Jess Maddox
@jessmaddox.bsky.social
Social media professor + expert
Writing ANATOMY OF AN INTERNET SCANDAL
Repp’d by Aevitas Creative Management
Thoughts mine
Writing ANATOMY OF AN INTERNET SCANDAL
Repp’d by Aevitas Creative Management
Thoughts mine
Have more questions about Creator and Influencer Studies? I still have answers.
February 6, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Have more questions about Creator and Influencer Studies? I still have answers.
Got a question about the new journal Creator and Influencer Studies? We have answers.
As a friendly reminder, please do not DM me with submissions questions but email them to jessmaddox [at] uga [dot] edu
As a friendly reminder, please do not DM me with submissions questions but email them to jessmaddox [at] uga [dot] edu
February 5, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Got a question about the new journal Creator and Influencer Studies? We have answers.
As a friendly reminder, please do not DM me with submissions questions but email them to jessmaddox [at] uga [dot] edu
As a friendly reminder, please do not DM me with submissions questions but email them to jessmaddox [at] uga [dot] edu
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Exciting news for everyone on #TeamRhetoric studying "content creators, influencers, content production, and creator/influencer cultures examining the critical-cultural, ethical, industrial, and socio-political dimensions of the creator and influencer economies."
Some personal news, as they say.
Get your submissions ready for when our portal opens February 12. As the founding editor-in-chief of the new Springer Nature academic journal Creator and Influencer Studies, I’m thrilled to welcome them.
link.springer.com/journal/44538
Get your submissions ready for when our portal opens February 12. As the founding editor-in-chief of the new Springer Nature academic journal Creator and Influencer Studies, I’m thrilled to welcome them.
link.springer.com/journal/44538
February 3, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Exciting news for everyone on #TeamRhetoric studying "content creators, influencers, content production, and creator/influencer cultures examining the critical-cultural, ethical, industrial, and socio-political dimensions of the creator and influencer economies."
Some personal news, as they say.
Get your submissions ready for when our portal opens February 12. As the founding editor-in-chief of the new Springer Nature academic journal Creator and Influencer Studies, I’m thrilled to welcome them.
link.springer.com/journal/44538
Get your submissions ready for when our portal opens February 12. As the founding editor-in-chief of the new Springer Nature academic journal Creator and Influencer Studies, I’m thrilled to welcome them.
link.springer.com/journal/44538
February 3, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Some personal news, as they say.
Get your submissions ready for when our portal opens February 12. As the founding editor-in-chief of the new Springer Nature academic journal Creator and Influencer Studies, I’m thrilled to welcome them.
link.springer.com/journal/44538
Get your submissions ready for when our portal opens February 12. As the founding editor-in-chief of the new Springer Nature academic journal Creator and Influencer Studies, I’m thrilled to welcome them.
link.springer.com/journal/44538
Reposted by Jess Maddox
My dear friend @jessmaddox.bsky.social has launched a new academic journal for folks who study content creators and influencers!
If that's your thing do consider submitting your work:
link.springer.com/journal/4453...
If that's your thing do consider submitting your work:
link.springer.com/journal/4453...
Creator and Influencer Studies
Creator and Influencer Studies publishes studies of content creators, influencers, content production, and creator/influencer cultures examining the ...
link.springer.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:12 PM
My dear friend @jessmaddox.bsky.social has launched a new academic journal for folks who study content creators and influencers!
If that's your thing do consider submitting your work:
link.springer.com/journal/4453...
If that's your thing do consider submitting your work:
link.springer.com/journal/4453...
The transition to U.S. TikTok has been messy. This has led to a lot of conspiracies. I'm the first to say we should be skeptical of this new venture, but this weekend's problems speak to glitches, incompetence, and the physicality of social media infrastructure more than they do censorship.
January 27, 2026 at 3:52 PM
The transition to U.S. TikTok has been messy. This has led to a lot of conspiracies. I'm the first to say we should be skeptical of this new venture, but this weekend's problems speak to glitches, incompetence, and the physicality of social media infrastructure more than they do censorship.
Okay but Karl Marx is actually funny as hell.
January 26, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Okay but Karl Marx is actually funny as hell.
Is TikTok shadowbanning anyone talking politics?
Maybe, but probably not. TikTok is glitching in several ways right now, and not just in views.
Maybe, but probably not. TikTok is glitching in several ways right now, and not just in views.
January 26, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Is TikTok shadowbanning anyone talking politics?
Maybe, but probably not. TikTok is glitching in several ways right now, and not just in views.
Maybe, but probably not. TikTok is glitching in several ways right now, and not just in views.
January 23, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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This is a great primer for PhD students or ECRs who are interested in doing public facing work
This is probably long overdue, but here's the guide I give my students on how to do public scholarship and engage with media.
drive.google.com/file/d/1mHMu...
drive.google.com/file/d/1mHMu...
