Arcelia Gutiérrez
@gtzarcelia.bsky.social
Assistant professor of film and media studies. Latinx media studies. Media activism studies. Industry studies.
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Views expressed through the account represent my own opinions and not my employer.
arceliagutierrez.com
Views expressed through the account represent my own opinions and not my employer.
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My new piece about media reparations, included in JCMS’s In Focus on Latinx Media Activism. Biggest thank you to In Focus editors Colin Gunckel and Laura Isabel Serna.
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I’ll be presenting a paper, “The Case for Media Reparations,” at this conference. Excited to be in convo with panelists.
Join us October 10 for an in-person conference, Aesthetics of Joy and Refuge, featuring twenty presentations by a range of scholars, researchers and cultural organizers selected via open call.
View the program and RSVP online. Please note that seating is first-come, first-served.
View the program and RSVP online. Please note that seating is first-come, first-served.
October 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I’ll be presenting a paper, “The Case for Media Reparations,” at this conference. Excited to be in convo with panelists.
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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This is extortion and censorship. Brendan Carr is turning into a mob boss: “the easy way or the hard way,” really?
What about the American way? The constitutional way?
Shame on ABC for capitulating and on Nexstar for greedily aiding and abetting this farce.
What about the American way? The constitutional way?
Shame on ABC for capitulating and on Nexstar for greedily aiding and abetting this farce.
New: FCC chair threatens ABC and Disney over Jimmy Kimmel’s remarks about Charlie Kirk
www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/m...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/m...
FCC chair threatens ABC and Disney over Jimmy Kimmel’s remarks about Charlie Kirk | CNN Business
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr warned. “These companies can find ways to change conduct and take actions on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
www.cnn.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This is extortion and censorship. Brendan Carr is turning into a mob boss: “the easy way or the hard way,” really?
What about the American way? The constitutional way?
Shame on ABC for capitulating and on Nexstar for greedily aiding and abetting this farce.
What about the American way? The constitutional way?
Shame on ABC for capitulating and on Nexstar for greedily aiding and abetting this farce.
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I was on @kalwradio.bsky.social today to discuss how publicly funding public media is a racial justice issue. The full episode is dedicated to understanding CPB’s closure and well worth a listen. The last 15 mins is my interview with @angiecoiro.bsky.social
www.kalw.org/show/your-ca...
www.kalw.org/show/your-ca...
What does the CPB closure mean for the future of public media?
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has long helped sustain public media stations, announced it will shut down after losing $1.1 billion in federal funding.
www.kalw.org
August 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I was on @kalwradio.bsky.social today to discuss how publicly funding public media is a racial justice issue. The full episode is dedicated to understanding CPB’s closure and well worth a listen. The last 15 mins is my interview with @angiecoiro.bsky.social
www.kalw.org/show/your-ca...
www.kalw.org/show/your-ca...
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Our recent analysis made a sectional front page of the print edition of the Denver Post!
August 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Our recent analysis made a sectional front page of the print edition of the Denver Post!
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My new piece about media reparations, included in JCMS’s In Focus on Latinx Media Activism. Biggest thank you to In Focus editors Colin Gunckel and Laura Isabel Serna.
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muse.jhu.edu/pub/349/arti...
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muse.jhu.edu/pub/349/arti...
August 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
My new piece about media reparations, included in JCMS’s In Focus on Latinx Media Activism. Biggest thank you to In Focus editors Colin Gunckel and Laura Isabel Serna.
1/5
muse.jhu.edu/pub/349/arti...
1/5
muse.jhu.edu/pub/349/arti...
My new piece about media reparations, included in JCMS’s In Focus on Latinx Media Activism. Biggest thank you to In Focus editors Colin Gunckel and Laura Isabel Serna.
1/5
muse.jhu.edu/pub/349/arti...
1/5
muse.jhu.edu/pub/349/arti...
August 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
My new piece about media reparations, included in JCMS’s In Focus on Latinx Media Activism. Biggest thank you to In Focus editors Colin Gunckel and Laura Isabel Serna.
1/5
muse.jhu.edu/pub/349/arti...
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muse.jhu.edu/pub/349/arti...
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"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas"
our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got
dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...
our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got
dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...
Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm - Daily Nous
Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who wa...
dailynous.com
July 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas"
our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got
dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...
our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got
dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...
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In the last 20 or so minutes I’ve seen LAPD officers shove women to the ground without provocation, rip a sign out of a man’s hand and then swing a baton into his leg and raise a less-lethal launcher to aim
directly at a protester (which I’m 99% is a major policy violation.)
directly at a protester (which I’m 99% is a major policy violation.)
June 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
In the last 20 or so minutes I’ve seen LAPD officers shove women to the ground without provocation, rip a sign out of a man’s hand and then swing a baton into his leg and raise a less-lethal launcher to aim
directly at a protester (which I’m 99% is a major policy violation.)
directly at a protester (which I’m 99% is a major policy violation.)
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If you’re not from LA or living in LA you really only have two things you can do:
1. Speak out against the violent kidnapping of innocent Americans, stand up for civil rights & due process, and push back against treating peaceful communities like war zones.
