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We are delighted to be hosting #AoIR2024 alongside our friends down the road Sheffield Hallam University! 🤗 We can't wait to welcome everyone to our fantastic city! 🥳

Day 1 of the Global Perspectives on Cultural Production Global Digital Cultures Tinca Lukan Thomas Poell @nieborg.bsky.social Rafael Grohmann Tim Highfield Tuğçe Bidav

info request: if you have used any of my work for teaching/syllabi, especially around digital methods / visual social media / Instagram, could you DM / email me with course details? can be UK-based or international! t.j.highfield AT sheffield dot ac dot uk

In 2000, Elon Musk tried to rebrand PayPal as X.com, but was forced out by the board and replaced as CEO by Peter Thiel. Now he’s doing the same to Twitter, but is surrounded by sycophants who can’t tell him it’s a bad idea. Read more: disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-wa…

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hello everyone! A quick reminder that the call for papers for #AoIR2024 is open now and will close on 1 March 2024 -- our conference theme for AoIR in Sheffield is 'Industry', full details here: aoir.org/aoir2024/aoir2…

One week to finish your submissions for #AoIR2024! Proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, fishbowls, experimental sessions, and pre-conference workshops are all due on 1 March -- full details in this thread ⬇️ Please reach out if you have any questions!

Check out Dr Kate Miltner’s excellent (very demure, very mindful) points in WIRED about memes and labour and who gets to profit from them (and how that’s shifted over the last decade):

it is so amazing to see everyone here in Sheffield for #AoIR2024; I'm not posting on here but please do come say hi and please please take one of our last @polityinstabook magnets! (warning: might not be especially magnetic anymore...)

I 'revealed' this at the #AoIR2024 keynote, but last month I joined CIM Warwick at the University of Warwick as an Associate Professor. It's a big but exciting move, after five years with the wonderful folks at SocStudiesShef and the Digital Media & Society team!