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jonathan w. y. gray

@jwyg.bsky.social

new database of 200+ social media research tools (via Coalition for Independent Technology Research) airtable.com/apphRmVsFpqb...
#digitalmethods #internetstudies #opensource @digitalmethods.net

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March 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM

ReDICo

@redico.eu

Sign up for our #OnlineConference “Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality“

📅 23-24 June 2025

Check out the great program and stellar keynotes:
www.uni-jena.de/en/313137/re...

#InternetStudies #AcademicSky #DigitalFutures #intercultural

May 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM

Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD

@dalupton.bsky.social

Confused by all the hype around GenAI? Check out the little explainer of the tech I made here #sociology #InternetStudies #CriticalAI

simplysociology.wordpress.com/2026/04/08/g...

Generative AI explainer zine now out

Image credit: Hand-crafted by me on Canva. I am currently writing a book on critical perspectives on generative AI and to help me understand the technical aspects I have put together a list of term…

simplysociology.wordpress.com

September 23, 2026 at 9:37 PM

Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕

@emma-briant.co.uk

This guide will be a big help to those doing research across a range of disciplines that raises issues of risk. #academicsky #commsky #aoir #disinformation #internetstudies

Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · May 2

Delighted to have contributed to the creation of AoIR’s Risky Research Guide, just published here: aoir.org/riskyresearc... it's a must-read for anyone conducting research in our increasingly hostile world.

AoIR’s Risky Research Guide |

aoir.org

May 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM

Sara Rosenau

@sararosenauling.bsky.social

Now that bluesky is booming, I'm going to repost my study on TikTok language!

If you are over 18 and use TikTok, please take my survey on language use on TikTok! Link here: pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#linguistics #langsky #tiktok #internetstudies #anthropology

Flyer saying: Take a survey about TikTok. Volunteers needed for research study about language use on TikTok. Study eligibility: Must be over 18. Must speak or read English. Must use TikTok. Primary Investigator Contact: Sara Rosenau sara.rosenau@pitt.edu

November 11, 2024 at 6:28 PM

Centre for Digital Culture

@digitalculturekcl.bsky.social

Symposium on Information Controls on 16th May, bringing together academic and civil society perspectives on information controls around the world: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/sympo...
#disinformation #algorithms #censorship #infrastructure #internetstudies
@kingsdh.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social

Symposium on Information Controls

The Symposium on Information Controls brings together academic and civil society perspectives on information controls from around the world.

www.kcl.ac.uk

April 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM

Jesper Tække

@taekke.bsky.social

CFI turns 25! 🎉 19 Sep, Aarhus (INCUBA, Store Auditorium). Guest lectures: Charles Ess & Axel Bruns + panel (Bechmann, Linaa Jensen, Tække) + reception. All welcome — details: cfi.au.dk/news/article... #cfi_au #AI #InternetStudies #AarhusUniversity

Centre for Internet Studies, Aarhus University, 25 years

September 19th, 2025, Centre for Internet Studies, Aarhus University celebrates its 25 years anniversary.

cfi.au.dk

September 5, 2025 at 8:48 AM

anya shchetvina

@anya-shchetvina.bsky.social

Write with us! Submit a 100-word pitch by the 15th of September for the "Collaborative Glossary: Imagining the Internet(s)". The Glossary will be published by the INC (open access) with the @easstransport.bsky.social support.

More info: matterofimagination.neocities.org/cfp

#sts #internetstudies

Picture illustrates the Call. On the top left it says "Call for Contributions". On the top right it says "INC and Matter of Imagination". Below on the light background in big letters the title of the glossary is written. Below the title is a screenshot from an old Commodore interface, picturing a "Magic Desk" software.

June 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM

rdesjard204.bsky.social

@rdesjard204.bsky.social

We also welcome researchers in other fields like #InternetStudies and #MediaStudies who are working in these areas to submit as well. Happy to answer any questions - feel free to DM!

April 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM

ISOC LIVE

@isoc.live

RECAP/RECORDING - Dreaming of a Networked World: Reflections on the Political Economy of the Internet - danah boyd isoclive.substack.com/p/oii-danah

The @oii.ox.ac.uk 25th Anniversary lecture: on AI, teens & resisting the inevitable.

#AI #SocialMedia #InternetStudies @zephoria.bsky.social

Dreaming of a Networked World: Reflections on the Political Economy of the Internet - Dr danah boyd

Oxford Internet Institute (OII) 25th Anniversary Lecture - 15 June 2026

isoclive.substack.com

June 18, 2026 at 11:34 AM

jonathan w. y. gray

@jwyg.bsky.social

✨ new project ✨ "k-platforms: codeveloping tools and methods for studying digital platforms and cultures in South Korea" with @lboungr.bsky.social @chamee22.bsky.social & June Jeon jonathangray.org/2026/04/16/k...
#kakao #naver #ai #apps #southkorea #platformstudies #internetstudies

k-platforms: co-developing tools and methods for studying digital platforms and cultures in South Korea

What are Korean platforms? What are their histories? How do they compare to platforms elsewhere? How can we do research with and about them? I’m part of a new project on Korean platforms, together Lil...

jonathangray.org

April 16, 2026 at 8:03 PM

MatthewHanchard

@matthewhanchard.bsky.social

Yaye! We got our paper in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social from
uvahumanities.bsky.social #DigitalMethods Initiative Summer School 2022. Gratitude owed to
sheffielduni.bsky.social and the @wellcometrust.bsky.social
for kindly co-funding my attendance! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #InternetStudies

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February 27, 2026 at 3:21 PM

Jack of Our Dyke Histories

@jgieseking.bsky.social

"What's Queer @ #InternetStudies Now?": Reflec'ns on Co-Org'g #QIS2 @ @AnnenbergPenn @ICAPhiladelphia w @JessaLingel http://wp.me/pQumV-37y

“What’s Queer @ Internet Studies Now?”: Reflections on Qu...

I had the blissful, joyous experience of co-organizing th...

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December 6, 2024 at 11:50 AM

Jack of Our Dyke Histories

@jgieseking.bsky.social

@sbanetweiser how have we not chatted before? I co-ran #Queer #InternetStudies conf w Jessa in Feb. and, amen to all things #Serena.

December 6, 2024 at 11:34 AM

Jack of Our Dyke Histories

@jgieseking.bsky.social

Our #FirstMonday special issue "#Queer #InternetStudies" w fab co-eds @insistondoubt & #JLingel is out! Hurrah! Including @shakaz23, #KSender, @AgingSuperModel, @raultishness @MiaFischer, @mitalithakor, @oliverhaimson, @carmenriosss, @adrishaw +++...

December 6, 2024 at 9:01 AM

Eleanor Sandry (elsand)

@zigzaggery.space

This might be good for people studying #webcomms, maybe #writingontheweb and #internetstudies #digitalsocialmedia more generally (@scroeser @perthinent) https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/advisory/bbcrd-projections-report-the-social-internet-jun25.pdf

June 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM

Nathalie Schäfer

@nathalierimb.bsky.social

It’s out! 🎉 My new paper is published in special issue in Lateral (CSA), edited by Reed van Schenck & Elaine Venter.

Read here about platform governance, digital vigilantism and bots on Insta:
csalateral.org/section/digi...

#PlatformGovernance #DigitalCulture #InternetStudies #SocialMediaResearch