David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
comm, media industries, platform, social media, and creator studies scholar (aka "creator anthropologist"). In my past life, I spent decades making TV movies and "producing to power".
Political science
31%
Sociology
25%
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· May 23
Today’s fake drag name is Wanda Lust.
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· May 18
Listening to Van Morrison at a TLV cafe is like stepping into a time machine back to the kibbutz in 1986 dancing in the bomb shelter disco to Bob Marley’s Exodus and drinking Maccabee beer and smoking clove cigs. #Vibe
Bopping to Sting’s Blue Turtle album in my favorite TLV cafe like I once did on the Kibbutz back in 1986 and listening to the lyrics about peace and Cold War in this climate is, well, a 40 year old vibe that hits hard in all new ways.
The best? I think it’s the least. We have more than political agency. We have cultural and social! We have tremendous power in the palms of our hands. If we are going to expend tech energy, let’s at least harness it to save the planet. Thanks for coming to my progressive tech Ted Talk. 😂
That’s true! All the carbon offsets won’t make up the difference. Glad I’m not just a tourist. Let’s hope the knowledge generation offers value. Otherwise I should stick to digital ethnography Although my mentors in comparative education might be upset with me. And my Fulbright sponsors.
You might be a global scholar if …you pull Chilean sunblock out of your Thai backpack while walking around Tel Aviv
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Apr 24
One Year Later: Experts Reflect on TikTok Divest-or-Ban Order - Rebooting Social Media
The TikTok divest-or-ban order was signed one year ago. The Institute for Rebooting Media spoke with researchers and legal experts to learn about the order’s impact on expression, governance, and the ...
rebootingsocialmedia.org
Some reflections on the TikTok ban by some very bright people (and me). rebootingsocialmedia.org/one-year-lat...
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Apr 23
YouTube, at 20, Has Hosted 20 Trillion Videos and Launched Superstars. It Wants More—Including Some Prestige
Inside the platform that gave us ‘Hot Ones,’ Michelle Khare, ‘Chicken Shop Date,’ and ‘Good Mythical Morning’—not to mention Justin Bieber and MrBeast—as it embraces bingeability and more.
www.vanityfair.com
YouTube wants to be taken seriously in Hollywood, and they are being taken very seriously,” says David R. Craig…. “Not so much as a creator of content but as a distraction from the content that Hollywood produces.” www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Apr 20
Netflix Sees Potential For Video Podcasts, More Creator Content on Platform
"Is it premium? Well, some of it is, and we believe we have the best monetization model on the planet for premium storytelling," co-CEO Ted Sarandos said on the earnings call.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
Who's gonna tell them? www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Apr 19
I was thinking how sad it is that people keep using social media to reaffirm their more often bleak vision of the world. Or when it’s not bleak, then it’s an addiction. Either way, machines are evil!
#DeficitReasoning
(Although it reminds me of religious practices … also a kind of addiction.)
#DeficitReasoning
(Although it reminds me of religious practices … also a kind of addiction.)
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Apr 19
Media. Sometimes. I just have a problem when people use media to refer to art, apps, advertising, commerce, communication, platforms, Internet, etc.. that’s when the word becomes meaningless just like content or digital or new.
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Apr 17
What if I said that I abhor the term “new media” and it isn’t the “new” that bothers me the most?
Words have functions that change. They aren’t redwood trees.
P.s. the same applies to “digital media”.
Words have functions that change. They aren’t redwood trees.
P.s. the same applies to “digital media”.
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Apr 16
a man in a black and white sweater is sitting at a table with his hand on his chin .
ALT: a man in a black and white sweater is sitting at a table with his hand on his chin .
media.tenor.com
Hollywood talent referring to themselves as "creators" because social media platforms and entrepreneurs use the term is Bourdieusian jungle gymnastics. Wonder how long before AMPAS or the TV Academy gets pulled into the fray? Or the Guilds? Or IMDB?
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Apr 11
That time you spent a year in a Fulbright predicting and studying the outrageously improbable prospect of global decoupling…and it happens before you finish your research.
