Jeremy Thank you for creating and sustaining Screen-L for all these year from before dot-com to world-wide social media today. What a change to ride and survive! Richard Butsch On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 6:55 AM Barbara Baker <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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, >> >> >> >> The time has come for Screen-L to end its three-decade run. >> >> >> >> 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: >> >> >> >> https://listserv.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=SCREEN-L >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> Jeremy >> >> Screen-L founder and “owner” (but, really, Screen-L has always been owned >> by its subscribers) >> >> >> >> >> >> ---- >> Jeremy Butler, PhD >> [log in to unmask] >> Professor Emeritus of Film and TV Studies >> >> Blount Senior Fellow >> University of Alabama >> >> >> ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: >> https://listserv.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html >> > > ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: > https://listserv.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html -- Richard Butsch Author: *Screen Culture: A Global History *(Polity) https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=screen-culture-a-global-history--9780745653242 ; *The Citizen Audience *(Routledge) https://www.routledge.com/The-Citizen-Audience-Crowds-Publics-and-Individuals/Butsch/p/book/9780415977906*; *and *The Making of American Audiences *(Cambridge) https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/arts-theatre-culture/media-mass-communication/making-american-audiences-stage-television-17501990?format=PB Professor Emeritus of Sociology, American Studies, Film & Media Studies Rider University, Lawrenceville NJ 08550, USA ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://screenlex.org