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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know there are many data visualizations to adore. This will remain top five for me.

Export in Bananen in Tonnen von 1994-2005 (Banana exports in tonnes from 1994-2005). It is a multicolour bar chart in 3D with photos of bananas in the background.

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Open call for pitches for vol 3 of Predictions: ruhr-uni-bochum.sciebo.de/s/pDyDideqak...

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Prediction_Volume 3 Open Call for Submissions.pdf

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Biblically-accurate Wikipedian commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wi...

This image comes for a Wikimedia style guide document as an example Wikimedia imagery. It has an illustration of a femme-presenting person x's on their shirt and a hat with many eyes on it. It looks like a less intense version of an Angel from Ezekiel in the Christian Bible.

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@matuzo.at Hear me out. Black t-shirt, white lettering and red star. The HTMHell logo. I would buy this in a heartbeat.

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The new monospace Datatype font takes Edward Tufte's ideas and jams them into a font. So lovely. franktisellano.github.io/datatype/ Only thing that could be better is if it was designed to match ET Bembo (maybe it does, I'll have to try it out).

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Vsauce mentioned Mark Fisher in this video to help explain why the future feels the way it does. That is all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0teS...

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Vsauce Explains How Consciousness May Have Come About

YouTube video by More Alex O'Connor

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Zach McDowell @zacharymcdowell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've been writing and talking around these issues for a while, and it's really great to see Helen Choi's new piece in AI and Ethics saying it loudly: there is a *positional duty* of academics to defend the knowledge commons. OA! link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43681-026-01373-z

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Towards a practice of knowledge commoning: academics’ ethical duties to defend Wikipedia in the age of generative AI - AI and Ethics

Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in history and one of the most valuable training resources available to the generative AI (genAI) industry; and yet that same industry is…

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Wikimedia research methodologies: a bibliometric history of peer production and AI (2005–2025) – I describe the past 20y of this charismatic research object from the perspective of how concerns and methods have shaped its meaning both for researchers and the public more broadly rdcu.be/jjVzyGCbjFja

A triangular diagram that shows the preference for qualitative, quantitative, and evaluative research when studying Wikimedia projects from seven research concerns: Digital property and Commons; Distributed authority; Social media platforms; a reliable source; optimizing Wikipedia; Corporate AI Software; and Wikipedia's significance.

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The best place to download my glossary entries on the nature of Internet "projects" and "hype histories" with the Institute of Network Cultures is here matterofimagination.neocities.org/glossary

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:To...

A picture taken from Wikicommons titled "Topology joke." A coffee cup with a handle is topologically equivalent to a donut. A coffee cup transforming into a donut is represented by ceramic models.

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

2 letters from the same company – 10 years apart. www.facebook.com/notes/370797... www.meta.com/thefutureisf... They show a rhetorical shift from the networked communitarianism of the 2010s, to something like "AI materialism" with the meaning of "community"in both texts are wildly different.

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The Future is for Everyone

Read Mark Zuckerberg’s piece on our values for building superintelligence for everyone.

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One of my colleagues Lydia Kollyri had paper "rethinking platform vernaculars" published with New Media & Society. She told me she wrote it because students struggle with these ideas in a course we teach together. Should be a classic explainer on the concept journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

An infobox for the ages. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_B...

A screenshot of the Wikipedia infobox for Count Binface which includes their species (Recyclon) and the origin (Sigma IX).

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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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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Jokes on me. I just bought Fourtet's "Wingdings" album from bandcamp and when I added it to music-app (iTunes–which I should get rid of), it didn't play. Had to edit the metadata in Audacity and change the filenames which just caused havoc. lol. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingdin... Now I'm 😎

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Wingdings (album) - Wikipedia

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I'm proud to announce "Digital ecologies of hope: A natural history of emerging media futures" as the last Utopian Media Studies article. It includes a creative supplement (which is the entire article, but illustrated: journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

first day of the second "the browser is already a game engine" class with sfpc. excited for the next 10 weeks of talking and thinking deeply about online games

