Does anyone remember an MIT Media Lab(?) project called Immersion(?), which let you input your email account and showed you your network of contacts via the to/from metadata? It's gone--but does something like it still exist?

(Asking for teaching, TIA!)

#Commodon

Does anyone remember an MIT Media Lab(?) project called Immersion(?), which let you input your email account and showed you your network of contacts via the to/from metadata? It's gone--but does something like it still exist?

(Asking for teaching, TIA!)

#Commodon

This new #openAccess book looks interesting:

Innovations and Challenges in Digital Literacies by Rodney H. Jones

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9780429328480/innovations-challenges-digital-literacies-rodney-jones

#commodon

🚨 NEW ARTICLE ALERT 🚨 from me, Victoria Simon & Nathaniel Laywine

"What’s with All the Tapestries?
Intersectionality and the Discursive Vacuum of Generative AI”

We use methods called “kibbitzing” and “futzing” to critique the representation of intersectional identity in ChatGPT & MidJourney.

https://criticalai.org/2025/10/30/sneak-preview-article-victoria-simon-nathaniel-laywine-and-aram-sinnreichs-whats-with-all-the-tapestries-intersectionality-and-the-discursive-vacuum-of-generative-ai/

#academia #commodon #academicChatter #amWriting #Jewish #intersectionality #AI #race #identity #article #openAccess

🚨 NEW ARTICLE ALERT 🚨 from me, Victoria Simon & Nathaniel Laywine

"What’s with All the Tapestries?
Intersectionality and the Discursive Vacuum of Generative AI”

We use methods called “kibbitzing” and “futzing” to critique the representation of intersectional identity in ChatGPT & MidJourney.

https://criticalai.org/2025/10/30/sneak-preview-article-victoria-simon-nathaniel-laywine-and-aram-sinnreichs-whats-with-all-the-tapestries-intersectionality-and-the-discursive-vacuum-of-generative-ai/

#academia #commodon #academicChatter #amWriting #Jewish #intersectionality #AI #race #identity #article #openAccess

Oh, the paper link one more time!

"Pin the tail on the researcher: From distributed to meshy accountability in decentralized social media"

https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/6644

(ETA: Oh, and sincere thanks to everyone who's both lent moral support & helped me navigate this situation, including offering insights about network architecture & features. I say that in the paper but I should post it here too 💛)

#Commodon #FLOSS #Mastodon #STS #MeshyAccountability #LocatedAccountability #FeministSTS

Oh, the paper link one more time!

"Pin the tail on the researcher: From distributed to meshy accountability in decentralized social media"

https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/6644

(ETA: Oh, and sincere thanks to everyone who's both lent moral support & helped me navigate this situation, including offering insights about network architecture & features. I say that in the paper but I should post it here too 💛)

#Commodon #FLOSS #Mastodon #STS #MeshyAccountability #LocatedAccountability #FeministSTS

Hello Fediverse!

I’m studying how communication and media scholars think about Twitter/X and its recent whirlwind of changes. If this sounds like you (communication/media scholar, currently or previously used twitter, 18+ years), please take this survey and share your thoughts.

https://sl.richmond.edu/Ee

And please share/circulate to help this reach the right people!

#commodon #AcademicMastodon

Oh, the paper link one more time!

"Pin the tail on the researcher: From distributed to meshy accountability in decentralized social media"

https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/6644

(ETA: Oh, and sincere thanks to everyone who's both lent moral support & helped me navigate this situation, including offering insights about network architecture & features. I say that in the paper but I should post it here too 💛)

#Commodon #FLOSS #Mastodon #STS #MeshyAccountability #LocatedAccountability #FeministSTS

If you’re an @ICAHDQ member (especially the Comm Law & Policy division), please consider nominating yourself or someone you admire for our upcoming elections.

Three open positions: (1) Secretary; (2) Student and Early Career Representative; (3) International Liaison.

Deadline for nominations is this Friday, August 8th.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aramsinnreich_ica26-activity-7358136424732237824-cdvs

#academia#academicChatter #commodon

If you’re an @ICAHDQ member (especially the Comm Law & Policy division), please consider nominating yourself or someone you admire for our upcoming elections.

Three open positions: (1) Secretary; (2) Student and Early Career Representative; (3) International Liaison.

Deadline for nominations is this Friday, August 8th.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aramsinnreich_ica26-activity-7358136424732237824-cdvs

#academia#academicChatter #commodon