Since grad school, I struggled to work through what discourse analysis was as a method. Inspired by a number of historians and works on method (below), here's my general model for thinking through the process.

The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack. Read more from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

"Republicans investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias" thehill.com/homenews/hou... 👀

With the school year approaching, a number of scholars and myself have assembled together a Critical Wikimedia Research Bibliography. If you are teaching a course or doing research, we think you might find some good resources here. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Critica...

Over a million views of an AI impersonation ad of Canada's prime minister. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN7d.... Published yesterday.

I've read the draft guideline for researching Wikipedia's neutrality (meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Researc...) & I will add my thoughts to the discussion. But Heather Ford has already raised a number of important concerns about it that shouldn't be ignored. theconversation.com/wikipedias-n...

"A living visual archive on cybernetics in the expanded field. Browse and contribute images of all kinds: diagrams, schematics, photos, graphic elements, and other visual fragments."

Look starlings are the new archival media

_The Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader_ by INC was a pivotal book for helping me think about different ways to research Wikipedia. Heather Ford (who initiated the Wikimedia Research Manifesto), reflects on how this text shaped her work as well. networkcultures.org/blog/2025/07...

A bunch of internet networking metaphors (host, guest, server, client) are all metaphors that imagine the The Computer as a Hotel. Which seems kind of quaint. Markus Krajewski (2018) _The Server: A Media History from the Present to the Baroque_

manifesto.wiki is a statement that I think all Wikimedia researchers should read. It was composed through the hard work of many leading the field right now: Heather Ford, Bunty Avieson, Francesco Bailo, Michael Davis, Michael Falk, Sohyeon Hwang, Andrew Iliadis, Amanda Lawrence, Francesca Sidoti.

🚨: Check out this new publication: "Uniting and reigniting critical Wikimedia research" by @textaural.bsky.social, Heather Ford, Andrew Illiadis, and Francesca Sidoti! 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #Wikimedia #Wikipedia #manifesto

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/...

Some relations -------------------- body-performers group-organizers tool-makers machine-operators system-users world-narrators universe-abstractors cosmos-believers

YouTube's API search function is "not adequate for robust academic research, especially concerning Digital Services Act requirements". Clear and problematic conclusions by @riederb.bsky.social Adrian Padilla & Oscar Coromina #commsky #DSA #dataacess #youtube arxiv.org/abs/2506.11727

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Today's inspiration

Here's a way to see and review Community Notes long before they are published on X, if ever. 89% of Community Notes proposed since the inception of the CN program have never seen daylight. notetracker.socialmediadata.org

Internet Histories Volume 9, issue 1-2 is now online. Please notice: This special double issue: Gender in Internet and Web History, has free access until the end of July. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/9... #webarchiving #digitalhumanities #internethistories #internethistory #webhistory

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🎉 Big update! The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more! Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k... 🧵

As someone who studies encyclopedic collections, I appreciate what is going on here: "In less than 300kb, this picture succinctly represents the largest fully open “list of books” ever assembled in the history of humanity (a few hundred GB compressed in full)." annas-archive.org/blog/all-isb...

"Something interesting happens to language […] when a tyrannical government takes over). All of a sudden, EVERYDAY LANGUAGE is pushed toward the METAPHORICAL LANGUAGE pole [and away from the CODIFIED pole]. No longer is it desirable to "say what you mean." Gozzi, R. (1999). The power of metaphor.

This is an article from CBC Kids News. Kids News… Let that sink in.

Years ago, I read a poem. And it punctured me then. And I remembered again just now; punctured once more. Solmaz Sharif's _Look_. www.poetryireland.ie/publications...

Internet Archive lo-fi beats to scan/read Microfiche to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPg2...

