First Monday December 2025

Readers:

First Monday has just published the December 2025 (volume 30, number 12) is=
sue at firstmonday [dot] org.

First Monday
Volume 30, Number 12 - 1 December 2025

Facebook's data enclave and the woes of researching social media recommenda=
tion algorithms: A reflection on methods
by Aanila Kishwar

Students' perception of a leaderboard-based mathematics game
by Camryn E. Thompson, Kimberly Cervello Rogers, and Fei Gao

The rise of John "Q" Public: Conspiracy theories and/as the public sphere=20
by Matthew N. Hannah

Why do I insist on buying my music when everybody knows it's free? Ten rati=
onales for an alternative to streaming music consumption
by Ofer Bergman

Fed up: /r/antiwork and the efficacy of digital labor resistance
by Ian Dunham

Misleading information visualisations as a tool of info-warfare: How the sa=
me visualisations attract floating narratives of the Russia-Ukraine war par=
ties
by Elena Aversa and Anja Bechmann

With the December issue, First Monday has published 2,442 papers in 355 iss=
ues, written by 3,638 different authors over the past 29 years.

Thanks for your continuing interest in our work,

Edward J. Valauskas
Chief Editor and Founder, First Monday