SCMS Critical Media Pedagogies SIG

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Are you part of the Critical Media Pedagogies SIG? You should join our Discord server. It's a streamlined space for communication amongst SIG members to ask questions, stay engaged, & build community with other pedagogy-minded scholars! Join us on Discord: discord.gg/tnSHe5Jw

CinemArts SIG Survey Dear SIG members, The SIG leadership seeks your input as we organize future events and activities. Thank you! Brian, Hayley, Sophie, Ziru

Calling all cinema and art history scholars! The CinemArts Scholarly Interest Group is gathering ideas for activities in the coming academic year. Whether you’re a longtime member or newly curious about joining, take a minute to fill out our short survey: forms.gle/CYXrxWamip1d...

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Time to renew your membership! At the end of June, all memberships expired. A current membership ensures you will receive communications from SCMS and affiliated groups and allows you to submit your conference proposal! Follow the link in our bio to renew.

Looking for tips to sharpen (or start 😉) your SCMS proposal? Curious how proposals are processed? We are holding a VGSSIG workshop for submission to SCMS 2026 this Tuesday, August 5th at 3 pm EST -- Please join us if you're interested in learning more or if you have a CFP to pitch to the membership!

Co-chair of Precarious Labor Organization @scmstudies.bsky.social again. If you applied for waiver *prior* to 2:35pm on Friday, July 11, please reapply again at same link. There was an error in the survey and we did not properly capture names of applicants. 🤦‍♀️ Link here:
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I’m so excited to be the grad rep for the Critical Media Pedagogies SIG of SCMS! I am so jazzed!

@scmspedagogy.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social

#CriticalMediaPedagogies #MediaStudies #MediaScholar

We are lucky to have you on our leadership team!

Precarious scholar? Are you thinking of submitting to #SCMS2026 but no institutional support for membership? Co-chair, grad rep, or on an SCMS committee? Apply for a 2025/26 SCMS membership fee waiver from the PLO! Deadline August 1st!
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We’re excited to share a few important leadership updates for the SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus! @scmstudies.bsky.social

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All memberships will expire on June 30th! Don't forget to renew to avoid missing important communication from SCMS.

Renew here: cmstudies.org/page/Membership_Renew

Are you a media studies graduate student invested in pedagogy? Do you want to get more involved in @scmstudies.bsky.social? If so, consider nominating yourself to serve as our next grad rep!

I'm a former chair and currently on the broader SIG steering committee and happy to answer any Qs.

Here's a thread 🧵 on how I'm managing participation — beyond the Zoom room — in my online course. Hope folks find it helpful/generative. Anyone else have strategies for facilitating participation? @scmspedagogy.bsky.social

It has come time for Tamar Hanstke to step down as Grad Rep. Thank you Tamar! If you are interested in serving as a grad rep, please send us your name, affiliation, a short bio, and a short explanation of what you hope to contribute to our SIG by Friday, June 20th to be put on the ballot.

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A reminder that voting is underway for our TV SIG Board election! We're electing 2 positions this year: First Year Board Rep and Graduate Student Rep. (Check your email for further details and the link to the voting portal.) Voting will close on Friday, May 16th. #SCMSTV

Reminder: Friday, May 16, 2025 is the last day to volunteer for service. You can serve on an Award or Standing committee, or the 2026 Program committee. SCMS relies on its members to function at its best, so get involved!

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I am happy to announce the publication of the first part of a 2-part @jcmsjournal.bsky.social Teaching Media dossier on #ungrading that @lisawj.bsky.social and I co-edited. Please check out "Part I: Critical Reflections on Ungrading" here: quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/teach... Part two coming soon!

The wonderful @jennblaylock.bsky.social and I co-edited a 2-part Teaching Media Dossier for @jcmsjournal.bsky.social on #ungrading. "Part I: Critical Reflections on Ungrading" is now live, and we couldn't be prouder. Huge thanks to our contributors and editors! Look out for Part II soon! #teaching

As #scms25 approaches (first of the post-twitter era!), feel free to follow this conference feed in Bluesky to track the discourse:

New Teaching Media Dossier @jcmsjournal.bsky.social is LIVE!

"Experiments in Ungrading in North American Classrooms," edited by Lisa Wells Jacobson + Jennifer Blaylock, both on steering committee of the @scmspedagogy.bsky.social Scholarly Interest Group.

quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/teach...

