another normal day in the life of a PhD student have just written two pages explaining why the internet is not a cocktail straw

Episode 2 of our new podcast season "Internet Futures" is now live. Listen to “Back to the Future? The Vernacular Web” with @nathaliefridz.bsky.social and @anya-shchetvina.bsky.social to learn about the Yesterweb, nostalgia-tinged imagining of Internet futures and more. letscast.fm/sites/redico...

S2E2: “Back to the Future? The Vernacular Web”

In the second episode of the series Luisa Conti and Fergal Lenehan, from the Centre for Digital Interculturality Studies, talk to Nathalie Fridzema from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands ...

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📣 Call for contributions! @anya-shchetvina.bsky.social and I are editing a collaborative glossary on internet imaginaries. We’re looking for short entries (500–1000 words) that unpack research concepts used to study how the internet has been imagined over time. matterofimagination.neocities.org/cfp

I am pleased to announce the launch of the Manifesto for Wikimedia Research manifesto.wiki. As my co-authored Big Data & Society commentary explains, the manifesto is dedicated to a humanist and critical tradition of taking Wikipedia's importance seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A manifesto for Wikimedia research: Critically studying Wikimedia as infrastructure

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Write with us! Submit a 100-word pitch by the 15th of September for the "Collaborative Glossary: Imagining the Internet(s)". The Glossary will be published by the INC (open access) with the @easstransport.bsky.social support. More info: matterofimagination.neocities.org/cfp #sts #internetstudies

talked about the conceptual confusion and utopian promises around the "vernacular web" with @nathaliefridz.bsky.social at @redico.eu yesterday. online conferences are still really hard for me, but it was nice to get to know more about the ReDiCo Hub. beautiful online space they do have! redico.eu

@anya-shchetvina.bsky.social and I are exploring the concept of the vernacular web and related notions. Can you help us with literary suggestions? Read more about it in our recent MoI newsletter (to which you can subscribe) (and yes, we do pick new GIFs every month) mailchi.mp/c85362c3a6ae...

they should turn the internet off on sundays. it needs to rest and so do we

So much fun and inspiration talking to @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy for the new MoI blog post! On BBSs, the challenges of archival work, the role of nostalgia and the critique of the numbers we operate when studying online phenomena - it's all here: matterofimagination.neocities.org/blog9

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Wrote something about algorithms, and why @bsky.app gets them right, with @notsaved.bsky.social.

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · last yr.

We need to demystify “the algorithm,” demand that Big Tech firms embrace greater transparency, and give ordinary users the tools and skills necessary to control their own feeds, write Gabriele de Seta and P. Kerim Friedman.

Stumbled across "The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism and the Internet" from 2011 by Thomas Streeter, and honestly, such a great read (both content and how it's written)

everybody shut up about AI until this is what we’re talking about

@dairinstitute.bsky.social asks a fun question on their Twitch stream: What word related to technologies would you want to ban if you could? My favs: - ontology - AI - disruption - to empower What would you add?

"Should I Check for ADHD or Is This Attention Span Normal For Creative Work? A Memoir"

I only learned about are.na recently, but every time I open it, it's like opening a secret treasure box. www.are.na/koundinya/to... Yes, please, for a gentler digital future!

Why do we confuse the "Internet" with the "Web"? And how was this confusion addressed at @cern.bsky.social ? Paper co-authored with the #WWWHistory Project @snf-fns-ch.bsky.social team: Deborah Barcella, @fandomistheanswer.bsky.social, and Martin Fomasi. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

"On the one hand, there are networks that are created as a means to achieve a specific goal—whether that goal is tied to values, politics, community organisation, or globalisation. <...> On the other hand, there are cases where the network itself is the hope."

Collection of cyberpunk resources from the late 1990s to early 2000s. Such a nice example of how early hobbyist websites were used as archives: project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/