📆 MONDAY FEB 23 📆
I’ll be in conversation with Paul “DJ Spooky” Miller and my coauthor @jesse about our book “The Secret Life of Data."
Online and free, hosted by @isoclive.
Register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-aram-sinnreich-jesse-gilbert-with-paul-miller-dj-spooky-tickets-1982629167210
Here‘s my coeditors‘ and my introduction to the special issue: https://doi.org/10.5771/1615-634X-2026-1-3
All articles are #openaccess!
I published a paper from a first-person perspective about how features on #Mastodon leave enormous loopholes for harassing behavior (OA, 🔗 ⬇️ )
I came over here in the Nov22 wave & never left, but I no longer invite people to join without giving (loud) fair warning about drawbacks. I can't in good faith recommend Mdon to anyone who's more likely to be on the receiving end of harassing behavior
We have proof of concept, but the stakes are *urgent* to improve!
https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/6644
My review of @rwg's new book "Move Slowly and Build Bridges" is now published in Convergence
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13548565251409858
In my draft/notes, I had written "this book slaps and everyone should read it because what is thing I feel... hope? optimism? That's been a long time overdue"
What I actually ended up writing was: "A more just, equitable, and inclusive online world is not only possible, but it is already being created."
Aymar Jéan Escoffery's (@ajescoffery) new book, Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture, is now out! An incredibly important title that reimagines how movies, TV, and a broader array of media can be made and distributed in ways that include more people and move beyond the extractive models so common to contemporary streaming and social media. #OpenAccess
I highly recommend that university instructors (of any subject) consider trying it out in their classes:
I'd been hearing about Wiki Edu and the Wikipedia Assignment on various listservs for a while, and this past semester I ran it for the first time with my "Data and Society" class, and *wow* it is so incredible! We all trained to become Wikipedia editors and students contributed to a range of articles while thinking through content gaps, representational politics, research/citation practices, and the presumed "objectivity" of data.
Mariel GM
Aram Sinnreich
Dr. Tim Schatto-Eckrodt
Johannes Breuer
tools for commensality 🧿
Ben Pettis
Josh Braun