this report in addition to the £42 million tax relief corresponds nicely with DanjoKaZooie (@danjokaz00ie.bsky.social @nieborg.bsky.social and @ludicpress 's white paper on the Canadian games industry and its tax reliefs helping foreign (US) companies tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807…

Our special issue on Games of Empire 10 years later is now published online in full in Games & Culture, edited by Lars de Wildt Caroline Pelletier & Souvik Mukherjee. Here's the link to our short introduction journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… Each article is listed in this thread (1/8)

Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager speaking about platform power this morning Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) with a frank admission I never expected to hear: "We came to this problem too late."

7 down, 14 to go! After two years of hard work the first papers in our double special issue on 'Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production' for International Journal of Cultural Studies are coming out. Here are some papers you may have missed:

These short research profiles on platform scholarship show what we at the School of Social Science Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) have been up to this year: ias.edu/ideas/profilin…

🚨 Our special issue for policy repay on 'Locating and theorising platform power' is out! The following 10 papers address three themes: (1) infrastructures & markets; (2) platform governance; (3) the negotiation of platform power & its alternatives. policyreview.info/articles/analy… 1/11

🎉 🎉 Our special issue (with 20 papers) on Global Perspectives on Platforms & Cultural Production in the International Journal of Cultural Studies is out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13… Thomas Poell Dr. Brooke Erin Duffy Bruce Mutsvairo Tommy Tse Arturo Arriagada Jeroen de Kloet & Ping Sun

If you're AoIR ➡️ 🐘 @[email protected] this week, let's meet up. My itinerary: - Thursday 11:00 our Global Perspectives on Cultural Production panel - Friday 11:00 with Godwin Simon we'll discuss the Nigerian Social Media Video Industry - Friday 15:30 a paper on TikTok tools with Kaushar Mahetaji

I meant what I said. Check out this new Polity title by the OG media industry Profs Amanda Lotz & Thimothy Havens

As I gradually adjust to the University of Toronto Scarborough climate for my postdoctoral fellowship, I am beyond excited to share that I have signed my book contract with The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social. The book "Nollywood on Demand" explores the cultural and economic logics of streaming in the Nigerian Film Industry.

It's official. I've been promoted to Full Professor University of Toronto! Grateful to all those who made this happen.