Digital Platforms and Agency - Lateral Edited by Reed Van Schenck and Elaine Venter New platforms always invite new subversions of human agency, from Facebook spying on us to AI taking our jobs. This special section invited scholars in med...

I'm very proud to announce that "Digital Platforms and Agency" is live! Check out the special section published by Lateral, the journal of the Cultural Studies Association. My colleague Elaine and I worked very hard to curate this selection of essays.
csalateral.org/archive/sect...

Gamer publics: live-stream debate networks and the mediation of argument in the digital attention economy This paper evaluates how live-streaming content creators use debate to hail their audience into “gamer publics,” deliberative spheres shaped by the practices of gaming culture. In the wake of react...

Grab your free copy of "Gamer Publics," one of my recent publications about live-streamed debate and argument among gamers. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QSI6X...

Carl Schmitt's Concept of the Political While Our Students Are Sleeping: a Podcast about Theory and Politics

In our latest podcast episode, @reedvanschenck.bsky.social and I look at Shmitt's "The Concept of the Political" and explore how his idea of the Friend/Enemy dynamic is increasingly relevant to the volatile polarization in our modern democracies. rolfstromolsen.substack.com/p/179403645?

It's finally live! Listen to "While Our Students Are Sleeping." Join me and Rolf as we dissect political theory for our students. Our first few episodes are about Carl Schmitt, trad-cath Nazi jurist. All relation to current events is strictly non-coincidential. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Europe Must Confront Donald Trump – or Lose Its Identity | IE Insights Europe faces growing pressure from U.S. tech and politics, but its strength lies in upholding democratic values through rights-based regulation and autonomy, writes Reed Van Schenck.

In IE Insights today, I write that Europe needs to de-risk from the U.S. or face a major, digitally-mediated identity crisis. www.ie.edu/insights/art...

A perfect specimen

A 1/2 empty food bowl - that's a horror show for cats

New article just dropped! "Christian Nationalism as Media" explores how the political identity of Christian Nationalism retrieves racist and sexist ideas of the human through its obsession with owning and controlling the media. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

Long may chancleta reign

Bee of the bird of the moth

Meet James Ensor Belgium's famous painter!

They Might be Giants is touring, and there are still cats on the internet- there's 2 good things 😊

The only news anchor I trust!

Addressing Authoritarianism: A Resource Library - National Communication Association Addressing Authoritarianism: A Resource Library This resource library has been compiled by NCA members and others to provide public resources to teach, think, and write about the current rise of autho...

Check out this resource library NCA has launched! "Addressing Authoritarianism" is a resource to enable successful pedagogical, research, creative, and administrative interventions into authoritarianism and fascism. www.natcom.org/addressing-a...

Check out my review of @transform6789.bsky.social's fascinating and all-too-timely book Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason's Siege. And if that doesn't sound like too much nausea for a summer, read the book!!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Don't Don't let's start

Today's a good day for bunnies in the backyard

Reed Van Schenck, comm scholar, wearing a patterned shirt, in front of a lecturn, gesturing to a PowerPoint slide featuring white nationalist content found on Telegram

Wow @reedvanschenck.bsky.social absolutely killing it on the top papers of ethnicity race & comm panel w their paper on white supremacists, Telegram, and interfaces

You know it's time to retire when you say "are ya' ready kids?" and nobody says "aye aye, captain" #teaching

Way to go!!! Definitely going to be reading it!

Spoiled!

This beauty decided to hang out in the yard today! #greatblueheron #birds

How could the Democratic leadership so easily cave to MAGA asks the mainstream media corporations that reacted to Trump's frivolous lawsuits by contributing millions to his presidential library.

Congrats to the creators of Flow!

Such an incredible movie!

Guys I'm starting to get the sense that people didn't vote for Trump because they care about the price of eggs...

Here's my orange shrimp 🍤 kitty!

Color lithograph print of a brown classic tabby lying on a wooden railing, one back leg dangling down. The coat is rich and beautiful, shades of black and brown creating tiger strips on the legs and making a classic tabby swirl on the abdomen. It has intense yellow eyes. Behind it is a wall of foliage, every done is warm, golden tones.

There are so many to choose from but this has always been my favorite Steinlen cat. 1909. emuseum.mfah.org/objects/4936...