#commodon — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #commodon, aggregated by home.social.
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"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"
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/radical-infrastructure/paper
#OpenAccess #InternetStudies #Bookstodon #Commodon #InfrastructureStudies #RadicalInfrastructure #STS
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"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"
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/radical-infrastructure/paper
#OpenAccess #InternetStudies #Bookstodon #Commodon #InfrastructureStudies #RadicalInfrastructure #STS
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🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨
Along with Arthur Soto-Vasquez and Kim Fox, I just coedited a special issue of the Journal of Radio & Audio Media, focused on the role of podcasting in elections. Check it out!https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19376529.2026.2631011
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#CallForPapers: Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Methoden der DGPuK 2026
Vom 30. September bis 2. Oktober 2026 am GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften in Köln zum Thema:
Measuring Media Use and Effects: Computational Opportunities and Challenges
- Submission details: Extended Abstracts (800–1.200 Wörter) auf deutsch oder englisch
- Einreichung ab dem 1. April 2026, Deadline bis zum 15. Mai 2026 -
Here‘s my coeditors‘ and my introduction to the special issue: https://doi.org/10.5771/1615-634X-2026-1-3
All articles are #openaccess!
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Really interesting new paper from some of my former @GESIS colleagues in "Big Data & Society": "From (almost) open to heavily restricted data access – The development of the Twitter/X developer policies"
https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517261419333
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Really interesting new paper from some of my former @GESIS colleagues in "Big Data & Society": "From (almost) open to heavily restricted data access – The development of the Twitter/X developer policies"
https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517261419333
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Really interesting new paper from some of my former @GESIS colleagues in "Big Data & Society": "From (almost) open to heavily restricted data access – The development of the Twitter/X developer policies"
https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517261419333
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Really interesting new paper from some of my former @GESIS colleagues in "Big Data & Society": "From (almost) open to heavily restricted data access – The development of the Twitter/X developer policies"
https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517261419333
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Really interesting new paper from some of my former @GESIS colleagues in "Big Data & Society": "From (almost) open to heavily restricted data access – The development of the Twitter/X developer policies"
https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517261419333
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I published a paper from a first-person perspective about how features on #Mastodon leave enormous loopholes for harassing behavior (OA, 🔗 ⬇️ )
I came over here in the Nov22 wave & never left, but I no longer invite people to join without giving (loud) fair warning about drawbacks. I can't in good faith recommend Mdon to anyone who's more likely to be on the receiving end of harassing behavior
We have proof of concept, but the stakes are *urgent* to improve!
https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/6644
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My review of @rwg's new book "Move Slowly and Build Bridges" is now published in Convergence
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13548565251409858
In my draft/notes, I had written "this book slaps and everyone should read it because what is thing I feel... hope? optimism? That's been a long time overdue"
What I actually ended up writing was: "A more just, equitable, and inclusive online world is not only possible, but it is already being created."
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Aymar Jéan Escoffery's (@ajescoffery) new book, Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture, is now out! An incredibly important title that reimagines how movies, TV, and a broader array of media can be made and distributed in ways that include more people and move beyond the extractive models so common to contemporary streaming and social media. #OpenAccess
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I highly recommend that university instructors (of any subject) consider trying it out in their classes:
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I'd been hearing about Wiki Edu and the Wikipedia Assignment on various listservs for a while, and this past semester I ran it for the first time with my "Data and Society" class, and *wow* it is so incredible! We all trained to become Wikipedia editors and students contributed to a range of articles while thinking through content gaps, representational politics, research/citation practices, and the presumed "objectivity" of data.
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New paper by @drfollowmario, Philipp Knöpfle, and me in the journal Media Psychology: "Contextual Changes, Credible Conclusions? A Direct and Conceptual Replication of Shen et al.'s (2019) Study on Online Image Credibility"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15213269.2025.2595452
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"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: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patron-supported-journalism-cant-be-the-future-of-news
#journalism #platforms #newsletter #newsletters #inadequacy #Substack #Patreon #media #CommOdon #creating #creation #writing #patrons #investigations
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RE: https://fediscience.org/@JohannesBreuer/115571076834078410
Our survey on research practices in Computational Communication Science is still open for participation!
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As the Academic Job Market Season™ progresses and as some lucky folks may be receiving offers and thinking through the whole negotiation process, here's some info about what I got when I was hired last year (private SLAC in Virginia):
$85,000 base salary (paid over 10 or 12 months), $6,000 guaranteed each summer for the first 2 years, $20,000 in start-up research funds.
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For the next conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK), Christian Strippel, Silke Fürst, Christian Schwarzenegger, Erik Koenen, and I are organizing a panel on "Open Research Infrastructures and Resources for Communication and Media Studies".
