Blake Hallinan

Blake Hallinan

@blakeplease.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Platform Studies at Aarhus University

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Blake Hallinan
@blakeplease.bsky.social

What's that? Time to promote research about #bluesky on bluesky? Happy to share a new paper from @omerrothenstein.bsky.social @ilovejazzmusic.bsky.social & I: "Stuck in the middleware with you: the challenges of capitalizing a market-oriented approach to platform governance" doi.org/10.1007/s443...

doi.orgStuck in the middleware with you: the challenges of capitalizing a market-oriented approach to platform governance - Communication and ChangeSocial media faces a crisis of trust over the management of speech, with critics simultaneously arguing platforms remove too much and too little. Middleware, a recent market-oriented proposal for plat...
Blake Hallinan
@blakeplease.bsky.social

Interested in doing a #phd about #vtubers? Then boy do I have the PhD fellowship for you. Join my @erc.europa.eu funded project on the creator economy, based in lovely Aarhus, Denmark. Link to the job description below, deadline 1 November.

Blake Hallinan
@blakeplease.bsky.social

Interested in doing a #phd about #vtubers? Then boy do I have the PhD fellowship for you. Join my @erc.europa.eu funded project on the creator economy, based in lovely Aarhus, Denmark. Link to the job description below, deadline 1 November.

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Information, Communication & Society
@icsjournal.bsky.social

#OutNow in #iCS With the rise of social media, mothers around the world share their experiences with raising children, shaping broader notions of what motherhood is and should be. The authors analyzed 100 videos and 1,000 associated comments. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comBroadcasting the good mom: a cross-national analysis of mom vloggers and their audiencesWith the rise of social media, mothers around the world publicly share their experiences with raising children, shaping broader notions of what motherhood is and should be. While scholars have docu...
Blake Hallinan
@blakeplease.bsky.social

Niche #academicpublishing observation but I just noticed IJoC now includes DOIs with their articles, starting in 2026 😮 my zotero folder and I are very happy about this development but I’m curious where the decision/funding came from… anyone know? #commsky

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Avishai Green
@avishaigreen.bsky.social

Social media is full of talk of values... but what do we 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 when we talk about 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠, and what do we use the term to 𝑑𝑜? A new @icsjournal.bsky.social #OpenAccess paper from DigitalValues team+co-authors analyzes the meanings and functions of 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 on Twitter www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comHow to do things with a keyword: a cross-cultural analysis of the meanings and functions of ‘values’ on TwitterWhile people regularly employ the term values in mundane interactions and political debates on social media, little is known about its function in public communication. Approaching values as a keyw...
Blake Hallinan
@blakeplease.bsky.social

I had a great time talking the latest tech policy news with Ben, including some deep cuts on meta political ads during Hungary’s parliamentary election and a new report on debanking from @publicpubics.bsky.social and @internetmaggie.com

Ben Whitelaw@benwhitelaw.bsky.social

Come for the 2000s pop rock episode title, stay for @blakeplease.bsky.social’s razor sharp insights and American eagle impression. This week’s Ctrl-Alt-Speech is live! podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...

podcast.ctrlaltspeech.comPanic! At The Discord - Ctrl-Alt-SpeechIn this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by Dr Blake Hallinan, Professor of Platform Studies in the Department of Media &am...

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT)
@pgmt.bsky.social

💡Check out the new article “Global creator culture? Converging values and generic practices in YouTube reviews“ 🤳🏽 led by Blake Hallinan with the contribution of PGMT Postdoc Rebecca Scharlach. Out now #openaccess. Read it here 👉 academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...

academic.oup.comGlobal creator culture? Converging values and generic practices in YouTube reviewsAbstract. Social media facilitates new forms of cultural production from professionalized and commercialized users known as creators. While some have posit

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Emilija Jokubauskaitė
@emilijajok.bsky.social

a christmas miracle! or perhaps a present from me to the world: my first solo-author article is published in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

journals.sagepub.comStabilizing the stream: The role of traffic and studio partners in webcam sex platform competition - Emilija Jokubauskaitė, 2025Webcam sex platforms, operating at the margins of the digital economy, face instability on both sides of their multisided markets due to the flexibility of plat...

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Vitaly Kazakov
@vitalykaz.bsky.social

My one-two punch on “#sportswashing”: Two (!) new journal articles are now out, in which I critique the concept and call for more attention to the role played by media and audiences in interpreting the political power of sports.

