown.bsky.social, and it will appear in a future episode! (If you don't arrive in time but still want to participate, just reach out.)

We're helping to kick off #SCMS26 tonight -- and you can help too! Come record a short chat about any new publications with @chrisbecker.bsky.social and @stephbrown.bsky.social, and it will appear in a future episode! (If you don't arrive in time but still want to participate, just reach out.)

If you’re headed to the @scmstudies.bsky.social conference in Chicago this week, I’ve put together this feed that pulls in every post tagged with #SCMS26 to make it easy to connect and follow along! Say hey if I’ll see you there! ✌️

It's SCMS conference week! A good time to recirculate this 2023 document: "Tips From SCMS Members for Having a Productive and Supportive In-Person Conference" docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy. Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit. expertoptout@superhuman.com

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I've decided that instead of wasting my own time to see if Grammarly has stolen my name and writing for use their business, I'd just email them to opt out and make them waste some time cleaning up their own goddamn mess. www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

Warning, folks: sounds like there’s a fresh wave of “book club” invites going out to academics today. Block, report, delete! guygeltner.net/blog/from-pr...

From Predatory Publishing to the Book Club Scam — G. Geltner

In neo-liberal academia, when authors are also expected to be impresarios, marketers, distributors and agents, book club scams will proliferate, alongside predatory publishing.

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The ideal viewer of Darren Aronofsky's AI animated TV series both knows and expects less. I wrote about this show, the future of AI filmmaking, and D.W. Griffith's wildest dream come true, for @newrepublic.com : newrepublic.com/article/2067...

The Revolutionary Crappiness of Darren Aronofsky’s On This Day ... 1776

The generative AI series is tailored to a viewer with radically lowered expectations.

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New episode! (Finally!) @meesk.bsky.social and @drtvlotz.bsky.social chat about Lotz’s 2025 book After Mass Media, which explores how industrial shifts and technological changes have reshaped the entertainment landscape, as well as academic approaches to the media industries. aca-media.org/episode82

here is how you get into Wiseman

Apologies for our recent radio silence — times have been tough, but we’ll have a new episode very soon — and in the meantime, it’s sadly worth reposting this episode today.

Aca-Media@aca-media.bsky.social · 2y ago

New episode! David Lipson talks with (Frederick) Wiseman Podcast hosts Shawn Glinis and Arlin Golden about how the show is produced and why they feel the legendary documentary filmmaker should be mentioned in the same breath as Kubrick, Coppola, and Scorsese. aca-media.org/episode74

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

Open letter BBC Written Archives - August 2025

Join the campaign to protect the future of independent research at the BBC Written Archives Centre The following text is an open letter expressing the concern of historians and researchers about chan...

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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

AGAINST AI

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New episode! David Lipson chats with @mikemiley.bsky.social about his new book DAVID LYNCH'S AMERICAN DREAMSCAPE, his insights into the intertextuality of Lynch’s work, and being a high school teacher publishing academic books. aca-media.org/episode81

I made a piece of software! It’s called the film|minutes video|graphic workstation. It’s pretty niche but cool if you want to take notes or do very close readings of films/videos.

We’re the #2 film studies podcast! Behind only a movie discussion podcast hosted by a self-described bearded viking luchador w/a whopping 770 eps, so we’re very honored to share that podium along with #3 @petecant.bsky.social's newbooksnetwork.bsky.social www.millionpodcasts.com/film-studies...

Special episode! Jordan Sjol talks with acclaimed writer José Rivera about his journey from theater to Hollywood, discussing adaptation of literay classics, writing across media, and balancing art with commerce. aca-media.org/episode80

Special episode! Jordan Sjol talks with acclaimed writer José Rivera about his journey from theater to Hollywood, discussing adaptation of literay classics, writing across media, and balancing art with commerce. aca-media.org/episode80

Eric Hoyt wrapped the panel by recording his own love tape, and expressing his feelings about the NEH. In the spirit of Wendy Clarke’s work, he’d like for it to be shared widely and seen by as many people as possible. #SCMS25 #scms2025 #neh

As #scms25 approaches (first of the post-twitter era!), feel free to follow this conference feed in Bluesky to track the discourse:

One of our sponsored panels, Session L6, "Rewinding Tape Across Media: Archives of Ambivalence (A RoundTaple)," Saturday 11am, will be dedicated as a tribute to Jonathan Sterne, a space for SCMS members to reflect on what he has meant to them and to our field.

Beautiful piece on Linda Williams (1946-2025 💔) in the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/a...

Linda Williams, Who Introduced Pornography to Academia, Dies at 78

One of the first to write seriously about a fraught subject, she also played a major role in developing the field of film studies and feminist film theory.

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Adding to the remembrances of Linda Williams' invaluable work, listen to her incredible keynote address from the 2013 SCMS conference here (mp3 download link) aca-media.org/s/LindaWilli... She also did an @scmstudies.bsky.social Fieldnotes interview; see here: www.cmstudies.org/general/cust...

Alyx Vesey@alyxvesey.bsky.social · last yr.

If she had just written “Film Bodies,” Linda Williams would have already provided a massive contribution to how film studies thinks about excess and affect as genre’s connective tissue (dig this chart!). But she left behind a such a generative body of work. A legend. Fill your shelves with her work.

Someone requested a transcript for the @aca-media.bsky.social episode featuring NPR's founding program director Bill Siemering, and putting that together offered a very profound listen/read right now. aca-media.org/aapbep6notes

New podcast episode featuring my podcast "The Global Media Podchat" and my book #networkedbollywood how #star #power globalized #hindi #cinema @scmstudies.bsky.social #mediastudies #academic #podcasting

Aca-Media@aca-media.bsky.social · last yr.

New ep! @swapnilrai.bsky.social talks about her book on Bollywood stars and how she uses podcasting activities in the classroom. And if you’ve got ideas for how students can study media by making media, you’re invited to submit a proposal for a symposium at Notre Dame. aca-media.org/episode78