The podcast series “Green Dreams” is now live. It was a pleasure to collaborate with @imreszeman.bsky.social and the folks at Cited Media Productions. A big thank you SSHRC for support, and Gordon Katic and Marc Apollonio, for media production talents! citedpodcast.com/category/sea...

Green Dreams: Podcast series on which I worked @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social and Cited Media now available! citedpodcast.com/2025/09/02/s...

A great talk, which is featured on the @energyhumanities.bsky.social website (Instagram promo coming soon!): www.energyhumanities.ca/video. #envhum

Last month, I gave a presentation on Silicon Valley, energy systems, and environmental sustainability based on some of the work of I've been doing in the area for the past five years. Some of this will appear in Imre Szeman and I's co-authored book on the topic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGWu...

Starting today! 📣🍁📚

🎙️ Please enjoy this episode of The Data Fix: Solidarity, with Shannon Wait In this episode, Shannon Wait — Alphabet Workers Union-CWA organizer — speaks with me about the labour conditions for data center and AI workers. shows.acast.com/63997541ed12...

The Canadian Communication Association's annual conference will take place from June 2-5! ICCIT director and professor Sarah Sharma will be presenting the keynote, entitled "All the Insufferable Tools." acc-cca.ca/index.php/co...

If anyone I know is in Toronto at the end of the month, swing by to hear me talk about some ideas I am exploring in relation to platform work and digital labor.

I’m honoured to be giving the 2025 Dallas Smythe Memorial Lecture at Simon Fraser University in a few weeks. If you’re in Vancouver, come say hi!

Just out! Open access article with @nieborg.bsky.social on "Analyzing institutional platform power" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #power #platforms #digital #bigtech Preparing the ground for our book on Platform Power!

Hello I've decided to use Blue Sky now. In unrelated news, my book 'Influencer Creep' will be published with University of California press in October 2025. It's about the ways influencer culture has transformed creative work. Preorder here: www.ucpress.edu/books/influe...

New prez!"AI's Hidden Abode of Production: Labour, Capital, Conflict": AI labour & deskilling and automation of jobs in creative and tech industries: "AI labor ethics from above and below" @brocklabour.bsky.social . #ai #creativity #aiethics, #labour #capitalism #work www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWGA...

NEW: Our latest research series #ConsumingWar looks at the militarization of pop culture. Up first: Movies and TV. [THREAD] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

@tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social is giving a great talk “Attending to the work and labour of AI in the digital media and entertainment industries” at the CLSA mid-winter meeting at Ontario Tech University.

My new book Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries: A Critical Introduction is out (lnkd.in/gjNH2KDT). ESA04 is a 20% discount code. Looking forward to my book chat at TMU's Creative School this Tuesday. More to come!

In 2019, I wrote an essay on GAFAM's "power" (structural and relational). www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/gafams... In 2024, another on Google for The Tech Lobby Project, about how US tech and platform companies lobby governments to try to shape public policy) thetechlobby.ca/googles-digi...

For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Cyber-Marx @25, event with +20 researchers providing provocations and updates on the book. This in-person event will take place at the Centre for Culture and Technology/ University of Toronto on February 28, 9AM-4:30PM Details here: cybermarx25.eventbrite.ca

A must-watch! Tanner’s new book is excellent and an exceptional resource for those of us teaching work and labour in media and cultural and digital industries.

Thank you @grohmannrafael.bsky.social and DigiLabor for organizing this online event! I had a wonderful time chatting about the "labor turn" in communication, media and cultural studies. I appreciated the thoughtful questions from all the participants. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XVL...

Now watching live! @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social new book talk on Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XVL...

Can't wait!

UDC 2025: The Future We Want: Resistance and Resolve June 19 - 22, 2025 | Call for Papers is LIVE: www.democraticcomm.org

IAMCR is now on Bluesky and letting you all know that we are receiving proposals for our 2025 conference in Singapore. See the conference website at singapore2025.iamcr.org and submit your abstract before 7 February.

