Outputs & Media

Kelly, A. (in press). On the interface of influencers and antagonists: Conceptualising the role of audience antagonism in the mediation of reactionary politics. Media Theory, 9(2).

Kelly, A. (2023). Recontextualising partisan outrage online: Analysing the public negotiation of Trump support among American conservatives in 2016. AI & Society, 38(5), 2025-2036. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-01109-5.

Rantanen, T., & Kelly, A. (2020). Abnegation, accommodation and affirmation: Three discursive modes for the institutional construction of independence among national news agency executives in Europe. Journalism, 21(12), 1896-1912. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884919880060.

Kelly, A. (2013). Doing it Digitally: Methodological Tensions in Online Ethnography. Irish Journal of Anthropology, 16(1), 47-53.

Kelly, A. & Rantanen, T. (2025). Digitalization and Diversification of International News Agencies in the Age of AI. In D. V. Dimitrova (ed.), Global Journalism: Understanding World Media Systems (2nd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield.

Rantanen, T., & Kelly, A. (2021). The digital transformation of international and national news agencies: Challenges facing AFP, AP, and TASS. In D. V. Dimitrova (ed.), Global Journalism: Understanding World Media Systems. Rowman & Littlefield. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/109306/

Rantanen, T., Jääskeläinen, A., Bhat, R., Stupart, R. & Kelly, A. (2019). The future of national news agencies in Europe: Executive summary. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.aeginold23jj.

Livingstone, S., Stoilova, M., & Kelly, A. (2016). Cyberbullying: incidence, trends and consequences. In United Nations, Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, Ending the torment: Tackling bullying from the schoolyard to cyberspace (pp. 115-122). New York, NY: United Nations.

Kelly, A. (2023). How social media has enabled the rise of far right influencers. RTÉ Brainstorm. https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2023/1121/1417645-far-right-social-media-influencer-culture/

Béchet, N. & Kelly, A. (2022) The emotional era: Are technologies changing how we feel? L’Atelier BNP Paribas. https://atelier.net/insights/the-emotional-eraare-technologies-changing-how-we

Kelly, A. (2022). Extending visibility: The politics of XR. L’Atelier BNP Paribas. https://atelier.net/insights/extending-visibility-politics-xr-mixed-reality

Kelly, A. (2021). Simulate this! When digital twin technology goes human. L’Atelier BNP Paribas. https://atelier.net/insights/simulate-this-human-digital-twin-technology

Kelly, A. & Béchet, N. (2021). Brand me: Digital selves and the transformation of identity. L’Atelier BNP Paribas. https://atelier.net/insights/digital-selves-identity-digital-anthropology

Kelly, A. (2021). Censorship by design: Emoji regulation and its implications on meaning. L’Atelier BNP Paribas. https://atelier.net/insights/censorship-by-design-impact-emoji-communication

Thompson, S. A. (2025, September 19). How Outrage at Kimmel Grew to a Shout From a Whisper. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/technology/kimmel-carr-outrage-online.html 

Angela Natividad (2021). Meet Anthony Kelly, Digital Anthropologist. L’Atelier BNP Paribas. https://atelier.net/insights/digianth-stream-meet-anthony-kelly-digital-anthropology

LSE (2017). Remaking the right? London School of Economics and Political Science. https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Research-Highlights/Politics/Remaking-the-right

Kelly, A. (2025, October). Regulating the monetisation of reactionary political speech in the European Union: An audience-centred approach [Conference presentation]. DARL 2025 — Confronting Technofeudalism and Digital Authoritarianism Challenges and Solutions for the European Regulation. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Kelly, A. (2025, March). Influencers, audiences, and alt-tech platforms [Guest lecture]. University College Dublin, Ireland.

Kelly, A. P. (2024, October). “Oh, you mean… gay?”: Relational labour and the industrial articulation of hegemonic masculinity by Andrew Tate and his followers [Conference presentation]. AoIR2025: The 25th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Sheffield, UK

Kelly, A. (2024, October). “Received this from a follower”: Ambivalent fannish positionalities and reactionary influencer online content [Conference presentation]. Play, Polarisation, and Participation: Exploring Ambiguous Fannish Practices in Online Networks, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Kelly, A. (2024, October). Reactionary political influencers in the context of electoral politics: Scrutinising Andrew Tate, Libs of TikTok, and their social media audiences [Guest Lecture]. National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Kelly, A. (2024, July). “That’s the brotherhood I want”: Andrew Tate, articulations of community, and the multilevel marketing of masculinities in the manosphere [Conference presentation]. International Conference on Social Media & Society, London College of Communication, London, UK.

