HASTAC Commons | Michael Stevenson | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/mstevenson/activity/ Activity feed for Michael Stevenson. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:06:08 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 74fec400a66259db1f42477126f1c05c Michael Stevenson deposited Cultures of peer production https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1729388/ Sun, 28 Feb 2021 10:53:00 +0000 How can we make sense of cultures of peer production, which exist in diverse national, cultural and language contexts, span several industries and domains, and comprise a range of different organizational structures? Peer production is commonly defined as a mode of production – that is, a social and material structure in which labor takes place.…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef0af665deda60bd555e081ae37ab951 Michael Stevenson's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1727986/ Fri, 19 Feb 2021 06:58:32 +0000 0 891e447ef6c042cf56b422d0de1fa85b Michael Stevenson deposited The Afterlife of Software https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1663949/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:25:23 +0000 Death on the internet is not limited to human death. The business model of planned obsolescence, the technical work of preserving old websites, systems, and applications, as well as a cultural emphasis on the new and immediate all combine to make the internet a place where many software technologies have gone to die. Networked modes of living…[Read more]

]]> 0 e941ca95c5c878cc197407ea117d4fe1 Michael Stevenson deposited Having it both ways: Larry Wall, Perl and the technology and culture of the early web https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1663945/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:05:22 +0000 What image defines the 1990s web? Perhaps it is an “under construction” gif, a “starry night” background or some other fragment of what net artist and scholar Olia Lialina dubbed “a vernacular web” (2005). If not a vernacular, perhaps a sign of an increas- ingly commercial and professional web – the first banner ad, announcing that this par- tic…[Read more]

]]> 0 776d33562ec7a02e8d6dd6dbf4de7774 Michael Stevenson's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1621862/ Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:54:05 +0000 0 d2e69d718e1de3190b687b3615f90f27 Michael Stevenson's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590493/ Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:08:56 +0000 0 4918c26ee05021d6f60f707ae89cf850 Michael Stevenson's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590450/ Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:57:33 +0000 0 baa02f28c28105fc4a3ea071eb3ecc99 Michael Stevenson deposited Slashdot, open news and informated media: exploring the intersection of imagined futures and web publishing technology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590448/ Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:52:26 +0000 “In this essay, my interest is in how imagined media futures are implicated in the work of producing novel web publishing technology. I explore the issue through an account of the emergence of Slashdot, the tech news and discussion site that by 1999 had implemented a number of recommendation features now associated with social media and web 2.0…[Read more]

]]> 0 74713678978a8d3e077193936998c523 Michael Stevenson deposited From hypertext to hype and back again: exploring the roots of social media in the early web https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590447/ Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:48:04 +0000 Preprint of chapter from the SAGE Handbook of Social Media (Burgess, Marwick and Poell, eds., 2018).

“How should we think of the relationship between social media and the early web, and what can we learn from this history?”

]]> 0 6b6d3b49d8e70cac14dd6c4237599edc Michael Stevenson deposited The cybercultural moment and the new media field https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590446/ Wed, 29 Nov 2017 10:41:29 +0000 This article draws on Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory to understand the regenerative “belief in the new” in new media culture and web history. I begin by noting that discursive constructions of the web as disruptive, open, and participatory have emerged at various points in the medium’s history, and that these discourses are not as neatly tied to…[Read more]

]]> 0 c4d877d0feef72a9d7be1b1b6f924f17 Michael Stevenson deposited Rethinking the participatory web: A history of HotWired’s “new publishing paradigm,” 1994–1997 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1590441/ Wed, 29 Nov 2017 08:25:06 +0000 This article critically interrogates key assumptions in popular web discourse by revisiting an early example of web ‘participation.’ Against the claim that Web 2.0 technologies ushered in a new paradigm of participatory media, I turn to the history of HotWired, Wired magazine’s ambitious web-only publication launched in 1994. The case shows how d…[Read more]

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