In this #onlinefirst article, Helen Kennedy, @giorgiaaiello.bsky.social, @taylorannabell.bsky.social and C W Anderson argue that generic visuals in the news do, in fact, function as public images, connecting and engaging audiences in public life. Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1367...

I will be sharing my paper on cross-platform labour this Wednesday (Feb 26, Melbourne time 8 pm)! Tune in to the online webinar if you are interested 😊

New publication! 🚨 Together with my brill team (@taylorannabell.bsky.social & @cgoanta.bsky.social), we explore how parents turn kids into commodities on TikTok, diving into the nuances of *kidfluencers* & raising legal questions about platform governance. See🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Join us for our webinar series with contributing authors from The Hashtag Hustle to discuss the cultural, economic, and legal dimensions of content creation as a form of labour Register: forms.office.com/e/aW9WYQrh8Q Book available open access: www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o...

Excited to share that this book on influencer labour🎉 In my chapter, I examine creators’ cross-platform labour across Chinese and US-based social media economies — how they make money, build a brand across platforms, and navigate work conditions 🔗https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035332816.00013

Join us in Utrecht or online next month to discuss the ✨politicisation of influencers✨ with Johanna Arnesson and @hannakainen.bsky.social. Register for the workshop on 5 March from 14:00-16:00 (CET) ⤵️ forms.office.com/e/YwHA3EB0gg

Our edited volume, The Hashtag Hustle: Law and Policy Perspectives on Working in the Influencer Economy (with @cgoanta.bsky.social @dasfiesch.bsky.social & Isabelle Wildhaber) is available, open access www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o...

💥New: How algorithmic events like Spotify Wrapped can reveal what tech companies really ‘know’ about us 👩‍💻 @taylorannabell.bsky.social & @ninavindum.bsky.social #ResearchMethods #SocialScience #Spotify blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Congratulations to @taylorannabell.bsky.social, @cgoanta.bsky.social @dasfiesch.bsky.social and Isabelle Wildhaber on your very timely new book! @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

Great piece on the annual spectacle surrounding Wrapped by @amandahoover.bsky.social for @businessinsider.com! Happy to have contributed some thoughts on the way users experience the wrappification of their data together with @taylorannabell.bsky.social. www.businessinsider.com/spotify-wrap...

Happy #spotifywrapped day to all those celebrate and eagerly anticipate this algorithmic event like @ninavindum.bsky.social and I some initial observations 🧵

I wonder who’s more excited for this week: digital policy enthusiasts like me or our Big 4 friends? 🥲 #DSA

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 🧵

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.

Takeaways: 💫 a lot of influencers feel they can speak about elections but without authenticity; 💫ad disclosures - what are those? 💫where’s the content moderation at since TikTok does not allow for political branded content as shown by @taylorannabell.bsky.social 👇🏼

Curious about how a basic political influencer campaign looks like? I scraped TikTok and analyzed 40 videos made for the upcoming Romanian presidential elections. humanads.eu/influencers-...

Our publication '(Un)disclosed brand partnerships: How platform policies and interfaces shape commercial content for influencers' - a multidisciplinary collaboration with @laade.bsky.social & @cgoanta.bsky.social - is now available open access policyreview.info/articles/ana... ⤵️

Spotify rebranding of podcasters as “creators” and their launch of ad-sharing revenue next year feels very on brand for the copy-paste of features and terminology that happens across platforms and their roll-out of new monetisation programmes 🎶