Just bumped into ✨Labubu✨ herself on campus! Eventful welcome week @universityofleeds.bsky.social

This looks 🔥🔥🔥 Read the full CFP and submit your proposals here: conferences.leeds.ac.uk/raceandmedia/

I was thrilled to hear that the paper co-written with @idilg.bsky.social, 🧠 DEGENERATIVE AI: SLOP AND BRAINROT AS CREATIVE PRACTICES, has been accepted into the GenAI & Creative Practices conference! rdt.uva.nl/content/even... Looking forward to returning to Amsterdam in December 🇳🇱

The #ICA25 FOMO is real, but at least I managed to get myself a new office pal

Conference result days are always a mix of emotions, and we've all been in the position of receiving crazy scores or unsettling reviews. That said, I was ✨ thrilled ✨ to find out that the contributions I submitted to #AoIR2025 have been accepted for presentation – and I can't wait to be in Niterói:

What is going on with all those apps promising to be a quick-fix to all sorts of mental health issues? 🧐Also, why are they all trying to be Duolingo? 😵‍💫

Returning to Leeds after a few fab days in Jönköping, where I presented my work on ViBeS as part of the Media Atmospheres International Symposium ✨ Amazing talks, cute venues, lovely sunset by the lake, and fika - a very atmospheric event indeed 🇸🇪

This Friday I’ll be in Amsterdam for the ✨VIBES✨ symposium, hosted by the Terminally Online collective at UvA (thanks to @idilg.bsky.social & @ddzeeuw.bsky.social) It’s the first time I’m invited to be a keynote speaker (!), and the vibes will certainly be immaculate: voxpop.uva.nl/en/content/e...

Genuine question: how do people manage students’ requests for letters of recommendation? I would be interested in hearing about the systems and strategies academics use to navigate the multiple requests from students without going crazy. Do you use forms? Spreadsheets? A really tidy email folder?

🚨Submissions for #AoIR2025: Ruptures are DUE 1 MARCH (this Saturday)!🚨 Submission information: aoir.org/aoir2025/aoi... Call for Proposal: aoir.org/aoir2025/aoi... Submit here: www.conftool.org/aoir2025

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...

Brilliant talk by @richardstupart.com on emotions, moral injury and context switching in journalism @leedsunimedia.bsky.social

First ever AOIR in South America, in the beautiful city of Niteroi. Deadline March 1st - #CFP #AOIR2025 - aoir.org/aoir2025/aoi...

First day of the teaching term, here we go 📚👩‍💻🎒

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/...

What a timely week to be revising the syllabus for the module on critical and cultural analysis of digital platforms I teach this semester @leedsunimedia.bsky.social 🧐📝

a new blog from me on the dramatic events with Bluesky, Mastodon, Meta and Pixelfed over the past ten days, and what they mean for the future of social media.

Submit your proposals!!! AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025 From Platform Governance to Generative AI: Concepts, Methods, and Data for Studying Tech Governance Date: 3-4 June 2025. Bremen, Germany. Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology, Centre for Media platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

Apropos of Facebook shenanigans today lol

“Still, for 250 years, in the public sphere, emotion was considered secondary to rational thinking. The accepted wisdom of the civilised world was that facts trumped feelings. Now we have had a change of heart. Facts are dead, and the vibe is king.”

Thank you @natureportfolio.bsky.social for making my review of the Anxious Generation open access for parents, policy-makers, and the public. The story told in this book runs counter science and is leading to poor policy decisions that will ultimately fail our kids. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨 Sussex AI PhD studentships - call is open now! Scholarships are available for researchers working at the intersection of multiple academic fields. I am interested in supervising doctoral projects with strong philosophical approaches/research questions. www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

⚡️electric dreams⚡️

Dias de luta, dias de glória 🎓🛹 #Wrapped2024

This Thursday Dec 5th, 6:30pm GMT I'll give a talk @ LSE @lsemedia.bsky.social about my new book 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' out w/ @politybooks.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... In-person and online, all welcome, details ⬇️ @mediacomgold.bsky.social

This whole brain rot, shitposting, skibidi toilet thing reminded me that in the early 00s two types of Internet slang were massively popular in Brazil: miguxês & tiopês. Those Internet vernaculars were criticised despite functioning as identitary and community markers (even if through irony) 🧵

If only we had people researching mindless scrolling! 👀📝 www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

The magical week in which assessment deadlines, dissertation draft chapters, and ICA reviews are all due at the same time 🧘‍♀️

- unenforceable, surely?! - ‘solves’ nothing: it won’t make kids any happier that they’re now cut off from invaluable social + educational tools - a quick win without having to do actual social change for your citizens - strategic obfuscation that *everyone* will likely now have to verify their age

Last June, I was honoured to have @gavant.bsky.social serve as one of the examiners for my PhD viva. And tomorrow I'll get to (partly) return the favour as a respondent at the launch of his book, co-authored with @francescasobande.bsky.social & Anamik Saha. Come by if you're in Leeds! 📚💭

Given Wrapped season is days away, it feels timely that @ninavindum.bsky.social and I's article on our Spotify Unwrapped workshops is available now open access doi.org/10.1080/0958... It outlines our methodological and theoretical framework, and the interconnected exercises in the workshop 🧵

“The same systems that make their careers possible — fine-tuned recommendation algorithms (…) — are now entangling them in a legal battle around ownership, style, and the creator industry. So, who influenced whom?” Great piece that asks: “Can the legal system protect the vibe of a creator?” 👇

Publication news! 🎺 It’s Wrapped season… and Taylor’s (@taylorannabell.bsky.social) and my article on our Spotify (Un)wrapped project is now out in the Journal of Gender Studies. The article outlines how creative workshops can be used to critically analyse ‘algorithmic events’ like Wrapped.

‼️ First single-author pub in iJoC: ijoc.org/index.php/ij... Through 2 years of fieldwork and 27 interviews, I trace how participants of underground electronic' dance music scenes reconfigured their shared culture of secrecy with the advent of smartphones.

An excellent article: “…when Haidt shows a rise in psychological distress in Nordic countries starting in 2010, we don’t see what happened before 2002. It risks giving the impression that nothing changed before the spread of smartphones”.

Reposting the starter pack of starter packs for new media scholars arriving!

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

Most people believe their devices spy on them to serve them contextual ads - despite no evidence showing that's the case. My latest for @newscientist.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2457...

Vibes-driven migration? 👀📝

Proper “bluesky” here in Leeds today 🦋🌞

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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...

Tomorrow, "Algorithms of resistance: the everyday fight against platform power", a research seminar with @emilianotrere.bsky.social & @tbonini.bsky.social 🗓️ ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

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...

Yes, I still get way too excited when I see snow ❄️☃️

November snow > November rain #Leeds #Ismellsnow ❄️

The Journal of Continental Philosophy has just published my latest article, “The Computational Search for Unity: Synthesis in Generative AI”. I address the representational reality of LLMs through the philosophical concept of synthesis. Online First PDF here: www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...

Am I living or am I simply confirming my identity with the duo app over and over again?

starter pack of academic imposters and it's just you