iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’ll be moderating a terrific conversation on Friday, October 23. Join us!

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The Department of Information Studies seeks a scholar specializing in Media Archival Studies whose research and teaching address historical and contemporary media-making contexts, media formats, and the information systems that support their preservation, management, and use."

recruit.apo.ucla.edu

Assistant Professor of Information Studies (Tenure-Track), Specializing in Media Archival Studies

University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

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SCMS Graduate Student Organization @scmsgso.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

SCMS CAUCUS ON CLASS 2027 Graduate Student and Precarious Scholar Essay Award Submissions due November 15, 2026, 11:59 pm eastern. The winning author will receive a $500 cash prize and mentorship to foster publication in an academic journal.

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sept 18 @ 1pm ET / 10am PT — join my colleagues and I at this school year's first @scmspedagogy.bsky.social virtual roundtable. Subject: "Pedagogies of Care." Speakers are all contributors to @jcmsjournal.bsky.social Teaching Media dossier on same subject. Sign up ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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SCMS Critical Media Pedagogies Presents...
PEDAGOGIES OF CARE: VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLE

September 18 | 1pm ET/10am PT

Featuring:
Dr. Tony Grajeda
Dr. Amanda Greer
Dr. Kimberly Hall
Dr. Britt Hanson
Tamar Hanstke

Registration link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeqflgQlBJuHiA4Fq0iYbdjX_4ojN49eP_yGI-sN9EKrHACLw/viewform

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SCMS Critical Media Pedagogies Presents...
PEDAGOGIES OF CARE: VIRTUAL ROUNDTABLE

September 18 | 1pm ET/10am PT

Featuring:
Dr. Tony Grajeda
Dr. Amanda Greer
Dr. Kimberly Hall
Dr. Britt Hanson
Tamar Hanstke

Registration link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeqflgQlBJuHiA4Fq0iYbdjX_4ojN49eP_yGI-sN9EKrHACLw/viewform

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Steph Brown @stephbrown.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’m helping @scmspedagogy.bsky.social crowd source some tips for grad students (and beyond) who struggle start writing a teaching statement. I’d love anyone’s thoughts, especially about biggest mistakes you see.

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SCMS Critical Media Pedagogies SIG @scmspedagogy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Please join us for our first virtual roundtable of the school year "Pedagogies of Care" on September 18 @ 1pm ET / 10am PT. This will feature contributors to the JCMS Teaching Media dossier Pedagogies of Care in an Age of Anxiety. Sign up below! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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"Pedagogies of Care" Virtual Roundtable Registration

Please join the SCMS Critical Media Pedagogies SIG for a virtual roundtable on "Pedagogies of Care" on September 18 @ 1pm ET / 10am PT. This event brings together contributors to the JCMS Teaching Med...

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Great read: a historian’s deconstruction of the voices ingested by various LLM—and the assumptions baked into these tools about the interests of their intended audience. “AI shunts aside problems of how knowledge is formed and communicated;” the author illustrates why we can’t afford to accept that.

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Saipan was crumbling." Gemini Pro's diarist wrote of the "constant thunder of 16-inch naval guns that 'ripped into the landscape.'" These phrases belong to the language of American military history. A Japanese resident of Saipan would not have known the size of U.S. naval guns, and she would not have seen the horizon fill with ships if she were hiding in a cave. Terms like
"impregnable," "plastered," and "ripped into the landscape" (purportedly quoted directly from the diary) suggest the vantage point of the side firing, not of a civilian seeking refuge from the attack.

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straightforward ego-documents. In
"guessing" the answers to historical questions, AI shunts aside problems of how knowledge is formed and communicated.
The chatbots also entirely missed the possibility that the author might have been writing from a position (both geographical and ideological) other than the one that most English-language internet users would be likely to seek. In this sense,

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Damien Droney @ddroney.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My colleague Nimisha Thakur and I wrote a piece for the Society for Cultural Anthropology website. Check it out if you've ever been curious about using digital apps like iNaturalist or Merlin Bird ID in the classroom. We have lesson plans for you! www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

A world map, with pixelated dots. The dots in North America are orange while the dots in Europe are purple.

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Picked up some books from Rowan University library and saw this poster behind the counter. I got kinda emotional.

Desk with poster of Dolly Parton holding books with the word READ across the top.

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We are pleased to share CFP for our annual Nontheatrical Student Essay Award. Due Feb 15 2027. Winner’s essay will appear in THE MOVING IMAGE journal. Please share widely! amianet.org/wp-content/u... @scmstudies.bsky.social @necsusjournal.bsky.social @orphanfilm.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social

Call for Papers: Nontheatrical Student Essay Award 2027

In collaboration with AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists) and its journal, The Moving Image, the SCMS Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG is delighted to announce its fifth annual Nontheatrical Student Essay Award. Designed to recognize outstanding graduate student scholarship founded upon archival nontheatrical research,
this award underscores both organizations’ commitment to mentorship and professional development, connecting award-recipients with mentors to guide them through the process of crafting journal-ready manuscripts. The award-winning essay will also be published (subject to revisions) in The Moving Image.

