Dr. Molly Schneider
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TV Historian. she/her Out now from University of Texas Press: Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama & Midcentury American Culture https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477329276/
Did an interview for the podcast "The Callback with Lauren Allen," which takes a historical look at works that have won Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and Tonys. It was a fun time talking about this early anthology episode that won the very first Emmy. Check it out! youtu.be/uvQqmaEPT3U?...
The Callback with Lauren Allen - Your Show Time (1949) - With Dr. Molly Schneider- Emmys
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Hey, media studies folks! Just a reminder that today is our (official) deadline for chapter proposals for Atomic TV. Send us those ideas, friends! CFP: tinyurl.com/3f4f9axy #AtomicTV @scms-tv.bsky.social @tv-radio-history.bsky.social @warstudiessig.bsky.social @misig-scms.bsky.social
Hey, guess what? @utexaspress.bsky.social is having its annual summer sale. What a great time to pick up ✨Gold Dust on the Air✨as your summer beach read 😅. Grab some other UT Press books while you're at it! 40% off print and 50% off ebooks with the code UTXSUMMER. utpress.utexas.edu/9781477329276/
Hey, media studies folks! Sending out a reminder as our proposal deadline approaches. We hope you'll consider submitting a proposal for our edited collection on #AtomicTV! tinyurl.com/3f4f9axy @tv-radio-history.bsky.social @scms-tv.bsky.social @misig-scms.bsky.social @warstudiessig.bsky.social
I've been seeing a lot of Waymo driverless cars around LA, and today I had to change lanes in front of one, and I was hesitating for a moment, wondering whether this thing was going to recognize my blinker and let me in. It did. But I had to ask a robot permission to change lanes today, you guys.
Listen, when you're walking around Los Feliz and the universe leads you to the House of Pies, by gum you abide. 🤩
Ahh yes, the age-old research trip packing conundrum: hot climate, but frigid archives/libraries/venues. Strategizing modular layers + suitcase physics is a delicate science. #ArchiveFever
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We're finally actually putting some art on the walls in our new place, so I got to unwrap this beauty. Original lobby poster for Summer Stock (MGM, 1950). My favorite parts are the little creases and details in the corners. #MediaArchaeology
LA friends! I'll be in town for most of May for research. Would love to see some folks if you're around!
I ordered the DVD set of the FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON miniseries so I could have some of the special features, and my word, what a holographic monument to the golden age of collector's edition DVD sets. 😂 #MediaArchaeology
I'm rewatching FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, but did not realize that the episode I downloaded to watch on the plane was all about the Apollo 1 fire that killed 3 astronauts trapped inside the module during testing. Great airplane watching. 😬 I'm sure my seatmates thought I was a horrible ghoul.
I'm off to Vegas for the Broadcast Education Association conference. It's part of the big NAB Show, which is kind of a trip. Doing a panel on teaching TV History in the Streaming Era with Nora Patterson and Kyra Hunting! Also gonna carve out time for the Punk Rock Museum and the Neon Museum. ✨
Listen, children...they used to mail you the internet. #MediaArchaeology Josh Johnson FTW, as usual. @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social
Are you too young to remember this?
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So of course the day after everyone leaves town from #SCMS26, it's 79F and sunny in Chicago. As usual, March weather in the Chi is straight petty. 😂
A million thanks to everyone who made #SCMS26 happen, including SCMS staff and committee members, hotel staff, vendors, etc. Your labor is visible and appreciated!
Awesome to see everyone at #SCMS26! Thanks for the exciting work, the commiseration, and the care in times of uncertainty.
Last panel slot! Local folks who don't have to get to the airport gotta take it over the finish line. Let's do this. 👍 #SCMS26
Once again sharing my annual advice for conference-going: Be sure to eat a vegetable every once in a while. It's easy to get to Day 3 feeling like garbage and then realize you've only eaten granola bars and bar food. Eat a plant when you can. (And drink water and not just coffee!) #SCMS26
Super pumped for our roundtable "TV and Catastrophe: Revisiting Classical Questions." We're in the Friday night slot, so I won't be sad if you bring a cocktail. #SCMS26 #SCMS2026 #TVStudies
CFP, hot off the presses! Stacy Takacs and I are co-editing a book on Atomic TV, and we hope you'll consider submitting a chapter proposal. #TVstudies #atomicTV #TVhistory @scms-tv.bsky.social @tv-radio-history.bsky.social @misig-scms.bsky.social @warstudiessig.bsky.social bit.ly/4lRzbwH
Call for Chapters - Atomic TV.docx
Call for Chapter Proposals – Atomic TV Submission deadline: June 15th, 2026 This proposed edited collection, Atomic TV, seeks to address the relationship between television and “atomic” history, cul...
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Hey, SoCal friends/colleagues! Looks like I'll be in LA for most of May for research. Would love to see some folks while I'm there! (I'm also available to visit classes, give talks, etc., if you want to subject yourselves & your students to my particular brand of nerdery.) #ArchiveFever #TVhistory
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 5mo agoResult! Just received from Grammarly: "Hi, Thank you for reaching out. After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces." 1/ 🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky
In which journalist, critic, and all-around badass @moryan.bsky.social reads Grammarly to absolute filth for being slop merchants and robber-barons. Read it, if only to see a work of takedown beauty, written by an actual human.
Mo Ryan@moryan.bsky.social · 5mo agoI finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
Dear hivemind: What are you cooking/baking these days that you really love? I have a tendency toward feckless doomscrolling, and cooking has been one thing that helps me refocus toward tangible action. What are you making these days that especially brings you joy, nourishment, peace, etc.?
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So pumped to be doing an SCMS roundtable titled “TV and Catastrophe: Revisiting Classical Questions” with Kelly Kessler, Aniko Bodroghkozy @anikob.bsky.social, Samantha Janes, and Emily Saidel! #SCMS26 #SCMS2026 #TVstudies #TVhistory
Crowdsource request: Hey, film & TV savvy people! I'm doing a trivia session during our new student welcome event tomorrow, and I'm still writing the questions. If you've got a good trivia question related to film & TV (or media more broadly), sound off in the replies!
Hello, colleagues! I'm putting together a proposed #SCMS26 panel on Television and Catastrophe. (I know at least one of you has to be working on Chernobyl, right?) Hope you'll consider sending me a topic proposal! See my call for panelists here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #SCMSTV #TVSIG
Hello, colleagues! I'm putting together a proposed #SCMS26 panel on Television and Catastrophe. (I know at one of you has to be working on Chernobyl, right?) Hope you'll consider sending me a topic proposal! See my call for panelists here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #SCMSTV #TVSIG