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Emil Stjernholm
@emilstjernholm.bsky.social
Media scholar | Associate Professor @ Lund University | Propaganda | Visual Communication | Media History | Digital Methods | Preparedness and Resilience
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About 15 years ago @alainaschempp.bsky.social and I started studying together at Amsterdam University. Now we have co-authored a piece on Indiana Jones as a memetic icon in contemporary digital culture! Check it out:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Nazis, I hate these guys”: Indiana Jones as an antifascist memetic icon
Indiana Jones’ staunch anti-Nazism and the franchise’s satirical belittling and ridicule of the Third Reich render its protagonist an antifascist memetic icon. While considerable attention has been...
www.tandfonline.com
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Expressen: En falsk svensk kungasläkting som samlar in pengar ”för Gaza”, en nazist från Israel och en inflytelserik profil som har flyttat till Ryssland. Verifierade ”svenska” konton med masspublik i kontrolleras i verkligheten från utlandet. www.expressen.se/nyheter/sver...
”Emelia, 21” existerar inte – får jättespridning
En falsk svensk kungasläkting som samlar in pengar ”för Gaza”, en nazist från Israel och en inflytelserik profil som har flyttat till Ryssland. Expressen kan med hjälp av X nya verktyg avslöja att ver...
www.expressen.se
December 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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This week I reach back to the 1990s and the concept of “interpassivity,” a critique of the widespread idea that “interaction” was inherently liberating for an audience. But to think in nuanced and critical ways about creativity with generative AI, the “gesture of disappearance” has new salience.
From Interactive to Interpassive
Where AI Art Meets Cognitive Offloading There is the joke about AI: we wanted robots to do our dishes so we could have time to make art, but we got robots that make art while we do the dishes. We can...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Börjar alltmer tänka att Chris Härenstam hade rätt hela tiden.
November 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Sveriges antidesinformationsminister har poddat med Chang Frick.
November 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow 2025) är värsta sortens Aaron Sorkin-fantasi. Som att USA styrs av purgoda liberaler (vars familjefoton syns i varannan scen) medan omvärlden består av idel ondskefulla ”bad guys”. Dessutom en katastrof rent narrativt: kör samma story tre gånger - och saknar slut
November 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
För nitton år sedan hoppade jag fallskärm i Mendoza, Argentina. Blir en lugnare advent i år förhoppningsvis.
November 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Känner inte alls igen detta personligen. Denna terminens grundstudenter i MKV har varit frågvisa, dykt upp på föreläsningarna, förberett sig bra inför seminarier osv. Kanske kommer inom sinom tid?
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Som också har en tidigare karriär med att starta smutskastningsprokekt åt svenskt näringsliv utan att säga att det är från dem
November 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Bokat simskola för snart 6-åriga dottern. Fy satan va snuskigt dyrt.
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen.

Wu Tang Clan, Columbiahalle Berlin
The Tough Alliance, KB Malmö
Black Moon, Cassiopeia Berlin
DJ Premier, Paradiso Amsterdam
The Magnetic Fields, Operaen Köpenhamn
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen.

Dead can Dance
Bikini Kill
Devo
Skinny Puppy
Soft Cell
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen.

Bob Dylan
Led Zeppelin
Nina Simone
B B King
Sensational Alex Harvey Band

( some legends, among many, many others)
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Idag har jag varit på en så intressant föreläsning. Om bildigenkänningstillämpningen som används i projektet Stadens ansikten (stadsmuseet.stockholm/kunskap-och-...) (ett projekt som kopplar historiska porträtt till biografisk data om stockholmare 1880-1930). Så mkt WOW!
November 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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sorta coming around to the view that the social danger of genAI images is less that they'll make people believe fabricated things are real and more that they'll make people believe real things are fabricated
November 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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«Critical thinking is not the sole attribute of literature and philosophy departments. Instead, it is embedded in science, engineering and other hardcore technical disciplines, where logic and problem-solving are non-negotiable.»
No, critical thinking is not «problem-solving».
It's problematization
Who, pray tell, is worshipping the liberal arts? Where is the mythical university alluded to here where STEM and business courses are criticized and somehow disincentivized by those in power?
It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Letters
Letters: While such institutions have intrinsic value, that doesn’t mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever, says Jianyang Geng
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Henrik Jönsson är inte journalist utan åsiktsbulvan. Till 100%. Ett redskap för ljusskygga kapitalintressen som betalar för att få politisk makt. Motsatsen till granskande journalistik.
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Vad skiljer etablerade medier och PS från opinionskanaler som Henrik Jönsson på mediemarknaden? "Problemet uppstår när opinionskanaler med svagt eller obefintligt medieetiskt ramverk jämförs med redaktioner som prövar verkligheten och granskar makten i allmänhetens tjänst."
www.dn.se/kultur/brit-...
Brit Stakston: Lögner och överdrifter är de nya medieprofilernas affärsidé
Det finns två olika typer av medier i Sverige: den som söker sanningen och den andra som sysslar med ren propaganda, skriver Brit Stakston.
www.dn.se
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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I think that list was made by the people who think The Bear really does belong in the comedy category
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Gillar att Nakna pistolen lite oväntat rankas nummer ett men sen traderas bara samma gamla trötta komedikanon som vanligt (Some Like it Hot, Dr Strangelove osv). Finkulturskomedier.
The movie listed at #1 is so incredibly misplaced that it calls into question the veracity of the entire list. It belongs on the list, yes, but SO MUCH further down. An absolute, credibility-wrecking flub. Boo, @variety.com! Boo!

variety.com/lists/best-c...
The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
variety.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Det här är verkligen en ding ding värld.

Ministern ansvarig för att bemöta desinformation intervjuas av en trollfabrik för att beskylla oppositionen bedriva en trollfabrik.
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Sylvan: “Vi har också en mycket stark finansiell situation. Det bygger på att det är starkt kassaflödesgenererade verksamheter med väldigt låga investeringskrav och i de flesta verksamheterna får vi skolpengen innan vi får kostnaderna, alltså på förhand”
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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One of the big tidal forces of the coming years is that the baseline reliability of things you see on a screen is going to decline.

I think this has not been adequately metabolized.

This is one version, but there are a bunch of them.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Today’s “teenage mental health crisis” and social media panic are founded in nostalgic myths. Our best long-term surveys and statistics show Boomer and Xer teens were no happier or more “together” than teens are today
Today’s “teenage mental health crisis” and social media panic are founded in nostalgic myths
Our best long-term surveys and statistics show Boomer and Xer teens were no happier or more “together” than teens are today. Elders: cut out your boasting, and Gen Z: don't believe them!
mikemales.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM