Jennifer O’Meara
@jomeara.bsky.social
Associate Prof. in Film Studies & IRC Laureate, Trinity College Dublin. Digital theory, screen voices, sound, immersive tech and synthetic media. And cats.
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How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?
April 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?
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here is my new article on mad men, real estate, the past, the future (open access!): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
this is part of an upcoming special issue of rethinking history on "memories of the future" edited by louis bayman and tim vermeulen
this is part of an upcoming special issue of rethinking history on "memories of the future" edited by louis bayman and tim vermeulen
![‘Undeveloped property’: Mad Men, crisis, and real estate
Martha Shearer
ABSTRACT
Mad Men is perhaps the preeminent example of nostalgia television of the last 20 years. And yet its version of the Sixties is relatively uninterested in what Fredric Jameson has characterised as that decade’s ‘shared feeling that everything is possible’. Instead, its primary concern is the feeling of being unmoored in history, encapsulated in the falling man of its title sequence, but also in its formal shifts between delay, deferral and slowness and the shock of historical and narrative events. As a number of scholars have observed, that slowness calls attention instead to the image and to space, and especially to production design. In this essay, I argue that the show increasingly calls attention to that space as real estate, with seasons punctuated with domestic and commercial real estate sales and acquisitions, real estate transactions as major plot points, and the introduction of real estate agent and property developer characters in its final season. I suggest that real estate, in both aesthetic and narrative terms, is critical to the show’s ambivalence about the future, caught between optimism regarding the expansion of global capitalism and knowledge of crises that follow, both in the 1970s and in 2008.
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April 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
here is my new article on mad men, real estate, the past, the future (open access!): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
this is part of an upcoming special issue of rethinking history on "memories of the future" edited by louis bayman and tim vermeulen
this is part of an upcoming special issue of rethinking history on "memories of the future" edited by louis bayman and tim vermeulen
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Day 4: "The Masculine Surreal: Damon Packard's AI-Aided Authorship" by Jaka Lombar, Trinity College Dublin
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The Masculine Surreal: Damon Packard’s AI-Aided Auteurship | In Media Res
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February 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Day 4: "The Masculine Surreal: Damon Packard's AI-Aided Authorship" by Jaka Lombar, Trinity College Dublin
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Day 3: “Jim Jarmusch as (Instagram) Collage Artist” by Jennifer O’Meara, Trinity College Dublin
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February 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Day 3: “Jim Jarmusch as (Instagram) Collage Artist” by Jennifer O’Meara, Trinity College Dublin
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“The thing about most software startups, though, is that they fail. They take big risks and they don’t pay off and they leave the carcass of that failure behind and start cranking out a new pitch deck.”
The US Government Is Not a Startup
Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.
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February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
“The thing about most software startups, though, is that they fail. They take big risks and they don’t pay off and they leave the carcass of that failure behind and start cranking out a new pitch deck.”
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Come join us for a conversation with Bluesky’s head of trust and safety on the future of social media, algorithms, and speech. dublininquirer.com/2...
Come join us for a conversation with Bluesky’s head of trust and safety on the future of social media, algorithms, and speech - Dublin Inquirer
Why’s this new social media network different? What does it mean to be able to pick your own algorithm, instead of having Musk or Zuckerberg pick for you?
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February 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Come join us for a conversation with Bluesky’s head of trust and safety on the future of social media, algorithms, and speech. dublininquirer.com/2...
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today, for In Media Res, I wrote a short piece on my favorite artifact of internet culture, GONCHAROV, for a theme week on "Auteurs in the Age of Social Media" organized by @caitmurphy.bsky.social. So grateful to Cáit for putting this together! mediacommons.org/imr/content/...
Goncharov’s Auteurish Aesthetics | In Media Res
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February 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
today, for In Media Res, I wrote a short piece on my favorite artifact of internet culture, GONCHAROV, for a theme week on "Auteurs in the Age of Social Media" organized by @caitmurphy.bsky.social. So grateful to Cáit for putting this together! mediacommons.org/imr/content/...
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It was great to co-ordinate a theme week for In Media Res. Curators responded to the call with great pieces on auteurs and auteurism in the age of social media.
The first post by @oliviastowell.bsky.social on the Goncharov meme is up today! Please share!