I WANT A GAME THAT LOOKS LIKE A HOMEPAGE
I WANT A GAME I CAN DOWNLOAD AND EDIT ON MY COMPUTER
I WANT A GAME THAT LIVES IN AN IFRAME
I WANT A GAME I CAN INSPECT WITH THE CONSOLE LOG
I WANT A GAME WHERE I CAN HIT CONTROL-A AND SELECT EVERY HTML OBJECT ON THE SCREEN
I WANT A GAME MADE OF HOTLINKED IMAGES FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
I WANT A GAME THAT RUNS ON A PHONE FROM 2011
I WANT A GAME MADE OF 1000 <a> TAGS
I WANT A GAME I CAN COPY-PASTE FROM
I WANT A GAME WITH A GUESTBOOK
I WANT A GAME THAT IS A WEBSITE, NOT ON A WEBSITE

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My riff on the Cyberpunks prayer from www-jstor-org.proxy.uba.uva.nl/stable/1465622 (p. 792).

A revised version of the Cyberpunks prayer.
Our User,
Who art in data,
Hallow be thy network.
Thy update come,
Thy code will be run
Offline as it is online,
Give us this day our daily thread,
And block our toxic posts
As we block those who troll against us.
And lead us not into disconnection,
But deliver us from disconnection.
For thine is the System and the Software
and the glory forever, and ever
Amen.

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🚨 INTERNET HISTORY ALERT 🚨 Super excited to announce my two entries of "Projects" and "Hype Histories" as part of the _Imagining the Internet(s)_ Collaborative glossary by the Institute of Network Cultures. networkcultures.org/wp-content/u...

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

✨Tomorrow✨ I will be giving a lightning talk at the public event "Real Inspiration for Protopian Futures: Toolbuilder Showcase & Mini Writing Workshop" where I will present work on how the history of media stories helps us think about the future. luma.com/dbvh8eoz

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Real Inspiration for Protopian Futures: Toolbuilder Showcase & Mini Writing Workshop · Zoom · Luma

Protopian stories imagine a future that is neither flawless nor catastrophic, but instead workably better than today. It’s about plausible progress rather than…

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

As part of the special issue on Utopian Media Studies that I am co-editing with Convergence, I am pleased to see this article by the very talented @anya-shchetvina.bsky.social and @nathaliefridz.bsky.social come out. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #utopia #mediastudies #webhistory

Screenshot of the journal title page for the article: "The Vernacular web: A notion at the intersection of media theory and a utopian web imaginary". with the abstract: "This article critically examines the vernacular web as a notion that exists in conceptual ambiguity
between Media and Internet Studies, Web History, and artistic and activist practice. Drawing on Ruth Levitas’s argument that utopian implications are often embedded within the Social Sciences and can be critically excavated (2013), it argues that the vernacular web operates across two registers: an analytical concept describing amateur, non-institutional, and ostensibly autonomous forms of online practice, and a temporally grounded imaginary that invests the early web with utopian value. By analysing the reciprocity between these two registers, the article traces how utopian assumptions about autonomy, participation, and digital well-being circulate across scholarship, historical narratives, and activist practice. Through the cases of Olia Lialina’s essays and The Yesterweb, it identifies three constituent values of functional autonomy, while arguing that this imaginary remains half-baked: oriented towards aesthetics and affect rather than a reflection on the feasibility, limitations and potential risks."

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

What a fascinating looking collection! Looking forward to digging into it.

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Giota Alevizou @giotita.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Massive thanks to @textaural.bsky.social for the invite to talk at the awesome campus of UofAmsterdam New Media Dept, for the hospitality & new plans

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Wikipedia is often held as a leader in how a community comes together to make difficult epistemological decisions. This article examines the difficulty they faced when deciding to create a timely policy about AI. Some great work looking at Wikipedia policy here. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Screenshot of the article "Failed comprehensiveness, successful minimalism: Wikipedia’s 3-year struggle to govern AI-generated content (2022–2025)"

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

In the run up to @giotita.bsky.social's talk this Tuesday at the University of Amsterdam, her book mentions that in the early 2000s, Britannica.com was pivoting to make itself more visible to younger generations: such as the semiotics of Britney Spears belly button web.archive.org/web/20010211...

