I'm SO EXCITED that CCSN have launched a Discord!! 🤩🤩🤩 I'm sure I'm not the only person who has felt a gaping hole in my online-aca-friend communication networks since the other place went to the dogs. Let's make an awesome space together 💗 JOIN HERE: discord.gg/KkFBy9MJ

CCSN begins its Discord era! ✨ 🧑‍🏫 We are fortunate to be collaborating with the Discord Academic Research Community (D/ARC) to provide you a NEW means to connect with other scholars! Join us: discord.gg/KkFBy9MJ

I had the pleasure of joining Leonie Smith & Clare Stainthorp at Content is Queen today for @britishacademy.bsky.social + @leverhulme.ac.uk 'Confessions of an ECR' podcast recording for the 'Networking, Mentors & Groups' episode Special shoutout to: my networks @iamcr.org @icahdq.bsky.social 1/

A functioning democracy, how novel! Whoever gets elected, it sounds like AoIR is going to have an amazing new executive committee ushered in at #AoIR2025 💖 @aoir.bsky.social

I’m quoted in the Toronto Star today to explain how digital platforms make us “height police” our 🇨🇦 politicians as if they were online celebrities or Hinge matches 🫢 How does your pick measure up? 📐

I had a blast giving a guest lecture on Digital Ethnography to BA students at the University of Amsterdam yesterday about my ethnography of the London creator community-industry. Teaching ethnographic methods is always one my favourite things to do, thanks for having me @uvahumanities.bsky.social! 💗

The inimitable @kat-hig.bsky.social is organising this extremely timely symposium on bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, gender, and the cultural politics of the global far-Right at @mediacomgold.bsky.social, 6th June. EPIC lineup of speakers!! 😍🔥💪 BOOK HERE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feminism-a...

I'm co-editing a Special Issue for Critical Studies in Media Communication on "Games & Storage" 📦 Guided by Zoe Sofia’s articulation of “container technologies” and how systems of storage are never neutral! Let's unlid Game Studies! Full CFP in 🧵👇Abstracts due April 22! Full drafts by June!

Are you researching the role of AI for workers in the media, arts and culture sectors? Consider submitting an abstract to our special issue for AI & Society journal on the topic. link.springer.com/collections/...

This sounds great!! ⬇️

🔥CFP HOT OFF THE PRESS!🔥 I'm really excited to be editing this special issue on Cultural Workers and Generative AI with @grohmannrafael.bsky.social and Daphne Idiz for AI & Society. Abstract submission deadline 30th June, get in touch with questions! MORE INFO: link.springer.com/journal/146/...

I can finally share that I've been working on a new analysis of 7 social media platforms’ policies governing s3xuality education & g3nd3r expression content focusing on young people & adolescents. I was awarded funding in September 2024 & have been leading this analysis with support from UNESCO⤵️

Join us APRIL 14TH for #CCSNChats: "Archiving the Internet?" ft. Sakyra Abbitt, Camille Lawrence, Meredith Clark & Zakiya Collier! These all-stars will discuss the practices & politics of archiving the internet in the volatile context of platforms 🔗🧵👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/ccsn-chats...

Join us for the next #CCSNChats 12pm EST, April 14th with a fabulous panel—Sakyra Abbitt, Camille Lawrence, Meredith Clark and Zakiya Collier—who will be talking about Archiving the Internet 💥 REGISTER HERE: www.eventbrite.com/e/ccsn-chats...

I'm so happy to see this article out in the world! An important piece. It's in the forthcoming 'Algorithms for Her' special issue for the Journal of Gender Studies, that I co-edited with Zeena Feldman, Kate Miltner, Sophie Bishop and Ysabel Gerrard 💖 READ HERE: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Thrilled that we received so many amazing submissions for our CCSN pre-conference! 🕺🏻💃

🚨 BIG NEWS! 🚨 The Creator Culture Study Network (CCSN) is launching a Discord! We’re building a dynamic community hub for researchers, scholars, and professionals interested in Creator Studies—a space to network, collaborate, and stay informed on the latest in the field.

Coming out of my work social media hibernation to say it's #AoIR2025 deadline day tomorrow!! 🇧🇷 Really excited to be collaborating with awesome colleagues on 2 submissions and a preconference on GenAI & Creative Labour 💗🔥 Now I just need to get a job so I actually have the funding to go fmllll 🥲

As we approach the final hours until the submission deadline for #AoIR2025 in 🇧🇷, I thought it could be useful to share this once again in case anyone needs further motivation to finish their abstracts 😅: open.spotify.com/playlist/1rM...

Really looking forward to talking Platforms, Algorithms & Social Justice at this MIT workshop on Feb 21st alongside the wonderful @norasuren.bsky.social and @tomdivon.bsky.social!! ✨️✊️ If you're in Cambridge (the new one, not the old one) then you can register HERE: www.norasuren.com/workshopform

Excited to be speaking in this timely event at MIT on Platforms & Justice with the brill @zoeglatt.bsky.social, @norasuren.bsky.social & @joncong.bsky.social; I'll bring the experiences of Palestinian and Jewish creators being culturally misread, flagged & muted—by both algorithms & humans; Join!👇🔥

Deadline extension!! Come join us!! 💃🕺

Deadline extension alert 🚨 Take until Monday, February 3 at 12PM (EST)! We know that extra time can make all the difference in refining and perfecting submissions 😊 So take a deep breath this weekend. Looking forward to seeing your work!

