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David Craig

@producing2power.bsky.social
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comm, media industries, platform, social media, and creator studies scholar (aka "creator anthropologist"). In my past life, I spent decades making TV movies and "producing to power".

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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Today’s fake drag name is Wanda Lust.
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Listening to Van Morrison at a TLV cafe is like stepping into a time machine back to the kibbutz in 1986 dancing in the bomb shelter disco to Bob Marley’s Exodus and drinking Maccabee beer and smoking clove cigs. #Vibe
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Bopping to Sting’s Blue Turtle album in my favorite TLV cafe like I once did on the Kibbutz back in 1986 and listening to the lyrics about peace and Cold War in this climate is, well, a 40 year old vibe that hits hard in all new ways.
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
The best? I think it’s the least. We have more than political agency. We have cultural and social! We have tremendous power in the palms of our hands. If we are going to expend tech energy, let’s at least harness it to save the planet. Thanks for coming to my progressive tech Ted Talk. 😂
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
That’s true! All the carbon offsets won’t make up the difference. Glad I’m not just a tourist. Let’s hope the knowledge generation offers value. Otherwise I should stick to digital ethnography Although my mentors in comparative education might be upset with me. And my Fulbright sponsors.
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
You might be a global scholar if …you pull Chilean sunblock out of your Thai backpack while walking around Tel Aviv
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
This was fun youtube.com/watch?v=_Gx4...
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YouTube turns 20: From viral cat videos to AI
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Some reflections on the TikTok ban by some very bright people (and me). rebootingsocialmedia.org/one-year-lat...
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One Year Later: Experts Reflect on TikTok Divest-or-Ban Order - Rebooting Social Media
The TikTok divest-or-ban order was signed one year ago. The Institute for Rebooting Media spoke with researchers and legal experts to learn about the order’s impact on expression, governance, and the ...
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
YouTube wants to be taken seriously in Hollywood, and they are being taken very seriously,” says David R. Craig…. “Not so much as a creator of content but as a distraction from the content that Hollywood produces.” www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
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YouTube, at 20, Has Hosted 20 Trillion Videos and Launched Superstars. It Wants More—Including Some Prestige
Inside the platform that gave us ‘Hot Ones,’ Michelle Khare, ‘Chicken Shop Date,’ and ‘Good Mythical Morning’—not to mention Justin Bieber and MrBeast—as it embraces bingeability and more.
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Who's gonna tell them? www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Netflix Sees Potential For Video Podcasts, More Creator Content on Platform
"Is it premium? Well, some of it is, and we believe we have the best monetization model on the planet for premium storytelling," co-CEO Ted Sarandos said on the earnings call.
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I was thinking how sad it is that people keep using social media to reaffirm their more often bleak vision of the world. Or when it’s not bleak, then it’s an addiction. Either way, machines are evil! #DeficitReasoning (Although it reminds me of religious practices … also a kind of addiction.)
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Media. Sometimes. I just have a problem when people use media to refer to art, apps, advertising, commerce, communication, platforms, Internet, etc.. that’s when the word becomes meaningless just like content or digital or new.
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
What if I said that I abhor the term “new media” and it isn’t the “new” that bothers me the most? Words have functions that change. They aren’t redwood trees. P.s. the same applies to “digital media”.
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Hollywood talent referring to themselves as "creators" because social media platforms and entrepreneurs use the term is Bourdieusian jungle gymnastics. Wonder how long before AMPAS or the TV Academy gets pulled into the fray? Or the Guilds? Or IMDB?
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a man in a black and white sweater is sitting at a table with his hand on his chin .
ALT: a man in a black and white sweater is sitting at a table with his hand on his chin .
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
That time you spent a year in a Fulbright predicting and studying the outrageously improbable prospect of global decoupling…and it happens before you finish your research.
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I forgot to mention the part where we sent 28,000 NTA approved media literacy discussion guides and the film for free to schools all over the US for students and parents to discuss the peril of YouTube. I’ll spare the part where my doctoral program threatened to kick me out for using them.
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Adolescence on Netflix fits nicely within the Social Media Crisis genre which started back with a tv movie called GIRL FIGHT back in 2011. Ps I produced GIRL FIGHT.
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The Studio is even better if you had not seen Wag the Dog, What Just Happened, Swimming with Sharks, The Player, Network, A Face in the Crowd, or read What makes Sammy Run. #MythsofMythmaking
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Thanks Argentina! www.lanacion.com.ar/economia/neg...
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A la carta: cómo funciona la economía de los contenidos
Los creadores digitales apuestan a la profesionalización. Ya no se limitan a generar contenido solo para sus propias plataformas, sino que ponen su talento y experiencia al servicio de marcas y client...
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Here's your chance to get the end of the world for HALF-PRICE! www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
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50% OFF Apocalypse Television: How The Day After Helped End the Cold War
On November 20, 1983, a three-hour made-for-TV movie, The Day After, premiered on ABC. Set in the heartland of Lawrence, Kansas, the film depicted the events before, during, and after a Soviet nuclear...
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
What no one tells you about being a "global" scholar is the 7am calls with the partners in the UK, the 10am calls with Chile, the 4pm with Australia, and the 10pm with Thailand. And I wouldn't trade it for the world. (pun intended)
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
You are going to want to check this out, and repost it, and share it with the most brilliant people in your life. www.annenberglab.com/civic-media-...
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Civic Media Fellowship
Applications for the 2025/26 Fellowship cohort are open from March 3-28, 2025 — APPLY HERE! For more information about the fellowship experience, who we’re looking for and the application process, ple...
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Me: Hey Siri, what's life like in academia? Siri: Thursdays are your weekend. But it's only a half day.
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a man is walking down a hallway with a backpack on his shoulder .
