Ann Matsuuchi

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Episode 112: “Wikipedia is the CUNY of the Internet” Welcome to Season 9! I am a proud citizen of the CUNYverse and I feel especially fortunate to be here right now. CUNY is in the middle of a three-year, Mellon Foundation-funded project called Culti…

“Wikipedia is the @CUNY of the Internet”—In this Episode of CUNY Indoor Voices Podcast, Ann Matsuuchi, instructional technology librarian at CUNY’s @laguardiacc.bsky.social is joined by CUNY University Archivist Wikimedian-in-Residence Richard Knipel: tinyurl.com/43n7uzez

What Attacks on Wikipedia Reveal about Free Expression | TechPolicy.Press Ryan McGrady writes that you can learn a lot about a state's view on free expression by how it treats Wikipedia.

Imagining a "Wikipedia Liberty Index," Ryan McGrady says real or threatened censorship of Wikipedia is a lagging indicator of a state's attitudes towards free press, free speech, academic freedom, and free expression in general, and a real-time indicator of active efforts at suppression.

Journeyed out to Pratt Institute Brooklyn this afternoon for the @amatsuuchi.bsky.social interview with @wolfffish.bsky.social. What a blast. And Mia’s new book, The Empty Lot, is absolutely gorgeous!

An invite to check out Mia Wolff's @wolfffish.bsky.social fabulous exhibit at Pratt Brooklyn. We're doing an interview on Weds 2/26 at 4. www.eventbrite.com/e/a-conversa...

Episode 621 – Mia Wolff Virtual Memories Show 621: Mia Wolff “Talent is almost irrelevant. It’s just work and being relentlessly focused. . . . Talent is like rain; does it go in the pot with the plant or does…

Weekend's upon us! Go listen to my latest conversation, feat. @wolfffish.bsky.social; meantime, I'll bring you a new episode feat. @fredmkaplan.bsky.social & maybe make a trip to the Drawing Center in NYC to catch that #KAWS Collection before it closes chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...

The new book is officially out in the world! Look forward to raising a glass soon with my usual suspects at Joe Allen.

When Online Content Disappears A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.

Why is The Wayback Machine so important for preserving our digital culture? According to new analysis from Pew Research Center:
❌ 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible
❌ 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link
🔗 www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

Just sharing a link to an ep of Kathleen Collins' great podcast Indoor Voices, where we talked about Caron Knauer's new book on slavery and Hollywood films, and #Wikipedia activism with AfroCROWD's Sherry Antoine t.co/fqTU2SjOUS

I always appreciate the research report part of the Wikipedia Signpost. In this issue, a write-up about the @Nature "Online Images Amplify Gender Bias" paper and a mention of a new Wikipedia-covered "event" corpus I hadn't seen yet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Excited to have this piece in The Atlantic today! www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... A few of us at @idpiumass.bsky.social did a lot of work to produce a truly random sample of YouTube videos and wrote a really long paper to paint a portrait of YouTube as a whole [1/3]

Nobody is better than Lane Rasberry at communicating the importance and influence of @wikipedia.bsky.social (at #wikipediaday NYC, Brown Institute) #wikimedianyc #wikipedia #wikipediaday