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🎉 Introducing the Content Creator Scholars Network! 🎉 (CCSN)! Your latest hub for the research, education & public scholarship on/about/with platform content creators! Let us tell you about how we came to be and what resources are available to you!
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It's SYLLABUS season! Are you teaching a course this year related to the creator economy, platforms & digital culture? Upgrade your reading list with a little help from our RESOURCES! 📜✍️🧑🏫
Shout out if helpful! We can't wait to watch this page grow 😈
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Our core member -
@brookeerinduffy
- is about to make some waves for creators as she joins the Board of Directors of the American Influencer Council! We're beyond proud, Brooke! 🫶🙌
As someone committed to advancing the role and status of influencers and other digital content creators, I'm thrilled to announce that I've joined the Board of Directors of the American Influencer Council
@aic_tweets
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Check your inbox! The 1st newsletter from the Content Creator Scholars Network (CCSN) is now published! Filled with resources, news updates & publication goodness!
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Just /some/
@uva_gdc
presentations today from CCSN Core Members❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
@TomDivon
@bloggeronpole
@aurelievpetit
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As the academic year kicks off, we would love to hear about your favorite academic pieces on creator culture! 📚✨ Whether it is about platform politics, digital labor, authenticity online, etc.—share your go-to articles, books, or theories below! 🌐💡👇🏻
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It's been a RECORD week for CCSN Founding Member publications! 🥂📜👏
Start the academic year off with fresh findings from qualitative studies of content creator culture:
For your consideration 🧵(1/5):
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Meme-ingful thoughts happening on the CCSN blog! 🪩
Several core members introduce themselves & comment on the role of memes & creator culture in the US Presidential Election.
Are you brat enough to read & share?
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It's truly a meme Monday for creator studies! Vital points raised by
@katemiltner
on digital content & trademark law: 👇
When I’m interviewed by
@WIRED
, I’m very demure, very mindful; I’m professional, I’m not cutesy. Many thanks to
@WaterSlicer
for letting me nerd out about Jools Lebron, trademark, labor, and online cultural shifts:
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We came together as a group of creator researchers, each of us feeling as if we were the minority at our home institutions. We decided to build a network that could be our home, as well as help grow the field of content creator studies.
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For researchers: Join us! Sign up to receive our newsletter or learn about joining. For reporters: We are your one-stop-shop repository for creator economy experts for your pieces. For the public: Check out our website and feel free to learn all about us!
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Love to our members thrive, especially together!
@bloggeronpole
@drjessmaddox
In the
@ObserverUK
’s
@ObsNewReview
- print & online - today discussing a phenomenon I’m v interested in: the use of hobby apps as a means of dating + their content moderation for this article by
@stokel
. Also feat fellow
@WEARECCSN
queen
@drjessmaddox
💪🏼
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The DNC's first-ever creator platform highlights the growing role of content creators in shaping political discourse. Thoughts?
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Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic used thousands of YouTube videos to train AI—without creators' knowledge! This raises crucial issues in
#CreatorStudies
about consent, copyright, and the ethics of data use in AI development! 🧠💡
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Curious to know: What classes are you teaching this semester? 📚 Are you incorporating discussions on creator culture? 🤳✨ If so, how are you approaching it in the classroom? 💡
#HigherEd
#CreatorCulture
#Teaching
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📢don't miss
@bloggeronpole
's trailblazing work on pole dancing, algorithmic bias, and shadowbanning! 👑Monday 30th September; registration below👇
This Autumn I’ll be back online giving my signature “Pole Dancing against the algorithm” talk with the lovely folks at The Feminist Lecture program. It’s pay what you can so v accessible - more info here:
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@Producing2Power
@artarriagada
@MarieHermanova
Drawing on a long-term digital ethnography of Turkish beauty and lifestyle influencers,
@norasuren
shows how socially networked audiences respond to body-positive presentations of Instagram’s aspiring and professional content creators in an economy of visibility ✨👇
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Our site currently has a variety of resources available to those interested in researching and teaching about content creators and the creator economy. You can find course syllabi from and relevant reading lists here!
