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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

to anyone in internet history / game studies: any good places to start reading on the early experiments in online game networking? I'm interested in the messy history of early consoles pre and post world wide web rollout

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Getting some truly unhinged Reform UK direct mail (including a misleading NHS notification) through our mail slot 🤪 @manchestermill.bsky.social

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I've been marking papers for about 4 weeks now and really thinking about how I used to refuse to use Turnitin as a faff and surveillance nightmare annoyance when I was teaching in grad school and now my institution is entirely reliant on turnitin from top to tail as assessment software

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I feel like I only use bluesky to talk about how I've changed my engagement with social media in the last 5 years. Sometimes I'm just not sure what to do with this stuff anymore!! And maybe that's becuase "visability" doesn't really lead to career or life rewards?

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Saying no to peer reviews for like 6-8 months I think

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Steam is a weird one. It has come to functionally dominate a market segment associated with a more "open" form of digital distribution in contrast to the mobile ecosystems, where platform holders locked them down and set up mandatory rentier operations.

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Really happy to announce that I've signed my contract with @brisunipress.bsky.social for my forthcoming (2027) book 'Levelling Out: The Crash of the Video Games Industry'.

an image that reads: Levelling Out: The Crash of the Video Games Industry'. Daniel James Joseph. Forthcoming 2027 from University of Bristol Press

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

My trade union work is what keeps me grounded. I do what little I can and because everyone is coming together we actually achieve quite a lot.

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Really happy to announce that I've signed my contract with @brisunipress.bsky.social for my forthcoming (2027) book 'Levelling Out: The Crash of the Video Games Industry'.

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Yes AI is a bubble but I _think_ a key dimension to it is that the physical infrastructure investment is made possible by the massive cash reserves that the tech monopolies had just sitting around. The stock market valuation is one thing - but the physical investment is another.

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

quickly shit looking AI videos are, sadly, where the humour that defined twitter is likely to go. Sorry! Some will be funny, a lot will be boring. But, honestly, what it does is mean that lots of people can produce a short form comedy where the punchline is a visual.

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I'll be going as a delegate for MMU UCU this Friday and Saturday to The World Transformed in Manchester - if you are planning to go please let me know!

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Frankly absurd that Bratton somehow woke up one morning and thought the problem slowing down the sovereigntist European AI industry was media studies.

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

So my more measured take is that this is a clear reflection of the geopolitical-economic priorities of the Saudi Public Investment Fund & Jared Kusher's investment fund. We wrote about this broader dynamic over here in relation to the PIF investment in esports www.emerald.com/tpm/article/...

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Towards a geopolitical economy of esports: making sense of Saudi Arabia’s investments

Purpose. This study aims to argue that the esports industry is structured by geopolitical economic dynamics and must be understood through a geopolitical economic lens. Focusing on Saudi Arabia’s subs...

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Towards a geopolitical economy of esports: making sense of Saudi Arabia’s investments

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Jared Kushner and the Saudi PIF buying EA wasn’t on my bingo card

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Some crack reporting from the Financial Times on the current real world impact of AI tools on contemporary businesses. It's funny to see businesses admit the very limited impact, and very high risks, of AI deployment on.ft.com/3IEuXJr

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America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides

FT analysis of hundreds of filings suggest the S&P 500 businesses are clearer about the risks than benefits

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Really excited to announce that Chris Young, David Nieborg and I just published a new OA paper in Platforms & Society developing the concept of the "workflow monopoly". To do this we conducted a platform historiography of the Unity game engine / workflow suite journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Workflow monopolies: A platform historiography of Unity in the immersive app economy - Chris J Young, Daniel J Joseph, David B Nieborg, 2025

This article discusses the relationship between cultural production and platform companies by mapping the rapidly evolving political economy of the real-time an...

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

journals.sagepub.com

Workflow monopolies: A platform historiography of Unity in the immersive app economy - Chris J Young, Daniel J Joseph, David B Nieborg, 2025

This article discusses the relationship between cultural production and platform companies by mapping the rapidly evolving political economy of the real-time an...

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Sophie Bishop @sophiebishop.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

My book, Influencer Creep, is a Publishers Weekly (@publisherswkly.bsky.social) Pick! Thank you for engaging so deeply with the themes of the book. The verdict? “those in the art world will find plenty to chew on”. Read here: www.publishersweekly.com/9780520402706

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Influencer Creep: How Optimization, Authenticity and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture by Sophie Bishop

In this uneven debut treatise, media studies scholar Bishop analyzes how social media influencer culture impacts the art world. ...

