Patricia Aufderheide
paufder.bsky.social
Patricia Aufderheide
@paufder.bsky.social

University Professor, School of Communication, American University; Editor Emerita, In These Times; Author of books about documentary film, Kartemquin Films, the copyright doctrine of fair use and creativity, "political correctness," and more .. more

Patricia Ann Aufderheide is a scholar and public intellectual on media and social change, and an expert on fair use in media creation and scholarship. She is a University Professor at American University in Washington, D.C., where she has worked since 1989 and directed the Center for Social Media, later the Center for Media & Social Impact, beginning in 2000. She has received multiple awards and honors for her journalism and scholarship, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1994, and a Fulbright Research Fellowship in 1995, and a Distinguished Career Award in 2008 from the International Digital Media and Arts Association. .. more

Business 23%
Communication & Media Studies 19%
This New Year's Day I'm thinking about Gramsci, who said: 'All days are New Year's, but not all days have in society the function of new years. Now is the time of New Year's'
Just under the wire

My fave is in the Crime section. Its Homicide: Life on Sesame Street.
Also I discovered Nestflix, a site that catalogs fictional movies and TV shows, and it's kinda amazing. nestflix.fun
Nestflix
A platform for fictional films and shows within other films and shows.
nestflix.fun
Every research project starts with a question and ends with a folder called “final_FINAL_reallyfinal2”
Also I discovered Nestflix, a site that catalogs fictional movies and TV shows, and it's kinda amazing. nestflix.fun
Nestflix
A platform for fictional films and shows within other films and shows.
nestflix.fun

I’m really being pretty good about this but I had to complain to someone. “All I Need for Christmas Is You” was streamed 102M times last week. Thank you for listening. also h/t @numlock.com.

Just in time for the holidays! Alexandra Petri: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Trump Administration’s Guide to Christmas Giving
A piece of East Wing Rubble? An MRI for no reason? The options are endless!
www.theatlantic.com
It's the last few days before Christmas. Buy safe gifts for kids!
I lost my job, was evicted from my home by by private equity landlord, and am now living under a bridge. But at least now the people walking by aren't saying "Happy Holidays" to me.

For those of us who need a moment in midst of holiday friends-and-family madness, I give you Carolyn Hax on puppeteer boyfriends. www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2025/...
Column | Carolyn Hax: What’s for parents not to like about puppeteer boyfriend?
Parents dislike the puppeteer boyfriend, and letter writer is poised to resent them for warming up to his lucrative new deal.
www.washingtonpost.com

Clear, simple, obvious: why isn’t everyone saying what Tim Wu said about monopoly, Netlix, Paramount and Discovery? Thx @karlbode for calling my attention to it. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
Opinion | Both Plans to Buy Warner Bros. Are Illegal
www.nytimes.com
The White House has been caught.

The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.

In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Holy crap chart from Gallup
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
What a great headline
Wishing you all a very happy Thanksgiving! Remember to stand by your pan today. Unattended cooking is the number one cause of home fires!

What FB posts do public media users respond to? No Kings day was a biiiiiiiig one:
www.semipublic.co/p/no-kings-p...
No Kings Protests Were Public Media’s Biggest Facebook Moments of 2025
A study of over 113,000 Facebook posts by public media stations showed that No Kings demonstrations in June and October set user engagement records.
www.semipublic.co
We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
Vulgar Marxism implies a Clean Edit Marxism, a Kidz Bop Marxism, a Marxism (Taylor's version)

(all flavors of Marxism are, according to managers, NSFW)
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
"When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain." – Andrea Gibson

Need a briefing on current genAI copyright landscape, with some historical perspective? Pam Samuelson and Silicon Flatirons are here to help: siliconflatirons.org/wp-content/u... (there is video too!)
siliconflatirons.org
Colorado enacted a limited but crucial step forward against automated decision-making: the AI Act of 2024. We oppose weakening or delaying this law, and support strengthening it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Strengthen Colorado’s AI Act
Powerful institutions are using automated decision-making against us. Fortunately, workers, patients, and renters are resisting. The Colorado AI Act is a good step in the right direction. Still, EFF
www.eff.org
Alex Jones launches GoFundMe to make face even puffier
Alex Jones launches GoFundMe to make face even puffier
AUSTIN, TX - Radio show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is once again reaching out to his listener base for help with a new GoFundMe campaign to make his face even more ruddy-looking.
www.thebeaverton.com
The President of the United States just called for Democratic lawmakers to be killed. Trump is putting my colleagues’ lives at risk because they have exercised their free speech rights under the First Amendment and Speech and Debate Clause.
we are "ruled" by the worst people imaginable

Front page top of fold news, right?
Not an exaggeration!