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MJ Robinson
MJ Robinson is an associate professor in and chair of the Department of TV, Radio & Emerging Media at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, where she teaches convergent journalism and television, mass media and emergent media studies. Robinson’s book TV on Demand: Curatorial Culture and the Transformation of Television (Bloomsbury, 2017) posits the concept of ‘curatorial culture’ – a world in which mass media has been nicheified and an explosion of broadcast, cable and streaming options present unlimited choice to a viewing audience freed from the tyranny of network or content creator scheduling. Her recent media studies scholarship updates these ideas to consider the possibility of a true ‘Me-TV’ (i.e. shows custom created by machines based on what the viewer wants to see based on the AI’s ingestion of the totality of our species’ creative output as well as that individual’s digital and digitized profile). While serving as Brooklyn College’s Bernard N. Stern Professor of Humor (from 2017 to 2019) she explored the practice, rhetoric and efficacy of political satire in times of crisis and discord from Weimar Germany through to American 2016–20. She has worked in international co-production and financing for both film and television and as a motion picture archivist. Robinson is currently completing the manuscript for her forthcoming book: Writing with AI: Thinking Tools/Tools for Thinking (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) which takes an interdisciplinary and humanistic approach to the engagement of generative AI by academic workers and trying not to become too depressed at the state of the universe. Monneyron’s gloss of Durant ‘I could die tomorrow, and so I will buy something that is timeless’ has given her a new credo by which to live.
Contact: Department of TV, Radio & Emerging Media, Brooklyn College, 2900 Bedford Ave., Whitehead Hall 304, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA.