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...

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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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....

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...

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/...

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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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

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!

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...

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

H-Net Reviews@hnetreviews.bsky.social · 12mo ago

New book review: Antúnez De Mayolo Kou on Nieborg, David B.; Foxman, Maxwell: _Mainstreaming and Game Journalism_. MIT Press, 2023. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20124002

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....)

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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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.

International Journal of Cultural Studies@ijcs-journal.bsky.social · 2y ago

What are the impediments faced by diasporic influencers? Learn about how racial discourses shape and challenge creator cultures in this article from @arturoarriagada.bsky.social & @producing2power.bsky.social:

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

Jim Malazita@jmalazita.bsky.social · last yr.

Thanks so much to @maxwellfoxman.bsky.social for this generous review of Enacting Platforms! ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

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.

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.

Bob Whitaker@whitakeralmanac.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote something new for History Respawned today. It's a review of a new book about Red Dead, but it's really about academic writing and historical game studies as a field. Please read, but also know, I really really really really REALLY didn't want to write this review.

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

💥 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....

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.

Frisian! ❤️

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Bluesky@bsky.app · last yr.

📢 App Version 1.102 is rolling out now with a bunch of bugfixes and minor improvements. Also: • On Android, photos are now saved to the "Bluesky" folder • New application language: Frisian

Just out! Open access article with @nieborg.bsky.social on "Analyzing institutional platform power" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #power #platforms #digital #bigtech Preparing the ground for our book on Platform Power!

Analyzing institutional platform power: Evolving relations of dependence in the mobile digital advertising ecosystem - David B Nieborg, Thomas Poell, 2025

This article calls for systematic analysis of the accumulation and exercise of institutional platform power in the digital economy. We examine how the relativel...

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