Tanner Mirrlees
@tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social
Comm, Media & Tech Studies + empire, capital, state, power, politics, energy, environment, work, war, play, ed, left-right activism https://socialscienceandhumanities.ontariotechu.ca/research/researcher-profiles/dr.-tanner-mirrlees.php
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My new book Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries: A Critical Introduction is out (lnkd.in/gjNH2KDT). ESA04 is a 20% discount code. Looking forward to my book chat at TMU's Creative School this Tuesday. More to come!
The podcast series “Green Dreams” is now live. It was a pleasure to collaborate with @imreszeman.bsky.social and the folks at Cited Media Productions. A big thank you SSHRC for support, and Gordon Katic and Marc Apollonio, for media production talents!
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Season 04: Green Dreams Archives - Cited Podcast
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September 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The podcast series “Green Dreams” is now live. It was a pleasure to collaborate with @imreszeman.bsky.social and the folks at Cited Media Productions. A big thank you SSHRC for support, and Gordon Katic and Marc Apollonio, for media production talents!
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Green Dreams: Podcast series on which I worked @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social and Cited Media now available!
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Introducing Green Dreams (Season Trailer) - Cited Podcast
Introducing our new season, Green Dreams. Starting September 9, 2025, with weekly episodes through October.
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September 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Green Dreams: Podcast series on which I worked @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social and Cited Media now available!
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A great talk, which is featured on the @energyhumanities.bsky.social website (Instagram promo coming soon!): www.energyhumanities.ca/video. #envhum
Last month, I gave a presentation on Silicon Valley, energy systems, and environmental sustainability based on some of the work of I've been doing in the area for the past five years. Some of this will appear in Imre Szeman and I's co-authored book on the topic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGWu...
Is Silicon Valley “Going Green”? Digital Tech, Energy Systems and Environmental Sustainability
YouTube video by Tanner Mirrlees
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August 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A great talk, which is featured on the @energyhumanities.bsky.social website (Instagram promo coming soon!): www.energyhumanities.ca/video. #envhum
Last month, I gave a presentation on Silicon Valley, energy systems, and environmental sustainability based on some of the work of I've been doing in the area for the past five years. Some of this will appear in Imre Szeman and I's co-authored book on the topic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGWu...
Is Silicon Valley “Going Green”? Digital Tech, Energy Systems and Environmental Sustainability
YouTube video by Tanner Mirrlees
www.youtube.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Last month, I gave a presentation on Silicon Valley, energy systems, and environmental sustainability based on some of the work of I've been doing in the area for the past five years. Some of this will appear in Imre Szeman and I's co-authored book on the topic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGWu...
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Starting today! 📣🍁📚
The Canadian Communication Association's annual conference will take place from June 2-5! ICCIT director and professor Sarah Sharma will be presenting the keynote, entitled "All the Insufferable Tools." acc-cca.ca/index.php/co...
June 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Starting today! 📣🍁📚
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🎙️ Please enjoy this episode of The Data Fix:
Solidarity, with Shannon Wait
In this episode, Shannon Wait — Alphabet Workers Union-CWA organizer — speaks with me about the labour conditions for data center and AI workers.
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Solidarity, with Shannon Wait
In this episode, Shannon Wait — Alphabet Workers Union-CWA organizer — speaks with me about the labour conditions for data center and AI workers.
shows.acast.com/63997541ed12...
Solidarity, with Shannon Wait | The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan
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June 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
🎙️ Please enjoy this episode of The Data Fix:
Solidarity, with Shannon Wait
In this episode, Shannon Wait — Alphabet Workers Union-CWA organizer — speaks with me about the labour conditions for data center and AI workers.
shows.acast.com/63997541ed12...
Solidarity, with Shannon Wait
In this episode, Shannon Wait — Alphabet Workers Union-CWA organizer — speaks with me about the labour conditions for data center and AI workers.
shows.acast.com/63997541ed12...
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The Canadian Communication Association's annual conference will take place from June 2-5! ICCIT director and professor Sarah Sharma will be presenting the keynote, entitled "All the Insufferable Tools." acc-cca.ca/index.php/co...
