My thesis is now available open access online! This was the product of years of blood, sweat and tears and I'm still very proud of it. I hope others, especially current PhD students, will find it useful! โจ๐
READ HERE:
What a lovely surprise on a Friday afternoon! Just received my copy of the Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology, which includes my chapter about YouTube content creators' discourses, practices and experiences of "The Algorithm" โจ๐ฅณ
Available HERE:
Guess what guys, I have a WHOLE THESIS!!! In one document!!! ๐คฏ Don't worry, I didn't finish *early* (still got 2 precious weeks ๐), but it feels GOOD โจ
IT'S DONE!! I'm immeasurably happy and quite shocked to share that I passed my viva
@MediaLSE
with no corrections ๐คฉ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฏ You can now call me Dr Glatt ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
#PhDone
I'm so excited to move on to the next adventure, Boston and
@MSRNE
, here I come!! โจ๏ธโจ๏ธโจ๏ธ
I'm so excited to share the pre-print of my FIRST EVER solo authored article (!!!) forthcoming in IJoC ๐คฉ๐๐ฅฒ It gives an overview of my PhD on platformised creative labour, precarity and inequality in the influencer industry. I hope you like it ๐๐ PDF:
I couldn't be more excited to announce that in July I'll be joining
@MSRNE
for a postdoc in Socio-Technical Systems. This little family is moving to BOSTON BABYYY!! It's really a dream come true that I'll get to work alongside
@nancybaym
@TarletonG
@marylgray
&
@zephoria
๐ฅฒ๐ฅณโจ
It's my first day as Postdoc
@MSRNE
Social Media Collective! Couldn't be more excited to work with absolute titans of digital ethnography and internet culture research. This is the culmination of a decade-long dream since I first heard about the SMC in 2013, totally surreal ๐ฅน๐
Today I graduated with a PhD from
@MediaLSE
, such a lovely full circle moment getting to celebrate the end of this journey that began in 2017 with family and friends. Thank you as alwayds to my wonderful supervisor
@Livingstone_S
๐ Onwards and upwards! ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐โจ๏ธ
Today, on our 4 year wedding anniversary and after 10 years together, me and Rob have some very exciting news. Introducing little blob Tate Glatt, due March 16th 2021 ๐ That's right PHD BABYYY no sweat, right?!! ๐
After 2 years and change, my first ever solo authored article is officially out in the world! Many thanks to the editors
@bzelizer
and Nelson Ribeiro for including me in this IJoC special section on 'Media and Uncertainty' โจ
You can read it HERE:
"Dear Mrs Zoรซ Glatt, congratulations on the provisional acceptance of your paper to IJoC". 1.5 years since I wrote the first iteration, my first ever solo-authored journal article has been accepted. A bit of good news! ๐๐ฅณ Not sure of publication date, but abstract below โฌ๏ธ
๐ขIt's out!!! My latest article has been published in the
@EJCS_Journal
special issue on Freelance Feminism alongside stellar researchers. Huge thanks to the editors extraordinaire
@littler_jo
, Ros Gill & Hannah Curran-Troop ๐
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Delighted to be included in the Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology, which is out TODAY!! My second solo publication from my PhD on influencers. Many thanks to the star editors
@jolynnasinanan
@pglange
@elisax00
@draluchadora
โจ
READ PRE-PRINT HERE:
So excited that my first publication is finally out in the world, co-authored with my wonderful supervisor and partner in crime
@sbanetweiser
๐คฉ๐ Creator Culture is full of ๐ฏ chapters, eds
@Producing2Power
&
@SDCunningham
. Read full chapter HERE:
I haven't finished my intro or conclusion (or other chapters lol) but I put everything into one document and it's SO EXCITING!! Final stretch ๐ช๐ฎโ๐จ๐คฉ
The Platformised Creative Worker: An ethnographic study of precarity and inequality in the London influencer industry (2017-2022)
So excited that my first publication is out in the world, amongst great company!
