That’s a totally valid criticism. I never managed to work in the context of a community, and I still struggle with that in my current projects. Do you have any suggestions? I’m curious what it took to foster a community around Grafoscopio, and if there are lessons I can learn from your experience.
I wanted research that went beyond papers and academia and closer to the grassroots communities outside
This 100% matches my priorities. Because of my difficulty bootstrapping communities, my focus is on building things are useful even just to a single person working alone. But perhaps that focus perpetuates the problem.
we need to make explicit the metasystem properties of digital tools/infrastructures, i.e. the ability to describe themself via a continuum between the running app/tool and its source code and create explicit educative practices in a grassroots community where such apps/tools are introduced/used/modified.
I don’t follow this at all. Could you rephrase or elaborate?