Mike Wayne

Unflinching refusal to use or allow the use of A.I. in reading & writing should be the uncontroversial, default position of teachers from K-12 to colleges & universities. If our administrators tell us we "have to" we tell them to eff off. We will not kill the planet's water for systemic plagiarism.

New Mozilla Firefox version to allow AI features to be blocked Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser.

Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.

Can Europe get kids off social media? [FREE TO READ] Move follows Australia’s decision to introduce age restrictions over child safety concerns

Ban addictive designs, ban illegal content, regulate companies.

Don't ban teenagers from digital platforms

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After mass media: storytelling for microaudiences in the twenty-first century Published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2026)

New work: a review of After Mass Media by @drtvlotz.bsky.social in Continuum. Important book for TV studies, lots to learn from it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There is no “ethical” version of a totalizing, coercive, Utopian ideology. That’s what we were supposed to have learned in the 20th century. That AI is fundamentally eugenic makes it clear we should be resisting, not adopting.

Let’s just call it “immoral cognition” from now on.

It has long been a specious area of study. Its deep corruption makes it worse than that.

The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it

What I’m seeing here is that Epstein is a nexus point for the “intellectual” cabal that shores up the race science justifying our current immigration and anti-DEI policies (Huberman), as well the tone policing moderates (Brooks) that hamstrings oppositions. Oh and their billionaire benefactors.

On a trend us film professors have seen. Free link to “The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films” from THE ATLANTIC yesterday.
archive.ph/GFWzW

Yeahhhhhhh

david brooks has been a hack for decades who has written column after column at ny times that was eviscerated the moment they hit "publish." -- he has been awarded with a plum contract at the atlantic. because in the world of the media, nothing fails upwards like a conservative straight white man.

The Accidental Winners of the War on Higher Ed Go to a small liberal-arts college if you can.

Higher education is a hellscspe right now, attacked by the freedom government in one side and AI on the other.

This fall, I spent a month visiting elite liberal arts colleges, on the instinct that they would be more resilient in every way. My story (gift link):

Hall, S. (1980). Encoding/Decoding. in Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79. London: Hutchinson; 128-138.

New publication on the values of TV. Led by colleagues in Australia, I am honoured to be included. We point to the many different values that TV generates, but argue that in an age of #AI and unregulated #SocialMedia counterbalances are needed which PSB can provide. doi.org/10.1177/1749...

this recent genAI discourse is at least helping to identify the non-serious scholars. like if your point is to use it to help you find things or summarize things or weed out things that might not be relevant, you are not a serious scholar. and if you can't see why that is, you are a bad scholar :)

Vox headline: We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones. What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine

Lmfao every AI defense piece is like "AYY I FUCKIN SUCK BRO HOPEFULLY THIS FUCKIN STEAL YOUR SHIT MACHINE WILL MAKE ME SUCK SLIGHTLY LESS OK"

Stop the Merger Madness Rule No. 1 when big deals get announced: Don’t believe the hype

The history of media mega-mergers is all lies, broken promises and strategic blunders. Merger madness only leads to disaster.

Netflix may have won the bidding war. But the losers in these deals are always creators, writers, workers and the rest of us sitting in the audience.

New Pressing Issues!

All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.

If You Can’t Become HBO, Buy ‘Em? The future of HBO and HBO Max under Netflix is a bit unclear — even after Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters fielded numerous questions about it.

Honestly, the fate of Casey Bloys is the part of this equation that interests me most. I'm not just saying that because at least 5375 of my followers are Casey Bloys sock puppet accounts waiting to insult me for hating "Task." Netflix has largely forgotten how to develop GOOD TV. Casey has not.

Congratulations, David Zaslav, on being the most destructive force in US entertainment in the entire history of show business

Convergence - Volume 31, Number 6 Table of contents for Convergence, 31, 6

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

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GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that

Job Vacancy at Edge Hill University: Lecturer in Film, Media and Broadcast Production We’re here to create and harness knowledge, to deliver opportunity for everyone.About the RoleAs Lecturer in Film, Media and Broadcast Production this is an exciting opportunity to join the department...

Job going at my university in my lovely department (lovely because of amazing colleagues who are truly supportive of each other). Lecturer in Film, media and broadcast production. jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

On hosted media, simple-professional cultural production, and micro media logics in anglophone video - Amanda D. Lotz, 2025 The media sector has expanded in the 21st century to encompass a ‘hosted model’ of circulation and ‘simple-professional’ dynamic of cultural production that coe...

This new article brings the current dynamics of the ‘creator economy’ (hosted distribution) into conversation with decades of explaining how creative autonomy is constrained in commercial mediamaking. This lets us explore how the ‘creator’ sector encompasses journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

Everytime I read a thread critiquing the commercial LLMs that are being imbedded into *everything*, several people will jump in to say “Ahem, ChatGPT helps me write emails.” as if that’s not a totally embarrassing thing to admit.

QS World University Rankings for Communication & Media Studies 2025 Discover the world's top universities for Communication & Media Studies 2025. Explore the QS World University Rankings by Subject in various disciplines.

Hooray, U Amsterdam ranked as #1 in the world, again, in media and communication. Celebration time 🍾..., right?

No 🟥

Dutch universities are faced with de-internationalisation and de-funding. The frustration is palpable!

#DoeHetNiet @woinactie.bsky.social 🟥

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Lots to ponder in this reflection from @christophersmith.bsky.social. Strong agree from me on this point about the need for Phd focussed on creative industries. IME (5 yrs site director for an AHRC DTP and 8 yrs as a DGS of a small creative-industries Unit in a bigger Faculty of Arts)...