[{"id": "spir-10019", "words": "1281", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Abidin, Crystal", "title": "Towards A Theory Of Cross-Media Networked Microcelebrity: Of Bedrooms, Blogsites, Broadcasts, And Boardrooms", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "case; fame; internet; media; microcelebrity", "summary": "Methodology and typology To understand the networked flows among virality, celebrity, and commerce across the attention economy (Goldhaber, 1997) of internet personalities, digital estates of the media, and traditional old media, I draw on six brief case studies from the last six years to illustrate the key (micro)celebrity pathways that have emerged globally. By attending to how internet personalities, digital estates of the media, and traditional old media borrow from, capitalize on, and collaborate and compete for viewership and attention, we can understand the lifecycle, use value, discardability, and respectability politics involved in the field of microcelebrity studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10020", "words": "4807", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Banks, Jaime; Edwards, Autumn; Joblin, Anna; Lewis, Seth; Edwards, Chad; Westerman, David; Spence, Patric; Guzman, Andrea", "title": "Posthuman Publics: Emerging Research in Human-Machine Communication", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "advertisers; algorithms; communication; edwards; human; interaction; journalism; machine; paper; people; publics; robot", "summary": "Instances of human-machine communication (HMC) often involve interaction between people and social robots or automated software bots. In these situations, social robots are \u201cnot a medium through which humans interact, but rather a medium with which humans interact\u201d (Zhao, 2006, p. 402, emphasis added).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10022", "words": "6094", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Braybrooke, Kat; Annika, Richterich; Karin, Wenz; Tim, Jordan", "title": "When Does Irl Matter? Location And Networked Creativity In Gamer, Hacker And Maker Publics", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "communities; culture; digital; game; groups; media; new; offline; online; private; production; public; spaces", "summary": "First, we will ask whether collocation or physical connection remains a structuring element in different networked publics, and why this has been under- appreciated and theorised. when a primarily, if not at this time wholly, online group moved offline.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10023", "words": "5644", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Frith, Jordan; Farman, Jason; Wilken, Rowan; Oppegaard, Brett; Meyer, Joseph", "title": "The Temporality Of Mobile Media", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "location; media; messages; new; people; place; research; rhythms; space; text; time; yak; yik", "summary": "PANEL TITLE: THE TEMPORALITY OF MOBILE MEDIA Jordan Frith Jason Farman Brett Oppegaard Joseph Meyer Rowan Wilken Description Scholarship on mobile media has often focused on the relationship between mobile media and space/place, including studies on locative technologies (Frith, 2014), social- spatial coordination (Ling, 2004), proximity (Oppegaard & Rabby, 2015; Wilken and Goggin, 2013), absent presence and telecocooning (Gergen, 2002; Habuchi, 2005) and place-making (Farman, 2010). This panel seeks to flip that relationship by devoting four talks to the oft-neglected interrelations between mobile media and temporality.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10024", "words": "5813", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Golan, Oren; Evolvi, Giulia; Martini, Michele; Scott, Sasha; Vaisman, Carmel", "title": "Religious Networked Publics: Seeking Authenticity By Digital Means", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "apps; authenticity; digital; internet; live; media; muslim; new; online; religion; ritual; women", "summary": "The final contributor will further the discussion of socio-technological affordances and technologies-of-the-self by offering a phenomenological analysis of religious ritual apps. Digital religion scholarship has merely begun to engage religious apps, mainly offering initial typologies (Wagner 2012, Campbell et al. 2014).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10025", "words": "5697", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Harvey, Alison; Bain, Jessica; Whiteman, Natasha; Rambukkana, Nathan", "title": "Networked Niceness: Gendered Affective Publics and Potentialities of Political Resistance", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "affective; culture; digital; ethics; feminist; games; media; new; online; paper; publics; research; studies; support; university; women", "summary": "As this would indicate, online games culture is one where affective and gendered boundaries play a central role in defining the gamer identity. It also presents a challenge to the growing emphasis on the \u201chuman\u201d in online research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10026", "words": "5198", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Lehto, Mari; Hynn\u00e4, Kaisu; Light, Ben; Tudor, Matilda; Cassidy, Elija", "title": "Digital Networks, Digital Pub(L)Ics (2): Gender, Sex, Embodiment", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "body; digital; gay; media; men; new; online; paper; public; queer; selfies; sexuality; work", "summary": "Through technological networks Niitti\u2019s post moved from an unmediated public of a plane, where the audience is structurally defined, to networked publics of social media where the audiences are unknown and unpredictable. By using hashtags like #publicbreastfeeding Niitti probably caught the attention of audiences that would normally not follow him on social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10027", "words": "7066", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Markham, Annette; Lingel, Jessa; M\u00f8ller, Kristian; Driscoll, Kevin; Warfield, Katie", "title": "Making Sense Of Life In 2017 - Metaphors Of The Internet", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "experience; internet; life; markham; media; metaphors; online; paper; place; press; sense; space; time; users; way", "summary": "In the late 1990s, metaphors functioned as sense-making devices for internet users experimenting with new forms of computer-mediated communication. Markham (1998) has pointed out the ways in which the internet has been conceptualized as a tool, and in a political narrative, early internet discourse positioned the web as a tool of democracy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10028", "words": "6796", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Paasonen, Susanna; Albury, Kath; Stardust, Zahra; Mercer, John; Mowlabocus, Sharif; Robards, Brady; Smith, Clarissa", "title": "Digital Networks, Digital Pub(L)Ics (1): Labour, Pleasure, Porn.", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "amateur; consumption; content; fantasies; labour; media; new; paper; porn; pornography; production; queer; rape; sex; studies; work", "summary": "The shifting forms of digital porn production, involving new pornographic styles and new methods of framing pornographic texts, require us to (re)consider the political-economy of pornography and the ways in which publics produce, access and consume pornography. While many participants embraced porn production and distribution as a practice of self-representation and local/global community-formation, others struggled with the personal costs of developing and distributing commercially viable pornography in a digital environment where consumers are often unwilling to pay for content (Stardust 2016, Taormino et al 2013, Young 2016).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10029", "words": "4668", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Stevens, Hallam; Arora, Payal; Konig, Rene; Schaefer, Mirko; Pirdmore, Jason", "title": "Data-Driven Models of Governance Across Borders: Assessing Participation, Inclusion, and Convergence in the Digital Era", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "cities; citizen; data; governance; new; paper; participation; practices; privacy; society; system; technology", "summary": "By looking at democracy\u2019s three core dimensions - the socio-political, the economic and the legal, and how big data intersects with them, this study analyzes the following questions in the context of India and China: does digitization of citizen data reduce or entrench discrimination? In the Netherlands, many municipalities already developed smart cities initiatives and are actively seeking ways to exploit data practices for cost-efficient management, for improving quality of life for residents, and for stimulating local and national entrepreneurial activities (Kist 2015; Krianotis 2016; Vereninging van Nederlandse Gemeenten 2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10030", "words": "6968", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Tiidenberg, Katrin; Schreiber, Maria; Lehmuskallio, Asko; Fausing, Bent; Bechmann, Anja; Markham, Annette; Sepp\u00e4nen, Janne; H\u00e4kkinen, Jukka", "title": "Panel: Shifts In Socially Mediated Visual Cultures: Images By/For Machines And Humans", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "affordances; communication; culture; digital; images; instagram; media; new; photography; pictures; practices; sense; snapchat; university", "summary": "Algorithms are constantly tasked with interpreting social media images that carry multiple social functions and meanings for people creating and uploading them. Thus this presentation asks how deep learning algorithms used on social media images are used to predict gender of the uploader, and what the potential political, social and ideological implications of such data-driven categorizations are.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10031", "words": "4930", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Titley, Gavan; Nikunen, Kaarina; Pantti, Mervi; Sharma, Sanjay; Siapera, Eugenia; Viejo Otero, Paloma; Morero, Elena; Matamoros Fernandez, Ariadna; Highfield, Tim; Muench, Felix", "title": "Racisms In Digital Media Space", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "affect; analysis; events; hate; images; media; new; online; platforms; racism; speech; university; web", "summary": "Online racism is propagated by individuals, networked crowds, bots and algorithms. This paper, organised as three parts, innovates an approach for studying the manifestation of online racism by advancing a \u2018materialist\u2019 account.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10032", "words": "4365", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Hemsley, Jeff; Bolsolover, Gillian; Bradshaw, Samantha; Jones, Mark Owen; Hogan, Alex; Savage, Saiph", "title": "Computational Propaganda And Social Media: Global Perspectives", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "action; bots; election; internet; media; news; paper; propaganda; public; the_donald; twitter", "summary": "However, with the rise of social media, the control of online distribution channels has been concentrated into a small number of hands, with new and less accountable platforms replacing traditional media gatekeepers (Lovink, 2011). Social media has become an increasingly important source of news for Internet users.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10033", "words": "1271", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Allen-Robertson, James", "title": "The Uber Game: Exploring Algorithmic Management and Resistance", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "game; management; paper; rules", "summary": "Secondly, the paper draws together literature on algorithmic power, with the field of game studies to provide complimentary insights into the knowledge and power relations between individuals and algorithmic systems. This paper, based on a computer-aided content analysis of 28,458 forum threads, argues that whilst gig economy workers are governed by algorithmic systems, that same system facilitates resistance.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10034", "words": "1273", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Ask, Kristine; Abidin, Crystal", "title": "My Life Is A Mess: Self-Deprecating Relatability And The Memefication Of Student Publics", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "education; memes; publics; student", "summary": "This paper aims to address this discrepancy by analyzing memefied discourses about higher education as an expression of a new student public: How is higher education framed by student memes? What do student memes tell us about the lifeworld and collective identities of students?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10035", "words": "1264", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Beauvisage, Thomas; Mellet, Kevin", "title": "The Ordinary Market For Fake Likes", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "followers; likes; market; media", "summary": "These counterfeiting practices aiming at increasing social counters are the main reason for the rise of the market for fake likes, but when the market got more mature, social media agencies realized their interest was in taking clear distance with deceptive practices. Reputation economy is positioned at the convergence of two dynamics: the expansion of quantification and performance measurements contributing to the establishment of an audit society (Espeland and Sauder, 2007), and the rise of social media marketing as an autonomous activity dealing with online reputation, seeking to identify, manage, and domesticate online participation (Mellet, 2016).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10036", "words": "1329", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Bowman, Nick; Wulf, Tim; Velez, John; Breuer, Johannes", "title": "Playing With The Pixelated Past: Need Satisfaction And Entertainment Experiences In Gaming Memories", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "entertainment; experiences; gaming; memories", "summary": "Forums such as r/RetroGaming encourage discussion of nostalgic gaming memories. Enjoyment was more prevalent in recent memories.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10037", "words": "1414", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Brandtzaeg, Petter Bae; Chaparro Dom\u00ednguez, Mar\u00eda \u00c1ngeles; F\u00f8lstad, Asbj\u00f8rn", "title": "Context Collapse In News", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "context; media; news; stories", "summary": "Finally, the potential implications of context collapse in social media news stories, especially concerning the distribution of fake news and the misinterpretation of the facts, are discussed. Sixty- six percent of Facebook users reported reading news stories on the site, while nearly 59% of Twitter users reported the same.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10038", "words": "1671", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Brandtzaeg, Petter Bae; L\u00fcders, Marika; F\u00f8lstad, Asbj\u00f8rn", "title": "How To Understand Trust In News Media \u2013 A Theoretical Model", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "media; model; news; trust; user", "summary": "We predict news media type to have a moderating effect on the main determinants of trust in news media, as well as a direct effect on trust. Outline of the theoretical model Through a typology of news media user types, we address three different layers of factors that are likely to determine the type of news media user, particularly relevant for trust in news media: (1) Individual differences, that is, varying inherent characteristics of the individual news consumer.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10039", "words": "1277", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "B\u00fcchi, Moritz; Festic, Noemi; Latzer, Micheal", "title": "Consequences Of Digital Divides: How Internet Use Affects Social Well-Being", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "internet; research; use", "summary": "The concept of social well-being is especially useful in research on Internet effects, since on the one hand various online services enable and facilitate social interaction, and on the other hand preference for online social interaction over face-to-face can lead to negative outcomes of Internet use (Caplan, 2003). Third, this article studies different types of Internet use and their effects on subjective well-being since previous research has shown that the amount of Internet use as a one-dimensional concept is insufficient in research into Internet effects (Valkenburg & Peter, 2007).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10040", "words": "1258", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Carter, Marcus; Gibbs, Martin; Witkowski, Emma", "title": "Understanding eSports Spectatorship: Players, Fans, Recruits", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "content; esports; media; players", "summary": "Of note in this regard is the fact that participants often did not differentiate between watching competitive eSports tournaments live and watching competitive eSports players live while they practiced, educated, entertained and interacted to build a fan base. P1 (24/M) noted that \u201ckeeping up with the metagame\u201d and \u201ctrying to understand how changes would change the way I have to play\u201d drove them to third-party sites to engage with eSports content.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10041", "words": "1300", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Cassidy, Elija; Wang, Wilfred", "title": "Gay Men's Digital Cultures Beyond Gaydar And Grindr: Line Use In The Gay Chinese Diaspora Of Australia", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "australia; gay; line; men", "summary": "Against a background of significant levels of Chinese immigration over the past several decades (ABS, 2016)1 we focus, in particular, on the Chinese diaspora of gay men in this context, and on key services popular amongst this demographic, such as Blued, Zank, LINE and Weibo. 1 http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/3412.0/ The current paper, emerging from this much broader project, presents research in progress on the social chat application LINE and its use amongst the Chinese diaspora of gay men in Australia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10042", "words": "1279", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Chia, Aleena", "title": "Game Analytics and Participatory Efficacy", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "analytics; company; efficacy; game; players", "summary": "This paper demonstrates how consumer delegates represent their constituents by using the logics of game analytics to translate player interests into representative samples for the game publisher. However, this is less because of the delegation\u2019s vaunted electoral processes, and more because of their legitimation of \u201cdatafied\u201d forms of collective self-knowledge that are not aggregated from players\u2019 opinions and choices, but are extracted from game analytics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10043", "words": "1270", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Daoudi, Omar", "title": "The Saudi Government Reactions to YouTube based Programming: the Content Makers\u2019 Perspective", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "media; research; saudi; youtube", "summary": "The vagueness and uncertainty has enabled young people to unleash their creativity and boost the scale and the scope of YouTube based programmes but also this ambiguity has offered the government an opportunity to intervene whenever it wants to protect its interests. Thirdly, the reaction of the Saudi government was subject to various factors, including the nature of content, the context and the timeframe of YouTube based programmes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10044", "words": "1229", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Daskal, Efrat; Orlova, Anna", "title": "Performing Internet Governance: The Case Study of Youth Participation in The Internet Governance Forum", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "igf; internet; youth", "summary": "Thus, in order to assess these youth related initiatives, and furthermore to analyze the political processes that are meant to enable young people to construct youth representation at the IGF, this study asks, what are the characteristics of youth participation at the IGF? Methodology To answer this question, we used several research methods triangulated to produce a thick description of youth activities within the IGF: content analysis of all youth-related materials from IGF meetings (n=35 documents), in-depth interviews with key activists who participated in youth activities in the IGF (n=5), and participatory observation conducted at IGF Mexico during December of 2016. Nevertheless, this kind of guidance currently hardly exists even within the framework of YCIG The future \u2013 Three trends will influence the future of youth involvement within the IGF: (1) The strengthening of traditional geo-political forces within the IGF, manifested in the rise of national IGF youth initiatives and the identity of the YCIG steering committee delegates, who for the first time will be determined by their geo-political affiliation (2)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10045", "words": "1141", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "De Wolf, Ralf Patrick; Heyman, Rob", "title": "Towards A Networked Privacy Paradigm: Assumptions And Implications", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "management; privacy; users", "summary": "That said, it is unclear what makes networked privacy new, how it relates to previous established frameworks and what are its implications. In a critical literature review we therefore analyze and compare Warren and Brandeis\u2019 right to be let alone, Westin\u2019s privacy control, Nissenbaum\u2019s contextual integrity, Petronio\u2019s communication privacy management theory and recent work on networked privacy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10046", "words": "9309", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Djeffal, Christian", "title": "Smart Government: Updating eGovernment with the IoT", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "act; administration; applications; baden; case; data; der; des; die; federal; government; internet; iot; law; protection; public; smart; systems; things; und; verwaltung", "summary": "Internet der Dinge. im Internet der Dinge.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10047", "words": "1184", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Dremljuga, Ramona-Riin", "title": "Practicing Disconnection in The Digital Age", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "disconnected; disconnection; media", "summary": "While appropriating their own use of social media, the disconnected often make other users aware of the alternatives for remaining connected without the most habitual platforms or features. Imagined Facebook: An Exploratory study of non-users\u2019 perceptions of social media in rural Zambia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10049", "words": "1333", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Duguay, Stefanie", "title": "hirst Traps And #Relatable Vines: Investigating A Networked Counterpublic Of Queer Women", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "queer; videos; vine; women", "summary": "Thirst traps and #relatable Vines: Investigating a networked counterpublic of queer women. This is just one of many 6.5-second, looping videos created by queer women on Vine, Twitter\u2019s now defunct video social network.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10050", "words": "1289", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Eklund, Lina; Von Essen, Emma; Jonsson, Fatima", "title": "To Be Or Not To Be On The Internet: A Multidimensional Tool For Studying Online Anonymities", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "anonymity; information; internet; online", "summary": "We argue that online anonymity is a complex process that exists in various forms, regulated and defined by various actors. In this study we 1) draw on the multidisciplinary literature concerning online anonymity 2) derive at a multi-layered conceptual model for studying online anonymity that follows closely on previous research on what people actually do online, and 3) explore the complexity as different facets of anonymity interact and interlink by drawing on two empirical examples, online auction sites and massive multiplayer gaming.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10051", "words": "1226", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Felt, Mylynn; Bakardjieva, Maria; Dumitrica, Delia", "title": "The Mediatization Of Leadership: Grassroots Digital Facilitators As Organic Intellectuals", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "leadership; media; movements", "summary": "Networks of outrage and hope: Social movements in the internet age. Social movements in an organizational society.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10052", "words": "1324", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Frost-Arnold, Karen", "title": "How An Epistemology Of Ignorance Maintains Wikipedia\u2019s Gender Gap", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "gap; gender; ignorance; wikipedia", "summary": "Passing On is an experiment that uses reader-sourcing to create Wikipedia content to increase the coverage of women\u2019s biographies (Matias, Diehl, & Zuckerman 2015). Thus, this paper outlines some of the sources of ignorance of gender that surround Wikipedia and attempts to remedy its gender gap.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10053", "words": "1314", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Ganito, Carla Susana; Jorge, Ana", "title": "On And Off: Digital Practices Of Connecting And Disconnecting Across The Life Course", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "course; internet; life; media; use", "summary": "Ageing and life course transitions: an interdisciplinary perspective. The first approach emphasises ages and life stages, while the second puts emphasis on the transitions into those stages (Allatt et al., 1987).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10054", "words": "1306", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Gerrard, Ysabel", "title": "If You\u2019re Going Through Something Difficult, We\u2019d Like To Help: The Limitations Of Hashtag Logics In Pro-Eating Disorder Content Moderation", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "content; hashtag; media", "summary": "It explores how: (1) pro-ED content can still be found without using the hashtag as a search mechanism; (2) users learn to recognize and signal each other as pro-ED in the absence of hashtags, and given the vulnerability of their posts to user-driven forms of moderation like flagging (see Crawford and Gillespie, 2016), and (3) platforms\u2019 recommendation systems suggest pro-ED content to users despite policing. By May of 2012, Tumblr - along with Instagram and Pinterest - had publically announced its plans to minimize the spread of pro-ED content.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10055", "words": "1638", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Gibbs, Martin; Carter, Marcus; Nansen, Bjorn", "title": "Those Led-Lit Water-Kooled Multi-Screen Streamline Battlestations", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "battlestations; computer; culture; figure; gaming", "summary": "Battlestations are, we contend, monuments built and displayed to celebrate the personal computer\u2019s central transformative role in the creation and liberation of internet gamer cultures. Battlestations r/Battlestations is the place to post and look at clear photographs of desktop battlestation setups.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10056", "words": "1432", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Halegoua, Germaine; Lingel, Jessa", "title": "Invisibility And Hypervisibility: Imagining Publics For Urban Broadband Networks", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "dark; fiber; internet; networks; public", "summary": "Broadband activists are enthusiastic about the potential of dark fiber for more equitable Internet provision (Crawford, 2016), although the purchase of dark fiber networks for public use is still rare. The persistent invisibility of dark fiber networks alongside highly visible initiatives that frame city streets as sites for digital access, complicate institutional investments and understandings of public connectivity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10057", "words": "1685", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "H\u00e4nska, Max; Bauchowitz, Stefan", "title": "Mapping Twitter\u2019s Information Sphere In The Lead-Up To The Brexit Referendum: How Eurosceptic Views Outpaced Their Rivals", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "leave; referendum; twitter; users", "summary": "The use of twitter in the Brexit campaign demonstrates how social media users helped pushed a hitherto marginal political agenda to the front and center of public discourse. Overall, twitter users who supported Leave appeared to be much more active and motivated in advancing their cause than Remainers were in advocating continued EU membership.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10058", "words": "1285", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Hoffmann, Christian Pieter; Lutz, Christoph; M\u00fcller, Severina; Meckle, Miriam", "title": "Accidental Online Political Engagement: The Role of Social Media Escapism in Online Political Participation", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "escapism; facebook; opp; use", "summary": "Consumptive Facebook use has a small negative effect while productive Facebook use shows the strongest influence of all variables considered. Based on a quantitative survey of 762 German Facebook users, we examine how escapist Facebook use moderates the effect of various forms of Facebook use on OPP.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10059", "words": "1202", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Hoyng, Rolien", "title": "Transparency as Rupture: Open Data and the Datafied Society of Hong Kong", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "data; hong; kong; transparency", "summary": "And, to what extent are Open Data activists able to not just reclaim public scrutiny over statecraft and governance by the state, but in fact contest the \u201cbordering\u201d of data\u2014the decision over the borders of Open Data--itself? Transparency as Rupture: Open Data and the Datafied Society of Hong Kong.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10064", "words": "1300", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Jenson, Jennifer; Herbert, Cristyne", "title": "Moving From Theory To Practice: Creating Empirical, Digital Game-Based Research With K-12 Teachers", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "classroom; game; learning; play", "summary": "Recognizing the prevalence of arguments in favour of the use of educational games and the gap between claims and evidence, this project addresses the question of how teachers can be best supported in using digital games in their classrooms, with a specific focus on teaching strategies developed through professional development and guided support. MOVING FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE: CREATING EMPIRICAL, DIGITAL GAME-BASED RESEARCH WITH K-12 TEACHERS Jennifer Jenson York University Cristyne H\u00e9bert York University Background Educators and educational theorists have long recognized the potential of digital games to transform educational experiences in K-12 classrooms (Gee, 2003, 2007; Prensky, 2007).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10065", "words": "1376", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "John, Nicholas", "title": "Transparency, Research And Facebook: The Case Of Facebook.Com/Peace", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "data; facebook; figure; media", "summary": "My own survey of a representative sample of the Israel\u2019s Jewish online population (n=1005) found that 93.3% of Jewish Israeli Facebook users made no 2 https://peaceinnovation.stanford.edu/projects/peacedot/peace-facebook-com-case-study/ https://peaceinnovation.stanford.edu/projects/peacedot/peace-facebook-com-case-study/ friendships with Facebook users in the Palestinian Territories in the last six months, and 97.6% made 5 or less. The current paper builds on these critical approaches to social media data by examining data provided directly by Facebook regarding users\u2019 friending behaviors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10066", "words": "1026", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Kappler, Karolin Eva", "title": "The Interplay Of Different Publics In Big Crisis Data", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "big; data; publics; social", "summary": "The EU project is composed of a mixed consortium of Big Data experts (such as academic researchers, commercial Big Data analysts, but also social network providers) and security experts (such as se- curity and civil protection agencies). The interplay of different publics in Big Crisis Data.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10067", "words": "1270", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Kaufmann, Katja", "title": "Navigating A New Life: Syrian Refugees And Their Smartphones In Vienna", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "digital; media; new; refugees; smartphones", "summary": "Forced migrants, new media practices, and the creation of locality. Mobility, migration and new media: Manoeuvring through physical, digital and liminal spaces.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10068", "words": "1287", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Kiel, Paula", "title": "Networked Publics and the Social Construction of Death, Dying and Bereavement in a Digital Age", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "death; practices; websites", "summary": "While many scholars in the field of digital death and thanatology are fascinated with these processes, additional critical engagement with the limitations, challenges and exclusions implicated by these practices is required. By focusing on the specific practice of post-mortem online communication, this paper highlights some of these main challenges, linking them critically to some of the fundamental issues of networked publics in an increasingly digitsed media world.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10069", "words": "1517", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Kim, Young Rim", "title": "Imagining Transnational Virus In The Digital Sphere \u2013 A Case Study Of Zika Virus During 2016 Rio Olympic Games", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "comments; disease; facebook; study", "summary": "In this sense, disease outbreaks are global events that are deeply intertwined with the issues of globalization, cultural identity, and national security, by heavily influencing on how these concepts are socially constructed. Conducting \u2018critical techno-cultural discourse analysis\u2019 (Brock, 2016) to this object of study, the paper explores what kinds of narratives and metaphors of disease outbreaks are constructed over the Facebook- sphere and analyze how does this meaning-making process is structured in the online space.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10070", "words": "1416", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta; Literat, Ioana", "title": "Formative Events, Networked Spaces, And The Political Socialization Of Youth", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "election; people; spaces; youth", "summary": "A fear of speaking out has significant implications for youth political socialization. FORMATIVE EVENTS, NETWORKED SPACES, AND THE POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION OF YOUTH Neta Kligler-Vilenchik Ioana Liteart Introduction and theoretical framework The 2016 US elections brought into sharp relief the question of citizens\u2019 relationship towards politics, with a particular concern for young people.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10071", "words": "1293", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Knight, Jennifer; Bowman, Nicholas; Banks, Jaime; Primack, Brian; Colditz, Jason; Shensa, Ariel", "title": "What\u2019s On My Mind: Using Social Media To Discuss Stressful Situations", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "people; support", "summary": "We sought to understand (RQ1) what types of stressful and emotional situations do people discuss on SM? Method Participants were N = 1,593 college students who responded to a larger online survey about mental health and SM use, and answered an open-ended question: \u201cCan you describe for us the type(s) of stressful or emotional situations that you typically discuss on social media?\u201d School/Work, Daily Personal Struggles, and Relational Conflict all contained venting\u2014a common motivation for SM use, particularly for people without offline support networks (Baker & Moore, 2008).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10072", "words": "1356", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Koene, Ansgar; Perez Vallejos, Elvira; Webb, Helena; Patel, Menisha", "title": "Human Agency on Algorithmic Systems", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "algorithm; behavior; results; systems; user", "summary": "In order to perform this inference of personal interests the algorithms have to rely on certain basic assumption about user behavior, such as an assumption that browsing behavior is rationally efficient (e.g. time spent on a website is assumed to correlate with level of interest). The next step in our exploration of user agency on algorithmic systems will consider the feasibility and desirability of implementing the proposed capabilities that were identified as \u2018fairness\u2019 enhancing factors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10073", "words": "1398", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Koltsova, Olessia; Koltcov, Sergey; Nikolenko, Sergel; Alexeeva, Svetlana; Nagorny, Oleg", "title": "National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "ethnicity; groups; russian", "summary": "Method for automatic detection of attitudes We therefore make a sample where we overrepresent rare ethnic groups and obtain 7,181 texts with most ethnic groups represented by 75 texts. We therefore limit our research to ethnic groups \u201cindigenous\u201d to post-Soviet space.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10074", "words": "904", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Kotliar, Dan M", "title": "Epistemic Amalgams: On Language, Theory And Expertise In Algorithmic Social Sorting", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "data; language; new; sorting", "summary": "CODING AGAINST CULTURE: ON LANGUAGE, THEORY AND EXPERTISE IN THE ALGORITHMIC CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY Dan Kotliar The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Data mining algorithms are fast replacing traditional social sorting mechanisms in creating, recreating and reifying social identities (Lyon, 2003; Willson, 2013; Zarsky, 2002), and are now used to sort people in a growing variety of fields \u2013 banking, insurance, education and more (Kennedy, 2016; Kockelman, 2013; O\u2019Neil, 2016). What kinds of theories take part in algorithmic sorting, in the algorithmic construction of identities?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10075", "words": "1402", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Laaksonen, Salla-Maaria; Porttikivi, Merja", "title": "Jamming The Political With \u201cIntergalactic Peace\u201d \u2013 Constitution Of An Anti-Racist Online S", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "communication; episodes; jamming", "summary": "Following Blaschke et al. (2012) proposition, we use network analysis to study the network of communication episodes, where the vertices of the network represent communication episodes and the edges represent individuals. ! Consequently, Bart Cammaerts (2007) introduces the concept of politi- cal jamming, which means \u201cthe cultural jamming techniques used by political actors, as well as by citizens, in their political communication within fragmented counter-public spheres, as well as in the mainstream public sphere\u201d.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10076", "words": "1553", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Lawson, Caitlin", "title": "\u201cMeanwhile I\u2019m over here butt naked on CNN\u201d: A multiplatform discourse analysis of the Leslie Jones hack", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "discourse; hack; jones; right; twitter", "summary": "While other instances of online harassment have garnered significant media attention (namely #GamerGate), the hatred toward Jones surfaced at a cultural and political tipping point, speaking to larger political divides within the United States. \u201cMeanwhile I\u2019m over here butt naked on CNN\u201d: A multiplatform discourse analysis of the Leslie Jones hack.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10077", "words": "1275", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Literat, Ioana", "title": "Contemporary Creativity Online: An Examination of the Interplay between Art and Vernacular Creativity on the Internet", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "art; creativity; internet; online", "summary": "If a work of Internet art and, respectively, of vernacular online creativity (such as a meme or a Youtube mashup) live in the same space, use the same tools and address the same networked audiences, where do the key differences between them still lie - and how is the relationship between them being complicated by sociocultural and technological factors? Two contemporary artistic practices that illustrate the complexity of this relationship between Internet art and online vernacular creativity are appropriation and, respectively, aesthetic mimicry.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10078", "words": "1199", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Lokot, Tetyana", "title": "#IAmNotAfraidToSayIt: Stories of Sexual Violence as Everyday Political Speech on Facebook", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "facebook; media; stories", "summary": "This paper argues that networked conversations about everyday rights and affective stories about shared experiences of injustice, underpinned by the affordances of social media platforms for sharing and discussing information and participating in everyday politics, can emerge as viable forms of networked activism and can have real impact on the status quo of an issue, both in the digital sphere and beyond it. These networked stories and experiences shared on Facebook became an expression of the political \u201cwithin the personal\u201d, which Highfield (2016) notes is a key characteristic of mundane political exchanges on social media as they are not always explicitly political.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10079", "words": "1343", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Losh, Elizabeth", "title": "I DID NOT HAVE TEXT WITH THAT SERVER: Attitudes about Gender, Technology, and Digital Literacy in the 2016 U.S. Election", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "clinton; gender; privacy; technology; trump", "summary": "This paper asserts that a conflation of gender and technology may have contributed to Clinton\u2019s defeat, because her digital literacy practices were judged as non-normative, based on evidence in materials in the @realDonaldTrump Twitter archive, the Fox News website (http://www.foxnews.com), the WikiLeaks database of hacked emails from Hillary Clinton and John Podesta, and FBI documents. The meme suggested that Mrs. Clinton was denying her own digital promiscuity and lack of self-control.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10080", "words": "1225", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Loveluck, Benjamin", "title": "Digital Vigilantism As A Form Of Political Engagement? A Comparative Approach", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "action; form; university; vigilantism", "summary": "Digital vigilantism as a form of political engagement? Drawing on both digital ethnography and political sociology, this contribution will first provide a more precise definition of what is meant by digital vigilantism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10081", "words": "1385", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Lundmark, Evelina", "title": "Towards A Theory Of Cross-Media Networked Microcelebrity: Of Bedrooms, Blogsites, Broadcasts, And Boardrooms", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "videos; women; youtube", "summary": "The project consists of two steps, the first being an instrumental sample of videos from YouTube, and the second being a complementary analysis of the comment fields of said videos. I will use ANT to tease apart the cohesion I as a researcher would like to impose on this group of videos with similar titles and similar themes (Latour 2005).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10082", "words": "1961", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Maggs, Catherine Ann", "title": "Framing Wikileaks In The Networked Fourth Estate", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "frame; framing; media; news; power; wikileaks", "summary": "The paper analyses WikiLeaks\u2019 depiction in two major political journals of record by identifying the construction and use of media frames in the editorial pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post. Framing WikiLeaks in the Networked Fourth Estate.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10083", "words": "1680", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Marino, Sara", "title": "Transnational Social Spaces And Diasporic Publics. How Migrants Are Changing Traditional Conceptualisations Of The Public Sphere", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "london; networks; public; spaces; sphere", "summary": "As Couldry and Dreher pointed out (2007), this framework fails to address the complexity of today\u2019s global mobility, which is characterised by the emergence of counter-public spheres, indigenous public spheres, and diasporic public spheres, which represent the main focus of this presentation. My research also intends to stimulate a discussion on the differences between media platforms: online communities and social networking sites present disparities that need to be taken into account when we discuss the impact of transnational connections on contemporary public spheres.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10084", "words": "1388", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "McCosker, Anthony; Wilken, Really owan", "title": "Mapping Mental Health Intermediaries: Vulnerable Publics and Platformed Support", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "facebook; forums; health; page; publics", "summary": "Aims, Approach, Findings The primary question guiding the comparative analysis is: What are the characteristics and effects of human and platform intermediaries and mediators in building, sustaining and driving supportive mental health publics? This paper examines online mental health support programs through a case study of the support forums and Facebook Page of Australian non-profit mental health organisation beyondblue.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10085", "words": "1923", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Milan, Stefania", "title": "Digital Traces and Bottom-up Data Practices", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "agency; data; media; traces; users", "summary": "This theoretical paper understands datafication as a productive force in order to explore how activists largely reliant on social media for their activities can leverage datafication and mobilize social media data in their tactics and narratives. It placed collective action in the material of social media platforms, foregrounding their discursiveness and materiality, and focused on bottom-up data practices in view of understanding how social media data are mobilized in tactics and narratives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10086", "words": "1737", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Milan, Stefania; van der Velden, Lonneke", "title": "Data Politics At The Grassroots", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "activism; data; datafication; engagement; new", "summary": "We distinguish two forms of data activism: i) proactive data activism, which identifies affirmative uses of data for advocacy and social change, and ii) reactive data activism, which on the contrary embraces instances of resistance to massive data collection. Data activism embraces the composite series of practices that, emerging at the fringes of contemporary activism ecosystem, critically interrogate datafication and its socio-political consequences.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10173", "words": "1378", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Cornelius Way, Kristin", "title": "The Role Of Standard Form Contracts In An Information Society And \u2018Smart Contract\u2019 Furture", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "contracts; form; law; sfcs; standard", "summary": "Since their successful implementation with the Ethereum blockchain in 2015, smart contracts have recently been adopted by Microsoft, Intel, and more than two dozen banks (Foley, 2017) and have been at the center of discussions for several national and international governments institutions and the entire, worldwide financial industry. While smart contracts seemingly promise an a decentralized, networked environment similar to the ideal information society proposed by Castells (1996, 2007), smart contracts (and blockchain more generally) suggest that technology can enforce the \u201csame rules for everyone,\u201d rather than just facilitate a platform.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10174", "words": "1141", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Wittkower, D.E", "title": "Disaffordances And Dysaffordances In Code", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "case; code; design; dysaffordances", "summary": "This paper puts forth a theory of non-affordances which allows for distinguishing unproblematic exclusionary code from problematic and discriminatory code, which is described as either discriminatory through disaffordances or through dysaffordances. First, this theorization allows for the identification of thresholds where non-affordances become issues of ethics and justice, allowing for stronger, clearer arguments about the need to reform discriminatory code.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10182", "words": "1312", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Moon, Brenda", "title": "Characterising Twitter Reply Chains in the Australian Twittersphere", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "reply; trisma; tweets", "summary": "CHARACTERISING TWITTER REPLY CHAINS IN THE AUSTRALIAN TWITTERSPHERE Brenda Moon Queensland University of Technology Introduction This research contributes to the understanding of conversation on Twitter by looking at reply chain networks in the Australian Twittersphere. By examining all of the reply chains in November 2016 from the comprehensive TrISMA dataset this paper develops a description of the characteristics of reply chains in the Australian Twittersphere.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10185", "words": "1291", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Newlands, Gemma; Lutz, Christopher", "title": "So Close, Yet So Far Away: The Paradox of Status and Distinction among Instagram Influencers", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "capital; data; influencers; instagram; status", "summary": "Our research questions are thus concerned with how Influencers negotiate this paradox: Do Instagram Influencers display status markers of socio-economic elevation? The paradox of status and distinction among Instagram influencers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10186", "words": "1321", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Ogden, Jessica; Halford, Susan; Carr, Leslie", "title": "Observing Archives: Web Archiving as Socio-Technical Practice", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "archives; labour; web; work", "summary": "Here web archives are positioned as contingent constructions that inherently rely on the work of web archivists (as both networked human and non-human agents) to transform and preserve the Web(s) into archived snapshots. Beyond the increased promotion of web archives as a source for scholarly research, a growing number of examples point towards the use of web archives as tools for political accountability (e.g. Politwoops1); to provide temporary access points during times of restricted web access (e.g. during the 2013 US government shutdown2); and to reconstruct deleted domains (e.g. Ben-David\u2019s (2016) work on the former Yugoslav top-level domain3) \u2013 to name a few.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10187", "words": "1925", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Paris, Britt S; Currie, Morgan; Donovan, Joan", "title": "Grand Intentions, Small Interventions: Climate Data Rescue as Counter-Data Action", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "action; archiving; climate; data; edgi; web; work", "summary": "In fact, we might find that the importance of mirroring federal climate data lies less in rescuing data sets for the scientific community \u2013 since it\u2019s too soon to tell whether more information will vanish or be defunded \u2013 but instead in creating spaces for community dialogue and wider public awareness of the vulnerabilities of politically contentious scientific work. By treating federal scientific data as a public utility, data rescues create an occasion for community and political resistance and constitute an emergent form of counter-data action.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10188", "words": "1505", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Rankine, Jennifer Margaret", "title": "Disrupting Online Racism Against M\u0101ori In Aotearoa/New Zealand", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "anti; graphics; m\u0101ori; new; pages; racism", "summary": "DISRUPTING ONLINE RACISM AGAINST M\u0100ORI IN AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND Jenny Rankine University of Auckland, New Zealand This visual presentation illustrated a pilot study that developed anti-racist graphics in an attempt to disrupt dominant anti-M\u0101ori discourses on news Facebook pages in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Applying discourse analysis to develop anti-racist graphics also resulted in a methodological finding - a transferable five-step process for developing counter- hegemonic visual and textual alternatives to dominant online discourses that undermine social justice.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10189", "words": "1158", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Rantasila, Anna", "title": "Nuclear Fear And Loathing \u2013 Commenting News About Fukushima Daiichi Disaster On Facebook", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "affective; disaster; publics", "summary": "The comments about Fukushima Daiichi disaster on Facebook provide an interesting and fruitful context in which to study affect in networked publics for several reasons. Moreover, the paper investigates how commenters circulate affect while discussing the news about Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Facebook.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10190", "words": "1339", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Rensfeldt, Annika; Hillman, Thomas; Selwyn, Neil", "title": "Teachers \u2018Liking\u2019 Their Work? Exploring The Digital Labor Of Networked Professional Publics", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "facebook; group; teachers; work", "summary": "To date, academic research has tended to frame teacher social media groups as relatively straightforward and unproblematic. While these social media communities are usually celebrated as a means of professional learning and support, in what ways (and with what implications) should teacher Facebook groups be understood as \u2018work\u2019?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10191", "words": "1317", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Ribak, Rivka; Fridman-Naot, Dina", "title": "The Expert And The Networked Public: Professional And Amateur Wedding Photographers In The Facebooked Wedding", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "guests; photographers; photography; wedding", "summary": "Drawing on interviews with ten wedding photographers and ten newlywed couples, as well as Facebook pages of wedding photographers and newlywed groups, we will suggest that as independent, artisanal photographers (Frosh, in press) whose livelihood depends on direct sales to the market, wedding photographers managed to distinguish themselves from the networked public of amateur photographers and overcome this impending crisis through professional, technological and artistic upskilling. THE EXPERT AND THE NETWORKED PUBLIC: PROFESSIONAL AND AMATEUR WEDDING PHOTOGRAHERS IN THE FACEBOOKED WEDDING Dina Fridman-Naot Department of Communication, University of Haifa Rivka Ribak Department of Communication, University of Haifa A typical middle class wedding in Israel is documented by roughly 3000-6000 still photos taken by friends, family, service providers and professional photographers, uploaded and shared throughout the ceremony, and archived thereafter in various online, offline and printed photo albums.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10192", "words": "1365", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Richterich, Annika", "title": "Tracing Controversies in Hacker Networks: Ethical Considerations for Research on Communal Publics", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "gender; hacker; internet; research", "summary": "On the other hand, these debates arose due to grave concerns about harassment and sexism in hacker cultures (Reagle 2017, 2012; Montgomery 2013; Mills 2012). Liz Henry, one of the co-founders of the women-centred hackerspace Double Union, wrote that many female hackers \u201c[\u2026] focused on the e- textiles message because we could make fun of it, not because it was especially horrible.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10193", "words": "1543", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Robards, Brady; Lincoln, Sian", "title": "Left Behind, Left Unsaid: Absences On Young People's Facebook Timelines", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "absence; facebook; media; robards", "summary": "In this paper we draw on data from the Facebook Timelines project to explore the multi- dimensional notion of \u2018absence\u2019 as it plays out on Facebook: obvious gaps, disclosures that were erased, and significant events (deaths, break-ups, failures) deemed inappropriate for Facebook. There is a considerable and growing literature on Facebook use, including disclosure practices (boyd & Ellison 2008; Sauter 2013; Marwick & boyd 2014; Duguay 2014), privacy strategies (Raynes-Goldie 2010; Vitak 2012), and the role of the site in mediating identity-work (Robards 2014; Lincoln & Robards 2014).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10194", "words": "1527", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Rogerson, Melissa Jane; Gibbs, Martin; Smith, Wally", "title": "Exploring the Digital Hinterland: Internet Practices surrounding the Pursuit of \"Offline\" Hobbies", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "games; goodreads; play; practices; ravelry", "summary": "Being a BoardGameGeek is not simply about playing games; in accruing gaming capital, users engage with a specific set of digital practices that support and enable material acts of play, and that invite users to co-create emic information about games and the gaming hobby, even when the user themself sees their engagement with boardgames as a rejection of technology. Researching: Participants research games on BoardGameGeek, often in preparation for large events such as the Spiel fair in Essen, Germany.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10195", "words": "1362", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Ros\u00e9n, Anton; Lundmark, Sofia; Jonsson, Fatima; H\u00e5kansson, Jesper", "title": "Control And Reward In Online Dating Practices \u2013 A Study Of Users\u2019 Experiences Of Tinder", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "control; dating; experiences; users", "summary": "To conclude, this study suggests that online dating practices are formed by an inseparable interplay of design functionalities, users\u2019 attitudes and the use of specific mobile applications that taken together contributes to overall online dating experiences. Control and reward in online dating practices \u2013 a study of users experiences of Tinder.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10196", "words": "1208", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Ryan Bengtsson, Linda; Fast, Karin; Ferrer Cornill, Raul", "title": "Share! Like! Create! How Fan Labor Is Cultivated And Practiced In The Contemporary Music Industry", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "campaign; marketing; media; music", "summary": "This paper explores how music consumers perform and act within music marketing campaigns, posing the question: How do music consumers navigate across the transmediascapes constituted by marketing campaigns? Spatial metaphors offer both a way to represent and visualize the movements of the consumers, as well as to understand how marketing campaigns construct immersive worlds where free labor is promoted and exploited.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10197", "words": "1542", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "San Cornelio, Gemma; Roig, Antoni; Ard\u00e8vo, Elisenda; Enguix, Begonya", "title": "Selfies And Cultural Events: Mixed Methodologies For The Study Of Selfies In Context", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "author; data; media; selfies", "summary": "Selfies and cultural events: mixed methodologies for the study of selfies in context. SELFIES AND CULTURAL EVENTS: MIXED METHODOLOGIES FOR THE STUDY OF SELFIES IN CONTEXT Author #1 Gemma San Cornelio Author #1 Open University of Catalonia Author #2 Antoni Roig", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10198", "words": "1341", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Savic, Milovan; McCosker, Anthony", "title": "Musical.Ly\u2019s Sleight of Hand: Circumventing Family Social Media Governance", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "media; musical.ly; platform; use", "summary": "CIRCUMVENTING FAMILY SOCIAL MEDIA GOVERNANCE Milovan Savic Swinburne University of Technology Anthony McCosker Swinburne University of Technology Introduction Young people\u2019s engagement with networked publics, understood in boyd\u2019s (2011) terms as an imagined community restructured by social media, often raises public anxieties about possible risky encounters online. Private spaces for young people are intrinsically mediated (Lincoln 2014) and social media is deeply entrenched in youth cultural practices such as identity construction, social interaction, experimentation and autonomy seeking practices (Livingstone 2014, 2008; Robards 2012; Campos-Holland et.al. 2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10199", "words": "1298", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Schwartz, Sander; Rossi, Luca", "title": "Insiders And Outsiders: A Comparative Study Of The Political Debates On The Facebook Pages Of Party Leaders During Two Danish Election Campaigns", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "comments; contestation; inter", "summary": "Based on this we cannot conclude that the amount of critical comments and smear is related to the size of the politician alone. Here we can identify a slight increase in negative comments without a relation to political issues.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10200", "words": "1290", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Son, Catherine Jane", "title": "From Port Arthur to the Lindt cafe siege: The role of digital publics in challenging Australian print media agenda setting practices", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "agenda; media; reports; setting", "summary": "From Port Arthur to the Lindt caf\u00e9 siege: The role of digital publics in challenging Australian print media agenda setting practices. Dearing, JW and Rogers, EM 1996, \u2018Media agenda studies\u2019, Volume 6 of Communication Concepts, Sage Publications, California, pp. 24-39.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10201", "words": "1367", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Stolero, Nathan; Segev, Elad", "title": "It's not how I use it, but what I believe about it: The role of experience in the online information seeking behavior", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "adults; information; seeking", "summary": "\u201cIT\u2019S NOT HOW I USE IT, BUT WHAT I BELIEVE ABOUT IT\u201d: THE ROLE OF EXPERIENCE IN THE ONLINE INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR Nathan Stolero Tel Aviv University Elad Segev Tel Aviv University Introduction The way people use information technologies to fulfil their needs and promote their interests has been a central subject of study in the social sciences (Case & Given, 2016). The theoretical contribution of this study is in re- conceptualizing the role of experience with information technologies as part of the existing models of information seeking behavior.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10202", "words": "5055", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Suetzl, Wolfgang", "title": "Beyond the digital swarm? Byung-Chul Han's critical media pessismism.", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "b.-c; berlin; communication; data; digital; form; han; media; neoliberalism; power; swarm; transparency", "summary": "BYUNG-CHUL HAN\u2019S CRITICAL MEDIA PESSIMISM Wolfgang Suetzl School of Media Arts & Studies, Ohio University Byung-Chul Han and digital media A review of Han\u2019s work on digital communication must start with the recognition that only the smaller part of this work is explicitly on media, whereas the larger part other aspects of contemporary culture that are, however, often relevant to understanding digital media in as much as these are also a product of contemporary culture.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10203", "words": "1229", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Sun, Yu; Graham, Todd; Broersma, Marcel", "title": "Public Deliberation and Civic Engagement in Public Health Politics: Everyday Political Talk about Public Health Issues on Chinese BBS forums", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "health; public; talk", "summary": "A comparative study of everyday political talk across three different Chinese online forums was conducted to better understand how ordinary Chinese citizens talk about public health issues in different contexts. Moving beyond the formally political spaces, this paper zooms in the internet- enabled everyday life spaces to see how disorganized ordinary citizen actors in public health politics use internet to practice their individual agency as well as how they negotiate with the established power structure at the micro level in their everyday talk about public health issues.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10204", "words": "1118", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Trott, Verity Anne", "title": "Black \"Rantings\": Indigenous feminist writers' online narratives in a postfeminist age.", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "postfeminist; women; writers", "summary": "To further an understanding of how Indigenous Australian feminist writers are challenging key aspects of postfeminism, this paper examines the ways in which they use the microblogging site Twitter to develop a first-hand and direct engagement with the writers\u2019 personal views and to shed insight into how they are challenging postfeminist narratives on an everyday level. This paper asks, how are Indigenous Australian feminist writers challenging aspects of postfeminism online and what are the prevailing counter narratives about women, indigeneity, and feminism?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10205", "words": "1524", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Vickery, Jacqueline Ryan", "title": "Mapping The Affordances And Dynamics Of Activist Hashtags", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "activist; affordances; dynamics; hashtags", "summary": "Duality is a lens for analyzing the dynamics of activist hashtags that - when combined with the curational, polysemic, and memetic affordances - highlights the contradictions, ambivalences, and tensions underlying activism and participation within networked publics. The use of activist hashtags within networked publics invites ephemeral, temporal, and fragmented participation as an identify signifier that is read and understood within a particular online community.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10206", "words": "1083", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Wertz, Blake; Groshek, Jacob", "title": "Emerging Media, Instability And Democracy: Examining The Granger-Causal Relationships Of 122 Countries From 1946 To 2014", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "groshek; internet; media", "summary": "H2: In countries with greater sociopolitical instability due to conflict and change, emerging media diffusion will Granger-cause institutionalized democratic growth. All of the 122 countries used in that study and all procedures, except collection and measurement of media diffusion information, were carried out similarly to Groshek (2011), making use of only those variables which Groshek (2011) identified as meaningful.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10207", "words": "1291", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "West, Sarah Myers", "title": "Do Ciphers Have Politics?: Discourses Of The Digital Rights Movement In The Crypto Wars 2.0", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "encryption; new; power; rights; technology", "summary": "Encryption technologies are behind every credit card transaction, Bluetooth connection, and mobile phone call made by billions of users worldwide. Despite this, encryption technologies have attracted a tremendous amount of attention in recent years due to debates over whether and under what conditions digital information should be allowed to be encrypted.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10208", "words": "1474", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Williamson, George S.; Dennen, Vanessa", "title": "Religious Narratives And Networked Learning Spaces: Using Blogs To Connect Individuals To History", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "blogs; course; learning; students", "summary": "The instructor used edublogs to create student blogs that would not be indexed with pseudonyms for each student author. Four types of data were collected for this study, student blogs, student grades, an end-of-term survey (completed by 25/73.5% of the students), and instructor reflections.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10209", "words": "1334", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Jurno, Amanda; d'Andr\u00e9a, Carlos", "title": "Do Algorithms Have Cosmopolitics? A Discussion Based On Facebook's Nudity Policy", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "algorithms; cosmopolitics; facebook; image", "summary": "One of the most evident examples of regimes of power and normatization delegated to algorithms are the restrictions of the circulation of images that contain some trace of nudity (feminine in particular) on Facebook. The significant difference in the public repercussion and the response given by Facebook to the two cases described here allows us to point out that different regimes of knowledge and power are at stake in the censorship of images with traces of nudity in this platform.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10463", "words": "5525", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Tzanetakis, Meropi; D\u00e9cary-H\u00e9tu, David; Bakken, Silje; Munksgaard, Rasmus; Katzenbach, Christian; Demant, Jakob; Paquet-Clouston, Masarah; Weissinger, Laurin", "title": "DRUG MARKETS AND ANONYMIZING TECHNOLOGIES", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "anonymity; cryptomarkets; drug; governance; internet; interviews; paper; reputation; trust", "summary": "Hidden Wholesale: The drug diffusing capacity of online drug cryptomarkets. Research on online drug markets has demonstrated cryptomarkets are continually growing in terms of sales volumes generated despite law enforcement interventions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10464", "words": "5816", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "De Ridder, Sander; Dhaenens, Frederik; Duguay, Stefanie; Ferris, Lindsay; Paasonen, Susanna", "title": "INTIMACIES AND DIGITAL MEDIA INFRASTRUCTURES", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "aoir; cover; digital; identity; infrastructures; internet; intimacy; lesbian; media; paper; people; women", "summary": "How do people value seeking intimacy trough digital media, and why is it often problematized? Despite interchangeably referencing gay, lesbian, queer, and other sexual identities in interviews, participants\u2019 combination of Tinder\u2019s imagined affordances with longstanding references to lesbian culture instantiated a digital lesbian imaginary on Tinder.