Top right corner is a game controller. Text reads: Roundtable JCMS Teaching Dossier “Teaching Game Studies” Speakers Ryan Banfi MassArt Edmond Y. Chang Ohio University Phillip Guerty University of North Georgia Soraya Murray University of California, Santa Cruz Stephanie Boluk University of California, Davis Daniel J. Finnegan Cardiff University Patrick LeMieux University of California, Davis Esther Wright Cardiff University Friday, April 24 th at 1:00 PM Eastern

Join us this Friday, April 24th at 1pm ET for a Virtual Roundtable on Teaching Game Studies! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Data centers are a physical manifestation of AI infrastructure and they've become a flashpoint precisely because they're tractable. They exist in specific places, consume specific resources, can be seen and pointed to. I spoke with @lorenaoneil.com @rollingstone.com about our urgent AI reckoning.

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NEW POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY will work on the history of Ghanaian postcolonial film and efforts to support its digital restitution. Postdoc is part of a team of scholars, filmmakers, and archivists from Egypt, Ghana, Sudan, UK, and US (including me!). Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Cover of the new issue of the journal Discourse. Image on black cover is of a white wall with an empty frame off to the center left hand side. On the right there appears to be rectangles marking where two pictures used to hang.

List of the journal Discourse's contents: Media-Milieu Dialectic: Thinking beyond Elemental Media by Mehak Sawhney. The Queerness of Animation: Barry JC Purves and the Supplementarity of Form by Ferdinando Cocco. Anachronic 1968: The Crisis of Media in Imagen de Caracas by Noraedén Mora Méndez. The Discourse of the Handle: Teachers, Students and the Blackboard Film by Nicolas Helm-Grovas. The "Inside-Out" Realist Cinema in Nigeria: A New Tradition of Publicizing the Hidden by Lani Akande. "The Bard Wouldn't Recognize Hamlet": On Medium Specificity and Shakespeare in Africa by Jennifer Blaylock. Animal In/Media Out by Luke Kuplowsky. Experiment, Never Interpret: Nicole Brenez and Figural Analysis by Thomas Quist.

First page of the article by Jennifer Blaylock titled, "The Bard Wouldn't Recognize Hamlet": On Medium Specificity and Shakespeare in Africa."

My print copy of the new issue of Discourse just arrived over the weekend! I'm excited to read the other articles published alongside my piece, especially Lani Akande's piece on Nigerian realist cinema. Check out the whole issue here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56665

The digital version is finally up! If you don't have institutional access but would like to read it, please reach out to me. I can send you a PDF. muse.jhu.edu/pub/27/artic...

An academic flyer titled "RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN TV & RADIO HISTORY: FALL 2025 – SPRING 2026" under the heading "CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES." The document is organized into a 3x3 grid of boxes, each listing an author and their work:Josie Torres Barth: "The Voice of the Woman in the Wall: Uncanny Narration as Domestic Critique in the Suspense Radio Adaptation of 'The Yellow Wallpaper' (1948)," Adaptation vol. 18, no. 3, 2025. (Winner of the 2025 ECR Prize).Cynthia Meyers: "Such a Feeling of Intimacy: Familial Bonds and Eastman Kodak's Sponsorship of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1956-61)," in Commercial Intimacy (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2025).Allison Perlman: "Betraying the Dream (Machine): NET, The FBI, and Regulating Public Television Content in the 1970s," Television & New Media (2026).Elana Levine: "The Voice of Winnie Holzman," Post-45 Contemporaries, Spring 2025.Allison Perlman: "Regulating Documentary: Television, Conservative Activism, and the Expressive Power of Policy," in The Oxford Handbook of American Documentary (Oxford UP, 2025).Allison Perlman: "Slavery before Roots: Television, the Civil Rights Movement, and History TV in the 1960s," Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 43.5 (2025).Owen Gottlieb: "Heritage in Search of a Home: Archiving the Learning Designs and Artistry of Instructional Television of the 1970s and 1980s," in The Archivability of Television (University of Georgia Press, 2025).Pete Johnson: "Revisiting the Financial Interest & Syndication Rules: A Discursive and Industrial Analysis of U.S. Television Production, 1971-1990." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (2026).Cale Epps: "Incentives, Commissions, and Hollywood Production Mobility," in Roadmap to the Texas Media Industries (UT Austin Center White Paper, 2025).

A flyer titled "RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN TV & RADIO HISTORY: FALL 2025 – SPRING 2026" under the heading "BOOKS." The top left features a small photo of a vintage television and radio on a wooden cabinet. Below, three vertical boxes list upcoming book releases:Jason Loviglio: Empathy Machines: This American Life, Podcasting and the Public Radio Structure of Feeling (Bloomsbury, January 2026).Cynthia Meyers: Sell-e-vision: How the Advertising Industry Shaped American Television (or Madison Avenue and Mid-Century American Television). Coming late 2026 from the Peabody Media History Series, University of Georgia Press.Amanda Keeler: The Rockford Files. TV Milestones Series. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2025.

Following the conclusion of #SCMS26 in Chicago, the TV & Radio History SIG is pleased to share recent and forthcoming publications from our members.

Featured books include recent/future work by Jason Loviglio, Cynthia Meyers, and Amanda Keeler. #MediaStudies #TVHistory #RadioHistory #SCMS2026

Following @jenniferpete.bsky.social's lead, here’s my blog post on film I’m presenting in just over a week at the Orphan Film Symposium in Ohio. I’m on a mission for everyone in the world to see the joyous SUNDAY ON THE RIVER (1961) #Orphans2026 @orphanfilm.bsky.social

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Making Writing Matter in the Media Classroom Making Writing Matter in the Media Studies Classroom SCMS 2026 Workshop leaders: Stephanie Brown, Washington College Peggy Davis, UCLA Lisa Wells Jacobson, Georgia Tech Laurel Westrup, UCLA Vocabula...

