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Jay Daniel Thompson

@jaydanielthompson.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer in Professional Communication at RMIT University in Australia. Researches ethical online communication in an era of fake news and digital hostility.

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Adding to my Summer reading list - thanks @timothyjgraham.bsky.social for sharing!

03.12.2025 08:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Huge thanks to Professor Panizza Allmark for launching my book at the CSAA 2025 conference today and for her kind words. Iโ€™m feeling grateful.

27.11.2025 07:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh I love it!

27.11.2025 06:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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X erupts after the platform reveals the locations where accounts are based X, formerly Twitter, launched a feature that shows accounts' locations, in an effort to promote transparency.

X now reveals the locations of user accounts, pulling back the curtain on the scale and scope of manipulation and โ€œcoordinated inauthentic behaviourโ€ on the platform. At the least, I hope it helps us reevaluate platforms as โ€œneutralโ€ infrastructure.

www.businessinsider.com/x-shows-loca...

24.11.2025 22:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

So, my Monday began with my cat tearing up my latest council rates notice. Does that mean I get out of paying it? #thecatatemyhomework

10.11.2025 02:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€˜See the wonderful possibleโ€™ sounds like a 1980s romcom.

06.11.2025 08:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I can hear Grace Slickโ€™s majestic vocals, too!

02.11.2025 07:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Vale, Diane Keaton: 1946-2025

12.10.2025 00:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Friday lifts me up

02.10.2025 23:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Awesome shot of the student precinct!

24.09.2025 05:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And that is Bluesky thinking (sees himself out).

08.09.2025 09:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well done, Jean and all - tonightโ€™s reading is sorted!

02.09.2025 01:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The far-right poses serious ethical challenges for the media - ABC Religion & Ethics Western democracies are now entering a new phase of far-right mobilisation. Journalists and media outlets have a responsibility to avoid amplifying and legitimising the far-rightโ€™s hateful propaganda ...

www.abc.net.au/religion/eth...

02.09.2025 00:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The platforming is the point: News media, โ€˜the oxygen of amplificationโ€™, and interviewing the far-right - Jay Daniel Thompson, Kurt Sengul, 2025 This paper critically interrogates the role of news media in mainstreaming, normalizing and amplifying contemporary far-right political actors, parties, and mov...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

02.09.2025 00:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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No surprises here. There are grave ethical issues with platforming extremists, as Kurt Sengul and I have elsewhere argued (see the links in comments). The Australian media has blood on its hands.

02.09.2025 00:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Are you eating on your own? :)

29.08.2025 09:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜I genuinely did hold my breathโ€™: a sordid, sexy queer debut evokes Hitchcock and Christos Tsiolkas When twentysomething Ash arrives in Melbourne seeking a โ€˜new versionโ€™ of himself, heโ€™s fleeing a country town and a joyless upbringing.

PUBLICATION TODAY: My review of the disturbing and disturbingly good debut novel for Melbourne author Thomas Vowles. Enjoy!

theconversation.com/i-genuinely-...

18.08.2025 05:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I love the title!

17.08.2025 02:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh, bless! (Sees himself out โ€ฆ)

16.08.2025 07:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I wonder what their H Index is?

09.08.2025 03:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Spotted in the wild - my book, in stores as of this week!

09.08.2025 03:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Why the โ€˜Epstein filesโ€™ should not distract us from the danger of conspiracy theories - ABC Religion & Ethics It seems that Donald Trumpโ€™s penchant for turning conspiracies into political weapons has exploded in his face โ€” but as the โ€œEpstein filesโ€ furore demonstrates, conspiracy theories are about a lot mor...

PUBLICATION TODAY: On the Epstein files and the dangers of conspiracy.

www.abc.net.au/religion/eps...

29.07.2025 05:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well done, Hannah - itโ€™s been another year of kicking goals for you! Iโ€™m excited to read. :)

29.07.2025 00:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

IKR! I hate it when that happens!

14.07.2025 23:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just donโ€™t look back in anger! (Sees himself out).

06.07.2025 07:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

E-xactly! (See what I did there?)

30.06.2025 04:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s a subject I hope NEVER dies. RPP is where I started to learn B to become a researcher (Iโ€™m still learning!)

23.06.2025 01:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sounds like a brilliant assessment task! I did RPP waaay back in 2003.

22.06.2025 00:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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PUBLICATION TODAY! My monograph on Silverchairโ€™s iconic Frogstomp album has been published as an eBook. Link below. Grunge forever!

12.06.2025 22:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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