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Skysquare is context as a servicePerformance Theatre ยท Workshop Day #2

Skysquare exists to make sense of the digital public square via Bluesky. Launching this summer as a Chrome extension, Skysquare overlays social media conversation onto the webpages people are discussing, allowing readers to experience our online conversation in richer context.

When a page has been shared or talked about on Bluesky, Skysquare associates that discourse with the page itself and reveals the surrounding conversation directly in the browser.

Instead of chasing links through feeds, readers and writers can immediately see who is talking about what in relation to the material they are reading, turning the web into a socially annotated layer of context.

This talk will demonstrate the extension in action and explore how tools like Skysquare can help researchers, scientists, and educators connect conversations directly to the sources being discussed.

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