Amy Skjerseth
@askjerseth.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Popular Music at University of California, Riverside. Formerly Lecturer in Audiovisual Media at Uni of Liverpool. Social histories of music, sound, technology, and media; popular music; music videos; sound and music in film and media
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If you teach media, comm, and/or journalism, this short book will be great for your students - full of practical, evidence-based advice for navigating the hidden curriculum from college, to internships, to your first job
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Thriving as a Communication or PR Major
This book takes a storytelling approach to help prepare readers for a successful college career in the media industries.
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September 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
If you teach media, comm, and/or journalism, this short book will be great for your students - full of practical, evidence-based advice for navigating the hidden curriculum from college, to internships, to your first job
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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🚨 humanities conference on podcasting 🚨 criesandwhispers2026.wordpress.com
August 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
🚨 humanities conference on podcasting 🚨 criesandwhispers2026.wordpress.com
Art history+ colleagues, Susan Laxton and I invite you to submit an abstract for consideration in our College Art Association (Chicago, 2/18–21/26) session, "Artistic Presets: Technology, Labor, and Innovation." See caa.confex.com/caa/2026/web... to submit; we'll let you know by 9/16. Details below!
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July 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Art history+ colleagues, Susan Laxton and I invite you to submit an abstract for consideration in our College Art Association (Chicago, 2/18–21/26) session, "Artistic Presets: Technology, Labor, and Innovation." See caa.confex.com/caa/2026/web... to submit; we'll let you know by 9/16. Details below!
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New special issue from JPMS!! This was one of the last things that @ehphd.bsky.social, @ericdharvey.com and I started before finishing our terms. Congratulations to Alisha Lola Jones, @burrata.bsky.social, Matthew Jones for their work with Georgina Born and @anthroposound.bsky.social on this!!
📣 New SPECIAL ISSUE of Journal of Popular Music Studies on MUSIC, DIGITALIZATION & IP IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH! Articles by Geoff Baker, Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Pablo Infante-Amate, Aditi Deo, Oliver Bown and me, w/an intro by Born and me. Dig in! online.ucpress.edu/jpms/issue/3...
Volume 37 Issue 2 | Journal of Popular Music Studies | University of California Press
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June 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
New special issue from JPMS!! This was one of the last things that @ehphd.bsky.social, @ericdharvey.com and I started before finishing our terms. Congratulations to Alisha Lola Jones, @burrata.bsky.social, Matthew Jones for their work with Georgina Born and @anthroposound.bsky.social on this!!
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Congrats, @askjerseth.bsky.social! This SIG is in "sure" hands.
From Landon:
I'm happy to share that @askjerseth.bsky.social has been elected to three-year term as Co-Chair of the Sound and Music Scholarly Interest Group. She'll be beginning her service alongside Co-Chair Phoebe Macrossan and Graduate Representative Ravi Krishnaswami. Congrats, Amy!
I'm happy to share that @askjerseth.bsky.social has been elected to three-year term as Co-Chair of the Sound and Music Scholarly Interest Group. She'll be beginning her service alongside Co-Chair Phoebe Macrossan and Graduate Representative Ravi Krishnaswami. Congrats, Amy!
June 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Congrats, @askjerseth.bsky.social! This SIG is in "sure" hands.
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the industrial design on the OG walkman goes crazy
Built in 3 days. Launched in 4 months. Changed the world forever.
May 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
the industrial design on the OG walkman goes crazy
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Please RT! Radio/sound scholars: June 15 is LAST CALL to sign up for the
@rptf.bsky.social
/BEA/RAMP SIG mentorship program.
Senior scholars looking to mentor grad students/ECRs for a 1 year term are especially encouraged to join.
Sign up at the BEA website:
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@rptf.bsky.social
/BEA/RAMP SIG mentorship program.
Senior scholars looking to mentor grad students/ECRs for a 1 year term are especially encouraged to join.
Sign up at the BEA website:
bea.memberclicks.net/login#/login
Broadcast Education Association
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May 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Please RT! Radio/sound scholars: June 15 is LAST CALL to sign up for the
@rptf.bsky.social
/BEA/RAMP SIG mentorship program.
Senior scholars looking to mentor grad students/ECRs for a 1 year term are especially encouraged to join.
Sign up at the BEA website:
bea.memberclicks.net/login#/login
@rptf.bsky.social
/BEA/RAMP SIG mentorship program.
Senior scholars looking to mentor grad students/ECRs for a 1 year term are especially encouraged to join.
Sign up at the BEA website:
bea.memberclicks.net/login#/login
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"We should practice close reading because it is good to read for truth and beauty, and even better without the pressure to instrumentalize this goal for economic ends—a criterion [...] that becomes more difficult for students to recognize with each passing year."
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www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Invention of Close Reading
By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to turn postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art form?
