Paolo Bory
@paolobory.bsky.social
Researcher @ Politecnico di Milano
Sociology and history of digital tech, narratives of media change.
My book: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/tq57nt98c
Sociology and history of digital tech, narratives of media change.
My book: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/tq57nt98c
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La Global sumud flotilla ha condiviso un video girato dalla telecamera di sorveglianza dell’imbarcazione. Le sei persone a bordo dell’imbarcazione sono rimaste incolumi.
La Global sumud flotilla denuncia di essere stata colpita da un drone al largo di Tunisi
Il 9 settembre la Global sumud flotilla, diretta a Gaza con un carico di aiuti umanitari, ha affermato che una delle sue imbarcazioni è stata colpita da un drone al largo di Tunisi, mentre le autorità...
www.internazionale.it
September 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
La Global sumud flotilla ha condiviso un video girato dalla telecamera di sorveglianza dell’imbarcazione. Le sei persone a bordo dell’imbarcazione sono rimaste incolumi.
September 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
After months of pain and crazy writing, this OA book, written by Chris Hesselbein and me, is finally out.
Behind the bleeding cover, you'll find our analysis of the metaverse (no, it’s not dead!), or rather of the current metaverses as "infrastructures of reality". link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Behind the bleeding cover, you'll find our analysis of the metaverse (no, it’s not dead!), or rather of the current metaverses as "infrastructures of reality". link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Infrastructures of Reality: Metaverse Stories, Spaces, Bodies
This open access book focuses on two dimensions of the development of the metaverse that are crucial to ‘reality’, namely spatiality and embodiment.
link.springer.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
After months of pain and crazy writing, this OA book, written by Chris Hesselbein and me, is finally out.
Behind the bleeding cover, you'll find our analysis of the metaverse (no, it’s not dead!), or rather of the current metaverses as "infrastructures of reality". link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Behind the bleeding cover, you'll find our analysis of the metaverse (no, it’s not dead!), or rather of the current metaverses as "infrastructures of reality". link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Thank you @ruha9.bsky.social for opening STS Italia with such moral clarity and urgency
June 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Thank you @ruha9.bsky.social for opening STS Italia with such moral clarity and urgency
Our special issue co-edited with @chrish6699.bsky.social and @stefanocanali.bsky.social is finally out!
"Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures"
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/2...
"Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures"
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/2...
Information, Communication & Society
Special Issue: Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures. Guest Editors: Chris Hesselbein, Paolo Bory and Stefano Canali. Volume 28, Issue 5 of Information, Communication & Societ...
www.tandfonline.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Our special issue co-edited with @chrish6699.bsky.social and @stefanocanali.bsky.social is finally out!
"Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures"
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/2...
"Metaverse Datafication: Technologies, Definitions, and Futures"
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rics20/2...
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Why do we confuse the "Internet" with the "Web"? And how was this confusion addressed at @cern.bsky.social ?
Paper co-authored with the #WWWHistory Project @snf-fns-ch.bsky.social team: Deborah Barcella, @fandomistheanswer.bsky.social, and Martin Fomasi.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
Paper co-authored with the #WWWHistory Project @snf-fns-ch.bsky.social team: Deborah Barcella, @fandomistheanswer.bsky.social, and Martin Fomasi.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
Stop calling the Web the Internet: CERN’s tactics to fight ‘brand confusion’ in the mid-1990s
journals.sagepub.com
April 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Why do we confuse the "Internet" with the "Web"? And how was this confusion addressed at @cern.bsky.social ?
Paper co-authored with the #WWWHistory Project @snf-fns-ch.bsky.social team: Deborah Barcella, @fandomistheanswer.bsky.social, and Martin Fomasi.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
Paper co-authored with the #WWWHistory Project @snf-fns-ch.bsky.social team: Deborah Barcella, @fandomistheanswer.bsky.social, and Martin Fomasi.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Un’epoca in cui anche la gentilezza base causa esternalità negative* 🥲 [*negative per l’impatto ambientale, non perché Altaman ci smena soldi]
April 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Un’epoca in cui anche la gentilezza base causa esternalità negative* 🥲 [*negative per l’impatto ambientale, non perché Altaman ci smena soldi]
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> I had a pleasure of interviewing @pbory.bsky.social about his book "The Internet Myth", network ideology and AI imaginaries. It was fun, the full interview is here!
matterofimagination.neocities.org/blog8
matterofimagination.neocities.org/blog8
matterofimagination
matterofimagination.neocities.org
March 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
> I had a pleasure of interviewing @pbory.bsky.social about his book "The Internet Myth", network ideology and AI imaginaries. It was fun, the full interview is here!
matterofimagination.neocities.org/blog8
matterofimagination.neocities.org/blog8
March 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I now see why we don't hear of whistle blowers anymore. They already whistle, pretending to whisper @philipdisalvo.bsky.social?