@sbanetweiser
and I discuss the political ambivalence of feminist YouTubers for
#CreatorCulture
, edited by
@SDCunningham
&
@Producing2Power
. Thanks for including me! Dylan seems to approve tooย ๐๐๐
Absolutely thrilled that my article 'The intimacy triple bind: Structural inequalities and relational labour in the influencer industry' was accepted to the European Journal of Cultural Studies today!! ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ I'm really excited to see it out in the world soon โจ
Printed out my thesis in preparation for my viva next Tuesday, she's a beast! I'm (shockingly) looking forward to the viva after a very reassuring final supervision with
@Livingstone_S
๐
I'm joking but I'm also serious. How do you let go of the magnificent thesis you had in your head and be at peace with the inevitably imperfect final product? Please give me your pearls of wisdom ๐๐
#phdchat
I've seen people sharing helpful references on influencer industries & creator culture. I love collective reading lists so decided to publish my own of 10+ years! You can download and please ADD YOUR SUGGESTIONS to the google doc version: ๐๐๐ค
GUYS! I'm doing a lunchtime lecture at
@BKCHarvard
Institute for Rebooting Social Media (โผ๏ธ) on Nov 8th on 'Platforms, creators and the co-option of social justice narratives'. Info below, please come support IRL or virtually! ๐ฑ๐๐
REGISTER HERE:
Please enjoy the updated โจInfluencer Industries & Creator Culture Reading Listโจ I started this list in 2019, it's now 20 pages long and I'm so glad that people continue to tell me they find it useful! ๐
View, share and add your own suggestions HERE:
A snapshot of my life with 5 weeks until PhD deadline. I might as well be sleeping with these books by my bed! (Not) getting paid to do what you love, The Intersectional Internet, and Platforms and Cultural Production ๐ฏ And yes, I am as tired as I look ๐
Just wrote my thesis acknowledgements. Thank you to everyone I've met along the way who has provided encouragement, support, inspiration and good humour, those who are named here and those who aren't. It really takes a village. I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING ๐ญ๐โจ
๐๐ปโโ๏ธ Hello, I'm on the job market for Spring/Summer 2023!
Critical scholar focussed on social media/influencer culture, inequality, creative labour & digital ethnography. Future research on Influencer Resistance โจ Hit me up!
๐ฅ
CV:
IT'S DONE!! After an ultra stressful and draining week we've left our London house, not to return for two years. Strange mix of emotions: excitement, relief, trepidation. We were laughing and crying as we left our area ๐๐ฅน๐ข๐ญ Next stop, Heathrow. Tomorrow: BOSTON ๐ฉ๐คฉ
Oh hell yeeeeah!!!
@uva_gdc
has swiftly become my other favourite conference aside from AoIR. Great theme and what a well-constructed CFP! ๐๐ฏ๐คฉ
I am delighted to report that at 1:53am this morning I finally finalised my PhD bibliography!!! ๐ฅณ 301 references, 6234 words, written BY HAND ๐คฏ๐คฏ๐คฏ (no I never set up referencing software for fear of the Machine Uprising ๐ค๐ซ )
Methods chapter is starting to take shape ๐คฉ This has *hands down* been my favourite part of the thesis to write so far, it's flowed like water ๐๐
#aoir2022
its been real. Sitting bleary-eyed in Dublin airport and haven't been this tired in a long time (which is saying a lot with a 19 month old), but my heart is very full. This has given me the boost I needed to get to the end of my PhD in high spirits. Till next year โค๏ธ
Hello! I'm Zoรซ (AKA Dr. YouTube ๐ค), Internet culture enthusiast and Postdoctoral Researcher at
@MSRNE
Social Media Collective. For more info about my research, talks, teaching, and influencer &
@DigECollective
reading lists ๐ head over to my website! โจ
I love this book by Chris Hine: "It should be said at the outset that I would reject any notion that mediated communication is in some way not appropriate or sufficient as a medium for conducting an ethnographic study." SIMPLES ๐
Look what arrived, and just in time to cite it *extensively* in my thesis!! And I look forward to writing a proper review post-submission. Congrats
@emilyadh
! ๐คฉ๐โจ๏ธ
@PrincetonUPress
๐ข hello twitter, I'm on the academic job market this year! Critical feminist media scholar and digital ethnographer with expertise in platform economies, creator cultures & labour. Most likely to end up back in London, but open to other options. Send me jobs thank you please! ๐
Well this was a nice birthday surprise! ๐ Literally cannot WAIT to see friends at
#AoIR2022
in Dublin (finally!) and present on experiences of โจ๏ธThe Algorithmโจ๏ธ in the influencer industry ๐
Weird day. Was just witting down to start work this morning when this dog turned up in our back garden. Took him to the vets but his chip isn't registered, no sign of owners yet. So I guess we have a dog for now? ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
2.5 years after starting my autoethnographic YouTube channel I FINALLY hit 1k subscribers! Ironically, I just wrote in a chapter that 1k is "considered to be a nano-micro-atomic-*insert-synonym-for-small*-influencer" ๐ Mad respect to content creators ๐
We finally made it to Boston!! ๐ฅณ๐คฉ๐๐๐ฅฒ๐ฉ๐ฏ๐ Thus concludes my moving updates. Final thoughts: moving for work is a big deal. I'm super excited to start my postdoc, but the expectation that PhDs can and should be willing to move is exclusionary and needs challenging ๐ ๐ปโโ๏ธ
IT'S DONE!! After an ultra stressful and draining week we've left our London house, not to return for two years. Strange mix of emotions: excitement, relief, trepidation. We were laughing and crying as we left our area ๐๐ฅน๐ข๐ญ Next stop, Heathrow. Tomorrow: BOSTON ๐ฉ๐คฉ
Hello everybody! Enjoy the updated April 2023 version of the โจINFLUENCER INDUSTRIES & CREATOR CULTURE READING LISTโจ I've added a whole load of references from my recently completed thesis ๐ฅณ
Please continue to use, share and add your suggestions HERE:
I've seen people sharing helpful references on influencer industries & creator culture. I love collective reading lists so decided to publish my own of 10+ years! You can download and please ADD YOUR SUGGESTIONS to the google doc version: ๐๐๐ค
GUYS, MASSIVE NEWS!! We were able to renegotiate our venue contract and
#AoIR2021
is now fully VIRTUAL! Even though it's not as good as a non-pandemic conference, we hope you're as happy as we are that everyone can attend ๐ค๐๐ฅณ Submission due *April 15th*, get 'em in!
