Unlike Us: Understanding social media monopolies and their alternatives

[Anne Moreland]

Good stuff. Thank you.
Judith

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Michael Allan <mike at zelea.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> The list has 139 members:
> http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/unlike-us_listcultures.org
> But something's wrong because the archive shows no messages posted.
> The DNS bindings on the server are also misconfigured, so I sent a
> message to the list owner.
>
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