Jay Daniel Thompson
@jaydanielthompson.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Professional Communication at RMIT University in Australia. Researches ethical online communication in an era of fake news and digital hostility.
Adding to my Summer reading list - thanks @timothyjgraham.bsky.social for sharing!
Interesting - polarisation as simplistic framing.
🚨new article🚨
"Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today
Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive
🧵Thread🧵
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today
Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive
🧵Thread🧵
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Adding to my Summer reading list - thanks @timothyjgraham.bsky.social for sharing!
Huge thanks to Professor Panizza Allmark for launching my book at the CSAA 2025 conference today and for her kind words. I’m feeling grateful.
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Huge thanks to Professor Panizza Allmark for launching my book at the CSAA 2025 conference today and for her kind words. I’m feeling grateful.
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X now reveals the locations of user accounts, pulling back the curtain on the scale and scope of manipulation and “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” on the platform. At the least, I hope it helps us reevaluate platforms as “neutral” infrastructure.
www.businessinsider.com/x-shows-loca...
www.businessinsider.com/x-shows-loca...
X erupts after the platform reveals the locations where accounts are based
X, formerly Twitter, launched a feature that shows accounts' locations, in an effort to promote transparency.
www.businessinsider.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
X now reveals the locations of user accounts, pulling back the curtain on the scale and scope of manipulation and “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” on the platform. At the least, I hope it helps us reevaluate platforms as “neutral” infrastructure.
www.businessinsider.com/x-shows-loca...
www.businessinsider.com/x-shows-loca...
So, my Monday began with my cat tearing up my latest council rates notice. Does that mean I get out of paying it? #thecatatemyhomework
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
So, my Monday began with my cat tearing up my latest council rates notice. Does that mean I get out of paying it? #thecatatemyhomework
Vale, Diane Keaton: 1946-2025
October 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Vale, Diane Keaton: 1946-2025
Friday lifts me up
October 2, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Friday lifts me up
No surprises here. There are grave ethical issues with platforming extremists, as Kurt Sengul and I have elsewhere argued (see the links in comments). The Australian media has blood on its hands.
September 2, 2025 at 12:42 AM
No surprises here. There are grave ethical issues with platforming extremists, as Kurt Sengul and I have elsewhere argued (see the links in comments). The Australian media has blood on its hands.
PUBLICATION TODAY: My review of the disturbing and disturbingly good debut novel for Melbourne author Thomas Vowles. Enjoy!
theconversation.com/i-genuinely-...
theconversation.com/i-genuinely-...
‘I genuinely did hold my breath’: a sordid, sexy queer debut evokes Hitchcock and Christos Tsiolkas
When twentysomething Ash arrives in Melbourne seeking a ‘new version’ of himself, he’s fleeing a country town and a joyless upbringing.
theconversation.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:57 AM
PUBLICATION TODAY: My review of the disturbing and disturbingly good debut novel for Melbourne author Thomas Vowles. Enjoy!
theconversation.com/i-genuinely-...
theconversation.com/i-genuinely-...
Spotted in the wild - my book, in stores as of this week!
August 9, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Spotted in the wild - my book, in stores as of this week!
PUBLICATION TODAY: On the Epstein files and the dangers of conspiracy.
www.abc.net.au/religion/eps...
www.abc.net.au/religion/eps...
Why the ‘Epstein files’ should not distract us from the danger of conspiracy theories - ABC Religion & Ethics
It seems that Donald Trump’s penchant for turning conspiracies into political weapons has exploded in his face — but as the “Epstein files” furore demonstrates, conspiracy theories are about a lot mor...
www.abc.net.au
July 29, 2025 at 5:44 AM
PUBLICATION TODAY: On the Epstein files and the dangers of conspiracy.
www.abc.net.au/religion/eps...
www.abc.net.au/religion/eps...
PUBLICATION TODAY! My monograph on Silverchair’s iconic Frogstomp album has been published as an eBook. Link below. Grunge forever!
June 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
PUBLICATION TODAY! My monograph on Silverchair’s iconic Frogstomp album has been published as an eBook. Link below. Grunge forever!
Pleased to be interviewed for this student magazine about online hostility following the 2024 presidential election. I always enjoy speaking with student journos, having been one myself.
www.mojonews.com.au/politics/onl...
www.mojonews.com.au/politics/onl...
Tackling online violence after the US election
How can we ensure social media protects, not degrades, democracy?
www.mojonews.com.au
May 29, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Pleased to be interviewed for this student magazine about online hostility following the 2024 presidential election. I always enjoy speaking with student journos, having been one myself.
www.mojonews.com.au/politics/onl...
www.mojonews.com.au/politics/onl...
