Somehow printed news still survives at London airports. And at Heathrow, there's still (I think) even these stands with free copies of certain newspapers like the FT - not sure how that is funded, or if it's just a way of targeting certain readers...

Is the city really a playground? CFP for a Mediapolis dossier that takes this recurring metaphor as a starting point to explore what ‘playability’ means in the context of the urban environment: t.ly/MC3OY

CfP_Mediapolis_Dossier_Playable Cities

MEDIAPOLIS Dossier: Playable Cities Edited by Carolyn Birdsall (University of Amsterdam), Linda Kopitz (University of Amsterdam) and Alex Gekker (University of Amsterdam) https://www.mediapolisjournal...

A considered if brief account of Twitter’s descent into a hellscape, and the risk that moves to places like this one might not quite obliterate X’s power, but lead to “a bifurcation, a Good Place and a Bad Place” www.theguardian.com/technology/a...

Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it?

Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter, I and many others have been looking for alternatives. Who wants to share a platform with the likes of Andrew Tate and Tommy Robinson?

Holy cow! Look at all these film jobs at NYU: tisch.nyu.edu/faculty/facu...

Open Faculty Positions

Open faculty positions at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Making more and more of the US military reliant on Elon Musk is a brilliant idea that won't ever backfire

The US Navy Is Going All In on Starlink

The Navy is testing out the Elon Musk–owned satellite constellation to provide high-speed internet access to sailors at sea. It’s part of a bigger project that’s about more than just getting online.

The best writing advice I've ever gotten is to remember that the first draft is where you explain it all to yourself and then the second draft is where you explain it all to your readers.

@leelum.bsky.social@diogo-ph22.bsky.social

Boom and here’s one for the other side of my brain - peeps in media studies!

Me too, Sam. It’s helpful, I think.

I’m getting increasingly hopeful that BlueSky might be a good place to rebuild some lost academic and related networks. Massively helped by starter packs like this one from @samkinsley.uk of geographers on the platform.