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Lucy March, PhD

@lumarch.bsky.social
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I study popular music and digital culture 💾🎶 PhD in Media and Communication from Temple University, postdoc at @cdcspenn.bsky.social

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Lucy March, PhD @lumarch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Thanks to Critical Minded, I am honored to announce the publication of Beautiful Struggles: Critics of Color and the Pop Music Landscape, a new survey report I authored with brilliant colleagues examining the working conditions, professional pathways, and future of pop music criticism in the US.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21/05/2026
“Everyone, especially in South Sudan, wanted to know if the US really had cut off aid. It was easier for them to believe that the aid organizations were lying to them than to think that the United States would do this.”
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Trump destroyed USAID. Now people are dying.
ProPublica’s Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester examine how America’s foreign aid cuts are threatening the survival of the world’s most vulnerable populations.
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Lucy March, PhD @lumarch.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Had the pleasure of reviewing Making synthwave: How an online music community invented a genre by @blaisejess.bsky.social for the International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure. A must-read for any interested in digital music cultures (and check out that gorgeous cover)! 🌆📼🎹 rdcu.be/e9hGh
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Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu · 06/03/2026
Have you heard of phonk? According to postdoc @lumarch.bsky.social, it's "music that you’ve probably never heard of, but you’ve almost certainly heard." The @nytimes.com recently spoke to March about the genre:
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The Soundtrack of the Doomscroll Generation? It’s Phonk.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
In case you have never seen this.
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Lucy March, PhD @lumarch.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
CFP alert! 💻 My Center is currently accepting abstract submissions for our spring symposium, "Good Vibes Only? How Affects and Emotions Are Mediated for Justice in Digital Culture." Submit by 12/1! More info: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
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Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium
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Lucy March, PhD @lumarch.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
In a new essay for the Forum section of Celebrity Studies, I share some thoughts on how YouTube music critic and digital celebrity Anthony Fantano employs memes to build his dedicated fanbase, and how it relates to his murky digital history: dx.doi.org/10.1080/1939...
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“Ya’ll know this is just my opinion, right?”: Anthony Fantano’s cultivation of authenticity and digital celebrity through memes
Published in Celebrity Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com
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AGAINST AI
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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/07/2025
Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates. www.aaup.org/news/new-rep... 🧵1/9
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New Report Calls for Faculty Control in AI Decisions
Today, the AAUP released a new report, Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions, sharing survey findings and calling for the establishment of policies in colleges and universities that pri...
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Lucy March, PhD @lumarch.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Calling all music critics! Please take the Critical Minded Pop Music Critic Survey! Your answers will be part of a report by Critical Minded, a grantmaking and learning initiative fiscally sponsored by Allied Media. Feel free to share/DM me any questions! LINK: csulb.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Critical Minded Pop Music Criticism Report
This survey covers the conditions and challenges faced by pop music critics.
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ryan m. milner @rmmilner.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
And of course thanks to UPenn for getting me here to get this cheesesteak. Excited to present tomorrow with @lumarch.bsky.social @jessmaddox.bsky.social @adrishaw.bsky.social and more.
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CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture
CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Another day where the presidents of every R1 university in the country should be our loudly & collectively in front of microphones calling out the authoritarianism, condemning the budget cuts that are an existential crisis for 🇺🇸 higher education & science, & doing anything other than more silence.
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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
They don’t want women getting PhDs, they want them pregnant
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Here is the program of our 4/25 Symposium on Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/.... @annenbergcargc.bsky.social
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CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture
CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture
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RAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Next Wednesday, 2/19 at 12pm, higher ed workers from across Philly are rallying to tell Senator McCormick: Hands Off our Healthcare, Research, and Jobs! Science and education are under attack. Join us at 2000 Market Street to fight back! RSVP here: labor4highered.org#register
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Lucy March, PhD @lumarch.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Fascinating convo in the replies here
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Lucy March, PhD @lumarch.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
A wonderful opportunity for new PhDs in digital culture 😊
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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
"Meta’s HR team is deleting internal employee criticism of new board member, UFC president and CEO Dana White, at the same time that CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced to the world that Meta will 'get back to our roots around free expression,' 404 Media has learned" www.404media.co/facebook-del...
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Facebook Deletes Internal Employee Criticism of New Board Member Dana White
"Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE."
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
CDCS postdoc @lumarch.bsky.social recently spoke to @teenvogue.bsky.social about the social media reactions to the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting:
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What the UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting Memes Tell Us
The internet has been completely obsessed with this case.
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Rob Carley @cultchastudies.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Hey! The Cultural Studies Association just released its call for papers for its meeting in LA in 2025. Pls amplify! @academic-chatter.bsky.social @ejcs-journal.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social @jcultecon.bsky.social @culturalstudies.bsky.social www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/conference.h...
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Conference
Each spring, CSA holds an international annual conference. As with other professional organizations, the conference members an opportunity to meet and network with other professionals in the...
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Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu · 22/11/2024
@cdcspenn.bsky.social postdoc @lumarch.bsky.social spoke to @washingtonpost.com about how grieving One Direction fans are processing Liam Payne’s death online: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Grieving One Direction fans return to where they last met — online
Liam Payne’s death brought on real grief for Gen Z fans. The only ones who understand how they process it -- sometimes with dark humor -- are fellow Directioners.
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We're premiering on Bluesky with an announcement of our upcoming symposium on Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk? Jointly organized with @ascmediarisk.bsky.social www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
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Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk?
Join the Center for Media at Risk and the Center on Digital Culture and Society for a symposium examining the relationship between social media and the academy.
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