William Hazelgrove's 'Dead Air' reveals the shocking night Orson Welles' radio broadcast convinced America of a Martian invasion, exploring media's power to transform reality #MediaHistory #WarOfTheWorlds

ruins of the Hudson’s Bay Co warehouses on Wharf St, Victoria BC. Built 1858, the year of the founding of the Colony of Vancouver Island. Demolished 1937. (I’m in town because my mum had a medical emergency. She’s stable now.) I’ve been studying this settler history and its extractive networking with Lekwungen media history and the media histories of other nearby Indigenous nations since a public middle school pullout on local history in the early 80s. #settler #colonialism #canada #mediahistory

Call For Papers: #CFP #Film

‘Stars and Screen’
#Cinema and #Media #History Virtual #Symposium, May 16, 2026

Proposals Due: February 1, 2026

https://starsandscreen.blogspot.com/2025/10/call-for-papers-stars-and-screen-cinema.html

#CinemaStudies #MediaStudies #FilmStudies #conference #CallForPapers #CinemaHistory #MediaHistory #FilmHistory

Call For Papers: #CFP #Film ‘Stars and Screen’ #Cinema and #Media #History Virtual #Symposium, May 16, 2026 Proposals Due: February 1, 2026 starsandscreen.blogspot.com/2025/10/call... #CinemaStudies #MediaStudies #FilmStudies #conference #CallForPapers #CinemaHistory #MediaHistory #FilmHistory

Call For Papers: ‘Stars and Sc...

Mit der Agence #Havas nahm heute vor 190 Jahren die weltweit erste #Nachrichtenagentur ihre Arbeit auf:

▶ Volker Barth, Die Genese globaler Nachrichtenagenturen. Überlegungen zu einem Forschungsprogramm, #WerkstattGeschichte 56/2011, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/abstracts/nr-56-volker-barth

@histodons

#histodons #News #Nachrichten #PressAgency #Mediengeschichte #MediaHistory #GlobalHistory

Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate by Steven A. Johnson

https://archive.neural.it/init/default/show/3309

#interfaceculture #interfacedesign #creativetechnology #interactiondesign #digitalcultures #technoculture #technosphere #experiencedesign #mediahistory #mediaarthistory #computerhistory #digitaldesign #graphicdesign #criticaltheory #criticalinformationstudies #mediatheory #mediastudies #digitalhumanities #informationtheory #digitalstudies #mediaculture

"VIVARADO designers have created a textured digital letter which produces an amazing three dimensional effect not found in any font. No illustration can do it justice. It must be seen to be appreciated. Use it for your games and digital environments for increased immersion!"

#MeshFonts #mediahistory #americana

https://typo.social/@typographica/115244876134386752

Africa: BBC Has a Long History in Africa. New Book Offers a Critical Take On the Broadcaster: [The Conversation Africa] The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) established its first radio transmitter sites in Africa in the 1930s, to reach the British colonies and beyond. It became a model for radio in Africa and later a model for TV news. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TMtjXt #Africa #BBC #MediaHistory #Broadcasting #Radio

CFP: Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?

30 June - 1 July 2026
University of Lausanne, Switzerland

This international conference aims to move beyond the traditional understanding of press-radio relations. As the two main information media in the 20th century, their relationship has often been reduced in literature to one of simple institutional competition. This conference seeks to investigate the complexity of their relations.

https://impresso.github.io/radio-and-newspapers-conference/

#mediahistory

In August 1835, The Sun newspaper published a six-part series claiming Sir John Herschel discovered life on the moon, including winged humanoid "man-bats." The hoax fooled thousands, boosted circulation to 19,000+ (making it the world's most popular paper,) inspired plays and dioramas, and spread internationally. The Sun never officially admitted it was fake. Early example of how sensational "news" can go viral!
#NYC #MediaHistory #FakeNews #1835 #Journalism #Hoax
https://www.untappedcities.com/great-moon-hoax-nyc/?ref=daily-newsletter

Ben Neill – Diffusing Music, Trajectories of Sonic Democratization

https://neural.it/2025/08/ben-neill-diffusing-music-trajectories-of-sonic-democratization/

#diffusingmusic #digitalperformance #performanceart #mediaart #analoguedigital #mediahistory #mediaarthistory #soundscience #soundstudies #computermusic #computergeneratedmusic #electronicpioneers #electronicsoundscapes #soundscapes #acousticspace #experimentalmusician #musicelectronic #soundart #soundartist #booksonsound #analoganddigital #musiclibrary #electronicinstruments #soundperformance #soundecology #bookreview #neuralarchive #neuralmag #instabook #bookstagram

Tomorrow (Thursday, 21 August) I’ll join a panel at the Tallinna Kunstihoone for the catalogue launch of the Tallinna Graafikatriennaal / Tallinn Print Trienniali in Tallin (Estonia) together with Marika Agu , Tõnis Jürgens and Brigita Reinert. Indeed, in the catalogue there are among the others two texts of mines: Trükitud versus elektrooniline (Print vs. Electrons) and Lõputu kirjastamise paradigma: ruum, aeg ja mälu (The Endless Publishing Paradigm: Space, Time, and Memory) for the very first time translated into Estonian, which is of course a huge honour!

