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stevethreadgold.bsky.social
Sociologist at University of Newcastle Research on youth and class: alternative work trajectories; underground and independent creative scenes; cultural formations of taste, fintech and financial practices. https://linktr.ee/stevethreadgold?utm_source=link
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Finding a place to Live in an Ordinal Society www.platformspace.net/home/finding...

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Canberra people! @juliacoffey.bsky.social and I will be there Feb 17 and 18. On Monday we are presenting in the ANU Sociology seminar series on "Young people, platform practices & dimensions of the data gaze". Can register for in person or zoom here: sociology.cass.anu.edu.au/events/young... 1/3

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Eve Vincent & I talk about why we wrote a book about cross-class relationships & what they can reveal about lived effects of inequality & social mobility in Aust. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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I’d like to see a column for total taxes paid per year too…

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THREAD I’m writing a public facing trade book currently called Avocados and Algorithms: Why we need to talk about Class. Here’s what the current plan of the book is: 1/5

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So chuffed to be asked to be a keynote at the BSA Bourdieu Study Group’s Mid Term International Conference 2025 in Vienna in September. The theme is Rising Complexities in Education: Opportunities and Inequalities. Hope to see you there! britsoc.co.uk/bourdieu25

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Great to see this @jcultecon.bsky.social article out in an new Issue using Sianne Ngai to think about the way it feels to use Buy Now Pay Later apps www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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I’ve discovered over the past few days that Bluesky and Substack provide a much higher quality doomscrolling experience

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Spot on www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

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Amazing

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@brocklesnitch.bsky.social 100% correct as usual heterosexualnonsense.substack.com/p/comedians-...

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Mine and @dvandebroeck.bsky.social’s paper on ‘The Labor of Distinction’ is out now in ASR. Drawing from an ethnography that involved training and working as a butler, we tell a larger story about elites and inequality (1/18) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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hi Bluesky sociologists - twice a year I make So Fi Zine, an indie publication for sociological fiction, poetry and visual art. The zine has had a big life since 2017 thanks mostly to twitter and I am hoping this place can now offer it a new reach. Please share if this is your jam 🙏✨ sofizine.com

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Monzo unwrapped may seem innocuous but what if open banking influenced your ability to access a mortgage - or a tenancy for that matter - how would you feel? www.york.ac.uk/media/busine...

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The end of post-materialist politics? newleftreview.org/issues/ii150...

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Please follow bsky.app/profile/newc... where we will be posting updates on any Newcastle Youth Studies Centre news on events, projects and publications

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Pleased that I will be working with @stevethreadgold.bsky.social, @juliacoffey.bsky.social, @juliacook.bsky.social and Bev Skeggs on a new ARC-funded Discovery Project examining young people’s rapid uptake of fintech apps...an extension of: doi.org/10.1080/1753...

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NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Pam Nilan & Gregorius Ragil Wibawanto: Religion and youth activism for viability in Indonesia tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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NEW ARTICLE ALERT! Andrew Hickey, Stewart Riddle, Celmara Pocock, Alarnah McKee, Danika Skye & Rachael Wallis: Figurations of youth in regional Australia: conceptualising the ‘young person’ as spatially figured tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Hello Bluesky. We will be posting links to new online early articles, new journal issues and other youth studies related news. Please follow and share us!

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Rare sighting in the wild… About to talk about the cost of living at the Addi Road Writers Festival addiroad.org.au/writers-fest...

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Here's a starter pack on people working on Class Analysis, broadly understood. Follow these people and let me know who I am missing (including yourself)! go.bsky.app/VTirGYT

submitted 105 days ago • 31 comments

Youth studies starter pack! A work in progress - please send suggestions (and feel free to nominate yourself) I miss our youth studies chat on the other place.... here we go! 💥 go.bsky.app/DbniWGw

submitted 105 days ago • 21 comments