<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Join billions by sending a blank email to <a href="mailto:billions-subscribe@listcultures.org" class="">billions-subscribe@listcultures.org</a></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Billions is a new old-fashioned email list for sharing information related to the impacts of social media and big digital networks on our lives and our communities. It’s a way for us to critically contribute to and keep track of the unfolding stories of social media and big digital across our planet, and to connect us with like-minded others. </div></div><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Researchers, activists, artists, ai/crypto/engineers, and curious others are all welcome to join. Please share news items, academic research and other posts that may be relevant to the topic. </div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">This list may evolve over time and become more defined, but for now we welcome you to join and share news, events and other information related to social media and big digital networks. </div></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">You can join the billions email list by sending a blank email to <a href="mailto:billions-subscribe@listcultures.org" class="">billions-subscribe@listcultures.org</a> - or reply to this message indicating your interest to join, and I can add you directly to the list.</div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Please note that your spam filter may identify emails from the list as junk/spam - so please check your appropriate folders or whitelist the address.</div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Please do share this invitation with others who may be interested. </div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Thanks to the <span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Institute of Network Cultures</span> for facilitating the hosting of billions. </div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">Best, Sam</div><div class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"><br class=""></div><div class=""><i class=""><font face="HelveticaNeue" class="">Sam de Silva is an informal researcher, and implementer who has most recently been working with the not-for-profit Internews to support </font></i><i class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;"> </i><i class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue;">journalists, activists and coders in Sri Lanka and a number of countries in Asia - and helping to support the good, and counter the bad and the ugly of social media and big digital networks. He currently lives in Melbourne.</i></div></body></html>