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10465", "words": "6728", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Foster, Jamie; Sawyer, Kristina; O'Connell, Carrie; Van De Wiele, Chad; Garcia, Melina", "title": "TRANSNATIONAL AND POST HUMANISTIC PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN-MACHINE COMMUNICATION", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "agents; communication; development; digital; future; human; machine; memory; new; relationships; research; robots; self; trust", "summary": "While a methodology is not presented here, the hyper-memory framework offers a way to deduce what of human memory virtual agents have at their disposal. \u2022 Transference of human memory to cloud-based memory through voice commands as the foundation for algorithmic future-thinking.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10466", "words": "4102", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Miazhevich, Galina; Wijermars, Mari\u00eblle; Gapova, Elena; Zvereva, Vera", "title": "POLITICS, ACTIVISM AND TROLLING ON THE RUSSIAN INTERNET", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "campaign; internet; media; new; online; paper; russia; sobchak; state; wikipedia; youtube", "summary": "To what extent can the rise of YouTube-based activism in Russia be explained by 1) developments in Russian internet governance and regulatory mechanisms, and 2) global online media trends? In addition to analyzing the (legal) strategies used to prevent the spread of the investigation materials (e.g., website blocking, in formation removal requests), it reflects on the accusations pronounced by prominent Russian political vloggers against YouTube about failing to prevent that the platform\u2019s anti-hate speech measures are abused to isolate oppositional content.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10467", "words": "5549", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Helles, Rasmus; \u00d8rmen, Jacob; Jensen, Klaus Bruhn; Lai, Signe Sophus; Menchen-Trevino, Ericka; Taneja, Harsh; Wu, Angela Xiao; Bruns, Axel", "title": "A DIVISION OF LABOR: THE ROLE OF BIG DATA ANALYSIS IN THE REPERTOIRE OF INTERNET RESEARCH METHODS", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "analysis; audience; communication; data; internet; log; media; methods; research; researchers; trace; twitter; use", "summary": "By integrating census-level information about users with detailed traces of their behavior across websites, commercial audience data combines the strength of surveys and digital trace data respectively. The big data in PIN will be digital trace data (Freelon, 2014) of online users collected by the audience measurement company ComScore.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10468", "words": "4969", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Stanfill, Mel; Morris, Jeremy Wade; Sterne, Jonathan; Razlogova, Elena; Murray, Sarah", "title": "WHEN, WHERE, AND HOW IS DIGITAL SOUND?", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "audio; culture; law; media; music; new; podcast; podcasting; press; production; sound; technology; university; work", "summary": "This panel seeks to contribute to ongoing work to bring Sound Studies and Internet Studies into better conversation with each other, taking digital sound as a common object and examining it in different cases and through different methods to provide a richer understanding of the role sound plays in shaping our online experiences. The papers coalesce around their common object of inquiry, digital sound, providing depth of understanding about the subject matter by approaching from different directions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10469", "words": "5645", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Myles, David; Trottier, Daniel; Millette, M\u00e9lanie; Bonneau, Claudine; Sergi, Viviane; Casemajor, Nathalie; Toupin, Sophie", "title": "MORE THAN MEETS THE EYES: THE LENS OF VISIBILITY IN INTERNET RESEARCH", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "capital; media; new; online; platforms; public; society; studies; use; visibility; work", "summary": "At the intersection of social media studies (Millerand et al., 2010; Papacharissi, 2010; Proulx et al. 2012), of reflections on mediated visibility (Thompson, 2005; Voirol, 2005) and of critical analyses regarding the notion of \u201cpublic sphere\u201d (Fraser, 1990), we will address the power dynamics that are inherently linked to digital visibility among identity minorities and focus on how such visibility can potentially sustain agency. Sharing and Accessing the Mundane Dimensions of Work on Social Media: The Role of Mediated Visibility for Workers and Researchers Claudine Bonneau Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al Viviane Sergi Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al Within the field of Internet studies, work, workers, and their mediated visibility have been examined either from the perspective of online surveillance, where workers\u2019 activities and communication practices are scrutinized by their employers (Fuchs et al., 2013), or from the perspective of self-branding, where visibility is the result of an explicit strategy among individuals that involves the \u201ccalculated use of social media\u201d to gain \u201cstatus and attention online\u201d (Duffy, 2017: 11) in order to showcase their potential and employability (Hogan, 2010; Pagis & Ailon, 2017).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10470", "words": "1580", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Alarcon, Andrea", "title": "LEGITIMATING INTERNET.ORG THROUGH DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "development; discourse; facebook; internet.org; technology", "summary": "\u201cThe rural development discourse repeats the same relations that has defined development discourse since its emergence: the fact that development is about growth, about capital, about technology, about becoming modern. It intersects with development discourse by positioning itself as the one-way line to progress that has been associated with modernity and economic development.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10472", "words": "1290", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Andringa, Peter; Duquette, David; Dwyer, Deborah; Napoli, Philip; Ronald, Petra", "title": "HOW IS SOCIAL MEDIA GATEKEEPING DIFFERENT? A MULTI- PLATFORM COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "facebook; home; news; page", "summary": "For this case study, two month\u2019s worth of Times front page, home page, and Facebook page story output was comparatively analyzed across dimensions such as story quantity, story duplication, hard versus soft news, and content diversity, in Suggested Citation (APA): Andringa,P., Duquette,D., Dwyer,D, Napoli,P., Ronald,P. (2018, October 10-13 Hatred Of/And Democracy: How Is Social Media Gatekeeping Different? For its decision-making regarding which of the over 300 stories produced each day to post to Facebook, the Times utilizes a self-developed bot called Blossom, which \u201cpredicts how articles or blogposts will do on social and also suggests which stories editors should promote by drawing from enormous stores of data, including information on story content and performance metrics such as Facebook post engagement\u201d (Wang, 2015; Ellett, 2017).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10473", "words": "1467", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Bergstrom, Kelly", "title": "WHAT CAN \u201cWHY I LEFT BUZZFEED\u201d VLOGS TEACH US ABOUT INVISIBLE LABOUR?", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "buzzfeed; employees; videos; vlogs", "summary": "Ultimately this leaves BuzzFeed employees with the option to quit or to stagnate in place, or what Gaby Dunn (2015) stated are ultimately the two options for a BuzzFeed viral video star: \u201cGet Rich, or Die Vlogging.\u2019\u201d References Abidin, C. (2018). Data collection began by collecting links to YouTube videos related to the topic of quitting BuzzFeed using the keywords \u201cquit\u201d or \u201cleave\u201d and \u201cbuzzfeed\u201d.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10474", "words": "1311", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Blodgett, Bridget; Salter, Anastasia", "title": "EVERY WORD YOU JUST SAID IS WRONG: ONLINE RAGE AND INCLUSIVITY IN DISNEY FRANCHISE FANDOM", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "case; february; film; panther", "summary": "Racist trolls are saying Black Panther fans attacked them. Demographically, Black Panther is nearly the opposite of previous films in the franchise, which have primarily featured black characters in sidekick roles--not as stereotyped as previous superhero franchises, but very far from leading roles (Claverie, 2017).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10475", "words": "1286", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Brekke, Anjuli Joshi", "title": "SPREADING THE WORD: TRACING THE AFFECTIVE ECOLOGY OF DIGITAL ORAL STORIES", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "affective; difference; storycorps", "summary": "Analysis of each platform acts as a separate chapter: 1) StoryCorps stories edited and broadcast through a partnership with National Public Radio\u2019s Morning Edition. Drawing together recent work on affect from rhetorical studies, cultural studies and new media studies, this project uses textual analysis to trace the affective resonance of StoryCorps conversations shared online.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10476", "words": "1276", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Cahill, Tiernan", "title": "THE STRUCTURAL ROLE OF USER CLASS IN CHAT INTERACTIONS ON TWITCH", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "chat; game; twitch; user", "summary": "This study aims to offer a quantitative framework for analysing user interactions in Twitch chat rooms. Notably, there were no significant differences in the centrality of Twitch Prime users.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10477", "words": "1276", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "d'Andr\u00e9a, Carlos Frederico de Brito; Mintz, Andr\u00e9 Goes", "title": "STUDYING 'LIVE' CROSS-PLATFORM CIRCULATION OF IMAGES WITH A COMPUTER VISION API: AN EXPERIMENT BASED ON A SPORTS MEDIA EVENTd'Andr\u00e9a, Carlos Frederico de Brito (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) ", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "images; media; vision; web", "summary": "In order to compare how the selected four popular images circulated on social media platforms and on the open web over time, streamgraph visualizations (Figure 2) were created, using RAWGraphs. Some of the most evident of those are: the seemingly counterintuitive decrease of the total number of URLs retrieved in some of the iterations, and the late indexation of the selected pictures on social media platforms (including Twitter occurrences).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10478", "words": "1451", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "de Castell, Suzanne; Skardzius, Karen", "title": "PUBLIC SPEECH: LISTENING TO WOMEN IN THE VIDEOGAME INDUSTRY", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "games; industry; public; women", "summary": "Since the 1990s, conversations about the dearth of women working in the video game industry have centered on three topics: 1) ways to draw more women into the field, 2) the experiences of women working in the industry, and 3) the experiences of those who once worked in the industry but left (Cassell & Jenkins, 1998; Hepler, 2017; Kafai, Heeter, Denner & Sun, 2008). Looking at how women talked about their work in games, we found positive accounts far more frequently voiced, and voiced by more women, than critical ones.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10479", "words": "1524", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Dehghan, Ehsan", "title": "FROM AD HOC ISSUE PUBLICS TO DISCOURSE COMMUNITIES: A YEAR OF PUBLIC DEBATE ON TWITTER", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "issue; publics", "summary": "The use of Twitter hashtags in the formation of ad hoc publics. Initial Findings The different communities created as a result of the various communicative affordances of Twitter could potentially create different network structures.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10480", "words": "1318", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Dworkin, Jodi; Brar, Pooja; Hessel, Heather", "title": "WHEN THE TEACHER BECOMES THE STUDENT: YOUTH IMPACT ON PARENT TECHNOLOGY USE", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "child; family; parent; use", "summary": "Child use accounted for 8.4% of the variance in parent use. When the teacher becomes the student: Youth impact on parent technology use.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10481", "words": "1328", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Eberwein, Tobias; Gerard-Wenzel, Corinna", "title": "MEMORY OF THE FUTURE? DIGITAL ARCHIVES IN PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "archives; media; memory; public", "summary": "Technological innovations and digitization open up new possibilities for generating cultural memory, as data can be stored and made accessible more easily. Theoretical background The study finds a theoretical starting point in the concept of cultural memory that can be defined as the tradition in us, which is transmitted via generations over texts, pictures and rituals and affects our worldview (Assmann, 1995).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10482", "words": "1366", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Gorea, Michelle", "title": "NAVIGATING NETWORKED TIME: VISUAL SELF-IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT AMONG YOUTH", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "images; media; self; youth", "summary": "Semi-structured interviewing was used to gain detailed understanding of the rationales different youth have for making, sharing and viewing images, whether they consider them to be significant and in what ways, how they understand the expectations for communicating visually, and to what extent they try to adapt and negotiate their immersion in visual social media. This work in progress paper is a component of a broader study, which focuses on: how the curation and circulation of images may be shaping how youth manage and negotiate their identities; the extent to which socio-economic differences frame youths\u2019 encounters with, and understandings of, visual images; and the different practices that visual media devices allow, encourage, or constrain and how this may be creating scripts for behavior.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10483", "words": "1261", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Gorwa, Robert", "title": "TOWARDS FAIRNESS, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND TRANSPARENCY IN PLATFORM GOVERNANCE", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "accountability; facebook; fairness; platforms", "summary": "The paper explores Facebook\u2019s recent (and ongoing) efforts to become more transparent, while also showing how Facebook policy is a kind of \u201cblack-box,\u201d with the effect that process of policy decision-making, and the motives and goals behind these policies are not transparent or clear to the users who are directly affected by them. Investigating accountability suggests that Facebook policy processes are responsive to the public in certain ways (especially public backlash and \u201cPR fires,\u201d which could be said to constitute a narrow form of \u201cpublic accountability\u201d), but ultimately are limited in their accountability to the public due to their corporate structure and incentives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10484", "words": "1306", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Gr\u00f8nborg, Joeb H\u00f8fdinghoff", "title": "REMOVING THE PHYSICAL BODY FROM INTERACTION - A PHENOMENOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION INTO LAYPEOPLE SHARING SELF-TRACKED EXERCISE DATA ON SOCIAL NETWORK SITES WHEN THEY FEEL UNEASY EXERCISING WITH PEOPLE", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "data; exercise; people", "summary": "Few studies, however, have shed light on how people use self-tracking in their everyday lives (Lupton, 2016) \u2013 e.g. why people share exercise data on social network sites. In this paper, I provide a thick description of people that bypass their struggle with social exercise by sharing exercise data on social network sites.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10485", "words": "1273", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Hand, Martin", "title": "RECALIBRATING DAILY LIFE: SYNCHRONIZING, COORDINATING, AND SCHEDULING THROUGH SMARTPHONES", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "activities; life; scheduling; time", "summary": "Interviews included talking through temporal data of many kinds on personal devices. There is a related ambivalence about temporal data, or the \u2018fear\u2019 of \u2018wasting time\u2019.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10486", "words": "1275", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Harris, Jane", "title": "\u201cLIKE, COMMENT AND SUBSCRIBE\u201d. EXPLORING THE ROLE PROFESSIONAL YOUTUBERS PLAY IN YOUNG PEOPLE\u2019S HEALTH BEHAVIOURS AND IDENTITES IN THE UK", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "content; health; information; people; youtubers", "summary": "The first stage, a school based questionnaire with 931 13-18 year olds quantified young people\u2019s engagement with YouTuber produced health content and provided a sampling frame for the later qualitative stages. An online analysis of 7 UK YouTubers examined the type of health content they produced.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10487", "words": "1267", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Heemsbergen, Luke", "title": "SECRET KILLERS \u201cAFTER WIKILEAKS\u201d: MAPPING, EVOLUTIONS, AND TAXONOMY OF RADICAL LEAKING", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "leaks; sites; transparency; wikileaks", "summary": "Beyond documenting evidence towards a socio-technical taxonomy of leaks sites, discussion of our findings considers how an ecology of digital leaks served (and severed) normative ties to problematic equations of \u2018transparency\u2019 and democracy (Flyverbom, 2016; Hansen and Flyverbom, 2015) in the digital world. Specifically, we offer a critical assessment of leaks sites\u2019 radical disclosures though a frame of governmentality and agonistic and algorithmic (Heemsbergen, 2016; Ananny and Crawford, 2016) democracy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10488", "words": "1429", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Hurcombe, Edward Flipo", "title": "EXAMINING THE ROLE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF EMERGING SOCIAL NEWS OUTLETS AND THEIR ADVOCACY JOURNALISM IN THE 2017 AUSTRALIAN SAME-SEX MARRIAGE POSTAL SURVEY", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "media; news; outlets; survey", "summary": "The editorial perspectives of social news outlets are frequently overt, a quality I term \u2018positionality\u2019. Social news outlets also eschew and critique \u2018balance\u2019, an established journalistic norm.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10489", "words": "1277", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Johnson, Mark Richard; Woodcock, Jamie", "title": "THE SOCIO-TECHNICAL ENTANGLEMENTS OF LIVE STREAMING ON TWITCH.TV", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "media; platform; streaming; twitch", "summary": "Findings In seeking to understand the labour and work of Twitch streamers, audience interest and engagement with in the platform, and Twitch\u2019s broader position in contemporary media production, we offer three findings in this paper. In both 2016 and 2017 over two million people regularly broadcast on the platform, resulting in over a million years of video content in total viewed by over one hundred million people (Twitch, 2017).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10490", "words": "1316", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Kowalchuk, Saskia", "title": "\u2018DEEP-FRIED\u2019 AND DENATURALIZED: CRITIQUING MEMETIC META- ONTOLOGIES", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "image; internet; memes; text", "summary": "To understand the significance of trends in memetic redundancy, popularly known as \u2018anti-memes\u2019, I first conceived of reaction memes as highly entropic. Hito Steryl\u2019s notion of \u2018poor images\u2019 provides an ideal conceptual framework for the potentially disruptive quality of memes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10491", "words": "1427", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Leaver, Tama; Abidin, Crystal", "title": "FROM YOUTUBE TO TV, AND BACK AGAIN: VIRAL VIDEO CHILD STARS AND MEDIA FLOWS IN THE ERA OF SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "grace; media; sophia; youtube", "summary": "However, the networks might also be considered parasitic, exploiting viral children for ratings in a fashion they and their carers may not have been prepared for. However, we argue that the media flows relating to viral children as exemplified by Sophia Grace & Rosie are more complex.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10492", "words": "1213", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Lewis, Kelly Marie", "title": "MEDIATED DEATH AND DIGITAL MARTYRDOM: ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR VISUAL SOCIAL MEDIA RESEARCHERS", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "death; digital; media", "summary": "This ethical imperative is of particular importance for visual social media research that extends beyond a Western context and considers the cross-cultural, transnational dimensions of memetic protest. I argue a new form of martyrdom has emerged post the 2010-11 Egyptian uprisings: one that is digitally mediated by individuals through the affordances of visual social media and digital technologies; has given rise to new performative rituals of witnessing and commemoration; offers new possibilities for popular political participation and expression; and challenges the dominant ways of doing politics online.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10493", "words": "1265", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Marler, Will", "title": "CONNECTIVE AMBITION AND CREATIVE CAUTION AMONG HOMELESS USERS OF FACEBOOK", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "eric; vicki", "summary": "This may stem from the ease with which social media users can store latent and weak ties to tap into for future need (Ellison et al., 2007; Ellison, Lampe, et al., 2011). Participation on social media means contending with the virtual architecture of networked publics which departs from conventional means of gauging exposure (boyd, 2011).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10494", "words": "10.5210/spir.v2018i0.10494", "extension": "Association of Internet Researchers", "flesch": "Memes \u201cact as the locus of memory\u201d, says Gabriella Coleman of the peculiar relationship 4chan has to its own history, made necessary by the ephemeral nature of large amounts of its content (2009). Rather than having an on-site permanent archive as such, its collective history and memory is sublated into and through the circulation and production of memes. Taking this as a prompt, this paper makes the case for the (re)production, circulation, and referencing of memes as embodiment of a particular historical ontology: a mode of being constructed in relationship to, and through, its own past. Memes, in other words, are a new way of thinking about, and experiencing (digital) history: they contribute to, and are part of, new \u201cinfra-structures of feeling\u201d (Coleman 2017). With this in mind, I use Benjamin\u2019s reading of Klee\u2019s Angelus Novus as a framing device to start to think about how memes encourage and embody certain modes of being-in-the-world. I do so in specific reference to 4chan and its privileging of a certain subject position along lines raced, classed and gendered, although possibilities for other forms and spaces are considered. On 4chan, the New Man of neofascism remakes the world memetically, in his own image.", "author": "McEwan, Sean Rutherford", "title": "THIS MEME IS WHAT WE CALL PROGRESS\u201d: HISTORY-AS-MEME, MEME-AS-HISTORY ON 4CHAN", "date": "2018-10-31", "keywords": "4chan; content; history; internet; memes; new; politics; users", "summary": null, "mime": "eng"}, {"id": "spir-10495", "words": "1273", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": null, "title": "spir-10495", "date": null, "keywords": "access; data; privacy; right", "summary": "This paper examines what data is made available for people to access on social media platforms, analyses the practicalities and potential uses of this data and compares the key differences between conceptualising data access as a consumer right versus a fundamental right of digital citizenship (McCosker et al., 2016; Daly, 2016). Citizens within the boundaries of the European Union recently secured the right to data access under this framework.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10496", "words": "1618", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": null, "title": "spir-10496", "date": null, "keywords": "event; facebook; participation; protest; social", "summary": "As in other recent instances of protest events in the country (Mercea, 2017), protestors set up public Facebook event pages used for topical communication at various stages such as in advance, during or in the wake of a demonstration. Attendant to this latest wave was a modest rise in levels of protest participation (Mercea, 2014).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10497", "words": "1672", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": null, "title": "spir-10497", "date": null, "keywords": "change; character; length; limit; tweet", "summary": "To explore how individuals\u2019 writing changed before and after 7 November, we fit a statistical model to the daily distribution of tweet lengths. The difference between the observed distribution of tweet lengths and the expected lognormal fits for (a) 100 <", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10498", "words": "1285", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Myles, David", "title": "\u2018ANNE GOES ROGUE FOR ABORTION RIGHTS!\u2019 EXPLORING DISCURSIVE MATERIALIZATION ACROSS AND BEYOND ONLINE PLATFORMS", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "abortion; anne; figure; rogue", "summary": "For this presentation, we use our case study to understand how pro- choice activists invoked the symbolic \u2018figure\u2019 of rogue Anne to give weight to their own arguments by speaking or acting in her name. Hence, our study examined the processes through which the figure of rogue Anne was made present in interaction, the role of digital (online) and physical (offline) affordances in the materialization of this figure, and the differentiated effects that these invocations generated (like countering, defining, (re)framing, publicizing, denying, etc.).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10499", "words": "1378", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Nieborg, David; Young, Chris; Joseph, Daniel", "title": "APP IMPERIALISM: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE CANADIAN APP STORE", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "app; canadian; developers; store", "summary": "Our aim is to determine if Canadian app developers are effective in creating economic value, which we measure as the ability to generate revenue, within their own national App Store. Therefore, we analyze the plight of Canadian app developers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10500", "words": "1174", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "O'Connell, Carrie", "title": "A HAUNTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL MEMORIALIZATION OF THE DEAD", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "death; media; new", "summary": "During the 19th century-- arguably the last time an epochal evolution of media technology occurred--fascination with ghost-themed theatre, poetry, and literature (not so) coincidentally paralleled a rise in new technologies that forever changed both the way we preserve and chronicle our human existence, as well as the manner in which we socially engage with our fellow humans, mass culture, and the artefacts of that mass society due to those new technologies. Advances in media technologies provided new avenues for dyadic communication between living beings, yet forced a re-evaluation of concepts like distance and temporal synchronicity in regards to those relationships.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10501", "words": "1320", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Poell, Thomas; Nieborg, David; Van Dijck, Jos\u00e9", "title": "PLATFORM POWER & PUBLIC VALUE", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "data; platform; power; services", "summary": "Governing the platform ecosystem The analysis of two exemplary infrastructural services is a first step towards a refined taxonomy of platform power relations, much needed to develop guidelines for the governance of the platform ecosystem. A more precise insight in the workings of platform power is an important first step to better align the governance of the online ecosystem with vital public values.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10502", "words": "1216", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Riedl, Martin Johannes", "title": "WHO PUT THE \u2018SOCIAL\u2019 IN MOBILE AND SOCIAL PAYMENT PLATFORMS? RE-READING SIMMEL AND COLLEAGUES IN LIGHT OF THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "money; payment; simmel; social", "summary": "Mobile payments, social money: Social payments: Innovation, trust, Bitcoin, and the sharing economy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10503", "words": "1298", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Ritter, Christian Simon", "title": "DISTRIBUTING SERVICES THROUGH THE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE: THE CASE OF A NORWEGIAN SOFTWARE FIRM", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "cloud; services; socio; software", "summary": "The observable everyday practices of human actors, such as consultants and software users, indicate that the cloud infrastructure enables a transnational built network connecting the transnationally dispersed material worlds of office spaces. Based on the evidence studied, I suggest that programmers can scale the socio-technical assemblage by writing scripts that organize the membership hierarchies within the APIs of industrial software.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10504", "words": "1298", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Rusho, Yonit; Raban, Daphne R.", "title": "THE EFFECTS OF INFORMATION PRODUCTION PROCESS ON EXPERIENCE AND EVALUATION", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "experience; information; production; value", "summary": "1: The process of information good production In order to research the effect of information production on value perception, following are the research hypotheses: H1: Production experience of information is associated with higher perceived value post experience than consumption experience H2: Value perception post production is higher than before the production H3: High intensity level of experience causes a negative relationship between value perception and level of experience Method Subjective information value before experience (measured by WTP for consumers and WTA for producers) and perceived information value post experience were measured.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10505", "words": "1233", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Saariketo, Minna", "title": "FEELING THE RHYTHMS OF CODE", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "data; everyday; people; software", "summary": "The \u201cabsent presence\u201d of software becomes visible when the fluency of daily life is disturbed: failures and abrupt moments of unavailability are a source of anguish, irritation, frustration, stress, and panic. Lefebvre\u2019s methodological reflections on the rhythmics of everyday life resonate prolifically with the idea of technological unconscious.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10506", "words": "1506", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Smith, Trevor Garrison", "title": "HATRED OF/AND DEMOCRACY: THE POLITICAL CONTRADICTIONS OF REDDIT\u2019S MODERATION STRUCTURE", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "canada; democracy; hate; reddit", "summary": "If human moderators and algorithmic moderation are both \u201cworse,\u201d how can this debate about how to foster genuine political discussion online be solved? The first was the idea that the subreddit was suffering from a lack of moderation, leading to the addition of more moderators (including, strangely, moderators of the rival r/metacanada subreddit which is dedicated to mocking the users of r/Canada).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10507", "words": "1273", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Standlee, Alecea Irene", "title": "DOING YOUR HOMEWORK: THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AS A FRIENDSHIP FILTER", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "filter; media; networks; participants", "summary": "This paper expands this work to consider how the use of social media as a filter in the establishment of friendship networks among college students in offline spaces, shapes the composition of such social networks. For young adults who were born in the midst of the current technological age, social media and information distribution technologies and practices are part of normal everyday social interaction, even within their intimate lives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10508", "words": "1545", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Strover, Sharon; Schrubbe, Alexis", "title": "EXPLORING THE RURAL DIGITAL LANDSCAPE: LIBRARIES, EQUITY, AND SCALE", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "digital; hotspot; internet; libraries; library", "summary": "Rural libraries often have small staff numbers, small budgets, and are located in places that have limited cellular service on which hotspots depend. About 70% of rural libraries are the only sites with free Internet in their communities (Real, et al. 2014), and they provide a wide range of economically-oriented services (Mehra et al., 2017).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10509", "words": "1179", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Tynes, Robert; Peters, Claire", "title": "PURSUANCE AND THE PRACTICE OF DE-INSTITUTIONALIZED DEMOCRACY", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "anonymous; democracy; project; pursuance", "summary": "We then compare the experiences of digital activists to Pursuance\u2019s envisioned structure, examining where Pursuance will augment the digital activist's experience - how it will harness the revolutionary aspects of online activism and minimize the issues that can arise. This lessens the need for formal institutions to direct civic or political activism, thus opening a plethora of possibilities for the future of civil organizing.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10510", "words": "1290", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "von Essen, Emma; Jansson, Joakim", "title": "CYBERHATE ANONYMITY AND THE RISK OF BEING EXPOSED", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "anonymity; economics; group; hate", "summary": "Discussion Our study contributes to the current policy debates on how to combat online hate. Turning to the event, we find that an unexpected decrease in anonymity leads to a lower share of hateful posts in the discussions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10511", "words": "1191", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Wijermars, Mari\u00eblle", "title": "MASS MEDIA AND THE LEGITIMATION OF INTERNET CONTROL IN RUSSIA: THE CASE OF TELEGRAM\u2028", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "control; freedom; internet; media", "summary": "In the case of Russia, ostensibly sound legitimations have been instrumentalised to bring about a dramatic decline in internet freedom, leading Human Rights Watch (2017: 1) to conclude, that \u201c[s]tate intrusion in media affairs has reached a level not seen in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union.\u201d This paper aims to address this crucial aspect of internet censorship by studying how restrictions of internet freedom, freedom of expression and the right to information and privacy are framed in political and media discourses.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10512", "words": "1218", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Staudt Willet, K. Bret; Willet, Brooks D.", "title": "LOOK WHO\u2019S TALKING: USING HUMAN CODING TO ESTABLISH A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH TO TWITTER EDUCATION CHATS", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "education; purposes; tweets; twitter", "summary": "Participants are already selecting Twitter educational hashtags based on affinities such as subject area and geography; our work will allow them to also factor in the observed purposes of these conversations. Exploring the relationship between online discourse and commitment in Twitter professional learning communities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10513", "words": "1291", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Woodbridge, Kenzie Ann Burniston", "title": "NOT SUFFERING FOOLS GLADLY: CRAFTING PROSOCIAL COMMUNITY IN ONLINE MULTIPLAYER MINECRAFT", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "community; doi; games; online", "summary": "However, game social spaces range from supportive and kindly (Williams et al., 2006; Ratan et al., 2010; Whippey, 2010; Kaye & Bryce, 2012; O\u2019Connor et al., 2015) to hostile, violent, and bullying (Ballard & Welch, 2015). Online multiplayer games function as the modern equivalent to pubs, parks, or community centers (Williams, Ducheneaut, Xiong, Yee, & Nickell, 2006; Ducheneaut et al., 2007) where players come together casually and find social learning (Ducheneaut & Moore, 2005; Banks & Potts, 2010; Ratan et al., 2010), social interaction (Lee-Leugner, 2013), and even community (Cole & Griffiths, 2007; Ducheneaut et al., 2007; Poor & Skoric, 2014; O\u2019Connor et al., 2015, Riordan & Scarf, 2016).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10514", "words": "1275", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Zago, Gabriela; Recuero, Raquel; Soares, Felipe", "title": "POLITICAL FANDOMS AND SUPERPARTICIPANTS IN POLITICAL CONVERSATIONS ON TWITTERTwitter, social network analysis, political polarization, fandoms", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "fandom; fans; superparticipants; users", "summary": "Our main finding is that these superparticipants with higher outdegree helped to shape the polarized networks by retweeting like-minded accounts, and thus are important and influence the study of polarized political networks on Twitter. Results By observing the top 12 users with higher outdegree in each network, we noticed some patterns and behaviors that can characterize those users as political fans.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10515", "words": "1679", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Zargarian, Tannaz", "title": "VOICES EMPOWERED: IRANIAN WOMEN AND WEBLOGS", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "education; gender; realm; weblogs; women", "summary": "Derayeh\u2019s theory argues that Iranian women \u201cchallenged gender-based discrimination and focused on women\u2019s procedures for developing an independent identity,\u201d which then \u201ccreated opportunities for women to raise their voices and take action as a means to self-liberation\u201d (Derayeh, 2010, p. 151). While institutionalized gender roles and customary law (urf) are the most important elements in restricting women\u2019s emancipation in the public and private realms, the digital space altered the meaning of constraint and shifted the boundaries of the public and private realms by allowing Iranian women to seek an independent identity and self-determination (Graham, et al., 2010).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10516", "words": "1534", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Zimmer, Michael; Chamberlain Kritikos, Katie; Vitak, Jessica; Kumar, Priya; Liao, Yuting", "title": "PRIVACY BOUNDARIES AND INFORMATION FLOW SOLIPSISM IN THE PERSONAL FITNESS INFORMATION ECOSYSTEM", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "data; fitness; pfi; privacy; users", "summary": "Specifically, we argue while fitness tracker users take steps to manage privacy boundaries (Petronio, 2002), they also succumb to \u201cinformation flow solipsism\u201d (Proferes, 2017), meaning that while users might understand the primary technical functions and features of their fitness trackers, they are broadly unaware of \u201chow the technology operates at a broader techno-cultural or socioeconomic level\u201d (Proferes, 2017, p. 10). Our findings suggest the dangers of information flow solipsism extends to fitness tracker users, where users might feel content with their management of privacy boundaries related to their PFI, while failing to understand how personal fitness information flows beyond their device lead to unanticipated privacy risks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10903", "words": "1260", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Aggio, Amanda", "title": "INFANCY WITHIN ADVERTISING PLATFORM: YOUNG CHILDREN EXPERIENCES ON A VIDEO-SHARING WEBSITE.", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "children; internet; new; platform", "summary": "Amanda Aggio Massey University This paper investigates how young children experience digital advertising platforms. For instance, previous generations of young children grew up watching TV, an apparatus adjusted by an adult and shared with others through a single device.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10917", "words": "1300", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Albrechtslund, Anne-Mette Bech", "title": "A BALANCING ACT: PUTTING UP BOOKSHELVES ON A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "bookshelves; goodreads; platform; users", "summary": "As this paper shows, policies on bookshelves prompt users to negotiate this community/commerce hybridity (see Bruns, 2012) which requires an ongoing balancing act for users to feel comfortable entrusting the platform with their content. The study draws particularly on discourse analysis with a focus on narrative and organizational metaphors (see e.g. Morgan, 2006), and the aim is to identify central points of ambivalence in users\u2019 attempts to balance their trust in the platform.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10918", "words": "890", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Baack, Stefan", "title": "'GLOBAL, NETWORKED AND COLLABORATIVE': HOW THE NORMALIZATION OF LEAKING SHAPED THE IDENTITY AND PRACTICE OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "data; journalism; leaking", "summary": "First, it shows that parallel to the increased diversity of media organizations and ways of \u2018doing journalism\u2019 around news startups or nonprofit newsrooms, new forms of stabilizing and, to some extent, standardizing journalism practices have emerged. The findings presented in this paper are connected to, and expand research on entrepreneurial forms of journalism and global journalism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10921", "words": "1396", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Balanzategui, Jessica", "title": "EXAMINING THE \u201cELSAGATE\u201d PHENOMENON: DISTURBING CHILDREN\u2019S YOUTUBE CONTENT AND NEW FRONTIERS IN CHILDREN\u2019S CULTURE", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "children; content; genres; media; youtube", "summary": "Yet, as increasing numbers of children consume much of their video content outside of the legacy media spaces of film and television, serious concerns are being raised in policy, advocacy (Centre for Digital Democracy, 2018), and journalistic (Bridle, 2017) discussions around the globe because many new children\u2019s video streaming genres are not \u201cchild-appropriate\u201d according to extant definitions and guidelines, such as the internationally endorsed Children\u2019s Television Charter. Furthermore, reportage consistently dwells on parents\u2019 and adult commentators\u2019 belated awareness of these unfamiliar, \u201cbizarre\u201d (Popper, 2017) genres popular with children, and suggests that children value this content for reasons that are unclear to adult guardians.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10922", "words": "1343", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Barnett, Tully", "title": "LABOUR AND DIGITIZATION", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "digital; digitization; google; infrastructure; labour", "summary": "Notions of the particularities of digital labour of all kinds are central to developing a more comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted nature of digital cultural objects, both born-digital and digitized. Using Google Books as a case study, this paper argues that increasingly digitized cultural experiences need to take into account the broader conditions behind the production of cultural infrastructure.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10923", "words": "1559", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Baym, Nancy; Shifman, Limor ; Persaud, Christopher; Wagman, Kelly", "title": "INTELLIGENT FAILURES: CLIPPY MEMES AND THE LIMITS OF DIGITAL ASSISTANTS", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "aoir; clippy; digital; paper; shifman", "summary": "Yet this failure in \u201cknowing its limits\u201d is also what gives Clippy character. This now-iconic query was posed by Clippy, an animated paperclip with fierce eyebrows, beseeching eyes, and fatal shortcomings in its ability to determine when users actually needed help.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10924", "words": "1259", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Bevan, Alex Louise; Wilson Barnao, Caroline; Lincoln, Robyn", "title": "FROM CHASTITY BELTS TO SMART FROCKS: THE PROMISE OF RAPE DETERRENT TECHNOLOGY", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "devices; digital; rape; women", "summary": "The dress exemplifies an array of intimate digital devices that mobilize smart technology aimed at preventing sexual assault in public space. We study a range of smart devices and their promises in order to set up an analytical comparison.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10925", "words": "1616", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Boccia Artieri, Giovanni; Zurovac, Elisabetta; Brilli, Stefano", "title": "BOUNDARIES OF TRUST AND TRANSGRESSION: STUDYING THE CIRCULATION OF OBSCENE CONTENTS WITHIN ITALIAN PRIVATE GROUP CHATS", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "chats; contents; group; media; social; users", "summary": "Our study provides an analysis of users\u2019 meaning-making and boundary maintenance activities regarding violent/pornographic contents in group chats on Telegram, that combines participant observation and in-depth interviews with active participants of such groups. Socio-technological background: groups chats and the mundane circulation of the obscene The Cambridge Analytica scandal shed light on a dangerous mass surveillance context and the revelations about Facebook\u2019s plans to use WhatsApp as a tool to track user data, lead developers to provide IM applications with greater security.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10926", "words": "1293", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Butt, Mahli-Ann", "title": "\u201cI NEVER USE HEADSETS\u201d: WOMEN, WARINESS, AND HYPERVIGILANCE FOR THE INEVITABILITY OF ONLINE HARASSMENT IN GAMING CULTURE", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "culture; gaming; harassment; press; women", "summary": "In it, this research analyses the affective labour (Hardt 1999) of how people navigate and \u2018cope\u2019 with discrimination in gaming cultures. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-0212-8. Kirkpatrick, G. (2012) \u201cConstitutive Tensions of Gaming\u2019s Field: UK gaming magazines and the formation of gaming culture 1981-1995.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10928", "words": "1315", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Byron, Paul; Albury, Kath; Pym, Tinonee; Race, Kane; McCosker, Anthony", "title": "TRUST IN FRIENDSHIP: LGBTQ+ YOUNG PEOPLE AND HOOK-UP APP SAFETIES", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "apps; friends; hook", "summary": "Sometimes making friends through dating apps was unintentional, and sometimes these connections were more difficult to define than simply sexual or friend-based, perhaps combining elements of both. This movement from discussing friends on dating apps and other social media illustrates how friendships extend into spaces traditionally deemed sexual (e.g. Tumblr naked selfies) through networked media practices.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10929", "words": "1289", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Cabalquinto, Earvin Charles Borja; Soriano, Cheryll", "title": "\u201cHEY, I LIKE YOUR VIDEOS. RELATE MUCH!\u201dLOCATING SISTERHOOD IN A POSTCOLONIAL PUBLIC ON YOUTUBE", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "comments; media; sisterhood; women", "summary": "Significantly, online sisterhood becomes a collective strategy in dismissing belittling comments. Such modality, we argue, surfaces in online spaces wherein women gravitate to each other based on trust and mutual understanding of lived conditions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10930", "words": "1674", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Carah, Nicholas; Angus, Daniel; Smith, Adam ", "title": "CRITICAL SIMULATION: INVESTIGATING THE WORK OF MACHINE VISION IN VISUAL SOCIAL MEDIA CULTURE", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "culture; instagram; machine; platforms; vision", "summary": "Despite widespread use by social media platforms, machine vision is poorly understood and accounted for in the study of everyday cultures; and machine vision techniques are yet to be embraced as part of the methodological repertoires of digital humanities. Platforms\u2019 use of machine vision is a key frontier in the algorithmic classification of culture.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10931", "words": "1303", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Cassidy, Elija; Matamoros Fernandez, Ariadna; Thomson, T.J.", "title": "MARDI GRAS THROUGH INSTAGRAM STORIES: HOW EPHEMERAL MEDIA SHAPE EVERYDAY ENGAGEMENTS WITH IDENTITY POLITICS", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "instagram; mardi; media; stories", "summary": "Method Our overarching project takes an ethnographic approach to the study of digital media, integrating content analysis of Instagram stories with semi-structured interviews with relevant public actors involved in Mardi Gras who used Instagram Stories as part of their engagement with the event. Number of daily active Instagram Stories users from October 2016 to January 2019 (in millions).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10932", "words": "1259", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Cayari, Christopher", "title": "COLLABORATIVE VIDEO LOGS: VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE AND ALIVENESS IN THE MUSIC CLASSROOM", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "learning; students; video; youtube", "summary": "Method I assigned CVL projects to students in seven courses at three large public universities in the Midwest United States, in which self-selected groups of four to seven students each posted on their assigned day of the week to have an asynchronous discussion. The final principle of developing a rhythm manifested within CVL groups, which allowed students\u2014or perhaps required students\u2014to experience a flow and momentum for learning and online content creation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10934", "words": "1299", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Chen, Yi-Ning Katherine; Wen, Chia-Ho Ryan", "title": "THE IMPACT OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATIONS ON TRUST IN TECHNOLOGY", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "community; science; trust", "summary": "Third, mediation effects, with government trust and corporation trust as mediators, are sought with general news and political news attention, but not with scientific news attention. As a result, our study aims to understand the social disjuncture between public opinion and science, looking deeper into the reasons behind the long-term distrust of the government, corporations as well as science community, and discussing the influence of the media Theoretical Framework The theory of motivated reasoning proposes people tend to make conclusions by biasedly selecting and trusting things that reconcile with their previously held viewpoints and political beliefs in particular.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10935", "words": "1686", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Chesher, Chris", "title": "TRUSTING SMART SPEAKERS: A TYPOLOGY OF INVOCATIONARY ACTS", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "act; acts; invocation; representative; speech", "summary": "Austin explained the dynamics of speech acts by distinguishing between three elements: the locutionary, the illocutionary, and the perlocutionary. So, what can we say about speech acts have taken place?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10936", "words": "1427", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Copland, Simon", "title": "REDDIT QUARANTINED: CONSEQUENCES OF DEALING WITH DISTRUST IN SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS THROUGH RESTRICTING ENGAGEMENT", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "media; reddit; subreddits; users", "summary": "Coordinated campaigns of online abuse, often blamed on the architecture and platform politics of social media sites (Massanari, 2017), have become a matter of trust for social media platforms, whose role as a facilitator of public debate has been called into question. Using affordances theory, this paper studies the revamping of the quarantining function of the social news sharing site Reddit to examine the consequences of increased regulation of content on social media sites.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10937", "words": "1680", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Croeser, Sky", "title": "CRITICAL PEDAGOGIES IN INTERNET STUDIES: TEACHING FOR CHANGE", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "aoir; conference; internet; studies; teaching", "summary": "Academics within Internet studies have unique possibilities for engaging in critical pedagogies, supporting students in understanding and challenging oppression. support and extend teaching methods that encourage students to understand and challenge oppression \u2013 critical pedagogies (Breuing 2011) - within Internet studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10938", "words": "1540", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Cumming, David; Rogerson, Melissa Jane", "title": "THE SITUATED HINTERLANDS OF ONLINE GAMING PRACTICES", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "bar; esports; experience; tourism", "summary": "The gathering of artifacts and stories from event attendance can be used to retell experiences and demonstrate strong commitment to a hobby. Throughout the night, spectators of TI8 reminisced about watching other esports events at the bar as social boundaries dissolved.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10940", "words": "5532", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Mitchell, Peta; Leszczynski, Agnieszka; Zook, Matthew; Blankenship, Joe; McGrane, Caitlin; Hjorth, Larissa; Thomas, Julian; Wilken, Rowan", "title": "GEOLOCATION: LOCATING TRUST IN DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND ECONOMIES", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "data; geographies; geolocation; maps; media; paper; platforms; practices; systems; trust; uber; university", "summary": "This paper engages the intensifying incorporation of digital location data, interfaces, and affordances as pervasive features of digital platforms by positioning geolocation as a vital assemblant of \u2018platform affects\u2019. Through engaging the intersections of geolocation and digital platforms via an analytic of affect, this paper provides specificity and explanatory power to not only the \u201cdynamics driving the integration of geographic information into the digital economy\u201d (Alvarez Le\u00f3n 2016, p. 1), but also to the affective and emotional dynamics of how we, both individually and collectively, are mobilized and incentivized to continuously engage\u2014and reengage\u2014 with digital systems as part of our everyday life practices.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10941", "words": "4689", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Chen, Pai-Lin; Cheng, Yu-Chung; Fu, Wen-Cheng; Lin, Trisha T.C", "title": "TRUST IN TAIWAN\u2019S MEDIA ECOLOGY, AUDIENCE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: 2018 TAIWANESE LOCAL ELECTIONS AND NATIONAL REFERENDA AS A CASE STUDY", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "election; liquid; media; news; online; participation; reality; referenda; society; study; taiwan; trust", "summary": "In modern society, news media operate under a heavy-duty organization with rigid news production processes and long-standing paths to the delivery of contents (Fishman, 1980). On the other hands, news media in a liquid society owns flat organization, flexible production process, as well as virtual path in delivery news messages.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10942", "words": "7161", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Neudert, Lisa-Maria; Bradshaw, Samantha; Lewis, Rebecca; Yin, Leon; Woolley, Samuel; Joseff, Katie; Metaxa, Dana\u00eb; Hogan, Alexander", "title": "BLIND SPOTS OF INFORMATION OPERATIONS: OF MICRO PROPAGANDA, ALGORITHM GAMING & HOW TO PROFIT FROM IT", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "content; data; influence; information; manipulation; media; online; operations; oxford; paper; propaganda; research; results; search; social", "summary": "Using data from the Darknet Market Archives and purposeful keyword search the open and dark web, this paper explores the political economy of digital marketplaces for social media manipulation and examines how profit-driven actors market the tools for the malicious manipulation of social media. Extending this theory to the domain of search media, we might expect that incumbents, who are generally more centrist, should receive more mainstream media attention, relative to challengers whose campaigns and subsequent coverage by search media should exhibit higher levels of partisanship.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10943", "words": "5704", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Smith, Naomi ; Davis, Jenny; Maddox, Alexia; Patella-Rey, PJ ", "title": "THE VISCERAL EMBODIMENT OF DIGITAL PLEASURES", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "aoir2019; asmr; association; australia; brisbane; conference; drugs; internet; intimacy; october; papers; pleasure; researchers; taking", "summary": "This panel explores digital pleasures through entanglement of bodies and digital technologies. The panel brings together four presentations, all of which speak to the central conference theme by considering how the architectures that afford digital pleasures also raise attendant questions of trust and risk in digital systems.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10944", "words": "5726", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Robards , Brady; Lyall, Benjamin; Moran, Claire; Burgess, Jean; Albury, Kath; Wilken, Rowan; McCosker, Anthony ; Senft, Terri", "title": "DATA SELVES: TRUST, CONTROL AND SELF-REPRESENTATION IN DIGITAL SOCIETY", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "apps; communication; control; data; face; internet; literacies; media; paper; posts; self; selfies; society; university; use; users", "summary": "Taken together, these four papers each engage with questions about the relationship between personal data and broader structures of power and representation: from corporations like Grindr and Tinder using dating app data to profile users, to Google using uploaded selfies to train facial recognition algorithms; through to re-purposing and narrativising personal data as part of practices of self-representation; and the feelings of anxiety, unease or creepiness that accompany the increased datafication of personal identity. Self-representation is also a key recurrent thread in these papers, from confessional data selfies as acts of revelation through personal quantified data, through to the photographic selfie as a research exercise that prompts discussions of control and data privacy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10945", "words": "6910", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Maddox, Alexia; Sinanan, Jolynna; Carter , Marcus; Horst, Heather; Spencer, Michaela; Wiesenfeldt, Gerhard", "title": "CULTURAL COSMOLOGIES OF THE INTERNET: SITUATING DIGITAL NETWORKED TECHNOLOGIES IN DIVERSE MORAL UNIVERSES", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "culture; digital; economy; free; game; horst; online; paper; play; practices; press; research; technologies; technology; university", "summary": "Writing about these efforts, Verran and Christie (2007) described the work of Yolngu elders struggling against the grain of digital technologies designed to represent, to use them in ways that were actively performative in expressing the remaking of an ancestral reality. Horst argues that there are several meanings of free culture associated with digital media and technology which departs from the democratic, liberatory potentials of digital culture.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10946", "words": "4659", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Wang, Wilfred Yang; Zhao, Xinyu; Chen, Xu; Yang, Yanan Jana", "title": "ONLINE TRUST IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL MIGRATION: MOBILITY, SOCIALITY, AND THE PRODUCTION OF CHINESE DIASPORIC SUBJECTIVITY IN AUSTRALIA", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "australia; authenticity; chinese; communication; dating; media; online; social; trust; users", "summary": "In the context of digital mediated communication, guanxi continues to be important (McDonald, 2018), and this can be translated into Chinese internet culture, for instance, Chinese WeChat users tend to only trust their close friends\u2019 comments on this app (Lien & Cao, 2014), which indicates that the app rating mechanism in Apple App Store may be less likely to affect Chinese users compared with their western peers. As such, although Chinese dating apps may share similar digital architectures with their western counterparts, strategies for framing their authenticity can be significantly different.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10947", "words": "5586", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Hakim , Jamie; M\u00f8ller, Kristian; Flor\u00eancio, Jo\u00e3o; Murphy, Dean; Race, Kane; Pienaar, Kiran; Lea, Toby", "title": "CHEMSEX: DIGITAL, CHEMICAL AND COMMUNAL INFRASTRUCTURE OF DISINHIBITION", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "chemsex; digital; drugs; gay; london; media; men; new; paper; prep; press; race; trust", "summary": "The overriding effect of consuming chemsex drugs was a \u2018loss of inhibitions\u2019. Notably, anxieties, risk, and modes of trust are not absent from chemsex practices and imaginaries, but rather co-constitutive of its pleasures.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10948", "words": "6541", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Nansen , Bjorn; Hjorth, Larissa; Pitsillides, Stacey; Gould, Hannah", "title": "THE AFTERLIVES OF MEMORIAL MATERIALS: DATA, HOAX, BOT", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "care; data; dead; death; digital; funeral; gibbs; human; internet; media; memorial; new; online; trust", "summary": "Commentary on fake deaths Critical responses to the more inadvertent types of fake death focused on the deterioration of journalism in digital spaces, accusing both individual journalists \u2013 as in the disapproval of Grantland for its vague headline \u2013 and news organisations or media more generally of poor quality journalism for prematurely (mis)reporting a death in the rush to publish first: \u2022 In contrast, critical responses to deliberate types of fake death (hoax, hacking), were directed at social media platforms for enabling fake deaths to be generated and circulated, or at cultures of social media use contributing to the frequency of instances and persistence of rumours surrounding fake deaths: \u2022", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10949", "words": "5532", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Sefton-Green, Julian; Zacher Pandya, Jessica; Hendry, Natalie; Pangrazio, Luci", "title": "PLATFORM PEDAGOGIES: LEARNING, AUTHORISING AND VALIDATING TRUST IN EDUCATION", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "apps; data; education; learning; lms; media; pedagogy; people; platform; teachers; teaching; trust; use", "summary": "The program was broken up into three main sections: the first encouraged young people to critically reflect on platform practices and identities; the second developed understandings of platform structures and mechanisms, drawing on topical issues to demonstrate concepts (i.e. fake news, data profiling); and the final section supported the student participants in making good decisions for platform participation, particularly in regard to complex issues such as online coercion and content sharing. First, platform practices and behaviours are still strongly influenced by social practices and networks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10953", "words": "1261", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Damkj\u00e6r, Maja Sonne; Southerton, Clare Victoria; Albrechtslund, Anders", "title": "RELIEF FROM COMMUNICATION: PARENTAL SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGIES, TRUST AND CARE", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "communication; surveillance; technologies; trust", "summary": "Trusting Children: How do surveillance technologies alter a child\u2019s experience of trust, risk and responsibility? Affording surveillance To understand the complex relationship between trust and privacy, we explore the interconnection between parenting, digital communication technologies and surveillance.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10954", "words": "1303", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Davis, Mark Raymound", "title": "'FASCISM IS THE NEW HIP': ONLINE ANTI-PUBLICS AND POST-NORMATIVE DEMOCRACY", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "anti; groups; publics; right", "summary": "Examples are given of anti-public discourse used by white supremacist groups, \u2018men\u2019s rights\u2019 groups, anti-climate science groups, neoreactionary groups, and extreme anti-vaccination groups, to demonstrate close similarities in their discourse. Such groups, I argue, can be understood as belonging to a loose-knit, diverse online \u2018anti-public sphere\u2019, populated by overlapping \u2018anti-publics\u2019 such as the \u2018alt-right\u2019, white supremacist groups, \u2018men\u2019s rights\u2019 groups, anti-climate science groups, and \u2018neoreactionary\u2019 or \u2018Dark Enlightenment\u2019 groups, among others.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10955", "words": "1501", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Dehghan, Eshan", "title": "IN EACH OTHER WE (STRATEGICALLY) TRUST: THE DISCURSIVE NETWORKS OF TRUST IN TWITTER DISCUSSION OF IMMIGRATION IN AUSTRAILIA", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "analysis; discourse; immigration; politics", "summary": "However, collectives of users also actively form alliances with other discourses involved in the broader discursive environment, through the use of affordances of Twitter, such as retweets. Furthermore, the discourse of immigration in Australia has also been influenced by the global rise of anti-immigration discourses, and the so-called \u2018refugee crisis\u2019 in Europe.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10956", "words": "1155", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Devitt, Susannah Kate; Mann, Monique; Daly, Angela", "title": "PRINCIPLES OF GOOD DATA", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "data; good; information", "summary": "Politics: Good data reveals and challenges the existing political and economic order (Principle 11) so that data empowered citizens can secure a good democracy (Principles 12, 13, 14, and 15). We begin by conceptual considerations of the nature of \u2018data\u2019 and \u2018goodness\u2019 before defending fifteen principles of good data under four banners:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10957", "words": "1528", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Dugmore, Harry", "title": "\u201cMISINFODEMICS\u201d\u2014 UNPACKING THE CORE NARRATIVES OF MULTINATIONAL DRINK COMPANIES\u2019 ONLINE MARKETING CAMPAIGNS AIMED AT YOUNG PEOPLE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "health; marketing; media; products", "summary": "Social media marketing on popular sugar- sweetened beverages Facebook and Twitter pages in Mexico. This paper explores in particular how so-called \u2018Big Food\u2019 multinationals combine their traditional \u2018sell more product\u2019 marketing, via the relatively new overlay of their multiple social media channels, with a \u2018our products are harmless\u2019 defences via both attempts to influence the understanding of the science and their attempts to engage and shape, via social media, public discourses around health, eating, weight gain and excess kilojoule consumption-related disease.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10958", "words": "1284", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Egliston, Ben", "title": "VIDEOGAME ANALYTICS, SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM AND THE RETENTIONAL ECONOMY OF PLAY", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "data; dotaplus; surveillance", "summary": "Videogame analytics, surveillance capitalism, and the retentional economy of play. VIDEOGAME ANALYTICS, SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, AND THE RETENTIONAL ECONOMY OF PLAY Ben Egliston, University of Sydney Abstract Data analytics tools are increasingly prevalent in videogames and are reliant on the surveillant capture and relay of user data.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10959", "words": "1282", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Einarson P\u00e9rez, Cecilie; Leong, Lorian", "title": "CALL ME MAYBE: SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS AND TRUST ASSOCIATED WITH TELEPHONY", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "calls; communication; mobile; telephony", "summary": "Crucially, this research delves into the level of trust in communications mediums and interpersonal relationships. Considered an intrusive form of communication phone numbers were not shared amongst weak ties/acquaintances, and instead reserved for close friends and family members whom were trusted to know of and to adhere to these codes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10960", "words": "1403", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Epstein, Dmitry; Quinn, Kelly", "title": "MAKING SENSE OF SOCIAL MEDIA PRIVACY: A FRAMING EXPERIMENT", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "concerns; frames; framing; privacy", "summary": "If we subscribe to the idea that critical participation in the information society is beneficial overall, findings about the (in)consistency of privacy framing highlight the importance of both research and education to the multidimensionality of privacy as a pivotal concept. RQ3: What effect does (lack of) consistency between one\u2019s \u2018frames in thought\u2019 and \u2018frames in communication\u2019 have on privacy concerns and privacy self- efficacy?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10961", "words": "1293", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Fagerjord, Anders", "title": "SPOTIFY AND NETFLIX AS INNOVATIONS: STREAMING MEDIA HISTORY IN THE LIGHT OF INNOVATION THEORY", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "innovation; music; new; streaming", "summary": "These differences can be seen in the different kinds of offering in different services: Music services have comprehensive, and quite similar catalogues, while television and film sites compete with unique material. Spotify and Netflix as Innovations: Streaming Media History in light of Innovation Theory.