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Werewolf exes and billionaire CEOs: why cheesy short dramas are taking over our social media feeds Netflix meets TikTok in the fast-paced world of vertical dramas. This billion-dollar industry is blowing up – while riding on worker exploitation.

Werewolf exes and billionaire CEOs: why cheesy short dramas are taking over our social media feeds
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This drop in circulation is astonishing.

Chinese dating simulator Love and Deepspace now has a period tracker – it signals a shift in mobile gaming

A major update for dating simulation game Love and Deepspace has furrowed brows – it now includes a period tracker.

Influencers become journalists "Joe Rogan is a symptom of changing media systems, not the root cause."

This year, I was asked to write another @niemanlab.org prediction. In this, I say influencers will become journalists, because selling/educating people on lifestyles and feelings has become intertwined with information.

www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/infl...

Kudos to us all! :)

Me standing at a lectern giving my presentation with the introduction slide behind me. The text reads, "Existing research into content creation on platforms", "Humour as a means to study cross-platform interactions", "Ethnography and analysis methods", and "early findings".

Presented my methods and early findings of my research on Twitch livestream humour across platforms at #aanzca24 earlier this week as part of a PhD candidate panel with Wenjia Tang, @tianyizhangshao.bsky.social, and @yiwenw.bsky.social.

More at geofflearnstobefunny.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/a...

Happy new year!! Just out: "Platform Capitalisms and Platform Cultures"-a short piece w/ Lin Zhang @linzhang.bsky.social & Rahul Mukherjee. Argues the importance of the State in the platform-culture-market nexus. We build on the imp work of @nsrnicek.bsky.social & others doi.org/10.1177/1367...