taylor annabell
taylorannabell.bsky.social
taylor annabell
@taylorannabell.bsky.social
Postdoc for HUMANads, Utrecht University

🔍 influencer cultures & platform governance; everyday experiences of datafication; digital memory work by and through social media platforms

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In this #onlinefirst article, Helen Kennedy, @giorgiaaiello.bsky.social, @taylorannabell.bsky.social and C W Anderson argue that generic visuals in the news do, in fact, function as public images, connecting and engaging audiences in public life.

Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1367...
March 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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I will be sharing my paper on cross-platform labour this Wednesday (Feb 26, Melbourne time 8 pm)! Tune in to the online webinar if you are interested 😊
On 26 Feb 10:00-11:00 (CET), our second webinar features @ziyingm.bsky.social and her chapter on cross-platform labour across Chinese and US-based platforms, and Tjaša Petročnik and her chapter assessing EU regulatory frameworks in the context of creator labour on YouTube
February 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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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...
February 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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

Register: forms.office.com/e/aW9WYQrh8Q
Book available open access: www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook-o...
February 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Excited to share that this book on influencer labour🎉 In my chapter, I examine creators’ cross-platform labour across Chinese and US-based social media economies — how they make money, build a brand across platforms, and navigate work conditions
🔗https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035332816.00013
February 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Join us in Utrecht or online next month to discuss the ✨politicisation of influencers✨ with Johanna Arnesson and @hannakainen.bsky.social. Register for the workshop on 5 March from 14:00-16:00 (CET) ⤵️ forms.office.com/e/YwHA3EB0gg
February 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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...
February 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Congratulations to @taylorannabell.bsky.social, @cgoanta.bsky.social @dasfiesch.bsky.social and Isabelle Wildhaber on your very timely new book!
@elgarpublishing.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Great piece on the annual spectacle surrounding Wrapped by @amandahoover.bsky.social for @businessinsider.com! Happy to have contributed some thoughts on the way users experience the wrappification of their data together with @taylorannabell.bsky.social.

www.businessinsider.com/spotify-wrap...
How Spotify Wrapped taught everyone to give away their data — and love it
The genius business tactic that companies like Starbucks, Tinder, and Duolingo have learned from Spotify's viral data gathering ruse.
www.businessinsider.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Happy #spotifywrapped day to all those celebrate and eagerly anticipate this algorithmic event like @ninavindum.bsky.social and I

some initial observations 🧵
December 4, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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I wonder who’s more excited for this week: digital policy enthusiasts like me or our Big 4 friends? 🥲 #DSA
Collecting the #DSA risk and audit reports here:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Still many lines to fill, curious to see which ones come next
November 25, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Given Wrapped season is days away, it feels timely that @ninavindum.bsky.social and I's article on our Spotify Unwrapped workshops is available now open access doi.org/10.1080/0958...

It outlines our methodological and theoretical framework, and the interconnected exercises in the workshop 🧵
November 27, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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Publication news! 🎺 It’s Wrapped season… and Taylor’s (@taylorannabell.bsky.social) and my article on our Spotify (Un)wrapped project is now out in the Journal of Gender Studies. The article outlines how creative workshops can be used to critically analyse ‘algorithmic events’ like Wrapped.
Spotify (Un)wrapped: how ordinary users critically reflect on Spotify’s datafication of the self within creative workshops
Each year, Spotify nudges users to share aesthetically pleasing data stories ‘wrapped’ and repackaged from their listening behavior. This article approaches Spotify Wrapped as an annual algorithmic...
doi.org
November 26, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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Takeaways:
💫 a lot of influencers feel they can speak about elections but without authenticity;
💫ad disclosures - what are those?
💫where’s the content moderation at since TikTok does not allow for political branded content as shown by @taylorannabell.bsky.social 👇🏼
November 20, 2024 at 8:31 AM
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Curious about how a basic political influencer campaign looks like? I scraped TikTok and analyzed 40 videos made for the upcoming Romanian presidential elections.

humanads.eu/influencers-...
Influencers & elections: An Eastern European campaign blueprint | Human Ads ERC
A brief empirical analysis of an influencer marketing campaign from November 2024 for the presidential elections in Romania
humanads.eu
November 20, 2024 at 8:31 AM
Our publication '(Un)disclosed brand partnerships: How platform policies and interfaces shape commercial content for influencers' - a multidisciplinary collaboration with @laade.bsky.social & @cgoanta.bsky.social - is now available open access policyreview.info/articles/ana... ⤵️
November 18, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Spotify rebranding of podcasters as “creators” and their launch of ad-sharing revenue next year feels very on brand for the copy-paste of features and terminology that happens across platforms and their roll-out of new monetisation programmes 🎶
November 14, 2024 at 1:33 PM