Platforms, creators and the co-option of social justice narratives (RSM Speaker Series)

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media welcomes Zoë Glatt for a talk on the juxtapositions between structural inequalities in the influencer industry and the ways in which platforms co-opt social justice narratives.
MODERATOR
David Craig is a Visiting Scholar with the Institute for Rebooting Social Media and a Clinical Professor of Communication at USC Annenberg. He conducts research on media industries and creator culture, mapping the dimensions, distinctions, and disruption generated by these cultural industries economically, politically, and socio-culturally. He has published three books and over two dozen articles about the global creator culture and the Chinese equivalent (wanghong). David is the co-director of the dual master’s program in global media and communication in partnership with the London School of Economics, and was a visiting scholar at Shanghai Jiao Tong for six years.
SPEAKER
Zoë Glatt is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Sociotechnical Systems at Microsoft Research New England. She is a digital ethnographer and feminist media scholar with interests in platformized creative industries and labor, social media and influencer cultures, and digital ethnographic methods. Her current research interrogates the ways in which structural inequalities are exacerbated, co-opted and resisted in platform environments. During her time at Microsoft she is working on her first monograph, Demonetised: Inequality, Co-option and Resistance in the Influencer Industry.
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