Conferences, Workshops & Talks

Coming up

  • Annabell, Taylor, and Rebecca Scharlach. (2025). Governing prompt cultures. GenAI and Creative Practices Conference, Amsterdam, 17-18 December. Conference

  • Annabell, Taylor, and Rianne Riemens. (2025). Unpacking the Tech Bro Myth: The Creation and Mediation of the Tech CEO Identity Across Platforms in Scrutinizing the “Broligarchy”: From Pop Culture to Platform Power Panel. Netherlands Media Studies Conference, Utrecht, 23 October. Conference

  • Annabell, Taylor, and Laura Aade. (2025). Consuming the selling experience in-the-moment: The use of TikTok LIVE during Black Friday in the Netherlands in panel. AoIR 2025, Niterói, 15–18 October. Conference

  • Annabell, Taylor, and Crystal Abidin. (2025). “What’s our escape plan, and where are we going to meet up?”: Theorising platform evacuation in platform society. AoIR 2025, Niterói, 15–18 October. Conference

  • (Good) governance of platform monetisation roundtable. AoIR 2025, Niterói, 15–18 October. Conference

2025

  • Annabell, Taylor, Catalina Goanta, Thijs Kelder and Felix Pflücke. (2025). Sponsored by the state: Influencers’ promotion of public interest communication for Dutch ministries. Media-Marketing Integration: Practices, Policies, Problems and Remedies Conference, London, 3-4 July. Conference

  • Annabell, Taylor, Thales Bertaglia, Haoyang Gui, Jacob van de Kerkhof and Catalina Goanta. (2025). Influencing elections beyond the US: Influencer marketing and TikTok governance in the 2024 Romanian elections. Media-Marketing Integration: Practices, Policies, Problems and Remedies Conference, London, 3-4 July. Conference 

  • Aade, Laura, Taylor Annabell, and Catalina Goanta. (2025). Consuming the selling experience in-the-moment: The use of TikTok LIVE during Black Friday in the Netherlands. International Communication Association Post-Conference: Labor and Play in Platform Society, Prague [online], 18 June.

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2025). Influencing for good: (In)visibilities of social justice promotion by popular Dutch influencers. International Communication Association Conference, Denver, 12-16 June. Conference 

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2025). Calling out undisclosed ads: Discussions of regulation by creators on TikTok. International Communications Association Pre-Conference: Debating Creator Culture, Denver, 11 June. Pre-Conference  

  • Annabell, Taylor, and Catalina Goanta. (2025). Governing political influencers: ‘Global’ platform documentation and ‘local’ campaigns. International Communications Association Pre-Conference: Debating Creator Culture, Denver, 11 June. Pre-Conference  

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2025). Defining data: Negotiation of data access terminology in Article 40 of Digital Services Act. AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2025: From Platform Governance to Generative AI, 3-4 June, Bremen. Symposium

  • Annabell, Taylor, and Nina Vindum Rasmussen. (2025). An algorithmic event: The celebration and critique of Spotify Wrapped, CAMRI 50 year anniversary conference, London, 22-23 May. Conference

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2025). Shopping as participatory spectacle: (Re)purposing TikTok LIVE for shopping. Responsible Consumers in Digital Age Conference, Copenhagen, 24-25 April.

  • Invited Speaker: Annabell, Taylor, and Catalina Goanta. (2025). Amplifying Drama, Promoting Consumerism:  Values in TikTok Search Recommendations among Popular Dutch Influencers, AI Transformations: Language Technology and Society Conference, Utrecht, 31 January. Conference

2024

  • Annabell, Taylor, Laura Aade, and Catalina Goanta. (2024). (Mis)labelling brand partnerships: How platform policies and interfaces shape commercial content for influencers, AoIR, Sheffield, 30 October - 4 November. Conference

  • Invited Speaker: Annabell, Taylor. (2024). Platform Documentation & Governance of Influencers in Community PechaKucha and Demo Session: Gaps and Interoperability of Platform Datasets Experimental Session. AoIR, Sheffield, 30 October - 4 November. Conference

