SCMS Conference Panel: Call for contributors : Social Impact Entertainment: Possibilities and Contradictions of a Burgeoning Industry Sector docs.google.com/document/d/1Wj…

Did you know we have a conference submission troubleshooting page? 🖥️ Avoid last-minute stress and get your questions answered, the August 30th deadline's approaching fast! 🚀 Visit the troubleshooting page here: cmstudies.org/page/submissio…

Movement performers make up the games you love without being recognizable — and that's the whole point! SAG-AFTRA IMA Negotiating Committee member Andi Norris explains that we need to #LevelUpTheContract in order to get the A.I. protections movement performers deserve.

In our 10.2-3 issue, Kate Saccone Kate Saccone reflects on her work curating lost films directed, written, and produced by early women filmmakers from Peru, Croatia, Egypt, China, Mexico, Poland, and the United States. Read the essay for free here: online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/10… University of California Press (is on Bluesky)

My latest peer-reviewed article is now LIVE in icsjournal! ✨🏡 I observed how Twitch streamers negotiate "visibility" at the intersection of platform infastructures & domestic surfaces. (This marks the 3rd major paper from my PhD work): doi.org/10.1080/136911… 🧵⬇️:

The deadline for conference proposal submissions is THIS FRIDAY at 5 PM CT! Don’t miss it! You are highly encouraged to visit the submission portal AHEAD of time to avoid last-minute stress as the home office may not be able to get back to you as quickly on deadline day.

New job alert: Video game studies, focus on industry, history and culture.

Save the date! The #SCMSTV SIG is pleased to announce this virtual event in partnership with TV & New Media! Moderated by Hunter Hargraves, guest editor of this exciting special issue on Pandemic TV. journals.sagepub.com/toc/tvna/25/6 (Further details and Zoom link to come.)

Upcoming event on 9/27 co-sponsored by our SIG. Join us.

INDUSTRY creators Mickey Down & Konrad Kay on the mistakes they made writing Season 1 & 2, and how they applied those lessons to Season 3. It's a rare treat for creatives to be this brutally honest about their work, and great insight into why Season 3 has been so freakin good.

The Editor of New Research (Aviva Dove-Viebahn) welcomes your submissions for any/all of the new themed issues for volume 64 of JCMS that are appropriate to your research. Read more here: conta.cc/4gTotmd

We look forward to seeing you all to the SCMS Virtual Symposium, December 6-7, 2024. All current SCMS members will be granted access. There is no additional registration for this event; your membership dues allow you to attend and participate. More here: conta.cc/3XXiEvz

Please share our call for submissions to the upcoming: #ICA2025 preconference on "Debating Creator Culture" ccsn.site/ica (Submissions due Jan 31). Details here:

Happy to share our article "From local to global: Village YouTubers and rural creator cultures in South India" published International Journal of Cultural Studies part of special issue on "Global Perspectives on Platforms & Cultural Production." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

I chatted with @petecanttweet for New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) about my book, financialization, derivatives, the decline of capitalism, and... wreck-it ralph. thanks Pete!

cmstudies.org/page/VSschedul… SCMS Virtual Conference Schedule available

On Wednesday 4 December, Intercom's GP Digital Technologies and Cultures and FFLCH USP will host this brilliant online seminar on the use of digital methods, with an amazing line-up of speakers, in English and Portuguese. All are welcome to join the live stream!

Happy New Year, Media Industries SIG Quick reminder that if you'd like to have your SCMS panel considered for SIG sponsorship, please fill out this Google form forms.gle/GkwjUnRyRCoRse…