iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Have decided to start tomorrow morning in a very chill manner by doing an Ask Me Anything on Reddit about my OnlyFans book. Is this a good idea? Will the internet be mercilessly unkind? Will anyone even ask a question at all? Let's find out, shall we. imgur.com/a/iQ1ko6G

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IAmA proof: u/emvdn_researcher

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Filming a Get Ready With Me video to introduce my students to Social Media Lab... turns out moisturising, cleansing, AND remembering the key critical questions of the unit is hard work, who knew! (influencers knew)

A woman in her bathroom wears glasses, a black jumper, and a lapel microphone. She is squirting cleanser from a bottle into a small white towel.

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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This really sums up why we need internet anonymity.

So who, exactly is anonymity for?

It's for the teenage girl who lost her mother when she was young, just got her period for the first time, and is to embarrassed to meet with a school nurse.

It's for the 45-year-old who hasn't drunk in years but is realizing that he's struggling with his sobriety and needs to talk privately about it.

It's for a woman coming to terms with the fact her boyfriend is abusive and figuring out how to get away from him without his knowledge.

It's for a Chinese immigrant who wants to speak about human rights abuses he witnessed at home without his family in Beijing paying the price for his words or repression following him abroad.

It's for a factory worker looking for resources about how to report unsafe conditions without losing his job.

It's for a college freshman who needs to talk about being gay without fearing his family will learn of it before he's ready to tell them.

It's for a grandmother who just received a breast cancer diagnosis and wants to discreetly discuss her anxiety about a mastectomy,

It's for a priest dealing with depression who doesn't know how to manage his feelings of emptiness amidst his duties to his parish.

It's for anyone who has ever experienced a fear, thought, idea or emotion that need to express but aren't ready to share with colleagues, family, friends, or acquaintances or authority figures.

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The least helpful sign in Box Hill: asks you to go find a shop that hasn't been there for years to locate the lift to a bus

A metal sign on tiles that reads: LIFT ACCESS TO THE BUS DECK IS AVAILABLE WITHIN THE SHOPPING CENTRE ADJACENT TO THE REJECT SHOP

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Well unfortunately I giggled all the way through Ladies First so maybe I've got terrible taste or maybe movies should just be fun sometimes, who knows

Film poster for Ladies First, featuring Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Please, AI slop scammers, there's no need to run my new book's blurb through whatever program you're using and promise me "discoverability" "opportunities". I wrote my book for human people to read. Would love to talk to human journalists/writers/podcasters/interviews! But not... this.

A screenshot of an email offering Dr van der Nagel "several opportunities" to "potentially increase" her book's "discoverability"

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I don't want to Edit an Image With AI, I want to CROP THE SCREENSHOT dammit

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I'll be talking porn, OnlyFans, automated people, and automated customisations at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas this August 💕🖱️✨👩‍💻👉👌 festivalofdangerousideas.com/program/porn...

A screenshot from the Festival of Dangerous Ideas website advertising a session titled Porn Without People

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Sam Chan 陳力深 @liksamchan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

*CFP* Digital Intimacies 12: Intimately Disconnected considers what remains of digital intimacies when we are digitally disconnected. Keynote: Dr Tingting Liu, University of Technology Sydney Conference: 4-5 Dec 2026@USyd CFP closes: 28 Aug 2026 digitalintimacies12.wordpress.com

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Digital Intimacies 12 is at the University of Sydney this year from 4-5 Dec! Submit your abstracts on the (broad) theme of Intimately Disconnected by 28 Aug. Digital Intimacies is such a wonderful and generous gathering of scholars - get along if you can 👩‍💻✨💕🖱️💌 digitalintimacies12.wordpress.com

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

There's a sale on at Booktopia that includes my & Kat's book at 90% off, so if you are in Australia and want to get Sex and Social Media for FOUR Australian dollarydoos, the time is now www.booktopia.com.au/societynow-e...

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Societynow

Buy Societynow by Emily van der Nagel from Booktopia. Get a discounted Paperback from Australia's leading online bookstore.

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

First minor Instagram suspension for posting about a book I wrote. This is going to be an interesting social media case study, actually - how to post about a book on OnlyFans, titled, "OnlyFans" with the kind of content moderation challenges faced by OnlyFans creators all the time

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The cover image isn't up yet, which makes it look like the cover art is too NSFW to be displayed (it isn't), but my book has a page on The Internet! www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

A screenshot of the web page for the book OnlyFans, by Emily van der Nagel

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The latest in the constant race to optimise recipe websites for maximum datafied attention metrics: requiring a whole ass user account for the privilege to open the recipe in print view so you can see it without a hundred popups crowding your screen

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Finding out that some universities* are cancelling classes next week because of the Canvas outage: @dangolding.com "I'm sure there will be absolutely no reflection on what this means for our teaching's dependency on external platforms though" *not Monash, we use Moodle

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Sorry friends - I have not been DMing anyone over the past few days! Just changed my password and enabled 2-factor authentication 😬 hopefully that does it

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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 08/05/2026

Hello friends just an fyi that @emvdn.bsky.social’s account has been hacked, in case you weren’t sure if she was really into crypto all of a sudden

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I booked tickets. I invited my mum and sister. I prepaid for a city carpark. I took the toll road from work to the city. I planned to meet for ramen so we'd make the show on time. I parked my car and got a text that the SHOW WAS CANCELLED (not Reuben Kaye's fault feel better soon king)

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Me when I make Same Lasagne as Last Night but Now With Side Salad

A frame of The Simpsons showing Lisa facing a crowd of girls - and Smithers at the back, eagerly pointing. It's captioned, "But she's got a new hat"

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Hello Bluesky friends, I wrote a book about OnlyFans that is coming out SOON. Would you use this book as a set reading in your course/unit/subject? Would you like an inspection copy? Let me know! I'm thinking media studies (especially social media/internet studies), sociology, gender studies etc

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samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

hey Victorian renters! if you've used 'RentTech' (think online application platforms, rent payment apps, property management portals), please spend ~5 minutes to share your experience in this survey to contribute to important @cprc-research.bsky.social research: cprc.limesurvey.net/594888?lang=en

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Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

📘New Report: Young Australians’ perspectives on the social media minimum age legislation📘 With the #socialmediaban for teens kicking in on 10 December, hearing their perspectives on it, and social media generally, is so vital! 💡 Read the full report here: doi.org/10.60836/tr3...