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The first post by @oliviastowell.bsky.social on the Goncharov meme is up today! Please share!
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Auteurs in the Age of Social Media | In Media Res
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February 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
It was great to co-ordinate a theme week for In Media Res. Curators responded to the call with great pieces on auteurs and auteurism in the age of social media.
The first post by @oliviastowell.bsky.social on the Goncharov meme is up today! Please share!
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The first post by @oliviastowell.bsky.social on the Goncharov meme is up today! Please share!
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Criterion Channel has a whole bunch of David Lynch content at the moment, but you wouldn't know it if you clicked the link at the top of their page--which only shows you their current selection of Lynch's theatrical releases and early shorts.
There's a lot more that the website buries. 1/x
There's a lot more that the website buries. 1/x
January 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Criterion Channel has a whole bunch of David Lynch content at the moment, but you wouldn't know it if you clicked the link at the top of their page--which only shows you their current selection of Lynch's theatrical releases and early shorts.
There's a lot more that the website buries. 1/x
There's a lot more that the website buries. 1/x
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The Sonic Legacy of David Lynch: The Sound of Twin Peaks & beyond: https://www.asoundeffect.com/david-lynch-sound/ #sounddesign #soundeffects #filmsound #filmmaking #audiopost #postproduction #davidlynch #twinpeaks
The Sonic Legacy of David Lynch: The Sound of Twin Peaks & beyond | A Sound Effect
Go behind the sound for some of creative visionary David Lynch's fantastic film and series projects:
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January 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The Sonic Legacy of David Lynch: The Sound of Twin Peaks & beyond: https://www.asoundeffect.com/david-lynch-sound/ #sounddesign #soundeffects #filmsound #filmmaking #audiopost #postproduction #davidlynch #twinpeaks
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Post-doc in my department - looking for someone with digital methods and media theory background to work on conspiracy theory/post-truth cultures werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — Postdoc in Digital Media: Understanding Media Dynamics of Distrust
Join a cutting-edge NWO-funded project at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and Media Studies. This postdoctoral position explores the dynamics of distrust in digital societies, analyzing vas...
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January 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Post-doc in my department - looking for someone with digital methods and media theory background to work on conspiracy theory/post-truth cultures werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
🔊 New Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Film Studies post at Trinity College Dublin. With a specialism in Irish cinema and/or an aspect of non-Western cinema.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ581/a...
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Assistant Professor in Film (with a Specialism in Cinema and Ireland and/or Film Cultures Outside US/Western European Contexts) at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Recruiting now: Assistant Professor in Film (with a Specialism in Cinema and Ireland and/or Film Cultures Outside US/Western European Contexts) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academ...
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January 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
🔊 New Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Film Studies post at Trinity College Dublin. With a specialism in Irish cinema and/or an aspect of non-Western cinema.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ581/a...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ581/a...
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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
January 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
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“The OpenSubtitles data set… includes the work of many broadcast journalists, investigative reporters and documentarians... The documentaries in OpenSubtitles include films by Ken Burns, Ava DuVernay, Michael Moore, Asif Kapadia, Werner Herzog, Jehane Noujaim, and Errol Morris.”
Thousands of documentaries are fueling AI models built by Apple, Meta, and Nvidia
Subtitles for documentaries by Alex Gibney, Ava DuVernay and Ken Burns, and episodes of PBS’ Frontline and BBC’s Panorama, were used to train LLMs.
www.niemanlab.org
January 8, 2025 at 4:55 AM
“The OpenSubtitles data set… includes the work of many broadcast journalists, investigative reporters and documentarians... The documentaries in OpenSubtitles include films by Ken Burns, Ava DuVernay, Michael Moore, Asif Kapadia, Werner Herzog, Jehane Noujaim, and Errol Morris.”
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If you see a website for a lab, research group, or scholarly organisation languishing, it's because the administrator needs to go through three levels of IT hell to access the back-end.
Anyway, all university webpages are outdated garbage because nobody is allowed to touch them.
January 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
If you see a website for a lab, research group, or scholarly organisation languishing, it's because the administrator needs to go through three levels of IT hell to access the back-end.
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Soon in OpenAccess and paperback, my new book on urban screens - the trilogy on screen cultures with Amsterdam University Press will be complete! I am very grateful for the generous endorsements by Scott McQuire, Kristy Kang, Stephanie DeBoer and Dave Colangelo.
