#scms23 — Public Fediverse posts

Heading home after a fantastic and cathartic SCMS conference. This has always been my scholarly home, and this year was a joyous family reunion, and welcome to newer grad students and scholars. Excellent presentations and conversations, and capped off by an especially enthusiastic karaoke party last night. 🎤🎵🍸

Thanks to all, and especially the SCMS board and volunteers, and the staff at the Denver Sheraton, for a fantastic conference. On to Boston in 2024!

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I got my copy! This comprehensive volume will be an instant classic in the field and I'm really thrilled to have a co-authored chapter in it (with my longtime partner in crime, Diane Negra). If you're at #SCMS23 in Denver, check it out at the #Routledge table, or on their website.

https://www.routledge.com/Indie-TV-Industry-Aesthetics-and-Medium-Specificity/Lyons-Tzioumakis/p/book/9780367677282

#TelevisionStudies #MediaStudies #Commodon #OneMississippi #NewBook #AcademicBook #AcademicPublishing @academicchatter @television @commodon

I had a fantastic time last night with a few dozen old and new friends, and an equally fantastic time tonight with just one old friend. So glad to have had the opportunity to have it both ways. #SCMS23

And Ravi Krishnaswami with a fascinating history of tech and labor structures spurring changes to ad music across 80s-00s #SCMS23

@cloudmcfluff introduces his virtual improviser / algorithmic ethnography participant Maxine at #SCMS23

#SCMS23 it may be snowing today, but once you factor in the last few days of 80+ degree weather, the average temps at the conference has been downright pleasant

This #SCMS23 public media panel — with Josh Sheppard, Laura Garbes, and Sherman Dorn — has been amazing: it’s just so heartening to see a group of scholars who know their shit, who are in dialogue with one another, whose are unified in pursuit of a larger public, political end, which cultivates a sense of camaraderie and complementarity. Such a great example of collaborative scholarship.

As may come as no surprise, Hollywood does a terrible job of representing narcolepsy and other parasomnias

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And the last presentation by Aleks Kaminska gives us another perspective on sleepiness and its portrayals -

"Mediated Narcosis and Chronically Disordered Sleep: The Sleept Life on and off the Screen"

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Continuing the discussion of sleep is Allana Thain and her work on how sleep is measured and portrayed by sleep labs and sleep researchers, and increasingly in devices meant to be worn and used at home. What does it mean to create metrics of what "good sleep" looks like?

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Loving this #SCMS23 panel on sleep and rest - Here, Neta Alexander is talking about "Soporific Media," technology to help users sleep, and describing a theory of "horizonal media" - devices and interfaces designed to be used while lying down

Such a fantastic #SCMS23 talk by Cait McKinney (whose work I 💚) re: her collaborative research-creation / speculative archival project about porn + censorship: http://archive.vivomediaarts.com/dossiers/

Cait also referenced two xlnt-sounding recent pubs on artists + gossip in the archives: https://read.dukeupress.edu/glq/article-abstract/29/2/183/343579/Artists-in-the-ArchivesUlrike-Muller-s-Herstory + https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/13873

I also 💚 how she acknowledged her interest in mischief and humor — and their potential as “bad methods” 😈

And the final paper on this panel, Patrick Vonderau’s “Grey Zone Research: An Ethnography of Big Tech Lobbying”

As what should come as no surprise, mega tech companies actively try to influence political processes. Tech lobbying to the EU is more money than the pharmaceutical or oil industries

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And now another powerhouse UW-Madison presentation: Lesley Stevenson analyzing iCarly (2007) and iCarly (2021) and their depictions of precarious creative labor

It’s an incredibly popular session - the audience is full with some folks sitting in the back and others standing in the doorway.

The tiny basement rooms the hotel has for us are…. Not really sufficient

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More #SCMS23 updates: session G23 on Digital Political Economies

Starting out with Sarah Edwards surveying apps like “Fuck you pay me” designed for influencers to manage payments and make their labor more visible.

She’s also trying to set the record for most times “fuck” is said in a presentation

Kara's project is a solar-power webserver to host games which specifically engage with climate issues. Because it runs on a Raspberry Pi powered by the sun, it may be unavailable at some times of the year, but accepting this ephemerality and making visible the effects of the climate crisis is important to starting to address it:

http://solarserver.games/

https://karastonesite.com/

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Yandong Li's paper "Peasants, Workers, and Proeuctivity: a Cultural History of Greenhouses" views greenhouses as "energy objects" which prioritize the un-ending improvements of efficiency, production, and extracting more and more from nature.

