{"id":36,"date":"2026-08-05T06:27:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/?p=36"},"modified":"2026-08-05T06:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:31:54","slug":"reflection-hyperlinked-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/2026\/08\/05\/reflection-hyperlinked-environments\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflection: Hyperlinked Environments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>\u00a0The <\/b><b>Uncensored Library\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40\" src=\"http:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/557\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-11.31.04-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1242\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/557\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-11.31.04-PM.png 1242w, https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/557\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-11.31.04-PM-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/557\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-11.31.04-PM-1024x518.png 1024w, https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/557\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-11.31.04-PM-768x388.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/uncensoredlibrary.com\/en\">The Uncensored Library<\/a> server\/map on Minecraft has a powerful purpose in fighting against internet censorship by publishing articles by writers who have been banned, imprisoned, exiled, or killed. Specifically, this library honors the voices and perspectives of Jamal Khashoggi from Saudi Arabia, Nguyen Van Dai from Vietnam, Javier Valdez from Mexico, MadaMasr and Al-Manassa from Egypt, and exiled journalists from Russia. Their library honors the voices and legacy on an extremely popular gaming platform &#8211; this opens up the many possibilities to what librarianship in terms of information sharing and retrieval can look like.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38\" src=\"http:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/557\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-11.25.19-PM-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"886\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/557\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-11.25.19-PM-1.png 886w, https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/557\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-11.25.19-PM-1-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/557\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-at-11.25.19-PM-1-768x456.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 886px) 100vw, 886px\" \/><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This text under the Reporters without Borders section of the map underscores the importance of press freedom.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Questions<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Can this truly be called a library with only five articles being published?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why does the main page talk about having articles from the United States, Iran, Brazil, and Belize but I cannot find them on the map? Were these removed? Are they accessible from a different map that is not on their official website?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why is this library not updated frequently &#8211; what are the barriers?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How often is this library frequented and to what degree do users engage with the articles published?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How could this actually act as a library, where there is an abundance of articles and texts?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What might social engagement look like in an uncensored library on a gaming platform?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How could participatory service allow for more frequency in updates?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What are the risks and dangers involved in maintaining such a library?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Real-World Applications<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Censorship is something many public school teachers, librarians, and other industries are facing in America. Book bans are discussed in PBS News Hour\u2019s documentary, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/video\/the-librarians-1759695945\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Librarians<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Minecraft Uncensored Library sparks the possibility of using digital, non-traditional spaces to host information in the face of book bans. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The Uncensored Library\u00a0 The Uncensored Library server\/map on Minecraft has a powerful purpose in fighting against internet censorship by publishing articles by writers who have been banned, imprisoned, exiled, or killed. Specifically, this library honors the voices and perspectives of Jamal Khashoggi from Saudi Arabia, Nguyen Van Dai from Vietnam, Javier Valdez from Mexico, MadaMasr &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/2026\/08\/05\/reflection-hyperlinked-environments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reflection: Hyperlinked Environments<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu\/hellahyperlinked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}