I'm excited to share that our article "Chatbox sociality: Extreme personae, speculative communities, and the affordances of alt-tech livestreaming," co-authored with Eleni Maragkou, is now published on First Monday. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

Very much looking forward to this!

Interested in AI and digital culture? Join us for this seminar on June 12th in Bergen, with interesting speakers, new research, lunch and discussion! Part of our Kime collaboration project on AI and authenticity @cdn-bergen.bsky.social @notsaved.bsky.social @lenange.bsky.social @idilg.bsky.social

I like pronouncing bluesky as blooski

I'm actively looking for my next role in Dutch higher education. I'm open to postdoc positions, faculty/lecturer roles, and research positions, in academia or beyond. If you know of any openings, or if our work overlaps, feel free to reach out, repost or tag anyone who might be interested. Thanks!

www.idilgalip.com/blog/the-iss... "Punch is an emotional stand-in for the humans watching him." new blogpost about #punchthemonkey

This first academic piece on the "subcultural ironics of a dark corner of the womanosphere" aka The Red Scare podcast sphere is a must-read for people trying to understand the online "dirt bag" left (open Access preprint here www.idilgalip.com/blog/new-pub...)

new book chapter out, co-authored by eleni maragkou and i on the subcultural politics and visuals of the #redscarepodcast www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

enjoyed this "wayback studio" moment at @internetarchive.eu with @anthbrtn.com @iiil.li @idilg.bsky.social @hetsalwel.bsky.social @esthrr.bsky.social @digitalmethods.net @d-eepculture.bsky.social @publicdatalab.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social & many more! ✨

you can read my newest blogpost: Why we love to hate dimes square content: ‘trash culture’ for the chronically online www.idilgalip.com/blog/interne...

BEDROT WITH ME Idil Galip @transmediale.bsky.social, Sunday Feb 1. You are invited to bedrot with me. This is a desktop lecture-performance. It is also a collective experiment in doing almost nothing. Best experienced while lying down. Tickets: transmediale.de/en/2026/even...

Learning to love my big paranoid brain

When I was crashing about about Peter Thiel's impact on popular culture two years ago, they said it was too niche a topic and I was paranoid. There is such a thing as being too early to a topic, and I need to learn how to leverage it for myself because people don't believe me for some reason

so many bots followed me lol

Hi I've decided to start posting on here again - I want to follow more people interested in digital culture and tech stuff. Do you have any recommendations? Thanksssss

dream meme chat group here with @idilg.bsky.social, Lucie Chateau & Günseli Yalcinkaya answering the eternal return of novelty in internet culture ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

it's a lil millenial in here

WASTING TIME THE JOYS OF WORK NEOLUDDITE TRIPTYCH

To hear some beats to relax/study to, I invoke Lofi girl. In a mythic time of human/cyborg symbiosis, she and I are one.

I wrote a poem about lofi girl