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Account age
3 yrs
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🧰 Free analysis for David Ribes
📊 Post engagement
7
Avg engagement / post
0.7%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Please Boost! 📢 A ✨ compelling ✨ online #STS speaker series a · 20 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
2 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
3.1×
Follows 331 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Starts today.
I've returned to Mastodon after I had a little 'writing must come first' two-week meltdown.😭
(Plus despondency from all those articles about how Mastodon was declining)
Nonsense, it's been so much fun returning. Great chats!
This place is…
My talk is called 'Archiving More and Less'
It's a short theory piece about trying to find ways to think about data that is not 'more archiving = worse for planet'.
There has to be ways around this suffocating 📏 zero-sum thinking 📏 .
I'l…
"Scalable projects are those that can expand without changing." Anna Tsing
What an elegant definition. I could quibble with her exemplars and her conclusions, but even across those quibbles, her definition holds.
Something to think about …
I'm co-organizing an open panel for the NordicSTS Conference - Oslo June 7-9 2023 🇳🇴 #STS
🌟 Agents of the General and Particular ✨
Truncated call for papers:
This session seeks papers that trace and inspect agents of the general and par…
Wrapping up my coverage of #Bowkerfest
It was a truly spectacular event. The thing about Geof Bowker is that he has impacted an enormous range of scholarship -- history of science and STS; humanities and arts; HCI and CSCW; design, arts a…
#Bowkerfest public talk is happening right now.
https://uci.zoom.us/j/95917271554#success
#Bowkerfest is organized into three sessions (plus his public talk):
Bowkerian Provocations -- In which participants will push the limits of thought, be edgy, mouthy, and/or funny. Approaching but never quite reaching, true Bowker levels.
…
The End of Computing
Abstract: I discuss three broad rubrics for tracking the history and future of computing. First, I explore computing and nature – analyzing several attempts to naturalize the computer. Second, I look at computing and …
Geoffrey Bowker is giving a public lecture as part of #Bowkerfest -- his retirement party/2-day workshop.
"The End of Computing"
(abstract after the fold)
Friday, January 13 • 2-3pmPST
https://uci.zoom.us/j/95917271554#success
(Use Meetin…
Co-organized w/ with colleagues Paul Dourish, Steve Jackson, John Seberger, Roderick Crooks and Bono Olgado
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
hci.social
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 7 views per post.
📤Posts about 2× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
66/100
Good
Credibility score
89%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 89% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.7% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Prof at university of washington (seattle), Sociologist of science and technology, Dept. of human centered design and engineering (HCDE)
Focus on long-term research infrastructures in the sciences. Organization, data, instruments, epistemology, ontology. Qual.methods for studying big, old, and/or distributed things.
#sts #sciencestudies #infrastructurestudies #hci #cscw #ethnography #histodon
sabbatical in oslo 2022/3 #oslo #uio #norway
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