Oh no. Crowdstrike / IT outage impacting travel and airlines today bbc.co.uk/news/live/cnk4jdwp…. Sending good luck travelling friends, stay strong

Good morning #SMSociety! Hope you are all travelling safely and soundly on your way back home. I am enjoying morning coffee with my new SM&S mug and taking time to reflect on a vibrant 3 days

And last but not least, most inspiring community building and service to founders and leaders, @gruzd and @PhMai, presented by the brilliant @HarryTDyer along with a standing ovation #SMSociety #notcryingatall

Although we're so many amazing posters, the Best Poster award went to 'Between social surveillance and shadow-veillance: rejection, awareness cues, and post-digital safety in Mobile Dating Apps ' by Giulia Campioli ##SMSociety

Best Methods paper goes to PhD student-led 'Gamified Sharing on Douyin: Badges, Algorithmic Platforms and the Reconstruction of Sociality' by Hui Lin and @myredtowel. Featuring use of virtual pets on Douyin in friendship #SMSociety

Amongst so much high quality work, the best paper award goes to 'How Men Perceive Gender-Based Technology-Facilitated Violence and Abuse: Myths and False Beliefs', by Yimin Chen, @EstebanMoralesV, Jaigris Hodson, Chantelle Gosse, Kaitlin Mendes, George Veletsianos #SMSociety

In a brilliant parallel on platform affordances and trends w Chelsea Butkowski, Jessica Crosby and @snurb_dot_info who highlights the enxittification of twitter since it became X in his paper on 10 years of an Australian politics hashtag

Focus on pizzagate and a thematic analysis of conspiracy 'world building' on chat forums

So excited to be hosting #SMSociety with amazing colleagues @gruzd @PhMai @felipebsoares @HarryTDyer @JackieRaphael and PhD volunteers @Yueqintt @YingwenWang97 @BasilCao Haohui Lui! Can't believe we are kicking off to a great start already

Here we go! Just getting ready to kick off our TikTok creators and digital economies event @tiktokcultures @ResearchLCC @LCCLondon with a fantastic line up of research presentations from all over the world #excited