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Tuğçe Bidav

@tugcebidav.bsky.social
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Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London | Interested in platforms, digital labour & creator cultures www.kcl.ac.uk/people/tugce-bidav

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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 1h
@zoeglatt.bsky.social @tomdivon.bsky.social @producing2power.bsky.social @bloggeronpole.bsky.social @weareccsn.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 1h
📢 Call for Papers | ICA 2027 Pre-conference | Centring Creators across Intersecting Ecosystems: Labour, Agency, and Collaboration 🔗 Full CFP: kingsdh.net/2026/10/13/c... ⏰ Submission deadline: 23:59 GMT on 1 February 2026
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Call for Papers | Centring Creators across Intersecting Ecosystems: Labour, Agency, and Collaboration – King's College London Digital Humanities
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Join us for the book launch of Global South Creator Cultures on Tuesday, 20 January, 17:30–19:00, at King’s College London. Further information and registration details: www.tickettailor.com/events/digit... @kingsdh.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social @mediaindustries.bsky.social
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
✨ Chapter Spotlight — Global South Creator Cultures Chapter 7, by Cecilia Ka Hei Wong, presents a case study of Emilia Wong and explores how a feminist activist creator in Hong Kong negotiates overlapping systems of censorship and harassment. #GlobalSouth #CreatorCultures #HongKong
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
✨ Chapter Spotlight — Global South Creator Cultures Chapter 6, by Janna Serres, offers an ethnographic account of Lagos-based influencers navigating platform economies in a context marked by economic instability, infrastructural breakdown, and state retreat. #GlobalSouth #CreatorCultures #Nigeria
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
✨ Chapter Spotlight — Global South Creator Cultures Chapter 5, by Elliot Montpellier, traces how former television professionals in Pakistan reinvent themselves as creators in the wake of a collapsing legacy media industry. #GlobalSouth #CreatorCultures #Pakistan #MediaWork
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Join us for the book launch of Global South Creator Cultures on Tuesday, 20 January, 17:30–19:00, at King’s College London. Further information and registration details: www.tickettailor.com/events/digit... @kingsdh.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social @mediaindustries.bsky.social
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
✨ Chapter Spotlight — Global South Creator Cultures Chapter 4, by Karis K. Wilson and @arturoarriagada.bsky.social explores how Chilean creators juggle content creation alongside formal employment, offering a unique perspective on the convergence of traditional and platform-based labour.
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
✨ Chapter Spotlight — Global South Creator Cultures Chapter 3 by Issaaf Karhawi explores how Brazilian influencers create community-driven engagement strategies that challenge dominant models of platform success.
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Thank you!
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
✨ Chapter Spotlight — Global South Creator Cultures Today @mediaindustries.bsky.social and I highlight Chapter 2 by @ebirced.bsky.social. This chapter explores how Turkish creators sustain affective relationships with their audiences through monetisation.
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Kylie Jarrett @kylzjarrett.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I am advertising a funded PhD scholarship on my new project LivePlatforms: Livelihoods in the Platform Economy Ecosystem. More details here: www.ucd.ie/ics/vacancie...
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PhD Scholarship - LivePlatforms
PhD Scholarship - LivePlatforms: Livelihoods in the Platform Economy Ecosystem project funded by the ERC Advanced Grant.
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
✨ Chapter Spotlight — Global South Creator Cultures Chapter 1 by Srikanth Nayaka centres on Telugu-speaking creators in rural Telangana, a state in Southern India. It shows how regional language creators struggle with algorithmic invisibility, infrastructural inequity, and limited market access.
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
You can preview our Introduction for a glimpse into the themes & approaches that shape the volume. @mediaindustries.bsky.social and I propose a four-part critical framework to understand the diverse and situated experiences of content creators. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
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Global South Creator Cultures | Tugce Bidav, Smith Mehta | Taylor & Fr
Global South Creator Cultures situates creator labour within the geographic specificities of nation-states and examines the working conditions of social media
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
It brings together voices from across the Global South (Srikanth Nayaka, Elif Birced, Issaaf Karhawi, Karis K. Wilson, Arturo Arriagada, Elliot Montpellier, Jaana Serres, Cecilia Ka Hei Wong, Xiaoting Yu) to explore how creators navigate platform economies, local contexts, and global inequalities.
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
📚 Book Announcement Our edited volume Global South Creator Cultures is coming soon from @routledgebooks.bsky.social - pre-order on 24 November, out on 15 December 2025! 🎉 @mediaindustries.bsky.social
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
✨Reminder: CFP still open for our Digital Humanities Today conference (23–26 June 2026, King’s College London) — do consider submitting!
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
✨ A must-read article by my brilliant co-author @mediaindustries.bsky.social on how privilege & precarity shape academia and media industries. Reflecting on these issues is essential if we are to foster more inclusive knowledge production in academia. Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education (Academic Education Pathway)! 📅 Start date: 29 September 2025 (or soon after) 📔 Contract: Full-time, fixed term until 30 September 2026 🗓 Apply by: 27 August 2025 Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru... #AcademicJobs
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Calling GPT-5 “PhD-level” is a provocative marketing strategy that devalues the depth of academic work—critical thinking, creative research design, original data collection and analysis, ethical reflection, and engagement in peer review, among much else. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ - BBC News
GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
My department at King’s College London is organising a conference on all things digital — from AI and platforms to creative practice, labour, and digital ecologies — on 23–26 June 2026. 📝 Do consider submitting paper or panel abstracts! 📣 CFP: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...
