Blake Hallinan

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

@internetmaggie @PornStudies Ooh! I missed this. Looking forward to reading.

How do Visa + Mastercard control what content is allowed on platforms? (spoiler: moral panic+algo-bias) My 💥new article💥out today in @PornStudies clarifies credit card + payment processor influences using Pornhub's 2020 moderation scandal read here: doi.org/10.1080/232687…

Come for the serious grappling with platform governance, stay for the furries. Or the other way around, depending on your preferences.

Available in the new journal Springer journal Communication and Change: doi.org/10.1007/s44382…

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 🦋

Job details for digital methods: au.dk/om/stillinger/…

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

Job details for monetization and governance: au.dk/om/stillinger/…

I’m hiring for a 2.5 year postdoc position in digital methods and the creator economy, details here: jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG525/pos…

Honored to serve as the vice chair of Media Industry Studies 🫡

🚨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. “Hot tubs, yoga pants, and gamba” is out now and open access in Platforms & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Where are you in a “paralocal” 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.

PS I’ll be hiring three PhDs and a postdoctoral researcher with the project. Stay tuned for more details.

Read more about the project here: blakehallinan.com/pay4play

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, 💸, organizing, and power for the next five years.

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/10.1177/14…

@reynoldscj @pgmt_lab 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 🙏

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 😍 and the Participatory Platform Governance lab.

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