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✨ 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
"The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism:
Celebrity Tech Founders and Networks of Power" by Ben Little and Alison Winch (2021) 🙌 www.routledge.com/The-New-Patr...
The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism: Celebrity Tech Founders and Networks of Power
This book offers an original critique of the billionaire founders of US West Coast tech companies, addressing their collective power, influence, and ideology, their group dynamics, and the role they p...
www.routledge.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Our opening policy position reads:
September 17, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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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...
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
Ahh, what incredible news!!! Congratulations, Krysten!! Cannot wait to read it!! 😍🥳🎉
June 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I'd recommend Kristen Warner's "The Pleasure Principle of Magic Mike XXL: Sonic Visibility Toward Female Audiences"! doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...
The Pleasure Principle of Magic Mike XXL: Sonic Visibility Toward Female Audiences
Abstract. A key difference between Magic Mike (2012) and Magic Mike XXL (MMXL, 2015) is the latter films narrative shift toward the viewing experience of i
doi.org
May 20, 2025 at 7:04 AM