[Commlist] New Book: Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media

Robert W. Gehl is happy to announce my newest book, Move Slowly and 
Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic 
Social Media, is out from Oxford University Press.

The book tells the story of the activists, software developers, artists, 
and everyday people who have built the fediverse, a noncentralized 
alternative social media system. Unlike big tech corporations like 
Facebook, TikTok, or X, the fediverse is comprised of thousands of 
small, independent communities who use a Web protocol to communicate 
with one another.

These small communities govern themselves and moderate content at the 
human scale — compare that to Facebook and X, which try to moderate 
global conversations. And the fediverse isn’t built in order to gather 
user data and sell attention to marketers — it’s a more 
privacy-respecting social media alternative.

This book is of interest to communication and media studies scholars, 
particularly those who research social media, platform governance, 
content moderation, and sociotechnical systems.

You can learn more about the book here:
moveslowlybuildbridges.com


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