Category: Announcements
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Announcing the “Field Guide to Social Media” Newsletter
0Posts like these will be appearing in our newsletter regularly. To get those right in your inbox, subscribe today. In 2021, we published An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media with the Knight First Amendment Institute. It was the culmination of a months-long exploration of alternative social media “logics” meant to encourage fresh thinking about…
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Welcome to the new iDPI website
2Hello, welcome to the new publicinfrastructure.org! I hope you find it colorful and inviting. There’s a lot of information on this site because there’s a lot of different things we do, but my intention is to create a space that rewards curiosity while making it easy to locate just what you came here to find.…
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Our Revised and Expanded Field Guide to Social Media is Coming Soon to MIT Press
1In 2021, we published An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media with the Knight First Amendment Institute. It was the culmination of a months-long exploration of alternative social media “logics” meant to encourage fresh thinking about the possibilities for social media. In the two years since, we’ve been heartened to see the book used in…
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We Mapped Reddit: Introducing RedditMap.social
0By Ethan Zuckerman “Accents are just mouth fonts.” That brilliant observation is just one of the gems I found today on r/BrandNewSentence, an online community dedicated to collecting “sentences never before written, found in the wild”. Fans of these strange sentences also enjoy r/NatureIsMetal, which features images of animals being savage or brutal, and r/InstantKarma,…
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Gobo 2.0: All Your Social Media in One Place
7Rather than opening one app for Twitter, another for Mastodon, and yet another for Reddit, what if you could view all three together? Furthermore, what if you could filter and prioritize your content from each platform, taking control of your own feed instead of depending on proprietary algorithms? This is what we are hoping to…
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Welcome to Smalltown, a Civic Space Online
22At iDPI we’re agitating for a smaller future of the Internet. To illustrate this, it’s helpful to think about rooms. Offline, there are all sorts of rooms that we gather in: there are churches, bars, gyms—what we do in each of those is pretty different. Facebook is like a big conference center, with high ceilings,…