[Air-L] Research on federated social media

[tiziano bonini]

Hi Dorothy,
I would suggest this blog post from this brilliant free software activist.
She's not into Academia but this blog post poses a series of interesting
issues: https://rosenzweig.io/blog/the-federation-fallacy.html

Best
Tiziano

Il giorno lun 1 apr 2019 alle ore 20:12 Christopher Cwynar <cwynar at gmail.com>
ha scritto:

> Hi Dorothy,
>
> Robert W. Gehl has been a leader in this area. I would recommend starting
> with his essay in Social Media + Society and then reading some of his more
> recent work. His 'Alternative Social Media' entry in the SAGE Handbook of
> Social Media is also excellent and his piece entitled "The Case for
> Alternative Social Media" (with Julie Snyder-Yuly).
>
> https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305115604338
>
> http://journals.fcla.edu/demcom/article/viewFile/88323/84880
>
> Best,
> Chris
>
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 1:28 PM Dorothy Howard <dhoward at ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > Has anyone written or know of social research about mainstream social
> media
> > (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr) alternatives, i.e. decentralized and
> > federated Social Network Sites such as Bolixo, Diaspora, GNU Social,
> > Friendica, Mastodon, MeWe, Pump.io? This seems like an important area,
> but
> > I haven't been able to turn up much.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Dorothy Howard
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