iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Esteban Morales @estebanmorales.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Thrilled to share that our special issue on NMS (co-edited with @tomdivon.bsky.social & Martin Lundqvist) is officially out! 🎉🎉🎉 10 empirical pieces + an introductory article exploring the contextual nature of violence on digital platforms. journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/28/4

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New Media & Society - Volume 28, Number 4

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Ohh, new eggs, same basket? Ideally, less driven by lobbying, more by publics 🐣🧺

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Ben O'Loughlin @benoloughlin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This sums a lot of what AI offers, some blurry vibes, and how its promise is part of a longer history of dealing with some pretty big dilemmas. By @tomdivon.bsky.social + Christian Pentzold: AI can make the dead talk – why this doesn’t comfort us: theconversation.com/ai-can-make-...

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Kilian Buehling @buehling.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Live-Streaming: Mapping Networks of Influence and (Dis)information Flow (van Boheemen, @boesch.bsky.social, @tomdivon.bsky.social et al.) I was just made aware of this very insightful report on the usage of TikTok Live-Streaming by far-right extremists. www.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/SummerSc...

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SummerSchool2025LiveStreaming < Dmi < Foswiki

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Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics | ReCentGlobe @recentglobe.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Wednesday: @tomdivon.bsky.social will explore questions of evidence, testimony, credibility and truth concerning the use of generative AI in Palestinian activism. With commentary from Lilly Boxman-Shabtai (Jerusalem) & Julian Kuttig (Leipzig), chaired by Christian Pentzold (Leipzig) #GlobeColloquium

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Blake Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

How about that impact, @tomdivon.bsky.social ! Congrats 👏👏

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Arturo Arriagada @arturoarriagada.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

New article written by @tomdivon.bsky.social and Tobias Ebbretch-Hartmann in New Media & Society. What happens when creators, with no historical ties, perform on TikTok as if they were Holocaust victims using trends, dance, and filters? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

If Karoline Leavitt is correct and TikTok’s algorithm is going to split so a new US entity has oversight of it, it could lobotmise the app in America. My latest for @fastcompany.com, featuring @jessmaddox.bsky.social, @boesch.bsky.social and @tomdivon.bsky.social www.fastcompany.com/91408598/tru...

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How a new U.S.-flavored algorithm will alter the experience of TikTok

A rumored split between TikTok’s algorithm in the United States and the computer code running the app elsewhere could put off users—and destroy TikTok’s secret sauce.

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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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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

📢📢📢 PhD publication! after 1.5 years of ethnographic exploration of Ukrainian creators on TikTok, I'm thrilled to share our OA work with my brilliant friend @moaerikssonkrut.bsky.social on PLAYFUL TRAUMA in times of war and adversity 🇺🇦 💛 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Playful Trauma: TikTok Creators and the Use of the Platformed Body in Times of War - Tom Divon, Moa Eriksson Krutrök, 2024

Amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, TikTok has emerged as a pivotal platform, where creators utilize its compressed video formats to mediate the harsh realiti...

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

New publication! 🚨 Together with my brill team (@taylorannabell.bsky.social & @cgoanta.bsky.social), we explore how parents turn kids into commodities on TikTok, diving into the nuances of *kidfluencers* & raising legal questions about platform governance. See🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

📢📢📢 My brilliant friend @danijaradent.bsky.social and I have released a report (from our TCRN event) shedding light on the structural inequalities that shape the experiences of Latin American creators on TikTok. Their reality is one of constant struggle; see 🧵 tiktokcultures.com/latam-report/

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Latin American Cultures on TikTok

Download the report (PDF). About ‘Latin American Cultures on TikTok’ collects and expands on some of the main takeaways from the Latin American Cultures on TikTok event, which took place on N…

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Sadly, our iPhones have become sources of trauma. Perves can harass with their dick pic via AirDrop, and 'Memories' resurface painful moments we'd prefer to forget; @nicolettelittle.bsky.social & I delve into the unsolicited nature of algos with this OA piece (🧵) www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

From Ukraine🇺🇦 to Gaza🇵🇸, Syria🇸🇾, Lebanon🇱🇧, and now India🇮🇳 & Pakistan🇵🇰, creators use SM platforms to make their conflicts more visible. They're curators, eyewitnesses, and living archives of atrocity. @moaerikssonkrut.bsky.social & I call them *War Influencers*; OA in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social 🧵

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Esteban Morales @estebanmorales.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

New annotated resource on #SocialMediaViolence: The rise of war influencers: Creators, platforms, and the visibility of conflict zones, by @tomdivon.bsky.social and @moaerikssonkrut.bsky.social Read my notes here: esteban-morales.com/lit-review-v...

