Steph Brown

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Join us for our first event of 2026!

Yep, this is what I’ve been thinking this whole year as I’ve been cheering for the team (but also mostly cheering for the band)

I’ve been looking for research about this very thing! Have you published on bot-like talking points in online discourse? Are there theoretical terms for it?

We won, like, 12 games total the entire time I was at IU. The band had rose bowl logos on the back of our t-shirts every year as a joke.

I am so happy for the band kids.

My IU marching band besties group chat is going wild.

We’re watching at a bar in DE and I’m only hearing cheers for IU

Remix these works for a chance at fame & glory! Submissions are still open for the 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest: blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...

Criticize, obviously. Every social media platform is bad. it’s the condescension about short form video being inherently awful that I get prickly about sometimes.

Thank *you* for doing your part to bridge the millennial/gen z divide 😎

I haven’t been watching as many comedy specials as I used to, so I went wild and watched 7 this week after seeing Guy Branum’s new show in Philly (go see it if you have a chance!!) Sometimes when you study a thing for awhile you forget to enjoy it.

This app seems generally negative toward Tiktok, but Tiktok is the only reason I found Gaydar, one of my favorite shows.

The best part of the ep was watching the young ones in the comments discover how delightful Josh is.

Someone Has To Save The Film And TV That Studios Won’t | Defector HBO had a series of legendary stand-up specials in the 1990s, and one of the best of those came from a performer who was not a comedian. Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants was incredibly funny, but Jay…

Someone has to save the film and TV that studios won't: defector.com/someone-has-...

oh my god, I read one on a Chris Fleming clip a few weeks ago and I was so mad there was an AI summary but also the summary was so nonsensical that it did make me laugh against my will.

I wrote a rec letter this week and noticed an annoying wording mistake after I sent it off. But, I thought, well at least they won’t think it’s AI. 💀

I used to get really paranoid about typos or small grammar issues in my writing, but lately I’ve noticed I’ve been more relaxed about it bc mistakes are recognizably human and I’m sick of reading inhuman garbage.

Everyone is rushing to publish papers that they don’t have time to produce and no one has time to read.

Part of the issue, as this points out, is that, “higher education has been organized around the production of knowledge-shaped objects.”

AI has amplified already existing issues of productivity for productivity’s sake.

This is next up on my list! I saw one critic ask “Who is this for?” because it was off-putting and didn’t ring “true” to her experience. But why do portrayals of motherhood have to be *relatable*

Thank you @jennblaylock.bsky.social @stephbrown.bsky.social @lisawj.bsky.social for convening such a thoughtful event. Here’s link to @jcmsjournal.bsky.social's "Teaching Media" dossier page for links to all the “Experiments in Ungrading” contributions
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

Since our fucking government isn’t observing World AIDS Day, I will. In 1990, I started taking care of people in the last stages of AIDS in their homes. I did this for nearly two years. The home care company I worked for had meetings for those of us who solely (or nearly solely) took care of PWAs.

Yes! I’ve read a whole bunch of books this year I never would have known about if not for walking around the library.

Mark your calendars!

I continue to pay for and read @defector.com even though I am totally not a sports person because they keep making space for genuinely lovely and intelligent writing on all kinds of subjects (...and for David J. Roth occasionally eviscerating a politician with brutal glee). This is the former.

I’ve been trying to get across a lesson around collage as a metaphor for theory and research — taking elements from different places and creating new meaning that wasn’t there before. I don’t know if they’re totally getting that part yet—but they love the arts and crafts element.

I’ve been experimenting this semester in my media theory class with collage making - and it has been going really well!

I’m going to curate them at the end of the semester into a class zine. And make it a more robust and integrated element in future versions of the class.

Yepppp.

It’s so frustrating! We have a printer in our building, but they keep shaming us for using it and trying to institute paper quotas.

“Bari is furiously trying to stop leakers,” three leakers told us.