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10962", "words": "1292", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Sophie Olivia, Freeman", "title": "TRUST IN THE MUSIC? AUTOMATED MUSIC DISCOVERY, MUSIC RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS & ALGORITHMIC CULTURE.", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "discovery; music; systems", "summary": "As music recommendation systems seek to incorporate and expand their reach into the private life world of users, by providing recommendations based on context factors like mood or activity, how does this affect the privacy of users? This ongoing project aims to elucidate the user experience of music recommender systems and perhaps suggest ways that aspects such as serendipity, novelty and diversity can be better incorporated into music streaming services.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10964", "words": "1478", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Fabio, Giglietto; Righetti, Nicola; Marino, Giada", "title": "API AND BEYOND: DETECTING COORDINATED BEHAVIOURS IN FACEBOOK INTERACTIONS AROUND POLITICAL NEWS STORIES", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "election; facebook; media; news; online", "summary": "Selective exposure in the age of social media: Endorsements trump partisan source affiliation when selecting news online. Media manipulation and disinformation online.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10965", "words": "1285", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Gray, Joanne; Suzor, Nicolas", "title": "ALGORITHMIC COPYRIGHT ENFORCEMENT ON YOUTUBE: USING MACHINE LEARNING TO UNDERSTAND AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING AT SCALE", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "content; copyright; scale; videos; youtube", "summary": "The initial sample of YouTube videos is derived from YouTube\u2019s search API (\u2018list\u2019 endpoint). We use a Transformer attention-based deep learning model to perform classification on YouTube video titles and descriptions, and undertook several rounds of active learning to train the classifier (we ultimately manually labeled approximately 5000 videos to develop an adequate training set).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10967", "words": "1167", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Grosse, Meghan Leigh", "title": "LASTING IMPACTS OF 1990S ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "interests; internet; system", "summary": "Though this discourse frames the attention to commercial interests as inclusive and even democratic, including commercial perspectives undercuts the ability for other governments and any form of non-commercial public interest groups to set policy while advancing corporations\u2019 ability to do so. The prioritization of commercial interests has continued impacts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10970", "words": "4474", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Holloway, Donell Joy; Archer, Catherine; Willson, Michele", "title": "ENTRUSTING CHILDREN'S DATA", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "brand; children; dark; data; media; new; paper; practices; trust; use; web", "summary": "Children are increasingly being positioned as data sources, datafied and embedded in algorithmic ecosystems that employ a range of calculations to uncover patterns or anomalies, to highlight risk, and to predict future outcomes. Paper two, \u2018When trust goes wrong: Children on the dark web\u2019 investigates what happens when trust goes wrong; when children\u2019s personal data is hacked and circulated on the dark web?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10971", "words": "4662", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Dobson, Amy Shields; Race, Kane; O'Riordan, Kate", "title": "QUEER DE/STABILIZATIONS IN AND OF DIGITAL CULTURAL RESEARCH", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "digital; human; media; new; practices; queer; research; sexuality; social; theory; youth", "summary": "I suggest that in such socially striated and digitally collapsed contexts, a kind of \u201creparative reading\u201d of youth social media practices (following Wiegman, 2014, on Sedgwick), especially acts and practices of \u201cseeking attention\u201d, is politically important; so too, an ethics of \u201cqueer comradery and generosity\u201d (Warner cited in Albury, 2017). The kind of approach to data analysis and future research I want to suggest is one concerned, firstly, with asking where and how both the less-than-conscious and the non-human actants might \u201cshow up\u201d, or make appearances, in data on youth social media practices, with discussion of some examples from our data.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10972", "words": "7910", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Lewis, Kelly ; Berents, Helen; Myles, David; Cabalquinto, Earvin Charles ; Matamoros Fern\u00e1ndez, Ariadna; Estrada-Grajales, Carlos ", "title": "PERFORMING (IN)JUSTICE: THE CONTENTIOUS POLITICS OF DIGITALLY MEDIATED VISUALS", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "activism; aoir; association; australia; brisbane; conference; digital; images; internet; media; memes; october; politics; researchers; visual; women", "summary": "This presentation explores the role digitally mediated images play in contemporary activism within popular social justice movements and examines how visual social media facilitate new ways of \u201cresocializing the political\u201d (Fenton, 2016). The premise of this presentation is that digitally mediated images not only perform representational or illustrative functions but are also operationalized \u2013 as instruments and agents in activist practice, as products and producers of sociopolitical work \u2013 to render acts of police brutality and racial injustice visible in new ways, through which they create social identifications, antagonisms, and political contentions as part of their operational dynamics. #JusticeForTrayvon: operationalizing (in)justice The objective of this presentation is to examine how Trayvon\u2019s image has been 1) appropriated posthumously in visual social media, 2) discursively placed in conversation with these movements, and 3) transformed across time as a contemporary vernacular of resistance and resilience in the ongoing struggle for Black social justice in the US.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10973", "words": "1022", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "28", "author": "Yecies, Brian; Ren, Xiang (Tony); Shim, Aegyung; Wang, Dingkun", "title": "BANKING ON CULTURAL INTERMEDIARIES ACROSS WEBTOON, WEBNOVEL AND VIDEO-SHARING PLATFORMS IN ASIA\u2019S DIGITAL CREATIVE ECONOMY", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "paper; platforms; webtoon", "summary": "Dr. Xiang (Tony) Ren: Transmedia Online Literature in China and Global Platform Ecosystems The second paper, \u201cTransmedia Online Literature in China and Global Platform Ecosystems\u201d, explores the defining features of digital Chinese online literature in the age of cross-platform distribution and fan-led transmedia adaptations. In turn, as this paper argues, such transcreators and transnational cultural practices are transforming new genres and aspects of digital media cultural practices in the Global South, symbiotically advancing the expansion of the Korean digital wave and its revitalised links with Southeast Asia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10975", "words": "5335", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Plaut, Ethan; Mannell, Kate ; Kania-Lundholm, Magdalena; Beattie, Alex ", "title": "DOUBT AND DISENGAGEMENT: TECHNOLOGIES AND PRACTICES OF DIGITAL DISCONNECTION", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "disconnection; literacy; media; new; paper; people; practices; self; strategies; technologies; technology; use", "summary": "If media literacy initiatives teach people to trust their own ad hoc investigations (often simply Google searches) more than they trust journalists and other professionals, we risk exacerbating the collapse of trust brought about by disinformation (boyd, 2017, 2018). The \u2018attention economy\u2019 is a dominant socio-economic system underpinning digital technology that degrades user trust by driving undesirable hyper-connectivity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10976", "words": "6385", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Jensen, Jakob Linaa; Bruns, Axel; Graham, Tim; Angus, Daniel ; Larsson, Anders Olof; Stromer-Galley, Jennifer; Zhang, Feifei; Rossini, Patricia; Hemsley, Jeffrey", "title": "A DECADE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ELECTIONS \u2013 A CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "bruns; campaigning; campaigns; candidates; election; facebook; media; new; studies; time; twitter; use", "summary": "Social media will play a critical role in their campaigning: overall, Australians are comparatively early and enthusiastic adopters of social media (Sensis 2017), and more than half use social media as a key source of news (Newman et al. 2018: 127); more specifically, social media have played an important role already during previous federal election campaigns in 2013 and 2016 (Bruns 2016; Bruns & Moon 2017), and politics is a persistently prominent topic on platforms such as Twitter in Australia (Sauter & Bruns 2015). In sum, the paper provides a longitudinal study of social media use, agenda-setting effects and experienced efficacy across four elections, contributing to the literature and to the debate on the role of social media in the future of democracy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10977", "words": "5405", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Whelan, Andrew; James, Alexandra; Humphry, Justine; Dreher, Tanja ; Hynes, Danielle; Wilcock, Scarlet", "title": "SMART TECHNOLOGIES, ALGORITHMIC GOVERNANCE AND DATA JUSTICE", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "cities; city; data; governance; initiatives; justice; linknyc; new; processes; services; social; state; technologies; welfare; wifi", "summary": "Whilst these programs are exciting it is important to examine the imperative focus on innovation and new technology in the program, a key funding criterion is that projects \u2018apply innovative smart technologies that generate, store and process data to target urban challenges\u2019 (Australian Government 2018). Often presented as novel augmentations of urban space, enhancing and customising the urban experience at the same time that they increase the city\u2019s efficiency and \u2018awareness\u2019, smart city technologies also reconfigure urban spaces and how they are understood and governed by rendering the city a site of data generation and capture.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10979", "words": "1447", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Hare, Kathleen Allyson", "title": "\u2018SENSORIAL LITTER\u2019: BUILDING REFLEXIVE TRUST THROUGH EXAMINING DIGITAL DETRITUS", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "experiences; litter; participants; research", "summary": "I posit that when refuse/d from the body, too intense experiences are not lost, but rather manifest materially in digital media litter (e.g., anxiety filled texts, emails to supervisors, search histories). I first draw from phenomenological embodiment theories to put forward the idea of sensorial litter to conceptualize these too intense embodied experiences.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10980", "words": "1321", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Haytin, Sofia; Livio, Oren", "title": "WHAT WE CANNOT SPEAK ABOUT WE MUST TWEET: TRUST AMONG ISRAELI TWITTER USERS WITH DEPRESSION", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "trust; twitter; users", "summary": "In recent years, however, some studies have begun investigating the emergence of communities-of-sorts developing naturally in the more dispersed, unstructured, a-hierarchical spaces of social media platforms such as Twitter (Naslund et al., 2016). What we cannot speak about we must tweet: Trust among Israeli Twitter users with depression.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10981", "words": "1504", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Healy, Guy Hamilton", "title": "LEVERAGING TRUST: YOUTUBE ENTERTAINERS AND THE ROLE OF PROBLEM-SOLVING IN ENGENDERING TRUST.", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "creators; problem; solving; trust; youtube", "summary": "But this paper suggests that any such stereotype of widespread thoughtless creators is misplaced, and instead, leading creators are doing problem-solving that is highly valued by their fan communities, who creators report can also be thoughtful and co-creative. LEVERAGING TRUST: YOUTUBE ENTERTAINERS AND THE ROLE OF PROBLEM-SOLVING IN ENGENDERING TRUST Guy Hamilton Healy QUT Negative accounts of YouTube creators can dominate mainstream media Dominant accounts of social media entertainers emphasise their roles as micro- celebrities and influencers, with some of these accounts focusing on the negative, especially their performance of dangerous and often \u2018idiotic\u2019 stunts as part of their audience-building and sustainability (Goriunova, 2012), for example the Bird Box and Tide Pod challenges.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10982", "words": "1486", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Heemsbergen, Luke; Molnar, Adam", "title": "VPNs AND ENCRYPTION AS BOUNDARY OBJECTS OF THE INTERNET: (MIS)TRUST IN THE TRANSLATION(S)", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "encryption; internet; objects; star; technical", "summary": "Our discussion on VPNs and encryption brings to light how users of internet objects come to trust them for what they are and what they do, and the extent these trusts are misplaced in relation to the connective polysemy (Gal, 2018) that boundary objects provide as larger ecosystems. The second is through an exegesis of boundary objects \u2018on\u2019 the internet to consider conceptualizing objects \u2018of\u2019 the internet, which opens a fruitful reconfiguration of Star\u2019s work for internet research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10983", "words": "1349", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Henman, Paul ", "title": "ASSESSING ETHICAL AI-BASED DECISION-MAKING: TOWARDS AN APPLIED ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "context; data; decision; making", "summary": "Use context Considerations about the use context of AI based decision making include whether or not humans can intervene to stop an AI decision, reverse its impact (unlike Diallo (2018) who was fired by an algorithm), appeal an AI decision, and seek redress. An applied analytical framework for assessing ethical AI AI based decision making can be summarized as: AI decision making = (data * context) + code + (use * context)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10984", "words": "1313", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Henry, Claire", "title": "DESIGNING EFFECTIVE ONLINE ADVERTISEMENTS FOR A PREVENTION CAMPAIGN: MISTRUST AND OTHER BARRIERS", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "advertisements; internet; prevention; research; trust", "summary": "DESIGNING EFFECTIVE ONLINE ADVERTISEMENTS FOR A PREVENTION CAMPAIGN: MISTRUST AND OTHER BARRIERS Claire Henry Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand This paper reports on the preliminary findings of a research project that is investigating the potential for online advertisements to reduce the incidence of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) consumption on the internet. By producing test images and advertisements, and discussing these in focus groups and interviews, this research is developing an evidence-base for creating prevention advertisements that will be effective in \u2018nudging\u2019 potential offenders away from CSAM and toward seeking therapeutic intervention\u2014shifts that require a significant fostering of trust.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10985", "words": "1381", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Hurcombe, Edward", "title": "TROLLING FOR ENGAGEMENT: AUSTRALIAN LEGACY NEWS OUTLETS SEEKING AUDIENCE INTERACTION METRICS ON FACEBOOK THROUGH DELIBERATELY DIVISIVE CONTENT", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "engagement; facebook; news; outlets", "summary": "It is beneficial, thus, to investigate how the need for engagement effects the practices of news outlets which are increasingly dependent on Facebook for monetizable audiences. Thus, it is beneficial to think about a potentially emerging practice of news \u201ctrolling\u201d, as it appears that news outlets are adopting faux-na\u00efve, as well as deliberately incendiary, practices in order to satisfy Facebook\u2019s logic of engagement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10986", "words": "1403", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Jensen, Jakob Linaa", "title": "THE RETURN OF MEDIEVAL SOCIETY \u2013 CONTROL, SURVEILLANCE AND NEO-FEUDALISM IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "control; internet; medieval; surveillance", "summary": "It is claimed that the interplay between big tech companies, nation states\u2019 battle for control and citizens\u2019 participatory surveillance, for instance exercised through social media, resembles medieval principles of feudalism and tight social control. It is claimed that the interplay between big tech companies, nation states\u2019 battle for control and citizens\u2019 participatory surveillance, for instance exercised through social media, resembles medieval principles of feudalism and tight social control.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10987", "words": "1317", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Jensen, Jennifer; de Castell, Suzanne; Skardzius, Karen", "title": "PLAYING WHILE FEMALE: RE-READING IDENTITY FIXATIONS IN OVERWATCH", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "ellie; female; identity; overwatch", "summary": "PLAYING WHILE FEMALE: RE-READING IDENTITY FIXATIONS IN OVERWATCH Jennifer Jenson The University of British Columbia Karen Skardzius York University Suzanne de Castell The University of British Columbia Introduction & Context In early 2019, Overwatch professional player, \u201cEllie\u201d quit playing just weeks after having been named to one of the teams seeded into the professional league. Not much later, Ellie was revealed (and confirmed by Blizzard, the parent company of Overwatch) to be an account created by a male player (Tassi, 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10991", "words": "1375", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "John, Nicholas; Agbarya, Aysha", "title": "PUNCHING UP OR TURNING AWAY? WHEN PALESTINIANS UNFRIEND JEWS IN ISRAEL", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "facebook; interviewees; israel; unfriending", "summary": "Indeed, noting that unfriending was largely a response to an action by Jewish Israeli Facebook users; that the interviewees did not talk to the people they unfriended about their hate speech; and that in many instances they unfriended people with whom they were no longer in face- to-face contact, all points to a feeling of a lack of power relative to Jewish Israeli users. However, some interviewees were deeply and personally offended, not only because Jewish Facebook friends had posted racist content, but because they had done so in their (Facebook-mediated) presence.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10993", "words": "1388", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Kamal, Ahmad; Rossi, Luca", "title": "MAPPING THE MIGRANT DIGITAL SPACE, METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "facebook; mds; migrant; pages", "summary": "Moreover, the research team has used API based methods to collect all the available data produced from each resource (e.g. all the tweets written by Twitter accounts, all the posts and comments written on Facebook pages, the comments on YouTube videos etc.). The analyses (further developed in the full paper) investigate how Facebook pages reacted to the Long Summer.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10994", "words": "1295", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Kant, Tanya", "title": "ALGORITHMIC WOMEN\u2019S WORK: THE LABOUR OF NEGOTIATING BLACK-BOXED REPRESENTATION", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "black; data; users", "summary": "I consider the ways in which the \u2018algorithmic imaginary\u2019 intersects with representations of fertility, through audience responses that suggest web users know they are being targeted, but mistrust the ways in which they are constituted in data. Though we might be data, the ways in which users are constituted as data subjects is distributed differently \u2013 and unequally \u2013 in web users\u2019 everyday engagements.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10995", "words": "1303", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Kennedy, Jenny; Wilken, Rowan; Nansen, Bjorn; Arnold, Michael; Gibbs, Martin", "title": "HOUSEHOLD DIGITAL MEDIA ECOLOGIES - METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS FOR FOSTERING RESEARCHER-PARTICIPANT TRUST", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "participants; research; researchers; use", "summary": "Trust and household technology research As we will argue in this paper, these approaches carry three specific trust-related methodological benefits (and challenges). Tasks were designed to capture the household\u2019s technology use using familiar televisual genres of a \u201cnature documentary\u201d (to capture household technology use in its \u201cnatural habitat\u201d), \u201cnews report\u201d, \u201cpaparazzi shot\u201d, \u201cdiary room entry\u201d, and \u201cchat show interview\u201d.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10996", "words": "1296", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Kininmonth, Samuel Stanley", "title": "\u2018MARKING THEIR OWN HOMEWORK\u2019: TRUST AND AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT IN THE AUSTRALIAN DIGITAL ADVERTISING INDUSTRY", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "advertising; industry; trust; verification", "summary": "\u2018MARKING THEIR OWN HOMEWORK\u2019: TRUST AND AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT IN THE AUSTRALIAN DIGITAL ADVERTISING INDUSTRY Samuel Kininmonth RMIT University This paper examines how the Australian advertising industry discusses trust in the infrastructures of digital advertising. The advertising industry is undergoing a major change as digital advertising is increasingly dominated by new advertising technology (adtech) players and major tech companies such as Facebook and Google.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10997", "words": "1343", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Kirkwood, Katherine", "title": "TOO MANY COOKS: TRUSTING NEW VOICES IN ONLINE CULINARY ADVICE", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "evans; food; gibson; media", "summary": "This paper questions then how media personalities obtain trust in a foodscape that is becoming increasingly complex as both the number of dietary approaches, as well as avenues for engaging with food media proliferate. In relation to digital food media, Lewis (2018, 214) argues that \u201cfood citizens increasingly require a critical media literacy\u2026\u201d.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10998", "words": "1151", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Kristensen, Jakob B\u00e6k", "title": "MAKING THE UNSEEN VISIBLE: EXPLORING CROSSCUTTING SOCIAL MEDIA PUBLICS AND THEIR SOCIOPOLITICAL TRAITS", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "clusters; media; users", "summary": "This paper combines socio- demographic and political classifications of social media users based on surveys with network clustering techniques in order to preserve the full-scale complexity of digital interactions while eliciting patterns relating to concrete sociopolitical properties. MAKING THE UNSEEN VISIBLE: EXPLORING CROSSCUTTING SOCIAL MEDIA PUBLICS AND THEIR SOCIOPOLITICAL TRAITS Jakob B\u00e6k Kristensen University of Canterbury, New Zealand Introduction The potential of increased connectivity between people has been a main topic of discussion in media and communications research since the popularization of the internet, and especially since the web 2.0 revolution and the rise of social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-10999", "words": "1418", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "1", "author": "Kwanda, Febbie Austina; Lin, Trisha T. C.", "title": "FAKE NEWS DURING NATURAL DISASTER: INFORMATION FLOW, NEWS PRACTICES AND FACT-CHECKING IN INDONESIA", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "disaster; https://jmsc.hku.hk/2018/03/research-into-information-disorder-in-asia/; https://jmsc.hku.hk/2018/03/research-into-information-disorder-in-asia/ https://jmsc.hku.hk/2018/03/research-into-information-disorder-in-asia/; https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/indonesia-elections-key-issues-religion-fake-news-jokowi-prabowo-11445946 https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/indonesia-elections-key-issues-religion-fake-news-jokowi-prabowo-11445946; media", "summary": "Unlike news media, social media lacks the gatekeeping process of messages, which is likely to increase the virally diffusion of fake news. During a disaster aftermath at Palu city, Indonesia in September 2018; fake news proliferated and news media tried to curb their dissemination to avoid negative impacts on the public.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11000", "words": "1627", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Kyza, Eleni A.; Varda, Christiana", "title": "NAVIGATING THE POST-TRUTH ERA: TRUST, MISINFORMATION, AND CREDIBILITY ASSESSMENT ON ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "media; misinformation; news; online", "summary": "Social media and the spread of fake news The rise of social media platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram) has shifted the distribution of news away from the traditional gatekeepers (e.g. media outlets and journalists) to lay persons, peer networks, and algorithmic technologies (e.g. recommender engines and bots). Navigating the post-truth era: trust, misinformation, and credibility assessment on online social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11001", "words": "1283", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Liao, Tony", "title": "HOW DOES CRYSTAL KNOW? FOLK THEORIES AND TRUST IN PREDICTIVE ALGORITHMS THAT ASSESS INDIVIDUAL PERSONALITY AND COMMUNICATION PREFERENCES", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "algorithms; people; personality", "summary": "Second, while initial studies have found that people tend to trust algorithmic personality recommendations, they have also found that most perceive them as creepy, and worry about who has access to them (Warshaw et al., 2015). Given their increasing use, there needs to be more work examining these algorithmic personality profiles and how people respond to algorithmic predictions about themselves without their consent (Warshaw et al., 2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11003", "words": "1268", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Lin, Chang; Jacobson, Jenna; McEwen, Rhonda", "title": "PERSONAL INFORMATION ARCHIVING: BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSES TO THE PERCEPTION OF RISK", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "behaviour; information; internet; risk", "summary": "While the three-part typology simplifies the array of online behaviours, we hope it can be used as a way to understand and analyze information behaviour online more broadly and applied to other contexts. The research offers an alternate perspective on online information behaviour that departs from traditional classifications that rely on demography.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11004", "words": "1609", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "L\u00fcders, Marika", "title": "CONVENIENCE TRUMPS ALGORITHMS: PREDICTING CONTINUED INTENTION TO USE MUSIC STREAMING SERVICES", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "music; services; streaming; value", "summary": "Convenience trumps algorithms: predicting continued intention to use music streaming services. CONVENIENCE TRUMPS ALGORITHMS: PREDICTING CONTINUED INTENTION TO USE MUSIC STREAMING SERVICES Marika L\u00fcders Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway A decade after the launch of Spotify, music streaming services (MSS) have become a default way of listening to music.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11005", "words": "1286", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Marshall, Amber Hope", "title": "GENDERED LIVED EXPERIENCE OF DIGITAL INCLUSION IN RURAL AUSTRALIA", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "digital; inclusion; research; women", "summary": "Gendered lived experience of digital inclusion in rural Australia. The Australian Digital Inclusion Index (ADII) measures digital inclusion along three indices: access, affordability, and digital ability.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11006", "words": "1291", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Martens, Marijn; De Wolf, Ralf; Berendt, Bettina; De Marez, Lieven", "title": "TRUST IN DECONSTRUCTED RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS. CASE STUDY: NEWS RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "algorithms; news; recommender; systems", "summary": "Social scientists have focused on biases that arise when algorithms are implemented in everyday life: black people who are perceived as gorillas by image recognition software, criminal justice risk assessment algorithms that are racially biased against black prisoners, and job recruitment algorithms that have gender bias (Barocas & Selbst, 2016). TRUST IN DECONSTRUCTED RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS CASE STUDY: NEWS RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS Marijn Martens imec-mict-UGent Ralf De Wolf imec-mict-UGent Bettina Berendt KU Leuven Lieven De Marez imec-mict-UGent Extended abstract Increasingly, algorithms play an important role in everyday decision-making processes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11008", "words": "1315", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Maxigas, .; Latzko-Toth, Guillaume", "title": "TRUSTED COMMONS: WHY \u201cOLD\u201d SOCIAL MEDIA MATTER", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "communication; media; technology; users", "summary": "We noticed that the continued use of IRC constituted a routine practice in peer production communities while other user groups slowly but surely migrated away to more popular social media platforms over the years. In line with Edgerton\u2019s (2008) plea for decentering our historical accounts of technology from innovations to uses, we focus on the IRC case and argue that this decentralised, co-constructed (Latzko-Toth, 2014) communication infrastructure continues to serve social groups who tend to distrust proprietary platforms\u2014groups who are key to the collaborative production of software, hardware and politics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11009", "words": "1282", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "McCann, Hannah; Southerton, Clare", "title": "FANGIRLS AND FAKE NEWS: DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE AFFECTS OF FANDOM", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "ethnography; fandom; fans; larry", "summary": "Digital Ethnography and Ethical Considerations Our digital ethnography consisted of observation, participation, and interviews, in order to gain an embedded understanding of digital practices (Hine 2015, Simonetto 2016). Fangirls And Fake News: Digital Ethnography And The Affects Of Fandom.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11010", "words": "1491", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Mckie, Indra Ayu Susan; Narayan, Bhuva", "title": "COMMUNICATING A TRUSTWORTHY ONLINE ORGANISATIONAL IDENTITY WITH CHATBOTS", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "chatbots; identity; information; trust; users", "summary": "Communicating a Trustworthy Online Organisational Identity with Chatbots. COMMUNICATING A TRUSTWORTHY ONLINE ORGANISATIONAL IDENTITY WITH CHATBOTS Indra Mckie University of Technology Sydney Dr Bhuva Narayan University of Technology Sydney Introduction Conversational bots, otherwise known as chatbots, operate within the fourth industrial revolution as a client-facing form of AI.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11011", "words": "1315", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "M\u00fcnch, Felix Victor; Puschmann, Cornelius; Thies, Ben; Bruns, Axel", "title": "BOTS AMONG US: PREVALENCE, INFLUENCE, AND ROLES OF AUTOMATED ACCOUNTS IN THE GERMAN TWITTER FOLLOW NETWORK", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "accounts; bots; figure; german; sample", "summary": "To address this gap, we present what to our knowledge is the first study that assesses the prevalence, influence, and roles of automated accounts in a Twitter follow network on a national scale: the German-speaking Twittersphere. \u200bBots among us: prevalence, influence and role of automated accounts in the German Twitter follow network\u200b. Paper presented at AoIR 2019:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11012", "words": "1510", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Munn, Luke", "title": "\u201cALEXA, CAN I TRUST YOU?\u201d: SMALL SISTERS AND FRIENDLY POWER", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "alexa; conference; internet; power", "summary": "\u201cAmazon Says It Has Over 10,000 Employees Working on Alexa, Echo.\u201d \u201cAlexa Gives Amazon a Powerful Data Advantage.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11013", "words": "1565", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Mwaura, Job", "title": "#RESISTHUDUMANAMBA: KENYAN GOVERNMENT AT A CROSSROAD", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "association; conference; government; internet; researchers", "summary": "In the case of Huduma Namba as a government project, it flaunted all the procurement laws since there was no adequate needs assessment, planning and budgeting did not undergo public participation. Huduma Namba required procurement of registration gadgets and personnel.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11015", "words": "1420", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "nansen, bjorn; o'neill, christopher", "title": "\u2018SMART WAKE UP\u2019 AND \u2018BINAURAL BEATS\u2019: SLEEP APPS AND THE ACOUSTIC MODULATION OF SLEEP-WAKE RHYTHMS", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "apps; beats; sleep; wake", "summary": "\u2018Smart wake up\u2019 and \u2018binaural beats\u2019: sleep apps and the acoustic modulation of sleep-wake rhythms. A key finding of this analysis is that sleep apps extend beyond the personal tracking of sleep patterns through two novel acoustic features \u2013 \u2018smart wake up\u2019 alarms and \u2018binaural beats\u2019 frequencies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11017", "words": "1316", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Neill Hoch, Indira", "title": "THANKS SVETLANA: PRIVACY, TRUST, HUMOR, AND THE RUSSIAN PSYOP ON TUMBLR", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "accounts; ira; posts; tumblr", "summary": "good for them when i see them on my dash theyve all become part of the landscape of my dash Tumblr users who had followed, liked, and/or reblogged posts from IRA-linked accounts were assured in the March 24th email they weren\u2019t \u201cin trouble,\u201d and that they didn\u2019t \u201cneed to take any action if you don\u2019t want to.\u201d Tumblr users responded to the reveal of the Russian \u201cPsyop\u201d with a mix of disbelief, humor, and accusations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11018", "words": "1359", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Nicoll, Benjamin", "title": "VIDEOGAME ENGINES AND THE POLITICS OF 'DEMOCRATISED' SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "development; game; software; unity; videogame", "summary": "Whitson J (2018) Voodoo software and boundary objects in game development: How developers collaborate and conflict with game engines and art tools. The Unity engine\u2014a key player in this industry, and the main case study of this paper\u2014aims to \u2018democratise game development\u2019 through an accessible editing interface, a flexible licensing structure, and a toolset that is interoperable with a range of different design tools, middleware software, programming languages, and production workflows.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11019", "words": "1337", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Nieborg, David; Poell, Thomas; van Dijck, Jos\u00e9", "title": "ANALYZING PLATFORM POWER: APP STORES AS INFRASTRUCTURAL PLATFORM SERVICES", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "app; platform; power; services", "summary": "App stores as infrastructural platform services The typical unit of analysis in scholarship discussing platform power is either the level of individual actors, company ecosystems, or geopolitical ecosystems. Five levels of platform power To better differentiate among the different actors in platform ecosystems, the paper proposes to study platform power at five expanding levels, similar to those of ecological ecosystems.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11020", "words": "1709", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Oquendo, Jacqueline; Porter, Lance", "title": "THE ECOLOGY OF LATINX TWITTER", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "afro; heritage; latinx; networks; twitter", "summary": "Upon conducting a content analysis, and one-on-one interviews with six women (18-24 years old) of Latinx heritage, inclusive of Afro-Latinx identity, we identify three major ecological themes: (1) Seeking Latinx Twitter; (2) Mega Network versus Sub-Networks; and (3) Implications for Monolithic Narratives. The Ecology of Latinx Twitter.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11021", "words": "1369", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Pym, Tinonee; Albury, Kath; Byron, Paul; McCosker , Anthony; Race, Kane", "title": "\u201cI STILL WANT TO KNOW THEY\u2019RE NOT TERRIBLE PEOPLE\u201d: NEGOTIATING TRUST, PLEASURE AND QUEER ETHICS IN LGBTQ+ YOUNG PEOPLE\u2019S DATING APP USE", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "app; people; users", "summary": "Our workshops invited app users to articulate their \u2018rules\u2019 for conduct on dating apps via creative design activities. For non-binary and trans participants, the affordances of app profiles were viewed as crucial to providing the conditions for self-presentation and strategies for being seen safely by the right kind of users.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11022", "words": "1310", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Ramizo, Godofredo Jr", "title": "TRUST UNDER TRIAL: THE EFFECT OF SURGE PRICING ON TRUST TOWARD RIDE-HAILING PLATFORMS IN MANILA", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "pricing; surge; trust", "summary": "Hence, this paper investigates two related questions: First, how do attitudes on surge pricing influence trust toward Manila\u2019s ride- hailing platforms? Second, why do attitudes on surge pricing influence trust of ride- hailing platforms the way they do?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11023", "words": "1291", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Ren, Xiang", "title": "FROM OPEN KNOWLEDGE SHARING TO SEMI-CLOSED GROUPING: THE EVOLUTION OF ACADEMIC SOCIAL MEDIA IN CHINA", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "china; knowledge; media; wechat", "summary": "From open knowledge sharing to semi-closed grouping: The evolution of academic social media in China. On the other hand, Chinese technology companies have developed alternatives with vast amounts of users like WeChat and Weibo, which create a different system of academic social media, with different evolutionary trajectories and political economy (Yu, Asur, and Huberman, 2001).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11024", "words": "1355", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Rensinghoff, Jan; Farke, Florian Marius; D\u00fcrmuth, Markus; Gostomzyk, Tobias", "title": "WORK IN PROGRESS: THE EUROPEAN \"RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN\" \u2013 LEGAL AND TECHNICAL CHALLENGES OF SEARCH ENGINES COMPLYING THE RIGHT TO ERASURE", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "data; engines; right; search", "summary": "Search engines are in a special position because they allow their users to quickly search a large part of the World Wide Web for a specific topic or name within a fraction of a second. Furthermore, search engines allow family members, neighbors, or employers to search the Web for personal data about almost everyone quickly.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11025", "words": "1338", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Zhao, Luolin; John, Nicholas", "title": "THE CONCEPT OF \u2018SHARING\u2019 IN CHINESE SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "fenxiang; media; self; sharing", "summary": "Fenxiang and gongxiang\u2014the Mandarin words for \u2018sharing\u2019\u2014are central words in the context of Chinese social media and have profound socio-cultural connotations, though different meanings and implications. We find that the Chinese translations for sharing\u2014fenxiang and gongxiang\u2014are indeed both keywords in Chinese SNSs.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11026", "words": "1354", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Rivera, Yonaira M; Smith, Katherine C; Moran, Meghan B", "title": "\u201cWHY WOULD SOMEONE INTENTIONALLY LIE?\u201d: ASSESSING THE CREDIBILITY OF CANCER (MIS)INFORMATION ON FACEBOOK", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "cancer; credibility; facebook; information; media", "summary": "Is cancer information exchanged on social media scientifically accurate?. These findings provide insight to important features health organizations should consider when designing social media campaigns to counteract misinformation with reputable cancer information.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11027", "words": "1356", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Robards, Brady; Churchill, Brendan; Vivienne, Son; Hanckel, Benjamin; Byron, Paul ", "title": "GENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN SOCIAL MEDIA USE, GENDER IDENTITY, AND SEXUALITY AMONG YOUNG LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "gender; people; use", "summary": "Generational differences in social media use, gender identity, and sexuality among young LGBTIQ+ people in Australia Brady Robards Monash University Brendan Churchill University of Melbourne Son Vivienne RMIT University Benjamin Hanckel Kings College London Paul Byron Swinburne University Over the past twenty to thirty years, the Internet has come to serve as a key channel for communicating, connecting, and engaging in civic participation. There was an age gradient in the use of apps like Snapchat and Tumblr, where usage was highest among younger cohorts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11028", "words": "1320", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Wyatt, Danielle Ray; Leorke, Dale", "title": "FROM KNOWLEDGE CATHEDRALS TO NETWORKED CO-CREATION: PUBLIC LIBRARIES, TRUST AND THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "information; knowledge; libraries; public", "summary": "The experiences of library managers, IT professionals, architects and policymakers reveal that libraries continue to see themselves in the frame of their enlightenment inheritance as mediators of truth, knowledge and rational discourse. Since their emergence in the mid-nineteenth century, public libraries have been trusted sites of information.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11029", "words": "1358", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Ross, Janet Nalubega; Walker, Shawn", "title": "THE BIRDS AND THE BEES ONLINE: UNDERSTANDING AMERICAN ONLINE SEX-ED SITES", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "adolescents; education; health; online", "summary": "One result of the continued use of abstinence only curricula has been a general decline in the provision of sexual health education in schools, a move that has pushed adolescents to online spaces to find sexual health education (Buhi, Daley, Fuhrmann, & Smith, 2009; Buhi et al., 2010; Holstrom, 2015). Numerous studies have reviewed how adolescents search for sexual health information online but very few studies have interrogated the content of sexual health education online.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11030", "words": "1437", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Witt, Alice Elizabeth Ameila ", "title": "A NEW BLACK BOX METHODOLOGY: THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF INTERROGATING THE MODERATION OF IMAGES DEPICTING WOMEN\u2019S BODIES ON INSTAGRAM", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "content; images; instagram; moderation", "summary": "In doing so, it evaluates the methodological, legal and ethical challenges of studying content moderation in practice. Input in this paper refers to individual images, while output pertains to the outcome of content moderation (ie, whether an image is removed or not removed).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11031", "words": "1288", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Rossi, Luca ; Magnani, Matteo; Vega D'aurelio, Davide; Hanteer, Obaida", "title": "OBSERVING THE TECH, USING MEETUP DATA TO STUDY THE EVOLUTION OF THE DISCOURSE AROUND IOT", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "groups; iot; meetup", "summary": "Geographical distribution of IoT groups in Europe (size represent the number of members) Figure 2. Keyword used to describe the related interests of IoT groups over the years The presented visualizations offer a glimpse of the possible analysis that can be done on the longitudinal evolution of the IoT space using MeetUp data.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11032", "words": "1271", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Savic, Milovan", "title": "\u201cI PREFER TO BUILD TRUST\u201d \u2013 EXAMINING PARENTAL CONFIDENCE IN CHILDREN\u2019S DIGITAL SKILLS", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "children; skills; trust", "summary": "\u201cI PREFER TO BUILD TRUST\u201d \u2013 EXAMINING PARENTAL CONFIDENCE IN CHILDREN\u2019S DIGITAL SKILLS Milovan Savic Swinburne University of Technology Introduction Digital and social media have become deeply ingrained in youth culture and an inseparable part of daily routines for children growing up throughout the Western world (Robards 2012, Green et.al. 2011). Using digital media to construct and explore the world around them, children develop a broad repository of online practices ranging from media consumption, learning, communication, socialising, exploring identities, and even flirting (Livingstone 2008, boyd 2014).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11033", "words": "1720", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Setianto, Yearry Panji", "title": "TRUSTING TWITTERSPHERE AS A GENUINE POLITICAL DEBATE? THE CASE OF INDONESIAN ELECTION HASTAGS", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "election; hashtags; media; network; twitter", "summary": "Political networks on Twitter: Tweeting the Queensland state election. Twitter use in political campaigns: A systematic literature review.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11034", "words": "1298", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Venema, Rebecca; Lobinger, Katharina", "title": "A NEW STANDARD OF PROOF? DISCOURSES ON VISUAL DATA AFTER THE 2017 G20-PROTESTS", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "data; police; tools; visual", "summary": "So far, the role of visual data and visual analysis in these processes has seldom been discussed in detail. However, visual data, the combination of visual representations of e.g. persons, their physical and facial traits with metadata, and advancing algorithmic and facial recognition tools for their analysis are ubiquitous and can provide particularly rich insights.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11035", "words": "1249", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Sinnreich, Aram; Gilbert, Jesse", "title": "THE CARRIER WAVE PRINCIPLE", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "data; media; new; principle", "summary": "Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, content moderation, and the hidden decisions that shape social media. The challenges precipitated by the digitization of culture have been discussed extensively in terms related to crises of social institutions and power, including the need for \u201cbig data ethics\u201d (boyd & Crawford, 2012), the disruptions to traditional media and communications industries (Craig & Cunningham, 2019), and the dangers of algorithmic governance (Gillespie, 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11036", "words": "1339", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Son, Catherine Jane", "title": "RULES OF ENGAGEMENT: WHAT TERMS AND CONDITIONS MODERATING READER COMMENTS TO AUSTRALIAN ONLINE NEWS SITES SAY ABOUT TRUST IN THE AUDIENCE", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "comments; news; reader", "summary": "However, the extent to which participants can express themselves through reader comment sections is often constrained by the terms and conditions news organisations use to govern reader comments. Yet, reader comments can also be problematic for news organisations, and many fear the legal repercussions and potential challenges to journalistic authority that come with letting the audience \u201cinside the gates\u201d.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11037", "words": "1286", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Soriano, Cheryll; Cabalquinto, Earvin", "title": "BRIDGING, COACHING, AND BOUNDARY SPANNING: BROKERAGE AND INTERMEDIATION IN THE PHILIPPINE ONLINE PLATFORM LABOR ECONOMY", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "brokerage; economy; labor; lehdonvirta; workers", "summary": "Yet, we see an emerging category of digital labor intermediaries\u2014locally called influencers, peer mentors, and coaches-- who are playing a significant role in the expansion and continued uptake of digital platform labor in the country. Drawn from a combination of participant observation in digital labor online groups and interviews with prominent coaches and digital workers, we present insights into the digital interventions that these brokers engage to wield influence by filling in critical structural gaps: a) coaching digital workers on the \u2018possibilities\u2019 of the digital labor economy, on how to address the structural ambiguities of digital labor platforms, on how to build \u2018marketable skills\u2019 to attract and sustain foreign clients, and on how to find \u2018good jobs\u2019 in these platforms, (b) aiding workers to span digital work boundaries and fluidly move across available platforms and job types to mitigate labor arbitrage; and c) bridge geographically dispersed workers that allow them to form a supportive online space where opportunities for labor are shared, exchanged, and debated.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11038", "words": "1032", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "van der Nagel, Emily", "title": "SUNSET AND MEMORIES: HOW WE BURY AND MOURN DEAD PLATFORMS", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "media; people; platform", "summary": "As social media platforms are a relatively new form of media, this research project aims to gain an understanding of how people shift from platform to platform, and how media traces and platforms are remembered and forgotten. This paper investigates how social media platforms end, and how people remember them after they are gone.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11039", "words": "1276", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Stark, Luke ; Hoey, Jesse", "title": "THE ETHICS OF EMOTION IN AI SYSTEMS", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "data; expression; systems", "summary": "Many such systems seek to model emotional interactions through \u201cdigital phenotyping,\u201d the analysis of biosignals, including optical data (such as facial movement, gait, or infrared emanation); audio data (such as the vocal tone and cadence) (Jain et al., 2015); haptic and physiological data (such as skin conductivity, blood flow, and body velocity) (Picard, 2000); others examine semantic signifiers of emotional expression, including written words, graphic means such as emoji and emoticons, and other representations of human feeling) (Alashri et al., 2016). Yet contemporary, quotidian, narrow AI/ML technologies are most frequently used by social media platforms for modeling and predicting human emotional expression as signals of interpersonal interaction and personal preference (Bucher, 2016).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11040", "words": "1289", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Steinfeld, Nili", "title": "INTERNET SAFETY EDUCATION: HOW WE EDUCATE OUR GIRLS TO BEWARE OF OTHERS, AND OUR BOYS TO BEWARE OF THEMSELVES", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "boys; girls; online", "summary": "With respect to risks, the survey indicates girls are more concerned than boys about almost every aspect of online risks, including exposure of information about them to others and being exposed to inappropriate content. How does \u201ctalking about the Internet with others\u201d affect teenagers\u2019 experience of online risks?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11041", "words": "1287", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Valdovinos Kaye, D. Bondy", "title": "TRUST IN TRANSLATION: A CASE STUDY OF COPYRIGHT AS A LEGAL TRANSPLANT IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY IN MYANMAR", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "copyright; industry; music; myanmar", "summary": "Throughout its development, Myanmar music professionals have developed their own solutions to problems that take into account history, culture, and language. This study examines transplanted copyright regulation in an emergent and increasingly digitalized creative industry: the music recording industry of Myanmar.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11042", "words": "1391", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Sund\u00e9n, Jenny ; Paasonen, Susanna", "title": "LAUGHTER OUT OF PLACE: AFFECTIVE HOMOPHILY AND THE ABSURD COMEDY OF #METOO", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "affective; feminist; humor; metoo", "summary": "Starting from this scene of absurd laughter out of place, and the contagious energy that it involves, this paper investigates feminist humor as a strategy of resistance in connection with #MeToo, asking what laughter may do to, and in the affective politics driving the movement. Secondly, and as a counter force of sorts to such intense sameness, we open up the door to feminist humor in the absurd, something which traffics in the unreasonable, illogical, and inappropriate.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11043", "words": "1270", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Taffel, Sy", "title": "TRUSTED MACHINES? MACHINE LEARNING, MORE-THAN-HUMAN SPEED AND DEAD LABOR IN PLATFORM CAPITALISM", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "automation; human; machines; systems", "summary": "Firstly, digital automation is examined as a way of saving time and/or reducing human labor, such as when programmers use automated build tools or graphical user interfaces. Unlike other digital systems, which follow rules that are explicitly written for the computational system to follow, machine learning systems and neural networks construct their own modes of categorization.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11044", "words": "1332", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Trott, Verity", "title": "#METOO AND INTERSECTIONALISM: \"RADICAL COMMUNITY HEALING\" OR \"VOYEURISTIC TRAUMA PORN?\"", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "feminist; metoo; movement; women", "summary": "# MeToo and the promise and pitfalls of challenging rape culture through digital feminist activism. Speaking up in the age of# MeToo and persistent patriarchy or what can we learn from an elevator incident about anti-feminist backlash.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11045", "words": "1324", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Takahashi, Marissa; Hames, Sam; Alpert, Elizabeth; Bruns, Axel", "title": "THE QUT DIGITAL OBSERVATORY PROJECT: BUILDING A TRUSTED DATA INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SOCIAL MEDIA RESEARCH", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "collection; data; research; studies", "summary": "Social science research has traditionally relied on data collection methods such as surveys, interviews, and ethnographic observations. Alongside data collection, there are also a variety of emerging analytical methods developing in conjunction with traditional approaches.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11046", "words": "1250", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Tomlinson, Christine", "title": "DISAPPOINTING AND BEING DISAPPOINTED: VIDEO GAME PLAYER TRUST IN EACH OTHER", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "games; online; players", "summary": "To better understand these dynamics among video game players, I use qualitative methods to collect data through 54 interviews and approximately 1900 posts from five online gaming forums. The majority of online players make new friends in online game settings and many are even comfortable sharing private information with these new online ties (Cole & Griffiths, 2007; Bourgonjon, Vandermeersche, De Wever, Soetaert, & Valcke, 2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11047", "words": "1266", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Tavmen, Gunes", "title": "OPEN DATA MEANS BUSINESS: WHEN MONETARY POTENTIAL IN OPEN DATA USURPS ASPIRATIONS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPERANCY IN THE SMART CITY", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "cities; city; data; government", "summary": "In doing so, I will foreground the political nature of open data despite the open data advocates' claim that open data movement is above ideologies and politics (Bates, 2012, 2013), therefore has been an \u201coverly polite\u201d one that chose to collaborate closely with consecutive governments instead of contesting them (Steinberg, 2016). OPEN DATA MEANS BUSINESS: WHEN MONETARY POTENTIAL IN OPEN DATA USURPS ASPIRATIONS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPERANCY IN THE SMART CITY G\u00fcne\u015f Tavmen King's College London Following the common criticism that smart cities are top-to-bottom, neoliberal, and technocratic corporate-led ambitions (McNeill, 2015; S\u00f6derstr\u00f6m et al., 2014; Hollands, 2015; Wiig, 2015), open data has become pivotal in transforming smart city discourses into 'citizen-centric ones (also see Kitchin, 2014 and Barns, 2016) despite a lack of understanding its limitations, and political and contingent nature (Worthy, 2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11048", "words": "1432", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Taylor, Simon; Witzenberger, Kevin", "title": "PRESSURE CONTROLS: DATA FORCES CREEPING THROUGH FINGERTIP COMMANDS", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "computing; data; force; media; pressure; user", "summary": "Statistical modelling of neural networks and fuzzy logic informed a basis for quantitative analysis on conventional keyboards (Ahmad, Szymkowiak, & Campbell, 2013) but user data expands with touching, scrolling, or swiping being recorded as technical models of pressure, force, duration, and position. By combining these case-studies with how data transformations functions in practice, we demonstrate how user data and computing infrastructures combine as complex assemblages of technical sensing outside a user\u2019s knowledge or experience.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11049", "words": "2405", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Tirthali, Devayani; Murai, Yumiko", "title": "DON'T JUST SAY THANK YOU: EXPLORATION OF TYPES OF POSTS INSPIRING AND HINDERING DEEP CONVERSATIONS ONLINE", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "course; discussion; learning; participants; posts", "summary": "Open discussion space not only allowed people to collectively build understanding about a topic but also helped them ground those discussion in personal experiences. Learner participation and engagement in open online courses: Insights from the Peer 2 Peer University.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11050", "words": "1275", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Ferris-Dobles, Michele Francis", "title": "CENTRAL AMERICAN MIGRATION: TRUSTING THE MOBILE PHONE TO CROSS BORDERS", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "american; central; migration; new", "summary": "Central American migrants invest a significant amount of their limited budget in mobile phones and Internet coverage plans because they feel that access to communication provides them with security. While they are crossing through the Mexican territory, Central American migrants face hazardous situations of extortion, torture, and kidnapping, as well as abuse and violence from the organized crime and the Mexican migration authorities (Feldmann et al. 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11051", "words": "1218", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Hardley, Jess; Richardson, Ingrid", "title": "PERCEPTIONS OF DARKNESS: MOBILE MEDIA AND THE EMBODIMENT OF RISK AND SAFETY IN THE URBAN NIGHT", "date": "2019.0", "keywords": "darkness; media; night; safety", "summary": "Perceptions of darkness: Mobile media and the embodiment of risk and safety in the urban night. A recent conference on darkness convened in Norway (https://darknessconference2019.wordpress.com) covered such topics as folk literature, artificial intelligence, light pollution, religion, philosophy, architecture and nature, yet much of the research in this area neglects the impact of both the networked infrastructure of the city \u2013 what de Souza e Silva and Sutko (2009) term \u201cnet-local space\u201d \u2013 and the place of mobile media in people\u2019s nighttime practices and their experience and perception of the urban dark.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11109", "words": "7249", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Abidin, Crystal; van der Nagel, Emily; Johns, Amelia; Bailo, Francesco; Rodriguez, Aleesha; Valdovinos-Kaye, Bondy; Wikstrom, Patrik; Gerrard, Ysabel; Leaver, Tama", "title": "\u2018PLEASE READ THE COMMENTS\u2019: COMMENTING CULTURES ACROSS PLATFORMS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "2020; 9gag; commenting; comments; content; cultures; facebook; instagram; internet; media; meme; paper; platform; posts; section; tiktok; university; users; video", "summary": "User comments across platforms and journalistic genres. Methodology To study comment cultures and attribution on TikTok, we have developed a novel scraping tool to collect video, audio, and comment data from TikTok.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11111", "words": "6219", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Arriagada, Arturo; Graham, Mark; Huws, Ursula; Srinivasan, Janaki; Bonhomme, Macarena; Taduri, Pradyumna; Ustek-Spilda, Funda; Ferrari, Fabian; Bertolini, Alessio; Badger, Adam", "title": "TAMING PLATFORM CAPITALISM: STRUGGLES FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH MEET STRUGGLES FROM THE GLOBAL NORTH", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "delivery; economy; fairwork; food; foundation; global; graham; institute; internet; labour; new; platform; resistance; workers", "summary": "Thus, platform workers can be paid below minimum wages, and have to shoulder all of the risk associated with the work that they do without regulations that resolve those tensions. This panel brings together scholars whose work seeks to tame platform capitalism understanding how the lives of platform workers are affected by digital platforms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11112", "words": "5954", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Bossio, Diana; Gr\u00f8nning, Anette; Cabalquinto, Earvin; Milne, Esther; Schleser, Max; McCosker, Anthony; Albury, Kath", "title": "OLDER PEOPLE'S DIGITAL LIVES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "abuse; ageing; care; communication; consultations; digital; media; online; people; research; social; tools; use", "summary": "A REFLECTION ON THE OPERA PROJECT AND DIGITAL INTERVENTIONS INTO EXPERIENCES OF AGEISM Diana Bossio Swinburne University of Technology Max Schleser Swinburne University of Technology This paper presents the results of the OPERA (Older people, equity, respect and ageing) Project, which used extensive community consultation to perform a \u2018digital intervention\u2019 into ageism as a primary driver of abuse against older people in Victoria, Australia. OLDER PEOPLE\u2019S DIGITAL LIVES Esther Milne, Anthony McCosker and Kath Albury Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Anette Gr\u00f8nning University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Earvin Cabalquinto Deakin University Australia Diana Bossio and Max Schleser Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Older people have rich and varied digital lives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11113", "words": "3789", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Buck, Amber M.; Tekobbe, Cindy; Edwards, Dustin; Beck, Estee", "title": "THE INTERNET IS TRASH: MAKING SENSE OF TOXIC NETWORKS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "communities; digital; group; internet; life; media; memes; press; researchers; stories; university", "summary": "Each presenter takes on a different topic: political internet memes, fan subcultures, and physical digital waste to consider the consequences of internet life. Internet Memes in Closed Communities Recent research on fake news and disinformation in networked publics can also help scholars understand the ways that political internet memes function and circulate on social media platforms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11114", "words": "6500", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Clark, Lynn Schofield; Literat, Ioana; Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta; Lee, Ashley; Middaugh, Ellen; Russell, Adrienne", "title": "STUDYING YOUTH ONLINE POLITICAL EXPRESSION: EMPIRICAL FINDINGS AND METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "analysis; dialogue; discourse; expression; findings; media; new; online; people; platforms; political; research; study; youth", "summary": "Our joint video aims to generate discussion for future research into the study of youth political expression online. Here, we investigate this potential by examining the role of popular culture in stimulating youth political expression and discussion in the social media spaces most popular with youth.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11115", "words": "5612", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "de Vries Kedem, Maya; Haapio-Kirk, Laura; Hawkins, Charlotte; Miller, Daniel", "title": "AGEING WITH SMARTPHONES \u2018FROM BELOW\u2019: INSIGHTS FROM JAPAN, UGANDA, AL-QUDS AND IRELAND", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "care; digital; home; japan; life; money; paper; people; smartphone; theory; university; use", "summary": "AGEING WITH SMARTPHONES \u2018FROM BELOW\u2019: INSIGHTS FROM JAPAN, UGANDA, AL-QUDS AND IRELAND Laura Happio-Kirk University College London Charlotte Hawkins University College London Maya de Vries-Kedem Hebrew University of Jerusalem Daniel Miller University College London This session examines new ways to theorize the smartphone, based on a comparative study of smartphone use amongst older people in four different fieldsites for a period of 16 months ethnographic fieldwork. we investigated fundamental changes in the relationship between people\u2019s perception of age, health, digital skills and quality of life as associated with smartphone use.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11116", "words": "6082", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Einstein, Mara; Yeo, ShinJoung; Turow, Joseph; Jobin, Anna", "title": "THE DYNAMICS OF DIGITAL CAPTURE: HOW INDUSTRIES TIE AUDIENCES TO EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "college; companies; data; devices; digital; google; health; industry; internet; marketing; new; people; schools; surveillance; university; voice", "summary": "Nonetheless they recommend further research with more data, and confidently conclude that [s]ocial media data are a quantifiable link into the otherwise elusive daily lives of patients, going so far as to call such data a social mediome akin to the human genome. This paper presents ongoing exploratory research into how companies push \u201cdata frontiers\u201d (Beer 2019) by highlight problematic shifts in industry dynamics, where non- medical information is transformed into health data, and vice versa.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11117", "words": "4652", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Ess, Charles; franzke, aline shakti; Kaufmann, Katja; Rauhala, Marjo; Gudowsky-Blatakes, Niklas; Rutzinger, Martin; Bork-H\u00fcffer, Tabea; H\u00e5rd af Segerstad, Ylva; Vanacker, Bastiaan", "title": "THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL RESEARCH ETHICS: THREE CASES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "aoir; data; ethics; internet; media; methods; paper; research; researchers; virtue", "summary": "This article will investigate whether or not this situationist criticism is problematic for virtue ethics as an ethical perspective towards digital ethics. As part of this collaboration, we collect here three papers that address these shared interests as specifically focused on research ethics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11118", "words": "5932", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Ess, Charles; franzke, aline shakti; Kwok, Chi; Chan, Ngai Keung; Bay, Morten; Burk, Dan", "title": "LEGAL AND ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON (BIG) DATA, PLATFORMS, AI AND ALGORITHMS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "algorithmic; aoir; big; collection; data; ethics; good; guidelines; internet; paper; public; state; technology", "summary": "Keywords \u2013 Artificial Intelligence, AI ethics guidelines, Virtue Ethics Paper type \u2013 Extended Abstract __________________________________________________________________ The authors develop a normative framework outlining the potential public good functions of big data and the necessary normative requirements for the state\u2019s rightful collection of large-scale big data, arguing for the state\u2019s central role in harnessing large-scale big data to ameliorate digital inequalities and deepen democracy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11119", "words": "5868", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Gekker, Alex; Hind, Sam", "title": "RE-VALUING PLATFORMS, RECLAIMING THE LOCAL", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "business; city; data; governance; infrastructures; market; media; models; new; platform; public; services; society; university; value", "summary": "In order to do this, the focus is on platform business models as they dictate (private and public, for and non-for-profit) actors\u2019 roles and all this entails as the underlying layer behind platforms\u2019 economic, social, and environmental \u2018behavior\u2019 (Magretta, 2002). It aims: 1) to examine the citizens' participation in governance endeavours; 2) to identify the attention for the value and responsibility dimensions of platform governance; and, 3) to study novel institutional practices of governance at a time of myriad black- boxed systems, owned and operated by various companies, while little is known about what organisational and management commitments are embedded within them or how new forms of (communal) organisation emerge through their use.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11120", "words": "6603", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Glatt, Zo\u00eb; Banet-Weiser, Sarah; Bishop, Sophie; Sobande, Francesca; Wissinger, Elizabeth; Entwistle, Joanne; Duffy, Brooke Erin; Rocamora, Agn\u00e8s; Arriagada, Arturo", "title": "A GOOD LIFE? CRITICAL FEMINIST APPROACHES TO INFLUENCER ECOLOGIES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "analysis; content; creators; culture; duffy; fashion; feminist; influencer; media; mum; new; press; style; university; visibility; york; youtube", "summary": "Social media influencers are envied by audiences as having achieved \u2018the good life\u2019, one in which they are able to \u2018do what they love\u2019 for a living (Duffy 2017). In 2020, influencer content can lie on a spectrum of amateur to highly professional; mythologies about influencers\u2019 independence have also been complicated as we catch glimpses of managers, photographers and PR teams.