Jeff Pooley
@jpooley.bsky.social
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The November History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...
History of Media Studies Newsletter November 2025
History of Media Studies Newsletter November 2025 Welcome to the 54th edition of the History of Media Studies Newsletter. The monthly email, assembled by...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The November History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...
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A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees
Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇
When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.
When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.
i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees
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“ ‘A lot of academic research on AI currently is also funded by the AI industry, which creates the risk of distorting scientific knowledge.’ ”
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
“ ‘A lot of academic research on AI currently is also funded by the AI industry, which creates the risk of distorting scientific knowledge.’ ”
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The New York Times continues the decades-old effort to divert anger against the rich into generational conflict. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/o... Insofar as young people have it hard today, it is because we rigged the economy to give the rich all the money, not because of baby boomers.
Opinion | Thanks a Lot, Boomers
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The New York Times continues the decades-old effort to divert anger against the rich into generational conflict. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/o... Insofar as young people have it hard today, it is because we rigged the economy to give the rich all the money, not because of baby boomers.
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The October History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...
History of Media Studies Newsletter October 2025
History of Media Studies Newsletter October 2025 Welcome to the 53rd edition of the History of Media Studies Newsletter. The monthly email, assembled by Dave...
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October 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The October History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...
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Author of ransom note suggests paying ransom is, in fact, pretty good idea.
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Author of ransom note suggests paying ransom is, in fact, pretty good idea.
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Thank you, UPenn AAUP, for your powerful response to the administration's "invitation" (correctly renamed "threat") to join their academic compact. #academicfreedom #defendhighered @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaup.org
October 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Thank you, UPenn AAUP, for your powerful response to the administration's "invitation" (correctly renamed "threat") to join their academic compact. #academicfreedom #defendhighered @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaup.org
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This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.
September 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.
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You've got to love #openaccess for books (if you can fund it). Now ~19,000 downloads for A History of Scientific Journals: publishing at the Royal Society 1665-2015. Unbelievable figures, compared to traditional academic book publishing! From @uclpress.bsky.social or www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...
September 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
You've got to love #openaccess for books (if you can fund it). Now ~19,000 downloads for A History of Scientific Journals: publishing at the Royal Society 1665-2015. Unbelievable figures, compared to traditional academic book publishing! From @uclpress.bsky.social or www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv...
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In Project 2025, Brendan Carr [current the FCC Chairman] wrote "The FCC should promote freedom of speech... [and] pro-growth reforms that support a diversity of viewpoints." (p.877).
September 18, 2025 at 3:59 AM
In Project 2025, Brendan Carr [current the FCC Chairman] wrote "The FCC should promote freedom of speech... [and] pro-growth reforms that support a diversity of viewpoints." (p.877).
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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
September 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
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How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS:
In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.
In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS:
In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.
In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.
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Essential reading: “AI Scraping of OA Content Warrants a Collective Response” doi.org/10.21428/ae6... from @punctumbooks.bsky.social
AI Scraping of OA Content Warrants a Collective Response
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September 14, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Essential reading: “AI Scraping of OA Content Warrants a Collective Response” doi.org/10.21428/ae6... from @punctumbooks.bsky.social
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What might seem like a small announcement—it’s just one institution—actually carries substantial weight and has a strong symbolic meaning.
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, has taken another bold step: it won't renew its Web of Science license. www.uu.nl/en/news/acce...
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, has taken another bold step: it won't renew its Web of Science license. www.uu.nl/en/news/acce...
Access to Web of Science will end on 1 January 2026
The university library has decided not to renew the licence for access to the Web of Science citation database (including Journal Citation Reports).
www.uu.nl
September 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
What might seem like a small announcement—it’s just one institution—actually carries substantial weight and has a strong symbolic meaning.
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, has taken another bold step: it won't renew its Web of Science license. www.uu.nl/en/news/acce...
@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, has taken another bold step: it won't renew its Web of Science license. www.uu.nl/en/news/acce...
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THEY VOTED TO RESTORE THE IMLS FUNDING.
This isn't the end. It's nowhere near the end. But the House and Senate subcommittees voted to restore the IMLS in their budget markups.
Full House budget markup is tomorrow.
This isn't the end. It's nowhere near the end. But the House and Senate subcommittees voted to restore the IMLS in their budget markups.
Full House budget markup is tomorrow.
The House subcommittee marking up the budget containing the IMLS meets *tonight* at 5 pm eastern.
appropriations.house.gov/schedule/mar...
appropriations.house.gov/schedule/mar...
September 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
THEY VOTED TO RESTORE THE IMLS FUNDING.
This isn't the end. It's nowhere near the end. But the House and Senate subcommittees voted to restore the IMLS in their budget markups.
