More & more of our culture now exists only in digital form … but libraries can’t preserve what they don’t own. As books 📚, music 🎵, film 🎞️, and news 📰 shift from ownership to licensing, long-term access is becoming harder to guarantee. 🔗 www.currentaffairs.org/news/who-wil... 🧵⬇️

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Current Affairs Magazine talks with Internet Archive’s Mark Graham & Chris Freeland on these and other challenges facing the creation and preservation of news and culture. @archive.org

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Hey, Mormon-adjacent Bluesky! @sdstewart.bsky.social, Rosemary Avance, and I are editing an issue of the Journal of the Mormon Social Science Association on "Platformed Mormonism." We're looking for submissions—maybe from you—that go beyond the traditional "research study." jmssa.org/cfp-platform...

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We're calling them "reflective essays," and we're trying to capture the online Mormon experience as much as we can, even outside of formal scholarship. So, we'd love to hear from bloggers like @maclements.bsky.social or @smbrnsn.bsky.social, or podcasters, or YouTubers, or whatever else.

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One thing I'd especially love is a retrospective essay on Mormon Twitter from one or more folks who were active there but eventually left the platform for somewhere like here (@kristinea.bsky.social ? @jblainefoster.bsky.social ? others?). What was Mormon Twitter like? Has Bluesky replaced it?

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