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My research and/or interview quotes are featured in the following stories:
2021
- i-D (UK): How TikTok’s recovery community is rejecting triggering pro-ana content
- Huck (UK): TikTokkers are using secret hashtags to discuss self-harm
2020
- The Times (UK): Ring lights: how the pros look good on Zoom
- Dazed (US): Pro-eating disorder content is still rife on TikTok
- Jezebel (US): TikTok is limply fighting a losing battle against pro-eating disorder content
- The Guardian (UK): TikTok investigating videos promoting starvation and anorexia
- Vox (US): Is social media ready for a Covid-19 vaccine?
- Wall Street Journal (US): WhatsApp wants to host your intimate chats. Don’t fret – they’ll be deleted in a week
- Mashable (UK): Telegram’s massive revenge porn problem made these women’s lives hell
- Cosmopolitan (UK): How disordered eating content is slipping through the net on TikTok
- The Times (UK): Filtered, slimmed, liked: ‘I was addicted to looking at perfect bodies online’
- VICE (UK): How ‘deeply unsettling’ intermittent fasting apps took over social media
- WIRED (UK): As humans go home, Facebook and YouTube face a coronavirus crisis
- Bustle (US): Pro-ana content on TikTok is hidden in plain sight
- Rhitrition’s Food For Thought podcast (UK): Does Instagram trigger dieting?
- i-D (UK): Instagram isn’t doing enough to tackle pro-eating disorder content
- Vice (UK): I tried a male selfie editing app to see if it actually made me more desirable
2019
- Tortoise (UK): Jameela Jamil v cancel culture
- Esquire (UK): Why Instagram hiding likes will make your feed less awful
- i-D (UK): In defence of oversharing on social media
- BBC News (UK): Afternoon live (segment on Instagram’s updated self-harm policy)
- NBC News (US): Anti-vaccination groups still crowdfunding on Facebook despite crackdown
- The Telegraph (UK): Justin Bieber and how Instagram became the millennial confession booth
- WIRED (UK): How Yahoo!’s prudish policies pushed Tumblr into obscurity
- The Telegraph: Never tweet your heroes: Ariana Grande and the hidden dangers of fan/celebrity interactions
- Healthline: Does my skin offend you? Thoughts on Instagram’s #psoriasis hashtag ban
- BBC Radio Sheffield: local and national news, discussing the UK’s Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport’s (DMCS) Online Harms White Paper (from 16:50)
- BBC News: Instagram eating disorder content ‘out of control’
- The Guardian (UK): From self-harm to terrorism, online recommendations cast a deadly shadow
2018
- BBC World Service: The Weekend radio programme, discussing Tumblr’s adult content ban
- BBC Radio 4: Woman’s hour, discussing Tumblr’s adult content ban (from 27:09)
- BBC World Service / BBC Trending: Do Instagram hashtags promote eating disorders?
- The Guardian (US): Tumblr’s adult content ban dismays some users: ‘It was a safe space’
- Venture Beat: Surveillance marketing: too much personalization can hurt your brand
- 2SER Radio podcast (Australia): Think Digital Futures: anorexia and algorithms
- The Telegraph: Instagram promoting accounts which ‘incite’ self-harm, Telegraph investigation reveals
- WIRED (US): How pro-eating disorder posts evade filters on social media
