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T.X. Watson

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Graduate Student, Communication

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B.A., Unspecified, Hampshire College

T.X. Watson is a first-year PhD student at the University of Maryland, and is the actor who plays T.X. Watson on TikTok. Watson is interested in social media platforms, internet celebrity, and parasocial relationships, and has been working with the Online Content Creator Association and the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at the University of Arizona researching algorithmic folk theories. They also coauthored the paper "If you're reading this, it's meant for you: The reflexive ambivalence of algorithmic conspirituality" with researchers at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Alabama.