First minor Instagram suspension for posting about a book I wrote. This is going to be an interesting social media case study, actually - how to post about a book on OnlyFans, titled, "OnlyFans" with the kind of content moderation challenges faced by OnlyFans creators all the time

The cover image isn't up yet, which makes it look like the cover art is too NSFW to be displayed (it isn't), but my book has a page on The Internet! www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

The latest in the constant race to optimise recipe websites for maximum datafied attention metrics: requiring a whole ass user account for the privilege to open the recipe in print view so you can see it without a hundred popups crowding your screen

Finding out that some universities* are cancelling classes next week because of the Canvas outage: @dangolding.com "I'm sure there will be absolutely no reflection on what this means for our teaching's dependency on external platforms though" *not Monash, we use Moodle

Sorry friends - I have not been DMing anyone over the past few days! Just changed my password and enabled 2-factor authentication 😬 hopefully that does it

Hello friends just an fyi that @emvdn.bsky.social’s account has been hacked, in case you weren’t sure if she was really into crypto all of a sudden

I booked tickets. I invited my mum and sister. I prepaid for a city carpark. I took the toll road from work to the city. I planned to meet for ramen so we'd make the show on time. I parked my car and got a text that the SHOW WAS CANCELLED (not Reuben Kaye's fault feel better soon king)

Me when I make Same Lasagne as Last Night but Now With Side Salad

Hello Bluesky friends, I wrote a book about OnlyFans that is coming out SOON. Would you use this book as a set reading in your course/unit/subject? Would you like an inspection copy? Let me know! I'm thinking media studies (especially social media/internet studies), sociology, gender studies etc

hey Victorian renters! if you've used 'RentTech' (think online application platforms, rent payment apps, property management portals), please spend ~5 minutes to share your experience in this survey to contribute to important @cprc-research.bsky.social research: cprc.limesurvey.net/594888?lang=en

📘New Report: Young Australians’ perspectives on the social media minimum age legislation📘 With the #socialmediaban for teens kicking in on 10 December, hearing their perspectives on it, and social media generally, is so vital! 💡 Read the full report here: doi.org/10.60836/tr3...

So happy, and a bit overwhelmed, to find out my DECRA project, 'Social, ethical and regulatory challenges in the social media porn industry', has been awarded. What an immense privilege to have the next three years to dedicate to research!

"Mum having her coffee", a portrait by my 3 yr old

So glad to have been part of the UQ symposium 'darkness to hyper-visibility' Really rich, thoughtful work from scholars of creator visibilities, a wonderful keynote on platform epistemologies from Kelley Cotter, and the opportunity to present my own work on OnlyFans

I kind of can't wait to tell my dentist I chipped a tooth while flossing. YOU SUGGESTED THIS WOULD BENEFIT MY DENTAL HEALTH KEITH

This weekend I'm MCing my first funeral (my grandfather died at 90 years old and I probably do the most public speaking in my family) and the next day hosting a baby shower for a friend. LIFE HEY.

"Once you’ve built the system to block kids from YouTube, you’ve built the system to block anyone from anything. And that system will be irresistible to future governments with different ideas about what content people need to be 'protected' from." — @mmasnick.bsky.social in @techdirt.com

Pleased to be on a panel with Alita Brydon of Bad Dates of Melbourne to get into dating and digital intimacy today! 💕🖱️🍆👉👌✨💻 Creative Directions is our annual student-run festival of ideas at Monash and Hinge or Cringe is a chef's kiss of a panel title, I reckon.

It was incredible to watch this disaster unfold over several years: site owners increasingly competed for Google search traffic and placement in SERPs, abandoning every other avenue of reader engagement and retention, making their sites and the web worse. Then Google did this

Terribly rude to slight ABC News Theme (Pendulum Remix) in this manner #hottest100 #aushottest100

The biggest tragedy of 1999's Blue (Da Ba Dee) is that, despite mentioning a blue girlfriend, the protagonist describes that he "ain't got nobody to listen". In this essay on heteropessimism...

Have reached the stage of toddler parenting where, if I take his shoes off for him, this kid will *put his shoes back on* just so he can take them off himself 🫠 and yes, I gave him several chances to do it himself first.

