@chrishtill

Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Leeds Beckett University - research in health, digital & digital health https://xitter.cf/t.co/NdSqBGDje4

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Joined December 2012
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Digital Sociology Podcast Episode 28: Michael Rosino, drug policy, race & online comments thisisnotasociology.blog/202…

Digital Sociology Podcast Episode 28: Michael Rosino, drug policy, race & online comments

For this episode I spoke to Michael Rosino about his book Debating the Drug War: Race, Politics, and the Media which comes from a detailed analysis of the discourse on drug policy and race in newsp…

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Interested in veganism & social media? Sign up to the Beyond Meat & Memes event in Leeds on 18th March eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-me… #veganism #vegan #socialmedia #sociology

Beyond Meat & Memes: How is veganism promoted on social media?

Join us for the launch of the Beyond Meat & Memes project report followed by a activity that will help shape the project's future direction

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Thanks to Expanding Excellence in England funding, we are recruiting an Associate Professor in Health Economics to join the Centre for Digital Innovations in Health & Social Care. Pls get in touch if you'd like to discuss jobs.bradford.ac.uk/vacancy.…

Jobs at the University of Bradford

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🚨THIS IS NOT A DRILL🚨 ‼️LAST DAY TO POST BALLOTS‼️ Let’s get this over the line and save our colleagues jobs 💪 @ucu We are stronger together and can WIN THIS FIGHT 🙏 #ucu #thisisyourunion
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New post on the Beyond Meat & Memes site on my visit to the excellent @TheVeganSociety research day beyondmeatmemes.wordpress.co…

The Vegan Society Research Day 2024

Last week I attended The Vegan Society Research Day for the first time. This is a regular event hosted by the society to showcase and communicate research by members of their Research Advisory Comm…

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Very exciting to see my translation of a “new” essay by Michel Foucault, “Message or Noise?” (1966), now available open-access in Parrhesia. Here, Foucault takes up the question of medical thought and practice through the frame of information-theory parrhesiajournal.org/wp-cont…
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New post on a review I have just published of the excellent book Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces by Sabine Pfeiffer (including links to official and OA versions of the review) thisisnotasociology.blog/202…

Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces Review

I recently published a review of a new book, Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces by Sabine Pfeiffer in Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. You can find the published version of rev…

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Our policy report written for the @BRAID_UK (2023) consultation with the UK government was published this week. This report was written with @apudscotos and explores the double regulatory gap that platform workers face. zenodo.org/records/13144353

Mitigating Harms in On-Demand Delivery Platforms

The regulation of employment and artificial intelligence (AI) in the platform economy matters at both an individual and social level. The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and...

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🚨Our @ucu ballot🚨 to take industrial action to save the jobs of our colleagues facing redundancy opens today! Keep an eye out for your ballot papers and vote YES ✅ to strike 💪✊ #UCU #NoCompulsoryRedundancies #WeAreTheUniversity
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🚨Our ballot 🚨for industrial action opens tomorrow!! We are calling on @ucu members to vote YES ✅ to take strike action to save our colleague’s jobs! #NoCompulsoryRedundancies
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Another big event from @UoE_EFI_Civics with a bit of @JCultEcon .... Koray Caliskan will be here on June 24 talking Data as a New Money-Making Material eventbrite.co.uk/e/koray-cal…
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2/2 2nd project is on using tech for strategic workforce planning findaphd.com/phds/project/us… @wolfsoncahr @DigitalHealthEZ

Using technology to support strategic workforce planning in social care at University of Bradford...

PhD Project - Using technology to support strategic workforce planning in social care at University of Bradford, listed on FindAPhD.com

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New post on the "Beyond Meat & Memes" project I am working on with @DrJoeIbs & @JessicaDrakett by @BritishAcademy_ "How are instragram and TikTok used to promote veganism?" #research #socialmedia #vegan #plantbased #TikTok #Instagram #sociology thisisnotasociology.blog/202…

“How are instragram and TikTok used to promote veganism?”

I have written a post on the Leeds Beckett website about a new project I am leading which is analysing vegan activist discourse on image and video-based social media. The first section is below and…

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Digital worker inquiry and the critical potential of participatory worker data science for on-demand platform workers: doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12286

Digital worker inquiry and the critical potential of participatory worker data science for on‐dem...

The knowledge that workers have of the systems they work under is an outcome of strategic choices by platforms and by workers themselves. Based on three initiatives undertaken by food distribution...

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📢Read our blog about new LBU research to investigate how TikTok and Instagram are used to share messages about #veganism 🔗bit.ly/3UQyoyX Beyond Meat and Memes is funded by @BritishAcademy_ and led by @chrishtill @DrJoeIbs and @JessicaDrakett #plantbased #veganuary
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📢Fully funded PhD 🔹The role of non-executive directors in patient safety oversight 🔹Supervisors @Laurainbradford @laurenpramsey @coverton26 & me, based @LeedsHealthcare 🔹Closing date 12.6.24 Sits within @YHPSRC theme led by @janekohara @CarlMacrae 👇 shorturl.at/jkST2
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My new post on @Cost_ofLiving blog on #NHS #Palantir contract Will a controversial new data platform change how the NHS “thinks”? cost-ofliving.net/will-a-con… #surveillance #bigdata

The NHS and the controversial new data platform

Will a controversial new data platform change how the NHS “thinks”?

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Related: Pro-Palestine health workers blockade NHSE over Palantir contract pulsetoday.co.uk/news/techno…

Pro-Palestine health workers blockade NHSE over Palantir contract

Healthcare workers blockaded the entrance to NHS England’s headquarters yesterday demanding an end to ties with US tech giant Palantir. 

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5 posts now out in Centre for Digital Innovations in Health & Social Care @UniofBradford @wolfsoncahr jobs.bradford.ac.uk/vacancie…
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Are you a more engaged listener when you’re working out than when you’re writing, or driving? Spotify thinks so—and they sell this narrative to investors and ad brokers. Check out this new essay by @chrishtill on #Spotify's financialization practices buff.ly/3O7qxdO
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Help us increase diversity in health informatics - the first of a number of posts in the Centre for Digital Innovations in Health & Social Care is now out, for a tenure-track Senior Research Fellow @NetworkShuri @TheSBAAcademia @WHENequality jobs.bradford.ac.uk/vacancy.…

Jobs at the University of Bradford

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