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mediastudiespress.bsky.social @mediastudiespress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The September History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...
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Jeff Pooley @jpooley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Capitalism or humanity, but not both" substack.com/app-link/post?pu...
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Capital Is Organizing the World to Its Advantage and Everything Else Is a Sideshow
Capitalism or humanity, but not both.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The declining labor share of income is the class war crystallized and everything progressives want is downstream of putting the power of capital on a leash. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/capital-is...
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Capital Is Organizing the World to Its Advantage and Everything Else Is a Sideshow
Capitalism or humanity, but not both.
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 17/08/2026
Helpful reminder from Elsevier that they have the "legal power" to do what they want with your journals. You have the collective power to take your editorial work elsewhere.
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 13/08/2026
"The journal roughly doubled its publication volume from nearly 5,000 articles in 2023 to over 9,600 in 2024, and published over 10,300 articles in 2025." Good illustration of why commercial publishers are not passive victims of fraudulent behaviour but have actively created the conditions for it.
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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Rich people will sooner let tens of millions of people die in poverty than pay their fair share of taxes
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Sara Reinis @sarareinis.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
What's at stake in seeing self-optimization as a sacred pursuit? Focusing on a group I call "masculine optimization influencers," I dive into the grindset. Come for discussions of shame and disgust, and stay for a chat about cold plunges as a baptismal practice. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Q5A2T...
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Masculine optimization influencers and the sacrality of self-optimization
Self-optimization has become a dominant idiom of contemporary American masculinity, crystallizing in a rising cohort of male influencers centered around reaching ‘maximum potential’ physically and ...
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Jeff Pooley @jpooley.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It is exhilarating to see Becca Rothfeld, whose Washington Post reviews were little islands of intelligence, open to a broader New Yorker canvas, as in this essay (ostensibly on Leslie Fiedler) www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...
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Why the American Novel Refused to Grow Up
For the critic Leslie Fiedler, the country’s best and worst fiction was shaped by visions of escape from society—and therefore from maturity.
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 01/07/2026
OLH flips another journal to diamond/fee-free OA, from Taylor & Francis. Another world is possible. www.openlibhums.org/news/970/
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OLH welcomes Medieval Sermon Studies
We are pleased to welcome another journal to our portfolio, Medieval Sermon Studies, which is moving from Taylor & Francis to the Open Library of Humanities and will be published …
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Nicole Pagowsky, Ph.D. @nope4evr.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
So, the premise is because AI is further burdening peer-review, we should implement it across the publishing process. This uses inevitability rhetoric, and noticing a pattern of those who are developing AI tools, or building their career and status around AI expertise, saying we need to use more AI
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Jeff Pooley @jpooley.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Thomas Frank in @harpers.bsky.social: "When the GOP holds the White House, America is great; when it doesn't, it isn't. Simple. One day, the eagle screams in triumph; the next, we remember our forsaken Old Glory through the noble haze of patriots' tears." harpers.org/archive/2026/07/s...
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The Spirit of the Age, by Thomas Frank
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Jeff Pooley @jpooley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"What Wittgenstein—and the many other Romantically inclined intellectuals who got a bad vibe from the twentieth century's thoughtless faith in scientific progress—didn't anticipate is that the threat of annihilation would one day become a selling point for technology" www.commonwealmagazine.org/wi..
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Wittgenstein’s Apocalypse | Commonweal Magazine
Ludwig Wittgenstein believed the age of technology would be the beginning of the end for humanity. The increasing ubiquity of AI may prove him right.
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intrusive_thoughts_librarian 💭📚 @sgeez.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Inequality in the usa is now the same as during the French Revolution - Downtown Los Angeles June 2026
Inequality in the usa is now the same as the French Revolution 
- Downtown Los Angeles 
June 2026
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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
ESSENTIAL: we need to support open infrastructure more systematically - without it, science crumbles. A great article here issues.org/open-data-re...
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Who Will Keep Research Data Infrastructure Open and Running? | Real Numbers
The scientific community must consider the longevity of open research infrastructure—why it might fail and how to prevent it.
