JOBS!! We've now extended the deadline for our four @admscentre QUT Digital Media Research Centre postdocs (3 years full-time at Level B), and we've also opened them up to international applicants. All details available from this link: research.qut.edu.au/adms/2024/07/0…

A gentle reminder that culture is transnational: we all have culture and no culture is pure. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Thrilled to announce my publication on #NMS! Have you felt trapped in repetitive, monotonous dating app conversations? 😑 In this piece, I explore how individuals navigate the evolving landscape of dating in the digital age to seek meaningful connections. doi.org/10.1177/146144…

NEW PUB ALERT: So excited to share Rachel Dubrofsky and I’s paper born out my MA thesis she advised, “RuPaul’s Drag Race: Queer Authenticity & Strategic Westernness” in Comm, Culture, & Critique. So excited to have this work out into the world🎉💕🏳️‍🌈 doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tc…

OUT NOW! The first empirical article in our upcoming Special Issue on 'Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media'. It's about RuPaul Drag Race, Westernness & whiteness, by Zane Austin Willard 🏳️‍🌈 & Rachel E Dubrofsky. academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-ar…

“Elon Musk has become a hyper-exposed pop-culture figure,” Ronan Farrow writes. “But the nature and the scope of his power are less widely understood.” nyer.cm/pJWyuxE

Another contribution to our Special Issue on 'Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media' (coming in Sept!). This one is a forum piece by Jin Haritaworn on the German media spectacle surrounding young Muslim migrants' social media use and fake news. academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-ar…

We published a short piece on dating apps' premium features: "What's app got to do with it? Premium love in times of emotional capitalism". #swiperight blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2024/…

Instead of becoming more reliant on for-profit big tech companies and their promises of efficiently mediating dating, we should consider developing bottom-up and free-from-freemium services that would put at their very heart people instead of profits. blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2024/…

Can money now buy love? 📱💰💗 In a post on LSE Media & Communications Łukasz Szulc (The University of Manchester) and co-authors examines the effects of the #digital commodification of love, sex and desire in contemporary life through #datingapps. ow.ly/OOoy50SYA5m

We're looking for additional partners (charities, companies, etc.) to offer our MA Digital Media, Culture and Society students 20-day long internships (in Manchester but also in other places in the UK and worldwide if an online internship is an option). docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Zane Austin Willard’s & co-author Dr. Rachel Dubrofsky’s article, “RuPaul’s Drag Race: Queer Authenticity and Strategic Westernness,” was published in a special issue of Communication, Culture, and Critique, “Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media.”rb.gy/7bo4ht

We're delighted to announce our Centre's inaugural lecture on 'Data Ecopolitics: How Technology Shapes Our Environmental Future' by Jędrzej Niklas. Join us in Manchester, UK on 19th Sept 2024, 3-5pm. It is an in-person-only event, register here: forms.gle/iDyLwM6CczMEEA… School of Arts, Languages and Culture

NEW ARTICLE OUT! As part of our Special Issue on 'Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media' (coming this September!): 'Glitchy transnationalism: When queer migrants meet the state online' by Hatim Rachdi ICA LGBTQ Studies Interest Group 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ International Communication Association academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-ar…

Im thrilled my first solo-auth paper, “Glitchy Transnationalism: When Queer Migrants Meet the State Online,” is published in SI Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media in CCC (International Communication Association ). I explore how queer migrants navigate digital spaces under state/familial surveillance

I’m thrilled to announce that our special issue “Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media” is finally out 🦄 It was such a big pleasure to work w Łukasz Szulc and Radhika Gajjala. Please read and share our introduction: bit.ly/3X7w3k8

Driving Decisions: How Autonomous Vehicles Make Sense of the World (Palgrave STS) is out NOW. Link: doi.org/10.1007/978-98…