Dear Screen-L participants: I'm hoping to crowdsource an analysis of this clip I just got via facebook: "To Putin, Trump is perfect | Donald trump Kisses to Putin in Joe New Funny Video." I don't yet know much about its source, funding or distribution, nor can I identify all the musical cues and film references. I'm interested in it because my hunch is this kind of facebook activity dramatically shaped the election's outcome. To Putin, Trump is perfect | Donald trump Kisses to Putin in Joe New Funny Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=jprKoCGLjiA <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jprKoCGLjiA> Please do let me know if you have thoughts on this clip. I've opened up a discussion on Academia.edu for a quick piece entitled "Losing the Election Audiovisually - Word Out to the Electoral College." I'm hoping I can find a way to distribute it within 24 hours (your ideas here too would be helpful). Feel free to join the discussion or email me directly (I'm planning for this clip and others to be part of the article). Losing the Election Audiovisually - Word Out to the Electoral College.docx <https://www.academia.edu/s/98b85286a6/losing-the-election-audiovisually-word-out-to-the-electoral-collegedocx?source=link> My argument is that the presidential election was lost in audiovisual media before the actual vote happened. I hope we'll look at a few videos that appeared before the election to show both the trends that pointed to Trump's win (the Chainsmokers' "Waterbed") and more progressive trends (Beyoncé's Lemonade); I 'd like to use the recent video I just got through Facebook as a way of asking how audiovisual media can work politically and what we might do now. The Electoral College meets Monday, of course, and while we'll doubtless lose the vote, it might mean something if we sway a few more electors. I'm hoping that those who don't think they need to know about pop culture might change their minds. Some of the background on this is that I've put together a panel for the upcoming SCMS conference in Chicago this March, entitled "Collective Action in 2017: Responding to Hate, Disenfranchisement, and the Loss of the Commons," and I've proposed a new, politically responsive, academic journal I hope we all might connect with somehow. Best wishes, Carol Carol Vernallis, Ph.D. Department of Music Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org