Global Media Studies

We're the Global Media Studies Initiative (GMSI) at @umich/@umichLSA/@UM_CommStudies. Follow @aswinp for more details!

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After the panel conference being held on Friday, April 19, there will be a free screening of "The Man Who Feels No Pain" at 3pm in the Michigan Theater. Come join!
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[Global Media Studies @UMGMSI]

Meet our GMSI graduate student Ben Pearson! Learn more about his research
revolving around international institutions’ interventions in global cultural policy, particularly aid programs to cultural and audiovisual industries in the global south. https://t.co/KDw9efd1Fx

[Global Media Studies @UMGMSI]

Friday, April 19th, we will be holding a conference on cultures of entertainment in digital India! @UM_CommStudies @iimichigan @UMichFTVM @umCSAS

[Global Media Studies @UMGMSI]

Learn more about our GMSI graduate student, Vishnupriya Das, and her work researching key political, legal and economic developments in the online dating space in South Asia. https://t.co/vvCYYXyrGn

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Meet our GMSI graduate student Padma Chirumamilla! Learn more about her research on how the television set became an everyday object in South Indian cultural life. https://t.co/M6hDWKStyd

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Meet Yuval Katz, our GMSI graduate student! Learn more about his fascinating project on peace media in the Israel-Palestine conflict. https://t.co/TBUTUbeUHw … @aswinp @tupurc5 @arbitist @dia_das @heysoke

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GMSI faculty Aswin Punathambekar and graduate student Sriram Mohan won the SCMS Award for their paper, A Sound Bridge: Listening for the Political in a Digital Age. https://t.co/6DZqFHPtXQ @aswinp @arbitist

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Meet Tupur, our postdoctoral fellow at GMSI! Her work focuses on media and urban culture in South Asia."My memories of being in the single-screen often evoke a mosaic of anxieties..." Read more of her interview here: https://t.co/z43FjmZKR2

[Aswin Punathambekar @aswinp]

And up now, our final speaker, the one and only @harasmurra (@UMichFTVM) offering an acct. of “smart” as global language of everyday media. #MediaHistory

[Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social @MKraidy]

The hospitable folks @UMGMSI are keeping our minds and bodies well-fed at #MediaHistory As @harasmurra gives the workshop’s final paper on ‘smart’ as global language of everyday media, lunch shows up

[Aswin Punathambekar @aswinp]

.@harasmurra points out that when it comes to the discourse of smart as a global, corporate language of “mundane care,” we begin to see iterative turning points! This kind of careful analysis of consumer-tech is so valuable! #MediaHistory

[Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social @MKraidy]

Last panel of #MediaHistory now in Q & A: placeless was, ethics, infrastructure, ‘smart’ media

[Aswin Punathambekar @aswinp]

Emma Park’s talk also highlights imp. of deep historical perspectives reg. data imaginaries in journalism. See @Chanders’s latest book, for e.g., on the politics of doubt: https://t.co/0P7GyfYOYk #MediaHistory