  • Divon, Tom, Taylor Annabell and Catalina Goanta. (2024). Children as commodities: Ethnographic observations and legal implications of child influencer monetisation on TikTok in The Place of a Child on Platforms: Responsibilities, Obligations, and Expectations Panel. AoIR, Sheffield, 30 October - 4 November. Conference; Extended abstract

  • Annabell, Taylor, and Nina Vindum Rasmussen. (2024). Experimental Session: Spotify (Un)wrapped: How to critically and creatively examine your repackaged data stories. AoIR, Sheffield, 30 October - 4 November. Conference; Extended abstract

  • Annabell, Taylor, and Nina Vindum Rasmussen. (2024). An algorithmic event: The celebration and critique of 'Spotify Wrapped', AoIR, Sheffield, 30 October - 4 November. Conference

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2024). Role of monetisation in the classification of influencers in Classification of the Influencer: A Critical Discussion of How to Define “Influence” Roundtable, International Communication Association Conference, Gold Coast, 20-24 June. Conference

  • Top Law & Policy Paper Award: Annabell, Taylor, Sophie Bishop, and Catalina Goanta. (2024). “You and TikTok Are, and Will Remain at All Times, Independent Contractors”: Classification of Influencers and Monetisation Practices in TikTok Documentation, International Communication Association Conference, Gold Coast, 20-24 June. Conference

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2024). Influencing for good: The interplay of social justice, monetisation and visuality among Dutch influencers on TikTok and Instagram, International Communication Association Conference Pre-conference: Visual Affordances & Social Justice: Theory & Methods, Brisbane, 19 June. Pre-conference

  • Invited speaker: Annabell, Taylor and Catalina Goanta. Ethics in Influencer Marketing: Present and Perspectives Conference, Romanian Advertising Council, Bucharest, 15 May. Conference

  • Annabell, Taylor (2024). ‘The Secrets to *Actually* Making Money on Social Media for the Content and Entrepreneur Girlies’: Construction(s) of the Ideal Influencer Through Practices of Content Monetisation on Platforms. Media Industries Conference, London, 16-19 April. Conference

  • Organised Workshop: Annabell, Taylor, Catalina Goanta, Johanna Arnesson, Hanna Reinikainen, Fabio Votta, and Silvu Istrate. Politicisation of Influencers Workshop, Utrecht, March. Workshop

  • Invited expert: Masterclass for E-Enforcement Academy (training for European Commission’s Consumer Protection Cooperation and Consumer Product Safety networks). Brussels, 6 February.

2023

  • Invited Expert: Protecting youth in the digital age panel for the European Consumer Day. European Economic and Social Committee, Brussels, 11 December

  • Annabell, Taylor, Thijs Kelder, Jacob van de Kerkhof, Haoyang Gui and Catalina Goanta. (2023). Another day another Tarte drama: Exploring the boundaries of discrimination in content monetisation from a multidisciplinary perspective. Decoding the Rights of companies in the Technoscene Workshop, Lund, 4-5 December.

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2023). Starter pack for entering your influencer era: Methodological approach to examining content monetisation at the intersection of platform policy, architecture and influencer practices. RMeS Conference: All About Media? The Future of Media Studies, Amsterdam, 9-10 November. Conference

  • Kennedy, Helen, Taylor Annabell, Giorgia Aiello, and Chris W Anderson. (2023). The role of networked generic visuals in assembling publics. AoIR, Pennsylvania, 18-21 October Conference

  • Annabell, Taylor, Thijs Kelder, Jacob van de Kerkhof, Haoyang Gui and Catalina Goanta. (2023). Another day another Tarte drama: Exploring the boundaries of discrimination in content monetisation from a multidisciplinary perspective. TikTok Creators & Digital Economies Symposium [online], 6 October, Symposium

  • Organised workshop: Annabell, Taylor, Sophie Bishop and Catalina Goanta. Ideal Influencer Workshop Utrecht, 5 October.

