Josh Braun, josh@sciences.social
Instance: sciences.social
Joined: 3 years ago
Posts: 14
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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.
Photos: Beth Wallace, Timothy Neesam
Keywords:
#Commodon #Communication #MediaStudies #AcademicChatter #MediaDistribution #ScienceJournalism #Emacs #Zettelkasten #Linux #ica23
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University Profile
https://www.umass.edu/journalism/facultyStaff/bio/braun -
Distribution Matters
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/distribution-matters -
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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
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!
Journal spammers really putting their back into it
Journal spammers really putting their back into it.
I greatly appreciate everything that Christopher Eisgruber says in this interview, but, more than that, it's increasingly a relief to hear someone in ...
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.
I'm just going to leave this here…
I'm just going to leave this here…
I'm (hopefully) finishing my book manuscript this semester and have started a blog where I'll informally post ideas I'm working through
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 ).
My university's new mandatory cybersecurity training is apparently a series of unskippable videos that are just an AI voice reading a canned script ...
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?
Officially on sabbatical!
[Microblog] Finally
:Me, peeking at Mastodon when I should be grading
Status update: Still grading
To preserve some semblance of sanity, until grading is complete I will be communicating primarily in the form of Buster Keaton GIFs
[Microblog] :long sigh:
[Microblog] A thread on genAI …
If you’re a communication or media studies scholar migrating to Mastodon, I recommend you check out the # commodon , # mediaStudies , and # ...