American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social. theatln.tc/AmsjsuT6
March 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I now see why we don't hear of whistle blowers anymore. They already whistle, pretending to whisper @philipdisalvo.bsky.social?
Deadline 3 february, join us in Milan for a collective investigation of the "metaverse" #sts #metaverse #ar #vr #mr #etc
Cfa: Searching for the Metaverse. Mapping and disentangling the imaginaries of VR-MR
Join us in Milan for the X STS Italia conference, panel 10 (like D10s) on the imaginaries of VR/MR organized by me, my brilliant brother Stefano Bory and the great Gianluigi Negro:
stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...
Join us in Milan for the X STS Italia conference, panel 10 (like D10s) on the imaginaries of VR/MR organized by me, my brilliant brother Stefano Bory and the great Gianluigi Negro:
stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...
stsitalia.org
January 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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#OutNow in #iCS
Gianluigi Negro and Tonio Savina’s article, “Yuanyuzhou 元宇宙: yesterday, today, tomorrow,” provides a historical overview of the Chinese Metaverse, highlighting its unique development and future prospects within China’s digital landscape.
Gianluigi Negro and Tonio Savina’s article, “Yuanyuzhou 元宇宙: yesterday, today, tomorrow,” provides a historical overview of the Chinese Metaverse, highlighting its unique development and future prospects within China’s digital landscape.
Yuanyuzhou 元宇宙: yesterday, today, tomorrow. Historical roots, current visions, and future dynamics of real-world integration in the Chinese governmental narrative on the Metaverse
As one of the most searched buzzwords on the Chinese Internet in 2021, the ‘Metaverse' (yuan yuzhou 元宇宙) has gained significant momentum in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), attracting the atte...
www.tandfonline.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Starlink has disrupted Kenya's existing ISP industry since its launch in July 2023, forcing legacy providers to lower prices and increase internet speeds (Rest of World)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
January 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Starlink has disrupted Kenya's existing ISP industry since its launch in July 2023, forcing legacy providers to lower prices and increase internet speeds (Rest of World)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Oggi torniamo dalle vacanze col sito Guerre di Rete pubblicando una bella analisi di Andrea Daniele Signorelli su tutti i fronti di #OpenAI.
www.guerredirete.it/tutti-i-guai...
www.guerredirete.it/tutti-i-guai...
Tutti i guai di OpenAI - Guerre di Rete
Malgrado goda ancora di enorme fiducia da parte dei finanziatori, la società sinonimo di ChatGPT deve fronteggiare costi esorbitanti, divisioni interne e possibili, imminenti barriere tecnologiche.
www.guerredirete.it
January 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Oggi torniamo dalle vacanze col sito Guerre di Rete pubblicando una bella analisi di Andrea Daniele Signorelli su tutti i fronti di #OpenAI.
www.guerredirete.it/tutti-i-guai...
www.guerredirete.it/tutti-i-guai...
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#OutNow in #iCS
In "Six Provocations for Metaverse Datafication," Chris Hesselbein, Paolo Bory, and Stefano Canali analyze how metaverse data shapes knowledge, privacy, and social inequality, highlighting its cultural, technological, and scholarly impacts.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In "Six Provocations for Metaverse Datafication," Chris Hesselbein, Paolo Bory, and Stefano Canali analyze how metaverse data shapes knowledge, privacy, and social inequality, highlighting its cultural, technological, and scholarly impacts.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Six provocations for metaverse datafication: an emergent cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon
Although the ‘metaverse’ is still the feverish pipedream of tech companies and venture capitalists, it is also a powerful imaginary for channelling enormous resources towards deepening and extendin...
www.tandfonline.com
December 17, 2024 at 4:03 PM
#OutNow in #iCS
In "Six Provocations for Metaverse Datafication," Chris Hesselbein, Paolo Bory, and Stefano Canali analyze how metaverse data shapes knowledge, privacy, and social inequality, highlighting its cultural, technological, and scholarly impacts.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In "Six Provocations for Metaverse Datafication," Chris Hesselbein, Paolo Bory, and Stefano Canali analyze how metaverse data shapes knowledge, privacy, and social inequality, highlighting its cultural, technological, and scholarly impacts.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Call for abstracts STS Italia in Milano next June, with a promising session on scientific publishing #STS stsitalia.org/call-for-abs...
