Historian of emotions in America.; co-author of Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings about Technology from the Telegraph to Twitter
Joined October 2011
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Susan Matt retweeted
9 Jul 2024
My better half ( @ALongingForHome ) is quoted extensively in this Atlantic article titled "The New Age of Endless Parenting" theatlantic.com/family/archi…
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9 Jul 2024
Great article by @fhill_official on staying connected to family and the pressure to leave home
9 Jul 2024
The panic about young adults’ reliance on their family rests on an assumption: Growing up requires them to leave all that behind. But there’s another way to look at it, @fhill_official writes: theatlantic.com/family/archi…
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Susan Matt retweeted
4 Jul 2024
Great talk by Simone Natale today at U. of Tuebingen. Provoking super questions: Does the disposition to project intelligence (and autonomy) onto machines change across time? In what circumstances is that projection beneficial? What can we learn about AI from a 19th C. seance?
4 Jul 2024
Always the hardest part. You think you’re done, the wine reception at hand, yet there is this last important bit. The conclusions
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Susan Matt retweeted
27 Jun 2024
Pub date, 22 Aug.; congrats all. The Business of Emotions in Modern History - bloomsbury.com/us/business-o…
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Susan Matt retweeted
6 Feb 2024
There is still plenty of time to add our next colloquium with @Imogen_Knox to your calendars ✨ Though the event is shown as being sold out, this is only due to Eventbrite's ticket limit - there is no cap on attendance and the Zoom link can still be accessed at the link below!
26 Jan 2024
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: @NACHEmotion will be holding its next colloquium on 14 February at 11am (US Mountain Time): "Suicide in the History of Emotions" with @Imogen_Knox ✨ Find out more register/save the Zoom link here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/713609915… #twitterstorians #emostorians
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22 Sep 2023
Really looking forward to this!
22 Sep 2023
EVENT: @NACHEmotion's co-chair Prof. Susan Matt (@ALongingForHome) will be giving this online talk on "Emotions, Individualism, and History" on 25 September for @ISREorg's history of emotions webinar series ✨ Register using the links below! #twitterstorians #emostorians
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Susan Matt retweeted
21 Sep 2023
ANNOUNCEMENT: Congratulations to Prof. Bradley Irish of Arizona State University on becoming the Co-Editor in Chief of 'Emotion Review', the interdisciplinary journal of the International Society for Research on Emotion. 👏
Here is a link to the journal: journals.sagepub.com/home/em…
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Susan Matt retweeted
20 Sep 2023
This coming Tuesday (26 Sept.) I will be at @WeberStateU talking about "Person, Thing, Robot" @mitpress Shout out to @luke_fernandez for the invitation and organizing the event.
ALT Poster for David J. Gunkel's presentation at Weber State University on 26 September 2023.
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✒️ Join us on an exciting exploration of the #history of #emotions this Sept 25.
We're excited to welcome Prof. Matt @ALongingForHome to share insights on "Emotions, Individualism, and History."
Please register to secure your spot 👉 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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Susan Matt retweeted
12 Apr 2023
CALL FOR PAPERS: We are holding our next conference on 7-8 June 2024 at UBC! We invite proposals from scholars working on any period or region in the history of emotions 🌎✨
See CFP flyer and our website for further info: nachemotion.wordpress.com/20… #twitterstorians #emostorians
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Susan Matt retweeted
7 Aug 2023
Every university, every podcast, and every business that has used Zoom is going to look at Zoom’s new policy and start searching for alternatives.
Huge opportunity for one of Zoom’s competitors to grow significantly by saying “that crap Zoom is doing? We won’t do that.”
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Susan Matt retweeted
3 Aug 2023
“So it seems like good counsel to be wise to the hype. Not only does it conceal as much as it reveals, if history is any guide, it's likely to be ephemeral.”
Some important historic perspective on tech hype from @luke_fernandez:
salon.com/2023/05/30/how-the…
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Susan Matt retweeted
24 Jul 2023
Historian and professor @ALongingForHome shared her research interviewing Americans on device use and boredom during our webinar on Boredom, #ScreenTime, and #ChildDevelopment. Full webinar here: bit.ly/3NbnTmU
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Susan Matt retweeted
10 Jul 2023
Weber State is hiring a tenure-track historian of the American West. Required to teach Utah history/preference given to candidates who also specialize in historically marginalized communities in U.S. History. Position Announcement here: jobs.weber.edu/postings/1992… Come join us!
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1 Jun 2023
Congratulations on the book! Can't wait to read it!
1 Jun 2023
Hooray, hooray, it's Book Launch Day! So proud of #LosingEden and a BIG thanks to @UnivNebPress! Give it to your dad for Father's Day! Use it in class this fall (and I'll Zoom in for a discussion)! 40% off with Code 6AS23! nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebras…
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30 May 2023
From "holy hype" to AI sentience, tech has a history of inflating its potential salon.com/2023/05/30/how-the…
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30 May 2023
Great article @Salon by @luke_fernandez on AI, emotion & hype salon.com/2023/05/30/how-the… @WeberStateU @JohnK1010 #CHATGPT #AI
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Susan Matt retweeted
25 May 2023
😁 first copy I’ve seen out in the world other than the author copies I received 👍👍
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Susan Matt retweeted
24 May 2023
No, you don't have a reptilian brain inside your brain sciencenorway.no/brain/no-yo…
The myth of the reptilian brain is tenacious – but wrong.
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