It was a quite challenging process of revision, but I'm glad this article has been accepted by the International Journal of Cultural Studies. Many thanks to Issue Editor, Anna Cristina Pertierra and the two fantastic reviewers for their helpful feedback. OUT SOON!!!

My paper exploring how the Covid-19 pandemic unmasked certain dimensions of informality and precarity in Nollywood just published in International Journal of Cultural Studies. Open access via journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Trending in #CulturalStudies: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) The politics of vulnerability in the influencer economy (European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS)) 2) Platform capitalisms & platform cultures (International Journal of Cultural Studies) 3) Ambivalence of informality: COVID & unmasked precarity in Nollywood 4) Vernacular

Exciting that my co-authored paper with @ksanson on "seed sowing and hope labour" in Nollywood, and another work with Jennifer Kang on "negotiating global aspirations in Korean Wave and Nollywood" got accepted for #ICA24. Many thanks to my inspiring co-authors. Looking forward #ICA24

Australia's News Bargaining Code has worked out as well as many who understood the problem expected, which is not at all. It was the wrong solution then and this where you end up when you do an easier thing instead of dealing with the core of the problem. abc.net.au/news/science/2…

Co-founder of Filmhouse Group, Moses Babatope breaks down and reveals the profit percentage cinemas earn from the box office of movies in Nigeria.

Very pleased that @nieborg.bsky.social and myself have had our abstract accepted for #AoIR2024 at Sheffield. We will be exploring some reciprocal labour dynamics in the fast-growing Nigerian social media video industry. Looking forward to making great connections and sharing ideas!

Informal industry sector and platformisation! My chapter on the intersection of YouTube platform logics and the informal economies in Nollywood is out in the "De Gruyter Handbook of Media Economics." Thank you Ulrike Rohn, @TimRaats, and Bjon Von Rimscha. doi.org/10.1515/978311…

Join our panel "Global Perspectives on Streaming: Creation, Distribution, and Consumption" tomorrow at 9am for a wonderful start to the last day of the conference! #ICA24

Presented our papers with @ksanson & Jennifer Kang at this great panel powerfully chaired by Kim Fox, 🎧 The Podcast Professor & @ksanson. Thoughtful insights also from work by Tuğçe Bidav & Smith Mehta.... #ICA24

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.

Glad 2 have 2 papers in 4 #ICA25: 1) "Pluriform Nollywood: Researching internal fragmentation tru comparative production analysis in global media industries," and 2)"Platformatised representation of the female gender in the Nigerian social media videos" with @obiavincent & Mosun

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…

Today, the Nigeria AI Collective, Nigeria AI Collective, is excited to kick-start the AI and Tech Accountability Reporting Fellowship with a 3-day virtual training! This intensive training with journalists, researchers and technology experts will feature expert-led and interactive