Young Australians’ perspectives on the social media minimum age legislation [Report]

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

So happy, and a bit overwhelmed, to find out my DECRA project, 'Social, ethical and regulatory challenges in the social media porn industry', has been awarded. What an immense privilege to have the next three years to dedicate to research!

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

"Mum having her coffee", a portrait by my 3 yr old

A woman sits on a chair with a coffee cup

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

So glad to have been part of the UQ symposium 'darkness to hyper-visibility' Really rich, thoughtful work from scholars of creator visibilities, a wonderful keynote on platform epistemologies from Kelley Cotter, and the opportunity to present my own work on OnlyFans

Two presenters in front of a screen that says Darkness to Hyper-Visibility

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I kind of can't wait to tell my dentist I chipped a tooth while flossing. YOU SUGGESTED THIS WOULD BENEFIT MY DENTAL HEALTH KEITH

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

This weekend I'm MCing my first funeral (my grandfather died at 90 years old and I probably do the most public speaking in my family) and the next day hosting a baby shower for a friend. LIFE HEY.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

"Once you’ve built the system to block kids from YouTube, you’ve built the system to block anyone from anything. And that system will be irresistible to future governments with different ideas about what content people need to be 'protected' from." — @mmasnick.bsky.social in @techdirt.com

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Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube

Last fall, heavily influenced by Jonathan Haidt’s extremely problematic book, Australia announced that it was banning social media for everyone under the age of 16. This was already a horrifically …

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Pleased to be on a panel with Alita Brydon of Bad Dates of Melbourne to get into dating and digital intimacy today! 💕🖱️🍆👉👌✨💻 Creative Directions is our annual student-run festival of ideas at Monash and Hinge or Cringe is a chef's kiss of a panel title, I reckon.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 25/07/2025

It was incredible to watch this disaster unfold over several years: site owners increasingly competed for Google search traffic and placement in SERPs, abandoning every other avenue of reader engagement and retention, making their sites and the web worse. Then Google did this

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Terribly rude to slight ABC News Theme (Pendulum Remix) in this manner #hottest100 #aushottest100

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The biggest tragedy of 1999's Blue (Da Ba Dee) is that, despite mentioning a blue girlfriend, the protagonist describes that he "ain't got nobody to listen". In this essay on heteropessimism...

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Have reached the stage of toddler parenting where, if I take his shoes off for him, this kid will *put his shoes back on* just so he can take them off himself 🫠 and yes, I gave him several chances to do it himself first.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Necessary reminder that literally every digital media expert in the country have been saying exactly this since this whole sorry ordeal started. None of this is a surprise.

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

New random password generator: my 2 yr old and some fridge magnets

A small child's hand is shown putting magnets on a fridge in random order: TOWZJ37&1i

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The journal used AI to copyedit our paper. It Americanised all our spellings. The paper is about how AI homogenises writing...

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Taught my last tutorial for semester!! 🎉🎉🎉

A woman in a mushroom-patterned top and glasses is standing in a university classroom, smiling

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Catching up with the Lily Phillips interview on Newsnight, BBC, in which the interviewer asks: "hand on heart, look me in the eye. Can you tell me that that day [of having sex with 100 men] was genuinely empowering for you?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgpe...

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Lily Phillips speaks to Victoria Derbyshire about OnlyFans, online abuse and misogyny

YouTube video by BBC Newsnight

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

There are currently FOUR positions advertised in my department at Monash, the School of Media, Film & Journalism: A/Prof or Professor - Journalism A/Prof or Professor - Media Senior Lecturer - Public Relations Lecturer - Media More info here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

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Job Search

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Gold star for whoever made this library sign ⭐

A sign that reads "library stitch society event: knitting", with a knitted wool border

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Hurry up Vote Compass I've got a tutorial on election media to plan

A screenshot of the Vote Compass landing page which says "We're currently preparing the 2025 version"

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I had a whole baby (two and a half years ago) and now I just have to, what, go to work? I have to miss them during business hours? For most of the year?? So grim.

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I am a slow writer. The more I lean into that instead of trying to change it, the better my writing is, actually. Yelling at myself internally to hurry up and sleep doesn't get me to sleep faster, and panicking about writing doesn't make that process faster either.

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Getting a flyer about the selection received in this week's fruit delivery box and thinking about how much time I spend on the internet 😳

A photo of a flyer advertising, "another grape week: we've got more grapes for you this week! Our farmer had too much stock"

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Final day of work for 2024. I tried really hard this year and I got some good things done and also I feel like I didn't do enough because that's how academia works. I learned a lot about how to be a parent and academic and I'm definitely going to be better at that next year.

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Still thinking about that TikTok I saw that went, "you didn't 'notice an easter egg', you learned media literacy"

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Emily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Discovering a style of writing about OnlyFans that can be described as the Bad Faith Moral Panic genre

Screenshot of book cover 'The Race to the Bottom: The OnlyFans Economy'

Description of book that reads, "OnlyFans has emerged as one of the most influential - and controversial - tools for content creators"

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