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Adjunct Prof. | 1st gen college student | digital media, influencer culture, film & tv, production labor, race, gender, sexuality, class, materiality, etc.

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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
4 months
New dossier with Mediapolis is launching this week🥳 We have the intro live This whole thing started off as a extremely generative panel Slaveya and I organized at SCMS 2023. I’ll share more about each article as they get released throughout the week 🤩
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Media In-Between: Introduction

In their introduction to the dossier, Zizi Li and Slaveya Minkova reflect on the concept of the "In-Between" as a framework for thinking about media, space, and place.

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The latest issue opens with a dossier on "Media In-Between". In their intro, Slaveya Minkova and Zizi Li ( @influencerlabor ) reflect on the concept of the “In-Between” as a framework for thinking about media, space, and place.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
1 month
My dissertation filing was accepted and I am officially Dr. Li now.
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My article “Digital Domestic (Im)material Labor: Managing Waste and Self While Producing Closet Decluttering Videos” is now published with Television and New Media, and available open access: 🎉
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Digital Domestic (Im)material Labor: Managing Waste and Self While Producing Closet Decluttering...

This article examines (im)material digital labor essential to the production of closet decluttering videos on YouTube by analyzing two case studies: Leighannsay...

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Going to teach my first-ever self-designed undergrad seminar class "Influencer Culture and Economy" in Spring 2022, starting next week! Hoping to document / archive the experience here as I always enjoy @tangoldman 's tweets. Stay tune!
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Week 5 already 😱 Last min prepping for tmrw's class🥵 I'm excited to discuss viral tiktok dances and their invisible Black girl & women creators like Jalaiah Harmon & D1 Nayah, as well as the hypervisible & racialized virtual influencers such as Miquela and Shudu.
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Watch out for our comeback at #scms22 ⚡️Excited to be in a panel with @tamigraph @ButNoCigar and have Jenn Ayers as our respondent!
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My 22 students brought me so much joy today as I debuted as an instructor of record 🥰 And for some reason, I physically and mentally feel less tense after this seminar session than all my previous TA sections.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
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If you are at #SCMS2023 , please consider joining me, @pcccne , Andrea Kelly, and my amazing co-chair Slaveya Minkova at our #SCMS23 Friday 9am morning session “Im/materiality; Media in between” 🔥
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2 years
We all finished teaching our first seminar classes as instructors of record 🥂💜✨. So proud of my friends Benjamin, Nashra, and Rose Ann. One year of friendship and many more to come 🥰
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3 years
For wk2 of my influencer class, students are reading @nancybaym 's short piece with Communication Review on relational labor, @sophiehbishop 's "Name of the Game", and @tamigraph 's "Home Spun". Already excited about the discussions as I lesson plan 🤩
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2 years
Week 7 is exhausting, but the influencer class will discuss the desire of consumption, frictionless capitalism, & logistics! 📽️ unboxing vids, Amazon ads, Amazon drivers dancing TikToks, logistics TikToks & YT vlogs, plus storymaps of Amazon facilities.
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Didn’t end up attending as many panels as I’d like to due to intense fatigue, but nonetheless had a good time at #SCMS23
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Week 6 of the influencer class is on spectacle, fantasy, & capital. Will be discussing content houses like Hype House and Clubhouse. Also assigned some Liziqi's videos that mobilize aestheticized & fantastical lifestyle imaginaries of rural China. Very curious how it'll go...
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
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2 years
I just want April to be over. Only 4 weeks into spring quarter and I’m absolutely exhausted. It’s partially due to a terribly stressful March. Starting today, I will not take on anything new. Actually going to practice saying no. Wish me luck.
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Two months later, I finally read the R&R comments I received. Made a to-do list, downloaded all the recommended texts, and hope I will stick to the plan and finish the revision this summer.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
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3 years
If you are attending #scms2022 , come join @tamigraph @ButNoCigar , Jen Ayres and me at panel G04 on Friday April 1 at 9am PDT / 11am CDT / 12pm EDT!
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Come visit our #scms22 panel on Friday April 1 at 11am CT 👚📱📦
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2 months
✅ First day of my social/media class. Great to be back on a small liberal arts campus.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
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3 years
2022 has been a struggle and March is going to be particularly horrendous. But I am looking forward to my sweets consumption this month. Already enjoyed a whole tub of mango sorbet, and a box of Portuguese egg tarts and Matcha cheesecakes.
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I hate writing conclusions.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
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3 years
Week 3: we are discussing intimacy, affect, and sexuality. Core materials assigned are Tobias Raun's "Capitalizing intimacy" & YT vlogs by Vietnamese Canadian transgender model, beauty queen and makeup artist Julie Vu (aka PRINCESSJOULES).
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
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2 months
Deleted WeChat and blocked parents from my phone. Have never felt better and more in control. Taking baby steps in my CPTSD recovery journey.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
2 years
You may want to read my article “Digital Domestic (Im)material Labor: Managing Waste and Self While Producing Closet Decluttering Videos” in light of this recent development from Marie Kondo.
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Digital Domestic (Im)material Labor: Managing Waste and Self While Producing Closet Decluttering...

