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Huge investigation on class and the creative industries in @theguardian.com with some superb work from @lanre-bakare.bsky.social & team www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... & www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... & www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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" Middle-class actors are often chosen for working-class parts, “but it doesn’t work both ways, does it? That’s really frustrating and it’s just so unfair.”" www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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The 2025 @baftss.bsky.social New Connections Schedule is now available! Showcasing research undertaken by ECRs in Film, Media and Screen Studies, providing them with bursaries to present their work to new audiences. Thanks to our sponsor Manchester University Press www.baftss.org/new-connecti...

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Our #CFP for the TV & New Media special issue “Imagining US in Europe: Europeanness in Contemporary American Prestige TV”, co-edited with @ggergely.bsky.social and @victoriapistivsek.bsky.social, is out. Abstracts due 25 April, further details here: cstonline.net/call-for-pap...

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✨🎀 NEW CFP: The Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium (supported by the University of Tokyo, Media, Gender, and Sexualities Study Group) is coming back for its second edition!!!✨🎀 📩 Send us your abstract by March 21 at [email protected]✨ Share widely!

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NEW: Research Staff Manifesto 👇 New data confirms 65% of research staff are on fixed-term contracts 🚨 It is scandalous that most of the staff who actually do the work behind the UK's world-leading research output are denied secure jobs 🗣️ @drjogrady.bsky.social

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i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

submitted 29 days ago • 269 comments

Yesterday's first MeCCSA Women's Network event of 2025 was such a delight. Huge thanks to @bloggeronpole.bsky.social @poppywilde.bsky.social @sarahlahmtv.bsky.social who shared their expertise and experience around networking to generously.

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Thrilled to receive the first review of my book 'Reclaiming Female Authorship in UK Television Comedy'! womensfilmandtelevisionhistory.wordpress.com/2025/01/24/b... I've not been feeling confident about my writing lately, so this means a lot 💘

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Your reminder that diversity is not just about protected characteristics. Also socioeconomic class/status.

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"Are universities worth it? A review of the evidence and policy options" www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-insti...

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The special issue of @twccomms.bsky.social “Centering Blackness in Fan Studies” I co-edited with Matt Griffin is out now! It features four original essays on Black fandom + K-pop, horror podcasting, the Hillman bookstore, and Scandal. journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...

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A video lecture on teaching the video essay by James Slaymaker, author of a new book on the essay film. youtu.be/7nbmM4gfJ8c

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Deadline extended for Console-ing Passions proposals! 📺📻🎮

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Hello Bluesky! We are ReCARETV, an AHRC-funded project investigating Reality TV, Working Practices and Duties of Care.

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👇for your winter reading pleasure 😏

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Excellent! My recent Serious Feather Arts interview with @lrjdmnr.bsky.social about her latest book ‘Reclaiming Female Authorship in Contemporary UK Television Comedy’ (2024) has now been published by Culture Matters 😊 www.culturematters.org.uk/she-who-laug... youtu.be/csaOPXjvl-k?...

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"The game design and game studies classroom continually struggle with the same conflicts, culture wars, and exclusionary practices that dominate the game industry itself." Anne Sullivan and Anastasia Salter look for solutions to the status quo maifeminism.com/mending-the-... #academicsky #feminism

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London people: I'll be talking about my new book 'Reclaiming Female Authorship in UK Television Comedy' at the BFI Library on Monday the 2nd of December, 18:30 🎭 Link to buy a ticket below!

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We are so thrilled to share our Call for Papers for a Transatlantic Literary Women symposium in July 2025, hosted at the University of Derby ☕️🗣️ transatlanticladies.wordpress.com/2024/11/19/t...

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Reminder that we’re hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology at UCL Social Research. Position is open to any applied field, deadline 20 December. (Reposting as the link was broken) www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Hi academics! Today's a great day to email the authors of a piece you have read and liked to tell them. Assigning a work in class? Tell the authors! Citing something bc it is smart and good? Tell the authors! Just liked something you read? Tell the authors!!

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We can't rely on streaming services to value the media we value. Justin has the right ideas: Public libraries and physical media if we can find it.

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We know you're busy... ✨26✨ days to submit a proposal to Console-ing Passions 2025 in Atlanta! We invite papers on our theme of reproduction & any other aspects of television, video, audio or new media via gender, sexuality, race &/or other systems of inequality. fmt.gsu.edu/console-ing-...

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hello! gonna introduce my research: - ecr at salford uni / feminist tv & media studies scholar - wrote a book on women & UK TV comedy and co-writing the book "Television Goes Back to the Future: Rethinking TV's Streaming Revolution" - Co-Pi on "What's on? Rethinking class in the television industry"

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Actually very proud to announce that I am doing a thing: a new book series called "TV Matters" with Intellect! Television / media / pop culture scholars, take note and get in touch if you wanna write about TV! Please share far and wide.

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Thank you @seriousfeather.bsky.social for having me on to discuss my book! Really enjoyed our conversation about female authorship in UK TV comedy 🎭 Check out the interview here tinyurl.com/2u7bvpmu

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Speaking of the utterly broken Twitter search (RIP), here are instructions for searching on Bluesky. It requires a little more from you, but once you know the prefixes, I've found the search works just fine. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

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I’m gathering a list of #OpenAccess or #freelyaccessible #Film, #Television, #ScreenStudies, #audiovisualmediastudies Publications, Editors and Advocates People at Bluesky. Please let me know if you’d like me to add you. go.bsky.app/NBipNnW

submitted 110 days ago • 31 comments

For all the feminist media scholars who just joined Bluesky...consider submitting a proposal to Console-ing Passions 2025! We're hosting it at Georgia State University and we're looking forward to lively conversations! fmt.gsu.edu/console-ing-...

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Join the party!!! go.bsky.app/497Tp3t

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As promised, the Popular Culture and Media Studies starter pack! If you work in this realm and would like to be added, just let me know. :) I wanted us all to be able to find each other here. go.bsky.app/JtBHuwU

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