April 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The Canadian Communication Association's annual conference will take place from June 2-5! ICCIT director and professor Sarah Sharma will be presenting the keynote, entitled "All the Insufferable Tools." acc-cca.ca/index.php/co...
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If anyone I know is in Toronto at the end of the month, swing by to hear me talk about some ideas I am exploring in relation to platform work and digital labor.
March 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
If anyone I know is in Toronto at the end of the month, swing by to hear me talk about some ideas I am exploring in relation to platform work and digital labor.
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I’m honoured to be giving the 2025 Dallas Smythe Memorial Lecture at Simon Fraser University in a few weeks. If you’re in Vancouver, come say hi!
Join us at the 2025 Dallas Smythe Memorial Lecture, taking place on March 20th.
This year’s event will feature University of Toronto professor Nicole Cohen presenting "Crisis and Collective Response: Labour Organizing in Media”.
More information/registration: www.eventbrite.ca/e/2025-dalla...
This year’s event will feature University of Toronto professor Nicole Cohen presenting "Crisis and Collective Response: Labour Organizing in Media”.
More information/registration: www.eventbrite.ca/e/2025-dalla...
March 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I’m honoured to be giving the 2025 Dallas Smythe Memorial Lecture at Simon Fraser University in a few weeks. If you’re in Vancouver, come say hi!
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Just out! Open access article with @nieborg.bsky.social on "Analyzing institutional platform power" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #power #platforms #digital #bigtech Preparing the ground for our book on Platform Power!
Analyzing institutional platform power: Evolving relations of dependence in the mobile digital advertising ecosystem - David B Nieborg, Thomas Poell, 2025
This article calls for systematic analysis of the accumulation and exercise of institutional platform power in the digital economy. We examine how the relativel...
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April 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Just out! Open access article with @nieborg.bsky.social on "Analyzing institutional platform power" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #power #platforms #digital #bigtech Preparing the ground for our book on Platform Power!
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Hello I've decided to use Blue Sky now. In unrelated news, my book 'Influencer Creep' will be published with University of California press in October 2025. It's about the ways influencer culture has transformed creative work.
Preorder here: www.ucpress.edu/books/influe...
Preorder here: www.ucpress.edu/books/influe...
April 13, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Hello I've decided to use Blue Sky now. In unrelated news, my book 'Influencer Creep' will be published with University of California press in October 2025. It's about the ways influencer culture has transformed creative work.
Preorder here: www.ucpress.edu/books/influe...
Preorder here: www.ucpress.edu/books/influe...
New prez!"AI's Hidden Abode of Production: Labour, Capital, Conflict": AI labour & deskilling and automation of jobs in creative and tech industries: "AI labor ethics from above and below" @brocklabour.bsky.social . #ai #creativity #aiethics, #labour #capitalism #work www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWGA...
AI's Hidden Abode of Production
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March 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
New prez!"AI's Hidden Abode of Production: Labour, Capital, Conflict": AI labour & deskilling and automation of jobs in creative and tech industries: "AI labor ethics from above and below" @brocklabour.bsky.social . #ai #creativity #aiethics, #labour #capitalism #work www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWGA...
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NEW: Our latest research series #ConsumingWar looks at the militarization of pop culture.
Up first: Movies and TV. [THREAD] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
Up first: Movies and TV. [THREAD] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
February 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
NEW: Our latest research series #ConsumingWar looks at the militarization of pop culture.
Up first: Movies and TV. [THREAD] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
Up first: Movies and TV. [THREAD] watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...
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@tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social is giving a great talk “Attending to the work and labour of AI in the digital media and entertainment industries” at the CLSA mid-winter meeting at Ontario Tech University.
February 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
@tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social is giving a great talk “Attending to the work and labour of AI in the digital media and entertainment industries” at the CLSA mid-winter meeting at Ontario Tech University.
My new book Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries: A Critical Introduction is out (lnkd.in/gjNH2KDT). ESA04 is a 20% discount code. Looking forward to my book chat at TMU's Creative School this Tuesday. More to come!
February 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
My new book Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries: A Critical Introduction is out (lnkd.in/gjNH2KDT). ESA04 is a 20% discount code. Looking forward to my book chat at TMU's Creative School this Tuesday. More to come!
