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Blake Hallinan

@blakeplease.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Platform Studies at Aarhus University

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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And here’s a link to the project website to learn more: www.pay4play.eu
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here’s the job description: phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/o...
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PAY4PLAY: Entrepreneurial Organizing in the Platform Society (5+3), 2026-11
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interested in doing a #phd about #vtubers? Then boy do I have the PhD fellowship for you. Join my @erc.europa.eu funded project on the creator economy, based in lovely Aarhus, Denmark. Link to the job description below, deadline 1 November.
collage image with Uncle Sam in front of a collection of vtubers with the text “I want you for a PhD fellowship on vtubers”
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My parasocial relationship with the work of the SMC will live on. RIP to a good one.
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Super interesting work, and the community vs utility function very much aligns with what my co-authors and I found in a smaller analysis of custom feeds. You might find the article helpful: link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
May I recommend: bsky.app/profile/xblo...
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Information, Communication & Society @icsjournal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#OutNow in #iCS With the rise of social media, mothers around the world share their experiences with raising children, shaping broader notions of what motherhood is and should be. The authors analyzed 100 videos and 1,000 associated comments. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Broadcasting the good mom: a cross-national analysis of mom vloggers and their audiences
With the rise of social media, mothers around the world publicly share their experiences with raising children, shaping broader notions of what motherhood is and should be. While scholars have docu...
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A precious set of photos. Sending care your way🖤
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Tagging @reynoldscj.bsky.social 🛒🛒🛒🛒🛒
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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I am hiring a qualitative postdoc to start this fall for the @datasociety.bsky.social project AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge. Fully remote but must be US-based. Interested in youth, scams, hustle/financial/consumer culture? More here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...
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Post-Doctoral Fellow, AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
☝️ asking good questions
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Niche #academicpublishing observation but I just noticed IJoC now includes DOIs with their articles, starting in 2026 😮 my zotero folder and I are very happy about this development but I’m curious where the decision/funding came from… anyone know? #commsky
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Avishai Green @avishaigreen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Social media is full of talk of values... but what do we 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 when we talk about 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠, and what do we use the term to 𝑑𝑜? A new @icsjournal.bsky.social #OpenAccess paper from DigitalValues team+co-authors analyzes the meanings and functions of 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 on Twitter www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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How to do things with a keyword: a cross-cultural analysis of the meanings and functions of ‘values’ on Twitter
While people regularly employ the term values in mundane interactions and political debates on social media, little is known about its function in public communication. Approaching values as a keyw...
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I had a great time talking the latest tech policy news with Ben, including some deep cuts on meta political ads during Hungary’s parliamentary election and a new report on debanking from @publicpubics.bsky.social and @internetmaggie.com
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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
New Preprint: Value-driven AI Governance Excited to share a preprint of a collaborative article on value-driven AI governance: osf.io/preprints/so... #AIAct #AIGovernance #Values
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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
💡Check out the new article “Global creator culture? Converging values and generic practices in YouTube reviews“ 🤳🏽 led by Blake Hallinan with the contribution of PGMT Postdoc Rebecca Scharlach. Out now #openaccess. Read it here 👉 academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...
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Global creator culture? Converging values and generic practices in YouTube reviews
Abstract. Social media facilitates new forms of cultural production from professionalized and commercialized users known as creators. While some have posit
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Communication and Change @cacspringer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
📚 Articles in 2025 Can middleware fix platform governance? Drs. Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social, Rothenstein @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social & John examine Bluesky to show why market-based moderation remains as much a cultural struggle as a policy solution⚖️ 👉: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Client Challenge
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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The #AoIR2026 Call for Papers is officially up on the www: aoir.org/aoir2026/ This year marks AoIRs' first time in Mexico and it will be the second bilingual AoIR. Please share with your networks. 🌮
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AoIR 2026 |
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I’ve been publishing “author screenshots” with no problem across journals
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Emilija Jokubauskaitė @emilijajok.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
a christmas miracle! or perhaps a present from me to the world: my first solo-author article is published in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Stabilizing the stream: The role of traffic and studio partners in webcam sex platform competition - Emilija Jokubauskaitė, 2025
Webcam sex platforms, operating at the margins of the digital economy, face instability on both sides of their multisided markets due to the flexibility of plat...
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Definitely agree that these are the actors to watch and I’ll be sure to check out your FairPay framework 🙏
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Richard Reisman @rreisman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Nice update on our 2024 paper, Shaping the Future of Social Media with Middleware, with focus on the current success & issues with @bsky.app and @atprotocol.dev. 🧵 cc: @lehogg.bsky.social @noupside.bsky.social @frankfukuyama.bsky.social @daphnek.bsky.social
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🥩himbo discourse🥩 @internetmaggie.com · 10/12/2025
How do Visa + Mastercard control what content is allowed on platforms? (spoiler: moral panic+algo-bias) My 💥new article💥 out today in @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social clarifies credit card + payment processor influences using Pornhub's 2020 moderation scandal full article: doi.org/10.1080/2326...
