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New article on New Media & Society: Eventful migration: Rethinking social media migration with help from Elon Musk’s sink
Carlos Cámara-Menoyo, Fangzhou Zhang (Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies) and Nathaniel Tkacz (Goldsmiths, University of London), have coauthored a new article "Eventful migration: Rethinking social media migration with help from Elon Musk’s sink".
Based on an extensive literature review on social media migration, and empirical data drawing on a survey of Mastodon users after the Twitter's acquisition by Elon Musk in 2022, and social media analysis, the authors propose a new theory of eventful migration. This eventful migration theory widens the conceptual scope for how to approach SocialMedia Migration in ways that more directly tie such movements to specific questions of power, agency and events that ripple through digital cultures. They do so by shifting from pull-push factors to eventfulness, which they divide into five components: (1) X factor; (2) critical voice; (3) collective platform consciousness; (4) migration; and (5) terrain transformation.
Cybersecurity in a ‘Post-Trust’ Era: Zero Trust and Distributed Trust Models
Trust was once the cornerstone of digital security, but that is rapidly changing. A new study titled “The volatility of trust: Zero Trust and Distributed Trust as ‘post-trust’ cybersecurity models” explores cybersecurity’s shift into a “post-trust” era. The research, by Dr. Daniele Pizio and Dr. Matt Spencer, examines two paradigms – Zero Trust and Distributed Trust – which reshape security by removing assumptions of implicit trust. The key insight is that these models are
not just technical innovations; they deeply involve human and organizational dimensions in digital protection.
New press release on warning of marginalised young adults in low and middle-income countries facing “growing online abuse”
Coverage of the report aired on the BBC World Service Tech Live last Tuesday at 8:30pm, as well as afterwards on the Tech Live podcast