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Mar 31
I forgot to mention the part where we sent 28,000 NTA approved media literacy discussion guides and the film for free to schools all over the US for students and parents to discuss the peril of YouTube. I’ll spare the part where my doctoral program threatened to kick me out for using them.
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Mar 30
Adolescence on Netflix fits nicely within the Social Media Crisis genre which started back with a tv movie called GIRL FIGHT back in 2011.
Ps I produced GIRL FIGHT.
Ps I produced GIRL FIGHT.
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Mar 29
The Studio is even better if you had not seen Wag the Dog, What Just Happened, Swimming with Sharks, The Player, Network, A Face in the Crowd, or read What makes Sammy Run. #MythsofMythmaking
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Mar 28
A la carta: cómo funciona la economía de los contenidos
Los creadores digitales apuestan a la profesionalización. Ya no se limitan a generar contenido solo para sus propias plataformas, sino que ponen su talento y experiencia al servicio de marcas y client...
www.lanacion.com.ar
Thanks Argentina! www.lanacion.com.ar/economia/neg...
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Mar 14
50% OFF Apocalypse Television: How The Day After Helped End the Cold War
On November 20, 1983, a three-hour made-for-TV movie, The Day After, premiered on ABC. Set in the heartland of Lawrence, Kansas, the film depicted the events before, during, and after a Soviet nuclear...
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David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Mar 12
What no one tells you about being a "global" scholar is the 7am calls with the partners in the UK, the 10am calls with Chile, the 4pm with Australia, and the 10pm with Thailand.
And I wouldn't trade it for the world. (pun intended)
And I wouldn't trade it for the world. (pun intended)
Civic Media Fellowship
Applications for the 2025/26 Fellowship cohort are open from March 3-28, 2025 — APPLY HERE! For more information about the fellowship experience, who we’re looking for and the application process, ple...
www.annenberglab.com
You are going to want to check this out, and repost it, and share it with the most brilliant people in your life. www.annenberglab.com/civic-media-...
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Feb 20
a man is walking down a hallway with a backpack on his shoulder .
ALT: a man is walking down a hallway with a backpack on his shoulder .
media.tenor.com
Me: Hey Siri, what's life like in academia?
Siri: Thursdays are your weekend. But it's only a half day.
Siri: Thursdays are your weekend. But it's only a half day.
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Feb 18
"You can't live in the world without an idea of the world, but it's living that makes the ideas. You can't wait for a theory, but you have to have a theory.” - Kushner, Angels in America
I think about this every day. Often all day.
I think about this every day. Often all day.
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Jan 26
That’s what the best art does.
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Jan 26
TikTok's brief ban sent users to RedNote, another Chinese-owned video-sharing app
Many users flocked to another Chinese-owned app, RedNote, when it looked like TikTok would be banned. Americans and Chinese citizens have been getting to know each other.
www.npr.org
Thanks @NPR, although I guess this is yesterday's news...but oh have I got lots to say about today's. www.npr.org/2025/01/25/n...
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Jan 25
Angels in America (2003) - Belize and America
YouTube video by Alex Wilson
youtu.be
All ya’ll upset by the events happening in Late America have clearly never seen Angels in America and it shows. youtu.be/X1QJoUxAKU8?...
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Jan 17
Seeing Others
“A thoughtful recipe for building social justice” (Kirkus Reviews) from acclaimed Harvard sociologist Michèle Lamont that makes the case for reexam...
www.simonandschuster.net
By one of our nation's most extraordinary scholars.
Available in paperback. p.s. I had the extraordinary opportunity to be interviewed for this work. www.simonandschuster.net/books/Seeing...
Available in paperback. p.s. I had the extraordinary opportunity to be interviewed for this work. www.simonandschuster.net/books/Seeing...
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Jan 17
alt-ac sounds like a broken keyboard
David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
· Jan 15
CCSN
The Content Creator Scholars Network
www.ccsn.site
Congrats to those accepted at ICA (and regrets to those who weren't...we feel you.) FYI, the 4th CreatorCon, an ICA pre-conference to be held at the University of Boulder dedicated to platform, creator, wanghong, and influencer studies is still taking submissions until 1 Feb. www.ccsn.site/ica