Amanda Lawrence

A manifesto for Wikimedia research: Critically studying Wikimedia as infrastructure

I am pleased to announce the launch of the Manifesto for Wikimedia Research manifesto.wiki. As my co-authored Big Data & Society commentary explains, the manifesto is dedicated to a humanist and critical tradition of taking Wikipedia's importance seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

How digital giants let poll scrutiny fall - 360 The changing social media world, already hostile to oversight, is making monitoring election activity even more difficult. Yet policymakers still have options. A seismic change in the social media landscape — described by one industry insider as a ‘Cambrian explosion’ in digital options — poses fundamental challenges to those who would monitor the digital world. […]

🗳️ As we creep towards #ausvotes 2025, my @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleague @vilkins.bsky.social and I took stock of critical scrutiny options for social media campaigning, and the picture is sobering. Australian politicians must do more to demand social media data access.

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Thanks Tyne!

not sure #AIO is quite our thing. Check it out... Trying to work out what our handle can be. aio is taken and the full name is too long.