Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I 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. 060
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026looking 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 100
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026ohh ... 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... 062
Reposted by Katrin TiidenbergMike 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."businessinsider.comTech 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. 24624
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026So 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.... 042
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026born to dilly dally, forced to circle back. #monday 030
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026today is a blessed day of no meetings, only reviewing, revising and sourdough 070
Reposted by Katrin TiidenbergDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026danah's book is excellent, and today is the day you can buy it! 1399
Reposted by Katrin TiidenbergMike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Adult 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.psypost.orgSexual objectification does not erase the perceived humanity of OnlyFans creators, study suggestsPeople 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... 121563608
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026the 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 030
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Interdisciplinary 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?!" 000
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026SMC 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. 030
Reposted by Katrin Tiidenbergkatie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026So 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 ⬇️ 0125
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026nothing ruins a morning like getting phonecalls. Three phonecalls from strangers!static.klipy.comBetty White Faints on Golden GirlsALT: Betty White Faints on Golden Girls 040
Reposted by Katrin TiidenbergDr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026New 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.socialh-net.org 121
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 13/07/2026My 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. 0136
Reposted by Katrin TiidenbergSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face. 7763701313
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Listening 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 ❤️ 🤓 151
Reposted by Katrin TiidenbergDr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Yesterday 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. 2121
Reposted by Katrin TiidenbergAram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026My 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. 1124
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Am 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? 130
Reposted by Katrin TiidenbergEmily van der Nagel @emvdn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Digital 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.comdigitalintimacies12.wordpress.comdigitalintimacies12 098
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026two days to book submission. one of the neighbors religiously practicing flute. excellent. 060
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Went 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. 040
Reposted by Katrin TiidenbergEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026A 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/venuesbanfacialrecognition.comBan Facial Recognition at Live EventsArtists and venues take the pledge: no facial recognition at shows. 3582319
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I 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. 130
Reposted by Katrin TiidenbergAna-Cristina Santos (she/her) @anacristinasantos.bsky.social · 25/06/2026What 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.euyoutube.comA Research Agenda for Queer Ageing — Meet the Editor | Ana Cristina SantosYouTube video by Edward Elgar Publishing 083
Reposted by Katrin TiidenbergKevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026Baker 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 […]aoir.socialOriginal post on aoir.social 011
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 18/06/2026If 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! 023
Reposted by Katrin TiidenbergJess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social · 16/06/2026REMINDER!! 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! 145
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 15/06/2026What 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 040
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 15/06/2026saw 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 030
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 12/06/2026ah, 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 100
Reposted by Katrin TiidenbergMel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 11/06/2026get 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...nyupress.orgFandom Is UglyWinner, 2025 Diamond Anniversary Book Award, given by the National Communication AssociationHighlights the importance of considering contemporary public cult... 11210
Reposted by Katrin TiidenbergSchera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026This 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 242125056543
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 10/06/2026i'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 492
Reposted by Katrin TiidenbergJoão Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 09/06/2026🚨CFP🚨 “Visual Cultures of Sexuality in Postwar Europe” (Birmingham City University, 19-20 May, 2027) 11911
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 24/04/2026New cool job for a PhD candidate with quantitative social research skills! 010
Reposted by Katrin TiidenbergSusanna Paasonen @susannapaasonen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Our book with @jenmadelene.bsky.social and @kattiid.bsky.social is not only out, but available for OA downloading. Voilà!direct.mit.eduHot Connections: Why Sexual Platforms MatterA 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 0166
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Well 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 1235
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 09/02/2026If 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 Googlemedia.tenor.coma woman is holding a yellow sticky note with help written on itALT: a woman is holding a yellow sticky note with help written on it 180
Reposted by Katrin Tiidenbergtachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 30/01/2026the reaction to moltbook is more interesting than the actual substance of moltbook 3724
Reposted by Katrin Tiidenbergjess rauchberg @jessrauchberg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026some 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. 13311
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 14/01/2026I'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 040
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 12/11/2025We 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 1203
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Media 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 :)formazione.unimib.itMedia ecologies and the politics of representation 020
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 24/10/2025the academic urge to sustain one's grant writing entirely on coffee and candy instead of heating up the perfectly reasonable protein source 040
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 19/10/2025#aoir2025 also known as the twerking aoir #riogoeshard 081
Katrin Tiidenberg @kattiid.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Am 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 271
Reposted by Katrin TiidenbergAxel Bruns @snurb.info · 16/10/2025And so we learn that the Portuguese word for enshittification is merdificacão. 🤣 #AoIR2025 12912