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Unbelievable Tracy Chapman show just preserved by the Aadam Jacobs Collection project.
With body cameras making headlines again - and the terrific @lastweektonight.com episode about it - I suggest that βif we want body cameras to make law enforcement more accountable, we must first ensure that the law is even-handed when it comes to cameras.β www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/04/o...
Check out Jason Loviglio's new book "Empathy Machines," which looks at the history of NPR, sound, voice, and public media's complex relationship with national ideology.
I was actually a Chicago Public School kid who spent the first part of his career in Washington DC. Detroit is a perfect kind of city for me.
Delighted to give an invited talk about the history of public media policy in the symposium "Canceling the State: Legal and Political Backlash Against Public Institutions," at Wayne State University.
Looking forward to co-presenting an invited talk with @sadiecouture.bsky.social at the German Historical Institute in Washington DC.
We'll discuss how we built - and more importantly have sustained - our Library of Congress academic/federal collaborative research project, now in its 12th year.
Media Studiesβ Dr. Josh Shepperd is completing the final project of the now-defunct CPB: the official history of US public media. Stay tuned.
βThe most bitter newsβ: Iran reels as more than 100 children reportedly killed in school bombing www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Definitely a last chapter that we didnβt expect to write.
We are now accepting submissions for papers, video + audio projects, creative work, works in progress, and group projects.
Share the work youβve developed in MDST with faculty, friends, and the broader community.
Deadline: March 30
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We have a word for this in media history. It's called propaganda.
Alternatives to media capture and oligarchical ownership models are not only possible, these histories are already present.
Listen to Victor. Today's news about further ownership and information consolidation by Paramount is case in point that highlights the dramatic decline of informational diversity and democratic voice in the U.S.
"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot"
HELL. YES.
Realized today that I'm working on the last and final project of the now-defunct Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Which is the official history of US public media, with Allison Perlman (Irvine), and Mike Janssen (Current).
BREAKING: Protests have erupted at Columbia University after the school says DHS agents detained a student after making "misrepresentations to gain entry" to building.
Book cover for Film Diplomacy: A Media History of TurkeyβUS Relations by AyΕehan JΓΌlide Etem. The top half features bold red and white title text on a dark blue background. Below, a black-and-white archival photograph shows several men operating film cameras and tripods on a hillside overlooking a dense cityscape, suggesting documentary or state media production. The authorβs name appears at the bottom on a blue band.
Very excited to announce my first book πͺ Film Diplomacy π½οΈ is forthcoming with @columbiaup.bsky.social.
Despite it all, our collaborative federal/academic research project has been renewed for two more years. Still featuring hundreds of scholars, archivists, curators, and policy analysts. We might be the last game in town for Film and Media Studies, but the need for memory research continues...
RIP - Γliane Radigue is of the great avant-garde composers of world history. If you havenβt listened to her compositions yet, today is a great place to start.
Good point - I'm worried about this one though, it endeavors for a total redesign not just of institutions, but how research itself is conducted, including how we ourselves think.
I agree - it's useful for some metadata queries too, but they have to be cross-triangulated to make sure results aren't hallucinated. I'm speaking more against this month's claims by AI dudes that scholars no longer have to think through problems because of LLM, which I'm sure we agree about.
Itβs true it doesnβt take long to figure it out
I know it seems natural to AI dudes, but I am so confused by their politics
If I'm being an idealist here, papers symbolize a process of thought, comparison, critique, testing hypotheses, and expertise. Which makes us better teachers. But the system might well have already moved into something more nihilistic, as you note here.
Nope.
It takes a huge amount of expertise to be good at counterintelligence. Extremely rare skill.
At some point, people started to associate skill with βgoodness.β Being good at something doesnβt mean that youβre βgood.β Because Carlson is certainly not good. But he has training.
People surprised about the depth of the Tucker Carlson interview forget that his dad was Dick Carlson, Director of Voice of America and the CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Tucker is a journalism nepo baby who has top training. Heβs just a terrible person.
