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/...
Tanner Mirrlees
@tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social
Comm, Media & Tech Studies + empire, capital, state, power, politics, energy, environment, work, war, play, ed, left-right activism https://socialscienceandhumanities.ontariotechu.ca/research/researcher-profiles/dr.-tanner-mirrlees.php
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...
Season 04: Green Dreams Archives - Cited Podcast
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Green Dreams: Podcast series on which I worked @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social and Cited Media now available! citedpodcast.com/2025/09/02/s...
Introducing Green Dreams (Season Trailer) - Cited Podcast
Introducing our new season, Green Dreams. Starting September 9, 2025, with weekly episodes through October.
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A great talk, which is featured on the @energyhumanities.bsky.social website (Instagram promo coming soon!): www.energyhumanities.ca/video. #envhum
Tanner Mirrlees@tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social · last yr.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...
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...
Is Silicon Valley “Going Green”? Digital Tech, Energy Systems and Environmental Sustainability
YouTube video by Tanner Mirrlees
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🎙️ 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...
Solidarity, with Shannon Wait | The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan
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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...
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.
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!
sfucmns@sfucmns.bsky.social · 2y agoJoin us at the 2025 Dallas Smythe Memorial Lecture, taking place on March 20th. This year’s event will feature University of Toronto professor Nicole Cohen presenting "Crisis and Collective Response: Labour Organizing in Media”. More information/registration: www.eventbrite.ca/e/2025-dalla...
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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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...
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...
AI's Hidden Abode of Production
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NEW: Our latest research series #ConsumingWar looks at the militarization of pop culture. Up first: Movies and TV. [THREAD] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
@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.
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!
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...
Google’s Digital Policy Power: Public Policy Shaping and Private Policy Making – The Tech Lobby
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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...
‘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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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
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.
Tanner Mirrlees@tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social · 2y agoThank 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...
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...
Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries - Book Talk with Tanner Mirrlees
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Rafael Grohmann@grohmannrafael.bsky.social · 2y agoToday 4PM ET book talk with @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social on Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries. Join us on DigiLabour Channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XVL...
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...
Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries - Book Talk with Tanner Mirrlees
YouTube video by DigiLabour
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UDC 2025: The Future We Want: Resistance and Resolve June 19 - 22, 2025 | Call for Papers is LIVE: www.democraticcomm.org
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.
Local to more places: Independent, worker owned media courtesy of @laminda.bsky.social and @gregpak.bsky.social go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
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
🚨🚨🚨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
The reshaping of higher education by digital technologies
This event is part of the #HigherEdSeminarSeries
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👉 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
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...
