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Chanders

@Chanders@sciences.social

Professor of Sociology. Interests include publics, assemblages, middlebrow culture, where Europe & the new world meet. Mann, Bolano, Charlie Parker, Virginia Woolf.

Associate Editor of the International Journal of Press/Politics and Sociologica.

(he/him).

I’m from New York, live in Bologna, Italy, and work in Milan. There’s a lot of stuff I miss about the USA and a lot I don’t. I miss cornmeal and Mexican food primarily.

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@KatyPearce @aram @fheinderyckx @ICAHDQ @communicationscholars @Noshir @claesdevreese @ICA_CAT @PolComm

It seems like AOIR must have had a lot of these conversations already, is this correct Aram? Is there a way to do some knowledge transfer w/ ICA at some point?

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“By comparison, every time I open up Bluesky what I immediately see is a bunch of jokes from my favorite twitter personalities. They’re having fun over there. The people who made Twitter good are all congregating on Bluesky. They’re relaxing and misbehaving. It’s awesome.” -@davekarpf

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/bluesky-is-just-twitter-without-the

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@davekarpf BlueSky is an interesting test of the question of how much of Twitter’s appeal was basically reality TV-esque.

I’d argue that the secret of academic twitter was that it allowed people do vicariously rubberneck the celebs and the political pileups while they pretended to work.

But it’s unclear if BlueSky will do the second thing. Are all our old friends there? Are people nerding out about dumb shit?

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New reading material has arrived in the post …

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@Theblueone that looks great.

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Just RTd a bunch of it, but the protocol analysis by @sam is really worth a read.

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I would add to the analysis by @sam- "I think the fundamental reason why we keep seeing more and more bullshit protocols and projects pop up like this is one fundamental mindset: a refusal to attribute the problems of the modern internet solely to capitalism"- is that a lot of the conversation about "user friendliness" lacks an analysis of the way slick design is used to mask fundamentally regressive infrastructure choices.

https://urbanists.social/@sam/110340918554679060

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@stuartelden @geography there’s been a series of depressing “OA in practice” analysis pieces today. As someone without an axe to grind when it comes to OA (I support it but it isn’t a key part of my scholarly identity) I find it all incredibly depressing.

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Man I didn't get the crypto spam everyone else is talking about, now I feel like a loser.

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@spandauAnders give me your blockchains.

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Nice to spend my birthday trying to get university finance to pay for image bank images already funded with a grant before the deadline for the whole project explodes.

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@misc thank you!

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Because academic twitter has moved on here now:

What do you do if in final copyedits of an article, you find a book chapter that explores a similar concept your article is exploring? Add a sentence? Add a footnote? Scream into the void and pull all of your hair out one-by-one? Contact the author directly? I've been working on this for 5 damn years ugh.

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@RobynCaplan @patyrossini <New Jersey voice> man fuck that shit

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@RobynCaplan also, this isn't an answer to your question, but I was just commiserating with @patyrossini about how academic Mastodon has died 😢

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@natematias @RobynCaplan @patyrossini +1000 as well

On the other point, I was def being a bit melodramatic. But I do think it’s a relevant point (for the pol comm community at least) that if Patricia had asked her lit review questions 6 months ago she’d have been swamped w responses, and this time, crickets.

Also my instance is pretty much a ghost town these days, which wasn’t the case even 2-3 mos ago.

But all that said, I was exaggerating a bit 😉

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I’m leery of the idea of piling on on this platform, so let me just say that this is in regard to the vs post that a lot of you are taking about today. Here’s what I think.

The problem with this critique in particular, and the idea of BlueSky in general, is that it is evidence that even the most thoughtful (and radical) thinkers, developers and workers in digital tech have internalized the ideology of SV digital capitalism over the past two decades.

What I mean is this:

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What dominates everything is the idea that the “user” is king and that “user experience” is paramount. Whether taken from a position of realism (“you just can’t compete with a slick interface”) or compliment, the user (or “audience”) is treated as the ultimate judge by which any software or technology rises and falls.

This logic is inseparable from capitalist logic. Under it, capital will always win, because capital always gives the most pleasure.

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For what it is worth, this is an old old old debate in media and cultural studies, and understanding it is something that folks with a background in cultural studies and technology can contribute to this debate.

To put my cards out on the table, I’m far more on than I was 20 years ago. 🤷🏻‍♂️

But whatever else you take away from this, a technology that truly wants to change the world cannot make “user experience” or even “mass adoption” the metric by which success is judged. /end.

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@misc god I’m so out of practice with this, I haven’t posted a thread like this since I left Twitter 😂

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BlueSky might be the best thing to happen to the Fediverse since Elon Musk.

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@misc it’s hard to muster the energy for the work of getting getter, I think, when the activity is low; it’s a paradox in that way.

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@misc because it’s a legit challenge and it is forcing people to get their shit together you mean?

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@misc yes agree w this. I’m up for making an instance switch insofar as mine has gone real real quiet but the sunk costs are fairly steep at this point.

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@pamelaoliver @cody_sharpe @sociology @communicationscholars in any content analysis I’ve done, I’ve always cited the article in the standard way; at least insofar as I remember. I’d agree it’s not best practice.

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The Times is going out of its way to say that blowing up is just fine and Musk is just dandy....
Live Updates: SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Explodes After Launch https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/04/20/science/spacex-launch-starship-rocket?smid=tw-share

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@jeffjarvis It's a weird press release form of coverage.

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