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Dear colleagues, I am very happy to announce the release of “Geeks in Cyberspace,” a 30-ish minute documentary that tells the story of the people who created Slashdot and other innovative community websites in the late 1990s. It touches on themes of creativity, the mix of motivations that went into creating these sites, the subtle differences with later social media, and the link between community feelings of ownership and continued maintenance and preservation. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deefSs5Qxz0. And here is an article I wrote to announce the documentary and give context: https://opensource.com/article/19/9/geeks-cyberspace What started as a lo-fi attempt to capture 1 or 2 oral histories became a more ambitious and pro-am effort that has its flaws, but I am ultimately quite proud of. I hope it will be of use to interested researchers, professionals and perhaps in courses about social media and digital culture. I’m interested in doing more documentary work in the future, so any thoughts, feedback or ideas about collaboration are very welcome. And of course if you would like to share it with colleagues you think would be interested or via your social media channels, I’d be grateful. Thanks! -Michael Michael Stevenson Associate Professor Media Studies University of Amsterdam [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> http://twitter.com/_mstevenson Publications: https://hcommons.org/members/mstevenson/ ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CAS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CAS&A=1