The end of Screen-L feels quite meaningful to me. I joined in 1994 when I was a brand-new graduate student, and it immediately made me feel like I was part of an academic community and ongoing conversation much broader than my program. On sites like this, hierarchies of rank and seniority disappeared behind usernames, and I can honestly say that this email list fostered my dedication to digital publishing spaces and alternate forms of academic discourse, a focus that has remained a central part of my academic career. Huge kudos and many thanks to Jeremy for sailing this ship for so many years!!

 

Although I agree with Jeremy that the list is no longer what it was, I will note that other listservs that want to remain active after their host institutions have withdrawn from this service have migrated to Google Groups rather seamlessly, maintaining their function to make announcements and occasionally host a conversation. If anyone feels so moved to take the reins (alas, I’m overwhelmed with my own digital projects), I encourage this option for Screen-L to sustain itself in a post-Alabama, post-Butler era.

-Jason

 

 

From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of SCREEN-L automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 1:00 AM
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Subject: SCREEN-L Digest - 19 Mar 2024 to 20 Mar 2024 (#2024-16)

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Date:    Tue, 19 Mar 2024 20:39:17 -0500
From:    Barbara Baker <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: The Beginning of the End for Screen-L

As someone who has subscribed to this listserv for approximately 25 years,
I am sorry, and sad, to see it end. I do appreciate the link to the
archives.

I also want to thank you, Jeremy, for all your work on this over the years
(and the University of Alabama for hosting it). It has been a wonderful
resource for me and others.

Best wishes to you for the future,

Barbara Baker

Barbara L. Baker, Ph.D.
Emerita Professor, Department of Communication
University of Central Missouri
Warrensburg, MO 64093
AND
Assistant Professor of Instruction
School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX 75080

On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 8:25 PM Jeremy Butler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hello, Screen-L subscribers,
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> The time has come for Screen-L to end its three-decade run.
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> Its first non-test message was submitted by Chris Amirault on Wednesday,
> 20 March 1991 at 19:15:43. I know these specifics because the ENTIRE
> Screen-L archive is online over here:
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> https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flistserv.ua.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fwa%3FA0%3DSCREEN-L&data=05%7C02%7Cjmittell%40MIDDLEBURY.EDU%7C52327581c32543c5f98408dc4963cde5%7Ca1bb0a191576421dbe93b3a7d4b6dcaa%7C1%7C0%7C638465940224374716%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=3lUAhOjbvrUqauhyL%2FF%2Bwa138Ezdj1yTxOMc3ETa%2B3w%3D&reserved=0
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> Screen-L was the first email discussion list devoted solely to film and TV
> studies—at a time when email was still a new-fangled communication service.
> I like to think that over the past 33 years it has provided a useful
> resource for folks to discuss projects, exchange ideas, solicit papers,
> announce new work, and network with like-minded individuals they might
> never meet face-to-face. In recent years, however, email discussion lists
> have been largely eclipsed by social media. And the messages submitted to
> Screen-L have become fewer and fewer.
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> I want to thank all of you for participating in Screen-L. Without its
> subscribers a discussion list would truly serve no purpose. I also must
> thank the University of Alabama, which has generously hosted it from the
> beginning.
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> I’m still working on the logistics of “sundowning” Screen-L. For one
> thing, I want to make sure that its archives don’t disappear from the
> Internet. And so my plan is to straighten a few things out and then for
> Screen-L to stop accepting new messages on March 31, 2024.
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> Thanks!
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> Jeremy
>
> Screen-L founder and “owner” (but, really, Screen-L has always been owned
> by its subscribers)
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> Professor Emeritus of Film and TV Studies
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> Blount Senior Fellow
> University of Alabama
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