Sebastian Gießmann
LightNews LightNews
banner
sebgiessmann.bsky.social
Sebastian Gießmann
@sebgiessmann.bsky.social
510 followers 340 following 240 posts
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
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by Sebastian Gießmann
ericdienstfrey.bsky.social
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!

gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!

www.ucpress.edu/books/making...
The cover to the amazing, incredible sound studies book, MAKING STEREO FIT
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Reposted by Sebastian Gießmann
rcolesworthy.bsky.social
7 years old now and I just discovered it has a whopping 5 reviews on Goodreads, which freaked me out. But in the interest of emphasizing that shelf life is real: it was just this year cited in a CFP for a panel about generous modernisms. 🎁

global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 27, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Reposted by Sebastian Gießmann
dandipiero.bsky.social
On the indie rock of this moment and how it's remaking the genre 💜💜

press.umich.edu/Books/B/Big-...
Big Feelings
In the past decade, a distinctive resurgence of indie music has seen young, queer, and feminist artists reformulating the genre with strategic reappropriations of ’90s grunge and 2000s-era pop. Big Fe...
press.umich.edu
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 AM
sebgiessmann.bsky.social
📚 Wow! Over here in Europe it's morning––and the overnight flurry of great American books here on Bluesky reminds me of everything I love about academia in North America (and elsewhere). #booksky
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Reposted by Sebastian Gießmann
dkompare.bsky.social
This one is now 20 years old, but is still available and still not bad.

(And its spiritual sequel is in the works…)

www.routledge.com/Rerun-Nation...
November 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
sebgiessmann.bsky.social
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!

gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!

👉 mitpress.mit.edu/978026255074...
👉 Open Access: doi.org/10.7551/mitp...

#booksky 📚
Cover Sebastian Giessmann: The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures since 1832, MIT Press
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
sebgiessmann.bsky.social
Wie genial ist Luca Neupertis Video zum digitalen Euro denn bitte? Dem abstrakten Thema tut ein wenig Sozialkonstruktivismus in der Technik- und Wissenschaftskommunikation im Stil von Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim sehr gut. Schaut's Euch an und sagt es weiter! #cbdc #digitalcash #digitalereuro #europa #ezb
efin-diskurs.bsky.social Diskursprojekt "eFin & Demokratie" (ZEVEDI) @efin-diskurs.bsky.social · Sep 11
Wer tiefer einsteigen möchte

In einem Erklärvideo eruiert Luca Neuperti mit Hilfe der Social Construction of Technology-Theorie wie es mit dem digitalen Euro weitergehen könnte:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t81...

Mehr zu unserem Fellow-Programm für Medienschaffende: zevedi.de/aktivitaeten...

(2/2)
Der Digitale Euro und ... Alte Fahrräder?
YouTube video by luca.science - Luca Neuperti
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
sebgiessmann.bsky.social
Hi everyone, I am looking for new recipes to deal with a lot of open browser windows and tabs 💻️. Any ideas and best practices? Your suggestions are very much appreciated! #followerpower

#interface #science #work #browser
November 17, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Reposted by Sebastian Gießmann
netzpolitik.bsky.social
Anstatt sich für vermeintliche Rechenenzentren-Geschenke von Big Tech zu bedanken, könnten wir sie auch einfach besteuern und mit dem Geld unsere eigenen Rechenzentren bauen, liebe Bundesregierung:
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
sebgiessmann.bsky.social
I heartily recommend staying at #CAIS!
cais-research.bsky.social Center for Advanced Internet Studies @cais-research.bsky.social · 14d
🚀 Apply now for the #CAISfellowship in 2027!
You're researching #DigitalTransformation? Get funding, space & community in Bochum, Germany.
⏰ Apply by December 19, 2025
👉 Details: www.cais-research.de/en/cais-coll...
#CAIScollege #Bochum
Collage with pictures of fellows at CAIS - in a workshop, a talk, at an excursion and the weekly breakfast List mentioning the fellowship highlights: Open to all career stages Project focus: Digital transformation & society 3 or 6 Months dedicated to your research Generous funding & support Free furnished apartment & private office Lively, interdisciplinary research community Weekly academic & social gatherings Based in Bochum, Germany – at the heart of the Rhine-Ruhr science region Part of a map of Europe showing where Bochum is located and photos of Bochum (CAIS building, Bochum lettering, photo of researchers riding bicycles)
November 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
sebgiessmann.bsky.social
This is very clear guidance for (agentic) AI at universities! I like it a lot.
mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 23d
Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵
Screenshots of the following text: Statement on Educational Technologies and AI Agents The following statement of endorsement was drafted by the MLA Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching. The Executive Council approved it as an MLA statement in October 2025. Software, specifically learning management systems (LMSs), is as important to teaching and learning as physical classrooms and facilities. The recent and hasty integration of generative AI features into those systems is already redefining student and instructor relationships, evaluative standards, and instructional outcomes—with no compelling evidence that any of it is for the better. At the same time, so-called agentic browsers are becoming widely available to the public. These offer AI “agents” that can navigate LMSs and complete assignments without any student involvement. All of this is unfolding at a time when contractual arrangements between institutions and commercial vendors often lack transparency, with worrisome implications for data collection and student privacy. Screenshots of the following text: The Modern Language Association therefore unequivocally 1. Advocates for full faculty and instructional involvement, including faculty of languages, literatures, and the humanities, at all levels of decision-making in the selection, procurement, and responsible implementation of instructional technology systems and software, including those incorporating AI.

