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Maxwell Foxman @maxwellfoxman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

New Book Chapter w/ @nieborg.bsky.social about early days of AI news coverage. Drawing from our book, we argue mainstreaming AI will be hard, especially given expectations for journalists to play with and understand the tech. Send me a note if you need a copy: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

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Mainstreaming AI | 8 | How Journalists Play with Emerging Technologies

This chapter examines the role of US-based journalists in shaping artificial intelligence (AI) discourses and imaginaries as the innovation becomes increasingly

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Digital Journalism @digitaljournalism.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

ONLINE FIRST! This article by Jonas C. L. Valente et al. analyzes counterbalancing #platform power in online news as a #collective regulatory and political effort to restructure the terms of the platform-publisher relationship ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Maxwell Foxman @maxwellfoxman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Don’t know how I missed this but many thanks to @stantium.bsky.social for this kind review of @nieborg.bsky.social and my book from 2023! Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

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Alexander Ross @alexross73.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

New publication alert! Article by @nieborg.bsky.social and myself on platforms and institutional risk. We use the social casino developer Playtika to assess the shaping of financial, infrastructural, and regulatory risks in the platform economy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Playtika's platform problems: Theorizing and analyzing risk in digital platform economics - Alexander Ross, David B. Nieborg, 2026

Risk is often an implicit theme in platform studies and is rarely made explicit in the analysis of platform power. The increased dependencies created by digital...

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Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Some personal news, as they say. Get your submissions ready for when our portal opens February 12. As the founding editor-in-chief of the new Springer Nature academic journal Creator and Influencer Studies, I’m thrilled to welcome them. link.springer.com/journal/44538

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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Hot off the press: Chris J Young, Daniel J Joseph and @nieborg.bsky.social trace a platform historiography of #Unity to discuss how workflows create dexterous corporate lockins in cultural production journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... enjoy!

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Maxwell Foxman @maxwellfoxman.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Another kind review of our work by Andreas Rauscher about @nieborg.bsky.social and my book! For those who speak German, this may be a good one for you: mediarep.org/server/api/c...

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Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Check out Gabriel Antúnez De Mayolo Kou (UWisconsin-La Crosse)‬’s review of @nieborg.bsky.social (@utoronto.ca‬) & @maxwellfoxman.bsky.social‬ (@uoregon.bsky.social‬)’s book _Mainstreaming & Game Journalism_ (2023) @mitpress.bsky.social Review avail @hnetreviews.bsky.social

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David B. Nieborg @nieborg.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

ICYMI: the special issue "on TikTok creators and digital economies" in which Kaushar Mahetaji and I have a paper on TikTok's historical development as "platform tool" is out now. Here's the introduction: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (& here's our paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....)

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Special issue introduction: reflecting on TikTok creators and digital economies

From global trends to record-breaking growth, TikTok provides new playgrounds for popular culture, low barrier participation in public life, and new forces of creator labour that are reshaping cult...

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Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

In our new article with @producing2power.bsky.social, we examine the tensions and labor dynamics faced by Latin American influencers working in the U.S. Published in the @ijcs-journal.bsky.social.

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Maxwell Foxman @maxwellfoxman.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Read Jim’s book! Short review is it’s very good if you’re interested in game tools!

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Dear universities, I am begging you to stop requiring letters of recommendation for master's programmes. You and I both know you don't read them, so stop asking for them. Instead, have applicants list a name and get in touch if it's a borderline case. Signed, Everyone.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

This is really great, and a good reminder to every academic to always resist saying the reason your own research matters is because ‘no one else has done it’. It’s almost certainly wrong and, even if true, not a good reason for doing it being worthwhile.

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David B. Nieborg @nieborg.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

It's official. I've been promoted to Full Professor at @uoft.bsky.social! Grateful to all those who made this happen.

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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

💥 New article: Labour and migration in the games industry: circulation of workers and struggles across Brazilian and British contexts, with André Campos Rocha and Jamie Woodcock in Globalizations journal. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Tip for PhD applicants reaching out to prospective advisors: Don’t use an LLM to write these emails. It’s not a great first impression to express your admiration for a recent paper the faculty member published if that paper does not exist.

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