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11121", "words": "4226", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Glover-Rijkse, Ragan; Stone, Melissa; Fletcher, Megan Alyssa; Eapen, Gayas", "title": "MEDIATING PRECARITY THROUGH MOBILE APPS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "apps; data; precarity; presentation; safety; spaces; users; violence; women", "summary": "In this panel, we take up this perspective to problematize the recent use of mobile apps for mediating experiences of precarity. In a final move, we shift from apps that help users to avoid (harmful) people in the physical world to consider mobile apps that help users to connect with a nearby network of people with a similar identity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11122", "words": "4479", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Grandinetti, Justin; DeAtley, Tyler; Bruinsma, Jeffery", "title": "THE DEAD SPEAK: BIG DATA AND DIGITALLY MEDIATED DEATH", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "data; dead; death; digital; griefbots; human; media; platforms; streaming; user", "summary": "Wright (2014) points to many ways in which dead user data is problematic, including the ownership of such data belonging either to the estate of the deceased or the hosting digital platform. Algorithms do not specifically differentiate between the living and the dead and, even if they were coded to avoid dead user data, there may come a point when dead user data is the bulk of the available data online (\u00d6hman and Watson 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11123", "words": "5626", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Hagen, Sal; Tuters, Marc; Peeters, Stijn; De Keulenaar, Emillie; Wilson, Jack; Willaert, Tom", "title": "TRANSCODING BETWEEN HYPER-ANTAGONISTIC MILIEUS: STUDIES ON THE CROSS-PLATFORM RELATIONS BETWEEN RADICAL POLITICAL WEB SUBCULTURES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "/pol/; 4chan; alt; media; milieus; new; paper; platforms; right; university; vernacular; web; youtube", "summary": "In response to academic and journalistic reports about the effectiveness of deplatforming, it takes a temporal view before and after such measures in order to trace the migration of content to alternative platforms such as Bitchute, Gab, and Voat, as well their possible re- appearance or \u201creplatforming\u201d on mainstream platforms. However, studies on the effectiveness (and ethics) of deplatforming have yet to engage with deplatforming\u2019s effects beyond this initial migration to alternative platforms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11124", "words": "4139", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Halavais, Alexander; Massanari, Adrienne; Bergstrom, Kelly; Poor, Nathaniel", "title": "REDDIT'S COMMUNITIES & CONSEQUENCES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "communities; community; culture; dark; play; reddit; subreddits; users", "summary": "Disengaging from online communities Investigations into why users leave other online communities, such as the communities that invariably form around online multiplayer games, found that players often leave for reasons beyond a personal lack of interest and instead there are internal or external forces that push a user towards disengagement (Bergstrom, 2019; Jiang, 2018; Poor & Skoric, 2014). Tracing the use of these terms by users within the neighborhoods of the alt-right to other communities provides an indication that connection strength and shared membership tends to lead to \u201cleakage\u201d of some of these ideas and forms of argument.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11125", "words": "4830", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "H\u00e5rd af Segerstad, Ylva; Bell, Jo; Giaxoglou, Korina; Pitsillides, Stacey; Yeshua-Katz, Daphna; Cumiskey, Kathleen; Hjorth, Larissa", "title": "TABOO OR NOT TABOO: (IN)VISIBILITIES OF DEATH, DYING AND BEREAVEMENT", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "aoir; association; death; digital; dying; event; internet; paper; researchers; taboo", "summary": "Love After Death tackles death literacy by working with libraries in London, Yorkshire and Newcastle (UK) expanding their role in the community as a safe and trusted spaces. Taboo or not taboo: (in)visibilities of death, dying and bereavement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11126", "words": "5542", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Hartmann, Maren; Jimenez, Carlos; Coates, Jamie; Norum, Roger", "title": "SOCIALIZING THE NETWORKED INDIVIDUAL", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "day; digital; experience; laborers; media; mobile; mobility; new; people; socialities; sociality; time; work", "summary": "The concept of mobile socialities works here as a frame for considering the new temporalities of reproduction, distribution and dissemination of text and the real-time, discursive engagement around such texts that connect disparate individuals separated by distance but brought together by the time/space-bending connectivities of digital technologies. \u201cMobile socialities\u201d demarcates a new constellation of media scholarship that seeks to encapsulate human subjectivities of media as they are embedded in human processes, structures and experiences of mobility and sociality.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11127", "words": "6301", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Hendry, Natalie Ann; Wan, Evelyn; Flore, Jacinthe; McCosker, Anthony; Kamstra, Peter; Farmer, Jane", "title": "MEDIATING MENTAL ILLNESS: DIGITAL LIFEWORLDS, PLATFORMS AND ALGORITHMS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "data; digital; experiences; health; illness; media; online; paper; platforms; psychiatry; social; technology; university; user; woebot", "summary": "As the global pandemic of Covid-19 brings an increased risk to mental health, the US FDA is relaxing rules for digital therapy apps, thus accelerating the development and availability of mental health digital technologies (Simonite 2020). It draws on publicly available material on Abilify MyCite, including recommendations and documentation published by the FDA, to articulate a framework for understanding subjectivity in the era of digital mental health.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11128", "words": "7351", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Iliadis, Andrew; Stevens, Wesley; Plantin, Jean-Christophe; Acker, Amelia; Davies, Huw; Eynon , Rebecca", "title": "PLATFORMIZING KNOWLEDGE: MESS AND MEANING IN WEB 3.0 INFRASTRUCTURES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "companies; data; google; graphs; information; knowledge; media; metadata; new; platforms; press; research; schema.org; society; users; web", "summary": "Though the project has yet to fully live up to the early vision of ubiquitous adoption promoted by Berners-Lee, there is clear evidence that standards created by W3C have impacted areas where semantic web data must be exchanged by machines. Since these early beginnings, W3C\u2019s standards have effectively bootstrapped the semantic web into what it is today, undergirding web data in several domains.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11129", "words": "5144", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Jones, Steve; Guzman, Andrea; Conner, Thomas; Pashevich, Ekaterina", "title": "HUMAN-MACHINE COMMUNICATION: ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "children; communication; data; empathy; ethics; human; journalism; machines; research; robots; technology", "summary": "HUMAN-MACHINE COMMUNICATION: ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES Andrea Guzman Northern Illinois University Thomas Conner University of California San Diego Ekaterina Pashevich University of Oslo Steve Jones University of Illinois Chicago Panel overview Digital voice assistants, social robots, artificial intelligence and progressively refined algorithms are ushering in new modes of interaction that increasingly mediates between human and machine. Thus, the Internet of toys represents the first step towards the industry of social robots for children (Peter et al., 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11130", "words": "6775", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Karppi, Tero; Chia, Aleena; Lampinen, Airi; Feldman, Zeena; Dieter, Michael; Ferreira, Pedro; Beattie, Alex", "title": "DISCONNECTION: DESIGNS AND DESIRES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "activity; connectivity; design; disconnection; experiments; facebook; light; media; new; paper; participants; phone; technology; university; users; work", "summary": "INTERFACE CRITICISM, DARK PATTERNS AND THE DESIRE TO DISCONNECT Michael Dieter University of Warwick This paper discusses an interdisciplinary research project that explores the use of card decks in user experience design (UX) practice, and the possibilities of repurposing them as a means to reflect on the problems of social media disconnection. \u2018Number of monthly active Facebook users worldwide as of 4th quarter 2019\u2019.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11131", "words": "5287", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Kaun, Anne; Velkova, Julia; Laaksonen, Salla-Maaria; Delfanti, Alessandro; Logsdon, Alexis; Stiernstedt, Fredrik; Lehtiniemi, Tuukka; Ruckenstein, Minna", "title": "IN THE SHADOWS OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY: THE GHOST WORK OF INFRASTRUCTURAL LABOR", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "data; digital; human; labor; media; new; press; prison; prisoners; production; university; work; workers", "summary": "What has been underexplored so far is a specific part of prison work that relates to media or what we call prison media work. In the current day, part of the labor conducted by incarcerated individuals is related to the production, repair and maintenance of media devices and media infrastructures constituting what we call prison media work (Kaun & Stiernstedt, 2020).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11132", "words": "5740", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Keller, Tobias; Graham, Tim; Angus, Dan; Bruns, Axel; Nijmeijer, Rolf; Nielbo, Kristoffer Laigaard; Bechmann, Anja; Neudert, Lisa-Maria; Marchal, Nahema; Bradshaw, Samantha; Rossini, Patr\u00edcia; Stromer-Galley, Jennifer; Baptista, Erica Anita; Veiga de Oliveira, Vanessa", "title": "\u2018COORDINATED INAUTHENTIC BEHAVIOUR\u2019 AND OTHER ONLINE INFLUENCE OPERATIONS IN SOCIAL MEDIA SPACES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "accounts; arsonemergency; digital; facebook; information; media; misinformation; news; platforms; research; sharing; twitter; university; whatsapp", "summary": "Here, format describes the type of media shared by users, based on their constitutive elements (e.g. photographs, screen-captures, posters, infographics, composites, and quotations), while the concept of mode captures the ways in which political information is being transmitted (e.g. official campaign communication, campaign event, political humor, satellite campaign material, news media reporting etc.), based on an image\u2019s content and its apparent provenance. Despite the ubiquity and potency of manipulative visuals as vehicles of both political and emotional information, their use during political campaigns and information operations remains critically understudied (Weller et al., 2014).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11134", "words": "6085", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Kotliar, Dan M; Ribak, Rivka; Ahmed, Shazeda; Roberge, Jonathan; Senneville, Marius", "title": "ALGORITHMIC PRODUCTION BEYOND SILICON VALLEY", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "algorithms; china; companies; culture; data; developers; discrimination; information; new; press; privacy; society; technology; university; york", "summary": "Elsewhere, Chinese legal scholars compare US anti-discrimination law to what they see as its weaker Chinese counterpart in order to make the case that the latter is ill- equipped to manage algorithmic discrimination and must therefore be reformed.3 Calls for revision of existing data protection laws to include language on algorithmic bias remain unmet (Cui 2019).4 Both types of policy revision recommendations avert the suggestion of creating entirely separate laws around the use of algorithmic systems more generally, or drafting of sector-specific regulations. The growing discourse on algorithmic discrimination in China is itself a challenge to the notion that all Chinese citizens uncritically accept the incursion of algorithmic systems into everyday life.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11135", "words": "4194", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Lammes, Sybille; Hjorth, Larissa; Richardson, Ingrid; Jungnickel, Kat; Hickey-Moody, Anna", "title": "RESCRIPTING FAILURE: THE REFLEXIVE STORIES THAT FIELDWORK TELLS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "digital; failure; fieldwork; human; media; methods; play; research; university; ways", "summary": "Research failure - in the form of mess, mistakes and mishaps rarely feature in finished scholarly work. Taking a deliberately unassuming approach that deviates from human-centred thinking, pushing against methodological limits, and deliberately exploring ethnographic failure becomes especially important in the age of the Anthropocene.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11136", "words": "5484", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Livingstone, Sonia; Stoilova, Mariya; Nandagiri, Rishita; Milosevic, Tijana; Zdrodowska, Aldona; Mascheroni, Giovanna; Zaffaroni, Lorenzo Giuseppe; Cino, Davide; Wartella, Ellen Ann", "title": "THE DATAFICATION OF CHILDHOOD: EXAMINING CHILDREN\u2019S AND PARENTS\u2019 DATA PRACTICES, CHILDREN\u2019S RIGHT TO PRIVACY AND PARENTS\u2019 DILEMMAS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "children; concern; data; internet; media; online; parenting; parents; practices; privacy; social; use", "summary": "We further examine whether children whose parents or caregivers share significant amounts of information about them, and children who have experienced sharentingrelated breaches (such as being upset about what their parents have posted online) are more likely to be concerned about their privacy than other children. Lorenzo Zaffaroni, Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy Davide Cino, Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy Ellen Wartella, Northwestern University Introductory statement In the age of continuous data collection and algorithmic predictions, children\u2019s privacy seems threatened by the variety of surveillance and data practices in which parents, institutions, corporations and children themselves engage.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11137", "words": "5732", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Madianou, Mirca; Dencik, Lina; Aradau, Claudia; Taylor, Linnet; Metcalfe, Philippa; Perret, Sarah", "title": "THE BIOMETRIC LIVES OF MIGRANTS: BORDERS, DISCRIMINATION AND (IN)JUSTICE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "asylum; biometrics; border; data; digital; european; migrants; migration; paper; refugees; security; technologies; traces; university", "summary": "How are biometric data constituted and what are their limitations and biases? Who benefits from the extraction of biometric data, including \u2018digital identity\u2019 programmes for refugees?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11138", "words": "5882", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "McCosker, Anthony; Maddox, Alexia; Albury, Kath; Dietzel, Christopher; Barratt, Monica", "title": "DIGITAL CULTURES OF CARE, SAFETY AND WELLBEING", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "app; apps; care; community; data; dating; health; online; participants; people; research; use; users; wellbeing", "summary": "Caught in the web: informed consent for online health research. A relational concept of wellbeing is vital, we argue, for understanding and facilitating cultures of care, safety and wellbeing in dating app use.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11139", "words": "6082", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "McKelvey, Fenwick; Carmi, Elinor; ten Oever, Niels; G\u00fcrses, Seda", "title": "OPTIMIZING OUR NETWORKED LIVES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "control; data; experience; externalities; facebook; google; internet; kubernetics; network; optimization; people; power; standards; systems; users; way", "summary": "Optimization systems apply a logic of operational control that focuses on outcomes rather than the process Moreover, optimization systems hold great potential to shift power.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11140", "words": "4604", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "M\u00f8ller, Kristian; Jensen, Mie Birk; Nebeling, Michael; Raun, Tobias", "title": "MEDICALIZED MASCULINITIES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "culture; masculinity; media; men; self; spam; tracking; university; viagra; video", "summary": "In this paper, I explore the emergence of Viagra spam in the nexus between online technologies and the medicalization of masculinity that make spam both possible and profitable. I ask what we may gain by approaching Viagra spam as \u201cfrozen moments\u201d (Haraway, 1994) that give insight into changes in the medicalization of masculinity and men\u2019s everyday lives, both online and offline, as the boundaries between human and technology are increasingly blurred.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11141", "words": "7273", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "O'Connell, Carrie; Van De Wiele, Chad; Sawyer, Kristina; Ferris-Dobles, Michele; Garcia, Melina", "title": "THE HIDDEN BLUEPRINT: A DISSECTION OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT ON LIVING SYSTEMS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "amazon; chicago; communication; data; digital; human; information; media; migration; network; new; society; systems; technologies; technology; university", "summary": "Traditionally, in the context of human migration, communication technologies have been broadly understood as resources (Awad & Tossell, 2019). For example, multiple papers investigate how algorithms seek to manage, mitigate, and encourage human behavior, while others look at the physical technological infrastructure which guides the flow of human migration.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11143", "words": "5510", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Pelletier, Caroline; Ruffino, Paolo; Woodcock, Jamie; Bulut, Ergin; Nieborg, David; Fordyce, Robbie", "title": "GAMES OF EMPIRE TEN YEARS ON", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "culture; digital; dyer; empire; games; industry; new; peuter; production; video; witheford; work", "summary": "Second, it demonstrated methodologically the importance and value of treating digital culture, and game culture in particular, as a practice extending from sites of text production to sites of text consumption / textual play, by contrast to focusing on one or the other end of that spectrum. Second, the panel will also identify the book\u2019s limitations in relation to empirical developments within the games sector and games culture.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11144", "words": "6113", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Persaud, Christopher Jahmail; Guarriello, Nick-Brie; Maris, Elena; Abidin, Crystal; Zeng, Meg Jing", "title": "RACING THE PLATFORM/PLATFORMING RACE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "community; content; creators; influencers; internet; media; memes; platform; pok\u00e9mon; porn; race; racism; tiktok; university; work", "summary": "Key to its argument is an examination of how particular social locations of race and gender and the neoliberal project of entrepreneurship affect the clout, visibility, and well-being of Pok\u00e9mon GO influencers. Moreover, a plethora of community meet-ups, live streams, and let\u2019s plays on YouTube has stemmed from Pok\u00e9mon GO in a way that has resonated with most gamers and created a community of Pok\u00e9mon GO influencers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11146", "words": "4794", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Sameshima, Pauline; Katz, Rebecca; Shariff, Shaheen; Dietzel, Christopher", "title": "NOVEL, EDUCATIONAL AND LEGAL RESPONSES TO TECHNOLOGY-FACILITATED SEXUAL VIOLENCE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "canada; copyright; internet; law; media; porn; project; research; revenge; university; victims; violence", "summary": "The second presentation addresses a narrower branch of law and its potential application to one sub-category of online sexual violence, \u2018revenge porn.\u2019 Researchers observe that online sexual violence often translates into physical space playing out as sexual assault and rape in extreme cases (Garcia & Vemuri, 2017; Benedict, 1993).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11147", "words": "7836", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Soriano, Cheryll Ruth; Grohmann, Rafael; Chen, Yujie; Karatzogianni, Athina; Qiu, Jack; Cabanes, Jason Vincent; Alves, Paula; Dey, Andrija", "title": "DIGITAL LABOR SOLIDARITIES, COLLECTIVE FORMATIONS, AND RELATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "aoir; collective; drivers; formations; karatzogianni; labor; new; platform; solidarities; soriano; workers", "summary": "The second paper by Cheryll Ruth Soriano and Jason Vincent Caba\u00f1es examines emerging forms of solidarity among digital platform workers in the Philippines, one of the largest platform labor supplying countries globally. Entrepreneurial solidarities: Social media collectives and Filipino digital platform workers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11148", "words": "5266", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Bowman, Nick; Johnson, Mark Richard; Woodcock, Jamie; Partin, Will; Jackson, Nathan", "title": "SOCIALITY AND MONETIZATION ON LIVE STREAMING PLATFORMS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "game; gaming; live; media; monetization; new; platform; play; streamers; streaming; time; twitch; viewers", "summary": "In spite of the size and impact of live streaming platforms, the phenomenon remains relatively alien to many scholars when compared to more traditional and studied forms of social media. From the perspective of interactivity-as-demand (Bowman, 2018), we can unpack how game streamers\u2014those performing for others\u2014are influenced by the experience of using streaming platforms and navigating their infrastructures.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11149", "words": "4257", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Spilker, Hendrik Storstein; Reuter, Lisa; Broomfield, Heather; Aasback, Anne; Dahl-J\u00f8rgensen, Tangni Cinningham", "title": "DATAFICATION IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: EXPLORING THE BORDERS BETWEEN PUBLIC SERVICES AND CITIZENS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "citizens; clients; data; datafication; design; digital; new; participation; public; sector; services", "summary": "Focusing on the ways practitioners include and problematize citizen\u2019s perspectives in their work, the presentation critically reflects on the question of citizen agency in public sector datafication. doi:10.1177/2053951718809145 Presentation 2: Linking digital citizens and social workers: a case study of digital activity plan in the Norwegian welfare and labor administration (Anne W. 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To turn social media platforms into decorous zones void of sexuality speaks to advertising concerns based on ideas of sexual content as inappropriate and lacking in value (Paasonen et al. 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11152", "words": "6548", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Wilken, Rowan; Humphreys, Lee; Polson, Erika; Norum, Roger; Witteborn, Saskia; Halegoua, Germaine; Frith, Jordan; Richter, Jacob", "title": "DIGITAL PLACEMAKING", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "communication; digital; experiences; media; migration; new; online; people; place; placemaking; practices; selfies; space; university", "summary": "The authors locate the embodied role of the local \u2018host\u2019 as key to connecting people to digital place. Communicating place through mobile social media In this paper, we extend the above lines of argument by examining the particular ways that place is configured in and through mobile device use, and the precise modes of engagement associated with three specific mobile social media applications: Instagram, Snapchat, and Waze.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11153", "words": "5166", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Witzenberger, Kevin; Gulson, Kalervo; Sellar, Sam; Williamson, Ben; de Freitas, Elizabeth", "title": "MEASURED EDUCATION: SENSING, CONFIGURING AND INTERVENING WITH ADVANCED MEDIA", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "data; education; governance; human; knowledge; learning; life; machine; new; paper; policy; technology; university", "summary": "Such bioinformatics studies are paradigmatic of the emergence of data- intensive, life-sensitive science as a means of producing new policy knowledge in education. \u2018Life\u2019 and education policy: intervention, augmentation and computation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11154", "words": "1363", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Agbarya, Aysha; John, Nicholas", "title": "SOCIAL MEDIA AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITY CHANGE AMONG MUSLIM ARAB WOMEN IN ISRAEL", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "change; identity; media; women", "summary": "Social media and religious identity change among Muslim Arab women in Israel. Moreover, religious identity change involves a change in logics of social media use, tie management, content creation and deletion.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11155", "words": "1166", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Ahn, Soyun", "title": "COMBINING MULTIPLE DISINFORMATION COUNTERMEASURES TO REGULATE ELECTION DISRUPTIONS: THE SOUTH KOREAN CASE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "disinformation; election; offenders; south", "summary": "The South Korean Case South Korea is unique in that it has operated a system dealing with disinformation for over a decade now, and in that it has a system specifically dedicated for election protection. At the same time, this system has been criticized as largely discounting the freedom of speech in South Korea (Haggard & You, 2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11156", "words": "1100", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Amit-Danhi, Eedan", "title": "TMI: INFORMATION RHETORIC TYPES IN DIGITAL POLITICAL INFOGRAPHICS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "data; information; visualizations", "summary": "Recent works on contemporary visualizations suggest that while most still adhere to traditional standards (Kennedy et al, 2016; Kennedy & Hill, 2018), political visualizations allow designers to stray from them, by visualizing non-data (values and opinions) and by embedding data visualizations in non-pedagogical graphic contexts (e.g. decorations, photography, iconic imagery, art) (Amit-Danhi & Shifman, 2018; 2020). Therefore, this study seeks to define the types of political information that are visualized, in order to answer the wider question of what is the rhetorical role of 'information' in contemporary digital political visualizations?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11159", "words": "1269", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Annabell, Taylor", "title": "CURATING MEMORIES: THE ROLE OF EMOTION IN THE DIGITAL MEMORY WORK OF YOUNG WOMEN ON INSTAGRAM & FACEBOOK", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "facebook; instagram; memory; women", "summary": "The purpose of this paper is to specifically explore the role that emotion plays in shaping the performance of digital memory work of young women on Instagram and Facebook. I echo the perspective of Smit et al. (2018) that digital memory work can be performed by human and nonhuman actors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11160", "words": "1447", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Arriagada, Arturo; Siles, Ignacio", "title": "NOT NATURAL, NOR NEUTRAL: THE CULTURAL CONFIGURATIONS OF SOCIAL MEDIA AFFORDANCES WITHIN CHILEAN INFLUENCER INDUSTRY", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "affordances; content; influencer; media", "summary": "Similar to other studies about digital content creators practices (Duffy 2017), in-depth interviews allowed to explore how users imagine technological affordances. Key findings: the cultural configurations of social media affordances A specific technological frame shapes how individuals imagine and act on the affordances of social media in this circuit or network of actors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11162", "words": "1292", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Azer, Evronia; Zheng, Yingqin; Harindranath, G.", "title": "INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICTS) AS OPPRESSORS OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: A POWER PERSPECTIVE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "activists; icts; power", "summary": "The oppression of social movements raises the question of how surveillance makes ICTs work against collective action, and threatens activists\u2019 lives (Hier & Greenberg, 2009; della Porta, 2013; Hosein & Nyst, 2013). This paper makes a contribution to explain power struggle in ICTs, by applying the paradoxes concept to social movements, and thus analysing tensions and challenges (Zheng et al., 2011) manifested in the online space.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11164", "words": "1342", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Baik, Sophia Jeeyun", "title": "LAYERS OF \u201cNETWORKED PRIVACY\u201d: CONTEXT COLLAPSES ACROSS RELATIONS, TECHNOLOGIES, INSTITUTIONS, AND DATA", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "context; data; marwick; privacy", "summary": "As we negotiate the rules to protect data privacy along various regulatory efforts, the extended concept of networked privacy could provoke conversations in privacy rulemaking to identify the multi-layered networked privacy harms emerging in different context collapses. Networked privacy: How teenagers negotiate context in social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11167", "words": "1358", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Basu, Maitrayee", "title": "CHUDI (BANGLES), BINDI, AUR HIJAB WILL BRING ALONG INQUILAB (REVOLUTION): ANTI-PATRIARCHY WITHIN ANTI-FASCIST MOVEMENTS AND THE DESIRE FOR A NEW POLITICAL IN INDIA", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "movements; paper; political; women", "summary": "Finally, with empirical focus on publics from the global south in building a framework to understand transnational social movements, this paper contributes to a growing body of literature (e.g., Bagchi, 2014) that dislodge some of the Euro-American assumptions about the nature of public spheres and its relationship to activist networks, civic society, media industries, etc. that are not homogenous across the globe. For example, in the lines by Zanana Ensemble quoted above, the assumption that Indian women are leaving their traditional unpaid domestic roles to start protests strategically forward the view that these women are first-time protestors with very little experience as political (as well as economic) actors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11169", "words": "20403", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Bello, Bryan; Aufderheide, Patricia", "title": "INFORMATION ACTIVISM IN THE FIRST DIGITAL COPYRIGHT DECADE: A CASE STUDY OF THE DIGITAL FUTURE COALITION, 1996-2002 AND THE INTERNET THAT NEARLY WAS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "act; american; association; balance; cic; coalition; consumer; copyright; database; dfc; dfca; digital; dmca; information; interests; internet; interview; issues; law; legislation; lehman; library; members; national; new; office; pijip; policy; property; protection; public; research; rights; technology; u.s; university; use; washington; wipo", "summary": "Our interview pool prioritized DFC members because their perceptions and understanding of events has been poorly chronicled (as discussed below) in narratives of DMCA policymaking. Jamie Love, who had focused on drug patents previously and who had also attended WIPO but was not yet part of the DFC, strongly supported the strategy of killing the treaty rather than negotiating language.68 Rather, DFC members agreed on the strategy of altering language.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11170", "words": "1314", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Bergmann, Rachel", "title": "WHOSE SHAREDPLANS? SCRIPTS, COLLABORATION, AND FEMINIST AI RESEARCH", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "feminist; grosz; research; women", "summary": "I analyze these women in the history of AI research as complex, politically imperfect characters. Approaching AI historically offers a way to consider algorithms and AI technologies beyond their technical specifications, instead analyzing them as complex sociotechnical assemblages shaped by material, geographic, political, and social forces.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11171", "words": "1369", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Bergroth, Harley; Saariketo, Minna", "title": "MOVE, EAT, SLEEP, REPEAT: RHYTHMIC STRUGGLES IN PROACTIVE SELF-TRACKING PRACTICES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "devices; everyday; rhythms; self; tracking", "summary": "While self-tracking may present harmonious sequences of human-technology co-operation, for the purposes of this paper, we will focus on the diverse layers of struggle in self-tracking practices, including for example falling out of rhythms, longing for rhythms, being unable to understand or follow certain rhythms, or unwillingness to adhere to specific rhythms. Our observations shed light on the ways in which the technologies bent us into new rhythms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11172", "words": "1283", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Bhandari, Aparajita; Bimo, Sara", "title": "TIKTOK AND THE \u201cALGORITHMIZED SELF\u201d: A NEW MODEL OF ONLINE INTERACTION", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "app; self; tiktok; users", "summary": "These sites are meant to provide a stage for social interaction, and guide users through this experience via certain affordances and design features: for example, users are encouraged to connect to potential friends, like, comment on, or share posts, and view other member\u2019s profiles (boyd, 2010). In this project, we examine the degree to which TikTok exemplifies this \u201ccommon mode\u201d of social media use.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11173", "words": "1290", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Bitman, Nomy", "title": "'DON'T CREATE AN ONLINE IMAGE THAT YOU CAN'T KEEP UP OUTSIDE': MEDIATING INVISIBLE COMMUNICATIVE DISABILITIES ON SOCIAL NETWORK SITES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "disability; internet; media; users", "summary": "Social media use and mediated sociality among individuals with communication disabilities in the digital age. Since the exposure of disability on media can lead to stigmatization (Bitman & John, 2019), I focus specifically on the understudied context of invisible disabilities that are clinically considered as related to communication.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11174", "words": "1409", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Boccia Artieri, Giovanni; Brilli, Stefano; Zurovac, Elisabetta", "title": "VOICES FROM THE LOCKER ROOM: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF VOICE MESSAGES WITHIN ITALIAN NSFW GROUPS.", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "groups; messages; research; voice", "summary": "Voices from the locker room: a qualitative analysis of voice messages within Italian NSFW groups. However, besides the risks related to the growing number of spaces eluding public scrutiny, the pervasive presence of IMs shows also that interactions with a higher level of self-disclosure such as voice messages are spreading as well through different platforms (i.e. WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WeChat).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11176", "words": "1210", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Bork-Hueffer, Tabea; Mahlknecht, Belinda; Kaufmann, Katja", "title": "BULLYING IN CON/FFLATING SPACES \u2013 WHY A \u2018SPACE\u2019 PERSPECTIVE MATTERS FOR UNDERSTANDING YOUNG PEOPLE\u2019S EXPERIENCES AND PRACTICES OF BULLYING", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "bork; bullying; h\u00fcffer; spaces", "summary": "Even when bullying practices themselves seemed to be restricted to digital spaces, they are still entangled within the spatialities of participants\u2019 relations, practices, identities and life-worlds that stretch across inseparable socio-material and technological spheres. In our view, more recent conceptualisations of \u2018space\u2019 offer valuable contributions to a reflection upon the epistemological and related methodological considerations when seeking to understand the lifeworlds, practices and experiences of young people involved in bullying.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11177", "words": "1333", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Bowman, Nicholas David; Banks, Jaime", "title": "EXTENDING GAMING DEMAND: SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCES OF COGNITIVE, EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL, AND SOCIAL VIDEOGAMING REQUIREMENTS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "analysis; bowman; demand; game", "summary": "For social demand, five themes emerged: social structures, interpersonal/group communication dynamics related to the game; social (un)realism, non-human characters and considerations of their perceived (lack of) \u201chumanness;\u201d interdependence, the necessity of coordination for co-playing; single-player sociality, characterizations of playing with others compared to playing alone; and contingency, the interdependence dynamics of in-game social dialogue. For social demands, this analysis revealed a compelling departure from VGDS.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11178", "words": "1300", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Breuer, Jonas; Pierson, Jo", "title": "THE RIGHT TO THE CITY AND DATA PROTECTION: COMPLEMENTARY FOR DEVELOPING CITIZEN-CENTRIC DIGITAL CITIES?", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "cities; city; data; protection; right", "summary": "1 SPECTRE (Smart city Privacy: Enhancing Collaborative Transparency in the Regulatory Ecosystem) is funded by the Flemish region and allows three research centres of different disciplines to combine their expertise and investigate the potential of data protection and in particular Data Protection Impact Assessments in strengthening the role of citizens in smart cities. We present ongoing research about the Right to the City (Lefebvre, 1968) and the right to personal data protection: complementary in fostering agency and protecting citizen interests in technologically-enhanced, citizen-centric cities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11179", "words": "2108", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Bridges, Lauren E.", "title": "MATERIAL ENTANGLEMENTS OF COMMUNITY SURVEILLANCE & INFRASTRUCTURAL POWER", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "amazon; community; neighbors; networks; power; recognition; ring; surveillance", "summary": "Ring Neighbors Is the Best and Worst Neighborhood Watch App. This paper aims to highlight the complex human and non-human entanglements that constitute community surveillance networks in order to move towards an infrastructural understanding of Ring products so that we may more effectively evaluate the social and material costs of such systems.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11180", "words": "1327", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Brough, Melissa; Literat, Ioana; Ikin, Amanda", "title": "GOOD SOCIAL MEDIA?: UNDERREPRESENTED YOUTH PERSPECTIVES ON THE ETHICAL AND EQUITABLE DESIGN OF SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "design; media; percent; youth", "summary": "Several interviewees felt that social media platforms would better serve them if they included features to help limit excessive time spent on them, and most interviewees had at least a vague sense that social media is designed to capitalize on users\u2019 psychological and cognitive vulnerabilities to maximize time spent on the platform. Research is increasingly engaging the question of social media design in relation to user experiences, particularly for non-dominant groups (e.g. Literat & Brough, 2019; Noble, 2018; Massanari, 2017), and a growing number of researchers and designers are calling for more \u201cethical software\u201d to address concerns of equity and ethics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11181", "words": "1303", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Br\u00f8vig-Hanssen, Ragnhild; Jones, Ellis", "title": "DETECTION ALGORITHMS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR PARTICIPATION: THE CASE OF MASHUPS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "detection; mashup; platforms", "summary": "This empirical data shows that engagements with platforms\u2019 detection procedures are an \u2018everyday\u2019 reality for mashup producers. Drawing on interviews and an online survey with mashup producers, we show that detection procedures have a strong negative impact on mashup producers, including on their overall motivation to create mashups.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11182", "words": "1221", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "B\u00fcchi, Moritz", "title": "TOWARDS THEORIES OF DIGITAL WELL-BEING", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "media; practices; use", "summary": "Different research traditions have dealt with the relationship between digital media use and well-being with different assumptions and definitions. Many studies assume, although rarely empirically demonstrate, beneficial effects of digital media use (e.g., digital inequality research:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11184", "words": "1265", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Burk, Dan", "title": "ALGORITHMIC LEGAL METRICS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "algorithms; data; effects; metrics", "summary": "When inserted into legal determinations that intrinsically require moral character judgments, we may expect the value biases embedded algorithmic legal metrics to effectively become legal judgments. Here I essentially consider the inverse proposition: I explore the effects of incorporating algorithms, which is to say algorithmic metrics, into legal standards.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11185", "words": "1367", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Burkhardt, Marcus; Helmond, Anne; Seitz, Tatjana; van der Vlist, Fernando", "title": "THE EVOLUTION OF FACEBOOK'S GRAPH API", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "api; apis; data; facebook; graph", "summary": "This covers the initial beta Facebook API up to the current version 6.0 of the Graph API, which was scraped from the live web. The Evolution of Facebook\u2019s Graph API.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11186", "words": "1260", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Burns, Ryan; Welker, Preston", "title": "MORAL ECONOMIES OF OPEN DATA PLATFORMS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "data; economies; labor; new; platforms", "summary": "In this presentation, we argue that hackathons, datathons, and open data platforms are constituted through moral economies that are entangled within technoscientific capitalist accumulation practices and logics. We show that open data platforms enroll the unremunerated labor of a range of stakeholders who comply due to the seeming altruism of such programs.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11187", "words": "1205", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Bury, Rhiannon; Easton, Lee", "title": "LIFE WITH DICK AND DICK: RACE AND MALE PORNOGRAPHIC SELF-REPRESENTATION ON REDDIT", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "dick; posters; psr; subscribers", "summary": "Taken together these markers of racialized identities disrupt the unmarked whiteness of Massive. Although a problematic trope which reduces Black men to the stereotypes of hypermasculinity, violence and animality (Smith and Luykx, 2017), on Massive, it was taken up by a number of Black posters.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11188", "words": "1283", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Butkowski, Chelsea Paige", "title": "PAYING RESPECTS, STREAMING AFFECT: ELECTION DAY 2016 AT SUSAN B. ANTHONY'S GRAVESITE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "anthony; election; livestream; media", "summary": "In line with traditions of media events and media witnessing, I examine each of them. Media events: The live broadcasting of history.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11189", "words": "1296", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Cao, Tiancheng", "title": "ACTIVIST BROWSER EXTENSIONS AS INTERFACE D\u00c9TOURNEMENT: REMINDING, COPING, AND INFRASTRUCTURAL ALIGNMENT", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "activist; browser; extensions; interface", "summary": "Activist browser extensions as interface d\u00e9tournement: Reminding, coping, and infrastructural alignment. \u201cActivist extensions\u201d disrupt a webpage\u2019s intended use and redirect users\u2019 attention by modifying textual, visual, or auditory elements of the web user interface.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11190", "words": "1315", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Carvajal, Laura; Iliadis, Andrew", "title": "DEEPFAKES: A PRELIMINARY SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "articles; deepfakes; sources", "summary": "The fourth theme was literacy articles, which focus on the documents that generate awareness about the effects of deepfakes. Finally, a total bar chart was made with results from all four electronic databases to have an overview of the approach of published sources concerning deepfakes (Figure 1).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11193", "words": "1251", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Ciccone, Vanessa", "title": "LIFE, CULTURE AND SUBJECTIVITY IN THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY: THE DISCOURSE OF \u201cFULL SELFHOOD\u201d AMONG TECH PROFESSIONALS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "industry; platforms; software; work", "summary": "Methods Using an intersectional framework, the present study draws from data from recent ethnographic fieldwork at professional software settings in Canada including at a workplace, large-scale conferences and multiple industry events, analyzing the discourse of \u201cfull selfhood\u201d within the sector. Norms around subjectivity in professional software settings can influence the judgements that become coded within platforms themselves.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11194", "words": "1261", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Coromina, Oscar; Matamoros-Fern\u00e1ndez, Ariadna; Rieder, Bernhard", "title": "FOLLOW THE MONEY: A LARGE-SCALE INVESTIGATION OF MONETIZATION AND OPTIMIZATION ON YOUTUBE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "channels; content; monetization; platform; youtube", "summary": "Our method sheds light on YouTube\u2019s economic ecology and opens the door to the possibility to classify YouTube channels according to their model of monetization and to analyze relationships between monetization, optimization, and topicality. YouTube\u2019s business model - which generated $15B of revenues in 2019 (Statt, 2020) - relies on millions of channels uploading videos, pursuing views and subscribers, and increasingly professionalizing their production methods to become viable businesses themselves.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11195", "words": "1287", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Cousineau, Luc S.", "title": "DISPLACED DISCUSSION: THE IMPLICATIONS OF REDDIT QUARANTINE AND THE MOVEMENT OF THEREDPILL TO SELF-HOSTING", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "communities; community; content; discussion; reddit", "summary": "r/TheRedPill was quarantined in September of 2018, and has since engaged in regular discussion about the movement of community discussion and forums away from Reddit to their own site, www.trp.red. Data collection included community post and comment observation, and using website capture tools to systematically capture the landing page and top-rated posts over a period of three months.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11197", "words": "1346", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "de Castell, Suzanne; Kennedy, Helen W.; Atkinson, Sarah; Jenson, Jennifer; Thumlert, Colleen", "title": "TWITTERING RESEARCH, CALLING OUT AND CANCELING CULTURES: A STORY AND SOME QUESTIONS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "data; feminist; research; twitter", "summary": "What made this project distinctive, and especially promising, is that the bonds between and among partners weren\u2019t just forged for this particular grant, but in the majority of cases had years of collaborative work and scholarly association behind them\u2014and those that were newly forged shared explicit commitments to feminist research and praxis. We situate this case study and this process of initiation and annihilation within the broader context within which social media platforms are a critical site of intensive affective discursive practices through which individual and institutional reputations are made and unmade \u2013 frequently with far reaching professional and or personal consequences.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11199", "words": "1460", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Dehghan, Ehsan; Moon, Brenda; Keller, Tobias; Graham, Timothy; Bruns, Axel; Angus, Daniel", "title": "INVESTIGATING BOTS AND COORDINATED INFLUENCE CAMPAIGNS IN TWITTER DISCUSSIONS OF THE 2019-20 IRAN PROTESTS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "accounts; bots; iran; protests; twitter", "summary": "Interestingly, these clusters reflect antagonistic political affiliations\u2014one consists mainly of pro-regime Iranian accounts (23,755 accounts), the other of anti-regime accounts tweeting in Arabic (14,052 accounts). This study enhances our knowledge of the Persian, Arabic, and English-speaking actors and communities taking part in the public debate on Iran protests.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11200", "words": "1301", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Demirkol Tonnesen, Naciye Ozlem", "title": "\u201cTWO CAN PLAY AT THAT GAME\u201d: COMMUNICATING DISSENT AS A MICRO-CELEBRITY IN A RESTRICTED NATIONAL TWITTERSPHERE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "celebrity; government; micro; twitter", "summary": "Methods As these accounts engage in anti-government political talk on an as and when basis, I wanted to capture a time period when political events and news are frequent. Abidin and Brown, 2018), Twitter micro-celebrity remains an under-researched phenomenon.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11201", "words": "1243", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "DiBella, Samuel", "title": "THE UNCERTAIN DECORUM OF ONLINE IDENTIFICATION: A STUDY IN QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "digital; internet; interviews; study", "summary": "Using ethnographic interviewing techniques and a thematic analysis inspired by grounded theory, I describe respondents \u2019investigations and compare them to existing theories in surveillance studies, online anonymity, and digital vigilantism. A tide of digital information has made loss of anonymity an ordinary occurrence on the Internet.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11202", "words": "1232", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Ditchfield, Hannah", "title": "PRESENTING PERFECTION: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY IN THE REHEARSAL STAGE OF ONLINE INTERACTION", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "interaction; media; post", "summary": "The pre-post space of online interaction has also, until now, not been theorised. This analysis, however, unveiled an elaborate editing process in which users engage in several minutes of work that including multiple edits, large deletions and complete rewrites with users altering presentations of self drastically in this preparatory space of online interaction (see full paper: Ditchfield, 2020).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11204", "words": "1205", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Duffy, Brooke Erin; Miltner, Kate; Wahlstedt, Amanda", "title": "POLICING \"FAKE\" FEMININITY: ANGER AND ACCUSATION IN INFLUENCER \"HATEBLOG\" COMMUNITIES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "gomi; hateblogs; influencers; women", "summary": "Key repositories of such critique are influencer \u201chateblogs,\u201d community-oriented sites that seem to blur the boundaries between critique and cyber-bullying. Amid the pervasive culture of social media fame, hateblogs have emerged as especially vibrant\u2014and vitriolic\u2014sites for communities of anti-fans to collectively police the activities of highly visible Instagrammers, YouTubers, and the like.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11205", "words": "1243", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Dunham, Ian", "title": "FACELESS YOUTUBERS: HOW CONTENT CREATORS SHAPE AUDIENCE EXPECTATIONS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "content; faceless; information; youtubers", "summary": "She is not alone in being cautious about disclosing her face, and belongs to a surprisingly large group of channels this paper is calling Faceless YouTubers. While anonymity deals with being completely unidentifiable, invisibility\u2014which includes preventing access to \u201cgender, weight, age, occupation, ethnic origin and residential location\u201d (Lapidot-Lefler & Barak, 2015)\u2014 proves a key concept since Faceless YouTubers generate a bond with their audience through this selective disclosure.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11206", "words": "2164", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Eadon, Yvonne Melisande", "title": "ILLUMINATI(NG) THE SEARCH PROCESS: THEORIZING THE RESEARCH PRACTICES OF \"ALTERNATIVE\" OR \"CONTROVERSIAL\" RESEARCH", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "conspiracy; new; research; theories; theory; york", "summary": "Previous scholarship has examined how conspiracy theories spread online;8 addressed the question of what conspiracy theorists believe and why;9 asked whether or not conspiracy theorizing is a reasonable form of sense-making;10 and characterized the socio-cultural effects of conspiracy theories.11 Few studies tackle the topic using participant-centered interviewing, as many individuals whom scholars may want to call conspiracy theorists understandably eschew the label.1", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11207", "words": "1232", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Eberwein, Tobias", "title": "WATCHING THE WATCHDOG: ONLINE DISCOURSES ABOUT MEDIA FRAUDS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "journalism; media; narrative; relotius", "summary": "While an extensive literature review and 13 problem-centered interviews with journalistic storytellers are helpful to highlight and systematize the specific benefits and the ethical challenges of narrative journalism in the German-speaking world and beyond, a comparative analysis of the discourses about the Relotius case in professional journalistic online media, on the one hand, and non-professional media watchblogs, on the other hand, makes it possible to juxtapose different attributions of responsibility and suggested consequences for practical journalism. Public discussions about the mandate of narrative journalism are often triggered by fraud scandals such as the ones provoked by pseudo-reporters Janet Cooke or Jayson Blair in the U.S., and Tom Kummer or Claas Relotius in the German-speaking world (e.g., Jones Patterson & Urbanski 2006; Reus 2004).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11209", "words": "1279", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Ellis, Jack Michael", "title": "SKIPPING DISCOVERY? MUSIC DISCOVERY AND PERSONAL MUSIC COLLECTIONS IN THE STREAMING ERA", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "collections; discovery; music; users", "summary": "From this perspective, I examine how Spotify users experience different types of music discovery through their personal music collections, including growing music discoveries which emerge over time. These perspectives draw attention to the intersection of user listening behaviours and algorithmic recommendation systems in shaping experiences of music discovery.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11210", "words": "1772", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "27", "author": "Eneman, Marie", "title": "CRIME INVESTIGATIONS OF \u2018CHILD ABUSE MATERIAL\u2019: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES POSED BY DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "abuse; child; material; technologies", "summary": "The presence of child sexual abuse and child abuse material in our society constitute serious, global and growing challenges for law enforcement agencies, not least due to technological innovations and advancements. Child abuse material (sometimes also referred to as child pornography) refers to documented material depicting the sexual abuse and/or sexual exploitation of a child (or children).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11211", "words": "1284", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Esteve Del Valle, Marc; Smit, Rik", "title": "MOONWALKING: TRACING REDDITORS\u2019 DIGITAL MEMORY WORK ON MICHAEL JACKSON", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "comments; memory; replies", "summary": "That is, 58.12 % of the posts in our sample engaged in some form of memory work, which we defined as the conscious and dynamic process of reconstructing the past in the present by means of assembling historic facts, sharing personal memories, or otherwise aiming to stabilize Michael Jackson\u2019s memory. When Redditors\u2019 engage in memory work, they are mostly sharing information about MJ\u2019s persona (23.37%), immediately followed by posts and comments containing personal memories related to MJ (21. 68%).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11212", "words": "1378", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Farci, Manolo", "title": "THERE ARE MALE TEARS IN THAT COMMENT SECTION. THE DISCURSIVE NEGOTIATION OF MASCULINITY IN ITALIAN ONLINE MEN'S GROUPS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "discourses; groups; masculinity; men", "summary": "Anti-sexist, anti-feminist, and \u201cpro male\u201d groups give the chance to understand how men dispute and negotiate opinions, beliefs and world views in an attempt to destabilize and/or reaffirm essentialist notions of what is culturally allowed in terms of being man and being woman in our society Our findings suggest that in these groups, masculinity is rarely negotiated or discussed but it is assumed as a common sense, providing a basis for shared social understandings. A discursive psychological framework for analyzing men and masculinities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11215", "words": "1276", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Frizzo-Barker, Julie A.", "title": "WOMEN IN BLOCKCHAIN: DISCOURSE & PRACTICE IN THE CO-CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "bitcoin; blockchain; gender; technology; women", "summary": "In contrast, events and networks designed \u2018by women, for women\u2019 serve as important spaces of resistance and support, for many women curious about entering the field as well as experienced practitioners. The goal of my study is not to answer questions such as, \u201cwhy aren\u2019t there more women in blockchain?\u201d or \u201chow can we attract more women into blockchain?\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11216", "words": "1262", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Garrison, Stephanie T; Jacobs, Naomi Jane", "title": "LIFE AS A NETWORKED FAN", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "community; fan; fans; spaces", "summary": "Implications \u2013 different lives in different platforms Our case studies illustrate cases where fans have personal networks which span different platforms and spaces of fan community and fan expression both online and offline. Outlander fans who were selected for study as members of a particular Facebook group, but who often participate simultaneously in multiple fan spaces both online and offline.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11218", "words": "1408", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Gemini, Laura; Brilli, Stefano", "title": "BETWEEN LIVE AND LIFE: EXPLORING THE ONLINE PRESENCE OF PERFORMANCE ARTISTS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "artists; media; performance; theatre; work", "summary": "This paper explores the use of social media by Italian contemporary theatre artists and companies. The shift from contents permanence as a default condition, to the multiple temporalities of stories and video streams, opens a new strand of possibility for relations between social media and performativity that are to be explored.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11219", "words": "1549", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Giglietto, Fabio; Righetti, Nicola; Marino, Giada", "title": "DETECTING COORDINATED LINK SHARING BEHAVIOR ON FACEBOOK DURING THE ITALIAN CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "association; conference; internet; researchers", "summary": "Considering the association between coordination, media manipulation, and problematic information, the entities involved in coordinated online activities represent a privileged perspective on these phenomena. Detecting Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior on Facebook During the Italian Coronavirus Outbreak.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11222", "words": "1245", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Grill, Gabriel", "title": "RESEARCHING ONLINE LABOR STRIKE AND PROTEST PREDICTION TECHNOLOGIES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "analysis; data; prediction; protests; research", "summary": "Discussion These recent trends in protest social media surveillance are not new and can be considered a continuation of long-standing risk assessment efforts to anticipate disruption and unrest. Contemporary research on online social data was focused more on platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook and Tumbler.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11223", "words": "1141", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Gunderson, Marianne", "title": "HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE SEEN BY A MACHINE LIVELY DEVICES IN DIGITAL HORROR", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "devices; machine; stories", "summary": "The ways in which machine vision devices are haunted, infected or possessed, and haunt, infect or possess the lives of the narrators, bring out a cluster of fears that all revolve around how machine vision technologies mediate our relationship with reality and redistribute agency within human/machine assemblages. Surveillance and machine vision technologies are often talked about with a certain level of unease, discomfort, or anxiety - but what are the meanings and narratives through which these devices are imagined to be scary?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11224", "words": "1295", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "GUZMAN, CARINA", "title": "STOR(Y)ING DESMADRE ON THE INTERNET: THE POLITICS, AFFECT AND ETHICS OF ONLINE QUEER LATIN AMERICAN CABARET ARCHIVES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "archive; cowan; materials; queer", "summary": "In the case of the MeB project, I have partnered with the Cabaret Commons Critical Practice and Exhibition Place (cabaretcommons.org); an initiative that is deeply concerned with TFQ community ethics of \u201conlining\u201d archival material. We decided to ask people for archival materials, but also works they could create now to remember those events such as memes, collages, stories, etc.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11225", "words": "1281", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Haddon, Leslie; Livingstone, Sonia; Mascheroni, Giovanna; Stoilova, Mariya; Cino, Davide", "title": "YOUTH IN THE DIGITAL AGE: ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF DIGITAL SKILLS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "activities; consequences; skills; studies", "summary": "ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF DIGITAL SKILLS Leslie Haddon LSE, London, UK Sonia Livingstone, LSE, London, UK Giovanna Mascheroni, Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy Mariya Stoilova, LSE, London, UK Davide Cino Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy Mary-Alice Doyle LSE, London, UK Introduction What actors and factors shape children and young people\u2019s digital skills? These are the two research questions addressed in this paper, along with an analysis of how the research literature to date has measured digital skills.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11226", "words": "1475", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Hamilton, Hannah; De Paoli, Stefano; Wilson, Anna; Singh, Greg", "title": "OPEN DATA PLATFORMS FOR A DATA COMMONS, HOW TO SUPPORT THE LIFE OF DATA BEYOND RELEASE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "data; life; open; platform", "summary": "One way to tackle some of the challenges surrounding open data use is via the creation of Internet-based platforms designed to promote and facilitate data reuse by the public (broadly defined to encompass not only individuals but also all sorts of organisations), establishing open data as a commons, aggregating the data and offering recommender systems capable of supporting the life of data beyond its initial use and production. Data Commons Scotland is a project that aims to create a prototype Internet-based platform that not only enables access, but actively encourages increasingly sophisticated and critical use of open data, thus facilitating a life for data beyond the one of the original producer.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11228", "words": "1155", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "26", "author": "Harper, Paula Clare", "title": "VIRAL MUSICKING: AESTHETICS AND ITERATIONS IN ONLINE CONTAGION", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "century; media; musicking; virality", "summary": "For me, the term foregrounds ambivalences bound up in digital viral circulation: of bodily threat and aesthetic pleasure, of constant negotiation between everyday users, powerful platforms, and black-boxed nonhuman algorithms. I value the productive friction embedded within the term \u201cviral musicking,\u201d which forces proximity between the human-forward sociality of Small\u2019s \u201cmusicking\u201d concept, and \u201cviral\u201d\u2014a term somewhat famously rejected by media scholar Henry Jenkins, for its tendency to construe users as passive zombie hosts.4 In my conception of \u201cviral musicking,\u201d I seek to highlight this tension.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11229", "words": "1291", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Harrisson, Annie; Jones, Shawn; Marchessault, Jessie; Pedra\u00e7a, S\u00e2mia; Consalvo, Mia", "title": "THE VIRTUAL CENSUS 2.0: A CONTINUED INVESTIGATION ON THE REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER, RACE AND AGE IN VIDEOGAMES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "characters; games; race; representation", "summary": "Given the media\u2019s influence to shape a consumer\u2019s worldview, there is growing concern over the lack of diversity in the representation of videogame characters, which could have significant social impacts on players\u2014for example, normalizing power imbalances and marginalizing certain groups (Gerbner et al. 1994; Harwood and Anderson 2002). In conducting a virtual census of the human characters present in the best-selling UK games of 2017, the researchers hope to bring an awareness to the continued lack of diverse representation of videogame characters, while simultaneously underlining the positive changes and trends that are slowly emerging due to the pressure of a more diverse and socially conscious gaming community.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11233", "words": "1278", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Henderson, Monica Jean; Shade, Leslie Regan; Mackinnon, Katie", "title": "EVERY CLICK YOU MAKE: ALGORITHMIC LITERACY AND THE DIGITAL LIVES OF YOUNG ADULTS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "literacy; new; privacy; research; toolkit", "summary": "Frameworks for defining and evaluating digital literacy proliferate in academia and policymaking (Eshet, 2012; Nichols & Stornaiuolo, 2019; Pangrazio, 2016; Pangrazio & Selwyn, 2019; Van Dijk & Van Deursen, 2014). We therefore propose \u2018algorithmic literacy\u2019 become an essential element for digital literacy in young adult media education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11234", "words": "1511", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Hernandez, Antonia", "title": "THE MANY SIDES OF A COIN: EXPLORING THE COST AND VALUE OF TOKENS IN CHATURBATE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "chaturbate; performers; platform; tokens", "summary": "As this paper shows, Chaturbate tokens have different uses and meanings for the audience and performers. Despite their apparent simplicity and fictional nature, Chaturbate tokens are coins of many sides.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11235", "words": "1312", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Hong, Sun-ha", "title": "THE MORALISATION OF PREDICTIVITY IN THE AGE OF DATA-DRIVEN SURVEILLANCE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "data; new; predictivity; surveillance; terrorist", "summary": "New systems for data collection and processing were thus justified through the persistent interpellation of uncertainty towards a moralised argument, in which the rapid expansion of new surveillance technologies was an ethical obligation to \u2018do something\u2019 as much as a calculated response to statistical and geopolitical realities. The Lone Wolf Such revisionist narratives about past terrors in turn feed into unprovable claims in favour of new surveillance technologies from NSA dragnets to sentencing algorithms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11236", "words": "1279", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Hong, Sun-ha; Hermann, Selena Neumark", "title": "FUCK YOUR FEELINGS: THE AFFECTIVE WEAPONISATION OF FACTS AND REASON", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "affective; fact; shapiro; white", "summary": "Our analysis focuses on Ben Shapiro, who has explicitly built his personal brand around the imagined ideal of cold, dispassionate Reason and principled truth-telling in the face of censorship. We show how Ben Shapiro and Blair White\u2019s physical appearance and biography, their debating techniques and slogans, consistently emphasise a confident, adversarial, patronising performance of rationality.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11237", "words": "1322", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Horne, Chelsea; Sinnreich, Aram", "title": "THE INTERNET IS A SERIES OF ANALOGIES: COMPARATIVE LANGUAGE AS POWER IN ONLINE GOVERNANCE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "analogies; governance; internet; metaphors", "summary": "The internet as unknowable except through metaphor Next, considering the breadth and variety of metaphors in use, this paper will focus on three case studies of internet governance applied to US law: section 230 of the Communication Decency Act (CDA), the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Yet the episode itself can be understood as evidence of a larger truth\u2014one that both exculpates Stevens somewhat and underlines a broader challenge for internet governance: Namely, that nearly all internet laws and regulations necessarily rely on imperfect metaphor and analogy to keep them in accordance with pre-digital law and constitutional principles, and that even lawmakers and judges with considerable expertise in the field must also rely upon these figurative language.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11238", "words": "1293", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Jackson, Nathan J", "title": "\u201cI\u2019VE GOTTA DO IT FOR THE BIT\u201d: MEMETIC MEDIA AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY THROUGH STREAMER PERFORMANCE ON TWITCH", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "collective; memes; memesis; twitch", "summary": "Internet memes as contested cultural capital: The case of 4chan\u2019s /b/board. This paper draws upon ongoing ethnographic research as part of a larger project involving the close examination of a small number of Twitch streamers with a focus on streaming personas and the different forms of collective identity that they facilitate.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11239", "words": "1207", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Jensen, Jakob Linaa", "title": "FACEBOOK: FROM PERSONAL MEDIUM TO MASS MEDIUM \u2013 AND BACK AGAIN? - THE USE OF FACEBOOK ACROSS AGE GROUPS 2015-19", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "facebook; media; medium", "summary": "The vast majority of Facebook users are only \u201clurkers\u201d (Preece. In 2015 there were not significant differences in Facebook use across age groups.