Assistant Professor of Platform Studies at Aarhus University

Joined October 2009
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How does the professionalization of Trust & Safety shape global content moderation practices? We compare Community Guidelines using the typology of harms from TSPA to identify policy priorities and exclusions, available #openaccess in New Media & Society
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New #openaccess article with Omer Rothenstein and Nik John: "Stuck in the middleware with you: the challenges of capitalizing a market-oriented approach to platform governance." We assess the potential of third-party editorial services (recommendation algos, content mod) via šŸ¦‹
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Come for the serious grappling with platform governance, stay for the furries. Or the other way around, depending on your preferences.
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I am hiring for two postdocs in the creator economy, hosted at Aarhus University. One focuses on monetization and governance, the other focuses on digital methods and industry trends. Link below #AcademicTwitter #mediastudies
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I’m hiring for a 2.5 year postdoc position in digital methods and the creator economy, details here: jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG525/postdo…

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Honored to serve as the vice chair of Media Industry Studies 🫔
The results of the ICA Elections are in! šŸŽ‰ Congratulations to all newly elected individuals! A huge thank-you to all candidates and voters who participated—your engagement and support strengthen our community. šŸ”— buff.ly/iJujJ9i
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🚨New publication alert! This one was a personal favorite of mine to work on, including fun facts about such topics as streamers farting into microphones for money. ā€œHot tubs, yoga pants, and gambaā€ is out now and open access in Platforms & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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Where are you in a ā€œparalocalā€ relationship with? Looking at First Amendment auditors (aka people that film the police and post it to social media), @reynoldscj looks at how media practices can foster these relationships and transform civic engagement.
🚨New publication from my dissertation work! Examining the clash between First Amendment auditors and the police of Leon Valley, Texas, I theorize the development of paralocal relationships as a new form of civic engagement for the social media age. #openaccess
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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, šŸ’ø, organizing, and power for the next five years.
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PS I’ll be hiring three PhDs and a postdoctoral researcher with the project. Stay tuned for more details.
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Blake Hallinan retweeted
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New research shows big platforms like Twitch follow #TrustAndSafety norms, but region-specific sites often don’t. Standards aren’t one-size-fits-all. We need to test and adapt so rules fit how people really use these spaces. @SageJournals journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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How does the professionalization of Trust & Safety shape global content moderation practices? We compare Community Guidelines using the typology of harms from TSPA to identify policy priorities and exclusions, available #openaccess in New Media & Society
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Many thanks to co-author dream team @reynoldscj Rebecca Scharlach, Dana Theiler, Noa Niv, Omer Rothenstein, Isabell Knief Yehonatan Kuperberg. This was a collaboration between @pgmt_lab šŸ˜ and the Participatory Platform Governance lab.
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Thanks also to the following podcasts for providing one-sided but important conversations that inspired our work: Moderated Content, The Sunday Show, Rational Security, Ctrl-Alt-Speech, Views on First & Tech Policy Podcast šŸ™
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