Paolo Bory
@paolobory.bsky.social
Researcher @ Politecnico di Milano Sociology and history of digital tech, narratives of media change. My book: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/tq57nt98c
La Global sumud flotilla ha condiviso un video girato dalla telecamera di sorveglianza dell’imbarcazione. Le sei persone a bordo dell’imbarcazione sono rimaste incolumi.
La Global sumud flotilla denuncia di essere stata colpita da un drone al largo di Tunisi
Il 9 settembre la Global sumud flotilla, diretta a Gaza con un carico di aiuti umanitari, ha affermato che una delle sue imbarcazioni è stata colpita da un drone al largo di Tunisi, mentre le autorità...
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Non è più una tranquilla notte di regime #stefanobenni #baol
After months of pain and crazy writing, this OA book, written by Chris Hesselbein and me, is finally out. Behind the bleeding cover, you'll find our analysis of the metaverse (no, it’s not dead!), or rather of the current metaverses as "infrastructures of reality". link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Infrastructures of Reality: Metaverse Stories, Spaces, Bodies
This open access book focuses on two dimensions of the development of the metaverse that are crucial to ‘reality’, namely spatiality and embodiment.
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Our special issue co-edited with @chrish6699.bsky.social and @stefanocanali.bsky.social is finally out! "Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures" www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/2...
Information, Communication & Society
Special Issue: Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures. Guest Editors: Chris Hesselbein, Paolo Bory and Stefano Canali. Volume 28, Issue 5 of Information, Communication & Societ...
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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....
Stop calling the Web the Internet: CERN’s tactics to fight ‘brand confusion’ in the mid-1990s
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Un’epoca in cui anche la gentilezza base causa esternalità negative* 🥲 [*negative per l’impatto ambientale, non perché Altaman ci smena soldi]
> I had a pleasure of interviewing @pbory.bsky.social about his book "The Internet Myth", network ideology and AI imaginaries. It was fun, the full interview is here! matterofimagination.neocities.org/blog8
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I now see why we don't hear of whistle blowers anymore. They already whistle, pretending to whisper @philipdisalvo.bsky.social?
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · last yr.American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social. theatln.tc/AmsjsuT6
A few days left, #STSItalia Don't miss it! #STS #Technoscience #Milan
Call for Abstracts - STS Italia
Join the 10th Biennial STS Italia Conference, 'Technoscience for Good,' on 11-13 June 2025 at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Explore cutting-edge discussions on ethical, social, and political di...
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Deadline 3 february, join us in Milan for a collective investigation of the "metaverse" #sts #metaverse #ar #vr #mr #etc
Paolo Bory@paolobory.bsky.social · 2y agoCfa: Searching for the Metaverse. Mapping and disentangling the imaginaries of VR-MR Join us in Milan for the X STS Italia conference, panel 10 (like D10s) on the imaginaries of VR/MR organized by me, my brilliant brother Stefano Bory and the great Gianluigi Negro: stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...
#OutNow in #iCS Gianluigi Negro and Tonio Savina’s article, “Yuanyuzhou 元宇宙: yesterday, today, tomorrow,” provides a historical overview of the Chinese Metaverse, highlighting its unique development and future prospects within China’s digital landscape.
Yuanyuzhou 元宇宙: yesterday, today, tomorrow. Historical roots, current visions, and future dynamics of real-world integration in the Chinese governmental narrative on the Metaverse
As one of the most searched buzzwords on the Chinese Internet in 2021, the ‘Metaverse' (yuan yuzhou 元宇宙) has gained significant momentum in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), attracting the atte...
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Starlink has disrupted Kenya's existing ISP industry since its launch in July 2023, forcing legacy providers to lower prices and increase internet speeds (Rest of World) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Oggi torniamo dalle vacanze col sito Guerre di Rete pubblicando una bella analisi di Andrea Daniele Signorelli su tutti i fronti di #OpenAI. www.guerredirete.it/tutti-i-guai...
Tutti i guai di OpenAI - Guerre di Rete
Malgrado goda ancora di enorme fiducia da parte dei finanziatori, la società sinonimo di ChatGPT deve fronteggiare costi esorbitanti, divisioni interne e possibili, imminenti barriere tecnologiche.
