Robert W. Gehl @robertwgehl@scholar.social
- FOSS Academic
- https://fossacademic.tech
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I'm the F Jay Taylor Endowed Research Chair of Communication at Louisiana Tech U.
My research is on the relationship between communication technologies and culture. I've written some books in this vein. My first book, Reverse Engineering Social Media (Temple), was a critique of Facebook before it was cool to critique Facebook.
Weaving the Dark Web (MIT) is a history and ethnography of Tor hidden services, Freenet freesites, and I2P eepsites.
www.robertwgehl.org
Joined Jan 2018
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Along with a colleague, @dzulli , I'm conducting a survey of Mastodon developers, admins, and users. If you would, please take our survey:
https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0jk9Fq7Reb12tN3
We're focusing on "freedom of expression."
For more info on the survey, see
https://fossacademic.tech/2021/02/09/MastodonSurvey.html
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Along with this question: does this happen in the world of FOSS? Is this similar to "not invented here" syndrome? Or is there an ethic in FOSS to "cite your sources"?
I'm asking because I've heard that the ethics of the academy and of FOSS have overlaps.
Ok, academic fediverse, let's come up with a term to label the following:
Big-Name Author writes book on topic that's been written about. The book presents the topic as if it's new. The book does not cite any previous work. But, it cites the hell out of Big Name Author's own work.
Any suggestions for what to call this type of book? "Plagiarism" comes to mind, but maybe that's too harsh...
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In two weeks, I will start at the University of Regensburg as a postdoc in the DFG Project "Astronomy's Glass Archive"!
In my project, I will trace the entire process of producing astrophotographic knowledge. From how the photographic plates were planned and acquired, to how they were reduced and turned in to publishable data. My focus will be on the Dutch observatories, 1890-1960, who mainly used photographic plates imported from the Cape Colony and South Africa.
wireguard! so quick and easy
mucking about with wireguard and... the best advice is to build a kernel from source...? I thought this was supposed to be dead simple
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when the fuck did people start using words like 'consumer', 'franchise', 'intellectual property', and 'content' to talk about shows and shit, i do hate it so very much
I used to laugh when I would open any given business textbook and inevitably see the faux-chart promising growth, as pictured here.
But now I find the image depressing because it is the fundamental hallucination of a species that is destroying itself.
Seeing a new account being made in ScholarOne is like a horror story. I know what's next... a peer review request... "we're coming for you with a draft and a three-week deadline"
academic/business jargon
wtf is a "stakeholder," anyway?
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If you have any questions about what it's like to present at @SummerSchool please feel free to ask!
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"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god"
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Anyone have a copy/location of the facebook leak?
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Hello! Scholar.Social is excited to host the second #SummerSchool, a free, indisciplinary online academic conference - roughly spanning 7/26-8/4 🌞
We'll be looking for: people to help organize, moderators for the presentations, and presenters! Stay tuned for more details 👀
You can check out past presentations here: https://summerschool.scholar.social/
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If you're a developer, there are lots of #Fediverse platforms which you can help out on:
BookWyrm (Goodreads alternative)
https://github.com/mouse-reeve/bookwyrm
Funkwhale (Music, Podcasts and Audio)
https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale
Lemmy (Reddit alternative)
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
Mastodon (Twitter alternative)
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon
PeerTube (YouTube alternative)
https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
PixelFed (Instagram alternative)
https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed
Write Freely (Medium alternative)
https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely
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Agenda was awesome. Should have been genre-defining.
Chandler was literally an attempt at a remake of Agenda, as Open source, in 2008.
The entire Open Source community, at the height of its powers, just before the Cloud crushed everything, looked at it and went "ennnh".
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question about the selfie eye-contact CW
Hi, all -- For some time I've seen people use the "eye contact" CW for selfies. I've hoped over time to figure out why that warning is used, and I have to admit: I'm unsure.
Would someone explain why that custom exists? (I'm not arguing with it, and I'm happy to abide by it. Just curious!)
web admin
at what point do we just close port 80?
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Hi scholar.social, Hi fediverse!
Mark here from Delft, Netherlands. I just started a PhD to research socio-technical enablers/inhibitors of software testing. In the next 4 years I will look into how and why developers do (not) test software. I am particularly interested in the social dimensions of this which is why I'm also curious to learn more about ethnographic research methods.
Looking forward to be a part of the scholar.social community to connect and share insights!
anyone have insights on Roskilde University, and Roskilde, Denmark?
- FOSS Academic
- https://fossacademic.tech
He/Him/His
I'm the F Jay Taylor Endowed Research Chair of Communication at Louisiana Tech U.
My research is on the relationship between communication technologies and culture. I've written some books in this vein. My first book, Reverse Engineering Social Media (Temple), was a critique of Facebook before it was cool to critique Facebook.
Weaving the Dark Web (MIT) is a history and ethnography of Tor hidden services, Freenet freesites, and I2P eepsites.
www.robertwgehl.org
Joined Jan 2018
