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camilla volpe

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Studying platforms & their fauna postdoc-ing @ University of Milan

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camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · Nov 17

I felt like a digital sociology feed was missing? I brushed up my coding skills and created one. It still needs some improvements but you can find it here - it should aggregate (by keywords) posts about digital sociology, surveillance, digital capitalism, digital labour... and so on. ⬇️

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camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · Jun 3

Our article is out in the International Journal of Communication!

It’s about TikTok creators in Naples and how their content production becomes part of everyday family life. Their stories have to do with digital labor, care, survival and creativity.

ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

Digital Labor in the Industrious Family: Neighborhood Influencers in Naples | Arvidsson | International Journal of Communication

Digital Labor in the Industrious Family: Neighborhood Influencers in Naples

ijoc.org

camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · May 17

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camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · May 17

applications are open for the DMCS Summer School (Como, Sept 22–26)

great opportunity for anyone working on platforms, AI, media, consumer culture or digital culture

cooked by A. Caliandro, A. Gandini & M. Airoldi

deadline: June 6 – more info: dmcs.lakecomoschool.org

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · Mar 20

Spoke with @mashableofficial.bsky.social for this piece about why about why the sense of community social media platforms used to bring us feels shattered (this time not focusing just on the technofascist dystopia we're in, but on platform affordances). mashable.com/article/very...

The age of being 'very online' is over. Here's why.

We've lost our sense of online community.

mashable.com

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Sasha Darling PHD, MD, DSL @sashadarling.bsky.social · Dec 24

I made a gingerbread panopticon

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · Dec 20

People actually love surveillance capitalism, they'll share their GPS location and watch ads every 90 seconds rather than pay for services. Advertising is the magic sauce that makes everything run "for free," so much people cannot even conceive of any utopia without its latent subsidy.

Buying a ring camera and then having to pay a subscription to actually see out that motherfucker is insane.

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camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · Nov 20

tonight I went out of the 9pm doomscrolling. It was cool. There was people. Also, I made this watermelon something!

camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · Nov 19

me every time someone ask me how im so calm with my PhD thesis due date in one month (I’m not)

camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · Nov 18

Because it’s more a comment than a question

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Darin Self @darinself.com · Feb 12

WHAT GOOD ARE YOUR CAUSAL INFERENCE METHODS IF YOU LACK THEORY AND A WELL DEFINED CONCEPT NECESSARY TO OPERATIONALIZE WHAT YOU WANT TO MEASURE

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camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · Nov 18

Here you can read my article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
While The Hipster Economy is an open access book: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-hip...

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camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · Nov 18

To grasp its essence, one has to ask: where are the hipsters? They are everywhere and nowhere. Gerosa suggests that hipsters represent our internalised search for authenticity while exposed to the commodification dynamics of the capitalistic system.

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camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · Nov 18

first self prom stuff on the butterfly - I'm so happy my review of The Hipster Economy by Alessandro Gerosa is now out on Sociology! I really consider this book a gem of consumer studies and you can read it in open access for UCL Press.

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camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · Nov 18

yes, sadly still current

camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · Nov 18

as a person born and raised in the north of Italy and arrived in the south in her late 20s for her PhD, I was shocked to realise how less possibilities we have here in terms of opportunities, funds, visibility... It’s like there is a fracture, and this fracture is condemning ppl

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camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · Nov 18

I hope the deplatforming from twitter (x) taught us something about the co-creation of the socio-technical affordances. Here I feel like we have not only improvements from the top (power) but also from the down (the code for our behaviours). I don’t know how much it will last, though

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camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · Nov 18

also I like the gore outfits, okay?

camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · Nov 18

well……..

camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · Nov 18

Makes sense

camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · Nov 18

I mean, if it’s cyberpunk I could handle it

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camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · Nov 18

me after doomscrolling for hours on Bluesky with the excuse ‘well I’m actually reading a lot of staff from academics’ but it’s actually doomscrolling anyway

camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · Nov 18

Theoretically it makes sense practically it’s almost impossibile

camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · Nov 18

mh, why? They do represents different aspects and evolution of capitalism

camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · Nov 18

Oh, things where not enough orwellian yet

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camilla volpe @camillavolpe.bsky.social · Nov 17

how it feels to open BlueSky right after Twitter (x) or Threads