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=== Thursday, November 21st: Alternative Social Media === '''Goals for class''' * Hear from guest speaker (TBD) (possible guests: Brian Newbold (Bluesky protocol developer), Christine Lemmer-Webber (Mastodon ActivityPub Protocol Co-author, Spritely Project founder), Manoel Horta Ribeiro (Asst. Prof Princeton CS, author of works on right-wing fringe platforms), * Discuss case where we’ll apply our knowledge to emerging alternative social media projects. '''Assigned Reading''' * [Case] Visit the about pages of the different networks we’re talking about: https://nostr.com, https://bsky.social/about/, https://about.instagram.com/threads, https://joinmastodon.org/ * [Case] Justin Pot. 2022. How to Get Started on Mastodon. Wired. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-get-started-use-mastodon/ * [Case] Mike Masnick. 2024. Bluesky Begins to Make Its Decentralized Vision Real. Techdirt. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/26/bluesky-begins-to-make-its-decentralized-vision-real/ * [Case] Gregory Barber. 2023. Meta’s Threads Could Make—or Break—the Fediverse. Wired. https://www.wired.com/story/metas-threads-could-make-or-break-the-fediverse/ * [Case] Michael Stewart. 2024 Nostr Series — Part 1: A Gentle Introduction to Nostr. Medium https://medium.com/@michael.leigh.stewart/nostr-series-part-1-a-gentle-introduction-to-nostr-4ad6da8c923b '''Optional Reading''' * Carl Colglazier, Nathan TeBlunthuis, and Aaron Shaw. 2024. The Effects of Group Sanctions on Participation and Toxicity: Quasi-experimental Evidence from the Fediverse. https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/download/31316/33476L * Zulli, D., Liu, M., & Gehl, R. (2020). Rethinking the “social” in “social media”: Insights into topology, abstraction, and scale on the Mastodon social network. New Media & Society, 22(7), 1188-1205. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820912533 * Martin Kleppmann et al. 2024. Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media. arXiv preprint. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2402.03239 * Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Homa Hosseinmardi, Robert West, Duncan J Watts, Deplatforming did not decrease Parler users’ activity on fringe social media, PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 3, March 2023, pgad035, https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad035 * Jhaver, S., Frey, S., & Zhang, A. X. (2023). Decentralizing Platform Power: A Design Space of Multi-Level Governance in Online Social Platforms. Social Media + Society, 9(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231207857 <span id="tuesday-december-3rd-information-quality"></span>
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