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Josh Braun, josh@sciences.social

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Associate Professor at UMass Amherst studying the civic impacts of media distribution. I work in our Journalism Department and also co-edit the Distribution Matters series for The MIT Press. Opinions mine.

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#Commodon #Communication #MediaStudies #AcademicChatter #MediaDistribution #ScienceJournalism #Emacs #Zettelkasten #Linux #ica23

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Each year, when I teach Media, Technology & Culture, students select a book for their final project from a list of relevant titles

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The cover image for Seth Long's new book, "The Last Mixtape: Physical Media and Nostalgic Cycles." It is a stylized line art image that makes the front of the book resemble the old classroom tape decks so ubiquitous in the 1970s and 1980s, complete with a loaded audio cassette and physical playback buttons. The color scheme is late 70s/early 80s, too, with the body of the recorder in a blue-green color that belongs to the same color palette as avocado wallpaper and appliances. There are similarly retro red-orange highlights. The whitespace is colored to look like aged paper.

Each year, when I teach Media, Technology & Culture, students select a book for their final project from a list of relevant titles. I always have a great time assembling the list and discovering cool new work. It's also fun to share the result. So here it is, the 2025 book list!

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Journal spammers really putting their back into it

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Journal spammers really putting their back into it.

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I greatly appreciate everything that Christopher Eisgruber says in this interview, but, more than that, it's increasingly a relief to hear someone in ...

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I greatly appreciate everything that Christopher Eisgruber says in this interview, but, more than that, it's increasingly a relief to hear someone in a position of authority willing to be sane in public.

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I'm just going to leave this here…

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I'm just going to leave this here…

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I'm (hopefully) finishing my book manuscript this semester and have started a blog where I'll informally post ideas I'm working through

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I'm (hopefully) finishing my book manuscript this semester and have started a blog where I'll informally post ideas I'm working through. If you're having a particularly boring Saturday night, here's the first post (which gives a big nod to @ftripodi ).

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My university's new mandatory cybersecurity training is apparently a series of unskippable videos that are just an AI voice reading a canned script ...

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My university's new mandatory cybersecurity training is apparently a series of unskippable videos that are just an AI voice reading a canned script over unchanging stock art. Could they not have given us the same text to read?

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Officially on sabbatical!

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[Microblog] Finally

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:Me, peeking at Mastodon when I should be grading

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Status update: Still grading

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To preserve some semblance of sanity, until grading is complete I will be communicating primarily in the form of Buster Keaton GIFs

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[Microblog] :long sigh:

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[Microblog] A thread on genAI …

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If you’re a communication or media studies scholar migrating to Mastodon, I recommend you check out the # commodon , # mediaStudies , and # ...

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Each year, when I teach Media, Technology & Culture, students select a book for their final project from a list of relevant titles

Community iconc/academicchatter@a.gup.pe by
The cover image for Seth Long's new book, "The Last Mixtape: Physical Media and Nostalgic Cycles." It is a stylized line art image that makes the front of the book resemble the old classroom tape decks so ubiquitous in the 1970s and 1980s, complete with a loaded audio cassette and physical playback buttons. The color scheme is late 70s/early 80s, too, with the body of the recorder in a blue-green color that belongs to the same color palette as avocado wallpaper and appliances. There are similarly retro red-orange highlights. The whitespace is colored to look like aged paper.

Each year, when I teach Media, Technology & Culture, students select a book for their final project from a list of relevant titles. I always have a great time assembling the list and discovering cool new work. It's also fun to share the result. So here it is, the 2025 book list!

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Journal spammers really putting their back into it

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Journal spammers really putting their back into it.

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I greatly appreciate everything that Christopher Eisgruber says in this interview, but, more than that, it's increasingly a relief to hear someone in ...

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I greatly appreciate everything that Christopher Eisgruber says in this interview, but, more than that, it's increasingly a relief to hear someone in a position of authority willing to be sane in public.

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I'm just going to leave this here…

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I'm just going to leave this here…

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I'm (hopefully) finishing my book manuscript this semester and have started a blog where I'll informally post ideas I'm working through

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I'm (hopefully) finishing my book manuscript this semester and have started a blog where I'll informally post ideas I'm working through. If you're having a particularly boring Saturday night, here's the first post (which gives a big nod to @ftripodi ).

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My university's new mandatory cybersecurity training is apparently a series of unskippable videos that are just an AI voice reading a canned script ...

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My university's new mandatory cybersecurity training is apparently a series of unskippable videos that are just an AI voice reading a canned script over unchanging stock art. Could they not have given us the same text to read?

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Officially on sabbatical!

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[Microblog] Finally

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:Me, peeking at Mastodon when I should be grading

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Status update: Still grading

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To preserve some semblance of sanity, until grading is complete I will be communicating primarily in the form of Buster Keaton GIFs

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[Microblog] :long sigh:

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[Microblog] A thread on genAI …

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If you’re a communication or media studies scholar migrating to Mastodon, I recommend you check out the # commodon , # mediaStudies , and # ...

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