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If you want to chat with a faithful recreation of the first chatbot, try this one, created by Team ELIZA superstar Anthony Hay!

https://sites.google.com/view/elizaarchaeology/try-eliza

#artificialintelligence #softwarestudies #critcode

In the winter term 2024/25 I am teaching at the universities in Halle and Bonn:

http://www.simulationsraum.de/blog/2024/07/30/lehre-im-wintersemester-3/

#ComputerArchaeology #CriticalCodeStudies #SoftwareStudies #GDR #ComputerHistory #GameLabs

How do #programmers + #codes shape a shared understanding of what is acceptable & necessary to un/know to #maintain #software in relation to the politics of organizational work?

Read by
@xmacex
& Marisa Leavitt Cohn: https://doi.org/mz3z

#SoftwareStudies #Epistemology

Photograph shows two programmers facing each other, sitting in front of their computer in a work space. Image by Rivage under a Free Unsplash License: https://bit.ly/3Ks304N.

I'm at Mark Coté's presentation "Taking Technical Objects Seriously," at the U of Toronto, where he's sharing work with Jen Pybus on Software Development Kits. You can see some this deep dive in this article:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20539517241231270

This is such cool #softwareStudies work!

#Piracy on the #C64:

https://dfarq.homeip.net/piracy-on-the-commodore-64-a-problem-with-happy-accidents/

#RetroComputing #SoftwareStudies

still searching for the right term for something I emphasize a lot in a thesis chapter: how radio automation software still uses the tape cartridge as a {structural metaphor? virtual component? skeuomorph? process metaphor?} in its architecture. skeuomorph seems almost right but rings too ornamental/visual, when the organization of digital audio into "carts" has structural implications. any ideas? #softwarestudies #sts

Very cool! John Cayley will be co-hosting our discussion of the Critical Code Studies DHQ special issue in the 2024 CCSWG! Sign up for our online February discussions!

https://bit.ly/ccswg24

#critcode #softwarestudies #eliterature #digitalpoetry

New article on GitHub and the platformisation of software development by @lbngr in Convergence: https://publicdatalab.org/2023/12/08/github-platformisation/

The article is accompanied by a set of free tools codeveloped with @dmi for researching Github.

#platformstudies #platformisation #newmedia #mediastudies #softwarestudies #digitalmethods #commodon #socialmedia #github #opensource

✨ jobs ✨ - we are looking to hire for five new roles in our department - please help us share with those who might be interested! 💌

Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073449-lecturer-in-digital-media-and-culture-education-aep

Lecturer in Social and Cultural AI
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073450-lecturer-in-social-and-cultural-ai-aep

Lecturer in Lecturer in Digital Media
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073465-lecturer-in-lecturer-in-digital-media-education-and-research

Lecturer in Cultural Computation Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073467-lecturer-in-cultural-computation-education-aep

Lecturer in Digital Economy and Innovation Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073468-lecturer-in-digital-economy-and-innovation-education-aep

#digitalmedia #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ai #softwarestudies #culturalstudies #algorithmstudies #newmedia #platformstudies #internetstudies #commodon #sts #mediastudies #jobs

taking the fedi lit request machine for another spin. this time... anyone know something good on ~macros~? #softwarestudies

Summer Reading! 3 incredible recent books in G. Con Diaz & my interdisciplinary Computing & Culture book series with J. Hopkins U Press

Michael Black's Transparent Designs; Janet Abbate &
@mysdick
eds. Abstractions & Embodiments & just out
@andrewlea 's Digitizing Diagnosis

Thx to them, Matt McAdam & our stellar Series Ed. Bd.: Hector Beltran; @ruha9 @gleemie Meg Leta Jones, Ya-Wen Lei, @edenmedina & Mai Sugimoto.

#ai #hci #aibias #softwarestudies #sts @histodons @Mastodon @sociology

Sitting upright on a black table on a balcony with greenery in the background are three books Michael Black's Transparent Designs a black cover with green lettering and design, an artwork-based cover of Janet and Abbate and Stepanie Dick's eds. Abstractions and Embodiments and continuing left to right is Andrew Lea's Digitizing Diagnosis which a purple design of medical imaging.

This is brilliant Saturday morning reading. On "software as a site of societal and technical power".

Software Studies, Revisited. A Roundtable on the Software Studies Series at MIT Press, with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Winnie Soon, and Jichen Zhu.

http://computationalculture.net/software-studies-revisited/

#software #softwarestudies #power #criticalanalysis #critique

Code/Space by @robkitchin

“An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths.”

https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5039/Code-SpaceSoftware-and-Everyday-Life

#softwarestudies
#openaccess

📦❓✨
"data not found", “a dataset of datasets that were sought but not found on data portals around the world”: https://datanotfound.jwyg.org

created as part of research for “What do data portals do? Tracing the politics of online devices for making data public”: https://jonathangray.org/2023/03/30/data-portals

#datastudies #opendata #datainfrastructures #sts #infrastructurestudies #newmediastudies #commondon #softwarestudies #interfacestudies @sts @publicdatalab

screenshot of "data not found", "a dataset of datasets that were sought but not found on data portals around the world" from https://datanotfound.jwyg.org/

On to the second day of the #STShubDe, starting for me with a session on #enviromental #STS, continuing later with a session on #Critical #Data & #SoftwareStudies, giving a paper based on a theoretical sociological analysis of concepts of ontology, illustrated by my data on #datapractices in #EnvironmentalManagement. Before the subsequent keynote by #SusannWagenknecht on leakage, and the Open Forum #WeDoSTS.