If you missed our #SCMS26 workshop on writing in the media studies classroom - you can check out our handout complete with keywords, slides, and assignment shares! Thanks to everyone who came for a wonderful discussion (and sometimes vent session).

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Join Aca-Media After Dark and tell the SCMS world about your work! As an extension of SCMS’s Author’s Celebration, the Aca-Media podcast invites SCMS members to the Fairmont’s Cuvee room (just off the Front Desk) from 9-10pm Wednesday for a brief chat (recorded, not live) about your recent publications!

We're helping to kick off #SCMS26 tonight -- and you can help too! Come record a short chat about any new publications with @chrisbecker.bsky.social and @stephbrown.bsky.social, and it will appear in a future episode! (If you don't arrive in time but still want to participate, just reach out.)

I wish I could be in two places at once! Media Burn is gonna be awesome too.

Ugh, I can’t make it. I’m leading a group on a Media Burn visit.

When is this? Looks great!

black text on white background. it reads: N07: Yael Levy, Tel Aviv University, “On the Soundstage Couch: Early TV Sitcom Performance as Identity Processing” O12: Elana Levine, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Biography as Feminist Media Historiography” P05: Benjamin Kruger-Robbins, Weber State University, “Queerly Anointing the Charmed One: Aaron Spelling’s Alternate Awards Blitz”

Also, check out the excellent individual papers related to TV/Radio History:

If you’re headed to the @scmstudies.bsky.social conference in Chicago this week, I’ve put together this feed that pulls in every post tagged with #SCMS26 to make it easy to connect and follow along!

Say hey if I’ll see you there! ✌️

Blue flyer with text: television & Radio history scholarly Interest group The Innovation, Regulation, and Governance of US Media Thursday 2:15 – 4:00 pm Hanna-Barbera: Untold Histories Sponsored Panels (Thursday-Friday) Thursday 6:15 – 8:00 pm C7 E11 Postwar US Television: Adjustment, Innovation, Adaptation friday 9:00 – 10:45 am F17 Hybrid Signals: Transnationalizing US Television Cultures Through Distribution friday 11:00 – 12:45 PM G4 TV and Catastrophe: Revisiting Classical Questions friday 5:15 – 7:00 pm I21 *Roundtable

Blue flyer with text: Making Academic Research Potent and Potable for a General Audience Saturday 11:00 am–12:45 pm Broadcasting ‘Agency’: Televisual Media and Identity in Korea and Japan Sunday 9:00 – 10:45 am K17 US TV Commercials Past and Present: Production Practices, Ad Strategies, and Aesthetics *Roundtable N13 Sunday 2:15 – 4:00 pm P7 television & Radio history scholarly Interest group Sponsored Panels (Saturday-Sunday)

Blue flyer with text: television & Radio history scholarly Interest group Other Panels on TV & Radio History B06: Perspectives on Public Media and Mediated Publics C08: Vocal Ontologies in the Age of AI: Histories, Infrastructures, and Fractures G01: Re-remembering the Vietnam War at 50 M02: Blurred Lines: Evolving Approaches to Studying US Film and Television Industries Q01: Exploring TV Families Across Genre, Nation, and Methodology

We are thrilled to share the remarkable TV/Radio History panels at #SCMS2026 in Chicago. Check out the linked flyer to see the SIG's sponsored and recommended panels.

See you all there! #SCMS26

Poster in purple with black writing giving details of Sara Ahmed’s book tour in the US

Calling all killjoys in Boston, NYC, Philly and DC. Come along and say no loudly and together to the abusers and the harassers and the fascists and the systems they create that create them 🔥🔥

Thank you! It really has been so long working on this piece. It is a strange feeling now to see it out there and just hope that someone reads it.

Hamile: The Tongo Hamlet : Ghana Film Industry Corporation : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Title: Hamile: The Tongo Hamlet. The Ghanaian 1965 adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

You can watch the film here: archive.org/details/hami...

I'm so excited! My new article just came out with Discourse. This has been a labor of love and I am so thrilled to have it out in the world. In it I follow the Ghanaian adaptation of Hamlet, (Hamile) across media to challenge "the medium is the message." digitalcommons.wayne.edu/discourse/vo...

The Ends of AI Sycophancy and psychosis

Very interesting essay (as always) by @melhogan.bsky.social on "The Ends of AI: Sycophancy and psychosis":

"The rage against DEI and the humanities is part of the ongoing project of building up the logics of AI and metrics as the great authority."

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Wednesday! #FilmSky

Battle of Algiers is referenced earlier in the film too, in the section early in the film of the white woman (with a bomb) going to work. The way that sequence is shot has to be read in in conversation with Battle of Algiers.

Academy Film Archive Lays Off Multiple Staff Members in Restructuring as AMPAS Announces Expansions to Collection The Academy Film Archive has laid off archive and library staff members in a restructuring move, as the Academy Museum announced new acquisitions.

A reminder that the Academy shamelessly and wrongly fired a lot of its archivists

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Another one down. Doctor Who collectors are amazing

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

Excellent piece in @theguardian.com featuring @mattseybold.bsky.social, @dorazhang.bsky.social and others (including a shoutout to against-a-i.com) on AI in the humanities classroom.

Pluribus anyone? youtube.com/clip/UgkxNRa...

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

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still waiting for intelligent longform cultural criticism with psychomarxist explanation of the "everything is butthole" logorrhea in the AI space

The website for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is completely scrubbed and gone! They didn't even leave a legacy statement.