Blake Hallinan

@blakeplease.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor of Platform Studies at Aarhus University

A heatmap of the policy priorities of the following platforms: YouTube, Twitch, AfreecaTV, Kick, Rumble, DLive, Chaturbate, MyFreeCams, BongaCAMS, Stripchat, Streamate, and LiveJasmin, using the following policy categories: Violent & Criminal Behavior, Regulated Goods & Services, Offensive & Objectionable Content, User Safety, Scaled Abused, Deceptive & Fradulent Behavior, Community-specific Rules, and Other.
Opening slide for "Aspirational platform governance: How creators legitimize content moderation through accusations of bias"
Title slide for "parasocial media: the mass production of intimacy on a chinese pop idol mobile application"
Opening slide for "The devil is in the details: specificaitons of governing principles in private & public goernance of AI"
Title slide for "Legal lore: The cultural transformation of copyright law and policy on YouTube"
Title slide for presentation on the marketplace of algorithms: the promise and practice of middle-level platform governance
A collage of 12 screenshots from YouTube videos featuring different creators reacting to CoryxKenshin's original video.
Infographic promoting the key concept from the paper. Text reads: "Aspirational platform governance: Public expression of the desire to influence content moderation policies and practices without established channels or guarantees of success. (Hallinan, Reynolds, Kuperberg, & Rothenstein 2025)" along with a QR code that contains a link to the article: https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/aspirational-platform-governance
Triangle figure of general value orientations (do well, do good, feel good) and rectangle figure of communicative value orientations (inform, express, influence, bond)
Title slide announcing the talk "Malcontents as method: How bad actors offer an alternative vision of good governance on social media" from Blake Hallinan and CJ Reynolds.
Text reads: "Parasocial media: platforms that feature 1) asymmetrical relationships between different classes of users, 2) tiered access to content and/or communication, and 3) tools to directly monetize relationships."