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Jennifer Blaylock

@jennblaylock.bsky.social

assistant professor of radio, television & film at rowan university | feminist & postcolonial african media histories | nyu miap | she/her

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Eric Hayot@ehayot.bsky.social · 6d ago

Penn State Comp Lit departmental statement on in-class tech use (recommended), posting here in case you are working on one of your own or want to use/copy/edit for yourself.

Research on the use of laptops, phones, and tablets in classrooms consistently shows that students who use those technologies—even if they are taking notes or looking at course slides—learn less in class than those who do not. Students who use such technologies also impact the learning of others, since flashing screens create consistent forms of classroom distraction. Best practices on technology use in classroom suggest that it works best when it is used socially—as when students look together at the slides for the lecture or work in groups on a specific project. Research also shows that students who take notes by hand learn more than those who type them onto a computer. As a result, unless you have a specific accommodation request from SDR that requires the use of this kind of technology or are explicitly directed to use a device for a collaborative classroom activity, you are not allowed to use laptops, tablets, phones, recording devices, smart glasses, or any other screens or screen-adjacent technology in this classroom.
Association of Adaptation Studies@adaptstudies.bsky.social · last wk.

How about Emily Wilson talking about Nolan's film with an adaptation scholar? Can we make this happen?? 👀 👀 👀

Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒@cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · last wk.

I'd love to hear her talk about Nolan's adaptation with a film scholar. Essentially, a conversation about what The Odyssey has traditionally meant (the classist perspective) and what this new version is trying to convey (the film studies perspective).

Criterion Channel@criterionchannl.bsky.social · 4w ago

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch our BlackStar Film Festival Presents collection! Now in its 15th year, the BlackStar Film Festival was established in 2012 to platform the voices of Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists who expand the possibilities of cinematic storytelling.

Rosemary Joyce@rajoyce.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Anthropological research on subsistence is offered in the dangerous and authoritarian “report” on the humanities as a key example of supposed ideological weakening of scholarship. This critique begins to show how the key example cited actually proves the opposite. Let’s go into it in some depth 1/

Academic Authoritarianism in New Attack on Humanities Scholars

There is virtually no evidence offered in the report for its sweeping conclusions about the entirety of the humanities.

insidehighered.com

Jennifer Blaylock@jennblaylock.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I recently joined the editorial advisory board for the new book series Women's Broadcasting Histories at University of Exeter Press. If you or someone you know has a book project in the area, please feel free to reach out to me. I would be more than happy to connect you with the editors.

Women’s Broadcasting Histories opens up new directions in the history of gendered work and representation in radio, television and related media. It is global in scope, inviting gendered histories from multiple regions and periods. The series welcomes works that: – highlight hitherto invisible or devalued work in ‘hidden professions’ of broadcasting – explore how gendered roles intersect with race, class and other social positions – develop transnational approaches that focus on networks of knowledge and exchange, as well as paths of migration, often erased in national histories – de-centre the main broadcasting institutions to include perspectives from groups such as community broadcasters, women’s and LGBTQ+ movements and activist networks, and trade unions – offer transmedial perspectives that show how women’s work and expertise moves into and out of media domains from adjacent areas ranging from costuming to education and beyond – address the structural neglect and erasure of women within archives, by identifying gaps in the historical record and adopting methodological frameworks that address such fissures Books in the series are devoted to broadcasting, but the series adopts an non-essentialized, expansive view of the media to include analogue, wired and digitally distributed content, thus taking in phenomena such as internet broadcasting, streaming media, and digital platforms, and exploring how new developments have disrupted and transformed gendered labour, workflows, expertise, content and environments. The series encompasses edited works and full-length monographs as well as compacts: shorter monographs that focus on gendered broadcasting history through a specific role, site, or object (such as assistant directors, camera operators, writers’ rooms, or tape splicers).
Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Three things said about AI and social science: it's a topic to study, a thing to critique, a tool to use. My new Daedalus essay argues these aren't three conversations; they're one. A 🧵 on "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object, and Tool." www.amacad.org/publication/...

Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool

Uses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools...

amacad.org

Jennifer Blaylock@jennblaylock.bsky.social · 3mo ago

At an exhibit of Sylvia Wynter’s papers at Duke University, I was struck by the presentation of her notes. Not for further insight into her brilliance, but as evidence of the friction of thought. The work of thinking that AI “brainstorming” erases. Scribbles of process that capture our humanity.

Exhibition case with four different examples of Wynter’s notes. She writes in large letters ignoring the lines of the note paper.
Jennifer Blaylock@jennblaylock.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Doing research on Ayi Kwei Armah's book "Fragments" and found this advertisement in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University. Armah describes this advertisement in a scene when Baako, Araba, and his mother are discussing when to have an outdooring for Araba's son.

An advertisement for a skin-lightening cream targeting black men. The advertisement has water damage making the face of the central man unclear. But there is a male and female couple with light skin surrounded by four dark skinned black people (three men and one woman). They are all drinking, what appears to be alcohol. The man at the center wears a suit and looks smartly at the camera as everyone else looks at him. The dark skinned woman wears Kente cloth. The light skinned woman wears a cocktail dress.
Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Data centers are a physical manifestation of AI infrastructure and they've become a flashpoint precisely because they're tractable. They exist in specific places, consume specific resources, can be seen and pointed to. I spoke with @lorenaoneil.com @rollingstone.com about our urgent AI reckoning.

Lorena O’Neil@lorenaoneil.com · 4mo ago

“The negative sentiment around AI has been growing steadily, and what’s changed is that the public has developed both the vocabulary and the lived experience to name what’s bothering them,” says Alondra Nelson, who led Biden's Office of Science and Tech Policy

Jennifer Blaylock@jennblaylock.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The digital version is finally up! If you don't have institutional access but would like to read it, please reach out to me. I can send you a PDF. muse.jhu.edu/pub/27/artic...

Project MUSE -- Verification required!

muse.jhu.edu

Jennifer Blaylock@jennblaylock.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I'm so excited! My new article just came out with Discourse. This has been a labor of love and I am so thrilled to have it out in the world. In it I follow the Ghanaian adaptation of Hamlet, (Hamile) across media to challenge "the medium is the message." digitalcommons.wayne.edu/discourse/vo...