This article examines (im)material digital labor essential to the production of closet decluttering videos on YouTube by analyzing two case studies: Leighannsay...

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Marie Kondo Has ‘Kind of Given Up’ on Tidying Up: ‘My Home Is Messy’
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
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3 years
Assigning materials for Week 1 is tricky. But @madalyn_amato 's how-to on becoming an influencer, @LaurenKGurley 's "The Promise—and Risk—of a Career in TikTok", and @wishcrys 's "Layers of Identity: How to be ‘real’ when everyone is watching" really got the conversion going!
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
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3 years
@AngeleChristin This is exciting! I’m also teaching a new seminar on influencers this Spring :)
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
2 years
Got mochi donuts and Portuguese egg tarts for students. Heading toward campus for our last day of class at a outdoor sculpture garden. Looking forward to sharing with them these amazing sweets that soothed my soul. Pictures to come.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
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Besides responding to messages on social media in the past 24hrs, I cried like crazy. Education has been a key part to my CPTSD. I then did yoga and binged the kdrama It's Okay to Not Be Okay. Watching a show that really centers around CPTSD is painful but also healing for me.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
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2 years
Post conference Sunday frantic before I will get sit down to reflect on SCMS and appreciate all the old/new connections: unpack, calculate 💰, do laundry, file taxes, catch up on overdue work, and prep for the new week 🤯🤯🤯
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
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3 years
Come visit our #scms22 panel on Friday April 1 at 11am CT 👚📱📦
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Tamara Kneese
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3 years
The @SCMStudies draft schedule is up! Looking forward to this mediated fashion labor panel with @influencerlabor , @ButNoCigar , and Jen Ayres, wherever we may be
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3 years
Updated my profile pic to the one I shared with students so that they know what I look like without a mask 😝 This is me taking a selfie at the patio of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey (MARCO) with a bucket hat.
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3 years
Had a great time at our panel. Love that we ended on collective actions and coalition building! Have to give @tamigraph a big shout out for being so supportive when I cold emailed her for the possibility of a panel, and bringing @ButNoCigar and Jen Ayres on board!
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Tamara Kneese
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3 years
This was so much fun! Our open time ended with a discussion of cultural worker/streamer/seller/influencer collective action, within union contexts and beyond
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
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3 years
Woke up to the news that my paper “On Brown Boxes” is accepted to #AoIR21 . Excited to be a first-time #AoIR conference goer this fall and looking forward to be a part of the @AoIR_org community.
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3 years
Something to look forward to!
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how it started / how it's going
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Grabbed a free book from the uchicago up booth at SCMS as a grad student, and here’s my pick: Oil Beach 🔥
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christina, OIL BEACH + other 📚 | mostly @ 🦣 Mdon
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2 years
