📢📢📢PhD publication! after 1.5 years of ethnographic exploration of Ukrainian creators on TikTok, I'm thrilled to share our OA work with my brilliant friend Moa Eriksson Krutrök on PLAYFUL TRAUMA in times of war and adversity 🇺🇦💛; pls join me in unpacking🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

It's been a RECORD week for CCSN Founding Member publications! 🥂📜👏 Start the academic year off with fresh findings from qualitative studies of content creator culture: For your consideration 🧵(1/5):

1/3 אם תנסו לגייס חרדים - רק יגויסו פחות חרדים; אם תפגינו נגד נתניהו - רק תאריכו את שלטון נתניהו; אם תפגינו בעד עסקת חטופים - רק תהרגו את החטופים. שמים לב למוטיב החוזר? המבנה של הטיעון הביביסטי נותר זהה, רק התוכן משתנה כל פעם בהתאם לצרכים.

It's truly a meme Monday for creator studies! Vital points raised by Kate Miltner on digital content & trademark law: 👇

Israel is flooded with rage; this rage is what we need to remove the *Netanyahu* tumor from ourselves; I only wish local coverage had created a media pocket to show Israelis the shattered humanity in Gaza; It’s not just media dehumanization—it’s entirely symbolic annihilation 💔

The TikTok Cultures in Korea symposium is happening on Monday 9 September! We hope you can join us (TCRN & KoreaResearchCentre) for an engaging event on all things TikTok & Korea. Find more information, the full programme & link to free audience registration here: tiktokcultures.com/tiktok-culture…

In such difficult times, a glimmer of light is the upcoming publication of Ioana Literat and my Oxford Academic book Not Your Parents' Politics: Understanding Young People's Political Expression on Social Media. Seeing it online makes it feel so real! shorturl.at/7OVEF

THE #DEADBOT SOCIETY 🙂 AI and the End of the Human Past School of Social & Political Science Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh tinyurl.com/rhp5efke

Got to chat about memes and political shitposting in the very first CCSN blog with Zari Taylor 𝕕𝕣. 𝕜𝕣𝕪𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟 𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕚𝕟 (𝕤𝕙𝕖/𝕙𝕖𝕣) and Christine H. Tran ❤️‍🩹✨🕹! Check it out ⤵️

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Spoke with Anna North about brainrot and iPad kids for her Vox series on GenAlpha! vox.com/life/369953/sk…

New article! In “User-generated accountability: Public participation in algorithmic governance on YouTube,” Blake Hallinan and I investigate how YouTube creators act to hold the platform accountable in the face of policy failures and make noise to draw attention to their concerns.