Knowledge Futures Group

At Knowledge Futures our mission is to make information useful. Today, Knowledge Futures announces a new iteration of PubPub, “PubPub Platform,” to improve our ability to serve that mission. With PubPub Platform, we are responding with excitement to the lessons we’ve learned over our many years of community-led development by providing new, full-stack knowledge infrastructure that will allow communities to decide for themselves what it means to make their information useful.

The California State University (Cal State or CSU) is a public university system of 23 campuses, and is the largest public university system in the world. Academic librarians in the CSUs are unionized, hold faculty status, and may be in tenure-track positions.

In this article, I argue that in order to design for trust, we must first update our conceptions of trustworthiness. Networks are inherently poly-nodal. They are created by and are productive of many interconnected relations between people, energy, and machines. And yet, our conceptions of trust and fidelity are ill-fittingly monogamous. Drawing from feminist theorists—including Wendy Chun and Dossie Easton—I propose an ethical non-fidelity for our networked technologies.

The role of photo and video in exposing human rights abuses is undeniable.

Rather than a recording of the visible that shows aspects of the world around us that may not be in accord with our preconceptions, software will allow us to reshape the digital photograph to conform to what we want the world to look like. For example, an exhibition on display in Ashkelon, Israel, shows synthetic, quasi photo-realistic images that were produced to represent the memories of elderly Holocaust survivors recounting traumatic memories from their childhood some eight decades before.

In this installation of Convos on the Common, we chat with Matt Clancy an economist by training who runs New Things Under the Sun, a living literature review on innovation. This conversation investigates what living literature reviews are, the ever-changing science of citations and disruptions in publishing, and some interesting correlations and emerging ideas within the exciting topic of innovation.

This is a call for contributions to a new series about designing tech, tools, and media towards trust and authenticity. We ask that abstracts of 300 words or fewer be submitted by March 3, 2023 (see key dates and details below). While academics, journalists, and technologists encourage rational inquiry based on evidence, we are living in a period of information overload. How did we get here? Many point to once regulated media/TV outlets, now unleashed. Many blame social media.

Members are critical to sustaining our mission to build public knowledge infrastructure. Becoming a Knowledge Futures Member allows individuals and organizations of all sizes to support open infrastructure; receive support for PubPub, Underlay, and other products; meet and share ideas with other innovative knowledge communities; and join a community passionate about the future of knowledge infrastructure and its development.