Cory Barker 🆗
@corybarker.bsky.social
Media studies researcher, Penn State professor, past and future television blogger.
Book 📖: SOCIAL TV: MULTI-SCREEN CONTENT AND EPHEMERAL CULTURE
Newsletter 📰: TV PLUS
Book 📖: SOCIAL TV: MULTI-SCREEN CONTENT AND EPHEMERAL CULTURE
Newsletter 📰: TV PLUS
ABC, desperate to beat CBS to the punch, is framing this news as great news for “free and fair elections” in Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 1:40 PM
ABC, desperate to beat CBS to the punch, is framing this news as great news for “free and fair elections” in Venezuela.
Big Meritocracy at it again
More than 90% of streaming shows created by white people, study shows
Annual UCLA study finds declines in cultural diversity behind and in front of the camera since last year
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Big Meritocracy at it again
One of my favorite things to do in class is ask my students to rank our screened materials at the end of the semester. The results are not often surprising, but they're still interesting/instructive.
The results from my 200-level Film History & Theory course this semester.
The results from my 200-level Film History & Theory course this semester.
December 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
One of my favorite things to do in class is ask my students to rank our screened materials at the end of the semester. The results are not often surprising, but they're still interesting/instructive.
The results from my 200-level Film History & Theory course this semester.
The results from my 200-level Film History & Theory course this semester.
First @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat in a while, but it's a good one. Chopped it up with @michaelddwyer.bsky.social about his really great book, TINSEL AND RUST: HOW HOLLYWOOD MANUFACTURED THE RUST BELT newbooksnetwork.com/tinsel-and-r...
Michael D. Dwyer, "Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust Belt" (Oxford UP, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
First @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat in a while, but it's a good one. Chopped it up with @michaelddwyer.bsky.social about his really great book, TINSEL AND RUST: HOW HOLLYWOOD MANUFACTURED THE RUST BELT newbooksnetwork.com/tinsel-and-r...
Adam Schefter is truly one of the worst to ever do it.
December 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Adam Schefter is truly one of the worst to ever do it.
I hate to be that person, but it *does* annoy me that #StrangerThings is using the 765 area code when it was, in fact, not created until the late 90s in Indiana.
“Stranger Things” is the latest show to offer Easter eggs for viewers who try to call a fictional character. If you call the number, it really does sound like you have reached through time, space and the barrier between fiction and fact.
When the Phone Number in That TV Show Actually Connects Somewhere
Passing on the classic 555 number, “Stranger Things” is the latest show to offer Easter eggs for viewers who try to call a fictional character.
nyti.ms
December 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I hate to be that person, but it *does* annoy me that #StrangerThings is using the 765 area code when it was, in fact, not created until the late 90s in Indiana.
The CFB committee explaining why Alabama is in the playoff
December 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The CFB committee explaining why Alabama is in the playoff
It’s weird, though I guess unsurprisingly, how quickly we’re operating as if the Netflix/WB deal will be approved and without any changes to the deal. A press release isn’t a done deal!
December 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
It’s weird, though I guess unsurprisingly, how quickly we’re operating as if the Netflix/WB deal will be approved and without any changes to the deal. A press release isn’t a done deal!
I think they should do a World Cup draw every month. Don't even play the matches. Just put worse and worse celebs up there to rip balls
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I think they should do a World Cup draw every month. Don't even play the matches. Just put worse and worse celebs up there to rip balls
That ugly 0-0 result against Turkiye is going to HIT
BREAKING: The USMNT World Cup group is set
🇺🇸 United States
🇦🇺 Australia
🇵🇾 Paraguay
🇪🇺 Winner of Turkiye/Romania/Slovakia/Kosovo
Very favorable draw given potential options.
🇺🇸 United States
🇦🇺 Australia
🇵🇾 Paraguay
🇪🇺 Winner of Turkiye/Romania/Slovakia/Kosovo
Very favorable draw given potential options.
December 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
That ugly 0-0 result against Turkiye is going to HIT
FINE. I'll be the head football coach @pennstateuniv.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
FINE. I'll be the head football coach @pennstateuniv.bsky.social
Talking about stardom in rom-coms this week, and I've decided that this image should be illegal, or put in every city center
October 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Talking about stardom in rom-coms this week, and I've decided that this image should be illegal, or put in every city center
Nearly $500 million on administrator salaries, with another round of serious academic cuts coming soon.
University of Nebraska now spends more on administrators and managers than on faculty
At first glance, they look like raises. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a music professor’s salary jumped $13,000 in the past decade.
apnews.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Nearly $500 million on administrator salaries, with another round of serious academic cuts coming soon.
Reposted by Cory Barker 🆗
Time to check in on how the ol’ Grey Lady covered seven million Americans protesting fascism yesterday… Ah! There it is, 38 headlines and several large ads down the page with a one minute read.
October 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Time to check in on how the ol’ Grey Lady covered seven million Americans protesting fascism yesterday… Ah! There it is, 38 headlines and several large ads down the page with a one minute read.
TJ McConnell
Who do you think should win the 2025 Ballon d'Or?
September 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
TJ McConnell
getting into political arguments on the Bill Simmons subreddit, again
September 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
getting into political arguments on the Bill Simmons subreddit, again
Look, it’s not open mic night in America
Really incredible stuff from Bill Simmons, who of all the possible angles chose “this isn’t so bad because famous people can make their OWN platforms and don’t need networks anymore,” and then hit us with a “brought to you by FanDuel” outro. No one’s doing it like him.
September 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Look, it’s not open mic night in America
The Morning Show makes me believe in dead internet theory
September 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The Morning Show makes me believe in dead internet theory
it's that time of the semester
September 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
it's that time of the semester
I think Nate Bergatze is pretty funny! This is not his night/setting.
September 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I think Nate Bergatze is pretty funny! This is not his night/setting.
can't believe they'd let her say that awful stuff (go birds) on television
"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys
September 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
can't believe they'd let her say that awful stuff (go birds) on television
make them play every week
September 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
make them play every week
Meanwhile, at Indiana University
September 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Meanwhile, at Indiana University