From S.A.Taffel at massey.ac.nz  Fri Nov  1 03:03:44 2019
From: S.A.Taffel at massey.ac.nz (Taffel, Sy)
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 02:03:44 +0000
Subject: <unlike-us> Book Announcement: Digital Media Ecologies (Sy Taffel)
Message-ID: <SYCPR01MB44155E6E58D62191F25AA4F6F2620@SYCPR01MB4415.ausprd01.prod.outlook.com>

I'm delighted to be able to announce that I've just had a book published by Bloomsbury.
Digital Media Ecologies: Entanglements of Content, Code and Hardware<https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/digital-media-ecologies-9781501349249/>.
Please consider ordering a copy for your library! You can also use the code GLR MP9 for a 35% discount on the list price.
"Digital media, you say? Taffel's fantastic book responds: you probably meant this multi-scalar entangled reality of energy and matter, software and hardware, humans and technology, all in complex feedback loops that we need to map and unravel if we want to dig ourselves out of this planetary scale mediated mess we got ourselves - and our companion species - in!" -  Jussi Parikka, professor of Technological Culture & Aesthetics, University of Southampton, UK
"Ecology is not just a metaphor in Sy Taffel's powerfully optimistic take on media ecology. Media are ecological, looting resources, dumping waste, and at the same time connecting us to our world. Taffel proposes that we stand at a decisive moment between the triumph of network capital and new ways of moving from consumerism to commonwealth. In a powerful series of case studies, Taffel shows how human mediation can stop being the problem and become the solution." -  Sean Cubitt, Professor of Film and Television, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
"Traversing complex scales of entanglement, Sy Taffel's rich account of media ecologies provides a much needed update on the materiality of media networks. Registering astutely the crises of our times, Taffel asks how we might reorient our imaginaries, practices and economies in ways that don't submit to the dystopian horrors of the Anthropocene. Theoretically sophisticated and succinctly written, Digital Media Ecologies is a most welcome addition to the nascent field of research on environmental media and new materialism." -  Ned Rossiter, Professor of Communication, Western Sydney University, Australia
Our digital world is often described using terms such as immateriality and virtuality. The discourse of cloud computing is the latest in a long line of nebulous, dematerialising tropes which have come to dominate how we think about information and communication technologies. Digital Media Ecologies argues that such rhetoric is highly misleading, and that engaging with the key cultural, agential, ethical and political impacts of contemporary media requires that we do not just engage with the surface level of content encountered by the end users of digital media, but that we must additionally consider the affordances of software and hardware. Whilst numerous existing approaches explore content, software and hardware individually, Digital Media Ecologies provides a critical intervention by insisting that addressing contemporary technoculture requires a synthetic approach that traverses these three registers.

Digital Media Ecologies re-envisions the methodological approach of media ecology to go beyond the metaphor of a symbolic information environment that exists alongside a material world of tantalum, turtles and tornados. It illustrates the social, cultural, political and environmental impacts of contemporary media assemblages through examples that include mining conflict-sustaining minerals, climate change blogging, iOS jailbreaking, and the ecological footprint of contemporary computing infrastructures. Alongside foregrounding the deleterious social and environmental impacts of digital technologies, the book considers numerous ways that these issues are being tackled by a heterogeneous array of activists, academics, hackers, scientists and citizens using the same technological assemblages that ostensibly cause these problems.
Sy Taffel, PhD
Programme Coordinator and Senior Lecturer in Media Studies |Co-Director, Political Ecology Research Centre<http://perc.ac.nz/>
College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Massey University
Email: s.a.taffel at massey.ac.nz<mailto:s.a.taffel at massey.ac.nz> | Telephone: +64 (06 ) 356 9099 ext. 84527

Recently Published:

Taffel. S (2019) Digital Media Ecologies: Entanglements of Content, Code and Hardware<https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/digital-media-ecologies-9781501349263/>, New York and London: Bloomsbury

Taffel. S (2019) Automating Creativity<http://screenworks.org.uk/archive/volume-10-1/automating-creativity> Screenworks 10.1

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From imgeozcan at gmail.com  Tue Nov  5 15:58:39 2019
From: imgeozcan at gmail.com (Imge Ozcan)
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 15:58:39 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> =?utf-8?q?Call_for_Submissions=E2=80=93_Privacy_Camp?=
	=?utf-8?q?_2020=3A_Technology_and_Activism_=28deadline_10_November?=
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*Privacy Camp 2020: Technology and Activism*

*21 January 2020 ? Brussels, Belgium*


*( https://privacycamp.eu <https://privacycamp.eu> )*


*Call for Submissions*


For the 8th edition, Privacy Camp takes ?Technology and Activism? as its
focus. Over the last decade, digital technologies have played a significant
role in activism by mobilising social protests, fostering new forms of
civil disobedience, or simply by facilitating the coordination of activist
work in the analogue world. Some scholars assigned particular value to the
networked nature of cyberspace, arguing that this structure enables people
to communicate and take action outside of traditional hierarchical power
structures. However, networked information systems also enhance the
surveillance power of repressive regimes.


