Oh my, I am glad I have chosen STS as my main "academic disiplinary identity". What a nice topic for the next 4S convention, "Reverberations":

"Reverberations are also relays—wave-like, rolling, seismic or subtle—between points in space and time, felt evidence of distant yet interpenetrating events. In this sense, to reverberate is to exhibit a strange kind of force—an infinite regress of effects perceived as causes perceived as effects. For STS, reverberation figures science and technology not only as an effect of myriad practices and multiple agencies but also as normative sites where diverse politics and disparate struggles are resounded, reworked, and—consequentially—reactivated".

What a poetic Call for Papers ! 💗💗💗

Also, a big thumbs up for the decision to allow the event to be hybrid, for respect of environment, public health and other...

https://4sonline.org/about_the_conference_seattle.php

#4S2025

Je parle de l'exode des plateformes centralisées depuis 2018, j'ai mis en place le premier workshop dédié à ce problème sous le titre "Disinformation refugees welcome" au festival Elevate en Autriche en 2019. Puis j'ai mené une longue enquête de terrain pour documenter les vagues de migrations numériques, dont les vagues de Twitter vers Mastodon (mais pas que). Parlé à de nombreuses conférences à ce sujet et intervenu dans les médias.

Je suis contente de voir que ça prend et que #HelloQuitteX existe. Même si j'avais aimé que ça commence bien plus tôt...

D'ici 2 mois mon papier qui parle de ces processus de migration sera publié dans Internet Policy Review, en collaboration avec Francesca Musiani, ma chère collègue du @cis_cnrs

Quittez X, enfin ;)

Hey! Myself and Francesca Musiani have an article published in Media, War and Conflict, "Can #Encryption save lives? Secure #messaging and its #infrastructures as loci of convergence between #Cyber #warfare and conventional warfare: The case of #ukraine".

The paper that analyzes how secure messaging tools and infrastructures that makes their deployment possible are now an integral part of a war and resistance infrastructure where the borders between cyber warfare and conventional warfare are becoming more and more blurred. However, we also underline the limits of a tool-centred approach and demonstrate how, in the case of the war in Ukraine, physical threats to civilians and infrastructure damage mean that encrypted messaging is one among several innovative technical and social practices of holistic self-defence deployed by Ukrainians.

The article as published is here https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17506352241297942
but an open access pre-print can be accessed on Hal: https://hal.science/hal-04834148

From an Iranian colleague:

"Iran has been effectively shut down for the third consecutive day. Government offices and some institutions, including schools, remain closed. The primary cause is the ongoing energy crisis, particularly issues in electricity and gas production. Reports of scattered protests have emerged. Power outages have disrupted internet services, and even SnappFood, the local equivalent of Uber Eats, has gone offline due to a lack of power at its data center.

There are reports of people being trapped in elevators and facing serious disruptions in accessing medical services. This has sparked widespread dissatisfaction, with some suggesting that if Pezeshkian fails to address the crisis in the coming months, he should step down. While I find it unlikely that this will happen, it's worth noting that these criticisms are coming from his own supporters"