Non è più una tranquilla notte di regime
#stefanobenni #baol
09.09.2025 15:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@chrish6699.bsky.social
09.07.2025 13:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Infrastructures of Reality: Metaverse Stories, Spaces, Bodies
This open access book focuses on two dimensions of the development of the metaverse that are crucial to ‘reality’, namely spatiality and embodiment.
After months of pain and crazy writing, this OA book, written by Chris Hesselbein and me, is finally out.
Behind the bleeding cover, you'll find our analysis of the metaverse (no, it’s not dead!), or rather of the current metaverses as "infrastructures of reality". link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
09.07.2025 13:46 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Final slide of Ruha Benjamin’s opening keynote at STS Italia, featuring artwork by Blackmau (2019) and a quote from Octavia Butler: ‘It may be the end of the world…but there are other worlds!’
Thank you @ruha9.bsky.social for opening STS Italia with such moral clarity and urgency
11.06.2025 11:07 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Stop calling the Web the Internet: CERN’s tactics to fight ‘brand confusion’ in the mid-1990s
Why do we confuse the "Internet" with the "Web"? And how was this confusion addressed at @cern.bsky.social ?
Paper co-authored with the #WWWHistory Project @snf-fns-ch.bsky.social team: Deborah Barcella, @fandomistheanswer.bsky.social, and Martin Fomasi.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
03.04.2025 06:17 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Un’epoca in cui anche la gentilezza base causa esternalità negative* 🥲 [*negative per l’impatto ambientale, non perché Altaman ci smena soldi]
20.04.2025 10:11 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
matterofimagination
> I had a pleasure of interviewing @pbory.bsky.social about his book "The Internet Myth", network ideology and AI imaginaries. It was fun, the full interview is here!
matterofimagination.neocities.org/blog8
28.03.2025 14:56 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Naples, 3 April. Chinese scholars and our Prin crew
#prin22 #metaverse #china
25.03.2025 16:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I now see why we don't hear of whistle blowers anymore. They already whistle, pretending to whisper @philipdisalvo.bsky.social?
24.03.2025 22:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Deadline 3 february, join us in Milan for a collective investigation of the "metaverse" #sts #metaverse #ar #vr #mr #etc
29.01.2025 22:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yuanyuzhou 元宇宙: yesterday, today, tomorrow. Historical roots, current visions, and future dynamics of real-world integration in the Chinese governmental narrative on the Metaverse
As one of the most searched buzzwords on the Chinese Internet in 2021, the ‘Metaverse' (yuan yuzhou 元宇宙) has gained significant momentum in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), attracting the atte...
#OutNow in #iCS
Gianluigi Negro and Tonio Savina’s article, “Yuanyuzhou 元宇宙: yesterday, today, tomorrow,” provides a historical overview of the Chinese Metaverse, highlighting its unique development and future prospects within China’s digital landscape.
16.01.2025 14:55 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Starlink has disrupted Kenya's existing ISP industry since its launch in July 2023, forcing legacy providers to lower prices and increase internet speeds (Rest of World)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
13.01.2025 07:01 — 👍 31 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Six provocations for metaverse datafication: an emergent cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon
Although the ‘metaverse’ is still the feverish pipedream of tech companies and venture capitalists, it is also a powerful imaginary for channelling enormous resources towards deepening and extendin...
#OutNow in #iCS
In "Six Provocations for Metaverse Datafication," Chris Hesselbein, Paolo Bory, and Stefano Canali analyze how metaverse data shapes knowledge, privacy, and social inequality, highlighting its cultural, technological, and scholarly impacts.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
17.12.2024 16:03 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
#HistSTM #STS 🧪
18.12.2024 01:43 — 👍 34 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
New paper out with @pbory.bsky.social and Chris Hesselbein!
We discuss new forms of data and datafication in the metaverse and, echoing seminal work by @zephoria.bsky.social and @katecrawford.bsky.social, we present six provocations for metaverse datafication.
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
17.12.2024 08:40 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Cfa: Searching for the Metaverse. Mapping and disentangling the imaginaries of VR-MR
Join us in Milan for the X STS Italia conference, panel 10 (like D10s) on the imaginaries of VR/MR organized by me, my brilliant brother Stefano Bory and the great Gianluigi Negro:
stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...
16.12.2024 10:32 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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here's a Sora generated video of gymnastics
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Who Is Tech Really For?
As Silicon Valley chases military tech and funding, it’s losing sight of what inspires its workers.