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Panel on Environmental Media starting out with Danny Kimball giving a survey of the techno-utopian discourses of the "energy internet" but noting thag media studies scholars have an opportunity and responsibility to use our tools and techniques to respond to the ongoing climate crisis

Had some fun this morning talking about the MHDL - including some of the insightful user feedback we've received.

Thanks to @[email protected] for stepping in as the impromptu panel chair and thanks to everyone who came out!

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I may try to do a bit more posting about #SCMS23 today - at the last in-person conference I was at, I was a bit better at live-tweeting but I think the pandemic years of zoom conferences have fried my brain a bit.

I'll use the #SCMS23 hashtag so if you want to avoid me spamming your timeline, you can add a filter to the phrase (but I think that everyone's talking about cool stuff and might want to follow along!)

Had a very pleasant if short time at #scms23. Saw friends. Talked about at least one possible collaboration. Gave a talk on a panel I was genuinely very pleased to be part of. Got to see a roundtable and two other panels, all of which were great. Went to a cool toy store. Ate at my favorite Austin-based taco chain. Checked out Convergence Station. Lots I am sad to miss this time around (especially the book exhibit!), but it really was a pleasure to be there.

This morning’s offerings for Sound and Music scholars at #scms23 are 🔥🔥🔥. At 9 (Plaza 5), see a superstar panel featuring Andy Stuhl, Amy Skjerseth, Catherine Provenzano, and @pch9857 on “Music’s Material Mediations.” And at 11 (Plaza 5), come to Keepin’ in Saxy all about Kenny G. I’m the respondent to three very smart scholars on music documentary: Laurel Westrup, Paul Reinsch, and Kristen Fuhs. Come for the schmaltz, stay for the mini history of smooth jazz.

It’s great to hang out and catch up with so many of my media studies friends again! #SCMS23

Tomorrow morning at 9:00am in #SCMS23 E22 I'll be sharing some of the work I've done to upgrade the Media History Digital Library (https://mediahist.org) and giving a bit of a "behind the scenes" look into how it works - including all the ugly details of the development process

(thanks https://www.tumblr.com/redpenblackpen for the handy visual)

I'm allowed to call it "ugly" because it's code that I wrote... and honestly some of it should be used to teach programming students what *not* to do

Glad to see so much attention to the work of Muriel Tramis at #SCMS23 ... if you are in #gamestudies and not familiar with her work, highly recommend the excellent interview Alenda Y Chang conducted with her: https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article-abstract/6/1/147/109837/Une-Vie-Bien-Jouee-A-Life-Well-PlayedThe-Cultural

It looks like #scms23 is the tag, so hi media studies folks. I’m here to talk about music and sound things. Tomorrow you can hear me talk about Kenny G.

Highly recommend the Wizard's Chest on Broadway to the #scms23 crew ... especially if you are into #gamestudies ... really excellent board and tabletop game selection.

This afternoon at 3:15pm I'll be debuting my newest #videoessay at #SCMS23 in C23, “It Was a Work of Art, and it Was Just Real Life: Watching #TheRehearsal” - come check it out!

First paper of the day is on the James Bond 007 ttrpg franchise. I really appreciate how wide ranging the game studies community at this conference is. #SCMS23

Have any #SCMS SIGS/caucuses set up fediverse accounts yet? I currently run the soc media channels for the Sound & Music SIG and felt kinda guilty after doing our sponsored panels thread on Twitter today, but I still don't know if small org accounts make sense on here. #SCMS23

So @crsbecker sent the following on Twitter - Film & Media folks should help jumpstart conference tooting here!
" #SCMS23 is just 10 days away! The org’s first in-person conference in four years! (!) So #SCMS vets, what advice would you give to a newbie (or anyone who’s forgotten) about how to have a productive in-person experience? Please reply, DM, or email me. I’ll compile & share."

Good news: my #SCMS23 presentation was accepted!

Bad news: now I have to follow-through on my ambitious plans to make a #videoessay called "“It was a work of art, and it was just real life”: Watching THE REHEARSAL" #videographiccriticism

Good news: my #SCMS23 presentation was accepted!

Bad news: now I have to follow-through on my ambitious plans to make a #videoessay called "“It was a work of art, and it was just real life”: Watching THE REHEARSAL" #videographiccriticism

Good news: my #SCMS23 presentation was accepted!

Bad news: now I have to follow-through on my ambitious plans to make a #videoessay called "“It was a work of art, and it was just real life”: Watching THE REHEARSAL" #videographiccriticism

Good news: my #SCMS23 presentation was accepted!

Bad news: now I have to follow-through on my ambitious plans to make a #videoessay called "“It was a work of art, and it was just real life”: Watching THE REHEARSAL" #videographiccriticism