#tacticalpublishing #digitalpublishing #publishing #publishinghistory #indiepublishing #independentpublishing #mediaart #newmediaart #netart #internetart #artsciencetechnology #creativecodeart #creativetechnology #digitalarchives #mediahistory #mediaarchaeology #retrofuture #artistbook #experimentalpublishing #electronicliterature #zines #digitalwriting #mediatheory #mediastudies #digitalhumanities #posttruth #mediamanipulation #hacktivism #postdigital #postdigitalprint

edited by Olle Essvik and Lars Kristensen – Dead & Alive: Reflections on Media / Art

https://neural.it/2025/08/edited-by-olle-essvik-and-lars-kristensen-dead-alive-reflections-on-media-art/

#deadandalive #deadmedia #analogue #predigital #mediahistory #mediaarthistory #computerhistory#mediaarchaeology #retrocomputing #vintagetechnology #obsoletetech #digitalheritage #retrofuture #artsciencetechnology #artandtechnology #arttech #audiovisualart #audiovisuals #mediainstallation #newmediaart #newmediaartist #mediaart #mediaartist #digitalart #digitalartist #timebasedart #innovationinart #information art #digitalaesthetics

So long, private corporation funded by the American people.

"The Corporation for Public Broadcasting said it will close following Congress’s decision to strip its current funding and foreclose on future appropriations.

"CPB, established by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, is a nonprofit set up to dole out congressionally appropriated funds to NPR, PBS, and public radio and TV stations around the United States."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/01/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-shutdown/

#PublicBroadcasting #CPB #MediaHistory

📚 Just read “Magazine” by @jeffjarvis We did too — and it’s a must-read for media nerds 📉
From the rise of Entertainment Weekly to AOL’s digital disaster, it’s all in there.

Our take on #AC743 👉 www.AwesomeCast.com
#MagazineBook #JeffJarvis #MediaHistory #TechPodcast #PublishingIndustry #AwesomeCast

#KWIColloquium:

Since digital editing democratized image work around 1990—accelerating today’s shift via generative AI— KWI Doctoral Scholar Jakob Schnetz explores the tutorial as both technical manual and social practice. Discover how image editing isn’t a post‑production step but a core, ongoing infrastructure.

📸 https://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/veranstaltung/kwi-colloquium-4/

#ImageEditing #MediaHistory #DigitalPhotography #GenerativeAI

@photography

*Really working it with the off-the-wall historical techgnosis there. #mediahistory #occultism #madness

https://default.blog/p/lets-talk-about-chatgpt-induced-spiritual

Today Saturday, June 14 at 19:00 I’ll give a talk at @hkw_berlin – Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, focused on my last book Tactical Publishing, Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century, published by @themitpress.
I’ll then be in a dialogue moderated by MISS READ festival director Michalis Pichler (thanks for the invitation!).

https://missread.com/event/focus-tactical-publishing/

#tacticalpublishing #digitalpublishing #publishing #publishinghistory #indiepublishing #independentpublishing #mediaart #newmediaart #netart #internetart #artsciencetechnology #creativecodeart #creativetechnology #digitalarchives #mediahistory #mediaarchaeology #retrofuture #artistbook #experimentalpublishing #electronicliterature #zines #digitalwriting #mediatheory #mediastudies #digitalhumanities #posttruth #mediamanipulation #hacktivism #postdigital #postdigitalprint

Some unproductive fun for the evening - resurrecting Cosmology of Kyoto as a point and click browser game (well, fragments of it so far - I'd be absolutely foolhardy to take on the full project at this juncture, and heaven knows what its actual status is beyond 'abandonware', but interesting to try out).

#mediaHistory #software #preservation #gaming #adventureGames

my new book on Politicians and Mass Media in the Age of Empire: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/politicians-and-mass-media-in-the-age-of-empire/4C64E8C29EE661562883C62A8849FFF8
#history #politicalhistory #mediahistory #twitterstorians