Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@zizilizizi.bsky.social
✨ 1st gen college student ➡️ digital culture researcher
👩🏻🏫 A cinephile teaching film and media studies
✍🏼 Digital Media, Influencer Cultures
👩🏻🏫 A cinephile teaching film and media studies
✍🏼 Digital Media, Influencer Cultures
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If you've written a book or many or are writing one now, what a cool fucking thing you are doing. I hope you bask in how awesome it is that you had ideas and thoughts and worked on them for years to develop them into words others can understand. Like that's some sorcery shit. Fuck AI, THIS is magic.
November 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
If you've written a book or many or are writing one now, what a cool fucking thing you are doing. I hope you bask in how awesome it is that you had ideas and thoughts and worked on them for years to develop them into words others can understand. Like that's some sorcery shit. Fuck AI, THIS is magic.
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CFP — “The Amateur Reconsidered: Media, Labor, Publics”
Spectator Special Issue (Volume 46.2 Fall 2026)
Essay submissions due December 1, 2025.
See images with alt text here and in thread for CFP details. 1/
Spectator Special Issue (Volume 46.2 Fall 2026)
Essay submissions due December 1, 2025.
See images with alt text here and in thread for CFP details. 1/
October 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
CFP — “The Amateur Reconsidered: Media, Labor, Publics”
Spectator Special Issue (Volume 46.2 Fall 2026)
Essay submissions due December 1, 2025.
See images with alt text here and in thread for CFP details. 1/
Spectator Special Issue (Volume 46.2 Fall 2026)
Essay submissions due December 1, 2025.
See images with alt text here and in thread for CFP details. 1/
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Here's a link to adopt public media stations whose funding got axed: adoptastation.org
Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media
Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.
adoptastation.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Here's a link to adopt public media stations whose funding got axed: adoptastation.org
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Such a fascinating conversation about the finances of academic publishing - highly recommend to anyone looking to publish a book (or designing grad seminars - uploading PDFs of books undermines to the whole ecosystem!)
I was interviewed by Lisa Regan on the The Academic Publishing Podcast about publishing finances -- everything from why a press might want a subvention to why the system as a whole in in big trouble if everyone goes for the free pdf and no one is paying for the books themselves. She had smart Q's!
Ken Wissoker on Finances
Ken Wissoker is Senior Executive Editor at Duke University Press where, since arriving in 1991, he has published over 1400 books. Ken acquires books across the humanities, social sciences, and the art...
academicpublishingpod.alitu.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Such a fascinating conversation about the finances of academic publishing - highly recommend to anyone looking to publish a book (or designing grad seminars - uploading PDFs of books undermines to the whole ecosystem!)
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Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today!
Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today!
Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
www.instagram.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
It’s been a minute…I’ve been busy learning to surf…but I’m back 🤪
November 15, 2025 at 5:51 AM
It’s been a minute…I’ve been busy learning to surf…but I’m back 🤪
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Call for Papers!
"Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts"-a special issue of Poetics, coedited with @jticona.bsky.social + Angèle Christin
www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pla...
"Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts"-a special issue of Poetics, coedited with @jticona.bsky.social + Angèle Christin
www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pla...
Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts
Call for Papers Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the ArtsA Special Issue of Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts
www.ias.edu
August 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Call for Papers!
"Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts"-a special issue of Poetics, coedited with @jticona.bsky.social + Angèle Christin
www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pla...
"Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts"-a special issue of Poetics, coedited with @jticona.bsky.social + Angèle Christin
www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pla...
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To remove media from historical contexts is a disservice to studying the cultural, economic, and political moments which shape the ways information is shared and interpreted.
The study of media means we must feel toward the past before we move forward.
The study of media means we must feel toward the past before we move forward.
August 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
To remove media from historical contexts is a disservice to studying the cultural, economic, and political moments which shape the ways information is shared and interpreted.
The study of media means we must feel toward the past before we move forward.
The study of media means we must feel toward the past before we move forward.
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teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
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🚨 Join us, in collaboration with the BTS Critical Reader and GYOPO, on August 17th in LA to celebrate our first print issue!
