Happening everywhere. Solidarity to colleagues affected ✊
Bookmarking to read because yes, this
Tanti auguri alla regina Mina, che compie oggi 86 anni 🎂
And now for something a little bit different
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Why Italian TV, you may ask?!
In Cambridge today speaking at the Notes on Work conference. My paper is on the unseen labour of bringing music and literature to the Italian small screen as evidenced in Biblioteca di Studio Uno.
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If anyone needs me this month and can’t find me, I’ll be watching Italian TV - Canzonissima is back 💜
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The BSHS Small Grants deadline is 31 March - don't miss the chance!
Grants of £50–£500 are available to support research activities such as archival visits, research trips, or remote archive assistance.
More info & application: bshs.org.uk/grants/#rese...
Engaging the public in humanities & social sciences feels more important than ever. So we are offering £8k grants for researchers to work with galleries, libraries, archives, museums or performing arts organisations to do this. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.
This might turn into a ramble so apologies and please bear with me. There is something exciting I want to share coming towards the end of the post so if you want to skip ahead, please do… If …
'The University of Leicester is to close its film studies and modern languages degree courses to new students.'
'The university has confirmed the courses would cease, but declined to comment on the number of prospective students affected, saying the figure was "commercially sensitive".' 1/2
danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.
italian tv on demand once again keeping the lights on in UK academia 🙏🏻
When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...
Last month, we paid 112,113 members their share of £36,080,542. Lots of you ask where the money comes from so we've put together some stats to give youmore insight: https://www.alcs.co.uk/news/march-2026-distribution-top-facts-and-figures/
