[Air-L] New Book: Move Slowly and Build Bridges

[Robert W Gehl]

Hello, AoIR friends!

I'm really excited to announce that my new book, Move Slowly and Build 
Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social 
Media, is now available online from Oxford University Press!

And there will indeed be an old-school print version out in a couple weeks.

The book draws on interviews and years of participant observation to 
tell the story of the activists, developers, moderators, and everyday 
folks who have built the fediverse, a noncentralized, largely 
noncommercial alternative social media system.

Regardless of whether or not the fediverse expands or fades away, I 
think the book gives a lot of insight into questions of digital 
governance. I hope you'll agree!

You can learn more about the book here:

https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com

It means a lot to me to announce this here on AIR-L, because this book 
has been influenced by many of you. Not only due to your scholarship, 
but also to the organization itself, which has experimented with our 
very own Mastodon server (aoir.social) to explore alternatives to 
corporate social media. I've learned a great deal by being one of the 
admins of aoir.social, and those lessons have informed the book.

Please reach out if you have any questions about the book.

Regards,

Rob
-- 
Robert W. Gehl (he/him/his)
Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York 
University
Fulbright Scholar, University of Calgary
www.robertwgehl.org | @rwg at aoir.social

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