Check out the full schedule for Reclaim Open, learn more about our keynote speakers, presenters and bloggers.
Keynote sessions
Rewilding voice in a time of enclosure – Dr Bonnie Stewart, Associate Professor, Online Pedagogy and Workplace Learning
In a world of feeds full of algorithmic reels and AI slop, what does it mean to write for ourselves? In a post-RSS, post-social media era, how do we navigate the enclosure and weaponization of the platforms that once networked the voices of the open web? And if we *do* push through the journey of crafting our own voices, our own narratives…does the breakdown of networks and fracturing of the open web mean our voices will echo, unheard? This session is aimed at tracing the sociomaterial shifts in what writing online has meant over the last 15-20 years, and convening a social, back-and-forth discussion via Mentimenter. It will explore and poll participants’ experiences and feelings about the various questions posed, and what answers and suggestions we can muster, as a collective. It will explore what’s been lost, but also what possibilities remain when the web is viewed as what Ursula Franklin called a ‘holistic technology’…as opposed to the prescriptive technologies that enclosure and automation offer us. The session will focus on ‘re-wilding’ ideas of voice and a commons even within our polluted information ecosystem, and on building capacity to connect with each other and to value each other’s voices.Dr
Dr Bonnie Stewart, Associate Professor, Online Pedagogy and Workplace Learning, Faculty of Education, University of Windsor.
Reclaim Student Showcase
Since its launch over a decade ago, our services such as Domain of One’s Own, Shared Hosting and WordPress Multisite have grown into an important part of the infrastructure students and faculty rely on at hundreds of schools.
Selected by a judging panel of expert admins from across our community we want to showcase the wonderful work that is happening at our flagship conference, Reclaim Open. This is why we are looking to you to help us find the voices of tomorrow that will shape the web for the next generation.
“On Writing” Keynote Panel
The closing plenary of the conference, hosted by Jim Groom, will bring together voices from our community to help us think about what it means to be writing, blogging and to have a domain of your own on the open web.
Speakers will be announced here soon.
“On Writing” is a video podcast hosted by Jim Groom and Team Reclaim. Since we established our Blogging Community of Practice, AKA Bloggers Anonymous, at the start of this year, our community activities have grown as more members join the group, and these conversations about writing and blogging are an important part of stimulating the conversations we are hoping to foster.
Catch up with “On Writing” , featuring interviews with bloggers and writers including Audrey Watters, Kine Lane, Mike Caulfield, Amy Collier, Tom Woodward, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Adam Croom, Bryan Alexander, Chris Long, Kate Bowles, Lee Skallerup Bessette, Tim Klapdor, Martin Weller and Bonnie Stewart.
Guidance for Authors and Presenters
Check your inbox for an email from events@reclaimhosting.com for regular communication from us in the run up to the event and take a look at our guidance document.