Comments on: What Do You Think? Most Useful Media Studies Twitter Streams

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:25:49 +0000

Nice post. I’d also add @socimages: the twitter-face of the Sociological Images blog on gender/race treatment in the media.

Thanks for the tip about @Filmdrblog. Gold.

By: Ben Aslinger

Ben Aslinger — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:07:47 +0000

I would add the headline feeds from Billboard_Music, pitchforkmedia, Variety_Tech, Variety_Music, Variety_TV, MediaweekDotCom, and gamasutra. Pew_Internet is great for stats and info about digital and Net culture and policy.

By: Alisa Perren

Alisa Perren — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:56:01 +0000

Nice post! A few others I’d add:

–Michael Schneider from Variety for his snarky comments on the TV biz: http://twitter.com/franklinavenue

–Ben Fritz from the LA Times offers interesting tidbits about the journalistic research & writing process (mostly covering gaming and film): http://twitter.com/benfritz

–For policy and industry-related tweets see JB Flint: http://twitter.com/JBFlint

–Movie City News headline editor Ray Pride offers a range of tweets on the film biz and politics. He also seems to have a talent for finding compelling tweets by others: http://twitter.com/raypride

By: Jason Mittell

Jason Mittell — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:21:14 +0000

I’ve found Twitter quite good for communicating with TV critics, who are often quite active and enjoy chatting back & forth. Some key ones beyond Poniewozik are Alan Sepinwall, Mo Ryan, Daniel Fienberg, and Todd VanDerWerff – see http://twitter.com/ericduckman/tv-critics for one pretty good list of those feeds.

There are also good lists of media scholars, such as http://twitter.com/mznewman/media-scholars

By: Lindsay H. Garrison

Lindsay H. Garrison — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:18:53 +0000

These are great, Annie. I would also add:

TV by the Numbers (@TVbytheNumbers)- it’s a somewhat automated feed that updates with new stories at their blog, but it’s always useful info on ratings, industry, etc. And reading it in the context of my twitter feed seems so much better than reading it just in RSS form in my google reader, for some reason.

Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) – TV reporter for the NYTimes and its MediaDecoder blog, he offers consistently decent commentary and a bevy of interesting/useful links (many of which are to NYT stories before they hit the stands).