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  1. "What if we could start over and build the Internet from scratch? How could it be rebuilt or reimagined as more equitable and just? ... Paris critically examines the myriad and contradictory promises, utility, and obstacles to building a completely new Internet.

    Radical Infrastructure locates and analyzes the boundaries of how people and groups imagine, build, deploy, maintain, and use the Internet as they survive—and even dare to thrive—in challenging political, economic, and environmental contexts. Ultimately, Paris encourages active reflection among scholars, policymakers, and activists and reveals more grounded imaginaries, tactics, and opportunities for future people-centered projects"

    ucpress.edu/books/radical-infr

    #OpenAccess #InternetStudies #Bookstodon #Commodon #InfrastructureStudies #RadicalInfrastructure #STS

  2. "What if we could start over and build the Internet from scratch? How could it be rebuilt or reimagined as more equitable and just? ... Paris critically examines the myriad and contradictory promises, utility, and obstacles to building a completely new Internet.

    Radical Infrastructure locates and analyzes the boundaries of how people and groups imagine, build, deploy, maintain, and use the Internet as they survive—and even dare to thrive—in challenging political, economic, and environmental contexts. Ultimately, Paris encourages active reflection among scholars, policymakers, and activists and reveals more grounded imaginaries, tactics, and opportunities for future people-centered projects"

    ucpress.edu/books/radical-infr

    #OpenAccess #InternetStudies #Bookstodon #Commodon #InfrastructureStudies #RadicalInfrastructure #STS

  3. "Individuals trying to support themselves via subscriptions are as dependent on the whims of the marketplace as those working for large corporations, and it’s not just the lack of health care and 401ks that make the career of a patron-supported creator precarious — it’s the rawness and immediacy of the relationship."

    by Ana Marie Cox: talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/p

    #journalism #platforms #newsletter #newsletters #inadequacy #Substack #Patreon #media #CommOdon #creating #creation #writing #patrons #investigations

  4. #Press and #balance

    "There are several overlapping groups of people who, probably for different reasons, are more likely to prefer news that shares their point of view:
    (a) the ideological and politically engaged;
    (b) young people, especially those who rely mainly on social media for news;
    (c) women; and
    (d) less socioeconomically advantaged groups."

    "In markets dominated by fewer brands — often publicly funded ones such as the BBC — respondents in that market also tend to express higher levels of preference for impartiality." In Britain, where respondents use an average of four news brands, the lowest number across the 40 countries studied, 62% of respondents say they prefer news displaying no point of view.

    Camila Mont'Alverne et al, 2025: ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/articl

    #news #media #study #research #impartiality #objectivity #neutrality #journalism #journalists #reporting #communication #commOdon

  5. "The chapters, constructed as 'multispecies stories,' ... consider ecologies & infrastructure together in novel ways that challenge our conceptual separations between the two. Readers will find a theoretically exciting & vibrantly composed read with OIL BEACH" 🛢️🏖️📙

    ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/articl

    Thank you for this lovely review, Shelley Tuazon Guyton & IJOC!

    Here's the book:
    press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/b

    #Commodon #STS #EnvHist @ecologies @sts #multispecies #CriticalLogistics

  6. 'I don’t think an opinion adhering to institutional conventions can be considered an “unpopular take.” Positioning it as unpopular masks a common opinion as marginalised. This type of perception skewing is reminiscent of Christian conservatives claiming God-fearing values are under attack despite Christianity dominating every echelon of American society.'

    Inigo Laguda on language and grammar: yoursinigo.com/p/better-than-y

    @writing @sociology

    #language #writing #normality #patriarchy #woke #antiWoke #feminism #values #commOdon #lowercase #institutional #capitalLetters #camelCase #supremacy #domination #MAGA #culturalDiversity #boomers

  7. Comment la propagande israélienne a mystifié le monde entier sur la réalité des massacres (indéniables mais pas comme rapportés) du 7 octobre 2023.
    Une enquête minutieuse de Libération fait le point de ces grossiers mensonges destinés à tétaniser les esprits et à justifier un autre vrai massacre, mais à une échelle radicalement incomparable, mené par l'armée d'Israël à Gaza.
    Comme le souligne Libération, dans un article du 11 décembre, le caractère ignoblement outrancier de ces mensonges d'État, relayés abondamment dans les médias israéliens comme dans les États alliés, a paradoxalement eu pour effet un retour de boomerang dévastateur sur les médias sociaux favorisant le déni des horreurs commises le 7 octobre !

