Steve Threadgold

Today, we are announcing a huge new project in development: The Dark Money Illuminator. You can search any nonprofit to see: - Funders - Directors and officers - Groups it’s connected to You can also explore/search nonprofits by assets. And it’s going to be FREE! Donate to support this project

Here's the video of our Youth Side Hustles seminar we hosted today with David Farrugia, Stephanie Patouras and Brendan Churchill youtu.be/Q4e_BpVtnwE?...

This starts in less than 30 mins!

Please join us for our next NYSC research seminar where we will be joined by David Farrugia (Deakin University), Brendan Churchill (University of Melbourne) and Stephanie Patouras (Deakin University) to present their work on “Youth Side-Hustles: Entrepreneurship and Employment in Enterprise Culture”

I am a few chapters in to this, it really does conceptualise well some of the things coming up in our fintech and financial practice interviews

Poverty kills. The level of Jobseeker kills. It is a choice governments make every year. It is a choice the RBA makes when it decides more people need to be unemployed www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Yesterday's @acadsocsciences.bsky.social week seminar on The False Divide between Nature and Culture with Celia Roberts, Ben Matthews and Gav Smith was great. You can view it here: youtu.be/4xaAGM9etBk?...

Please check out and submit to the ISA panel in Korea 2027 organised by Rose Butler, Anita Harris and me on 'Getting Ahead? New Perspectives on Class and Social Mobility for Young People' isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/wc20...

Thanks to the @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social Social Stratification Thematic Group for the invitation to talk about our @newcastleyouth.bsky.social research on young people, financial practices and fintech. Sorry I couldn't be there in person, so I recorded this video for them.

🧵The wealthy and their strategists at rightwing media orgs and junktanks inflict DARVO on us. If we discuss inequality, we’re accused of perpetrating class war. In fact, neoliberalism is almost a century of class war against “the tyranny of democracy” 🙄 #Auspol theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

My new article is just out in @finandsoc.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This article from @stevethreadgold.bsky.social and me published on the same day Meta agreed to significant changes to Instagram and Facebook. It is an unequivocal acknowledgement that wellbeing harms for children and young people are caused by platform design. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Beautiful thread

TASA Sociology of Youth event is happening at USyd Monday October 12, please come along if you can

I could weep, seriously. Some of the places I love best are those second-hand book stores in the side streets of small towns. Where the stacks contain surprises that shape how one thinks about something. Now LLMs need “pre 2022” texts to avoid the “contamination” of synthetic data 1/

Please join us on Wednesday for our next NYSC online seminar where will be joined Peta Cook (University of Tasmania), Elizabeth Humphrys (University of Technology) and Nicole Asquith (Queensland University of Technology) for “Scholarship Disabled: Crip research, crip scholars”.

Check out David Beer's new short story collection zine published on @awtsn.bsky.social amazing Frances Street Press francesstreetpress.com/tales-zine-b...

Please join us for our next NYSC online seminar when we are joined by Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths) to talk about the critical politics of AI and his work on decomputing.

If you use fintech, live in Australia, and are between 18 and 30 years old, please sign up to be interviewed in our project. Interviewees get a $50 gift card while workshops participants get $75! youthfintechfutures.wordpress.com/participate/

Here’s a video from the same podcast as linked in my previous post where you can hear the audio too. I love this because it really lays bare how LLMs fool us - but really they’re just slotting words into linguistic patterns that we’re familiar with. Genres like a podcast or LinkedIn post.

Our next NYSC Online Seminar is no tomorrow at 3pm. Maternal Secrets: Shame, Silence, and the Materiality of Mothering, featuring Giverny Lewis (UoN), Briony Lipton (UNSW) and Eva Neely (Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington).

BIG NEWS! The 5th Journal of Youth studies Conference will take place in Porto, May 4 to 6, 2027! Check the link for all relevant details including submissions, registration and keynotes. jys-conference.eventqualia.net/en/2027/home/

The more I think about it, the more I hate @lintonbesser.bsky.social's implication here that allowing machine-generated plagiarism and fabrications in media+opinion is somehow "inevitable" Frankly, it seems to go against the entire existence of media watch? www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...

Had a fun chat with the great Mark Mordue on his podcast The Slider. We talked about the research @newcastleyouth.bsky.social is doing, plus a bunch of other stuff like " 'data gaze' surveillance, fintech auctions for your identity, online gambling and some hope with rock n roll"

Tomorrow (Tues March 17, 2pm) we have Sam Friedman (LSE) presenting on his award winning work on the British elite. The seminar is online and in person at NuSpace (X204).

Please join us online on Wednesday March 11 (tomorrow!) at 3pm for @samfriedman.bsky.social (LSE) and Rose Butler (Deakin) for our next online seminar "Class Diplomacy: Cross-Class Friendship and Social Mobility'

On Wednesday at 2pm we have our NYSC visitor Sam Kirwan from University of Bristol presenting on The Debt Cycle. This will be online and for those in Newcastle please join us in person at X401 in NuSpace.

Today at 3pm

Our online seminar series kicks off Wednesday February 11 at 3pm, on ‘Algorithmic Dwelling: Digital Technologies as Intermediaries in Housing Access and the Enactment of Home’.

Congratulations to our new research team member Dr Niamh White on her PhD conferral and becoming a newly minted Dr! We look forward to working with you on young people and fintech over the next few years

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After over 2 years under review, our paper discussing strategies to get by in the creative industries is out

SAVE THE DATE! Journal of Youth Studies Conference, University of Porto in May 4-6, 2027.

Our next online seminar is on at 3pm tomorrow. The False Divide between Nature and Culture: How Estrogens, Yeasts and Snakes Reveal the Entanglement of Everyday Life See you there!

Who world have thought i'd be talking in the the Australian Financial Review about class, but there you go...

New article by @juliacook.bsky.social in @bjsociology.bsky.social 'Understanding the Role of Migration, Culture and Transnational Ties in Family Financial Assistance With Home Ownership'

I'm giving talk at RMIT for the Music Industry Research Collective on Monday October 20 at 3pm on 'What is cultural sociology when culture is platformed and financialised?'

NYSC online seminar on ‘The Materialities of Inequality: Mould, Acid and Glitter’ featuring Beckie Coleman, Bev Skeggs, Imogen Tyler and Roger Burrows is on tomorrow night, Wednesday October 8 at 7pm (9am London time).

A factor in this triumphant return is how platforms (Spotify) dissolve historical time, with the effect that a) nobody needs to remember that this was a band whose 'good' patch lasted circa 18 months and b) they provide the backdrop for inter-generational bonding

this is excellent www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Please join us for the second in our NYSC Series Online seminar on Wednesday to hear all about New Possibilities: Young People and Democratic Renewal, featuring Philippa Collin, Judith Bessant, Luigi Di Martino, Rob Watts and Varsha Yajman.

No silver bullet: why social media ban is full of holes www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/903228...