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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · 7d

Meanwhile, why wait!? Order yourself a copy of @melissacharenko.bsky.social's outstanding new book from @uchicagopress.bsky.social. Available next month!!

Climate by Proxy

How twentieth-century scientists used proxies to understand historic climates, shaping scientific analyses of the past and the future. Unlike our daily reckoning with the weather, our experience of cl...

press.uchicago.edu

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · 7d

Our first in-person lecture of the year is Melissa Charenko, “Proxy Data: A History of the Scientific Stand-in.”

@melissacharenko.bsky.social is an Assistant Professor at U Penn, and will speak to us at 3pm on 11/19 in the Grucci Room.

Come one, come all. We couldn't be more excited!

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · 17d

"That's unexpected." "It's completely unexpected."

... is an objectively funny way to begin a conversation about one of the most widely reported (if collectively disavowed) ongoing stories in the higher ed and tech industrieds.

Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow.

www.nytimes.com

Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Sep 10

Assigned that wonderful book in my work-and-literature class this fall, and will now bring this image in too!

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Jul 23

Ground beef entrepreneur predicts all-hamburger future.

OpenAI CEO tells Federal Reserve confab that entire job categories will disappear due to AI

Sam Altman also said AI could already diagnose better than doctors, as his company expands into Washington

www.theguardian.com

Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Jun 20

Featuring excellent methodological foreword by DCMI fave Marc Steinberg.

Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · Jun 20

Platforms and the Moving Image book now out! Edited by Philipp Keidl and Jana Zündel, featuring the work of many amazing scholars, and mostly junior scholars, including work on Netflix, IMDb, KaraGarga, smart homes, Disney+, ALTBalaji, and much more -
meson.press/books/platfo...

Platforms and the Moving Image › meson press

Platforms and the Moving Image offers a multifaceted look at how digital platforms shape and are shaped by economic, cultural, and political forces. The collection examines the effects of gaming, soci...

meson.press

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Jun 19

I went to his memorial service. Literally tripped over Lionel Hampton.

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · May 10

If you're in Durham for @sns2025.bsky.social at the end of the month, come by, say hi, bright and early.

Friday @ 8:30am, with Ben Mangrum and Justin Mitchell:

Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Apr 16

+ whether or not you can come to the talk, all scholars of digital studies should read this fantastic article, a densely and beautifully written object lesson in interdisciplinary thinking: www.erudit.org/en/journals/...

Price Monitoring, or Where Surveillance Studies Meets the Sociology of Price Formation – Surveillance & Society

An article from Surveillance & Society, on Érudit.

www.erudit.org

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · Apr 13

hi everyone—I’m taking on a few more clients this summer. if you need an editor or indexer, please get in touch! [email protected]

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Apr 10

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Apr 4

"Data Work as Care Work" — we couldn't be more excited for our upcoming visit from Kalindi Vora of Yale.

On April 10 at 3:30 in the Grucci Room, @kalindivora.bsky.social urges us to "challenge ongoing coloniality in tech design in the face of growing datafication."

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Apr 9

But first, this week at the same time and place, it's Kalindi Vora on "Data Work as Care Work!"

Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Apr 4

"Data Work as Care Work" — we couldn't be more excited for our upcoming visit from Kalindi Vora of Yale.

On April 10 at 3:30 in the Grucci Room, @kalindivora.bsky.social urges us to "challenge ongoing coloniality in tech design in the face of growing datafication."

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Apr 9

Our third and final talk of this year's series is next week! In “Finance by Other Means? The Ambiguous Moral Economies of the Subscription Business Model," Aaron Shapiro (@bricolageyumyum.bsky.social) asks how we might "reclaim subscriptionization for post-capitalist transformation."

Join us!

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Apr 4

This event was outstanding, what a crowd, what a lecture. Thanks to all who attended!

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Apr 4

"Data Work as Care Work" — we couldn't be more excited for our upcoming visit from Kalindi Vora of Yale.

On April 10 at 3:30 in the Grucci Room, @kalindivora.bsky.social urges us to "challenge ongoing coloniality in tech design in the face of growing datafication."

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Apr 3

TODAY!

Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Feb 28

Cannot wait: on 4.3, the year's first DCMI talk is Omedi Ochieng, brilliant author of INTELLECTUAL IMAGINATION and GROUNDWORK FOR THE PRACTICE OF THE GOOD LIFE!

(Up next: Kalindi Vora on 4.10 + Aaron Shapiro on 4.17!)

@omediochieng.bsky.social
@kalindivora.bsky.social
@bricolageyumyum.bsky.social

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Mar 26

Classroom report:

This article by @ursulahuws.bsky.social can still strike the hearts of students learning to be creative workers (and of at least some of the teachers who teach them). It's also a crystal-hard model of dialectical thinking.

Expression and expropriation: The dialectics of autonomy and control in creative labour | Ephemeral Journal

ephemerajournal.org

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Mar 12

Only A. or E. can dignify the already-dead.

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Feb 28

We're delighted!

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Feb 28

Cannot wait: on 4.3, the year's first DCMI talk is Omedi Ochieng, brilliant author of INTELLECTUAL IMAGINATION and GROUNDWORK FOR THE PRACTICE OF THE GOOD LIFE!

(Up next: Kalindi Vora on 4.10 + Aaron Shapiro on 4.17!)

@omediochieng.bsky.social
@kalindivora.bsky.social
@bricolageyumyum.bsky.social

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Jan 1

Special session of #MLA25 #MLA2025, next Friday at 3:30:

"Sentimental Politics after Doomerism," with Zachary Loeb, Matt Tierney, Melanie Abeygunawardana, and Sheila Liming (@seeshespeak.bsky.social).

Come say hi.

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Dec 4

An outlier in our program of in-person talks, our series of spring 2022 was held remotely in a series of webinars. Videos still linked from our site, under "recent posts," include such friends and luminaries as Yuri Furuhata, Armond Towns, Marc Steinberg, Jim Hodge, Alenda Chang, and Michael Sawyer.

Digital Culture + Media Initiative | of the Department of English

dcmi.la.psu.edu

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Dec 2

Our lectures are intimate and wide-ranging, engaged with their audience and with the present. All, in all disciplines, are welcome!

Check out our speaker bios, and our list of past talks, here:

Speakers | Digital Culture + Media Initiative

dcmi.la.psu.edu

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Dec 2

So excited to announce our spring speakers!

April 3: Omedi Ochieng, Colorado (@omediochieng.bsky.social)
April 10: Kalindi Vora, Yale
(@kalindivora.bsky.social)
April 17: Aaron Shapiro, UNC
(@bricolageyumyum.bsky.social)

Talks are in-person in the Grucci Room, Burrowes 102, at 3:30pm. Join us!

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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Nov 27

What we are (speaker series, course incubator) and do:

Digital Culture + Media Initiative | of the Department of English

dcmi.la.psu.edu

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