Research from GEM's 2019 Seminar on Media & Paranoia will be out soon in Discourse Journal. It's delay is on theme and we have theories... Thanks to @jamesleocahill and the amazing contributors. Stay tuned.

How Showmax, an African streaming service, dethroned Netflix - Rest of World restofworld.org/2024/showmax-s…

Submission Deadline Approaching: Early career colleagues are invited to apply to the 2024 Global Asias Summer Institute. SI2024 will focus on the theme of Involuntary Migration. Application deadline: March 1, 2024. Apply at the GAI website (bit.ly/3turEN5) or see below.

Happy to see this issue out! Check out the TOC here: digitalcommons.wayne.edu/discourse/

Great essay by one of my PhD students, Rebecca Holt, on "Power and Paranoia in the Age of Pornhub." Hiring committees take note! digitalcommons.wayne.edu/discourse/vol4…

Finally a story about the Columbia protests that feature student voices... democracynow.org/2024/4/18/colu…

My amazing colleague, Masha Salazkina, has written one of the best books of the year!

🔥from Robin D.G. Kelley in this Open Letter to Columbia University President Shafik: "You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment." bostonreview.net/articles/lette…

it's fellowship szn! I spent *a lot* of time applying for postdocs + independent positions last year, and I want to share my notes. In this doc, I list deadlines, pay, and other 🔑 info on bio/theory positions I considered. DM me for advice anytime. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

check out our full program for next friday + saturday's migration & media workshop 'subaltern perspectives' !

Very thrilled to be co-hosting this event with Weixian, featuring so many brilliant speakers working around the intersections of Environmental Media, Art, and Asia! It’s all online, and I hope some of you can join!

🚨 Deadline Extended 🚨 It's not too late to submit to Media Fields Issue 19, "Archival Elements"! The submission deadline has been extended to November 15, 2024. mediafieldsjournal.org/call-for-submi…

Happening tomorrow GEM Lab !Such a great warm up event for the weekend workshop.

Finally leaving this dump: Joshua Z Weinstein-neves.bsky.social

Book announcement: In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround is now out!!! 4 years in the making, co-edited by Joshua Neves and me, this OA volume is full of chapters that will make you rethink the meaning of convenience. Please read & circulate! networkcultures.org/blog/publicati…

It's admissions season! Encourage your outstanding students to apply to Concordia's MA / PhD programs in Film and Moving Image Studies. Marc Steinberg Ishita Tiwary luca caminati farah atoui Application deadline: February 1st concordia.ca/finearts/cinem…

Montreal is a great city to be a graduate student! Check out some of our incredible students now in the field: Weixian Pan Patrick Brodie @jqnsrp @J_Ristola edmond (edo) ernest dit alban, PhD Viviane Saglier @PatrickBrianS Applications due: Feb 1 concordia.ca/finearts/cinem…

Join us on Thursday, February 13th, as we celebrate the launch Ishita Tiwary's Video Culture in India: The Analog Era and Joshua Neves & Marc Steinberg's In/ Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround.

York University is suspending admissions to over a dozen programs in the fall, likely planning to shut them down completely in the next few years. Faculty member shares this list that went over the YU Faculty Association council email list. Astonishing