Come work with me! Two tenure-track faculty searches in the Department of Media & Cinema Studies @mediaatillinois.bsky.social: Media & Society: tinyurl.com/mreff8av Sports Media: tinyurl.com/2p337e7y

My department at UIUC is hiring! Two TT positions, one in media and society, one in sports media. Come work with me! Links here: Media/Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Sports Media: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

My department at UIUC is hiring! Two TT positions, one in media and society, one in sports media. Come work with me! Links here: Media/Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Sports Media: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Might've been a somewhat bad idea to put literally all teaching, learning, and assessment tools and identifying information for university members on one universal hub. 🤷‍♀️

In Canvas We (Should Not) Trust.

SCMS attendees, please check out these videographic-affiliated panels and DHVC SIG events listed below! 🧵 with panels/events by day below:

[in]Transition 13.1 is live! intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1729/i... mediation in video games, philosophy and AI, data centers and the environment, Catalan documentarian Joaquim Jordà, Coen Bros folk music, and fish tanks. Plus our inaugural SCMS SIG Grad Student winner on THE RED SHOES!

Carleton FTW!

Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Hey @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and I are both Carleton grads and this fucking rocks - love to see a college protect its students from the goons instead of cutting deals with the regime.

I’ve finalized my list of films students can work with for our video essay exercises this semester. Purple Rain is joining the ranks this term for some Minnesota solidarity. Stay safe and strong, friends ☔️💪🖥️

So well deserved, can’t wait for this piece to be out in the world! Congrats to Veronika!!

SCMS Digital Humanities & Videographic Criticism SIG@videoessays.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Big announcement! The inaugural winner of our graduate student video essay award is Veronika Hanáková (Charles University, Prague) with her piece "The Red Shoes: A Desktop Fairy Tale!” This is the first award through the Society for Cinema and Media Studies to honor videographic scholarship 🥳

In case anyone is looking for things to stream for their toddlers today, three cheers for PBS Kids TV, which has an amazing range of fun, entertaining, educational, thoughtful shows. We’ve been esp loving Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum!

Join the Professional Development Committee’s “How to Prepare for the Job Market” virtual workshop this Friday, June 6 at 1PM EDT. Guidance on preparing materials, cover letters, and research/teaching statements. Sign up to receive the Zoom link: forms.gle/GENr6MkLGzi1.... @swapnilrai.bsky.social‬

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

If you’ve ever sat on an NEH review panel (as many of us have), you know how difficult it is to win a grant. It’s an incredibly exacting process, with way too many excellent projects competing for funding. Awardees are scrutinized from every direction, with more rigor than DOGE can even imagine.

@humanitiesall.bsky.social statement on the potential decimation of the Nat’l Endowment for the Humanities: “The NEH connects Americans in every state with our nation’s rich history and culture.” NEH $$ was essential in my quest to chronicle Lois Weber’s career. nhalliance.org/nha-statemen...

President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders. Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...

Filmmakers! Musicians! Actors! Illustrators! Artists of all kinds! Please take 5 minutes and make your voice heard

Bwillett Comics, Monster Boyfriend Specialist@bwillettcomics.bsky.social · last yr.

Folks, they have less than 1k comments so far. Posts arguing about which way to hang toilet paper have more comments in facebook groups. If you are in any way involved in art: writing, music, acting, film MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD

6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance. For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.

This is what a cap on “indirect costs” through NIH grants will do. Going from >50% of grant total to 15% will change how your local university healthcare systems function everyday.

Mike Wagner@prowag.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are not far away from your spouse’s cancer trial stopping, your parent’s Alzheimer’s clinical trial evaporating, your teen’s mental health intervention disappearing. It’s easy to attack universities, but the recent actions from the White House will stop cutting edge medical research very quickly.

!!!The best video essays of 2024!!! Honoured to be 1 among the 47 contributors from 17 countries who together submitted a total of 256 votes, which amount to 183 unique entries. @sightsoundmag.bsky.social | BFI www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

The best video essays of 2024

From film festivals to TikTok, our annual poll showcases 183 unique video essays nominated by 47 international voters.

bfi.org.uk

I co-edited the Sight and Sound poll for the best video essays of 2024! Thank you to everyone who contributed a list. We've highlighted a few notable essays, but it’s worth diving into the full list (183 unique vids!) Thanks for having me @sightsoundmag.bsky.social 🎉 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

The best video essays of 2024

From film festivals to TikTok, our annual poll showcases 183 unique video essays nominated by 47 international voters.

bfi.org.uk

The Sight and Sound video essay poll for 2024 is out! My first time voting which was a real honour (thanks to the organisers for inviting me). Something for everyone in here. Enjoy! www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

The best video essays of 2024

From film festivals to TikTok, our annual poll showcases 183 unique video essays nominated by 47 international voters.

bfi.org.uk

So honored to be mentioned by Oswald Iten in this year’s Best Video Essays of 2024 poll from Sight and Sound, and bursting with pride that my former student Nancy Jia also made the list!!! 🥰 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

Jacquelyn Ardam@jaxwendy.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?

Happy to announce the MEP's special early cinema issue of e-Media Studies edited by Mark Williams is public today! Authors include @orphanfilm.bsky.social, @cinemajok.bsky.social, @marshagordon.bsky.social, and many others who haven't made the jump to bluesky yet. pub.dartmouth.edu/journal-of-e...

Journal of e-Media Studies, Volume 7 Issue 1: Early Cinema Compendium: Volume 7, Issue 1: Early Cinema Compendium

The Journal of e-Media Studies is a blind peer-reviewed, on-line journal dedicated to the scholarly study of the history and theory of electronic media, especially Television and New Media. ...

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Are you a film & media scholar who wants to learn how to make video essays? Applications for the two-week June 2025 workshop Scholarship in Sound & Image at Middlebury College in Vermont are now open. Come be a videocamper and spread the word!

Scholarship in Sound & Image

Workshop on Videographic Criticism

sites.middlebury.edu

Loved being able to share this amazing video essay with my students today. youtu.be/jz7nOzBv7eE?...

Irani Bag / کیف ایرانی by Maryam Tafakory

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Hi everyone! For those new to my feed, I work a lot on film history and craft, the intersections between film and dance industries/cultures, style/aesthetics, video essays, and musicals. I wrote a book about all that, Storytelling in Motion (OUP, 2024). Happy to chat more about it!

Join us on the Zoom Events platform for the SCMS 2024 Virtual Symposium. We’re keeping things simple and accessible with the same Zoom interface, you know. Access invitations and a helpful user guide will be sent on December 4. All session times are in U.S. Central. www.cmstudies.org/page/VSsched...

Working on primary school apps and when I asked my toddler which words he thought best described him he helpfully offered “doody, boody, and foody” 🤣 #nothelpful