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Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital
From the 23-26 June 2026, the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London will host an international conference exploring the evolving role of Digital Humanities in a world increasingly ...
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Jamie @jamiewoodcock.com · 01/08/2025
Announcing the new journal: "Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital" We've launched a new Historical Materialism project with a CfP for the first issue. Abstracts due 31st of October Full details and the new website here: workersandcapital.historicalmaterialism.org/index.php/jo...
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Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital
Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital is a Marxist journal based in London.
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Smith Mehta @mediaindustries.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
So grateful to have read this chapter with @tugcebidav.bsky.social. Looking forward to seeing the book out soon!
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Join a great network of scholars researching creator cultures and industries — check out the Discord link in the post below! ⬇️
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Platforms & Society @platformsnsociety.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A quick announcement from the editors @julieychen.bsky.social @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social that we are now live on bsky. We will be posting updates about Platforms & Society on here. Follow to keep abreast!
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I was just about to send this to you!
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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Applications are now open for 20 interdisciplinary jobs in AI at King’s College London: King’s AI+ Academic Fellowships, advancing AI across *all* disciplines (yes, inc. Arts & Hums — come and work with me!). www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki... @kingsdh.bsky.social @kings-dfi.bsky.social
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King's AI+ Academic Fellowships (leading to an open-ended academic post)
King’s is making a major strategic investment into driving AI activity across our nine academic Faculties. Our ambition is to accelerate growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data-driven research...
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Creators who stand for justice, on the other hand, are being asked to expose brands that cut ties with them so those brands can be added to the boycott list.
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Some creators remain silent but postpone their content schedules. Those who haven’t posted about the issue are facing backlash from their followers, with a list of their names circulating on social media for boycott.
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, a boycott movement has emerged. Amidst all this, public attention is also on creators, once again highlighting how the creator economy is deeply embedded in national contexts.
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Next week, I’ll be presenting our book project Global South Creator Cultures with @mediaindustries.bsky.social at the Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop at the Oxford Internet Institute. www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/... @kingsdh.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social
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OII | Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop
This workshop aims to facilitate dialogues between UK scholars and approaches from the Global South in the field of Internet and Data Studies.
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Stuart Dunn @stuartdunn.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Delighted to be welcoming @roopikarisam.bsky.social to give the second King's Public Lecture in Digital Humanities in May: "Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis". Details and registration here - www.kcl.ac.uk/events/every... @kingsdh.bsky.social
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Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis
King’s Public Lecture in Digital Humanities delivered by Professor Roopika Risam, Dartmouth College.
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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
🎭 How is bias reproduced in text-to-image generative AI models? Join Dr. Stephanie Diepeveen for a public talk on Power, Representation & GenAI. 📅 26 February | 5PM 📍 King’s College London | Free event 🔗 Sign up: www.tickettailor.com/events/digit... #AI #GenerativeAI #digitalmedia
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Select tickets – Stephanie Diepeveen: Power, Representation and GenAI: A critical exploration of AI imaginaries across language and place – Safra Theatre, Strand Campus, King's College London
The Global Digital Cultures Research Group in the Department of Digital Humanities at KCL hosts Dr Stephanie Diepeveen, speakin...
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Disco hall as the new public sphere 😄 It could serve as a conversation starter, shifting the discussion from rational debate to affect, performance and spectacle.
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If you missed #AoIR2024, read CCSN’s blog post for key takeaways and insights on creator studies! @mediaindustries.bsky.social @arturoarriagada.bsky.social
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Niki Cheong @nikicheong.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Startup pack of my academic colleagues doing amazing digital research at @kingsdh.bsky.social! go.bsky.app/SXpvQhQ These are the ones I know who are on Bsky - drop me a message if I missed anyone 😅 #academia #digitalhumanities
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Me 🙃 and @zaborowski.bsky.social, @tavmos.bsky.social
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Thank you!!
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Add me too 🙃
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 11/06/2024
✨Excited to announce my first solo-authored paper is out now! I’m thrilled to be part of the new special issue ‘Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production’ with a piece on localised precarity. Check it out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
📢 New publication alert with an amazing co-author @mediaindustries.bsky.social 🎊 Our paper “Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey” is out in Social Media + Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey - Tugce Bidav, Smith Mehta, 2024
Drawing on Indian, Irish, and Turkish YouTube creators’ perceptions of their work, this article focuses on peripheral creator work cultures to broaden the under...
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Thank you!
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
✨Excited to share that Smith @mediaindustries.bsky.social and I just signed a book contract with Routledge to publish an edited collection provisionally titled 'Global South Creator Cultures'.
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Howth seascapes 🌅🚤
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
Yayy, please do! ☘️
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 02/09/2023
I went sailing for the first time in Ireland (From Dún Laoghaire to Killiney Bay)⛵️☘️
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
A piece of art in an Irish pub, aka the best door painting ☘️
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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
Hiya! I'm here too; a digital media academic lurking in a new platform 🫣
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