Jennifer Hessler
@jenmhessler.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California
Media History|Media Industries|Television|Audiences|Technology and Society
Views my own
Media History|Media Industries|Television|Audiences|Technology and Society
Views my own
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My article "The ratings panel from participation to personification: Nielsen and the big data reconfiguration of the audience" is out in Convergence
I draw on years of research in the trade convention circuit to make sense of the way this legacy company is using AI across their product suite
Link👇
I draw on years of research in the trade convention circuit to make sense of the way this legacy company is using AI across their product suite
Link👇
‘90s hip hop is educational af. It was only about a month ago that I got tired of not knowing how untouchable California is, and decided to look up “Eliot Ness”
Me to no one in particular: “but how will the youth of today understand the Beastie Boys references of the past?“
December 4, 2025 at 6:35 AM
‘90s hip hop is educational af. It was only about a month ago that I got tired of not knowing how untouchable California is, and decided to look up “Eliot Ness”
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Mine and Elliot Montpellier's special issue on Big Data Audiences is out in Convergence
There are great articles by David Hesmondhalgh, Ramon Lobato, Lee McGuigan, Rebecca Saunders, Anna Liu et al., Johan Søltoft et al., and more
journals.sagepub.com/toc/CON/curr...
There are great articles by David Hesmondhalgh, Ramon Lobato, Lee McGuigan, Rebecca Saunders, Anna Liu et al., Johan Søltoft et al., and more
journals.sagepub.com/toc/CON/curr...
Convergence - Volume 31, Number 6
Table of contents for Convergence, 31, 6
journals.sagepub.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Mine and Elliot Montpellier's special issue on Big Data Audiences is out in Convergence
There are great articles by David Hesmondhalgh, Ramon Lobato, Lee McGuigan, Rebecca Saunders, Anna Liu et al., Johan Søltoft et al., and more
journals.sagepub.com/toc/CON/curr...
There are great articles by David Hesmondhalgh, Ramon Lobato, Lee McGuigan, Rebecca Saunders, Anna Liu et al., Johan Søltoft et al., and more
journals.sagepub.com/toc/CON/curr...
Mine and Elliot Montpellier's special issue on Big Data Audiences is out in Convergence
There are great articles by David Hesmondhalgh, Ramon Lobato, Lee McGuigan, Rebecca Saunders, Anna Liu et al., Johan Søltoft et al., and more
journals.sagepub.com/toc/CON/curr...
There are great articles by David Hesmondhalgh, Ramon Lobato, Lee McGuigan, Rebecca Saunders, Anna Liu et al., Johan Søltoft et al., and more
journals.sagepub.com/toc/CON/curr...
Convergence - Volume 31, Number 6
Table of contents for Convergence, 31, 6
journals.sagepub.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Mine and Elliot Montpellier's special issue on Big Data Audiences is out in Convergence
There are great articles by David Hesmondhalgh, Ramon Lobato, Lee McGuigan, Rebecca Saunders, Anna Liu et al., Johan Søltoft et al., and more
journals.sagepub.com/toc/CON/curr...
There are great articles by David Hesmondhalgh, Ramon Lobato, Lee McGuigan, Rebecca Saunders, Anna Liu et al., Johan Søltoft et al., and more
journals.sagepub.com/toc/CON/curr...
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Excited to be a part of this exciting CWC Media Industries and AI initiative
My project takes a critical approach to researching how the TV audience analytics industry is using AI to create and calibrate data and target audiences + its cultural implications
www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/media-indust...
My project takes a critical approach to researching how the TV audience analytics industry is using AI to create and calibrate data and target audiences + its cultural implications
www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/media-indust...
Media Industries - AI Research Initiative (MI-AI) - Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara
www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu
November 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Excited to be a part of this exciting CWC Media Industries and AI initiative
My project takes a critical approach to researching how the TV audience analytics industry is using AI to create and calibrate data and target audiences + its cultural implications
www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/media-indust...
My project takes a critical approach to researching how the TV audience analytics industry is using AI to create and calibrate data and target audiences + its cultural implications
www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/media-indust...
Excited to be a part of this exciting CWC Media Industries and AI initiative
My project takes a critical approach to researching how the TV audience analytics industry is using AI to create and calibrate data and target audiences + its cultural implications
www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/media-indust...