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@Producing2Power
@artarriagada
@MarieHermanova
@norasuren
Piecing together transnational queer cultures & digital media,
@LukaszSzulc
&
@YenerBayramoglu
have co-edited a timely special issue unpacking how queer culture creators transcend national borders and challenge oppositional binaries like local vs. global & West vs. the Rest 👇🌈
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Our core member
@TomDivon
- togther with
@moaerikssonkrut
- has published timely research on the visibility of war zones on TikTok and how creators use playful methods to cope with their trauma! Check out their OA paper and 🧵 below 👇
📢📢📢PhD publication! after 1.5 years of ethnographic exploration of Ukrainian creators on TikTok, I'm thrilled to share our OA work with my brilliant friend
@moaerikssonkrut
on PLAYFUL TRAUMA in times of war and adversity 🇺🇦💛; pls join me in unpacking🧵
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Momentous talk to watch from our affiliate extraordinaire
@TomDivon
! July 25th!
THIS WEEK! pumped by my research visit to the GenAI Lab (
@jeanburgess
💖) at
@QUT
; will deliver a talk on media spaces in & around Gaza, tracing creators' work of transforming war zones into desirable content, and using AI creativity to reimagine Palestinian resistance; join us!👇
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Political meme talk in this article ft. expert words from affiliate
@JessRauchberg
! 🥥🌴🗳️
I talked to several meme academics & political shitposters alike about why Kamala-brat-coconut-tree memes have caught fire + how we can contextualize the precarious power of political memes
@JessRauchberg
@tinysnekcomics
@ryanlong03
@soc_of_internet
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Superb NEW contribution to creator studies from member
@zaritaylor_
🌸✨🫧!
New pub for
@IJCS_journal
with
@wishcrys
about
#blackgirltiktok
is now online and open access! If you’re interested in online niche communities, visibility on social media, or digital black feminism/black girlhood studies, this is the article for you.
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You might want to answer that after diving into our core member
@drjessmaddox
's brilliant piece, co-authored with Fiona Gill, on 'Assembling “Sides” of TikTok: Examining Community, Culture, and Interface through a BookTok Case Study' 💛🙌
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Proud of founding member
@bloggeronpole
for her latest publication! And on a pressing issue for many vulnerable creators!
Briefly coming out of my annual leave digital detox to share my new paper evaluating perceptions of justice in appeals for de-platformed
#Instagram
and
#TikTok
accounts now out OA in
@icsjournal
:
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A spectacular masterclass opportunity to be involved with all-star CCSN members
@TomDivon
&
@bloggeronpole
at
@uva_gdc
! Calling all curious and critical thinkers of political digital content! 🔊
📢📢📢It’s an honor to be leading this masterclass on Oct 2 with my inspiration and partner-in-crime
@bloggeronpole
, hosted by
@uva_gdc
; as scholars and activists of Palestinian, Jewish, and sex-positive content creators, we'll unpack their contested digital lives on platforms👇
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our brilliant core member
@bloggeronpole
👇🔥
Anti-sex lobbies have worked so hard to conflate sex work (a job) with trafficking (a crime) that it’s the main negative responses to my tweet on *that* dumpster fire of an opinion piece. But it’s criminalisation that makes it harder for trafficking victims to ask for help
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Exciting new article from co-founding Affiliate
@bloggeronpole
!
❗New paper alert ❗For the Journal of Gender Studies’ Algorithms for Her 2 Special Issue, I’ve written an opinion piece (Open Access) about how peer review can inadvertently play Big Tech's game of avoiding accountability and discrediting user knowledge.
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Thank you for this generous shout out
@UofTDHN
!
1/ 🌟 Alumni Spotlight: Christine Tran (
@thechristinet
), 2023-24 CDHI grad fellow & founding member of the newly launched Content Creator Scholars Network (
@WEARECCSN
)! 🎉
#CDHIAlumni
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Submit your brilliant observations and join our core members
@JessRauchberg
&
@drjessmaddox
in (Re)valuing the Creator Economy preconference at the
@natcomm
🔥👇
Let's try this again because I'm dumb.
Don't forget to submit to our
@NatComm
preconference, (Re)Valuing the Creator Economy. Abstracts due this Friday, 8/23!
