The #SMSociety special issue in @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social I co-edited with @zoetanja.bsky.social and @harrytdyer.bsky.social is out now! It's #openaccess, please do check it out - many relevant studies on platforms, publics, and anti-publics on social media.

Hello Blue Sky! Very pleased to announce the just released CFP for the International Conference on Social Media and Society! The conference will be held *in person* in London UK, July 16-18, 2024. Full details: https://socialmediaandsociety.org/2023/call-for-submissions-smsociety-july-16-18-2024/

"Corus joins growing Canadian boycott of Meta over news blocking" https://globalnews.ca/news/9837502/corus-joins-boycott-of-meta-bill-c18/

My new reported piece about the country-music rebels of Nashville—many of them black, female and/or queer—rising up in a time of political danger: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/24/country-musics-culture-wars-and-the-remaking-of-nashville

If only all irresponsible platform behaviour would follow such logical losses

Helllloo blue sky