Lucy March, PhD @lumarch.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Thanks 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. 100
Reposted by Lucy March, PhDFaine 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.”motherjones.comTrump 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. 251484635
Lucy March, PhD @lumarch.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Had 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 051
Reposted by Lucy March, PhDAnnenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu · 06/03/2026Have 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:nytimes.comThe Soundtrack of the Doomscroll Generation? It’s Phonk. 031
Reposted by Lucy March, PhDJay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 13/12/2025In case you have never seen this. 6731511256
Lucy March, PhD @lumarch.bsky.social · 10/11/2025CFP 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/...asc.upenn.eduCall for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium 031
Lucy March, PhD @lumarch.bsky.social · 31/10/2025In 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...dx.doi.org“Ya’ll know this is just my opinion, right?”: Anthony Fantano’s cultivation of authenticity and digital celebrity through memesPublished in Celebrity Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025) 142
Reposted by Lucy March, PhDJoe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025When 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...academic.oup.comExperimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learningAbstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when 201329609
Reposted by Lucy March, PhDAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/08/2025teachers! 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.comagainst-a-i.comAGAINST AI 36727415
Reposted by Lucy March, PhDAAUP @aaup.org · 22/07/2025Today, 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... 🧵1/9aaup.orgNew Report Calls for Faculty Control in AI DecisionsToday, 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... 5210119
Lucy March, PhD @lumarch.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Calling 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_...csulb.qualtrics.comCritical Minded Pop Music Criticism ReportThis survey covers the conditions and challenges faced by pop music critics. 110
Reposted by Lucy March, PhDryan m. milner @rmmilner.bsky.social · 24/04/2025And 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.asc.upenn.eduCDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital CultureCDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture 192
Reposted by Lucy March, PhDSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 22/03/2025For 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. 7582712074
Reposted by Lucy March, PhDMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Another 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. 6383105
Reposted by Lucy March, PhDElle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 13/03/2025They don’t want women getting PhDs, they want them pregnant 421359432
Reposted by Lucy March, PhDCDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Here 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.socialasc.upenn.eduCDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital CultureCDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture 1106
Reposted by Lucy March, PhDRAPUP-UAW @rapup-uaw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Next 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 052
Lucy March, PhD @lumarch.bsky.social · 12/01/2025A wonderful opportunity for new PhDs in digital culture 😊 050
Reposted by Lucy March, PhDOn 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...404media.coFacebook 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." 715147
Reposted by Lucy March, PhDCDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 17/12/2024CDCS postdoc @lumarch.bsky.social recently spoke to @teenvogue.bsky.social about the social media reactions to the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting:teenvogue.comWhat the UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting Memes Tell UsThe internet has been completely obsessed with this case. 042
Reposted by Lucy March, PhDRob Carley @cultchastudies.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Hey! 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...culturalstudiesassociation.orgConferenceEach 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... 0129
Reposted by Lucy March, PhDAnnenberg 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...washingtonpost.comGrieving One Direction fans return to where they last met — onlineLiam 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. 042
Reposted by Lucy March, PhDCDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024We'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/...asc.upenn.eduAcademe 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. 0187