Join the SCMS TV SIG at the upcoming conference for our SIG Happy Hour from 5-7pm on Friday, 3/27! We'll be at 2twenty2 Tavern. Also check out our sponsored panels, and get in touch with us if you have any questions!

how and why was it decided that the academic jobs wiki would be hosted on a fandom platform

anyone want to team up for scms 👀 i work on TV (esp reality TV), digital cultures and subcultures, unscripted content (TV and digital), and social media/platform studies and creator culture, w/ emphases on race, gender, and labor!

Society for Cinema and Media Studies@scmstudies.bsky.social · last yr.

Conference proposal and award submission portals are now open! Questions? Be sure to check the General Conference Guidelines and Procedures on our website. #SCMS26 Read more here: conta.cc/40ac5rj

Today I taught the last class of my summer reality TV course. This fall, I'm going on the academic job market for the first time. I told my students at the end of class that there is a non-zero chance that they may be the last students & this may be the last class I ever teach at the college level 😭

as a romcom aficionado, a frequent moviegoer, & someone who has done a fair bit of dating, i really did not like celine song's MATERIALISTS. the film is nice to look at, but weirdly cast, weirdly written, & honestly circles back around to propping up the incel-like dating ethos it's trying to skewer

Start your weekend with MTC Summer reads and join us for any and all! More information on our website mid-theory.com/reading/

Mid Theory Collective@mid-theory.bsky.social · last yr.

This summer MTC will be running two reading groups, one fiction and one theory. We hope you can join us for one or both. You can find more information on our website: mid-theory.com/reading/

sometimes the hardest part is getting started! tell your friends, your students ✨

Mid Theory Collective@mid-theory.bsky.social · last yr.

In addition to our reading groups, MTC will host a writing workshop on job market materials this summer. First meeting will be June 27th @ 2pm ET. Second meeting first week of August, date TBD. More information: mid-theory.com/mtc-writing-...

Come read good stuff with us!!!

Mid Theory Collective@mid-theory.bsky.social · last yr.

This summer MTC will be running two reading groups, one fiction and one theory. We hope you can join us for one or both. You can find more information on our website: mid-theory.com/reading/

some days my work really makes me feel tired and frustrated, and other days what i get to do for work is pick which drag race lip syncs i'm going to include in my lecture about reality tv and queer politics, and i remember how cool and lucky my life is

i know this is not the central cultural event right now but i have to express that it’s been a LONG time since i have instinctively and immediately hated reality cast members as much as i hate nic, austin, and belle-a on the current season of #LoveIslandUSA

in lieu of cultural consensus around a “song of the summer” this year i am making an executive decision that the song of the summer is “heaven or las vegas” by cocteau twins

This year, in the absence of any media outlet or corporation asking me to write about Pride, I challenged myself to write a Pride essay I’d actually want to read. This is what I wrote. open.substack.com/pub/johnpaul...

Shelter

An autobiography in Pride Months

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me, this morning in therapy: “so have you ever read anything by the philosopher ludwig wittgenstein?”

This summer MTC will be running two reading groups, one fiction and one theory. We hope you can join us for one or both. You can find more information on our website: mid-theory.com/reading/

For MTC, Emily Coccia reads the class and political evolution of Severance and why love stories are bad actually. mid-theory.com/2025/06/02/l...

Love Will Keep Us Together (Trapped on the Severed Floor)

The shift from the outward-facing politics of severance to the intrapersonal desires of the severed is the political problem of season two in a nutshell. In a climactic, chaotic moment from the sea…

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showing my class (all born after 2003) a clip from FX's horrible 2006 reality show Black.White. today wish me luck

i am so proud & honored to have gotten to write about My So-Called Life and the genre of the teen drama (& to put all of the hours of my life burned away watching teen TV to use) for the @atpost45.bsky.social cluster on MSCL, edited by the brilliant @dfmorgan.bsky.social! post45.org/2025/05/my-s...

My So-Called Teen Dramas - Post45

I came into adolescence in the age of the supernatural teen drama. Spanning across novels, television, and film from the mid-aughts through the 2010s, the likes of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight, The CW’s...

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New cluster!! post45.org/contemporari... ❣️ 📺 ⌨️ 🥰 Edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social ! "My So-Called Life at 30" features essays on intimacy, literacy, fan studies, mobility, migration, dance, beauty culture, teen dramas, Winnie Holzman, diaspora and fandom, narratology, over-analysis, & more!

Contemporaries - Post45

Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...

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i don't really understand why the writers of And Just Like That seem determined above all else to humiliate the show's lead characters? like that is the engine of this show for some reason

🗣️ *My So-Called Life* turned 30 (1994-1995) this year! We've got a cluster for you, stay tuned— Ed. by @dfmorgan.bsky.social, & ft. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social, Steven T. Gravatt, @cmceleney.bsky.social, @elishacohn.bsky.social, @mythrijega.bsky.social, @ehl.bsky.social, @oliviastowell.bsky.social

wow last night’s episode of hacks was an all timer

now WHAT WAS THAT from david????? #survivor

one thing i don’t understand about new era survivor is the idea that winning final four firemaking “proves” anything. this narrative keeps coming up and i just do not see it—if i were a juror i do not see why who wins firemaking would affect my decision at all

watching the western conference finals tomorrow as a part of a date which team should i decide to root for (i don’t even know what teams are in it)

i really enjoyed reading this review by Anna Aguiar Kosicki of Hannah Zeavin's new book MOTHER MEDIA proteanmag.com/2025/05/20/t...

The Parent Test • Protean Magazine

Anna Aguiar Kosicki reviews Hannah Zeavin's new book "Mother Media", calling it "an intellectual reappraisal of the history of technological mothering [which] casts much quietly accepted knowledge in ...

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it’s amazing how no matter how much you tidy and clean your apartment it never really feels ✨clean✨ until you vacuum

i am sooooo excited to join the SCMS TV SIG board as the grad student rep!!!

SCMS TV SIG@scms-tv.bsky.social · last yr.

We are pleased to announce the results of our TV SIG Board election! Our new First Year Board Rep will be Ben Kruger-Robbins. Our new Grad Student Rep will be Olivia Stowell. Congrats to both! Let's also enthusiastically thank all of our candidates for their willingness to serve. 📺 #SCMSTV #TVSIG

less "who's rogan of the left" and more "how do we get rid of podcasts"

Are you a graduate student interested in sound studies? Are you a humanist looking to connect with scholars in film and media studies? We’ve got a mentorship program set up through BEA, SCMS, and the Library of Congress RPTF. Currently several dozen scholars and students participating.

Josie@jotorresbarth.bsky.social · last yr.

Please RT! Radio/sound scholars: June 15 is LAST CALL to sign up for the @rptf.bsky.social /BEA/RAMP SIG mentorship program. Senior scholars looking to mentor grad students/ECRs for a 1 year term are especially encouraged to join. Sign up at the BEA website: bea.memberclicks.net/login#/login

between the current season of survivor and the current season of the rehearsal, this reality tv season has included some really fascinating and complex representations of autism