Kelly, A. (2024, May). Media frictions in the influencer ecosystem: Conceptualising the role of audience antagonism in the propagation of reactionary politics and illiberal publics [Conference presentation]. Media Frictions International Symposium, Jönköping University, Sweden.

Kelly, A. (2024, April). Under the influence: Reactionary articulations of masculinity and labour in the manosphere [Guest Lecture]. Deep Thoughts Seminar Series, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Kelly, A. (2022, March). What’s next for social media: How will the platforms evolve? [Panel discussion]. Observe Summit, Paris, France.

Kelly, A. (2021, December). Keynote address [Keynote presentation]. Fourth Annual Integrative Anthropology Conference: Transformations of the Field, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.

Kelly, A. (2021, December). Chair. Panel: Investing in the future: Sustainable fashion tech and the new consumer [Panel discussion]. Hello Tomorrow, Paris, France.

Kelly, A. (2021, September). Panel: Public policy roundtable discussion: Better insights for better policies [Panel discussion]. Unleashing deeper insights into humanity: Innovating digital anthropology, UNESCO, Paris, France.

Kelly, A. (2020, January). Voices of outrage: Project overview [Conference presentation]. 1st Meeting of the Online Political Discourse Network, Wolverhampton, UK.

Kelly, A. (2019, June). Hybrid news media, networked publics, and the recontextualization of right-wing outrage online [Conference presentation]. Rethinking Repetition in a Digital Age, University of Cambridge, UK.

Kelly, A. (2019, June). The shape of things to come: Hegemonic imaginaries, collective identities, and the strategic role(s) of apocalyptic imagery in the online political talk of the American radical right [Conference presentation]. BRESTOLON Network Symposium 2019: Critical and Social Theory for a Future World, University of Bremen, Germany.

Kelly, A. (2016, May). Recontextualizing right-wing outrage in an era of post-television news participation [Conference presentation]. BRESTOLON Network Symposium 2016: The Meaning of Mediatized Social Order and Action, Stockholm, Sweden.

Kelly, A. (2015, June). Chair. Panel: Agency—Virtual and actual [Panel discussion]. LSE Media and Communications PhD Symposium 2015—Struggle and Resistance in Media and Communications: Structure versus Agency?, London School of Economics, UK.

Kelly, A. (2013, June). Talking politics and texting selves: Linguistic anthropological reflections on the regulation of discourse and identity in digitally-mediated domains [Conference presentation]. Erasmus Intensive Programme – Imagination: Translations – Cultural, Ethnographic, Intermedia, Maynooth University, Ireland.

Kelly, A. (2012, December). The production of the populist: On the indeterminacy of participant roles in political mass mediation [Seminar presentation]. Maynooth University Department of Anthropology Seminar, Maynooth University, Ireland.

Kelly, A. (2012, November). “This is getting a bit Gaydar, isn’t it?”: Tracing trajectories of ideology, enregisterment, and risk in an online social network [Conference presentation]. 111th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting: Borders and Crossings, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Kelly, A. (2012, July). Producing populist politics: A linguistic anthropological analysis of Glenn Beck[Conference presentation]. 12th European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference: Uncertainty and Disquiet, University of Paris, Nanterre, France.

Kelly, A. (2011, September). Paranoid, pedagogue, demiurge, demagogue: Blackboard didactics, visual rhetorics, and the performance of evidence in the works of Glenn Beck [Conference presentation]. The Art of Anthropology, University of Ulster, Belfast, UK.

Kelly, A. (2010, August). Chair. Panel: Borders and migration [Panel discussion]. 8th International Moving Anthropology Student Network Conference, Maynooth University, Ireland.

Kelly, A. (2010, July). Chair. Panel: New identities [Panel discussion]. Erasmus Intensive Programme – Relationality and the Principle of Diversity, University of Vienna, Austria.

Kelly, A. (2010, July). Speech styles and the queering of cyberspace: Contesting modes of textual enselfment in an online social network [Conference presentation]. Erasmus Intensive Programme: Relationality and the Principle of Diversity, University of Vienna, Austria.

Kelly, A. (2009, November). Mediascapes, virtuality, and neologic creativity in US political discourse [Conference presentation]. Irish Media Research Network Postgraduate Conference, Dublin City University, Ireland.

Kelly, A. (2009, November). Design, convergence, and the limits of social network sites [Conference presentation]. Ethnography, Creativity, Design, Intel and Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland.

Kelly, A. (2009, May). Trust me, I’m a social network profile [Conference presentation]. Anthropological Crossings: Memory, Identity, and Belonging in an Interconnected World, Queen’s University Belfast, UK.