IMPORTANT TALK ALERT! @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social speaking at Penn State on November 6 about social media platforms and the creator economy!

How does the professionalization of Trust & Safety shape global content moderation practices? We compare Community Guidelines using the typology of harms from TSPA to identify policy priorities and exclusions, available #openaccess in New Media & Society: doi.org/10.1177/1461...

MEDIA OBJECTS episode 2 // Containers // with Brooke Erin Duffy, Jeremy Packer, and The World According to Sound / @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social

new essay with @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social out in @newsweek.com this morning! we examine the influencer industry's oft-overlooked gender politics and what this oversight means for the future of digital work. www.newsweek.com/when-social-...

My book was among those pirated and used by Meta to train AI. This is theft. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Enjoyed this BBC piece featuring @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social and @jeanburgess.bsky.social reflecting on some of the most significant videos and channels from YouTube's first two decades: www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Just a few days until our #SXSW2025 panel on "The Creator Economy's Labor Revolution." Join us in Austin if you can! #creatorlabor

US laws on child entertainment labor have not caught up to family vlogging. Children deserve a place online, but they should be protected and respected by laws, platforms, and their parents. Next month I’m honored to moderate this conversation to bring the issue to the federal stage

""I used to think the gap between Meta's public statements and the internal experience of working there was a bug or a misunderstanding to resolve," Stonelake told BI. tinyurl.com/35tn3wde

Caroline Kennedy said her father, President John F Kennedy, and her uncle, former US attorney general Robert F Kennedy, would be “disgusted” by the actions of her cousin Robert F Kennedy Jr.

📣Just a few days left to get your submission in for the ICA pre-conference on "Debating Creator Culture": Details here: www.ccsn.site/ica Submissions close January 31

🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds law effectively banning TikTok in the United States starting this Sunday. Court finds it does not violate First Amendment.

Eight years ago today Vine shut down leaving creators scrambling....how scarily prescient variety.com/2017/digital...

Now that ICA reviews are out, a reminder that we’re doing a nice big creator culture preconference where your work might fit. Deadline Jan 31 www.ccsn.site/ica

As promised, a reading list about Xiaohongshu is available now with the help of many Chinese social media researchers: qianxeniahuang.super.site/resources/xi.... Special thanks to @carwynmorris.bsky.social for co-editing this. I am only hosting this on my personal website for logistic reasons.

For creators, the TikTok ban would be a devastating blow. But it's not unprecedented. Yesterday in Forbes, I shared takeaways from interviews I've been doing with TikTokers since 2020 lnkd.in/gHf2pK3U

I know that many folks are following along with the astonishing uptick in RedNote downloads (comm/creator studies researchers have been studying Xiaohongshu *for years*). This news is worrisome: www.advocate.com/news/what-is...

I'm live blogging TikTok v Garland with @zeyiyang.bsky.social and @lmatsakis.bsky.social this morning. We should be getting started in about 15 minutes. You can follow along with us here: www.wired.com/live/tiktok-...

Read Dave, who helped build Facebook’s first content policies, on why this week represents such a big step backwards: “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.”

My take on how Meta's content moderation overhaul could impact participants in the creator economy: www.forbes.com/sites/brooke...

NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit” theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

How does big tech sell the influencer American Dream?💰 @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social cites @ginasue.bsky.social's research on work identities and culture in her @forbes.com analysis of how tech uses narratives of glamour and purpose to turn leisure into content and grow the creator economy. 📰 ⬇️

Facebook suppressed promotion of political content during a Democratic administration and is restoring it for a Republican one

Meta has been signaling that it will withdraw from its fact-checking commitments. Today it announced that it will cancel support for fact-checking organizations. The argument is something about free speech, but we know Zuck is seeking favor with Musk and Trump. edition.cnn.com/2025/01/07/t...

