+ imaginaries of robots (+ related ethics) in early sci-fi
+ history of mechanical metaphors of the brain/body (before computers)
+ not history, but could be fun to discuss the human urge to anthropomorphise objects (e.g. ELIZA, but also just toys like Furby, Sherry Turkle analyses those nicely)

another normal day in the life of a PhD student

have just written two pages explaining why the internet is not a cocktail straw

Episode 2 of our new podcast season "Internet Futures" is now live. Listen to “Back to the Future? The Vernacular Web” with @nathaliefridz.bsky.social and @anya-shchetvina.bsky.social to learn about the Yesterweb, nostalgia-tinged imagining of Internet futures and more.
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📣 Call for contributions! @anya-shchetvina.bsky.social and I are editing a collaborative glossary on internet imaginaries.
We’re looking for short entries (500–1000 words) that unpack research concepts used to study how the internet has been imagined over time.
matterofimagination.neocities.org/cfp

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/...

thanks! your keyword list was a huge inspiration :)

Write with us! Submit a 100-word pitch by the 15th of September for the "Collaborative Glossary: Imagining the Internet(s)". The Glossary will be published by the INC (open access) with the @easstransport.bsky.social support.

More info: matterofimagination.neocities.org/cfp

#sts #internetstudies

Ah, I have it saved somewhere for quite a long time already. Time to finally read it, tnx for the reminder!

talked about the conceptual confusion and utopian promises around the "vernacular web" with @nathaliefridz.bsky.social at @redico.eu yesterday. online conferences are still really hard for me, but it was nice to get to know more about the ReDiCo Hub. beautiful online space they do have! redico.eu

@anya-shchetvina.bsky.social and I are exploring the concept of the vernacular web and related notions. Can you help us with literary suggestions? Read more about it in our recent MoI newsletter (to which you can subscribe) (and yes, we do pick new GIFs every month)

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they should turn the internet off on sundays. it needs to rest and so do we

oyy, the poster is awesome. looking forward! esp. interesting to see media/web historians in the context of conversations about media futures, how can we think about better futures with a critical and careful attention to the past?

Congratulations on the publication! @nathaliefridz.bsky.social let's include it in the next "Matter of Imagination" newsletter?

And big thanks to @nathaliefridz.bsky.social who prepared and led the interview 📝🤖🕸️

So much fun and inspiration talking to @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy for the new MoI blog post!

On BBSs, the challenges of archival work, the role of nostalgia and the critique of the numbers we operate when studying online phenomena - it's all here: matterofimagination.neocities.org/blog9

Wrote something about algorithms, and why @bsky.app gets them right, with @notsaved.bsky.social.

not new to internet historians, but still, such an important thought that should be more obviously part of public history:

"our networked desktop computers are not so much direct descendants of the giant computers of the 1960s as they are reactions against those computers and what they represented"

Stumbled across "The Net Effect: Romanticism, Capitalism and the Internet" from 2011 by Thomas Streeter, and honestly, such a great read (both content and how it's written)

started my day with this text today, great read, thank you! 🤖

everybody shut up about AI until this is what we’re talking about

oh, this is fun!

ah yes, the "information age" and "new media", of course

@dairinstitute.bsky.social asks a fun question on their Twitch stream: What word related to technologies would you want to ban if you could?

My favs:
- ontology
- AI
- disruption
- to empower

What would you add?