🚨CFP: The ADM+S Generative Authenticity project is hosting a small scholarly symposium on Authenticity, Generative AI and Synthetic Media on 6-7 May at QUT Kelvin Grove (and hybrid node). Short abstracts due 9 March. All info and the submission form: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

CFP: ADM+S Generative Authenticity Symposium

Call for Papers Authenticity, Generative AI and Synthetic Media: An ADM+S Symposium 6-7 May 2026, QUT Kelvin Grove, Brisbane Authenticity is often at the centre of concer...

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♾️ CFP OUT NOW: M/C Journal '#immortality' issue, edited by Angelique Nairn and Deepti Bhargava. Article submissions due 17 Apr. 2026; issue launch date 17 June 2026. #mcjournal ♾️ journal.media-cultur...

can people see how colonial this shit is bc whew buddy

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Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting. You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️

Was looking for this website for a rellie and thought "maybe some people on bsky would like a car sticker or fence sign or whatever." So here you go. Also they look great! toitutetiriti.co.nz?syclid=cc6e7...

Toitū Te Tiriti

Toitū Te Tiriti is tupuna inspired, tiriti led, mana motuhake driven and mokopuna focussed. Our intent is to demonstrate the beginning of a unified Aotearoa response to the Government’s assault on tan...

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A few days left to submit your 500-word abstract for the Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom Symposium 🫰 Deadline 📆 Feb 1 Find out more ▶️ transasianfan.wordpress.com We welcome your submissions 🫶 #CallForPapers #CFP #Fandom #FanStudies #AcademicSky #TransculturalFandom

I will be looking for an RA soon as my amazing postdoc has got a permanent role on our team. I will be looking for an emerging Māori researcher who has a social science background preferably :) dm me if you know of anyone or want to kōrero

My PhD in Internet Studies was recently conferred by @curtinuniversity.bsky.social, so I'm thrilled to be starting 2026 as *Dr* Rachel Berryman! 🎓🥳 My PhD thesis, "Analysing Virtual Influencers", is now available online - you can download it here: hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937... 🧵Summary below:

🇦🇺 Really important piece by my @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleague @antmandan.bsky.social in @aunz.theconversation.com on the ways that teenagers can protect themselves from the incredible damage to their lives that @albomp.bsky.social’s impending #SocialMediaBan will wreak.

Australia is about to ban under-16s from social media. Here’s what kids can do right now to prepare

Download your data, make plans to stay connected to friends, and decide where you’re going next.

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This free online event hosted by @newcastleyouth.bsky.social is happening tomorrow (Nov 19) at 2pm AWST/5pm AEDT! Join this expert panel discussing young people's selfie cultures and the short documentary ‘Filtered Reality’ - registration via the link below! 🤳✨

Newcastle Youth Studies Centre@newcastleyouth.bsky.social · last yr.

Wednesday, November 19, 5pm: ‘“Your mum didn’t take selfies”: Youth and image cultures on social media’:Julia Coffey, Rosalind Gill, Akane Kanai, Amy Dobson, Niamh White, and Kiah Hawker www.eventbrite.com.au/e/your-mum-d...

📢 Call for Papers! AJEC invites abstracts for a special issue on children’s perspectives in their digital childhoods 🌍💻 📅 Abstracts due: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 📧 s.danby@qut.edu.au Susan Danby, | i.silva@qut.edu.au Irina Silva

We're looking for a new colleague in Media and Creative Technologies at the University of Waikato (L or SL level). Feel free to ask me any questions you might have, and circulate to anyone relevant! elhs.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

tbh I think Microsoft is going to blink right before October 14, and if they don’t… well, that’s a very, very bad decision on their part.

My book is out! 💗 Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames is a 6-year-long labour of love for young adult stories, teen heroines in videogames and unnoticed girly game histories. Thank you @livvy.itch.io for the beautiful cover! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured

Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured

Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by Māori today

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If you’re 18 or older, and have purchased makeup or beauty products based on your fandom (e.g licensed tie-ins or fan-run brands, small businesses, etc), my friend and colleague, Suzanne Scott is looking for you to answer a short survey with an opt-in for a follow up interview.

There is a tiny independent bookshop that specialises in romance that’s opened in Remuera. Went there today with Ms 21, just delightful. A great selection & a lovely spot to visit. enamouredbooks.co.nz highly recommended in these trying times.

Enamoured Books

Enamoured Books is a romantic bookstore haven created just for you. We pride ourselves on offering a diverse range of books where everyone can find a story they see themselves in - from relationship t...

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I'm really excited that a collection of fascinating work on fandom, fans and AI that @suzannerblack.bsky.social and I co-edited is out today in the new volume of @journal.transformativeworks.org - and as the journal's first 'New Currents' section! Read our editorial here doi.org/10.3983/twc....

Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium “Good Vibes Only? How Affects and Emotions Are Mediated for Justice in Digital Culture” www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium

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And a reminder that _Algorithms of Resistance_ is fully #openaccess, so can be read by anyone, right now(!): direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power

How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control

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✨I’m recruiting for a research project on game monetisation!✨ I’m keen to chat to game devs about how monetisation shapes the dev process. Interviews will be 60mins via Zoom. To learn more, head to bit.ly/40mOB3f if you'd like to participate, shoot me a DM or email taylor.hardwick@sydney.edu.au 😊

How do platforms shape the way we see, share & react to images? Join React & Respond, international conference on image cultures under platform capitalism, October 2–4. Open to all, register now: www.zhdk.ch/veranstaltun... @bildoperationen.bsky.social @zhdk.bsky.social @zkk-zurich.bsky.social

Glad to share my new publication in The Sociological Review: "Queer milestones: Intergenerational relations and youth transitions of Chinese queer female students residing overseas" (open access). doi.org/10.1177/0038...

My department - Psychology at UoA - is advertising for a 2.5 year fixed-term "Māori or Pacific lecturer in clinical psychology": Closes 20 August.

Māori or Pacific Lecturer in Clinical Psychology - 30 month fixed term

Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandKo te whare Pūtaiao | The Faculty of Science at the University of Auckland is the leading science faculty in New Zealand and o...

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Now that the ink is dry, I’m thrilled to share that I’ve officially signed the contract for my first academic book with University of California Press! I feel incredibly lucky and honored that @michellelipinski.bsky.social reached out after encountering my dissertation—we immediately

Don't forget! We are still accepting submissions (through 01/01/2026) for our upcoming special issue on Latin American Fandoms! See the full CFP here:

Latin American Fandoms (01/01/2026) | Transformative Works and Cultures

Latin American fandom is a topic that rarely appears in peer-reviewed articles in English and irregularly in Spanish. Phenomena such as fan fiction (fanfic), cosplay, and online communities allow us…

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Huge props to @researchbrb.bsky.social who not only co-organised and co-hosted a whole event on Virtual Influencers, but also gave ab absolutely kick-ass final talk in the event, showcasing the depth and maturing of her own work on Virtual Influencers!

✨ Rachel (she/her) ✨@researchbrb.bsky.social · last yr.

Super excited about this free upcoming online event "Virtual Influencers in the Asia Pacific", happening on Tuesday 08 April, 1400-1700hrs AWST (GMT+8). 🥳 For more info, including registration (essential!), event schedule and presenter bios, head to ierlab.com/virtual-infl...