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
L to R: Chris Richards: biracial kid from Alabama who speaks about black history and has tattoos of MLK, Ali, and Obama Sergiño Dest: Dutch-Surinamese, emigrated to Brooklyn as a kid, naturalized Fola Balogun: born in Brooklyn to vacationing parents, raised in UK but CHOOSES to play for USA
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Jeff Pooley @jpooley.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"Even though open access was motivated partly by the desire to rein in commercial publishers' profiteering, it has in many ways simply reinforced their dominance" — @samuelmoore.org www.researchprofessionalnews....
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A Second Sight is officially out today! Please consider buying and sharing with your friends, students, colleagues, neighbors. Publisher’s Weekly said it will help you understand America at 250!
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A Second Sight: How the Wonder and Vision of Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom
How the Wonder and Vision of Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 02/06/2026
Now available to read online. Here's my chapter, on Shadow Libraries and Pirate Infrastructures. dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/critica...
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Chapter 6 Shadow Libraries and Pirate Infrastructures | Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
This volume reimagines the digital humanities (DH) through the expanding field of critical infrastructure studies as it explores how DH builds on and extends the field’s theories and technologies. Inc...
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Jeff Pooley @jpooley.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Jacques Berlinerblau, our campus jester: "… my prediction [is] that by 2035, drones will be professors. They'll whir and zigzag above the students' heads. The gizmos will dispense AI-generated mash-ups of a million compressed lectures in Kylie Jenner's voice." www.chronicle.com/article/the...
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Opinion | The Coming Faculty Class War, and Other Prophecies
Surveillance, billionaires, and drone professors. A scholar looks ahead and doesn’t like what he sees.
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
👀ICYMI | "At the core of all these tools is a series of verbs: to surface, to rank, to summarise, and to recommend" #AcademicSky #AIbias #MatthewEffect @jpooley.bsky.social
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The Matthew effect in AI summary - LSE Impact
AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?
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mediastudiespress.bsky.social @mediastudiespress.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The May History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...
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History of Media Studies Newsletter May 2026
History of Media Studies Newsletter May 2026 Welcome to the 58th edition of the History of Media Studies Newsletter. The monthly email, assembled by Dave...
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Jeff Pooley @jpooley.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Great, disturbing reporting from the Times on private equity profiteering off autistic kids. The lede, though, is buried—these clinics are all using ABA, a dehumanizing therapy that treats kids as Skinnerian robots www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/he...
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The Matthew effect means prominent and well-cited scholars tend to receive still more prominence and citations, whereas less-cited scholars tend to slip into further obscurity over time. How will this manifest in AI summary? @jpooley.bsky.social for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
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The Matthew effect in AI summary - LSE Impact
AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
#AcademicSky I think a lot about this. AI will perpetuate all kinds of biases already found in the literature. Not just racism & sexism, but Matthew Effect and others. It's a prediction machine, based on what's in the ether.
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Maarten Paulusse @maartenp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Good piece by Jefferson Pooley on how LLM-powered “research” tools like Google’s “Deep Research” and Elsevier’s “AI Discovery” likely strengthen the “Matthew effect”: highly-cited authors are amplified while undercited (often female) authors are increasingly ignored: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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The Matthew effect in AI summary - LSE Impact
AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 19/05/2026
"If we hand off the work to computational probability and the profit motive, we may reproduce, or perhaps worsen, an academic “class structure” with all of its accumulated (and now hidden) injustices." Post from @jpooley.bsky.social on the "Matthew effect in AI summary"
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The Matthew effect in AI summary - LSE Impact
AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
💥New | The Matthew effect in AI summary ✍️ @jpooley.bsky.social #ScholComm #Libraries #AcademicSky
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The Matthew effect in AI summary - LSE Impact
AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/05/2026
“Every successful technology needs to find a problem that people are willing to pay money to solve. In the case of emotion AI, that problem appears largely, so far, to be worker performance and productivity, especially in customer service and blue-collar labor.”
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The Rise of Emotional Surveillance
Companies are monitoring workers not just for productivity but for agreeability.
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Daniele Girardi @dgirardi.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
After the mass resignation from Journal of Economic Surveys over bad publisher terms, I could not imagine in a couple of years we would have **Reviews of Economic Literature** Non-profit. True OA. With @stanfordpress.bsky.social; 2 articles already up this year rel.journals.sup.org/index.php/rel
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mediastudiespress.bsky.social @mediastudiespress.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The April History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...