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11240", "words": "1262", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Johnson, Mark Richard", "title": "DISABILITY AND MENTAL HEALTH AS A PROFESSIONAL LIVE STREAMER", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "digital; health; streaming; twitch", "summary": "Pires and Simon (2015, p. 225) define live streaming as a platform or practice through which \u2018anyone can become a TV provider\u2019. Such a shrinking of the distance between media producer and media consumer, and the centrality of this responsiveness to the success of the phenomenon, highlights the profound newness and wider importance of live streaming in a rapidly changing media ecosystem.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11242", "words": "1271", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Kant, Tanya; Reed, Elizabeth", "title": "ONE DONOR EGG AND \u201cA DOLLOP OF LOVE\u201d: THE BANAL AMBIGUITIES OF EGG DONATION ADVERTISING ON FACEBOOK", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "adverts; donation; egg; facebook", "summary": "Our research demonstrates that when ART services are delivered to social media users through targeted adverts, the supposed limitless possibilities of interactions, kinship, and relationality promised by egg donation are heavily curtailed. Through the banality and bluntness of its delivery, targeted egg donation ads contribute to the rationalisation and policing of subjects into coherent and inherently normative categories.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11243", "words": "1348", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Kappeler, Kiran; Festic, Noemi; Latzer, Michael", "title": "WHO REMAINS OFFLINE AND WHY? THE EVOLUTION OF INDIVIDUAL FACTORS INFLUENCING INTERNET NON-USE FROM 2011 TO 2019 IN A HIGHLY DIGITISED SOCIETY", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "digital; internet; non; use", "summary": "Author #1 Kiran Kappeler Author #1 University of Zurich Author #2 Noemi Festic Author #2 University of Zurich Author #2 Michael Latzer Author #2 University of Zurich Introduction Obtaining real-time traffic information, applying for jobs, buying things or being an informed citizen increasingly requires internet use. Existing empirical research Previous studies indicated that differences in socioeconomic background influence patterns of internet use and non-use (Reisdorf & Groselj, 2017).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11244", "words": "1264", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Karlsen, Faltin", "title": "DIGITAL DETOX CAMP: VALUES AND MOTIVATIONS FOR ENGAGING IN DIGITAL DISCONNECT", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "activities; camp; media; participants", "summary": "Rules directed toward media technology have informal formulations such as Don't be online because it is so incredibly difficult to play with someone while simultaneously checking Facebook. In contrast to the domestication process where new media technology is tamed, reverse domestication implies cognitive processes and practical strategies involved when distancing from media technology (Karlsen and Syvertsen 2016).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11245", "words": "2142", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Karnowski, Veronika; Knop-Huelss, Katharina; Olbermann, Zoe", "title": "NEWS JUNKIE OR ONLY ACCIDENTALLY INFORMED? AN IN-SITU STUDY ON SITUATIONAL TYPES AND INDIVIDUAL REPERTOIRES OF MOBILE NEWS ACCESS AMONG GERMAN YOUNG ADULTS.", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "access; media; mobile; news; repertoires; types", "summary": "Information criteria for various cluster solutions for mobile news access type and types of mobile news repertoires. Description of mobile news access types and types of mobile news repertoires based on multilevel latent class analysis.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11246", "words": "1297", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Karsgaard, Carrie; Hockenhull, Michael; MacDonald, Maggie", "title": "RENAME AND RESIST COLONIAL EXTRACTION: TWITTER\u2019S TOPONYMIC POLITICS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "colonial; land; twitter; users", "summary": "Other toponymic identifiers focus on the theft and occupation of Indigenous lands with such modifiers as \u201cstolen,\u201d \u201coccupied,\u201d and \u201ccolonized.\u201d Our project explores subversive (re)naming practices on Twitter to address: what is the nature of Indigenous and anti-colonial toponymic identification among Twitter users in Canada?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11247", "words": "1257", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Kaye, D. Bondy Valdovinos; Gray, Joanne E", "title": "COPYRIGHT GOSSIP: EXPLORING COPYRIGHT KNOWLEDGE, SENTIMENT AND BLACKBOX THEORIES ON YOUTUBE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "copyright; creators; enforcement; law; youtube", "summary": "In digital spaces, copyright enforcement is governed in significant part by the private copyright rule-making and enforcement policies of internet platforms (Bridy, 2016; Gray, 2020). Often, when doing so, YouTubers participate in copyright discourses, posting videos sharing their experiences with copyright enforcement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11248", "words": "1269", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Kerr, Aphra; Barry, Marguerite; Kelleher, John", "title": "SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS OF AI AND THE PERFORMATIVITY OF ETHICS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "ethics; expectations; public", "summary": "A face to face administered survey of 164 individuals visiting a science gallery provided an opportunity to explore expectations of AI and ethical AI amongst a sub-section of the public. By 2016 formal public and professional reports directly addressed negative expectations of AI, and included efforts to develop ethical guidelines founded on European values and research on ethical AI.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11249", "words": "1280", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Keyes, Os; Austin, Jeanie; Zimmer, Michael", "title": "AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN AUDIT: TRACING THE ROOTS AND REPERCUSSIONS OF THE HRT-TRANSGENDER DATABASE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "data; database; research; systems; transgender", "summary": "On the surface, this controversy centers on issues that are well-covered in critical data studies and internet research ethics; the problem of treating data as \u201calready public\u201d and the insufficiency of existing accountability mechanisms around algorithmic systems (Zimmer, 2010; Neyland, 2016). Seaver, Nick. (2017) Algorithms as culture: Some tactics for the ethnography of algorithmic systems.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11250", "words": "1319", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Kim, Youngrim; Chen, Yuchen; Liang, Fan; Hussain, Muzammil", "title": "SURVEILLANCE INFRASTRUCTURES IN AND FOR CRISES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CHINA AND SOUTH KOREA\u2019S DEVELOPMENT OF QUARANTINE SURVEILLANCE MOBILE APPLICATIONS DURING COVID-19", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "china; infrastructures; korea; surveillance", "summary": "As China being the epicenter of the outbreak and South Korea being one of the closest countries from mainland China, these two countries have been actively developing health surveillance infrastructures to monitor and control the pandemic and maintain the state. SURVEILLANCE INFRASTRUCTURES IN AND FOR CRISES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CHINA AND SOUTH KOREA\u2019S DEVELOPMENT OF QUARANTINE SURVEILLANCE MOBILE APPLICATIONS DURING COVID-19 Youngrim Kim University of Michigan Yuchen Chen University of Michigan Fan Liang University of Michigan Muzammil Hussain University of Michigan Introduction This article examines China and South Korea\u2019s health surveillance infrastructures that are being developed and deployed during the 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic (COVID19).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11251", "words": "1049", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Kinder-Kurlanda, Katharina E.; Weller, Katrin", "title": "RESEARCH ETHICS PRACTICES IN A CHANGING SOCIAL MEDIA LANDSCAPE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "media; practices; research", "summary": "RESEARCH ETHICS PRACTICES IN A CHANGING SOCIAL MEDIA LANDSCAPE Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda GESIS \u2013 Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Katrin Weller GESIS \u2013 Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences This contribution considers the evolution of social media research and specifically focuses on changes in ethical practices and decision making. First, a wider variety of people are much more concerned about the ethics of social media research in addition to individual researchers themselves.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11252", "words": "1324", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Koltai, Kolina", "title": "VACCINE INFORMATION SEEKING AND SHARING: HOW PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUPS CONTRIBUTED TO THE ANTI-VACCINE MOVEMENT ONLINE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "facebook; information; members; vaccine", "summary": "Common information behaviors in AVFBGs are users requesting vaccine information (e.g., asking for sources about the ingredients in vaccines) and sharing vaccine related information (e.g., news article about vaccines). Vaccine information seeking and sharing: How private Facebook groups contributed to the Anti-vaccine movement online.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11253", "words": "1305", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Kopelman, Sara; Frosh, Paul", "title": "RELIVING MEMORIES (OVER AND OVER AGAIN): GIFS, MOVING PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE SMARTPHONE ALBUM", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "image; memory; photography; smartphone", "summary": "These applications not only enable the seamless display of both still and moving images in smartphone photography albums but even create new looped images from stills taken by the user. Smartphone albums \u2013 which organize and display images but also initiate temporally novel photographic formats \u2013 are at the heart of these complex intersections between continuities in mnemonic practices and techno-cultural transformations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11254", "words": "1280", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Kuntsman, Adi", "title": "SMART CITIES\u2019 ENVIRONMENTAL DREAMS AND THEIR DIRTY MATERIAL POLITICS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "cities; city; data; digital", "summary": "The literature about smart cities, similarly, talks about \u201csharing cities\u201d; \u201cgreen growth\u201d, \u201cgreen infrastructure\u201d, \u201cprogressive urbanisation\u201d, \u201csustainable urbanism\u201d, \u201cgreen technology innovation\u201d, \u201cresilient cities\u201d, \u201csmart future\u201d and more. At the heart of my paper lies a troubling, yet crucial question: how to reconcile the rapid and expansive adoption of various smart technologies into environmentally driven initiatives and sustainability projects such as smart cities, with the extensive environmental damages brought on by the digitization itself?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11255", "words": "1516", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Kutscher, Nadia; Fujii, Michi", "title": "RESEARCHING THE ROLE OF DIGITAL MEDIA IN ENABLING EDUCATIONAL PARTICIPATION OF YOUNG REFUGEES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "education; kutscher; media; participation; refugees; research", "summary": "Against this background, the question emerges, what role digital media do play in terms of benefits and risks when it comes to overcoming barriers in participation and education. So far, the relevance of digital media (and associated practices) for young refugees in formal (school), non- formal (youth welfare) and informal (leisure) educational contexts is scarcely investigated.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11256", "words": "1397", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Lane, Jeffrey; Ramirez, Fanny Anne; Patton, Desmond Upton", "title": "DEFENDING AGAINST SOCIAL MEDIA: HOW PUBLIC CRIMINAL DEFENSE HELPS US ADDRESS SOCIAL MEDIA GOVERNANCE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "companies; defenders; governance; media", "summary": "Defending against social media: How public criminal defense helps us address social media governance. Judicial governance is a rich area then to further conceptualize social media governance and identify equal access and fairness issues (Klonick, 2018) and appropriate checks and balances.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11257", "words": "2511", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Lanson, Klare Louise", "title": "#UNMASKEDSELFIESINSOLIDARITY: FROM SELF CARE TO COLLECTIVE CARE\u2014AFFECTIVE ARTIVISM, NETWORKED BELONGING AND MOBILE MEDIA PARTICIPATORY ART.", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "art; care; media; mobile; new; selfie; university", "summary": "Designed as a set of action strategies including social media and public paste ups, this paper critically reflects on the project #unmaskedselfiesinsolidarity to consider how participatory art can be a socially transformative process, through its messages of care alongside messages from Chinese students suffering anxiety and isolation, waiting for the travel bans to be lifted, a tempering of the stigma and racism that has accompanied the coronavirus event here in Australia. A blurring of art and activism within selfie making on social media platforms like the public Facebook Group, Weibo, WeChat and Instagram used in #unmaskedselfiesinsolidarity allows for the private bodies currently in COVID-19 lockdown mode to be heard around the affective atmospheres of social isolation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11258", "words": "1250", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Larsen, Malene Charlotte", "title": "SOCIAL MEDIA INSECURITIES IN EVERYDAY LIFE AMONG YOUNG ADULTS \u2013 AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF ANONYMOUS JODEL DISCLOSURES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "adults; jodel; media; scollon", "summary": "The analysis is based on a two-year online ethnography (Hine, 2015) conducted on Jodel, an anonymous location based social media app popular among young adults across Europe. During the analysis it is explored how different disclosures of feeling insecure can be linked to the design of different social media apps or recent design updates that have a somehow negative impact on the user\u2019s wellbeing and overall purpose of using the apps: Human connectedness.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11259", "words": "1237", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Lehto, Mari Tellervo", "title": "NEUROTIC INFLUENCER \u2013 FEELING RULES AND THE AFFECTIVE PRACTICE OF ANXIETY IN SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCER WORK", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "anxiety; influencers; media; work", "summary": "Applying social psychologist Margaret Wetherell\u2019s (2012, 2014) concept of \u201caffective practice\u201d and Akane Kanai\u2019s (2019, 2019b) implementation of Arlie Hochschild\u2019s work in the context of digital media, I ask how feeling rules shape the ways in which Finnish influencers work to produce selves that are agreeable to their followers and cope with the emotional weight of precarious social media work. The paper suggests that although anxiety can be considered a negative side effect of stressful social media work, sharing it on social media can also be understood as a tactic that plays a central role in the lifestyle influencer industry.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11260", "words": "1213", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Lin, Jian", "title": "ONE APP, TWO VERSIONS: TIKTOK AND THE PLATFORMIZATION FROM CHINA", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "chinese; platform; tiktok", "summary": "The study adds a new lens to the existing scholarship on platform governance (Van Dijck et al. 2018; 2019; Gorwa 2019), platform imperialism (Jin 2015; Winseck 2017; Mann & Daly 2019) and participatory digital culture (Jenkins et al. 2015; Burgess & Green 2018; Cunningham & Craig 2019) through engaging with the globalization of Chinese digital platforms. Through a digital walk-through of the interfaces of its Chinese and international version, as well as based on the archival research of industrial and media reports, this study sheds light upon the specificities of Chinese social media platforms going global \u2013 the contradictions behind their business discourses and platform governance and the challenges brought by them to the global platform society.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11261", "words": "1279", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Lingel, Jessa", "title": "IN THE RING AND ONLINE: RELATIONAL LABOR AND AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT IN THE WWE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "kayfabe; work; wrestling; wwe", "summary": "In both cases, my objective is to use the context of professional wrestling to inform broader investigations of fan studies, self-promotion and authenticity in digital culture. Long before reality TV, the performativity and scripted drama of professional wrestling allowed theorists to unpack questions of fictionality and narrative authenticity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11262", "words": "1302", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Locatelli, Elisabetta", "title": "OBJECTIFYING THE PLATFORM SOCIETY: INVESTIGATING USERS\u2019 PERCEPTION OF SMART SPEAKERS' ALGORITHMIC SUGGESTIONS AND DATA PROCESSING", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "data; research; speakers; users", "summary": "Objectifying the platform society: investigating users\u2019 perception of smart speakers\u2019 algorithmic suggestions and data processing. INVESTIGATING USERS\u2019 PERCEPTION OF SMART SPEAKERS\u2019 ALGORITHMIC SUGGESTIONS AND DATA PROCESSING Elisabetta Locatelli Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Theoretical framework Smart speakers are devices that connect people with computing systems through voice to perform several activities and tasks (Bentley et al., 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11263", "words": "1334", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Lokot, Tetyana; Boichak, Olga", "title": "EXPLORING NETWORKED IDENTITY AND TRANSNATIONAL MOBILIZATION IN UKRAINE\u2019S EUROMAIDAN PROTEST", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "euromaidan; media; protest; ukraine", "summary": "The centrality of protest discussion and related activity in the semantic maps illustrates the key role of social media in mediating diasporic protest participation by layering digital networks over existing diasporic personal connections. Contribution This study contributes to the broader field of transnational mediated protest participation by using a hybrid methodological approach to examine diasporic mobilization of Ukrainians living in the U.S. during the Euromaidan protests.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11265", "words": "1265", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Lupinacci, Ludmila", "title": "LIVENESS AND DEADNESS IN SOCIAL MEDIA: ON THE PERCEIVED LACK OF LIFE OF THE INFINITE STREAM", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "life; media; platforms; use", "summary": "The claims made by social media platforms reflect, to a large extent, the ideological prerogative that disconnection and isolation are undesired, and that communication \u201cbrings humanity, enlightenment, progress\u201d (Carey 1989:309). While the results discussed here are not meant to be exhaustive \u2013 and, in fact, this paper represents a small fragment of a broader project \u2013, they offer a good hint of how it feels to use a range of social media platforms in the context of everyday life.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11266", "words": "1268", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Maddox, Jessica", "title": "\u201cEXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED FOR A GOOD NIGHT\u2019S REST\u201d: TRANSACTIONAL TINGLES AND ASMR AS EMERGING MEDIA GENRE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "asmr; media; tingles; youtube", "summary": "But while specifically sexual ASMR does exist, ASMRtists themselves eschew accusations that ASMR is inherently sexual and insist there is more to the craft and the ASMR YouTube community. What began as a relaxation habit become a research activity, and between February 2017 and February 2020 I watched over 180 hours of ASMR videos.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11267", "words": "1450", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Madianou, Mirca", "title": "NON-HUMAN HUMANITARIANISM: WHEN AI FOR GOOD TURNS OUT TO BE BAD", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "data; good; humanitarianism; madianou", "summary": "Humanitarian AI appears to solve problems, whilst in practice benefitting stakeholders, including commercial companies which are increasingly involved in public-private partnerships. The observation that some of the key developments in AI humanitarianism fail their own objectives should not mean that these innovations do not have powerful consequences.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11268", "words": "1056", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Mahnke, Martina Skrubbeltrang; Kj\u00e6r, Katrine Meldgaard", "title": "HEALTH DEBATES ON SOCIAL MEDIA: LINKING DIGITAL HEALTH TO COMMUNICATION AND AI STUDIES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "data; health; media", "summary": "HEALTH DEBATES ON SOCIAL MEDIA: LINKING DIGITAL HEALTH TO COMMUNICATION AND AI STUDIES Martina Skrubbeltrang Mahnke Roskilde University, Denmark Katrine Meldgaar Kj\u00e6r IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Drawing on the examples of current health debates on social media this paper explores the broader theoretical question how we may expand our understanding of \u2018health data\u2019 to include health debates and discussions on social media, and further, how these can be linked to the concepts of digital health data assemblages (Lupton, 2016) and communicative others (Gunkel, 2012). The paper thus theoretically links digital data assemblages with communication and AI theory which provides tools to think about health data as relational and communicative.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11269", "words": "1087", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Makhortykh, Mykola; Urman, Aleksandra", "title": "THE GREAT RANDOMIZER: USING VIRTUAL AGENTS FOR AUDITING THE EFFECTS OF YOUTUBE RECOMMENDATION ALGORITHM ON IDEOLOGICALLY-CHARGED NEWS CONTENT DISTRIBUTION", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "agents; algorithms; news; youtube", "summary": "\u200bThe great randomizer: using virtual agents for auditing the effects of Youtube recommendation algorithm on ideologically-charged news content distribution \u200b. Paper presented at AoIR 2020: The 21 \u200bth \u200b Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. For these reasons, it is difficult to study the effects of algorithmic filtering and ranking on the distribution of societally relevant information, but not impossible - researchers can use algorithmic auditing in order to infer the patterns in the ways the algorithms function (Mittelstadt, 2016).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11272", "words": "1701", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Markham, Annette N", "title": "ECHOLOCATING THE DIGITAL SELF: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "material; media; notifications; participants; self", "summary": "The development of the theory of social echolocation draws on my observations and close readings of autoethnographic accounts of a group of around 50 young participants, a theoretical sample from a larger 6-year study (involving approximately 1500 persons, between 2012-2018, about everyday social media use (cf Markham, 2018; Tiidenberg, et al, 2017). It argues that these are central in positioning or mapping social space as well as the characteristics of the Self within these spaces, particularly in, but not limited to, digitally saturated contexts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11274", "words": "1082", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Martini, Franziska", "title": "COUNTERING THE COUNTERPUBLIC? THE GERMAN #METOO NETWORK ON TWITTER", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "metoo; network; twitter", "summary": "Also, this study shows how the concept of social networks and networked publics cannot only serve as a theoretical background but also as a fruitful methodological approach within the field of feminist media studies. It will be shown that on the one hand, the hashtag enabled, also in the German-language Twittersphere, a network of individuals protesting against sexism and sexualized violence; on the other hand, Twitter accounts of traditional news media play a central role in the #MeToo network from the very beginning, indicating that protest networks are less \u201cequal\u201d and horizontal than often assumed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11275", "words": "1292", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Mays, Kate K.; Lei, Yiming; Katz, James E.", "title": "LIVING WITH ROBOTS: AN ONTOLOGICAL LEAP?", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "comments; human; people; robots; technology", "summary": "While \u201csocial robots\u201d (Breazeal, 2004) are not yet diffused in the mainstream, we can see an inkling of how they may be accepted in AI-enabled digital voice assistants such as Amazon\u2019s Alexa, which is treated as a friend/companion as much as a functional utility (Calvin, 2017).Thus, there may be both a greater demand for and acceptance of social robots. Social robots for long-term interaction: a survey.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11276", "words": "1217", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "McGrane, Caitlin; Hjorth, Larissa", "title": "CAREFUL ATTUNEMENTS: THE CHOREOGRAPHING OF CARE THROUGH SMARTPHONE PRACTICES DURING, AND AFTER, CRISIS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "affective; care; crisis; witnessing", "summary": "We frame affective witnessing in terms of feminist materialism of care practices (Pols, 2011; Puig de la Bellacasa, 2011; Lupton and Hjorth, 2020) to focus on the importance of taking care seriously\u2014care at a distance of family and friends, self-care and care of intimate digital publics. Careful Attunements: The choreographing of care through smartphone practices during, and after, crisis.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11277", "words": "1657", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "McKee, Heidi A.; Porter, James E.", "title": "HUMAN-MACHINE WRITING AND THE ETHICS OF LANGUAGE MODELS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "language; machine; model; writing", "summary": "Human-machine writing and the ethics of language models. Language models are unsupervised multitask learners.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11278", "words": "1268", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "McKinney, Cait", "title": "BAD ATTACHMENTS: EMAIL AND QUEER ANTI-CENSORSHIP PROTESTS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "attachments; email; internet; protest; queer", "summary": "Here I am specifically interested in how this protest can help us to understand the material and political dimensions of email attachment as an emergent form. This early excitement about clicktivism is complicated by attachments: these messages appended with sexually explicit files are instances where email attachments served as clandestine, \u201cdirty\u201d communication, once removed from the message itself, and a secondary aim of this research is to expand understandings of attachments and their materiality.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11280", "words": "1045", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Michaelsen, Marcus", "title": "RESISTING TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION: THE DIGITAL SECURITY PRACTICES OF DIASPORA AND EXILED HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "activists; digital; rights; security", "summary": "It moves beyond the focus mere technical solutions to online threats in order to consider the broader human and behavioral factors shaping practices of privacy protection and digital security. In turn, activists feel more empowered and resilient when they have close ties to local and global networks for incident response, support, and information sharing on digital security.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11281", "words": "1349", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Mniestri, Aikaterini; Gekker, Alex", "title": "TEMPORAL FRAMES FOR PLATFORM PUBLICS: THE PLATFORMIZATION OF BREADTUBE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "breadtube; october; platform; youtube", "summary": "It has been over a decade of YouTube studies and yet, a consensus on what precisely YouTube is seems unlikely. In this paper we suggest the notion of platform publics to account for the intermingling of socio-technical processes that make online platforms (in this case: YouTube) resistant to stable definitions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11282", "words": "1290", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Morgenstern, Michelle", "title": "\u201cTUMBLR TOLD ME\u2026\u201d: THE POLITICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CONCEPTUALIZING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AS LIVING ACTORS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "media; platform; tumblr", "summary": "Scholars of the internet have done careful and essential work in questioning undifferentiated imaginaries of social media platforms in our analyses, arguing instead for analytic approaches that move away from exactly the sorts of understandings of platform my research participants are articulating (Akkaya 2014; Miller 2016). \u201cTumblr told me\u2026\u201d: The political and methodological significance of conceptualizing social media platforms as living actors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11283", "words": "3438", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "-1055", "author": "M\u00fcnch, Felix Victor; Rossi, Luca", "title": "A TALE OF TWO TWITTERS? 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"59", "author": "Neill Hoch, Indira", "title": "NOSTALGIA FOR THE NEW: VIDEO GAME \"REMAKES\" AND THE LIMITS OF REFLECTION", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "game; garda; nostalgia; yakuza", "summary": "Video games as time machines: Video game nostalgia and the success of retro gaming. In Z. Whalen & L. N. Taylor, Playing the past: History and nostalgia in video games (pp. 51-68).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11288", "words": "1240", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Neumayer, Christina; Rossi, Luca; Jensen, Minna S.", "title": "DISRUPTIVE HUMOUR: A CITIZEN PERSPECTIVE IN SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGES FROM MASS PROTESTS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "images; media; protests; rossi", "summary": "Humorous images from conflict in social media have mainly been studied as memes (e.g., Bayerl & Stoynov, 2015; Jensen, Neumayer & Rossi 2020). Disruptive humor: a citizen perspective in social media images from mass protests.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11289", "words": "1315", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Newton, Giselle", "title": "THE \u2018SEARCH-FOR METHOD\u2019: EXAMINING INSTANCES OF SUPPORT IN FACEBOOK GROUPS FOR DONOR-CONCEIVED PEOPLE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "donor; groups; method", "summary": "While donor-conceived members of Facebook groups have diverse needs, common concerns that arise in Facebook groups for donor-conceived people include queries about how to find donors or donor siblings, how to interpret DNA connections from commercial DNA testing platforms, how to navigate relationships with newfound genetic relatives and how to reform policy and legislation on donor conception. Within the field of donor conception, recent studies have explored how media platforms are being used to link donor siblings through donor sibling registries (Hertz & Nelson, 2018) and Facebook groups for mothers of donor-conceived children (Andreassen, 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11290", "words": "1279", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "N\u00ed Bhroin, Niamh; McMonagle, Sarah", "title": "SOCIAL MEDIA AND MINORITY LANGUAGES IN EVERYDAY LIFE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TWO TWITTER CAMPAIGNS PROMOTING THE IRISH LANGUAGE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "irish; language; media", "summary": "(2019) content analysis of minority language hashtags on Twitter. In recent years, social media campaigns have been organised to promote the use of Irish online.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11291", "words": "1319", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Nissenbaum, Asaf; Freud, David; Shifman, Limor", "title": "HUMOR WITHOUT BOUNDARIES? A TYPOLOGY OF GLOBALLY SPREAD HUMOR ON TWITTER", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "failure; humor; media; tweets", "summary": "In order to study global social media humor, we sampled Twitter using keywords indicating humor in English, German, Spanish, and Arabic. While studies have examined the features of global humor in relation to localization or cross-cultural dynamics (Boxman-Shabtai & Shifman, 2015; Laineste & Voolaid, 2017), none, to date, have systematically analyzed the features characterizing the humor globally distributed through social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11292", "words": "1263", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Nolan, Katherine", "title": "THE 'STUFF\u2019 OF LIFE: MATERIAL PLAY AND PERFORMANCE IN DIGITAL VIDEO CULTURES AND CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "labour; material; play; video", "summary": "I aim to trace and examine material play as a trope of digital video culture obscured in the \u2018visual soup\u2019 of YouTube. The \u2018Stuff of Life\u2019: Material Registers of Re-presentation The items used in material play videos are often mundane domestic or artificial, pop- tastic and iridescent objects and materials; Through a DIY culture aesthetic and the ostensibly user-generated setting of YouTube, these materials are represented as the objects to hand, part of the everyday: \u2018the stuff\u2019 of life.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11293", "words": "1250", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Noone, Rebecca", "title": "GOING IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION: CRITICAL ARTS-BASED APPROACHES TO GOOGLE MAPS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "directions; google; maps; wayfinding", "summary": "I then mapped this empirical research onto a discourse analysis of Google\u2019s own discursive framing of Google Maps evidenced through its application, its web presence, and its developer conference, I/O. I looked at street-level wayfinding the context of this rhetoric through the lens of Sara Ahmed\u2019s (2006) theorizing on orientation as actions made in relation power. As the city was made legible in these moments, I noted how informants were locating themselves in techno-imaginaries of Google Maps evident through phases like: \u201cthank goodness for Google\u201d or \u201cI just put on Google Maps and I go\u201d or \u201cIt\u2019s my favourite app because I\u2019m obsessed with finding the best way.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11294", "words": "1285", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Ogden, Jessica", "title": "WEB ARCHIVING AS CULTURE: TUMBLR AND THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE ARCHIVED WEB", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "archive; archiving; team; web", "summary": "Although featured in numerous news media articles since their formation in 2009, the specifics regarding the processes that underpin Archive Team web archiving activities have yet to receive critical attention within the field. This paper examines efforts on the part of Archive Team - a self-described \u2018loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage\u2019 - to archive Tumblr NSFW posts.1 The study forms part of a wider ethnographic investigation of web archiving across three field sites, with the aim of examining how web archival practices shape the archived Web.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11296", "words": "1534", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "O'Neil, Mathieu; Muselli, Laure; Zacchiroli, Stefano; Cai, Xiaolan; Pailler, Frederic", "title": "FIRM DISCOURSES AND DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "aoir; discourses; firm; infrastructure; projects", "summary": "Firm Discourses and Digital Infrastructure Projects. Background and research question IT firms have embraced open licenses and the hacker ethic of self-fulfillment: free and open source software (a.k.a. FOSS or \u2018digital infrastructure\u2019) is now fully integrated into commercial ecosystems.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11298", "words": "1347", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Ozkula, Suay Melisa; Reilly, Paul; Hayes, Jennifer", "title": "EASY DATA, USUAL SUSPECTS, SAME OLD PLACES? A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES IN DIGITAL ACTIVISM RESEARCH BETWEEN 1995-2019", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "data; studies; twitter", "summary": "#H2: Research methodologies using digital data predominantly draw on Twitter data, particularly hashtag and keyword searches (= \u201clow-hanging fruit\u201d). Future Work The findings of the review suggest that future scholarship would benefit from including other methodological approaches such as hard data studies through high-level (and therefore more extensive) access, as well as non-Twitter single- or multi-platform studies, and more contextualized approaches (e.g. multi-platform, triangulated, and holistic approaches) towards producing knowledge that is somewhat more representative of the complex and wide digital landscapes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11299", "words": "1054", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Pace, Jonathan", "title": "CYBERLIBERTARIANISM IN THE MID-1990S", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "cyberlibertarianism; internet; libertarian; technology", "summary": "Drawing on critical discourse analysis, I examine the conceptual nature of libertarian internet discourse, the motivating characteristics of its speakers, and the material conditions of its circulation. By providing an analysis of libertarian discourse during a critical episode of internet history, this paper serves as a point of departure for future research into this evolving relationship.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11300", "words": "1286", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Paik, Sejin; Mays, Kate K.; Giovannetti, Rebecca F.; Katz, James E.", "title": "INVASIVE YET INEVITABLE? PRIVACY NORMALIZATION TRENDS IN EMERGING TECHNOLOGY", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "dna; people; privacy; technologies; technology", "summary": "When keeping the actor constant across privacy technologies, there was an overwhelming preference for less invasive means of privacy data sharing. Given previous literature and theories on privacy, we move beyond simply looking at people\u2019s general intentions and inclinations for technology use tied to privacy concerns.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11302", "words": "1183", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Partin, William Clyde; Marwick, Alice Emily", "title": "THE CONSTRUCTION OF ALTERNATIVE FACTS: DARK PARTICIPATION AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN THE QANON CONSPIRACY", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "conspiracy; knowledge; media; qanon", "summary": "What archives, research techniques, and interpretive tools do QAnon researchers draw upon? Soon after, QAnon slogans and symbols, such as the hashtag #WWG1WGA (\u201cWhere We Go One We Go All\u201d), began appearing throughout the conservative media ecosystem and even at rallies across the country hosted by President Trump.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11303", "words": "1050", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Petre, Caitlin; Weber, Nicole", "title": "ONE OF THESE THINGS_IS_LIKE THE OTHERS: WHAT BIG TECH PLATFORMS CAN LEARN FROM LIBRARIES, BOOKSTORES, AND SUPERMARKETS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "facebook; governance; platforms; public", "summary": "Each of these three cases has contended with variations of the questions that technology platforms are now struggling to address; exploring how they have imagined and performed their role as information intermediaries promises to spur new thinking on key issues of platform governance. By examining a variety of oft- overlooked approaches to information curation and outlining their respective benefits and drawbacks, we hope to contribute a historical and conceptual perspective to scholarly and industry conversations about platform governance.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11304", "words": "1223", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Plantin, Jean-Christophe", "title": "PLATFORM LOGIC AND THE INFRASTRUCTURAL POWER OF TECH GIANTS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "data; giants; platform; tech", "summary": "Inserting of a platform Once network components are disaggregated, a platform is inserted to integrate them all together. Making components modular With network components now modular, they can each be changed or updated separately.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11305", "words": "1248", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Pohle, Julia; Gorwa, Robert; Miller, Hailey", "title": "THE TURN TO TRADE AGREEMENTS IN GLOBAL PLATFORM GOVERNANCE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "agreements; digital; governance; trade", "summary": "Existing research tends to concentrate on multi-level governance and the role of the WTO in the negotiation of digital trade issues (Burri, 2017; Weber, 2015). This dataset has led to a clearer mapping of digital governance issues addressed by trade and the implementation of specific state preferences.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11306", "words": "1265", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Popiel, Pawel", "title": "COMMUNICATING MARKETS: COMPETITION POLICY DISCOURSE AND DIGITAL PLATFORM POWER", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "competition; digital; platform; policy; power", "summary": "Policy scholarship has documented the shifting dynamics of competition within digital platform markets and explored potential reforms (Moore & Tambini, 2018). However, the benefits accrued to them by platforms\u2019 size and reach, their dependence on platform markets, and their reticence about regulation constrained their policy proposals.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11307", "words": "1163", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Posada, Julian", "title": "FROM DEVELOPMENT TO DEPLOYMENT: FOR A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO ETHICS OF AI AND LABOUR", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "deployment; development; labour", "summary": "Recent studies on the impact of AI deployment in traditional workplaces raise several concerns that are, in many cases, discussed in the ethical record of AI systems. By development, this paper refers to the processes of creating, sustaining, and maintaining AI systems.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11311", "words": "1174", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Rasmussen, Nina Vindum", "title": "'DATA, CAMERA, ACTION: HOW ALGORITHMS ARE SHAKING UP EUROPEAN SCREEN PRODUCTION'", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "algorithms; data; production; screen", "summary": "I zoom in on the experiences of screenwriters, directors, and producers based in Europe and ask: How does the use of audience data and algorithms affect their creative labour? My interviewees have encountered audience data and/or algorithmic tools in one way or another \u2013 either by using these technologies and insights themselves or by collaborating with a streaming service.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11312", "words": "1900", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Recuero, Raquel; Soares, Felipe; Vinhas, Otavio; Zago, Gabriela", "title": "DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGNS ON TWITTER DURING THE BRAZILIAN 2018 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "campaigns; content; conversations; disinformation; media; social", "summary": "Our goal is to present a case study and offer some insights about disinformation campaigns in Latin America, which is currently an understudied context. Disinformation campaigns are problematic because they negatively influence conversations in the public sphere by misleading people (Derakhshan & Wardle, 2017).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11313", "words": "1287", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Reiss, Michael V.; Festic, Noemi; Latzer, Michael; R\u00fcedy, Tanja", "title": "THE RELEVANCE PEOPLE ASSIGN TO ALGORITHMIC-SELECTION APPLICATIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "applications; life; relevance; selection", "summary": "The 21st Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Virtual Event / 27-31 October 2020 THE RELEVANCE PEOPLE ASSIGN TO ALGORITHMIC-SELECTION APPLICATIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE Michael V. Reiss University of Zurich Noemi Festic University of Zurich Michael Latzer University of Zurich Tanja R\u00fcedy University of Zurich Introduction Fast growing public and academic attention dedicated to algorithmic selection on the internet goes along with appraisals of their high social significance and impact on daily life in digital societies (Beer, 2017; Gillespie, 2014; Latzer & Just, 2020; Willson, 2017). Appropriate governance choices, however, call for an accurate and empirical understanding of the relevance of algorithmic selection in order to assess the scope of potential associated risks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11314", "words": "1288", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Reynolds, CJ", "title": "IT'S REWIND TIME, EVERYBODY: THE CONTESTATION OF PLATFORM CULTURE IN YOUTUBE'S YEARLY REVIEW", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "culture; platform; rewind; youtube", "summary": "In 2018, YouTube\u2019s blog excitedly announced the release of annual year-in-review video, YouTube Rewind. IT\u2019S REWIND TIME, EVERYBODY: THE CONTESTATION OF PLATFORM CULTURE IN YOUTUBE\u2019S YEARLY REVIEW CJ Reynolds The Hebrew University of Jerusalem YouTube Rewind, especially its controversial 2018 and 2019 offerings, surfaces contested and contradictory understandings of what YouTube culture is and who gets to speak for the platform.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11315", "words": "1513", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Rieder, Bernhard; Gordon, Geoff; Sileno, Giovanni", "title": "MAPPING VALUE(S) IN AI: THE CASE OF YOUTUBE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "design; recommender; systems; youtube", "summary": "Taking recommender systems more generally and the one built by YouTube more specifically, we develop a methodology for conceptualizing and studying the broad array of \u201cideas\u201d, \u201cnorms\u201d, or \u201cvalues\u201d such systems mobilize. This paper uses the case of recommender systems more generally and the one built by YouTube more specifically to develop a methodology for conceptualizing and studying the broad array of \u201cideas\u201d, \u201cnorms\u201d, or \u201cvalues\u201d such systems mobilize.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11317", "words": "1292", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Ringel, Sharon; Davidson, Roei", "title": "DELETION WILL BE MY EPITAPH: JOURANLISTS DELETION PRACTICES ON TWITTER", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "deletion; journalists; media; tweets", "summary": "From the perspective of journalism as a profession, it argues that the study of tweet deletion is a means of examining the constraints under which journalists operate today including the occupational precarity (Davidson & Meyers, 2016) and polarized public sphere with which they contend. We argue that the occupational and physical threat journalists experience together with the lack of nuanced deletion tools on social media platforms and a lack of employer and platform support to deal with online abuse result in massive deletion that damages journalists, news organizations, the platforms and society more generally.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11318", "words": "1393", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Rivera, Yonaira M", "title": "FROM ONLINE ENGAGEMENT TO OFFLINE ACTIONS: UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF CANCER (MIS)INFORMATION ENGAGEMENT AMONG LATINO FACEBOOK USERS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "cancer; cpsi; engagement; health; media; posts", "summary": "The majority of cancer prevention posts participants engaged with were about food/diet (53% or n=35). A model of social media engagement: User profiles, gratifications, and experiences.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11319", "words": "1381", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Robards, Brady; Watson, Ashleigh; Kirby, Emma; Churchill, Brendan; LaRochelle, Lucas", "title": "QUEERING THE MAP: PHYSICAL TRACES AND DIGITAL PLACES OF QUEER LIVES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "digital; posts; queer; stories", "summary": "Our focus here, however, is on posts that variably reference digital media. We break these posts down into two categories: a) records of moments where a relationship moves from a digital space to a physical one (\u2018Going Physical\u2019); and b) posts documenting encounters in physical spaces that explicitly referenced digital media (\u2018Digital Tracing\u2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11320", "words": "1405", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Roetman, Sara", "title": "SELF-TRACKING \u2018FEMTECH\u2019: COMMODIFYING & DISCIPLINING THE FERTILE FEMALE BODY", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "body; self; tracking", "summary": "I subsequently argue that self-tracking femtech is a new category of digital labour focused on management and reproduction of the normative fertile, hormonal, and sexual female body within the post-Fordist context. Femtech constructs and intertwines medical devices, economic exchange, expertise knowledge, bodies, affective experiences, social relations, and labour.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11321", "words": "1471", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Roig, Antoni; Martorell, Sandra", "title": "I AM THE VIRUS: DIGITAL STORYTELLING AND FICTIONAL TWITTER ACCOUNTS IN THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS IN SPAIN", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "accounts; crisis; storytelling; twitter", "summary": "Different research actions have been undertaken so far, and we summarize some of our key findings as follows: (1) Fictional characters like @Coronavid19 succeed in counterbalancing collective fear by mocking irrational reactions, or defusing fear making the threat tangible, humanizing it and showing it as vulnerable; (2) The author was forced to make an ethical stand once the account proved to be successful and the crisis more serious and unpredictable than expected, softening the character\u2019s edges towards a more everyday humour with a political and social edge and stressing safety measures; (3) This process means side-lining some of the bleakest implications of the pandemic (death rates, psychological effects and economic crisis); (4) @Coronavid19 works as a character-driven narrative, with a transformation arc in an otherwise unpredictable plot; (5) followers, even those who have suffered from Covid-19, react playfully and fondly to the character-, except when political polarization takes over. Beyond other minds: fictional characters, mental simulation, and unnatural experiences.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11322", "words": "1360", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Ruiz-Gomez, Alexandra; Gavilan, Diana; Avello, Maria", "title": "#BABIESOFINSTAGRAM: THE DIGITALLY MEDIATED LIVES OF \u2018ASPIRING\u2019 BABY MODELS AND BRAND REPS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "accounts; baby; children; posts", "summary": "This paper is part of an on-going study of baby accounts created by ordinary parents to reach audiences outside friends and families. The question guiding this research is: What sort of practices and technical affordances are used in baby accounts to attract visibility and attention of brands?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11323", "words": "1289", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Saariketo, Minna", "title": "SUBVERSIVE IMAGINATION AND POSSIBILITIES OF CRITICAL AGENCY IN THE LANDSCAPES OF CODE?", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "agency; imaginaries; media; technology", "summary": "Subversive imagination and possibilities of critical agency in the landscapes of code. Critical agency and the future of critique.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11326", "words": "1309", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Schlussel, Hadas; Frosh, Paul", "title": "TASTE THIS VIDEO!: FACEBOOK VIDEOS AS EMBODIED EXPERIENCES.", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "facebook; media; recipe; videos", "summary": "We conclude that Facebook recipe videos are exemplary of a broader category of social media videos Virtual Event / 27-31 October 2020 which we call hyper-sensory videos: these rise to the challenge of an interruptive context of viewing by presenting heightened multisensory experiences that take precedent over informational use or narrative involvement. Theoretical background Despite their surprising popularity, there is no research literature on Facebook recipe videos and almost no literature on Facebook videos in general.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11329", "words": "1154", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Siibak, Andra; Otsus, Marleen", "title": "\u201cYOU EITHER LOVE IT IMMEDIATELY, OR YOU HATE IT\u201d REFLECTIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF ESTONIAN EMPLOYEES WITH MICROCHIP IMPLANTS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "employees; implants; michael; microchip", "summary": "Even though scholars have theorized upon different ethical and legal concerns (Rodriguez, 2019; Ogriseg, 2017) regarding employee microchipping, empirical scholarship (Petersen, 2019) which would reflect upon the experiences and opinions of microchipped employees themselves is still currently lacking. Reflections and experiences of Estonian employees with microchip implants.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11330", "words": "1256", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Simatzkin-Ohana, Liron; Frosh, Paul", "title": "FROM USER GENERATED CONTENT TO A USER GENERATED AESTHETIC: INSTAGRAM, BRANDS AND THE APPROPRIATION OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "brands; media; new; user", "summary": "Overall, our project highlights the aesthetic vernacularization of brand images on social media and the adoption by brands of amateur styles associated with user-generated content. We take fashion brands on Instagram as our case study for two reasons: first, fashion photography is strongly connected to overt professional stylization; second, fashion can be seen as structurally definitive of consumer society in general (Lipovetsky, 1994).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11331", "words": "1323", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Sipley, Gina Marie", "title": "\u2018LURKER\u2019 LITERACIES: LIVING IN/THROUGH NEIGHBORHOOD FACEBOOK GROUPS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "facebook; groups; literacy; practices", "summary": "In Facebook groups, an optional feature for people to virtually gather around a common interest, where membership can be measured in the thousands, it is far more common to \u2018lurk\u2019, then it is to respond in words, shares, likes, memes, or emoji to content we have read. Rosenblatt\u2019s work pre-dates the rise of social networking technologies and the study of digital literacies; however, this does not mean that her work is not relevant to the study of Facebook groups.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11332", "words": "1209", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Skardzius, Karen", "title": "MONETIZING RELATIONSHIPS: STREAMING ALONE WITH ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "streamers; streaming; twitch", "summary": "For example, they tell users, \u201cWatch what you love, connect with streamers, and chat with tons of communities\u201d and they tell potential streamers, \u201cBring your passions; we\u2019ll help you build a community around them\u201d (Twitch, 2020). Rather than directing more attention to those streamers who have attained \u2018success\u2019 as Twitch would frame it, this study is centered around a group of streamers unique from those who are typically the focus.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11333", "words": "1234", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Smith, Brendan", "title": "THANKS AMAZON FOR SCARRING ME FOR LIFE: WORKER BREAKDOWN AND THE DISRUPTION OF CARE AT AMAZON", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "amazon; breakdown; paper; workers", "summary": "The rallying cry of Amazon workers, \u201cwe are not robots,\u201d implies that there is a direct relationship between the treatment of their minds and bodies as machinery, and the forms of mental and physical breakdown they experience. Drawing from political and technological theories of labour and care, this paper will look into how Amazon workers navigate (and often escape) the affective and embodied confines of Amazon's augmented despotism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11334", "words": "1293", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Spi\u0161\u00e1k, Sanna", "title": "MAY THE SHAME BE WITH YOU. ALWAYS. MITIGATING YOUNG PEOPLE'S INTIMATE EXCHANGES ONLINE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "finns; intimacies; people; rights", "summary": "Results and conclusion By asking from a focus-group of young Finns aged 15\u201319-years-old how they and their peers experience digital intimacy and their perceptions of the benefits, possible outcomes, mitigations and solutions, I can draw a more ethical yet a complex picture of young people's engagement with digital intimacies. I am interested in developing a more rights-based approach to digital intimacies, respectful of the lived experience of young people.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11335", "words": "1276", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Standlee, Alecea Irene", "title": "UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYE: USERS\u2019 PERCEPTIONS OF ONLINE PRIVACY AND SURVEILLANCE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "online; participants; privacy; surveillance", "summary": "The intersection of these two areas of scholarship has the potential to give us a better understanding of not only how young adults perceive and manage online privacy, but also the cultural and policy implications of data privacy rights. Due to recent journalistic visibility, participants found themselves to be increasingly informed about the nature of online surveillance and their own position within the system.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11337", "words": "1265", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Steinberg, Marc", "title": "AUTOMOBILE PLATFORM CAPITALISM: A VEHICULAR HISTORY OF THE DIGITAL ECONOMY", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "automobile; capitalism; economy; paper; platform", "summary": "This paper will furthermore argue that the missing link between automobile platform theory and the theory of the platform as mediation device is to be found in a series of articles that come out of managerial theory in the 1990s Japan. Offering a genealogy of platform thinking around the automobile and then the internet, this paper traces an unlikely link between managerial theory around automobile manufacture from the 1980s, to the development of platform theory in the 1990s in Japan, to internet-based contemporary platforms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11338", "words": "1590", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Stewart, Nicole; Lesage, Frederik", "title": "SEARCHING FOR TASKS: TASK-ORIENTATION AND THE PROCESSUALITY OF DIGITAL SKILLS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "ingold; media; skills; task", "summary": "Our focus for this project is an investigation into how people perform unfamiliar tasks with digital media using the four processional phases. Unfamiliar tasks are an inherent part of our digitally-mediated everyday life to the extent that we have learned to \u2018cope\u2019 (see Sigaut 1994; see Ingold, 2000, p. 332; see also Nicolosi & Falsaperna, 2015, p. 71) with them \u2014 making them, in turn, one of our most ubiquitous and essential digital skills.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11339", "words": "1586", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Stoltenberg, Daniela", "title": "CHALLENGING SPATIAL MARGINALIZATION THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNICATION? A CASE STUDY OF THE TWITTER DISCOURSE ON HOUSING IN BERLIN", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "attention; berlin; discourse; districts; media", "summary": "Empirically, the contribution asks: In what ways is the representation of urban locations through place-naming in social media issue discourses distributed along the lines of spatialized social stratification? utilities, new contracts) .10 1.00 Rent Increase (2009 to 2017) .01 1.00 Nagelkerke\u2019s Pseudo-R2 .75 Dependent variable: n = Significance: Note: Number of references per Berlin district in N = 10,943 with at least one such reference 96 Berlin districts *: p <.05; **: p <.01; ***: p <.001 SE = standard error; Exp(B) = odds ratio Discussion and Outlook These results reveal an intriguing, if confusing picture of the issue spatiality of the housing discourse in Berlin\u2019s Twittersphere.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11340", "words": "1311", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Stromer-Galley, Jennifer; Hemsley, Jeff; Rossini, Patricia; Smith, Alexander; Bolden, Sarah", "title": "DOES ANYONE TALK ABOUT THE ISSUES ANYMORE? THE 2016 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES' MESSAGING ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "candidates; facebook; policy; twitter", "summary": "Given the large number of candidates in the race, and the prior scholarship that suggests that the political parties own certain topics (Petrocik, 1996) and that political candidates will work to differentiate themselves from their opponents by owning certain policies (Arbour, 2013), we ask: (RQ2) Political communication scholars have long observed the shifting relationship between political candidates, their party, and the centrality of each to the voting public in the United States (Hacker, 2004; Jamieson, 1996).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11341", "words": "1301", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Sutherland, Karen Elizabeth", "title": "GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES OF WORK-RELATED IMPACTS TO DIGITAL WELL-BEING BY SOCIAL MEDIA PROFESSIONALS - A PILOT STUDY", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "media; professionals; study; work", "summary": "Social media work: Reshaping organisational communications, extracting digital value. Research exploring social media professionals has focused on specific countries and geographical regions (e.g. Australia and Europe).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11342", "words": "1271", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Swart, Joelle", "title": "TACTICS OF ALGORITHMIC LITERACY: HOW YOUNG PEOPLE UNDERSTAND AND NEGOTIATE ALGORITHMIC NEWS SELECTION", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "algorithms; media; news; people", "summary": "Therefore, this paper adopts a wider focus to understand how young smartphone users in general perceive, negotiate and resist algorithmic news selection, focusing on social media in particular. Yet, little is known about how news users actually understand the workings of algorithmic news curation and how and under what circumstances they engage with these selections.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11343", "words": "1211", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Szulc, Lukasz", "title": "DIGITAL GENDER DISIDENTIFICATIONS: QUEER MIGRANTS AND TRANSNATIONAL CULTURES OF GENDER DIVERSITY", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "disidentifications; diversity; gender; media", "summary": "The main contribution of the paper is to reveal the abundant practices of digital gender disidentifications, which I categorize into 1) strategic disidentifications (disidentifying instrumentally for different reasons, e.g. to protect oneself against microaggressions or dumbing down one\u2019s identifications to remain intelligible), 2) contextual disidentifications (disidentifying differently in different contexts, e.g. on different social media platforms or when using different languages), and 3) doubtful disidentifications (disidentifying as a result of questioning identifications, e.g. questioning one\u2019s right to a particular identification or questioning the finality of one\u2019s identification). The twenty-first century has observed the emergence of new practices of gender diversity, which eschew rigid gender binary and proliferate new gender labels, including \u201cnonbinary,\u201d \u201cgenderfluid,\u201d and \u201cagender.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11344", "words": "1228", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Tam\u00f2 Larrieux, Aurelia; Fosch Villaronga, Eduard; Velidi, Shruthi; Viljoen, Salome; Lutz, Christoph; B\u00fcchi, Moritz", "title": "PERCEPTIONS OF ALGORITHMIC PROFILING ON FACEBOOK AND THEIR SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "data; facebook; profiling", "summary": "Notably, this research has shown that many users are unaware of the existence of algorithms, for example those which curate news feeds (Eslami et al., 2015), and that a majority feels uncomfortable with algorithmic profiling on Facebook (Hiltin & Rainie, 2019). In our research, we investigate perceptions of algorithmic profiling on Facebook by addressing the following questions: What user narratives of profiling on Facebook exist?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11345", "words": "1253", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Taylor, Hannah; Meisner, Colten", "title": "WHAT DO YOU WEIGH? POPULAR FEMINISM AND BODY POSITIVITY AS MEDIATED DISEMBODIMENT", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "body; feminism; positivity; self", "summary": "This movement, now millions in reach, signals a departure from the conventions of body positivity. Body positivity initially rose to prominence as a component of the radical and fringe ideologies that included public anti-discrimination protests and anti-capitalist advocacy against the diet industry (Mull, 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11346", "words": "1202", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Thorhauge, Anne Mette", "title": "THE STEAM PLATFORM ECONOMY: CAPITALISING FROM PLAYER-DRIVEN ECONOMIES ON THE INTERNET.", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "game; platform; steam", "summary": "Indeed, the platform interface covers a number of diverse markets or sites of economic transaction including the Game store, where game developers sell their games to players, the Steam workshop where modders may or may not engage in economic transactions with developers and the Steam community market where players can trade game items between them. The introduction of direct economic transactions between game developers and modders in the context of the Steam workshop has given rise to some controversy between modders and game developers on the ideal \u2018non-capitalist\u2019 nature of modding (Joseph, 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11347", "words": "1263", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Ticona, Julia; Tsapatsaris, Ryan", "title": "PLATFORM COUNTERPUBLICS: GOSSIP & CONTESTED KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ONLINE LABOR PLATFORMS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "labor; platform; reviews; workers", "summary": "Second, we point to the implications of platform counterpublics for the investigation of platform labor and algorithms. Extending counterpublics theories (Warner 2002; Fraser 1990), we examine over 3,000 online reviews of a labor platform, Care.com, finding that both workers and clients use gossip to create a platform counterpublic that constructs a counternarrative about platform business practices.1 While previous studies suggest that different platform stakeholders have conflicting interests, we find that platform counterpublics draw both workers and clients together to draw boundaries demarcating acceptable platform business practices.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11348", "words": "1331", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Tiidenberg, Katrin; van der Nagel, Emily", "title": "WHAT'S AT STAKE WHEN SEX IS DEPLATFORMED?", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "media; people; platforms; sex", "summary": "If we accept the significance of sexual social media experiences, their deplatforming becomes matter of much broader societal relevance than a private corporation\u2019s whim regarding an irrelevant group of \u201cperverts\u201d. Our second group of arguments pertain to sexual social media practices as identity work and in particular to the everyday tactics (de Certeau (1988 [1984]) of pushing back against spaces organized by the powerful.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11349", "words": "1228", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Tikka, Minttu Tuulia; Sumiala, Johanna; Harju, Anu; Valaskivi, Katja", "title": "WEAPONIZATION OF LIVENESS: STREAMING DEATH AS A HYBRID MEDIA EVENT OF TERRORIST VIOLENCE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "event; hybrid; liveness; media", "summary": "Weaponization of Liveness: How Live Streaming Activates Hybrid Media Events of Extreme Violence. Thus, the concept of hybrid media event here refers to the type of media event of violence that is typically created in and by digital media, where legacy media together with other media actors (including perpetrators) all contribute to the \u2018live making and sharing\u2019 of violence (Sumiala et al. 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11350", "words": "1274", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Tomlinson, Christine; Anderson-Coto, Maria J.", "title": "SOWING SEEDS OF DISTRUST: VIDEO GAME PLAYER PERCEPTIONS OF COMPANIES IN ONLINE FORUMS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "companies; esports; game; video", "summary": "Video game companies have recognized these communities as important spaces for spreading the word for their games and maintaining bonds with their audience (Ruggles, Wadley, & Gibbs, 2005). From our analysis, many players discuss video game companies as beacons of obsession with profit, leaving audiences feeling forgotten or seen as a means to a financial end.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11352", "words": "1124", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Trott, Verity; Beckett, Jennifer; Paech, Venessa", "title": "TUNING OUT HATE SPEECH ON REDDIT: AUTOMATING MODERATION AND DETECTING TOXICITY IN THE MANOSPHERE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "community; reddit; toxicity", "summary": "This paper contributes to thinking about the role and suitability of ML for content moderation on community platforms such as Reddit and Facebook. Reddit has responded to the mounting public scrutiny by sanctioning subreddit communities that are deemed offensive to the mainstream public.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11353", "words": "1366", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Tynes, Robert; Pearl, Alex", "title": "FNCKING WITH WHITE FRAMES: TEEJAYX6 SCAM RAPS THE DIGITAL", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "internet; rap; scam; teejayx6; whiteness", "summary": "Ever since Kolko et al. (2000) published Race in Cyberspace, internet studies has tried to tease out how race plays out on the internet. \u201cRace and Racism in Internet Studies: A Review and a Critique.