Steve Jankowski

All about this.

Here's maybe two: cyberfeminismindex.com; annas-archive.org/blog/all-isb...;

Look starlings are the new archival media

The film has one of my all-time-favourite alien motif/sound designs that somehow captures all of the existential horror of the story.

I did not, but thanks for letting me know! I'll check it out.

Heather Ford on Why Critical Wikipedia Research Is More Important Than Ever From CPOV to the Manifesto for Wikimedia ResearchI was a Master’s student at UC Berkeley’s iSchool when I traveled to Bangalore for INC’s first Critical Point of View conference in January

_The Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader_ by INC was a pivotal book for helping me think about different ways to research Wikipedia. Heather Ford (who initiated the Wikimedia Research Manifesto), reflects on how this text shaped her work as well. networkcultures.org/blog/2025/07...

A bunch of internet networking metaphors (host, guest, server, client) are all metaphors that imagine the The Computer as a Hotel. Which seems kind of quaint.

Markus Krajewski (2018) _The Server: A Media History from the Present to the Baroque_

A manifesto for Wikimedia research: Critically studying Wikimedia as infrastructure

manifesto.wiki is a statement that I think all Wikimedia researchers should read. It was composed through the hard work of many leading the field right now: Heather Ford, Bunty Avieson, Francesco Bailo, Michael Davis, Michael Falk, Sohyeon Hwang, Andrew Iliadis, Amanda Lawrence, Francesca Sidoti.

🚨: Check out this new publication: "Uniting and reigniting critical Wikimedia research" by @textaural.bsky.social, Heather Ford, Andrew Illiadis, and Francesca
Sidoti!

🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#Wikimedia #Wikipedia #manifesto

The manifesto is a collaborative and ongoing project that has its roots in the Wikihistories project (wikihistories.net/2025/07/08/n...) and there will be some more formal ways to join us and build our research network announced (hopefully) over the summer.

10. Build a shared project of critical investigation across disciplines.
manifesto.wiki

9. Situate research practice.
manifesto.wiki

8. Study Wikimedia's data as partial, temporary, fallible, and shifting.
manifesto.wiki

7. Historicise Wikimedia's epistemology.
manifesto.wiki

6. Assess the implications of algorithms.
manifesto.wiki

5. Investigate linguistic and cultural plurality.
manifesto.wiki

4. Explore the juxtapositions between Wikimedia policies and practices.
manifesto.wiki

3. Examine power relations.
manifesto.wiki

2. Recognise Wikimedia's role as a hub of global knowledge infrastructure.

1. Map the dispossession of the commons.

A manifesto for Wikimedia research: Critically studying Wikimedia as infrastructure

I am pleased to announce the launch of the Manifesto for Wikimedia Research manifesto.wiki. As my co-authored Big Data & Society commentary explains, the manifesto is dedicated to a humanist and critical tradition of taking Wikipedia's importance seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Some relations
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body-performers
group-organizers
tool-makers
machine-operators
system-users
world-narrators
universe-abstractors
cosmos-believers

Forgetful by Design? A Critical Audit of YouTube's Search API for Academic Research This paper critically audits the search endpoint of YouTube's Data API (v3), a common tool for academic research. Through systematic weekly searches over six months using eleven queries, we identify m...

YouTube's API search function is "not adequate for robust academic research, especially concerning Digital Services Act requirements".

Clear and problematic conclusions by @riederb.bsky.social Adrian Padilla & Oscar Coromina

#commsky #DSA #dataacess #youtube

arxiv.org/abs/2506.11727

I obviously think is a fantastic ˋ°•*⁀➷ idea!

Back of some sort of device with holes to plug jacks into. Printed on the black surface is: "Every machine is a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough"

Today's inspiration

I have to of course suggest some of the work of my colleagues. "Teh internet is serious business: On the deep vernacular web and its discontents"

NoteTracker Dashboard App for Discovering and Analyzing X Posts with Community Notes

Here's a way to see and review Community Notes long before they are published on X, if ever.

89% of Community Notes proposed since the inception of the CN program have never seen daylight. notetracker.socialmediadata.org

Internet Histories Gender in Internet and Web History. Volume 9, Issue 1-2 of Internet Histories

Internet Histories Volume 9, issue 1-2 is now online.

Please notice: This special double issue: Gender in Internet and Web History, has free access until the end of July.

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/9...

#webarchiving
#digitalhumanities
#internethistories
#internethistory
#webhistory

History
Folk lore
Memory
Memeory
Meme array
Signal pattern

Not entirely related, but literally happened a minute before reading your post. I sometimes mix my numbers up, especially when converting from a numerical date to a nth century name. Apparently so does AI.

🎉 Big update!
The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more!

Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k...
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