Today’s the day!! OIL BEACH is officially out, hot off the press. (Pinch me.) Thank ever so much to my editor @josephcalamia at @UChicagoPress who believed in this strange little project from the beginning.
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2 years
Week 8's theme is "behind the screen" via convos around click farms, content farms, the webcam industry, Amazon Mechanical Turk workers, and content moderators.
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🥰🥰🥰
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UCLA CSW|Barbra Streisand Center
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2 years
Thank you to all who attended CSW's 33rd #ThinkingGender Student Research Conference! Special thank you to our graduate panelists, volunteers, cosponsors, moderators, and our wonderful speakers @AgingSuperModel @raultishness @CelineShimizu !
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I stumbled upon this gem at Amoeba! Criterion collection’s Wong Kar-Wai box set is beautiful but I need this out of print copy of 墮落天使 Fallen Angels before WKW changed the aspect ratio. Preserving more pre-1997 hk in my collection 💜✨
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2 years
Friends in LA, I’m the coordinator behind the Thinking Gender 2023 conference “Transforming Research: Feminist Methods for Times of Crisis and Possibility”. Please RSVP & join us in person on Feb 24 feat @CelineShimizu , @AgingSuperModel , @raultishness & amazing graduate students.
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UCLA CSW|Barbra Streisand Center
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Please share! CSW is excited to host its 33rd #ThinkingGender Student Research Conference on Feb 24. "Transforming Research: Feminist Methods for Times of Crisis and Possibility" feat speakers @AgingSuperModel @raultishness @CelineShimizu RSVP:
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3 years
Finished my one-on-one meetings with all 22 of my students. Excited to learn from them and see all of their unique projects grow this quarter!
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
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1 year
IDK why I thought I could do all these things on top of last mile of wedding planning plus a whole month of family visit 🤪 What is RAship, dissertation, job market materials, conference pre, journal article abstracts?!?! All I’ve done is 🏃🏻‍♀️🧘🏻‍♀️🚴🏻‍♀️to keep me from exploding.
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2 years
Nourishing myself on 🌕🐰 Mid-Autumn Festival with matcha, mangosteen, dim sum, mooncake 🥮, goji berries and longan cha tea
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Dealing with migraines as a TA in grad school is one thing, dealing with them as an adjunct prof with crazy long teaching days is another thing 😭
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2 years
Another week of assigning @restofworld articles. This time, students are reading @decka227 's "The Chinese content farms behind Factory TikTok" along with "Meet the off-screen workers who keep the adult webcam industry running" by @FogginSophie & @telliotter .
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
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Check out this CFP and consider applying to Thinking Gender 2023! The in-person conference on Feb 24, 2023 will feature two keynote sessions: one by @CelineShimizu , and another by @AgingSuperModel and @raultishness .
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UCLA CSW|Barbra Streisand Center
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Submit YOUR work for Thinking Gender 2023 that centers feminist research methods and practice and engages substantively with race, Indigeneity, Blackness, settler colonialism, and/or empire. DEADLINE: OCTOBER 23, 2022 APPLY HERE:
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3 years
Spent my afternoon making a website for our ever-growing multicampus grad student working group "Crises of Vectorial Ecosystem". Check it out!
Crises of Vectorial Ecosystem

