WISHCRYS

Social Justice Through Social Media Pop Cultures

New from the TikTok Cultures Research Network – an Open […]

Appointed to Editorial Board of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

I am happy to share that in October 2021, I […]

Press commentary on TikTok hauls

New press commentary in Sydney Morning Herald on TikTok hauls, corporate tokenism, and decoding what ‘authenticity’ signals for micro-influencers. With research commentary from yours truly, based on my forthcoming book […]

Music Challenge Memes on TikTok: Understanding In-Group Storytelling Videos

In this new article in International Journal of Communication, Aranxta […]

Press commentary on pandemic TikTok

New press commentary in The Age, on pandemic posting patterns among young people on TikTok, and the intercontinental waves and shifts in communicative norms. Read: “Posting positive: The viral craze […]

Press commentary on child influencers

I had the honour of providing extensive background research and commentary for this long-read for Independent, based on my pioneering work on child influencers that I started in 2011. The […]

Playing YouTube: How the Nancy YouTuber doll and app position children as aspiring YouTube influencers

New journal article from Alexandra Ruiz-Gomez, Tama Leaver, and I, […]

Making Sense of Our Digital Lives

My latest publication was more fun than usual to put together, as I collaborated with artists & illustrators to create a visual and more accessible way to understand social media […]

Inaugural TikTok Syllabus (2021)

The TikTok Cultures Research Network is excited to launch our inaugural TikTok Syllabus, which in 2021 focuses on Teaching Socio-cultural Issues on TikTok. Open Access and available for download on […]

wishcrys at #AoIR2021

This week, I am virtually attending the annual Association of Internet Researchers Conference (#AoIR2021). I’ve been an active member of AoIR since 2014, and decided that since this year’s event […]

From ‘Networked Publics’ to ‘Refracted Publics’

I am pleased to announce that I have a new […]

Gender

T Magazine Feature on TikTok e-boys

23 February 2021 update: The article is now online here. * I recently contributed to a feature piece in the New York Times Style T Magazine for a piece on […]

‘wishcrys podcasts’ on Spotify

Some of the podcasts I have guested on are now on Spotify. You can find them in a playlist titled ‘wishcrys podcasts‘. Features chats on influencer cultures, blogshops, online shame, […]

TEDx talk on Internet Culture and Social Media

In November last year, I was invited to give a […]

Mapping Internet Celebrity on TikTok

It’s my first day back in the office after five weeks of annual leave and wfh, and I am really happy to share my first article of the year, mapping […]

lessons from/for my work life.

lessons from my work life last year: i have become a much happier and contented person after choosing to compartmentalise my social media and internet life into work and non-work; […]

Beyond the viral video: What happens after viral fame

I am really glad to be able to contribute expert […]

Lifeworlds: An interview with Crystal Abidin

Last month, I had the honour of being interviewed by Asli Telli Aydemir, whom I first met at the Locating Media research group at University of Siegen, for the latest […]

Audio Templates as Identity and Intimacy on TikTok

It is the last day of Digital Intimacies 6 (#DigInt20), and […]

TikTok and Digital Intimacies in the Time of COVID-19: A backstory

Today, I presented some of my ongoing research on COVID-19 […]

‘Cultures of TikTok in the Asia Pacific’ Symposium

I am excited to announce that registration for ‘Cultures of […]

Meme factories and content pivoting during COVID-19

A few weeks ago, my latest article on meme factory […]

How social media Influencers are shaping Singapore’s GE2020

GE2006 was the “internet elections” for the emergence of political […]

Academic studies on social media use during Singapore’s General Elections

Here is a compilation of select academic studies on the […]

Singaporean influencers and COVID-19 on Instagram Stories.

Last week I had the privilege of being invited to […]

A Review of Formal and Informal Regulations in the Nordic Influencer Industry.

Hi. I am happy to share that our article reviewing […]

Canon, Status, and Gatekeeping in Academia

Please take this not as a smarty pants academic essay or provocative opinion editorial but as one academic with many feelings writing a diary entry. I am aware that there […]