A Renewed SocialMediaAlternatives.org
Welcome to the new Social Media Alternatives website! This is now the home of the Network of Alternative Social Media Researchers, an international network of scholars who study ASM.
While the site gets a refresh, there are some things that are going to stay. Key among them is the S-MAP: the archive of screenshots of alternative social media.
I’ve also kept many of the old Wordpress blog posts – you can still find them here.
Finally, we’re keeping the bibliography, based on a corresponding Zotero library. That bibliography is growing, growing, growing – just as alternative social media is.
The biggest change is the network of researchers – see the members page for details on the ASM researchers. This is what I am personally most excited about: this area of research was rather lonely back when I started around 2010. But now? Now there are excellent researchers from around the world studying systems such as the fediverse, Scuttlebutt, Bluesky, and so much more.
Take a look around and keep your eyes on this space: things are happening!
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