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Nancy Baym
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30+ years of digital media research. Wrote a few books. Dog, lake, and mountain lover, embroiderer, taker of nature snapshots, campervan enthusiast, sweet on music. She/her.

Nancy Baym is an American scholar and senior principal research manager at Microsoft Research, formerly a professor of communication studies at the University of Kansas. She was a member of the founding board and former president of the Association of Internet Researchers, and serves on the board of several academic journals covering new media and communication. She has published research and provided media commentary on the topics of social communication, new media, and fandom. .. more

Communication & Media Studies 34%
Sociology 16%
Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.

Not too late to apply! Wonderful faculty, beautiful campus, what’s not to love?
we, @cumediastudies.bsky.social, are still recruiting new grad students to begin fall 2026! We are also hoping to see apps for our PhD program from individuals with a secondary interest in obtaining training in digital humanities #dh. details here and pls share---> docs.google.com/document/d/1...
MDST Graduate Programs Recruitment
University of Colorado Boulder Media Studies Department Recruiting Graduate Students for Fall 2026! The Media Studies Department at the University of Colorado Boulder is now accepting applications fo...
docs.google.com

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Ellis says she is "ordering complete relief to the plaintiffs."

♥️♥️♥️ Judge Ellis ♥️♥️♥️

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One minor take-away from the NYC mayor's race for those concerned with AI/synthetic media and its effects on politics and elections might be that, in this particular instance, the guy who made a malicious deepfake lost and the guy who made authentic videos won.

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Oh hi, hope, good to feel you.

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Huge thank you to all the amazing poll workers who are working their asses off today and tonight!

I have a lot of hopes for today. One of the less important but nonetheless real is the hope that the name Winsome never again appears in my text message spam. Why me? Why?

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It’s a sad day when a judge has to order the President of the United States to feed vulnerable families and hungry children with funds already designated for that very purpose.

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You should apply to do an internship with us!

- Make sure you attach a research statement (we don't consider anybody with no statement for interviews)
- The application site will probably go down for a day or two on Nov 17, and the link may change

jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

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If SNAP serves ~1 in 8

Every person in the US - each person in your household - must donate an entire day's worth of food per week to compensate. If you know 3 people who do not donate, you'd need to donate 12 meals/week

Point: do everything you can; also PUSH bc there is only 1 realistic solution

dreamed iphone update had full screen ads i couldn’t swipe away.

Woke up. Donated to the nearest food bank.
Michelle has been invaluable in that role for nearly a decade now, but the time has come for @aoir.bsky.social to find a new coordinator to take on these vital duties. 2/2

Job posting is on our listserv. Please share & apply! listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/ai...
[Air-L] AoIR is searching for a new Association Coordinator!
listserv.aoir.org

I LOVE IT. I was SO sorry to miss the conference; sounds like it was a huge success.

How strawberry forward?

Sweet? Spicy? Tart?

I love this planet

Ok which #aoir2025 person can get me the recipe for the signature Nancy & Steve cocktail? Cuz if I didn’t get to drink it there, you know I need to try making it at home.
After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com

I’d drink one. Thanks for the photo and cheers!

OMG wow 😮
😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

I hope it’s helping!

Whoa hadn’t heard of dog uses of that

Haven’t been posting much because everything, but my dog wants you to know that CBD really is a miracle drug for canine arthritis. Now back to silence.

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we, @cumediastudies.bsky.social, are still recruiting new grad students to begin fall 2026! We are also hoping to see apps for our PhD program from individuals with a secondary interest in obtaining training in digital humanities #dh. details here and pls share---> docs.google.com/document/d/1...
MDST Graduate Programs Recruitment
University of Colorado Boulder Media Studies Department Recruiting Graduate Students for Fall 2026! The Media Studies Department at the University of Colorado Boulder is now accepting applications fo...
docs.google.com