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2023). “You and TikTok are, and will remain at all times, independent contractors”: Private ordering of user monetisation practices through platform policies. Institutions for Conflict Resolution Conference, Utrecht, 29 September. Conference

  • Annabell, Taylor, Thijs Kelder, Jacob van de Kerkhof, Haoyang Gui and Catalina Goanta. (2023). Another day another Tarte drama: Exploring the boundaries of discrimination in content monetisation from a multidisciplinary perspective. GikII Conference, Utrecht, 7-8 September. Conference

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2023).  “United under the same sky”: How Jacinda Ardern constructs narratives of the past on New Zealand public holidays. Memory Studies Association Conference, Newcastle, 3-7 July. Conference

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2023).  Memory studies and the more-than-human roundtable. Memory Studies Association Conference, Newcastle, 3-7 July. Conference

  • Top Student Paper Award: Annabell, Taylor. (2023).  Sharing “Memories in Real Life” on Social Media Platforms: How Constructs of Authenticity are Implicated Within Digital Memory Work. International Communication Association Conference, Toronto, 25-29 May. Conference

  • Annabell, Taylor, and Nina Vindum Rasmussen. (2023). Spotify Unwrapped: How to Critically  Examine Your Repackaged Data Stories. Algorithms for Her 2 Conference, Sheffield, 23-24 March. Conference

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2023). Black Lives Matter as disruptive in, for and through Instagram sharing. Cultural Disruptions Cultural Futures Workshop, London, January.

2022

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2022). Cost of remembering: Gendered experiences of engaging with ‘memories’ on social media platforms. AoIR, Dublin, 2-5 November. Conference; Extended abstract.

  • Conference Co-organiser: MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Conference: Mediating Gendered Identities: Articulations, Representations & Contestations, London, 21-22 July. Conference

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2022). Scrolling back: References to non-digital media forms and practices to explain digital memory work on social media platforms. Communicating Memory Matters, Salzburg, 30 June - 1 July.

2021

  • Invited participant: Memory and meaning making: A collaborative experiment in analysis workshop. Trento, September.

  • Top Student Paper Award: Annabell, Taylor. (2021). Distributed agency in the digital memory work performed on and with Instagram and Facebook. Memory Studies Association Conference. Warsaw  [online], 5-9 July. Conference

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2021). Narratives of the self and digital memory work on social media platforms. Memory Studies Association Conference. Warsaw [online], 5-9 July. Conference

  • Annabell, Taylor (2021). Digital memory work during Covid-19: Reflections on the unexpected opportunities in adapting research methods and aims. Arts & Humanities PGR Workshop, London, 2 March, Workshop

2020

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2020). Curating memories: The role of emotion in the digital memory work of young women on Instagram and Facebook, AoIR, [online], 27-31 October. Conference; Extended abstract

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2020). “I just see if Instagram suggest something and then I remember it and then I’m happy”: Happiness and feeling rules in the digital memory work of young women. Memory, Affects and Emotions International Interdisciplinary Conference [online], 10-11 August.

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2020). Exploring how individuals and platforms perform digital memory work, Connecting Memories Symposium. Edinburgh  [online], 29 June. Symposium

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2020). Exploring How Interfaces and Algorithms Shape the Digital Memory Work of Young Women on Instagram and Facebook. Algorithms for Her Conference, London, 17 January.

2019

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2019). Mnemonic Literacy and Remembering Well on Social Media, Memory and Activism: Mnemonics Summer School, Utrecht, 18-19 September.

  •  Conference co-organiser: Epistemologies of Memory Conference, London, 12-13 September. Conference

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2019). ‘Your Memories’ and ‘Your Stories Archive’: The shaping of memory by social media platforms. Memory Studies Association Conference, Madrid, 25-28 June. Conference  

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2019). Exploring the digital memory work of young women, Moving Media, Memory, History PGR Conference, London, 13 June.

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2019). The memory work of young women on social media involving birthdays and celebrations. Uses and Abuses of Storytelling: Theorizing the Intersections of Narrative, Memory and Identity Conference, Turku, 14-16 February.

2017

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2017). Flagging diversity: The discursive construction of cultural diversity by the Flag Consideration Panel. Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Conference, Sydney, 4-7 July.

  • Annabell, Taylor. (2017). More than just a laugh: The representation of New Zealand in Funny Girls. Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Wellington, 28-30 June.