Re: [Air-L] Announcing the Critical Commons Research Network

12 Oct 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

   On 12/10/2025, 00:42, "Air-L" <air-l-bounces@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:
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Fantastic initiative!
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I've got the error message too, after filling out the google form and
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sending an email to
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Looking forward to the "Birds of a Feather" meetup at AoIR 2025 next
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Em sáb., 11 de out. de 2025 às 15:47, Abigail De Kosnik via Air-L <
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[13]air-l@listserv.aoir.org> escreveu:
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Oh no! I’ll look into this! Thank you for letting me know. I can
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On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM Abigail De Kosnik <
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Thanks for sharing!! I filled out the google form and sent an
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On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM Shani Evenstein Sigalov via Air-L
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Wonderful news and lovely initiative, Zach.
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On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM Zach McDowell via Air-L <
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Hello AoIR,
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It is my pleasure to announce a new project, the *Critical
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Network* (CCRN). This project is funded by a Wikimedia
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grant to help us gather researchers who examine the digital
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critical approaches.
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This network aims to examine the role, importance, and impact of
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aspects and areas of the digital commons and to foster
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mentorships for researchers in this area. I know many of y'all
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align with this type of research, and it is our hope that this
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connect us together in ways that can elevate each other's work.
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We are establishing an annotated digital library, a mentorship
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CFP for an edited collection
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for sneak preview, to be announced officially soon). We are
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*If you are at AoIR this week, find me at one of the "Birds of a
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meetups:*
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Friday, 17 October, afternoon break, 15:30 - 16:00
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Saturday, 18 October, lunch, 12:30 - 13:30
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live long and prosper,
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Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality - Read online or on
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