✨ Rachel (she/her) ✨
@researchbrb.bsky.social
Aspiring adult and media scholar. PhD student in Internet Studies, researching virtual influencers. 🇳🇿 Pākehā studying in Boorloo Perth. 🐨 Living in the frenzy of feeling. 🌟
🏡 Website rachelberryman.com
🦇 Co-founder darcmode.org
📱 Member ierlab.com
🏡 Website rachelberryman.com
🦇 Co-founder darcmode.org
📱 Member ierlab.com
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📢 Call for Papers!
AJEC invites abstracts for a special issue on children’s perspectives in their digital childhoods 🌍💻
📅 Abstracts due: Fri, 31 Oct 2025
📧 s.danby@qut.edu.au Susan Danby, | i.silva@qut.edu.au Irina Silva
AJEC invites abstracts for a special issue on children’s perspectives in their digital childhoods 🌍💻
📅 Abstracts due: Fri, 31 Oct 2025
📧 s.danby@qut.edu.au Susan Danby, | i.silva@qut.edu.au Irina Silva
October 29, 2025 at 4:51 AM
📢 Call for Papers!
AJEC invites abstracts for a special issue on children’s perspectives in their digital childhoods 🌍💻
📅 Abstracts due: Fri, 31 Oct 2025
📧 s.danby@qut.edu.au Susan Danby, | i.silva@qut.edu.au Irina Silva
AJEC invites abstracts for a special issue on children’s perspectives in their digital childhoods 🌍💻
📅 Abstracts due: Fri, 31 Oct 2025
📧 s.danby@qut.edu.au Susan Danby, | i.silva@qut.edu.au Irina Silva
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We're looking for a new colleague in Media and Creative Technologies at the University of Waikato (L or SL level). Feel free to ask me any questions you might have, and circulate to anyone relevant!
elhs.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
elhs.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Media and Creative Technologies
Teach film/media theory & production, mentor students, and contribute to research in Media & Creative Technologies at Te Kura Toi School of Arts.
elhs.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
We're looking for a new colleague in Media and Creative Technologies at the University of Waikato (L or SL level). Feel free to ask me any questions you might have, and circulate to anyone relevant!
elhs.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
elhs.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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tbh I think Microsoft is going to blink right before October 14, and if they don’t… well, that’s a very, very bad decision on their part.
October 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
tbh I think Microsoft is going to blink right before October 14, and if they don’t… well, that’s a very, very bad decision on their part.
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and here we go: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/...
October 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
and here we go: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/...
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My book is out! 💗
Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames is a 6-year-long labour of love for young adult stories, teen heroines in videogames and unnoticed girly game histories.
Thank you @livvy.itch.io for the beautiful cover!
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames is a 6-year-long labour of love for young adult stories, teen heroines in videogames and unnoticed girly game histories.
Thank you @livvy.itch.io for the beautiful cover!
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
October 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
My book is out! 💗
Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames is a 6-year-long labour of love for young adult stories, teen heroines in videogames and unnoticed girly game histories.
Thank you @livvy.itch.io for the beautiful cover!
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames is a 6-year-long labour of love for young adult stories, teen heroines in videogames and unnoticed girly game histories.
Thank you @livvy.itch.io for the beautiful cover!
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured
Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured
Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by Māori today
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured
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If you’re 18 or older, and have purchased makeup or beauty products based on your fandom (e.g licensed tie-ins or fan-run brands, small businesses, etc), my friend and colleague, Suzanne Scott is looking for you to answer a short survey with an opt-in for a follow up interview.
September 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
If you’re 18 or older, and have purchased makeup or beauty products based on your fandom (e.g licensed tie-ins or fan-run brands, small businesses, etc), my friend and colleague, Suzanne Scott is looking for you to answer a short survey with an opt-in for a follow up interview.
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There is a tiny independent bookshop that specialises in romance that’s opened in Remuera. Went there today with Ms 21, just delightful. A great selection & a lovely spot to visit. enamouredbooks.co.nz highly recommended in these trying times.