November 27, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Soon in OpenAccess and paperback, my new book on urban screens - the trilogy on screen cultures with Amsterdam University Press will be complete! I am very grateful for the generous endorsements by Scott McQuire, Kristy Kang, Stephanie DeBoer and Dave Colangelo.
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📢 Filmmakers: Our Public Domain Remix Contest is open!
🎥 Create a short film using public domain material from 1929.
🔜 Deadline: Jan 17
🥇 $1,500
👉 https://blog.archive.org/2024/12/16/2025-public-domain-day-remix-contest-the-internet-archive-is-looking-for-creative-short-films-made-by-you/
🎥 Create a short film using public domain material from 1929.
🔜 Deadline: Jan 17
🥇 $1,500
👉 https://blog.archive.org/2024/12/16/2025-public-domain-day-remix-contest-the-internet-archive-is-looking-for-creative-short-films-made-by-you/
January 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
📢 Filmmakers: Our Public Domain Remix Contest is open!
🎥 Create a short film using public domain material from 1929.
🔜 Deadline: Jan 17
🥇 $1,500
👉 https://blog.archive.org/2024/12/16/2025-public-domain-day-remix-contest-the-internet-archive-is-looking-for-creative-short-films-made-by-you/
🎥 Create a short film using public domain material from 1929.
🔜 Deadline: Jan 17
🥇 $1,500
👉 https://blog.archive.org/2024/12/16/2025-public-domain-day-remix-contest-the-internet-archive-is-looking-for-creative-short-films-made-by-you/
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Between performative resistance and aestheticized conflicts: In this new #research article, Qianqian Li @utaustintx.bsky.social examines Greta Gerwig's film as an embodiment of the ambivalence of Western popular #feminism.
Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1367... #Barbie
Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1367... #Barbie
January 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Between performative resistance and aestheticized conflicts: In this new #research article, Qianqian Li @utaustintx.bsky.social examines Greta Gerwig's film as an embodiment of the ambivalence of Western popular #feminism.
Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1367... #Barbie
Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1367... #Barbie
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Job advert! Lecturer in Digital Futures, with specialisms in art and humanities. Come and join us at Bristol Digital Futures Institute. 80% of your time for first five years will be research and further developing BDFI work across the university and with partners www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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December 18, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Job advert! Lecturer in Digital Futures, with specialisms in art and humanities. Come and join us at Bristol Digital Futures Institute. 80% of your time for first five years will be research and further developing BDFI work across the university and with partners www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Visited Brian Maguire's La Grande Illusion at the Hugh Lane Gallery today and hard not to extend its commentary on the visual language of war to the atrocities in Gaza, and beyond. Also, expert level curation with this work mirrored in the flawed flooring.
December 29, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Visited Brian Maguire's La Grande Illusion at the Hugh Lane Gallery today and hard not to extend its commentary on the visual language of war to the atrocities in Gaza, and beyond. Also, expert level curation with this work mirrored in the flawed flooring.
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An exciting film/media history postdoc research fellow role at University of St Andrews on the “Relocating Filmstrips, Remapping Europe” project.
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
December 18, 2024 at 11:01 AM
An exciting film/media history postdoc research fellow role at University of St Andrews on the “Relocating Filmstrips, Remapping Europe” project.
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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📢 Delighted to share that our edited book volume “Doing Digital Film History. Concepts, Tools, Practices” is now published - open access! 🎉 Thanks to all the contributors, collaborators, and my co-editors! ✨
👉 www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
#digitalfilmhistory #digitalmediastudies #dataviz #DH
👉 www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
#digitalfilmhistory #digitalmediastudies #dataviz #DH
Doing Digital Film History
How has the digital turn shaped the practices of film historical research and teaching? While computational approaches have been used by film historians since the 1960s and 1970s, the arrival and use ...
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December 17, 2024 at 4:51 PM
📢 Delighted to share that our edited book volume “Doing Digital Film History. Concepts, Tools, Practices” is now published - open access! 🎉 Thanks to all the contributors, collaborators, and my co-editors! ✨
👉 www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
#digitalfilmhistory #digitalmediastudies #dataviz #DH
👉 www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
#digitalfilmhistory #digitalmediastudies #dataviz #DH