Full House budget markup is tomorrow.
This isn't the end. It's nowhere near the end. But the House and Senate subcommittees voted to restore the IMLS in their budget markups.
Full House budget markup is tomorrow.
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Read and weep... and then begin planning for building something entirely new out of the ashes.
Brendan Carr’s Mission to Remake the FCC
The Trump-appointed chairman is turning the agency into an instrument to advance the President’s anti-democratic agenda.
progressive.org
September 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Read and weep... and then begin planning for building something entirely new out of the ashes.
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🎙️ Check out my conversation with @petecant.bsky.social about the #MediaTravels collection!
We discuss the need for all media studies to be global media studies, the barriers to achieving this, and the value of embracing partial and fragmentary knowledges.
newbooksnetwork.com/media-travels
We discuss the need for all media studies to be global media studies, the barriers to achieving this, and the value of embracing partial and fragmentary knowledges.
newbooksnetwork.com/media-travels
Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media
Media Travels: Toward An Atlas of Global Media fills a significant gap in global media scholarship by offering short, readable articles covering different types of media from around the world. Through...
www.fulcrum.org
September 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
🎙️ Check out my conversation with @petecant.bsky.social about the #MediaTravels collection!
We discuss the need for all media studies to be global media studies, the barriers to achieving this, and the value of embracing partial and fragmentary knowledges.
newbooksnetwork.com/media-travels
We discuss the need for all media studies to be global media studies, the barriers to achieving this, and the value of embracing partial and fragmentary knowledges.
newbooksnetwork.com/media-travels
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Received the print copy of my book (out next week!). Obligatory shot with @theul.bsky.social in the background.
August 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Received the print copy of my book (out next week!). Obligatory shot with @theul.bsky.social in the background.
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The August History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs!
History of Media Studies Newsletter August 2025
History of Media Studies Newsletter August 2025 Welcome to the 52nd edition of the History of Media Studies Newsletter. The monthly email, assembled by Dave...
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August 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The August History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs!
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Saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Rossiter, who told the stories of the many forgotten and underappreciated women of science.
Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering.
RIP, Margaret.
Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering.
RIP, Margaret.
Margaret W. Rossiter, 81, Dies; Wrote Women Scientists Into History
www.nytimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Rossiter, who told the stories of the many forgotten and underappreciated women of science.
Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering.
RIP, Margaret.
Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering.
RIP, Margaret.
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Thank goodness for the Internet Archive. I'm so glad it exists—it's such an important tool for truth and for memory, especially at this moment.
(This particular rant brought to you by finding that a report was deleted from the CDC website but is, thankfully, preserved in the Internet Archive.)
(This particular rant brought to you by finding that a report was deleted from the CDC website but is, thankfully, preserved in the Internet Archive.)
August 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Thank goodness for the Internet Archive. I'm so glad it exists—it's such an important tool for truth and for memory, especially at this moment.
(This particular rant brought to you by finding that a report was deleted from the CDC website but is, thankfully, preserved in the Internet Archive.)
(This particular rant brought to you by finding that a report was deleted from the CDC website but is, thankfully, preserved in the Internet Archive.)
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My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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An open letter of resignation from myself and many other book series editors at Amsterdam University Press, following its recent acquisition by the notoriously exploitative academic publishing conglomerate Taylor & Francis.
The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members
It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...
mediastudies.hypotheses.org
July 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
An open letter of resignation from myself and many other book series editors at Amsterdam University Press, following its recent acquisition by the notoriously exploitative academic publishing conglomerate Taylor & Francis.
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Culture Machine is happy to announce Vol 25 (2026), University as Infrastructure, will be guest-edited by Alexandra Anikina, Johannes Bruder, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Stephen Cornford, Kwame Phillips & Geoff Cox.
Read the full CfP at Culture Machine’s website: culturemachine.net/vol25-cfp-un...
Read the full CfP at Culture Machine’s website: culturemachine.net/vol25-cfp-un...
CM Vol 25 CfP University as Infrastructure
Culture Machine Vol. 25 Call for Papers: University as Infrastructure Guest-edited by: Alexandra Anikina, Johannes Bruder, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Stephen Cornford, Kwame Phillips & Geoff Cox …
culturemachine.net
July 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Culture Machine is happy to announce Vol 25 (2026), University as Infrastructure, will be guest-edited by Alexandra Anikina, Johannes Bruder, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Stephen Cornford, Kwame Phillips & Geoff Cox.
Read the full CfP at Culture Machine’s website: culturemachine.net/vol25-cfp-un...
Read the full CfP at Culture Machine’s website: culturemachine.net/vol25-cfp-un...