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Stine Lomborg @stinelomborg.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Interested in joining a vibrant hub for research on human and societal consequences of digital communication and datafication? We're hiring a new TT assistant professor at Center for Tracking & Society in Copenhagen: jobportal.ku.dk/tenure-track...
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Tenure-track assistant professorship in empirical communication research
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
PS so happy this came out as #platgovnet2025 starts later today. @ilovejazzmusic.bsky.social will be presenting the second paper from our Antagonistic Platform Governance grant "Coordinated Reporting and the Question of Harm." Hope to see some of you there
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Come for the serious grappling with platform governance, stay for the furries. Or the other way around, depending on your preferences.
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
What's that? Time to promote research about #bluesky on bluesky? Happy to share a new paper from @omerrothenstein.bsky.social @ilovejazzmusic.bsky.social & I: "Stuck in the middleware with you: the challenges of capitalizing a market-oriented approach to platform governance" doi.org/10.1007/s443...
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Stuck in the middleware with you: the challenges of capitalizing a market-oriented approach to platform governance - Communication and Change
Social media faces a crisis of trust over the management of speech, with critics simultaneously arguing platforms remove too much and too little. Middleware, a recent market-oriented proposal for plat...
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Kylie Jarrett @kylzjarrett.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I am advertising a funded PhD scholarship on my new project LivePlatforms: Livelihoods in the Platform Economy Ecosystem. More details here: www.ucd.ie/ics/vacancie...
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PhD Scholarship - LivePlatforms
PhD Scholarship - LivePlatforms: Livelihoods in the Platform Economy Ecosystem project funded by the ERC Advanced Grant.
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Vitaly Kazakov @vitalykaz.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
My one-two punch on “#sportswashing”: Two (!) new journal articles are now out, in which I critique the concept and call for more attention to the role played by media and audiences in interpreting the political power of sports.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
In the wake of news about Project B, a new women’s basketball league with a range of funders from around the globe, I want to highlight this recent paper exploring (and critiquing) the concept of “sportswashing”: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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‘Sportswashing’ as mediated deceit: applying a critical disinformation model to address political (mis)communication through sports
The article highlights the need to decouple discussions about political (mis)communication and abuses of sport from the narrow conceptual preoccupation of ‘sportswashing’ with authoritarian decepti...
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Looking forward!
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The second is on digital methods and industry trends: www.au.dk/om/stillinge... happy to answer any questions
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Methods and the Creator Economy at the Department of Media and Journalism Studies - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur - Afdeling for Medievidenskab og Journalistik, Aarhus Universitet
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I am hiring for two postdocs in the creator economy, hosted at Aarhus University. One is on monetization and governance with flexible methods and area focus: www.au.dk/om/stillinge... #commsky #academicchatter #polisky
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Monetisation, Governance, and the Creator Economy at the Department of Media and Journalism Studies - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur - Afdeling for Medievidenskab og Journalistik, Aarhus Universitet
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Danielle Flonk @danielleflonk.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Happy to announce a new publication! Ever wondered how and why digital platforms change over time? In this open access paper in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social, Kevin Garvey and I present three mechanisms by which platforms change. doi.org/10.1177/2976...
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
📚 Book Announcement Our edited volume Global South Creator Cultures is coming soon from @routledgebooks.bsky.social - pre-order on 24 November, out on 15 December 2025! 🎉 @mediaindustries.bsky.social
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Not my best work, but it’s been a long day of teaching
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
It’s giving Mr. Koolaid, but what can you do?
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
👀 exciting!
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I’m hiring for a 2.5 year postdoc position in digital methods and the creator economy, details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG525/p...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Methods and the Creator Economy at Aarhus University
Apply now for the Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Methods and the Creator Economy role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
I haven’t setup a class with a list of media examples before and now that seems like an obviously useful thing to do. Have you done this before / do you find it helps with class discussion?
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alice @alice.mosphere.at · 29/10/2025
bluesky mentioned in academic paper about puppygirls
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Fitting for the weather?
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Honored to serve as the vice chair of Media Industry Studies 🫡
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Week 43 🌱
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Week 42… got sidetracked.
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
How about that impact, @tomdivon.bsky.social ! Congrats 👏👏
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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
💡 New publication alert! “On the Controversiality of AI: The Controversy Is Not the Situation” by @noortjem.bsky.social , @ckatzenbach.bsky.social , @anderskristianm.bsky.social, and @annajobin.bsky.social is out now. 📖 Read it open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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On the controversiality of AI: The controversy is not the situation - Noortje Marres, Christian Katzenbach, Anders Kristian Munk, Anna Jobin, 2025
Do public controversies about AI matter? Can they really make a difference to how AI is taken up or imposed on society? This introduction to the Special Issue o...
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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Hey #AoIR2025 catch me today at 4 pm with a wonderful group of scholars - Taylor Annabell, Diyi Liu, Thales Lelo and Tom Divon - for a roundtable on the future of tech governance research. This is going to be an open discussion, so please join and share your thoughts!
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This article has some of the best screenshots I’ve seen in social media research. Really captures the kind of innovation Twitch excels at 🔥🌶️💸
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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
It’s beautiful 😻
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