Blake Hallinan

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?

Honored to serve as the vice chair of Media Industry Studies 🫡

Week 43 🌱

Week 42… got sidetracked.

How about that impact, @tomdivon.bsky.social ! Congrats 👏👏

On the controversiality of AI: The controversy is not the situation - Noortje Marres, Christian Katzenbach, Anders Kristian Munk, Anna Jobin, 2025 Do public controversies about AI matter? Can they really make a difference to how AI is taken up or imposed on society? This introduction to the Special Issue o...

💡 New publication alert!
“On the Controversiality of AI: The Controversy Is Not the Situation” by @noortjem.bsky.social , @ckatzenbach.bsky.social , @anderskristianm.bsky.social, and @annajobin.bsky.social is out now.
📖 Read it open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hey #AoIR2025 catch me today at 4 pm with a wonderful group of scholars - Taylor Annabell, Diyi Liu, Thales Lelo and Tom Divon - for a roundtable on the future of tech governance research. This is going to be an open discussion, so please join and share your thoughts!

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