The #SMSociety special issue in @socialmedia-soc.bsky.social I co-edited with @zoetanja.bsky.social and @harrytdyer.bsky.social is out now!

It's #openaccess, please do check it out - many relevant studies on platforms, publics, and anti-publics on social media.

Hello Blue Sky! Very pleased to announce the just released CFP for the International Conference on Social Media and Society!

The conference will be held *in person* in London UK, July 16-18, 2024.

Full details: socialmediaandsociety.org/2023/call-for-submission...

"Corus joins growing Canadian boycott of Meta over news blocking"
globalnews.ca/news/9837502/corus-joins...

Country Music’s Culture Wars and the Remaking of Nashville Tennessee’s government has turned hard red, but a new set of outlaw songwriters is challenging Music City’s conservative ways—and ruling bro-country sound.

My new reported piece about the country-music rebels of Nashville—many of them black, female and/or queer—rising up in a time of political danger: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/24/coun...

If only all irresponsible platform behaviour would follow such logical losses

Helllloo blue sky