Want to find out more about alternative social media?

Join Robert Gehl, author of Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media, published by Oxford University Press, for a book launch and panel discussion on alternative social media.

Robert is the Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice at York University in Toronto, Canada. Previously, Robert held an endowed research chair at Louisiana Tech and a Fulbright Chair of Communication, Media, and Film at the University of Calgary, with approximately 30 articles in academic journals such as New Media & Society, Fibreculture, Social Media + Society, and Information, Communication & Society. Previous books include "Reverse Engineering Social Media," which won the Nancy Baym Book Award from the Association of Internet Researchers, as well as "Weaving the Dark Web " and "Social Engineering," published in 2022 by MIT Press.

Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media is available from the MacEwan University Library.

Panelists

• Jordan Foster, Assistant Professor, MacEwan University
• Dawn Walker, coSocial.CA Board Member
• Chad Ohman, Mastodon Canada Administrator