Upcoming talks and works-in-progress listed below. For key ideas & concepts, research projects, talks & presentations, and multimedia resources, please navigate via the menu.

UPCOMING TALKS

# denotes presentation by co-author

[keynote] Abidin, Crystal. 2024. “Grey Visibility and the Shadow Influencer Industry.” 18th International Conference on the Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Buffalo, New York. 3–6 June 2024.

[keynote] Abidin, Crystal. 2024. “Visual Justice in Post-Social Media Times.” Visual Affordances & Social Justice: Theory & Methods, ICA Pre-conference 2024, Gold Coast. 19 June 2024. <CfP | Link>

[paper] # Vizcaíno-Verdú, Arantxa, and Crystal Abidin. 2024. “Polyphonic chains on TikTok: Towards musical and visual remixed publics.” 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Gold Coast. 20–24 June.

[paper] # Hong-Phuc, N. L., and Crystal Abidin. 2024. “Benchmarking the Regulation of Child Influencers in the Asia Pacific Region.” 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Gold Coast. 20–24 June.

[paper] # Umback, Janey, and Crystal Abidin. 2024. “‘Aussie line’ on TikTok: Asian-Australian (national-cultural) identity as branding by K-pop agencies and TikTok fandoms.” 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Gold Coast. 20–24 June.

[roundtable] Wellman, Mariah L., Taylor Annabell, Crystal Abidin, Jeehyun Jenny Lee, Yuening Li, Lisa Garwood-Cross, Hanna Dorottya Szabó, Zari Taylor, Elizabeth Dubois, Khalid Alharbi. 2024. “Classification of the Influencer: A Critical Discussion of How to Define ‘Influence’.” 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Gold Coast. 20–24 June. / CA’s paper: “Histories and Futures of Influencer Parameters in the Asia Pacific Region”

[panel] Huang, Qian, Jing Zeng, Tom Divon, Yingdan Lu, Natalie Pang, Crystal Abidin, Mick Vierbergen, Honoka Kato, Hiromi Tanaka. 2024. “Conceptualising Digital Visibility Negotiation for Social Changee in Asia.” 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Gold Coast. 20–24 June. / CA’s paper: “Visibility Labour and Literacies from Networked Social Media to Gated Messaging Communities.”

[keynote] Abidin, Crystal. 2024. “TBA.” 2024 James C. Jackson Memorial Lecture, Malaysia and Singapore Society of Australia (MASSA) Keynote, 25th Biennial Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), Perth. 1–4 July.

[conference] Cabbuag, Samuel I., and Crystal Abidin. 2024. “TikTok ‘Dogshows’ and the Amplification of Online Incivility Among Gen Z Influencers in the Philippines.” Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Sheffield. 30 October –02 November.

[roundtable] Tiidenberg, Katrin, Crystal Abidin, Jing Zeng, David Kneas, Stefanie Duguay. 2024. “Why does authenticity (still) matter on social media?” Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Sheffield. 30 October –02 November.

[panel] Berryman, Rachel, Crystal Abidin, Do Own Donna Kim, Seol Hwang, Esperanza Miyake. 2024. “Virtual Celebrity Industries in East Asia.” Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Sheffield. 30 October –02 November. / CA’s paper: “The virtual human industry in Greater China: A stocktake of news discourse.”

[panel] Divon, Tom, Taylor Annabell, Catalina Goanta, Crystal Abidin, Liselot Hudders, Michelle Renee Nelson, Marijke De Veirman, Tama Leaver, Sonia Livingstone, Nigel Cantwell; Didem Özkul, Gazal Shekhawat, Beeban Kidron. 2024. “The Place of a Child on Platforms: Responsibilities, Obligations, and Expectations.” Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Sheffield. 30 October –02 November. / CA’s paper: “A taxonomy of children and social media visibility.”

Please note that I have limited capacity from August 2023–June 2024, and will be considering speaking invitations selectively. Thank you.

WORKS UNDER REVIEW OR IN PROGRESS

[journal article] TikTok ‘Dogshows’ and the Amplification of Online Incivility Among Gen Z Influencers in the Philippines; co-authored with Samuel I. Cabbuag

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

[journal article] From YouTube to Ellen and Back Again: The exploitation of social media viral child stars in the television talk show circuit; co-authored with Tama Leaver

[journal article] Child Idols in South Korea and Beyond: Manufacturing Young Stars at the Intersection of K-Pop and Influencer Industries; co-authored with Jin Lee and Tama Leaver

[book chapter] From one-person business to cottage industry: the rise of elderly Influencers and hidden family labor; co-authored with Jin Lee, for The SAGE Handbook of Digital Labour, edited by Ergin Bulut, Julie Yujie Chen, Rafael Grohmann, Kylie Jarrett

[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] Ethnic Minorities on Xiaohongshu: How Influencers are Monetizing ‘Traditional Dress’ Memes; co-authored with Sijun Shen

[book chapter] The shelf lives of wanghong: Surviving scandals for internet fame in China; co-authored with Sijun Shen, for Influencer Labour, edited by Isabelle Wildhaber, Andreia de Oliveira, Catalina Goanta, and Christian Fieseler

[journal article] Where are all the Black Girls on TikTok?: Exploring Niche Community and Erasure through #BlackGirlTikTok; co-authored with Zari A. Taylor

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

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[book chapter] The gatekeepers of Influencer ethos: How incubators, agencies, and firms shape the socio-politics of the Nordic Influencer industry; for Influencer Politics, edited by Johanna Arnesson and Hanna Reinikainen

[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] Bushfire TikTok: Climate Change Activism and Youth Citizen Journalism; co-authored with Naomi Robinson, for TikTok Journalism, edited by Jorge Vázquez-Herrero, et al.

[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] The lattice of the child influencer industry

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

[journal article] Mainstreaming global interest in wanghong beyond Greater China

[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] Being bound in a fieldsite: Cross-cultural methodological notes on doing digital ethnography on TikTok; co-authored with Jin Lee

[journal article] The nesting strategies of e-commerce wanghong; co-authored with Ruohan Li

[journal article] KidTok: ‘TikTok famous’ children, Community norms, and Deviance; co-authored with Alex Turvy

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

WORKS IN PLANNING

[book chapter] The Promotional Cultures of Businesses on TikTok: Brand accounts, Small businesses, and Internet celebrities; co-authored with Jenna Drenten, Lauren Gurrieri

[journal article] Exploring the Genre of laowai wanghong on YouTube and TikTok; with contributions from Poh Yu Ting

[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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