@AoIR_org
I was just rereading my 1st year upgrade document
@MediaLSE
, and whilst I really had no clue at the time where my PhD would end up (as an inductive ethnography), I still quite like this venn diagram that
@Livingstone_S
encouraged me to make. A lot of the themes made the cut! ๐ค
New article on algorithmic (in)visibility and marginalisation from
@brookeerinduffy
&
@coltenmeisner
๐ฏ Wish I'd had it when I wrote a chapter last year about ethnographic approaches to algorithmic labour and discrimination in the influencer industry! ๐ฅน
It's my first day of teaching
@MediaComGold
and I'm SO EXCITED! For me, teaching is really the point and pinnacle of working in academia, so today I feel like a *Real Academic* ๐
Disappointing news from
@AoIR_org
but it's important to share the misses as well as the wins in academia, and to remember that failing at something doesn't make you a failure!
Massive congratulations to
@Robert_Dorschel
and Yeweon Kim on their undoubtedly deserved success ๐
I'm so delighted that I will be presenting at my fave conference
#AoIR2023
this year! I'll be on the panel below and also presenting my forthcoming article on structural inequalities and relational labour in the influencer industry. And a hop, skip and jump away from Boston!! ๐คฉ
I had my final supervision with
@Livingstone_S
prior to going on maternity leave yesterday and wanted to take a moment to acknowledge what an amazing supervisor she is! ๐
I'm very pleased to share this chapter co-authored with
@sbanetweiser
! We critique the appropriation and branding of intersectionality and anti-racist politics by corporations and influencers during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020.
READ HERE:
Starting chapter 'Becoming a YouTuber: (Auto)ethnographic explorations of the online video influencer industry' for The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology, edited by the fab
@pglange
@jolynnasinanan
@elisax00
@draluchadora
. Happy to put my digital anthropologist hat on! ๐ฅณ
Does anyone remember January 2019 when I had no idea what I was doing with my PhD and I posted the picture on the right? Not any more babyyyyyyy!! ๐ฅณ๐ป๐ฅณ
#phdchat
#AcademicChatter
#StructureMakesPerfect
Felt a bit of a warm tingle today when my thesis joined the ranks of the many successful past supervisees on
@Livingstone_S
's office shelf
@MediaLSE
๐ฅฐโจ๏ธ
Missing
#ICA23
is the WORST (especially
@kat_hig
&
@sbanetweiser
's book launch today ๐ฅน) but it was all worth it because WE GOT OUR US VISAS APPROVED THIS MORNING!!! Which means we're actually really truly moving to Boston on 26th June and I will start at
@MSRNE
on time!!! ๐คฉ๐บ๐ธ๐ฆ
Down to the wire, but super excited about mine and
@brookeerinduffy
's submission to the
@uva_gdc
conference on the fraught politics of branding between corporations and their employees on social media ๐คฉ
Deadline is today, don't miss out!
