We have another #CosocialReads 📚 with #socialcoop kicking off this week:
📅 Wednesday Feb 4
➡️ RSVP: https://luma.com/hmfnou0k
We'll be chatting about two Lucy Suchman essays:
- Do categories have politics?
- Located accountabilities in technology production
After that we'll plan about reading the 2nd edition of her notable book: Human-machine reconfigurations.
Links and details here:
Our kickoff call for #CosocialReads with #socialcoop is about to start:
This time around we'll be reading Adam Greenfield's Lifehouse.
Even if you haven't started reading the book, stop by!
We've recently posted takeaways from previous #CosocialReads of Kissane and Kazemi's Governance on Fediverse and Schneider's Governable spaces.
In particular, we were excited by solidarity as an approach to manage governance between open social media instances and finding small ways to be more in community (and around other people) as we work toward self-governance.
You can read more here:
https://blog.cosocial.ca/blog/cosocial-reads-governable-spaces/ and https://blog.cosocial.ca/blog/cosocial-reads-governance-on-fediverse-microblogging-servers/
#CosocialReads is coming back this Fall. While that is a ways away, there is an open thread here to pick the book:
https://members.cosocial.ca/t/fall-2025-reading-group-selecting-a-book/647
Suggestions welcome (including fiction) of what you'd want to read with a group.
At the end of our last call we said we’d plan for another reading group kicking off in September. Borrowing from @tasha’s excellent questions for our Spring 2025 kick-off: What would make it worth your while to join? Reply here to let us know. That other people you know and like plan to participate? Let us know you’re interested. Would you like to co-host the series or one session? Is there a specific reading you want? Is there one you wouldn’t read? Are there other aspects influencing your ...
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