XPUB2 projects Trim5 2020

XPUB2 project summaries and links, for tutorials April 2020

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Simon Browne

Project description
The "bootleg library" is a particular, situated social infrastructure. It operates from the understanding that the library is a collection; a collection of the texts contained within it, and the readers collected around them. There is a reciprocal, self-reflexive relationship between the texts and the readers, which produces sociability. A bootleg is a homage, an unauthorised copy of a source publication; bootlegging is a strategy by which texts acquire diversity, resisting singularity and representing readers.

Links to relevant pages

• overview of project
  
• the physical bootleg library
  
• bootleg library sessions
  
• the digital bootleg library: hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary (please email info(at)simonbrowne.biz for the HTTP login)
  

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Rita Graça
Networks of Care

Networks of Care is a field guide to manage online hate with codes of conduct, community guidelines and other informal documents. This project sheds light on valuable clusters of people working as collectives to cut down hateful behaviours from their social spaces. A group that is active in removing hate for themselves and others creates important support systems. The field guide shares the experience of users and custodians, it comments on existing documents, and celebrates together the networks of care.

The project focuses on three actions — networking, archiving and referring. The effort of networking is to reach out to different people involved with community guidelines and document their knowledge. I'm approaching moderators of online social spaces, writers of codes of conduct, facilitators, community members and networks' administrators. In archiving, I'm collecting codes of conduct and annotating them, creating a collection that is possible to browse, dissect and analyse. My project doesn't exist away from all the others that informed my path, so I'm referring back to all the resources, projects, films, podcasts and books that relate with my project and point other ways forward.

Work in Progress:

Visualisation of the structure of my project.
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Creating a wiki to host and organise my project.
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