Going beyond cyber-optimist and cyber-pessimist arguments, Privacy Camp
2020 will seek to explore further dynamics in the activist-technology
entanglements. Together with activists from diverse fields and scholars
working at the intersection of technology and activism, Privacy Camp 2020
will cover a broad range of practices and issues including surveillance,
censorship, civic participation in information policy making, social media
and political dissent, online civil disobedience, data justice, data
activism, commons and peer production, citizen science and more.


*Participate!*

For this edition, we call for (1) panel proposals and (2) critical making
and DIY projects (see further below).


*1. Call for Panels*

We welcome panel proposals relating to the broad theme of ?technology and
activism?. We also welcome alternative types of sessions such as workshops
or formats with more interaction between the participants than a
traditional panel.

We are particularly interested in proposals on the following topics:
? social media and political dissent
? hacktivism and civil disobedience
? critical public sphere and hashtag publics (e.g. #MeToo,
#BlackLivesMatter etc)
? data justice and data activism
? commons, peer production, and platform cooperativism
? citizen science

*Submission guidelines:*

? Indicate a clear objective for your session, i.e. what would be a good
outcome for you?
? Include a list of speakers that could participate in your panel (and let
us know which speaker has already confirmed, at least in principle, to
participate).
? Make it as interactive as possible, think about how to include the
audience and diverse actors. Note that the average panel length is 75
minutes.
? Send your proposal (a panel description of max 400 words and a tentative
list of speakers) to privacycamp(at)edri.org by 10 November.

*Deadline for panel proposal submissions: 10 November 2019 (hard deadline,
no extension)*

After the deadline, we will review your submissions and will notify you
about the selection process before 20 November. Please note that we might
suggest merging panel proposals if they are very similar.


*2. Call for Makers: Critical Maker Faire at Privacy Camp 2020*

We are pleased to invite makers, disruptors, tinkerers, crafters and DIY
artists with the aim of bringing even more diverse communities into the
conversation on technology and activism. Maker cultures attempt to
democratise technology by focusing on production and consumption patterns
and citizen engagement in technology design. We seek makers who create with
the ethos of counterculture and activism ? in distinction from those who
align with innovation and entrepreneurship.


We will provide an exhibit space for makers working at the intersection of
technology and activism. Makers will be able to engage participants and
hold experiments. Possible maker projects may include, but are not limited
to: DIY hardware, biohacking tools, wearables, bots, DIY air quality
sensors, experiments with glitch and stitch.

*If you are interested to submit your work for the Critical Maker Faire,
please contact us at privacycamp(at)edri.org <http://edri.org> before 30
November 2019.*


*About Privacy Camp*

Privacy Camp is jointly organised by European Digital Rights (EDRi),
Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society at Vrije Universiteit
Brussel (LSTS-VUB), the Institute for European Studies at Universit?
Saint-Louis ? Bruxelles (USL-B), and Privacy Salon.


*Privacy Camp 2020 will take place on 21 January 2020 in Brussels, Belgium.*
Participation is free and registrations will open in early December.

For inquiries, please contact Andreea Belu at andreea.belu(at)edri(dot)org
or Imge Ozcan at imge.ozcan(at)vub(dot)be.


-- 
Imge Ozcan

Doctoral Researcher
Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
imge.ozcan at vub.be
https://lsts.research.vub.be/en/imge-ozcan
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From chema at rinzewind.org  Thu Nov 14 12:38:30 2019
From: chema at rinzewind.org (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Mar=EDa?= Mateos)
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 06:38:30 -0500
Subject: <unlike-us> Another attention sink
Message-ID: <20191114113830.GB4443@miniequipaje>

So far, only the FT seems to carry it properly:

https://www.ft.com/content/9956ff9c-0622-11ea-a984-fbbacad9e7dd

(Paywalled link, sorry). Headline: "Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales 
launches Twitter and Facebook rival"

Excerpt:

---
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a rival to 
Facebook and Twitter that he hopes will combat ?clickbait? and 
misleading headlines. 

WT:Social, his new social-networking site, allows users to share links 
to articles and discuss them in a Facebook-style news feed. Topics range 
from politics and technology to heavy metal and beekeeping.
---

Exactly what we need. Also, looks like the ethos is pretty well defined: 
"WT:Social is also operating a wait-list for new users, which donors can 
pay to skip."

