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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pretending that fall is nearly here (it’s definitely not!) and the summer is wrapping up (also definitely not yet) by making bison/veggie-forward chili with help from #HEB (which is honestly a pretty amazing regional grocery store) in #Texas

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Roux says I have to get to it before the Nazis do — my brother sent this to me from Australia for safekeeping

My dog talks to me about the grail diary

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Always great to get out to Allways for some swing dancing when in #neworleans

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

New campus/new office = the start of the book and note bringing

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Got some very cool and timely #mediahistory research on tao today and tomorrow @icahdq.bsky.social #ica26 — shoutout to the conference organizers and especially in this case our @ICA_History leadership for putting together such a great lineup

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Congratulations to our @manshipschool.bsky.social Proud of you — go do great things

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

New semester underway ⁦‪@manshipschool.bsky.social‬⁩ @lsu.bsky.social and with a fun bonus class in/for ⁦‪Honors

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Excited for this new article w/ my good friend and colleague Dr. Juliette De Maeyer now out in ‘Information & Culture’— it’s been in the works since 2021; In it, we examine the origins of mobile work w/ computers in journalism in the 1970s & 1980s in Canada and the US: muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

love this photo of Toni Frissell during c. WW2, that one of my students included in their final research paper for my media-history class @manshipschool.bsky.social

'Toni Frissell, sitting, holding camera on her lap, with several children standing around her, somewhere in Europe, c. WW2" -- from https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.19005/

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Excited to be able to stop by @manshipschool.bsky.social #sportssummit @LSU this afternoon to learn more about #NIL from @onuss_ and @TaylorJacobsLSU — hosted by the talented @JJacksonPhD and @ChadSabadie

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Details for all you fellow materiality nerds out there :)

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

re-upping this event for next week at @LSU_Honors with @PhiBetaKappa -- if you like Austen and can make it, I hope to see you there!

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

if you're a fan of Austen and free the afternoon of Thur., Nov. 6, stop by the Sternberg Salon French House to hear a really fun lecture on the objects of Austen's world -- sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa, LSU English and LSU_Honors !

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

SO CRAZY PROUD of my @manshipschool.bsky.social student, Emily Bracher, for her work @WhatintheHill @lsulibraries curating a wonderful media history of @lsureveille and related student media @LSU — great job, Emily! #journalism #mediahistory

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Super pumped for my @manshipschool.bsky.social classes and excited to see my student peeps next week #mediahistorymatters #FirstAmendment #FreedomOfSpeech #responsibility #care #courage — clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

@ashgolddust.bsky.social of @SaintLouisU and our Jinx Broussard Teaching Award winner, who is talking about her use of AI in teaching media history @aejmc.bsky.social

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Media history in the wild (and some media present)

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Excited to see our draft cover is ready to go for my edited collection with some really great British colleagues — the great and generous Carole O’Reilly and James West: link.springer.com/book/9789819... #mediahistory #newbook

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Looking ahead to @aejmc.bsky.social and in particular this Media History Division panel on Saturday, Aug. 9: great folks with an important topic

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

“He also might approach someone whistling the Addams Family theme song.”

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

fun bonus finds from @editorpublisher on @internetarchive as I worked on final copyedits for an article hopefully coming out soon -- ad dept.'s -- often staffed by women news workers -- were pioneers with adopting computers to day-to-day news labor in the 1970s (and beyond) #mediahistory

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

A good first day in the archives

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Watching ‘Gettysburg’ clips of the eve of the Fourth of July with your daughter as one does to get ready for #IndependenceDay

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Last day of #ICA25 @icahdq — loved seeing my @ICA_History folks ! Great work @gabriele_balbi @dotrudel @DeborahBarcella @katiemontalbano @cscolari.bsky.social @rlgrant6 and team! (Photo from last night’s social!)

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

A strong fourth day @icahdq.bsky.social #ICA25 for pur media-history colleagues

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Psyched to see @cratebeats.bsky.social present his solid work on the media history of Black public-access TV @icahdq @ICA_History #ICA25

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Next up is Olayinka Solomon Elusoji of @GeorgiaStateU presents his very interesting work on the media history of Lagos @ICA_History @icahdq.bsky.social #ICA25

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Will Mari @willthewordguy.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Next up is Sid Bedingfield and Henrik Örnebring @icahdq @ICA_History #ICA25

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