In 2019, I wrote an essay on GAFAM's "power" (structural and relational). www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/gafams... In 2024, another on Google for The Tech Lobby Project, about how US tech and platform companies lobby governments to try to shape public policy) thetechlobby.ca/googles-digi...
Google’s Digital Policy Power: Public Policy Shaping and Private Policy Making – The Tech Lobby
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February 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
In 2019, I wrote an essay on GAFAM's "power" (structural and relational). www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/gafams... In 2024, another on Google for The Tech Lobby Project, about how US tech and platform companies lobby governments to try to shape public policy) thetechlobby.ca/googles-digi...
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For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought
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‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley
The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s
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January 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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Cyber-Marx @25, event with +20 researchers providing provocations and updates on the book.
This in-person event will take place at the Centre for Culture and Technology/ University of Toronto on February 28, 9AM-4:30PM
Details here:
cybermarx25.eventbrite.ca
This in-person event will take place at the Centre for Culture and Technology/ University of Toronto on February 28, 9AM-4:30PM
Details here:
cybermarx25.eventbrite.ca
January 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Cyber-Marx @25, event with +20 researchers providing provocations and updates on the book.
This in-person event will take place at the Centre for Culture and Technology/ University of Toronto on February 28, 9AM-4:30PM
Details here:
cybermarx25.eventbrite.ca
This in-person event will take place at the Centre for Culture and Technology/ University of Toronto on February 28, 9AM-4:30PM
Details here:
cybermarx25.eventbrite.ca
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A must-watch! Tanner’s new book is excellent and an exceptional resource for those of us teaching work and labour in media and cultural and digital industries.
Thank you @grohmannrafael.bsky.social and DigiLabor for organizing this online event! I had a wonderful time chatting about the "labor turn" in communication, media and cultural studies. I appreciated the thoughtful questions from all the participants. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XVL...
January 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
A must-watch! Tanner’s new book is excellent and an exceptional resource for those of us teaching work and labour in media and cultural and digital industries.
Thank you @grohmannrafael.bsky.social and DigiLabor for organizing this online event! I had a wonderful time chatting about the "labor turn" in communication, media and cultural studies. I appreciated the thoughtful questions from all the participants. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XVL...
January 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Thank you @grohmannrafael.bsky.social and DigiLabor for organizing this online event! I had a wonderful time chatting about the "labor turn" in communication, media and cultural studies. I appreciated the thoughtful questions from all the participants. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XVL...
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Now watching live! @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social new book talk on Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XVL...
Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries - Book Talk with Tanner Mirrlees
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January 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Now watching live! @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social new book talk on Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XVL...
Can't wait!
First DigiLabour event of the year - and online! Book Talk with @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social on Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries. Jan 14, 4PM ET. Join us!
www.youtube.com/live/1XVLFCN...
www.youtube.com/live/1XVLFCN...
January 7, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Can't wait!
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UDC 2025: The Future We Want: Resistance and Resolve
June 19 - 22, 2025 | Call for Papers is LIVE: www.democraticcomm.org
June 19 - 22, 2025 | Call for Papers is LIVE: www.democraticcomm.org
December 5, 2024 at 5:24 PM
UDC 2025: The Future We Want: Resistance and Resolve
June 19 - 22, 2025 | Call for Papers is LIVE: www.democraticcomm.org
June 19 - 22, 2025 | Call for Papers is LIVE: www.democraticcomm.org
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IAMCR is now on Bluesky and letting you all know that we are receiving proposals for our 2025 conference in Singapore. See the conference website at singapore2025.iamcr.org and submit your abstract before 7 February.
December 5, 2024 at 5:27 PM
IAMCR is now on Bluesky and letting you all know that we are receiving proposals for our 2025 conference in Singapore. See the conference website at singapore2025.iamcr.org and submit your abstract before 7 February.
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Local to more places: Independent, worker owned media courtesy of @laminda.bsky.social and @gregpak.bsky.social
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November 27, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Local to more places: Independent, worker owned media courtesy of @laminda.bsky.social and @gregpak.bsky.social
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