Ishita Tiwary

I'm thrilled to announce that my first book, Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India is now out! shorturl.at/viavY Use the code NYUAU30 for a 30% discount on the NYU website. @nyupress.bsky.social

The Americam Historical Association has overwhelmingly passed a resolution to oppose Israel's scholasticide in Gaza (428 for-88 against-4 abstain). #AHA25 Now our turn @scmstudies.bsky.social

Thank you Hindustan Times for listing ´Video Cultures in India’ as one of your favourite reads of the year. Thanks to The Print for publishing an excerpt from the book.

In a difficult year personally, I have deep gratitude for everyone who engaged with the book in and outside academia.

Updated list of global media+comm scholars. Lmk if you want to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/Avb3yM

Thanks! Would love to be added if there is space!

Re-upping my film and media history starter pack. Part II will be linked below! go.bsky.app/12Wo3y5 #filmhistory #mediahistory #mediastudies #history

This is great! Thank you! Would love to be included!

See you in April!

TOD #54 In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround Theory on Demand #54In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical SurroundEdited by Joshua Neves and Marc SternbergConvenience is the feeling and aspiration that animates

Incredibly excited: In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround is now out!!! 4 years in the making, co-edited by @joshua-neves.bsky.social and me, this OA volume is full of chapters that will make you rethink the oft-used word. Please read & circulate!

networkcultures.org/blog/publica...

Thank you! I am assuming you are coming to Chicago too?

Happy to hear that the panel @jmkang.bsky.social put together got accepted at SCMS next year. We have some great panelists and I look forward to learning and listening from their work.

The Student Strike at #ConcordiaUniversity has begun!
"The students united will never be defeated!"

I'm as happy as anyone about SCMS's statement on the AMPAS staff cuts, but I can't help compare this speedy response to the lack of any statement about the genocide in Gaza, even after a petition with the largest list of signatories in the organization's history asked them to do so.

"Gaza has become a graveyard for children"

Israel has killed at least 17,400 Palestinian children since last October.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lvp7pu

Happy to help and give some pointers!

List of contributors to the special issue

Student encampment with tents and sign

Frame 9: "Pro-Palestine Protests on University Campuses (Notes from Spring, 2024)" is now live on Cultural Critique's website. Long in the works, it seemed it might never come out at all. It reads differently and importantly 6 months late(r).

manifold.umn.edu/projects/cc1...

I've spoken to a number of ppl who said they did not feel comfortable using the term "genocide" until a report like this came out. Here's hoping their reservations are done now and that we can stop arguing semantics instead of trying to stop the slaughter itself.

Since everyone is introducing themselves or talking about their favourite books, I thought I will informally introduce myself through what I have read, am reading, and about to read in the past 2 months.

Thank you 🙏🏾

Would love to be included in this! Thanks for making this!

I created this starter pack for Film and Media Studies ppl on Bluesy, but it's not super active. Help me make it better! Who should I add? Also, consider following those already included if you haven't already.

go.bsky.app/4Ui4fk8

Thanks for creating this! Can you add me to this or if this is full to another one if it exists?

Oh wow! Thanks! Appreciate it! There are so many starter packs, it’s getting a bit overwhelming to keep track!

Made a starter pack of media industry scholars: go.bsky.app/61pDASR

Please let me know if you want to be added (or removed)!

Thanks for doing this! Can I be added to this?

🙏🏾💜

Kindly add! Would love be connected to more south Asian scholars on this space!

go.bsky.app/SY36J2i

South Asian scholars and writers! Please reply if you’d like to be added. 🌸

There are currently only 22 films streaming on Netflix made before 1980 and not a single one made before 1960, with the oldest film on the platform currently being PSYCHO. I know I’m a broken record but: buy physical media, support your local library, etc etc

Yeah this space would benefit more from some diversity. Too sanitized.