Emily van der Nagel
@emvdn.bsky.social
social media scholar + mum living in Narrm/Melbourne
So glad to have been part of the UQ symposium 'darkness to hyper-visibility'
Really rich, thoughtful work from scholars of creator visibilities, a wonderful keynote on platform epistemologies from Kelley Cotter, and the opportunity to present my own work on OnlyFans
Really rich, thoughtful work from scholars of creator visibilities, a wonderful keynote on platform epistemologies from Kelley Cotter, and the opportunity to present my own work on OnlyFans
November 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
So glad to have been part of the UQ symposium 'darkness to hyper-visibility'
Really rich, thoughtful work from scholars of creator visibilities, a wonderful keynote on platform epistemologies from Kelley Cotter, and the opportunity to present my own work on OnlyFans
Really rich, thoughtful work from scholars of creator visibilities, a wonderful keynote on platform epistemologies from Kelley Cotter, and the opportunity to present my own work on OnlyFans
I kind of can't wait to tell my dentist I chipped a tooth while flossing. YOU SUGGESTED THIS WOULD BENEFIT MY DENTAL HEALTH KEITH
September 16, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I kind of can't wait to tell my dentist I chipped a tooth while flossing. YOU SUGGESTED THIS WOULD BENEFIT MY DENTAL HEALTH KEITH
This weekend I'm MCing my first funeral (my grandfather died at 90 years old and I probably do the most public speaking in my family) and the next day hosting a baby shower for a friend. LIFE HEY.
August 8, 2025 at 5:55 AM
This weekend I'm MCing my first funeral (my grandfather died at 90 years old and I probably do the most public speaking in my family) and the next day hosting a baby shower for a friend. LIFE HEY.
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"Once you’ve built the system to block kids from YouTube, you’ve built the system to block anyone from anything. And that system will be irresistible to future governments with different ideas about what content people need to be 'protected' from."
— @mmasnick.bsky.social in @techdirt.com
— @mmasnick.bsky.social in @techdirt.com
Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube
Last fall, heavily influenced by Jonathan Haidt’s extremely problematic book, Australia announced that it was banning social media for everyone under the age of 16. This was already a horrifically …
www.techdirt.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"Once you’ve built the system to block kids from YouTube, you’ve built the system to block anyone from anything. And that system will be irresistible to future governments with different ideas about what content people need to be 'protected' from."
— @mmasnick.bsky.social in @techdirt.com
— @mmasnick.bsky.social in @techdirt.com
Pleased to be on a panel with Alita Brydon of Bad Dates of Melbourne to get into dating and digital intimacy today! 💕🖱️🍆👉👌✨💻
Creative Directions is our annual student-run festival of ideas at Monash and Hinge or Cringe is a chef's kiss of a panel title, I reckon.
Creative Directions is our annual student-run festival of ideas at Monash and Hinge or Cringe is a chef's kiss of a panel title, I reckon.
August 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Pleased to be on a panel with Alita Brydon of Bad Dates of Melbourne to get into dating and digital intimacy today! 💕🖱️🍆👉👌✨💻
Creative Directions is our annual student-run festival of ideas at Monash and Hinge or Cringe is a chef's kiss of a panel title, I reckon.
Creative Directions is our annual student-run festival of ideas at Monash and Hinge or Cringe is a chef's kiss of a panel title, I reckon.
Reposted by Emily van der Nagel
It was incredible to watch this disaster unfold over several years: site owners increasingly competed for Google search traffic and placement in SERPs, abandoning every other avenue of reader engagement and retention, making their sites and the web worse. Then Google did this
Hey is it bad if google AI search results stop people from leaving google dot com 99% of the time? All our news and information creators can survive just fine with one percent of their previous search traffic right? I’m sure it’s fine. www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
![Yesterday the Pew Research Center released a report based on the internet browsing activity of 900 U.S. adults which found that Google users who encounter an Al summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than use 's who don't encounter an Al summary. To be precise, only [my emphasis] 1 percent of users who encountered an Al summary clicked the link to the page Google is summarizing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rfoctmk4guq56gensuermj7q/bafkreihrwrukrvisav54a24jeuv7tlhfwe62yvui5d27gxhnopbdworowe@jpeg)
July 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
It was incredible to watch this disaster unfold over several years: site owners increasingly competed for Google search traffic and placement in SERPs, abandoning every other avenue of reader engagement and retention, making their sites and the web worse. Then Google did this
July 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The biggest tragedy of 1999's Blue (Da Ba Dee) is that, despite mentioning a blue girlfriend, the protagonist describes that he "ain't got nobody to listen". In this essay on heteropessimism...
July 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The biggest tragedy of 1999's Blue (Da Ba Dee) is that, despite mentioning a blue girlfriend, the protagonist describes that he "ain't got nobody to listen". In this essay on heteropessimism...
Reposted by Emily van der Nagel
There's been a heap of interest in Australia's teen social media ban, but a lot of confusion remains about how the law works, how it's being implemented and what we still don't know.
Here's my attempt to answer all your questions. (Did I miss something? Tell me!)
www.crikey.com.au/20...
Here's my attempt to answer all your questions. (Did I miss something? Tell me!)
www.crikey.com.au/20...