Enamoured Books
Enamoured Books is a romantic bookstore haven created just for you. We pride ourselves on offering a diverse range of books where everyone can find a story they see themselves in - from relationship t...
enamouredbooks.co.nz
September 21, 2025 at 5:31 AM
There is a tiny independent bookshop that specialises in romance that’s opened in Remuera. Went there today with Ms 21, just delightful. A great selection & a lovely spot to visit. enamouredbooks.co.nz highly recommended in these trying times.
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Our opening policy position reads:
September 17, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Our opening policy position reads:
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I'm really excited that a collection of fascinating work on fandom, fans and AI that @suzannerblack.bsky.social and I co-edited is out today in the new volume of @journal.transformativeworks.org - and as the journal's first 'New Currents' section! Read our editorial here doi.org/10.3983/twc....
Fans and AI: Transformations in fandom and fan studies
| Transformative Works and Cultures
doi.org
September 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I'm really excited that a collection of fascinating work on fandom, fans and AI that @suzannerblack.bsky.social and I co-edited is out today in the new volume of @journal.transformativeworks.org - and as the journal's first 'New Currents' section! Read our editorial here doi.org/10.3983/twc....
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Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium
“Good Vibes Only? How Affects and Emotions Are Mediated for Justice in Digital Culture”
www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
“Good Vibes Only? How Affects and Emotions Are Mediated for Justice in Digital Culture”
www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium
www.asc.upenn.edu
September 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium
“Good Vibes Only? How Affects and Emotions Are Mediated for Justice in Digital Culture”
www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
“Good Vibes Only? How Affects and Emotions Are Mediated for Justice in Digital Culture”
www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
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And a reminder that _Algorithms of Resistance_ is fully #openaccess, so can be read by anyone, right now(!):
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power
How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control
direct.mit.edu
September 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
And a reminder that _Algorithms of Resistance_ is fully #openaccess, so can be read by anyone, right now(!):
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
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✨I’m recruiting for a research project on game monetisation!✨
I’m keen to chat to game devs about how monetisation shapes the dev process. Interviews will be 60mins via Zoom. To learn more, head to bit.ly/40mOB3f
if you'd like to participate, shoot me a DM or email taylor.hardwick@sydney.edu.au 😊
I’m keen to chat to game devs about how monetisation shapes the dev process. Interviews will be 60mins via Zoom. To learn more, head to bit.ly/40mOB3f
if you'd like to participate, shoot me a DM or email taylor.hardwick@sydney.edu.au 😊
September 12, 2025 at 4:25 AM
✨I’m recruiting for a research project on game monetisation!✨
I’m keen to chat to game devs about how monetisation shapes the dev process. Interviews will be 60mins via Zoom. To learn more, head to bit.ly/40mOB3f
if you'd like to participate, shoot me a DM or email taylor.hardwick@sydney.edu.au 😊
I’m keen to chat to game devs about how monetisation shapes the dev process. Interviews will be 60mins via Zoom. To learn more, head to bit.ly/40mOB3f
if you'd like to participate, shoot me a DM or email taylor.hardwick@sydney.edu.au 😊
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How do platforms shape the way we see, share & react to images?
Join React & Respond, international conference on image cultures under platform capitalism, October 2–4.
Open to all, register now: www.zhdk.ch/veranstaltun...
@bildoperationen.bsky.social @zhdk.bsky.social @zkk-zurich.bsky.social
Join React & Respond, international conference on image cultures under platform capitalism, October 2–4.
Open to all, register now: www.zhdk.ch/veranstaltun...
@bildoperationen.bsky.social @zhdk.bsky.social @zkk-zurich.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
How do platforms shape the way we see, share & react to images?
Join React & Respond, international conference on image cultures under platform capitalism, October 2–4.
Open to all, register now: www.zhdk.ch/veranstaltun...
@bildoperationen.bsky.social @zhdk.bsky.social @zkk-zurich.bsky.social
Join React & Respond, international conference on image cultures under platform capitalism, October 2–4.
Open to all, register now: www.zhdk.ch/veranstaltun...