Sumissions (abstracts, 200-300 words) are possible in English and German and need to be submitted by January 19th, 2026. You can find the full CfP here: https://osf.io/ch76u/files/8u6gw
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Within our project on research practices in Computational Communication Science (CCS), we are conducting a survey among CCS researchers. We would be grateful if you could participate (takes 10 to 15 minutes) and/or share the link: https://www.soscisurvey.de/AutoFrontCCS/
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Recently had Infrastructure Week™ in my Critical Internet Studies class -- I sent students to walk around campus and identify the various infrastructure and utilities that often go unnoticed
Student quote: "They're not actually hidden that well, but I'm a little embarrassed by just how much I never noticed"
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About news bulk payout: “This whole thing has been a huge gift for foreign-owned legacy media and a spit in the face of small outlets like ours and Indigenous-owned outlets. This whole system was designed for the big players and the papers who are dying and whose business model is failing”
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-googles-funding-canadian-news-publishers-split-and-who-benefits-most via @fifilamoura
#news #media #study #report #journalism #journalists #reporting #communication #commOdon #Canada #CdnMedia #CanPoli #publishing #Montreal #socialMedia #subsidies
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Hello Fediverse!
I’m studying how communication and media scholars think about Twitter/X and its recent whirlwind of changes. If this sounds like you (communication/media scholar, currently or previously used twitter, 18+ years), please take this survey and share your thoughts.
And please share/circulate to help this reach the right people!
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Oh, the paper link one more time!
"Pin the tail on the researcher: From distributed to meshy accountability in decentralized social media"
https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/6644
(ETA: Oh, and sincere thanks to everyone who's both lent moral support & helped me navigate this situation, including offering insights about network architecture & features. I say that in the paper but I should post it here too 💛)
#Commodon #FLOSS #Mastodon #STS #MeshyAccountability #LocatedAccountability #FeministSTS
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""'The screenshot’s capacity to make seemingly ephemeral moments permanent [revealed and violated] existing media ideologies that assumed some measure of ephemerality in digital spaces... we can see how screenshots bring normative boundaries to the fore precisely because of their violation""
Just bumped into this paper on screenshotting and public shame (by a former student); sharing for no reason at all
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Each year, when I teach Media, Technology & Culture, students select a book for their final project from a list of relevant titles. I always have a great time assembling the list and discovering cool new work. It's also fun to share the result.
So here it is, the 2025 book list!The pic is of my favorite cover from this years additions, which belongs to Seth Long's "The Last Mixtape."
cc #academicchatter #commodon #mediaStudies @communicationscholars @academicchatter
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New tutorial in the KODAQS Toolbox on procesing YouTube data with our tubecleanR mini-package by Julian Kohne and me: https://kodaqs-toolbox.gesis.org/github.com/gesiscss/tubecleanr_tool/index/
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New tutorial in the KODAQS Toolbox on procesing YouTube data with our tubecleanR mini-package by Julian Kohne and me: https://kodaqs-toolbox.gesis.org/github.com/gesiscss/tubecleanr_tool/index/
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New tutorial in the KODAQS Toolbox on procesing YouTube data with our tubecleanR mini-package by Julian Kohne and me: https://kodaqs-toolbox.gesis.org/github.com/gesiscss/tubecleanr_tool/index/
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New tutorial in the KODAQS Toolbox on procesing YouTube data with our tubecleanR mini-package by Julian Kohne and me: https://kodaqs-toolbox.gesis.org/github.com/gesiscss/tubecleanr_tool/index/
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Plantations industrialised with capitalism.
Let's spin a sugary yarn 🧶@economics @histodons @geography
#EstelleSays #sugar #tobacco #accumulation #racism #extractivism #landGrab #raceMaking #lineofColor #racialization #rapeCulture #systemicRacism #capitalism #whiteSupremacy #whiteFragility #Discovery #Encounter #Columbus #plantations #America #history #slavery #England #UnitedKingdom #GreatBritain #Bristol #Liverpool #London #decolonial #antiRacism #sweet #sweets #Caribbean #marketing #commOdon
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Dr Eleanor #Janega: "I mean without a forever war against anyone you can find, how will you keep a society going?"
https://going-medieval.com/2019/07/26/on-colonialism-imperialism-and-ignoring-medieval-history/
#AncientRome #slavery #England #commOdon #history #colonialism #historiography #medieval #imperialism #Rome #education
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Gotta say, at least this #ScienceSpam mail has found the perfect wording for what I regularly do at conferences: Unleashing my insights …
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"Modern productivity tools […] are not evaluated on how well they work. They are evaluated on how well they symbolize your membership in the right epistemic tribe."
JA Westemberg writes on credibility in tech: https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-cult-of-hard-mode-why-simplicity-offends-tech-elites
#totems #jargon #legitimacy #simplicity #expertise #commoDon #performance #productivity #dashboards #reputation #responsibility #tech #career #skills #competition #corporateCulture
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Said Robert Proctor: “If you don’t like the science that’s out there, create some of your own. And then claim ‘we need more research.’ And then label your opposition as a bunch of close-minded fanatics.”
