Hot Connections: Why Sexual Platforms Matter A rethinking of “the social” in social media which includes the sexual.What can we learn from including sexual platforms in definitions of social media and

Our book with @jenmadelene.bsky.social and @kattiid.bsky.social is not only out, but available for OA downloading. Voilà!

complete with my little "mwahahahahaha" if you have sound on

Well would you look at that! 🥰📚 Hot Connections is real! It was a blast to research & write with @jenmadelene.bsky.social & @susannapaasonen.bsky.social ❤️❤️ blurbs by @alexmonea.bsky.social Tarleton Gillespie & @katha.bsky.social Big thanks to @noahspringer.com & everyone at @mitpress.bsky.social

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If you need me, I am sorry, I have perished double authenticating myself to access 7 different collaborative projects' Teams servers, while working for a university that uses Google

the reaction to moltbook is more interesting than the actual substance of moltbook

the cover of academic journal Creator & Influencer Studies. It's a purple gradient and the journal name appears in white font.

some exciting news:

announcing CREATOR & INFLUENCER STUDIES, the first open-access peer reviewed journal dedicated to creator and influencer culture research. I'm honoured to be named as one of the journal's inaugural associate editors.

submissions open Feb 12.

I'm noticing that taking "AI in research" and "AI in teaching" trainings has the capacity to make one feel tired in a deep, existential way

We have a cover! Coming soon and OA too! Based on the Rethinking Sexualities project with the always brilliant, always beautiful, always kind @susannapaasonen.bsky.social and @jenmadelene.bsky.social
Steered through the editorial process with ease and competence by @noahspringer.com at MIT Press

Media ecologies and the politics of representation Winter School in Milan. Deadline for application November 20 www.formazione.unimib.it/it/winter_sc...
Among the speakers, yours truly. Share with your early career researcher / PhD student colleagues please :)

the academic urge to sustain one's grant writing entirely on coffee and candy instead of heating up the perfectly reasonable protein source

#aoir2025 also known as the twerking aoir #riogoeshard

Am absolutely loving the crafting session - such brilliant, nuanced thinking on platforms, labor, craft, authenticity and identity by @kylzjarrett.bsky.social @afrontiercity.bsky.social @reneseifert.bsky.social and @susanluckywong.bsky.social #aoir2025

And then me and Marius Liedtke will go on to talk based on some data from the TRAVIS project instagram.com/travis_research) about how social media audiences trust or distrust mental health content #aoir2025

Now Stephanie Alice Baker on cancer misinformation and miracle cures on TikTok, she starts with a shoutout to #aoir2025 ‘s legendary Terri Senft and her microcelebrity work to trace how a snakeoil influencer can emegre as someone rivaling medical authority

And so we learn that the Portuguese word for enshittification is merdificacão. 🤣 #AoIR2025

Deanna Holroyd based on her 3 year digital ethnography on ADHD - content frames it as a behavioral disorder (messiness, poor time keeping), an emotional disorder (feelings, embodiment), biological disorder (language of hormones, genes etc). #aoir2025

Feels kind of doofy to post both on mastodon and here, but oh well. Anyway, if you’re into health and social media, we have a preconstituted panel in 7a, @stefaniavicari.bsky.social is done presenting and currently Nina Morena is speaking on breast cancer with 3 papers still to go #aoir2025

Hey #AoIR2025 participants, the upcoming @qutdmrc.bsky.social Summer School will be highly relevant to many of you:

Thoroughly enjoying this roundtable on the Australian social media ban at #aoir2025 with @tamaleaver.bsky.social @snurb.info and Dan Angus

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A touching memorial for our friend and colleague, Jonathan Sterne. #AoIR2025

where do you keep your "to read" links, and "have read, might need later" links, preferably with tags, now that Pocket is closing down? thanks!

Best team ever ❤️❤️❤️

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the full body pleasure of unflagging 700 emails in one's flagged emails folder

I had some interviews done for a project with elderly social media users (by an elderly social media user) and these are the most delightful thing I have read in a long time

The Egg Yolk Principle: Human Sexuality Will Always Outsmart Prudish Algorithms and Hateful Politicians Anti-porn laws can't stop porn, but they can stop free speech. In the meantime, people will continue to get off to anything and everything.

“Banning pornography may not concern those who object to its existence, but any attempt by the government to ban and censor protected speech is a threat to the First Amendment rights we all treasure," @riccilevy.bsky.social quoted by @404media.co this week.

www.404media.co/egg-yolk-pop...

Patterns of surprise - a collab between the TRAVIS team (@perceptionalize.bsky.social & @andreaschaffer.bsky.social) & the ever-inspiring @annettemarkham.bsky.social on aggregated autoethnography, a method I really love. It's part of a SI available OA www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fq...

As a follow-up to the launch of the Risky Research Report, this is an excellent seminar:

"Managing Threats to Academic Researchers Panel, Cambridge Disinformation Summit"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M9l...

this is how AI gets us. NVM efficiency and productivity, it's the compliments to our intellect / research prowess: "I'm really glad it landed well! You've laid out such a rich, thoughtful project, and it's been a pleasure helping you shape this conceptual groundwork." #weredoomed #iforone