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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 20/11/2022

the always-amazing 🐘shannonmattern@saturation.social wrote an open and moving reflection about her time at The New School including candid takes on personal growth, collegial camaraderie and a truckload of institutional disillusionment. a must-read…...

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 19/11/2022

that was quick! just passed 500 followings with the latest import via fedifinder.glitch.me the great #twitterMigration seems to be in full swing. for people just settling in here a few quick hints on bio blurbs: 🐘 write something…...

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Fedifinder

Fediverse accounts of your X/Twitter followings

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 19/11/2022

the #fediverse is a world in which many worlds fit. even late capitalism has found its cozy corner in brands.town the directory is pure gold: brands.town/directory not entirely clear which accounts are there for parody and which…...

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Brands Town

Brands Town is the first ever Mastodon Instance dedicated...

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 18/11/2022

there are instances related to visualization, HCI & digital humanities on the #fediverse, but what about folks into #Urbanism #UrbanDesign #Cycling #WalkableCities #UrbanPlanning #UrbanFutures you ask? there seems to be a friendly place just for you, too: urbanists.social

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Urbanists.Social

We're a server for people who like bikes, transit, and wa...

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 18/11/2022

for folks on vis.social following a certain sport event over the next three weeks, please, go easy on sharing your excitement in posts. we're a tad concerned that our little s̶t̶a̶d̶i̶u̶m̶ server might reach capacity too quickly

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vis.social is a community for creative people, especially...

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 18/11/2022

you can also start with the 2nd step to find the instance where most of your peeps are. but the choice of instance is not that big of a choice as it might sound. the #fediverse is all about connecting across instances. and if you want to move: account portability is built-in

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 18/11/2022

2nd step: once you have an account, you can turn (part of) your flock into a herd with this nifty service: fedifinder.glitch.me

fedifinder.glitch.me

Fedifinder

Fediverse accounts of your X/Twitter followings

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 17/11/2022

for your daily brain pickings: Maria Popova—author of www.themarginalian.org—is now also very well #fediverse’d as 🐘mariapopova@indieweb.social

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 17/11/2022

it's a bit ironic that birdsite recognizes .social URLs as links, while Mastodon does not seem to bother… oh and by the way: our lab is now also here 🐘uclab_potsdam@vis.social 🧪

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 17/11/2022

helpful interview (in German) with 🐘matthiaskettemann@mastodon.social about the #TwitterMigration, the way #Mastodon works, and the prospects for #fediverse: www.youtube.com/watch?v=czKvD7leIvA

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 17/11/2022

what should the role of universities be on the #fediverse? wondering if hosting instances would be feasible and desirable. does anybody know of any unis already active over here? #followerPower

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 16/11/2022

another #fediverse flashback: in 2007 i was a student volunteer at the international web conference in Banff, Canada (now #theWebConf). that was high noon of web 2.0 and i was about to start my final thesis project. at the internal conference…...

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 15/11/2022

let the purple times roll 💜

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 14/11/2022

FeDiHum fedihum.org is a brand new instance on the #fediverse devoted to #academicChatter among "researchers, teachers, students, and those interested in the field of #DigitalHumanities" – run by the fine folks at 🐘DHd@https://fedihum.org/

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FeDiHum

[EN] A community for Digital Humanities aficionados. \n [...

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 13/11/2022

i wonder when we'll reach the point where we consider the #fediverse to be part of basic communication infrastructure as email and the web

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 12/11/2022

no one wants soup stains on a Van Gogh, but shouldn’t museums be glad that a previously considered hard to reach segment of the population deems them relevant enough to voice their concerns and stage the #JustStopOil actions? museums could do so much to…...

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 12/11/2022

admittedly more moving for myself, was the laudatory speech i gave for Hannah Schwan receiving the award for best MA thesis co-advised with 🐘framoriniii@vis.social: »Intersectional Feminist Data Visualization Archive« During her… vis.social/@nrchtct/109331981418102…

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Marian Dörk (@nrchtct@vis.social)

admittedly more moving for myself, was the laudatory spee...