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11354", "words": "1262", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Valdovinos Kaye, David Bondy; Rodriguez, Aleesha; Wikstrom, Patrik", "title": "YOU MADE THIS? I MADE THIS: CULTURES OF AUTOMATIC (MIS)ATTRIBUTION ON TIKTOK", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "attribution; audio; content; platform; tiktok", "summary": "Using a combination of an app walkthrough, a bespoke data scraping tool, content analysis, and a series of qualitative case studies, this study explores the contradictory logic of authorship and how (mis)attribution is shaping cultural production and platform practices on TikTok. A key affordance for user-generated content creators on TikTok is how easy the platform makes reproducing popular videos.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11355", "words": "1281", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Velkova, Julia; Brodie, Patrick", "title": "DISSOLVED CLOUDS: ERICSSON'S VAUDREUIL DATA CENTRE AND INFRASTRUCTURAL ABANDONMENT", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "centre; data; ericsson; vaudreuil", "summary": "Tech giants and smaller actors alike have been fervently constructing data centres to enable these practices, animating hopes and promises for \u2018a fourth industrial revolution\u2019 and likewise new paths of value creation within digital capitalism. This paper engages with infrastructural abandonment that emerges in the process of rapid construction of data centres.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11356", "words": "1215", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Venter, Marija Anja", "title": "PATCHWORKED MEDIA: MOBILE DEVICES AND CREATIVE PRACTICE IN CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "design; mobile; people; south", "summary": "I argue that mobile devices here indeed did offer a kind of \u201cparticipatory turn\u201d (Perkel, 2011) in providing affordances that were previously not available to young people from such contexts: the ability to take, edit and share photographs, and chat to people who are located elsewhere. Owing to high data costs, young people only used services and platforms that were cheap and free.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11357", "words": "1796", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Vickery, Jacqueline Ryan", "title": "THE MEMEIFICATION OF #SCHOOLSHOOTINGS IN THE U.S.: YOUTH, TIKTOK, AND PLAYFUL MEDIATED BODIES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "media; school; shootings; tiktok; videos", "summary": "Focusing on the mediated memeification of school shootings, there exists an entire genre of #darkhumor videos on TikTok in which young people create and circulate irreverent humorous media texts as a response to the constant threat of \u2013 and perceived political inaction to - school shootings in the U.S.1 Through an analysis of teens\u2019 #darkhumor school shooting videos on TikTok, this paper asks: what can we learn about how young people understand cultural trauma through an examination of their playful and memetic social media practices? Visual and Discursive Analysis There are at least three genres of #schoolshooting meme videos that I have identified which can be organized alongside two intersecting axes: the use of particular memetic themes (e.g. narratives, tropes, music, visuals) and their memetic function (e.g. parody, critique, coping).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11358", "words": "1371", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Vlassenroot, Eveline Maria Florentina; Chambers, Sally; Geeraert, Friedel; Mechant, Peter", "title": "REQUIREMENTS AND DESIDERATA FOR THE SCHOLARY USE OF WEB ARCHIVES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "archival; archives; research; use; web", "summary": "Thus, gaining insight into the needs and requirements of users of web archives is essential especially for web archives that are currently taking shape (as is the case in Belgium). The perceived challenges of using web archives for research are well-documented in recent publications and research initiatives such as the BUDDAH project and RESAW.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11359", "words": "1308", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Wang, Wilfred Yang; Yang, Yanan Jana", "title": "DINING \u2018ON AND OFF\u2019: FOOD, WELLBEING AND WECHAT USE AMONG OLDER CHINES MIGRANTS IN AUSTRALIA", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "australia; chinese; media; wechat", "summary": "Redefining migrant media The surge of old Chinese migrants in Australia since early 2000s has coincided the global expansion of the PRC (People\u2019s Republic of China) media (Kean and Wu 2018), which is particularly visible in Australia (Sun 2019). Food, Wellbeing and Wechat Use Among Older Chinese Migrants in Australia .", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11360", "words": "1267", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Welsh, Sarah", "title": "BURYING THE DEAD (USERS): A LIFE OF DATA WITHIN LIMITS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "data; digital; remains", "summary": "Because there is no end in sight for death as a force of life, and because digital media technologies proliferate among users across the globe, the goals of this paper are twofold: to review the sustainability of solutions to the afterlife of digital remains, and to outline solutions that allow digital zombies to live within LIMITS, or to exist in the same ephemeral spaces as our physical bodies. That is, this paper questions the life of digital data that can be maintained and can even grow after a user passes on.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11362", "words": "1342", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Wijermars, Mari\u00eblle; Lokot, Tetyana", "title": "THE POLITICS OF INTERNET FREEDOM RANKINGS: A CALL FOR A COMPARATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING INTERNET FREEDOM", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "freedom; governance; internet; use", "summary": "The conceptualization and operationalization of the concept of internet freedom that underlies internet freedom rankings is of particular importance since the promotion of internet freedom is an integral part of foreign policy of, e.g., the US and EU (e.g. the EU Action Plan for Human Rights and Democracy 2020-2024), and rankings serve as an important source of information and justification for prioritizing funding and efforts (Mar\u00e9chal, 2015). In particular, it aims to initiate a debate ultimately leading to the development of a groundbreaking comparative framework for assessing internet policy, departing from the assumption that current frameworks for assessing and measuring internet freedom are predicated too strictly on the dichotomy of democracy/non-democracy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11363", "words": "1279", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Willcox, Marissa Grace; Hickey-Moody, Anna Catherine", "title": "QUEER MATERIALITIES AND INSTAGRAM LIVE INTERVIEWING: COMMUNITY ENTANGLEMENTS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "community; digital; human; queer", "summary": "With this theoretical frame in mind, we invite discussion on how we can redefine the ethics of digital community making through queering notions of online and offline material ways of being. Therefore, we reconsider the idea of the digital community to assert that digital community making has become an essential human and nonhuman life form which is necessary for our times.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11364", "words": "1253", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Wimmer, Jeffrey; Waldenburger, Lisa", "title": "DIGITAL STRESS IN EVERYDAY LIFE", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "stress; und", "summary": "How do they describe digital stress, is it different from other forms of stress and how does digital stress express itself? DIGITAL STRESS IN EVERYDAY LIFE Jeffrey Wimmer University Augsburg \u2013 Department for Media, Knowledge and Communication Lisa Waldenburger University Augsburg \u2013 Department for Media, Knowledge and Communication Research question: What is digital stress?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11365", "words": "1732", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Witt, Alice E A; Rivera, Yonaira M", "title": "IMAGES OF POST-MASTECTOMY SCARRING ON INSTAGRAM: AN EVALUATION OF CONTENT MODERATION AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "content; images; instagram; mastectomy; moderation; women", "summary": "In general, women who undergo mastectomies face unique experiences related to body image, with some expressing feelings of empowerment in light of this procedure.17 Content moderation that is consistent with Instagram\u2019s policies may provide additional support for the effective use of this platform to promote body positivity,18 which can be leveraged for interventions that share the lived experiences of breast cancer survivors. Body image.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11366", "words": "1306", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Won, Andrea Stevenson; Davis, Donna Zimmerman", "title": "EVOLVING IDENTITY ECONOMIES IN SOCIAL VIRTUAL WORLDS", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "environments; immersive; reality; worlds", "summary": "However, properly understanding how users experience embodiment in social VR will also require a deep understanding of the history of social virtual worlds such as the now 17-year-old Second Life. Author #1 Andrea Stevenson Won Author #1 Cornell University Author #2 Donna Z. Davis Author #2 University of Oregon How have the cultures, economies and expectations of virtual worlds influenced users\u2019 assumptions of privacy and the ability to express identity in immersive virtual worlds?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11367", "words": "1300", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Young, Chris J.; Nieborg, David B.; Joseph, Daniel J.", "title": "BRINGING YOUR VISION TO LIFE: PRODUCTION PLATFORMS AND INDUSTRY UNITY", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "industry; platform; production; technologies; unity", "summary": "\u201cBringing your vision to life\u201d: Production platforms and industry Unity. Thus far, research on apps has predominantly focused on app distribution platforms, platform governance, app usage, and \u2018culture in the age of apps\u2019 (Morris & Murray, 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11368", "words": "1277", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Younis, Muhammad; Ribak, Rivka; Abu Baker, Khaula", "title": "LIVING WITH THE SMARTPHONE: RELIGIOUS MUSLIM FAMILIES IN ISRAEL PRACTICE MOBILITY AND PIETY", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "children; family; israel; media", "summary": "In this paper, we explore some practices and meanings involved in the adoption of the smartphone among religious Muslim families in Israel. Religion: The main characteristic of Muslim religious practices is their independence from space, suggesting \u201contological connection between mobility and Islam\u201d (Ba\u011fl\u0131, 2015, p. 309).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11369", "words": "2965", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Zimmer, Michael; Chapman, Edward", "title": "ETHICAL REVIEW BOARDS AND PERVASIVE DATA RESEARCH: GAPS AND OPPORTUNITIES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "data; irb; protocols; research; researchers; respondents", "summary": "Over two-thirds of the respondents indicated that no specific training was provided for IRB members to address the ethics of pervasive data research, and over 90 percent noted the absence any specific set of guidelines for reviewing protocols that rely on pervasive data. Other scenarios share this feature, suggesting confusion exists across IRB members regarding how to address pervasive data research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11408", "words": "1664", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Iliadis, Andrew; Pedersen, Isabel", "title": "THE FABRIC OF DIGITAL LIFE: BUILDING AN INTERNET ARCHIVE FOR EMBODIED TECHNOLOGY", "date": "2017.0", "keywords": "archive; embodied; fabric; technologies; technology; wearables", "summary": "The fabric of digital life: Building an internet archive for embodied technology. While wearables have quickly become a highly visible form of embodied technology, wearables often act as misnomers that incorrectly identify alternative embeddable technologies (items like prosthetics) and their myriad processes or exclude non- traditional forms of wearables such as ingestibles and implantables (Iliadis and Pedersen, 2016).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11410", "words": "4980", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Iliadis, Andrew; Pulsifer, Peter; Lauriault, Tracey; Couldry, Nick; Mejias, Ulises Ali", "title": "SOCIAL ONTOLOGY IN BIG DATA ORGANIZING", "date": "2018.0", "keywords": "data; homeless; information; intake; knowledge; media; new; ontologies; ontology; paper; services; systems; university", "summary": "Data ontologies are an update to those problems, complicated by semantics (\u201cwho counts what?\u201d). Social ontology in big data organizing.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11426", "words": "1284", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Uldbjerg, Signe; Hendry, Natalie; Gerrard, Ysabel", "title": "METHODS THAT MOVE US: CREATIVITY AND ETHICS IN RESEARCHING DIGITAL YOUTH CULTURES", "date": "2020.0", "keywords": "hendry; methods; people; research", "summary": "ROUNDTABLE: METHODS THAT MOVE US: CREATIVITY AND ETHICS IN RESEARCHING DIGITAL YOUTH CULTURES Signe Uldbjerg Aarhus University Natalie Hendry RMIT University Ysabel Gerrard University of Sheffield For scholars exploring digital youth cultures, creative research methods offer the potential to disrupt existing power imbalances, form empowering creative practices or closely engage with knowledge production that is dynamic, embodied and socially contextual. Yet the experience of doing creative research methods poses challenges that are often under- or unacknowledged in our work.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11855", "words": "1305", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Amit-Danhi, Eedan", "title": "FACTS OF (FINANCIAL) LIFE: POLITICAL POWER AND RE-VISUALIZATION STRATEGIES ON SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "actors; fig; media; power", "summary": "Accordingly, I ask: How do different types of political actors visualize the same political reality? While studies have looked at political mechanisms of visualizations, the interplay depicted in this study provides much needed insight into the wide variety of strategies this growing genre provides political actors of all types for the dissemination of both benign and dis- informative visualized messages on social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11857", "words": "1269", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Ataman, Jimil", "title": "PERFORMING LIFESTYLE POLITICS: EXPLORING THE SLOW FASHION COMMUNITY ON INSTAGRAM", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "community; fashion; instagram; lifestyle; politics", "summary": "Recently slow fashion practitioners have been using their slow fashion performances to publicly navigate issues of race, class, gender, and ethics present in slow fashion and the broader fashion industry. At first glance slow fashion Instagram appears to consist mostly of perfectly manicured photos of highly curated outfits, accessories or clothing.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11859", "words": "1345", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Aziz, Abdul", "title": "A REPERTOIRE OF EVERYDAY RESISTANCE AND TECHNOLOGICAL (IN)SECURITY: CONSTRUCTING THE ROHINGYA DIASPORA AND TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITY POLITICS ON SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "digital; everyday; identity; media; resistance", "summary": "To situate the conceptualisation of everyday digital media practices in diasporic settings, I use Scott\u2019s (1985) concept of \u201ceveryday forms of resistance\u201d with a combination of Goffman\u2019s (1959) work on self-representation. A repertoire of everyday resistance and technological (in)security: Constructing the Rohingya diaspora and transnational identity politics on social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11861", "words": "1327", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Baasanjav, Undrah", "title": "MONGOLIA\u2019S INDEPENDENT INTERNET?", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "development; information; internet; media; mongolia", "summary": "Prices for internet services remained high in Mongolia until mobile phone operators including MobiCom and Skytel, joint ventures with Japanese Sumitomo and South Korean Telecom, started to provide data packages. and \u2022 What are some benefits and pitfalls of the development of communication technology, the internet, and social media in Mongolia? and \u2022 What legal challenges does the Mongolian legal system face in relation to online speech and privacy-related controversies and how does it address them?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11862", "words": "1402", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Badola, Anand", "title": "DIGITAL SITES OF PROTEST: FARMERS\u2019 PROTEST IN INDIA AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A COLLECTIVE IDENTITY ON FACEBOOK", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "facebook; media; page; protest", "summary": "While the debate around social media and their effectiveness in offline protests revolves around their use as an innovative means of communication, and mobilisation, leading to collective action (Howard & Hussain, 2013) some claim that digital activism has really no hard influence on offline activism (Morozov, 2011). Digital Sites of Protest: Farmers\u2019 Protest in India and the Construction of a Collective Identity on Facebook.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11863", "words": "1412", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Barnes, Naomi Joy", "title": "THE ONLINE LIFE OF LITERACY EDUCATION: HOW THE 2018 #PHONICSDEBATE IS RESHAPING THE FIELD", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "aoir; field; literacy; media", "summary": "Figure 2 shows that USP advocates harnessed the collectivising power of social media, legacy news media, and professional (teacher journals) media, effectively blanketing social media content with their perspective. Microsoft Word - Barnes-The online life of literacy education-The online life of literacy education.docx Selected Papers of #AoIR2021: The 22nd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Virtual Event / 13-16 Oct 2021 Suggested Citation (APA): Lastname, Firstinitial.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11869", "words": "1276", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Berge, PS", "title": "GO BACK IN YOUR FETUS CAVE: HOW PREDATORY INFLUENCERS MANIPULATE AUDIENCES THROUGH PLATFORM RETREATS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "thompson; twitter; videos; youtube", "summary": "This was exacerbated by several factors: the censorship on Thompson\u2019s channel, where criticizing Thompson directly was difficult; the ignorance of his own fans, unlikely to be on Twitter and hence shielded from the scandal; and the toxic praxis of YouTube drama videos as a genre. Because Thompson\u2019s primary fanbase was teenagers who were already subscribed to him, there was a direct correlation between time of upload and negative criticism on YouTube comments, as it took critics (including from Twitter) longer to reach Thompson\u2019s videos.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11871", "words": "1399", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Bergstrom, Kelly", "title": "WHAT IS BEHIND THE (GLASS)DOOR? EXAMINING TOXIC WORKPLACE CULTURES VIA AN EMPLOYMENT REVIEW SITE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "company; employees; game; industry; riot", "summary": "In an effort to collect data in a way that reduces the risks faced by current employees, game scholars have begun to investigate public texts written for and by game industry professionals. While the reviewer left it vague, fairly graphic humour\u2014when viewed in the context provided by D'Anastasio\u2019s interviews with current employees describing toxic masculinity pervading Riot\u2019s workplace culture where even men might find themselves having their genitals groped\u2014it becomes much easier to read between the lines.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11873", "words": "1255", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Bettoni, Dimitri", "title": "VIGILANT JOURNALISM: ETHICAL AND DEONTOLOGICAL DILEMMAS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "journalism; surveillance; technology; use", "summary": "Journalists rightly fear surveillance technology when it is used to threaten their professional independency. Do journalists need to review their deontological guidelines for the use of surveillance technology in journalism?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11874", "words": "1270", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Bhallamudi, Isha", "title": "GIRLS, GADGETS AND GATEKEEPERS: HOW GENDER AND CLASS ASPIRATIONS SHAPE ADOLESCENT ACCESS TO MOBILE PHONES IN MUMBAI, INDIA", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "class; girls; phones", "summary": "Taylor 2019; Poushter 2016), despite the fact that the majority of the world\u2019s population relies on mobile phone sharing, which is egregiously understudied, to access mobile phones (Donner 2008). GIRLS, GADGETS AND GATEKEEPERS: HOW GENDER AND CLASS ASPIRATIONS SHAPE ADOLESCENT ACCESS TO MOBILE PHONES IN MUMBAI, INDIA Isha Bhallamudi UC Irvine Research Question, Context and Methods Indian society, broadly speaking, views mobile phones as simultaneously a cause of risk to girls and women, and a way to reduce the risks they face; as an artefact that poses dangers but also represents safety; that offers opportunities to empower individuals and at the same time the potential to disrupt the social order of class, caste and gender and its internal hierarchies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11875", "words": "1259", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Bhattacharya, Laboni", "title": "THE AFFECTIVE BODY: PLATFORMED PRESENCE AND VIRTUAL EMBODIMENT IN THE POPULIST POLITICS OF NARENDRA MODI", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "affective; body; hindu; modi; yoga", "summary": "In pre-COVID celebrations of Yoga Day, Modi made highly choreographed and often mocked appearances in mass demonstrations of yoga where he visibly struggled to model the competencies that his virtual body demonstrates. Yoga Day is part of a general UN mission of world health, but in India, the Modi administration has rapidly created state infrastructure that officializes yoga\u2019s role in disciplining unruly bodies and minds.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11877", "words": "1279", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Bitman, Nomy", "title": "RETHINKING VISIBILITY, PERSONALIZATION AND REPRESENTATION: DISABILITY ACTIVISM IN SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "activism; activists; disability; media", "summary": "These narratives are generated using two central features of social media activism: visibility and personalization (Barrasi, 2018). These elements are not only essential to social media activism in general, but also may be conflictual for activists with concealable communicative disabilities, given their diverse functioning nature and the potential stigma.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11879", "words": "1575", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "boler, megan", "title": "AFFECTIVE DISCOURSE ANALYSIS AND SOCIAL MEDIA: METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN THE CROSS-PLATFORM STUDY OF EMOTION AND RACE ON TWITTER, GAB, AND FACEBOOK", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "affective; analysis; emotion; media; social", "summary": "The talk shares some of the challenges faced in developing this novel approach we term affective discourse analysis, addressing the following issues: x cross-platform data access and challenges posed by ensuring symmetry of coding across platforms x limitations of academic access to big data x challenges and limitations of qualitative research data software Atlas.ti x the challenge of identifying and interpreting emotional expressions embedded within social media text x developing a coding system with credible intercoder agreement, particularly given the intrinsically subjective nature of coding emotion Contributing to a nascent field of mixed-methods studies related to affect within social media, this talk invites discussion of the importance of interdisciplinary study of affect and emotion in social media, and how qualitative research can augment quantitative methods of sentiment analysis (Bouvier and Rosenbaum 2020). Scholars are challenged to develop innovative methods for studying emotion and affect within studies of popular culture, social media, and political communications (Boler and Davis 2020).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11882", "words": "1442", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Butt, Mahli-Ann", "title": "HOW WE ARE (NOT)COPING UNDER THE NEW GAMING PUBLIC: AN EXISTENTIAL-MATERIALIST ETHNOGRAPHY OF LIFEWORLDS WITHIN (AND AGAINST) GAMER HEGEMONY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "feminist; gaming; public; research", "summary": "Accordingly, feminist critiques of sexist, racists, and homophobic depictions of in-game characters will often also seek to promote the \u2018diversification\u2019 of games industry workforces in order to achieve overall \u2018greater representation\u2019 from the ground up. Anna Everett declares, \u201ca sign of our millennial times\u201d is that gaming journalists are more willing than ever to \u201craise concerns about race, gender, and sexuality discourses in gaming culture and the gaming industry complex,\u201d (2017, p. ix).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11886", "words": "1561", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Cirucci, Angela M", "title": "VIRTUAL LEARNING AFFORDANCES AND IDENTITY: A CASE STUDY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "learning; media; students; zoom", "summary": "While how to engage students online is a popular topic of study, largely left out are the ways in which the VLEs themselves have implications for student identity maintenance and, consequently, learning quality. Indeed, social media apps allow students to craft identities and edit before posting; but VLEs, although borrowing some social media functionalities, place students in new, live contexts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11887", "words": "1312", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Cooper, Zane Griffin Talley", "title": "THE DEEP TIME OF BITCOIN: EXCAVATING THE \"WORK\" IN PROOF-OF-WORK CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEMS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "bitcoin; energy; information; systems; work", "summary": "THE DEEP TIME OF BITCOIN: EXCAVATING THE \u201cWORK\u201d IN PROOF- OF-WORK CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEMS Zane Griffin Talley Cooper University of Pennsylvania The generation1 of Bitcoins requires a radically, intimately material relationship between information and energy\u2013a relationship that is often dirty, messy, heavy, and above all things, extremely hot. While all data infrastructures depend on vast amounts of thermal maintenance (Moro, 2021), as a single-purpose data practice, proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain systems, and Bitcoin specifically, bring these thermocultural relationships (Starosielski, 2016) into sharp relief, and at a profoundly large scale.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11889", "words": "1273", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Corry, Frances", "title": "AS IN LIFE, SO IN DEATH: EMPLOYEE VALUES AND CONTENT PRESERVATION DURING PLATFORM CLOSURE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "content; employees; platform; user", "summary": "Conclusion This paper examines the ethical approaches that platform employees bring to the process of platform shutdown and user content deletion. Drawing on literature on values in technology (e.g. Friedman, Kahn, & Borning, 2006), technological breakdown and decline (e.g. Jackson, 2014), as well as from critical approaches to platforms (e.g. Van Dijck, Poell & De Waal, 2018), this research articulates the ways that platform employees understand the ethics of social media data deletion, and how these ethics come to shape what remains of these platforms after they close.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11890", "words": "1289", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Cote, Amanda Catharine", "title": "THE PROS AND PERILS OF INTERDEPENDENCE: FEMINIST ORGANIZING IN ONLINE GAME FORUMS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "female; feminist; forums; online", "summary": "The pros and perils of interdependence: Feminist organizing in online game forums. Initial analysis focused on the top 100 posts per search term (600 total), coding each for the following variables: 1) relevance (e.g. a thread on toxic players would be relevant; a thread on a toxic waste environment in a game would not) 2) number of likes 3) number of comments 4) overall topic (e.g. venting, sexism, news, meme, etc.; up to three labels/post) Given the sensitive nature of conversations about harassment, the searchability of online forums, and in line with ethical guidelines for internet research (e.g. Franzke et al., 2020), I am choosing not to identify the specific forums or quote from them directly.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11895", "words": "1208", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Davies, Hugh", "title": "POLITICAL GAMES IN VIRTUAL HONG KONG", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "games; hong; kong; protest", "summary": "Discussing a number of videogames that were specifically developed as objects of protest such as Liberate Hong Kong (2019), Revolution in Our Time (2019), and Add Oil (2019), this paper also considers the ways in which existing digital games such as GTAV (2013), Pok\u00e9mon GO (2016), Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020) as well as digital platforms such as Twitch, Airdrop, and Uber were tactically deployed as sites of protest by Hong Kong activists. Lacking formal or centralised leadership, Hong Kong activists structured their activities in social media and game spaces, using these digital platforms to recruit new participants, to plan and enact protest events, and to advance their activist agenda.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11900", "words": "1285", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Demirkol Tonnesen, Naciye Ozlem", "title": "PERCEIVED INTERCONNECTEDNESS AND THE DEPENDENCE ON AMBIENT CONTEXT ON TWITTER DURING ELECTIONS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "context; tweets; twitter", "summary": "In this paper, I explore the role of ambient context in the encoding and decoding of tweets and the ways such tweets signal perceived affective interconnectedness between users. Such tweets that are often emotionally charged and conversational allude to shared sorrows, experiences and feelings which are essential in the affective bonding of users however ephemeral it may be (Papacharissi, 2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11901", "words": "1552", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Dezuanni, Michael Luigi", "title": "TIKTOK\u2019S PEER PEDAGOGIES - LEARNING ABOUT BOOKS THROUGH #BOOKTOK VIDEOS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "books; learning; pedagogies; peer; videos", "summary": "The paper shows how #booktok videos typically include practices such as \u2018selfies\u2019 and \u2018shelfies\u2019 featuring book stacks and book hauls, brief commentaries about books, micro- reviews, and explanations about book related practices such as shelving, and room design. Tiktok\u2019s Peer Pedagogies - Learning About Books Through #Booktok Videos.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11902", "words": "1317", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "30", "author": "Doyle, Dylan Thomas", "title": "TOWARDS OPERATIONALIZING WHITE MALE ACCOUNTABILITY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPMENT INTERROGATING IMPACTS OF AND SOLUTIONS TO OVERREPRESENTATION UTILIZING RELATIONAL ETHICS FRAMEWORKS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "spaces; technology; white", "summary": "The Problem The benefits of AI technology spaces disproportionately advantage white educated men at the expense of disadvantaging gender minorities, people of color, and other under- represented groups.1 This is true at every level of AI technology spaces from the design stage to who these technologies predominantly help when they are applied on the consumer end to whose voices get featured most prominently in media representation about AI technology news.2 in AI technology spaces based in relational morality and identity dialogue the hope is that those embedded ethical values will trickle down into the downstream outputs of those spaces such as AI technology.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11903", "words": "1312", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Drainville, Raymond Alderic", "title": "EX NUGIS SERIA: THE INTERNET MEME AS CONTEMPORARY EMBLEM", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "emblems; image; internet; meme", "summary": "THE INTERNET MEME AS CONTEMPORARY EMBLEM Author Name: Ray Drainville Author Institution: Stratford School of Interaction Design and Busines, University of Waterloo, Canada Extended studies of Internet memes situate them broadly under Dawkins\u2019 (1976) conception of the meme as a \u201ccultural unit\u201d of communicative information (Shifman, 2014; Milner, 2016; Wiggins, 2019), typically reducing a meme\u2019s visual aspect to a \u201cvisual \u2018action verb\u2019\u201d (Milner, 2016:68). I argue that an important parallel for understanding contemporary memes has been neglected: emblematic imagery arising from the early publishing culture of the European Renaissance.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11905", "words": "1176", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Dutta, Anmol", "title": "IS OTT IN INDIA \u2018OVER-THE-TOP\u2019? RE-PRESENTATION, REGULATION AND RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS IN INDIAN OTT", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "india; netflix; ott; regulation", "summary": "The recent OTT (over-the-top) regulation measures in India brings Netflix India and Amazon Prime Video, among other subscription based video platforms under the ambit of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. A few weeks after the release of the adaptation of Vikram Seth\u2019s A Suitable Boy on Netflix India in November 2020, furore erupted as a result of an on-screen kiss shared between a Hindu girl, Lata and a Muslim boy, Kabir against the backdrop of a temple\u2014calling for a ban on the OTT platform as #BanNetflixIndia trended on Twitter.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11906", "words": "1276", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Edwards, Sarah Elizabeth", "title": "'IF YOU CAN WORK FROM ANYWHERE, WHY WORK ANYWHERE ELSE?': FLEXIBLE CITIZENSHIP, REGIMES OF MOBILITY, AND THE DISCOURSE OF DIGITAL NOMADISM", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "mobility; nomadism; regimes; work", "summary": "While a number of studies have examined how digital nomads understand their own communities and lifestyles, less research has critically examined how various governments have leveraged the category of digital nomadism to encourage independent workers to participate in their economies via remote work. The discourse of digital nomadism thus emerges as a key site at which to examine the cultural logics of globalization, forms of flexible citizenship and capital accumulation, and regimes of (im)mobility that structure the political economy of movement (Ong, 1999; Salazar and Smith, 2011; Glick Schiller and Salazar, 2013).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11907", "words": "1304", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Ems, Lindsay", "title": "VIRTUALLY AMISH: PRESERVING COMMUNITY AT THE INTERNET\u2019S MARGINS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "amish; internet; new; power; press", "summary": "Amish people describe internet technologies as both functional tools and symbols of engagement with, and resistance to the external social world. The everyday lived experience of people working in a capitalist economy that is increasingly fueled by high technology is characterized by increased stress and anxiety (Rosen et al. 2012), increased feelings of loneliness (DiJulio et al. 2018) and an inability to fashion a long-term narrative of one\u2019s life (Sennett 1996).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11910", "words": "1247", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Evans, Jabari Miles", "title": "THE ANATOMY OF DIGITAL CLOUT(CHASING): BLACK AESTHETICS, ONLINE VISIBILITY AND RELATIONAL LABOR AMONG DIY HIP-HOP MUSICIANS ON CHICAGO\u2019S SOUTH SIDE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "clout; hip; hop; media", "summary": "Social media support the strength of fan communities by providing launching pads for these burgeoning artists to speak directly to fans of their music, build personal relationships with them and let them share in their creative process (Baym, 2012). Much research on various forms of Influencers on social media has focused on self-curation (Abidin, 2014; Marwick, 2015; Wissinger, 2015), follower-engagement (Abidin, 2015), authenticity (Hopkins and Thomas, 2011) and advertorial disclosure (Ots and Abidin, 2015), as well as ordinary users as \u2018promotional apparatus\u2019 for brands (Carah and Shaul, 2016) and as participants in electronic word of mouth (Erkan, 2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11911", "words": "1268", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Fitzgerald, Andrew Arthur", "title": "WITNESSING LIKE A USER: MOBILE NOTIFICATIONS AND THE LAYERED CONSTRUCTION OF MEDIATIZED TERRORISM", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "media; news; notifications; push; users", "summary": "This paper provides an embedded examination of mobile media use in line with Kormelink & Meijer\u2019s call for methods affording examination of \u201cmicro-moments\u201d such as video ethnography, tracking, or as used here, screen capture (2018) \u2013 providing analysis of media use across time and close to the rapid level of nonconscious thought at which datafied mobile media often operate (Hayles, 2017). Push notifications are an understudied phenomena in critical audience research and serve as a valuable marker of how micro (both temporally and textually) affordances and features of datafied mobile media can function as mediatized microevents, prompting microrituals in response to these attacks, ascribing an importance that belies not only their relative distance to users or the overall casualty count, but also the users\u2019 time spent with formal news reports of the attack.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11914", "words": "1321", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Gagnon, Jeff", "title": "NO CLOUD WITHOUT SKY: SPECTRUM SOVEREIGNTY AND ETHEREAL REFUSAL", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "internet; press; sovereignty; space; spectrum; university", "summary": "A decolonized cyberspace that promotes the independence of colonized peoples is one that is subject to Indigenous spatial practices including territorial claims and treaty rights and so is one that is recognized as existing within space in a material way. This conceptual disconnection of the internet from land and territory therefore renders it unsustainable as a site for Indigenous resistant practices and decolonial mobilizations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11915", "words": "918", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Gault, Erika", "title": "TRACES OF BLACK FREEDOM IN THE MACHINE: ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF DIGITAL BLACK RELIGION", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "digital; religion; study", "summary": "The work of Black religious media scholars is paired with that of Heidi Campbell and others writing on digital religion to offer a needed approach to the articulation and study of digital Black religion. This paper provides both a survey and framework for the study of digital Black religion.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11917", "words": "1248", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Gekker, Alex", "title": "CLOUD CULTURE: FLUID MEMORIES ON PLATFORM ENCLOSURES", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "cloud; culture; media; platform; web", "summary": "What does it tell us about the stability of cultural products on digital platforms? An analytical framework for fluid cultural objects First, cloud culture highlights modification rather than deletion.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11925", "words": "1323", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Grohmann, Rafael", "title": "PLATFORMIZING DELIVERY WORKERS' EXPERIENCES: BUILDING WORKER-OWNED PLATFORMS IN BRAZIL, SPAIN AND FRANCE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "experiences; initiatives; platforms; workers", "summary": "Entrepreneurial solidarities: Social media collectives and Filipino digital platform workers. Several social media platforms are still being used experimentally.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11926", "words": "1230", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Grosse, Meghan", "title": "INTERDEPENDENCE AND NETWORK OVERSIGHT IN 1990S INTERNET GOVERNANCE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "governance; internet; u.s", "summary": "This archive primarily represents the work on internet governance undertaken within the Department of Commerce, the department under which Clinton moved internet governance policy \u2013 a shift away from previous oversight coming from the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation. In the mid-1990s, the U.S. positioned itself as a leader in global internet governance, overseeing ICANN and by extension the root server system upon which all internet users would rely.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11927", "words": "1295", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Grover, Rohan", "title": "INTERNET GOVERNANCE FOR WHOM? CIVIL SOCIETY, REPRESENTATION, AND DIGITAL RIGHTS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "digital; iff; internet; representation", "summary": "Tjahja\u2019s et al. (2021) finding that CSOs are meant to represent the interests of under-represented communities, rather than interests of CSOs themselves, suggests that internet governance institutions likely expect CSOs to enact strategies that resemble a logic of representation in order to authentically represent community-driven interests, compared to the logic of solidarity observed in IFF\u2019s public engagement. These findings do not undermine the advocacy of IFF, which bravely contests the Indian state\u2019s authoritarian digital practices, but rather it offers a contribution to an emergent understanding of civil society\u2019s role in internet governance, grounded in a critique of representation and legitimacy in the postcolonial state.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11928", "words": "1366", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Gu, Jingyi", "title": "N\u00dcZHUBO AND HER \u201cBROTHERS\u201d: STREAMING LIFE AND MEDIATING INTIMACY AT SCALE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "intimacy; life; streaming; viewers", "summary": "To understand how seemingly intimate social relationships are formed within n\u00fczhubos and their viewers, as well as mediated through the media technology of live streaming, I conducted 8-months digital ethnography on two Chinese live streaming platform, Inke and Huajiao. Chinese affective platform economies: Dating, live streaming, and performative labor on Blued: Media, Culture & Society.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11931", "words": "1743", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "GUO, Jing", "title": "WHEN \u2018HOMELAND\u2019 IS NO LONGER \u2018HOME\u2019, THE IDENTITY CRISIS, THE LOSS OF MOBILITY, AND THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN \u2014\u2014A STUDY OF SOCIAL MEDIA TESTIMONIOS BY CHINESE TRANSNATIONAL WORKERS UNDER COVID-19 GLOBAL PANDEMIC", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "chinese; home; narratives; pandemic; workers", "summary": "Second, under the Covid-19 pandemic, Chinese transnational workers were in a space of uncertainty, high risk and immobility. Through new media technologies, Chinese transnational workers from various locations gathered and reached out to the public.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11932", "words": "1192", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "26", "author": "Han, Xiaofei", "title": "PLATFORM AS NEW \u201cDADDY\u201d: CHINA\u2019S GENDERED WANGHONG ECONOMY AND PATRIARCHAL PLATFORMS BEHIND", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "daddy; economy; platform; wanghong", "summary": "In contrast to the projection of wanghong economy as a new, progressive kind of platform economy that is by the women and for the women, there is a severe, structural gender hierarchy at the senior management level as revealed in Table 1. Ultimately, this paper seeks to combine the industrial analysis of wanghong economy as a prominent \u201cplatform economy\u201d in contemporary China with its cultural dimensions and highlight the critical roles of major Chinese platform companies as not only new critical intermediaries in perpetuating the ongoing patriarchal system between the state and users but also active participants that aggressively profit from their construction of gendered wanghong economy value chains.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11934", "words": "1490", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Harvey, Alison", "title": "PASSION, PIPELINES, AND PRECARITY: WORKING LIVES IN GAMES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF HIGHER EDUCATION", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "education; future; games; industry; talent", "summary": "I explore how the normalization of the above-mentioned professional identities are in some part based on how students in games higher education are exposed to ideas about what working in games looks like. The legibility of this approach to gamesworkers before their entry into the industry can be seen in the ongoing dominance of the talent discourse across the mission statements and activities of major trade bodies such as UKIE, advocacy groups including European Women in Games and BAME (Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic) in Games, and charity organizations like the British Games Institute, which has to date organized two summits focused on games education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11938", "words": "1418", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Hermanova, Marie", "title": "\u201cDO YOUR RESEARCH\u201d: COVID-19, POST-SOCIALIST EXPERIENCE AND THE NARRATIVE OF INFORMATION INDEPENDENCE AMONG CZECH INSTAGRAM INFLUENCERS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "context; czech; influencers; instagram; media", "summary": "The aim of the paper is to analyse the role of lifestyle Instagram influencers in shaping the public narrative that explains COVID-19 as an orchestrated political event aimed at curbing civic freedom in the Czech Republic. While social media influencers undoubtedly play an important role in spreading awareness and sometimes vital information about covid-related situation to their audience (Abidin et al 2020) there\u2019s also evidence of Instagram and TikTok influencers involvement in the spread of conspiracies and false information regarding the pandemic (Maly 2020) and of the role that Instagram influencers played in the mainstreaming of QAnon-related narratives in the US (Remski, 2020).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11941", "words": "1273", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Hilstob, Kayla", "title": "THE IMAGINED INDEPENDENCE OF CANADA\u2019S INTERNET", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "canada; canadian; history; internet", "summary": "As scholars visit questions of future conflicts around internet fragmentation (Mueller 2015), this history further clarifies that disintegration is not novel but a part of internet history and decisions about internet infrastructure can be revisited in the interest of a more equitable distribution of power. This paper examines internet infrastructure from 1965 to 1984, attentive to Canada\u2019s rejection of both cooperation with the United States in developing its internet and Baran\u2019s recommendation for a distributed network on the grounds of concern not of nuclear survivability, but of internal threats: \u201ccivil unrest, sabotage and subversion\u201d (CAF 1985).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11943", "words": "1296", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Hintz, Arne", "title": "TOWARDS CIVIC PARTICIPATION IN THE DATAFIED SOCIETY: CAN CITIZEN ASSEMBLIES DEMOCRATIZE ALGORITHMIC GOVERNANCE?", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "citizens; data; participation; society", "summary": "The part of the project that is discussed in this paper draws on findings from 15 expert interviews conducted between June 2019 and March 2021 with members of government, civil society organizations and providers of citizen engagement fora; extensive desk research on methods and cases of participatory initiatives; and a fact-finding workshop with representatives of relevant institutions and initiatives. We have been interested in the level of participation, the decision-making power and the policy impact of public engagement initiatives, as well as prospects for institutionalizing civic participation at different levels of decision- making.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11944", "words": "1169", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Horne, Chelsea Leigh", "title": "CHOICE AND CONTROL: AN ANALYSIS OF PRIVACY VALUES AND PRIVACY CONTROLS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "default; privacy; settings; users", "summary": "This study considers how platforms\u2019 public-facing rhetoric aligns or differs with the actual implementation of privacy policies and privacy controls. This phone setting is a prime example of how default settings are political.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11946", "words": "1280", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Hurley, Zoe", "title": "TRANSNATIONAL VISUAL INQUIRY: ARAB WOMEN\u2019S INTERDEPENDENT/INDEPENDENT MOVES ON TIKTOK AND INSTAGRAM", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "feminist; inquiry; study; women", "summary": "It takes Instagram and TikTok, image and video sharing platforms, as a case to illustrate examples of Arab women\u2019s curated visual identities. First, in contextual terms, feminist transnational inquiry graphics recognises the long-standing visual traditions of and by Arab women in MENA, across cinema, photography, art, magazines, fashion, mass media, music, dance, other visual and aesthetic modes (Kraidy, 2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11948", "words": "1480", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Inwood, Olivia", "title": "WHITE SUPREMACISTS DECEPTIVELY USING SCREENSHOTS AS EVIDENCE: A SOCIAL SEMIOTIC APPROACH TO ANALYSING CONSPIRATORIAL YOUTUBE VIDEOS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "evidence; fire; screenshots; videos", "summary": "Figure 1 - Sample of the Relationship between Key Bonds and Legitimation Strategies Figure 2 \u2013 Sample of Specific Screenshots linked to Legitimation and Affiliation Strategies Authorisation Moral evaluation Rationalisation Mythopoesis suspicious fire valuable info Legitimate Delegitimate Legitimate Delegitimate truthful clip fearless viewer evil Migrants evil Islam powerful NWO lying authorities powerless Islam evil migrants valuable conspiracy Technological authority Scrolling through the Newsweek website Suspicious fire bond Personal authority Clown Pepe meme associated with white nationalism + \u2018name a more toxic community\u2019 meme Fearless viewer bond Technological authority Scrolling through the Newsweek website Suspicious fire bond Technological authority Screenshots from twitter Highlighted text Suspicious fire bond + Evil Migrants bond Conclusion This paper has highlighted how a social semiotic approach can further illuminate the legitimation of screenshots in conspiratorial YouTube videos and the values that they are attached to. Microsoft Word - Inwood-White Supremacists Deceptively Using Screenshots as Evidence-White Supremacists Deceptively Using.docx Selected Papers of #AoIR2021: The 22nd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Virtual Event / 13-16 Oct 2021 Suggested Citation (APA): Inwood, O. (2021, October).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11950", "words": "1281", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "J\u00e4rvek\u00fclg, Madis", "title": "THE MERGING OF MUSIC CRITICISM AND MUSIC PROMOTION: CONVERGED MUSIC INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS ON FACEBOOK", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "criticism; facebook; media; music", "summary": "This has consequences for the identities, roles, functions of music critics who were once understood as \u2018autonomous gatekeepers\u2019 and \u2018opinion leaders\u2019 (Hirsch, 1972). Therefore, the present study asks: How do music critics and music entrepreneurs in Estonia make use of Facebook?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11951", "words": "1243", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Johnson, Jacqueline Elizabeth", "title": "HANDMADE HUSTLE: ETSY, WHITENESS, AND GENDERED PRECARITY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "boss; etsy; hustling; products", "summary": "In their book Starting an Etsy Business for Dummies, Allison Strine and Kate Shoup (2011) outline strategies for aspiring Etsy sellers to \u201cchannel their passion for their craft into their life\u2019s work\u201d (p. 1). I analyze products sold on Etsy that rhetorically engage gendered labor dynamics and precarity through the language of hustling or entrepreneurship.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11953", "words": "1186", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Kang, Yena", "title": "#YELLOWPERILSUPPORTSBLACKPOWER: MEMORY WORK FOR INTERRACIAL SOLIDARITY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "activism; community; memory; work", "summary": "In particular, I focus on how memory work plays a key role in a process by which Asian Americans produce affective ties with the Black community to build a multiracial identity extending beyond color lines. Expanding the concept of memory work into the contemporary context of social media, Humphreys (2020) considers memory work to be one of the media accounting practices that involve the creation, circulation, and consumption of media traces (e.g., writing a text, taking a photo).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11956", "words": "1098", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Karlsen, Faltin", "title": "AFFORDANCES IN DIGITAL DETOX AND PRODUCTIVITY APPS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "affordances; apps; media; smartphone", "summary": "Methods, material and framework The analysis is based on an mapping of product descriptions of 70 digital detox and productivity apps retried from the App Store and Google Play. This has also, alongside other commercial endeavors such as digital detox retreats and dumb mobiles, incited a booming app industry where digital detox and productivity apps are offered as tools to restrain smartphone use.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11958", "words": "1278", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Keye, Wade", "title": "INSTAGRAM AND THE MEMED SELF", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "borneman; instagram; meme; work", "summary": "The irreverent, bizarre, and deeply political work of Instagram meme artists serves as a potent rejoinder to the claim that \u201cthe left can\u2019t meme.\u201d Meme artists do create content to be shared in hopes it will go viral, but each meme represents its author\u2019s oeuvre instead of a distributed cultural text.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11959", "words": "1216", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Kim, Dasol", "title": "BLACK GIRL TRIES KOREAN MAKEUP: RACE, GENDER, AND TRANSNATIONAL PLATFORM", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "beauty; black; youtube", "summary": "In response, some Korean audiences have strongly argued that Korean beauty cannot be judged by \u201cWestern standards,\u201d asserting that Korea is a mono-ethnic country where light skin preference does not necessarily translate into anti-Blackness. (p.73) Method To examine YouTube videos, comments, and the module in YouTube Creator Academy, I adopt a Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA) as a method, which emphasizes how digital content creations are not constructed in a vacuum, but rather deeply rooted in various social relations (Brock, 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11962", "words": "1223", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Kumar, Priya C.", "title": "PRODUCING THE \u201cPROBLEM\u201d OF PARENTAL OVERSHARE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "information; overshare; parents; stfu", "summary": "Findings: How STFU, Parents Produces the Problem of Overshare A Brooklyn woman named Blair Koenig created STFU, Parents in 2009 because \u201csome friends in my Facebook feed were driving me crazy by documenting the minutiae of their lives as new parents\u201d (Koenig, n.d.). This includes literal leaks, like the material that bodies expel, and conceptual leaks, like the blurring of parent and child identities, especially when children are very young. STFU, Parents materializes overshare through the technologies of screenshots and editing software.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11966", "words": "1317", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Langton, Katrin", "title": "CONSTRUCTING CONTEMPORARY PARENTHOOD IN DIGITAL SPACES: A WALKTHROUGH OF INFANT FEEDING APPLICATIONS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "apps; baby; feeding; infant", "summary": "Infant feeding apps continue to be extremely popular, with apps like Feed Baby being downloaded millions of times (Feed Baby, n.d.), making them important mediators of how early parenthood is experienced and practiced. The findings highlighted above indicate that infant feeding apps can be very diverse in design, warranting exploration as a distinct category of tools within the range of reproductive health apps available.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11967", "words": "1077", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Laughlin, Corrina", "title": "RECKONING AND REPAIR: THE URGENT CONVERSATION ABOUT RACE IN THE BLACK CHRISTIAN PODCAST CIRCUIT", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "black; christian; public", "summary": "To create a space for their own community and to influence the larger public, Black Christian podcasters create both an enclaved space where Black listeners can feel at home and cocoon themselves in Black cultural idioms, and a counterpublic space that engages with\u2014 and hopes to change\u2014 the larger Christian public. Through a critical discourse analysis of three podcasts and interviews with prominent Black Christian podcasters, this paper focuses on the Black Christian response to the 2020 uprisings against police brutality in the United States.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11968", "words": "1045", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Lee, Ashley", "title": "\u201cCLIMATE JUSTICE IS RACIAL JUSTICE\u201d: THE YOUTH CLIMATE MOVEMENT AND INTERSECTIONAL MEDIA ORGANIZING IN AN ALGORITHMIC SOCIETY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "climate; media; movement; youth", "summary": "As youth organizing come to rely more on the digital space, what challenges do platforms and algorithms introduce for youth climate activists? As youth movements come to depend heavily on the digital space, social media platforms and their algorithms may further complicate young people\u2019s ability to exercise political power.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11969", "words": "1302", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Li, Zizi", "title": "ON BROWN BOXES: HIDDEN INTERDEPENDENCE IN UNBOXING VIDEOS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "boxes; brown; labor; unboxing", "summary": "Unboxing videos offer a particular venue to consider creator labor in relation to logistics work. But influencer work is more than brand management and audience engagement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11974", "words": "1326", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Mackinnon, Katherine", "title": "CRITICAL CARE & THE EARLY WEB: ETHICAL DIGITAL METHODS FOR ARCHIVED YOUTH DATA", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "data; internet; materials; research; web", "summary": "For researchers engaging with web materials in web archives, there are significant ethical and methodological challenges and questions to engaging with web archived collections in the Internet Archive. Informed consent is nearly never a possibility, and while deploying \u201ccontextual integrity\u201d tactics and evaluating the scale of archived web materials are significant ethical developments (Lomborg, 2018; Nissenbaum, 2010; Tiinderberg, 2018), getting in contact with creators of digital materials is still an important ethical dimension for many internet researchers (Eichhorn, 2019; Horbinski, 2018; Leurs 2017; Lialina, 2017; Robards & Lincoln, 2020).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11977", "words": "1419", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Mahoney, Brendan Daniel", "title": "ON(LINE) TRANSPARENCY AND THE BLACK PUBLIC SPHERE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "internet; public; researchers; transparency", "summary": "Integral to the emergence and success of this movement from its inception in 2013 have been members of Black publics, who have succeeded in circulating discourse that draws attention to the specific issues impacting the community (Jackson & Foucault- Welles, 2016). This proliferation of Black publics online has sparked a debate over whether the internet is ultimately a tool for liberation or racist oppression.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11978", "words": "1328", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Marler, Will", "title": "STRIVERS, MAINTAINERS, ACHIEVERS: NETWORKED TRAJECTORIES OF OLDER ADULTS LEARNING TO USE TECHNOLOGY DURING A PANDEMIC", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "adults; program; strivers; technology", "summary": "Research on older adults and digital technology can benefit from examining not only the possession of digital skills and technology support, but also the meanings that older adults bring to their experiences of inclusion and exclusion as they adapt to digital technologies while aging \u2013 and sheltering \u2013 in place. Retrieved from http://spir.aoir.org. STRIVERS, MAINTAINERS, ACHIEVERS: NETWORKED TRAJECTORIES OF OLDER ADULTS LEARNING TO USE TECHNOLOGY DURING A PANDEMIC Will Marler University of Zurich Introduction \u201cAging in place\u201d in one\u2019s home is valued for enabling older adults to maintain \u201cindependence, autonomy, and connection to social support, including friends and family\u201d (Wiles et al., 2012).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11982", "words": "1599", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Messina, Nicole", "title": "IT'S THERE FOR YOU, BUT IS IT #FYP?: A METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTION OF RESEARCHING CONTENT VS. COMMUNITY ON TIKTOK", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "content; health; media; tiktok", "summary": "Blended from a 2014 app Musical.ly launched in Shanghai, then purchased by the Chinese company ByteDance in a rebranding of their 2016 Douyin, TikTok thrives on its \u201cextraordinarily powerful algorithm, which learns what content users like to see far faster than many other apps\u201d (Tidy & Galer, 2020). However, we need to acknowledge the difficulties in replicating user experiences, and in figuring out who sees what, and when, and how.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11986", "words": "1256", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "M\u00f8ller, Lynge Asbj\u00f8rn", "title": "RECOMMENDED FOR YOU: INVESTIGATING THE USE OF ALGORITHMIC NEWS RECOMMENDATION IN THE SCANDINAVIAN DAILY PRESS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "journalism; news; recommendation; systems", "summary": "With the exception of one email exchange, semi- structured interviews were conducted with representatives at all the newspapers between December 2020 and January 2021, determining whether each newspaper uses algorithmic news recommendation, whether the systems are personalised, whether the systems are developed in-house, where on the website news recommendation is in place, and which kind of filtering is applied. Furthermore, the research interviews were used to investigate the reasonings behind implementing the technology and central concerns in the decision-making process, thus bringing a qualitative dimension to the analysis and allowing for a perspective on how journalists at different news organisations evaluate the use of algorithmic news recommendation and its further potential.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11987", "words": "581", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "29", "author": "Monea, Alexander Paul", "title": "THE DIGITAL CLOSET: PLATFORM CENSORSHIP AND LGBTQIA+ INDEPENDENCE ONLINE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "google; internet", "summary": "I connect these critical-analytical scholars to data from the Department of Labor produced during a protracted legal battle of sexist hiring and retention practices at Google, testimonials from former Google employees, and informal surveys and screen captured conversations in the wake of James Damore\u2019s infamous \u2018Google memo\u2019 circa 2017. The second section of the paper draws on original investigations into the benchmark datasets that Google used to develop its image recognition algorithms (like the GoogLe Net algorithm behind Google Photos and SafeSearch).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11991", "words": "1299", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Murray, Jack Anthony", "title": "SELL YOUR CARDS TO WHO: NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS AND DIGITAL TRADING CARD GAMES", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "cards; games; nfts; trading", "summary": "The website boasts that, in contrast to other digital trading card games, players will maintain ownership over their cards through the implementation of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) as a solution to ownership in digital card games (Doctor Who - Worlds Apart, 2021). This paper examines the implications of NFTs in digital card games via the material histories of TCGs to discuss the way that digital TCGs accelerate the extraction of capital from their player communities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-11993", "words": "47", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Musiani, Francesca", "title": "TOWARDS AN INFRASTRUCTURE-BASED SOCIOLOGY OF DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY PRACTICES: THE 'PILOT CASE' OF RUSSIA", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "browser", "summary": "Learn more Safari Opera Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Mozilla Firefox Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety \u00a9 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "spir-11995", "words": "1183", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "narr, gregory", "title": "BORED GHOSTS AND ANXIOUS TEXT GAMES: HOW DATING APPS ALGORITHMICALLY CHANNEL THE DESIRE FOR INTIMACY INTO ANXIOUS ENGAGEMENT", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "apps; dating; media; tinder", "summary": "The first finding indicates that my respondents began using dating apps because they wanted to engage in intimate exchanges to get to know their matches, something they felt the elaborate essays on OkCupid rendered redundant. The second finding indicates that instead of intimacy they encountered anxious text games exacerbated by the widespread practice of ghosting on dating apps.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12001", "words": "1283", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Ollier-Malaterre, Ariane", "title": "PRIVACY, FACE, AND SOCIAL RESPECTABILITY IN A DIGITAL CHINA", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "china; face; information; privacy", "summary": "Lien has been translated as moral face, and mien-tzi as social face. These findings on privacy may help to shed slight on how Chinese citizens view the digitalization of surveillance through facial recognition monitoring and the building of the social credit system (Liang, Das, Kostyuk, & Hussain, 2018), and on what legal basis they may assert their rights (e.g., reputation vs. privacy rights; Cao, 2005).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12003", "words": "1249", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Palmer, Marie", "title": "WHY FACEBOOK IS NOT A GATEWAY TO NEWS CONTENT", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "facebook; genre; news; texts", "summary": "News posts as a genre The use of primary paratexts directly extracted from original news articles leads users to quickly label the content of the post as news and to react accordingly. NEWS CONTENT & THE \u201cPRODUCERLY POTENTIAL\u201d OF FACEBOOK Marie Palmer Centre for Media Pluralism and Freedom, European University Institute Introduction Over the past fifteen years, the emergence of intermediaries has transformed the circulation of news content.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12005", "words": "1287", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Parnell, Claire Louise", "title": "INDEPENDENT AUTHORS\u2019 DEPENDENCE ON BIG TECH: CATEGORIZATION AND GOVERNANCE OF AUTHORS OF COLOR ON AMAZON", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "amazon; authors; books; publishing", "summary": "This conceptual model enables and understanding of the distinctive features of book publishing platforms and their influence on the processes of production and reception online. Book publishing on digital platforms is intensely mediated by the technology companies on which authors rely to publish and disseminate their work.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12006", "words": "47", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Pauliks, Kevin", "title": "MEMEING AGAINST MAINSTREAM. AN ANALYSIS OF DANK MEMES AND THE PICTORIAL (COUNTER-)PRACTICES OF MEME CULTURE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "browser", "summary": "Learn more Microsoft Edge Safari Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Opera Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety \u00a9 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "spir-12007", "words": "41", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "56", "author": "Peil, Corinna", "title": "ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE. FRUSTRATION EXPERIENCES WITH NETWORKED MEDIA AND THE ROLE OF SOCIAL SUPPORT", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "connection", "summary": "Checking if the site connection is secure vimeo.com needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding. Corinna Peil - On the verge of collapse Verify to continue To continue, please confirm that you're a human (and not a spambot).", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "spir-12008", "words": "1517", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Peterson-Salahuddin, Chelsea", "title": "TWEETING BACK: EXPLORING BLACK FEMINIST HASHTAG COMMUNITIES ON TWITTER AND INSTAGRAM", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "conversations; feminist; hashtag; twitter", "summary": "How do individuals who participate in black feminist hashtag conversations on Twitter and Instagram understand their networked interactions on these platforms? What is at stake in how black feminist hashtag conversations circulate on Twitter and Instagram?