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🚨 New article out in Social Media+Society 🚨 I explore the importance of emotional belonging for the far-right, with a look at positivity as a key driver. Developing the concept of a new home, I outline the power of positive reattachment in alt-tech space. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

JOB OPPORTUNITIES: Two Associate Lecturer positions in Digital Communication Practice / Creative Industries, at Birkbeck, University of London. Closing date: 30 January. See: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/associ… + cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/associ…

New edited book is published. It is co-edited with prof Dervin. It is titled "Un-writing Interculturality in Education and Research". routledge.com/Un-writing-Int… taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.…

Last paper of my PhD research is finally published Scott A E II / seldridge.com bsky mjbroersma.bsky.social . In this article we explore the visual protest and visual mobilisation in China. Internet memes, populist campaigns: Nationalism, populism, and online visual protests in China journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Call for Papers - Postdigital Feminisms: Platformed-Lives, Labour, Intimacies, and Activism Guest Editors: Zoe Hurley and Adrienne Evans link.springer.com/journal/42438/…

We've extended the application deadline until Dec. 20. We're accepting applications for a LEO Lecturer I to teach courses for our Digital Studies undergraduate curriculum. Learn more and apply here: bit.ly/leolecturer2025

🌿 New Paper + Call for Chapters 🌿 "Postdigital Nature Connection" I’m launching a call for chapters on postdigital nature connection for a new book with Springer Nature. If you're researching tech-nature entanglements, let's connect! Details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1Ky0jcL…

Our special issue co-edited with Qinfeng Zhu Dr Qinfeng Zhu is published in Media and Communication. The issue brings together studies on diverse topics and contexts that delve into the complexities of disconnectivity. Big thanks to all authors and reviewers and the journal editors!

🎉 My new journal article “TikTok and the Algorithmic Transformation of Social Media Publics” has just been published on New Media and Society! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11…

Call for Papers #CfP: Weizenbaum Conference 2025 "Empowering People in Online Spaces: Democracy and Well-being in Digital Societies", Berlin, June 4-5, 2025. #WIConf25 Submit your paper by February 15, 2025 📌 More: weizenbaum-conference.de

In 2024, I published a number of articles for The Currency, largely on European culture and politics. The Currency has become a space for interesting & thoughtful longer pieces, well beyond business and economics. Check it out. Thanks to Thomas Hubert 🐌 Ian Kehoe Tom Lyons

Have a second look: The streaming movie hits that flopped with cinema audiences thecurrency.news/articles/17384…

.Fergal Lenehan tracks the fascinating career of Kerryman Rea Garvey, a music superstar in German who enjoys coming back to Ireland where nobody knows him thecurrency.news/articles/17084…

The intermingling of politics, business and internet culture has gone hand-in-hand with the trollification of political discourse thecurrency.news/articles/17615…

Fergal Lenehan: A strong whiff of black and red coalition permeates the air now in Germany thecurrency.news/articles/18023…

An authoritarian pocketful: The growing gap between digital platforms and EU values, and how to address it thecurrency.news/articles/18641…

Folk, fame and failure: The biopics plotting the gritty journeys of great bohemians thecurrency.news/articles/18442…

Please sign the petition against the brutal planned reduncies at Newcastle University: change.org/p/end-unnecess…

Coming up for air: The eerie contribution from George Orwell to understanding the present thecurrency.news/articles/18955…

European realities and apple trees: What does it mean to be a European Capital of Culture? thecurrency.news/articles/19295…