workweek reading recs (4 November 2024)

[matsushima]

• How the Alt Right Uses Milk to Promote White Supremacy, Iselin Gambert and Tobias Linné for The Conversation
• From Displays and Dioramas to Doll Dramas: Adult World Building and World Playing with Toys by Katriina Heljakka and J. Tuomas Harviainen for American Journal of Play
  Note: This is a (free to read) academic article rather than journalism… How do we feel about that?
• When Your Profession is On Fire by Anne Helen Petersen for Culture Study

Comments

[lokifan]

I love Petersen so much <3

[matsushima]

She's the best, I even subscribe to her newsletter (and I hate getting emails).

[inchoatewords]

Late comment is late, but I've been catching up with these posts when I have a moment, and that first article - I didn't see the date on it at first, and then I read where someone had been banned from Twitter for white supremacist views, and I realized it couldn't be recent, heh. But oh,my, some of those comments . . . I've been on the internet long enough, I should know better than to read comments 🤦‍♀️