PUBLICATION TODAY: the ethics of reporting on an increasingly brazen, media-savvy Far Right. Co-authored with @kurtsengul.bsky.social and published by the ABC.
www.abc.net.au/religion/eth...
www.abc.net.au/religion/eth...
The far-right poses profound ethical challenges for the media - ABC Religion & Ethics
Western democracies are now entering a new phase of far-right mobilisation. Journalists and media outlets have a responsibility to avoid amplifying and legitimising the far-right’s hateful propaganda ...
www.abc.net.au
May 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
PUBLICATION TODAY: the ethics of reporting on an increasingly brazen, media-savvy Far Right. Co-authored with @kurtsengul.bsky.social and published by the ABC.
www.abc.net.au/religion/eth...
www.abc.net.au/religion/eth...
Farewell, Jill Sobule, a striking figure in 1990s pop music. Gone too young.
Terrible, sad news www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Jill Sobule, Singer of History-Making 1995 Single 'I Kissed a Girl,' Dies in House Fire at 66
Singer Jill Sobule, who made history with "I Kissed a Girl," which became the first openly gay song to break the Billboard chart's Top 20, died at 66.
www.rollingstone.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Farewell, Jill Sobule, a striking figure in 1990s pop music. Gone too young.
A real privilege to work with Kurt Sengul on this paper, published today in Communication and the Public, and addressing a topical - and disturbing - set of issues.
🚨 Thrilled to share my latest publication with Jay Daniel Thompson
I’m really excited to see this (finally) published. We hope it adds another voice to critical conversations surrounding the problematic relationship between news media and the far right
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I’m really excited to see this (finally) published. We hope it adds another voice to critical conversations surrounding the problematic relationship between news media and the far right
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
April 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
A real privilege to work with Kurt Sengul on this paper, published today in Communication and the Public, and addressing a topical - and disturbing - set of issues.
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Since its trending over on the bad site, if anyone wants to read my new article on the far-right’s use of X/Twitter Spaces, it’s open access:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Since its trending over on the bad site, if anyone wants to read my new article on the far-right’s use of X/Twitter Spaces, it’s open access:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Spotted in Naarm
April 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Spotted in Naarm
I’ve got this feeling somebody’s watching me
March 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I’ve got this feeling somebody’s watching me
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So Melbourne Uni is right on the cusp of interesting work around truth-telling and transformation in the Indigenous space, and my School is hiring a Professor of Indigenous Studies, and I could not be more excited. Please share widely with your networks! (Identified role, obviously)
Professor in Indigenous Studies (Education & Research) / Director, Indigenous Studies Program
Only Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Australians are eligible to apply as this position is exempt under the Special Measure Provision, Section 12(1) of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 (VIC).Ab...
www.pipelinetalent.com.au
March 27, 2025 at 5:59 AM
So Melbourne Uni is right on the cusp of interesting work around truth-telling and transformation in the Indigenous space, and my School is hiring a Professor of Indigenous Studies, and I could not be more excited. Please share widely with your networks! (Identified role, obviously)
With the 30th anniversary of Silverchair’s ‘Frogstomp’ album, what better time to plug my forthcoming book on my forthcoming Bloomsbury 331/3 book on that album and its persistent cultural legacy?
www.bloomsbury.com/au/silvercha...
www.bloomsbury.com/au/silvercha...
silverchair's Frogstomp
Revisits Australian rock band silverchair's globally successful debut album Frogstomp (1995) and asserts that the band is not an imitation of American grunge no…
www.bloomsbury.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
With the 30th anniversary of Silverchair’s ‘Frogstomp’ album, what better time to plug my forthcoming book on my forthcoming Bloomsbury 331/3 book on that album and its persistent cultural legacy?
www.bloomsbury.com/au/silvercha...
www.bloomsbury.com/au/silvercha...
PUBLICATION TODAY! Open access in 'Convergence', co-authored with the brilliant research team on the Australian Research Council project 'Online hostility in Australian digital cultures'.
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March 13, 2025 at 1:06 AM
PUBLICATION TODAY! Open access in 'Convergence', co-authored with the brilliant research team on the Australian Research Council project 'Online hostility in Australian digital cultures'.
Wonderful to meet the new BP354 students at the induction as part of RMIT University’s
O-Week. For info on this excellent degree, see the comments below.
O-Week. For info on this excellent degree, see the comments below.
February 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Wonderful to meet the new BP354 students at the induction as part of RMIT University’s
O-Week. For info on this excellent degree, see the comments below.
O-Week. For info on this excellent degree, see the comments below.
Excellent vibe on campus today.
February 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Excellent vibe on campus today.
Preparing for Semester One - we can do it! #academiclyfe
February 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Preparing for Semester One - we can do it! #academiclyfe