Writing

My PhD thesis, Social Media Pseudonymity: Affordances, Practices, Disruptions, argues for a more nuanced look at people who are anonymous online. They’re not all up to mischief – having an anonymous or pseudonymous social media identity is a way to negotiate platforms and people amid a push towards real names, public selves, and plentiful data collection.

Books

• Katrin Tiidenberg & Emily van der Nagel 2020, Sex & Social Media, Emerald, Bingley.

Peer-reviewed academic publications

• Emily van der Nagel 2021, ‘Competing Platform Imaginaries of NSFW Content Creation on OnlyFans’, Porn Studies, DOI: 10.1080/23268743.2021.1974927.
• Emily van der Nagel 2020, ‘Embodied Verification: Linking Identities and Bodies on NSFW Reddit’, pp. 47–57 in Mediated Interfaces: The Body on Social Media, K Warfield, C Abidin & C Cambre (eds), Bloomsbury, New York.
• Emily van der Nagel 2020, ‘Verifying Images: Deepfakes, Control, and Consent’, Porn Studies, pp. 1–6, DOI 10.1080/23268743.2020.1741434.
• Emily van der Nagel 2020, ‘Fluids on Pictures on Screens: Pseudonymous Affect on Reddit’s TributeMe’, Social Media + Society, January-March, pp. 1–9.
• Emily van der Nagel 2019, ‘There is No Anonymity in the Database’, pp. 145–158 in Yiannis Colakides, Marc Garrett & Inte Gloerich (eds), State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, Finance, and Art, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam.
• Emily van der Nagel 2018, ‘”Networks That Work Too Well”: Intervening in Algorithmic Connections’, Media International Australia, vol. 168, no. 1, pp. 81–92. Invited paper for special issue ‘Beyond Access Towards Engagement: Social Media’s Paradox’.
• Emily van der Nagel 2018, ‘Alts and Automediality: Compartmentalising the Self through Multiple Social Media Profiles’, M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture, vol. 21, no. 2.
• Emily van der Nagel 2017, ‘From Usernames to Profiles: The Development of Pseudonymity in Internet Communication’, Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 312–331.
• James Meese, Jenny Kennedy & Emily van der Nagel 2016, ‘Regulation and Social Practice’, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol. 30, no. 2.
• James Meese, Jenny Kennedy & Emily van der Nagel 2016, ‘Introduction: Situating research, situating practice: New voices in cultural research’, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol. 30, no. 2.
• Emily van der Nagel & Jordan Frith 2015, ‘Anonymity, Pseudonymity, and the Agency of Online Identity: Examining the Social Practices of r/Gonewild’, First Monday, vol. 20, no. 3.
• Emily van der Nagel 2013, ‘Faceless Bodies: Negotiating Technological and Cultural Codes on Reddit Gonewild’, Scan: Journal of Media Arts Culture, vol. 10, no. 2.

Encylopedia entries

• Emily van der Nagel 2018, ‘Internet sexism’, Encyclopedia of the Internet, Sage.

Reports and parliamentary submissions

• Emily van der Nagel, Michael Arnold, Bjorn Nansen, Martin Gibbs, Tamara Kohn, Craig Bellamy, and Narelle Clark 2017, ‘Death and the Internet: Consumer Issues for Planning and Managing Digital Legacies’, 2nd edn, Australian Communications Consumer Action Network.
• Emily van der Nagel & Scott Ewing 2014, ‘Australians’ Use of Social Media and the Political Internet’ [Parliamentary submission], Parliament of Victoria.
• Scott Ewing, Emily van der Nagel & Julian Thomas 2015, ‘CCi Digital Futures 2014: The Internet in Australia’, Australian Policy Online, 19 February.

Journalistic and popular writing

• Emily van der Nagel 2021, ‘OnlyFans Has a Split Identity – It Needs to Declare Its Support For Adult Content Creators’, The Conversation, 19 October.
• Emily van der Nagel & Katrin Tiidenberg 2020, ‘The Unexpected Ways Social Media is Impacting the Way we Perform our Sex Lives Online’, Cosmopolitan, 10 August.
• Emily van der Nagel 2020, ‘What I’m Reading’, Meanjin, 15 April.
• Emily van der Nagel 2019, ‘Seeing Relationships and Bodies Through Screens: Researching Digital Intimacies’, The Lifted Brow, no. 44.
• Emily van der Nagel 2018, ‘Mindfulness in an Age of Twitter Noise’, Eureka Street, 21 September.
• Emily van der Nagel 2018, ‘9 Things Your Uni Tutor Wants You to Know’, Junkee, 23 May.
• Emily van der Nagel 2017, ‘What Your Choice of GIF Reveals About Your Personality’, Junkee, 21 August.
• Emily van der Nagel 2016, ‘Wedding Hashtags Are Serious Business‘, Lifehacker, 11 April.
• Emily van der Nagel 2016, ‘Doxing Is Wrong No Matter What’, Gizmodo, 15 February.
• Emily van der Nagel 2015, ‘Anonymity on Social Media is Under Threat’, Gizmodo, 23 October 2015.
• Emily van der Nagel & James Meese 2015, ‘Reddit tackles ‘revenge porn’ and celebrity nudes‘, The Conversation, 27 February.
• Tama Leaver & Emily van der Nagel 2014, ‘Is Facebook Finally Taking Anonymity Seriously?’, The Conversation, 6 May.

Reviews

• Emily van der Nagel 2021, ‘NSFW: Sex, Humor, and Risk in Social Media [book review]’, Convergence.
• Emily van der Nagel 2015, ‘Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web [book review]’, Inside Story, 16 July.
• Emily van der Nagel 2015, ‘This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: The Relationship Between Trolling and Mainstream Culture [book review]’, Inside Story, 15 June.
• Emily van der Nagel 2012, ‘Creativity and Cultural Production: Issues for Media Practice [book review]’, Media International Australia, no. 143.