UC Multi-Campus Working Group

crisesofvectorialecosystem.tilda.ws
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Merry Christmas Eve everyone!
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2 years
🚨 Seeking a third panelist joining me and my dear friend Slaveya Minkova to pre-constitute a #scms23 panel around the notion of the “in between” 🚨 We have lined up a fabulous respondent 🌟 Feel free to DM or email.
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3 years
When you learned that your book review is actually published from the physical copy you just received 🤣 Anyway, my review of The Process Genre (Duke 2020) is now up at The Moving Image (The Journal of AMIA)!
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
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3 years
This quarter has been a personal mess but I’m so happy to wrap it up with Kara Keeling’s “Queer OS”, Zach Blas’ “Queer Technologies”, and micha cárdena’s “Becoming Dragon”, “Sin Sol”, and “The Android Goddess Declaration”.🥂 to methods of resistance & modes of survival!
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2 years
Despite all the crazy deadlines, I will still manage to watch all the 🎾 matches.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
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2 years
Very excited to be in this issue of FLOW! Check out my piece on Imma @imma_NFT and boxes 📦 💖
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FLOW
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The inaugural issue of FLOW Volume 29 is now live! Head on over to to read the first installment of work by @Bimmbles , Alexander Cho, @Trilliz , @Kingisafink , @InfluencerLabor , and @WestEmilyE !
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First time being on a semester system. Goodbye, my compressed summer. Hello, first week of school as an adjunct professor.
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2 years
Kick off my summer with some ice cream from Kansha Creamery and Disneyland.
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@SCMStudies Caucus on Class is hosting *A Roundtable on Labor Actions at Academic Institutions* on Friday June 3 at 3-4/4:30 pm ET (Zoom Meeting ID: 875 8443 2358 | Passcode: 983457). The event features Yulia Gilich, Sam Hunter @sam_hunter___ , and Sam Smucker @samuelsmucker .
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2 years
Grading party by myself, with cold brew green tea and Epik High.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
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3 years
i did something today 👏👏👏 drafted my SCMS abstract AND submitted the applications for my Spring 2022 seminar class “Influencer Culture and Economy” for GE credits in both Arts& Humanities and Society&Culture.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
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2 years
Watched it a couple weeks ago, but just want to share that I kicked off my 2023 screening with 許鞍華Ann Hui’s debut film 瘋劫The Secret (1979). This amazing Hong Kong New Wave thriller was recently restored by Hong Kong Film Archive. Highly recommend 🔥
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Applied for a conference coordinator position. Application writing extracts so much work but also hope, creativity, and visions. It's just an app. Shouldn't have contributed that many great ideas with the current graduate student researcher wage & benefit.
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Tidying up requires a lot of gendered and racial uses work, and so is making decluttering videos. This article examines (im)material digital labor essential to the production of closet decluttering videos on YouTube by analyzing two case studies: Leighannsays and Bestdressed.
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2 months
Survived teaching two back-to-back 2h45m film classes today. How does one survive with only 15m break in between?
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Looking forward to @mayaonthenet ’s show this week🔥On view from Tue to Thur at ucla. Check it out if you’re in la!
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The Trick To Intersecting Art and Technology (He'll LOVE This Move)
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I want to crash after submitting my first ever SCMS panel proposal. But instead, im sadly returning to grading.
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It was such an honor! I had fun and am really grateful @tangoldman ’s generous invitation! Also, what a great idea to have a show-and-tell of social media finds at the end of a semester 💜
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A huge THANK YOU to Zizi Li ( @influencerlabor ) for guest lecturing on influencer scholarship at the beginning of my "Travel Cinemas" seminar today. You left us poised to engage in a lively show-and-tell and group analysis of students' social media finds.
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using only food, where did u grow up?
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It’s a bummer that I won’t be able to travel to Canada in late July, but if any of my brilliant friends can, please consider applying to this amazing SSRC workshop on “Labor and Technology” led by @iajunwa and @teflonbeltran 🔥
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Call for applications! The Data Fluencies Project is hosting a Research Development Workshop this summer on the theme “Labor and Technology.” Come join us in Vancouver on July 24-25! Applications are due Monday, May 1, by midnight EST.
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Now i'm 1500 words over word limit 🤯
