Assoc Prof, University of Colorado; Director, RPTF + Sound Fellow, Library of Congress NRPB; Political Economy; History of Media Theory
Josh Shepperd
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I wouldn’t call it a grift or even bad faith, but it’s a kind of self-serving recklessness that’ll knock over the entire system for the smallest rewards. And they are probably going to be very successful at knocking things down, and largely unsuccessful at getting ahead.
I hate to say it, but the colleagues positioning themselves to be pro AI in teaching and curriculum, are probably also positioning themselves to be administrators, and probably aren’t thinking about or don’t care how it will affect teaching, learning, or the careers of those around them.
Media is basically all we do anymore, and it’s one of the least chronicled and understood conceptual histories in the academy. You’d be hard to pressed to find historians or theorists in media studies departments under the age of 55.
