Thinking about media!

November 01, 2022

A screenshot of a website with white text on a dark grey background. The text reads: "Trust me, bro": A (re)imagination of Thomas the Tank Engine

~~https://thinkingabout.media~~

Now at: https://thinkingaboutmedia.benpettis.ninja

Doing media studies scholarship doesn't have to be difficult! Struggling to come up with a topic to write about? Looming deadlines and just nothing coming to mind?

Use this generator to automatically generate a title and abstract for your next paper, conference proposal, or other presentation!

I mean, if we're studying and critiquing media and technology, why not put some of those same technologies to use and get it to do our work for us?

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Inspired by @matthew_paul's #TeamRhetoric Twitter Bot, the website uses a JavaScript library called Tracery, originally written by Kate Compton. Using a series of template phrases and mad-libs style replacements, the site generates paper topics and abstracts fitting for any media studies scholar!

The website is live at https://thinkingaboutmedia.benpettis.ninja

Source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/bpettis/thinking-about-media