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Two months later, I finally read the R&R comments I received. Made a to-do list, downloaded all the recommended texts, and hope I will stick to the plan and finish the revision this summer.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
Looking forward to tomorrow 🥂
@tamigraph
Tamara Kneese
@tamigraph
3 years
Looking forward to our #SCMS22 panel tomorrow! I'll be talking about logistics fetishism and hanging out with @influencerlabor , @ButNoCigar , and Jen Ayres. Of interest to digital labor and feminist media studies types Friday, April 1, 9 AM-10:45 AM Pacific
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
📦Spreading the word on my #AoIR2021 presentation "On Brown Boxes: Hidden Interdependence in Unboxing Videos." You can watch the video or read the extended abstract 📦
@influencerlabor
Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
Woke up to the news that my paper “On Brown Boxes” is accepted to #AoIR21 . Excited to be a first-time #AoIR conference goer this fall and looking forward to be a part of the @AoIR_org community.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
did a bunch of grading at a coffee shop with a nice outdoor patio. had a burger with draft beer at a happy hour pub. visited the new Amoeba location in Hollywood for the first time. maybe ☕️🍔🍺💿 will become my friday afternoon/early evening routine.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 months
Excellent thread. Adding this to my Social/Media class this fall ✨
@JessRauchberg
jess rauchberg, phd
@JessRauchberg
3 months
Hate to say it, but the 2024 election cycle confirms that shitposting, memes, and vibes are going to be essential campaign tools for both parties as we move toward November. Arguably, this has been happening since 2008, and was a core staple of the 2022 PA senate race.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
You can now preorder The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda edited by the fantastic @cbkenkar and Feride Çiçekoğlu. Excited for my chapter “Women Directors on the Edge of Hollywood: Agnès Varda/Shirley Clarke in and beyond Lions Love (1969)” to see the light this April🎉
@cbkenkar
Colleen Kennedy-Karpat
@cbkenkar
3 years
🗣️ PREORDERS now open for our Varda volume, in print this April! With contributions from @homay @influencerlabor @ProfKateInce @Jennychambles @NadineBoljkovac and many others 🌻
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
let some greens and fresh air heal my headache 🍃
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
A good thing for scms being online for someone with a stomach bug is the reassurance that my bathroom is right there, and I don’t need to embarrass myself by rushing out of a room full of people. But please, I’ve have enough of this bug. Go away!
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
2 years
Finally took the courage to scan through 12 quarters of evals all together. (Most of them) are so overwhelmingly positive. Now I have a document filled with absolute applauds of me to read and lifte up when in doubt.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
3/10 and 3/11: matcha soft serve and mochi donuts
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
@katherinelsm @chesoriano and @earvsc have some articles on platform labour brokerage in the Philippines that discuss coaches or skill-makers.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
ahhh i hate that downvote button is so close to the like button. and i just accidentally downvoted and somehow unfollowed someone i really like and respect...had to undo the downvote and refollow😬 forgive my clumsy fingers and the glitches my friends 🙏
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
Monday 🍵 & 📖 time. Enjoying my time reading this fantastic book for an upcoming grad student working group this Friday.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
i pulled through a 4-hr long AoIR doctoral colloquium with my typical pounding migraine. but will i be able to make sense or survive my in-person teaching in a bit? who knows.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
1 year
I didn’t even apply to AoIR due to varying reasons and only submitted to the online doctoral colloquium…BUT now I feel FOMO with all the fabulous ppl I follow here all going to Philly in Oct. Maybe I shall try attending anyhow🤔
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
2 years
i can't believe i left this article revision sitting here until a week from when it is due. time to binge revising 🥲
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
2 years
This hit hard again today. Just turned down an actually very well paid and well suited freelance offer due to my status. Looking at my bank account in tears 😭
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
2 years
Students are reading @cm_jarvis 's "A Shopper's Heaven" on @_reallifemag , @CharmaineSChua 's "The Ever Given and the Monstrosity of Maritime Capitalism" with @BostonReview , and @leximcmenamin 's "‘Heartwarming’ Amazon Driver Dancing TikTok Trend Is Dehumanizing" on @TeenVogue .
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
a good reading in the morning after Labor Day
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@techworkersco
Tech Workers Coalition
@techworkersco
3 years
🎉 Just published for #LaborDay2021 : a review of the art show SILENT WORKS by Phoenix Nomi, a Berlin-based audio transcription & machine learning worker. It’s a testament to all workers organizing in the face of bosses and algorithms used to replace and/or fire us 🧡
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
2 years
Assigned readings include @TaylorLorenz 's NYT article "The Original Renegade" along with Francesca Sobande's "Spectacularized and Branded Digital (Re)presentations of Black People and Blackness" on TVNM.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
