For anyone in or around Bristol in September - workshop on creative feminist methodologies x emerging digital cultures with a fab line-up of speakers. Places limited. Programme and sign-up link here: digitalsocieties.co.uk/events/creativ…

The jobs of those remaining have been hard-won by the sheer resolve of members’ fight. The strength of our action-holding the line with the marking & assessment boycott, showing up for strike action and the looming indefinite strike-brought management to the negotiating table.

The DNC's first-ever creator platform highlights the growing role of content creators in shaping political discourse. Thoughts? demconvention.com/news/press-rel…

📢 hello twitter, I'm on the academic job market this year! Critical feminist media scholar and digital ethnographer with expertise in platform economies, creator cultures & labour. Most likely to end up back in London, but open to other options. Send me jobs thank you please! 💖

As the academic year kicks off, we would love to hear about your favorite academic pieces on creator culture! 📚✨ Whether it is about platform politics, digital labor, authenticity online, etc.—share your go-to articles, books, or theories below! 🌐💡👇🏻

An unexpected delight of maternity leave so far - other than the magic of bringing life into the world - has been having the space to reconnect with YouTube culture outside of trying to produce publications. It's nourishing my soul!! 🥲

🫶 Christine H. Tran ❤️‍🩹✨🕹 representing CCSN!

Curious to know: What classes are you teaching this semester? 📚 Are you incorporating discussions on creator culture? 🤳✨ If so, how are you approaching it in the classroom? 💡 #HigherEd #CreatorCulture #Teaching

New paper out! In "Internal Fractures: The Competing Logics of Social Media Platforms" we analyzed Meta's PR material (that way you don't have to) and the contradictory justifications they use to describe their priorities. tl;dr it's a mess journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

My latest peer-reviewed article is now LIVE in icsjournal! ✨🏡 I observed how Twitch streamers negotiate "visibility" at the intersection of platform infastructures & domestic surfaces. (This marks the 3rd major paper from my PhD work): doi.org/10.1080/136911… 🧵⬇️:

📢📢📢PhD publication! after 1.5 years of ethnographic exploration of Ukrainian creators on TikTok, I'm thrilled to share our OA work with my brilliant friend Moa Eriksson Krutrök on PLAYFUL TRAUMA in times of war and adversity 🇺🇦💛; pls join me in unpacking🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

escape room but the only way out is to finish writing your paper

Briefly coming out of my annual leave digital detox to share my new paper evaluating perceptions of justice in appeals for de-platformed #Instagram and #TikTok accounts now out OA in icsjournal: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

It brings me no pleasure to report that some professors are, in fact, massive tools.

My dissertation abstract is up! (sorry folks, the text is still under embargo 😉)

I am so thrilled our Conjuring Algorthims paper is out!

Gahh I have so much advanced fomo looking at the AoIR ➡️ 🐘 @[email protected] programme today 😫😫😫

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I'm an Israeli, like those two ('nice') individuals; all three of us grew up with a narrative that paints Gaza—just a few dozen kilometers from our home—not as a place of and for people but as a land of terror, tunnels & extremism, something hopeless to be caged and controlled 🧵