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Note: The role of researchers and journalists in the current social media crisis

We are at a peak of the attention economy as well as the feed communication systems. Frustrated with Twitter, people are looking at the Fediverse (most famously Mastodon), Bluesky Social (a Twitter spin-off) and Threads (launched this week by Meta/Instagram) as alternatives. Writers and researchers should take a moment to...

Note: Digital communication for researchers, beyond Twitter, Instagram, Telegram and Github

Why you should care about open alternatives to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tiktok, beyond that short period when you were angry, sad or disgusted about Elon Musk taking over Twitter? The alternatives, as long as they are based on open standards, constitute a completely different model than the heavily siloed commercial...

Mitschnitt: “‘Twitter – geht’s noch?’ Wie können Kultureinrichtungen Social Media verantwortungsbewusst nutzen?” 22. November Kulturstiftung des Bundes

Am 22.11.2022 fand ein kritisches Panel über Twitter und sonstige “Soziale Medien” statt, veranstaltet von der Kulturstiftung des Bundes, in der Veranstaltungsreihe Whats the state? Unser Panel diskutierte in einem “Twitter Space”, der Mitschnitt kann dort angehört werden. Hier ein Backup in der TU Cloud: Link. Die Kulturstiftung ist auch...