@jackie-johns.bsky.social
English/Film Faculty at Pitt. PhD from USC's School of Cinematic Arts. Researching/Teaching TV, digital media, and Black cultural production. Hot sauce enthusiast who resides over a hellmouth.
over and over they say it out loud: big ideas for the elite class, and only widget grunts for the working people.
ideas are for everybody. art is for everybody. education is for everybody.
Maura represents the last 10 years of American politics; no I will not explain myself further
Never trust overalls and a smile
I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state.
Tell them it will find your dog.
gotta admit that the onslaught of AI / weight-loss drugs / nostalgia scum super bowl ads are making me somehow feel Even Worse About This Country, who knew that was even possible, congratulations to the corporations
Who is DJing the Golden Globes rn?!?!?!
Cannot get over the walk out music for her (or anyone really!)
My last TV Analysis lecture of the semester 🥲
I just checked to see how many episodes are left, oh wow, the first season of #ThePitt was fifteen episodes??? I feel like that never happens anymore. What a time to be alive!!!!!!
ICYMI I wrote about #ThePitt for #Emmys week @popjunctions.bsky.social
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ICYMI I wrote about #ThePitt for #Emmys week @popjunctions.bsky.social
henryjenkins.org/blog/2025/9/...
Got to write about my favorite new show For @popjunctions.bsky.social Emmys week!
Next up in #EmmysWatch2025 on Pop Junctions, @jackie-johns.bsky.social contextualizes #ThePitt within the long lineage of television soap operas.
Got to write about my favorite new show For @popjunctions.bsky.social Emmys week!
Shary's work is great!
Got interviewed about my fall class on Teen Film for this :)
Such a joy to chat with you Nina!
Column: Teen movies used to be a genre Hollywood took seriously, young audiences too. But good luck finding them in theaters today
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Gift 🔗
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
I have been researching seed-oil psychos for Maintenance Phase and I love how they occasionally show signs of self-awareness
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
"A lot of this infrastructure, billions of dollars of it, is being built just for a few customers and a few facilities and these happen to be the wealthiest companies in the world,” said Ari Peskoe, who directs the Electricity Law Initiative at Harvard University.
This upcoming semester I get to teach the class I have been training for all my life
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Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
Is the theme of 2025 giving people things they never asked for, don’t want, and will make life just a little bit worse?
Philly’s own Jazmine Sullivan has CANCELLED her headlining set at today’s Welcome America concert in solidarity with striking DC 33 workers “until the city and union find a way to bring fair living wages to our working class. I love my city and believe in you” www.nbcphiladelphia.com/entertainmen...
A message from the striking municipal workers of Philadelphia:
"Per the study, one glaring safety gap is the bots' inability to respond appropriately to users clearly at risk of self-harm or suicide."
Trump's budget bill, currently in the Senate, would impose a 10-year moritorium on AI regulation. They have so little regard for human life.
We have this one a little twisted. Totally reasonable.
But, folks have been pushing for this category for several years. Believe it or not, the idea is that traditional country would favor more women, people of color who are often pushed out of country and into Americana/folk country.
