A gift at the end of a very long day. Here it is, in all its glory: the open access version of my book on network cultures is now available thanks to MIT Press.

👉 https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12547.001.0001

#oa #media #history #network #AOIR2024 #EASST4S #EASST4S2024

It was interesting to hang out at @easst last week and learn from folks in the #STS space. The kids loved the vouchers too (their own money).

I presented some results from our work on people interacting with LLMs. Besides Welby and Suchman, which I shared before, the interactions made me think of Garfinkel's Studies in Ethnomethodology, and especially his random-yes-no-answers experiment

We're uncannily good at finding sense in nonsense, and instruction-tuning boosts it

#easst4s2024 #EASST4S

New protest on the #Amsterdam campus, entries blocked, so I'm again referring to our editorial. #easst4s #easst4s2024
https://social.tchncs.de/@stefanlaser/112790762979245984
Stefan Laser🗜️ (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Check the new EASST Review published just in time for the big #sts conference. Our editorial is quite a political one. https://easst.net/easst-review/43-1/ Indeed, it’s time for #easst4s2024! On my way to the registration in Amsterdam, filled with memories of an Utrecht book/zine store. #easst4s

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Of related interest for all the data, media, infrastructures, publics, and history people at #EASST4S2024: Please consider contributing to next year's THE DATAFIED WEB at Siegen University. Our call for contributions is open until October 15: https://easychair.org/cfp/RESAW2025. Boosts are highly welcome.

#easst4s #resaw25 #mediaofcoop #c2dh #mediastudies #webarchive

CFP

Going to attempt live tooting of the big hitter round table in 'Politicizing' at #easst4s

First time live tooting. Hold tight!

Hey #easst4s2024 @easst crowd. I fear yesterday was unexpectedly my last day at the conference, due to testing positive for COVID this morning.

If you’re feeling not 100%, you might also want to get a couple of tests, which luckily are quite cheaply available in pharmacies in the Netherlands.

#easst4s #easst4s24

can't go wrong with Suchman

"As soon as computational artifacts demonstrate some evidence of recognizably human abilities, we are inclined to endow them with the rest."
(in Human-Machine Reconfigurations, 2007)

#easst4s #easst4s24 #easst4s2024

Tomorrow, 11:00, HG 05A24!

(also one of our coauthors on Beyond Single-Mindedness https://markdingemanse.net/beyond/ )

Beyond Single-Mindedness – A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences

I went to #easst4s, and all I got was some cool #WeDoSTS stickers! Thanks @jume

#easst4s2024 #easst4s24

Protip for @easst organisers and #easst4s2024 folks: with a conference that happens only once every four years and that has a low-traffic acronym like #EASST4S, there is no need to have year-specific hashtags. Predictable confusion & fractured convos could be prevented by keeping to a single, clear, maximally short hashtag like #easst4s — variants like #easst4s24 and #easst4s2024 just add extra ballast

I know it's day 4 so maybe this comes in handy in 2028 🤣

3yr Research Fellow post in the Social Studies of AI – join the Exeter team to study, and shape, the development of Causal AI as part of the EPSRC funded AI Hub “Causality in Healthcare AI” https://jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecruitment/wrd/run/etrec179gf.open?WVID=171839ediw&LANG=USA&VACANCY_ID=147606kJSa Fancy a f2f chat, I am at #4SEASST #EASST4S