blake hallinan

This article has some of the best screenshots I’ve seen in social media research. Really captures the kind of innovation Twitch excels at 🔥🌶️💸

It’s beautiful 😻

Week 41 is Zubat. Perfect for Spooky Season.

Week 40 is Wigglytuff

Decided this should be one thread so reposting 😅

Many many congratulations!!

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Where are you in a “paralocal” relationship with? Looking at First Amendment auditors (aka people that film the police and post it to social media), @reynoldscj.bsky.social looks at how media practices can foster these relationships and transform civic engagement.

Thank you 😊

Thank you 😊 looking for to bringing the future research to CLP

I’ll be hiring three PhDs and a postdoctoral researcher as part of the project so stayed tuned for more details.

BIG NEWS (!!) I’ve received an ERC starting grant for my project PAY4PLAY: Entrepreneurial Organizing in the Platform Society. Please prepare to hear me talking about how platforms, creators, 💸, organizing, and power for the next five years. Read more here: www.blakehallinan.com/pay4play

ugh the title is so good

In my attempt to learn the “weeks” of the year and keep my drawing skills from getting too rusty, I’ve decided to match week numbers with Pokédex numbers and decorate my office white board. Please enjoy #35

Congratulations! I am only just getting the hang of Denmark myself but if there’s anything I can be of help with on the international migration front, please feel free to reach out.

Congratulations, Dan!

Two weeks left to submit to PlatGovNet 2025!

We've got a good number of submissions already, make sure to share your extended abstract (800-1000 words) by September if you'd like to join us for this free online conference on platform governance December 1-2.

Setting up a new cloud file storage system has me getting intimate with my neglected files. I’ve discovered I have over 100 iterations of my CV saved. Do I need these? Should I purge them? What do other people’s records look like 🤔

New special issue, "Comparative Approaches to Studying Privacy," edited by #CPRN is now published in Social Media + Society!

journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

w/ @lutzid.bsky.social, Lemi Baruh, Kelly Quinn, @masurphil.bsky.social, Carsten Wilhelm (comparativeprivacy.org)

Do you feel called to a new research trajectory now?

📘 New Publication: “Priorities and exclusions within Trust and Safety industry standards” - lead by @blakeplease.bsky.social, and in collaboration with our lab member @rscarlets.bsky.social.

👉 Read the full article #openaccess in New Media & Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

💥new paper out in New Media & Society💥
In this collaborative paper, led by @blakeplease.bsky.social, we compare Community Guidelines using the typology of harms from the Trust and Safety Professional Association to identify policy priorities and exclusions. Check out Blake’s thread for the deets👇

Ooo looking forward to reading this. Congrats!

Thanks ☺️ I look forward to seeing what you’re working on

Thanks also to the following podcasts for providing one-sided but important conversations that inspired our work: Moderated Content, @techpolicypress.bsky.social @lawfaremedia.org Ctrl-Alt-Speech with @mmasnick.bsky.social Views on First & Tech Policy Podcast with @corbinkbarthold.bsky.social 🙏

Many thanks to co-author dream team @reynoldscj.bsky.social @rscarlets.bsky.social Dana Theiler, Noa Niv, @omerrothenstein.bsky.social Isabell Knief + Yehonatan Kuperberg. This was a collaboration between @pgmt.bsky.social 😍 and the Participatory Platform Governance lab.

We conclude with a call for academics and practitioners to broaden the conversation around content moderation, especially regarding adult content and non-Western platforms, and we offer a replicable method for comparative policy research.