
A rotation curation account for all aspects of the humanities. On its annual break until September. For press enquiries: @academicjess, @krisreadsbooks
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Replying to @WetheHumanities @MillerLyndsay
[Admin] We're on annual break until Sept but if you want s/thing signal-boosting our DMs are open. Fancy curating? wethehumanities.org/for-cura…
[Admin] We're keen to amplify people who are marginalised in their fields/industries/communities; if you can help spread the word, thanks!
[Admin] And if you've got more to say than one tweet, sign up to a weekly curator here: wethehumanities.org/for-cura…
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[Admin] Whether it's an article, your fave summer read, something you've made, or a twitter rant, pass it our way for summer-sharing.
[Admin] Huge thanks to @MillerLyndsay for taking us into our annual break with a fabby week full of superheroes, Nabokov and binge-watching.
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(what do you say folks, one last whippet photo for the sweet souvenir?) 🐶
If you've enjoyed our discussions, then follow me @MillerLyndsay. For now, though, goodbye & goodnight! 👋🏻😴🌘
Replying to @WetheHumanities @GlowNetflix
It's been a pleasure & privilege to share the week with you all! Thank you @AcademicJess & @krisreadsbooks for the opportunity ❤️
Now, I have to confess - I can't finish @glownetflix tonight.I'm exhausted. But! I will finish it tomo by replying here from my own account.
That, for me, is the importance of the types of storytelling we've considered - social/new media, transmedia storyworlds, streaming services
our interests-research/otherwise.There's an immediacy that connects all parts of the stories we tell&consume,&that connect us to each other.
Well, IMO, they let us use 21st century media in resourceful, interesting ways to continue to create, shape & share our lives & stories,
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(yes, still using that as a verb - can't stop won't stop)
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binge-watching. What can we tell about our own humanity from them? And how do they affect the Humanities, & the way that we all 'humanity'?
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All week we've been asking & discussing impacts & implications of modes & mediums of storytelling, from Twitter threads to the #MCU to
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But the presentation of people - women people, no less! - who feel authentic is @GlowNetflix's greatest strength IMO.
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the writing and making of a tv show? ✔️ characters who create their own roles and then perform them? ✔️ the Nabokov scholar in me is 100% 😍
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@GlowNetflix is a show, above other things, about being human. Yes, the meta element is great - right up my alley, in fact. A tv show about
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It was entirely by chance that this is how I've ended my curation of the account, as you lovely people chose tonight's viewing, but, for me