Cheers,

-- 
Jos? Mar?a (Chema) Mateos || https://rinzewind.org



From joostvb-unlikeus at mdcc.cx  Thu Nov 14 13:49:27 2019
From: joostvb-unlikeus at mdcc.cx (Joost van =?utf-8?Q?Baal-Ili=C4=87?=)
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:49:27 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> WT:Social / Re:  Another attention sink
In-Reply-To: <20191114113830.GB4443@miniequipaje>
References: <20191114113830.GB4443@miniequipaje>
Message-ID: <20191114124927.GE9353@beskar.mdcc.cx>

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 06:38:30AM -0500, Jos? Mar?a Mateos wrote:
> So far, only the FT seems to carry it properly:
> 
> https://www.ft.com/content/9956ff9c-0622-11ea-a984-fbbacad9e7dd
> 
> (Paywalled link, sorry). Headline: "Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales
> launches Twitter and Facebook rival"

Interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiTribune has some background info about the
history of WT:Social.

Bye,

Joost




From geert at xs4all.nl  Mon Nov 18 17:18:43 2019
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:18:43 +0100
Subject: <unlike-us> links
Message-ID: <CD60E9E0-F02C-4C56-ACFB-BECA735B6DDC@xs4all.nl>

Facebook hiding likes?
https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/26/facebook-hides-likes/ <https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/26/facebook-hides-likes/>

Colin Horgan: We Don?t Need Social Media
The push to regulate or break up Facebook ignores the fact that its services do more harm than good
https://onezero.medium.com/we-dont-need-social-media-53d5455f4f6b <https://onezero.medium.com/we-dont-need-social-media-53d5455f4f6b>

Transcript of Mark Zuckerberg?s leaked internal Facebook meetings
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20892354/mark-zuckerberg-full-transcript-leaked-facebook-meetings <https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20892354/mark-zuckerberg-full-transcript-leaked-facebook-meetings>

Transaction fees change culture bitcoin, study says
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/10/transaction-fees-change-culture-bitcoin-study-says <https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/10/transaction-fees-change-culture-bitcoin-study-says>

Jimmy Wales launches WT Social:
https://wt.social/ <https://wt.social/>

Wellcome to WT Social

As social networks have grown, they've also amplified the voices of bad actors across the globe. Fake news has influenced global events, and algorithms care only about "engagement", and keeping people addicted to platforms without substance.
WikiTribune wants to be different.

We will never sell your data. Our platform survives on the generosity of individual donors to ensure privacy is protected and your social space is ad-free.

We will empower you to make your own choices about what content you are served, and to directly edit misleading headlines, or flag problem posts.

We will foster an environment where bad actors are removed because it is right, not because it suddenly affects our bottom-line.

But this will only work with your help. So join today and help change the landscape of social media.
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From mdieter at gmail.com  Mon Nov 18 17:51:13 2019
From: mdieter at gmail.com (Michael Dieter)
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 16:51:13 +0000
Subject: <unlike-us> links
In-Reply-To: <CD60E9E0-F02C-4C56-ACFB-BECA735B6DDC@xs4all.nl>
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Hi UU,

Kind of weird seeing Ben Grosser's Demetricator incorporated into the
official UI for Facebook and Instagram. Only took like seven years of
critique and controversy for them to consider it - and of course, it
retains a sense of only being an experimental alteration to the facade
of metrification that will keep going on in the background anyway.
Improving well-being without tanking user engagement.

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 4:18 PM Geert Lovink <geert at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> Facebook hiding likes?
> https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/26/facebook-hides-likes/
>
> Colin Horgan: We Don?t Need Social Media
> The push to regulate or break up Facebook ignores the fact that its services do more harm than good
> https://onezero.medium.com/we-dont-need-social-media-53d5455f4f6b
>
> Transcript of Mark Zuckerberg?s leaked internal Facebook meetings
> https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20892354/mark-zuckerberg-full-transcript-leaked-facebook-meetings
>
> Transaction fees change culture bitcoin, study says
> https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/10/transaction-fees-change-culture-bitcoin-study-says
>
> Jimmy Wales launches WT Social:
> https://wt.social/
>
> Wellcome to WT Social
>
> As social networks have grown, they've also amplified the voices of bad actors across the globe. Fake news has influenced global events, and algorithms care only about "engagement", and keeping people addicted to platforms without substance.
>
> WikiTribune wants to be different.
>
> We will never sell your data. Our platform survives on the generosity of individual donors to ensure privacy is protected and your social space is ad-free.
>
> We will empower you to make your own choices about what content you are served, and to directly edit misleading headlines, or flag problem posts.
>
> We will foster an environment where bad actors are removed because it is right, not because it suddenly affects our bottom-line.
>
> But this will only work with your help. So join today and help change the landscape of social media.
>
> _______________________________________________
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> unlike-us at listcultures.org
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-- 
Michael Dieter
"Social Media Expert", Gentequemola, Internet
Peckham, London
http://twitter.com/#!/mdieter