Public Scholarship Primer.pdf
drive.google.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:15 PM
This is a great primer for PhD students or ECRs who are interested in doing public facing work
This is probably long overdue, but here's the guide I give my students on how to do public scholarship and engage with media.
drive.google.com/file/d/1mHMu...
drive.google.com/file/d/1mHMu...
Public Scholarship Primer.pdf
drive.google.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:16 PM
This is probably long overdue, but here's the guide I give my students on how to do public scholarship and engage with media.
drive.google.com/file/d/1mHMu...
drive.google.com/file/d/1mHMu...
Petition to get rid of email subject lines because emailing IT with a subject line, “virus?” is a rather demoralizing way to start spring semester
January 5, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Petition to get rid of email subject lines because emailing IT with a subject line, “virus?” is a rather demoralizing way to start spring semester
This spring, I'm teaching my favorite course: My "social media storytelling," or a "how to be a professional content creator" class. Syllabus below.
drive.google.com/file/d/1rcbp...
drive.google.com/file/d/1rcbp...
EMST 5990 S26 Syllabus.pdf
drive.google.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
This spring, I'm teaching my favorite course: My "social media storytelling," or a "how to be a professional content creator" class. Syllabus below.
drive.google.com/file/d/1rcbp...
drive.google.com/file/d/1rcbp...
I guess these are the “precedented” times we asked for
January 4, 2026 at 3:14 PM
I guess these are the “precedented” times we asked for
In honor of finally watching season five of Stranger Things, I have to say again that Starcourt Mall in Season 3 was my childhood mall, and my first job in high school was at the Aeropostale in that mall.
January 1, 2026 at 11:42 PM
In honor of finally watching season five of Stranger Things, I have to say again that Starcourt Mall in Season 3 was my childhood mall, and my first job in high school was at the Aeropostale in that mall.
Reposted by Jess Maddox
Authenticity is kind of the defining floating signifier of the times.
January 1, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Authenticity is kind of the defining floating signifier of the times.
Adam Mosseri says authenticity will become more important than ever as AI becomes more common.
He’s right and wrong.
He’s right and wrong.
January 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Adam Mosseri says authenticity will become more important than ever as AI becomes more common.
He’s right and wrong.
He’s right and wrong.
Reposted by Jess Maddox
The Slopocalypse
Instagram chief: AI is so ubiquitous 'it will be more practical to fingerprint real media than fake media'
Adam Mosseri offered a notably candid assessment on how AI is upending Instagram.
www.engadget.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The Slopocalypse
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"No Way To Prevent This," Says Company Spending Billions Of Dollars To Encourage This
December 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
"No Way To Prevent This," Says Company Spending Billions Of Dollars To Encourage This
I’m a NYE grinch. It’s a stupid simulation (à la Baudrillard) but I did get good pizza and have Prosecco and will watch college football
December 31, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I’m a NYE grinch. It’s a stupid simulation (à la Baudrillard) but I did get good pizza and have Prosecco and will watch college football
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13 episodes of How Did You Get Here, ft.
@epinicion.bsky.social
@zo-e.xyz
@josephgalbo.bsky.social
@harrylylesjr.bsky.social
@danielwagner.lol
@jessmaddox.bsky.social
+more
and @celebrityhottub.bsky.social interviewing *me*
new season starting 1/7
@epinicion.bsky.social
@zo-e.xyz
@josephgalbo.bsky.social
@harrylylesjr.bsky.social
@danielwagner.lol
@jessmaddox.bsky.social
+more
and @celebrityhottub.bsky.social interviewing *me*
new season starting 1/7
How Did You Get Here?
Careers Podcast · Updated Weekly · A Career Path Podcast
We sit down each episode with someone to discuss how they got to where they are today in their career. Any field, any job, same five questions...
podcasts.apple.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM
13 episodes of How Did You Get Here, ft.
@epinicion.bsky.social
@zo-e.xyz
@josephgalbo.bsky.social
@harrylylesjr.bsky.social
@danielwagner.lol
@jessmaddox.bsky.social
+more
and @celebrityhottub.bsky.social interviewing *me*
new season starting 1/7
@epinicion.bsky.social
@zo-e.xyz
@josephgalbo.bsky.social
@harrylylesjr.bsky.social
@danielwagner.lol
@jessmaddox.bsky.social
+more
and @celebrityhottub.bsky.social interviewing *me*
new season starting 1/7
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“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome
Not only is Die Hard a Christmas movie, it is also a scathing critique of Cold War era bureaucracy and the Reagan administration, in this essay I will
December 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Not only is Die Hard a Christmas movie, it is also a scathing critique of Cold War era bureaucracy and the Reagan administration, in this essay I will
Christmas Eve Eve baking
December 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Christmas Eve Eve baking