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Josh Shepperd

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Associate Professor, University of Colorado

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Delighted to announce that I have been appointed the Senior Faculty Advisor of the National Recording Preservation Foundation, a charter of the 106th US Congress, proximate to the Library of Congress NRPB.

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Coming up tomorrow

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I think that's the most reasonable reaction of all - to deemphasize social media entirely. BTW I had something I wanted to ask your expertise about..!

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For sure! Or I'll come down to Springs, because I love looking at Garden of the Gods and typically just need a reason to make the drive.

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Good news - I got tenure.

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We are currently seeking submissions on "screens and sound": creatively encompassing any definition of screen. Resonance is a University of California Press journal. Please circulate!

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Talk about a prestigious and important job. Birmingham is hiring a "Stuart Hall Interdisciplinary Chair."

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Yes I could definitely meet for a little bit if you're willing to make the commute into the 5th! I still have no idea where I am most of the time. Moving to DM.

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We're in Latin Quarter, I might have time tomorrow in the morning and then we head back!

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Just ate the 2024 winner for best pizza in the world at Peppe Marcel Etienne in Marais.

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Delighted that "Shadow of the New Deal" was selected as co-runnerup for the American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA) Book Award. This is the 4th award recognition for "Shadow." Congrats to friends and colleagues Aniko Bodroghkozy on winning, and to Kate Jewell for also placing as runner-up.

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Driving 10.5 hours across the high plains tomorrow by myself - music recs?

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My book is back on sale at Walmart. Check out the reduced price in the left corner.

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Giving a book talk for Journalism History Salon (Loyola Baltimore, Temple, Idaho) on May 3rd. My thirteenth (13th) and final engagement of the semester!

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Delighted that "Shadow of the New Deal" was selected as second place for the AEJMC History Book Award. Thank you to the reviewing committee.

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Giving a book talk at Wellesley on April 29th!

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I am also hustling hard, as you know, it’s my tenure year. Almost done!

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I’ll be talking with University of Missouri students about the applied policy project that I direct for the Library of Congress on April 24th!

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Giving a book talk at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on April 25th!

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My book was featured on Texas Public Radio this morning!

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Looking forward to talking about my book with students at the University of Minnesota on April 15.

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My book was featured on Colorado Public Radio this morning!

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Happy to see that "Shadow of the New Deal" made the short list as a "finalist" for the Living New Deal book award. Congratulations to this year's winners and thanks to the review committee for honorable mention recognition of the book.

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Next weekend, I’m going to Las Vegas to collect a book award and not give a paper. Best conference trip ever?

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I’ll be around from Wednesday-Sat afternoon

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En route to Dallas/Ft. Worth, looking forward to talking with students about the political economy of memory research.

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Had a great time visiting The Annex Sociology Podcast. We talked the history of US public media, and how and why the media reform movement helped to develop core methodologies of sociological survey research and demography in the 1930s.

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Josh Shepperd joins Money on the Left to discuss the research and activism that hastened the rise of public media in the United States.

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That'd be great! I have a rental car and can meet whenever, with Tim or otherwise.

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It's the Voynich manuscript translation edition

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The ink is barely dry, but I'm so incredibly happy to share that my book Binding Media is now on contract with Stanford UP as part of the Text Technologies series!

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Happy to have been interviewed for this great piece on preservation and memory research conducted by our partners, the "Black Women in Radio" consortium, in conjunction with the Library of Congress project.

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Had a great time talk talking about my book on "In the Author's Voice," Illinois Public Radio.

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We'll celebrate with some Coors Lite soon!

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I'm delighted to announce that "Shadow of the New Deal" has won the BEA Book Award. An honor to be recognized by colleagues, and with this recognition, the media industry itself.

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Looking forward to giving a joint invited talk with the Universities of Bangor and Aberystwyth (Wales) on March 6th.

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My Kentucky Public Media interview made the regional NPR Morning Edition.

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Giving an invited talk at Indiana University today - the Media School colloquium. New archival research on how critical theory, media effects, and political economy all got their start in the US at the same moment, on the same project: the development of audience research.

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