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Dylan Young @dylanthebard.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Very belated post but this Barbie is published!!! A huge thank you to @askjerseth.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to co-author this chapter and to Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer for accepting it within the volume!

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

@alyxvesey.bsky.social just made my day, truly the media music/sound magic of #SCMS26 is happening! Head to the audio/sound/music media happy hour at Chicago Athletic Association Game Room (second floor) tonight, 5-7!

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Sound & Music SIG @soundmusicscms.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Happy Conference Week! We will be hosting a joint social event with the RAMP (Radio, Audio Media, and Podcasting) SIG on Thursday, March 26, from 5–7pm. Check your group messaging email for details.

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

#SCMS26 folks interested in sound studies, music studies, audio media, radio, podcasting, film/tv/game music, music videos, etc.—join the Sound & Music and Radio, Audio Media, & Podcasting scholarly interest groups for a happy hour tonight @ Chicago Athletic Association Game Room (2nd floor), 5-7pm!

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Landon Palmer @landonpalmer.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Looking forward to roundtabling with this fine company at #SCMS26 this week! @alyxvesey.bsky.social @askjerseth.bsky.social

An academic panel titled "Where the Needle Drops: The Place of the Record in the Digital Age" chaired by Alyxandra Vesey with the following presentations:

Amy Skjerseth, University of California, Riverside, “Sonic Vignettes: Scorpio Rising to Visualizers”
Seth Mulliken, Northeastern University, “Acousmatic strangeness/safety in ‘live’ music”
Jennifer Smart, Independent Scholar, “The unsettled needle drop in the reel and edit era”
Landon Palmer, University of Alabama, “‘Needle Drop’ as Historical Discourse and Practice”

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Kara Keeling's Queer Times, Black Futures has a chapter on Sun Ra! Also seconding Ted Gordon's book

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

It's the only way! I ended up with upwards of 70 post-it notes on the wall.

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

If you teach media, comm, and/or journalism, this short book will be great for your students - full of practical, evidence-based advice for navigating the hidden curriculum from college, to internships, to your first job link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Thriving as a Communication or PR Major

This book takes a storytelling approach to help prepare readers for a successful college career in the media industries.

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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 30/08/2025

🚨 humanities conference on podcasting 🚨 criesandwhispers2026.wordpress.com

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

[...] algorithmic technologies; and cultural trope remixing in performance and media art. Particularly welcome are investigations of how marginalized artists rework technological presets to circulate new meaning and expose latent power structures.

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

We invite papers that address presets in any medium. Topics could include: the politics of AI-generated imagery; race, gender and accessibility in default design; musical or sonic sampling; exploitation of aesthetic defaults in photography and screen-based art; [...]

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

We are asking: what kinds of agency exist within pre-coded environments? Can presets be thought beyond a poverty of expression to become sites of aesthetic and political experimentation?

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Beyond technological settings, presets encompass cultural defaults including gender normativity and Western privilege. These often invisible norms shape artistic production within today's technological networks, establishing constraints that artists variously adopt, modify, or subvert.

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Originally technical features "set or adjusted beforehand to facilitate use" (OED), presets have evolved from photography & music production shortcuts into pervasive aesthetic & ideological defaults across media: from synthesizer patches and Instagram filters to narrative tropes and user interfaces.

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Session Description: This panel explores presets—default configurations embedded in tools, platforms, and cultural forms—that shape contemporary art while raising critical questions about labor, originality, and automation.

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Art history+ colleagues, Susan Laxton and I invite you to submit an abstract for consideration in our College Art Association (Chicago, 2/18–21/26) session, "Artistic Presets: Technology, Labor, and Innovation." See caa.confex.com/caa/2026/web... to submit; we'll let you know by 9/16. Details below!

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

What a brilliant idea! I would love that (what a flavor combo too)

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Kaleb E. Goldschmitt @kgoldschmitt.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

New special issue from JPMS!! This was one of the last things that @ehphd.bsky.social, @ericdharvey.com and I started before finishing our terms. Congratulations to Alisha Lola Jones, @burrata.bsky.social, Matthew Jones for their work with Georgina Born and @anthroposound.bsky.social on this!!

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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Congrats, @askjerseth.bsky.social! This SIG is in "sure" hands.

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Alyx! This is the first time my name has been made into a pun, surprisingly. I love it, and thank you so much for your support and encouragement, as always!

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Thank you so much, SIG community, Arzu and Seth, and of course Landon, for serving the SIG so brilliantly! As a side note too, @landonpalmer.bsky.social was my assigned mentor while on the job market a few years ago and was absolutely incredible. I learned so much from his mentorship and leadership!