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12009", "words": "47", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Pettis, Ben", "title": "KNOW YOUR MEME AND THE HOMOGENIZATION OF WEB HISTORY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "browser", "summary": "Learn more Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Opera Microsoft Edge Safari Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety \u00a9 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "spir-12014", "words": "1361", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Popiel, Pawel", "title": "EMERGENT GOVERNANCE: COMPETITION POLICY AS PLATFORM REGULATION", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "antitrust; competition; platform; policy; regulation", "summary": "Platform policies in the European Union: Competition and public interest in media markets. Indeed, despite multiple dimensions of the policy debate, most interventions in places ranging from the US to the EU to India to Australia have taken the form largely of competition policy (e.g., Evens et al., 2020; Puppis & Winseck, 2020).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12015", "words": "1385", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Posada, Julian", "title": "DISEMBEDDEDNESS IN MACHINE LEARNING DATA WORK", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "data; labor; learning; platforms; workers", "summary": "The data workers were reached through an online survey sent through the platforms and a series of in-depth 2 semi-structured interviews with platform workers and members of their social circles to identify their background, their experience with online work, the composition of their personal networks, and how their work interacts, intersects, and depends on their social connections. At the same time, from the perspective of embodied social reproduction, while experiencing high degrees of disembeddedness as \u201cindependent contractors,\u201d data workers, mostly identifying as male, rely on the domestic, economic, and emotional support of their 3 families, friends, and communities to compensate for the social and economic risks of their primary source of income.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12016", "words": "1298", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Prasad, Revati", "title": "BODIES AND DATA: THE DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIAN STATE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "data; india; sovereignty; state", "summary": "While the claims of data sovereignty gesture towards the geopolitical, the biopolitical work of Aadhaar expands dominion within national borders. The project of digital sovereignty consolidates the power of the Indian state.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12018", "words": "47", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Pronzato, Riccardo", "title": "CRITICAL PEDAGOGY AS A PRACTICE OF RESISTANCE TO ALGORITHMS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "browser", "summary": "Learn more Microsoft Edge Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Safari Opera Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety \u00a9 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "spir-12019", "words": "1425", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Quick, Tyler", "title": "INFLUENCER CULTURE & ALGORITHMIC APARTHEID ON GAY INSTAGRAM", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "accounts; content; gay; instagram", "summary": "For many reasons, white elites in Western metropolises are made more visible to Instagram users, even when others could conceivably fulfill their same representational function, troubling the notion that influencer status can be attained through an individual\u2019s \u201clabor\u201d without algorithmic assistance. What this makes clear to me is that the algorithmic processes that mediate whose content is made visible in order to sate Instagram audiences\u2019 scopophilic desires Image 1 conceptualize the supply and demand of homoerotic imagery in a manner that compounds existing social biases and further privileges the visibility of the white, Western, and wealthy gay person.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12020", "words": "1348", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "R. Rosa, Fernanda", "title": "SHARED NETWORKS: THE PATHS OF LATIN-CENTRIC INDIGENOUS NETWORKS TO A PLURIVERSAL INTERNET", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "infrastructure; interconnection; internet; networks", "summary": "The question this research endeavors to answer is \u201cWhat do Tseltal\u2019s and Zapoteco\u2019s local networks add to our understanding of internet interconnection infrastructure?\u201d And while framing indigenous media as a hybrid is not new (Ginsburg, 1991), framing the moment of internet interconnection as the moment when it materializes allows to think in terms of both the \u201ctechnopolitics\u201d of interconnection, and the materialization of hybridization and ch\u2019ixi into infrastructure in the specific context of Latin America (Canclini, 1989; Cusicanqui, 2012).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12024", "words": "1432", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Recuero, Raquel", "title": "FRAMING COVID-19: HOW FACT-CHECKING CIRCULATES ON POLITICAL FACEBOOK", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "checking; covid-19; fact; framing; posts", "summary": "Research note: Bolsonaro\u2019s firehose: How Covid-19 disinformation on WhatsApp was used to fight a government political crisis in Brazil. However, this research shows that fact-checking does circulate on political Facebook groups/pages that share disinformation (particularly on right-wing and conservative ones), but it is used to reinforce their discourse, rather than debunk it.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12026", "words": "1297", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Riemens, Rianne", "title": "DECOUPLING AS RHETORICAL STRATEGY IN GOOGLE\u2019S GREEN DISCOURSE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "climate; crisis; decoupling; google", "summary": "Through decoupling, Google is able to present its wish to save \u2018nature\u2019 without discussing its use of nature, thus legitimating green platform capitalism. I add that decoupling, as example of divisio, reflects the rhetoric function of visuals and text to direct the connections readers make, in this case between Google and the climate crisis (Greenwood et al., 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12031", "words": "1351", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Rodriguez, Aleesha Joy", "title": "TECHNOLOGICAL AGNOSTICISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE: PLATFORM CULTURE ON TECHNOLOGY FORUM WHIRLPOOL", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "change; climate; energy; technology; whirlpool", "summary": "Platform culture on technology forum Whirlpool, presented at AoIR 2021: The 22nd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. TECHNOLOGICAL AGNOSTICISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE: PLATFORM CULTURE ON TECHNOLOGY FORUM WHIRLPOOL Aleesha Rodriguez Queensland University of Technology Introduction This paper explores the (limited) discussion of climate change within energy debates on Australian technology forum Whirlpool.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12032", "words": "1440", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Ruffino, Paolo", "title": "DEEP GAMES: ADDRESSING MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH INDEPENDENT VIDEOGAME DEVELOPMENT", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "game; health; industry; videogame", "summary": "The present study contributes to scholarship on independent videogame development by exploring how research participants reflect on their affective relations with labour and how their responses mobilise the debates surrounding mental health. These failures typically give rise to social, psychological, and emotional crises, and frequently force independent developers to abandon their projects, social media presence, or, in some cases, even their careers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12034", "words": "1335", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Salzano, Matthew", "title": "TECHNOLIBERAL PARTICIPATION: BLACK LIVES MATTER AND INSTAGRAM SLIDESHOWS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "instagram; participation; post; slideshows", "summary": "Set in a black and white theme, the post explains that \u201cthe absolute least you can do is repost the millions of Instagram posts helping people spread the message on how to help, donate, protest, and converse. Technoliberal Participation: Black Lives Matter and Instagram Slideshows.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12036", "words": "1741", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Sarkar, Pradip Kiran", "title": "THE STREAMYARD CYPHERS: ONLINE PLACE-MAKING WITHIN AN INDIAN HIP HOP COMMUNITY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "cyphers; hip; hop; oldenberg; place; streamyard", "summary": "The first online cypher was held in June, 2020, but owing to infrastructural challenges associated with Internet bandwidth and latency (Hammar and Marshall 2020), the cyphers were replaced with online discussion sessions that took place every Sunday. Moreover, the simplicity of Streamyard\u2019s user interfaces and widespread familiarity with Facebook and YouTube aligned with the plain look-and-feel, or low profile, aspect of third places.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12037", "words": "1213", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Savnal, Ketaki", "title": "IT LOOKS BETTER ON INSTAGRAM: NETWORKED PHOTOGRAPHY AND PUBLIC ART IN MUMBAI", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "art; festival; instagram; installations", "summary": "This was also my attempt to engage in the same fragmentary, humourous and spontaneous mode as Instagram photography, and participate as a visitor as much as a researcher. To examine how the desire for networked visibility alters ideas of space and place, object production and meaning making, I draw from research on social networking sites, algorithms, branding and the production of subjectivity (Lazzarato 2014, Carah and Shaul 2016, Brodermerkel and Carah 2016) and global Instagram cultures (Leaver, Highfield and Abidin 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12039", "words": "1253", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Schellewald, Andreas", "title": "ON GETTING CARRIED AWAY BY THE TIKTOK ALGORITHM", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "algorithm; app; media; tiktok", "summary": "Aside from that, a variety of different types of videos (such as vlogs or dance videos), genres (like Cottagecore), or topics and \u2018TikTok sides\u2019 (like \u2018Gay TikTok\u2019, \u2018British TikTok\u2019, or \u2018DnD TikTok\u2019) characterized each participants\u2019 individual feed. Tracing these small moments of everyday TikTok use, in my work I show how people actively appropriated and engaged with the addictive quality of the TikTok algorithm as a means of escape, of getting carried away.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12040", "words": "1273", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Schreiber, Maria", "title": "\u201cI STARTED THE DAY JUST CRYING FOR 2 HOURS STRAIGHT.\u201d ECHO-LOCATING THE VULNERABLE SELF ON INSTAGRAM.", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "community; identity; instagram; media; self", "summary": "The paper therefore investigates communicative online practices of adapting to a new body, identity and self from a symbolic-interactionist perspective. An additional challenge of echo-locating the vulnerable self on Instagram is the diffuse audience of public postings and a specific kind of context collapse: stroke survivors on Instagram do not communicate with only each other in a closed, safe space for survivors only, they share their experience simultaneously with friends and family, who also know their previous, \u201cnon-stroke\u201d-self.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12042", "words": "1238", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Scully-Blaker, Rainforest", "title": "NOSTALGIA AND THE BACKLOG: /R/PATIENTGAMERS AND THE TRANSACTIONAL NATURE OF LEISURE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "game; play; time; video", "summary": "Specifically, users\u2019 nostalgia for their childhoods and their anxieties around possessing a video game backlog are both emblematic of the way that video game play has been made legible to capitalist logics such that any distinction between labour and leisure becomes moot. The figure of the patientgamer was selected not just because of their explicitly protracted approach to video game consumption, but because the grows out of a frustration with the financial and temporal costs to access leisure.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12044", "words": "629", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Shelby, Renee", "title": "INDEPENDENT OVERSIGHT, DATA GOVERNANCE AND THE TEMPORAL CONSTRUCTION OF FORENSIC EVIDENCE: THE MAKING OF THE FIRST STATEWIDE RAPE KIT TRACKING PLATFORM", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "data; evidence; ikts", "summary": "INDEPENDENT OVERSIGHT, DATA GOVERNANCE AND THE TEMPORAL CONSTRUCTION OF FORENSIC EVIDENCE: THE MAKING OF THE FIRST STATEWIDE RAPE KIT TRACKING PLATFORM Renee Shelby Northwestern University Across the US, police management of sexual assault kits (SAKs) has led to systemic disorganization resulting in lost, forgotten, and abandoned forensic evidence. Rather than \u201cvictim\u2019s rights\u201d or \u201cperpetrator accountability,\u201d I find concerns about \u201ctimeliness\u201d and the temporal life of forensic evidence structured the creation, deployment, and maintenance of IKTS.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12049", "words": "1364", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Stang, Sarah Marie", "title": "\u201cTHE CREATURE ITSELF IS NASTY, BUT NOTHING REALLY COMPARES TO THE BUILDING OF DREAD BEFORE YOU EVER GET TO IT\u201d: ONLINE PLAYER AND DEVELOPER COMMENTARY ON FEMALE MONSTROSITY IN VIDEO GAMES", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "female; games; monstrosity; video", "summary": "\u201cThe reature itself is nasty, but nothing really compares to the building of dread before you ever get to it\u201d: Online player and developer commentary on female monstrosity in video games. In this presentation, I will go through some examples of player and developer discourse regarding female monstrosity in these games which, together with some discussion of the monsters themselves and how their design remediates harmful tropes and stereotypes, will demonstrate how textual analysis and internet research can be brought together to unpack the ways that monstrosity is intertwined with questions of representation and misogyny in games, game design, and gaming culture.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12052", "words": "1233", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Stuhl, Andy Kelleher", "title": "ENTANGLED AUTONOMY ON AUTOMATED AIRWAVES: THE CASE OF RIVENDELL", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "automation; radio; rivendell; software", "summary": "Another tension is much more prevalent though: the opening pages acknowledge that \u201c[s]ome people,\u201d and perhaps the majority of a station\u2019s volunteers, \u201cmight think radio automation is inherently evil\u201d (Shaw, 2008). Analysis of this source code demonstrates how techniques and devices from early automation systems have persisted as structural metaphors in software.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12056", "words": "47", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "ten Oever, Niels", "title": "THE QUANTUM STATE OF INFRASTRUCTURE RECONFIGURATION IN 5G", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "browser", "summary": "Learn more Safari Google Chrome Opera Microsoft Edge Mozilla Firefox Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety \u00a9 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "spir-12057", "words": "1306", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Todd, Paula Joy", "title": "LEAVING HOME TO COME HOME: REBUILDING JOURNALISTIC GATE-KEEPING ONE FACT AT A TIME", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "corralling; gatekeeping; information; internet; public", "summary": "JUST THE FACTS FIT TO (DELETE:PRINT) BELIEVE: FROM GATEKEEPING TO \u2018CORRALLING\u2019 BY JOURNALISTIC FACT- CHECKERS IN THE ERA OF MISINFORMATION Paula Todd York University This paper introduces the theoretical concept of post-publication information \u2018corralling\u2019 as the next evolutionary step in traditional gatekeeping (Lewin, 1943, 1947; White, 1950) and gate-watching (Bruns, 2003) within a chaotic marketplace of misinformation[1] where alternate-reality expressants[2] battle against an evidence- based factual public record. While value judgments are required, as they are in every facet of human life, the PPFC protocol is fashioned for reproducibility, much like academic experimentation, so the public can reach its own conclusion about the veracity of corralled information and the investigative methods undertaken to collect it.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12061", "words": "358", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Trill\u00f2, Tommaso", "title": "HAVE A GREAT, POSITIVE, BEAUTIFUL DAY!: GOOD MORNING MEMES AND THE CROSS-CULTURAL ARTICULATION OF VALUES", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "memes", "summary": "Overall, good morning memes embed the general mandate for \u201cpoliteness\u201d that infuses the communicative genre of greetings, transposing it in the meme format through impersonal messages and a saccharine aesthetic. The English language version of the meme upholds the value of \u201cachievement and self-efficacy,\u201d possibly because of the influence of American values on globalized social media content.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12063", "words": "1288", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "V\u00e4h\u00e4passi, Valo", "title": "FINNISH RIGHT TO BE -CITIZENS INITIATIVE CAMPAIGN AND THE \u201cFEELING OF BEING COUNTED\"", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "campaign; finnish; initiative; trans", "summary": "Finnish Right to be-citizens initiative campaign and the \u201cfeeling of being counted\u201d. Background of the Right to Be -citizens initiative campaign", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12064", "words": "1106", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "van der Nagel, Emily", "title": "INTERDEPENDENT PLATFORMS: ONLYFANS AS NSFW SOCIAL MEDIA LAYER", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "media; onlyfans; platform; van", "summary": "ONLYFANS AS NSFW SOCIAL MEDIA LAYER Emily van der Nagel Monash University On content subscription platform OnlyFans, the search function is limited. Since 2013, more research on accounts and platforms (including Davis 2014; van der Nagel 2018; Vickery 2015) has demonstrated that compartmentalising identities by using a variety of social media platforms \u2013 sometimes even multiple accounts on the same platform \u2013 is a powerful strategy to combat what danah boyd (2014) calls \u201ccontext collapse\u201d.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12066", "words": "1480", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Vasudevan, Roopa", "title": "\u201cTHIS ISN'T A PICASSO, IT'S A FERRARI\u201d: PRESENTISM, PRECARITY AND DEPENDENCE IN NEW MEDIA ART PRACTICES", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "artists; media; use; work", "summary": "More and more, new media artists find themselves re-evaluating the necessity of using proprietary tools, owned by big tech companies with whose policies they do not necessarily agree. This study represents the beginnings of an investigation into the relationships between new media artists, the tools they use for their work (including data sources and APIs, hardware and software, operating systems, and project storage), and those who control these technologies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12071", "words": "1569", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Vogelman-Natan, Kalia", "title": "THE ALGORITHM PLAYGROUND: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF USER-PRODUCED CHILDREN\u2019S VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "children; content; media; videos; youtube", "summary": "The escalation in children\u2019s consumption of YouTube videos and the precedented multi- million-dollar revenues of high-subscriber channels (including ad view earnings, sponsored content, merchandise sales, and more) have contributed to the establishment of children\u2019s video production into a popular, lucrative venture. These companies engage YouTube content in various ways, including purchasing and distributing channels to networks, YouTube channel management, assisting existing TV shows in developing content for YouTube, and grassroots attempts at low-tier incorporation, among others.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12076", "words": "1252", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Yal\u0131n, Alk\u0131m", "title": "QUARANTINE VLOGS: DIGITAL AFFECTIVE LABOR AND SELF-GOVERNANCE DURING COVID-19", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "content; quarantine; self; vlogs", "summary": "This research explores how did the COVID-19 effect the cultural production of influencers \u2013 specifically, the affective labor carried out by women content creators \u2013 by examining the recent genre of quarantine vlog. In parallel to my ongoing research on influencer cultures, I realized the emergence of quarantine vlogs in March 2020.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12077", "words": "1307", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Yang, Fan", "title": "(IN)DEPENDENCY ON THE HEGEMONIC TO BE HEARD: NEWS-FOCUSED WECHAT OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS IN AUSTRALIA AS A CASE STUDY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "australia; hegemonic; media; migration", "summary": "Chinese ethnic media in this research are characterised by the Chinese-language legacy or digital media developed by Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in Australia. Based on the 27 interviews with Australian-Chinese media professionals, I argue that Chinese ethnic media perform an advocacy role for the Chinese diaspora with financial independence; however, they are dependent on and aspire to be part of Australia\u2019s hegemonic postcolonial structure to be heard.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12079", "words": "1074", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Yeo, ShinJoung", "title": "THE GEOPOLITICAL DYNAMICS OF GOOGLE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "china; google; internet", "summary": "In China, where Google and other US tech companies have struggled to carve out a foothold in the largest market in the world, Chinese search engine Baidu dominates; meanwhile, due to Europe\u2019s dependence on US information systems, Google\u2019s global dominance has again provoked Europe\u2019s anxiety over losing control to the US as well as China over strategic emerging Internet sectors. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen hinted that the US needs to separate to a certain degree but warned of the danger of a complete decoupling from China\u2019s tech sectors and doubted whether US allies would side with the US and cut off China (Shalal, 2021).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12080", "words": "1314", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Yeshua-Katz, Daphna", "title": "THE ROLE OF COMMUNICATION AFFORDANCES IN POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER SUPPORT GROUPS ON FACEBOOK AND WHATSAPP", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "affordances; communication; facebook; group", "summary": "In their search for support, group admins and group members found WhatsApp to be a useful tool because of its surveillance affordance, defined as the ability to monitor group members' behavior. Lots of group members are awake, and they\u2019ll respond immediately.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12082", "words": "1248", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Zakharova, Irina", "title": "DATA INQUIRY: METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON DATAFICATION IN SOCIAL RESEARCH", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "data; datafication; methods; research", "summary": "To contribute to explorations of that interdependence within the domains of critical data studies and media studies, I extend on the notions of methods performativity (Barad, 2007) and methods assemblages (Law, 2004) developed within science and technology studies. Methods The presented data inquiry develops three kinds of methods assemblages based on a review of empirical social research on datafication.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12084", "words": "1226", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Zhang, Xixuan", "title": "SOCIAL COLLECTIVES AND NETWORKED MOVEMENT: DIFFUSION DYNAMICS IN THE GERMAN-SPEAKING #FRIDAYSFORFUTURE NETWORK ON TWITTER", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "actors; diffusion; fridaysforfuture; network", "summary": "In social movement research, information diffusion, associated with mobilization and participation, is a long-standing concept of mechanisms explaining the prevalence of social movements and the spread of symbols and tactics. In social movement research, most empirical diffusion studies on digital social movements are primarily issues-centric, based on analysis of the key actors and the most proliferated messages in retweet networks, which may overvalue the connections between retweeted and retweeting actors without taking information traversal, intermediary actors, and retweets into account.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12085", "words": "1275", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Zhao, Lizhen", "title": "\u201cMY MINIMALIST JOURNEY:\u201d NARRATIVE ANALYSIS OF YOUTUBE MINIMALISM STORIES", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "analysis; minimalist; narrative", "summary": "Narrative analysis: Oral versions of personal experience. However, the analysis also highlights the self- entrepreneurship in such narratives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12088", "words": "47", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Albury, Kath; Burgess, Jean; Kaye, Bondy; McCosker, Anthony; Kennedy, Jenny; Wilken, Rowan", "title": "EVERYDAY DATA CULTURES", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "browser", "summary": "Learn more Opera Safari Microsoft Edge Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety \u00a9 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "spir-12089", "words": "47", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Angus, Daniel; Bruns, Axel; Hurcombe, Edward; Harrington, Stephen; Glazunova, Sofya; Monta\u00f1a-Ni\u00f1o, S\u00edlvia Ximena; Obeid, Abdul; Coulibaly, Souleymane; Copland, Simon; Graham, Timothy; Wright, Scott; Dehghan, Ehsan", "title": "\u2018FAKE NEWS\u2019 AND OTHER PROBLEMATIC INFORMATION: STUDYING DISSEMINATION AND DISCOURSE PATTERNS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "browser", "summary": "Learn more Opera Microsoft Edge Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Safari Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety \u00a9 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "spir-12090", "words": "5807", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Boyle, Casey; Gehl, Robert; Zulli, Diana; Yang, Misti; Brown, Jim", "title": "THE PROMISES, PROBLEMS, AND POSSIBILITIES FOR ALT-NETWORKS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "alt; digital; ecology; games; internet; mastodon; media; movement; networks; platforms; right; tech; university; users; vtaiwan", "summary": "This centralizing of social media networks happens for their individual users, but also at the level of how social media informs our discourses through journalistic practice, government institutions, industry sectors. This is an important development as mainstream social media networks have benefited from years of research approaches, new networked objects create new networked questions requiring new methodological considerations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12091", "words": "47", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Bruns, Axel; Bailo, Francesco; Meese, James; Hurcombe, Edward; Leaver, Tama; Barnet, Belinda; Angus, Daniel", "title": "AUSTRALIA\u2019S BIG GAMBLE: THE NEWS MEDIA BARGAINING CODE AND THE RESPONSES FROM GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "browser", "summary": "Learn more Google Chrome Safari Microsoft Edge Opera Mozilla Firefox Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety \u00a9 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "spir-12092", "words": "6110", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Chess, Shira; Massanari, Adrienne; Kruse, Holly; Consalvo, Mia; Boudreau, Kelly", "title": "PLEASURE+GENDER+PLAY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "culture; games; gaming; gender; girls; hobbyhorse; play; players; press; speed; time; video; women", "summary": "While this is the experience of some casual game communities, there is little research on the ways in which casual game players who identify as part of the core player base may engage in their own form of problematic or toxic behaviors. However, the ways in which casual game players engage in boundary keeping and potential problematic behavior may vary widely and be expressed in very different ways than the tactics seen in more mainstream, male dominated toxic gamer culture.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12093", "words": "5424", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Chia, Aleena; Ong, Jonathan Corpus; Davies, Hugh; Hagood, Mack", "title": "EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED: NETWORKED CONSPIRITUALITY IN NEW AGE MEDIA", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "age; consciousness; conspiracy; conspirituality; digital; ethics; internet; making; media; new; paper; press; qanon; reality; self; university", "summary": "Challenging journalistic writings that suggest that New Age spiritual communities are \u201cnaturally connected\u201d with right wing ideology (Evans 2020; Meltzer, 2021), this paper sketches out a diverse and stratified community still reeling from the shocking revelations and dramatic deplatforming that happened after the January 6 Capitol insurrection. This panel traces forms of conspirituality across networked alternative spirituality from MAGA mystics and New Age influencers, to hackers of consciousness and prophets of optimization.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12094", "words": "5788", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Christin, Angele L; Persaud, Christopher; Hesmondhalgh, David; Siciliano, Michael; Baym, Nancy; Gillespie, Tarleton; Bergmann, Rachel; Bhargava, Raj; Diaz, Fernando; Maris, Elena", "title": "IN(TER)DEPENDENCE IN PLATFORMED CREATION", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "content; creators; fields; independence; media; metrics; music; new; platforms; power; press; production; research; university", "summary": "Though initially seen as \u201cdemocratizing\u201d cultural production, corporate platforms exert power over cultural production at the level of infrastructure, determining the visibility and availability of cultural content by way of algorithms and by encouraging particular formal regularities \u2013 a process that scholars drawing upon Michel Callon (1998) identify as \u201cformatting.\u201d Ultimately this research takes up Ysabel Gerrard\u2019s (2020) provocation to explore \u201cprocesses of social media content moderation that are perhaps most vulnerable to human intervention\u201d (pg. 749).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12095", "words": "4086", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Coulter, Natalie; DiGiacomo, Daniela; Ellerbe, Briana; Willett, Rebekah Jane", "title": "THE LEGITIMATIZATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE\u2019S DIGITAL MEDIA PRACTICES WITHIN NEOLIBERAL CONTEXTS AND ECOLOGIES", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "children; digital; dreams; media; parents; people; practices; screen; ways", "summary": "This discourse is evident in the oft-cited \u20182 by 2 rule\u2019 created by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1999 (no screentime for children under age two, limit to two hours per day for older children), and many parents express anxiety when reconciling this discourse with the realities of their family practices. Using the theoretical lens of child studies, I suggest that we that we need to rethink how both the labour and play of young people is \u201centangled in the ecologies of commerce\u201d of the children\u2019s media industry.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12096", "words": "7059", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Gliniecka, Martyna; Reagle, Joseph; Proferes, Nicholas; Fiesler, Casey; Gilbert, Sarah; Jones, Naiyan; Zimmer, Michael; Xia, Huichuan; Sehat, Connie Moon; Prabhakar, Tarunima; Kaminski, Aleksei", "title": "AOIR ETHICS PANEL 2: PLATFORM CHALLENGES", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "amazon; aoir; data; ethics; human; media; mturk; reddit; requesters; research; researchers; review; sources; users; workers", "summary": "These include: \u201cReddit Research And Reflexivity: A Situated Ethics Framework For Publicly Available User- Generated Data\u201d by [redacted] that studies people's online conversations about health matters on Reddit in support of a proposed situated ethics framework for researchers working with publicly available data; \u201cEthical research and the practice and efficacy of masking Reddit sources\u201d by [redacted] that explores the sourcing practices among Reddit researchers to determine if their sources could be unmasked and located in Reddit archives; \u201cAddressing Ethics in Reddit Research: A Systematic Review\u201d by [redacted] which provides a broad systematic review of over 700 research studies that used Reddit data to assess the kinds of analysis and methods researchers are engaging in as well as any ethical considerations that emerge when researching Reddit; \u201cThe \u201cOriginal Sin\u201d of Amazon Mechanical Turk for Academic Research\u201d by [redacted] which provides a critical examination of the use of Amazon\u2019s Mechanical Turk for academic research; and \u201cEthical Approaches to Closed Messaging Research: Considerations for Democratic Contexts\u201d by [redacted] which investigates current practices and ethical dilemmas faced when researching closed messaging applications their users. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 66(3), 250\u2013261 THE \u201cORIGINAL SIN\u201d OF AMAZON MECHANICAL TURK FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH Huichan Xia Peking University, China Introduction Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) has been popular among academic scholars to recruit participants and collect research data.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12111", "words": "5850", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Wernimont, Jacqueline; Kneese, Tamara; Sutherland, Tonia; Cifor4, Marika", "title": "WHEN DEATH DEPENDS ON NETWORKED INFORMATION", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "aids; covid-19; data; dead; death; effort; information; life; management; media; mortality; pandemic; people; records; risk; technologies; university", "summary": "\u201cTo Make Death Data Faster\u201d: the History and Politics of the Effort to \u201cModernize and Automate\u201d Mortality Statistics Jacqueline Wernimont Dartmouth Abstract It is also at the 1999 meeting that we begin to see discussion of distributed work and remote reporting appear as central themes in the effort to make death data faster.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12112", "words": "2950", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Winter, Rachel; DeCook, Julia", "title": "FROM TOP-DOWN TO BOTTOM-UP: POLITICAL IMAGE MANAGEMENT AND THE PRESERVATION OF WHITE SUPREMACY THROUGH VISUALS AND MEMES ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "identity; media; memes; right; supremacy; white; whiteness", "summary": "Examining white supremacist memes from reddit and Instagram, this paper aims to uncover the ways that time, memory, and the abstract conception of \u201cthe past\u201d are used in these modes of digital propaganda. How do white supremacist memes use time and memory in their iconography and text?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12113", "words": "6971", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Zeavin, Hannah; Baym, Nancy Baym; Bergmann, Rachel; Sarkar, Advait; Rintel, Sean; Sellen, Abigail; Powers, Devon; Bray, Sierra Bray; Barboza-Wilkes, Cynthia ; Alarcon, Andrea", "title": "MANAGING BOUNDARIES WHILE WORKING FROM HOME, 1960-PRESENT", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "children; communication; domestic; employees; home; labor; meetings; microsoft; new; office; participants; people; space; telework; university; video; work; workers", "summary": "MANAGING BOUNDARIES WHILE WORKING FROM HOME, 1960- PRESENT Hannah Zeavin UC Berkeley Nancy Baym Microsoft Rachel Bergmann Microsoft Advait Sarkar Microsoft Sean Rintel Microsoft Abigail Sellen Microsoft Devon Powers Temple University Sierra Bray University of Southern California Cynthia Barboza-Wilkes University of Southern California Andrea Alarcon University of Southern California The COVID-19 pandemic has been heralded as a watershed moment for remote work, an exodus of the American workforce that will never fully reverse. As major corporations debate returning to the office full-time, and other workers press or are pressed into returning to the office, this panel situates the present realities of remote work within telework\u2019s long history.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12114", "words": "1522", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Ramirez, Johnny; Jimenez, Carlos; Clark, Lynn Schofield", "title": "HOW MOBILE MEDIA ENABLED AND LIMITED ONLINE CIVIC PARTICIPATION AMONG LOW-INCOME U.S. YOUNG PEOPLE DURING THE PANDEMIC", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "media; pandemic; participation; people", "summary": "Existing research often overlooks how young people, particularly those from Latinx, Black, Indigenous, Asian American, and White young people living in low-income neighborhoods, find their way into these civic and political online spaces, particularly if they are newcomers to political and civic action (but see Tufekci & Wilson 2012; Lee 2020). This paper, which had its origins in two interdisciplinary youth participatory action research (YPAR) projects seeking to support young people in leadership and online civic development, offered an opportunity to better understand how these inequities played out in the lives of 35 young people who were experiencing marginalization and who were newcomers to politics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12115", "words": "7031", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Hendry, Natalie Ann; Tiidenberg, Katrin; Abidin, Crystal; Kaye, D. Bondy Valdovinos; Zeng, Jing; Wikstrom, Patrik; Bucher, Taina; Highfield, Tim; Leaver, Tama; Qiu, Jack Linchuan", "title": "PLATFORM SPECIFICITIES: THE PLATFORM BOOKS PANEL", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "app; content; cultures; facebook; instagram; media; new; platform; super; templatability; tiktok; tumblr; university; users; video; wechat", "summary": "Social media platforms shape our lives on micro, meso and macro levels. \u2018The affordances of social media platforms.\u2019", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12116", "words": "6074", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Herman, Andrew; Markham, Annette; Luka, M.E.; Carlson, Rebecca; Dilkes, Danielle; Stirling, Fiona; Pronzato, Riccardo; Sarwatay, Devina", "title": "COLLABORATING AT MICROSCOPIC AND MASSIVE SCALES: THE CHALLENGE AND VALUE OF COVID ISOLATION FOR CRITICAL INTERNET STUDIES", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "autoethnography; covid; covid-19; digital; markham; mms; pandemic; project; research; researchers; sensemaking; university", "summary": "The emerging shape of the project itself showcases the challenges and possibilities of how research projects at scale can (or don\u2019t) reflect and build social movements. The emerging shape of the project itself showcases the challenges and possibilities of how research projects at scale can (or cannot) reflect and build social movements, how serendipity plays a strong role in emergent research design, how independence and interdependence are emergent and ad hoc temporal qualities of large scale collaborations rather than built-in or top-down properties.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12117", "words": "5703", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Jaber, Heather; Kraidy, Marwan; Al-Ghazzi, Omar; Zidani, Sulafa", "title": "TRANSNATIONAL FEELINGS: DIGITAL AFFECT AS A GLOBAL ANALYTIC", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "affect; andalus; digital; feeling; fire; internet; media; memes; new; online; press; social; university", "summary": "Heather Jaber University of Pennsylvania Marwan Kraidy Northwestern University Qatar Omar Al-Ghazzi London School of Economics and Political Science Sulafa Zidani Massachusetts Institute of Technology Introductory Statement This panel examines the role of affect in transnational digital media, offering fine- grained analyses of online communities and media artifacts which contend with and carve out contested futures. With the exception of regional case studies that address cultures separately (Makhortykh and Gonz\u00e1lez Aguilar, 2020; Szablowicz, 2014), scholarship investigating Internet memes and affect from a transnational perspective is so far limited.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12118", "words": "6318", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Jensen, Jakob Linaa; Brevini, Benedetta; Madianou, Mirca; Couldry, Nick; Mejias, Ulises", "title": "ANALYZING THE PLATFORM ECONOMY \u2013 FEUDALISM, MEDIEVALISM AND COLONIALISM AS USEFUL FRAMEWORKS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "amazon; capitalism; colonialism; data; digital; economy; internet; lord; new; platform; power; press; society; university", "summary": "Paper 4 THE DECOLONIAL TURN IN DATA STUDIES Nick Couldry, London School of Econonics Ulises Meijes, SUNY Oswego This talk will return to the proposal, made by the authors at AOIR 2018, to interpret what is going on with data today through the lens of colonialism, specifically through the theoretical framework now known as data colonialism (Couldry and Mejias 2018, 2019). Data colonialism is just one of a number of macro-theories developed in the past 5 years to make sense of the vast expansion of processes for extracting, aggregating, evaluating and applying data.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12119", "words": "7223", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Kaufmann, Katja; Palmberger, Monika; Parreiras, Carolina; Bussoletti, Arianna; Belotti, Francesca; Comunello, Francesca; Donato, Stellamarina; Wagenaar, Welmoed; Berm\u00fadez, Juan; Schweiger, Moritz; Wimmer, Jeffrey", "title": "THE IN(TER)DEPENDENCIES OF MOBILE ONLINE AND OFFLINE SPACES: REFLECTIONS ON METHODS, PRACTICES, ETHICS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "challenges; digital; everyday; fff; internet; life; media; methods; mobile; new; online; practices; research; spaces; use; whatsapp", "summary": "Existing research on fandom often focuses primarily on online fan practices and how these are embedded in particular online cultures and/or a broader context of social networking, transmedia and participatory culture (cf. Moreover, what ethical dilemmas and practical obstacles may arise in studying dimensions of the everyday when starting from online spaces where people carefully manage the boundaries between different identities and spheres of life?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12125", "words": "6941", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "McCammon, Muira Nicollet; Ruan, Lotus; Miltner, Kate; Gerrard, Ysabel; Montalbano, Kathryn; Miko\u0142ajewska-Zaj\u0105c, Karolina; M\u00e1rton, Attila", "title": "WHAT DEAD-AND-DYING PLATFORMS DO FOR INTERNET STUDIES: SITUATING TECHNOLOGICAL FAILURE, DIGITAL AFTERLIFE, AND THE WEB THAT WAS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "china; counter; digital; history; internet; media; myspace; narratives; new; platforms; press; state; tweets; university; web", "summary": "The fourth contribution focuses on YikYak in considering why some anonymous platforms that are prone to cyberbullying, copyright infringement, and hate speech survive while others die, despite the safe harbor status afforded to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and social media platforms by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). The development, influences, and political impacts of social media platforms have attracted much scholarly attention (Zhuravskaya et al., 2020).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12128", "words": "3904", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Reinhard, CarrieLynn; Fontaine, Jessica; King, DeWitt", "title": "AN ONLINE WORK IS STILL WORK: VIRTUAL LABORS OF PROFESSIONAL WRESTLERS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "aew; baker; bte; fans; labor; press; university; work; wrestlers; wrestling; wwe", "summary": "Moreover, because professional wrestling matches are predetermined in advance, the aim of matches is not to win competitively. The COVID pandemic\u2019s impact on professional wrestling has come in many forms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12129", "words": "47", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Lalvani, Simiran; Zia, Sarah; Gupta, Anushree; Rathi, Aayush", "title": "PLATFORMISATION OF RIDE HAILING, FOOD DELIVERY AND DOMESTIC WORK SERVICES IN URBAN INDIA", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "browser", "summary": "Learn more Safari Opera Microsoft Edge Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety \u00a9 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "spir-12130", "words": "47", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Riedlinger, Michelle; Fleerackers, Alice; Bruns, Axel; Burgess, Jean; Guenther, Lars; Joubert, Marina; Osman, Kim", "title": "THE CONVERSATION, TEN YEARS ON: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF A UNIQUE SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING INITIATIVE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "browser", "summary": "Learn more Microsoft Edge Google Chrome Opera Mozilla Firefox Safari Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety \u00a9 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "spir-12131", "words": "6044", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Striphas, Ted; Hallinan, Blake; Reynolds, CJ; Brown, Mikayla; Postigo, Hector", "title": "ALGORITHMIC IMAGINATIONS: RETHINKING \u201cALGORITHMIC\u201d AS A HEURISTIC FOR UNDERSTANDING COMPUTATIONALLY-STRUCTURED CULTURE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "algorithms; culture; data; digital; identity; imagination; information; new; platform; press; research; society; striphas; university; york; youtube", "summary": "Awareness of a deterministic, barely visible computational hand shaping society is evident in academic scholarship, which has experienced a proliferation of studies on the subjects of: the oppressive dimensions of algorithmic decision making, particularly with respect to race and gender (Benjamin 2019; Browne 2015; Cheney-Lippold 2018; Gandy 1993; O\u2019Neil 2016; Nakamura, 2009; Noble 2018); the nature, definition, and historicity of algorithms (Gillespie 2017; Goffey 2008; Seaver 2017; Striphas 2021); algorithmic culture (Galloway 2006; Striphas 2015); the relationship between algorithms, media systems, democracy, and public life (Andrejevic 2019; Pasquale 2015; Vaidhyanathan 2012; Vaidhyanathan 2018); and more. Similarly, this panel contends that the ways in which algorithms have been \u201cthought,\u201d or imagined, have made it difficult to conceive of practicable strategies for transforming algorithmic cultures and, indeed, for delinking them from both state and corporate control.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12132", "words": "4776", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Sund\u00e9n, Jenny; Tiidenberg, Katrin; Paasonen, Susanna; Vihlman, Maria", "title": "SPACE, PLACE AND LOCATION IN SEXUAL SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "digital; imaginaries; kink; libertine; media; place; platform; sex; site; users", "summary": "Contributing to the swiftly emerging field of the geographies of digital sexualities (Nash and Gorman-Murray, 2019), this panel explores the geosocial and geopolitical dimensions of digital sexual cultures by zooming in on the connections between sexual practices, geographic imaginaries, and locally embedded social media platforms devoted to sexual expression. Our panel opens up (at least) two important discussions, which we feel resonate with the AoIR community: (1) how geographic imaginaries shape and constrain sexual social media platforms at a political moment when sex is increasingly de-platformed from social media and pushed out of public view in ways that are particularly harmful for sexually marginalized people; and (2) how our examples, when understood as social media platforms, can challenge our understandings of what social media are, how they function, and what kind of sociability they foster.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12133", "words": "5265", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Thorhauge, Anne Mette; Yuan, Jingyan Elaine; \u00d8rmen, Jacob; Gregersen, Andreas; Vonderau, Patrick", "title": "DYNAMICS OF DIGITAL MARKETS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "alibaba; digital; economy; market; media; money; platform; press; skins; state; steam; theory; university; way", "summary": "By bringing these perspectives together, the panel presentations address different dynamics of digital markets. Altogether, the presentations demonstrate that digital markets come in different forms and shapes, but also that they are guided, shaped, and constrained by similar mechanisms and practices.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12134", "words": "5871", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Tran, Christine H.; Ruberg, Bonnie \"Bo\"; Guarriello, Nicholas-Brie; Lark, Daniel", "title": "PLAYING AT THE POLLS: VIDEO GAMES IN/AS PLATFORMS OF POLITICAL PARTICIPATION", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "amazon; content; emotes; game; horizons; islands; life; livestreaming; media; new; platforms; politics; streamers; twitch; university; video", "summary": "Our first paper examines how Twitch streamers redefine \u201cvirtual picket lines\u201d in alternative labour movements against one of the world\u2019s largest platform technology employers, Amazon. I review emerging cultural narratives on streamer boycotts, and Amazon labour stoppages during Prime Days, and how Twitch streamers use information technologies, like hashtags, to demarcate acceptable strike behaviors and broadcast their social alignment with Amazon workers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12135", "words": "5817", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Vaughan, Antonia; Eneman, Marie; H\u00e5rd af Segerstad, Ylva; Nilsson, Stefan; Olsson, Maria; Zheng, Tian; Zaugg, Isabelle; Reeve, Jonathan; Zimmer, Michael", "title": "AOIR ETHICS PANEL 1: PRACTICES AND ROADMAPS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "data; ethical; ethics; harassment; internet; interviews; material; offenders; online; research; researchers; right; university", "summary": "As a collaborative team that spans the humanities, social sciences, arts, and STEM, we believe that data ethics education is most meaningful when it draws upon transdisciplinary perspectives to both understand and, importantly, act on data ethics. A ROADMAP FOR EDUCATORS Tian Zheng Columbia University, USA Isabelle Zaugg Columbia University, USA Jonathan Reeve Columbia University, USA Data Ethics Education From the spread of disinformation via social media, to class-biased dynamic pricing, to racial profiling in online systems that lead to \u201creal-world\u201d harms, teaching data ethics has never been more urgently needed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12136", "words": "1340", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Antoine, Anshare Annie; Stanfill, Mel", "title": "\u201cMISS RONA IS REALLY CLAPPING THE WHITE SUPREMACISTS\u201d: BLACK TWITTER'S POLITICAL HUMOR IN COVID-19 TIMES", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "rona; tweets; twitter; \ufffd \ufffd", "summary": "Feminist Media Histories \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\u2013\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd KWWSV\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdGRL\ufffdRUJ\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdIPK\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd KWWSV\ufffd\ufffd\ufffdGRL\ufffdRUJ\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd;\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd Monk-Payton, Brandy. 2017.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12138", "words": "1331", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Baack, Stefan; Conill, Raul Ferrer; Cheruiyot, David", "title": "TAKING INTERDEPENDENCIES SERIOUSLY: THE CASE OF MOZILLA\u2019S ENTANGLEMENTS WITH JOURNALISM", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "interdependencies; journalism; manifesto; mozilla", "summary": "The interviews were conducted online and lasted between 30 minutes and one hour.1 Interviewees were selected based on their role in Mozilla projects with clear connections to journalism. Researching how digital journalism is changing due to the influence of online non-journalistic actors is important, but doing so exclusively (or primarily) takes a reductionist view of the much more complex interdependencies between journalism and other actors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12139", "words": "1262", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Bartol, Jo\u0161t; Petrov\u010di\u010d, Andra\u017e; Vehovar, Vasja", "title": "THE QUALITY OF SURVEY SCALES FOR MEASURING INFORMATION PRIVACY CONCERNS ON SOCIAL NETWORK SITES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "information; ipcs; privacy; scales; survey", "summary": "Accordingly, the aims of this research were to systematically examine the quality of survey scales used for measuring IPCs among SNS users and to provide suggestions for improving IPC measurement in the future. However, our results suggest that many IPC survey scales are of questionable quality.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12140", "words": "1255", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Bastick, Zach; Mallet, Marie L.", "title": "BETWEEN INCLUSION & EXCLUSION: THE DIGITAL LIVES OF UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "exclusion; immigrants; inclusion", "summary": "We constructed an interview guide covering pertinent themes: (1) digital access and skills; (2) attitudes towards digital technologies; (3) outcomes related to undocumented status; (4) impacts on transnational family practices; (5) privacy and attitudes towards government and corporate data collection; (6) attitudes towards AI (such as newsfeeds); (7) self-efficacy in detecting fake news; and (8) pandemic related impacts on digital inclusion. Despite the heightened effects that digital inclusion may have on this precarious group, there is a paucity of research on their digital lives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12141", "words": "1282", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Bastos, Marco; Mercea, Dan; Goveia, Fabio", "title": "GUY NEXT DOOR AND IMPLAUSIBLY ATTRACTIVE YOUNG WOMEN: THE VISUAL FRAMES OF SOCIAL MEDIA PROPAGANDA", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "images; media; profile; propaganda", "summary": "We probe this question by taking stock of studies in visual propaganda research and testing whether social media propaganda seeks to embody the vox populi by employing relatable, familiar, or alternatively attractive faces of ordinary people\u2015the archetypal \u201cman on the street\u201d (MOTS). To this end, we analyzed the visual frames in profile images released by Twitter\u2019s Elections Integrity, which identified and removed the universe of false accounts operated by the Internet Research Agency (Elections Integrity, 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12142", "words": "47", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Baum, Igal; Ribak, Rivka", "title": "NEOLIBERAL CARTOGRAPHY: A VISUAL-SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF THREE NAVIGATION APPS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "browser", "summary": "Learn more Opera Microsoft Edge Safari Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety \u00a9 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "spir-12143", "words": "1557", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Beers, Andrew; Nguy\u1ec5n, Sarah; S. Spiro, Emma; Starbird, Kate", "title": "REJECTING SCIENCE WITH SCIENCE: BOUNDARY-WORK IN ANTI-MASK TWITTER REPLY THREADS DURING COVID-19", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?4lwt0a; https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?4lwt0a https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?4lwt0a; mask; science; work", "summary": "Faced with the reality of an extensive pro-mask scientific literature, anti-mask users undermined these studies by claiming the experiments were not RCT, but rather only observational studies or literature reviews. Anti-mask users decried scientists and politicians alike for citing science compromised by political bias or ulterior motives, and used these claims to discredit many pro-mask claims.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12144", "words": "1441", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Bergmann, Rachel; Solomun, Sonja", "title": "DIESEL DEATH ZONES IN THE AMAZON EMPIRE: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN ALGORITHMICALLY MEDIATED WORK", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "amazon; aoir; climate; diesel; justice; workers", "summary": "This case situates questions of tech justice in a specific place and moment in time and provides an opportunity to analyze the ways platform technologies affect communities \u201con the ground.\u201d Findings SBAC argued that Amazon, already the largest employer in the area, would enact environmental racism with their new air cargo hub in the predominantly Hispanic, working-class Riverside and San Bernardino counties (Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, 2020). Yet environmental justice remains largely siloed from these important interventions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12145", "words": "1876", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Berryman, Rachel; Abidin, Crystal; Leaver, Tama", "title": "A TOPOGRAPHY OF VIRTUAL INFLUENCERS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "abidin; celebrity; figure; idol; influencers; leaver; media; voice", "summary": "A TOPOGRAPHY OF VIRTUAL INFLUENCERS Rachel Berryman Curtin University, Australia Crystal Abidin Curtin University, Australia Tama Leaver Curtin University, Australia Introduction Informed by my first six months of doctoral research, this paper offers a topography of virtual influencers that at once acknowledges their continuation of and breaking with the precedents of a lineage of \u201cvirtual beings\u201d who have achieved celebrity status. Responding to the ahistoricism of much recent commentary, it draws on archival press and web research to situate virtual influencers at the intersection of technological advancements, discourses, and anxieties similarly characterising Hollywood\u2019s \u201csynthespians\u201d at the turn of the twenty-first century; the legacy of \u201cvirtual idols\u201d in East Asia (also known as \u201cVocaloids\u201d in Japan); and the latter\u2019s recent democratisation by a new generation of \u201cvTubers\u201d across video-sharing sites.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12146", "words": "1361", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Bitencourt, Elias Cunha; Castelhano, Gr\u00e9gori da Costa; Lopes, Catarina", "title": "FROM DIGITAL INFLUENCERS TO INFLUENCER-LABORATORIES. A CASE STUDY OF LIL MIQUELA", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "character; influencers; miquela; version", "summary": "Treated as microcelebrities (Senft, 2008) that have achieved their status by attracting a large audience in social networks, digital influencers are frequently associated with people who use social capital acquired online to gain access to financial resources (Abidin, 2015). The literature tends to differentiate between digital influencers and celebrities in the traditional media based on two general factors: authenticity and entrepreneurship (Duffy & Hund, 2015; Marwick, 2015, 2018)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12147", "words": "1372", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Boichak, Olga; Asmolov, Gregory", "title": "CROWDFUNDING IN REMOTE CONFLICTS: BOUNDING THE HYPERCONNECTED BATTLEFIELDS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "conflict; crowdfunding; media; platforms; suffering", "summary": "Echoing the conference theme, we investigate the role crowdfunding platforms play in fostering novel forms of interdependence among users as geopolitical actors in remote conflicts. Background Remote humanitarian participation in response to disasters and conflicts has a rich history that dates back at least a hundred years.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12148", "words": "1303", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Burk, Dan; Rosenblatt, Betsy", "title": "REGULATING EXPRESSION AND EQUALITY IN COLLEGIATE ESPORTS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "computer; esports; gaming; title", "summary": "In this paper we therefore examine problems of Title IX eSports compliance in light of the First Amendment. For example, it seems likely that the culture surrounding computer gaming is even less welcoming to transgender and LGBTQ+ players than it is to cis-gendered women, and this may have implications for Title IX collegiate eSports compliance, raising a set of complex questions beyond the scope of our discussion here.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12150", "words": "1297", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Burnett, Scott; P. Moura Trancoso, Fotini", "title": "\u2018THE GREAT YOUTUBE PURGE OF WRONGTHINK\u2019: ALTRIGHT ADAPTATIONS IN A CHANGING PLATFORM ECOLOGY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "content; media; right; tgo; youtube", "summary": "Microsoft Word - Burnett-'The Great YouTube Purge of Wrongthink'-'The Great YouTube Purge of Wrongthink'.docx Selected Papers of #AoIR2021: The 22nd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Virtual Event / 13-16 Oct 2021 Suggested Citation (APA): Burnett, Scott and Trancoso, Fotini Paleologou Moura. \u201c\u2018The Great YouTube Purge of Wrongthink\u2019: AltRight adaptations in a changing media ecology\u201d.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12151", "words": "1356", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Carmi, Elinor; Yates, Simeon", "title": "DATA CITIZENSHIP: DATA LITERACIES TO CHALLENGE POWER IMBALANCE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "citizens; data; literacies; people", "summary": "In this paper we present the findings from the third phase of our \u201cMe and My Big Data: Developing Citizens Data Literacies\u201d project on citizens data literacies. This understanding will provide a foundation to develop education programmes that will provide citizens with data literacies to make the best use for their lives and wellbeing.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12152", "words": "1369", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Carter, Marcus; Egliston, Ben", "title": "A CRITICAL FUTURE OF VIRTUAL REALITY: ALL WORK AND NO PLAY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "carter; data; egliston; reality", "summary": "While Walmart emphasise that VR assessment is only one of the \u201cdata points\u201d used in hiring decisions, the VR companies we examined enthusiastically frame the potential for the complete automation of hiring decisions based on the \u201cobjective\u201d data collected from VR use. VR data is of course not \u201cobjective\u201d; while we found no discussion of the training datasets in our study (Carter & Egliston, 2021), commercial machine-learning products are typically trained on biased datasets of neurotypical, male, and able-bodied engineers (Mehrabi et al. 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12153", "words": "1252", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Chin, Yik Chan; Li, Ke", "title": "SOVEREIGNTY IN THE CYBERSPACE: CONTESTATION OF CONCEPTS AND POLICIES", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "concepts; cyberspace; internet; sovereignty", "summary": "Weber RH (2010) NEW SOVEREIGNTY CONCEPT IN THE AGE OF INTERNET? Various claims of cyberspace sovereignty, including 'data sovereignty', 'digital sovereignty' and 'technological sovereignty', have attracted widespread attention.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12154", "words": "1366", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Cooper, Zane; Bridges, Lauren E.; Ticona, Julia", "title": "CONSTRUCTING THE DIGITAL SKILLS CRISIS: A CRITICAL CONCEPTUAL HISTORY OF \u201cSKILL\u201d", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "concept; crisis; skills; technology", "summary": "Literature Review Taking up Sara Ahmed\u2019s (2019) method of following words around, this paper follows skill\u2013\u2013as a word, concept, and action\u2013\u2013through its deep, yet critically sparse, intellectual history, to better understand how the idea of digital skills has been politically operationalized. Our findings show, although variations exist between democratic and republican framing\u2013\u2013where one treats digital skills as democratizing and the other as a way to ensure national strength\u2013\u2013there is a consistent deficit framework that individualizes a lack of appropriate skills which can only be addressed through training in new technologies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12155", "words": "1158", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Couture, Stephane; Toupin, Sophie; Alejandro, Mayoral-Ba\u00f1os", "title": "TECHNOLOGICAL SOVEREIGNTY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF FREE SOFTWARE AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "data; digital; internet; sovereignty", "summary": "First, Indigenous scholars and advocates are calling for data sovereignty in continuity with the larger struggle of Indigenous peoples to reclaim sovereignty over their land, body, and culture. This perspective is quite distinct from the idea of digital sovereignty as promoted by nation-states, as it often emphasizes alternative and community-based technological making.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12156", "words": "1299", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Cross, Katherine Alejandra Angel; Hoffmann, Anna Lauren", "title": "SORRY, BUT...: PLATFORM APOLOGIES, ABUSE, AND CONSTRUCTING THE CULPABLE SUBJECT", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "abuse; apologies; apology; platform", "summary": "More than hollow rhetoric, however, platform apologies are central to the construction of platforms\u2019 social and political legitimacy. As with official and corporate apologies broadly, platform apologies set normative expectations; they \u201ctell us what to avoid and what to strive for (Villadsen, 2008, p.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12157", "words": "1285", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Cuillier, Cheryl; Daly, Diana", "title": "OPEN PEDAGOGY: INDEPENDENCE AND INTERDEPENDENCE IN TEACHING ABOUT NEW MEDIA", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "learning; open; pedagogy; students", "summary": "Research on open pedagogy is growing, although studies of student experiences with open pedagogy are limited (Baran & AlZoubi, 2020; Hilton et al., 2019; Hollister, 2020). Whether students prefer this type of open pedagogy project to traditional learning activities (e.g., writing papers, taking quizzes).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12158", "words": "1244", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Dahya, Negin; Ekmekcioglu, Cansu; Arvisais, Olivier; Decarpentrie, Laurie", "title": "LEARNING IN/DEPENDENTLY IN REFUGEE CAMPS: COMMUNITY-BASED PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING, LEARNING, AND TECHNOLOGY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "education; learning; refugee; technology", "summary": "Social support networks, instant messaging, and gender equity in refugee education. There is an evident gap in relation to what we know about teaching, learning, and technology for refugee people in camps.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12159", "words": "1219", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "de Souza e Silva, Adriana; Glover-Rijkse, Ragan", "title": "DEVELOPING A MOBILE GAMES DATABASE: TRACING INTERDEPENDENCIES AMONG EARLY MOBILE GAMES", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "database; games; mobile; phones", "summary": "For this reason, mobile games have become woven into the fabric of daily life, as individuals carry their phones with them on-the-go, squeezing in moments of play or setting aside specific playtimes. Since the release of the iPhone 3G and the App Store in 2008, the number of mobile games has increased substantially, reflecting what M\u00e4yr\u00e4 (2015) refers to as a growing and increasingly complex genre.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12160", "words": "1275", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "DeCook, Julia Rose; Cotter, Kelley; Kanthawala, Shaheen", "title": "SAFE FROM \u201cHARM\u201d: THE GOVERNANCE OF VIOLENCE BY PLATFORMS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "governance; harm; platforms; violence", "summary": "Although in recent years platforms have developed more explicit policies in regard to what constitutes \u201chate speech\u201d and \u201charmful content,\u201d the unintended consequences and side effects about how platforms define harm and how those definitions, in turn, affect users\u2019 normative understandings of harm are understudied. Namely, it appears that platforms often use subjective judgments of harm that specifically pertains to spectacular, physical violence - but harm takes on many shapes and complex forms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12161", "words": "1391", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Delfanti, Alessandro; Phan, Michelle", "title": "RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN: REMIX AND CO-OPTION IN THE MEDIA INDUSTRY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "labour; media; remix; rip", "summary": "The commodification of Black cultural labour is not novel. To fulfill this necessity, creative labour is fostered, datafied and quantified into order to be made productive.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12162", "words": "1727", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "de-Lima-Santos, Mathias Felipe; Ceron, Wilson", "title": "SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ORGANIZED BUILT ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS IN BRAZIL: A STUDY OF HOW TRADITIONAL MEDIA EMBRACED THESE NOVEL FORMS OF CONNECTION AND COMMUNITY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "brazil; media; movements; news; platforms", "summary": "Social movements organized built on social media platforms in Brazil: In this almost decade of crises (political, economic, and social), social movements have taken to social media to organize protests (Caren et al., 2020).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12163", "words": "47", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Dunajcsik, Peter 'Maxigas'; ten Oever, Niels", "title": "GEOPOLITICS IN THE INFRASTRUCTURAL IDEOLOGIES OF 5G", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "browser", "summary": "Learn more Safari Opera Microsoft Edge Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety \u00a9 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "spir-12165", "words": "1415", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Epstein, Dmitry; Quinn, Kelly", "title": "VERTICAL OR HORIZONTAL? AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE ROLE OF PRIVACY LITERACY AND PRIVACY SELF-EFFICACY ON THE DIMENSIONALITY OF PRIVACY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "efficacy; ppb; privacy; self", "summary": "This is particularly important as we recognize that users of social media tend to adopt horizontal views of privacy (Quinn et al., 2019), whereas many systemic threats stem from vertical privacy relationships (Baruh & Popescu, 2017). The fundamental relationship between privacy concerns and PPB is further complicated by mediating and moderating factors, such as digital privacy literacy and privacy self-efficacy, or the belief in one\u2019s ability to achieve a desired level of privacy (Chen & Chen, 2015; Dienlin & Metzger, 2016; Masur, 2020).