CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS & TALKS

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2023

Invited speaker: ‘“We all have the power to help create the world we want”: Platforms, creators and the co-option of social justice narratives’. Institute for Rebooting Social Media speaker series, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, 8th November 2023.

Workshop co-organiser: The Promises and Perils of Generative AI for the Creator Economy.
Co-organiser with Nancy Baym (Microsoft Research) and David Craig (USC/Harvard) of a one-day research agenda setting symposium hosted at Microsoft Research New England to bring together leaders in the field of creator studies to explore the intersections of generative AI and the creator economy, 23rd October 2023.

‘When New Technologies Become Older: Lessons for Studying Silicon Valley from the Past’ roundtable with Sophie Bishop, Robyn Caplan, Ysabel Gerrard and Elena Maris. Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, Philadelphia, 18th-21st October 2023.

‘The intimacy triple bind: Structural inequalities and relational labour in the influencer industry’. Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, Philadelphia, 18th-21st October 2023.

Invited speaker: ‘The Platformised Creative Worker: Inequality, Co-option and Resistance in the Influencer Industry’. Platformising Bodies: Roundtable Discussion organised by Dr Marissa Willcox, University of Amsterdam, 30th May 2023.

‘Gatekeepers, Locked Doors, Elite Creators: Challenges of Access and Building Trust as an Ethnographer of the Influencer Industry’ in Getting Real: Authenticity of Self and Data in Digital Ethnography panel. International Communication Association (ICA) conference, Toronto, 25th-29th May 2023.

‘#Toxic Relatability: The Intimacy Triple Bind of Marginalised Creators in the Influencer Industry’ in Authentications of Beauty, Wellness, and Lifestyle: Social Media Influencers at the Intersection of Race, Sexuality, Gender, and Disability panel. International Communication Association (ICA) conference, Toronto, 25th-29th May 2023.

Invited interviewer: ‘Creators for Change: History, Politics and Prospects’ in conversation with Jazza John, YouTube. Creators for Change ICA pre-conference, Toronto, 24th May 2023.

2022

‘Precarity, discrimination and (in)invisibility: An ethnography of “The Algorithm” in the influencer industry’. Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Dublin, 2nd-5th November 2022. Extended abstract available from http://spir.aoir.org.

Invited speaker: ‘The commodified self: Intimacy, monetisation and inequality in the influencer industry’. Social Media Monetisation: Legal Tensions & Influencer Perspectives. Utrecht University, 4th October 2022.

‘“I didn’t make enough money, it was too stressful, and it killed my creativity”: Uncertainty, precarity and inequality in the influencer industry’. Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production. University of Amsterdam, 1st-2nd June 2022.

Workshop Co-Leader: ‘Futures of Work’ with Nancy Baym, Brooke Erin Duffy, Stuart Cunningham and Elaine Zhao. Creator Studies Workshop. University of Amsterdam, 31st May 2022.

‘Digital Ethnography: Methods for Networked Worlds’ Blue Sky Workshop with Jeffrey Lane, Melissa Aronczyk, Alberto Lusoli, Will Marler, Mirca Madianou, Caitlin Petre, Jabari Evans, Miao Lu and Frederik Lesage. International Communication Association (ICA) conference. Paris, 25th-30th May 2022.

2021

“We’re all told not to put our eggs in one basket”: The extension of the neoliberal worker subject in the online video industry’. European Communication Conference (ECREA): ‘Communication and trust: building safe, sustainable and promising futures’. University of Minho, Braga, 6th-9th September 2021 [delayed due to COVID-19]

2020

‘The failed promise of diversity and meritocracy: An intersectional analysis of the influencer community-industry’. New Directions in Feminist Thought: In Times of Urgency, Anger and Activism. London School of Economics, Goldsmiths University and City University’s Gender and Sexualities Research Centre, November 2020.

‘Old Scholarship, New Life’ fishbowl session with Nancy Baym, Annette Markham, Tarleton Gillespie, Dylan Mulvin and Rachel Bergmann. Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) virtual conference, 26th-31st October 2020.

Invited speaker: ‘The failed promise of diversity and meritocracy: An intersectional analysis of the influencer community-industry’. Platformed creation: The world of influencers, content creators, and micro-celebrities. Stanford Ethnography Lab virtual symposium, 16th October 2020.