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May 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"We should practice close reading because it is good to read for truth and beauty, and even better without the pressure to instrumentalize this goal for economic ends—a criterion [...] that becomes more difficult for students to recognize with each passing year."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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"When I’m... walking[,] I try to cultivate the most bored state of mind imaginable. A total void of stimulation beyond the immediate environment... now believe with all my heart that it’s only in the crushing silences of boredom... that you can access your deepest creative wells."
Craig Mod on the Creative Power of Walking
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. The fullest day I know of begins with taking a portrait of a stranger in the middle of nowhere by 10 a.m. I do this while …
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May 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"When I’m... walking[,] I try to cultivate the most bored state of mind imaginable. A total void of stimulation beyond the immediate environment... now believe with all my heart that it’s only in the crushing silences of boredom... that you can access your deepest creative wells."
Eric wins the Internet today
Taylor Swift albums as Stephen King novels. A thread.
1. 1989 / Misery
“Boys only want love if it’s torture.”
1. 1989 / Misery
“Boys only want love if it’s torture.”
May 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Eric wins the Internet today
Writing about push-button car radio presets has made me yearn for push-button tuning… and push-button everything again in cars.
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars.
Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses. Real buttons are sooooooo back baby!
Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses. Real buttons are sooooooo back baby!
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its sen...
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May 6, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Writing about push-button car radio presets has made me yearn for push-button tuning… and push-button everything again in cars.
Have had many great conversations with @jimbuhler.bsky.social about this that are also informing my book--lucky to have Jim as a series editor!
My current framing is that AI writing produces the semblance of thought in the form of syntactical sentences. But it relies on the reader to convert that semblance into thought. AI delivers sentence forms that concatenate in probable and probabilistic ways; but that’s not aim of human thought.
May 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Have had many great conversations with @jimbuhler.bsky.social about this that are also informing my book--lucky to have Jim as a series editor!
Starting in 15 minutes! If you’ve ever wondered why microwave popcorn instructs consumers *not* to use the microwave popcorn setting, have I got the talk for you!
Tue Apr 22, 5 pm ET, in the Popular Music Books series: @askjerseth.bsky.social on tech and cultural "presets" shaping meaning thru radio, samplers, Auto-Tune, vocaloids, Instagram, AI etc. w/ Catherine Provenzano. In memory of @jonathansterne.bsky.social.
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iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
Popular Music Books in Process Series
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April 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Starting in 15 minutes! If you’ve ever wondered why microwave popcorn instructs consumers *not* to use the microwave popcorn setting, have I got the talk for you!
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Tue Apr 22, 5 pm ET, in the Popular Music Books series: @askjerseth.bsky.social on tech and cultural "presets" shaping meaning thru radio, samplers, Auto-Tune, vocaloids, Instagram, AI etc. w/ Catherine Provenzano. In memory of @jonathansterne.bsky.social.
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
Popular Music Books in Process Series
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org
April 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Tue Apr 22, 5 pm ET, in the Popular Music Books series: @askjerseth.bsky.social on tech and cultural "presets" shaping meaning thru radio, samplers, Auto-Tune, vocaloids, Instagram, AI etc. w/ Catherine Provenzano. In memory of @jonathansterne.bsky.social.
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
Writing a book indebted to Jonathan’s thinking (solidarity to his grad students) is freighted and weighted with memory. “What would Jonathan do,” as Mack Hagood said on Phantom Power recently? Today I encountered Jonathan's humility and humor in advice on “good” writing: superbon.net/2021/04/13/o...
On Resistance to Better Academic Writing – Super Bon!
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April 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Writing a book indebted to Jonathan’s thinking (solidarity to his grad students) is freighted and weighted with memory. “What would Jonathan do,” as Mack Hagood said on Phantom Power recently? Today I encountered Jonathan's humility and humor in advice on “good” writing: superbon.net/2021/04/13/o...
Jonathan Sterne made space for all of us, and we must do the same for others. As so many shared in our #scms25 L6 roundtable tribute yesterday: be generous, be political, break some rules, open up your home for meals, be a steadfast and empowering mentor. We miss you, Jonathan. Everyone say kittens!
April 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Jonathan Sterne made space for all of us, and we must do the same for others. As so many shared in our #scms25 L6 roundtable tribute yesterday: be generous, be political, break some rules, open up your home for meals, be a steadfast and empowering mentor. We miss you, Jonathan. Everyone say kittens!
Of course @alyxvesey.bsky.social can make us all dance to Madonna at a very insightful and fun 9am Sunday #SCMS25 panel on MTV
April 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Of course @alyxvesey.bsky.social can make us all dance to Madonna at a very insightful and fun 9am Sunday #SCMS25 panel on MTV
By 4/3, please send me memories of Jonathan Sterne for slides I’ll display at #SCMS25 in session L6 on 4/5. So far, I’ve received social media/email screenshots + short written memories; I’ll also share the slides afterwards here. Either dm on social media or email amy(dot)skjerseth(at)ucr(dot)edu
As part of the tribute to Jonathan Sterne in #SCMS25 session L6 (formerly “Rewinding Tape Across Media"), I invite everyone to send in a memory, photo, song, etc., that you associate with Jonathan. I’ll display the slides at L6 and share them virtually. Email amy(dot)skjerseth*at*ucr(dot)edu by 4/3.