We’re hiring: Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI and Archival & Information Studies (Media Studies, @uvahumanities.bsky.social)! Join @tpoell.bsky.social, @riederb.bsky.social, myself, & other wonderful colleagues in the Critical Data & AI team. Applications due 28 May. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Well this is good timing. @wikiworkshop.bsky.social starts today and my paper that I presented in previous years has just been published this morning. doi.org/10.1177/1461.... We describe how hatnotes on policy pages are incredibly important techniques for ascribing different forms of authority.

📢✨ New OA book out now with Amsterdam University Press: Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values, edited by José van Dijck, @kfvanes.bsky.social, @silvertje.bsky.social, & @fvandervlist.bsky.social. Access: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Join us for our inaugural conference! Here's the call for papers: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/

Just a reminder about how we might think about the future of AI and education. We've been here with this question –exactly this question– before. www.yorku.ca/rowston/arti...

Wired Magazine 1994 Issue 12. Ad for Pantone Colordrive

Canada's newly minted Minister of AI is Evan Solomon, a journalist who co-founded _Shift_, which was the Canadian version of Wired magazine. Like it's model, the magazine was steeped in the Californian ideology, panic hype, and cyberculture. This is a copy of one of my most remembered spreads.

Kathleen Stewart's table of contents 🏁

ChatGPT is the earth-consuming version of "wrong answers only".

Quick (maybe) question for @mttpsq.bsky.social. In _The Eye of the Master_ it says that is not "a linear history of technology and automation. Rather, each chapter can be read as an independent ‘workshop’ for the study of algorithmic practices and machine intelligence." What does this mean?

"Invitation to give feedback to Wikimedia Research Fund 2024-2025 proposals" until May 12 lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/l... (13 proposals under review, with budgets ranging from $8,571 to $149,976 USD)

We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group. aoir.org/riskyresearc...

I had the pleasure of attending a fantastic symposium by our MA students on Friday about Vibes. And it got me thinking about the connections between vibes (or atmospheres) and our other focus on infrastructures and platforms. Just jotted down some preliminary ideas about it.

Nice work here! I really like seeing more of these kinds of histories that highlight the heterogeneous nature of platform users adapting a technical capacity for their own practices -- something I attempted myself: doi.org/10.1080/2470...

Made a small edit to @timothysnyder.bsky.social's _On Tyranny_.

I have amazing (and prolific) colleagues at UvA's New Media and Digital Culture program and I wanted to get a better sense of what they have been doing since 2024. So I collected all of their work in one handy spot. I will try to keep it up to date 2-3 times a year. textaural.com/uva_NMDC/

Super pleased with student's responses this week to our Histories of Digital Cultures - Doing History Playlist w/ featured work by @valeriesch.bsky.social @textfiles.com @loriemerson.net @adamegriff.bsky.social @ktmac.bsky.social @katecrawford.bsky.social and others. textaural.com/uva_HDC/play...

My grandfather was a nuclear engineer at Los Alamos in the late 40s. They would do nuclear tests in the desert, and watch them from a "safe" distance of a few miles. They would shield their eyes by burying their heads in the crooks of their arms. He said he could see his bones with his eyes shut.

one rule of internet discourse: every time cobol is back in the news, i am required to share this brilliant piece from @histoftech.bsky.social logicmag.io/care/built-t...

Finalizing our syllabus for "Histories of Digital Culture" (it includes discussing work of @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy @loriemerson.net @ktmac.bsky.social @katecrawford.bsky.social, @gabrielebalbi.bsky.social). I'm making a music playlist for the students, and would love some suggestions!

Does anyone know who owns the copyright of the portrait that is to be removed from the Colorado State Capitol? Is it public domain?

Just updated the Keywords for MCI Index with entries on the Internet, Business & Monetization, and Extractivism. textaural.com/keywords/

I happened upon Ubuweb in the late 90s, as I finished college. Sometimes, years went by when I forgot it was there, and then I'd remember + celebrate its existence. In this age of anti-intellectualism + censorship, of transactional relationships + extraction + joylessness, I say: 🙌 💫🌈 Ubu.

@clivethompson.bsky.social fyi