Invited presentation at event on social media and good relations in Northern Ireland T:BUC Engagement Forum Yesterday I was an invited speaker at a Together: Building a United Community (T:BUC) Engagement Forum event. The topic was 'Social Media and its impact on Good Relations'. I spoke about my…

Presentations at MeCCSA 2025 This week I was at Edinburgh Napier University to attend the annual MeCCSA conference. The theme this year was 'Identity and Belonging', with a specific focus on how identities are mediated and mediate themselves. First, I was part of a Glasgow University Media Group…

Can’t help but reflect on the *5 years of strikes* we did to defend our pensions, on this, the day USS announce their £10 billion surplus.

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Interview on Nicosia’s Green Line for 10DaysofConflictMemory series 2 UN Watchtower, Nicosia John Coster (Documentary Media Centre) interviewed me last week for series 2 of #10DaysofConflictMemory. We discussed my experiences walking the Green Line in Nicosia, Europe's last divided capital city.…

The Herald op-ed on racist violence in Northern Ireland Yesterday I had an op-ed published in the Herald (Glasgow). It discusses the racist rioting seen in Northern Ireland earlier this month. I argued that politicians have to take responsibility for their role in producing a toxic political…

Join #VoC# ECRs & Emerging Scholars session June 25, 10:00-11:30 (CET) via Zoom, w. keynotes @profweiyu.bsky.social + @pauljreilly.bsky.social on navigating challenges of early academic life w. @yu-ys.bsky.social @icahdq.bsky.social @ecreacomdem.bsky.social Registration: cts.ku.dk/tim-talks/20...

Consultation event on benefit cuts in Belfast is labelled a ‘ConsultASham’ by disability protestors - viewdigital.org/consultation...

Hold the front page! VIEWdigital and University of Atypical are taking part in the Bank of Ideas - viewdigital.org/hold-the-fro...

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Webinar: Turning Your PhD Thesis into a Book On 25 June (9-10:30am GMT), I will be one of the keynote speakers (along with Weiyu Zheng, National University of Singapore) at a webinar as part of the Activism, Democracy & Social Justice series. The focus of my talk will be on how to publish…

Opinion | What AI Can’t Read: Ambiguities and Silences By using AI for a task for which it is particularly ill-equipped—analyzing the testimony of Holocaust survivors—students deepen their own thinking, Jan Burzlaff writes. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4kv6UtA

Great to see this out - in this article I elaborate on passive and active academic facilitation of #illicittrade in cultural objects, taking Mary Slusser and Emma Bunker as examples #returnthegods @saa-aap.bsky.social‬ @thesccjr.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"The problem with modern universities is that they have abandoned logic in favor of woke, postmodern pseudo-science!" (8 seconds later....) "I'm going to use Eurovision Song Contest public voting numbers as evidence to back up my arguments about complex geopolitical issues."

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Publication: Article on #BrexitRiots published in International Journal of Communication My article 'The Blame Game? #Brexitriots as an affective ritualized response to civil disorder in Northern Ireland has been published in the International Journal of Communication. This paper focuses on how…

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The National interview on anti-far-right summit in Scotland I was quoted in an article by The National’s Steph Brawn on the anti-far right summit in Scotland. I argued that there was too much focus on the spectacle of the rise of Reform. The Scottish political mainstream needs to test their…

Op-ed published in Scotsman on the Rise of Far-Right Extremism in Scotland Yesterday I had an op-ed published in The Scotsman. In 'Social media isn't solely to blame for rise of far-right', I argue for a holistic approach. It's too easy to pin the blame solely on online platforms that amplify hate…

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This looks great - thanks for sharing @saifshahin.bsky.social !

Another really fascinating interview here. Was a pleasure to hear Soma present at our workshop last year. Please do check it out.

Conflict Memory Series: #10DaysOfConflictMemory 19th – 28th Feb 2025 Day 3: Fri 21st Feb David Andrés Lotero Castro, University of Passau - Immersive Media to Remember conflict: use of 360 video to narrate conflict memory conflictreportage.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/d...

Conflict Memory Series: #10DaysOfConflictMemory 19th – 28th February 2025 Day 2: Thursday 20th February Cairsti Russell, University of Glasgow - Freedom to Run – Palestine documentary conflictreportage.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/d...

wp.me/p3V8m9-ul Fab interview with @cairsti.bsky.social on @freedomtorunfilm.bsky.social and her research on Israel-Palestine here cc @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @docmediacentre.bsky.social

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Euronews interview on future of TikTok cc @uofgsocsci.bsky.social cbocomms.bsky.social @docmediacentre.bsky.social drpauljreilly.com/2025/01/20/t...

New paper alert with @pauljreilly.bsky.social. We asked where the semi-periphery & Global South are in digital activism research. We found that we largely study "Northern Visibilities": groups and movements based in Global North countries and platforms popular within them. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

New article out in Social Media + Society with @suayozkula.bsky.social drpauljreilly.com/2024/12/10/n...

New journal article out: Tunisians journalists and climate change reporting. drpauljreilly.com/2024/11/21/n...

Elon Musk’s X: Interviewed for Dazed article on Social Media Exodus Photo by Mati Mango on Pexels.com Earlier this week, I spoke to Thom Waite. It was for a Dazed article on the role of Elon… http://drpauljreilly.com/2024/11/15/elon-musks-x-interviewed-for-dazed-article-on-social-media-exodus/

BBC interview on social media content moderation drpauljreilly.com/2024/11/12/b...