Sarah Edwards

@sedwards3
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PhD candidate at UW-Madison Department of Communication Arts (Media and Cultural Studies). Usually thinking about nation branding, influencers, and platforms. Former research intern at Microsoft Research-New England with the Social Media Collective.
Homepagehttps://www.seedwards.com/

My thesis is now available open access online! This was the product of years of blood, sweat and tears and I'm still very proud of it. I hope others, especially current PhD students, will find it useful! ✨💖

READ HERE: https://etheses.lse.ac.uk/4577/1/Glatt_the-platformised-creative-worker.pdf

Please enjoy the updated ✨Influencer Industries & Creator Culture Reading List✨ I started this list in 2019, it's now 20 pages long and I'm so glad that people continue to tell me they find it useful! 💖

View, share and add your own suggestions HERE: http://tinyurl.com/58yhztj4

🗣️🗣️🗣️ LIVE: our CFP for a SI in New Media & Society on *Contextual Complexities of Violence on Digital Platforms*; for us, editors (Esteban Morale, Martin Lundqvist, Nour Halabi & I) coming from conflict areas, this issue is pressing ❤️‍🩹; share & join us! https://drive.google.com/file/d/12a1kcFpL5p_3dOjXPvi1DDOt8aFfETgS/view?usp=drive_link
Special Issue_Violence On Digital Platforms.pdf

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I'm really looking forward to being a panellist for this Rutgers Digital Ethnography Working Group x The Digital Ethnography Collective event 'Behind the Scenes of the Digital Ethnography Dissertation' alongside Yena Lee and Michelle Cera! 12:30-2pm EST, Dec 1st.

We'll be getting into the nitty gritty of work and life as PhD digital ethnographers, no questions off limits 👀

INFO AND TICKETS HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/behind-the-scenes-of-a-digital-ethnography-dissertation-tickets-751132426307?aff=oddtdtcreator

Behind the Scenes of a Digital Ethnography Dissertation

Panelists discuss their recent digital ethnography PhD projects

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Delighted that our panel 'The social media shopfloor: Emerging forms of collective action for influencers and creators' was accepted to #MI2024! London here we come 🥳💃

@sophiehbishop @brookeerinduffy @sedwards3 & Colten Meisner

Microsoft Research has new $$ awards for academics thinking about AI & Society. There are several "research challenges" - one of which I'm overseeing (looking for people in our field thinking about generative AI as a media technology: could mean stand-alone tools like ChatGPT, or AI incorporated into media production at professional or amateur levels.) There are others sponsored by my SMC pals on emerging norms, hidden labor, and more. Take a look! Deadline is Nov 29. https://msft.it/60429NjgC
AI & Society Fellows - Microsoft Research

The Microsoft Research AI & Society fellows program aims to catalyze research collaboration between Microsoft Research and eminent scholars and experts across a range of disciplines core to discussions at the intersection of AI and its impact on society. Microsoft recognizes the value of bridging academic, industry, policy, and regulatory worlds and seeks to ignite […]

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My full length article on 'Influencer Creep' in art worlds came out today (open access) in New Media and Society!

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448231206090

What an amazing week at #aoir2023. Saw sooo many friends, met some great new people and heard about a whole lot of exciting research 💖🫶

This was my first AoIR conference where I wasn't prolifically posting throughout, partly because of the splintering of the community across Twitter, Mastodon and Insta but also because I was too engrossed in IRL interactions. A refreshing experience!

Deadline extended for the Velvet Light Trap's CFP on Creative Labor and Precarity 💫! New submission deadline is October 1, 2023. Read more about the CFP here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XoUNV_aL4RlUqZJgTu9Q_B2YBKDz_FkiOudislq0Y8Y/edit
VLT 94 CFP — Labor and Precarity

CFP: Creative Labor and Precarity The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 94 (to be published Fall 2024) Special Issue Theme Work in the media industries has always been characterized by precarity and instability. Scholars have long noted the impact of advanced capitalism, emerging information and communic...

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The Velvet Light Trap is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal of film+television+new media. Graduate students at UW-Madison and UT-Austin coordinate issues in alternation, and each issue is devoted to a particular theme. Learn more here: https://utpress.utexas.edu/journals/the-velvet-light-trap/
The Velvet Light Trap - University of Texas Press

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