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Then,
@TomDivon
and coauthor
@moaerikssonkrut
published their findings in
@SocialMedia_Soc
on "playful trauma" in wartime TikTok. Groundbreaking work on how grief, cope, hope & participation are platformized in timespaces of crisis!
📢📢📢PhD publication! after 1.5 years of ethnographic exploration of Ukrainian creators on TikTok, I'm thrilled to share our OA work with my brilliant friend
@moaerikssonkrut
on PLAYFUL TRAUMA in times of war and adversity 🇺🇦💛; pls join me in unpacking🧵
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A gender EXPANSIVE livestreaming event at
@smithcollege
ft. cofounder members
@thechristinet
and
@blackgaygemini
as featured speakers? 😲😲😲 Sign us up!
Excited to be a virtual Guest Speaker at the 1st GENDER EXPANSIVE LIVE STREAMING SYMPOSIUM on Oct 5 in Northampton! 🎮
Join me,
@MyOwnVelouria
,
@blackgaygemini
,
@AmandazonPhD
& Jordan Youngblood for a panel on Performing Gender & Sexuality in Real Time!
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It's been so inspiring to see pressing issues in creator culture--i.e. issues that affect us all!--taken up by CCSN members! We cannot wait to share more to and FROM you all.
Watch this space, etc. ...
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First,
@thechristinet
kicked the week off with their latest work on Twitch streamers in
@icsjournal
! This article examines how vulnerable game streamers negotiate their visibility from home & push the boundary of what makes a "platform infastructure" 🤔
My latest peer-reviewed article is now LIVE in
@icsjournal
! ✨🏡 I observed how Twitch streamers negotiate "visibility" at the intersection of platform infastructures & domestic surfaces.
(This marks the 3rd major paper from my PhD work):
🧵⬇️:
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As our membership ranks grow (more soon!), we'll share even more! Earlier this month, we shared
@Producing2Power
and
@artarriagada
's paradigm-shifting work on the "influencer dream" in the Latin American context. Read below📜👇
I'm very happy to share my recent article published with
@producing2power
in the International Journal of Cultural Studies (
@IJCS_journal
). The article explores the life of Latin American influencers pursuing their "influencer dream" in the U.S. (1/9).
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Finally,
@bloggeronpole
concluded the week with their
@icsjournal
article the struggle for algorithmic justice amidst deplatformization & appeals on TikTok and Instagram. A vital issue in platform governance!
Briefly coming out of my annual leave digital detox to share my new paper evaluating perceptions of justice in appeals for de-platformed
#Instagram
and
#TikTok
accounts now out OA in
@icsjournal
:
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Journalists & academics, don't miss this essential 🧵 by our core member
@TomDivon
; What questions should reporters ask to prevent pressures and moral panics from diverting attention away from the critical issues surrounding platforms, creators, and algorithms?
🚩🚩🚩Journalists often seek my expertise on TikTok's 'antisemitic algorithm,' asking me to review the latest reports on the Palestinian 'favoritism' & validate their findings; "It's due tomorrow - I need your approval and quotes." well, this isn't how it works! join me in a 🧵:
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@Producing2Power
@artarriagada
@MarieHermanova
offers a fascinating glimpse into female influencers in the Czech Republic, using digital ethnography to explore how images of hands (🖐️🫳🤙) serve as symbolic representations of intimacy and emotion in influencer communication on Instagram 👇🔥
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Which four writers, theorists, or thinkers have most profoundly shaped your scholarly voice in studying creator culture? Share with us! ✨📚
who are the four writers/theorists/thinkers who are most influential on your own work and thinking? mine are probably christina sharpe, stuart hall, raymond williams, and judith butler
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Platforms need to get serious about filters! 👇
AR filters stress the baked instability in tools designed for creators; this issue is pressing for marginalized creators who rely on these filters for identity work; such is the case for Orthodox Jewish women on TikTok, using in-app filters to conceal their identities 1\3
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We're indebted to the social humanistic tools of digital humanities in our approaches to creator culture! Check out the
@UofTDHN
for more resources!
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Interesting read in a harrowing month for TikTok news!
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