New Pub @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social 📢 With multiplatform #socialmedia use on the rise, we (w/ @prowag.bsky.social ) introduce a two-step approach to investigate how networks across platforms conjointly & distinctly relate to incidental exposure. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Manuscript Monday! New on our feed📲A Complex New Media Ecology: Mapping Shifting Digital Players and Evolving Boundaries in Lifestyle Journalism - Lydia Cheng, Bunty Avieson, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056... #academicsky #journalismsky

New on our feed📲Why Do News Sharers Choose Not to Share News? A Self-Presentation Model of Deliberate News Withholding on Social Media - Jennifer Ihm, Eun-mee Kim, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056... #academicsky #journalismsky

(2/9) Black Twitter as “Master” Social Architects: Maintaining Online Community Boundaries Through the Production of Time and Place - Cynthia N. McLeod, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

(3/9) Fierce Feminism or False Promises? Netizens’ Perceptions of the Party-State in Gender Controversies on Weibo - Xiaoyi Liu, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

(4/9) Watch, Scroll, Repeat: How Interface Design Shapes Consumptive Curation Affordances on TikTok - Carlos Entrena-Serrano, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

(5/9) Flame Badges and Virtual Pets: Gamified Sociality on Douyin - Hui Lin, Rafal Zaborowski, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

(6/9) China Defenders From Abroad: Exploring Pro-China Foreign Political Influencers on X/Twitter - Leiyuan Tian, Fan Liang, Zhao Alexandre Huang, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

(7/9) “Stop Being so Fkn Soft”: Masculinity, Politics, and the Acceptance of Gender-Based Online Violence Myths Among Young Canadian Men - Esteban Morales, Jaigris Hodson, Yimin Chen, Kaitlynn Mendes, George Veletsianos, Chandell Gosse, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

(8/9) Knowing Your Users by Heart: A Critical Examination of the Scientific Research on Emotions Conducted by Social Media Platforms - Camille Alloing, Elsa Fortant, Julien Pierre, Fabien Richert, Rémi Palisser, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

(9/9) Social Media’s Midlife Crisis? How Public Discourse Imagines Platform Futures - Chelsea Butkowski, Frances Corry, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

🚨Special Issue Alert: Platforms, Publics, and Anti-Publics (1/9) Introduction from our guest editors Zoetanya Sujon, Harry Dyer and Felipe Bonow Soares. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #academicsky #socialmediasky

(New) Manuscript Monday! Now posted on our feed📲Projecting Culture Through Hashtag Activism: The #IAmABlackMan Challenge on Instagram - Candice L. Edrington, Tara M. Mortensen, Odera Ezenna, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056... #academicsky

Manuscript Monday! More new on our feed📲Scrolling Through Chaos: The Implications of TikTok for Crisis Sensemaking - Christy Khoury, Jeff Hemsley, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056... #academicsky

Manuscript Monday! New on our feed📲 Echo Chambers of Digital Harm: Insights Into Layered Affordances From India and South Korea - Heesoo Jang, Narayanamoorthy Nanditha, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056... #academicsky #MeTooIndia

Manuscript Monday! New on our feed📲Social Processes in the Intensification of Online Hate: The Effects of Verbal Replies to Anti-Muslim and Anti-Jewish Posts Following 7 October 2023 - Zachary P. Rosen, Joseph B. Walther, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056... #academicsky

Manuscript Monday! Check out what's new on our feed 📲 How do Healthy Political Discussions Invigorate Online Participation? Evidence from 17 European Countries - Laia Castro et al, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056... #academicsky #polisky

Manuscript Monday! New on our feed📲 State Interests, Global Platforms: How Chinese Journalists Use American Platforms at Work - Tucker Wang-Hai, Bibo Lin, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056... #academicsky

Manuscript Monday! New on our feed📲 Sad Dating Apps: Emotional Technological Determinism and Agency in Late Modernity - Łukasz Szulc, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056... #academicsky

Manuscript Monday! More new on our feed 📲 From Politics to Entertainment: Exploring “News Finds Me” Perceptions Across News Topics - Afrooz Mosallaei, Luxuan Wang, Katherine Ognyanova, 2025 doi.org/10.1177/2056... #academicsky #polisky

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Introduction to 2K Special Issue on “Child Influencers in the Asia Pacific Region” - Crystal Abidin, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #child_influencers

“When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a Vlogger”: Child Influencers in the Philippines - Samuel I. Cabbuag, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #child_influencers #2K_Special_Issue

Family, Parenting, and Kid Influencers in Thailand: Balance Among Family Values, Cultures, and Child Development - Vimviriya Limkangvanmongkol, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #child_influencers #2K_Special_Issue

Korean Toddlers at Play or at Work? Commodifiable Authenticity of Sponsored Child-Rearing Vlogs - Hanwool Choe, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #child_influencers #2K_Special_Issue

