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Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

The creator function, post-structuralism, and the perils of terminological dissonance - @producing2power.bsky.social, & @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social (2025). Published in the @ijcs-journal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Tanner Mirrlees @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The podcast series “Green Dreams” is now live. It was a pleasure to collaborate with @imreszeman.bsky.social and the folks at Cited Media Productions. A big thank you SSHRC for support, and Gordon Katic and Marc Apollonio, for media production talents! citedpodcast.com/category/sea...

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Season 04: Green Dreams Archives - Cited Podcast

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Caleb Wellum @calebwellum.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

A great talk, which is featured on the @energyhumanities.bsky.social website (Instagram promo coming soon!): www.energyhumanities.ca/video. #envhum

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Tanner Mirrlees @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Last month, I gave a presentation on Silicon Valley, energy systems, and environmental sustainability based on some of the work of I've been doing in the area for the past five years. Some of this will appear in Imre Szeman and I's co-authored book on the topic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGWu...

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Is Silicon Valley “Going Green”? Digital Tech, Energy Systems and Environmental Sustainability

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ICCIT @iccit-utm.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Starting today! 📣🍁📚

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

🎙️ Please enjoy this episode of The Data Fix: Solidarity, with Shannon Wait In this episode, Shannon Wait — Alphabet Workers Union-CWA organizer — speaks with me about the labour conditions for data center and AI workers. shows.acast.com/63997541ed12...

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Solidarity, with Shannon Wait | The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan

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ICCIT @iccit-utm.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The Canadian Communication Association's annual conference will take place from June 2-5! ICCIT director and professor Sarah Sharma will be presenting the keynote, entitled "All the Insufferable Tools." acc-cca.ca/index.php/co...

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Kylie Jarrett @kylzjarrett.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

If anyone I know is in Toronto at the end of the month, swing by to hear me talk about some ideas I am exploring in relation to platform work and digital labor.

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Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I’m honoured to be giving the 2025 Dallas Smythe Memorial Lecture at Simon Fraser University in a few weeks. If you’re in Vancouver, come say hi!

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Sophie Bishop @sophiebishop.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Hello I've decided to use Blue Sky now. In unrelated news, my book 'Influencer Creep' will be published with University of California press in October 2025. It's about the ways influencer culture has transformed creative work. Preorder here: www.ucpress.edu/books/influe...

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Tanner Mirrlees @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

New prez!"AI's Hidden Abode of Production: Labour, Capital, Conflict": AI labour & deskilling and automation of jobs in creative and tech industries: "AI labor ethics from above and below" @brocklabour.bsky.social . #ai #creativity #aiethics, #labour #capitalism #work www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWGA...

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AI's Hidden Abode of Production

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The Costs of War Project @costsofwar.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

NEW: Our latest research series #ConsumingWar looks at the militarization of pop culture. Up first: Movies and TV. [THREAD] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

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Nicole O’Byrne @nobyrne.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

@tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social is giving a great talk “Attending to the work and labour of AI in the digital media and entertainment industries” at the CLSA mid-winter meeting at Ontario Tech University.

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Tanner Mirrlees @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

My new book Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries: A Critical Introduction is out (lnkd.in/gjNH2KDT). ESA04 is a 20% discount code. Looking forward to my book chat at TMU's Creative School this Tuesday. More to come!

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Tanner Mirrlees @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

In 2019, I wrote an essay on GAFAM's "power" (structural and relational). www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/gafams... In 2024, another on Google for The Tech Lobby Project, about how US tech and platform companies lobby governments to try to shape public policy) thetechlobby.ca/googles-digi...

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Google’s Digital Policy Power: Public Policy Shaping and Private Policy Making – The Tech Lobby

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Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

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‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley

The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Cyber-Marx @25, event with +20 researchers providing provocations and updates on the book. This in-person event will take place at the Centre for Culture and Technology/ University of Toronto on February 28, 9AM-4:30PM Details here: cybermarx25.eventbrite.ca

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Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

A must-watch! Tanner’s new book is excellent and an exceptional resource for those of us teaching work and labour in media and cultural and digital industries.

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Tanner Mirrlees @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Thank you @grohmannrafael.bsky.social and DigiLabor for organizing this online event! I had a wonderful time chatting about the "labor turn" in communication, media and cultural studies. I appreciated the thoughtful questions from all the participants. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XVL...

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Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries - Book Talk with Tanner Mirrlees

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 14/01/2025

Now watching live! @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social new book talk on Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XVL...

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Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries - Book Talk with Tanner Mirrlees

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Union for Democratic Communications @uniondemcomm.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

UDC 2025: The Future We Want: Resistance and Resolve June 19 - 22, 2025 | Call for Papers is LIVE: www.democraticcomm.org

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IAMCR @iamcr.org · 05/12/2024

IAMCR is now on Bluesky and letting you all know that we are receiving proposals for our 2025 conference in Singapore. See the conference website at singapore2025.iamcr.org and submit your abstract before 7 February.

