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European Journal of Cultural Studies @ejcs-journal.bsky.social · Sep 3

In "Navigating privilege and precarity: A reflexive inquiry into identity, academia, and Indian media industries", Smith Mehta (@mediaindustries.bsky.social) explores the interplay of identity, privilege, and precarity in academic research. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Smith Mehta @mediaindustries.bsky.social · Sep 2

🙏 thanks Tugce :)

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Smith Mehta @mediaindustries.bsky.social · Jul 31

You are such a powerful scholar! Really enjoyed reading your piece.

Smith Mehta @mediaindustries.bsky.social · Jul 30

So grateful to have read this chapter with @tugcebidav.bsky.social. Looking forward to seeing the book out soon!

Cecilia Ka Hei Wong @ceciliawongkh.bsky.social · Jul 30

Crashed an anthropologists’ conference in Seoul✨Shoutout to Yuna, Soojin & Reagan for inviting me🫶Spent my time talking about a HK feminist creator—super stoked that this paper will be published w/ ‘Global South Creator Studies’ edited by @tugcebidav.bsky.social & @mediaindustries.bsky.social

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Smith Mehta @mediaindustries.bsky.social · Mar 20

If you're around Oxford, next week, please consider attending @tugcebidav.bsky.social's session introducing our forthcoming book's theoretical and conceptual framework for mapping Global South creator cultures (Pakistan, Chile, China, Turkey, Hong Kong, Nigeria and Brazil).

Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · Mar 17

Next week, I’ll be presenting our book project Global South Creator Cultures with @mediaindustries.bsky.social at the Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop at the Oxford Internet Institute.

www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

@kingsdh.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social

OII | Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop

This workshop aims to facilitate dialogues between UK scholars and approaches from the Global South in the field of Internet and Data Studies.

www.oii.ox.ac.uk

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · Mar 11

Exciting news for those writing books on Asia. There's a new book series in town: Power Currents: Asian Media in the World! Edited by some great folks including @jonabel.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social and Rahul Mukherjee, this series looks exciting:

upittpress.org/series/power...

Power Currents: Asian Media in the World - University of Pittsburgh Press

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David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social · Jan 30

Now is a time we need to support each other in academia across disciplines, across universities:

Those in fields not under attack, need to help those who are under attack

Senior faculty need to support junior faculty

Privileged faculty need to support marginalized faculty

#academicsky

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Smith Mehta @mediaindustries.bsky.social · Feb 20

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🆕 publication alert on how Indian cultural workers are negotiating work on global streaming services. Led by incoming Humboldt fellow Dr Priyam Sinha.

Negotiating content: the interplay of politics, audience, and gender in Internet-based production cultures in India

Abstract. In this article, we investigate the integrated commodity forms within Internet-based production cultures in India based on four key transactional

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Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · Feb 29

📢 New publication alert with an amazing co-author @mediaindustries.bsky.social 🎊 Our paper “Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey” is out in Social Media + Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey - Tugce Bidav, Smith Mehta, 2024

Drawing on Indian, Irish, and Turkish YouTube creators’ perceptions of their work, this article focuses on peripheral creator work cultures to broaden the under...

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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · Jan 8

New from me: I wrote about how search algorithms have created a web full of content and words for Google, not humans. We made a fake lizard website to show you what has happened over 25 yrs.

The visuals are beautiful. I’m so proud to work with such talented people! www.theverge.com/c/23998379/g...

“Along with the subheads, we’ll add a table of contents to the top of articles so each section becomes a link that can drive traffic on its own.
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A blog post on a fake lizard site is chopped in the subheads with keyword crammed writing that mirrors People Also Ask sections in Search.

“We’re also adding significantly more professional background details. We’re going to round up how long we’ve been writing about reptiles — it’s mostly true. Can Google even tell?
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An author bio section shows a longer blurb about experience, targeting Google’s EEAT guidelines.

“Our lizard blog doesn’t look much like what we started out with, but it probably resembles hundreds of sites you’ve seen before.” Shows the contrast between the website before SEO took over and after.

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Marc Steinberg @msteinbrg.bsky.social · Jan 4

Please take a read and let us know what you think!

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Sage Journals: Your gateway to world-class journal research

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Smith Mehta @mediaindustries.bsky.social · Dec 4

thank you!

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Smith Mehta @mediaindustries.bsky.social · Dec 4

Excited to work with @tugcebidav.bsky.social and other stellar scholars working on global south creator cultures.

Tuğçe Bidav @tugcebidav.bsky.social · Dec 4

✨Excited to share that Smith @mediaindustries.bsky.social and I just signed a book contract with Routledge to publish an edited collection provisionally titled 'Global South Creator Cultures'.

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Smith Mehta @mediaindustries.bsky.social · Nov 16

indianexpress.com/article/opin... My 'cent'iments on draft #Broadcasting Regulations Bill 2023 by #MIB #India published in today's #Indianexpress. t.co/mez8fVpaUo (link w/o paywall).

Regulating OTT: Draft Broadcasting Regulation Bill may be an attempt to control digital infrastructu...

A regulation on conflicts of interest is the need of the hour. All other regulatory measures to facilitate ‘ease of business’ are merely attempts at facilitating ‘ease of control and regulation�...

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Aswin Punathambekar @aswinp.bsky.social · Nov 7

Academic friends, please spread the word about a postdoc opportunity at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at Annenberg/Penn. www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

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