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Humans R Social Media—now includes “regulation”
The glory of Open Educational Resources! A new edition of the textbook I use in my Intro to Social Media course is now out—and with a new chapter from me on “regulation,” as well as an invitation to shared governance. https://opentextbooks.library.arizona.edu/humansrsocialmedia/
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Blood in the Machine
Just laid down a Bluesky thread on Brian Merchant’s Blood in the Machine, tech imaginaries, and cooperative history: https://bsky.app/profile/ntnsndr.in/post/3ktg5vrluac2z
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Exit to community in family
It’s out! On KGNU radio in Colorado and as a podcast, my interview with Anjali and James Young, founders of Collab.Land—on their #ExittoCommunity into a token-enabled co-op: https://lookslikenew.net/podcast/how-do-you-give-a-technology-to-its-community/
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Governability over openness
Maybe the question of whether a system is governable matters more than whether it is open. Illustration by Darija Medic. More in #GovernableSpaces
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Beautiful Solutions is coming
Just announced! After years of work collecting the work of many dozens of contributors around the world, the Beautiful Solutions are coming to your bookshelf: https://orbooks.com/catalog/beautiful-solutions/
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Want to see where the internet is stored?
Want to see where the internet is stored? I’m doing an event at the Internet Archive on June 8 in San Francisco: https://lu.ma/governable-spaces-sf Featuring Yasmine El Baggari (Hylo), Emeline Brule (Sequoia Fabrica), Shamika Klassen (Afrofuturistic speculation)
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Never do a book event alone
San Francisco, the democratic internet is coming for you. June 8, 4 p.m., at the former Christian Science church that is the Internet Archive.
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Lightning talks at the SF #GovernableSpaces event
Come hear from some amazing folks in SF 6/8: https://lu.ma/governable-spaces-sf
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Another kind of sovereignty is possible (it already happened)
Spoiler alert: My book #GovernableSpaces ends with this image by Darija Medić, borrowing from the wonderful https://native-land.ca—a reminder from Indigenous legacies that sovereignty need not depend on monopolies over land and militarized borders. Start reading at the end, if you do that: https://luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.181/read/?loc=013.xhtml
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Congratulations, Shamika!
I’m so thrilled to celebrate my friend Shamika Klassen for finishing her PhD here at CU Boulder. Read about her extraordinary work here: https://www.colorado.edu/cmcinow/2024/05/06/making-digital-less-discriminatory She’ll also be speaking at my upcoming book event in San Francisco, June 8: https://lu.ma/governable-spaces-sf