My latest article is now #OnlineFirst!!!! @MCSjournal Netflix Audience Data, Streaming Industry Discourse, and the Emerging Realities of ‘Popular’ Television journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…

📺Today TV History: #MattGroening THE SIMPSONS #TheSimpsons @TheSimpsons Premiered 1989 @FOXTV Starring #DanCastellaneta #JulieKavner @nancycartwright @YeardleySmith @HankAzaria @theharryshearer First Episode: "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire." About bit.ly/gJA3Mf

A new call for papers is out, for a special issue of “VIEW” (#29). Please have a look, share the news, and send us a proposal! Deadline for abstracts: June 29, 2025. :) viewjournal.eu/announcements…

A truly great sociologist, with wide-ranging contributions. His 1988 ASA presidential address called for a “public sociology” that directly engaged non-academic readers. Such a shame to lose giants like Michael Burawoy and Herb Gans in the past few weeks. nytimes.com/2025/04/21/books…

🎙️🎧 Guys, we’re launching a European based Orioles podcast! Make sure to give @OsAcrossThePond a follow to keep updated with all the info! #Birdland @MLBEurope

The Baltimore Orioles: • have not won a playoff game in more than a decade. • have not won the American League or the World Series in more than four decades. • have finished 4th or worse 27 times in the last 41 seasons. Fans are entitled to be angry and demand success.

Four posts from MLB's 𝕏 account focusing on Juan Soto's first HR with the Mets. Yet, still zero post addressing or apologizing for the MLB app debacle on Opening Day.

Yesterday, on Opening Day of all days, MLB TV crashed for an estimated 85% of global users for about 60-90 mins. For about 30 mins of that, the MLB app also crashed. This is just unacceptable. Terrible preparation. Heads should roll. Yet another red mark on Rob Manfred's resume.

Remembering Yaphet Kotto, Al Giardello on “Homicide: Life on the Street,” who passed away 4 years ago today.

There's some tough irony in the fact that among the first jobs disrupted are their own 1 in 4 programming jobs have vanished. What happened? wapo.st/4bT80wh

23 years ago…

🚨Brand New Flow w/ Gerald Sim, Roderik Smits, Andrew Stubbs-Lacy & Michael Z. Newman. Topics include: intersections of technology & creative labor, how AI is shaping the landscape of film, Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer & the convergence of TV and TikTok: flowjournal.org/

🎉 🎉 Our special issue (with 20 papers) on Global Perspectives on Platforms & Cultural Production in the International Journal of Cultural Studies is out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… @tpoell @brookeerinduffy @bruce_mutsvairo @iamtommiii @artarriagada Jeroen de Kloet & Ping Sun

As the great Molly Ivins so famously intoned, it sounds better in the original German. Fucking hell but this racist shit is slithering for the lowest, darkest sewer as furiously as one can.

Hi friends and tweeters. My book is finally out with @mitpress and it is open access for all. If you want to know what “the cloud” has done to your digital civil liberties and your democracy, check it out! mitpress.mit.edu/97802625480…

*MY BOOK ON THE WIRE IS NOW AVAILABLE* Inside you’ll learn of: Its production and inspirations History of cop shows, Baltimore, war on drugs Its influence on education, populism, BLM, law The Wire: A Cultural History is your ultimate viewing companion rb.gy/b6w4mw

Some of the Yankees in the dugout spitting seeds and laughing, just moments after Kjerstad laid motionless at the plate, after being plunked in the head. Disgusting, but not surprising for a ballclub full of arrogant, overpaid assholes.

Word is that NBC has managed to finally secure the music rights necessary to sell Homicide: Life On The Streets" to a streaming platform. Andre, Richard, Yaphet, Ned, and so many others who labored on that wonderful show on both sides of the camera will soon regain a full share of their legacy. Stay tuned for more details. #HLOTS #FontanaLevinson

Why do taxpayers around the world continue to subsidise Hollywood? It's time to start asking hard questions and make sure policies delivery public value. asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Aust…

It's the 38th anniversary of Thornton Melon doing the Triple Lindy for Grand Lakes University. Back to School (1986)