We may be entering the "Jevon's Paradox" stage of AI: More efficient systems lead to increased use. Against this paradox, the argument that AI helps militaries kill less civilians may not hold.
Are we killing more?
Appreciating @timnitgebru.bsky.social OpEd:
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/s...
12.12.2024 01:34 — 👍 48 🔁 10 💬 5 📌 0
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
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What New Yorkers Want From Local News
New York Focus traveled across the state to meet with communities about their local news needs.
What people say they want in local news: “greater transparency + media scrutiny around development projects”; “more explanatory journalism that can break down decision making at different levels of government + empower ppl to participate politically”; “information pertaining to social services” …
11.12.2024 14:40 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Out now: Six provocations for metaverse datafication www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Authored by my friends and colleagues Chris Hesselbein, @stefanocanali.bsky.social and me for #infocomm&soc
11.12.2024 08:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Media and tech scholar. Teaches at USC Annenberg. Writes stuff for normal people too. Stings in a tribute band. Author of six books, with the latest being 'Mediating Plureality: Technology, Perception, and Ethics in a Divided Democracy'.
Proprio lui. No un altro.
Tech features and investigations at @technologyreview.com | proud Los Angeles resident | send me tips (not PR pitches) on Signal: eileenguo.15 | português-español-中文 https://www.technologyreview.com/author/eileen-guo/
Giornalista @irpimedia e altri, documentarista. Racconto storie in cui spesso c’è la tecnologia di mezzo
Technology, ethics, and philosophy. Oh, and some political science - more specifically political theory.
Associate professor at the University of Oslo.
My research: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=p
Professor - Northern Illinois University (USA). Award-winning author of the books The Machine Question, Robot Rights, Person-Thing-Robot, Of Remixology, and Deconstruction. https://gunkelweb.com
Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Milan. Visual cultures, digital media, cities.
Prof Political Communication, Loughborough University. Ed. Oxford Studies in Digital Politics. Been referred to as “that hybrid media guy.” Here after a four-year break from social media. Occasional posts on music. First-gen undergrad.
andrewchadwick.com
Professor of media and communications at ZeMKI and Commfigurations, Uni Bremen, on #mediatization, #datafication, #pioneercommunities, #pioneerjournalism, #ComAI, #AI, #digitalfutures.
Media History | Theory | STS @UniSiegen @mediaofcoop.
Formerly Cultural Techniques | History of Knowledge @ HU Berlin
Book @mitpress.bsky.social:
The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures since 1832
👉 https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12547.001.0001
Media scholar researching fame-enhancing bots on Instagram. PhD candidate @bauhaus-university Weimar | horse trainer.
www.nathalieschaefer.de
Algos, classifications, discriminations and alternative paradigms. Postdoctoral researcher in Philosophy & Technology at University of Milan, co-CEO at Immanence. Author of Tecnologia della rivoluzione (Il Saggiatore, 2024)
Assistant Professor. Author of 'Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy' (https://t.ly/1JHye), University of Copenhagen, Firstgen 🎓. he/him. Free access to my work: http://www.johanfarkas.com/research
Digital sociologist: social media, health, discourse, networks and participation. PI of Previvorship: http://bit.ly/3MpCAAs. Research lead at Sheffield Cancer Research.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/people/academic-staff/stefania-vicari
An international forum for research and discussion on the media, including the newer information and communication technologies.
mcs.sagepub.com
PROF. of AI, MEMORY & WAR
University of Edinburgh
AI & MEMORY
https://doi.org/10.1017/mem.2024.16
https://www.andrewhoskins.net/about
ERC/UKRI Digital Participation in War
5 year project
https://tinyurl.com/yjem9a4w
Associate professor of digital journalism Director of the Institute of Media and Journalism Università della Svizzera italiana | Honorary Senior Research Fellow, City St George’s, University of London | Data, AI & Accountability in Journalism
Reader in Media and Geography at Birkbeck, University of London. Into cities, publics, politics, social media, podcasts & journalism. https://linktr.ee/rodgers_scott
Lecturer in Digital Media, University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social ✨digital tech & everyday life, experiences of liveness (whatever that means), scrolling nonsense, moods & vibes ✨ ludmilalupinacci.com
Critical algorithmic sociologist.
🎈 Tenure Track Asst. Prof @ IULM University
🪂 Visiting Researcher @ University of Cambridge (CRASSH); RMIT University (DERC) and University of Copenhagen (MeST).
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