Call for Abstracts - STS Italia
Join the 10th Biennial STS Italia Conference, 'Technoscience for Good,' on 11-13 June 2025 at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Explore cutting-edge discussions on ethical, social, and political di...
stsitalia.org
December 14, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Call for abstracts STS Italia in Milano next June, with a promising session on scientific publishing #STS stsitalia.org/call-for-abs...
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Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory is released _today_.
You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers.
muse.jhu.edu/book/123276
You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers.
muse.jhu.edu/book/123276
December 18, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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New paper out with @pbory.bsky.social and Chris Hesselbein!
We discuss new forms of data and datafication in the metaverse and, echoing seminal work by @zephoria.bsky.social and @katecrawford.bsky.social, we present six provocations for metaverse datafication.
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
We discuss new forms of data and datafication in the metaverse and, echoing seminal work by @zephoria.bsky.social and @katecrawford.bsky.social, we present six provocations for metaverse datafication.
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
December 17, 2024 at 8:40 AM
New paper out with @pbory.bsky.social and Chris Hesselbein!
We discuss new forms of data and datafication in the metaverse and, echoing seminal work by @zephoria.bsky.social and @katecrawford.bsky.social, we present six provocations for metaverse datafication.
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
We discuss new forms of data and datafication in the metaverse and, echoing seminal work by @zephoria.bsky.social and @katecrawford.bsky.social, we present six provocations for metaverse datafication.
doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Cfa: Searching for the Metaverse. Mapping and disentangling the imaginaries of VR-MR
Join us in Milan for the X STS Italia conference, panel 10 (like D10s) on the imaginaries of VR/MR organized by me, my brilliant brother Stefano Bory and the great Gianluigi Negro:
stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...
Join us in Milan for the X STS Italia conference, panel 10 (like D10s) on the imaginaries of VR/MR organized by me, my brilliant brother Stefano Bory and the great Gianluigi Negro:
stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...
stsitalia.org
December 16, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Cfa: Searching for the Metaverse. Mapping and disentangling the imaginaries of VR-MR
Join us in Milan for the X STS Italia conference, panel 10 (like D10s) on the imaginaries of VR/MR organized by me, my brilliant brother Stefano Bory and the great Gianluigi Negro:
stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...
Join us in Milan for the X STS Italia conference, panel 10 (like D10s) on the imaginaries of VR/MR organized by me, my brilliant brother Stefano Bory and the great Gianluigi Negro:
stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...
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Former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower found dead at age 26: www.cnbc.com/2024/12/13/f...
Former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower found dead at age 26
Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment in recent weeks, officials confirmed to CNBC.
www.cnbc.com
December 14, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower found dead at age 26: www.cnbc.com/2024/12/13/f...
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👾Fresh Call for Abstracts!👁️ Come visit #STSItalia in Milan this summer to share your research at our panel on Critical Hype Studies exploring the many sociopsychotechnoenvironmental faces of hype. Deadline: Feb 3. @imaginaries.bsky.social
stsitalia.org/call-for-abs...
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stsitalia.org/call-for-abs...
stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...
Call for Abstracts - STS Italia
Join the 10th Biennial STS Italia Conference, 'Technoscience for Good,' on 11-13 June 2025 at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. Explore cutting-edge discussions on ethical, social, and political di...
stsitalia.org
December 13, 2024 at 1:02 PM
👾Fresh Call for Abstracts!👁️ Come visit #STSItalia in Milan this summer to share your research at our panel on Critical Hype Studies exploring the many sociopsychotechnoenvironmental faces of hype. Deadline: Feb 3. @imaginaries.bsky.social
stsitalia.org/call-for-abs...
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stsitalia.org/call-for-abs...
stsitalia.org/wp-content/u...
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here's a Sora generated video of gymnastics
December 11, 2024 at 5:35 PM
here's a Sora generated video of gymnastics