Mike Wayne @mikewayne.bsky.social

My latest article is now #OnlineFirst!!!! @MCSjournal Netflix Audience Data, Streaming Industry Discourse, and the Emerging Realities of ‘Popular’ Television journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

📺Today TV History: #MattGroening THE SIMPSONS #TheSimpsons @TheSimpsons Premiered 1989 @FOXTV Starring #DanCastellaneta #JulieKavner @nancycartwright @YeardleySmith @HankAzaria @theharryshearer First Episode: "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire." About bit.ly/gJA3Mf

A new call for papers is out, for a special issue of “VIEW” (#29). Please have a look, share the news, and send us a proposal! Deadline for abstracts: June 29, 2025. :) #cfp-view-issue-#29:--understanding-and-documenting-the-transformations-of-television-texts-in-the-streaming-era" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">viewjournal.eu/announcements#…

A truly great sociologist, with wide-ranging contributions. His 1988 ASA presidential address called for a “public sociology” that directly engaged non-academic readers. Such a shame to lose giants like Michael Burawoy and Herb Gans in the past few weeks. nytimes.com/2025/04/21/boo…

🎙️🎧 Guys, we’re launching a European based Orioles podcast! Make sure to give @OsAcrossThePond a follow to keep updated with all the info! #Birdland @MLBEurope

@BritishOrioles Nice!

Motions in the work today to start up a new European O’s podcast…. 👀🎙️🇪🇺

The Baltimore Orioles: • have not won a playoff game in more than a decade. • have not won the American League or the World Series in more than four decades. • have finished 4th or worse 27 times in the last 41 seasons. Fans are entitled to be angry and demand success.

Four posts from MLB's 𝕏 account focusing on Juan Soto's first HR with the Mets. Yet, still zero post addressing or apologizing for the MLB app debacle on Opening Day.

Yesterday, on Opening Day of all days, MLB TV crashed for an estimated 85% of global users for about 60-90 mins. For about 30 mins of that, the MLB app also crashed. This is just unacceptable. Terrible preparation. Heads should roll. Yet another red mark on Rob Manfred's resume.

@MLB Missed it bcs your app @mlbtv is hoot garbage

Adley Crushman 🤯 He blasts an #OpeningDay TANK!

@MLBFanSupport Thanks. I didn't want to see Adley Rutschman's home run. I would much prefer to see this error message

@mike_wheezy Hi there, we are aware of this issue and expect a resolution shortly. Sorry for the delay.

@mlbtv shit the bed on opening day? What do I pay for?

Remembering Yaphet Kotto, Al Giardello on “Homicide: Life on the Street,” who passed away 4 years ago today.

There's some tough irony in the fact that among the first jobs disrupted are their own 1 in 4 programming jobs have vanished. What happened? wapo.st/4bT80wh

23 years ago…

🚨Brand New Flow w/ Gerald Sim, Roderik Smits, Andrew Stubbs-Lacy & Michael Z. Newman. Topics include: intersections of technology & creative labor, how AI is shaping the landscape of film, Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer & the convergence of TV and TikTok: flowjournal.org

🎉 🎉 Our special issue (with 20 papers) on Global Perspectives on Platforms & Cultural Production in the International Journal of Cultural Studies is out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13… @tpoell @brookeerinduffy @bruce_mutsvairo @iamtommiii @artarriagada Jeroen de Kloet & Ping Sun

As the great Molly Ivins so famously intoned, it sounds better in the original German. Fucking hell but this racist shit is slithering for the lowest, darkest sewer as furiously as one can.

Hi friends and tweeters. My book is finally out with @mitpress and it is open access for all. If you want to know what “the cloud” has done to your digital civil liberties and your democracy, check it out! mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548069/…

@timgill924 She is already dead. That's what happens to "family" that get in the way of my writing goals

Would you shove your Grandma down the stairs for tenure?