    Extraits :
    "Aujourd’hui, le bilan définitif du massacre est presque connu. De même que, pour bon nombre de civils tués, les circonstances de leur décès. Or, les données disponibles confirment que certaines horreurs initialement décrites n’ont pas eu lieu. Ces faux témoignages concernent quasiment exclusivement des allégations de sévices sur des enfants, qui ont été au cœur de la guerre de communication lancée depuis deux mois. Ils ont été relayés pendant des semaines par des secouristes volontaires, des soldats ou responsables de Tsahal, mais aussi au sommet de l’Etat et de la diplomatie israélienne. Ils ont irrigué la presse mondiale, ainsi que les déclarations de responsables politiques occidentaux."
    "Dans une tribune récente publiée dans le magazine américain Newsweek, et intitulée «Le silence des instances internationales face aux viols massifs perpétrés par le Hamas est une trahison envers toutes les femmes», l’avocate et première dame d’Israël, Michal Herzog, a elle aussi fait référence à cet acte. Elle affirme hâtivement, et de manière erronée : «Une vidéo du Hamas provenant d’un kibboutz montre des terroristes en train de torturer une femme enceinte et de lui retirer son fœtus.» CheckNews a pu voir une vidéo qui circule et prétend apporter la preuve de cette exaction. Comme cela a été corrigé notamment par l’Anti-Defamation League, ONG de référence aux Etats-Unis dans la lutte contre l’antisémitisme, les images sont en réalité tirées d’une vidéo partagée en 2018, qui montrerait les sévices commis par un cartel mexicain. "
    "Cette campagne, soufflée aux oreilles des dirigeants politiques, martelée sur les réseaux sociaux et aux journalistes, a eu pour but de rallier, puis consolider, le soutien de l’opinion israélienne et internationale aux violentes représailles à Gaza. Elle a aussi eu comme effet secondaire de nourrir, sur les réseaux sociaux, une puissante négation des crimes du 7 octobre, servant à mettre en doute les récits authentiques du massacre de quelque 800 victimes civiles. "

    liberation.fr/checknews/israel @israel @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

    #postFactuel #7Octobre #israel #communication #propagande #commOdon #médias #vérité #agnotologie #FakeNews #infox #faux #falsification #israëlPalestine #suprémacismeJuif #ÉtatJuif #racismeDÉtat #violenceDÉtat #nationalisme #sionisme #suprémacisme #israël #génocideEnContinu #vengeance #punition #Gaza #guerre #guerreIsraëlGaza #nettoyageEthnique #crimesDeGuerre #terrorisme #antiTerrorisme

  8. For those of you considering a future #PhD, in my new role as Associate Professor at Monash University, Melbourne, I am excited about supervising future #doctoral work in these areas:
    @potemkinvillage #disinformation #commodon #research

  9. Recommended reading:

    Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents

    A brilliant synthesis in which Rogers Brubaker charts the social consequences of a world in which everyone and everything are connected to everyone and everything else, everywhere and all the time.

    Tailor-made for teaching!

    #Commodon #MediaStudies #STS #Sociology #Digitalization #Technology #TechnologyStudies #SocialMedia

  10. Diane Negra and I wrote about this almost ten years ago in our book Extreme Weather and Global Media, which included a brilliant chapter by Paula Gilligan on UK heatwaves and their media coverage.