@bildoperationen.bsky.social @zhdk.bsky.social @zkk-zurich.bsky.social
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Glad to share my new publication in The Sociological Review: "Queer milestones: Intergenerational relations and youth transitions of Chinese queer female students residing overseas" (open access). doi.org/10.1177/0038...
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doi.org
July 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Glad to share my new publication in The Sociological Review: "Queer milestones: Intergenerational relations and youth transitions of Chinese queer female students residing overseas" (open access). doi.org/10.1177/0038...
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My department - Psychology at UoA - is advertising for a 2.5 year fixed-term "Māori or Pacific lecturer in clinical psychology":
Closes 20 August.
Closes 20 August.
Māori or Pacific Lecturer in Clinical Psychology - 30 month fixed term
Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandKo te whare Pūtaiao | The Faculty of Science at the University of Auckland is the leading science faculty in New Zealand and o...
jobs.smartrecruiters.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:33 AM
My department - Psychology at UoA - is advertising for a 2.5 year fixed-term "Māori or Pacific lecturer in clinical psychology":
Closes 20 August.
Closes 20 August.
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The Sims (2000)
July 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The Sims (2000)
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Now that the ink is dry, I’m thrilled to share that I’ve officially signed the contract for my first academic book with University of California Press!
I feel incredibly lucky and honored that @michellelipinski.bsky.social reached out after encountering my dissertation—we immediately
I feel incredibly lucky and honored that @michellelipinski.bsky.social reached out after encountering my dissertation—we immediately
June 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Now that the ink is dry, I’m thrilled to share that I’ve officially signed the contract for my first academic book with University of California Press!
I feel incredibly lucky and honored that @michellelipinski.bsky.social reached out after encountering my dissertation—we immediately
I feel incredibly lucky and honored that @michellelipinski.bsky.social reached out after encountering my dissertation—we immediately
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Don't forget! We are still accepting submissions (through 01/01/2026) for our upcoming special issue on Latin American Fandoms! See the full CFP here:
Latin American Fandoms (01/01/2026) | Transformative Works and Cultures
Latin American fandom is a topic that rarely appears in peer-reviewed articles in English and irregularly in Spanish. Phenomena such as fan fiction (fanfic), cosplay, and online communities allow us…
buff.ly
May 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Don't forget! We are still accepting submissions (through 01/01/2026) for our upcoming special issue on Latin American Fandoms! See the full CFP here:
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Huge props to @researchbrb.bsky.social who not only co-organised and co-hosted a whole event on Virtual Influencers, but also gave ab absolutely kick-ass final talk in the event, showcasing the depth and maturing of her own work on Virtual Influencers!
April 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Huge props to @researchbrb.bsky.social who not only co-organised and co-hosted a whole event on Virtual Influencers, but also gave ab absolutely kick-ass final talk in the event, showcasing the depth and maturing of her own work on Virtual Influencers!
Super excited about this free upcoming online event "Virtual Influencers in the Asia Pacific", happening on Tuesday 08 April, 1400-1700hrs AWST (GMT+8). 🥳 For more info, including registration (essential!), event schedule and presenter bios, head to ierlab.com/virtual-infl...
March 20, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Super excited about this free upcoming online event "Virtual Influencers in the Asia Pacific", happening on Tuesday 08 April, 1400-1700hrs AWST (GMT+8). 🥳 For more info, including registration (essential!), event schedule and presenter bios, head to ierlab.com/virtual-infl...
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Affect in fandom is out! 🥳 We LOVED working with authors on this volume on fandom, transmedia and games. This collection tackles creativity & content made by fans - their history AND their future (e.g. sustainable design). Download for free! 💜 #fanstudies
library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
March 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Affect in fandom is out! 🥳 We LOVED working with authors on this volume on fandom, transmedia and games. This collection tackles creativity & content made by fans - their history AND their future (e.g. sustainable design). Download for free! 💜 #fanstudies
library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
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What is your favorite academic research on YouTube? I’m working on a list (for its belated 20th birthday 🎂) and would love some recommendations #commsky
February 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
What is your favorite academic research on YouTube? I’m working on a list (for its belated 20th birthday 🎂) and would love some recommendations #commsky