Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון
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PhDing; Communication; HebrewU
Founding Member @weareccsn.bsky.social
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- Dream team incoming - @taylorannabell.bsky.social @gorwa.ca @rscarlets.bsky.social Jacob van de Kerkhof @thelesbertaglia.bsky.social with a powerful reminder of how search recommendations shape what is visible, trusted and treated as credible knowledge & we better keep our eyes on it as researchers👇
- a true challenge by the brill @bloggeronpole.bsky.social & @pamogranite.bsky.social to the corporate discourse of *community* on platforms. They capture how creators at risk are forced to navigate corpo-civic spaces where care, visibility & belonging are destabilized by commercial governance; GOLD👇
- From Ukraine🇺🇦 to Gaza🇵🇸, Syria🇸🇾, Lebanon🇱🇧, and now India🇮🇳 & Pakistan🇵🇰, creators use SM platforms to make their conflicts more visible. They're curators, eyewitnesses, and living archives of atrocity. @moaerikssonkrut.bsky.social & I call them *War Influencers*; OA in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social 🧵
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- Israel, 2025. This is where the media and everyday civilians now stand morally. The front page of a major newspaper calling for the flattening of Gaza and the Hague, featuring a piece on one of the country's leading singers, with the headline. “I would vote for Kahane.” Yes, that Meir Kahane ⬇️
- The brill @thechristinet.bsky.social reminds us that whether we "like it or not, we associate height with power”; great piece about how in politics, stature is not just symbolic for us but can shape credibility, leadership perception, and even electability!👇
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- Brill team (👇) frames creator engagement with moderation as an *aspirational* form of participatory governance; creators express desires to influence moderation but lack structural guarantees, often ending up "legitimating the platform as arbiter of public discourse and cultural production.” READ! 🔍
- In the past 2y, I’ve served on the AoIR exec as the grad rep and advocated for the younger members of our community. We’ve made meaningful changes, and more to come! With elections open (nominations due April 2 🗳️) now is your chance to join! Don’t hesitate to reach out; happy to share experiences <3
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- How algorithmic ableism reproduces bias for disabled and marginalized creators through content suppression and surveillance —> the brill @jessrauchberg.bsky.social! 👇🫶🙌
- Mark your calendars for Tuesday, March 18! Join us (@bloggeronpole.bsky.social) as we unpack platform governance, gaslighting, and methods for making sense of creators’ lived experiences!👇✨
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- Join us for a deep dive into the hidden gems within this brilliant collection of chapters! #TheHashtagHustle ✨👇
- @bloggeronpole.bsky.social & I believe platform governance should be understood through those subjected to it, not just those who impose it. In our talk at the fab @pgmt.bsky.social, we center methods for exploring the voices of creators who are told their realities don’t exist at all. Join us!👇
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- This paper was part of an incredible panel at @aoir.bsky.social 2024, where we explored the place of a child on platforms with leading voices bringing in the *nuances* --> @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @tamaleaver.bsky.social, Emma Beuckels, Liselot Hudders, Crystal Abidin 🔥 🙌
- New publication! 🚨 Together with my brill team (@taylorannabell.bsky.social & @cgoanta.bsky.social), we explore how parents turn kids into commodities on TikTok, diving into the nuances of *kidfluencers* & raising legal questions about platform governance. See🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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- New publication! 🚨 Together with my brill team (@taylorannabell.bsky.social & @cgoanta.bsky.social), we explore how parents turn kids into commodities on TikTok, diving into the nuances of *kidfluencers* & raising legal questions about platform governance. See🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
- When @taylorannabell.bsky.social and @cgoanta.bsky.social are cooking up something like the *politicisation of influencers*, you know it’s going to be THE workshop 🔥 I Just signed up for the online participation!
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- Oh, really, Trump? You think? Well, the very architect of this death symbol now stands to your left, turning years of destruction into a hallmark of his regime’s policy.
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- @nicolettelittle.bsky.social in a brill piece on nostalgia-driven Memories & harm for users! Our co-research, building on the 'Unsolicited Algorithm' (👇), pushes against the lazy 'just log off' narrative, demanding safer, more inclusive design to mitigate trauma www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- Excited to be speaking in this timely event at MIT on Platforms & Justice with the brill @zoeglatt.bsky.social, @norasuren.bsky.social & @joncong.bsky.social; I'll bring the experiences of Palestinian and Jewish creators being culturally misread, flagged & muted—by both algorithms & humans; Join!👇🔥
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- The current discourse in Israel is: some openly cheer for the annihilation of Gaza, while others merely “see his point.” The latter scares me more as they cloak brutality in reason, making it sound logical, even justified. And they are the majority. The former are just honest about it.
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