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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

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.

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...

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/...

✨📗 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

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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Planets are my favourite kind of star.

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...

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/...

#link www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBuy.... Glitchy found footage with eclectic editing. Constantly streaming #punkrock #rock #electronicmusic

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...

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/...

Over ten years ago I coined ‘𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻’ (2015) to examine how platforms expand beyond their boundaries in 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 + 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺. Invited by editor Papacharissi, I reflect on a decade of platformization 🎉 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

Every shot of Mick Jagger in Dancing in the Street is youtube-thumbnail-face. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5lA...

The fifth article in the special issue I’m editing on Silicon Valley is out! @maxhaiven.bsky.social introduces the Worker as Futurist project: 13 Amazon workers writing speculative fiction about ‘The World After Amazon’ - reclaiming the future from those who’ve monopolized the right to imagine it.

Hot off the presses is my colleagues' new paper on keywords😍 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Just found this quote by @galaxykate.bsky.social that I'm going to use in my Digital Practices course next year. "SVG is just another kind of HTML, but it renders as sweet graphics." www.galaxykate.com/pdfs/galaxyk...

While I'm often thinking about the State of Wikipedia Research, here is what I see as the history of "Popular" Wikipedia research. This history directly maps to a history of the development of Wikipedia/Wikidata as a AI training source. wikiworkshop.org/2026/paper/w...

Shout out to Sabrina Mac Gregor et al. who presented yesterday at Wiki Workshop 2026 on their paper _Cultural POV? Negotiating Situated Knowledge on the French Wikipedia_. Some great examples of the frictions between language and culture. wikiworkshop.org/2026/paper/w...

Yesterday I had the pleasure of chairing a session for Wiki Workshop 2026 which included this much-needed research: _OpenSpeaks Archives: Citing Low-Resourced Language Oral History Multimedia_ Subhashish Panigrahi, Opino Gomango, Kimmi Pal wikiworkshop.org/2026/paper/w...

A short paper is about to see the light, as will the gross grammatical error in the abstract that I failed to catch on my last read through.

[New op-ed] Mining the commons: AI extraction, Wikipedia, and the case for a multi-stakeholder settlement, By @taltech.bsky.social's Pranay Khattar & Vasilis Kostakis policyreview.info/articles/new...

I want heirloom technologies.

Essentialist rhetors Authentic/Fake: A technology will make it hard (if not impossible) to tell the difference between the real and the artificial. Purity/Contagion: A technology is bad because it was made through a suspect process. If you use the technology, you are poisoned; become bad.

There are words, and then there are words with spaces. www.linguabase.org/words-with-s...

Ray-tracing 1685

Currently I am just starting to supervise a new group of MA students and I'm working on a paper that is grounded in science and technology studies. And so while thinking about helping students sort through writing and my own ideas, I came up with this Latourian-styled research outline.

New Wikipedia tool: "Scans Wikipedia biographies of women for common gender bias patterns and flags specific passages for editorial review." No AI. Developed by Netha Hussain. nethahussain.github.io/wikipedia-ge...

A diagram of authority

GUYS have you seen this. antarctica on google maps. go look at it. this is tech struggling to process the Sublime

new book chapter out, co-authored by eleni maragkou and i on the subcultural politics and visuals of the #redscarepodcast www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

“Internal researchers can observe patterns, risks, and harms at a scale and level of precision that is simply unavailable to outside scholars.” metasinternalresearch.org

Oh Look! Keywords 🤩 Generative AI and creative practices: four critical keywords between the artworld and the creative industries osf.io/preprints/me...