Looking forward to visiting Berlin for a fellowship and workshop on "Environmental Data, Media, and the Humanities" in May - focusing on repurposing forest media: https://jonathangray.org/2023/02/22/berlin-fellowship

@maximilian @lbngr
@dh_potsdam

#berlin #sts #datastudies #mediaart #digitalmethods #ecologies #feministsts #infrastructurestudies #internetstudies #newmedia #digitalculture #commodon #platformstudies #softwarestudies
#algorithmstudies #art #climatechange #commons #compost #criticaldatastudies #criticaltechnicalpractice #datapractices #datastudies #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ecology #forests #formats #freesoftware #newmediaart #newmediastudies #soundscapes #environmentalhumanities

Discussion #softwarestudies, text by Taiwanese writer 李佳霖

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與其將軟體研究視為現有學院結構下的獨立的學門，或許更適合說它是在不同領域發起對於軟體的關注。不過根據曼諾維奇的觀察，有在自己的著作中討論軟體的寫作者，大部分都具有程式相關的教學或研究經驗。正因開拓新的研究領域，需要新的研究方法，而這一點就是傳統的媒體理論家比較難以做到的。
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https://mag.clab.org.tw/clabo-article/introduction-of-software-studies/

Have been feeling inspired after doing some work assembling communities that I'm really interested in - thought I'd do a tag dump for some of the areas that I'm looking into, as well as have already found super interesting, have been following and am boosting... (not in alphabetical order and probably too broad but for my own future reference also!)

#Tag heap:

#Abolition #ACAB #ADHD #Affect #AffectStudies #AntiImperialism #AntiColonialism #AntiRacism #Archiving #Archives #Art #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #Boardgames #ClimateChange #Coffee #Commons #CriticalTheory #CinemaStudies #Communities #CulturalStudies #Decolonisation #Design #Disabled #DigitalCommons #DigitalCulture #DigitalCultures #DigitalHumanities #DigitalTechnologies #DigiModernism #Diversity #EDI #EnglishLiterature #Feminism #Feministsts #FilmStudies #FreeSoftware #Games #Gaming #Geopolitics #Geography #Hauntology #HCI #HumanComputerInteraction
#HigherEd #HigherEducation #History #Histodians #Incarceration #Inclusion #InfrastructureStudies #InternetStudies #London #LowTech #Media #MediaStudies #Museum #Museums #Musicals #OpenPedagogy #ParticipatoryDesign #Pedagogy #PoliceAbolition #Philosophy #Photography #Praxis #Prisons #PrisonAbolition #Preservation #Progressive #Politics #Postmodernism #PublicEducation
#Running #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies #SocialInclusion #SocialMobility #SocialTheory #Socialism #SocialJustice #Sociology #Sociodon #Sociodons #Solidarity #SoftwareStudies #SoundScapes #Skeuomorphism #SpeculativeFiction #STS #Technology #Trans #UK #VanLife #VideoGames #University #Zines

Also I suppose really this is a second #Introduction after the #TwitterMigration as I'm still relatively #NewHere so... Hi again! Feel free to follow or boost if this sounds like your areas of interest also

Drawing by Allie Broth of Hyperbole and a Half of a stick figure with a rainbow and happy sun behind, and text reading "maybe everything isn't hopeless bullshit"

an #introduction ... 📝

my work explores the role of digital data, methods and infrastructures in the composition of collective life.

i'm currently focusing on...
- 📘 a book on public data practices
- 🌳 arts-based digital methods for exploring environmental issues
- 🐌 a special issue on critical technical practices in digital research
- 🗃 documenting online mobilisations of east and southeast asian communities in the uk

i'm senior lecturer in critical infrastructure studies at the department of digital humanities, king's college london; cofounder of publicdatalab.org; and research associate at digitalmethods.net + medialab.sciencespo.fr.

more at: http://jonathangray.org/

tag heap: #algorithmstudies #antiracism #aoir #archiving #art #climatechange #commons #compost #criticaldatastudies #criticaltechnicalpractice #criticaltheory #datapractices #datastudies #decolonisation #digitalcommons #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ecology #feminism #feministsts #forests #formats #freesoftware #infrastructurestudies #internetstudies #issuemapping #london #lowtech #newmediaart #newmediastudies #participatorydesign #philosophy #platformstudies #scienceandtechnologystudies #socialtheory #softwarestudies #soundscapes #speculativefiction #sts #zines