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zari taylor
@zaritaylor.bsky.social
critical cultural + media studies scholar tired of switching platforms. thoughts are my own.
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🎉 The CCSN is now on Bluesky! 🎉 The Content Creator Scholars Network: Your community for critical studies on digital creators, platform economies & cultures. Join us for resources, events, blogs, and collaborative knowledge—there’s something for everyone interested in creator culture www.ccsn.site
CCSN
The Content Creator Scholars Network
www.ccsn.site
December 18, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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Happening now at Washington Square Park: A United Healthcare CEO shooter lookalike competition, including people who intentionally and unintentionally dressed the part.
December 7, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Talked to ABC about the viral Celebrity Look Alike contests that have been popping up everywhere. These have a lot to do with American pop culture, beauty, community, and ways to avoid the current state of things. Full story here:

abcnews.go.com/Nightline/vi...
Video Rise in celebrity look-alike contests taking over the internet
We are inside a Miles Teller contest, where the winner takes home a Philly cheesesteak and bragging rights.
abcnews.go.com
December 7, 2024 at 7:46 PM
The Girls Gone Wild doc on Peacock is stellar. Tap in pop culture girlies!
December 4, 2024 at 4:26 PM
being approached as an “expert” in digital culture feels weird, but then I start yapping and it makes sense.
December 4, 2024 at 4:23 PM
having two back to back meetings the morning after travel is a check my body does not want to cash
November 25, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
STS researcher: The cup is an affordance
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Cosmologist: The cup is dusty or full of gravitational waves
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Astronomer: This is a high metallicity sightline
November 23, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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Hey friends studying influencers, creators, livestreamers and the like...

Be sure to check out our ICA Pre-conference on "Debating Creator Culture," which is slated for June 11, 2025.

Submissions are open through January 31. More details here:

www.ccsn.site/ica
November 21, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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#NCACreatorPrecon is starting off strong with CCSN founding member @zaritaylor.bsky.social on racialization, and “ideal” influencing in the beauty industries #NCA2024
November 20, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Picking up dinner (catfish and fries) at a spot playing ‘There Goes My Baby’ by Charlie Wilson. New Orleans how I’ve missed you.
November 20, 2024 at 1:49 AM
nothing tests your patience like waiting for a checked bag at the airport
November 20, 2024 at 12:51 AM
so Laguardia is basically a mall/food court attached to a terminal now? cool
November 19, 2024 at 7:11 PM
we don’t talk about what Willow did on Empathogen enough
November 19, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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my latest with @jessmaddox.bsky.social is out this morning in @femmediastudies.bsky.social! We propose influencer snark as a feminist media practice to address concerns of credibility, authenticity, and representation in the influencer industry.

please share!!!

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XZSZD...
November 19, 2024 at 1:47 PM
everyday it’s just emails and more emails
November 19, 2024 at 1:20 AM
decided to start a print shop with my sister and happy I get to tap into my pandemic era art vibe again
November 17, 2024 at 9:34 PM
trying to explain to my mom that conferences and articles are not something I’m paid for but pay for (again)
November 17, 2024 at 8:38 PM
feel like I wasn’t even tweeting regularly the past few years I’m out of practice. also, #addblacksky
November 12, 2024 at 12:35 AM
time to revive this account I (may) have made months ago but ignored
a man in a white tank top walks down a street with the words okay here we go again below him
ALT: a man in a white tank top walks down a street with the words okay here we go again below him
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2024 at 8:56 PM