Necessary reminder that literally every digital media expert in the country have been saying exactly this since this whole sorry ordeal started. None of this is a surprise.

New random password generator: my 2 yr old and some fridge magnets

The journal used AI to copyedit our paper. It Americanised all our spellings. The paper is about how AI homogenises writing...

Taught my last tutorial for semester!! 🎉🎉🎉

Catching up with the Lily Phillips interview on Newsnight, BBC, in which the interviewer asks: "hand on heart, look me in the eye. Can you tell me that that day [of having sex with 100 men] was genuinely empowering for you?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgpe...

There are currently FOUR positions advertised in my department at Monash, the School of Media, Film & Journalism: A/Prof or Professor - Journalism A/Prof or Professor - Media Senior Lecturer - Public Relations Lecturer - Media More info here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Gold star for whoever made this library sign ⭐

Hurry up Vote Compass I've got a tutorial on election media to plan

I had a whole baby (two and a half years ago) and now I just have to, what, go to work? I have to miss them during business hours? For most of the year?? So grim.

I am a slow writer. The more I lean into that instead of trying to change it, the better my writing is, actually. Yelling at myself internally to hurry up and sleep doesn't get me to sleep faster, and panicking about writing doesn't make that process faster either.

Always was Always will be

Getting a flyer about the selection received in this week's fruit delivery box and thinking about how much time I spend on the internet 😳

Nosferatu (2024)

Final day of work for 2024. I tried really hard this year and I got some good things done and also I feel like I didn't do enough because that's how academia works. I learned a lot about how to be a parent and academic and I'm definitely going to be better at that next year.

Still thinking about that TikTok I saw that went, "you didn't 'notice an easter egg', you learned media literacy"

Discovering a style of writing about OnlyFans that can be described as the Bad Faith Moral Panic genre

"We kissed in the river until some kids came and threw corn at us. You died a few years later I still think about you" Digital Intimacies X is so titled because it's the 10th, and of course conference themes are open to interpretation, but some presentations have engaged with the X so beautifully

At the Victorian Pride Centre for Zahra Stardust's book launch: Indie Porn explores how the law creeps in to, and shapes, porn and what and how it depicts

“The focus of the Fund will shift to core science, with the humanities and social sciences panels disbanded and no longer supported.” Governance by comments section. My heart goes out to all my NZ academics, and to Australians, do not think this can’t happen here.

Aotearoa New Zealand's govt removing all Humanities and Social Sciences funding via the Marsden Fund (the NZ equivalent of the ARC) is a national disgrace. My heart goes out to Kiwi researchers. This pushes the country backward in the worst possible way. www.beehive.govt.nz/...

Digital Intimacies X in full swing! We were so lucky to hear from our original conference organisers about the event and the field of digital intimacies, with excellent provocations from current scholars in the field: Embrace vulnerability. Think community, not citations. Open up the space.

Tonight in the US (this morning in Australia!), I'll be on a panel with the brilliant @chelseajulian.bsky.social, @mistresssnowphd.bsky.social, and @theegoddesssydney.bsky.social about online sex work, content creation, and research ethics for Digital Intimacies!

Good morning it's time for Digital Intimacies X! Our organising team have worked so hard on this tenth anniversary edition of the conference, and I'm so happy it's here 👩‍💻🥰💻💕💾🍆🖱️😉⌨️✨ digintx2024.tumblr.com

At the Capitol for my extremely earnest and smart colleague @julianoshea.bsky.social's launch of his new YouTube series, Design Revolution. Making us all think about how much of our space is just for cars and what needs to change as we keep getting around! 🚗🚘🚑🚕🚊🚃

Digital Intimacies is shaping up beautifully! We look forward to welcoming a wonderful group of scholars to Monash next week. You can check out the program here: digintx2024.tumblr.com and register here to attend in-person or join the livestream: events.humanitix.com/digital-inti...

This time next week we will be welcoming an incredible line-up of researchers to Monash's Caulfield campus in Naarm/Melbourne and via Zoom, for our tenth (!!) Digital Intimacies conference! Draft program here: drive.google.com/file/d/1o3A5...