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

really important aspect of the piles of money that tech have is that they are currently burning piles of it to build AI infrastructure. pretty much every major infrastructure investment like this is one day written down - but it's important that this gets built if capitalism is to keep "working"

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Game File reporting how Krafton wants PUBG to become a "gamplay platform" www.gamefile.news/p/krafton-pu...

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Just reposting a few weeks out now - but hey if you’re interested in how and why a state inserts itself into sports and video games our article is just the ticket. Importantly, we call for a refocus on the nation state as a key player in digital capitalism.

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Am helping out with this! Should be a very cool special issue.

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Insulting to hear that UCEA has refused to budge on our pay negotiations and continue to only offer a pay rise of 1.4%. UCEA constantly complaining about the financial woes across the sector isn’t an excuse to drive our wages into the ground.

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I'm in Montreal on annual leave right now but really happy to share Tom Brock, Will Partin, & I's new article out in Team Performance Management: 'Towards a geopolitical economy of esports: making sense of Saudi Arabia’s investments' www.emerald.com/insight/cont...

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Haha mark carney sucks shout out to everyone who said strategic voting was the only way to stop a right wing turn while this guy co-signs every act of Israeli and American aggression possible!! Evil stuff!!

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I'm in Prague today! Tomorrow I'll be keynoting at Labor and Play in the Platform Society at Charles University. Really stoked to be talking about the book I'm writing: Digital Games After Platformization gameproductionstudies.fsv.cuni.cz/2025/06/04/l...

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Labor and Play in Platform Society | Prague Game Production Studies Group

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

TIL that NVIDIA's H100 GPU costs about £30,000 brand new

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Good to see more empirical work on this. My team wrote up similar work using App Store data to look at unequal exchange in digital services (in this, digital games) between the global north and south ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

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One Big Store: Source Diversity and Value Capture of Digital Games in National App Store Instances | Joseph | International Journal of Communication

One Big Store: Source Diversity and Value Capture of Digital Games in National App Store Instances

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I'm very lucky to do a lot of cool research and teaching but doing trade union case work is also one of the most rewarding things I've ever done in this job.

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Am I going to “burrow down” into publicly available corporate data? Yes. Am I going to “listen in” to industry elite conversations that reveal the political economy of communication? Also yes.

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I think the question of AI for me isn't if people will or will not want to use it casually - like ask chatgpt or don't! whatever! use it to make silly things or don't. What matters is if you are forced to use it at some point in your workflow or if the supply chain of your life utilizes it.

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

The Rehearsal season 2: excellent

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

this is likely one of the biggest changes we have seen in a long time when it comes to the overall shape of platform markets www.theverge.com/news/661290/...

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Fortnite is finally back on US iPhones

Where we dropping?

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

frankly unhinged at how they are daring a massive part of the economy (and the literal middle class) to crumble on their watch.

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

One thing I would say after five years in a permanent academic job is that I have figured out how to keep about two dozen plates spinning at the same time and not just decompose thinking about it.

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

after two rounds of productive revisions one of my writing teams got a journal accept today :)

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

it is hard to explain to people here how utterly unhinged drivers in Toronto are.

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Here's @dringo.bsky.social breaking down some recent digital game industry revenue numbers which suggest another year of decline. This stagnation is the reason why I'm writing my book 'Digital Games After Platformization' www.thegamebusiness.com/p/the-answer...

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The answer to the video game industry’s woes: Just make some hits

Plus! Are three million Doom players good? And what happened with Call of Duty Warzone on mobile?

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

had a really nice time in Glasgow this weekend. Good city! Sad to be a flying visit but we got to eat good Italian food and visit the wonderful and FREE botanical gardens.

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

it's a relatively small thing but when Microsoft ended up on the BDS list I unsubscribed to game pass. I hope they stop giving material support to the Israeli war machine.

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I’ve got a very rough grant idea in the works to research the future of advertising now that AI is seriously uprooting established consumer and SEO approaches on.ft.com/43qDVk3

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Google offers ‘AI mode’ in ‘total reimagining of search’

Chief Sundar Pichai also reveals autonomous agents at annual event as tech giant seeks to re-establish AI leadership

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Daniel Joseph @danjokaz00ie.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

my landscaper found a bomb shelter in my garden

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