Preparing to teach a recent workshop on building an artist or author brand made me realise how much my approach to my own brand and online profile has changed over the last several years.
That feeling has been exacerbated over this last awful month, in which the social media spaces I have held in such esteem have become sites for both community making and lonely making, action and distraction, truth-telling and shadow-banning, finding and losing of trust.
It’s been a timely reminder that our online profiles are political – regardless of whether we using them to share political content or politicise our silence.
Social media platforms – like all forms of communication – are political. Having the option to engage in an issue or not is political. Having a platform – however big or small – is also a privilege, and a responsibility.
Check out my latest ‘and another thing’ vlog for more. (These vlogs are usually a Patreon exclusive, but this one’s for everybody else too).
AI policy
I am a concerned and conscientious objector to the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. You can read more about my many objections in my recent piece on raining on the parade of generative AI in the arts (and everywhere else).
If you consume or use my work or writing, you can be sure that the creativity, labour and language that goes into it are either my own or drawn from the wisdom of the clever humans I reference or cite, and that I do not intentionally use Al to research, generate or edit in any part of my writing or publishing processes.
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