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Last month I had the pleasure of being part of a workshop on speculative fiction where I talked about some media fiction from the 1800s I found. One of those stories (The Automaton Ear) caught @r-emrys.bsky.social attention (she was there too) and she wrote about it reactormag.com/i-heard-it-t...

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Nicole Schwitter @nschwitter.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

#Wikipedia relies on a small group of elected administrators for key governance and maintenance tasks. Are offline Wikipedia meetups related to who ends up in these roles? In Wikipedia's early years, the answer is yes! 📝 doi.org/10.1609/icws...

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From Meetups to Adminship: The Offline Path to Leadership on Wikipedia | Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

2016: Oh no! there's dark patterns in the design of (social) media and a lot of the content is misinformation. 2026: Oh no! there's dark patterns in the design of (AI) media and the content is misinformation. Also 2026: Wait a second 🤔

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Another article from our special issue on Utopian Media Studies has just been published! "Popular digital sovereignty and digital real utopias: Lessons from the Homeless Workers’ Movement in Brazil" by @grohmannrafael.bsky.social and Alexandre Costa Barbosa journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Fernando van der Vlist @fvandervlist.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

✨📗 Our 3rd @appstudies.bsky.social ASI Sprint Report (w/ @esthrr.bsky.social) is out now! Building directly on previous work in this series, it explores what we call ‘Appification of AI’, focusing on the embeddedness, visibility, and dependency of artificial intelligence. #AppStudies #AI

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idil galip @idilg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I'm excited to share that our article "Chatbox sociality: Extreme personae, speculative communities, and the affordances of alt-tech livestreaming," co-authored with Eleni Maragkou, is now published on First Monday. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

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View of Chatbox sociality: Extreme personae, speculative communities, and the affordances of alt-tech livestreaming | First Monday

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

✸▵✸ {⸄⌯⸅} ☙▿☙

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Planets are my favourite kind of star.

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Another amazing article that is part of our special issue on Utopian Media Studies just came out! With the focus on glossaries as a utopian method, this one is quite special to me. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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The Futures Glossary: An experiment in utopic pedagogy - Steven Logan, Kate Maddalena, 2026

In this essay, we describe a project that asks students to edit and contribute to a collaborative “Futures Glossary” across two undergraduate media studies cour...

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

museum.eecs.yorku.ca/york-univers...

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

#link www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBuy.... Glitchy found footage with eclectic editing. Constantly streaming #punkrock #rock #electronicmusic

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WENEEDNOISE.TV

YouTube video by WENEEDNOISE

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

IT'S HAPPENING! Over the past month the first three articles that are part of the special issue on Utopian Media Studies have been published (links in thread).

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

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.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It’s been brought to my attention that my positions on AI are sometimes perceived as contradictory. Is he a doomer or an enthusiast?! 🤯 Herewith, a 🧵:

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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

For its newsletter edited by students, my English dept. asked faculty, staff, & grads for their favorite children’s book, "that one book that brought you so much joy as a kid.” Mine, I answered, was the World Book Encyclopedia. See why in this micro personal memoir! alanyliu.org/blog-essays/...

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)

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Anne Helmond @silvertje.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Over ten years ago I coined ‘𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻’ (2015) to examine how platforms expand beyond their boundaries in 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 + 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺. Invited by editor Papacharissi, I reflect on a decade of platformization 🎉 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Every shot of Mick Jagger in Dancing in the Street is youtube-thumbnail-face. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5lA...

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Ali Rıza Taşkale @alirizataskale.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The fifth article in the special issue I’m editing on Silicon Valley is out! @maxhaiven.bsky.social introduces the Worker as Futurist project: 13 Amazon workers writing speculative fiction about ‘The World After Amazon’ - reclaiming the future from those who’ve monopolized the right to imagine it.

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Hot off the presses is my colleagues' new paper on keywords😍 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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." www.galaxykate.com/pdfs/galaxyk...

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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...

A line chart from 2005 to 2025 showing yearly citations – from Google Scholar – for five major research actions (top ten cited documents per action). It shows how 2009–2013 began the bifurcation of research in viewing Wikipedia as two separate research objects: a peer production object and a semantic extraction object.

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