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Aram Sinnreicharam@aoir.social
2025-12-09

🚨 Five fully-funded PhD lines 🚨 are currently open in the Media, Technology & Democracy program at American University School of Communication (@AU_MTD).

Full tuition plus stipend, benefits, and the chance to work with folks like @adriennemassanari, @bstokes, @ch_butkowski, @paufder, @rohangrover, me, and many more.

Apply here:

american.edu/soc/communication

#academicChatter #academia #commodon

2025-12-08

I highly recommend that university instructors (of any subject) consider trying it out in their classes:

wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikiped

#academia #academicChatter #commodon

2025-12-08

I'd been hearing about Wiki Edu and the Wikipedia Assignment on various listservs for a while, and this past semester I ran it for the first time with my "Data and Society" class, and *wow* it is so incredible! We all trained to become Wikipedia editors and students contributed to a range of articles while thinking through content gaps, representational politics, research/citation practices, and the presumed "objectivity" of data.

#academia #commodon #academicChatter

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2025-12-05

New paper by @drfollowmario, Philipp Knöpfle, and me in the journal Media Psychology: "Contextual Changes, Credible Conclusions? A Direct and Conceptual Replication of Shen et al.'s (2019) Study on Online Image Credibility"
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10
#commodon #replication #reproducibility @communicationscholars

Estelle Platiniestelle@techhub.social
2025-11-30

"Individuals trying to support themselves via subscriptions are as dependent on the whims of the marketplace as those working for large corporations, and it’s not just the lack of health care and 401ks that make the career of a patron-supported creator precarious — it’s the rawness and immediacy of the relationship."

by Ana Marie Cox: talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/p

#journalism #platforms #newsletter #newsletters #inadequacy #Substack #Patreon #media #CommOdon #creating #creation #writing #patrons #investigations

2025-11-25

RE: fediscience.org/@JohannesBreue

Our survey on research practices in Computational Communication Science is still open for participation!
@communicationscholars #commodon

2025-11-23

As the Academic Job Market Season™ progresses and as some lucky folks may be receiving offers and thinking through the whole negotiation process, here's some info about what I got when I was hired last year (private SLAC in Virginia):

$85,000 base salary (paid over 10 or 12 months), $6,000 guaranteed each summer for the first 2 years, $20,000 in start-up research funds.

#academia #higherEducation #jobMarket #commodon

Jim from The Office pointing at a whiteboard with text: Normalize discussing your wages with coworkers. The only reason it was ever considered "rude" was so employers could get away with wage theft and unfair compensation.
2025-11-18

For the next conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Christian Strippel, Silke Fürst, Christian Schwarzenegger, Erik Koenen, and I are organizing a panel on "Open Research Infrastructures and Resources for Communication and Media Studies".
Sumissions (abstracts, 200-300 words) are possible in English and German and need to be submitted by January 19th, 2026. You can find the full CfP here: osf.io/ch76u/files/8u6gw
#commodon @communicationscholars

2025-11-18

Within our project on research practices in Computational Communication Science (CCS), we are conducting a survey among CCS researchers. We would be grateful if you could participate (takes 10 to 15 minutes) and/or share the link: soscisurvey.de/AutoFrontCCS/
#commodon @communicationscholars

2025-11-12

Recently had Infrastructure Week™ in my Critical Internet Studies class -- I sent students to walk around campus and identify the various infrastructure and utilities that often go unnoticed

Student quote: "They're not actually hidden that well, but I'm a little embarrassed by just how much I never noticed"

#commodon #mediaStudies #infrastructure

Whiteboard listing "Campus Infrastructures":
Cameras, lights, outlets, card scan thingy, directory, pipes, roadways/walkways, vent thing, antennas on roof, wifi routers in classrooms, emergency call boxes, projectors and AV systems, elevators, wire in tree -- lights?
tools for commensality 🧿inquiline@assemblag.es
2025-11-11

Does anyone remember an MIT Media Lab(?) project called Immersion(?), which let you input your email account and showed you your network of contacts via the to/from metadata? It's gone--but does something like it still exist?

