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Katrin Tiidenberg

@kattiid.bsky.social
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social media researcher (esp visuality, sex, small p-politics, wellbeing) professor at Tallinn University, BFM in 🇪🇪, currently working on TRAVIS project on trust and visuality. katrin-tiidenberg.com

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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have people training to become teachers and educators in a couple of my classes this year, and whenever there's some sort of a task where students have to organize a discussion for their peers they roll up with ALL THE IDEAS. Structured, timed, creative. A total delight.
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
looking at men creating content in the context of cornell and it's probably a bubble of sorts, but it does seem like there is a much more diverse population now ready and able to hear this iteration of metoo
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ohh ... another one to share 🤩. This is from a project on menstruation tracking apps, led by Sarah Riley at Massey. We analyzed perimenopausal people's use of tracking apps and how they talk about the experience & how that shapes their sense of self. OA. doi.org/10.1177/0959...
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"My concern about the bans is that people will go underground. When they go underground online, bad things happen — really terrible things happen."
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Tech is entering its prohibition era. We've been here before.
Governments are seeking to set restrictions on popular tech. Though well-intentioned, the bans are easier said than done.
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So pleased to see this out in the world, building on 2 projects, supported by the Durham IAS & Tallinn Uni research fund, bringing together 2 sets of really interesting data with student creators on how they make sense of & present higher ed & student identity www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
born to dilly dally, forced to circle back. #monday
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
today is a blessed day of no meetings, only reviewing, revising and sourdough
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
danah's book is excellent, and today is the day you can buy it!
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Adult content creators are seen as real people by fans, rebutting years of anti-porn claims that sex work strips creators of humanity. In fact, OnlyFans creators were percieved as having more self-control, free will and capacity for independent thinking than other women.
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Sexual objectification does not erase the perceived humanity of OnlyFans creators, study suggests
People who sell explicit digital content online are heavily sexually objectified by observers, yet they are still viewed as capable individuals with free will. These findings challenge traditional psy...
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the problem with sitting on various evaluation panels is that reading proposals in high concentration leaves one feeling that absolutely every angle of absolutely everything is utterly FUBAR, because every proposal starts with a very insistent problem statement
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Interdisciplinary work makes me smarter & nicer. But, sometimes I can't help myself, so: "what do you mean your decided that this MASSIVE OVERSIMPLIFICATION is true & you're making forceful causal statements based on the maths you built on the oversimplification and not taking any notes please?!"
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
SMC was a magical space. Forever grateful to have been able to be a part of it and to all the people I could think with and be friends with as a result. Big love. Big sadness.
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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So thrilled to have @emae.bsky.social’s brilliant work on provenance and critical A.I. studies in the SI, where she calls for more direct engagement with archival theory “which has evolved for two centuries to consider sociocultural relations between records and creators” ! Read more ⬇️
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
nothing ruins a morning like getting phonecalls. Three phonecalls from strangers!
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Betty White Faints on Golden Girls
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Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out Maaike van der Horst (@utwente.bsky.social )’s review of @jenmadelene.bsky.social, @susannapaasonen.bsky.social, & @kattiid.bsky.social’s book _Hot Connections: Why Sexual Platforms Matter_, pub 2026 @mitpress.bsky.social #hstm Review @hnetreviews.bsky.social
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My PhD supervisee Raimond Merila has published and article on game inspired food cultures. A very cool addition to fandom and participatory cultures work, I think. Check it out if games, fandom, food or Zelda are your thing. If you don't have access, lmk.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Listening to "IGF DC Webinar: To Ban or Not to Ban – How to Protect Children Online?" What a treat to have both @sonialivingstone.bsky.social and Amanda Third speaking, such a wealth and depth of experience and not a clutched pearl in sight ❤️ 🤓
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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Yesterday I presented my research on shadowbanning, de-platforming and platform appeals to Samantha Niblett MP, together with a group of badass sex educators, activists and brands.
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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
My sister @rachelcleves.bsky.social has been dealing with every scholar's nightmare—a popular author taking sole credit for her work, flooding the zone with a derivative book using the same title and cover art as the original, without attribution. Buy Rachel's book, not the knockoff.
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Am I really the only one who absolutely needs for text to be justified (in terms of alignment) in any writing document I work on? Surely not? Surely there are others who are physically pained by the jagged edges of left aligned text?
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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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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
two days to book submission. one of the neighbors religiously practicing flute. excellent.
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Went on a hike, saw some birds. "The herons are aura farming," said son. Was impressed by both – bird species knowledge and the use of 'aura farming' as a legitimate zoological term.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A bunch of gay bars in San Francisco just started using facial recongition surveillance on customers. Madison Square Garden was just caught keeping "dossiers" on facial recognition activists ... including me Now is a great time to ask your fave artists to sign this banfacialrecognition.com/venues
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Ban Facial Recognition at Live Events
Artists and venues take the pledge: no facial recognition at shows.
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I really envy my son's ability to say "no thanks," in a sincere, polite, unbothered way to questions that are not intended to be questions, but he takes them as such, because they end with a question mark.
