A Bluesky account about a book about Instagram, written by Tama Leaver, Tim Highfield and Crystal Abidin, published by the fine folks at Polity Press.
Here we try and keep on top of the many, many changes to Instagram as a platform, & its many cultures. ..
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A Bluesky account about a book about Instagram, written by Tama Leaver, Tim Highfield and Crystal Abidin, published by the fine folks at Polity Press.
Here we try and keep on top of the many, many changes to Instagram as a platform, & its many cultures.
Crystal Abidin is a digital anthropologist and ethnographer of vernacular internet cultures. She is a Professor at the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, where she directs the Influencer Ethnography Research Lab. .. more
Reposted by Tama Leaver
Or to put it a different way: there are as many people using Instagram each month as the were people on the planet Earth in 1960.
Instagram isn’t just for square photos anymore www.theverge.com/news/676549/...
www.theverge.com/news/646809/...
Reposted by Crystal Abidin
"Meanwhile, in recent weeks, Zuckerberg has personally lobbied Trump to drop the FTC lawsuit. The agency’s chair, Andrew Ferguson, recently suggested that he would obey such an order from Trump."
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Reposted by Crystal Abidin
It turns out those concerns were very justified.
And an uptake of 54million teen accounts when there's more than a billion Instagram accounts shows the uptake of teen accounts isn't huge as of yet!
about.fb.com/news/2025/04...
No more ‘notes’ on Instagram posts. www.theverge.com/news/636727/...
Instagram’s School Partnership Program – Prioritized Reporting to Help Students cyberbullying.org/instagram-sc...
Instagram Reels flooded with violent videos before Meta says it fixed error www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Instagram starts testing new button that might downrank comments www.theverge.com/news/613143/...
Reposted by Crystal Abidin
Reposted by Crystal Abidin
Threads adds dedicated media tab to display photos and videos www.socialsamosa.com/news-2/threa...
variety.com/2025/digital...
Mark Zuckerberg's horrible changes for Instagram — and Facebook — have become untenable, writes Lennon Torres. mashable.com/article/quit...
Threads is officially getting ads www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24...
