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Mike Serazio

@michaelserazio.bsky.social
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Writes about media and culture, Boston College Department of Communication Professor

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Mike Serazio @michaelserazio.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
AI will inevitably sell us out newrepublic.com/article/2071...
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AI Is Going to Revolutionize Advertising in the Worst Imaginable Way
OpenAI has started rolling out conventional ads in ChatGPT. It won’t stop there.
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Mike Serazio @michaelserazio.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Hell yeah - viva alt-weeklies www.cjr.org/analysis/don...
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Don’t Mourn the Death of Alt-Weeklies. They’re Alive and Well.
In some communities, alt-weeklies have outlasted the daily paper.
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Mike Serazio @michaelserazio.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Kicker ‘graph goes on my gravestone time.com/7288866/coll...
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What College Graduates Need Most in the Age of AI
What students need the most, beyond LLMs, is space to strengthen those muscles of focus, writes Michael Serazio.
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Mike Serazio @michaelserazio.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The doublespeak farce covering for our 1st Amendment crisis www.salon.com/2025/03/18/t...
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The “free speech” facade fronting political censorship
The more censorship Trump pursues, the louder his boasts about “free speech” will get
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John Kenny @johnkenny.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The articles from the forthcoming SI on Political Authenticity - edited by myself, @sofiabrei.bsky.social & Michael Lewis-Beck - at @polityalsberuf.bsky.social are now online. In the introduction (doi.org/10.1086/734784) we set out its contribution and summarise each article 1/12
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Mike Serazio @michaelserazio.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
In physics as in governance, it is so much faster and easier to break things than to build them.
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Mike Serazio @michaelserazio.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Just once in my life I’d love to uncheck the “email me about sales and promotions” box and have it actually mean something.
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Mike Serazio @michaelserazio.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
“A quick glance over the past 200 years suggests that most people will eagerly substitute cheap, mass-produced anything for a lovingly handcrafted version that’s more expensive…. Political and cultural elites [will] fight to maintain their status.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | On the brink of an unimaginable AI future
Technological change is about to speed up, perhaps beyond our ability to adapt.
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Mike Serazio @michaelserazio.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
“Irony is a medicine, not only to lift and brighten others, but also ourselves, because self-mockery is a powerful instrument in overcoming the temptation toward narcissism…The best advice in front of a mirror is to laugh at ourselves. It is good for us.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/o...
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Opinion | Pope Francis: There Is Faith in Humor
The best thing to do in front of a mirror is to laugh at ourselves. It is good for us.
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Mike Serazio @michaelserazio.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
“[Memes are] the lingua franca of modern audiences. They’re how we share ideas, signal belonging and make meaning.” digiday.com/marketing/th...
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The year the memes took over reality – and marketing followed
Subcultures aren’t niche anymore -- they’re the culture. And for marketers, that changes everything.
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Mike Serazio @michaelserazio.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I always feel like a fraud when using “Cheers” as a email sign-off, but never more so than when corresponding with an actual British person.
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Mike Serazio @michaelserazio.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
An abiding, anxious befuddlement, post-GPT: If reading and writing are no longer skills that education should practice and idealize, because you can outsource that intellectual work… what the heck is education for now? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyhow, the AI version of this would be like, TL; DR, bro
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Artificial intelligence and the efficiency trap - The Boston Globe
AI systems that summarize everything from newspaper articles to novels herald the time you’ll save. By forsaking real reading, here’s what you stand to lose.
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Mike Serazio @michaelserazio.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Among many post-election journalism takes, this one feels especially wise www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/im-a...
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I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how.
Sometimes it's healthy to do something you love less, and differently.
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Mike Serazio @michaelserazio.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Feels very Elder Millennial to still nostalgically long for social media that recreates late-aughts Facebook vibes - though, prolly less the platform as the phase of life… www.vox.com/technology/3...
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Bluesky brings the fun, weird vibes of old Twitter back to life
As more users flee X, a clearer, sunnier social media age is dawning.
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