Cinema Journal's new monthly media studies podcast, Aca-Media, is now 

up and running.  Hosts Christine Becker and Michael Kackman and 

co-producers Bill Kirkpatrick and Todd Thompson explore current 

scholarship, issues in the media industries, questions in pedagogy 

and professional development, and events in the world of media 

studies. Aca-Media is sponsored by Cinema Journal, the official 

journal of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and has been 

funded in part by the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts 

at the University of Notre Dame.



In the inaugural episode of Aca-Media, we interview incoming editor 

of Cinema Journal (and Batman scholar) Will Brooker, discuss the 

recent Flow Conference in Austin, TX (featuring a screening of the 

new Fox drama The Following), and report on the tribute to the late 

Alexander Doty held last fall in Bloomington, IN.



You can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes or via RSS. Links, 

show notes, and more information about the podcast can be found at 

www.aca-media.org.



You can contact the show at [log in to unmask], and you can follow us 

on Twitter at @aca_media.



Want to participate?



The next episode of Aca-Media will drop a week before the SCMS 

conference starts in Chicago, which offers perfect timing for the 

podcast to offer advice to attendees on how to foster the best 

conference experience. But to make sure we cover all bases, we need your help.



We want to know: What one piece of advice do you wish you had gotten 

before the first SCMS you attended? What one item should presenters 

make sure to pack before heading to Chicago? What one thing should 

everyone make time to do at SCMS? What one thing should everyone 

avoid doing at SCMS? What have you always wanted to say out loud to 

that one person who always does that annoying thing at conferences 

but you can't because it might be taken personally and then you'll 

never get tenure? What are your best bits of best practices, sage 

advice, and sincere warnings related to SCMS?



Record your answer to one of these questions in 30 seconds or less (a 

smartphone recording will do, if you don't have a digital recorder), 

and email the sound file as an attachment to [log in to unmask] by 

February 15. We will compile the best answers in a segment called 

Aca-Media Advice: SCMS Edition. We want serious answers, we want 

funny answers, we want answers that will help make this the best 

possible conference in the history of SCMSing. Send us what you've got to say!





  



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