Aram SinnreichWe lost another titan of Communication scholarship today. Rest in Power #MonroePrice. My deepest sympathies to his friends, family, and many many mentees. #Commodon
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/new-york-ny/monroe-price-12783907
Dr. Tim Schatto-EckrodtHere‘s my coeditors‘ and my introduction to the special issue: https://doi.org/10.5771/1615-634X-2026-1-3
All articles are #openaccess!
Johannes BreuerReally interesting new paper from some of my former @GESIS colleagues in "Big Data & Society": "From (almost) open to heavily restricted data access – The development of the Twitter/X developer policies"
https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517261419333
#computationalsocialscience #commodon @communicationscholars
https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517261419333
#computationalsocialscience #commodon @communicationscholars
tools for commensality 🧿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
Ben PettisMy 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."
Josh BraunAymar 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.
New paper by @drfollowmario, Philipp Knöpfle, and me in the journal Media Psychology: "Contextual Changes, Credible Conclusions? A Direct and Conceptual Replication of Shen et al.'s (2019) Study on Online Image Credibility"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15213269.2025.2595452
#commodon #replication #reproducibility @communicationscholars
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15213269.2025.2595452
#commodon #replication #reproducibility @communicationscholars
Estelle Platini"Individuals trying to support themselves via subscriptions are as dependent on the whims of the marketplace as those working for large corporations, and it’s not just the lack of health care and 401ks that make the career of a patron-supported creator precarious — it’s the rawness and immediacy of the relationship."
by Ana Marie Cox: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patron-supported-journalism-cant-be-the-future-of-news
#journalism #platforms #newsletter #newsletters #inadequacy #Substack #Patreon #media #CommOdon #creating #creation #writing #patrons #investigations
