Please join us for our next NYSC online seminar when we are joined by Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths) to talk about the critical politics of AI and his work on decomputing.

If you use fintech, live in Australia, and are between 18 and 30 years old, please sign up to be interviewed in our project. Interviewees get a $50 gift card while workshops participants get $75! youthfintechfutures.wordpress.com/participate/

Here’s a video from the same podcast as linked in my previous post where you can hear the audio too. I love this because it really lays bare how LLMs fool us - but really they’re just slotting words into linguistic patterns that we’re familiar with. Genres like a podcast or LinkedIn post.

Here's a link to the lectures, most of which are chats with other researchers, for my Algorithm/AI/Data course. I’m hoping it can become somewhat of a public resource too so please send it to anyone you think may be interested in a critical look at our new data driven overlords. 1/2

Our next NYSC Online Seminar is no tomorrow at 3pm. Maternal Secrets: Shame, Silence, and the Materiality of Mothering, featuring Giverny Lewis (UoN), Briony Lipton (UNSW) and Eva Neely (Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington).

BIG NEWS! The 5th Journal of Youth studies Conference will take place in Porto, May 4 to 6, 2027! Check the link for all relevant details including submissions, registration and keynotes. jys-conference.eventqualia.net/en/2027/home/

The more I think about it, the more I hate @lintonbesser.bsky.social's implication here that allowing machine-generated plagiarism and fabrications in media+opinion is somehow "inevitable" Frankly, it seems to go against the entire existence of media watch? www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...

Had a fun chat with the great Mark Mordue on his podcast The Slider. We talked about the research @newcastleyouth.bsky.social is doing, plus a bunch of other stuff like " 'data gaze' surveillance, fintech auctions for your identity, online gambling and some hope with rock n roll"

Tomorrow (Tues March 17, 2pm) we have Sam Friedman (LSE) presenting on his award winning work on the British elite. The seminar is online and in person at NuSpace (X204).

Please join us online on Wednesday March 11 (tomorrow!) at 3pm for @samfriedman.bsky.social (LSE) and Rose Butler (Deakin) for our next online seminar "Class Diplomacy: Cross-Class Friendship and Social Mobility'

On Wednesday at 2pm we have our NYSC visitor Sam Kirwan from University of Bristol presenting on The Debt Cycle. This will be online and for those in Newcastle please join us in person at X401 in NuSpace.

Today at 3pm

Our online seminar series kicks off Wednesday February 11 at 3pm, on ‘Algorithmic Dwelling: Digital Technologies as Intermediaries in Housing Access and the Enactment of Home’.

Congratulations to our new research team member Dr Niamh White on her PhD conferral and becoming a newly minted Dr! We look forward to working with you on young people and fintech over the next few years

After over 2 years under review, our paper discussing strategies to get by in the creative industries is out

SAVE THE DATE! Journal of Youth Studies Conference, University of Porto in May 4-6, 2027.

Our next online seminar is on at 3pm tomorrow. The False Divide between Nature and Culture: How Estrogens, Yeasts and Snakes Reveal the Entanglement of Everyday Life See you there!

Who world have thought i'd be talking in the the Australian Financial Review about class, but there you go...

New article by @juliacook.bsky.social in @bjsociology.bsky.social 'Understanding the Role of Migration, Culture and Transnational Ties in Family Financial Assistance With Home Ownership'

I'm giving talk at RMIT for the Music Industry Research Collective on Monday October 20 at 3pm on 'What is cultural sociology when culture is platformed and financialised?'

NYSC online seminar on ‘The Materialities of Inequality: Mould, Acid and Glitter’ featuring Beckie Coleman, Bev Skeggs, Imogen Tyler and Roger Burrows is on tomorrow night, Wednesday October 8 at 7pm (9am London time).

It's finally out! After what could only be described as a very long gestation, our edited collection is now available. It will be great for teaching about the concept of subculture and also contains interesting contemporary examples and research case studies. 1/2

A factor in this triumphant return is how platforms (Spotify) dissolve historical time, with the effect that a) nobody needs to remember that this was a band whose 'good' patch lasted circa 18 months and b) they provide the backdrop for inter-generational bonding

this is excellent www.e-flux.com/architecture...

The new special edition of So Fi Zine is live! A beautiful collection of sociological fiction - HUGE thanks to the legend that is Ash @awtsn.bsky.social for making this possible and including my piece, and to everyone involved. Read here: sofizine.com/latest-editi...

