@mapto@qoto.org
mapto.bsky.social
@mapto@qoto.org
@mapto.bsky.social
Studying how people interact, in the past ( #CulturalAnalytics) and today ( #EdTech #Crowdsourcing). Researcher at University of Milan. Bulgarian activist for legal reform.

I'm also on the fediverse https://linktr.ee/mapto
I think "clickbait" is a shorter way to put it. After all, we are at a point where the bulk of new data comes from new user input. It takes anything, but _desperately_ needs you to not disengage.
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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The thing is, as bad as this sounds, i don't believe that it was always that different, but gatekeepers simply cut off the folkways at a certain threshold. Online media now reveal the full spectrum of communicative purposes—play, identity, partisanship, performance, outrage, and sometimes: truth.
November 9, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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November 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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You can read & download the chapter for free in the new open-access volume, Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures (edited by Matthew Kilbane).

I highly recommend checking out the whole book! Especially if you're interested in literature and social media.

www.fulcrum.org/epubs/q524jr...
Ebook of Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures
Expressive Networks convenes an urgent conversation on digital media and the social life of contemporary poetry. Tracing how poems circulate through online spaces and how capitalized platforms have co...
https://www.fulcrum.org/epubs/q524jr70t?locale=en#/6/22[ch10]!/4/2[c5]/2/2/2[p63]/1:0
June 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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#newmexico joins countries such as #norway & #belgium that offer #free #universal #childcare for #children under 3, & #bulgaria, where early childhood #education is free for all children until elementary school. New Mexico is going further by offering no-cost child care for children up to age 13 […]
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masto.ai
November 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
...and making costumes for kids is easier because they are smaller :)
November 1, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Хаха, с 5-годишния ми за пръв път си купихме оранжева тиква, за да я дяламе. Ма тя е много вкусна :D изобщо не е толкова сладка
October 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
ми то и аз не обичам тиква, ама не се го изкарвам на децата...
October 30, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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@256bit.bsky.social we're definitely in different stages. In Bulgaria protests were taking governments down regularly in the 1990s and 2000s (here's a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Protests_in_Bulgaria). Then politicians learned to not resist protests, but find other ways to stay […]
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masto.bg
October 24, 2025 at 5:02 AM