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Kate Starbird
@katestarbird.bsky.social

In the wake of news about Project B, a new women’s basketball league with a range of funders from around the globe, I want to highlight this recent paper exploring (and critiquing) the concept of “sportswashing”: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.com‘Sportswashing’ as mediated deceit: applying a critical disinformation model to address political (mis)communication through sportsThe article highlights the need to decouple discussions about political (mis)communication and abuses of sport from the narrow conceptual preoccupation of ‘sportswashing’ with authoritarian decepti...
Blake Hallinan
@blakeplease.bsky.social

In my attempt to learn the “weeks” of the year and keep my drawing skills from getting too rusty, I’ve decided to match week numbers with Pokédex numbers and decorate my office white board. Please enjoy #35

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Blake Hallinan
@blakeplease.bsky.social

In my attempt to learn the “weeks” of the year and keep my drawing skills from getting too rusty, I’ve decided to match week numbers with Pokédex numbers and decorate my office white board. Please enjoy #35

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Blake Hallinan
@blakeplease.bsky.social

In my attempt to learn the “weeks” of the year and keep my drawing skills from getting too rusty, I’ve decided to match week numbers with Pokédex numbers and decorate my office white board. Please enjoy #35

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT)
@pgmt.bsky.social

💡 New publication alert! “On the Controversiality of AI: The Controversy Is Not the Situation” by @noortjem.bsky.social , @ckatzenbach.bsky.social , @anderskristianm.bsky.social, and @annajobin.bsky.social is out now. 📖 Read it open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

journals.sagepub.comOn the controversiality of AI: The controversy is not the situation - Noortje Marres, Christian Katzenbach, Anders Kristian Munk, Anna Jobin, 2025Do public controversies about AI matter? Can they really make a difference to how AI is taken up or imposed on society? This introduction to the Special Issue o...

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Rebecca Scharlach
@rscarlets.bsky.social

Hey #AoIR2025 catch me today at 4 pm with a wonderful group of scholars - Taylor Annabell, Diyi Liu, Thales Lelo and Tom Divon - for a roundtable on the future of tech governance research. This is going to be an open discussion, so please join and share your thoughts!

Blake Hallinan
@blakeplease.bsky.social

This article has some of the best screenshots I’ve seen in social media research. Really captures the kind of innovation Twitch excels at 🔥🌶️💸

CJ Reynolds@reynoldscj.bsky.social

🚨New publication alert! This one was a personal favorite of mine to work on, including fun facts about such topics as streamers farting into microphones for money. “Hot tubs, yoga pants, and gamba” is out now and open access in Platforms & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Blake Hallinan
@blakeplease.bsky.social

In my attempt to learn the “weeks” of the year and keep my drawing skills from getting too rusty, I’ve decided to match week numbers with Pokédex numbers and decorate my office white board. Please enjoy #35

View full thread
Blake Hallinan
@blakeplease.bsky.social

In my attempt to learn the “weeks” of the year and keep my drawing skills from getting too rusty, I’ve decided to match week numbers with Pokédex numbers and decorate my office white board. Please enjoy #35

View full thread
Blake Hallinan
@blakeplease.bsky.social

In my attempt to learn the “weeks” of the year and keep my drawing skills from getting too rusty, I’ve decided to match week numbers with Pokédex numbers and decorate my office white board. Please enjoy #35

Blake Hallinan
@blakeplease.bsky.social

Where are you in a “paralocal” relationship with? Looking at First Amendment auditors (aka people that film the police and post it to social media), @reynoldscj.bsky.social looks at how media practices can foster these relationships and transform civic engagement.

CJ Reynolds@reynoldscj.bsky.social

🚨New publication from my dissertation work! Examining the clash between First Amendment auditors and the police of Leon Valley, Texas, I theorize the development of paralocal relationships as a new form of civic engagement for the social media age. #openaccess

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rasmuskleis.bsky.social
@rasmuskleis.bsky.social

Two weeks left to submit to PlatGovNet 2025! We've got a good number of submissions already, make sure to share your extended abstract (800-1000 words) by September if you'd like to join us for this free online conference on platform governance December 1-2.

rasmuskleis.bsky.social@rasmuskleis.bsky.social

Working on platform governance? Join for PlatGovNet 2025 Free online conference Dec 1-2 Extended abstracts (800-1000 words) due Sep 2 Amazing community, opportunity to share work, get feedback, meet others working in this area. Glad to be part of organizing it Details: platgov.net/conferences/...

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Blake Hallinan
@blakeplease.bsky.social

Setting up a new cloud file storage system has me getting intimate with my neglected files. I’ve discovered I have over 100 iterations of my CV saved. Do I need these? Should I purge them? What do other people’s records look like 🤔