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mediastudies

a place to discuss the internet and the creation, distribution, and impact of new media

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If AI email products like @richie’s Forage and Cora from Every win, then the value of an “owned audience” in the form of an email list decreases dramatically. Emails get summarized by AI. You only see what the filter wants you to see. And you’ll like it! Who *does* win in that world?

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There seems to be a mismatch between what a social network algorithm wants -showing top quality content to users- and what its users want -to not only read quality content but be shown to others, even if they are bad posters-. This paradox is intrinsic to the read-write mindset of web2 media

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new book Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 is out today via MIT Press! Why did the best-selling Commodore 64 vanish from many histories—and how did it thrive for 12 years instead of just a few? Explore its Five Lives and its unexpected renaissance. Perfect for fans of tech, games, and nostalgia. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549516/too-much-fun/

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📚 'Understanding Data, Culture and Society' is out this December! Dive into the world of datafication and explore how data shapes every aspect of our lives. https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/understanding-data-culture-and-society/book262678

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publication of the book "Twitch", in Polity's "Digital Media and Society" series. It's the most up-to-date academic overview of Twitch out at the moment, and the first ever summation of an entire decade of Twitch research (a sentence that is alarming to write, since it feels like only yesterday I thought "you know what, this whole game streaming thing looks interesting"). You can check it out here: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=twitch--9781509558582

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The special issue, “The Global Social Mediascape of Feminism and Misogyny,” has just been published in /Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images/ by Michigan Publishing. This issue aims to counterbalance the often US- or UK-centric discourse of post-feminism in social media by offering both theoretical perspectives and case studies that explore various facets and socio-political contexts of contemporary digital feminism and misogyny from a global perspective. The issue is available as open access on the journal’s website: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/gs/issue/300/info/

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YouTube's latest report highlights a trend Henry Jenkins identified in the '90s: participatory culture is reshaping pop culture. Fans aren't just consuming content; they're creating and driving it. Jenkins' vision of active, engaged audiences is now mainstream, with YouTube as the hub for collective cultural experiences https://www.youtube.com/trends/report/2024-year-on-youtube/?utm_source=tldrmarketing https://13188848dl18.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/week-4-rec-reading.pdf

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a survey of TikTok users exploring the impact of parasocial relationships on trust in political information received from social media influencers on TikTok. The survey can be found here : https://dom.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ddsJW8GC0aOB9r0

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Appropriate, negotiate, challenge: Activist imaginaries and the politics of digital technologies Elisabetta Ferrari _www.ucpress.edu/books/appropriate-negotiate-challenge/ Activists use digital technologies to communicate, coordinate, and organize for social change. But these big corporate digital platforms are also used to spread disinformation, racism, and abuse. /Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge/ investigates the relationship between activism and technology, focusing on how activists think and talk about technology’s role in social change and what this tells us about the politics of digital technologies.

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Explaining the difference in methodology 🕺

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A publication that might be hopefully of interest to many: the book "Quantum Ecology: Why and How New Information Technologies Will Reshape Societies", co-authored by Dr Stefano Calzati (TU Delft) and Derrick de Kerckhove (Polytechnic University of Milan), is released open access by MIT Press. Here the synopsis and the link for download: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5872/Quantum-EcologyWhy-and-How-New-Information

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(un)real data ☁️ – (🧊)real effects explores the inherent ambiguity of data as an opportunity to not only describe the world but strategically intervene in it. https://aksioma.org/unrealdata-book

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📚 New book explores the multiverse beyond sci-fi tropes! International scholars examine how 'other worlds' collide & reshape our understanding of time, identity & culture. A fresh take on how fictional universes influence contemporary storytelling. https://www.routledge.com/The-Multiverse-as-Theory-in-Postmodern-Speculative-Fictional-Narratives/CabreraTorrecilla-SaezdeAdana/p/book/9781032699752

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Monday Morning musings.. When did we all got collectively stuck in our childhood? https://paragraph.xyz/@rm/never-ending-childhood

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The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection, available open access! https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publications/digital-backlash-and-paradoxes-disconnection The contributions of this book demonstrate that we are currently in a historical moment of digital backlash and explore how this backlash is expressed across different domains of society. Individuals, workplaces, and institutions debate how to balance the use of digital devices, yet complete disconnection is rarely an option. This book delves into the reactions to intense digitalisation and the dilemmas faced by those who push back.

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