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 12/11/2022

Héla Hecker just gave the keynote at this year's ceremonial certificate handover of #FHPotsdam's design department (called Applaus) and she spoke to us and our most recent alumni about Hannah Arendt's analogy of a revolutionary life to "rain…...

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 09/11/2022

Today 84 years ago, the November Pogroms or Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht) took place across the German Reich. Contrary to common understanding this was not a singular night, but the dark fulmination point of antisemitic violence carried out by…...

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 08/11/2022

before moving into a co-housing apartment, one of my soon-to-be neighbors told me a basic aim of the house: bring the good bits from the village into the city. maybe it's not so much about if 🐘 is like 🐦 or not, but rather what are the good…...

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 07/11/2022

we have a new paper out in the wonderful #openaccess journal ƒi®s† m⦻ñd@¥: »Disclosure as a critical-feminist design practice for Web-based data stories« by Hannah Schwan, Jonas Arndt, and Marian Dörk firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/ar… you can…...

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 06/11/2022

“The German Colonial Genocide in Namibia: A Case for Reparations” at HKW mounts unsettling evidence of the horrific violence inflicted on the OvaHerero and Nama in 1904-1908. In the heart of Berlin the descendants of the victims demand recognition,…...

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 05/11/2022

overheard on transit from an adult to 3 children: if you’re not quiet, we will go to the museum! poisonous pedagogy just ain’t the same no more

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 05/11/2022

i always found microblogging to be a special kind of journaling - somewhat exhibitionist with a diary readable and writable by friends and strangers. the #twittermigration now creates a hard rupture in this life log. i wish there was a way to accommodate…...

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 04/11/2022

in light of twitter layoffs today, i've been thinking about funding options for fediverse devops. apart from paying for server hosting, i'm sure 🐘Mastodon@mastodon.social would appreciate technical and financial support to address the many feature requests popping up…

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 04/11/2022

We are looking for a new colleague to join UCLAB for #GraDiM project: »Granularities of dispersion and materiality – Visualizing a photo archive about diaspora« starting Jan 2023 as part of DFG Priority Program #DasDigitaleBild. … vis.social/@nrchtct/109284939273474…

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Marian Dörk (@nrchtct@vis.social)

We are looking for a new colleague to join UCLAB for #Gra...

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 03/11/2022

on my way to #CityVis symposium »Beyond the Smart City – Reflections on the digital City« starting in 1h in Potsdam. With three speakers: - Lara Stöhlmacher fem-arc.net - Omar Ferwati #ForensicArchitecture - Marek Tuszynski… vis.social/@nrchtct/109280709242502…

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fem_arc

GENDER SPACE ARCHITECTURE - Against the backdrop of a gro...

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 03/11/2022

1 week after "let this sink in", i'm happy about my move. many boxes still unpacked, but everyone seems friendly & helpful. apart from talking about #mastodon, there is #academicchatter, #activism and #inspiration in my corner of the #fediverse. …...

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 01/11/2022

full disclosure: maybe i'm so enthusiastic about the #twittermigration as my first student research project was about decentralized photo sharing. i was a visiting student at the Center for Web Research / Universidad the Chile in Santiago in 2006…...

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 31/10/2022

this Thursday the #cityvis exhibition opens with a symposium featuring three stellar speakers and the announcement of the winners of the competition: www.cityvis.io/exhibitions/2022/sym… 3 Nov, 6pm at the Wissenschaftsetage in Potsdam #urbanfutures #datavis

cityvis.io

Visualizing Cities | Symposium 2022

CityVis Symposium 2022 - Hybrid, 2022/11/03, 6pm CET

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Marian Dörk @nrchtct.bsky.social · 31/10/2022

"How can (audio-)visual media help cities and regions reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the new realities of climate change – in other words, make sustainable local futures imaginable, negotiable, and desirable?" Open call…...

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