One of my favourite student seminars of the year, looking at Venetian Sessa imprints wry cats @theulspeccoll.bsky.social ๐ฑ
06.11.2025 11:21 โ ๐ 33 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1@ckigerprice.bsky.social
Librarian at Carnegie Mellon. Media Literacy, memes, & social media research at Teachers College
One of my favourite student seminars of the year, looking at Venetian Sessa imprints wry cats @theulspeccoll.bsky.social ๐ฑ
06.11.2025 11:21 โ ๐ 33 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1Considering how often it smells like sulfur out here, I'm not surprised to see this
06.11.2025 16:32 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I feel like when I started my career, double-majors were pretty rare, and now it's the opposite for anyone who wants to do something in Humanities/Social Sciences/Arts at least, where I only see double (or triple) majors
05.11.2025 20:35 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0There has recently been a surge of tiktoks and other social media posts with genAI created "historical photos/videos" and it's making my life terrible
05.11.2025 20:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0My last Halloween as a Controller.
Time for a (Nintendo) Switch.
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Halloween decoration on a green lawn with yellow and brown scattered leaves. There is a fake black grave marker with white text which says โI Did My Own Research.โ In front of the grave marker are two plastic skeletal hans and forearms that are positioned as if they are clawing up from below the grass.
31.10.2025 00:19 โ ๐ 1212 ๐ 288 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 8found my great-grandmother in old Boston Globe issues- she wrote under a "nom" for 55 YEARS in what was basically social media via newspaper. women trading recipes, relationship & parenting tips since 1880s. it's wild to get to know her like this. anyway someone should pay me to write about this imo
26.10.2025 01:03 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0now you can teach me how to use this platform
23.10.2025 19:15 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0You know what else is being affected by the tariffs on parcels worth less than $800? International interlibrary loan. I'm hearing reports of libraries overseas that won't lend to the US anymore. (That's in addition to the libraries here that have shut down their ILL b/c of lost IMLS funding.)
15.09.2025 15:03 โ ๐ 125 ๐ 64 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 6This is how you blurb
23.10.2025 12:41 โ ๐ 1182 ๐ 292 ๐ฌ 14 ๐ 25Edited by my colleagues!
23.10.2025 18:23 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I'm in one of these books! My book chapter in print...
23.10.2025 18:22 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I have not!! Thank you, Jess! I'm so used to TikTok now for my research, I'm rusty at the twitter-style stuff
23.10.2025 18:19 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Research opportunity! Iโm studying how traditional media literacy instruction adapts to digital challenges like memes & algorithms. Seeking librarians & educators with media literacy experience for a short confidential interview. Interested? forms.gle/bZs7JfVxCfeN... #MediaLiteracy TC IRB 25-496
23.10.2025 18:11 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1It turns out, to conduct research on social media, you probably should have a few accounts. So, I'm on Bluesky now!
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