I didn't realize that today is April 1. I miss you 張國榮. May I encounter my "Leslie Cheung ghost" like what happened in Kim Cho-hee's Lucky Chan-sil (2019).
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
The ebook will be available at the end of this month (March 24), with the hardcover to follow in April. Preorders for both are now open!
@influencerlabor
Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
You can now preorder The Sustainable Legacy of Agnès Varda edited by the fantastic @cbkenkar and Feride Çiçekoğlu. Excited for my chapter “Women Directors on the Edge of Hollywood: Agnès Varda/Shirley Clarke in and beyond Lions Love (1969)” to see the light this April🎉
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
The influencer class transitions to mechanisms of (in)visibility in digital economy 👻 Start with a mini pre based on the 2016 anthology Invisible Labor: Hidden Work in the Contemporary World along with @aNormanWilson 's "The Artist Leaving the Googleplex"
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
1 month
Should I play (G)I-DLE songs tomorrow before class 🤔 Excited to go the concert tonight. Now time to finish class prep🦾
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
cannot believe i’ll get to meet one of my academic crushes soon ☺️
@CovenUchri
COVEN UCHRI
@CovenUchri
3 years
Our Fall 2021 event “The Logistics Counter-revolution: Fast Circulation, Slow Violence and Decolonial Struggle along the Transpacific Supply Chain” with the amazing @CharmaineSChua is on Mon Nov 22, 2-4pm PT. DM us if you aren’t in COVEN already but are interested to participate!
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
Congrats @tarreytownmayor @cantnonical !!! Happy Lunar New Year 🐯🧧🎊
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chris chien
@notchrischien
3 years
What a way to start the Lunar New Year: Our book is officially published! So proud to spotlight our authors' local and diasporic writing on Hong Kong's global practices of radical resistance along with my co-editors @wenliunyc @onequietcup @cantnonical .
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
2 years
Happy Monday! My small piece on Shudu and stand-in labor is now live on Flow:
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FLOW
@FlowTV
2 years
Monday, Flow day!! Volume 29.05 is now live on the website. ! Head on over to to read the first installment of work by @bimmbles , @trilliz , @kingisafink , @influencerlabor , and @westemilye !
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
@prof_nmehdiz Proud of my chapter “Women Directors on the Edge of Hollywood: Agnès Varda/Shirley Clarke in and beyond Lions Love (1969)”
@cbkenkar
Colleen Kennedy-Karpat
@cbkenkar
3 years
🗣️ PREORDERS now open for our Varda volume, in print this April! With contributions from @homay @influencerlabor @ProfKateInce @Jennychambles @NadineBoljkovac and many others 🌻
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
1 month
Horror lover, go watch this episode!! Shameless promoting this bc my partner is heavily featured in this episode😅
@Shudder
Shudder
@Shudder
1 month
From slow-burning ghost stories to eerie psychological thrillers, Japan has crafted some of the most iconic horror films. 👹 Get your dose of J-horror terror—episode 3 of #HorrorsGreatest is streaming now.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
2 years
Voted Yes, immediately!
@sruuaw
Student Researchers United-UAW
@sruuaw
2 years
You know what to do.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
i guess i shall write today if @costarastrology tells me so
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
2 years
One great news after feeling sick for a week: my article on LA-based Diné mediamaker Pamela J. Peters is now published with Wide Screen 9.1 !
@WSKuhu
Kuhu@WideScreen
@WSKuhu
2 years
Absolutely delighted to share the new issue of Wide Screen. Among other essays, the issue features a dossier on disability and film and another on COVID media. Please read and share among your colleagues, students and listservs wherever you can.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
Anyone wanna go to this exhibit with me?
@ZaneGTCooper
Zane Griffin Talley Cooper
@ZaneGTCooper
3 years
In just a few days, this fabulous exhibit will open to the public! If you're in LA, come see VR and sound work from our #AlchemicalInfrastructures exhibit, and many more wonderful works of art! @AnnenbergPenn @AnnenbergCARGC
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
2 years
Also assigned @gleemie 's "Justice for 'Data Janitor'" to go with a brief lecture on @ubiquity75 's amazing book Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social media.
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
3 years
Marked (also, is it finally time for me to revisit EVA?)
@msteinbrg
Marc Steinberg
@msteinbrg
3 years
This is a really exciting project: A media analysis of anime via Evangelion as a case study. Open Access, with some of the BEST voices in anime studies in it (can't wait to read Ishida's piece on voice acting). Hats off to the editors!
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Zizi Li, Ph.D.
@influencerlabor
2 years
Had some good discussions on virtual influencers, CGI models, and NFT in class wherein students are really critically analyzing the diigitals NFT promo materials and Daz3D’s “non-fungible people”
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The Diigitals / NFT

Our first NFT collection in collaboration with DAZ3D // Here at The Diigitals, we are utilising the rising accessibility of new technologies and taking the first steps into a new frontier of digital...

www.thediigitals.com
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