So happy to have been present to celebrate Christopher J. Persaud's dissertation defense today!! You are brilliant. Congratulation on achieving this massive milestone, onwards and upwards babyyy! 🩷❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍

These UKRI fellowship applications are NO JOKE, so many parts 😱😮‍💨 But major thanks to the Goldsmiths, University of London research grant writing support team, who have been amazingly helpful 🙌

Another episode of wishing people actually read the article, but filing this away for post PhD defense thoughts on GenAI and creators…cc: ℤ𝕠𝕖 𝔾𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕥 ✨️

.Safiya Umoja Noble has withdrawn as USC commencement speaker

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Pleased to be interviewed for Canadian Business (Canadian Business) & Rebecca Gao in their latest newsletter... speculating on the past and future of YouTube in a 'post'-TikTok mediascape: 📹⏲️💫

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Very cool event here being organised by idil and other colleagues. With aris komporozos-athanasiou as keynote.

Reminder to book your tickets now if you haven't already HERE: tinyurl.com/2ee6ztdk

It's happening!! '10x Yourself: The Creator Economy in the Age of Generative AI' 💪🚀

✨ New journal officially launched! Welcome to Platforms & Society! Read our inaugural editorial and submit your article - or even a multimedia piece! The editors (we are an editorial collective!) are me, Niels van Doorn, Cheryll Soriano, andrea pollio & Julie Yujie Chen journals.sagepub.com/home/PNS

going viral can lead to financial success and status, but visibility also leads to harassment and surveillance. in a new paper with Dr Carolina Are 💃🏻 bloggeronpole & Thomas Poell | @[email protected] we explore tensions between platforms' visibility regimes and sexual(ity) creators' strategies

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Such a great new article from hanne stegeman Dr Carolina Are 💃🏻 bloggeronpole
& Thomas Poell | @[email protected] on creators' strategic (in)visibility. I've never given such an easy accept as a reviewer before! ✨️🫡
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📚I am immensely proud to announce that our book, “Inclusive Ethnography: Making fieldwork safer, healthier and more ethical”, co-edited with Dr Branwen Spector is out now with SAGE Publications !

Get your copy here: us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/incl…

I had such a great time seeing people and hearing about some great research at the King's Media Industries conference! Goodbye London, see you at Christmas 👋💖🫡 #MI2024

A lot of people have asked me--since my postdoc is ending-- why I didn't apply to any of the Visiting Lecturer positions in my department. The answer is because the salary for VL positions is $34,000 a year to teach a 3:3 with service requirements.

En route to London, see you soon #MI2024 ! ✈️🇬🇧👋

New article just dropped from Christine H. Tran ❤️‍🩹✨🕹! 🔥🔥🔥

Open access HERE: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

Seriously such a great day! Every once in a while, I have a day where discovering new pockets of internet culture fills me with so much joy. I'm really lucky to do this as a job 💖🥹

177 tickets booked already and counting, we're so glad that you guys recognise how cool this event will be! 💃🕺

If you haven't already, you can book for free here: tinyurl.com/2ee6ztdk

I'm having a delightful time eating cookies and going on a deep dive of the YouTube New Wave movement for my book chapter 'The Community Economy' 🤩

(I should be doing other work, but that's besides the point...)