Lecturer in #NewMedia and #DigitalCulture at the #UniversityOfAmsterdam. Thinking about the political #design of #encyclopedias (#Wikipedia mostly); dreaming of #interface #imaginaries; researching a #MediaHistory of #consensus. he / him.
I'll continue to post more delights from #DIYMethods23 in the coming days. In the meantime you can read and download the digital proceedings for free here: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:60003/
We also have a plaintext/screen-reader friendly version of all the zines up here: http://lowcarbonmethods.com/DIYMethods2023.html
I'm going to try that new strategy for getting work done that I've been putting off, called "Sit down and do the work." It sounds crazy but I'm willing to give it a go.
I'm pleased to announce a student and researcher resource I've been working on. Keywords for Studying Media, Culture & Information: An Index. http://textaural.com/keywords/
It was largely inspired by
Ted Striphas' article "Algorithmic Culture" and Nicholas John's ICA talk about sharing.
Our paper is out in Big Data & Society! On Data Center Imaginary of Dutch Twitter https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517231155064
Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
The offset project by @tegabrain reminds me of something I would have seen in Kim Stanley Robinson's _Ministry for the Future_. https://offset.labr.io
“…the paper explores how practices of thermal comfort for particular, often privileged, bodies may be understood as sensory enablers of climate change denial.”
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02637758231153399
Stefanie Dugay posted her Media Research Methods syllabus online which seems super useful.
Original tweet here: https://twitter.com/DugStef/status/1615716076939001863
I am so pleased to see the work of my colleague Jakko Kemper publish on "frictionless technology." It's such a useful concept.
http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/175/151
Is there a good tool for grabbing (all?) versions of a URL from the Wayback Machine and then run an automated comparison?
Kudos to Internet Policy Review! They've designed their website https://policyreview.info with a **dyslexia reading mode.**
In September, I let them know they could improve the mode further by using Atkinson Hyperlegible, a font designed by the Braille Institute specifically for low vision readers.
I'm quite pleased that they just implemented my suggestion.
RT @srujka@twitter.com
Really excited to share that a story I co-wrote with @a_yung_@twitter.com & @moneerukonda@twitter.com is out, as part of @datasociety@twitter.com's anthology, “Parables of AI in/from the Majority World”: https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSParablesAnthology_Dec2022Ch12.pdf
It's about the lived experiences of platform-mediated delivery work in S. India...1/6
Giving at talk today about #InternetDaemons in discussing with Dr. Elinor Carmi, organized by Niels ten Oever at the Amsterdam Centre of European Studies. Been a while since I talked about the book so I am excited! Slides here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1f8xfgbioOoCAueJeohTcbBiM8s8L2V53OF5vSINm8gs/edit?usp=sharing
@Gekker Looks great! I'm playing around with the idea of a special topic on "Designing Digital Knowledge" for the UvA Media Research course. This looks like a perfect candidate for the reading list!
🚨 New OA🔓publication alert!🚨
This - AFAIC - is the first analysis of Google Maps' Covid layer (might also be the last, as the feature was shut down in September). I work through media studies and critical cartography to understand what it actually DID.
Thrilled to announce today's launch of the Open Book Collective! #OAbooks
Visit our site to see our members such as Open Book Publishers, the Directory of Open Acccess Books (DOAB), OAPEN, punctum books, mediastudies.press, meson press, Mattering Press, African Minds, and Thoth.
Librarians can see Open Access initiatives, presses & open infrastructure projects, that can be supported via annual memberships that will help these groups to thrive & also contribute to a fund to assist these groups in further developing & bettering their operations. #openinfrastructure
Supporting members of the OBC contribute to a more durable ecosystem for the long-term sustainability of OA publishers & open infrastructure developers so critical to #bibliodiversity.
Open Book Collective has been developed by the COPIM project and ScholarLed, generously funded by the Research England Development Fund and Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
