David Craig
@producing2power.bsky.social
comm, media industries, platform, social media, and creator studies scholar (aka "creator anthropologist"). In my past life, I spent decades making TV movies and "producing to power".
Today’s fake drag name is Wanda Lust.
May 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Today’s fake drag name is Wanda Lust.
Listening to Van Morrison at a TLV cafe is like stepping into a time machine back to the kibbutz in 1986 dancing in the bomb shelter disco to Bob Marley’s Exodus and drinking Maccabee beer and smoking clove cigs. #Vibe
May 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Listening to Van Morrison at a TLV cafe is like stepping into a time machine back to the kibbutz in 1986 dancing in the bomb shelter disco to Bob Marley’s Exodus and drinking Maccabee beer and smoking clove cigs. #Vibe
Bopping to Sting’s Blue Turtle album in my favorite TLV cafe like I once did on the Kibbutz back in 1986 and listening to the lyrics about peace and Cold War in this climate is, well, a 40 year old vibe that hits hard in all new ways.
May 5, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Bopping to Sting’s Blue Turtle album in my favorite TLV cafe like I once did on the Kibbutz back in 1986 and listening to the lyrics about peace and Cold War in this climate is, well, a 40 year old vibe that hits hard in all new ways.
You might be a global scholar if …you pull Chilean sunblock out of your Thai backpack while walking around Tel Aviv
May 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
You might be a global scholar if …you pull Chilean sunblock out of your Thai backpack while walking around Tel Aviv
YouTube turns 20: From viral cat videos to AI
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
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April 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Some reflections on the TikTok ban by some very bright people (and me). rebootingsocialmedia.org/one-year-lat...
One Year Later: Experts Reflect on TikTok Divest-or-Ban Order - Rebooting Social Media
The TikTok divest-or-ban order was signed one year ago. The Institute for Rebooting Media spoke with researchers and legal experts to learn about the order’s impact on expression, governance, and the ...
rebootingsocialmedia.org
April 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Some reflections on the TikTok ban by some very bright people (and me). rebootingsocialmedia.org/one-year-lat...
YouTube wants to be taken seriously in Hollywood, and they are being taken very seriously,” says David R. Craig…. “Not so much as a creator of content but as a distraction from the content that Hollywood produces.” www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
YouTube, at 20, Has Hosted 20 Trillion Videos and Launched Superstars. It Wants More—Including Some Prestige
Inside the platform that gave us ‘Hot Ones,’ Michelle Khare, ‘Chicken Shop Date,’ and ‘Good Mythical Morning’—not to mention Justin Bieber and MrBeast—as it embraces bingeability and more.
www.vanityfair.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
YouTube wants to be taken seriously in Hollywood, and they are being taken very seriously,” says David R. Craig…. “Not so much as a creator of content but as a distraction from the content that Hollywood produces.” www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
Who's gonna tell them? www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Netflix Sees Potential For Video Podcasts, More Creator Content on Platform
"Is it premium? Well, some of it is, and we believe we have the best monetization model on the planet for premium storytelling," co-CEO Ted Sarandos said on the earnings call.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
April 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Who's gonna tell them? www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
I was thinking how sad it is that people keep using social media to reaffirm their more often bleak vision of the world. Or when it’s not bleak, then it’s an addiction. Either way, machines are evil!
#DeficitReasoning
(Although it reminds me of religious practices … also a kind of addiction.)
#DeficitReasoning
(Although it reminds me of religious practices … also a kind of addiction.)
April 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I was thinking how sad it is that people keep using social media to reaffirm their more often bleak vision of the world. Or when it’s not bleak, then it’s an addiction. Either way, machines are evil!
#DeficitReasoning
(Although it reminds me of religious practices … also a kind of addiction.)
#DeficitReasoning
(Although it reminds me of religious practices … also a kind of addiction.)
What if I said that I abhor the term “new media” and it isn’t the “new” that bothers me the most?
Words have functions that change. They aren’t redwood trees.
P.s. the same applies to “digital media”.
Words have functions that change. They aren’t redwood trees.
