Anthony Kelly
@anthonypkelly.bsky.social
teaching fellow, ucd ics | phd, lse media & comms | reactionary political influencers and their social media audiences | views my own
Thank you, Kylie! Thanks for all the support on this and everything else!
December 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Thank you, Kylie! Thanks for all the support on this and everything else!
Thanks, Aurelien! Yes, I’ll absolutely up for that in the new year!
December 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Thanks, Aurelien! Yes, I’ll absolutely up for that in the new year!
This is the first publication to emerge from my postdoctoral research funded by @researchireland.ie. The article builds on a paper presented at the Media Frictions International Symposium, hosted by Jönköping University in May 2024.
🔗: doi.org/10.70064/mt....
🔗: doi.org/10.70064/mt....
December 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
This is the first publication to emerge from my postdoctoral research funded by @researchireland.ie. The article builds on a paper presented at the Media Frictions International Symposium, hosted by Jönköping University in May 2024.
🔗: doi.org/10.70064/mt....
🔗: doi.org/10.70064/mt....
A second key contention is that the ideas audiences express, both explicitly and implicitly, about their status as platform media stakeholders can reveal a great deal about how audiences conceptualise political and media power, including where they do and should reside.
December 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
A second key contention is that the ideas audiences express, both explicitly and implicitly, about their status as platform media stakeholders can reveal a great deal about how audiences conceptualise political and media power, including where they do and should reside.
A first key contention is that audience positionings in relation to reactionary influencers are marked by a tension between assent and dissent in which antagonism can entail both ideological support for mediated anti-pluralism and the contestation of reactionary influencer online content.
December 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
A first key contention is that audience positionings in relation to reactionary influencers are marked by a tension between assent and dissent in which antagonism can entail both ideological support for mediated anti-pluralism and the contestation of reactionary influencer online content.
➡️ How tensions between (dis-)connection and (in-)visibility animate the platformised commercialisation of exclusion typifying reactionary media.
December 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
➡️ How tensions between (dis-)connection and (in-)visibility animate the platformised commercialisation of exclusion typifying reactionary media.
➡️ How influencer audiences position themselves, within the context of platform economies, as contributors in and against the mediation of reaction.
December 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
➡️ How influencer audiences position themselves, within the context of platform economies, as contributors in and against the mediation of reaction.
➡️ How content creation is situated as a mode of reactionary political action, including how media are viewed as a locus and motor of political agency.
December 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
➡️ How content creation is situated as a mode of reactionary political action, including how media are viewed as a locus and motor of political agency.
➡️ How conceptualisations of sex and gender are mobilised antagonistically as mechanisms of social exclusion by reactionary influencers and their followers.
December 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
➡️ How conceptualisations of sex and gender are mobilised antagonistically as mechanisms of social exclusion by reactionary influencers and their followers.
Taking Andrew Tate and Chaya Raichik (aka Libs of TikTok) as case studies, I consider the complexity of audience positionalities in relation to reactionary influencers—and the stances they promote—from several angles, including...
December 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Taking Andrew Tate and Chaya Raichik (aka Libs of TikTok) as case studies, I consider the complexity of audience positionalities in relation to reactionary influencers—and the stances they promote—from several angles, including...
Reposted by Anthony Kelly
Anyone who perceives Kirk as “civil” or as “doing politics the right way” is betraying their comfort with the ablative world Kirk worked so hard to create, secure in their belief that the grinding wheel will never touch *their* skin.
One wonders where that belief arises from.
One wonders where that belief arises from.
September 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Anyone who perceives Kirk as “civil” or as “doing politics the right way” is betraying their comfort with the ablative world Kirk worked so hard to create, secure in their belief that the grinding wheel will never touch *their* skin.
One wonders where that belief arises from.
One wonders where that belief arises from.