My project takes a critical approach to researching how the TV audience analytics industry is using AI to create and calibrate data and target audiences + its cultural implications
www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/media-indust...
Media Industries - AI Research Initiative (MI-AI) - Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara
www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu
November 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Excited to be a part of this exciting CWC Media Industries and AI initiative
My project takes a critical approach to researching how the TV audience analytics industry is using AI to create and calibrate data and target audiences + its cultural implications
www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/media-indust...
My project takes a critical approach to researching how the TV audience analytics industry is using AI to create and calibrate data and target audiences + its cultural implications
www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/media-indust...
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We're hiring at USC Cinematic Arts!
Non-tt, teaching faculty. Focused on teaching our famed Intro to Cinema class. Phd Req
This is a cool role w/a lot of influence for the whole cinema program at USC. I'd be applying if I weren't in a gig
Be my colleague!
usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
Non-tt, teaching faculty. Focused on teaching our famed Intro to Cinema class. Phd Req
This is a cool role w/a lot of influence for the whole cinema program at USC. I'd be applying if I weren't in a gig
Be my colleague!
usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of the Practice of Cinema and Media Studies at USC
Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of the Practice of Cinema and Media Studies at USC
usccareers.usc.edu
October 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
We're hiring at USC Cinematic Arts!
Non-tt, teaching faculty. Focused on teaching our famed Intro to Cinema class. Phd Req
This is a cool role w/a lot of influence for the whole cinema program at USC. I'd be applying if I weren't in a gig
Be my colleague!
usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
Non-tt, teaching faculty. Focused on teaching our famed Intro to Cinema class. Phd Req
This is a cool role w/a lot of influence for the whole cinema program at USC. I'd be applying if I weren't in a gig
Be my colleague!
usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
I realized too late that I gave someone incorrect directions on the metro this morning, and I haven't been able to stop feeling bad about it all day 😭 Sorry bruh, I hope you made the right connection 😬
October 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I realized too late that I gave someone incorrect directions on the metro this morning, and I haven't been able to stop feeling bad about it all day 😭 Sorry bruh, I hope you made the right connection 😬
We're hiring at USC Cinematic Arts!
Non-tt, teaching faculty. Focused on teaching our famed Intro to Cinema class. Phd Req
This is a cool role w/a lot of influence for the whole cinema program at USC. I'd be applying if I weren't in a gig
Be my colleague!
usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
Non-tt, teaching faculty. Focused on teaching our famed Intro to Cinema class. Phd Req
This is a cool role w/a lot of influence for the whole cinema program at USC. I'd be applying if I weren't in a gig
Be my colleague!
usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of the Practice of Cinema and Media Studies at USC
Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of the Practice of Cinema and Media Studies at USC
usccareers.usc.edu
October 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
We're hiring at USC Cinematic Arts!
Non-tt, teaching faculty. Focused on teaching our famed Intro to Cinema class. Phd Req
This is a cool role w/a lot of influence for the whole cinema program at USC. I'd be applying if I weren't in a gig
Be my colleague!
usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
Non-tt, teaching faculty. Focused on teaching our famed Intro to Cinema class. Phd Req
This is a cool role w/a lot of influence for the whole cinema program at USC. I'd be applying if I weren't in a gig
Be my colleague!
usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
My article "The ratings panel from participation to personification: Nielsen and the big data reconfiguration of the audience" is out in Convergence
I draw on years of research in the trade convention circuit to make sense of the way this legacy company is using AI across their product suite
Link👇
I draw on years of research in the trade convention circuit to make sense of the way this legacy company is using AI across their product suite
Link👇
October 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
My article "The ratings panel from participation to personification: Nielsen and the big data reconfiguration of the audience" is out in Convergence
I draw on years of research in the trade convention circuit to make sense of the way this legacy company is using AI across their product suite
Link👇
I draw on years of research in the trade convention circuit to make sense of the way this legacy company is using AI across their product suite
Link👇
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The Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture conference has a website!
Join us in New Orleans this February!
blackmedia.tulane.edu
Join us in New Orleans this February!
blackmedia.tulane.edu
Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture Conference | Tulane University
blackmedia.tulane.edu
September 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture conference has a website!