(Asking for teaching, TIA!)

#Commodon

Estelle Platiniestelle@techhub.social
2025-10-14

About news bulk payout: “This whole thing has been a huge gift for foreign-owned legacy media and a spit in the face of small outlets like ours and Indigenous-owned outlets. This whole system was designed for the big players and the papers who are dying and whose business model is failing”

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.a via @fifilamoura

#news #media #study #report #journalism #journalists #reporting #communication #commOdon #Canada #CdnMedia #CanPoli #publishing #Montreal #socialMedia #subsidies

2025-09-26

Hello Fediverse!

I’m studying how communication and media scholars think about Twitter/X and its recent whirlwind of changes. If this sounds like you (communication/media scholar, currently or previously used twitter, 18+ years), please take this survey and share your thoughts.

sl.richmond.edu/Ee

And please share/circulate to help this reach the right people!

#commodon #AcademicMastodon

Recruitment graphic for "Survey of Academic Twitter"

Twitter (or X) has changed quite a lot in the past few years. I am researching how communication and media scholars use the platform and think about how it has changed. Please take this survey and share your thoughts! 

Contains a QR code and URL to the survey, as well as contact information for Ben Pettis <ben.pettis@richmond.edu>.

Project reviewd and Approved by the University of Richmond Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research (URIRB). For more information, email irb@richmond.edu or call (804) 484-1565.

Project Number: URIRB250920
tools for commensality 🧿inquiline@assemblag.es
2025-09-23

Oh, the paper link one more time!

"Pin the tail on the researcher: From distributed to meshy accountability in decentralized social media"

openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/inde

(ETA: Oh, and sincere thanks to everyone who's both lent moral support & helped me navigate this situation, including offering insights about network architecture & features. I say that in the paper but I should post it here too 💛)

#Commodon #FLOSS #Mastodon #STS #MeshyAccountability #LocatedAccountability #FeministSTS

tools for commensality 🧿inquiline@assemblag.es
2025-09-18

""'The screenshot’s capacity to make seemingly ephemeral moments permanent [revealed and violated] existing media ideologies that assumed some measure of ephemerality in digital spaces... we can see how screenshots bring normative boundaries to the fore precisely because of their violation""

Just bumped into this paper on screenshotting and public shame (by a former student); sharing for no reason at all

doi.org/10.5210/fm.v26i4.11649

#Commodon #screenshots

2025-08-26

Each year, when I teach Media, Technology & Culture, students select a book for their final project from a list of relevant titles. I always have a great time assembling the list and discovering cool new work. It's also fun to share the result.
So here it is, the 2025 book list!

The pic is of my favorite cover from this years additions, which belongs to Seth Long's "The Last Mixtape."

umass-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/

cc #academicchatter #commodon #mediaStudies @communicationscholars @academicchatter

The cover image for Seth Long's new book, "The Last Mixtape: Physical Media and Nostalgic Cycles." It is a stylized line art image that makes the front of the book resemble the old classroom tape decks so ubiquitous in the 1970s and 1980s, complete with a loaded audio cassette and physical playback buttons. The color scheme is late 70s/early 80s, too, with the body of the recorder in a blue-green color that belongs to the same color palette as avocado wallpaper and appliances. There are similarly retro red-orange highlights. The whitespace is colored to look like aged paper.
2025-08-25

New tutorial in the KODAQS Toolbox on procesing YouTube data with our tubecleanR mini-package by Julian Kohne and me: kodaqs-toolbox.gesis.org/githu
#computationalsocialscience @communicationscholars #commodon

Dr. Tim Schatto-EckrodtKudusch@social.tchncs.de
2025-08-06

Gotta say, at least this #ScienceSpam mail has found the perfect wording for what I regularly do at conferences: Unleashing my insights …

#commodon

A screenshot if the subject line of an email saying: Prof. Tim Schatto-Eckrodt - Unleash Your Insights at Machine Leaning-2026|Madrid|Spain. Highlighted in yellow are the words "Unleash Your Insights …"

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