Unlike Us: Understanding social media monopolies and their alternatives

[Michael Allan]

>From a post by Geert Lovink and Korinna Patelis:
http://listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/2011-July/024031.html

    The aim of this proposal is to establish a research network of
    artists, designers, scholars, activists and programmers who work
    on 'alternatives in social media'. Through workshops, conferences,
    online dialogues and publications, Unlike Us intends to both
    analyze the economic and cultural aspects of dominant social media
    platforms and to propagate the further development and
    proliferation of alternative, decentralized social media software.

They go on to describe these research topics:

     1. Political Economy: Social Media Monopolies
     2. The Private in the Public
     3. Visiting the Belly of the Beast
     4. Artistic Responses to Social Media
     5. Designing culture: representation and software
     6. Software Matters: Sociotechnical and Algorithmic Cultures
     6. Genealogies of Social Networking Sites
     7. Is Research Doomed?
     8. Researching Unstable Ontologies
     9. Making Sense of Data: Visualization and Critique
    10. Pitfalls of Building Social Media Alternatives
    11. Showcasing Alternatives in Social Media
    12. Social Media Activism and the Critique of Liberation Technology
    13. Social Media in the Middle East and Beyond
    14. Data storage: social media and legal cultures

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The DNS bindings on the server are also misconfigured, so I sent a
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Michael Allan

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