New publication! 🚨 Together with my brill team (@taylorannabell.bsky.social & @cgoanta.bsky.social), we explore how parents turn kids into commodities on TikTok, diving into the nuances of *kidfluencers* & raising legal questions about platform governance. See🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Join us for our webinar series with contributing authors from The Hashtag Hustle to discuss the cultural, economic, and legal dimensions of content creation as a form of labour

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On 20 Feb 15:00-16:00 (CET), our first webinar features @laade.bsky.social and her chapter on platform discretion in content moderation on professional Twitch streamers, and Malcolm Katrak and Shardool Kulkarni and their chapter on the regulation of influencer labour in India

Our edited volume, The Hashtag Hustle: Law and Policy Perspectives on Working in the Influencer Economy (with @cgoanta.bsky.social @dasfiesch.bsky.social & Isabelle Wildhaber) is available, open access www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o...

I had the honour to present yesterday my research at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University on the intersection between e-commerce on social media and consumer law. Thanks to @elibietti.bsky.social for facilitating this talk 🙏

My PhD is gonna ruin me. Not because of the research stress, but because studying e-commerce on social media means I’m always tempted to buy things. Latest casualty: a snowflake-shaped waffle maker 🧇❄️

Wow, the e-commerce strategy of TikTok (US) is reaching a whole new level and it's WILD. Here's an example: this influencer is sharing some hair growth tips - no disclosed brand partnerships, no e-commerce features embedded to her content...or so it seems 👀 1/

LinkedIn introducing reels feels like the start of its midlife crisis.

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Hey, FYP addicts! Join into this list if you’ve got your scholarly sights set on TikTok—or if you just want to keep tabs on those who do! 🔎✨

Thank you to Laura Aade @laade.bsky.social, doctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg, for delivering an insightful presentation yesterday on Consumer Protection in the Era of Social Media Commerce! @clicatnusl.bsky.social

Curious about how a basic political influencer campaign looks like? I scraped TikTok and analyzed 40 videos made for the upcoming Romanian presidential elections.

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Today was truly a special day of my research stay in the US 💫 I had such a blast presenting my draft article on the regulation of e-commerce on social media under the DSA at @nusl.bsky.social. Forever grateful to @elibietti.bsky.social & @lexlanham.bsky.social for making it happen!

Our publication on the disclosure practices of influencers from a platform perspective has been published in the @PolicyR and available open access! This type of collaboration is truly the reason why I love interdisciplinary research so much @TaylorAnnabell @CatalinaGoanta 🫶✨

Wow, 18M+ users! bsky-users.theo.io At this rate, Bluesky is going to be declared a VLOP (a very large online platform) by year-end. Once that happens, w/in 4 months of notification, 🦋 will have to comply with the most stringent rules under the EU's DSA. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/...

New article! In “User-generated accountability: Public participation in algorithmic governance on YouTube,”
Blake Hallinan and I investigate how YouTube creators act to hold the platform accountable in the face of policy failures and make noise to draw attention to their concerns. t.co/vdhoIbqhKW

This feels like old Twitter!

« Chinese immigrants in America are offering their living rooms and garages as warehouses to cross-border sellers on Temu, TikTok, and Amazon » restofworld.org/2024/chinese...