Woops! Sorry I missed you @katiedidnt.bsky.social

O15 – Saturday, April 6 @ 9:00–10:45am WORKSHOP: Can We Teach Palestine? Swissotel CHAIR Karen Redrobe, University of Pennsylvania CO-CHAIR Bishnupriya Ghosh, University of California, Santa Barbara Marc Siegel, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Laliv Melamed, Goethe University, Frankfurt Sponsored by Critical Media Pedagogies Scholarly Interest Group; Middle East Caucus; War and Media Studies Scholarly Interest Group

O15 – Saturday, April 6 @ 9:00–10:45am
WORKSHOP: Can We Teach Palestine?

K15– Saturday, April 5 @ 9:00–10:45am ROUNDTABLE: Adapting Media Studies Pedagogy for Today’s Global Media Ecosystem Swisshotel Katherine Morrissey, Arizona State University (chair) Lori Morimoto, University of Virginia (co-chair) “Gaze Problems: Western Theory & Non-Western Media” Katherine Morrissey, Arizona State University “Researching/Teaching K-Pop in a Western Setting” Areum Jeong, Arizona State University “Media Fan Studies and the Convergent Classroom” Lori Morimoto, University of Virginia “Teaching Queer Media Theory from/through Asia” Thomas Baudinette, Macquarie University “Tackling Global Streaming via Student-Fan Pedagogy” Latina Vidolova, Northwestern University Sponsored by Critical Media Pedagogies Scholarly Interest Group

K15– Saturday, April 5 @ 9:00–10:45am
ROUNDTABLE: Adapting Media Studies Pedagogy for Today’s Global Media Ecosystem @areum.bsky.social @acafanmom.bsky.social @tbaudinette.bsky.social

K08 – Saturday, April 5 @ 9:00–10:45am ROUNDTABLE: Teaching & Pedagogy Committee: Politicized Pedagogy Fairmont Kimberly Hall, Wofford College (chair) Anirban Baishya, University of Wisconsin Madison “‘A Lie is a Truth Until You Recognize it as a Lie:’ Media (Studies) and the Paradox of Truth as Politics” Hannah Goodwin, Mount Holyoke College “Fostering Curiosity in a Space of Dogma” Tony Grajeda, University of Central Florida “The Illiberal Erosion of Academic Freedom” Kimberly Hall, Wofford “The New Skills of Critical Media Literacy” Hunter Hargraves, California State University Fullerton “The Climate is Different” Carolyn Jacobs, Central Connecticut State University “Teaching Truth Through Media Studies” Sponsored by Critical Media Pedagogies Scholarly Interest Group

K08 – Saturday, April 5 @ 9:00–10:45am
ROUNDTABLE: Teaching & Pedagogy Committee: Politicized Pedagogy

J27 – Friday, April 4 @ 6:15–8:00pm ROUNDTABLE: New Approaches to Teaching Silent Film Swisshotel Liz Clarke, Brock University (chair) Martin Johnson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (co-chair) “Silent Film as Global Cinema” Oksana Chefranova, Yale University “Race, Early Cinema and International Expositions” Joshua Mitchell, University of Southern California “Melodrama and Politics in Children Who Labor” Constance Balides, Tulane University “Teaching Latin American Silent Cinema” Mariana Johnson, University of North Carolina, Wilmington “Teaching About Film Preservation” Sabrina Negri, University of Torino Sponsored by Critical Media Pedagogies Scholarly Interest Group; Silent Cinema Scholarly Interest Group

J27 – Friday, April 4 @ 6:15–8:00pm
ROUNDTABLE: New Approaches to Teaching Silent Film @lizclarke100.bsky.social @martinlj.bsky.social @oksana2024.bsky.social

I26 – Friday, April 4 @ 4:15–6:00pm ROUNDTABLE: Teaching Queer Media Swisshotel Pam Butler, University of Notre Dame (chair) “Integrating Queer Memetics in Classroom Discussion” Anna Wald, University of Notre Dame “Framing Queer Conversation in a Catholic Context” Jason Ruiz, University of Notre Dame “How to Successfully Close-Play Queer Games for Classroom Analysis” Ashlee Bird, University of Notre Dame Sponsored by Critical Media Pedagogies Scholarly Interest Group

I26 – Friday, April 4 @ 4:15–6:00pm
ROUNDTABLE: Teaching Queer Media

H25 – Friday, April 4 @ 2:15–4:00pm WORKSHOP: Finding Work-Work Balance: Integrating Teaching into Research and Vice Versa Daniel Herbert, University of Michigan (chair) Elsie Walker, Salisbury University Elizabeth Nathanson, Muhlenberg College Paul Reinsch, Texas Tech University Cara Dickason, Johns Hopkins University Sponsored by Critical Media Pedagogies Scholarly Interest Group

H25 – Friday, April 4 @ 2:15–4:00pm
WORKSHOP: Finding Work-Work Balance: Integrating Teaching into Research and Vice Versa @caradickason.bsky.social