Devon Powers

What is a trend? Abstract . Trends are a common feature in the contemporary media and cultural environment as well as media and communication research. Yet trends remain un

Sharing my latest publication, “What is a trend?” in the Journal of Communication. It speaks to how the trend is a central concept of our era and deserves much more scholarly attention. academic.oup.com/joc/article-...

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Huh. I haven’t been here in a long time. Should I be?

<awakens from social media nap, looks around>

What did I miss?

I recently learned that a bunch of my family members don’t like Beyoncé, either. Nature is healing.

I just finished season 2 and I found it magnificent. I am so grateful for your voice and so appreciative of your ability to understand what motivates people to do what they do, regardless of their political position.

Is anyone—anyone at all—actually looking forward to the US presidential election this year?

Gotta love it when the NYT lets their movie critic write about higher ed.

Does anybody still use Microsoft Teams?

I wish people would stop being themselves sometimes.

How I fold a fitted sheet

Today I showed my class what a data center looked like and one student’s mouth literally dropped open. “That’s where the stuff you store in the cloud goes,” I said. She was speechless.

I’m lying, honestly I have always hated fried chicken and I haven’t eaten chicken since 2005

But first can someone give me fried chicken, I am having a craving

Today in bogus social science: just learned about a study (commissioned by the Louisiana Fish Fry Co.) that supposedly 80% of adults crave fries chicken monthly. I have so many questions

www.prnewswire.com/news-release....

I’m at the “I’m out of candy - how would you like garbanzo beans from the back of the pantry” stage of the evening. #Halloween

Kid trick or treating just totally deconstructed big box store capitalism’s impact on Halloween with one biting dig at my candy selection. “We have exactly the same stuff at my house,” she said disapprovingly.

Was responding to this dreck from the NYT

It’s very sad that Matthew Perry died - he seemed like a nice guy and a tragic figure. But my god, wtf is up with this revisionist 90s TV history? For the record, NO, everyone did not like Friends.

It’s like the idea that information is an unalloyed good, or news. None of that is true and probably never was.

I think I used to believe the good parts of Twitter were worth the bad parts. I don’t think so anymore, which makes me wonder if there will ever be a social media platform I want to be on a lot. I’m not on anything right now.

And after almost a year off Twitter, I find the cacophony to be really unsettling, like I can’t believe I ever willingly subjected myself to that much stress

Haha. I don’t know my Twitter password so I can’t ever open it unless I really want to. And I never really want to.

I haven’t figured out how to integrate this app into my media routine, and I think that’s probably a good thing.

Opinion | I Don’t Have to Post About My Outrage. Neither Do You. The pressure to make simplistic declarations about the Israel-Gaza war is not helping anyone.

@espiers.bsky.social: It discourages shutting up and listening and letting the voices that matter the most be heard over the din. It implies it’s not OK to have any uncertainty."

I Don’t Have to Post About My Outrage. Neither Do You. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/17/o...

NFTs, lol

Spotted in a home decor store. This is neither home, nor decor

Was recently reminded that many people who have hard jobs or whose job it is to execute difficult things often feel bad when doing so. For a paycheck, people act of behalf of systems they disagree with (in whole or part) all the time. What does this mean? I honestly don’t know.

I made a baby. A Dutch baby.