Influencers

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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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From ‘Networked Publics’ to ‘Refracted Publics’

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

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TEDx talk on Internet Culture and Social Media

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

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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 […]

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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 […]

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How social media Influencers are shaping Singapore’s GE2020

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

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Singaporean influencers and COVID-19 on Instagram Stories.

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

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

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

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Influencer and Social Media Industries Adapting to COVID-19.

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

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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

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

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

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

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Social Media Influencers and Astroturfing Alcohol Advertising.

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

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

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

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

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

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Minority influencers, Satire, and Subversive frivolity

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

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Snippets from recent talks in Brisbane, Siegen, Stockholm

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

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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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