P.s. the same applies to “digital media”.
April 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
What if I said that I abhor the term “new media” and it isn’t the “new” that bothers me the most?
Words have functions that change. They aren’t redwood trees.
P.s. the same applies to “digital media”.
Words have functions that change. They aren’t redwood trees.
P.s. the same applies to “digital media”.
Hollywood talent referring to themselves as "creators" because social media platforms and entrepreneurs use the term is Bourdieusian jungle gymnastics. Wonder how long before AMPAS or the TV Academy gets pulled into the fray? Or the Guilds? Or IMDB?
a man in a black and white sweater is sitting at a table with his hand on his chin .
ALT: a man in a black and white sweater is sitting at a table with his hand on his chin .
media.tenor.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Hollywood talent referring to themselves as "creators" because social media platforms and entrepreneurs use the term is Bourdieusian jungle gymnastics. Wonder how long before AMPAS or the TV Academy gets pulled into the fray? Or the Guilds? Or IMDB?
That time you spent a year in a Fulbright predicting and studying the outrageously improbable prospect of global decoupling…and it happens before you finish your research.
April 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
That time you spent a year in a Fulbright predicting and studying the outrageously improbable prospect of global decoupling…and it happens before you finish your research.
Adolescence on Netflix fits nicely within the Social Media Crisis genre which started back with a tv movie called GIRL FIGHT back in 2011.
Ps I produced GIRL FIGHT.
Ps I produced GIRL FIGHT.
March 30, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Adolescence on Netflix fits nicely within the Social Media Crisis genre which started back with a tv movie called GIRL FIGHT back in 2011.
Ps I produced GIRL FIGHT.
Ps I produced GIRL FIGHT.
The Studio is even better if you had not seen Wag the Dog, What Just Happened, Swimming with Sharks, The Player, Network, A Face in the Crowd, or read What makes Sammy Run. #MythsofMythmaking
March 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The Studio is even better if you had not seen Wag the Dog, What Just Happened, Swimming with Sharks, The Player, Network, A Face in the Crowd, or read What makes Sammy Run. #MythsofMythmaking
Thanks Argentina! www.lanacion.com.ar/economia/neg...
A la carta: cómo funciona la economía de los contenidos
Los creadores digitales apuestan a la profesionalización. Ya no se limitan a generar contenido solo para sus propias plataformas, sino que ponen su talento y experiencia al servicio de marcas y client...
www.lanacion.com.ar
March 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Thanks Argentina! www.lanacion.com.ar/economia/neg...
Here's your chance to get the end of the world for HALF-PRICE! www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
50% OFF Apocalypse Television: How The Day After Helped End the Cold War
On November 20, 1983, a three-hour made-for-TV movie, The Day After, premiered on ABC. Set in the heartland of Lawrence, Kansas, the film depicted the events before, during, and after a Soviet nuclear...
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March 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Here's your chance to get the end of the world for HALF-PRICE! www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
What no one tells you about being a "global" scholar is the 7am calls with the partners in the UK, the 10am calls with Chile, the 4pm with Australia, and the 10pm with Thailand.
And I wouldn't trade it for the world. (pun intended)
And I wouldn't trade it for the world. (pun intended)
March 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
What no one tells you about being a "global" scholar is the 7am calls with the partners in the UK, the 10am calls with Chile, the 4pm with Australia, and the 10pm with Thailand.
And I wouldn't trade it for the world. (pun intended)
And I wouldn't trade it for the world. (pun intended)
You are going to want to check this out, and repost it, and share it with the most brilliant people in your life. www.annenberglab.com/civic-media-...
Civic Media Fellowship
Applications for the 2025/26 Fellowship cohort are open from March 3-28, 2025 — APPLY HERE! For more information about the fellowship experience, who we’re looking for and the application process, ple...
www.annenberglab.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
You are going to want to check this out, and repost it, and share it with the most brilliant people in your life. www.annenberglab.com/civic-media-...
Me: Hey Siri, what's life like in academia?
Siri: Thursdays are your weekend. But it's only a half day.