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History of Media Studies Newsletter April 2026
History of Media Studies Newsletter April 2026 Welcome to the 57th edition of the History of Media Studies Newsletter. The monthly email, assembled by Dave...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
"SLACs face so many challenges today that their precarious survival may be more surprising than their escalating demise.... And yet the shuttering of Hampshire... feels different, not so much another liberal arts domino falling as the symbolic end of a whole tradition of progressive education"
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A Clearing of the Ground | Christopher Benfey
Small liberal arts colleges face so many challenges today that their precarious survival may be more surprising than their escalating demise. The
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The Entire Archives of Radical Philosophy Go Online: Read Essays by Michel Foucault, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler & More (1972–2022)
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The Entire Archives of Radical Philosophy Go Online: Read Essays by Michel Foucault, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler & More (1972–2022)
On a seemingly daily basis, we see attacks against the intellectual culture of the academic humanities, which, since the 1960s, have opened up spaces for leftists to develop critical theories of all k...
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Tim Elfenbein @timelfen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
NEW PUBLICATION ALERT! Andrew, Marcel, & I introduce & draw some conclusions from a series of interviews w/ anthropologists experimenting w/ data sharing, process documentation, intermediate publishing models, & infrastructure building to enable new forms of collaborative knowledge making.
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History of Social Science @histsocialscience.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
See the new issue of History of Social Science, just published! Half the articles are free, including @brad.bolman.com’s account of Bruno Latour’s blocked appointment at the Institute for Advanced Study and Chas Camic’s short bio of Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class muse.jhu.edu/issue/56614
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Project MUSE - History of Social Science-Volume 2, Number 1, Winter 2026
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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 28/03/2026
In the early 1990s, Bruno Latour was not hired at the Institute for Advanced Study. I wrote an article about that decision and what it reveals about the science wars and the history of science studies, now live @histsocialscience.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/985884
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Jeff Pooley @jpooley.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
On Elsevier's LeapSpace summary-and-citation tool: the camel-cased vacuity of the product name is an index for the whole thing: extractive parasitism on the knowledge that human scholars craft www.jeffpooley.com/2026/04/jo...
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‘Journal giant Elsevier unveiled an AI tool that scans millions of paywalled papers. Is it worth it?’ | Jeff Pooley
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
An effective long term strategy for those who care about independent and credible news would be to fund nonprofits to enable nonpartisan journalism. We can see where CNN is going, we need more ProPublicias.
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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This is absolutely disgraceful and deeply perpetuates the divisions between research active and teaching and scholarship colleagues. HE teaching requires research skills and this division is as incoherent and unsound as it is immoral.
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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.eurosky.social · 05/03/2026
Without support and engagement from the broader communities of institutions (e.g. HEIs, libraries, etc.) venture capital is looking to sweep in and centralise control of all of it. Some of it purely commercial, some of it for the data (which are, of course, not unrelated.)
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Kevin Sanders @kjsanders.eurosky.social · 05/03/2026
Now is really a crucial and also vital time for supporting open infrastructures. Many have been built in many contexts. I'm reflecting upon @rupertgatti.bsky.social's end notes to last week's @copim.bsky.social conference on the work undertaken there to infrastructure the OA books space.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
So the fact that we bombed a girls elementary school, while likely using AI for targeting, is going to be a major headline story dominating American news coverage when exactly?
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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin
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Jeff Pooley @jpooley.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Irony alert: Springer Nature's Journal of the Knowledge Economy retracts 113 (!) articles from a special issue, for "compromised editorial handling," etc. Underscores one truth: special issue grift helps drive the journal-knowledge economy link.springer.com/journal/131...
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Journal of the Knowledge Economy
Journal of the Knowledge Economy is a multidisciplinary publication focused on the dynamics of knowledge creation, diffusion, and application across the ...
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Jeff Pooley @jpooley.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Cutting, lovely sentence-level writing in this Andrew O'Hagan essay on the Murdochs www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...
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How the Murdoch Family Built an Empire—and Remade the News
Today, the name represents a story of profit and power unlike any other. But tracing the genealogy of Murdoch sleaze requires a long memory.
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Goldsmiths drops three out of five deals with big publishers. University cites “financial and values-based” reasons for not renewing with Elsevier, Springer Nature and Wiley. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-o...
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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
"Quick, let's screw everyone over while they're too busy getting screwed over to notice" is a hell of a business strategy
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