Such a great moment: the 7th edition of Denis Mcquail’s handbook of Media and Mass Communication Theory is now translated in modern Chinese! Especially encouraging as I’m currently working on the brand new 8th edition #MaMCT #McQuail Sage Media & Comm

A review in Nature, by Candice Odgers, asserts that I have mistaken correlation for causation and that “there is no evidence that using these platforms is rewiring children’s brains or driving an epidemic of mental illness.” Both of these assertions are untrue.…

Hoe konden digitale mediamerken als Buzzfeed en Vice zó sneuvelen? parool.nl/ts-b4d2996e1/

Een paar reacties op het rapport #commissievanrijn #NPO en het plan van aanpak (voor zover bekend) betreffend grensoverschrijdend gedrag in de media, in NRC: nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/03…

Great thread on the global games industry, which applies peert much to all media industries - including journalism. Thanks Rami Ismail / رامي!

The fabulous Angie Smets of Sony Interactive Entertainment being awesome with our #makingmedia students at UvA Geesteswetenschappen today 🙏

Journalists and scholars interested in improving the precarity of journalistic work - Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, Avery Holton, Mark Deuze, Claudia Mellado and many more address these issues in an edited volume that I was allowed to review for JMCQ.

my department (Media Studies at University of Amsterdam) has 8 assistant professor positions open -- you can search for them with the link provided. I can do my best to answer questions vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/search/

NEW #JMCQReview 🚨This edited volume, with a global editorship Valérie Bélair-Gagnon Avery Holton Mark Deuze Claudia Mellado, unpacks the challenges and opportunities for happiness in journalism. Read the JMCQ review by JournStudies Vienna's Phoebe Maares!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

Leestip voor iedereen geïnteresseerd in journalistiek: 'Happiness in Journalism'. In dit boek richten Mark Deuze UvA Geesteswetenschappen en collega’s zich op de vraag wat geluk in de journalistiek betekent 👇go.uva.nl/3PaZNtb

FYI as the foreword to Carlos Scolari Carlos A. Scolari fabulous new book On The Evolution of Media I was privileged to contribute an essay on the evolution of #mediastudies and (mass) communication research, FYI: markdeuze.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/for…

A big question looms over generative AI: what really is its impact on the environment? I spent months investigating a single campus of Microsoft data centers in the Arizona desert - designated in part for OpenAI - in an attempt to find out. Thread. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Recién salido del horno porteño, en breve lo tendremos humeante en las panaderías españolas. Un libro sobre teoría evolutiva del cambio mediático, entre Darwin y McLuhan, con +500 referencias bibliográficas y prólogo de Mark Deuze. Gran trabajo de EdicionesAmpersand 💪 #MediaEvolution

De oude witte mannen maken zichzelf volstrekt belachelijk in deze context en dat ze dit zelf totaal niet zien is het beste bewijs voor alle aantijgingen en verhalen over wangedrag - in het nieuws, in het rapport van de Commissie Van Rijn, en in onderzoek. villamedia.nl/artikel/toezic…

AI influencers on social media: 'What those machines share with each other has consequences for us' - Red Pers redpers.nl/2024/02/28/nie…

RIP to a hugely influential and kind scholar. Professor Mosco published about the role and dangers of automation and robotization for creative work long before the current GenAI hype, and his political economy of communication is more relevant than ever.

Tragic: all media industries are laying off huge numbers of workers to cut costs; in journalism (poynter.org/commentary/202…), games (theguardian.com/games/2024/feb…), advertising (digiday.com/media/media-co…), and across the tech sector (npr.org/2024/01/28/122…). #mediawork #makingmedia

Extremely pleased to announce Laura Glitsos and I have an essay out at Pop Junctions on the fascination with serial killers around the world - and what this says about our own (in)humanity: henryjenkins.org/blog/2024/1/29…

De misstanden in het #nporapport #commissievanRijn ervaren door de meeste mediawerkers zijn slechts het topje van de ijsberg. Ook in alle andere mediaberoepen, in binnen- en buitenland, gaat het mis. Beeld van een industrie die maar niet wil leren: markdeuze.wordpress.com/2024/02/01/gre…

In The Netherlands, between 2022-24 several reports came out on widespread transgressive behaviour in all media industries, with profound consequences for the workers involved. The paradox: what makes people happy to work in media also can make them sick: henryjenkins.org/blog/2023/5/1/…