The instructional mission cannot be fulfilled in the absence of faculty expertise, and this expertise extends not only to the “content” of the curriculum but also to the infrastructures and environments—virtual and otherwise—in which learning happens.
  2. Calls upon law- and policymakers, LMS vendors, and companies offering agent-based AI browsers to cooperate in order to prevent misuse and to ensure that academic institutions have the ability and option to block agentic AI when needed.

Without dedicated outside cooperation from lawmakers and technology providers, academic institutions may not have the technical capacity to do so on their own. If we do not act, we risk seeing the development of a fully automated loop in which assignments are generated by AI with the support of a learning management system, AI-generated content is submitted by an agentic AI on behalf of the student, and AI-driven metrics evaluate the work on behalf of the instructor.
November 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Reposted by Sebastian Gießmann
mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
In happier news: for Critical Inquiry, I reviewed @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer’s WHY WE FEAR AI, which has just lately been catching some deserved hotness. 🔥 Read my take here: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/matthew_kirs...
Critical Inquiry
A journal of Art, Culture and Politics, Published by the University of Chicago
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu
October 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Reposted by Sebastian Gießmann
lukestark.bsky.social
Most "AI" problems are actually capitalism problems.
October 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
sebgiessmann.bsky.social
So I downloaded Perplexity's #Comet browser out of interest. I rarely ever use it. But what #OpenAI is trying to do with its #Atlas anti-browser is sheer surveillance madness in the name of agentic #AI.

@anildash.com describes the attack on the #WWW in this post 👉 www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
sebgiessmann.bsky.social
#GenAI is desperately trying to get into the #edutech market.
sojajunge.bsky.social Julian @sojajunge.bsky.social · Oct 21
gibt gerade eine welle von videos mit millionen von aufrufen, in der gestellte, teilweise sogar ki-generierte videos, von vorlesungssituationen auf tiktok hochgeladen werden und in denen der professor am ende immer der abgehobene trottel ist, der von studenten die ki tools benutzen bloßgestellt wird
October 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
sebgiessmann.bsky.social
Cache ist immer überraschend, originell und gut.
intercomverlag.bsky.social intercomverlag @intercomverlag.bsky.social · Oct 18
cache.ch/verwalteteum...

Verwaltungswissen ▶︎ Merkwürdige Wissenschaft ▶︎ Behördliches Begehren ▶︎ Mesoebene ▶︎ Rachel Carsons Fußnoten ▶︎ Infrastrukturen ▶︎ Talsperren ▶︎ Wehre ▶︎ Kläranlagen ▶︎ Truppenübungsplatz ▶︎ Kampf der Verwaltung ▶︎ Filz und Korruption ▶︎ Heimatschutz ▶︎ Blockierte Phantasie ▶︎ [...]
October 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
sebgiessmann.bsky.social
Also Posts von der Frankfurter Buchmesse sind auf Bluesky noch rar. Läuft das dann alles auf Instagram und TikTok? #fbm25 #toskeetornottoskeet
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
sebgiessmann.bsky.social
Auf dem Weg zur Lesung auf der Buchmesse. Die Bahn fährt, wenn auch mit interessanter Variation des alltäglichen infrastrukturellen Wahnsinns. #fbm25 #esgehtumdasbuch #bezahlen #digital
sebgiessmann.bsky.social Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · Oct 12
Am kommenden Freitag lese ich in Frankfurt aus meinem Kreditkarten-Buch 💳 . Es geht um Nichts-Karten, Geld, Apps und echte Verbrechen mit Plastik. Schaut vorbei!

