🚨 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:
I highly recommend that university instructors (of any subject) consider trying it out in their classes:
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.
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"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15213269.2025.2595452
#commodon #replication #reproducibility @communicationscholars
"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: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patron-supported-journalism-cant-be-the-future-of-news
#journalism #platforms #newsletter #newsletters #inadequacy #Substack #Patreon #media #CommOdon #creating #creation #writing #patrons #investigations
RE: https://fediscience.org/@JohannesBreuer/115571076834078410
Our survey on research practices in Computational Communication Science is still open for participation!
@communicationscholars #commodon
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.
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: https://osf.io/ch76u/files/8u6gw
#commodon @communicationscholars
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: https://www.soscisurvey.de/AutoFrontCCS/
#commodon @communicationscholars
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"
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!)
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”
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-googles-funding-canadian-news-publishers-split-and-who-benefits-most via @fifilamoura
#news #media #study #report #journalism #journalists #reporting #communication #commOdon #Canada #CdnMedia #CanPoli #publishing #Montreal #socialMedia #subsidies
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.
And please share/circulate to help this reach the right people!
Oh, the paper link one more time!
"Pin the tail on the researcher: From distributed to meshy accountability in decentralized social media"
https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/6644
(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
""'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
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."
cc #academicchatter #commodon #mediaStudies @communicationscholars @academicchatter
New tutorial in the KODAQS Toolbox on procesing YouTube data with our tubecleanR mini-package by Julian Kohne and me: https://kodaqs-toolbox.gesis.org/github.com/gesiscss/tubecleanr_tool/index/
#computationalsocialscience @communicationscholars #commodon
Plantations industrialised with capitalism.
Let's spin a sugary yarn 🧶
@economics @histodons @geography
#EstelleSays #sugar #tobacco #accumulation #racism #extractivism #landGrab #raceMaking #lineofColor #racialization #rapeCulture #systemicRacism #capitalism #whiteSupremacy #whiteFragility #Discovery #Encounter #Columbus #plantations #America #history #slavery #England #UnitedKingdom #GreatBritain #Bristol #Liverpool #London #decolonial #antiRacism #sweet #sweets #Caribbean #marketing #commOdon
Dr Eleanor #Janega: "I mean without a forever war against anyone you can find, how will you keep a society going?"
https://going-medieval.com/2019/07/26/on-colonialism-imperialism-and-ignoring-medieval-history/
#AncientRome #slavery #England #commOdon #history #colonialism #historiography #medieval #imperialism #Rome #education
Gotta say, at least this #ScienceSpam mail has found the perfect wording for what I regularly do at conferences: Unleashing my insights …
