It was great presenting our paper with @nieborg.bsky.social at AoIR ➡️ 🐘 @[email protected]'s #AOIR2024. We explored practices of reciprocal labour among Nigerian content creators in the face of opaque platform monetisation norms and the struggle towards visibility.

Well, here we go... The first full draft of my new book, Well-Being and Creative Careers: What Makes You Happy Can Also Make You Sick (IntellectBooks) on the #mentalhealth crisis in #mediawork is about to be sent for review. It has been an epic journey, an emotional one.

Really smashed the elite there guys.

.Ontario Tech University researcher, Tanner Mirrlees has a new publication. bit.ly/4hFHucs

New on EH! Tanner Mirrlees reviews Futures of the Sun, the new book by @szemanimre (w/ U of MN Press) about the struggle to craft a 'common sense' about the global energy future: energyhumanities.ca/news/futures-o… #envhist #booklaunch #oil #ClimateAction #capitalism

First DigiLabour event of the year - and online! Book Talk with Tanner Mirrlees on Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries. Jan 14, 4PM ET. Join us! youtube.com/live/1XVLFCNNR…

Congrats to those accepted at ICA (and regrets to those who weren't...we feel you.) FYI, the 4th CreatorCon, an ICA pre-conference to be held at the University of Boulder for platform, creator, wanghong, and influencer studies is still taking submissions. ccsn.site/ica

Our Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF) project just launched its website. Get to know what we are doing on the role of AI in media, culture and arts industries criticaldigitalmethods.ca/creative-labou…

"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen." — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

The Silicon Valley bits of Bannon's interview are quite revealing about one thing. All the recent talk about “technofeudalism” and antitrust - and their fusion by Bannon - has come to obfuscate the dynamics (as well as history) of America’s global techno-power. A thread. 🧵

My new book Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries: A Critical Introduction is out (lnkd.in/gjNH2KDT). ESA04 is a 20% discount code. Looking forward to my book chat at TMU's Creative School this Tuesday. More to come!

Leading up to Oscars on Sunday, find your own examples of militarized movies + tv and share on social media with the hashtag #ConsumingWar. [END] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…

Kylie Jarrett in Toronto. March 21 4PM at the Faculty of Information/UofT. Infrastructures and Imaginaries: Reproducing Workers in the Platform Economy. Register here: forms.office.com/r/gKXwwgG9Rh Kylie Jarrett

Is AI all it's hyped up to be? Join us next week for a discussion of AI and labour with Tanner Mirrlees #canlab #AI Register here: eventbrite.ca/e/ais-hidden-a…

#ICYMI The full recording of "AI's Hidden Abode of Production" feat. Tanner Mirrlees is now available: vimeo.com/1070774711 #AI #FutureOfWork

"AI's Hidden Abode of Production: for an AI labor ethics. from above and below" Brock Labour Studies #ai #Creativity #AIethics #labour #capitalism #work #Automation #FutureOfWork youtube.com/watch?v=CWGA11…

The function of higher education is the pursuit of truth. Universities like Harvard & Columbia aren’t only losing their souls when they cave to an authoritarian president — they are sacrificing the international respect they’ve earned & teaching their students a very bad lesson.

A BC ostrich cull has brought out climate conspiracies — and RFK Jr. nationalobserver.com/2025/05/15/new… by Marc Fawcett-Atkinson Tanner Mirrlees: "This is exactly the kind of emotionally charged human story that far-right populists and their propagandists love to glom onto and instrumentalize for

Last month, I gave a presentation on Silicon Valley, energy systems, and environmental sustainability based on some of the work of I've been doing in the area for the past five years. Some of this will appear in Imre Szeman and I's co-authored book. youtube.com/watch?v=YGWu-B…

Is Silicon Valley “Going Green”? Digital Tech, Energy Systems and Enviro... youtu.be/YGWu-BsjWx8?si…