Ya know I want to say it’s disability pride month and then make a cute remark about web accessibility.
But instead I need to say it’s disability pride month, every elected official voting to take away healthcare needs to be removed from office.
Web accessibility is a drop in an ocean of needs.
The dismediation stuff by Mills and Sterne tackles McLuhan but not Hall, I think.
This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*
While the university has ended the group's special status designation, with the support of the student body, student guides are doubling down on their commitment to share their campus’ history.
SCOOP: FEMA employees tell WIRED that a rapid erosion of tools, external partnerships, and practices—as well as the looming threat of staffing cuts—is bad news for the country as it heads into the summer, and the official start of hurricane season.
I’m on my third flight delay for #scms25, but at least I’m sleeping at home and not waking up at 3:30am now?
They can't actually dismantle the ADA. Of course, like all everything else, they're doing it without going through Congress. Just mumbling and pointing to Trump's EO. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m so sorry to hear this. I owe so much to Jonathan’s generosity and guidance—he was the mentor I try to live up to with my own students and junior colleagues.
Fascinating example of appropriating access tools to construct misinformation.
The world is on fire, so who you gonna call?
www.withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/call...
A reminder that many of our emergency resources are actually hyperlocal in their funding and operation, meaning that they may not work seamlessly but they are available for our attention and direct activism.
Republicans are going to harm kids who will be future American adults. We can build people up, which helps us all, or tear people down, which hurts us all.
Republicans are tearing people down.
"Attacks on disabled Americans and the policies we rely on lie at the core of so much of MAGA culture."
"How is it possible that so many people in power seem to have such stunted imaginations, so little curiosity for how to build this world to include more of us? I find this particularly repugnant when imagination and curiosity are some of the most defining traits of the very groups at risk."
Applications are due on March 7! Learn more at this link: labsforliberation.org/2025/01/22/a...
It is *very* important to understand that Jews were never the only target of the 1930s Nazis and they are not the only targets of today’s Nazis. A Nazi salute is not only antisemitic. It is also racist, ableist, and queerphobic.
The US Access Board--who creates and maintains access standards for buildings, telecom, transit, web, etc--has a legally-mandated annual meeting. Was supposed to be next week. Now "postponed" with no reason given and no reschedule date. www.access-board.gov/about/meetin...
A statement on the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a statement of the Communication, Culture and Critique editorial collective, Jan. 17, 2025
ABSTRACT: Communication, Culture and Critique has been the leading venue for critical approaches to communication and media studies. This issue marks the first guided by a newly formed Editorial Collective, which seeks to rekindle the politically engaged scholarship epitomized by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in the 1970s, then under the leadership of Stuart Hall. As we assume our responsibility to guide this journal and impact our fields, we would be remiss to ignore the glaring epicenter of the prevailing global order’s efforts to reproduce itself: the State of Israel’s ongoing campaign of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and its gradual expansion into the West Bank. As scholars of communication, media, culture, and technology, we cannot remain silent nor neutral in the face of livestreamed genocidal violence. We invite scholars of conscience to join us in calls for ceasefire and divestment against Israeli apartheid.
Proud to announce I've joined the newly formed editorial collective of Communication, Culture & Critique. We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and call on our colleagues to stand against Israeli apartheid and the effects of genocide in Gaza.
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We're wrapping up the week by spotlighting some fresh releases from NYUP!
Leading the lineup is "Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India" by @tupur.bsky.social, highlighting how multiplex cinemas have reshaped the dynamics of theater space and culture in New Delhi.
Syllabus time! I'm updating a grad-level Histories of Media Technologies course, and would like 2-3 new readings on game history (ideally, showcasing a diversity of eras, nations, platforms, and/or identities). What's new? What's good?
"Ableism isn’t just about disability. It’s connected to other forms of structural oppression and has always been," James Salanga says. "If newsrooms want to cover that seriously, they must begin analyzing ableism seriously — across journalism’s culture, history, and frames."
I'm at @theverge.com today talking about digital decay, link rot, watching my work slowly being erased from the internet, and how it makes me feel like I am fading away.
I've felt like getting really into zines lately, here's another good excuse to do so!
"Around three out of every four PDF versions of scholarly papers are largely inaccessible to low-vision and blind readers, a study has found."
"academic journals rarely provide information about accessibility for scientists with visual impairment"
#accessibility #disability #science
We made a zine! Artist Katie Drackert created a printable mini-magazine of our first year’s highlights!
We wanted to bring The Sick Times offline and into coffee shops, art fairs, community centers, mask bloc distributions, and anywhere else our readers want to share our work. bit.ly/3AVNltG
Mary Beltrán’s work on J Lo’s butt comes to mind, but I can’t remember if it highlights any butt shots specifically!
This issue’s Spotlight introduces the Disability Caucus—origins, leadership, and goals for the future of @scmstudies.bsky.social
Two years into the AI boom, it's imperative we understand the true power of "AGI"—as a narrative tool useful for winning investment, talent and headlines.
My report for AI Now details how OpenAI used the story of a rising AI that will replace humans to replace the need for an actual business model.
A 50's style woman holding a smart phone with a speech bubble that reads in all-caps, Stop Surveilling Your Kids, and underneath it reads, A Privacy Manifesto.
OK, here it is! My zine, Stop Surveilling Your Kids: A Privacy Manifesto is done and scanned and ready to share! drive.google.com/file/d/1sEJV...
Abstract of essay “Projection Instructions and the Distribution of Expanded Cinema” by Josh Guilford. This article examines expanded cinema's relationship to distribution by analyzing the rental histories of early works of expanded cinema that are distributed through the Film-Makers' Cooperative (FMC) and which were designed to circulate with written projection instructions. The FMC's archival records demonstrate that projection instructions enabled these works to travel to a range of exhibition venues across the continental United States during expanded cinema's period of emergence. Examining these records reveals new aspects of expanded cinema's history, geography, and politics.
Essay about the distribution of expanded cinemas using rental archival records from the Film-Makers’ Cooperative?! Count me in! Look forward to reading Josh Guilford’s “Projection Instructions + the Distribution of Expanded Cinema” in new issue of jcmsjournal.bsky.social!
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