kevin driscoll 🕸 @[email protected]
@kevindriscoll
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📙 Moral economies, shareware, post-platform futures 📗 BBS, FidoNet, ham radio, alternative histories of the Net 📕 French videotex cultures, @MinitelResearch
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Joined November 2008
🌄🔭 "The advent of the modem world might be understood as an emergent process, driven by the interactions of a diverse range of actors, culminating in the creation of a participative and interactive medium" -- @cscolari 👨👩👧👦👩👩👦👨👧👦☎ https://t.co/J7RB9uUtKS
My review in @Convergence_NMT of "The Modem World. A Prehistory of Social Media" by @kevindriscoll ( https://t.co/OgW8AeAwZz ) More info about the book here: https://t.co/4fFu4cb2SP
#MediaEvolution @gabriele_balbi @simone_natale @portal_com @FAlbarello @monrodriguez @alvaroliuzzi
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Our April book reviews include Media Reform & the Climate Emergency by David J. Park, The Modem World by @kevindriscoll, Going Remote by @mattkahn1966, Re-Understanding Media by @sarahrsharma & @riankasingh...
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🐾 "The 'modem world' suggests paths beyond our disenchantment with the venture-funded, surveillance capitalist, billionaire-backed platforms that dominate social media today" 📚🔭✨ https://t.co/WzgmXjMBn6
Reading about the prehistory of social media might help you imagine a better Internet: @aaronshaw's book review of @kevindriscoll's "The Modem World"
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A copy of the new book by 2020-21 CASBS fellow @kevindriscoll, "The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media," has entered into the Center's world renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection! https://t.co/ATGwUTILoT
@yalepress @mediastudies
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📖 "Whether and how knowledge of online communities and communication systems in the past raises awareness of the problems of today’s Internet remains to be seen." 😎🔦🌱🧩🔮
Here's my review of @kevindriscoll`s MODEM WORLD; an exploration of little-known aspects from the (pre)history of social media, 1978-95. The book`s call to imagine a post-commercial online world hits the nerve of our time! Can't recommend this book enough! https://t.co/JTFCkfeMBI
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“The best-known histories describe an internet that hasn’t existed since 1994,” writes @kevindriscoll. “So why do my students continue to repeat stories from 25 years ago? Why haven’t our histories kept up?”
issues.org
The story of early online communities reveals the social and technical origins of today’s social media—and offers a vision for a more humane internet in the future.
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"Social media desperately requires innovation [...] to make it sustainable. Unfortunately for us, social media companies are profoundly, criminally uncreative." 🥶🧊📱🕸🖱🥶🧊
Social media companies are profoundly, criminally uncreative. Too many people have believed their own hype, which more often than not is targeted at venture capitalists.
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>> IMAGINING A BETTER INTERNET >> 🎆 @ISSUESinST forum on internets past and future 🧨 @tamigraph 🧨 Finn Brunton 🧨 @adamegriff 🧨 @katbamkapow 🧨 @frcorry 👉
issues.org
The modem-based communities of the early internet were very different from the commercial social platforms of today.
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Issues in Science and Technology @ISSUESinST brings together authors to discuss The Modem World by Kevin Driscoll @kevindriscoll
https://t.co/01xs1M7M4k
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Issues in Science and Technology @ISSUESinST brings together authors to discuss The Modem World by Kevin Driscoll @kevindriscoll
https://t.co/01xs1M7M4k
issues.org
The modem-based communities of the early internet were very different from the commercial social platforms of today.
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The death of Twitter began on June 5, 2011
Shaquille O'Neal's twitter account has been moved to @Shaq. Follow him here: https://twitter.com/#!/shaq
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"BBS users knew where their data was held. They could call the system administrator on the phone or meet them in person..." 🥳💾🗃️📞
thenation.com
Kevin Driscoll’s new book The Modem World offers a picture of an early Internet defined by community, experimentation, and lack of privacy.
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"Despite the internet’s staggering scale and global reach, its folk histories are surprisingly narrow..." 🦜📡🛰😎🔌
slate.com
The people who built the modem world in the 1980s laid the groundwork for millions of others who would bring their lives online in the 1990s and beyond.
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"As the internet becomes the compulsory infrastructure of everyday life, the stories we tell about its origins are more important than ever." 🌐🔦👩🔧🔦🎙🧙♀️
Exploring how early online communities developed and sustained themselves not only provides a fuller history of the internet, writes @kevindriscoll, but offers insights into how we might build healthier online communities today. https://t.co/LWVDGEWUjU
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Catching up on an amazing discussion @TheWELL about the Modem World, pasts and futures of community online. Readable on the public Web (message @jonl if you want to jump in!) 🌎🌍🌏👉 https://t.co/AZvCjwZOmS
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📖 "Early modem makers had to sell more than modems. They had to sell the value of getting online at all." 🛸☎🔌💻
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🌄 "Our ability to imagine alternatives is directly related to the histories we tell..."
My review in @nybooks of @kevindriscoll's wonderful new book, "The Modem World":
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"Many different internets have already existed. An internet after social media is still possible." 🌘♻📴✌ https://t.co/VwtWmeVRRs
“We’ve been telling the same story about ARPANET and the web for 25 years, and it isn’t satisfying anymore.”
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And if you need a net histories book to read right now...? 📖🗺👉 https://t.co/zjc1eRveC2
~Minitel: Welcome to the Internet~ is a new 📚 from @mitpress & @MinitelResearch about 🌍💡☎️📺😻📈👯♂️💾💰🇫🇷🎨📡🗣️👩⚖️⚖️🎶💳💋📠🔮 https://t.co/nEXYzqxHwS
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