Dr Anthony Kelly
Biography
Dr Anthony Kelly is an Irish Research Council (IRC) Government of Ireland Fellow in the Department of Media Studies at Maynooth University (MU) and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Dr Kelly’s IRC-funded research examines the antagonistic digital labour practices of political influencer social media audiences. More specifically, his project explores how such audiences articulate their status as platform media stakeholders, including how they situate themselves with respect to reactionary political influencers and the politics of antagonism they frequently advocate. Dr Kelly holds a PhD in Media and Communications from LSE, awarded in 2021. His PhD thesis explored the role of online partisan media in contemporary American politics, with an empirical focus on “below-the-line” commentary on a conservative news and opinion website during the 2016 US presidential election. Dr Kelly's doctoral research was supported by a National University of Ireland Travelling Studentship in Media and Communications. Prior to commencing his PhD, Dr Kelly was an Assistant Lecturer in Anthropology at MU, having designed and delivered seminar-based modules on digital anthropology, political media, and globalisation. More recently, Dr Kelly served as Digital Anthropologist at L’Atelier BNP Paribas, where he designed and directed research on the social and cultural implications of emerging technologies.
Research Interests
toxic fan practices, digital labour, political influencers, user-generated media, audience studies, platform economies, selective exposure, media refusal, news engagement, political consumerism, affect, antagonism, voice, identity
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2023 | Kelly, Anthony (2023) 'Recontextualising partisan outrage online: analysing the public negotiation of Trump support among American conservatives in 2016'. AI and Society, 38 (5). [DOI] | |
2020 | Rantanen, Terhi; Kelly, Anthony (2020) 'Abnegation, accommodation and affirmation: Three discursive modes for the institutional construction of independence among national news agency executives in Europe'. Journalism, 21 (12). [DOI] | |
2013 | Kelly, Anthony (2013) 'Doing it Digitally: Methodological Tensions in Online Ethnography'. Irish Journal of Anthropology, 16 (1). |
Article
Year | Publication | |
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2023 | Kelly, Anthony (2023) How social media has enabled the rise of far right influencers. [Article] [Link] |