✨📗 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...

💿 Now spinning: Quebec microtonal mathrock band _Angine de Poitrine_ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

@mkjones.bsky.social Got a fourfold for you coming out of science and technology studies. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Trump admin's "choice of Instrument Serif came as a shock to its designers, Rodrigo Fuenzalida + Jordan Egstad.... 'I was disappointed to see the Trump administration adopt it,' Egstad writes. 'Using a freely available + open-source font to promote exclusionary policies is deeply ironic.'"

Sometimes reading academic papers catches you off guard. When the corresponding author is not the same as the article's author, you can expect an acknowledgment section like this one. RIP Susan Leigh Star.

Now spinning: Tonite by LCD Soundsystem. I do feel like James Murphy was reading Adorno when he wrote this song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqq3...

I've just published a new userscript that remembers the path of your cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, averaging and wearing them into the page, showing your browsing history over time Install at greasyfork.org/en/scripts/5... or read more about it everest-pipkin.com#projects/des...

Oh my! First Monday is ceasing as a journal after 30 years. 😥 I always wanted to publish there. So much important work was done there. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

I'm doing some manual data entry for a citation analysis and Google just blocked me. I'm as fast as an automated system 😄

Huh. Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting-turned 2020s meme was used in 1997 for Wired Magazine's editorial on "The Digital Citizen". m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1a...

New @ursulakleguin.com print from @skeuomorphpress.org arrived

Read @laurenfklein.bsky.social's arxiv.org/abs/2502.19190 which presents 8 claims for humanities AI research. They suggest "2) GenAI requires an expanded definition of culture." This is 👍 & connects to work (mine 😉) on culture and technique: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 CFP: In Defense of the Commons 🚨 Communication+1 Deadline: January 15, 2025 openpublishing.library.umass.edu/cpo/news/24/ Looking for papers to diagnose problems & explore the strategies of resistance, repair, and rehabilitation necessary to sustain vital public digital (and analog) resources.

Some fun with Internet periodization. 1980s: Communalization of the Internet (Rheingold, 1993) 1990s: Webification of the Internet (Lévy, 2001) 2000s: Googlization of the Internet (Siva 2012) 2010s: Platformization of the Internet (Helmond 2015) 2020s: Synthesization of the Internet (Berry, 2025)

🚨Calling all new media scholars🚨 If (and I emphasize if) a 2nd edition of the New Media Reader happened to be in the works, what additions would you like to see? What do you think could be excised? @docmofo.bsky.social @n-w-f.bsky.social @psssssssss.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026223227...