Emerson Victoria Johnston
@idenarch.bsky.social
currently researching the social history of the early internet (think algorithms, architectures, and archives)
masters x2 @ stanford / bachelors @ northeastern
first gen 🎓 | 🏳️🌈
masters x2 @ stanford / bachelors @ northeastern
first gen 🎓 | 🏳️🌈
the second is a conference paper that I was lucky enough to share earlier this summer in Germany at the Communities and Technology Conference. In this one, I investigate the now infamous TikTok exodus to Rednote that happened this past January. Read more about that here:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
When Regulation Backfires: Cultural Infrastructure and the Mass Migration from TikTok to RedNote | Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Communities & Technologies
dl.acm.org
October 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
the second is a conference paper that I was lucky enough to share earlier this summer in Germany at the Communities and Technology Conference. In this one, I investigate the now infamous TikTok exodus to Rednote that happened this past January. Read more about that here:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
the first is a commentary I wrote for an upcoming special issue in 'Dialogues of Digital Society' on Digital Authoritarianism. In my piece, I try to piece together something i'm coming to understand as 'anticipatory identity control'. Read more about that here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Anticipatory identity control: Upstream governance on digital platforms - Emerson Johnston, 2025
This commentary examines the entrenchment of authoritarian governance through the algorithmic architectures of major digital platforms. As identity formation in...
journals.sagepub.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:24 PM
the first is a commentary I wrote for an upcoming special issue in 'Dialogues of Digital Society' on Digital Authoritarianism. In my piece, I try to piece together something i'm coming to understand as 'anticipatory identity control'. Read more about that here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...