News from the Collective

I, too, was Mouchette at 13 years old

I’m 13 and my best friend from primary school asks me if I have an account on Tumblr. I do, but I’m not sure if I want her to know. She broke the unspoken rule, you never share your blog with IRL friends, it’s taboo to talk about it. I hesitantly agree, and we exchange […]

“Keep it Weird”: Listening with Jonathan Sterne (1970-2025)

Dr. Jonathan Sterne passed away earlier this year. He was, in many ways, a model scholar and colleague. The intellectual ferment of the field now called “sound studies” is often traced to the sonic ecologists of the 1960s, but the theoretical energy of the early 2000s, generated by figures such as Ana Maria Ochoa, Alexander […]

Heather Ford on Why Critical Wikipedia Research Is More Important Than Ever

From CPOV to the Manifesto for Wikimedia Research I was a Master’s student at UC Berkeley’s iSchool when I traveled to Bangalore for INC’s first Critical Point of View conference in January 2010. Two more CPOV conferences followed, in Amsterdam and Leipzig. Bangalore was a pivotal moment for me. I had been an activist in […]