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Ana-Cristina Santos (she/her) @anacristinasantos.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
What is A Research Agenda for Queer Ageing? This short video introduces my new Open Access book. 🎥 Watch the Intro: www.youtube.com/shorts/kXtBi... 📖 Read in Open Access, share & enjoy! www.elgaronline.com/view/book/97... #trace_ces #queerageing #lgbtqiageing #SociologyMatters 🙏🏽@erc.europa.eu
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A Research Agenda for Queer Ageing — Meet the Editor | Ana Cristina Santos
YouTube video by Edward Elgar Publishing
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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026
Baker and writer Titty Boobowitz on working the kitchens at Meta: "Underneath all the futuristic branding, the metaverse was still just a workplace. A very ordinary American workplace full of ego, hierarchy, cowardice, bias, loneliness, office politics, protected mediocrity, and men who […]
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If interested in algorithmic practices and imaginaries in the context of wellbeing, check in out latest publication based on the TRAVIS project data. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... It's OA!
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Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
REMINDER!! Creator & Influencer Studies is open for article submissionsI also have 20 article process charge (APC) waivers to use before the end of the year, so submit now!
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
What I found interesting in Estonian research on this (altho w teens) was when kids said they feel safer knowing their parents know where they are. Also when parents said it avoids conflicts bc they don't have to call to check where their teens are in ways that would make them seem uncool to peers
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
saw Kings of Leon yesterday. I used to really like them before they married supermodels and started making moody-dad rock. The venue was awful tho & I felt bummed for them that they didn't get to do our Song Festival Grounds. But it was still kind of cool to see some of those songs performed live
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
ah, the season of the most boring sportsball is upon us. I know there are many diehard fans, but how can you do it? all they do is run, sometimes fall funnily, and very rarely score. The soundscape is psychosis inducing. Tennis is the only ballgame that has a reasonable run to score ratio
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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
get Fandom is Ugly for your Pride month reading! Learn how fan fiction resists heteronormativity but reproduces white supremacy, queer fan activism gets ugly and ignores racism, and the Anti Wars foreground sexuality and erase race. 40% off with code PRIDE40 nyupress.org/978147982496...
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Fandom Is Ugly
Winner, 2025 Diamond Anniversary Book Award, given by the National Communication AssociationHighlights the importance of considering contemporary public cult...
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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
i'm gonna try, once again, to like bsky. if you've figured it out, share tips pls? i used to like twitter. i will forever miss tumblr. i find linkedin mindnumbingly boring, i have lovely colleagues on FB, and love what they post, but it also hosts a debilitating amount of hate by my compatriots
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João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🚨CFP🚨 “Visual Cultures of Sexuality in Postwar Europe” (Birmingham City University, 19-20 May, 2027)
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
New cool job for a PhD candidate with quantitative social research skills!
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Susanna Paasonen @susannapaasonen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Our book with @jenmadelene.bsky.social and @kattiid.bsky.social is not only out, but available for OA downloading. Voilà!
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Hot Connections: Why Sexual Platforms Matter
A rethinking of “the social” in social media which includes the sexual.What can we learn from including sexual platforms in definitions of social media and
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Well would you look at that! 🥰📚 Hot Connections is real! It was a blast to research & write with @jenmadelene.bsky.social & @susannapaasonen.bsky.social ❤️❤️ blurbs by @alexmonea.bsky.social Tarleton Gillespie & @katha.bsky.social Big thanks to @noahspringer.com & everyone at @mitpress.bsky.social
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
If you need me, I am sorry, I have perished double authenticating myself to access 7 different collaborative projects' Teams servers, while working for a university that uses Google
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a woman is holding a yellow sticky note with help written on it
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 30/01/2026
the reaction to moltbook is more interesting than the actual substance of moltbook
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jess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
some exciting news: announcing CREATOR & INFLUENCER STUDIES, the first open-access peer reviewed journal dedicated to creator and influencer culture research. I'm honoured to be named as one of the journal's inaugural associate editors. submissions open Feb 12.
the cover of academic journal Creator & Influencer Studies. It's a purple gradient and the journal name appears in white font.
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I'm noticing that taking "AI in research" and "AI in teaching" trainings has the capacity to make one feel tired in a deep, existential way
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
We have a cover! Coming soon and OA too! Based on the Rethinking Sexualities project with the always brilliant, always beautiful, always kind @susannapaasonen.bsky.social and @jenmadelene.bsky.social Steered through the editorial process with ease and competence by @noahspringer.com at MIT Press
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Media ecologies and the politics of representation Winter School in Milan. Deadline for application November 20 www.formazione.unimib.it/it/winter_sc... Among the speakers, yours truly. Share with your early career researcher / PhD student colleagues please :)
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Media ecologies and the politics of representation
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
the academic urge to sustain one's grant writing entirely on coffee and candy instead of heating up the perfectly reasonable protein source
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
#aoir2025 also known as the twerking aoir #riogoeshard
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Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Am absolutely loving the crafting session - such brilliant, nuanced thinking on platforms, labor, craft, authenticity and identity by @kylzjarrett.bsky.social @afrontiercity.bsky.social @reneseifert.bsky.social and @susanluckywong.bsky.social #aoir2025
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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 16/10/2025
And so we learn that the Portuguese word for enshittification is merdificacão. 🤣 #AoIR2025
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