Communicating Environmental Justice: Many Voices, One Planet

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Local to more places: Independent, worker owned media courtesy of @laminda.bsky.social and @gregpak.bsky.social go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Folks, now that @timnitgebru.bsky.social is here I want to encourage you all to check out the *extended* critical AI starter pack because it’s got some stellar recent additions :) go.bsky.app/B2kmVWg

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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

🚨🚨🚨Final Call! Join us on our next seminar “The reshaping of #HigherEd by #DigitalTech” with @davidstaley8.bsky.social, @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social, Darren Moon & @jkom.bsky.social. 📅Date: Wed, Dec 11th. 🕐Time: 1:00 p.m. (GMT). 📍This is an ONLINE event. 🔗Register here ▶ shorturl.at/hi5fz

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The reshaping of higher education by digital technologies

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Media and Communication @ University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

👉 The Media & Communication starter pack of starter packs 📺 🎞️ 📱 💬 Internet Studies: go.bsky.app/LVrPemK Internet Studies 2: go.bsky.app/KHmxfWf Internet Studies 3: go.bsky.app/9uYafGv Media Theory: go.bsky.app/RGLr16b Audience Studies: go.bsky.app/2CKVP4u

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Zoë Glatt @zoeglatt.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

My thesis is available open access online! This was the product of years of blood, sweat and tears and I'm very proud of it. I hope others, especially current PhD students, will find it useful! ✨💖 READ HERE: etheses.lse.ac.uk/4577/1/Glatt...

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Bilge Yesil @bilgeyesil.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Updated list of global media+comm scholars. Lmk if you want to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/Avb3yM

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Centre for Higher Education Transformations - CHET @chet-bristol.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

⏰Get your tickets today! Join @davidstaley8.bsky.social @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social Darren Moon and @jkom.bsky.social on Dec 11th at 1:00 p.m. (GMT) for our next online seminar “The reshaping of #HigherEd by #DigitalTech”. 🔗Register here ▶ shorturl.at/ifwnA #HigherEducation #Digitalisation #AI

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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 23/11/2024

Maintaining its popularity is this film and media history starter pack. Will post the second pack below. go.bsky.app/12Wo3y5

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

My department just made its own Starter Pack. Of interest to those who take humanistic approaches to the study of social justice and media.

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Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I made a Law and Technology Scholars starter pack!

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Andrew Maynard @andrewmaynard.net · 10/11/2024

started a Starter Pack of people with something interesting to say about technology, society and the future -- who else should be here? go.bsky.app/PYtcTt5

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Charlie Radclyffe @charlierad.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I’ve created a Freedom of Information Request starter pack People and organisations skilled, experienced or enthusiastic about FOI Also relates to: • Internal Reviews • Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) • Related legal decisions #FOI #ICO #IR #starterpack #UK #law go.bsky.app/TMBagH2

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I work at the intersection of democracy & information integrity. I have contact w/ many journalists who focus on social media, as well as various experts and researchers. I created a starter pack! I made recent updates, so if you’ve seen this before, click for new accounts👇 go.bsky.app/3urfrLt

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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Starter pack for those working on misinfo, disinfo, information integrity, digital authoritarianism, propaganda etc. Definitely a work in progress, reply if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/V4Po9wB

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Audrey Alejandro @audreyalejandro.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A starter pack for people interested in discourse in World Politics / International Relations. Please let me know if you would like to be added and don't hesitate to recommend underrepresented scholars and scholars from the "global south" 💫 go.bsky.app/ALZb66Q

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 18/11/2024

Using my starter pack to recommend Australian Media & Communication scholars. go.bsky.app/KF3hJ7j

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Meghan Wise @meghanwise.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A Climate Change Artists starter pack to help connect folks engaging the Arts for meaningful #climate communication. Message if you’d like to be added. OR if you’d like to be removed to respect preferences. #ClimateArt go.bsky.app/TZ7Ypj4

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Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk · 20/10/2024

Interesting in Science Communication. Here is a starter pack to boost your feed. #scicomm go.bsky.app/VJQzace

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Nat (she/they) 🔪🌱 @murderveggie.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Time to celebrate your local #CommunityBuilders in the games industry 🎮🛠️ Follow this #StarterPack: go.bsky.app/9cVkvrQ Add this #List to your pins: bsky.app/profile/did:... If you work in the field and would like to be added, simply reply below! #CM #SocialMedia #Marketing #PR #Communication

Starter Pack thumbnail: Games Industry - Community Builders

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Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

If you're new to Blue Sky and interested in free speech, communication policy, media law, the First Amendment, and/or regulation of emerging tech, I've created a starter pack you should check out. Send additional suggestions! go.bsky.app/DqZiW7c

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Cara Hawkins-Jedlicka @carabyrd.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Happy Sunday!! If you are looking for smart feminist communication scholars and overall rad humans - follow this @aejmc.bsky.social CSW starter pack. go.bsky.app/4LYyxRH

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Sarah J. Tracy @sarahjtracy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I have updated the Communication Scholar on Blue Sky Starter Pack. If you fit the description and want to be added, let me know. Great to see so many of you on here! go.bsky.app/VmYQ35w

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Rebecca Hains, author @rchains.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Here’s a new starter pack of professors teaching social media (or incorporating it into their classes). Looking for people with informed takes on social media, influencer marketing, influencing, digital media communication, and more? Connect with these #SMProfs. 👏🦋 PS. LMK if I missed you!

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