    #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #Media #Commodon #WeatherNews

    newrepublic.com/post/174301/me

  11. New Paper Alert 🥳 In this special intercultural study, we ask how we can “see the ‘seeing’ of others” on mobile platforms like #WeChat in times of crisis, introducing a new digital #ethnographic method for working with hard-to-access communities in nations like China. 🎟️ jcom.sissa.it/article/pubid/JC

    #digitalmethods #sts #postdigital #china #livinglabs #openaccess #commodon

  12. We are 2️⃣ weeks away from #ica23 🇨🇦 #Toronto #commodon

    I look forward to some of the conference theme sessions on #authenticity (how timely!), discussing #GenerativeAI, seeing early career scholars' work, continuing #OpenCommunication conversations, #RunningWithPresidents and much more 👏

  13. Next week back at Sciences Po, Paris with @lbngr for a talk on "repurposing digital media for collective inquiry", reflecting on 6 years of projects and activities with the @publicdatalab: jonathangray.org/2023/03/24/me

    It will be first time back since Bruno Latour died last year, which is still sinking in (gathering pieces here: are.na/jonathan-gray/rememberi ... )

    #STS #datastudies #infrastructurestudies #paris #digitalmethods #participatoryresearch #collectiveinquiry #newmediastudies #newmedia #commodon #scienceandtechnologystudies #ecology #criticalzones

  14. A new book on “Digital (In)Justice in the Smart City” includes chapters from researchers from our department.

    Güneş Tavmen wrote a chapter on “Cybernetic Urbanism: Tracing the Development of the Responsibilized Subject and Self-Organizing Communities in Smart Cities”.

    Jonathan Gray (@jwyg) co-wrote a piece with Noortje Marres (@NoortjeMarres) on “Articulating Urban Collectives with Data”.

    Further details and links available here: kingsdh.net/2023/03/27/digital

    #sts #smartcities #datacities #digitalcities #datajustice #datastudies #cybernetics #datainfrastructures #commodon #mediastudies

  15. Make it true:
    Hannah #Arendt observed that men gaining #power in Germany did not lie because they believed what they were saying, or even because they expected YOU to believe it. They were lying to state out what had to become #true in order to justify what they intended to do.

    #communism #nazism #postFactual #war #Russia #performance #FRPol #Macron #politics #communication #propaganda #commOdon #media #truth #agnotology

  16. #Disinformation for hire isn’t a niche industry separate from wider industry… it’s mainstream practice. Are the media/experts just happier not rockin the boat? Don’t question PR! Call it ‘dark PR!’ Only #Facebook and #socialmedia matters! The only people you’re protecting are #PR firms doing this. theguardian.com/business/2023/ @potemkinvillage #commodon #media #stratcom #propaganda

  17. #Disinformation for hire isn’t a niche industry separate from wider industry… it’s mainstream practice. Are the media/experts just happier not rockin the boat? Don’t question PR! Call it ‘dark PR!’ Only #Facebook and #socialmedia matters! The only people you’re protecting are #PR firms doing this. theguardian.com/business/2023/ @potemkinvillage #commodon #media #stratcom #propaganda

  18. How can collections of social media images be visually organised for interpretation according to their different features?

    New #openaccess paper from @gabrielecolombo @lbngr
    @jwyg on “Visual Models for Social Media Image Analysis: Groupings, Engagement, Trends, and Rankings” in International Journal of Communication (IJOC):
    kingsdh.net/2023/03/03/visual-

    #digitalmethods #visualmethods #visualculture #images #commodon #mediastudies #socialmedia #internetstudies

  19. “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced #Nazi or the convinced #Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the #reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
    ― Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"
    #communism #nazism #postFactual #totalitarianism #war #propaganda #Russia #quotes #commOdon #truth #agnotology #history 🧶

  20. Much good stuff on data centres and infrastructure, time, labour, waste, heat, energy, bunkers, cables, environments and colonialism in this NM&S special issue on "data centers and the infrastructural temporalities of digital media":
    journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/

    #datastudies #infrastructurestudies #data #commodon #mediastudies #ecology #environment #colonialism #labour #work #time #temporality #newmedia

  21. How can problems with network practices can be taken as invitations to attend to the diverse settings in which network graphs are created and used?