Local to more places: Independent, worker owned media courtesy of @laminda.bsky.social and @gregpak.bsky.social go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

Folks, now that @timnitgebru.bsky.social is here I want to encourage you all to check out the *extended* critical AI starter pack because it’s got some stellar recent additions :) go.bsky.app/B2kmVWg

🚨🚨🚨Final Call! Join us on our next seminar “The reshaping of #HigherEd by #DigitalTech” with @davidstaley8.bsky.social, @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social, Darren Moon & @jkom.bsky.social. 📅Date: Wed, Dec 11th. 🕐Time: 1:00 p.m. (GMT). 📍This is an ONLINE event. 🔗Register here ▶ shorturl.at/hi5fz

👉 The Media & Communication starter pack of starter packs 📺 🎞️ 📱 💬 Internet Studies: go.bsky.app/LVrPemK Internet Studies 2: go.bsky.app/KHmxfWf Internet Studies 3: go.bsky.app/9uYafGv Media Theory: go.bsky.app/RGLr16b Audience Studies: go.bsky.app/2CKVP4u

My thesis is available open access online! This was the product of years of blood, sweat and tears and I'm very proud of it. I hope others, especially current PhD students, will find it useful! ✨💖 READ HERE: etheses.lse.ac.uk/4577/1/Glatt...

Updated list of global media+comm scholars. Lmk if you want to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/Avb3yM

⏰Get your tickets today! Join @davidstaley8.bsky.social @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social Darren Moon and @jkom.bsky.social on Dec 11th at 1:00 p.m. (GMT) for our next online seminar “The reshaping of #HigherEd by #DigitalTech”. 🔗Register here ▶ shorturl.at/ifwnA #HigherEducation #Digitalisation #AI

Maintaining its popularity is this film and media history starter pack. Will post the second pack below. go.bsky.app/12Wo3y5

My department just made its own Starter Pack. Of interest to those who take humanistic approaches to the study of social justice and media.

started a Starter Pack of people with something interesting to say about technology, society and the future -- who else should be here? go.bsky.app/PYtcTt5

I’ve created a Freedom of Information Request starter pack People and organisations skilled, experienced or enthusiastic about FOI Also relates to: • Internal Reviews • Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) • Related legal decisions #FOI #ICO #IR #starterpack #UK #law go.bsky.app/TMBagH2

I work at the intersection of democracy & information integrity. I have contact w/ many journalists who focus on social media, as well as various experts and researchers. I created a starter pack! I made recent updates, so if you’ve seen this before, click for new accounts👇 go.bsky.app/3urfrLt

Starter pack for those working on misinfo, disinfo, information integrity, digital authoritarianism, propaganda etc. Definitely a work in progress, reply if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/V4Po9wB

A starter pack for people interested in discourse in World Politics / International Relations. Please let me know if you would like to be added and don't hesitate to recommend underrepresented scholars and scholars from the "global south" 💫 go.bsky.app/ALZb66Q

Using my starter pack to recommend Australian Media & Communication scholars. go.bsky.app/KF3hJ7j

A Climate Change Artists starter pack to help connect folks engaging the Arts for meaningful #climate communication. Message if you’d like to be added. OR if you’d like to be removed to respect preferences. #ClimateArt go.bsky.app/TZ7Ypj4

Interesting in Science Communication. Here is a starter pack to boost your feed. #scicomm go.bsky.app/VJQzace

Time to celebrate your local #CommunityBuilders in the games industry 🎮🛠️ Follow this #StarterPack: go.bsky.app/9cVkvrQ Add this #List to your pins: bsky.app/profile/did:... If you work in the field and would like to be added, simply reply below! #CM #SocialMedia #Marketing #PR #Communication

If you're new to Blue Sky and interested in free speech, communication policy, media law, the First Amendment, and/or regulation of emerging tech, I've created a starter pack you should check out. Send additional suggestions! go.bsky.app/DqZiW7c

Happy Sunday!! If you are looking for smart feminist communication scholars and overall rad humans - follow this @aejmc.bsky.social CSW starter pack. go.bsky.app/4LYyxRH

I have updated the Communication Scholar on Blue Sky Starter Pack. If you fit the description and want to be added, let me know. Great to see so many of you on here! go.bsky.app/VmYQ35w

Here’s a new starter pack of professors teaching social media (or incorporating it into their classes). Looking for people with informed takes on social media, influencer marketing, influencing, digital media communication, and more? Connect with these #SMProfs. 👏🦋 PS. LMK if I missed you!

Took a crack at the Political Communication starter pack. Sorry for all the great folks I undoubtedly missed go.bsky.app/J1U6jVe