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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Technology and Culture 67.3, July 2026 tiny.one/mw8wd565 CONTRIBUTORS Nnamdi Nnake, Jiahe Mei, Emy Kim, Riccardo Ferrigato, Minseok Jang, Matteo Di Tullio, Martino Lorenzo Fagnani, Zhengfeng Wang, Dianya Mia Hua, Gijs Mom, Deborah Barcella, Gabriele Balbi, and more

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Technology and Culture
67.3, July 2026

CONTRIBUTORS
Nnamdi Nnake, Jiahe Mei, Emy Kim,
Riccardo Ferrigato, Minseok Jang, Matteo Di Tullio,
Martino Lorenzo Fagnani, Zhengfeng Wang, Dianya Mia Hua,
Gijs Mom, Deborah Barcella, Gabriele Balbi,
Ginevra Sanvitale, Dustin Abnet, Jeffrey L. Meikle,
Abigail Harrison Moore, John Hajduk, Nurçin İleri,
Catherine Radtka, Deac Rossell, Dominic Arsenault,
Galo Canizares, Ben Dwertman, Ricky Wichum,
Joel Pearson, David Arnold, Anna B. Agafonova,
Thomas Harbøll Schrøder, Helge Wendt, Eszter D. Kovács,
Michael J. Neufeld, Matthew Shindell, Dmitry Payson,
S. M. Pavelec, E. R. Truitt, Alexander Campolo,
Ernst Homburg, Eda Kranakis, Harro Maas,
Kaixuan Mu, Simon Grosse-Wilde, Tillmann Taape,
Alain Beltran, Thomas Leslie, Anna Veronika Wendland,
Jingjing Feng, Brian Crim, Emilio Ben Barreto Freire

HOPKINS PRESS JOURNALS
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 12/01/2026

I wrote about why we should understand the metaverse hype cycle as a dress rehearsal for the generative AI hype cycle www.fastcompany.com/91467599/met...

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What was the metaverse?

Mark Zuckerberg effectively declared its death last December. But the delusional fervor it inspired lives on.

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

☀️ U T O P I A N ☀️ M E D I A ☀️ S T U D I E S ☀️ I am so proud of this work w/ Convergence. Kemper & I make the argument that many media scholars use utopian approaches in their research. But we just need to reflect on how to do it together, and do it well. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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Gabriele Balbi @gabrielebalbi.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

"Sentirsi. Un'antropologia dello smartphone", scritto da me e da Massimo Cerulo Per dare un'occhiata: www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815... #libri #novitàinlibreria #nuoveuscitemusicali

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Gabriele Balbi @gabrielebalbi.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Antes de la revuelta francesa, la palabra implicaba un movimiento de los cuerpos celestes con algún tipo de retorno. Ahora fue captada por el mercado para imponer productos nuevos. cenital.com/revolucion-u... via @cenital.com

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Revolución, una palabra vaciada de sentido | Cenital

Antes de la revuelta francesa, la palabra implicaba un movimiento de los cuerpos celestes con algún tipo de retorno. Ahora fue captada por el mercado.

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De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

"Digital Roots: Historicizing #Media and #Communication Concepts of the Digital Age" edited by: Gabriele Balbi, Nelson Ribeiro, Valérie Schafer and Christian Schwarzenegger #OpenAccess: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Cover of "Digital Roots: Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age" edited by: Gabriele Balbi, Nelson Ribeiro, Valérie Schafer and Christian Schwarzenegger

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Università della Svizzera italiana @usi.ch · 20/01/2026

USI's New Rectorate Team Takes Shape Starting 1 February 2026, the new Rectorate team at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) will take office, coordinated by Interim Rector Gabriele Balbi. www.usi.ch/en/node/34044

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USI's New Rectorate Team Takes Shape

Starting 1 February 2026, the new Rectorate team at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) will take office, coordinated by Interim Rector Gabriele Balbi. The new Rectorate brings together establish...

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Maybe a good place to start. _The Digital Revolution: A Short History of an Ideology_ by Gabriele Balbi global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The cover of the book "The Digital Revolution" – A pixelated top and a perspective based grid at the bottom.

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Gabriele Balbi @gabrielebalbi.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

New publication alert just in time for #ICA25 panels on the "Global Media and Internet Concentration Project" #GMICP Change and resilience in Swiss newspapers and broadcasting, 2002 and 2022: Towards a critique of media concentration indices revistas.unav.edu/index.php/co... @icahdq.bsky.social

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Università della Svizzera italiana @usi.ch · 06/05/2025

✍️ sabato 10 maggio, h 18:00, Aula magna, USI Campus Ovest Lugano Nell'ambito della giornata di porte aperte UniVerso, USI invita all'aperitivo scientifico con l'astrofisica Edwige Pezzulli e lo storico Jonas Marti moderato dal Prof. @gabrielebalbi.bsky.social www.usi.ch/it/feeds/31738

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Da dove veniamo? Ce lo racconteranno Edwige Pezzulli e Jonas Marti

Sabato 10 maggio, sul Campus Ovest dell’Università della Svizzera italiana, si terrà UniVerso, una giornata di porte aperte dedicata al grande pubblico. Un'occasione per scoprire, attraverso attività ...

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Gabriele Balbi @gabrielebalbi.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Why do we confuse the "Internet" with the "Web"? And how was this confusion addressed at @cern.bsky.social ? Paper co-authored with the #WWWHistory Project @snf-fns-ch.bsky.social team: Deborah Barcella, @fandomistheanswer.bsky.social, and Martin Fomasi. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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Stop calling the Web the Internet: CERN’s tactics to fight ‘brand confusion’ in the mid-1990s

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Marco Scarcelli @cmscarcelli.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Here it is! The Italian companion to Media Studies edited by @gabrielebalbi.bsky.social, @fcomun.bsky.social, @michelesorice.bsky.social and Francesca Pasquali 🤩 Featuring the chapter on Gender and Media Studies written by @fcomun.bsky.social and me

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Gabriele Balbi @gabrielebalbi.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Esce “Studiare i media”. 44 autrici e autori di varie università italiane e straniere si confrontano con varie prospettive disciplinari e alcune parole chiave della nostra contemporaneità mediale. Indice e colleghe e colleghi coinvolti qui: www.carocci.it/prodotto/stu...

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Gabriele Balbi @gabrielebalbi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

It was a pleasure to organize the @ecrea.bsky.social Communication History Workshop “Communication Networks Before and After the Web”, hosted at @cern.bsky.social More details indico.cern.ch/event/142213... Founded by @snf-ch.bsky.social #ECREA #CERN #SNSF #CommunicationHistory #WorldWideWeb

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