‘Are you advertiser and family friendly? Productive ambivalence, economies of visibility and the political potential of feminist YouTubers’ (co-authored with Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser) on ‘A good life? Critical feminist approaches to influencer ecologies’ panel. Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) virtual conference, 16th-25th October 2020. Extended Abstract | Video

Glatt, Z. (2019). Aspirations, audiences and algorithms: Autoethnographic explorations of becoming a YouTuber. Paper presented at AoIR 2019: The 20th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Brisbane, Australia: AoIR. Extended Abstract

‘“We’re all told not to put our eggs in one basket”: The extension of the neoliberal worker subject in the online video industry’. Media Industries 2020: Global Currents and Contradictions conference. Kings College London, 16th-18th April 2020 [cancelled due to COVID-19]

‘Productive ambivalence, economies of visibility and the political potential of feminist YouTubers’ (co-authored with Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser). Algorithms for Her? Kings College London, 17th January

‘Becoming a YouTuber: Autoethnographic explorations of the online video industry’. Methodologies for Screen Industries Research. University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, 15th January

‘The extension of the neoliberal worker subject in the online video industry’. Lisbon Winter School. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, 7th-11th January

2019

‘Aspirations, Audiences and Algorithms; Autoethnographic explorations of becoming a YouTuber’. Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 2nd-5th October. Extended Abstract

Invited panellist: ‘Monster thinking session – EduTube’ Young, Connected, Creative 2019: Trust, Young People and Digital Media (AoIR pre-conference). Queensland University of Technology, 1st October.

‘Becoming a YouTuber: Autoethnographic explorations of the platform environment’. Digital⇌Culture 2019 conference (Digital Culture Research Network), University of Nottingham, 10th May

2018

Invited moderator: ‘Youth Voices & YouTube’ panel discussion’. MIL Cities in the Era of Algorithms UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Week, University of Latvia, 26th October

‘A multi-sited network ethnography of aspiring and professional YouTube content creators’. Seminar on Childhood and Youth Culture on YouTube, University of Copenhagen, 24th/25th May

WORKSHOPS AND TALKS

Below are the details of my past and forthcoming workshops and public talks. Please feel free to email me at z.a.glatt@lse.ac.uk to arrange a talk for 2023 and beyond:

2023   

DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY RESEARCH CENTRE (DERC), RMIT
Invited panellist: Invited to participate in a Q&A style plenary session for the DERC PhD Summer School, advising early-stage PhD researchers about digital ethnographic methods, 17th February 2023.

2022   

THE DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY COLLECTIVE
Host and interviewer: Organiser and interviewer for book talk with Brooke Erin Duffy, Thomas Poell and David Nieborg about Platforms and Cultural Production (Polity, 2021), 7th April 2022

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
Invited speaker:
“’We all have the power to help create the world we want”: The failed promise of diversity and meritocracy in the influencer industry’. Communications programme research seminar series, 30th March 2022 [POSTPONED DUE TO STRIKE]

2021   

THE DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY COLLECTIVE
Host and interviewer:
Organiser and interviewer for book talk about Veronica Barassi’s Child Data Citizen: How tech companies are profiling us from before birth (MIT Press, 2020), 28th April 2021.

THE DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY COLLECTIVE/RUTGERS DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY WORKING GROUP
Host and interviewer: Co-organiser and interviewer for book talk about Angèle Christin’s Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms, alongside Jeffrey Lane and Melissa Aronczyk (Rutgers), 12th February 2021.

UNIVERSITY OF LUCERNE
Invited workshop leader: Presented to PhD students in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology on how to conduct digital ethnographic research alongside Professor Danny Miller (UCL), 29th January 2021. GENDER AND SEXUALITIES RESEARCH CENTRE (GSRC), CITY UNIVERSITY
Invited panellist and workshop leader:
Presented on conducting ‘Feminist Digital Ethnography’ and participated in roundtable alongside with Francesca Sobande (Cardiff) and Ingrid Brudvig (Cape Town). Organised by Laura Favaro and Hannah Troop-Curran, in association with The Digital Ethnography Collective. GSRC’s Advanced feminist research methods and skills seminar series, 25th January 2021.

2020   

DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY RESEARCH CENTRE (DERC), RMIT
Invited interviewee: Interviewed by Marissa Willcox about digital ethnography during COVID-19 and my research on the labour of content creators in the online video industry for their #DERC30 series, 5th August 2020. Watch HERE.

THE GRADUATE INSTITUTE GENEVA
Invited workshop leader: ‘Doing fieldwork online’ Zoom seminar. Anthropology & Sociology (ANSO) PhD Summer Online Seminar Series, 14th July 2020.

THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
Invited speaker: “Help! My field-site has evaporated, what do I do now?” Zoom seminar. The Ethnography Circle, 30th April 2020.

THE NEW ETHNOGRAPHER
Invited panellist: ‘Conducting digital ethnography during a pandemic’ Twitter panel. The New Ethnographer #TNELive, 9th April 2020.

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE (LSE)
Invited workshop leader:
‘What is it like to work in the creative industries?’ (social media and television). Careers in Creative Industries Week, 14th February 2020

OXFORD INTERNET INSTITUTE (OII), UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Invited speaker: ‘“Don’t forget to like, subscribe and turn on the bell notifications!” An Ethnography of YouTube Creators’ Labour’. The Oxford Digital Ethnography Group (OII), November 2019

2019   

THE DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY COLLECTIVE
Workshop leader: ‘Using Nvivo for (digital) ethnographic data analysis’, October 2019. Watch HERE.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (UCL)
Invited speaker: ‘Autoethnography as a method for studying the online video industry’. UCL Digital Anthropology seminar series, 19th February 2019