📢We're so excited to invite you to our ✨Influencer Book Author Extravaganza✨ where the amazing Dr. Brooke Erin Duffy Sophie Bishop & Angèle Christin will be in conversation about their eagerly awaited books on influencer industries and cultures 🤩

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My name is Jimmy Makepeace and I still like drawing bugs and angels x

I'll be in London *next week* for the King's Media Industries conference! Can't wait to be back home and really looking forward to our 🔥 panel with Dr. Brooke Erin Duffy Sophie Bishop sarah edwards Colten Meisner

Hit me up if you'll be there and want to meet! ☕️ #MI2024

Look it's Dr Phoenix CS Andrews's book

Today is the day! RecastingTwitch: Livestreaming, Platforms, and New Frontiers in Digital Journalism is now live at Digital Journalism. Maxwell Foxman, will partin 🐌, & I have been wrestling w/ these ideas since 2019! I'm elated to finally share
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TwitchyAnimation, one of the major adult animation content creator, was just deplatformed by Patreon for apparently breaching unclear policies over illustrated content. I have actually been collecting Patreon’s policies for a project and this is totally unfair :

Hello please read our new article!

so how creators on YouTube, as well as YouTube itself, frame governance decisions related to monetisation? pay a visit to Sophie Bishop & DanjoKaZooie (@danjokaz00ie.bsky.social’s beautiful piece for learning more about the world of Advertising as Governance! 👇✨

New paper with DanjoKaZooie (@danjokaz00ie.bsky.social 'Advertising as governance: The digital commodity audience and platform advertising dependency' in Media, Culture and society - out open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

After many months spent producing this podcast the first episode is finally live! If you’ve ever been intrigued or frustrated by overblown claims of the media’s influence on people’s behaviour give it a listen.

✨ Our Dept is hiring MANY scholars this year ✨Full list of the many roles I mentioned the other day now in one place! jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/linki… Come join me and my colleagues at Digital Humanities 🐘 @[email protected]! Several with focus on the Global South/Southeast Asia!

After years of bitching to each other about this, Ben Litherland and I have started a podcast about media influences and 'effects', and the often-terrible 'research' that informs those panics.

Subscribe to ILL EFFECTS wherever you get your podcasts, and please spread the word!

Been a busy month, but I posted my UCU ballot for Vicky Blake UCU @vickyblake.bsky.social today and you should too. I remain grateful to Vicky for making a short-notice, above-the-call-of-duty intervention during last year's IA that ensured we fixed a gap in legal guidance for migrant members in time for MAB.

Anyone studying creators, influencers, memes, war communication, and tiktok should check out this new chapter by Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון and Moa Krutök. Timely study on TikTok memes as a response to collective trauma

This is the last safe post week for UCU elections - post your ballots people!

#Vicky4GS

Rob Gorwa is giving a book talk on 'The Politics of Platform Regulation: How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation' at Manchester Metropolitan Uni next Friday at 16.00: eventbrite.co.uk/e/disc-public-…

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Now it finally feels real! #Podcasting book is complete. 📙👍💯

I wish companies wouldn't make their plastic bags talk in the first person. I don't want you giving sentience to something that can suffocate me.

I’m voting #Vicky4GS - I’ve seen how she works with everyone to build bridges & find solutions. She knows the union, thinks creatively & understands that meaningful democracy depends on dialogue, good information & collective decision making. #ucu Vicky Blake UCU @vickyblake.bsky.social