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The rise of war influencers: Creators, platforms, and the visibility of conflict zones – Esteban Morales

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Dream team incoming - @taylorannabell.bsky.social @gorwa.ca @rscarlets.bsky.social Jacob van de Kerkhof @thelesbertaglia.bsky.social with a powerful reminder of how search recommendations shape what is visible, trusted and treated as credible knowledge & we better keep our eyes on it as researchers👇

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

a true challenge by the brill @bloggeronpole.bsky.social & @pamogranite.bsky.social to the corporate discourse of *community* on platforms. They capture how creators at risk are forced to navigate corpo-civic spaces where care, visibility & belonging are destabilized by commercial governance; GOLD👇

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

We’ve poured much care into crafting this piece; please read and share! See full paper below 👇 Thank you, Julie Yujie Chen, @grohmannrafael.bsky.social, Andrea Pollio, @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social, and @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social for being such a home for us! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

We argue war influencers matter because they (1) fill the void left by mainstream journalism, (2) democratize conflict communication, (3) build bottom-up epistemologies, (4) reshape how war is seen, felt, and known by young ppl & (5) blur witnessing with performance, raising urgent ethical stakes👇

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

🔎 Using ethnographic lens, we analyzed 97 TikTok videos from Ukrainian (🇺🇦) creators, identifying three styles of war communication: POV Storytelling - intimate war testimonies; Memetic Remixing - war + trending memes; Playful Politainment - using LIVE, humor, and performance to fundraise & mobilize👇

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

To make sense of war influencers, we draw from three key traditions: 📸 War Photography - the long legacy of visualizing suffering, ✊ Citizen Journalism - real-time, mobile, from-the-ground truth-telling, 🔉 Creator & Platform Studies - platform vernaculars, algorithmic fluency, and visibility labor👇

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

We dive into *user-war influencers* and read them as content creators embedded in conflict zones who document, narrate, and aestheticize their experiences through platform-native vernaculars. They don’t monetize for profit, but for their authoritative voice in shaping public discourse👇

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

We offer a typology with two kinds of war influencers: 🤳Celebrity-war influencers - existing stars who use their status to engage in wartime advocacy (like Gigi Hadid); 🤳User-war influencers - individuals who rise from anonymity into global fame, depending solely on algorithmic amplification👇

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

@alicetiara.bsky.social: "It's very important that we, as a community, counter those [false accusations of censorship] narratives head on and not cede ground. …When you let another party frame the debate, you lose the debate before it's even started." m.youtube.com/watch?v=p8ST...

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UNC Professor Alice Marwick on the need to counter false narratives

YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit

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Nathalie Schäfer @nathalierimb.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I am officially part of @aoir.bsky.social exec!! Thank you to all who voted and @tomdivon.bsky.social for the encouragement ✨

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Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) @aoir.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Your 2025-2027 AoIR Executive Committee! President: Sarah Roberts Vice President: Andra Siibak Immediate Past President: Nicholas John Secretary: Nathalie Schäfer Treasurer: Robert W. Gehl Graduate Student Rep: Lynrose Jane Genon Open Seats: Admire Mare, Rebecca Scharlach, & Meg Jing Zeng.

Here is your 2025-2027 AoIR Executive Committee,
taking office in October 2025!

President (elected as Vice President in the 2023 Election): Sarah Roberts, UCLA, USA

Vice President (becomes President in two years):
Andra Siibak, University of Tartu, Estonia

Immediate Past President (elected as Vice President in the 2021 Election): Nicholas John, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Secretary: Nathalie Schäfer,
Weimar University, Germany

Treasurer: Robert W. Gehl, York University, Canada

Graduate Student Representative:
Lynrose Jane Genon, QUT, Australia

Open Seats: Admire Mare, University of Johannesburg, South Africa; Rebecca Scharlach, University of Bremen, Germany; and Meg Jing Zeng, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

It’s so tiring to fight a majority that keeps driving us toward a reckless future. But we know there is still a path forward; one that begins with the basic recognition of existence for both Israelis & Palestinians. Hope is resistance @standing-together.bsky.social @alonlee.bsky.social 🟣 💜

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

That same Meir Kahane, symbol of violent, racist Jewish ultranationalism. "The singer, who also spent time in prison, explains why he believes both The Hague and Gaza should be flattened (...) claims that Netanyahu is the 'left of the right'"; This isn't a marginal voice. This is Israel.