📍 Frankfurter Buchmesse, Leseinsel der unabhängigen Verlage
🗓️ 17.10., 13 Uhr
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKAr...

#esgehtumdasbuch
#fbm25
Buchcover-Entwurf, Kulturverlag Kadmos, Sebastian Gießmann: Geschichte und Theorie des digitalen Bezahlens. Zu sehen sind zwei sich überlagernde Kreise, die an das Logo von MasterCard erinnern. Das Cover nutzt eine künstlerische Arbeit des kanadischen Kollektivs General Idea.
October 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM
sebgiessmann.bsky.social
So this came out a year ago 🕸️. Yet, it is still around - both as a printed book and in digital #openaccess! 👉 doi.org/10.7551/mitp.... We just had a great author meets critics session on it at #shot2025 with @modomodo.bsky.social, Elizabeth Petrick, @ccmmody.bsky.social & Thomas Haigh. #histsci 📚💙
sebgiessmann.bsky.social Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · Aug 30
Coming up on October 15 @mitpress.bsky.social: My book THE CONNECTIVITY OF THINGS: NETWORK CULTURES SINCE 1832 is finally making its way over the Atlantic. Be in touch if you'd like a review copy! There might be occasional posts about this 😀.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255074... #histsci #history 📚💙
book cover THE CONNECTIVITY OF THINGS: NETWORK CULTURES SINCE 1832
October 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
sebgiessmann.bsky.social
Am kommenden Freitag lese ich in Frankfurt aus meinem Kreditkarten-Buch 💳 . Es geht um Nichts-Karten, Geld, Apps und echte Verbrechen mit Plastik. Schaut vorbei!

📍 Frankfurter Buchmesse, Leseinsel der unabhängigen Verlage
🗓️ 17.10., 13 Uhr
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKAr...

#esgehtumdasbuch
#fbm25
Buchcover-Entwurf, Kulturverlag Kadmos, Sebastian Gießmann: Geschichte und Theorie des digitalen Bezahlens. Zu sehen sind zwei sich überlagernde Kreise, die an das Logo von MasterCard erinnern. Das Cover nutzt eine künstlerische Arbeit des kanadischen Kollektivs General Idea.
October 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Reposted by Sebastian Gießmann
aron.ambrosiani.se
Fascinating talk by Elizabeth Petrick on the adventures of Bill Atkinson, Susan Kare & others after they left Apple to start General Magic. #shot2025
October 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Reposted by Sebastian Gießmann
digitalrechte.bsky.social
Die EU plant, Hintertüren in verschlüsselte Chats einzubauen.

Die Ausführung ist aber gefährlich, denn Hintertüren bedeuten vor allen Dingen, man kann über die Hintertür in unsere verschlüsselte Kommunikation einsteigen.

Jetzt #Chatkontrolle stoppen:

chat-kontrolle.eu

#Digitalrechte
October 6, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Reposted by Sebastian Gießmann
astriddeilmann.bsky.social
Kein #Palantir in Baden-Württemberg!

Heute demonstrieren wir in Stuttgart. Unsere Sicherheit und kritische Infrastruktur darf nicht abhängig von zwielichtigen BigTech-Konzernen werden.
Kundgebung 04.10.2025 - Kein Palantir in Baden-Württemberg
Aufruf zur Kundgebung am 4. Oktober in Stuttgart gegen die geplante Einführung der Polizeisoftware von Palantir in Baden-Württemberg
kein-palantir-bw.org
October 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
sebgiessmann.bsky.social
Just had to block a (German) culture war commentator over here for the first time. Well, that's not exactly #blueskyism I guess. Feels like a bit of X on Bluesky.
October 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
sebgiessmann.bsky.social
Musste gerade einen offensichtlichen Kulturkampfkommentator hier blockieren. War tatsächlich das erste Mal, von wegen Blueskyism ...
October 4, 2025 at 9:13 AM