Next book is under contract!

Pick up a copy of The Influencer Factory for only $13, a book one reader described as “I feel like this is how nineteenth century proletarians must have felt reading Marx: like it just perfectly describes every last tiny indignity of working life, even the ones you’d never fully noticed before”!

Stanford University Press@stanfordpress.bsky.social · last mo.

SUP is having a big sale! From today, June 23, through Friday, June 26, we're honoring Sophie Germain—and offering 53% off all in stock print and ebooks sitewide. It's a meaningful number for a meaningful mission. For full details: https://ow.ly/4FRb50ZfZF0 #ReadUP

So, what law firm is prepping a class action lawsuit against Instructure for violating FERPA laws, hopefully suing them and KKR into oblivion (I know, wishful thinking about that last part at least)

Did you catch the ghost hunting events at @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social with my coauthor Katherine Guinness a few months ago and wish you could have taken part? If you're in NYC in August, you can, when Katherine will be teaching about ghost hunting at the Strother School of Radical Attention!

The Strother School of Radical Attention

Most ghosts don't know they're ghosts; they have to be told. This seminar proceeds from the simple but potentially distressing premise that you are already a ghost . Ghost hunting is a technology...

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Today's events with Practitioner in Residence Dr. Katherine Guinness: (all times GMT-7) 11 AM - Making Music For and With Ghosts (Twitch) 5 - 8 PM: Live-stream Séance (on Twitch and in-person!) 8 PM: Ghost Hunting Live at MAL (on Twitch and in-person!) twitch.tv/mediaarchaeology

MediaArchaeology - Twitch

The Media Archaeology Lab is a nostalgia generation machine, one of the largest publicly play-with-able collections of functional obsolete technology. Home to everything from a 1913 Edison Disc Phono...

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We have 2 more Twitch streams with Practitioner in Residence Dr. Katherine Guinness today! First up, Ghost Tech Talk with Two Ians at 2PM Followed by the Ghost Help Hotline at 4PM (both GMT-7) Join us if you can! www. twitch.tv/mediaarchaeology

MediaArchaeology - Twitch

The Media Archaeology Lab is a nostalgia generation machine, one of the largest publicly play-with-able collections of functional obsolete technology. Home to everything from a 1913 Edison Disc Phono...

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Katherine will go live again next tomorrow (Wednesday, March 4) at 2pm for Tech Time with Ian McDermott and again at 4pm for the Ghost Help Hotline. twitch.tv/mediaarchaeology

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Twitch is the world

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media archaeology lab@mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our next livestream with Katherine will be today at 2PM - Dream Incubation Practice (Creating our Ghost Bodies)

Our next livestream with Katherine will be today at 2PM - Dream Incubation Practice (Creating our Ghost Bodies)

media archaeology lab@mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We'll be live with Katherine Guinness's Creative Misuse of Media & Intro to Ghost Hunting Lecture on Twitch at 11! www.twitch.tv/mediaarchaeo...

Now, if you DO want a more academic evaluation of the book, here's a great review of it in @ijoc-usc.bsky.social by Oscar Gómez Pascual, who I feel really gets what the book is going for!

It genuinely surprises me when there's some reference to the Influencer Factory out there from actual influencers and content creators - but here it is, discussed at length in a video essay by the Ashley Embers!

Is this the end of the influencer economy?

YouTube video by Ashley Embers

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The lowest share of Americans ever view capitalism positively and big business rates even worse in new Gallup data released today.

Americans give capitalism its lowest ever rating in new Gallup survey

A slim majority of Americans rate capitalism positively.

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THERE IS STILL TIME TO ENJOY SUP'S SUMMER SALE! Take advantage of 50% off of all in-stock print and ebooks sitewide* now through Monday, 9/8. Whether by the pool or in the shade, we'd love to be your last summer read. www.sup.org/about-our-en...

You can pick up "The Influencer Factory" for just $14! A book novelist and media strategist Andrew Ladd has said, "I feel like this is how nineteenth century proletarians must have felt reading Marx"! (And our book seems to be more popular among actual influencers than the academics who study them!)

Stanford University Press@stanfordpress.bsky.social · 12mo ago

WE'RE HAVING AN END OF SUMMER SALE! The weather may be cooling, but SUP's end of summer sale is hot! Take advantage of 50% off of all in-stock print and ebooks sitewide starting today, 8/25, through 9/8. #ReadUP www.sup.org/about-our-en...

WE'RE HAVING AN END OF SUMMER SALE! The weather may be cooling, but SUP's end of summer sale is hot! Take advantage of 50% off of all in-stock print and ebooks sitewide starting today, 8/25, through 9/8. #ReadUP www.sup.org/about-our-en...

Every single one of mine is in there, as well!

Stina Leicht@stinaleicht.bsky.social · 12mo ago

every single one of my books are in there, including the newest one published two years ago. am furious. y’all, i know you may be busy or at worldcon but take the time to look up yourself today. the ability to apply for the class action suit ends tonight!

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

Joseph Weizenbaum in 1975: "The very asking of the question, 'What does a judge (or psychiatrist) know that we cannot tell a computer?' is a monstrous obscenity. That it has to be put into print at all, even for the purpose of exposing its morbidity, is a sign of the madness of our times." #ai

In case anyone happens to be in Korea next weekend, I'm going to be presenting at the Nam June Paik Art Center's "48-hour NJP School" on the 19th - the entire event looks exceptionally cool, and I'm very excited to be part of it! njpart.ggcf.kr/events/250

We have an amazing sale going on at the University of Minnesota Press this week... stock on summer reading with $10 paperbacks presswide when you buy 3 or more and use checkout code MN93820! Wondering where to start? Check out this 🧵 for some starter packs to unlock $10 books:

Finally, a Holy War I can join

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

It seems the best responses to The Influencer Factory so far have come from people who either are influencers themselves or are really invested in influencers, and not even remotely academic, which is genuinely shocking to me.

From the emergencyintercom community on Reddit: Elisa’s Insta Story

Explore this post and more from the emergencyintercom community

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Just got in the mail today the absolutely gorgeous Korean translation of Materialist Media Theory! Thanks to Sungyong Ahn for sending it along!

New in Social Media + Society ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Bollmer, G., & Tillerson, B. (2025). Platform Fandom: Weverse and the Technological Domestication of Fan Community #FanStudies journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Platform Fandom: Weverse and the Technological Domestication of Fan Community - Grant Bollmer, Bethany Tillerson, 2025

This article is a critical examination of the social media platform Weverse and its associated e-commerce platform Weverse Shop, platforms developed and operate...

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It’s day 2 in the book exhibit at #SCMS25 #SCMS2025! Stop by and see us @uminnpress.bsky.social or check out our online exhibit at www.upress.umn.edu/scms25/ for 30% off!

Checked out the #scms25 book room - you can pick up The Affect Lab from @uminnpress.bsky.social but The Influencer Factory has already been accounted for! @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Perhaps you don't want to hear anything about the American tech industry and Silicon Valley--well, can I interest you in this brand new article which I coauthored with a former undergrad student at NC State, on the Korean media platform Weverse and the political economy of K-pop fandom!

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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If you're at #SCMS25 and want to hear some papers about how terrible the tech industry is, how it's going to destroy the world, etc. etc., then head over to the Fairmont Crystal room today at 2:15!

What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.

“The scariest words in the English language are ‘I’m from the private sector and I’m here to maximize efficiency.’”