Kidfluencers in India: Commodification, Consumption, and Perpetuation of Dominant Culture - Devina Sarwatay, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #child_influencers #2K_Special_Issue

Young People on Social Media: The Implications of Child Influencers in Vietnam - Nguyen Do Doan Hanh, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #child_influencers #2K_Special_Issue

Performing Girlhood and Sisterhood in China: Chinese International Student Influencers’ Everyday Self-Presentation on RedNote - Wenxiang Zeng, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #child_influencers #2K_Special_Issue

Negotiating Gender, Race, and Nationhood in Parenting on Douyin: White Mummy Bloggers in Chinese-Foreign Marriages in China - Xinxin Jiang, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #child_influencers #2K_Special_Issue

Tahfiz-Tok: Malaysian Muslim Religious Schools’ Platform Vernaculars - Emma Baulch, Benjamin Y. H. Loh, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #child_influencers #2K_Special_Issue

Growing Up Online Through Divorce: Child Influencers and Family Change in Indonesia - Ariane Utomo, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #child_influencers #2K_Special_Issue

The Price of Virality and the Imperative for (Self) Regulation of Child Social Media Influencers in Taiwan - Yavor A. Kostadinov, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #child_influencers #2K_Special_Issue

The Regulation of Child Influencers in Australia and the Asia Pacific Region - Crystal Abidin, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #child_influencers #2K_Special_Issue

New 2K Special Issue alert, edited by the one and only Crystal Abidin 2K: Child Influencers in the Asia Pacific journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec... #child_influencers

Yay new publication day! Last year, Larissa Hjorth, Peta Murray and I looked into older adults' animal pet image sharing practices. We found while there are myriad reasons, many of them revolve around kinship. Paper is open access so please share and cite widely: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🟡 My report on Public Service Media and Democracy in the Digital Age, ft. insights from leading thinkers @ethanz.bsky.social @idpiumass.bsky.social @publicspaces.net @angelquicksey.bsky.social @newpublic.org @vpro.nl @felixsimon.bsky.social @reutersinstitute.bsky.social @zizip.bsky.social 🟡

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I finally get to speak to the UN Libya mission tomorrow, including local journalists and news folk (via zoom). My talk was postponed three times due to political turmoil. Here’s a couple of my va slides that they translated for tomorrow - excited!

Tην Παρασκευή 06.06 οργανώνουμε τη 2η διαδικτυακή συζήτηση του Εργαστηρίου Πολιτικής Επικοινωνίας και Μέσων Πληροφόρησης. Θα έχουμε τη χαρά να συζητήσουμε με την @zizip.bsky.social και τους Νικόλα Βουλέλη και Νίκο Κωνσταντάρα εάν η άνοδος του πολιτικού αυταρχισμού σχετίζεται με τα μέσα πληροφόρησης.

🚨 New research! With Milly Stilinovic & @dhutchman.bsky.social, we explore how AI is being creatively misused in experimental online spaces we call Underspheres — and why current regulation can’t keep up. New Media & Society doi.org/10.1177/1461... Conversation theconversation.com/ai-is-moving...

Thank you to the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy and the luminous Gina Neff at the U of Cambridge for hosting me, along with featured speakers and longtime thinking pals Safiya Noble and Audrey Tang. Here’s my keynote on What AI Can and Cannot Do for Democracy: youtu.be/xw7XN-lh0rk?...

Like all information technology, AI: - does not democratize, it pluralizes - does not equalize, it amplifies @zizip.bsky.social

Super punchy start to @mctd.bsky.social Technology and Democracy Conference by @ginasue.bsky.social, followed by @zizip.bsky.social. Can’t wait for the next two days here in beautiful Cambridge—

Performative politics: If it doesn’t play in TV, it did not happen.

It is all public theater. There are 3 congressional seats up on special elections this year, and they can decide majority leadership. It’s only a slim majority lead in House. It’s drama; designed as a play for these votes. The media are falling for it, because drama is the top news value.

It’s all political theater. Still, for the sake of argument and assuming Trump takes away all the federal dollars in the name of efficiency: Where does he plan to deposit it? Other people’s pockets? His own? A question for all the startled reporters to press on.

Victimhood politics is top of Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s agenda. They are not interested in victims but in power. And victimhood creates “good us” and “bad them”, moral outrage against “them” and support for “our” strongman. That’s the far-right playbook right there👇 @lsemedia.bsky.social

Hi friends! Now that the inauguration and its theatre of power, privilege and white supremacy is over, @kat-hig.bsky.social and I wrote something on Trump’s victimhood politics in his era of absolute power. @lseblogs.bsky.social and @lsemedia.bsky.social

Always make playlists to match projects I am working on- here’s PLAY: open.spotify.com/playlist/4CD...

There’s not fully developed AI, there’s AI claiming to be generative but not really, and there is dumb AI. Grok is next level dumb.