Just broke down the latest TikTok Supreme Court news and yes I am a shooting TikToks in the car guy now www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell... Read @amarimow.bsky.social for more: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"It is no coincidence that vibes have expanded to take up space in our lives and in our culture during exactly the period in which smartphones, social media and algorithms have conspired to suck out the oxygen." www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...

Just 🚨published🚨 a piece in the conversation about reality TV contestants and labor theconversation.com/love-is-blin...

"How Big Tech Sells the Influencer American Dream" www.forbes.com/sites/brooke...

The @mic-center.bsky.social is hiring! We're beginning to research how tech corporations are shaping policy discourses and AI governance agendas in 3 national contexts. If you're a critical data/AI studies researcher, please check out our call! Deadline is Jan 10th. www.asc.upenn.edu/research/cen...

Reality TV was built on the backs of unpaid laborers, so a potential classification is quite significant www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/a...

Asked the students in my "gender and media" class what gives them hope at the end of a trying semester. Several (anonymous) responses referenced the other students in the class. "I know we can transform the industries we enter, whether it's media or politics."💗

New: The TikTok sale-or-ban law is constitutional, a high-level appeals court says. The app, with 170 million U.S. users, could be banned nationwide next month. Next stop: the Supreme Court and a showdown with Trump, who's vowed to "save TikTok" however he can www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Published my first piece as a Forbes contributor yesterday. thanks for sharing, @arturoarriagada.bsky.social !

In the U.S., social media content creation is excluded from the census. As The Washington Post headlined in 2023, “millions work as creators. In official records, they barely exist.” Great piece by @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social. www.forbes.com/sites/brooke...

Thrilled to announce the @datasociety.bsky.social Generative AI & Labor Primer by Aiha Nguyen & Alexandra Mateescu. It covers how GenAI impacts many forms of work, the human labor behind GenAI & AI's impact on worker control & surveillance. A labor/tech must-read! datasociety.net/library/gene...

Alas, it seems I have "shiny project syndrome": the phase of writing where all new research topics are distractingly beguiling ✨

Our special Issue on platforms, power & friction is officially out with shiny volume and issue numbers in @icsjournal.bsky.social, just in time for thinking about the interplay between platform power and authoritarianism www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/2...

Hey friends studying influencers, creators, livestreamers and the like... Be sure to check out our ICA Pre-conference on "Debating Creator Culture," which is slated for June 11, 2025. Submissions are open through January 31. More details here: www.ccsn.site/ica

We have open positions for postdoctoral researchers at Yale's Digital Ethics Center (https://dec.yale.edu/); please check! A) Open areas of expertise: postdocs.yale.edu/po... B) Social data science: postdocs.yale.edu/po...

AI Pimping' is here: AI-generated influencers that steal content from human models and adult content creators have taken over Instagram 🔗 www.404media.co/inside-the-b...

It’s academics avoiding grading midterms.

The masculinization of a long-feminized field: www.fastcompany.com/91231330/new...

"About one-in-five U.S. adults (21%) say they regularly get news from news influencers on social media, according to a survey of 10,658 Americans conducted in summer 2024. This is especially common among younger adults: 37% of those ages 18 to 29 say they regularly get news from influencers."

Three newsletter suggestions for those interested in creator economy news: 1. Kaya Yurieff's The Information Newsletter @kyurieff.bsky.social www.kayayurieff.com 2. Passionfruit Creator Economy News passionfru.it 3. The Publish Press from Colin & Samir www.thepublishpress.com Others?

Happy 17th (!) Gotcha Day to my sweet Peanut. It's a tough one, just a few days after a devastatingly grim cancer diagnosis. I'm cherishing every moment, every purr, every snuggle....

can't wait to be in conversation with @producing2power.bsky.social, @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social, and Michelle Beaver tomorrow!! we're gonna talk about all things creator studies. Link to register below ⤵️

A year and a half ago, I wrote an op-ed asking why there were no legal protections to the children of influencers and family vloggers. Today, The Conversation US runs my follow-up, in which I detail what's changed and what still desperately needs to. theconversation.com/us-states-ar...