@jeehyunjennylee.bsky.social, @coltenmeisner.bsky.social, and I are editing a special issue for the new Creator and Influencer Studies journal! This collection will focus on how creators and their audiences engage in more low visibility places online. link.springer.com/collections/...

Please see our CFP here for a special collection in the new journal Creator & Influencer Studies focused on low visibility places. I'm thrilled to be teaming up with @jeehyunjennylee.bsky.social and @pranavm.bsky.social as guest editors for what we hope will be an insightful and timely collection!

@yenalee.bsky.social came to my Digital Influencer class today and gave a fascinating talk on political content creators’ complex experiences/negotiations in what she conceptualizes as our post-networked era. Thank you for coming today and I am really excited to see this book project develop! 💯🎉🙏🏻

Excited to kick off my postdoc @cdcspenn.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu with a colloquium on Monday, September 29th ✨ I’ll be sharing from my dissertation-to-book project titled, "Creator Logic-in-Practice: Political Content Creators and the Negotiation of Influence in the Post-Networked Era."

Sharing a snapshot of a project I’ve been working on w/collaborators Zoe West & Sanjay Pinto at Cornell ILR School, looking at genAI in the fashion modeling industry. AI-generated models have been turning up a lot - H&M, a Guess ad, Luigi(!) in Shein’s catalog… datasociety.net/points/fashi...

It's syllabus season & I'm shamelessly plugging some of my work for your consideration. If you teach: Communication Media studies Digital sociology Media anthropology Youth digital cultures so courses at the intersection of media, technology & society, include in readings... 1/

New study in ICS! Through interviews with transnational Korean women content creators who produce content about their Korean identity and culture, my study takes an intersectional and transnational lens to understand their complex experiences with algorithmic visibility towards global audiences 🌏

⚠️New Publication Alert⚠️ My article "Standing in as a Famed, Diverse Virtual Influencer : Proxy Labor and Identity Construction in Computer-Generated Influencer Production" is out, as part of the Velvet Light Trap Fall 2024 Special Issue on Creative Labor and Precacity. doi.org/10.7560/VLT9...

I spoke with The Hill about why influencer courses are necessary in college curricula to meet the demands of a changing digital media and entertainment workforce. Very excited to teach my class on this at the University of Alabama again next semester! thehill.com/homenews/edu...

polishing up slides for #NCA2024. come watch me talk about algorithmic ableism, content moderation, and visibility on Friday 11/22 at 8 AM!