Good stuff. Thank you. Judith <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Michael Allan <<a href="mailto:mike@zelea.com">mike@zelea.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> From a post by Geert Lovink and Korinna Patelis: <a href="http://listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/2011-July/024031.html" target="_blank">http://listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/2011-July/024031.html</a> The aim of this proposal is to establish a research network of artists, designers, scholars, activists and programmers who work on 'alternatives in social media'. Through workshops, conferences, online dialogues and publications, Unlike Us intends to both analyze the economic and cultural aspects of dominant social media platforms and to propagate the further development and proliferation of alternative, decentralized social media software. They go on to describe these research topics: 1. Political Economy: Social Media Monopolies 2. The Private in the Public 3. Visiting the Belly of the Beast 4. Artistic Responses to Social Media 5. Designing culture: representation and software 6. Software Matters: Sociotechnical and Algorithmic Cultures 6. Genealogies of Social Networking Sites 7. Is Research Doomed? 8. Researching Unstable Ontologies 9. Making Sense of Data: Visualization and Critique 10. Pitfalls of Building Social Media Alternatives 11. Showcasing Alternatives in Social Media 12. Social Media Activism and the Critique of Liberation Technology 13. Social Media in the Middle East and Beyond 14. Data storage: social media and legal cultures The list has 139 members: <a href="http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/unlike-us_listcultures.org" target="_blank">http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/unlike-us_listcultures.org</a> But something's wrong because the archive shows no messages posted. The DNS bindings on the server are also misconfigured, so I sent a message to the list owner. -- Michael Allan Toronto, <a href="tel:%2B1%20416-699-9528" value="+14166999528">+1 416-699-9528</a> <a href="http://zelea.com/" target="_blank">http://zelea.com/</a> _______________________________________________ Votorola mailing list <a href="mailto:Votorola@zelea.com">Votorola@zelea.com</a> <a href="http://mail.zelea.com/mailman/listinfo/votorola" target="_blank">http://mail.zelea.com/mailman/listinfo/votorola</a> </blockquote></div>