Andrew deWaard

Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego
Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture (UC Press, 2024)

[Andrew deWaard @dewaard]

DERIVATIVE MEDIA is out today with @ucpress ! It's the first in-depth book on how Wall Street is harming film, television, and popular music. It's available in print or for free as an ebook. Please share!

https://t.co/Db3vqL0EqR

https://t.co/fo7lYu4mSX

#pubday

[Variety @Variety]

EXCLUSIVE: Variety has obtained the guest list for Allen & Co.’s annual Sun Valley retreat, the Idaho gathering known as “billionaire summer camp.”

• Jeff Bezos
• Paramount CEO David Ellison
• CBS News chief Bari Weiss
• Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro
• Comcast’s Brian Roberts and Mike Cavanagh
• WBD’s David Zaslav
• Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus and Tim Cook
• Netflix’s Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters
• Sony Pictures chairman Ravi Ahuja
• Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch of Fox
• YouTube’s Neal Mohan
• Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos

Read the full list: https://t.co/gvfjEh47KI

[Andrew deWaard @dewaard]

I have a new feature essay at @mubinotebook on the Paramount-WB merger. It goes long on our billionaire-dominated media monopoly, the Ellison empire, the effects of the merger, and most importantly, HOW it can be blocked and how we can take back our cultural system. Link below:

[Michael Burns @michaeloburns]

my new video is very much inspired by this book and i cannot recommend it enough

https://t.co/fS0NWlQCmI

[Andrew deWaard @dewaard]

@michaeloburns oh wow, thanks!!

[Andrew deWaard @dewaard]

what we can do:

[Andrew deWaard @dewaard]

I have a new feature essay at @mubinotebook on the Paramount-WB merger. It goes long on our billionaire-dominated media monopoly, the Ellison empire, the effects of the merger, and most importantly, HOW it can be blocked and how we can take back our cultural system. Link below:

[Andrew deWaard @dewaard]

"Consolidation Crisis: What Paramount Skydance's Purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery Means, and How to Stop it"

https://t.co/GBttjiiNue

[Andrew deWaard @dewaard]

@brianfauteux don't the hours get shorter as the days go by? where's my remote control? does he like butter tarts? what the hell am I doing drinking in L.A. at twenty-six? johnny quest he thinks we're what?! here's my number, so call me maybe?

[Andrew deWaard @dewaard]

I'm truly honoured for Derivative Media to receive the Best Book Award from the Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group (@Industries_SIG) at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (@SCMStudies). My thanks to the committee for this award and this generous citation!

[Andrew deWaard @dewaard]

https://t.co/T3AHbfbmtu

[Andrew deWaard @dewaard]

I spoke with Barron’s for this article "The New Private-Equity Billionaires Who Are Taking Over Wall Street"

[Andrew deWaard @dewaard]

this guy gets it

[riding in a golf cart fatly @MarxistAcid]

Probably a good time to read this

[Andrew deWaard @dewaard]

chatted with danny and derek for the @AmPrestigePod podcast about Netflix and Warner Brothers and the slow decline of Hollywood and... Anaconda for some reason?

[American Prestige @AmPrestigePod]

Bonus - The Life and Death of Hollywood w/ @dewaard

Andrew deWaard is back on the show, this time to talk about the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery and its implications.

Link in the replies!

[UC San Diego @UCSanDiego]

Why does pop culture feel so unoriginal? Communication professor and media expert Andrew deWaard helps explain why we are drowning in reboots, repurposed songs, sequels and franchises. 👉 https://t.co/bMfum8Dlt2

[Rob @robarcand]

what would it take to reframe debates about streaming and cultural decline in marxist terms? for @nplusonemag i tried to think through the current crisis (AI! VC! A24!) and what a newly militant labor movement could mean for the culture industries https://t.co/UwgvOuKSrF

[Andrew deWaard @dewaard]

thanks to @nplusonemag and @robarcand for this excellent essay on my book, as well as Mood Machine by @lizpelly, a book I absolutely love

[n+1 @nplusonemag]

“The history of the music industry is a history of conglomeration.” New: Rob Arcand on Liz Pelly’s MOOD MACHINE and Andrew DeWaard’s DERIVATIVE MEDIA.
https://t.co/fgCOAUSx0m

[Peabody Awards @PeabodyAwards]

➡️ #Fantasmas creator Julio Torres on the intersection of art and commerce in our latest episode of We Disrupt This Broadcast.

💬 Have you ever felt dehumanized by a formal process? Share your story on @ApplePodcasts.
🎧 https://t.co/DdZNtU2PW4

#ArtistCommunity @CMSImpact

[Peabody Awards @PeabodyAwards]

💬 How can art and storytelling expose the absurdities hidden within everyday systems and formal processes?

Join creator, writer, and comedian Julio Torres as he shares his unique insights, alongside @dewaard, who explores the cultural costs of art within economic frameworks.

🎧 Listen to the full episode of We Disrupt This Broadcast—available now! @CMSImpact @prx @gaybonez ➡️ https://t.co/Lx8pOTgMZ7

[Andrew deWaard @dewaard]

this is happening in a few hours!

[Andrew deWaard @dewaard]

I’m very excited to give a book talk for Derivative Media at San Diego Central Library on May 6 at 6:30pm. Registration encouraged. Refreshments served!

Thanks @cherymarc & @SDPublicLibrary

https://t.co/IT0PXN3HAY

[Andrew deWaard @dewaard]

Thanks to @carlzoilus @eweisbard and the PMBiP crew for this great chat with me, @lizpelly & @brianfauteux -- video now available:

https://t.co/JIAIvnLqkh

[Carl Wilson @carlzoilus]

In the Popular Music Books series today (Tues), 5 pm ET, a round on 21st-c music economics: Liz Pelly's streaming critique Mood Machine; Andrew deWaard's finance salvo Derivative Media; & Brian Fauteux's satellite investigation, Music in Orbit. To join: https://t.co/uvO98UUAfa