Steve Jankowski

Did you find this receipt as well? en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

Here's the receipt. en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

I'm doing some manual data entry for a citation analysis and Google just blocked me. I'm as fast as an automated system 😄

No. You are not missing anything. I see this same approach being applied to Wikipedia studies with similar results.

Interesting that this figure is part of the archetypal form of what the digital citizen is expected to look like and how their dissenting actions are framed.

Huh. Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting-turned 2020s meme was used in 1997 for Wired Magazine's editorial on "The Digital Citizen". m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1a...

letterpress-printed, custom-illustrated 18"x24" poster with a quote from Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Rant About 'Technology'": "Technology is the active, human interface with the material world."

New @ursulakleguin.com print from @skeuomorphpress.org arrived

They also have a point "; 3) Generative AI can never be representative" – I've been advocating for using the term "indexical" over "representative", as I feel representative in some cases means proxy/approximate, whereas indexical (following Pierce) means "to point to something" real.

Provocations from the Humanities for Generative AI Research The effects of generative AI are experienced by a broad range of constituencies, but the disciplinary inputs to its development have been surprisingly narrow. Here we present a set of provocations fro...

Read @laurenfklein.bsky.social's arxiv.org/abs/2502.19190 which presents 8 claims for humanities AI research. They suggest "2) GenAI requires an expanded definition of culture." This is 👍 & connects to work (mine 😉) on culture and technique: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In fact, those regular people became _the_ experts on how to write encyclopedic knowledge. But it took a good 5-10 years to figure out how to do it together.

…and the daguerrotype hype cycle 😁

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CFP: In Defense of the Commons Call for Papers: “In Defense of the Commons”communication +1, vol 12edited by Zachary McDowell, Steve Jankowski, Matthew Vetter, and Fenwick Mckelvey **Premise**As the Internet becomes more and more o...

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Looking for papers to diagnose problems & explore the strategies of resistance, repair, and rehabilitation necessary to sustain vital public digital (and analog) resources.

And also W3C www.w3.org/reports/ai-w...

We need to be looking at things like RAGs (arxiv.org/abs/2005.11401) , agents.md, and the other ways that developers are thinking about this (like on hackernews: www.google.com/search?clien...

Looking for a list of recent work that theorizes the current moment of making the Internet (and the web) "AI-Ready", just like how the Internet was made "platform-ready" (developer APIs) and "Google-ready" (SEO).

I think Berry's work is in the right direction
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Some fun with Internet periodization.

1980s: Communalization of the Internet (Rheingold, 1993)
1990s: Webification of the Internet (Lévy, 2001)
2000s: Googlization of the Internet (Siva 2012)
2010s: Platformization of the Internet (Helmond 2015)
2020s: Synthesization of the Internet (Berry, 2025)

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I'd also love to see something from Carolyn Marvin on this list, an extract of When Old Media were New?

Something from the Whole Earth Catalog
VNS Matrix - A cyberfeminist manifesto for the 21st century
Chapter from Rheingold's The virtual community
Bill Gates "friction free capitalism" from The Road Ahead

Some additions that tend to come up in the course I've taught
"The Californian Ideology" Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron
"The Computer for the 21st Century" Mark Weiser
"Building Global Community" Mark Zuckerberg
Sunshine, C. A. (1976). Interconnection of computer networks

The New Media Reader This reader collects the texts, videos, and computer programs—many of them now almost impossible to find—that chronicle the history and form the foundati...

🚨Calling all new media scholars🚨

If (and I emphasize if) a 2nd edition of the New Media Reader happened to be in the works, what additions would you like to see? What do you think could be excised? @docmofo.bsky.social @n-w-f.bsky.social @psssssssss.bsky.social

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The cover of the book "The Digital Revolution" – A pixelated top and a perspective based grid at the bottom.

Maybe a good place to start. _The Digital Revolution:
A Short History of an Ideology_ by Gabriele Balbi
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Maybe you will be interested in this one one paper My colleague (Claudio Celis Bueno) and I wrote for the Journal of Science Fiction and Philosophy.

"Judgement after Automation: Posthumanist Reflections on Asimov’s Laws of Robotics"

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The business of enlightenment [electronic resource] a publishing history of the Encyclopédie, 1775-1800 : Darnton, Robert : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive In tracing the publishing story of Diderot’s Encyclopédie, Darnton uses new sources—the papers of eighteenth-century publishers—that allow him to...

I don't know how this wasn't on my radar, but Robert Darnton published his _Business of Enlightenment_ with a CreativeCommons license in 2016. He really set the stage for thinking of the materiality of encyclopedias. What a gift! archive.org/details/Busi...

Neither streamer nor analog audiophile, I think I might be the hater's hater hater as a MP3 purist.

I love seeing old lectures published as webpages.
2004: gyre.umeoce.maine.edu/physicalocea...

Every three minute startup pitch is a comedy bit of capitalist theatre.

On Nov 3, I sampled 1K Grokipedia v0.1 articles and found that about 55% of the 1000 articles were based on Wikipedia because they used its CC license. I repeated the method on those same articles today and those CC licenses are gone. Grokipedia v0.2 looks to be all generated text now.

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The TikTok-to-Google pipeline is not unique to Lahtaw. Among the 18 college students I spoke to for this story, this fact-checking funnel was overwhelmingly pervasive; all students were on either TikTok or Instagram or both and often turned to Google after seeing news on their feeds that they wanted to verify. North says her students do similarly, although most don't google to read articles: "They search or google things and they only read, for the most part, the Al response as a shortcut, and they just ass ne that it's correct." She says, for her students, "AI is the new sort of Wikipedia!"

“I see the TikTok, I see more, I get interested, I look it up online.”
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