jess rauchberg, phd
@JessRauchberg
Social media expert writing about labor/culture/inequalities in the creator economy. Repped by @AevitasCreative. Hot takes are my own!
sharing another syllabus, this time for my digital media studies course! excited to tackle topics like digital media infrastructures, histories, virality, surveillance, and creator culture with my students. as always, please feel free to share! docs.google.com/document/d/1bp…
Having lots of opinions, thoughts, and feelings about the new Trisha Paytas baby name reveal
ngl I am the target audience for the recent influx of punk/emo and influencer snark crossovers
again gotta remind y'all that the streamers you see are people and deserve to be treated as such & sometimes this is their job, like these are real livelihoods and emotions you're trying to speculate and write fanfic on
didn't expect that syllabus to spread...hi new followers! I'm jess, media studies phd & prof. I'm currently working on my first book about algorithmic ableism and creator economies.📚 thanks for being here!
the tiktok account "sylvanian drama" posts funny/dark videos using calico critters & has recently done some sponsored collabs, including w/ kate spade, marc jacobs, & away bags the makers of calico critters recently sued the creator for copyright & trademark infringement
My Chemical Romance released I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love on this day 23 years ago.
maybe I'm off center here, but the Jet2 holiday meme feels like a memetic humor entirely based in classed ideas of *who* can have access to leisure.
stand inside your love/the only hope for me is you mashup, next question!
[interaction bait] what would be ur dream cover for mcr to perform on this tour??
Yes! At some point, it's more of a pressure to be there and save up for attending it. Just so that you could present your research!
budgeting for an upcoming (domestic) conference and it's going to be about 2K for the whole thing. how is the average academic worker supposed to afford this?
the LA Times asked 15 celebrities to take a photo of themselves and this is what Jeremy Strong sent them
budgeting for an upcoming (domestic) conference and it's going to be about 2K for the whole thing. how is the average academic worker supposed to afford this?
I was once told to save money by stop using the conference hotel while also not requesting reimbursement for transit to and from the farther away hotel. This model is unsustainable as universities are putting more of the financial burden FOR A JOB/TENURE REQUIREMENT on faculty
budgeting for an upcoming (domestic) conference and it's going to be about 2K for the whole thing. how is the average academic worker supposed to afford this?
Conferences are growing increasingly unattainable for early career, international, smaller-school, etc. scholars. So much of this is out-of-pocket, and I don’t know how much more folks are going to be able to continue to do this when they aren’t at “well-funded” institutions.
budgeting for an upcoming (domestic) conference and it's going to be about 2K for the whole thing. how is the average academic worker supposed to afford this?
It also really makes academia feel more like an MLM as you have to pay to play and succeed
SMASHING PUMPKINS JUST MADE A WHOLE POST ABOUT BILLY BEING GERARD AND MIKEY'S FATHER LMAOOOOOOOOOOO I LOVE BEING ALIVE