Hello all, A reminder that tomorrow is the first instalment of CCSN Chats (9am PT/12pmEST/4pm GMT), an online series from the newly minted Content Creator Scholars Network that brings together researchers, industry experts, and workers in the digital economy to discuss timely issues in Creator Studies. This 90-minute event includes an engaging discussion on the current landscape and future directions of Creator Studies, with the added perspective of an industry insider working with creators. Learn from experts who are at the forefront of this rapidly evolving landscape. You can book a free ticket HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ccsn-chats-academic-and-industry-insights-into-... Meet the voices: Jess Rauchberg is an Assistant Professor of Communication Technologies at Seton Hall University. Primarily a humanistic researcher, Rauchberg's Microsoft-funded scholarship investigates the entangled interplay between Western liberal humanism, governance, and cultural production in the creative economy, focusing on disability, race, and ideology. Her award-winning work appears in top media and communication studies journals. Rauchberg is currently working on a book manuscript about shitposting, platform hygiene, and aspirational labor. Brooke Erin Duffy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, where she studies the role of social media platforms in reconfiguring work, employment, and society. Her books include (Not) Getting Paid To Do What You Love (Yale University Press, 2017/2022), Platforms and Cultural Production, with Thomas Poell and David Nieborg (Polity, 2022) and The Visibility Bind: Creators and the Perils of Platform Labor (University of Chicago Press, under contract). David Craig is an Associate Professor of Communication at USC Annenberg, where he conducts research and teaches courses on global and national media industries and creator culture through the lens of political economy, cultural, production, and creator studies. He has published three books and over two dozen articles about the global and Chinese creator industries, whether referred to as social media entertainment or wanghong. Michelle Beaver has been an integral part of the YouTube team since 2010, contributing her expertise in various roles spanning operations and content partnerships across both the United States and EMEA. Currently, she serves as a strategic partner manager within the North America Top Creator team, managing partnerships with YouTube's most successful content creators. Before her tenure at YouTube, Michelle cultivated her career in the music industry, with roles in artist management, touring, and radio. She possesses a strong affinity for pop culture and the creator economy, backed by her master's degree in Media and Communications from Goldsmiths University. We hope to see some of you there! The CCSN Team You can learn more about CCSN on our website: www.ccsn.site<http://www.ccsn.site/> Sign up for our newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/a0251b1f88f0/content-creator-scholars-network-newsletter Become a CCSN member: https://mailchi.mp/c68982b00090/members ________________________ Dr Zoë Glatt www.zoeglatt.com<http://www.zoeglatt.com/> Postdoctoral Researcher: Microsoft’s Social Media Collective Co-Founder: The Content Creator Scholars Network<https://ccsn.framer.website/> Co-Founder: The Digital Ethnography Collective<https://twitter.com/DigECollective> Twitter<https://twitter.com/ZoeGlatt> | YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/user/Zedstergal> | Mastodon<https://aoir.social/@ZoeGlatt>