Join us in New Orleans this February!
blackmedia.tulane.edu
Join us in New Orleans this February!
blackmedia.tulane.edu
Pasadena, where you at?
September 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Pasadena, where you at?
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My department @utexasrtf.bsky.social is hiring a TT faculty member in media studies. We are looking for faculty who conduct broad-based research in the following areas: media history and industries associated with film, television, and/or digital media.
More here: apply.interfolio.com/171261
More here: apply.interfolio.com/171261
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August 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
My department @utexasrtf.bsky.social is hiring a TT faculty member in media studies. We are looking for faculty who conduct broad-based research in the following areas: media history and industries associated with film, television, and/or digital media.
More here: apply.interfolio.com/171261
More here: apply.interfolio.com/171261
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CFP: Beyond the Audience: Rethinking Participation and Power in the Age of
Data Capitalism
January 15-16, Rome, 2026 IULM, University
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...
Data Capitalism
January 15-16, Rome, 2026 IULM, University
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...
www.jiscmail.ac.uk
July 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
CFP: Beyond the Audience: Rethinking Participation and Power in the Age of
Data Capitalism
January 15-16, Rome, 2026 IULM, University
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...
Data Capitalism
January 15-16, Rome, 2026 IULM, University
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...
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The Hollywood Conference affirmed my love of small, thematic conferences. I saw so many inspiring talks, and there was enough downtime to have actual conversations with people I have known for a long time and with people I just met here. I hope there will be a second iteration. #HWC2025
July 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The Hollywood Conference affirmed my love of small, thematic conferences. I saw so many inspiring talks, and there was enough downtime to have actual conversations with people I have known for a long time and with people I just met here. I hope there will be a second iteration. #HWC2025
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Starting day 3 with @jenmhessler.bsky.social, Charlotte Howell, Denise Mann, and Eleanor Patterson
#HWC2025
#HWC2025
July 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Starting day 3 with @jenmhessler.bsky.social, Charlotte Howell, Denise Mann, and Eleanor Patterson
#HWC2025
#HWC2025
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We’re looking for a detail-oriented, proactive research assistant to provide direct support to our director of research! We’ll review applications starting 7/21, so apply today! job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...
Research Assistant to Director of Research
New York, NY
job-boards.greenhouse.io
July 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
We’re looking for a detail-oriented, proactive research assistant to provide direct support to our director of research! We’ll review applications starting 7/21, so apply today! job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...
Wait, did ya'll know that a single print newspaper is like almost $6 now?
July 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Wait, did ya'll know that a single print newspaper is like almost $6 now?
Netflix has removed all of their interactive content from their site bc interface incompatibility. Those films/shows were culturally important nodes in the evolution of television/interactivity and digital storytelling strategies. This is the archive problem that the digital creates
June 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Netflix has removed all of their interactive content from their site bc interface incompatibility. Those films/shows were culturally important nodes in the evolution of television/interactivity and digital storytelling strategies. This is the archive problem that the digital creates
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Jennifer Holt and I discuss her new book, Cloud Policy, on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. A must-read for scholars of policy, platforms, data, infrastructures, and media industries.
newbooksnetwork.com/cloud-policy
newbooksnetwork.com/cloud-policy
Jennifer Holt, "Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data" (MIT Press, 2024) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
May 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Jennifer Holt and I discuss her new book, Cloud Policy, on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. A must-read for scholars of policy, platforms, data, infrastructures, and media industries.
newbooksnetwork.com/cloud-policy
newbooksnetwork.com/cloud-policy
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They were also against automation cause they knew that all it would do was leave them penniless while the owners get insanely rich. The owners said that no, we’ll use the profits to uplift the whole community, esp the workers we replaced. The luddites knew this was a lie and stood up for themselves.
May 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
They were also against automation cause they knew that all it would do was leave them penniless while the owners get insanely rich. The owners said that no, we’ll use the profits to uplift the whole community, esp the workers we replaced. The luddites knew this was a lie and stood up for themselves.
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There’s a great book about the Luddites called Blood in the Machine. It makes great contemporary comparisons to the rise of AI.
May 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
There’s a great book about the Luddites called Blood in the Machine. It makes great contemporary comparisons to the rise of AI.
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May 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.
April 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.
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don't post about what you did with ai. that shit is embarrassing
March 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
don't post about what you did with ai. that shit is embarrassing