Steve Jankowski

☀️ 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....

If anyone is interested in getting to know the history of how Wikimedia has been studied, well I have the bibliography file for you! 70 texts following 7 different research concerns about the influence of Wikipedia on culture, computer science, and information. uvaauas.figshare.com/articles/dat...

The People Holding Up the Internet. Amazing to see how much of the modern internet still depends on the volunteer work of individual people. 4 billion phones rely on the time zone database, a text file edited by just two people in their spare time. [sheets.works]

A reminder that 20 years ago this month, this video of "Let's Paint,Exercise,& Blend Drinks TV!" was uploaded to Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvbL.... A prelude to content streaming.

Join us on 29 Oct in Amsterdam for a joint book launch of Platforms: A Critical Introduction and Maps as Media. We'll discuss platform power, digital infrastructures, mapping technologies, and AI. 📍 VOX-POP, UvA | 15:00–17:30 Free and open to all. Register here: voxpop.uva.nl/shared/subsi...

Absolutely fantastic cover of one my favourite Cranberries songs. elisapie.bandcamp.com/track/sinnat.... Just released on Tuesday.

Via @dropout.tv the closest approximation of my profession's (media arts professor) colour (#8EFC56) davidsimaginedfuture.org

I love this meta of defining what a definition is: “The purpose of formulating a definition is ‘to extract and describe the established meaning of a concept already in use and (analyse) its components’ (Jax, 2007: 343).” Ronzhyn et al. (2022). doi.org/10.1177/1461...

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

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...

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

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

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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Big news for the backend of Wikipedia. Glad to see that the labour situation for Wikimedia employees has resulted in a union. www.wired.com/story/wikipe...

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...

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

@gavinmueller.bsky.social Send in a rebuttal bsky.app/profile/theg...

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/...

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

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

🚨 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...

✨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

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

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

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

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...

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...

#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...

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 🤔

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/...

✨📗 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

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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