Eligibility: Applicants must be enrolled in a recognized graduate program at the time of entry.

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Submissions will be due 15 February 2027 and can be sent to nontheatricalessayaward@gmail.com. The award winner will be contacted in March 2027, and announced at the 2027 SCMS Annual Conference.

The Moving Image is the journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA). It explores topics relevant to both the media archivist and the media scholar. The Moving Image deals with crucial issues
surrounding the preservation, archiving, and restoration of film, video, and digital moving images. It features detailed profiles of moving image collections; interpretive and historical essays about archival materials; articles on archival description, appraisal, and access; behind-the-scenes looks at the techniques used to preserve, restore, and digitize moving images; and theoretical articles on the future of the field.

The Nontheatrical Film & Media scholarly interest group of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) provides a setting for scholars working in this area to collaborate, share research tips, and debate methodological issues. Moreover, this SIG acts as another connection between the academic and archival worlds, and between other SIGs and committees within SCMS, such as the Media Archives Committee. The mission of the Nontheatrical Film & Media Scholarly Interest Group is to facilitate discussion, consolidation, outreach, and inclusion.

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

After 2016 election night, my friend, her sister and I watched A Joyful Noise to cleanse our souls.

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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Kayti Lausch @kaytilausch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If you are thinking about presenting on reality TV at SCMS in Montreal, please reach out to me! Also, if you're not working in reality TV but know someone who is (especially grad students!!), please send them my way as well. Thanks y'all!

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I saw Schwechater at the PFA (I think it was part of intro to film) with Kubelka there to introduce it. It stuck with me because it was the first film that I had seen that took such a mathematical approach to filmmaking. It didn't "speak to me" just expanded my notion of what cinema could be.

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Libraries are amazing! But why libraries are vastly better than data centers is that they have librarians in them. Real people who will talk to you about books, how to find a job, or who will read to children. The librarians are missing in this (AI?) photo. Share real libraries with people in them!

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Penn State Comp Lit departmental statement on in-class tech use (recommended), posting here in case you are working on one of your own or want to use/copy/edit for yourself.

Research on the use of laptops, phones, and tablets in classrooms consistently shows that students who use those technologies—even if they are taking notes or looking at course slides—learn less in class than those who do not. Students who use such technologies also impact the learning of others, since flashing screens create consistent forms of classroom distraction. Best practices on technology use in classroom suggest that it works best when it is used socially—as when students look together at the slides for the lecture or work in groups on a specific project. Research also shows that students who take notes by hand learn more than those who type them onto a computer.

As a result, unless you have a specific accommodation request from SDR that requires the use of this kind of technology or are explicitly directed to use a device for a collaborative classroom activity, you are not allowed to use laptops, tablets, phones, recording devices, smart glasses, or any other screens or screen-adjacent technology in this classroom.

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I recently started watching Shrinking on a plane and did a lot of cry-laughing.

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I think it is the both private (headphones) and public aspect of it. Also, being in transit is emotional. You are displaced from home, but with other people who are also not home. That makes us collectively vulnerable and perhaps more open to empathy?

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Damien Droney @ddroney.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Perfect. No notes.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

it's a monday afternoon at the end of july, of course we're writing syllabi against-a-i.com is here for you! and if you're a humanities teacher who's developed materials you'd like to contribute as we glow up for fall, PLEASE SEND! against-a-i.com

against-a-i.com

AGAINST AI -

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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

How about Emily Wilson talking about Nolan's film with an adaptation scholar? Can we make this happen?? 👀 👀 👀

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This post is so smart and thought provoking. I can't wait to read more of your work on this topic.

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Kwame Nkrumah wanted Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940) for his private film library. R.M. Ford was, unfortunately, unable to supply him with a print.

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Now I really want to go see this!

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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch our BlackStar Film Festival Presents collection! Now in its 15th year, the BlackStar Film Festival was established in 2012 to platform the voices of Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists who expand the possibilities of cinematic storytelling.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It's conference season, so I wanted to share the AI refusal statement I put at the end of my presentations and book talks. Feel free to use it!

AI Refusal Statement
I did not use generative AI at any point in the production of this book or presentation, including the literature review, writing, editing, translation, organization, or any other task (e.g. brainstorming). To the extent that it is possible to know, I did not cite any studies that used generative AI.
Justification: GenAI technology is based on stolen labor, anti-solidarity between workers, class exploitation, structural racism, misogyny, environmental injustice, and climate destabilization.

