Ephemeron is a blog by media scholar Nikos Smyrnaios on politics and mass communication, with analyses drawing on corpus studies of press coverage and platform effects on news traffic. Issues mix data-driven research write-ups with commentary on how media frame events and how AI search affects publishers.
Website: https://ephemeron.fr/
A newsletter exploring why people are drawn to horror, blending psychology research such as mood-management field studies with philosophy of horror, including Noël Carroll's paradox of horror. Each issue examines a specific question about fear and the appeal of dark fiction, grounded in academic frameworks.
A personal newsletter by a PhD student that blends memoir-like reflection with accessible readings of critical theory such as Saussure, Lacan and Barthes. It offers lowercase, essayistic musings on signs, meaning, media and the experience of grad school.
A personal newsletter of notes on books, articles and media, focused on romance fiction viewed through academic and critical theory lenses. Readers get essays on topics like medieval chess and courtship, a romance course syllabus with reading notes, and film theory applied to popular media.
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