It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.
April 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
By 4/3, please send me memories of Jonathan Sterne for slides I’ll display at #SCMS25 in session L6 on 4/5. So far, I’ve received social media/email screenshots + short written memories; I’ll also share the slides afterwards here. Either dm on social media or email amy(dot)skjerseth(at)ucr(dot)edu
As part of the tribute to Jonathan Sterne in #SCMS25 session L6 (formerly “Rewinding Tape Across Media"), I invite everyone to send in a memory, photo, song, etc., that you associate with Jonathan. I’ll display the slides at L6 and share them virtually. Email amy(dot)skjerseth*at*ucr(dot)edu by 4/3.
It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.
March 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
As part of the tribute to Jonathan Sterne in #SCMS25 session L6 (formerly “Rewinding Tape Across Media"), I invite everyone to send in a memory, photo, song, etc., that you associate with Jonathan. I’ll display the slides at L6 and share them virtually. Email amy(dot)skjerseth*at*ucr(dot)edu by 4/3.
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Exciting news: "𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞" is now offered FREE of tuition, with travel stipend!
Deadline now 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟓; please share: sites.google.com/view/reframi...
@colleenlaird.bsky.social @barbarazecchi.bsky.social
Deadline now 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟓; please share: sites.google.com/view/reframi...
@colleenlaird.bsky.social @barbarazecchi.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Exciting news: "𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐠𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞" is now offered FREE of tuition, with travel stipend!
Deadline now 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟓; please share: sites.google.com/view/reframi...
@colleenlaird.bsky.social @barbarazecchi.bsky.social
Deadline now 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟓; please share: sites.google.com/view/reframi...
@colleenlaird.bsky.social @barbarazecchi.bsky.social
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Putting on my @soundmusicscms.bsky.social hat on for a sec ahead of next week's @scmstudies.bsky.social conference in Chicago
We're hosting a mixer with the Radio, Audio Media, and Podcasting SIG on Thursday night, 4/03, beginning at 7:45! See the SIG-wide e-mail or contact me for the location
We're hosting a mixer with the Radio, Audio Media, and Podcasting SIG on Thursday night, 4/03, beginning at 7:45! See the SIG-wide e-mail or contact me for the location
a woman is standing in front of a city skyline with the words chicaa agooooo on the bottom left
ALT: a woman is standing in front of a city skyline with the words chicaa agooooo on the bottom left
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March 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Putting on my @soundmusicscms.bsky.social hat on for a sec ahead of next week's @scmstudies.bsky.social conference in Chicago
We're hosting a mixer with the Radio, Audio Media, and Podcasting SIG on Thursday night, 4/03, beginning at 7:45! See the SIG-wide e-mail or contact me for the location
We're hosting a mixer with the Radio, Audio Media, and Podcasting SIG on Thursday night, 4/03, beginning at 7:45! See the SIG-wide e-mail or contact me for the location
Linda’s work was a revelation to me as a new MA student trying to navigate academia (thank you to Ara Osterweil for the most brilliant introduction to Linda’s work). Linda’s lucid writing on urgent topics transformed what was possible in the humanities for many generations, now and still to come.
1/7 It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing of Linda Williams, a pioneering scholar whose fearless work transformed film and media studies. Over her remarkable career, Williams challenged scholars to take seriously popular and often marginalized genres,
March 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Linda’s work was a revelation to me as a new MA student trying to navigate academia (thank you to Ara Osterweil for the most brilliant introduction to Linda’s work). Linda’s lucid writing on urgent topics transformed what was possible in the humanities for many generations, now and still to come.
Oh boygenius, you’re still the one youtu.be/01NExGVZHbc?... (gorgeous cover of Shania Twain’s You’re Still the One)
boygenius - You're Still The One (Shania Twain Cover).
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December 19, 2023 at 8:39 PM
Oh boygenius, you’re still the one youtu.be/01NExGVZHbc?... (gorgeous cover of Shania Twain’s You’re Still the One)
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Do you want to learn how to make video essays in a fun immersive two-week workshop this June? Applications for the 2024 Scholarship in Sound & Image workshop at Middlebury College are now open! Check it out at sites.middlebury.edu/videoworkshop/ and spread the word!
Scholarship in Sound & Image
Workshop on Videographic Criticism
sites.middlebury.edu
December 6, 2023 at 11:54 PM
Do you want to learn how to make video essays in a fun immersive two-week workshop this June? Applications for the 2024 Scholarship in Sound & Image workshop at Middlebury College are now open! Check it out at sites.middlebury.edu/videoworkshop/ and spread the word!