I spent the last 3 months cooking up this
@MSRNE
workshop &
@BKCHarvard
reception with Nancy Baym and David Craig. So grateful to all the brilliant creator scholars who came out post-
#aoir2023
and made it such a success. Excited for this new research direction! โจ๏ธ๐
So lovely to get to celebrate Dylan with some of my
@MediaLSE
colleagues and introduce him to my super supervisors
@Livingstone_S
&
@sbanetweiser
(AKA his grandsupervisors!) ๐ฅฐ๐ฅณ
โจAlgorithms for Herโจ is finally here!!! Here's our inimitable leader
@sophiehbishop
introducing the conference. It's been such a pleasure to be on the organising committee and I'm SO SAD to be missing it (PhD deadline next week ๐ฅต) but I AM WATCHING! ๐โค๏ธโฃ๏ธ
#algorithmsforher
At the end of this month Dylan is turning 2 and I'll be handing in my PhD. Having a child is the best thing I've ever done, but it's also been a struggle: childcare is so expensive that we've only had part-time care. Today on
#IWD2023
I'm sending good vibes to working mothers ๐
Hot off the press!!!! ๐ฅ Come work with me
@MSRNE
, it's a great postdoc! Happy to field questions from anyone interested in applying โจ๏ธ
#aoir2023
It's done! I gave my first ever public lecture at
@BKCHarvard
! Thanks to David Craig for inviting me and to everyone who supported in organising, attending and asking great questions. Grateful to have such an awesome aca-community ๐ฅฒ๐ Now, just got to write the book! ๐โโ๏ธ
GUYS! I'm doing a lunchtime lecture at
@BKCHarvard
Institute for Rebooting Social Media (โผ๏ธ) on Nov 8th on 'Platforms, creators and the co-option of social justice narratives'. Info below, please come support IRL or virtually! ๐ฑ๐๐
REGISTER HERE:
Today I'm reminded of this passage from my recent IJoC article. The closure of platforms can have disastrous effects for people who depend on them for their income, not to mention community, entertainment, activism & education. RIP Twitter ๐ชฆ๐
READ HERE:
SO looking forward to giving a guest lecture for
@brookeerinduffy
's PhD class 'Platforms, Power & Precarity in the Creator Economy'
@CornellUCOMM
today! Combining three of my favourite things: creator industries and labour, digital ethnography, and PhD/early career mentorship ๐
Sad to say that it's timely, but very glad that we at Communication, Culture & Critique have published this special issue '
#CommunicationSoWhite
: Race and Power in the Academy and Beyond' edited by the wonderful
@Anamik1977
@khadastrophic
@evecng
๐ HERE:
Hello! I'm Zoรซ, PhD Researcher
@MediaLSE
and general Internet culture enthusiast ๐ค For info about my research, CV, publications, conference presentation, media coverage and teaching, head on over to my website! It's an all round good time โจ
My new article 'The intimacy triple bind: Structural inequalities and relational labour in the influencer industry'
@EJCS_Journal
is trending in cultural studies!! ๐ฒ๐คฉ
READ HERE:
So happy to receive an acceptance to the
@uva_gdc
Global Digital Intimacies conference this morning for an article
@brookeerinduffy
and I are working on about what happens when humanised brands collide with branded humans ๐ฅ
Milestone unlocked today: I was invited to give my first academic keynote! Sadly I had to decline as I'll be on maternity leave, but what an honour ๐ฅฒ๐
Exciting day! My PhD participant and friend
@simonoxfphys
made a video about my research on YouTube creators and the online video industry for his series 'PhD Stories'. It gives a really good overview, I hope people find it interesting or informative ๐
Just ordered Platforms and Cultural Production by
@brookeerinduffy
@tpoell
@gamespacenl
, can't wait to read it! My husband had to talk me out of writing a book review (time is not on my side these days ๐ถ๐ )
As a shining beacon of creative, critical, radical scholarship, it's no coincidence that
@GoldsmithsUoL
is the target of these deeply ideological cuts, a sign of what's to come for arts & humanities in the UK. But it's
#NotADoneDeal
and we are prepared to fight ๐ค
@GoldsmithsUCU
Morning
#aoir2022
! Looking forward to getting stuck in today. I'll be presenting a chapter of my PhD today in the 'Creators 1' session, 1:30pm room EQ-002, titled 'Precarity, discrimination and (in)visibility: An ethnography of "The Algorithm" in the influencer industry' โ๏ธ
Exciting day, I just received what I think is my first *ever* citation in a journal from none other than the wonderful
@AngeleChristin
! The list was communally created, proud of
@DigEthnogLSE
members ๐คฉ๐ฏ The updated October version is hot off the press:
I have a lot of feelings about going on maternity leave midway through my PhD and the struggles of balancing career and personal life. This year made me reassess that balance and I'm happy with the choices I've made but I've also never felt the burdens of womanhood more keenly.
I was interviewed by
@abbyohlheiser
for this
@washingtonpost
article about the ambivalent relationship between social media users/influencers and the platforms that host their content ๐๐๐คทโโ๏ธ