Platforms & your toxic ex: both gaslight you, but one calls it 'community guidelines'🚩 @bloggeronpole.bsky.social, Pam Briggs and I illuminate the lived experiences of creators on TikTok & Instagram, exposing how gaslighting is used as a strategy in moderation🧵👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Americans being forced off of TikTok because of the US Government's sinophobia only to flock to an even more Chinese social media app is so funny to me

The TikTok --> RedNote migration is really reminding me why I love the internet so much <3

I don't know how many of y'all are watching the migration of American TikTokers to RedNote, but it's the most fascinating thing I've EVER SEEN HAPPEN ONLINE. 🧵

Summarising some thoughts for my book conclusion 😆

Join us in Boulder for our ICA preconference 'Debating Creator Culture'!! Deadline for submissions is January 31st, all info linked below 👇🏃‍♀️💗

Check out the first CCSN publication - drive.google.com/file/d/10U4p... - sparked by a summit on GenAI and the creator economy at Microsoft Research New England. While we're not affiliated with Microsoft, this gathering inspired the creation of this network as a much-needed hub for diverse scholars👇

The CCSN is now on Bluesky!! 💗🥳🌟 Follow for updates on everything the network is doing and planning, lots of exciting things coming down the pipeline in 2025 🤩

Amazing job at USC!! Creator Studies scholars at the ready 🏃‍♂️🫡

So glad to have been part of the editorial team that brought this and other great pieces together for an Algorithms for Her special issue in the Journal of Gender Studies! 💗

Waiting for academic jobs to start emerging in the UK when I have less than 6 months left in my current job and a move back from the US with a toddler and baby is a fresh kind of torture 🫠🫠

So happy to have been part of the editorial team for this Algorithms for Her special issue in the Journal of Gender Studies! Great article linked below 👇💖

I wish there was a "Don't Include in My Algorithm" button on YouTube (and other platforms) for when you want to search for something but don't want more of that thing to be offered to you in the future. My front page is all random parenting/music stuff, totally messing up my usual recommendations!!

Re-posting this ICYMI. 12 articles and creative contributions on feminist methodologies and futures covering computer games, classrooms, disability, Black feminist speculative approaches, baking, websites, workshops, non-linear reading, multi-species flourishing, friction, patchwork ethnography +++

#NCACreatorPrecon is starting off strong with CCSN founding member @zaritaylor.bsky.social on racialization, and “ideal” influencing in the beauty industries #NCA2024

visit the Content Creator Scholars Network #AoIR2024 snippets! we’re serving up a variety of fascinating internet research treats 👇 🔎

📣 Join us for the launch of The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto, where the authors explore transforming media systems to confront racism and offer key strategies for an anti-racist media future with Anamik Saha @gavant.bsky.social @francescasobande.bsky.social. More here: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

If you missed #AoIR2024, read CCSN’s blog post for key takeaways and insights on creator studies! @mediaindustries.bsky.social @arturoarriagada.bsky.social

Latest blog just dropped from the Content Creator Scholars Network (CCSN), a round-up of #AoIR2024 ❤️‍🔥 Made me relive my FOMO all over again!! READ HERE: www.ccsn.site/the-ccsn-tak...

my latest with @jessmaddox.bsky.social is out this morning in @femmediastudies.bsky.social! We propose influencer snark as a feminist media practice to address concerns of credibility, authenticity, and representation in the influencer industry. please share!!! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XZSZD...

We're premiering on Bluesky with an announcement of our upcoming symposium on Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk? Jointly organized with @ascmediarisk.bsky.social www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

This week:

👇👇👇 The Starter Pack of Starter Packs, most useful thread for newcomers to bluesky!! Props to @ludludlud.bsky.social for collating them. I am too new to be in any starter packs myself 🥲

The growth of the #CCSN fills me with so much joy. We’re working tirelessly to create a community where everyone belongs. Thank you to everyone who joined us today for the #CCSNChats - stay tuned for more exciting opportunities, and please, be a part of this with us 👉👉👉 www.ccsn.site

This was such a wonderful #CCSNChats! I feel so lucky to be in community with such smart, thoughtful and generous colleagues 😊 Thank you for sharing your wisdom @brookeerinduffy.bsky.social @jessrauchberg.bsky.social @producing2power.bsky.social and Michelle 🙏 Learn more about CCSN: www.ccsn.site

I'm on the fringe of content creator studies, since my current project examines snark communities' responses to Christian fundamentalist influencers, but this #CCSNChats was so helpful—it's great to hear about current research in this area and meet other folks outside of disciplinary silos ✨

This #CCSNChat has been SO IMPACTFUL!!! 💥 Love finding a community my research and teaching interests feel valued and important! #CCSN