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Chanders, 7 months ago

@josh @inquiline watcha working on?!?

Chanders, 8 months ago to random

“It must be very complicated being George Lucas. On the one hand, you get to wake up inside a vast Scrooge McDuck money vault every morning. On the other, you have to live with the absolute mess Disney has made of your life’s work.”

https://amp.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/sep/07/oh-dear-george-lucas-why-the-star-wars-universe-is-going-from-bad-to-worse

Chanders, 8 months ago

@julieofthespirits oh it’s 100% comeuppance no doubt. Also I just love a deeply nasty review.

Chanders, 8 months ago to journalism

Some professional news:

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

#journalism #commodon

Chanders, 8 months ago

From our proposal:

"We argue that, after more than forty years of digital developments in the news industry, it is past time to start thinking of the “future of news” as something with a past as well as a future. Understanding these developments in a historical sense allows for an examination of what happened to the news business globally and what developments really mattered and which ones that seemed important at the time turned out to have been nothing more than marketing hype." 2/3

Chanders, 8 months ago

"Academics and communications scholars of a certain age may feel they know this history intuitively, but they sometimes lack a clear and compelling overview of the topic. Students today, meanwhile, have lived through multiple generations of digital change. To many of them, the founding of ProPublica or the invention of Twitter is ancient history and needs to be treated just like any historical development." 3/3.

Stay tuned for updates as we work on this project!

Chanders, 8 months ago

(given the death of academic twitter and my lack of presence on #bluesky I am kind of enjoying the idea that the news of this project will percolate through the intellectual community, by rumor and word of mouth) ...

Chanders, 8 months ago

@dankennedy_nu Many thanks Dan. This will be a largely synthetic work, rather than based on new empirical research, so your books will be key to telling the story.

Chanders, 9 months ago to random

Man Sinéad O’Connor really nailed it on the Catholic Church huh? Two decades ahead of her time.

Chanders, 9 months ago

@dankennedy_nu good point and fair enough. Tbh I remember a lot from those days as a (non-Catholic kid in S Jersey) and the discourse was just really bizarre. Teenagers made “jokes” if you can call it that about the church - or at the very least it was well known. And somehow never really talked about. Hard to explain.

misc, 9 months ago to random

People who fade out here, you think it's usually cause they get bored? If so, is that just an inevitable side effect of asking people to "be the algorithm"?

Chanders, 9 months ago

@misc @design_law since at least 2016, Twitter was an endless shitpile of political fights, the main character of the day repeated every day, ambient friend content and the excuse that you could be on there “for work.” It is deliberately and algorithmically designed to be very addictive.

I find I’m on here in waves. Sometimes a lot and sometimes I don’t think about it for a week at a time. In that way it’s like everything else in my life that’s not family or work.

mariyadelano, 10 months ago to threads

Alright. I will admit - I don't like a lot of the vibe on #Threads, don't like how they are promoting celebrities, or how clout and status centric it has been from literally the first hours at launch... BUT

Because I'm a #marketing and #comms professional, I do think I'll be staying there as long as others do. I'm already finding other marketing & #SEO people who I haven't been in touch with since Twitter in Nov. + lovely to reconnect with the #Notion community.

The Fedi is my true love though

Chanders, 10 months ago

@mariyadelano a lot of people are gonna go that way I think.

Theblueone, 10 months ago to random

Look, this is my doomer side speaking, but kinda getting the feeling that Mastodon and Bluesky were Rosencrantz and Gildenstern; Threads is Fortinbras and he just walked onstage, stepping over the slowly cooling body of Elon Musk.

Chanders, 10 months ago

@Theblueone I guess at the very least this is an experiment; and on some level a replication experiment of what went down with the idea of “the web” 20 years ago. We are gonna learn a lot about why things work the way they do any a year from now.

jeffjarvis, 10 months ago to random

Yes, I'm trying out Threads. But I still love you. Mastodon.

Chanders, 10 months ago

@jeffjarvis I’m really hoping that they federate. I’d love to have access to all the future of media influencers and news brands that will end up there from within the much more pleasant environment here.

Chanders, 10 months ago to threads

Some #Threads #Fedi #fediverse questions that are probably obvious to everyone but not me.

1. If, at some point, threads adds ActivityPub integration, I will be able to follow Thread accounts just like I do Mastodon accounts?

2. There is a lot of fear about Threads, in part because it could end up sucking up all the Fediverse data?

1/2

Chanders, 10 months ago

(Con)

3. I’d have the same discovery problems finding new Threads accounts that I’d like to follow as I do on normal Mastodon?

I’m just wondering if I can start to rebuild some of my Twitter network, assuming they go to threads, from the safety of this lovely Ivory app. 🙂

2/2

Theblueone, 10 months ago to random

My tolerance for anyone just being a snarky dick on social has dropped to about zero. If I engage with you on the level and you just respond with "LOL" and some snarky idiot comment, I just delete my shit, block, and move the fuck on. I no longer have time for any human for whom being an asshole online is their chosen personality.

Times have changed. This ain't the bird app anymore.

Chanders, 10 months ago

@Theblueone and long term, this is the single best thing the migration to all these alternatives and the collapse of twitter has given us,- a chance to get out of the muck and decide what we want our user experience to be like.

Chanders, 10 months ago

@Theblueone exactly. and you know what, some people may enjoy the performative snakry shitposting somewhere else. Good for them. enjoy it but don't bring it to me.

Chanders, 10 months ago to bluesky

Is there a #Commodon community on #bluesky? Or are there other academic communities there?

Not planning on going there, just genuinely curious. These communities are not here in any great strength after the last few months of 2022. My hunch was always just that they stated on Twitter, but as #Twitter seems increasingly and genuinely non-functional, I do wonder what is going on.

Chanders, 10 months ago

@inquiline @alex without having actually ever been there it seems to replicate a lot of the things that I found stressful on Twitter.