Alisa Perren
Media studies prof. Director of Industry Relations for the Radio-Television-Film Department at UT-Austin. Opinions are my own.
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- Reposted by Alisa Perren"When in doubt, draw a distinction." Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that. This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one. I will post them one at a time. Ready?
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- Reposted by Alisa PerrenBlistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...
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- Reposted by Alisa PerrenYesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
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- Reposted by Alisa PerrenThis is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...
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- Doing research on an article about how streaming services’ unscripted TV strategies evolved and came across this gem of a tidbit from 2015: Ted Sarandos declared reality TV “off-brand” and told investors of its “disposable nature,” making it less interesting for streamers to invest in. 🤣
- Reposted by Alisa PerrenUSPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
- Just learned C2E2 Comics Convention is happening the same time as #SCMS26 in Chicago for people who want more to do then…
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- Just read this from @seanmcnulty.bsky.social in The Ankler: NETFLIX will have live TV programming on Sunday, Monday (RAW), Tuesday & Wednesday (Star Search) every week as of mid-January, plus their new mobile daily game show. The more things change…
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- Reposted by Alisa Perrenwill also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other
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- Also: Their vice provost is named Michael Scott!?!
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- Doing my part this holiday season to try to educate my parents about motion smoothing
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- Reposted by Alisa PerrenI guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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- Reposted by Alisa PerrenDisney and OpenAI sign a deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer openai.com/index/disney...
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- Reposted by Alisa PerrenQuick take on potential Netflix takeover of Warner Bros. Discover vs Paramount SkyDance or Comcast NBCU. Key point: it's the least worse deal, especially wrt Trump loyalist Ellison family controlled Paramount SD. Here's what the US TV, film & online video market looks like premerger. 1/
- Netflix’s acquisition of WB becomes my new exhibit A for teaching industry oriented grad students why you NEVER put predictions in scholarship (or assume anything as it is at a given historical moment means something like that will never happen)
- 2013: "The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us” — Ted Sarandos about Netflix 2025: Netflix buying HBO along with its parent company The last decade (and change) in a nutshell variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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- Reposted by Alisa PerrenIt's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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- Reposted by Alisa PerrenIt’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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- Reposted by Alisa PerrenWAPO jumps into the circular-revenue graphic game. @washingtonpost.com $ORCL $NVDA www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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- Bummer
- Reposted by Alisa PerrenElsevier has a 38% profit margin, and the other journal publishers aren't far behind.
- Give me all the John Wells doing the medical profession and none of John Wells doing politics. Thank you
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- Reposted by Alisa PerrenSome great charts on #AI from the Wall Street Journal. t.ly/xvvbw "AI products would have to create an additional $650 billion a year, indefinitely, to give investors a reasonable 10% annual return. That’s more than 150% of Apple’s yearly revenue"
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- Please make this timeline stop
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