This page is all about my writing away from bloggeronpole.com, from my books (fiction and non-fiction) and book chapters to my articles and academic papers.
Academic Papers and Reports
- Post-social media: de-platformed users’ challenges to belong in ‘corpo-civic’ spaces. In Convergence, co-written with Pam Briggs.
- Platform gaslighting: A user-centric insight into social media corporate communications of content moderation. Co-written in Platforms & Society with Tom Divon and Pam Briggs
- Researching under the platform gaze: Rethinking the challenges of platform governance research – Platforms & Society
- ‘Dysfunctional’ appeals and failures of algorithmic justice in Instagram and TikTok content moderation – Information, Communications & Society
- Algorithmic folk theories and peer review: on the importance of valuing participant expertise – Journal of Gender Studies
- Social media affordances of LGBTQIA+ expression and community formation – co-written with Catherine Talbot and Pam Briggs for Convergence
- Strategic Invisibility: How Creators Manage the Risks and Constraints of Online Hyper(In)Visibility – co-written with Hanne Stegeman and Thomas Poell for Social Media + Society
- Flagging as a silencing tool: Exploring the relationship between de-platforming of sex and online abuse on Instagram and TikTok. New Media & Society.
- The assemblages of flagging and de-platforming against marginalised content creators. Convergence.
- Violence and the feminist potential of content moderation – chapter co-written with Dr Ysabel Gerrard for The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence
- Co-designing platform governance policies – Tackling malicious flagging and de-platforming with impacted social media users – read my report on the Centre for Digital Citizens’ website
- The Emotional and Financial Impact of De-Platforming on Creators at the Margins – published in Social Media + Society
- An autoethnography of automated powerlessness: lacking platform affordances in Instagram and TikTok account deletions – published in Media, Culture & Society
- Sex in the shadows of celebrity. Paper co-written with Professor Susanna Paasonen for Porn Studies.
- The Shadowban Cycle: an autoethnography of pole dancing, nudity and censorship on Instagram. Published in Feminist Media Studies.
- A ‘Chosen’ Hope with a ‘Gingerbread’ Outcome: Democratization of (Media) Power in Buffy The Vampire Slayer as a Metaphor of Online Abuse on High-Profile Criminal Cases. Published in Slayage – The Journal of Whedon Studies.
- How Instagram’s algorithm is censoring women and vulnerable users but helping online abusers – Published in Feminist Media Studies and available for open access free readership through my university’s website.
- A corpo-civic space: A notion To address social media’s corporate/civic hybridity – First Monday (open access).
- Patterns of media coverage repeated in online abuse on high-profile criminal cases – Journalism (open access version here).
- Indicators of Online Hate Speech and Why it Should be Regulated, RIPE78.
- Book review: John Mair, Tor Clark, Neil Fowler, Raymond Snoddy and Richard Tait (eds) Anti-social media? The impact on journalism and society – in Journalism.
- How do social media facilitate the spreading of conspiracy theories and fake news? – in Innovative educational and media practices for an inclusive and participatory Europe – ACADEMIC PAPERS.
Impact
- Researcher access to platform data guidelines for UK government and regulators
- Ofcom Illegal Harms Codes and Online Gender-Based Violence guidance feedback
- Principles for Combatting Image Based Sexual Abuse
- Explicit AI Images of Female Public Figures – Oversight Board case decision
- Violence Against Women Posts – Oversight Board case decision
- Gender Identity and Nudity – Oversight Board case decision
Books and book chapters
Book chapter: ‘Pole dancing academic: Decompartmentalizing the personal, sexual, and professional while blending pole dance and research careers’ – in ‘Sex on Stage: Performing the Body Politic,’ Bloomsbury Publishing.
Book chapter: ‘When two fan subcultures meet: The interpenetration of RuPaul’s Drag Race and Twin Peaks in ‘Fire Werk with Me.”‘ – in ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race and Philosophy: Sissy That Thought (Popular Culture and Philosophy)‘
- Disconnected, University of Sydney’s 2017 anthology.
For more info, email me at bloggeronpole@gmail.com.
