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Are digital platforms ways of disciplining infrastructures in the realm of culture? Our new open access article explores this idea, using music as a case study: cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommun…

This. Universal credit system not working for artists, says Julie Hesmondhalgh theguardian.com/society/2023/m…

The problem is that their reporters, editors and owner find it hard to accept that most of us are flawed, and can’t live up to the high moral values, devotion to the absolute truth and extreme chastity represented by The Sun.

Very proud of our son Joe, quoted in this Guardian article, playing a key role in standing up for a liveable future for his generation, pressurising UK Labour not to sell out on climate theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

The Belgian film Close (2022) is such a beautiful and moving exploration of adolescent masculinity - and homophobia, centred on two 13 year old boys. The acting of the schoolchildren and parents is extraordinary. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

Surreal for me and my co-author Hyojung Sun to be alongside Nile Rodgers and Merck Mercuriadis, giving evidence to the UK Parliament Culture, Media and Sport Committee, on "creator remuneration" in music.

Obviously Trump is going to win the Republican nomination. So why is his predictable victory in the absurd "Iowa caucus" headline news today? Can't news organisations just stop covering the US Presidential Election until early November? Tell me the result when this farce is over.

Tory voters… Tell me What goes through your minds when you see this?

👉NEW -- For western media, Israel’s bombing of Gaza is not ‘deadly’ by Prof. Des Freedman (Des Freedman) Right across the Anglo-American mainstream media, the killing of Palestinians is seen as normal. It’s only Israeli lives that matter. declassifieduk.org/for-western-me…

Boris Johnson …you squandered an 80-seat majority and now write 4th rate columns in a national shit-rag No sentient person gives a toss what you think.

My new article on the use of rap lyrics as evidence in legal cases. Open access. Race & Class thread.

Wednesday, April 24th, at 4 pm BST, Eric Weisbard, (eric weisbard) author of “Hound Dog,” will join Feeling Distant for an in-person discussion at the University of Leeds, moderated by David Hesmondhalgh (David Hesmondhalgh). ow.ly/F0vc50RgwJ2

“As the largest anti-Zionist Jewish organization in the world, we unequivocally reject the conflation of antisemitism with anti-Zionism and reaffirm in the strongest terms that there is no place for antisemitism in our movements.” Our full statement: jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2024/04/25/sla…

🎉 Green win in Ilkley! 🌟 Ros Brown is elected as Green Party councillor for Ilkley 🌟 🟢 Ros is the first ever Green Party district councillor in this staunch Tory Ward! 👏 Congratulations to Ros!! #GetGreensElected #FairerGreenerBradford

My colleague Zhongwei (Mabu) Li and I have just published this open-access article, a history of digital music in China from peer to peer to streaming, and an account of what this might tell us about platformisation in China: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Feeling guilty because my daughter @RosaHes1 has been reduced to working as a maid for some kind of aristocrat (Lady Penelope or something) and is involved in some scheme for Penelope to get off with a posh fella called Colin.

Labour's share of the popular vote is way lower than that achieved by Corbyn Labour in 2017 and only 2% more than 2019: 2010: Tories 36.1, Labour 29.0 2015: Tories 36.9, Labour 30.4 2017: Tories 42.4, Labour 40.0 2019: Tories 43.6, Labour 32.1 2024: Labour 34.1, Tories 23.6

So proud of my sister and her husband Ian Kershaw for their role (alongside others) in the brilliant and successful campaign to save the Oldham Coliseum Theatre

The sentences handed to the five Just Stop Oil campaigners are utterly disproportionate. Four and five years in prison for peaceful protest? This is what you might expect in Russia or Egypt, not in a supposed democracy. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

New pub alert! Zhongwei Li and David Hesmondhalgh David Hesmondhalgh’s article traces the history of Chinese music platforms by considering platformization as a closing down of the open and generative potential of internet architecture.🎵 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/175447…