Janet Sternberg

@janetphd.bsky.social

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scholar/professor, Portugal/Brasil/USA, media ecologist, linguist, cat lover, a voice on NASA Voyager Golden Record (Português), author of Misbehavior in Cyber Places. She/her.

Head shot of dark, almost black chocolate tortoiseshell cat Luna giving her sly side-eye expression.
Head shot of dark, almost black chocolate tortoiseshell cat Luna giving her sly side-eye expression.
Almost black, chocolate tortoiseshell cat Luna lies stretched out in a bright yellow cat bed, showing off her green eyes and multicolored paws.
Front cover of book by Janet Sternberg, Misbehavior in Cyber Places: The Regulation of Online Conduct in Virtual Communities on the Internet (2012). https://misbehaviorincyberplaces.tumblr.com/toc for details.
Color reproduction of painting by Edvard Munch, 1893, The Scream, an iconic expressionist masterpiece capturing a figure on a bridge, with mouth open wide, screaming into the void.
Head shot of dark, almost black chocolate tortoiseshell cat Luna giving her sly side-eye expression.
Almost black chocolate tortoiseshell cat Luna lies stretched out in a bright yellow cat bed, showing off her green eyes and multicolored paws.
Ivan Lins usa um computador pela primeira vez, o laptop da Janet, num hotel em Greenwich Village, NYC.
Almost black chocolate tortoiseshell cat Luna lies stretched out in a bright yellow cat bed, showing off her green eyes and multicolored paws.
Head shot of dark, almost black chocolate tortoiseshell cat Luna giving the sly side-eye expression.
Silver and white tuxedo cat Asa lies on his back in a contorted position with paws in the air on his cat condo roof, showing off his white underpinnings.
Silver and white tuxedo cat Asa lies on his back in a contorted position with paws in the air on his cat condo roof, showing off his white underpinnings.
Close-up of grey and white tuxedo cat Asa looking at the camera, with paws folded, showing off the grey spot on his white snout.
Head shot of dark, almost black chocolate tortoiseshell cat Luna giving the sly side-eye expression.
Grey and white tuxedo cat Asa showing off his white chest and paws, as well as the grey spot on his white snout.
Grey and white tuxedo cat Asa lying face up on a beige cushion, showing off his white belly and paws, as well as the grey spot on his white snout.
Head shot of dark, almost black chocolate tortoiseshell cat Luna giving the sly side-eye expression.
Grey and white tuxedo cat Asa lying face up on a beige cushion, showing off his white belly and paws, as well as the grey spot on his white snout.
Father sits at his computer in chair next to daughter kneeling on floor hugging him. They're in his ham radio "shack" full of equipment. He was W2JUP.
Capa do livro "Porque se chama assim?" por Vanessa Fidalgo.
Three liars sit at a table facing the camera: Marco Rubio to the right of Donald Trump, and Pete Hegseth to his left. Trump is making his typical accordion hands gesture against a background of flags. Photo credit Doug Mills, NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/us/politics/trump-iran-war.html
Grey and white tuxedo cat Asa lying face up on a beige cushion, showing off his white belly and paws, as well as the grey spot on his white snout.
Head shot of dark, almost black chocolate tortoiseshell cat Luna giving the sly side-eye expression.
Head shot of dark, almost black chocolate tortoiseshell cat Luna giving the sly side-eye expression.
Trump and two other men hold their hands on a glowing orb.
Head shot of dark, almost black chocolate tortoiseshell cat Luna giving the sly side-eye expression.
Head shot of dark, almost black chocolate tortoiseshell cat Luna giving the sly side-eye expression.
Split image. Left side: white text "All your heliopaws are belong to us!" on blue background surrounding two small pictures of Voyager spacecraft: Right side: 3 stacked closeup images of cat paws touching each other, starring my late cats, Isabella Pearl (grey) & Theodore (orange).
Head shot of dark, almost black chocolate tortoiseshell cat Luna giving the sly side-eye expression.
Grey and white tuxedo cat Asa lying face up on a beige cushion, showing off his white belly and paws, as well as the grey spot on his white snout.
Head shot of dark, almost black chocolate tortoiseshell cat Luna giving the sly side-eye expression.
Head shot of dark, almost black chocolate tortoise shell cat Luna giving the sly side-eye expression.
Head shot of dark, almost black chocolate tortoise shell cat Luna giving the sly side-eye expression.
Two cats snuggled together in a grey cat bed on the floor: Asa the silver and white tuxie, and Luna the chocolate tortie. In the background, a yellow cat hideaway box and in the foreground, a yellow cat bed.
Two cats snuggled together in a grey cat bed on the floor: Asa the silver and white tuxie, and Luna the chocolate tortie. In the background, a yellow cat hideaway box and in the foreground, a yellow cat bed.
Head shot of dark, almost black chocolate tortoise shell cat Luna giving the sly side-eye expression.
Head shot of dark, almost black chocolate tortoise shell cat Luna giving the sly side-eye expression.
Head shot of dark, almost black chocolate tortoiseshell cat Luna giving the sly side-eye expression.
Paragraph from John Suler's "Adolescents in Cyberspace: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" describing what he calls SNERTs (snot-nosed-eros-ridden-teenagers).
Screenshot of text from Wikipedia about the Breakup of the Bell System, section on "Subsequent evolution: Regulatory changes brought about by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed the Baby Bells to merge with each other or with non-Bell companies. Subsequently, a series of mergers and divestments has left six companies owning parts of the former Bell System as of 2024."
Four images of a white woman with blonde hair looking confused, overlaid with mysterious mathematical symbols.l Meme often called something like Confused Math Lady (Renata Sorrah, known in Brazil as "Nazaré Confusa")
Me holding facsimile of Voyager Golden Record used in The Farthest, on my way to 2018 Irish Film and Television Awards in Dublin, photo by film's director Emer Reynolds. Film won best documentary!
Article from the archives of the UB Reporter. Henry Lee Smith, linguist Published: October 27, 2011 (trimmed for Alt text limit) “It’s the most fascinating thing in the world,” Henry Lee Smith said about the study of linguistics. Language is “what makes us human beings.” In 1956, UB established the combined Department of Linguistics and Anthropology—the first such department in the country—and recruited Henry Lee Smith to head the new program. After receiving his PhD from Princeton and lecturing at Barnard, Columbia, and Brown, Smith headed the Language Section, Information and Education Division of the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946. Prior to the war, there were no foreign language materials for the bulk of the military and civilian personnel, and Smith, along with linguists he recruited, produced language guides, phrase books and military and general-purpose dictionaries in many different languages. Under Smith’s direction, the linguists also developed what came to be known as the Army method of language instruction—later adopted by colleges and universities—emphasizing the use of phonograph records on which a native speaker recited the foreign words and allowed a pause for repetition by the student. Smith founded the State Department’s School of Language and Linguistics in 1946, and served as the school’s director prior to coming to UB. But it was for his national radio program—“Where Are You From?”—that Smith was best known. Launched in 1940, the program featured Smith asking members of the studio audience to pronounce such shibboleths as Mary, marry, merry. Smith would then—with 80 percent accuracy—identify the dialect or dialects to which that person had been exposed, usually pegging it exactly, even within a few miles. For someone from Manhattan, Brooklyn or the Bronx, he could locate them within a few blocks of their homes. —John Edens, University Archives
Head shot of dark, almost black chocolate tortoise shell cat Luna giving the sly side-eye expression.
Neil Postman's handwritten notes for his "Advice on How to Live the Rest of Your Life" (image taken from Austin Kleon's blog post which he based on the original photos I took of these notes and posted on Twitter)