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Nik John @ilovejazzmusic.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Dr. CJ Reynolds and I are properly pleased to announce the publication of our brand new (but long-time-in-the-making) article, ‘That’s not where the cart goes!’: ragebait as accountability entertainment. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

New Preprint: Value-driven AI Governance Excited to share a preprint of a collaborative article on value-driven AI governance: osf.io/preprints/so... #AIAct #AIGovernance #Values

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CJ Reynolds @reynoldscj.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

🚨New publication alert! This one was a personal favorite of mine to work on, including fun facts about such topics as streamers farting into microphones for money. “Hot tubs, yoga pants, and gamba” is out now and open access in Platforms & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Abstract for the new Platforms & Society article "Hot tubs, yoga pants, and gamba: Twitch's controversial metas as cultural negotiations of platform governance" by CJ Reynolds.

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CJ Reynolds @reynoldscj.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

🚨New publication from my dissertation work! Examining the clash between First Amendment auditors and the police of Leon Valley, Texas, I theorize the development of paralocal relationships as a new form of civic engagement for the social media age. #openaccess

Screenshot of the title and abstract for the paper "Paralocal relationships: Re-placing civic engagement for the social media age" by CJ Reynolds in the journal New Media & Society.

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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

How does the professionalization of Trust & Safety shape global content moderation practices? We compare Community Guidelines using the typology of harms from TSPA to identify policy priorities and exclusions, available #openaccess in New Media & Society: doi.org/10.1177/1461...

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Priorities and exclusions within Trust and Safety industry standards - Blake Hallinan, CJ Reynolds, Rebecca Scharlach, Dana Theiler, Noa Niv, Omer Rothenstein, Isabell Knief, Yehonatan Kuperberg, 2025

Platform governance is simultaneously a matter of public concern and a professional calling for Trust and Safety, the nascent field tasked with setting and enfo...

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Internet Policy Review @policyr.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

YouTube creators challenge biased moderation with reaction videos, but may also legitimise platform authority. @blakeplease.bsky.social, @reynoldscj.bsky.social, Y. Kuperberg & O. Rothenstein analyse 115 videos, framing practices as aspirational platform governanc Read: doi.org/10.14763/2025.1.1829

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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

What do creators do when they feel that social media platforms aren’t treating them fairly? Our study of a controversy about racism and bias on YouTube, out now #openaccess in @policyr.bsky.social, offers a new answer: they participate in aspirational platform governance doi.org/10.14763/202...

Infographic promoting the key concept from the paper. Text reads: "Aspirational platform governance: Public expression of the desire to influence content moderation policies and practices without established channels or guarantees of success. (Hallinan, Reynolds, Kuperberg, & Rothenstein 2025)" along with a QR code that contains a link to the article: https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/aspirational-platform-governance

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Internet Policy Review @policyr.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

[New special issue] #Contentmoderation on digital platforms: beyond states and firms! As content regulation becomes increasingly politicised, this issue edited by Anne Bellon & Romain Badouard explores the growing role of #civilsociety in #platformgovernance. ⅕ Read: doi.org/10.14763/2025.1.2005

Cover image for a special issue on content moderation on digital platforms, featuring a coastal landscape and the title: ‘Content moderation on digital platforms: beyond states and firms’

Quote from A. Bellon & R. Badouard in a special issue on content moderation: ‘Content moderation encompasses a great diversity of actors. Users, NGOs, activists, journalists, advertisers, experts, designers and researchers are becoming more and more involved in moderation-related activities, apart from, in partnership with, or against public authorities and firms.’ The image features a coastal landscape background

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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

It has been a privilege to get to think with the #DigitalValues crew since 2019. The theoretical framework we present here is a proper cumulation of our work, and relevant to anyone else interested in values, social media, and global communication. PS I am very proud of the figure’s aesthetics 👇

Triangle figure of general value orientations (do well, do good, feel good) and rectangle figure of communicative value orientations (inform, express, influence, bond)

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limorshifman.bsky.social @limorshifman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The power of values for understanding social media is also their curse: they are everywhere. In an #openaccess article in New Media & Society, the Digital Values team presents an analytic framework for systematically making sense of values in digital spheres: doi.org/10.1177/1461...

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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Your favorite [✨manifesting✨] academic duo @reynoldscj.bsky.social + I will talk about the role of creators, degenerates, and provocateurs [not mutually exclusive] in platform governance tomorrow for the behind-the-scenes series from @pgmt.bsky.social 3-4 pm CET Register here: tinyurl.com/3v45nxr3

Title slide announcing the talk "Malcontents as method: How bad actors offer an alternative vision of good governance on social media" from Blake Hallinan and CJ Reynolds.

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

📣 Online Talk Series (15): @blakeplease.bsky.social & @reynoldscj.bsky.social - “Malcontents as method: How bad actors offer an alternative vision of good governance on social media” 🗓️January 28, 2025 🕛3-4 pm (CET) 📍Online Event 👉 Event & Registration: platform-governance.org/online-talk-...

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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

!!Attention!! people who care about platforms, monetization, parasocial relationships, and/or idols: the exceptionally talented MA student @landrous.bsky.social and I have a paper for you, #openaccess in the fresh new journal Platforms & Society theorizing parasocial media doi.org/10.1177/2976...

Text reads: "Parasocial media: platforms that feature 1) asymmetrical relationships between different classes of users, 2) tiered access to content and/or communication, and 3) tools to directly monetize relationships."

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Rebecca Scharlach @rscarlets.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Excited I get to present new (work in progress) research out of my postdoc project at the #AlgoSoc conference 🙃 WT “Competing Priorities: Identifying Value Gaps Between Public and Private Governance” with @blakeplease.bsky.social & @reynoldscj.bsky.social Stay tuned & see you in Amsterdam!

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CJ Reynolds @reynoldscj.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/2... "In her lawsuit, Gifford alleges that Sheil copied her, down to specific frames in videos. She claims that repeated pattern and Sheil’s uncannily similar content ultimately cut into Gifford’s own earnings." Reminds me of the SSSniperWolf react persona drama

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The influencer lawsuit that could change the industry

Behind the scenes of a court battle for the “clean girl” look.

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CJ Reynolds @reynoldscj.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

www.nature.com/articles/d41... "For example, a 2021 study found that a lack of comprehensive and open archiving meant that 174 open-access journals, covering all major research topics and geographical regions, vanished from the web in the first two decades of this millennium."

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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

📢Q. How do creators challenge restrictive copyright enforcement? A. Platform callouts. Our new #openaccess article in @PolicyR assesses the benefits and limitations of creator-driven governance: policyreview.info/articles/analy… with @reynoldscj.bsky.social and Omer Rothenstein

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 11/11/2024

Bluesky, Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this

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CJ Reynolds @reynoldscj.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

New article! In “User-generated accountability: Public participation in algorithmic governance on YouTube,” Blake Hallinan and I investigate how YouTube creators act to hold the platform accountable in the face of policy failures and make noise to draw attention to their concerns. t.co/vdhoIbqhKW

Screenshot of Reynolds and Hallinan article on User-Generated Accountability from the journal New Media and Society

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