Steve Jankowski
@textaural.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in New Media Histories at UvA. Curator of Keywords for Studying Media, Culture & Information https://textaural.com/keywords/. I study Wikipedia, utopian computation, design and consensus politics, often all at once.
☀️ U T O P I A N ☀️ M E D I A ☀️ S T U D I E S ☀️ I am so proud of this work w/ Convergence. Kemper & I make the argument that many media scholars use utopian approaches in their research. But we just need to reflect on how to do it together, and do it well. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
Jokes on me. I just bought Fourtet's "Wingdings" album from bandcamp and when I added it to music-app (iTunes–which I should get rid of), it didn't play. Had to edit the metadata in Audacity and change the filenames which just caused havoc. lol. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingdin... Now I'm 😎
Wingdings (album) - Wikipedia
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I'm proud to announce "Digital ecologies of hope: A natural history of emerging media futures" as the last Utopian Media Studies article. It includes a creative supplement (which is the entire article, but illustrated: journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
first day of the second "the browser is already a game engine" class with sfpc. excited for the next 10 weeks of talking and thinking deeply about online games
My riff on the Cyberpunks prayer from www-jstor-org.proxy.uba.uva.nl/stable/1465622 (p. 792).
🚨 INTERNET HISTORY ALERT 🚨 Super excited to announce my two entries of "Projects" and "Hype Histories" as part of the _Imagining the Internet(s)_ Collaborative glossary by the Institute of Network Cultures. networkcultures.org/wp-content/u...
✨Tomorrow✨ I will be giving a lightning talk at the public event "Real Inspiration for Protopian Futures: Toolbuilder Showcase & Mini Writing Workshop" where I will present work on how the history of media stories helps us think about the future. luma.com/dbvh8eoz
Real Inspiration for Protopian Futures: Toolbuilder Showcase & Mini Writing Workshop · Zoom · Luma
Protopian stories imagine a future that is neither flawless nor catastrophic, but instead workably better than today. It’s about plausible progress rather than…
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As part of the special issue on Utopian Media Studies that I am co-editing with Convergence, I am pleased to see this article by the very talented @anya-shchetvina.bsky.social and @nathaliefridz.bsky.social come out. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #utopia #mediastudies #webhistory
What a fascinating looking collection! Looking forward to digging into it.
Mattering Press@matteringpress.bsky.social · last mo.1/ We are very pleased to announce the publication of Predictions, Volume 1: From Speculative Ethnography to Apocalyptic Testimony, edited by @melhogan.bsky.social, @stefanlaser.bsky.social and @edwardongwesojr.com www.matteringpress.org/books/predic...
Massive thanks to @textaural.bsky.social for the invite to talk at the awesome campus of UofAmsterdam New Media Dept, for the hospitality & new plans
Wikipedia is often held as a leader in how a community comes together to make difficult epistemological decisions. This article examines the difficulty they faced when deciding to create a timely policy about AI. Some great work looking at Wikipedia policy here. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
In the run up to @giotita.bsky.social's talk this Tuesday at the University of Amsterdam, her book mentions that in the early 2000s, Britannica.com was pivoting to make itself more visible to younger generations: such as the semiotics of Britney Spears belly button web.archive.org/web/20010211...
Last month I had the pleasure of being part of a workshop on speculative fiction where I talked about some media fiction from the 1800s I found. One of those stories (The Automaton Ear) caught @r-emrys.bsky.social attention (she was there too) and she wrote about it reactormag.com/i-heard-it-t...
#Wikipedia relies on a small group of elected administrators for key governance and maintenance tasks. Are offline Wikipedia meetups related to who ends up in these roles? In Wikipedia's early years, the answer is yes! 📝 doi.org/10.1609/icws...
From Meetups to Adminship: The Offline Path to Leadership on Wikipedia | Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
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2016: Oh no! there's dark patterns in the design of (social) media and a lot of the content is misinformation. 2026: Oh no! there's dark patterns in the design of (AI) media and the content is misinformation. Also 2026: Wait a second 🤔
Another article from our special issue on Utopian Media Studies has just been published! "Popular digital sovereignty and digital real utopias: Lessons from the Homeless Workers’ Movement in Brazil" by @grohmannrafael.bsky.social and Alexandre Costa Barbosa journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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✨📗 Our 3rd @appstudies.bsky.social ASI Sprint Report (w/ @esthrr.bsky.social) is out now! Building directly on previous work in this series, it explores what we call ‘Appification of AI’, focusing on the embeddedness, visibility, and dependency of artificial intelligence. #AppStudies #AI
App Studies@appstudies.bsky.social · 2mo ago✨📗 Out now: ‘Appification in the Age of AI: Exploring Exploring Embeddedness, Visibility, and Dependency’ (ASI Sprint Report No. 3), edited by @fvandervlist.bsky.social & @esthrr.bsky.social. 🔗Download/read more: appstudies.org/research-out... #AppStudies #AI
I'm excited to share that our article "Chatbox sociality: Extreme personae, speculative communities, and the affordances of alt-tech livestreaming," co-authored with Eleni Maragkou, is now published on First Monday. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
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Looking forward to hosting a talk with @giotita.bsky.social on 9 June about her new book "The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias and Authority in the Digital Age." voxpop.uva.nl/shared/subsi...
The Web of Knowledge: Encyclopedias and Authority in the Digital Age - VOX-POP
What we know as an "encyclopedia" has dramatically expanded in scope, scale, and popularity in the digital age and with Wikipedia. These objects are both gateways to information and demand our renewed...
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Another amazing article that is part of our special issue on Utopian Media Studies just came out! With the focus on glossaries as a utopian method, this one is quite special to me. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The Futures Glossary: An experiment in utopic pedagogy - Steven Logan, Kate Maddalena, 2026
In this essay, we describe a project that asks students to edit and contribute to a collaborative “Futures Glossary” across two undergraduate media studies cour...
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#link www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBuy.... Glitchy found footage with eclectic editing. Constantly streaming #punkrock #rock #electronicmusic
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IT'S HAPPENING! Over the past month the first three articles that are part of the special issue on Utopian Media Studies have been published (links in thread).
Corpoetics has a different flavour these days. In 2009, a book was released of found poetry assembled from corporation mission websites. In comparison to the literature of Palantir & Andreessen's venture capitalism, the past two years shift from mission statements to manifestos needs attention.
This looks great! A good opportunity for people working on projects related to nostalgia and the yearning for the "old internet." error417.expectation.fail/406/netstalg...
Error 406 [Netstalgia] Not Acceptable | Open Call
Our open call for projects Error 406 [Netstalgia] Not Acceptable focuses on the notion of netstalgia: a selective and idealized remembering of earlier phases of the internet. We are looking for projec...
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It’s been brought to my attention that my positions on AI are sometimes perceived as contradictory. Is he a doomer or an enthusiast?! 🤯 Herewith, a 🧵:
For its newsletter edited by students, my English dept. asked faculty, staff, & grads for their favorite children’s book, "that one book that brought you so much joy as a kid.” Mine, I answered, was the World Book Encyclopedia. See why in this micro personal memoir! alanyliu.org/blog-essays/...