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
"You can't live in the world without an idea of the world, but it's living that makes the ideas. You can't wait for a theory, but you have to have a theory.” - Kushner, Angels in America I think about this every day. Often all day.
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
That’s what the best art does.
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Thanks @NPR, although I guess this is yesterday's news...but oh have I got lots to say about today's. www.npr.org/2025/01/25/n...
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TikTok's brief ban sent users to RedNote, another Chinese-owned video-sharing app
Many users flocked to another Chinese-owned app, RedNote, when it looked like TikTok would be banned. Americans and Chinese citizens have been getting to know each other.
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
All ya’ll upset by the events happening in Late America have clearly never seen Angels in America and it shows. youtu.be/X1QJoUxAKU8?...
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Angels in America (2003) - Belize and America
YouTube video by Alex Wilson
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
By one of our nation's most extraordinary scholars. Available in paperback. p.s. I had the extraordinary opportunity to be interviewed for this work. www.simonandschuster.net/books/Seeing...
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Seeing Others
“A thoughtful recipe for building social justice” (Kirkus Reviews) from acclaimed Harvard sociologist Michèle Lamont that makes the case for reexam...
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
alt-ac sounds like a broken keyboard
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Congrats to those accepted at ICA (and regrets to those who weren't...we feel you.) FYI, the 4th CreatorCon, an ICA pre-conference to be held at the University of Boulder dedicated to platform, creator, wanghong, and influencer studies is still taking submissions until 1 Feb. www.ccsn.site/ica
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CCSN
The Content Creator Scholars Network
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
“Westerners using the app will start to encounter Chinese people and be exposed to their ideas and culture, which is likely to further frighten Western politicians engaging in what I refer to as ‘platform nationalism’,” ... Thanks @stokel.bsky.social www.fastcompany.com/91260363/ame...
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Americans are using the Chinese Red Note app to express their frustration with the TikTok ban
The deliberate choice to seek refuge on Chinese Red Note app says what TikTok’s users think of the plan to ban it in five days’ time.
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Apocalypse Television is the true story of how a group of intrepid storytellers harnessed the most powerful media at the time to pull the planet back from the brink of oblivion. We might need to borrow those strategies again and again. www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
audiobooks.com
60% OFF Apocalypse Television: How The Day After Helped End the Cold War
On November 20, 1983, a three-hour made-for-TV movie, The Day After, premiered on ABC. Set in the heartland of Lawrence, Kansas, the film depicted the events before, during, and after a Soviet nuclear...
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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World Central Kitchen
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
www.cafirefoundation.org/what-we-do/f...
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Wildfire & Disaster Relief
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
For those unfamiliar with LA and how this could happen, the brilliant Mike Davis explained and predicted all this decades ago. It’s a painfully exquisite example of human folly versus nature. longreads.com/2018/12/04/t...
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The Case for Letting Malibu Burn - Longreads
Many of California's native ecosystems evolved to burn. Modern fire suppression creates fuels that lead to catastrophic fires. So why do people insist on rebuilding in the firebelt?
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Parker and I are safe (so far) but many friends have lost everything. Please think about ways to help. I’m sure they will need all kinds of support. I’ll post links here when I have them.
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
How much money will they spend to keep from paying creators what they are worth?
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37769339...
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Assistant or Associate Professor of Communication - Los Angeles, California (US) job with University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism | 37769339
USC Annenberg School of Communication seeks applications for a tenure track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor in media industries and economics
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
The best New Year’s resolution I ever heard was from my former boss, the legendary producer Marcia Nasatir. She vowed to “offer more unsolicited advice”. She was an amazing mentor and brilliantly funny. She also needed no help in that department.
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
If you have any questions, feel free to DM or EM me. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37769339...
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Assistant or Associate Professor of Communication - Los Angeles, California (US) job with University of Southern California Annenberg School of Journalism | 37769339
USC Annenberg School of Communication seeks applications for a tenure track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor in media industries and economics
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
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a man in a sweater and tie is holding a book and pointing up .
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
And here's the trailer for the Lifetime movie that I produced on this same topic...in 2011. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFpq...
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Girl Fight: Preview | Lifetime
YouTube video by Lifetime
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
P.s. can someone let Florida Man know he didn't discover the New World? www.fastcompany.com/91240693/in-...
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In defense of being 'extremely online.' The creator economy by the numbers
Richard Florida on the digital creator economy providing millions with a source of meaning, purpose, community, and much-needed income.
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
To my creator studies colleagues...keep up the great work, whether or not journalists (or Florida Man) recognizes it! www.newyorker.com/culture/2024...
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The Year Creators Took Over
The attention economy has dominated the Internet for more than a decade now, but never before have its protagonists felt so central to American life—or had such direct access to the levers of power.
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Extraordinary editorial from my friend Anupam Chander "A Stunning swing towards paternalism"...or what my authors and I called "Platform Nationalism". wapo.st/4g9JqbN
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Opinion | Congress doesn’t trust us with free speech. TikTok proves it.
TikTok’s case is a stunning swing toward paternalism.
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
it is from a TV show called “SOUL!” broadcast on PBS from 1968-1973. Produced and hosted by #EllisHaizlip featured in our documentary film @mrsoulthemovie directed by his niece @mhaizlip RIP #nikkigiovanni 🙏🏾❤️🕊️
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David Craig @producing2power.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
We lost Nikki Giovanni but, fortunately, her genius is captured in her poems and these interviews with Baldwin. FYI, these interviews are featured in SOUL! the TV series that was captured in MR.SOUL, one of my favorite docs of all time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFGk...
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Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin in conversation on 'SOUL!' (PART 1) | ALL ARTS Vault
YouTube video by ALL ARTS TV (ALL ARTS)
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