    New article by @jwyg
    and @lbngr in our department together with Daniela van Geenen @tommv @jacomyma and Axel Meunier: kingsdh.net/2023/02/07/new-art

    #networks #networkpractices #gephi #openaccess #datapractices #trouble #criticaldatastudies #criticaldatapractice #commodon #mediastudies #dataviz

  22. "..attending to these hidden intermediaries demystifies the way that a firm like Amazon builds power—not simply by bringing old relations “online,” but by shifting onto others the responsibility and risk of sustaining them" - Moira Weigel's recent report with @datasociety:
    datasociety.net/library/amazon

    #amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing #platformstudies #platformisation

  23. "..attending to these hidden intermediaries demystifies the way that a firm like Amazon builds power—not simply by bringing old relations “online,” but by shifting onto others the responsibility and risk of sustaining them" - Moira Weigel's recent report with @datasociety:
    datasociety.net/library/amazon

    #amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing #platformstudies #platformisation

  24. "..attending to these hidden intermediaries demystifies the way that a firm like Amazon builds power—not simply by bringing old relations “online,” but by shifting onto others the responsibility and risk of sustaining them" - Moira Weigel's recent report with @datasociety:
    datasociety.net/library/amazon

    #amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing #platformstudies #platformisation

  25. "..attending to these hidden intermediaries demystifies the way that a firm like Amazon builds power—not simply by bringing old relations “online,” but by shifting onto others the responsibility and risk of sustaining them" - Moira Weigel's recent report with @datasociety:
    datasociety.net/library/amazon

    #amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing #platformstudies #platformisation

  26. "..attending to these hidden intermediaries demystifies the way that a firm like Amazon builds power—not simply by bringing old relations “online,” but by shifting onto others the responsibility and risk of sustaining them" - Moira Weigel's recent report with @datasociety:
    datasociety.net/library/amazon

    #amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing #platformstudies #platformisation

  27. "If you understand Amazon as an aspiring megascale infrastructure company — a provider of systems, services, capacity, and labor — its junkification makes sense. Amazon hasn’t been acting like a store for a while. In its ideal future, selling things to people is everyone else’s problem. And so is Amazon."

    nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/0

    #amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing

  28. "If you understand Amazon as an aspiring megascale infrastructure company — a provider of systems, services, capacity, and labor — its junkification makes sense. Amazon hasn’t been acting like a store for a while. In its ideal future, selling things to people is everyone else’s problem. And so is Amazon."

    nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/0

    #amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing

  29. "If you understand Amazon as an aspiring megascale infrastructure company — a provider of systems, services, capacity, and labor — its junkification makes sense. Amazon hasn’t been acting like a store for a while. In its ideal future, selling things to people is everyone else’s problem. And so is Amazon."

    nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/0

    #amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing

  30. "If you understand Amazon as an aspiring megascale infrastructure company — a provider of systems, services, capacity, and labor — its junkification makes sense. Amazon hasn’t been acting like a store for a while. In its ideal future, selling things to people is everyone else’s problem. And so is Amazon."

    nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/0

    #amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing

  31. "If you understand Amazon as an aspiring megascale infrastructure company — a provider of systems, services, capacity, and labor — its junkification makes sense. Amazon hasn’t been acting like a store for a while. In its ideal future, selling things to people is everyone else’s problem. And so is Amazon."

    nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/0

    #amazon #infrastructure #infrastructurestudies #commodon #sts #logistics #criticalinfrastructurestudies #criticallogistics #mediastudies #datastudies #outsourcing

  32. Working on #TextAsData in #CEE?

    We're editing a special issue in Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (#openaccess) on Eastern and Central European political discourses from the perspective of computational social science

    We look for any type of text from social media to parliamentary speeches

    🗓️abstracts by 15/03➡️full papers 31/07➡️special issue early 2024
    intersections.tk.hu/index.php/

    @politicalscience @communicationscholars
    #ComputationalSocialScience #PolSci #commodon