[Air-L] Announcing the *Critical Commons Research Network*
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amarkham at gmail.com
Sun Oct 12 04:29:50 PDT 2025
Hi All,
Thanks, Christian, for pointing to the RiseUp option. It’s SHOCKING
(not shocking at all) that this option is not very findable if you
don’t already know about it. For the past two months, I have been
looking around the internet for options for building an old school,
open source, and free mailing list, and I had forgotten RiseUp. Sadly,
it NEVER popped up, no matter how deeply I was digging, with various
search terms, across various platforms. Never.
That is perhaps partly about my own inability to search, but a good
demonstration of the invisible strength of algorithmic silos.
It reminds me that our beloved AoIR mailing list once existed as an
active place to share resources, before we started relying on other
sources of community building and information sharing. And when I
consider how impoverished my own information environment is, and how
cluttered my feeds are with ads, slop, junk, and alluring things
intended to distract me, I’m grateful for the occasional post to this
list that is truly helpful. And inspired to share more, here.
Thanks for the reminder about riseup.net, Christian!
Annette
Annette N. Markham (she/her) | Chair Professor of Media Literacies and
Public Engagement | Founder/Director, [1]Futures + Literacies + Methods
Lab | Utrecht University | [2]a.n.markham at uu.nl |
[3]www.uu.nl/staff/anmarkham | professional website:
[4]https://annettemarkham.com
On 12/10/2025, 00:42, "Air-L" <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Good initiative, just that the Google mailing list is not digital
commons based at all but the very opposite...
Why not a RiseUp mailing list or something comparable?
Christian
Am 11.10.25 um 21:19 schrieb Nanci Oddone via Air-L:
> Hello Zach
> Fantastic initiative!
> I've got the error message too, after filling out the google form and
> sending an email to
[5]criticalcommonsresearch+subscribe at googlegroups.com.
> Looking forward to the "Birds of a Feather" meetup at AoIR 2025 next
Friday.
> Nanci
>
>
>
> Nanci Oddone, PhD
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>
>
> Em sáb., 11 de out. de 2025 às 15:47, Abigail De Kosnik via Air-L <
> [13]air-l at listserv.aoir.org> escreveu:
>
>> adding me manually would be perfect thank you!!
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM Zach McDowell
<[14]zmcdowell at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Oh no! I’ll look into this! Thank you for letting me know. I can
add you
>>> manually to the group later!
>>>
>>> ———
>>> Composed on a phone, so, brevity.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM Abigail De Kosnik <
>>> [15]abigail.dekosnik at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for sharing!! I filled out the google form and sent an
email to
>>>> the stated google groups address, but got an error message when I
>> clicked
>>>> to "Join this group": "Content unavailable." Just fyi.
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM Shani Evenstein Sigalov via Air-L
<
>>>> [16]air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Wonderful news and lovely initiative, Zach.
>>>>> Thanks for sharing!
>>>>>
>>>>> Shani.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM Zach McDowell via Air-L <
>>>>> [17]air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello AoIR,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is my pleasure to announce a new project, the *Critical
Commons
>>>>> Research
>>>>>> Network* (CCRN). This project is funded by a Wikimedia
Foundation
>>>>> Research
>>>>>> grant to help us gather researchers who examine the digital
commons
>>>>> and its
>>>>>> connections from infrastructural, political-economic, policy,
and
>> other
>>>>>> critical approaches.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This network aims to examine the role, importance, and impact of
>>>>> different
>>>>>> aspects and areas of the digital commons and to foster
relationships
>>>>> and
>>>>>> mentorships for researchers in this area. I know many of y'all
on
>> this
>>>>> list
>>>>>> align with this type of research, and it is our hope that this
can
>> help
>>>>>> connect us together in ways that can elevate each other's work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We are establishing an annotated digital library, a mentorship
>> program,
>>>>>> collaborative online (and offline) spaces, symposia and
workshops,
>> and
>>>>>> an upcoming
>>>>>> CFP for an edited collection
>>>>>> <
>>>>>>
>>
[18]https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GBVDWi5EI35cn-S0z9UStxjGwf_davg
yek8VHoF8ZdI/edit?tab=t.0
>>>>>> (click
>>>>>> for sneak preview, to be announced officially soon). We are
>>>>> establishing
>>>>>> some scholarships for graduate students who work in the area as
well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You can find out more and join the network at
>>>>>> [19]https://criticalcommonsresearch.net/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *If you are at AoIR this week, find me at one of the "Birds of a
>>>>> Feather"
>>>>>> meetups:*
>>>>>> Friday, 17 October, afternoon break, 15:30 - 16:00
>>>>>> Saturday, 18 October, lunch, 12:30 - 13:30
>>>>>>
>>>>>> live long and prosper,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Zach
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --------------------
>>>>>> Zachary J. McDowell, PhD
>>>>>> Associate Professor, Department of Communication
>>>>>> University of Illinois Chicago
>>>>>> www.zachmcdowell.com
>>>>>> Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality - Read online or on
>> Kindle
>>>>> for
>>>>>> free
>>>>>> <
>>>>>>
>>
[20]https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003094081/w
ikipedia-representation-reality-zachary-mcdowell-matthew-vetter
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