Alice Noujaim examines Orkut's rise as Brazil's dominant social platform from 2004-2010 and its subsequent decline following Facebook's ascendancy, culminating in Google's decision to shut down the service in 2014. The paper traces how user migration and corporate abandonment led to Orkut's 'death by official ending' rather than organic decline.
Exit to Protocol examines how protocols can facilitate graceful retirement and archival by drawing parallels to narrative closure in television, specifically how platforms and communities can transition from active operation to preserved legacy. Gong argues for a framework where protocols enable individuals and organizations to exit with dignity while preserving their work and knowledge for future reference.
Shuya Gong
Fire Protocols reframes fire from a destructive force to be suppressed into an essential ecological tool by developing community-based protocols for fire knowledge transmission and large-scale coordinated action across social, political, and ecological systems in Sonoma County. The framework positions attention as an autopoietic space that allows communities to regenerate and maintain fire knowledge while resolving tensions between geopolitical top-down structures and cultural knowledge systems.
Nathalia Scherer, Jiordi Rosales
A Summer of Protocols fiction anthology exploring librarians and archivists as protocol designers — curators who shape what knowledge is preserved, findable, and forgotten.
Summer of Protocols