UPCOMING TALKS

please note that I have limited availability from May–Oct 2025. 

# denotes presentation by co-author

[conference] #Hjorth, Larissa, Katrin Gerber and Crystal Abidin. 2025. “The Politics of Affective Witnessing of Instagram’s grief influencer.” International Death, Dying and Disposal Conference (DDD17), University of Utrecht, 27–30 August. <Conference>

[conference] #Vizcaíno-Verdú, Arantxa, and Crystal Abidin. 2025. “Memefication of Motherhood on TikTok: #TypesOfMoms Deconstruction of Parenting Idealisation.” AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2025, Niterói, 15–18 October. <Conference>

[conference] #Turvy, Alex, and Crystal Abidin. 2025. “Patchwork Governance on KidTok: Balancing Regulation and Community Norms.” AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2025, Niterói, 15–18 October. <Conference>

[conference] #Annabell, Taylor, and Crystal Abidin. 2025. “‘What’s our escape plan, and where are we going to meet up?’: Theorising platform evacuation in platform society.” AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2025, Niterói, 15–18 October. <Conference>

[conference panel] #Are, Carolina, Samuel Cabbaug, Crystal Abidin, Ruepert Cao, Zari Taylor, Christopher Persaud, et al. 2025. “Platform Governance at the Margins: Rules, Relations and Resistance.” AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2025, Niterói, 15–18 October. <Conference> // CA’s paper: Cabbaug, Samuel and Crystal Abidin. 2025. “Brokering Kabaklaan: Queer TikTok Content Creators in the Philippines.”

[keynote] Abidn, Crystal. 2025. “Choose Your Own Adventure: Studying the Anything and Everything of Social Media Cultures.” Australian & Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association (AANZCA) Conference 2025, Queensland, 26–28 November. <Announcement | CfP> 

WORKS UNDER REVIEW OR IN PROGRESS

[journal article] Livestreaming During a Pandemic: Platforms, Cultures, and Pivots; co-authored with Jonathon Hutchinson

[journal article] Nordic influencer agencies and the discourse of gender: Negotiations at the individual, relational, structural, and anthropocene levels; co-authored with Hanna Reinikainen

[journal article] Trajectories of online transgression: Public shaming cultures on the Singaporean internet

[journal article] The Evolution of Cross-cultural Discourse about Xiaohongshu: From Little Red Book to RED to RedNote; co-authored with Hao Zheng

[journal article] The ‘Aussie line’: The internationalization of K-pop and Asian-Australian identity as cultural branding by agencies and idols; co-authored with Janey Umback

[book chapter] The gatekeepers of Influencer ethos: How incubators, agencies, and firms shape the socio-politics of the Nordic Influencer industry

[book chapter] Child Influencers: Commercial childhoods on TikTok and Douyin in Australia and China; co-authored with Anthony Fung, for Planet Digital: A Global Media Reader, edited by Aswin Punathambekar, Adrienne Shaw, and Jonathan Gray

[book chapter] Netflix Netizens Are Watching You: Tracing the pipeline of gendered vitriol from reality TV to fora and social media; co-authored with Bertha Chin, for Routledge Companion to Gender, Violence & Popular Culture, edited by Karen Boyle and Susan Berridge

[journal article] Intercultural wanghong agencies in (Greater) China: Legacy work and anticipatory plans in the globalizing Chinese markets

[journal article] Liziqi and Chinese Rural Influencers on YouTube: A bilingual review and algorithmic snowball sampling method for scoping a genre; co-authored with Chen Guo

[journal article] Minimalism and Gestures on Social Media; co-authored with Michele Zappavigna

[journal article] Asian Australian Diaspora and Identity on TikTok; with contributions from Denise Woods, Cass Sligh, Kelly Bailey

[journal article] Bubble Tea Markets and Cultures in Perth; with contributions from Denise Woods, Saadia Ahmed, Sugiyanto

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