Well would you look at that! 🥰📚 Hot Connections is real! It was a blast to research & write with @jenmadelene.bsky.social & @susannapaasonen.bsky.social ❤️❤️ blurbs by @alexmonea.bsky.social Tarleton Gillespie & @katha.bsky.social Big thanks to @noahspringer.com & everyone at @mitpress.bsky.social

If you need me, I am sorry, I have perished double authenticating myself to access 7 different collaborative projects' Teams servers, while working for a university that uses Google

the reaction to moltbook is more interesting than the actual substance of moltbook

some exciting news: announcing CREATOR & INFLUENCER STUDIES, the first open-access peer reviewed journal dedicated to creator and influencer culture research. I'm honoured to be named as one of the journal's inaugural associate editors. submissions open Feb 12.

I'm noticing that taking "AI in research" and "AI in teaching" trainings has the capacity to make one feel tired in a deep, existential way

We have a cover! Coming soon and OA too! Based on the Rethinking Sexualities project with the always brilliant, always beautiful, always kind @susannapaasonen.bsky.social and @jenmadelene.bsky.social Steered through the editorial process with ease and competence by @noahspringer.com at MIT Press

Media ecologies and the politics of representation Winter School in Milan. Deadline for application November 20 www.formazione.unimib.it/it/winter_sc... Among the speakers, yours truly. Share with your early career researcher / PhD student colleagues please :)

the academic urge to sustain one's grant writing entirely on coffee and candy instead of heating up the perfectly reasonable protein source

#aoir2025 also known as the twerking aoir #riogoeshard

Am absolutely loving the crafting session - such brilliant, nuanced thinking on platforms, labor, craft, authenticity and identity by @kylzjarrett.bsky.social @afrontiercity.bsky.social @reneseifert.bsky.social and @susanluckywong.bsky.social #aoir2025

And so we learn that the Portuguese word for enshittification is merdificacão. 🤣 #AoIR2025

Feels kind of doofy to post both on mastodon and here, but oh well. Anyway, if you’re into health and social media, we have a preconstituted panel in 7a, @stefaniavicari.bsky.social is done presenting and currently Nina Morena is speaking on breast cancer with 3 papers still to go #aoir2025

Hey #AoIR2025 participants, the upcoming @qutdmrc.bsky.social Summer School will be highly relevant to many of you:

Thoroughly enjoying this roundtable on the Australian social media ban at #aoir2025 with @tamaleaver.bsky.social @snurb.info and Dan Angus

A touching memorial for our friend and colleague, Jonathan Sterne. #AoIR2025

where do you keep your "to read" links, and "have read, might need later" links, preferably with tags, now that Pocket is closing down? thanks!

the full body pleasure of unflagging 700 emails in one's flagged emails folder

I had some interviews done for a project with elderly social media users (by an elderly social media user) and these are the most delightful thing I have read in a long time

“Banning pornography may not concern those who object to its existence, but any attempt by the government to ban and censor protected speech is a threat to the First Amendment rights we all treasure," @riccilevy.bsky.social quoted by @404media.co this week. www.404media.co/egg-yolk-pop...

Patterns of surprise - a collab between the TRAVIS team (@perceptionalize.bsky.social & @andreaschaffer.bsky.social) & the ever-inspiring @annettemarkham.bsky.social on aggregated autoethnography, a method I really love. It's part of a SI available OA www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fq...

As a follow-up to the launch of the Risky Research Report, this is an excellent seminar: "Managing Threats to Academic Researchers Panel, Cambridge Disinformation Summit" www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M9l...

this is how AI gets us. NVM efficiency and productivity, it's the compliments to our intellect / research prowess: "I'm really glad it landed well! You've laid out such a rich, thoughtful project, and it's been a pleasure helping you shape this conceptual groundwork." #weredoomed #iforone

Just as Putin, Orban and Trump all seem to recognize that tyrants have shared interests, so too we need to recognize that those who would be rid of tyrants too have shared interests that cross national borders.