Siri: Thursdays are your weekend. But it's only a half day.
a man is walking down a hallway with a backpack on his shoulder .
ALT: a man is walking down a hallway with a backpack on his shoulder .
media.tenor.com
February 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Me: Hey Siri, what's life like in academia?
Siri: Thursdays are your weekend. But it's only a half day.
Siri: Thursdays are your weekend. But it's only a half day.
"You can't live in the world without an idea of the world, but it's living that makes the ideas. You can't wait for a theory, but you have to have a theory.” - Kushner, Angels in America
I think about this every day. Often all day.
I think about this every day. Often all day.
February 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"You can't live in the world without an idea of the world, but it's living that makes the ideas. You can't wait for a theory, but you have to have a theory.” - Kushner, Angels in America
I think about this every day. Often all day.
I think about this every day. Often all day.
Thanks @NPR, although I guess this is yesterday's news...but oh have I got lots to say about today's. www.npr.org/2025/01/25/n...
TikTok's brief ban sent users to RedNote, another Chinese-owned video-sharing app
Many users flocked to another Chinese-owned app, RedNote, when it looked like TikTok would be banned. Americans and Chinese citizens have been getting to know each other.
www.npr.org
January 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Thanks @NPR, although I guess this is yesterday's news...but oh have I got lots to say about today's. www.npr.org/2025/01/25/n...
All ya’ll upset by the events happening in Late America have clearly never seen Angels in America and it shows. youtu.be/X1QJoUxAKU8?...
Angels in America (2003) - Belize and America
YouTube video by Alex Wilson
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January 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
All ya’ll upset by the events happening in Late America have clearly never seen Angels in America and it shows. youtu.be/X1QJoUxAKU8?...
By one of our nation's most extraordinary scholars.
Available in paperback. p.s. I had the extraordinary opportunity to be interviewed for this work. www.simonandschuster.net/books/Seeing...
Available in paperback. p.s. I had the extraordinary opportunity to be interviewed for this work. www.simonandschuster.net/books/Seeing...
Seeing Others
“A thoughtful recipe for building social justice” (Kirkus Reviews) from acclaimed Harvard sociologist Michèle Lamont that makes the case for reexam...
www.simonandschuster.net
January 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
By one of our nation's most extraordinary scholars.
Available in paperback. p.s. I had the extraordinary opportunity to be interviewed for this work. www.simonandschuster.net/books/Seeing...
Available in paperback. p.s. I had the extraordinary opportunity to be interviewed for this work. www.simonandschuster.net/books/Seeing...
Congrats to those accepted at ICA (and regrets to those who weren't...we feel you.) FYI, the 4th CreatorCon, an ICA pre-conference to be held at the University of Boulder dedicated to platform, creator, wanghong, and influencer studies is still taking submissions until 1 Feb. www.ccsn.site/ica
CCSN
The Content Creator Scholars Network
www.ccsn.site
January 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Congrats to those accepted at ICA (and regrets to those who weren't...we feel you.) FYI, the 4th CreatorCon, an ICA pre-conference to be held at the University of Boulder dedicated to platform, creator, wanghong, and influencer studies is still taking submissions until 1 Feb. www.ccsn.site/ica
“Westerners using the app will start to encounter Chinese people and be exposed to their ideas and culture, which is likely to further frighten Western politicians engaging in what I refer to as ‘platform nationalism’,” ...
Thanks @stokel.bsky.social
www.fastcompany.com/91260363/ame...
Thanks @stokel.bsky.social
www.fastcompany.com/91260363/ame...
Americans are using the Chinese Red Note app to express their frustration with the TikTok ban
The deliberate choice to seek refuge on Chinese Red Note app says what TikTok’s users think of the plan to ban it in five days’ time.
www.fastcompany.com
January 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“Westerners using the app will start to encounter Chinese people and be exposed to their ideas and culture, which is likely to further frighten Western politicians engaging in what I refer to as ‘platform nationalism’,” ...
Thanks @stokel.bsky.social
www.fastcompany.com/91260363/ame...
Thanks @stokel.bsky.social
www.fastcompany.com/91260363/ame...