Please join us for the second in our NYSC Series Online seminar on Wednesday to hear all about New Possibilities: Young People and Democratic Renewal, featuring Philippa Collin, Judith Bessant, Luigi Di Martino, Rob Watts and Varsha Yajman.

No silver bullet: why social media ban is full of holes www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/903228...

Tomorrow at 3pm AEST we have our first NYSC online seminar taking place on zoom. The topic is Automating Everyday Life and we are joined by Nicholas Carah and Lauren Hayden, Joel Stern, and Thao Phan and Fabian Offert. You can register at Eventbrite for it here www.eventbrite.com.au/e/automating...

Check out Filtered Reality, a short film that discusses aspects of the ARC DP project led by @juliacoffey.bsky.social ‬on how photo editing apps, tools and filters affect young people’s self-image. youtu.be/iewwq34sCdk?...

Join me, Joel Stern, and Nic Carah for what's shaping up to be a stimulating seminar on Automating Everyday Life! ⚡Wed 30 July, 3 - 5pm AEST ⚡Register for zoom details I'll be talking about generative AI and the problem if representing political violence. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/automating...

Coming soon www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1... @megansharp.bsky.social ‪ @bengook.bsky.social ‪@benhanckel.bsky.social ‪@projectnat.bsky.social @stevethreadgold.bsky.social @paulhodkinson.bsky.social ‪@indigowilling.bsky.social‬

When @bengreenfuz.bsky.social‬ and I wrote our chapter for this great collection on Pub Rock, Amyl and The Sniffers were an up and coming band just about to release their second record... academic publishing eh! Unlikely to see them play in a pub these days... www.routledge.com/Pub-Rock-in-...

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Call for Papers for a special issue of Work, Employment and Society on Earning While Learning: experiences, patterns and the political economy of working students’ www.britsoc.co.uk/opportunitie... For further information and queries, please contact Kim Allen [email protected]

UK friends, I’m visiting University of Bristol until July 22 on a NextGen fellowship and doing some research seminars around the place. If you are around Bristol would be great to catch up, but I’ll also be going around the country to do some research seminars too.

Was great to share some of Newcastle Youth Studies Centre’s research on BNPL services with Second Thought youtu.be/7kmfv-njojk?...

Really proud of the online seminar series we have put together for the second half of the year, get to our Eventbrite page and book in now!

Julia Coffey writes about 'how selfie-editing tools are distorting how young people see themselves' theconversation.com/perfect-bodies… 2 of 2

Julia Cook and Julia Coffey have new The Conversation articles out today. Julia Cook with Jun Eric Gu ask "what do young Australians think of their schooling?" theconversation.com/outdated-and-i… 1 of 2

If you are aged between 18-30 and live in Australia, please complete our anonymous online survey asking questions about what platforms you use, as well as some general background questions. uninewcastle.questionpro.com.au/a/TakeSurvey... uninewcastle.questionpro.com.au/a/TakeSurvey...

Discussions with the authors of our 2024 Andy Furlong Prize winner and runner up are now on our JoYS YouTube channel: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Check out Ali Fraser's inspirational new podcast called Young Warriors available at all the usual places you get your podcasts podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/y...

If you are aged between 18-30 and live in Australia, please complete our anonymous online survey asking questions about your sources of financial advice, as well as some general background questions. This should take around 10 minutes. uninewcastle.questionpro.com.au/t/ARnkpZR2IB

There is def more than 5 reasons, but these are of the main ones…

& another one; most read in last yr; www.tandfonline.com/action/showM... @stevethreadgold.bsky.social @rogerjburrows.bsky.social @jessaloomis.bsky.social @dcockayne.bsky.social @allartmarkets.bsky.social @stefananthro.bsky.social @taschn.bsky.social @busedoyu.bsky.social @tomduterme.bsky.social

The new format of the @sociologicalreview.bsky.social magazine is great, moved from one theme per issue to a more general magazine style. The first issue has lots of great stuff including Michael Burroway's final interview. Check it out here: thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/

Adolescence: "the manosphere, enabled by weirdly insecure billionaire tech bros, exploits and exacerbates the contemporary crisis in masculinity and loneliness" Every news story and every parent on Facebook: "PHONES ARE POISON"