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Julie Meredith Nov 25, 2022

Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco Nov 23, 2022

Black folks hear this all the time in the physical & virtual world. “Maybe, you’re not the right fit.” Decentralization isn’t the panacea for our social media woes if places like #Mastodon can’t incorporate #diversity & #inclusion. It’ll be just another white~dominated space where the far right, white supremos, & other agents of intolerance rule the roost while the good white folks put their heads in the sand and pretend like they’re not the problem.. #BlackTwitter #Inequality #BlackMastodon

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Julie Meredith Nov 20, 2022

Also cat tax for having to throw an insult. Though I do love that insult.

Julie Meredith Nov 20, 2022

To the zakkenwasser who I just blocked: Did I ask you?

Julie Meredith Nov 20, 2022

Julie Meredith Nov 19, 2022

Jeremy J. Littau Nov 18, 2022

This piece on Wired about Black Twitter is worth your time. It's something I've been thinking about a lot, about how uneven a migration to a new space ends up being.

It also is one thing I'm eyeing about Mastodon. There's a danger that servers become silos if we aren't intentional. If you listen to some of the Black scholars in my field, they are saying as much. Twitter makes their work visible across groups.

So how do we federate for inclusion? It will be a challenge.

https://www.wired.com/story/black-twitter-elon-musk/

There Is No Replacement for Black Twitter

A series of missteps by Elon Musk has called the fate of the platform’s cultural engine into question.

WIRED

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Julie Meredith Nov 19, 2022

I am working with them now on the next iteration, incorporating another year of data and adding more information about what sites did. There are lessons about the importance of taking time to understand and build trust in communities.

(Now I remember why I rarely post about work. It takes a lot of words.)

Julie Meredith Nov 19, 2022

(I feel like I should post about my work more)

Presented some “what happened during the COVID years” work today at #APPAM The study looked at literacy growth for kids in Save the Children’s rural literacy programming from fall 2019 through spring 2021. It was a fun project because the Save the Children team are fantastic and curious and motivated. Also fun because their participants made upward progress—far better than what we’ve seen elsewhere during that timeframe.

Julie Meredith Nov 19, 2022