Are digital platforms ways of disciplining infrastructures in the realm of culture? Our new open access article explores this idea, using music as a case study: https://t.co/nhx6Ph0NSJ
Spot-on thread on the ‘linguistic trap’ of our so-called international academia 🌎 something that all of us from non-anglophone contexts struggle with regardless of how many years of ESOL we’ve done.
p.s.: believe me, I’m much funnier (and hopefully smarter) in Portuguese 😅
EYUP! This week I’ll be in Sheffield for #AoIR2024 giving no less than 3 papers! Scrolling, ViBeS, and Wrapped are on the menu - check the programme and come enjoy some phenomenological babble feat. silly colourful slides💅🏼 I'm also chairing the 'Authenticity' panel on day 1! 🧵
Rise and shine #AoIR2024 🌅 at 9am (Uni central) I’ll be talking about scrolling & distracted pleasure as part of the fabulous panel Revitalising the Concept of the Everyday in Internet Research - which also includes presentations about music, generative AI, and more!
On Fri, my talk on scrolling📱 as an ordinary practice is part of the fantastic panel on Revitalising the Concept of the Everyday, which I co-organised with @hesmondthing (who will be presenting w/ @RaquelPhD), and includes presentations from @jeanburgess, @isiles and co-authors!
Are you thinking of starting a PhD in media/comms in the next academic year? My employer @LeedsUniMedia is offering ✨four scholarships✨ covering tuition fees + UKRI-matched maintenance stipends for 3.5 years🧵
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Excited to finally announce this event taking place here at @LeedsUniMedia@UniversityLeeds on Tuesday 29 Oct, 2-5pm (we might as well consider it an unofficial #AoIR2024 pre-conference seminar?):
https://t.co/gQmyBHjcpY
🚨2 new jobs to join us here at @LeedsUniMedia and support the teaching and scholarship on digital & creative media practice:
👉Lecturer (T&S, 1.0 FTE, 12 months): https://t.co/5m9hZPtvfl
👉Teaching Fellow (0.5FTE, ongoing): https://t.co/m8xPqldi7h
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Delighted to announce that we are hosting the brilliant @grohmann_rafael @HanneMarleen @TomDivon for a roundable on digital labour, platformisation, and struggle. All welcome, no registration required – Wednesday 06 November, 3.45-5pm @LeedsUniMedia
https://t.co/x0KzKgxfK0
Big tech really has won. Google monopolized search & socials promised reams of traffic. So digital media orgs began catering to their whims; tailoring stories to SEO, pivoting to video—and letting big tech horde the ad revenue.
Now we're just handing the stories directly to them
I have a new article in a special issue about #digital truth-making and #ethnography in @EthnoEuropaea. It historicises truth-making in Spain and highlights the unfitness of the concept of 'post-truth' when we talk about Spanish digital media
https://t.co/UG1sAw8jji