Corpoetics has a different flavour these days. In 2009, a book was released of found poetry assembled from corporation mission websites. In comparison to the literature of Palantir & Andreessen's venture capitalism, the past two years shift from mission statements to manifestos needs attention.
This looks great! A good opportunity for people working on projects related to nostalgia and the yearning for the "old internet." error417.expectation.fail/406/netstalg...
Itโs been brought to my attention that my positions on AI are sometimes perceived as contradictory. Is he a doomer or an enthusiast?! ๐คฏ Herewith, a ๐งต:
Volumes of the World Book Encyclopedia on two shelves of a library book case. This set of the encyclopedia is from 1990. (Photo by Nataev, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)
For its newsletter edited by students, my English dept. asked faculty, staff, & grads for their favorite childrenโs book, "that one book that brought you so much joy as a kid.โ Mine, I answered, was the World Book Encyclopedia. See why in this micro personal memoir! alanyliu.org/blog-essays/...
Over ten years ago I coined โ๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐บ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ปโ (2015) to examine how platforms expand beyond their boundaries in ๐๐ฐ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ข + ๐๐ฐ๐ค๐ช๐ฆ๐ต๐บ. Invited by editor Papacharissi, I reflect on a decade of platformization ๐
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐บ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด doi.org/10.1177/2056...
This explains a lot.
As someone who spends part of the year on the Canadian side of Motor City and the other part in Amsterdam - I have seen the difference between these two style of living and Dan Greene is absolutely WRONG. maybe three good cooks.
Every shot of Mick Jagger in Dancing in the Street is youtube-thumbnail-face. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5lA...
The fifth article in the special issue Iโm editing on Silicon Valley is out!
@maxhaiven.bsky.social introduces the Worker as Futurist project: 13 Amazon workers writing speculative fiction about โThe World After Amazonโ - reclaiming the future from those whoโve monopolized the right to imagine it.
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Hot off the presses is my colleagues' new paper on keywords๐
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Just found this quote by @galaxykate.bsky.social that I'm going to use in my Digital Practices course next year.
"SVG is just another kind of HTML, but it renders as sweet graphics."
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All the descriptions of these actions are listed in the linked paper.
Contextualizing Wikipedia
Encountering Wikipedia
Revealing Wikipedia
An area graph of the accumulated citations for the top ten cited documents.
Optimizing Wikipedia was an early research action that peaked in 2013.
A line graph of Modeling Wikipedia โ Yearly Citations (2005โ2025). The diagram shows a largely linear increase up to 2022 and then a sharp drop off.
Each "action" of research has its own popularly cited texts. And Modeling is the most frequently cited.
A line chart from 2005 to 2025 showing yearly citations โ from Google Scholar โ for five major research actions (top ten cited documents per action). It shows how 2009โ2013 began the bifurcation of research in viewing Wikipedia as two separate research objects: a peer production object and a semantic extraction object.
While I'm often thinking about the State of Wikipedia Research, here is what I see as the history of "Popular" Wikipedia research. This history directly maps to a history of the development of Wikipedia/Wikidata as a AI training source. wikiworkshop.org/2026/paper/w...
Introduction Wikipedia operates as a critical knowledge infrastructure, yet conflicts regularly emerge over the legitimacy of including content related to minority cultures. In the Canadian context, this problem particularly affects Indigenous, Franco-Canadian, and diasporic communities, which remain underrepresented despite the encyclopedia's mission to collectively produce and freely share universal knowledge. As the Wikimedia Foundation has identified knowledge equity as a strategic priority, understanding the mechanisms through which diverse cultural perspectives are negotiated within Wikipedia has become necessary. This paper presents a work-in-progress methodological approach and preliminary insights, examining the protocols that regulate the cultural pluralization of knowledge in Canadian content on French Wikipedia. Drawing on dispute situations in which contributors debate these protocols during editing conflicts, it explores how conditions for cultural pluralization are negotiated in practice.
Shout out to Sabrina Mac Gregor et al. who presented yesterday at Wiki Workshop 2026 on their paper _Cultural POV? Negotiating Situated Knowledge on the French Wikipedia_. Some great examples of the frictions between language and culture. wikiworkshop.org/2026/paper/w...
Wikipedia's stated mission to provide "free access to the sum of all human knowledge" fails practically by not recognising low-resourced language oral history as citations. By design, Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects systematically exclude the majority of the worldโs population that preserves and disseminates knowledge through oral history rather than written forms. Based on our experience running the OpenSpeaks Archives, a Wikimedia movement-linked language documentation initiative, we argue in this paper that this critical gap should be addressed by developing a scientific system to integrate oral histories as citable sources within Wikimedia projects
Yesterday I had the pleasure of chairing a session for Wiki Workshop 2026 which included this much-needed research: _OpenSpeaks Archives: Citing Low-Resourced Language Oral History Multimedia_ Subhashish Panigrahi, Opino Gomango, Kimmi Pal wikiworkshop.org/2026/paper/w...
"but we learned from, with and against him what it means to keep faith with critique." ๐ฅฒ
A short paper is about to see the light, as will the gross grammatical error in the abstract that I failed to catch on my last read through.
Screenshot of the Internet Policy Review website.
[New op-ed] Mining the commons: AI extraction, Wikipedia, and the case for a multi-stakeholder settlement, By @taltech.bsky.social's Pranay Khattar & Vasilis Kostakis policyreview.info/articles/new...
Big Data & Society? Just did a commentary with them last year, although it might have taken a bit longer than I wanted โ but also probably my fault.
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As someone who studies this, being utopian about the internet _means_ seeing it for what it truly is. Indeed, I think this is a perfect description of your writing ๐
I want heirloom technologies.
