For the offline component of the 4th edition of our teaching partnership, the Digital Constitutionalism Network is in Padova this week with brilliant students from University of Padova, Dublin City University and University of Bremen
The intensive week of lectures and group work in Padova builds upon the virtual component before the summer. To learn more about the Blended Intensive Programme coordinated by the Digital Constitutionalism Network, check out the blog post on the virtual part.
The BIP is organised by Claudia Padovani, Andrea Pettrachin, Edoardo Celeste and Dennis Redeker with contributions by various members of the Digital Constitutionalism Network, including Mauro Santaniello and Marianne Franklin
A new article examining COVID-19 testing situations - moments in which it is no longer possible to go on in the usual way - on Twitter published in Social Media + Society, co-authored by @NoortjeMarres@gabrielecolombo@lbngr@jwyg Carolin Gerlitz & James Tripp.
I am a PhD candidate in #Communication at Pittsburgh. I study reactionary digital platforms. I'm finishing up my dissertation, The Reactionary Web, about how racist principles of platform governance keep the far-right online.
I'm passionate about debate, #transrights, and multimedia syllabi. I also have the best cat of all time -- pics soon!
I've created an aoir.social account, so here's an #introduction post for this corner of the fediverse!
I'm a PhD candidate in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I'm studying how individual people relate to corporations, governments, etc. through various types & layers of technology.
My dissertation is about how individual people are constructed as "Users" on the internet.
"anarchist print culture thrived through a dynamic combination of media technology, epistolary relations, and radical scholarship”
"Letterpress Revolution is a contribution to the history of anarchism, but perhaps.. even more productively read as an intervention in current discussions around political movements and the politics of technology"
✨ New paper in Information, Communication & Society: Multi-site domestication: taming technologies across multiple institutional settings ✨
The article proposes the concept of multi-site domestication to capture how technologies can require different "taming" processes when used across institutional settings with different and at times opposing norms, rules, values, and logics.
"Rather than try to fit robots into the existing categories (...,) Gunkel argues for a revolutionary reformulation of the entire system, developing a new moral and legal ontology for the twenty-first century and beyond."
We adopt a relational approach to explain how & why such a complex landscape of internet freedom rankings has emerged and identify how the ranking organisations’ varying approaches to capturing internet freedom have played a role in defining and legitimating it as a global issue.
Since both the uses of the internet and discussions about what freedom means in relation to it have developed so rapidly, ranking organisations have had to continually respond to these developments, negotiating their authority in relation to other actors in their field.
As we approach the annual media event that surrounds the launch of FoTN, our article can serve as a useful primer for what internet freedom rankings can - and cannot - tell us.
I'm very happy to share the news that the book, "A History of Digital Journalism" and authored by myself, Eugenia Mitchelstein, and Danielle Brown, is now under contract with Polity Press! Beyond the actual work on the substance of the book, I am really excited to work with these brilliant scholars. 1/x
Open-Rank TT Position in Media Ethics & Law | UMass Amherst Journalism Department
Posting is flexible regarding approach to the subject matter. Please spread widely within your networks. Feel free to direct questions to me, as I'm chairing the search. I'm happy to call UMass home. I ❤️ my colleagues and students. A lovely, exciting place to work.
Sure, let's make more announcements at 8:30pm on a Tuesday night, why not.
Hey, people! I'm on the editorial board of #Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, and we are seeking submissions. Please think about putting something in if you are an academic, artist, or ghastly hybrid working on #sound#SoundStudies#SoundArt
With the danger that "AI could choke on its own exhaust as it fills the web" (per an article someone just shared), it feels like we are back to Adrian Johns' argument that, no, it wasn't the printing press (i.e. technology/distribution infra) that allowed knowledge to flourish but rather an elaborate sociotechnical system of trust and authority...
My article on the high level of education of youtubers. If you know of a fact-based youtuber, please let me know. I am trying to identify as many as I can
How do people decide whether to participate in Enterprise Social Media like Slack?
In our new paper (with Jeff Treem, Bart van den Hoofff, Marjolijn Honcoop), we use interviews and ABMs to show that the multifunctional nature of ESMs can help to explain when they succeed.
Out now! A new special issue in #Communication#Theory, edited by @markeis and @mss7676
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The special issue revisits #public sphere theory, asking about how to conceptualize public sphere(s) in the #digital age. It contains several great contributions by excellent scholars who analyze the role and future of public sphere theory. Find it here: https://academic.oup.com/ct/issue/33/2-3
The Russian Independent Media Archive covers the period since 2000 and is still being expanded, while further functionalities will be added. I'm very pleased to also see human rights organisations OVD-info and Roskomsvoboda included in the archive.
The developers are open to feedback on how to enhance the functionality of RIMA for research purposes - check it out and let them know what you think.