Hi Dorothy, I would suggest this blog post from this brilliant free software activist. She's not into Academia but this blog post poses a series of interesting issues: https://rosenzweig.io/blog/the-federation-fallacy.html Best Tiziano Il giorno lun 1 apr 2019 alle ore 20:12 Christopher Cwynar <cwynar@gmail.com> ha scritto:
Hi Dorothy,
Robert W. Gehl has been a leader in this area. I would recommend starting with his essay in Social Media + Society and then reading some of his more recent work. His 'Alternative Social Media' entry in the SAGE Handbook of Social Media is also excellent and his piece entitled "The Case for Alternative Social Media" (with Julie Snyder-Yuly).
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305115604338
http://journals.fcla.edu/demcom/article/viewFile/88323/84880
Best, Chris
On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 1:28 PM Dorothy Howard <dhoward@ucsd.edu> wrote:
Hello Everyone,
Has anyone written or know of social research about mainstream social media (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr) alternatives, i.e. decentralized and federated Social Network Sites such as Bolixo, Diaspora, GNU Social, Friendica, Mastodon, MeWe, Pump.io? This seems like an important area, but I haven't been able to turn up much.
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