WISHCRYS

Navigating Interdisciplinarity as a Precarious Early Career Researcher.

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

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 […]

Influencers

New publication: Victim, Rival, Bully

Hi friends, I have a new book chapter in Narratives in Research and Interventions on Cyberbullying among Young People edited by Heidi Vandebosch & Lelia Green. Victim, Rival, Bully: Influencers’ Narrative Cultures […]

Talks

Talks in Feb/Mar 2019.

Moshimoshi everyone, I have had the most restful Christmas and New Year break gallivanting around snowy Japan, sweltering Singapore, and sunny Australia. It was a really good time for the […]

Internet culture

Public shaming, Peer surveillance, and the Profitability of internet drama.

From Internet Virality to Social Justice In April 2017, a […]

Talks

‘Internet Celebrity’ mini book tour 2018.

Hi folks! I am taking Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online on a […]

Everyday ethnographies

A “child of Asia”.

I have wrapped up my last meeting of the day. I skip the metro to take a long, slow walk back to my hotel. I walk past several eateries. Suddenly, […]

Academica Dramatica

‘Internet Celebrity’ Book Acknowledgements.

My first book, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online, was published two weeks […]

Brainfarts

Every Place At Once.

I am sitting at a memorial service in a church snug in the east end of Singapore. The master of ceremony goes up to the pulpit. He tells us that […]

Influencers

Overly Honest Acknowledgments.

I just completed the acknowledgments for book 02 and now I want to cry. Today in Overly Honest Academia: “Finally, if you have made it this far down our acknowledgements, […]

Academica Dramatica

MA and PhD theses on cultures of internet celebrity.

Moshimoshi folks, I have just spent several days poring through […]

Academica Dramatica

Readings on the politics of knowledge production.

Moshimoshi friends, I am feeling a little brave after writing […]

Internet culture

Where is the money on Tumblr? (part 1)

Hi folks! I am at the International Communication Association conference (#ica18) this week. I gave my talk this morning but felt really unsatisfied with it, mostly because while I was […]

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