"What if we could start over and build the Internet from scratch? How could it be rebuilt or reimagined as more equitable and just? ... Paris critically examines the myriad and contradictory promises, utility, and obstacles to building a completely new Internet.

Radical Infrastructure locates and analyzes the boundaries of how people and groups imagine, build, deploy, maintain, and use the Internet as they survive—and even dare to thrive—in challenging political, economic, and environmental contexts. Ultimately, Paris encourages active reflection among scholars, policymakers, and activists and reveals more grounded imaginaries, tactics, and opportunities for future people-centered projects"

https://www.ucpress.edu/books/radical-infrastructure/paper

#OpenAccess #InternetStudies #Bookstodon #Commodon #InfrastructureStudies #RadicalInfrastructure #STS

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨
Along with Arthur Soto-Vasquez and Kim Fox, I just coedited a special issue of the Journal of Radio & Audio Media, focused on the role of podcasting in elections. Check it out!

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19376529.2026.2631011

#commodon #mediastudies #academia

#CallForPapers: Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Methoden der DGPuK 2026

Vom 30. September bis 2. Oktober 2026 am GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften in Köln zum Thema:

Measuring Media Use and Effects: Computational Opportunities and Challenges

- Submission details: Extended Abstracts (800–1.200 Wörter) auf deutsch oder englisch
- Einreichung ab dem 1. April 2026, Deadline bis zum 15. Mai 2026

https://www.gesis.org/forschung/projekte-und-austausch/tagungen-und-konferenzen/gesis-tagungen/dgpuk-methodentagung

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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."

#academicChatter #commodon #mastodon #fediverse

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

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553261/reparative-media/

#commodon #mediaStudies @communicationscholars

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.

#academia #commodon #academicChatter