From Isolated to Connected

Extremist beliefs didn’t disappear—they found each other. Online spaces made it easier for fringe communities to grow, validate themselves, and spread their ideas.

The full episode looks at how platform design, incentives, and disinformation reshape public conversation.

Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/6n1fQqdu5Gw

#Fedi #DigitalEthics #Disinformation #MediaStudies #TechAccountability

Nouveau papier sur HAL ! https://hal.science/hal-05564515v1

"Réel ou symbolique. Le bruit des images techniques" dans Georges Didi-Huberman et Peter Geimer (dir.), Message ou bruit ? De la lisibilité des images, Paris, Éditions de la MSH / Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art (coll. Passages), à paraître 2026/2027.

Où il est question du bruit de Perlin, du bruit en photographie et de l'IA.

C'est le pre-print (sans les images pour l'instant).

#mediastudies #noise #cgihistory #diffusionmodels

Publikation! Ich habe ja schon einmal angedeutet, dass ich ein paar Überlegungen zur Stimme im Radio/des Radios angestellt habe, aus Anlass eines Literaturberichts zur Globalgeschichte des Radios. Jetzt OA aufgeschaltet in der aktuellen Ausgabe der @nplreview.bsky.social :

https://www.neue-politische-literatur.tu-darmstadt.de/article/5453/galley/5911/download/

@histodons
#radio #geschichte #globalgeschichte #mediastudies

Not All Voices Are Equal Online

The web promised more democratic conversation—but power, profit, and platform design still shape who gets heard.

In our episode with Alice E. Marwick, we explore how social movements push back, why bad actors thrive, and why meaningful discourse remains so difficult.

Watch the full discussion here:
https://youtu.be/6n1fQqdu5Gw

#Fediverse #DigitalEthics #Algorithms #MediaStudies

The Communication History exhibit at the National Museum of Scotland is fantastic. The material culture of telegraph, assistive tech and disability, undersea cables and telephone booths, Minitel terminals and the BBC micro.

https://www.nms.ac.uk/collections/departments/science-technology/technology

#minitel #history #museum #mediastudies #communication #retrocomputing

Updated the reading list for in-game photography. It now contains almost 50 items: https://sebastianmoering.com/basic-readings-on-in-game-photography . It's fascinating seeing this field grow!

#ingamephotography
#virtualphotography
#gamestudies
#spielwissenschaft
#mediastudies
#aesthetics

Artificial Intelligence and Film Studies: Midjourney versus CAMELS

https://leonfurze.com/2023/03/29/artificial-intelligence-and-film-studies-midjourney-versus-camels/

Where do we disconnect from our devices — and what role do physical spaces play in that?

Together with Nils S. Borchers, I have a new article out today in Media, Culture & Society: "Spaces of digital disconnection: A go-along study of dining areas, libraries, and movie theaters."

Using a go-along method, we examined how everyday spaces like dining areas, libraries, and movie theaters shape people's disconnection from digital media — sometimes by social norms, sometimes by institutional rules, sometimes simply by the atmosphere of a place.

Our findings suggest that digital disconnection is not just an individual practice, but is deeply embedded in the spatial and social contexts we move through.

🔗 doi.org/10.1177/01634437261428614

#DigitalDisconnection #MediaStudies #DigitalCulture #NewPublication