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Just in time before I take a break: my paper with @pamogranite.bsky.social and Richard Brown focusing on content creators’ hopes and fears about #artificialintelligence is out, open access, in Convergence: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I guess we’ll have to call him ‘Small Dan Burn” now? #nufc

Aww shucks x

In a new paper for Convergence, @pamogranite.bsky.social & I examine the challenges Instagram & TikTok creators at risk of de-platforming face when holding onto communities, arguing that these spaces' turn towards entertainment & selling is producing fatigue: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Platform gaslighting: A user-centric insight into social media corporate communications of content moderation - Tom Divon, Carolina Are, Pam Briggs, 2025 This paper delves into communications dynamics between social media platforms and their users as they navigate the opacity of governance policies. Using Meta an...

Pre-Trump 2.0, Big Tech seemed to at least pretend to care about user rights, & used PR & comms as a way to engage in damage control (as @tomdivon.bsky.social, @pamogranite.bsky.social & I have argued in our paper on gaslighting as a platform comms strategy): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Had the best day - I love this city

Amazing work from such a talented researcher - congratulations

Half-Time | Newcastle United 1 Liverpool 0

We lead at the break courtesy of a stunning strike from Alex Isak! 💪

So proud - let’s get Newcastle on the telly again - show everyone what they’re missing

Just to get me started on this new platform, I’m sharing this photo of my sister’s sheep. Subsequent posts more likely to be about books, AI or #nufc

Robert Rutherford
and I are on Radio Newcastle this morning talking about Whose Crime Is It Anyway and Newcastle Noir, just after 10am.