Special thanks to @scmstudies.bsky.social for their support as the JCMS team works on this and every issue <3

This issue’s Spotlight introduces the Disability Caucus—origins, leadership, and goals for the future of @scmstudies.bsky.social

The issue of @jcmsjournal.bsky.social dropped just in time! I'm assigning Joshua Glick's "The Synthetic Real: AI-Documentary Connections" (from In Focus section on AI and the moving image) for my final class meeting of "Documentary and Nonfiction Storytelling" at Bowdoin next week!

Lights, camera, autumn! JCMS 64.1 is here, featuring cutting-edge takes on AI’s growing role in the moving image industry, online archives, and media studies scholarship.

Full issue:
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In Focus: AI & the Moving Image
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New in @jcmsjournal.bsky.social

#mediatourism #transmediatourism

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Do check out @jcmsjournal.bsky.social highlights of new research on AI,
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Really excited about this great resource—available open access!—in the latest @jcmsjournal.bsky.social

JCMS is growing our social media presence because we want to be an information hub for the media studies community ❤️

Follow us Bluesky, Facebook (facebook.com/JCMSJournal), and Instagram (instagram.com/jcmsjournal/).

This week has been a deeply worrying one for much of our community. JCMS is committed to equity & social justice. Scholars from marginalized groups or whose research has been underrepresented in the journal, consider applying to the Publishing Initiative:

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Want to write a book review? 📚 JCMS welcomes proposals for both individual book reviews and book review essays! We value reviews that move beyond summary, locating the book and its interventions within the broader field.

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Get your archival news!🗞️📦 Did you know that JCMS publishes a quarterly, online, open-access feature where you can read about recent highlights from audiovisual archives? Summer 2024 featured LGBTQ+ archives, student protests, internet archives, & more.

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CFP from a fellow journal! Communication, Culture & Critique is calling for papers for its special issue "Palestine as a Communicative Epistemology: Confronting the Mediation of Total Violence." Abstract deadline 12/15.

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Recommended reading from the new @JCMSJournal 5th issue drop! "This article reframes the slasher as the harbinger of our contemporary net- work society"

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Fall is in air, the breeze grows crisp, and sweaters emerge from storage. So cozy up with our latest issue 🍁🛋️📗

A new collection of articles in JCMS 63.5 (our rolling "5th issue," published open access online) is out now! 7 articles, no paywall, all goodness.

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JCMS is on Bluesky! We're expanding our social media presence to bring more info and updates to the media studies community. Stay tuned 📻📺📽️💻🎮