July 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
There's been a heap of interest in Australia's teen social media ban, but a lot of confusion remains about how the law works, how it's being implemented and what we still don't know.
Here's my attempt to answer all your questions. (Did I miss something? Tell me!)
www.crikey.com.au/20...
Here's my attempt to answer all your questions. (Did I miss something? Tell me!)
www.crikey.com.au/20...
Have reached the stage of toddler parenting where, if I take his shoes off for him, this kid will *put his shoes back on* just so he can take them off himself 🫠 and yes, I gave him several chances to do it himself first.
June 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Have reached the stage of toddler parenting where, if I take his shoes off for him, this kid will *put his shoes back on* just so he can take them off himself 🫠 and yes, I gave him several chances to do it himself first.
Reposted by Emily van der Nagel
Necessary reminder that literally every digital media expert in the country have been saying exactly this since this whole sorry ordeal started. None of this is a surprise.
"I don't think the ban is viable," said Lisa Given, professor of information sciences at RMIT University, who has closely analysed the government's social media age restriction policy.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
With six months until teen social media ban, experts don't think tech is viable
Children as young as 15 were repeatedly misidentified as being in their 20s and 30s during government tests of age-checking tools, sowing new doubts about whether the teen social media ban is viable.
www.abc.net.au
June 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Necessary reminder that literally every digital media expert in the country have been saying exactly this since this whole sorry ordeal started. None of this is a surprise.
New random password generator: my 2 yr old and some fridge magnets
June 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM
New random password generator: my 2 yr old and some fridge magnets
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The journal used AI to copyedit our paper. It Americanised all our spellings. The paper is about how AI homogenises writing...
Copy-editor normalised my spelling to American English. Sigh.
June 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The journal used AI to copyedit our paper. It Americanised all our spellings. The paper is about how AI homogenises writing...
Taught my last tutorial for semester!! 🎉🎉🎉
May 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Taught my last tutorial for semester!! 🎉🎉🎉
Catching up with the Lily Phillips interview on Newsnight, BBC, in which the interviewer asks: "hand on heart, look me in the eye. Can you tell me that that day [of having sex with 100 men] was genuinely empowering for you?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgpe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgpe...
Lily Phillips speaks to Victoria Derbyshire about OnlyFans, online abuse and misogyny
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight
www.youtube.com
April 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Catching up with the Lily Phillips interview on Newsnight, BBC, in which the interviewer asks: "hand on heart, look me in the eye. Can you tell me that that day [of having sex with 100 men] was genuinely empowering for you?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgpe...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgpe...
There are currently FOUR positions advertised in my department at Monash, the School of Media, Film & Journalism:
A/Prof or Professor - Journalism
A/Prof or Professor - Media
Senior Lecturer - Public Relations
Lecturer - Media
More info here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
A/Prof or Professor - Journalism
A/Prof or Professor - Media
Senior Lecturer - Public Relations
Lecturer - Media
More info here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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April 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
There are currently FOUR positions advertised in my department at Monash, the School of Media, Film & Journalism:
A/Prof or Professor - Journalism
A/Prof or Professor - Media
Senior Lecturer - Public Relations
Lecturer - Media
More info here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
A/Prof or Professor - Journalism
A/Prof or Professor - Media
Senior Lecturer - Public Relations
Lecturer - Media
More info here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
Gold star for whoever made this library sign ⭐
March 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Gold star for whoever made this library sign ⭐
Hurry up Vote Compass I've got a tutorial on election media to plan
March 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Hurry up Vote Compass I've got a tutorial on election media to plan
I had a whole baby (two and a half years ago) and now I just have to, what, go to work? I have to miss them during business hours? For most of the year?? So grim.
February 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I had a whole baby (two and a half years ago) and now I just have to, what, go to work? I have to miss them during business hours? For most of the year?? So grim.
I am a slow writer. The more I lean into that instead of trying to change it, the better my writing is, actually. Yelling at myself internally to hurry up and sleep doesn't get me to sleep faster, and panicking about writing doesn't make that process faster either.
January 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I am a slow writer. The more I lean into that instead of trying to change it, the better my writing is, actually. Yelling at myself internally to hurry up and sleep doesn't get me to sleep faster, and panicking about writing doesn't make that process faster either.
Always was
Always will be
Always will be
January 26, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Always was
Always will be
Always will be
Getting a flyer about the selection received in this week's fruit delivery box and thinking about how much time I spend on the internet 😳
January 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Getting a flyer about the selection received in this week's fruit delivery box and thinking about how much time I spend on the internet 😳
Final day of work for 2024. I tried really hard this year and I got some good things done and also I feel like I didn't do enough because that's how academia works. I learned a lot about how to be a parent and academic and I'm definitely going to be better at that next year.
December 19, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Final day of work for 2024. I tried really hard this year and I got some good things done and also I feel like I didn't do enough because that's how academia works. I learned a lot about how to be a parent and academic and I'm definitely going to be better at that next year.
Still thinking about that TikTok I saw that went, "you didn't 'notice an easter egg', you learned media literacy"
December 11, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Still thinking about that TikTok I saw that went, "you didn't 'notice an easter egg', you learned media literacy"