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Thinking of you and sending all of the speedy healing and good food and safety and care. Let me know if there’s anything I can do.

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Thank you so much--yes, will do! Great to be in touch and all the best for this amazing project!

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

You're so welcome, Sherri! I love the idea--I'm a popular music + audiovisual media scholar (Yoko Ono got me into it all)--and will be following news of this project!

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

A former student, Lola de la Mata, is a composer/installation artist probing sonic and visual representations of tinnitus; brief gloss of work here: www.loladelamata.com/pcst-tinnitu.... The super smart multimedia operas of www.loladelamata.com/pcst-tinnitu.... The animator Jodie Mack's soundtracks.

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PCST Tinnitus Choir WIP — LOLA DE LA MATA

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/05/2025

the industrial design on the OG walkman goes crazy

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

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

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Broadcast Education Association

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Landon Palmer @landonpalmer.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"We should practice close reading because it is good to read for truth and beauty, and even better without the pressure to instrumentalize this goal for economic ends—a criterion [...] that becomes more difficult for students to recognize with each passing year." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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The Invention of Close Reading

By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to turn postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art form?

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

"When I’m... walking[,] I try to cultivate the most bored state of mind imaginable. A total void of stimulation beyond the immediate environment... now believe with all my heart that it’s only in the crushing silences of boredom... that you can access your deepest creative wells."

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Craig Mod on the Creative Power of Walking

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. The fullest day I know of begins with taking a portrait of a stranger in the middle of nowhere by 10 a.m. I do this while …

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Thanks so much, Andy! That's so kind--I really appreciate you taking the time to listen. And yes, hooray for keeping media interfaces as weird as possible!

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Me too--hopefully they go back to all of them!

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Writing about push-button car radio presets has made me yearn for push-button tuning… and push-button everything again in cars.

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

@akstuhl.bsky.social, so sorry, belatedly sending the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGdv.... Would love your thoughts if you get a chance to watch in the future!

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Amy Skjerseth with Catherine Provenzano, Instrumental Presets: The Visible Past of Music Technology

YouTube video by Eric Weisbard

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Have had many great conversations with @jimbuhler.bsky.social about this that are also informing my book--lucky to have Jim as a series editor!

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

He loved the indigenous circuits work so much, Lisa! That work made an impression on all of us in that 2016 seminar, so much so that it's in my book's introduction. The way he built connections in everything he did is ever an inspiration and validation of interdisciplinary work.

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Excited to read and teach this book, Lisa! And Jonathan would have loved it. I was so lucky to first read your work in one of his seminars!

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

My former student, @dylanthebard.bsky.social (a PhD student in Music at University of Liverpool), would have something to say about this!

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Thanks, Andy! Would love your thoughts, link should be up tomorrow or so!

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Thank you so much--this means a lot! I really wanted to attend your hybrid book talk tomorrow and direct my student to it (who works on Thai nightlife media), but we're both teaching. Eagerly staying tuned!

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Starting in 15 minutes! If you’ve ever wondered why microwave popcorn instructs consumers *not* to use the microwave popcorn setting, have I got the talk for you!

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Carl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Tue Apr 22, 5 pm ET, in the Popular Music Books series: @askjerseth.bsky.social on tech and cultural "presets" shaping meaning thru radio, samplers, Auto-Tune, vocaloids, Instagram, AI etc. w/ Catherine Provenzano. In memory of @jonathansterne.bsky.social. iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...

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Popular Music Books in Process Series

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

JS: “I would like to write like a midcentury American pragmatist who also has a sense of humour, & who has sometimes enjoyed hallucinogens. This has occasionally gotten me into trouble–one [...] editor rewrote [...] my sentences to passive voice to make it sound more 'sophisticated.' I fought back."

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Because Jonathan made writing and revision a cornerstone of his "Instruments and Instrumentalities" course that I took at McGill in 2016, I do the same in all of my graduate courses (and try to incorporate this into my undergrad courses as much as possible, too).

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I love the imperative to be didactic; @adewaard.bsky.social also shared this at the #scms25 Jonathan tribute. Jonathan: “I’ve made writing a cornerstone of my graduate seminar pedagogy. We do better when we recognize scholars, including ourselves, as writers, and pay careful attention to the craft.”

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Amy Skjerseth @askjerseth.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

And the video essay folks, I hear. Oh no, I'm so sorry to hear this. Everyone rest up as much as possible!

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