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/industry-weaponizing-science-agenda/
#history #learning #learn #sociology #reputation #truth #agnotology #historyOfScience #intelligence #ignorance #USPol #science #knowledge #politics #publicOpinion #mediaStudies #commOdon
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Structural and design-based analysis of hybrid artefacts/digital technologies for educational contexts (learning, teaching): handbook digital media and methods
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36629-2_37-1 -
It was an honor to organize this panel on Managing Threats to Researchers, for the recent Cambridge #Disinformation Summit. Thanks to my esteemed colleagues @alicetiara @mutalenkonde & @juliaebner for contributing to this insightful dialogue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M9lhTm-7f0 #propaganda #commodon #polcomm
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"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: https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/23816
#news #media #study #research #impartiality #objectivity #neutrality #journalism #journalists #reporting #communication #commOdon
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"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" 🛢️🏖️📙
https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/24661
Thank you for this lovely review, Shelley Tuazon Guyton & IJOC!
Here's the book:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo185167017.html#Commodon #STS #EnvHist @ecologies @sts #multispecies #CriticalLogistics
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'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: https://www.yoursinigo.com/p/better-than-you-know-yourselves?open=false#%C2%A7grammar-the-conservative-undercurrent
#language #writing #normality #patriarchy #woke #antiWoke #feminism #values #commOdon #lowercase #institutional #capitalLetters #camelCase #supremacy #domination #MAGA #culturalDiversity #boomers
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Link to book, Trans Technologies, by Oliver L. Haimson:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551861/trans-technologies/#OpenAccess as soon as it's officially released! (Feb 25)
@commodon @sts #STS #Commodon #Bookstodon @bookstodon #TransTechnologies #MITPress
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Glad to be part of new #openaccess book on "Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society" edited by @gastev @kfvanes @TraceyPLauriault on @AmsterdamUPress.
Here's my chapter on “Speculative Data Infrastructures: Prototyping a Public Database on Corporate Tax Avoidance”: https://jonathangray.org/2024/10/11/speculative-data-infrastructures
#mediastudies #taxjustice #taxavoidance #datastudies #criticaldatastudies #criticaldatapractice #teaching #commodon #sts #newmedia #internetstudies
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🛢️ 📦 📻 New instance, new #introduction, many hashtags. Hi! I'm an #STS #technopolitics scholar, also thinking w #anthropology #geography #EnvHist #Commodon
This is my non-chattery account for research updates, topics may include:
#feministSTS #multispecies #anticolonial #California #trucks #internet #port #SupplyChain #MediaActivism #labor #FreeRadio #CommunityMedia #SoundStudies #soundscapes #ClimateCrisis #LowPower #LosAngeles #oil #InfrastructureStudies #CriticalLogistics #Radio #FOSS #hacking #Energy #ToxicLA -
📣 Published today, my latest on Harvard's higher ed blog explores how I leverage Quick Cases: https://hbsp.harvard.edu/inspiring-minds/reap-the-benefits-of-case-teaching-without-all-the-prep
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#Education #HigherEd #AcademicMastodon #commodon #sociodon #educator #teaching
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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. "https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/israel-7-octobre-un-massacre-et-des-mystifications-20231211_A7QBBETYDRDERFAQINGA66ZAR4/ @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
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A new paper on AI incidents and 'networked trouble' from our PhD researcher Tommy Shane: https://kingsdh.net/2023/12/20/ai-incidents-networked-trouble/
#ai #artificialintelligence #aitrouble #algorithms #algorithmstudies #datastudies #criticaldatastudies #digitalmethods #trouble #feministsts #sts #mediastudies #commodon
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new article on "pluralising critical technical practice" with Daniela van Geenen and @kfvanes has just been published in Convergence: https://jonathangray.org/2023/12/12/pluralising-ctp
we'll add full details & links for the special issue here when it is out 👀 https://publicdatalab.org/projects/pluralising-critical-technical-practices/
#criticaltechnicalpractice
#internetstudies #datastudies #artificialintelligence #digitaldevices #digitalmethods #inventivemethods #feministsts #newmedia #commodon #sts -
"Israeli academia joins the crackdown on dissent" https://www.972mag.com/israeli-academia-crackdown-palestinian-students/
#faculty #academia #universities #CulturalBoycott #academicChatter #war #israel #israelGazaWar #academic #students #education #academicFreedom #citizenship #democracy #CommOdon #police #repression #socialMedia #academic #972mag #research #dissent #fragility
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New article on GitHub and the platformisation of software development by @lbngr in Convergence: https://publicdatalab.org/2023/12/08/github-platformisation/
The article is accompanied by a set of free tools codeveloped with @dmi for researching Github.
#platformstudies #platformisation #newmedia #mediastudies #softwarestudies #digitalmethods #commodon #socialmedia #github #opensource