Steve Jankowski
@textaural.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in New Media Histories at UvA. Curator of Keywords for Studying Media, Culture & Information https://textaural.com/keywords/. I study Wikipedia, utopian computation, design and consensus politics, often all at once.
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.
January 16, 2026 at 3:16 AM
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.
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.
January 15, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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.
My co-authors and I recently wrote about how GenAI hype is similiar to the hype (avant de lettre) of photography / daguerrotype in the 1800s. These commonalities exist because new media produce consistent contradictions surrounding art, culture and technology. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
January 13, 2026 at 12:55 AM
And also W3C www.w3.org/reports/ai-w...
AI & the Web: Understanding and managing the impact of Machine Learning models on the Web
This document proposes an analysis of the systemic impact of AI systems, and in particular ones based on Machine Learning models, on the Web, and the role that Web standardization may play in managing...
www.w3.org
January 8, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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...
January 8, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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...
I think Berry's work is in the right direction
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
January 8, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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...
I think Berry's work is in the right direction
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I'd also love to see something from Carolyn Marvin on this list, an extract of When Old Media were New?
January 6, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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
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
January 6, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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
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 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
January 6, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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 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
Maybe a good place to start. _The Digital Revolution:
A Short History of an Ideology_ by Gabriele Balbi
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
A Short History of an Ideology_ by Gabriele Balbi
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
January 1, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Maybe a good place to start. _The Digital Revolution:
A Short History of an Ideology_ by Gabriele Balbi
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
A Short History of an Ideology_ by Gabriele Balbi
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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"
jsfphil.org/wp-content/u...
"Judgement after Automation: Posthumanist Reflections on Asimov’s Laws of Robotics"
jsfphil.org/wp-content/u...
jsfphil.org
December 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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"
jsfphil.org/wp-content/u...
"Judgement after Automation: Posthumanist Reflections on Asimov’s Laws of Robotics"
jsfphil.org/wp-content/u...
Neither streamer nor analog audiophile, I think I might be the hater's hater hater as a MP3 purist.
December 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Neither streamer nor analog audiophile, I think I might be the hater's hater hater as a MP3 purist.
Reposted by Steve Jankowski
“I see the TikTok, I see more, I get interested, I look it up online.”
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
“I see the TikTok, I see more, I get interested, I look it up online.”
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Unfortunately with gmail, we are not its primary users – it is not designed for us specifically, but for Google to gather data so that it can improves its systems for marketers.
Better would be email as a publicly owned service/infrastructure.
Better would be email as a publicly owned service/infrastructure.
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Unfortunately with gmail, we are not its primary users – it is not designed for us specifically, but for Google to gather data so that it can improves its systems for marketers.
Better would be email as a publicly owned service/infrastructure.
Better would be email as a publicly owned service/infrastructure.
