Blake Hallinan

How to do things with a keyword: a cross-cultural analysis of the meanings and functions of ‘values’ on Twitter While people regularly employ the term values in mundane interactions and political debates on social media, little is known about its function in public communication. Approaching values as a keyw...

Social media is full of talk of values... but what do we 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 when we talk about 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠, and what do we use the term to 𝑑𝑜?
A new @icsjournal.bsky.social #OpenAccess paper from DigitalValues team+co-authors analyzes the meanings and functions of 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 on Twitter
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I had a great time talking the latest tech policy news with Ben, including some deep cuts on meta political ads during Hungary’s parliamentary election and a new report on debanking from @publicpubics.bsky.social and @internetmaggie.com

New Preprint: Value-driven AI Governance

Excited to share a preprint of a collaborative article on value-driven AI governance: osf.io/preprints/so...

#AIAct #AIGovernance #Values

Global creator culture? Converging values and generic practices in YouTube reviews Abstract. Social media facilitates new forms of cultural production from professionalized and commercialized users known as creators. While some have posit

💡Check out the new article “Global creator culture? Converging values and generic practices in YouTube reviews“ 🤳🏽 led by Blake Hallinan with the contribution of PGMT Postdoc Rebecca Scharlach. Out now #openaccess.

Read it here 👉 academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...

📚 Articles in 2025
Can middleware fix platform governance? Drs. Hallinan @blakeplease.bsky.social, Rothenstein @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social & John examine Bluesky to show why market-based moderation remains as much a cultural struggle as a policy solution⚖️
👉: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The #AoIR2026 Call for Papers is officially up on the www:
aoir.org/aoir2026/
This year marks AoIRs' first time in Mexico and it will be the second bilingual AoIR.
Please share with your networks. 🌮

I’ve been publishing “author screenshots” with no problem across journals

Stabilizing the stream: The role of traffic and studio partners in webcam sex platform competition - Emilija Jokubauskaitė, 2025 Webcam sex platforms, operating at the margins of the digital economy, face instability on both sides of their multisided markets due to the flexibility of plat...

a christmas miracle! or perhaps a present from me to the world: my first solo-author article is published in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Definitely agree that these are the actors to watch and I’ll be sure to check out your FairPay framework 🙏

Nice update on our 2024 paper, Shaping the Future of Social Media with Middleware, with focus on the current success & issues with @bsky.app and @atprotocol.dev. 🧵

cc: @lehogg.bsky.social @noupside.bsky.social @frankfukuyama.bsky.social @daphnek.bsky.social

How do Visa + Mastercard control what content is allowed on platforms?

(spoiler: moral panic+algo-bias)

My 💥new article💥 out today in @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social clarifies credit card + payment processor influences using Pornhub's 2020 moderation scandal

full article: doi.org/10.1080/2326...

Tenure-track assistant professorship in empirical communication research

Interested in joining a vibrant hub for research on human and societal consequences of digital communication and datafication? We're hiring a new TT assistant professor at Center for Tracking & Society in Copenhagen: jobportal.ku.dk/tenure-track...

PS so happy this came out as #platgovnet2025 starts later today. @ilovejazzmusic.bsky.social will be presenting the second paper from our Antagonistic Platform Governance grant "Coordinated Reporting and the Question of Harm." Hope to see some of you there

Come for the serious grappling with platform governance, stay for the furries. Or the other way around, depending on your preferences.

Stuck in the middleware with you: the challenges of capitalizing a market-oriented approach to platform governance - Communication and Change Social media faces a crisis of trust over the management of speech, with critics simultaneously arguing platforms remove too much and too little. Middleware, a recent market-oriented proposal for plat...

What's that? Time to promote research about #bluesky on bluesky? Happy to share a new paper from @omerrothenstein.bsky.social @ilovejazzmusic.bsky.social & I: "Stuck in the middleware with you: the challenges of capitalizing a market-oriented approach to platform governance" doi.org/10.1007/s443...

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...

My one-two punch on “#sportswashing”: Two (!) new journal articles are now out, in which I critique the concept and call for more attention to the role played by media and audiences in interpreting the political power of sports.

‘Sportswashing’ as mediated deceit: applying a critical disinformation model to address political (mis)communication through sports The article highlights the need to decouple discussions about political (mis)communication and abuses of sport from the narrow conceptual preoccupation of ‘sportswashing’ with authoritarian decepti...

In the wake of news about Project B, a new women’s basketball league with a range of funders from around the globe, I want to highlight this recent paper exploring (and critiquing) the concept of “sportswashing”:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Looking forward!

Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Methods and the Creator Economy at the Department of Media and Journalism Studies - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet Ledig stilling ved Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur - Afdeling for Medievidenskab og Journalistik, Aarhus Universitet

The second is on digital methods and industry trends: www.au.dk/om/stillinge... happy to answer any questions

Postdoctoral Researcher in Monetisation, Governance, and the Creator Economy at the Department of Media and Journalism Studies - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet Ledig stilling ved Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur - Afdeling for Medievidenskab og Journalistik, Aarhus Universitet

I am hiring for two postdocs in the creator economy, hosted at Aarhus University. One is on monetization and governance with flexible methods and area focus: www.au.dk/om/stillinge... #commsky #academicchatter #polisky

Happy to announce a new publication! Ever wondered how and why digital platforms change over time? In this open access paper in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social, Kevin Garvey and I present three mechanisms by which platforms change. doi.org/10.1177/2976...

📚 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

Not my best work, but it’s been a long day of teaching

It’s giving Mr. Koolaid, but what can you do?

👀 exciting!

Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Methods and the Creator Economy at Aarhus University Apply now for the Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Methods and the Creator Economy role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

I’m hiring for a 2.5 year postdoc position in digital methods and the creator economy, details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG525/p...

I haven’t setup a class with a list of media examples before and now that seems like an obviously useful thing to do. Have you done this before / do you find it helps with class discussion?

bluesky mentioned in academic paper about puppygirls

Fitting for the weather?