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#OutNow in #iCS In "Six Provocations for Metaverse Datafication," Chris Hesselbein, Paolo Bory, and Stefano Canali analyze how metaverse data shapes knowledge, privacy, and social inequality, highlighting its cultural, technological, and scholarly impacts. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Six provocations for metaverse datafication: an emergent cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon
Although the ‘metaverse’ is still the feverish pipedream of tech companies and venture capitalists, it is also a powerful imaginary for channelling enormous resources towards deepening and extendin...
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Call for abstracts STS Italia in Milano next June, with a promising session on scientific publishing #STS stsitalia.org/call-for-abs...
Call for Abstracts - STS Italia
Join the 10th Biennial STS Italia Conference, 'Technoscience for Good,' on 11-13 June 2025 at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Explore cutting-edge discussions on ethical, social, and political di...
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Ian Milligan@ianmilligan1.bsky.social · 2y agoAverting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory is released _today_. You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers. muse.jhu.edu/book/123276
New paper out with @pbory.bsky.social and Chris Hesselbein! We discuss new forms of data and datafication in the metaverse and, echoing seminal work by @zephoria.bsky.social and @katecrawford.bsky.social, we present six provocations for metaverse datafication. doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Six provocations for metaverse datafication: an emergent cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon
Although the ‘metaverse’ is still the feverish pipedream of tech companies and venture capitalists, it is also a powerful imaginary for channelling enormous resources towards deepening and extendin...
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Paolo Bory@paolobory.bsky.social · 2y agoOut now: Six provocations for metaverse datafication www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Authored by my friends and colleagues Chris Hesselbein, @stefanocanali.bsky.social and me for #infocomm&soc
Cfa: Searching for the Metaverse. Mapping and disentangling the imaginaries of VR-MR Join us in Milan for the X STS Italia conference, panel 10 (like D10s) on the imaginaries of VR/MR organized by me, my brilliant brother Stefano Bory and the great Gianluigi Negro: stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...
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Former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower found dead at age 26: www.cnbc.com/2024/12/13/f...
Former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower found dead at age 26
Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment in recent weeks, officials confirmed to CNBC.
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👾Fresh Call for Abstracts!👁️ Come visit #STSItalia in Milan this summer to share your research at our panel on Critical Hype Studies exploring the many sociopsychotechnoenvironmental faces of hype. Deadline: Feb 3. @imaginaries.bsky.social stsitalia.org/call-for-abs... stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...
Call for Abstracts - STS Italia
Join the 10th Biennial STS Italia Conference, 'Technoscience for Good,' on 11-13 June 2025 at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Explore cutting-edge discussions on ethical, social, and political di...
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We may be entering the "Jevon's Paradox" stage of AI: More efficient systems lead to increased use. Against this paradox, the argument that AI helps militaries kill less civilians may not hold. Are we killing more? Appreciating @timnitgebru.bsky.social OpEd: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/s...
Who Is Tech Really For?
As Silicon Valley chases military tech and funding, it’s losing sight of what inspires its workers.
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This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
Jacquelyn Ardam@jaxwendy.bsky.social · 2y agoI'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
What people say they want in local news: “greater transparency + media scrutiny around development projects”; “more explanatory journalism that can break down decision making at different levels of government + empower ppl to participate politically”; “information pertaining to social services” …
What New Yorkers Want From Local News
New York Focus traveled across the state to meet with communities about their local news needs.
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Out now: Six provocations for metaverse datafication www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Authored by my friends and colleagues Chris Hesselbein, @stefanocanali.bsky.social and me for #infocomm&soc
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Out now: Six provocations for metaverse datafication www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... On why, beyond hypes and disillusions, we must worry and think about the pandatification of reality Authored by my friends and colleagues Chris Hesselbein, @stefanocanali.bsky.social and me for #infocomm&soc
Six provocations for metaverse datafication: an emergent cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon
Although the ‘metaverse’ is still the feverish pipedream of tech companies and venture capitalists, it is also a powerful imaginary for channelling enormous resources towards deepening and extendin...
tandfonline.com