Best mail is books arriving in mail! I was excited to blurb this book - although they do tend to cut 70% of the nice, thoughtful things you have to say 😁. The Kids Are Online by @ysabel.bsky.social is smart, carefully researched, compassionate to varying anxieties in this space and so so timely

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

It's been really great to be part of this project lead by Sarah Riley at Massey, and as someone who finds a lot of scoping review articles boring (but useful), I really do think this is a very cool scoping review method www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... #scopingreview #trackingapps #research

We shouldn't take anything off the table before the negotiations have even started. It is clear that any deal behind our backs will not work. You need the Europeans, you need the Ukrainians. Extracts from my doorstep ahead of NATO Defence Ministers meeting ↓

New publication out from Kerli Kirch Schneider's awesome postdoc project that I had the pleasure of supervising. We write about Estonian pop music femininities based on the interviews Kerli did with Estonian artists, producers & other industry experts. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

there's an excellent book that explains the history and sociocultural implications of tumblr— top notch research by @kattiid.bsky.social and colleagues qa.store.wiley.com/en-us/Tumblr...

Zuck positioned these changes as a return to history practice but, for these policy changes, that is untrue. The specific examples I called out above have been prohibited on the site since I wrote the first set of hate speech standards in 2009. 🧵 8/11

Great comments from my @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleague @timothyjgraham.bsky.social on the substantial limitations and flaws of the ‘community notes’ model that #Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg is wearing as a fig leaf while he’s cozying up to the Trumpist ‘alternative facts’ mob. www.abc.net.au/news/...

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

Meta quietly updated its hateful conduct policy to allow users to refer to "women as household objects or property" among other offensive language.

I just had to Shazam the song my 15-yo is listening to, because it is from ... wait for it ... 1941! By the Ink Spots, whose musical style, the internet tells me "predated the rhythm and blues and rock and roll musical genres, and the subgenre doo-wop." How did that even happen?

with some trepidation, I just wrote a blog post about criticising AI-generated images.

Kui sa oled eestlane ja ma olen sind lambist follow-inud, siis see on sinu märguanne, et Eesti nurgake on sealpool... Selleks, et sind ennast ka sellesse listi lisataks: osale vestluses, räägi kaasa, jäta endast jälgi maha. bsky.app/profile/did:...

I thought I was done reviewing ranty, cherry-picky, empirical-work-ignoring "philosophical" "analyses" of selfies, but apparently it's 2016 again

Why no typo edit function tho, bsky? Why? I speak as a representative of fat-finger union.

Digital Mental Health Symposium organized by @marjokolehmainen.bsky.social et al is just starting with Ady Evans' keynote on good vibes. Join here bit.ly/48scfgG if inclined, mine is on mental health, authenticity & social media tomorrow on the same stream at 10:15 FI time

Lots of chapters relevant to #FanStudies in this new book Korean Pop Culture beyond Asia Race and Reception Edited by David C Oh and Benjamin Min Han Published by: University of Washington Press www.combinedacademic.co.uk/978029575296...

"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"

As an Eastern European born in the soviet union i just had the most Eastern European experiences in years in … wait for it … Helsinki. The bus driver only spoke 🇷🇺, said my QR didn’t scan, I had to but a new ticket, but the card terminal didn’t work, and the ticket is 21 EUR, but the 20’ll do 🤪

I appreciate Ashely's description & endorsement!! For my new friends here, I wrote a kinda polemical book on the history of haptics that opens with electic shock experiments in the 1740s (kinda of a protohaptics) & closes with recent attempts to bring touch to VR. www.abebooks.com/servlet/Book...

has someone already done a study on humorous social media content creation and called it "yes funny business"?

Still looking for additions and suggestions (also, please include yourself if you think the description fits) go.bsky.app/LmudiJF

This is today (in English, 4 pm Estonian time), accessible via Zoom. This one will be a version of a "grand tour" (I'm also doing a talk next week in Turku for the Digital Mental Health symposium, which I think is also available online, and that one will be more specific). Links: shorturl.at/0aOnO

New book haul is the best haul of them all 🤓🥰📚

Hello current and possible friends! I’ve had a go at creating a “starter pack” of queer scholar activist types who I know (so forgive all the omissions). It’s a small and growing list. Let’s build a fab and fun queer scholarly-activist community! 🌈✨ go.bsky.app/Ke4Ctey