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dr. cat @cinefeline.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Film studies job alert apply.interfolio.com/188579?fbcli...

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It’s just bad. Nothing to understand. People just want to like it because Spielberg… and they want to feel the carefree feeling of a summer blockbuster so badly they will accept faint wisps of nostalgia as the real thing.

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Anthropological research on subsistence is offered in the dangerous and authoritarian “report” on the humanities as a key example of supposed ideological weakening of scholarship. This critique begins to show how the key example cited actually proves the opposite. Let’s go into it in some depth 1/

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Academic Authoritarianism in New Attack on Humanities Scholars

There is virtually no evidence offered in the report for its sweeping conclusions about the entirety of the humanities.

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This is the BEST! Can’t wait to read.

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Awww! I wish I could have made it up for this. So glad this happened. Can’t wait to read.

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I recently joined the editorial advisory board for the new book series Women's Broadcasting Histories at University of Exeter Press. If you or someone you know has a book project in the area, please feel free to reach out to me. I would be more than happy to connect you with the editors.

Women’s Broadcasting Histories opens up new directions in the history of gendered work and representation in radio, television and related media. It is global in scope, inviting gendered histories from multiple regions and periods. The series welcomes works that:
– highlight hitherto invisible or devalued work in ‘hidden professions’
of broadcasting
– explore how gendered roles intersect with race, class and other social positions
– develop transnational approaches that focus on networks of knowledge and exchange, as well as paths of migration, often erased in national histories
– de-centre the main broadcasting institutions to include perspectives from groups such as community broadcasters, women’s and LGBTQ+ movements and activist networks, and trade unions
– offer transmedial perspectives that show how women’s work and expertise moves into and out of media domains from adjacent areas ranging from costuming to education and beyond
– address the structural neglect and erasure of women within archives, by identifying gaps in the historical record and adopting methodological frameworks that address such fissures

Books in the series are devoted to broadcasting, but the series adopts an non-essentialized, expansive view of the media to include analogue, wired and digitally distributed content, thus taking in phenomena such as internet broadcasting, streaming media, and digital platforms, and exploring how new developments have disrupted and transformed gendered labour, workflows, expertise, content and environments. The series encompasses edited works and full-length monographs as well as compacts: shorter monographs that focus on gendered broadcasting history through a specific role, site, or object (such as assistant directors, camera operators, writers’ rooms, or tape splicers).

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

AI boom discourse has gotten so out of hand that it’s making the New Yorker relatable🫢 (with alt text)

Cartoon where a large scary space monster addresses a sea of graduating students: "And, as you head out into the world, your fresh, meaty torsos will be ripped apart and roasted to feed your new alien overlords- wait, why are you all booing?"

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Three things said about AI and social science: it's a topic to study, a thing to critique, a tool to use. My new Daedalus essay argues these aren't three conversations; they're one. A 🧵 on "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object, and Tool." www.amacad.org/publication/...

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Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool

Uses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools...

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

At an exhibit of Sylvia Wynter’s papers at Duke University, I was struck by the presentation of her notes. Not for further insight into her brilliance, but as evidence of the friction of thought. The work of thinking that AI “brainstorming” erases. Scribbles of process that capture our humanity.

Exhibition case with four different examples of Wynter’s notes. She writes in large letters ignoring the lines of the note paper.

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Serendipitously, the water damage on the advertisement has darkened the lightened skins rendering the allure of whiteness in the original ad mute.

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

"In the center foreground stood a couple of Africans with successfully bleached skins looking a forced yellow-brown. Around them several darker Africans stood in various poses, all open-mouthed with admiration of the bleached pair.” (Ayi Kwei Armah, Fragments [Per Ankh edition], 129)

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

“Baako went to the left side wall and took down the huge calendar from off its hook. The calendar itself was a small thing suspended from a very large color picture advertising something called AMBI-EXTRA skin-lightening cream."

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Doing research on Ayi Kwei Armah's book "Fragments" and found this advertisement in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University. Armah describes this advertisement in a scene when Baako, Araba, and his mother are discussing when to have an outdooring for Araba's son.

An advertisement for a skin-lightening cream targeting black men. The advertisement has water damage making the face of the central man unclear. But there is a male and female couple with light skin surrounded by four dark skinned black people (three men and one woman). They are all drinking, what appears to be alcohol. The man at the center wears a suit and looks smartly at the camera as everyone else looks at him. The dark skinned woman wears Kente cloth. The light skinned woman wears a cocktail dress.

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Jennifer Blaylock @jennblaylock.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

If you have questions about the position or are interested in nominating yourself, feel free to message me.

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Want periodic updates on new publications and other important announcements and going-sons in our community? Subscribe to Nontheatrical News by emailing nontheatricalnews@listserv.dfn.de Open to all enthusiasts! No SCMS membership required.

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