Hi everyone, As people are currently distributed across platforms, I wanted to ensure that noone would miss the following extremely important and essential announcement: Daniel Joseph and I's new paper "Advertising as governance: The digital commodity audience and platform advertising dependency" is out open access in Media, Culture and Society: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01634437241237935 We look at three kinds of channels on YouTube: the Community Commentariat (aka high profile creators like Hank Green), growth hackers and official YouTube communications. We attend to the way these individuals discuss the imagined role of advertising on YouTube, and how their perception of advertising demands and preferences shapes their cultural production. Please reach out if you are interested in these topics! Best wishes Sophie -- Dr Sophie Bishop www.sophiehelenbishop.com | @sophiehbishop