Or
2. Shut Up
1. Speak out against the violent kidnapping of innocent Americans, stand up for civil rights & due process, and push back against treating peaceful communities like war zones.
Or
2. Shut Up
June 8, 2025 at 4:36 AM
If you’re not from LA or living in LA you really only have two things you can do:
1. Speak out against the violent kidnapping of innocent Americans, stand up for civil rights & due process, and push back against treating peaceful communities like war zones.
Or
2. Shut Up
1. Speak out against the violent kidnapping of innocent Americans, stand up for civil rights & due process, and push back against treating peaceful communities like war zones.
Or
2. Shut Up
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I just have to say for those of you not in LA that in the days before the horrible raids started, there was no crisis or whatever they would let you believe. It wasn't like something was escalating out of control and somebody had to step in. THEY are creating the problems.
June 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I just have to say for those of you not in LA that in the days before the horrible raids started, there was no crisis or whatever they would let you believe. It wasn't like something was escalating out of control and somebody had to step in. THEY are creating the problems.
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Wrote a historical piece that defends funding for NPR and PBS. Whatever their problems, we cannot let Fox News become our default "public sphere." There needs to be alternatives, including imperfect yet aspirational ones.
Trump and many GOP lawmakers want to end all funding for NPR and PBS − unraveling a US public media system that took a century to build
The precursors of today’s public media programs consisted of professors giving lectures about history and finance.
theconversation.com
May 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Wrote a historical piece that defends funding for NPR and PBS. Whatever their problems, we cannot let Fox News become our default "public sphere." There needs to be alternatives, including imperfect yet aspirational ones.
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Under its new chairman, the FCC is threatening broadcasters and pushing President Donald Trump’s agenda. www.wired.com/story/plaint...
Brendan Carr Is Turning the FCC Into MAGA’s Censoring Machine
Under its new chairman, the FCC is threatening broadcasters and pushing President Donald Trump’s agenda.
www.wired.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Under its new chairman, the FCC is threatening broadcasters and pushing President Donald Trump’s agenda. www.wired.com/story/plaint...
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Removing members of private corporations simply because you disagree with the way the organizations they fund cover government actions is a form of censorship and control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Sues White House to Block Board Firings
The media organization said the White House emailed three of the company’s five directors on Monday, telling them that their positions had been terminated.
www.nytimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Removing members of private corporations simply because you disagree with the way the organizations they fund cover government actions is a form of censorship and control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/b...
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Today ACLS, AHA, and MLA filed a lawsuit in federal district court seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities, including the elimination of grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs. bit.ly/4lWubq5
May 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Today ACLS, AHA, and MLA filed a lawsuit in federal district court seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities, including the elimination of grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs. bit.ly/4lWubq5
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My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more:
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
April 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more:
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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Sharing with everyone reading this thread the story breaking this news and putting it into context:
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Sharing with everyone reading this thread the story breaking this news and putting it into context:
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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Then came the intimidation.
While preparing this disclosure, Berulis found a drone surveillance photo of himself taped to his front door with a threatening note.
This was just a few days ago.
While preparing this disclosure, Berulis found a drone surveillance photo of himself taped to his front door with a threatening note.
This was just a few days ago.
April 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Then came the intimidation.
While preparing this disclosure, Berulis found a drone surveillance photo of himself taped to his front door with a threatening note.
This was just a few days ago.
While preparing this disclosure, Berulis found a drone surveillance photo of himself taped to his front door with a threatening note.
This was just a few days ago.
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The most daming claim in this statement IMO:
Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created…
Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds.
Correct usernames and passwords.
2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd.
Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created…
Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds.
Correct usernames and passwords.
2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd.
April 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The most daming claim in this statement IMO:
Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created…
Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds.
Correct usernames and passwords.
2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd.
Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created…
Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds.
Correct usernames and passwords.
2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd.
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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
April 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
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“If a pact is formed, the universities shall “commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund”. The fund will be in turn used to provide “immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement.”
#defendhighered
#defendhighered
US universities’ faculty unite to defend academic freedom after Trump’s attacks
Indiana University leads the push for a pact among 18 institutions as Donald Trump targets diversity
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
“If a pact is formed, the universities shall “commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund”. The fund will be in turn used to provide “immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement.”
#defendhighered
#defendhighered
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First episode out today for Making: Stories without End podcast from @wbez.org! This one is mostly about the "mother" of daytime soap opera, Irna Phillips. If you like Chicago, broadcast history, soap opera, or listening to me you will enjoy it!
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Meet Irna Phillips: The Queen of Daytime
Meet the Chicago woman who birthed the soap opera, first for radio in the 1930s and then TV in the 1950s.
www.wbez.org
April 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
First episode out today for Making: Stories without End podcast from @wbez.org! This one is mostly about the "mother" of daytime soap opera, Irna Phillips. If you like Chicago, broadcast history, soap opera, or listening to me you will enjoy it!
www.wbez.org/making/2025/...
www.wbez.org/making/2025/...