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Influencers

Influencer and Social Media Industries Adapting to COVID-19.

I have been reviewing interview transcripts from my project looking […]

Influencers

Hanging Out At Home As A Lifestyle (in the time of COVID-19)

As city-wide lockdowns and home-isolations kicked in across various countries […]

Academica Dramatica

One year @ Curtin

Today is my one-year anniversary at Curtin ✨ I am thankful for many things, and my gratitude is only heightened during this time where so many of my cohort mates and […]

Brainfarts

Everyday joys.

These days the only other humans I see regularly apart from my partner are our postal delivery persons. Some days it’s the Chinese-Australian man in his 30s, other days it’s […]

Brainfarts

we all live in different times.

we all live in different times. our bodies and minds are processing time differently. a person waits 2 seconds before refreshing their messages on loop like a glitching robot in […]

Influencers

Private Messages from the Field.

Three years in the making, our Open Access Special Issue on digital ethnographic methodological failures, disciplinary posturing, and ethical dilemmas is finally out! Thank you to Journal of Digital Social […]

Influencers

Press: Political makeup videos

I spoke to Paris-based reporter Pierre d’Almeida for MIXTE, a French bi-annual fashion and ideas magazine, about the political power of beauty tutorials on TikTok and YouTube. The interview closely […]

Academica Dramatica

Tacit Labours of Digital Social Research as an Early Career Researcher

It doesn’t get any fresher than Volume 1, Issue 1. […]

Influencers

Minahs and Minority Celebrity.

I have been working on this article since 2016 and it is finally ready to meet the world in Celebrity Studies. It studies YouTube parody Influencers as feminist and anti-racist […]

Influencers

Fieldwork in Seoul & Tokyo (Dec 2019)

In December 2019, I transited from pre-fieldwork prep (previously in Canberra, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney) and started fieldwork properly for my five-year research study on ‘Social Media Influencers and […]

Academica Dramatica

Harper’s Bazaar Australia’s 20 for 2020

I am on Harper’s Bazaar Australia’s 20 for 2020, and […]

Academica Dramatica

Navigating Interdisciplinarity as a Precarious Early Career Researcher.

Rather bittersweet to share that my final article for 2019 […]

Internet culture

Live radio: TikTok and social activism

I have been working on a series of projects looking at how young people are using TikTok for social activism and advocacy, including a pilot project funded by Tencent comparing […]

Influencers

GITEX 2019: Digital marketing talk, Euronews, Kinokuniya UAE, Book interview

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

Influencers

Yes Homo: Gay Influencers, Homonormativity, and Queerbaiting on YouTube

I have a new journal article published based on my […]

Influencers

Social Media Influencers and Astroturfing Alcohol Advertising.

The excellent people at Drink Tank have (very accurately!) summarized […]

Academica Dramatica

Transparently documenting additional academic labours.

This year, I have been diligently housekeeping a list of […]

Influencers

A Reading List on Parody & Satire, Social Media, and Political Commentary

Last week in Singapore, a government-initiated campaign featured a Chinese […]

Influencers

E-Pay brownface ad, and Preetipls & Subhasmusic’s rap video

In this post, I archive screen grabs of the source […]

Influencers

Minority influencers, Satire, and Subversive frivolity

On 26 July 2019, a state-owned broadcaster in Singapore published […]

Influencers

Podcast: Stage Mums of Social Media

Last week, the good people at Mamamia invited me to speak (among others) on their podcast highlighting the phenomenon of Stage Mums of Social Media. If you wish, the episode […]

Internet culture

Live radio: World Emoji Day & Hidden Instagram Likes

Last week, I got to chat on live radio with […]

Influencers

AoIR Flashpoint Symposia 2019 Keynote

Hello from Bologna airport after a whirlwind 36hrs in Urbino for the inaugural AoIR Flashpoint Symposia. I had the honour of delivering the opening keynote, which you may access via […]

Influencers

Influencers vs. Creators, Journalists vs. Academics, USA vs. The World

Over the weekend, academic and journalist Twitter registered a war […]

Gender

Quick thoughts on influencers and gender.

Earlier this month, I was interviewed by reporter Emma Grey Ellis for an article in Wired titled “Why women are called ‘influencers’ and men ‘creators'”. If you have read the article, here […]

Influencers

Recent press coverage on my research.

In the last couple of months, various strands of my research work have been consulted for or cited in the press. Here is a selection. * On kid influencers: “How […]

Influencers

Snippets from recent talks in Brisbane, Siegen, Stockholm

When delivering research presentations, my secret talents include Mid-talk Jazz […]

Internet culture

K-pop social media, (Anti-)fan labour, and Networks of (mis)information

I am an anthropologist of young people’s internet cultures and […]

Academica Dramatica

new job <3

Pusheen says hi from my new office where I am Senior Research Fellow in Internet Studies at Curtin University. Feel free to drop by and offer me more Pusheen if […]

Influencers

Fieldwork diaries: Njie House in Stockholm.

Njie House, a project by Universal Music, sees six Swedish YouTubers living and working together in a public share space in the middle of Stockholm for thirty days. The ground […]

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