Robert W. Gehl

FOSS Academic

Robert W. Gehl (RWG) is the founder of FOSS Academic. He is the Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice at York University in Toronto. His personal website is robertwgehl.org.

Posts

• Reading the Online Harms Act with my Fediverse Admin Hat On
• Researching the Fediverse: Instances and Individuals
• "Move Slowly and Build Bridges" Preview
• Thoughts on Threads, or Is Mark Zuckerberg Jesus?
• Ethics and Codes of Conduct on Mastodon
• How Universities Lost the Internet
• Alternative Social Media Preconference at AoIR
• ActivityPub, the Non-Standard Standard
• A defense of the humble, importable blocklist
• ASM update, Bibliography Edition
• Move Slowly and Build Bridges to be published by Oxford University Press
• ASM update, August 12 2023
• Seeking Grad Students and Postdocs
• ASM Update, June 25 2023
• ASM Update, June 16 2023
• Reading the Minutes of the Social Web Working Group, part 2
• AoIR Social's Code of Conduct
• AOIR.social!
• Bumps, Slumps and the Killer Hype Cycle
• Reading the Minutes of the Social Web Working Group, part 1
• FOSS Academic Year in Review 2022
• A Very Playvicious Christmas
• Two New Publications
• AOIR.social?
• FOSS Finds, Content Moderation webinar
• Twitter Isn't That Important
• Expanding The Conversation (notes on the Pew Alternative Social Media Report)
• More Mastodon Scraping Without Consent (Notes on Nobre et al 2022)
• A Deep Dive into a Zotero Workflow
• FOSS Finds, Scuttlebutt Edition
• Movin' North
• FOSS Finds, On Demand Edition
• (I'm) Mashing That Subscribe Button
• FOSS Finds, StoryCorps Edition
• FOSS Interview Workflow
• New Book, Old Book
• FOSS Finds
• Coding Freedom, by Biella Coleman
• I Have Settled on Zettlr
• FOSS Finds
• Very Kool + Jellyfin
• FOSS Finds, Environment and Labor Edition
• FOSS Finds
• Goal 2, Initiate
• Test post for Mastodon Comments
• Tuxies 2021
• In Praise of Mastodon, Again
• Nextcloud Appointments!
• September update
• Manjaro Mania!
• (Almost) De-Googled Research
• A Vacation and F-Droid
• FALD Updates
• Messin' with Wireguard
• Sudo Install Dark Mode
• Review of Zotero's New PDF Annotation Features
• RM Mess
• Cutting-Edge Zotero
• GDPR Compliance
• PDF Hell
• A Lost Weekend of Lost Posts
• Linux on Mars
• A Survey for Mastodon Developers, Admins, and Users
• I Asked Mastodon About FOSS for Academics. Here's What They Said
• Staticman Comments Test Post
• 20 Years of Wikipedia
• In Praise of Mastodon After an Insurrection, or, What if Donald Trump Had Joined Mastodon?
• Minor Update -- New Publication, No More Hyvor
• My Workflow
• Minor Update -- Tagging System
• My FOSS Journey
• The Tuxies, Academic Style
• Dreaming in code
• Zotero tips and tricks
• Introduction