✨Stop by for boba, snacks, panels, a dance workshop, and the opportunity to purchase our inaugural issue in print! RSVP now to save your spot: givebutter.com/bangtanremixed
✨Stop by for boba, snacks, panels, a dance workshop, and the opportunity to purchase our inaugural issue in print! RSVP now to save your spot: givebutter.com/bangtanremixed
July 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
🚨 Join us, in collaboration with the BTS Critical Reader and GYOPO, on August 17th in LA to celebrate our first print issue!
✨Stop by for boba, snacks, panels, a dance workshop, and the opportunity to purchase our inaugural issue in print! RSVP now to save your spot: givebutter.com/bangtanremixed
✨Stop by for boba, snacks, panels, a dance workshop, and the opportunity to purchase our inaugural issue in print! RSVP now to save your spot: givebutter.com/bangtanremixed
Nice little surprises at Fushimi Inari: i encountered one kitty on my way climbing up Mt Inari, and another kitty on my way down 😻😻
June 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Nice little surprises at Fushimi Inari: i encountered one kitty on my way climbing up Mt Inari, and another kitty on my way down 😻😻
Meet Coco in Kyoto 🐈⬛🇯🇵
June 27, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Meet Coco in Kyoto 🐈⬛🇯🇵
So happy to wake up early on the sweet Coast to watch this epic match and support Coco 🎾💜✨
Coco Gauff raises her Roland Garros trophy.
So much joy.
So much pride.
One of the happiest moments of her young life… so deserved.
🥹🏆
So much joy.
So much pride.
One of the happiest moments of her young life… so deserved.
🥹🏆
June 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
So happy to wake up early on the sweet Coast to watch this epic match and support Coco 🎾💜✨
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i would've done the same thing lmao
June 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
i would've done the same thing lmao
Meet my new neighborhood cat friend: Midnight 🐈⬛💜✨
June 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Meet my new neighborhood cat friend: Midnight 🐈⬛💜✨
Sign me up for these neighborhood cat meetings / gatherings 🙋🏻♀️
May 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Sign me up for these neighborhood cat meetings / gatherings 🙋🏻♀️
Today’s kitty encounter 🐱✨
May 25, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Today’s kitty encounter 🐱✨
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"When I’m... walking[,] I try to cultivate the most bored state of mind imaginable. A total void of stimulation beyond the immediate environment... now believe with all my heart that it’s only in the crushing silences of boredom... that you can access your deepest creative wells."
Craig Mod on the Creative Power of Walking
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. The fullest day I know of begins with taking a portrait of a stranger in the middle of nowhere by 10 a.m. I do this while …
lithub.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"When I’m... walking[,] I try to cultivate the most bored state of mind imaginable. A total void of stimulation beyond the immediate environment... now believe with all my heart that it’s only in the crushing silences of boredom... that you can access your deepest creative wells."
End of April timeline cleanse
April 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
End of April timeline cleanse
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Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume!
"At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics"
It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓
"At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics"
It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓
Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.At a time w
direct.mit.edu
April 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume!
"At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics"
It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓
"At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics"
It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓
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Honored to serve as a scholar for NCA's Institute for Faculty Development this summer!
Join me virtually in July to discuss teaching creator studies and digital culture in the undergraduate classroom! ✨Open to comm/media faculty of all ranks. Learn more below! ⤵️
www.natcom.org/event/instit...
Join me virtually in July to discuss teaching creator studies and digital culture in the undergraduate classroom! ✨Open to comm/media faculty of all ranks. Learn more below! ⤵️
www.natcom.org/event/instit...
April 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Honored to serve as a scholar for NCA's Institute for Faculty Development this summer!
Join me virtually in July to discuss teaching creator studies and digital culture in the undergraduate classroom! ✨Open to comm/media faculty of all ranks. Learn more below! ⤵️
www.natcom.org/event/instit...
Join me virtually in July to discuss teaching creator studies and digital culture in the undergraduate classroom! ✨Open to comm/media faculty of all ranks. Learn more below! ⤵️
www.natcom.org/event/instit...
Today’s timeline cleanse: did you spot the cat?
April 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Today’s timeline cleanse: did you spot the cat?
Monday late afternoon encounter 🐈⬛☀️
April 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Monday late afternoon encounter 🐈⬛☀️