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Israel, 2025. This is where the media and everyday civilians now stand morally. The front page of a major newspaper calling for the flattening of Gaza and the Hague, featuring a piece on one of the country's leading singers, with the headline. “I would vote for Kahane.” Yes, that Meir Kahane ⬇️

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Oh, Michael, yes! That would be perfect for a revision on related work I’m doing nowadays. I’ll be thrilled having the PDF. Thank you 🫶🩷

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The brill @thechristinet.bsky.social reminds us that whether we "like it or not, we associate height with power”; great piece about how in politics, stature is not just symbolic for us but can shape credibility, leadership perception, and even electability!👇

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Pre-Trump 2.0, Big Tech seemed to at least pretend to care about user rights, & used PR & comms as a way to engage in damage control (as @tomdivon.bsky.social, @pamogranite.bsky.social & I have argued in our paper on gaslighting as a platform comms strategy): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Platform gaslighting: A user-centric insight into social media corporate communications of content moderation - Tom Divon, Carolina Are, Pam Briggs, 2025

This paper delves into communications dynamics between social media platforms and their users as they navigate the opacity of governance policies. Using Meta an...

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I've just finished my talk for the BSWC "Villainous" conference, where I shared strategies for communicating with social media platforms to push for change & make an impact with NGO &/or academic / union work. Yet, comms with platforms are getting more frustrating⤵️

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Brill team (👇) frames creator engagement with moderation as an *aspirational* form of participatory governance; creators express desires to influence moderation but lack structural guarantees, often ending up "legitimating the platform as arbiter of public discourse and cultural production.” READ! 🔍

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

In the past 2y, I’ve served on the AoIR exec as the grad rep and advocated for the younger members of our community. We’ve made meaningful changes, and more to come! With elections open (nominations due April 2 🗳️) now is your chance to join! Don’t hesitate to reach out; happy to share experiences <3

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Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This is our plan for today: Attending "Platform Gaslighting" by @tomdivon.bsky.social @bloggeronpole.bsky.social (3pm CET) as part of our online talk series on platform governance @pgmt.bsky.social. 👇Find last minute registration and info below.

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marty, @numet.al · 18/03/2025

the press are helping facilitate a genocide

6 headlines, in order, from Axios, NBC News, Fox News, CNN, Bloomberg, Reuters

"Israel resumes war in Gaza with a series of massive air strikes against Hamas", "Israel says it is striking Hamas targets in Gaza and will intensify military force", "Ceasefire over as Israel strikes Gaza after Hamas refused to release hostages, officials say", "Israel says it is carrying out extensive strikes in Gaza", "Israel says it's launching strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza", "Israeli military conducts strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza, army says"

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

How algorithmic ableism reproduces bias for disabled and marginalized creators through content suppression and surveillance —> the brill @jessrauchberg.bsky.social! 👇🫶🙌

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, March 18! Join us (@bloggeronpole.bsky.social) as we unpack platform governance, gaslighting, and methods for making sense of creators’ lived experiences!👇✨

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

ירדן... בדיוק כאבתי את הפוסט המגוחך שלו.. והתגאיתי בעידן הנסיך שהגיב. ניסיתי להצטרף לקול של עידן, אבל נגמרה לי הסוללה באמצע. אין לי כוח יותר :( סליחה @edanring.bsky.social

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Lab Platform Governance, Media, and Technology (PGMT) @pgmt.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

📣 Online Talk Series (17): @tomdivon.bsky.social & @bloggeronpole.bsky.social - “Platform Gaslighting” 🗓️März 18, 2025 🕛3-4 pm (CET) 📍Online Event 👉 To the Event and Registration: platform-governance.org/online-talk-...

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Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון @tomdivon.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Join us for a deep dive into the hidden gems within this brilliant collection of chapters! #TheHashtagHustle ✨👇

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