Kim Barbour 💉💉💉💉

@AshyHaw @UniCanberra @NewsMediaRC Wahooo!!! So delighted to see this pop up on my feed that I'm breaking Twitter silence to congratulate you! They're so lucky to have you Ash, and I'm delighted you have found a stable position in a lovely team x

With contracts now signed and interstate moving arrangements a go-go, I'm delighted to announce that, come July, I'll be joining the @UniCanberra News & Media Research Centre as a Senior Lecturer (continuing) in Communication. Chuffed to work with this stellar team! @NewsMediaRC

(Also, I don't get royalties from this - just a flat fee. So I'm not gonna get rich off this book because of it's pricing, alas.)

Palgrave were wonderful and responsive in publishing this text, and managed the review and revision process with care and understanding. I'm disappointed at the 'library pricing', and know this is not going to be on personal bookshelves. 5/6

I'm delighted to say the ebook of 'Women and Persona Performance' is now available, hardcopy pre-order for September. I'm so proud of this, my first sole-authored monograph: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… 1/6

@KatieEBarclay And I will have one! Likely with Michelle and Saira to celebrate all our new books :)

@kjbarbour Congrats! You need a book launch!

However, if you're in a position to recommend acquisitions to a uni library, please do so! And if you find it valuable, I'd love to hear about it. (If you believe in gender binaries, I'd rather you keep that to yourself - this is not the book for you, and that's fine 😉.) 6/6

Thread: Any social movement will have it excesses, including whatever these people mean by 'woke.' No social movement, including whatever these people mean by woke, should be beyond critique. But, a lot of the anti-woke critique is intellectually shallow.

Okay so now that the dust has settled, I’m going to comment on the media watch piece that I was featured in. First off to anyone who wondered why I even talked to media watch, it’s because if I didn’t then the piece would’ve been even worse, & I was grateful for the opportunity.

#MediaWatch I expected very little and it was worse than that. Here's what I had to say when they asked me about Szego's article. "This article is full of discredited science, fringe conspiracy theories, and omits relevant context that would provide more fairness and balance."

#CFP This is Me: Interrogating Female Pop Star Documentaries 👇🏼

Want to know why the moral panic around #videogames still persists 50 years since their popularization? Because of articles like this. A thread. wtxl.com/news/local-new…

The joys of international travel without check-in luggage - being paged for a passport check at the gate as Mr Kim Barbour. Nah mate, that'd be Dr Barbour.

Call for Papers: Persona and Inter(Face). Guest Editor Prof. Amanda du Preez (University of Pretoria) seeks papers exploring the intersection of face and interface as inter(faces) from an interdisciplinary stance. Abstract deadline 15 July, details here: ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/c…

Just so ridiculously proud of @RobbieBoucaut for submitting his phd thesis today! Just a joy for @pcpugs and I to supervise!

I'm advertising a #PhD #scholarship to recruit an outstanding candidate & join my ARC DECRA project at @MonashUni. Open to domestic & international applicants. Apply: rb.gy/qhf07 Due:25 June Get in touch. Spread widely. Thanks! Photo by Emil Widlund on Unsplash

JOB OPPORTUNITIES: Lecturer positions in New Media & Digital Culture and in Cross-Media Culture, at the University of Amsterdam. Closing date: 12 June. See: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Lectur… + vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Lectur…