mastodon 4.7.3AJ Escoffery is the Margaret Walker Alexander Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. His research focuses on the political economy of legacy and new media, cultural studies and community-based research. He published his first book, Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television (NYU Press, 2018), and is currently writing his second book, Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal our Culture (MIT Press, forthcoming).
RE: https://sciences.social/@josh/115747407348667020
Very thankful to Josh and Ramon for their support and edits! I'm proud to be on their Distribution Matters series as this has been my gospel my entire career, and this book is the pinnacle of my theorization of the importance of distribution.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@wearenew_public/115663098394953159
The report from my year at BKC Harvard is LIVE with amazing interviews from leading scholars, storytellers, and community organizers on how to cultivate solidarity on social media!!
Just in time for the White House's executive order on AI, Commonplace has published the essay on "Ancestral Intelligence" that I referenced in my keynote!
Also linked is the comic book The Cookout: A Guide to AI: Ancestral Intelligence.
https://commonplace.knowledgefutures.org/pub/8yizm9w0/release/1
@Chanders@sciences.social wow, thank you!