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12166", "words": "1265", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Foxman, Maxwell; Cote, Amanda; Can, Onder; Harris, Brandon; Rahman, Waseq; Hansen, Jared; Fickle, Tara", "title": "RECASTING COLLEGIATE ESPORTS: INDEPENDENCE AND INTERDEPENDENCE OF UNIVERSITY TWITCH STREAMERS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "collegiate; esports; players; twitch; university", "summary": "Recasting Collegiate Esports: Independence and Interdependence of University Twitch Streamers. RECASTING COLLEGIATE ESPORTS: INDEPENDENCE AND INTERDEPENDENCE OF UNIVERSITY TWITCH STREAMERS Maxwell Foxman University of Oregon Amanda Cote University of Oregon Onder Can University of Oregon Brandon Harris University of Oregon Waseq Rahman University of Oregon Jared Hansen University of Oregon Tara Fickle University of Oregon Introduction Few online communities exhibit tensions between independence and interdependence better than collegiate esports.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12167", "words": "1278", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Frayha, Assil; Kraidy, Marwan M.", "title": "MEGAPHONE: SOCIAL-MEDIA-NATIVE OUTLETS BETWEEN EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE AND ALGORITHMIC CONSTRAINTS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "lebanon; media; megaphone; outlets", "summary": "While we mainly focus on the rise of independent digital media outlets like Megaphone which accompanied Lebanon\u2019s 2019 uprising, we also show how, in Lebanon, independence movements, protest movements, and uprisings have historically contributed to introducing new media forms and outlets and shaping Lebanon\u2019s media. Though the role of digital media in protests has received plenty of attention since the onset of Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Uprisings (Penney & Dadas, 2014; Herrera, 2014; Howard & Hussain, 2013) a decade ago, the way that protest movements have enabled the institutional development of independent digital news media has received less attention.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12168", "words": "1311", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Gaw, Fatima; Bunquin, Jon Benedik", "title": "SUBVERSIVE COMMEMORATION: MAPPING THE ASSEMBLAGE OF COUNTER-MEMORY ON TWITTER", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "assemblage; counter; media; memory", "summary": "Outside the digital realm, social institutions also still play a crucial role in the legitimation of memory, and other venues and forms of commemoration where memories are legitimized, (re)constructed, and even revised must be explored, as our study provides only one of long-standing debates about Marcos\u2019 legacy in digital media. Subversive Commemoration: Mapping the Assemblage of Counter-memory on Twitter.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12169", "words": "1469", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Gharib, Hoda; Boler, Megan", "title": "NARRATIVES IN AMERICA: THE CONNECTION BETWEEN AFFECTIVE POLARIZATION AND VICTIMHOOD IN THE 2020 US ELECTION", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "analysis; media; polarization; victimhood", "summary": "Through extensive 4-month ethnography and grounded theoretical coding and discourse analysis of 2500 social media posts and comment sections, we address debates relating to the nature of cross-partisan dialogue and affective polarization on social media. Conclusion: Through innovative and nuanced coding of emotions, beliefs, and narratives of self/other on social media, our study deepens understandings of the nature and manifestation of affective polarization in the U.S.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12170", "words": "1316", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Giglietto, Fabio; Righetti, Nicola; Rossi, Luca; Marino, Giada", "title": "COORNET: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO SURFACE PROBLEMATIC CONTENT, MALICIOUS ACTORS, AND COORDINATED NETWORKS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "actors; content; giglietto", "summary": "It takes a village to manipulate the media: coordinated link sharing behavior during 2018 and 2019 Italian elections. Various types of COVID-19 skepticism, anti-vaxx, and anti-mask are prominently featured in the list of coordinated news stories (top_urls) shared by these networks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12171", "words": "1185", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Gillett, Rosalie Mary; Suzor, Nicolas", "title": "INCELS ON REDDIT: A STUDY IN SOCIAL NORMS AND DECENTRALISED MODERATION", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "moderation; norms; reddit; subreddits", "summary": "Our study shows how the moderators of major incel subreddits resisted external pressure by adopting techniques to neutralize their behaviour and by enforcing boundaries to insulate their communities from critics. We argue that content moderation is an insufficient frame to understand the regulation of harmful communities; real change requires addressing the underlying cultural norms rather than focusing on individual pieces of content.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12173", "words": "1265", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Gilmore, James N; Hamer, Madeline; Erazo, Valerie; Hayes, Patrick", "title": "'IT'S 1776, BABY!': BROADCASTING REVOLUTIONARY PERFORMANCE DURING THE U.S. CAPITOL RIOTS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "capitol; riot; u.s; videos", "summary": "In what ways did participants in the U.S. Capitol Riot draw on imagery and language of revolution in the video content shared on online platforms? We analyzed videos participants recorded and shared through seven different platforms: the social networking sites Facebook, Twitter, and Parler; the live-streaming sites DLive, Twitch, and Periscope; and the messaging application Snapchat.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12174", "words": "1311", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Ging, Debbie; Murphy, Shane", "title": "TRACKING THE PILLING PIPELINE: LIMITATIONS, CHALLENGES AND A CALL FOR NEW METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS IN INCEL AND MANOSPHERE RESEARCH", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "incel; manosphere; new; research", "summary": "In response to these challenges, we propose new methodological directions that specifically attempt to map dynamic patterns and pathways of anti-women extremism online, based on our recent work on incel formations. We suggest that there is a need to consider a number of pathways, both spatially and temporally: firstly, the spread and extremization of ideas within different components of the incel/manosphere over time; secondly, the migration of ideas across different platforms over time (this relates to flows in both directions, i.e. both mainstreaming and extremization); and thirdly, the spread of ideas to and from other extreme online groups (e.g. alt-right, QAnon, Politigram \u2018Doomers\u2019, etc.), bearing in mind that many of these pathways may also be transnational in nature.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12175", "words": "1327", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Goldenfein, Jake; Viljoen, Salom\u00e9; McGuigan, Lee", "title": "DESIGN CHOICES: MECHANISM DESIGN AND PLATFORM CAPITALISM", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "choices; design; economic; mechanism; platform", "summary": "In this paper, we pull back the curtain of platform capitalism to glimpse the world of mechanism design. Mechanism design brings a formidable but conflicted lineage into the heart of platform governance.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12176", "words": "1320", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Gosse, Chandell Enid; Hodson, Jaigris; Veletsianos, George", "title": "NOT FAR ENOUGH: HOW WORKPLACE HARASSMENT POLICIES FAIL TO PROTECT SCHOLARS FROM ONLINE ABUSE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "abuse; policies; scholars; university", "summary": "However, the integration and reliance on these technologies into scholars\u2019 work lives have heightened their online visibility, which has opened the door to new experiences of online abuse, such as Zoom-bombing, doxing, and inappropriate and violent comments (Burnett, 2020; Elmer, Glyn Burton, & Neville, 2020; Frangou, 2019). Scholars also report being left to deal with the consequences of online abuse primarily on their own, with little support from their institution (Authors, 2018b).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12177", "words": "1332", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Guerra, Ana; de Brito d'Andr\u00e9a, Carlos Frederico", "title": "ALGORITHMIC IMAGINARIES IN THE MAKING: BRAZILIAN UBERTUBERS ENCOUNTERS WITH SURGE PRICING ALGORITHMS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "drivers; uber; ubertubers", "summary": "Our focus is understanding how these \u201cUbertubers\u201d \u2014 drivers who built their YouTube presence based on their identity as Uber drivers \u2014 explain and demonstrate how SP works, producing and sharing their own visual inscriptions (Latour, 1999). This algorithmic governance is routinely questioned and appropriated by drivers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12178", "words": "1206", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Guo, Chen; Abidin, Crystal", "title": "LIZIQI AND CHINESE RURAL YOUTUBE VIDEOS: SCOPING A GENRE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "genre; liziqi; videos; youtube", "summary": "Figure 1 & 2: Screenshot of examples of Chinese rural YouTube videos. First, the genre of Chinese rural YouTube videos is constituted by some necessary elements in the video content, including rural scenery, thematic content of rural life activities, paratexts to introduce the content or (optionally) embed advertising, and the use of diegetic or non-diegetic sound to enhance the atmosphere.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12179", "words": "1280", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Han, Xiaofei; Hou, Jiaxi", "title": "FAKE POPULARITY FOR REAL MONEY: COMMERCIAL ASTROTURFING AND DATA BUBBLE ON CHINESE DIGITAL PLATFORM", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "bubble; data; platforms; users", "summary": "Fake popularity for real money: Enlarging data bubble on Chinese digital platforms. Similar to the bubble in a stock market where the price of assets substantially exceeds its intrinsic value, we propose \u201cdata bubble\u201d as a neologism to describe the phenomenon and ecosystem of manipulating data to aim for an inflated popularity on Chinese digital platforms, which ultimately pitch to higher commercial and financial values.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12180", "words": "1276", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Heemsbergen, Luke; Cadman, Same", "title": "COMMERCIAL AND RESEARCH CLUSTERING OF AUGMENTED REALITY: DISCOURSES AND DIVIDES BETWEEN AR APPS AND APPLICATIONS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "media; reality; research", "summary": "The first is reviewing retrospective histories of AR research (see Kim et al. 2018) via mixed methods to make science and technology relationships visible in new ways. Cipresso et al. (2018; p15) use Web of Science (WoS) data - up to 2016 - to track the evolution of networks and cluster in AR research, stressing that as hardware becomes commodified (i.e. scalable to market) concerns are shifting to interaction potentials measured through a clinical phase of AR research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12181", "words": "1216", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Helmond, Anne; van der Vlist, Fernando; Burkhardt, Marcus; Seitz, Tatjana", "title": "THE GOVERNANCE OF FACEBOOK PLATFORM", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "apis; data; facebook; governance; platform", "summary": "While the Facebook Graph API (GAPI) is the best-known, there are hundreds of distinct Facebook API entities that have (dis)appeared over the years. Specifically, we consider the relationality between the design of Facebook\u2019s APIs, platform governance, and (data) strategy from a material-evolutionary perspective on three levels: (1) the structure of Facebook\u2019s entire API architecture, (2) core API objects in terms of their properties, connections, and parameters, and (3) their associated permissions, as handled through Facebook applications and Login, using current and archived Facebook developer pages.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12182", "words": "1255", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Hemsley, Jeff; Stromer-Galley, Jennifer; Rossini, Patr\u00edcia; Smith, Alexander", "title": "STAYING IN THEIR LANES: ISSUE OWNERSHIP IN THE 2016 AND 2020 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "democrats; issues; republicans", "summary": "Prior research has identified issue-ownership across partisan lines, with Republicans seen to focus on issues such as taxes and national defense, and Democrats more likely to focus on social issues and welfare (Petrocik, Benoit & Hansen, 2003). Proportion of attack, advocacy and contrast messages per party and issue Conclusion This study examines how candidates use social media to talk about political issues across the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaign.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12183", "words": "1353", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Heslep, Daniel Grant; Berge, PS", "title": "MAPPING DISCORD\u2019S DARKSIDE: DISTRIBUTED HATE NETWORKS ON DISBOARD", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "communities; discord; hate; party; servers", "summary": "Because Discord only allows users to search partnered and verified servers (generally with 10,000 member minimums), third-party sites like Disboard\u2014a public bulletin for Discord servers\u2014are popular for searching smaller communities. Disboard relies on its own third-party bot, which, when integrated directly into Discord servers, displays a public invite link and the number of currently active members (Figure 1).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12185", "words": "1342", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Hine, Christine; Barnaghi, Payam", "title": "SURVEILLANCE FOR INDEPENDENCE: DISCURSIVE FRAMEWORKS IN SMART CARE FOR DEMENTIA", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "care; dementia; living; smart", "summary": "Understanding how ethical issues are identified and managed in the implementation of smart care from the perspective of those involved may enrich principle-based ethical evaluation of smart care technologies. Microsoft Word - Hine-Surveillance for independence-Surveillance for independence.docx Selected Papers of #AoIR2021: The 22nd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Virtual Event / 13-16 Oct 2021 Suggested Citation (APA): Hine,C. and Barnaghi, P. (2021, October).Surveillance for independence: discursive frameworks in smart care for dementia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12186", "words": "1448", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Horowitz, Minna; Matikainen, Janne", "title": "INDEPENDENCE AND INTERDEPENDENCE: MULTIDIMENSIONALITY OF FINNISH YOUTH\u2019S EXPERIENCES OF TRUST IN NEWS ONLINE AND VIA SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "media; news; trust; young", "summary": "News media trust and its impact on media use: toward a framework for future research. Especially the first, comprehensive survey in 2019, has included numerous questions that are intended to detect aspects of generalized trust in news media and journalism, and generalized trust has been addressed in qualitative segments as well.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12187", "words": "1280", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Iliadis, Andrew James; Acker, Amelia", "title": "THE SEER AND THE SEEN: A SURVEY OF TOPICS FOUND IN PALANTIR PATENTS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "data; palantir; patents; table; topics", "summary": "This produced a purposive sample (n=155) of Palantir patents, consisting of 5197 pages, over 2.5 million words, and over 18.5 million characters. Sample list of Palantir ontology patent titles.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12188", "words": "42", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "48", "author": "Jacobs, Naomi Jane; Lindley, Joseph", "title": "ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT IN THE VIDEO CONFERENCING \u2018SPACE'", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "connection", "summary": "Room for Improvement in the Video Conferencing (Space) Verify to continue To continue, please confirm that you're a human (and not a spambot). Checking if the site connection is secure vimeo.com needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "spir-12190", "words": "1283", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Jorge, Ana; Mar\u00f4po, Lidia; Neto, Filipa Fernandes", "title": "\u2018WHEN YOU REALISE YOUR DAD IS CRISTIANO RONALDO\u2019: CELEBRITY SHARENTING AND CHILDREN'S DIGITAL IDENTITY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "children; cristiano; media; sharenting", "summary": "While it refers to sharing any type of information about children and parenting, we interrogate sharenting in its eminent visual dimension, and in relation to celebrity parents. The goal is to understand the digital identity of a child of a global celebrity through their presentation on social media; and to retrieve visual formats of the child\u2019s representation and undergo a qualitative analysis.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12191", "words": "1198", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Kantor, Avner; Rafaeli, Sheizaf", "title": "INDEPENDENCE THROUGH DATA JOURNALISM", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "audience; data; journalism", "summary": "In order to reduce exposure bias, we used the replies ratio as a measure of audience engagement (Ksiazek et al., 2016). Despite this, there seems to be no difference in audience engagement between 2014 and 2016.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12192", "words": "1466", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Kappeler, Kiran Juliana; Festic, Noemi; Latzer, Michael; R\u00fcedy, Tanja", "title": "PROMOTING SELF-HELP\u2014HOW INTERNET USERS PROTECT THEMSELVES AGAINST ALGORITHMIC RISKS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "help; internet; risks; self; users", "summary": "We argue that self-help strategies (see Illouz, 2008 for a critical appraisal of the psychological term) such as adjusting one\u2019s privacy settings provide a complementary way for internet users to cope with algorithmic risks (see Boerman et al., 2018; Ireland, 2020). Research Gap Currently, research into the factors that encourage internet users to apply self-help strategies against algorithmic risks mainly focuses on privacy protection.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12193", "words": "1283", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Kermani, Hossein; Hooman, Niloofar", "title": "HOW A CONNECTIVE ACTION IS DISRUPTED IN RESTRICTIVE CONTEXTS? THE CASE OF DISMANTLING #RAPE ON PERSIAN TWITTER", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "activism; hashtag; rape; tweets", "summary": "The phenomenon which is referred to as hashtag feminism in scholarly literature is rooted in the idea of hashtag activism; a discursive practice by which minor and peripheral groups use Twitter to challenge any form of systematic violence and inequality (Linabary et al., 2020; Xiong et al., 2019). Nonetheless, hashtag activism could encounter many challenges in non-democratic societies which is less probable in Western democracies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12194", "words": "1255", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Klug, Daniel; Qiu, Huilian Sophie", "title": "MOTIVATIONS AND EXPECTATIONS FOR VIRTUAL GIFT-GIVING IN DOUYIN LIVE STREAMS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "douyin; gifts; live; viewers", "summary": "In contrast, our observation of several \u2018PK\u2019 (\u2018player killing\u2019) competitions in \u2018good-looking hosts\u2019 Douyin live streams shows viewers send virtual gifts to help their favorite host win the competition which holds implicit expectations. 2 Three Types of Douyin Live Streams We are looking at three types of live streams by young male hosts (= streamers) on Douyin to analyze the motivations of female viewers to watch and make virtual gifts to the hosts and to explore resulting power relations between hosts and viewers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12195", "words": "1353", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Koltai, Kolina; Grohmann, Iva; Johnson, Devin T.; Rondini, Samantha; Foley, Ella R.", "title": "MASK NARRATIVES PROMOTED BY ANTI-VACCINATION ACCOUNTS ON INSTAGRAM PRIOR TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "masks; posts; vaccine", "summary": "Future planned work involves comparing mask sentiments before and during the pandemic by anti-vaccine accounts on multiple social media platforms and evaluating the accounts and sources that pushed for this shift in mask sentiment. Further, some posts around mask efficacy highlight that wearing a mask can signal that vaccines do not work.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12196", "words": "1375", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Kwok, Chi; Chan, Ngai Keung", "title": "TOWARDS A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL THEORY OF TEMPORAL CONTROL IN THE GIG ECONOMY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "economy; gig; time; workers", "summary": "On the one hand, labor platforms promise to liberate gig workers from traditional bureaucratic labor markets through flexibly scheduling. Specifically, we focus on different types of platform-based temporal control and respective effects on workers\u2019 autonomy, value of free time, and their social and political Suggested Citation (APA): Kwok, C., and Keung Chang, N., (2021, October).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12197", "words": "1395", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "29", "author": "Kyza, Eleni; Varda, Christiana; Konstantinou, Loukas; Karapanos, Evangelos; Perfumi, Serena Coppolino; Svahn, Mattias; Georgiou, Yiannis", "title": "SOCIAL MEDIA USE, TRUST AND TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE: INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A CO-CREATED BROWSER PLUGIN IN MITIGATING THE SPREAD OF MISINFORMATION ON SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "media; misinformation; technology; trust", "summary": "Social media use, trust, and technology acceptance: Investigating the effectiveness of a co- created browser plugin in mitigating the spread of misinformation on social media. Participants first completed questionnaires on individual characteristics (digital literacy, media literacy, epistemic beliefs, social media use, trust in science, and digital citizenship) and were then presented with the Twitter feed, which featured credible and non-credible posts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12198", "words": "1296", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Laaksonen, Salla-Maaria; Rantasila, Anna", "title": "ROCKETING SHEEP: AFFECTIVE DISCIPLINE IN ANONYMOUS MOBILE SOCIAL MEDIA JODEL DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "affective; discipline; jodel; pandemic", "summary": "Rocketing sheep: Affective discipline in anonymous mobile social media Jodel during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study focuses on Covid-19 related discussions on anonymous, ephemeral mobile social media platform Jodel.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12200", "words": "1435", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Liao, Tony; Fite, Haley", "title": "\u2018IT\u2019S MY FAULT FOR POSTING IN THE FIRST PLACE\u2019: HOW INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY AND SELF-BLAME ARE SUSTAINED AND INTERNALIZED", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "blame; data; people; privacy", "summary": "As this research makes apparent, there are complicated rationalizations and compromises happening when it comes to digital privacy, as individuals navigate the space and engage in a series of trade-offs, defense mechanisms, and cognitive dissonance (Draper & Turow, 2019; Fiesler & Hallinan, 2018). Founded in 2015, CrystalKnows automatically generates personality profiles for certain individuals through an algorithm that captures and processes public data online.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12201", "words": "1288", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Literat, Ioana; Abdelbagi, Abubakr; Law, Nicola YL; Cheung, Marcus Y-Y; Tang, Rongwei", "title": "LIKES, SARCASM AND POLITICS: YOUTH RESPONSES TO A PLATFORM-INITIATED MEDIA LITERACY CAMPAIGN ON SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "literacy; media; tiktok; youth", "summary": "LIKES, SARCASM AND POLITICS: YOUTH RESPONSES TO A PLATFORM-INITIATED MEDIA LITERACY CAMPAIGN ON SOCIAL MEDIA Ioana Literat Teachers College, Columbia University Abubakr Abdelbagi Teachers College, Columbia University Nicola YL Law Teachers College, Columbia University Marcus Y-Y Cheung Teachers College, Columbia University Rongwei Tang Teachers College, Columbia University Introduction Amidst an alarming rise in online misinformation, there has been a growing interest in media literacy education as a way to combat the rapid spread of misinformation (Bulger & Davison, 2018). While young people appreciated the urgency of media literacy education and understood its relevance to their social media participation, negative comments\u2014often sarcastic in tone\u2014far outweighed the more positive takes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12202", "words": "1468", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Locatelli, Elisabetta; Lovari, Alessandro", "title": "SOCIAL MEDIA LOGIC AND HEALTH COMMUNICATION BETWEEN INDEPENDENCE AND CONSTRAINTS: EVIDENCE FROM ITALY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "communication; covid-19; health; media; posts", "summary": "Although it could be expected, it was not taken for granted that social media communication would become pivotal during the early phase of the emergency. On the other side, social media platforms shaped health communication, pushing LHAs to adapt their institutional languages to the styles of social media communication.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12203", "words": "1427", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Lu, Miao; Qiu, Jack Linchuan", "title": "ALGORITHMIC EMPOWERMENT OR IMPERIALIST WARFARE? DARK SKIN, AI CAMERA, AND A CHINESE COMPANY\u2019S PATENT STRATEGY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "chinese; patent; transsion", "summary": "The \u201cwarfare\u201d narrative highlights both the economic uncertainty in emerging markets such as Africa and the geopolitical uncertainty of AI industry in the future. Dark Skin, AI Camera, and a Chinese Company\u2019s Patent Strategy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12204", "words": "1313", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Magnani, Matteo; Segerberg, Alexandra", "title": "DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS FOR SOCIAL VISUALS: STUDYING CLIMATE COMMUNICATION ON YOUTUBE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "analysis; communication; data; visuals", "summary": "This paper examines validity conditions for integrating deep neural network tools in the study of digitally augmented social visuals. It is challenging to robustly integrate deep learning into the study of politics, and a particularly difficult area concerns the analysis of social visuals.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12205", "words": "1279", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Mahnke, Martina Skrubbeltrang; Nielsen, Mikka", "title": "MAPPING HEALTH: HOW DANES EXPERIENCE THEIR DIGITAL HEALTH DATA", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "data; digital; health; patients", "summary": "MAPPING HEALTH: HOW DANES EXPERIENCE THEIR DIGITAL HEALTH DATA Martina Skrubbeltrang Mahnke Roskilde University, Denmark Mikka Nielsen University of Copenhagen, Denmark This paper explores how Danish citizens experience digital health data and how these in turn affect their understanding of digital health data and their self-understanding as a patient. Examining the national health platform sundhed.dk (sundhed is the Danish word for health) is hence of great value with regards to shedding light on the ramifications of digital health data.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12206", "words": "47", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Marshall, Amber; Turner, Krystle; Richards, Carol; Foth, Marcus; Dezuanni, Michael", "title": "RURAL DATA DIVIDES: CRITICAL FACTORS OF DIGITAL AGTECH ADOPTION ON AUSTRALIAN FARMS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "browser", "summary": "Learn more Opera Safari Microsoft Edge Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety \u00a9 2025 Google LLC", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "spir-12207", "words": "1406", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Marwick, Alice E.; Furl, Katherine", "title": "TAKING THE REDPILL: TALKING ABOUT EXTREMISM", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "internet; media; people; redpilling; right", "summary": "We used a subset of the Reddit and Gab data to generate a codebook and taxonomy of \u201credpilling content.\u201d TAKING THE REDPILL: TALKING ABOUT EXTREMISM Alice E. Marwick Department of Communication; Center for Information, Technology, & Public Life, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Katie Furl Department of Sociology; Center for Information, Technology, & Public Life, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Introduction There is great public concern about \u201conline radicalization,\u201d the process by which individuals are exposed to extremist internet content, adopt extremist or hateful ideas, and commit acts of political violence.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12208", "words": "1277", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Matamoros-Fernandez, Ariadna; Gray, Joanne Elizabeth; Bartolo, Louisa; Burgess, Jean; Suzor, Nicolas", "title": "WHAT\u2019S \u2018UP NEXT\u2019? INVESTIGATING ALGORITHMIC RECOMMENDATIONS ON YOUTUBE ACROSS ISSUES AND OVER TIME", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "content; media; time; youtube", "summary": "Drawing on the idea of platform observability, this paper combines computational and qualitative methods to investigate the types of content YouTube\u2019s \u2018up next\u2019 feature amplifies over time, using three search terms associated with sociocultural issues for which concerns have been raised about YouTube\u2019s role: \u2018coronavirus\u2019, \u2018feminism\u2019 and \u2018beauty\u2019. These findings indicate that YouTube has not effectively addressed content diversity from a social perspective (failing to attend to factors such as race, gender, nationality, sexuality and ability).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12209", "words": "1336", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Mezei, Peter; Harkai, Istvan", "title": "END-USER FLEXIBILITIES IN CONTEMPORARY DIGITAL COPYRIGHT LAW \u2013 AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENTS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "end; flexibilities; platforms; research; user", "summary": "Furthermore, a \u201ccoincidence factor\u201d was also taken into account: we were focusing on platforms that we are generally familiar with; have broad relevance (i.e., serve great number of users); and many of which fit into the recently introduced concept of \u201conline content-sharing service providers\u201d (OCSSPs) under Article 17 of the CDSM Directive. Pascale Chapdelaine has dealt with user rights and the contractual basis of different online uses (Chapdelaine, 2017).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12210", "words": "363", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Mizoroki, Saki; Shifman, Limor; Hayashi, Kaori", "title": "HASHTAG ACTIVISM LOST IN TRANSLATION: THE REFORMULATION OF #METOO IN JAPAN", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "values", "summary": "We tentatively argue that it\u2019s not values as essential orientations but the prevalent perceptions of popular values that limit activism. However, while most participants appreciated the movement, they were afraid of retaliation and isolation, given their perception of Japanese values.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12211", "words": "1326", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Mniestri, Aikaterini; Richter, Vanessa", "title": "FROM BUZZFEED CREATOR TO (IN)DEPENDENT YOUTUBER - MANAGING PRECARIOUS LABOUR THROUGH GOSSIP", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "buzzfeed; creators; labour; research; youtube", "summary": "How does the migration from Buzzfeed to YouTube creator offer both independence and a host of new precarious contingencies to creators? Several well known Buzzfeed Creators moved on to an autonomous career as YouTube creators hoping that the previously acquired audience would migrate with them to support their company independent channel as an entrepreneurial career move.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12212", "words": "1426", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Moran, Rachel Elizabeth; Prochaska, Stephen; Schlegel, Isabelle; Hughes, Emelia May; Prout, Owen", "title": "MISINFORMATION OR ACTIVISM: MAPPING NETWORKED MORAL PANIC THROUGH AN ANALYSIS OF #SAVETHECHILDREN", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "accounts; misinformation; movement; qanon; savethechildren", "summary": "Conspiracy accounts seemed wholly motivated by spreading their worldview, often using rhetoric that connected the #SaveTheChildren movement with specific QAnon conspiracy theories. Accordingly, it is a pertinent case study for understanding both the anatomy and consequences of networked social movements in an era of information disorder (Wardle & Derakhshan, 2017).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12213", "words": "1365", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Moreschi, Bruno; Jurno, Amanda; Lemos, Monique", "title": "\u201cYES, I WILL WORK ON MY FREE TIME\u201d \u2013 DIGITAL WORK ON AMAZON MECHANICAL TURK AS THE HISTORICAL CONTINUATION OF THE EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN'S LABOR", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "amt; women; work", "summary": "Besides general AMT difficulties (e.g. low wages and high competition), women turkers stressed about having to balance housekeeping, childcare and AMT work; and about partners' lack of appreciation of AMT work and domestic labor. In this paper we discuss how AI automation is, in fact, an opaque architecture (Pasquinelli and Joler 2020) that perpetuates gender issues in digital work.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12214", "words": "1278", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Moreshead, Abigail; Rouse, Lauren; Salter, Anastasia", "title": "STITCHING THE CURVE: PANDEMIC CRAFT AND FEMINIST DATA VISUALIZATION", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "curve; data; stitching; visualization", "summary": "Method To understand Stitching the Curve as a feminist intervention into data visualization, we examine the media coverage around the project, which includes the online blogs of the project\u2019s participants. Given the project\u2019s emphasis on drawing attention to marginalized data from mainstream periodicals, we focus on news articles and blog posts, which were coded for mentions of collaboration, data visualization, affective experience, activism, and materiality.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12215", "words": "1281", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Murru, Maria Francesca; Vicari, Stefania", "title": "BRINGING THE PANDEMIC HOME: MEMES AS LOCAL POLITICS AT TIMES OF GLOBAL CRISIS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "local; media; memes; pandemic", "summary": "In all their dimensions, Italian pandemic memes played a key role in generating affecting tuning. Italian pandemic memes did develop the ridiculing and delegitimizing techniques typical of political memetics (Ross and Rivers, 2017)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12216", "words": "1312", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Myles, David; Blais, Martin", "title": "TOP 5 TINDER HACKS! BLACKBOXING ALGORITHMS IN THE DATING APP INDUSTRY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "algorithms; blackboxing; dating; tinder", "summary": "Furthermore, dating guides promote a common injunction to hack Tinder. Tinder\u2019s swipe feature \u2013 which operates classification and recommendation algorithms that have been likened to the Elo scoring technique \u2013 has been particularly influential, giving way to a new generation of dating apps (Ranzini & Lutz, 2017).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12217", "words": "1294", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Neff, Timothy James; Jemielniak, Dariusz", "title": "HOW ARE PUBLIC SPHERES TRANSNATIONAL? COMPARING NEWS AND SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS DURING THE MADRID CLIMATE TALKS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "media; networks; news", "summary": "Theoretical framework We use public sphere theory (Habermas, 1989, 1998) and the concept of \u201cthick big data analysis\u201d (Jemielniak 2020) to understand how transnational public spheres might arise out of news media and Twitter networks. Moments of consensus and dissent will arise out of these contradictory currents of homogeneity and heterogeneity in transnational networks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12218", "words": "1718", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "N\u00ed Threasaigh, M\u00edch\u00edl\u00edn; Boler, Megan", "title": "MELODRAMATIC PLATFORMS: THE AFFECTIVE THEATRE OF POLARIZED POLITICAL STORYTELLING ON SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "affective; media; platforms; storytelling", "summary": "Conclusion: Social media platforms are shaping political discourse in ways that are counterproductive to democratic debate. THE AFFECTIVE THEATRE OF POLARIZED POLITICAL STORYTELLING ON SOCIAL MEDIA Selected Papers of #AoIR2021: The 22nd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Virtual Event / 13-16 Oct 2021 MELODRAMATIC PLATFORMS: THE AFFECTIVE THEATRE OF POLARIZED POLITICAL STORYTELLING ON SOCIAL MEDIA M\u00edch\u00edl\u00edn N\u00ed Threasaigh Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto Megan Boler Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto Contrary to claims that social media platforms are not contributing to political polarization, our study of affect and narratives of race and national belonging in social media discourses of the 2019 Canadian and 2020 U.S. federal elections reveals clearly polarized, collective political storytelling marked by a highly affective moralizing tone and clear binaries of us versus them and good versus evil.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12219", "words": "1327", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Nieborg, David B.; Poell, Thomas; Duffy, Brooke Erin", "title": "ANALYZING PLATFORM POWER IN THE CULTURAL INDUSTRIES", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "industries; platform; power; producers", "summary": "To help systematize analysis of the relations and flows of power between platforms and cultural producers, this paper introduces a framework that is carefully attuned to the historical and industrial specificities of cultural production. The framework makes clear that, while the relationship between platforms and cultural producers is staggeringly uneven and, at times, highly volatile, it should be understood as one of mutual dependence.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12220", "words": "1034", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "\u00d3 Fathaigh, Ronan; M\u00f6ller, Judith; Bellanova, Rocco", "title": "DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND THE DIGITISATION OF GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "digital; government; platforms; van", "summary": "DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND THE DIGITISATION OF GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE Ronan \u00d3 Fathaigh University of Amsterdam Rocco Bellanova University of Amsterdam Bengi Zeybek University of Amsterdam Judith Moeller University of Amsterdam In Europe today, digital platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, provide an essential means for millions of people to express themselves, engage in public debate, and organise politically (Poell & van Dijck, 2018). Indeed, the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression has highlighted the government \u2018pressure\u2019 on digital platforms to implement \u2018proactive measures\u2019, including automated tools, that may \u2018serve as a form of pre- publication censorship\u2019 (Kaye, 2018, p. 12).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12221", "words": "1336", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "O'Connell, Carrie; Quinn, Kelly; Marquez, David; Chin, Jessie; Muramatsu, Naoko; Leiser, Sarah; Gradishar, Jamie; Desai, Smit", "title": "ACCOMMODATING COMMUNICATION WITH CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS: EXAMINING THE PERCEPTIONS AND BEHAVIORS OF OLDER ADULTS WHEN USING VOICE ASSISTANT TECHNOLOGY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "communication; human; technology; user; voice", "summary": "Accommodating Communication with Conversational Agents: Examining the Perceptions and Behaviors of Older Adults When Using Voice Assistant Technology. ACCOMMODATING COMMUNICATION WITH CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS: EXAMINING THE PERCEPTIONS AND BEHAVIORS OF OLDER ADULTS WHEN USING VOICE ASSISTANT TECHNOLOGY Carrie O\u2019Connell The University of Illinois at Chicago Kelly Quinn The University of Illinois at Chicago Naoko Muramatsu The University of Illinois at Chicago David Marquez The University of Illinois at Chicago Jessie Chin The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sarah Leiser The University of Illinois at Chicago Jamie Gradishar The University of Illinois at Chicago", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12222", "words": "1370", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "O'Neill, Christopher Allan; Andrejevic, Mark; Selwyn, Neil; Gu, Xin; Smith, Gavin", "title": "\u2018ETHICAL BIOMETRICS\u2019 AND THE FACE OF THE CHILD: THE SURVEILLANCE OF CHILDREN WITHIN FACIAL RECOGNITION INDUSTRY DISCOURSE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "child; face; industry; recognition; university", "summary": "We draw attention to three key case studies in which the face of the child comes to serve as a justification for the careful deployment of facial recognition technologies \u2013 the use of facial recognition in the audit of aid supplies in the developing world, the control of alleged \u2018family staging\u2019 (by which a child is used to \u2018fake\u2019 a family unit for the purpose of beneficial treatment at the border), and in the monitoring of underage gambling in Australia. We identify three key \u2018use cases\u2019 in which the face of the child takes on a prominent role as justifying and legitimating the use of facial recognition technologies \u2013 in the auditing of humanitarian food supply programs, in the detection of so-called \u2018staging\u2019 of family units at the US border, and in the detection of underage gambling in Australia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12223", "words": "1564", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Papaevangelou, Charilaos; Roinioti, Elina", "title": "EXPLORING VIDEO-GAME PRODUCTION\u2019S CONTINGENCY ON LIVE-STREAMING PLATFORMS: THE CASE OF TWITCH", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "game; live; media; platform; production; twitch", "summary": "Specifically: Identity essentially enables the communication between Twitch and video games under development; the Bounty Board incentivises streamers to promote partnered video games; Drops and Interactive Extensions seek to acquire more viewers, as well as make streamers stream certain video games and, thus, convert some viewers into players or as Twitch mentions, into payers; Drops, particularly, also drive more Amazon Prime subscriptions. Game developers can then have access to game data, like viewership metrics, to gauge how streamer-friendly their game is and optimise it, as well as utilise said metrics to target specific streamers to advertise their game.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12224", "words": "1361", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Phelps, Andrew; Consalvo, Mia; Bowman, Nicholas; Smyth, Samuel", "title": "STREAMING SMALL SHARED SPACES: EXPLORING THE CONNECTEDNESS OF THE PHYSICAL SPACES OF MICROSTREAMERS AND THEIR AUDIENCE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "microstreamers; place; spaces; streaming", "summary": "Unlike the performative nature of professional streams (Ruberg & Lark, 2020), microstreamers stream from their intimate and \u201clived in\u201d first places. This study more closely considers microstreamers through the lens of shared space\u2014considering both the elements displayed on-camera and how those elements might impact how audiences interpret the experience.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12225", "words": "1315", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Pierre, Jennifer; Currie, Morgan; Paris, Britt; Pasquetto, Irene", "title": "SEARCHING FOR THE FORGOTTEN: EXAMINING THE ONLINE PRESENCE OF VICTIMS OF POLICE KILLINGS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "data; information; media; police", "summary": "Pierre YouTube Morgan Currie University of Edinburgh Britt Paris Rutgers University Irene Pasquetto University of Michigan Introduction Contrary to the idea that social media is solely or primarily used for recreation, American adults are increasingly using social media for a variety of personal informational and expressive tasks, including finding and sharing health information, advice on parenting and dating, and even information on stress levels (Perrin, 2015). Many scholars point toward a deeper and more comprehensive study of social media in general as a worthy goal of continued future research in the information fields (boyd, 2015; Brabham, 2015; Domingo, 2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12226", "words": "1255", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Poh, Yu Ting; Abidin, Crystal", "title": "DOUYIN AND TIKTOK: A CROSS-LANGUAGE SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP ON SISTER APPS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "chinese; douyin; publications; tiktok", "summary": "Regarding methodological approaches, Douyin publications tended to employ qualitative approaches (n=49), with fewer quantitative (n=4) and mixed (n=5) approaches. Regarding research questions, Douyin publications tended to engage with e-commerce (n=10), development of short form videos (n=8), practices, cultures and communities (n=8), intersections of traditional and new media (n=7), platform logics (n=5), transmission of traditional Chinese culture (n=5) and \u201cplayful patriotism\u201d (n=5) with the latter being defined as \u201cstate-endorsed, but not necessarily orchestrated, light-hearted or amusing media content that promotes an established State ideology\u201d (Chen et al., 2021: 111).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12227", "words": "1308", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Pop Stefanija, Ana; Pierson, Jo", "title": "HOW TO BE ALGORITHMICALLY GOVERNED LIKE THAT: DATA- AND ALGORITHMIC AGENCY FROM USER PERSPECTIVE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "agency; algorithms; governance; latzer", "summary": "We take the theoretical conceptualizations about algorithmic governance (Katzenbach and Ulbricht, 2019; Latzer and Festic, 2029; Introna, 2016) and the related notion of algorithmic governmentality (Bellanova, 2017; Rouvroy 2013, 2020) as a starting point for discussing the state of how it is so we arrive to what ought to be. Algorithmic governance.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12228", "words": "1305", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Prins, Kai; Wellman, Mariah", "title": "#FAITHANDFITNESSCOLLIDE: SPREADING THE WORD OF MULTILEVEL MARKETING IN CHRISTIAN WOMEN\u2019S FITNESS INSTAGRAM POSTS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "beachbody; fitness; mlm; women", "summary": "We look specifically at how Christian women navigate the potential shame of occupying a masculine economic role and a muscular body by reframing fitness MLMs like Beachbody as an opportunity to fulfill God\u2019s plan and (re)inhabit the home. #FAITHANDFITNESSCOLLIDE: SPREADING THE WORD OF MULTILEVEL MARKETING IN CHRISTIAN WOMEN\u2019S FITNESS INSTAGRAM POSTS Kai Prins University of Wisconsin - Madison Mariah Wellman University of Utah Introduction With the emergence of the coronavirus in 2020 leading to the closing of gyms and churches, along with the \u201cshe-cession\u201d in which women disproportionately left the workforce (Hammer, 2021), women have increasingly turned to fitness-based multilevel marketing (MLM) for a sense of purpose and community \u2013 and money.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12229", "words": "1301", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Rambukkana, Nathan; de Verteuil, Gemma", "title": "THE SHAPE OF PLATFORM STUDIES: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL METHODOLOGICAL MODEL FOR A VICISSITUDINOUS CONCEPT", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "platform; shape; studies; work", "summary": "For example, platform studies work might be sociotechnical | critical | structural (for example van Dijck, Poell, and de Waal\u2019s work in The Platform Society (2018), or Srnicek\u2019s theorizing in Platform Capitalism (2017)). Microsoft Word - Rambukkana-THE SHAPE OF PLATFORM STUDIES-THE SHAPE OF PLATFORM STUDIES.docx Selected Papers of #AoIR2020: The 22nd Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Virtual Event / 13-16 Oct 2021 Suggested Citation (APA): Rambukkana, N., de Verteuil, G. (2021, October).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12231", "words": "1294", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Rantasila, Anna; V\u00e4\u00e4t\u00e4j\u00e4, Heli; Kiskola, Joel; Olsson, Thomas; Syrj\u00e4m\u00e4ki, Aleksi; Ilves, Mirja; Isokoski, Poika; Surakka, Veikko", "title": "INTERDEPENDENCE AND INTERVENTION: NEWS ORGANIZATIONS\u2019 CONTRADICTORY RELATIONSHIP WITH ONLINE COMMENTS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "comments; moderation; news; online; tampere", "summary": "In this paper, we examine how managers of online comments in large Finnish news organizations view online comment moderation and moderation technologies in relation to questions of inter- and independence. Regarding RQ2, most of the interviewees\u2019 organizations had either outsourced or looked to outsource comment moderation, and some used automated moderation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12232", "words": "47", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Reynolds, CJ; John, Nicholas", "title": "CART NARCS AND THE ENGINEERING OF SOCIAL SHAMING AS ENTERTAINMENT", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "browser", "summary": "Learn more Mozilla Firefox Safari Opera Microsoft Edge Google Chrome Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety \u00a9 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "spir-12233", "words": "1339", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Righetti, Nicola; Rossi, Luca; Marino, Giada", "title": "INTO THE BELLY OF THE BEAST: THE RESEARCH ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND COVID-19 MISINFORMATION IN 2020", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "covid-19; media; misinformation; research", "summary": "Social media platforms have been into the belly of the infodemic beast. Into the belly of the beast: The research on social media and covid-19 misinformation in 2020.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12234", "words": "1380", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Risi, Elisabetta; Pronzato, Riccardo", "title": "REMOTE WORK BETWEEN NARRATIVES OF INDIPENDENCE AND FRACTURED EXPERIENCES. A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH DURING THE PANDEMIC CRISIS.", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "life; work; workers; working", "summary": "Main results Results highlight that during the lockdown, some participants attempted to cope with the unprecedented triumph of technologically mediated work, others described remote work as liberating and attractive, as it avoids commuting and allow people to organize their activities autonomously, without constraints of space and time. Specifically, this contribution focuses on the interdependence of work and everyday life, and the role of digital devices and online platforms during the home-confinement period, and it explores the consequences of social distancing measures on remote workers and on their working and personal conditions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12235", "words": "1270", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Rivnai Bahir, Shira; Kotliar, Dan M; Avnoon, Netta", "title": "CONTEXTUALIZING AI ETHICS IN TIME AND SPACE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "algorithms; data; ethics; scientists", "summary": "Accordingly, algorithmic ethics is recently raising considerable public and scholarly interest (Ananny 2016; Wachter, Mittelstadt & Floridi 2017), as researchers, activists, and legislators have begun to chart ethical frameworks to direct the development and implementation of such algorithms (Jobin, Ienca & Vayena 2019). However, despite an extensive multi-disciplinary discussion, the literature on algorithmic ethics tends to examine the subject through philosophical, legal, or technocratic perspectives, largely neglecting the empirical, socio-cultural ones.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12236", "words": "47", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Rodgers, Scott; McLoughlin, Liam; Ballatore, Andrea; Moore, Susan", "title": "LOCALIZING CONTENT MODERATION: APPROACHING THE ORIENTATIONAL SPACES OF FACEBOOK GROUP ADMINS AND MODS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "browser", "summary": "Learn more Opera Safari Microsoft Edge Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety \u00a9 2025 Google LLC", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "spir-12237", "words": "1246", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Vigren, Minna; Ridell, Seija", "title": "IMAGINING ALTERNATIVE MEDIATED FUTURES? REFLECTIONS ON EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOPS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "alternatives; imagining; media; people", "summary": "In our research project, we tackled the latter problem by developing an \u2018Imagining Workshop\u2019 method and applying it in an experimental study with young people. In the workshops we wanted to enable young people to distance themselves from the self- evident aspects of their mediated everyday life and encourage them to imagine jointly alternative mediated futures.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12238", "words": "1393", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "San Cornelio, Gemma; Ard\u00e8vol, Elisenda; Martorell, Sandra", "title": "ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCERS ON INSTAGRAM: CONNECTIONS AND FRICTIONS BETWEEN ACTIVISM, LIFESTYLES AND CONSUMPTION.", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "activism; influencers; instagram; lifestyle", "summary": "These preliminary findings allow a characterization of a new mode of social activism with specific features. ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCERS ON INSTAGRAM:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12239", "words": "335", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Scharlach, Rebecca; Hallinan, Blake; Shifman, Limor", "title": "THE CHESHIRE CAT OF SOCIAL MEDIA: VALUES IN PLATFORM POLICIES", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "values", "summary": "While prior research has examined the construction of individual values such as privacy and transparency in platform policies, there has been no holistic account of the values invoked in these documents. Values can thus be described as the \u2018Cheshire cat\u2019 of social media platform policies \u2013 they look magical, but once touched, may assume a different shape, pop up in an alternative location, or even disappear.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12240", "words": "1584", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Sequeira, Lucas Nunes; Moreschi, Bruno; Santos, Vinicius Ariel Arruda dos", "title": "WHICH HUMAN FACES CAN AN AI GENERATE? LACK OF DIVERSITY IN THIS PERSON DOES NOT EXIST", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "cluster; faces; fig; images; tpdne", "summary": "This is empirical evidence that the creation of fake faces is not independent of characteristics such as whiteness imposed by processes that are already historically known. Fig. 5: \u201cCluster-images\u201d of two overlaps: A (54 images of different fake faces of black people) and B (54 different fake faces of white people). Independently of the group of fake human faces sampled, the same generic white face always appeared as a result (Fig. 1).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12241", "words": "392", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Shrum, Wesley Monroe; Yevuyibor, Jonathan Teye; Thakkar, Shriya", "title": "INTERNET USE AND MENTAL HEALTH IN AFRICA AND INDIA", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "health; internet", "summary": "Recent work in sub-Saharan Africa shows that the expected negative association between network size and the severity of mental health issues is positive, suggesting an alternative mechanism at work in disadvantaged areas and calling into question the generalizability of the relationship between network size and mental health. INTERNET USE, PERSONAL NETWORKS, AND MENTAL HEALTH IN LOW INCOME AREAS: AN ANALYSIS OF URBAN SLUMS IN GHANA AND KERALA Wesley Shrum Louisiana State University Jonathan Teye Yevuyibor Louisiana State University Shriya Thakkar Louisiana State University", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12242", "words": "1302", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Sinnreich, Aram; Aufderheide, Patricia; Perry, Neil W.", "title": "PERFORMATIVE MEDIA POLICY: SECTION 230\u2019S EVOLUTION FROM FOOTNOTE TO LOYALTY OATH", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "bills; media; policy; section", "summary": "Thus, legislators who propose amending Section 230, though they may not understand how the law actually works, let alone the broader implications of changing it, are nonetheless cognizant that the social media attention such bills garner help to advertise their loyalty to Trump among core constituents. Thus, while benefiting financially from their role at the nexus of the new digital public sphere, social media platforms have also been subject to increasing pressure in threading the needle between their telecommunications and traditional media functions, with calls from both sides of the political aisle to both increase and decrease the role they play in actively mediating the flow of information through their networks (Gillespie, et al, 2020).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12243", "words": "1263", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Soronen, Anne; Koivunen, Anu", "title": "NEGOTIATING PROFESSIONAL BELONGINGS: FINNISH ACTORS\u2019 AFFECTIVE ENGAGEMENTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "actors; media; participants; work", "summary": "Our study focuses on actors and their perceptions of social media as an area of professional agency. Our analysis was based on a close reading of the interview material and 2 diary entries in which participants described their experiences and feelings concerning their presence, professional agency, and promotion on social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12244", "words": "1314", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Stanfill, Mel; Salter, Anastasia", "title": "NOT YOUR ROBIN HOOD: GAMESTOP AND PLATFORM ECONOMICS AT PLAY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "gamestop; january; market; robinhood", "summary": "Most notably, the corresponding Discord server was banned \u201cfor continuing to allow hateful and discriminatory content after repeated warnings\u2026we did not ban this server due to financial fraud related to GameStop or other stocks\u201d (Peters 2021a). \u201cRobinhood Stops Users From Trading GameStop Stocks, Other Reddit YOLO Picks.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12246", "words": "1278", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Steinfeld, Nili; Lissitsa, Sabina", "title": "CONTENT MATTERS, FAKE OR NOT: MEDIA CONTENT INFLUENCE ON PERCEIVED INTERGROUP THREAT", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "article; content; media; threat", "summary": "Intergroup Threat Theory distinguishes two types of perceived threats: realistic (a threat to ingroup power, resources, and safety) and symbolic (a threat to ingroup values and way of life), which can lead to negative attitudes and prejudice toward the outgroup (Stephan et al., 2009). We investigate how consumption of media content leads to change in perceived threat towards a geographically distant minority group, and how is such change affected when individuals are aware that the information they consumed is false.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12247", "words": "1346", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Strover, Sharon; Esteva, Maria; Cao, Tiancheng; Park, Soyoung", "title": "PUBLIC POLICY MEETS PUBLIC SURVEILLANCE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "city; diego; portland; san; surveillance", "summary": "Public policy meets public surveillance. Data Most city-sponsored projects in our study lack explicitly stated data policies regarding public surveillance projects.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12248", "words": "1174", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "27", "author": "Sweeney, Miriam E.; Villa-Nicholas, Melissa", "title": "STRATEGIC VISIBILITIES: DIGITIZING THE LATINA INFORMATION WORKER", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "information; labor; latina; workers", "summary": "We argue that Latina AVAs can be placed at the center of these tensions where they provide a useful lens through which to explore connections between Latina information labor, past and present, via the design of a digitized workforce. Latina information workers are portrayed as the ultimate in cost- effectiveness and \u201cvalue\u201d for the employer, and the digital Latin information worker maintains these affordances while side-stepping important questions about immigration status and labor rights.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12249", "words": "1267", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Swerzenski, JD; Kim, Dasol", "title": "THE NEW SELFIE STANDARD: FACETUNE AND THE SHIFT TOWARD EAST ASIAN SELFIE AESTHETICS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "asian; east; facetune; image", "summary": "American users have taken to the app for its plethora of digital reconstructive tools not available through mainstream American apps such as Instagram or SnapChat (Solon, 2018). Using a Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA), we highlight how this friction resulted in differing East Asian cultural beliefs around technological practice (Brock, 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12252", "words": "1257", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Tomlinson, Christine; Srauy, Sam", "title": "BEWARE ASIAN SERVERS: RACIALIZED PERCEPTIONS OF CHEATING AND SKILL AMONG VIDEO GAME PLAYERS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "cheating; players; racism; video", "summary": "This theoretical project considers the patterns of racism aimed at Asian players. Thus, in our context, we see the rhetorical strategy of attributing White players\u2019 gaming success as one of skill, while successes by Asian players as the result of cheating/automation (e.g., aimbots or gold farming).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12253", "words": "1305", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Trifiro, Briana; Wells, Chris; Rochefort, Alexander", "title": "THE DISINFECTANT DIVERSION: FRAMING STRATEGIES OF PARTISAN MEDIA IN INTERPRETING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "coverage; media; narratives; news", "summary": "We employ quantitative data exploration to provide context and guide a focused qualitative analysis examining how media outlets constructed topics related to COVID- 19. Similar to the work of Benziman (2020) and Chadwick (2017), the present analysis utilizes a grounded theory approach to identify recurrent themes utilized within media coverage.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12254", "words": "1310", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Trigiani, Amanda; Boler, Megan", "title": "DISCOURSES OF VICTIMHOOD AND IDENTITY POLITICS ON SOCIAL MEDIA: UNDERSTANDING AFFECTIVE POLARIZATION DURING THE US ELECTION", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "analysis; media; polarization", "summary": "Discourses of victimhood and identity politics on social media: Understanding affective polarization during the US Election. Retrieved from http://spir.aoir.org. DISCOURSES OF VICTIMHOOD AND IDENTITY POLITICS ON SOCIAL MEDIA: UNDERSTANDING AFFECTIVE POLARIZATION DURING THE US ELECTION Megan Boler University of Toronto Amanda Trigiani University of Toronto This cross-platform digital ethnography examines the nuances of how emotions are expressed and who they are directed towards within social media in order to better understand the phenomenon of affective polarization and the increased emotionality online.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12255", "words": "1343", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Tzouganatou, Angeliki; Krueckeberg, Jennifer", "title": "FROM MONOPOLIZING MEMORY TO CO-CREATING IT: OPENNESS AND EQUITY IN THE DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "data; digital; media; memory; practices", "summary": "In addition, it discusses the role of community and human-centered practices as a basis to untap the potential of open public memory infrastructures that run independently from technology monopolies. This contribution aims to be an exploration for a theoretical prototype combining aspects of open public memory infrastructures, and digital sovereignty, with human-centered practices derived from ethnographic fieldwork with youth.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12256", "words": "1368", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "van der Vlist, Fernando; Helmond, Anne", "title": "SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE AUDIENCE ECONOMY: BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS AND CO-DEPENDENCE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "business; media; partnerships; platform", "summary": "Social media platforms form strategic business partnerships through partner programmes, which attract advertisers, business partners, media publishers, and content creators. Social media platforms are uniquely positioned within this complex ecosystem because they play a significant role on both the demand and supply sides of the advertising market.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12257", "words": "1505", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Vickery, Jacqueline; Cardenas, Jen", "title": "\u201cDEAR CONGRESS, JUST PLAY DEAD\u201d: TIKTOK\u2019S ABSURD GUIDE TO SURVIVING #LOCKDOWN", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "practices; school; shootings; tiktok", "summary": "Conclusion Through irreverent humor, TikTok creators build playful imitation publics to critique and cope with structural problems related to gun violence in the U.S. Imitation publics We approach school shootings as doubly memetic: both the actual phenomenon of school shootings and the media texts created about them function as repetitive, malleable, polysemic, and \u201ccontagious patterns of cultural information\u201d that \u201cshape the mindsets and significant forms of behaviors and actions of a social group\u201d (Knobel and Lankshear, 2007, p. 199).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12258", "words": "1276", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Vinhas, Ot\u00e1vio; Bastos, Marco", "title": "THE LIMITS OF FACT CHECKING: EIGHT NOTES ON CONSENSUS REALITY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "checking; fact; journalism; misinformation", "summary": "Conclusion We reviewed the literature in the area and argued that the central problem with fact- checking is the premise that false information can be offset with more information and that facts are events universally agreed upon. THE LIMITS OF FACT-CHECKING: EIGHT NOTES ON CONSENSUS REALITY Ot\u00e1vio Vinhas University College Dublin Marco Bastos University College Dublin; City, University of London Introduction Considerable efforts and resources have been allocated to the fact-checking industry as a potential solution to correcting prior knowledge and offsetting the upsurge in hyper- partisanship that nurtures misinformation (Marietta & Barker, 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12259", "words": "1296", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Vitak, Jessica; Zimmer, Michael", "title": "FROM WATCHED AT WORK TO WATCHED AT HOME: WORKPLACE SURVEILLANCE DURING A PANDEMIC", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "data; monitoring; surveillance; workplace", "summary": "The COVID-19 lockdowns caused significant shifts in work practices\u2014and in workplace monitoring. This blurring of public and private boundaries now under surveillance is concerning, as is the potential for such surveillance practices to continue after the pandemic.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12260", "words": "47", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Vizca\u00edno-Verd\u00fa, Arantxa; Abidin, Crystal", "title": "CROSS-CULTURAL STORYTELLING APPROACHES IN TIKTOK'S MUSIC CHALLENGES", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "browser", "summary": "Learn more Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Opera Microsoft Edge Safari Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety \u00a9 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "spir-12261", "words": "1334", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Wark, Scott; Phan, Thao", "title": "WHAT PERSONALISATION CAN DO FOR YOU! OR, HOW TO DO RACIAL DISCRIMINATION WITHOUT RACE", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "categories; facebook; race", "summary": "Facebook posited ethnic affinities as a socially-useful technique of categorisation that could be used to reach otherwise \u201cunderserved minority markets\u201d (Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez, 2019). Simplifying Targeting Categories, Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/business/news/update-to-facebook-ads-targeting- categories Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez, A. (2019) Are Facebook Ads Discriminatory?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12262", "words": "1464", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Weintraub, Michelle Sylvia; Sears, David R W", "title": "WHY MAKING MATTERS ONLINE: THE PINTEREST-DIY DATA SET", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "data; diy; pinterest; project; set", "summary": "The data for this study have been mined from DIY project Pins beginning prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. We found, for example, that DIY projects typically employed synthetic polymers as materials, followed by wood, fibers, glass, and metals.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12263", "words": "1353", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Won, Andrea Stevenson; Kim, Byungdoo", "title": "EFFECTS OF PHYSICAL DISTANCE AND SOCIAL CLOSENESS IN VR AND TEXT ON SPATIAL DISTANCE ESTIMATION", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "closeness; distance; participants; partner", "summary": "We also investigated whether manipulating social presence by using a rich medium such as virtual reality versus texting would change the relationship between social distance, conversational partner location, and estimated physical distance participants. Thus, we hypothesized that the effect of social distance on the estimated spatial distance to the target city will depend on the presumed location of the conversational partner.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12264", "words": "1252", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Yang, Zheng; Vicari, Stefania", "title": "COVID-19 ACROSS PLATFORM SOCIETIES: EXPLORING THE PANDEMIC THROUGH WEIBO AND TWITTER", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "digital; media; platform; weibo", "summary": "EXPLORING THE PANDEMIC THROUGH WEIBO AND TWITTER Zheng Yang Department of Sociological Studies; The University of Sheffield Stefania Vicari Department of Sociological Studies; The University of Sheffield Information, and COVID-19 Platform studies often offer a Western-centric theorization of the roles and values of contemporary social media platforms. The contemporary call for relational and contextual approaches to digital platforms is also extremely central to our understanding of participatory dynamics across contemporary \u2018platform societies\u2019.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12265", "words": "1375", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "29", "author": "Yeshua-Katz, Daphna; Shapira, Stav; Aharonson-Daniel, Limor; Clarfield, A. Mark; Sarid, Orly", "title": "MATCHING DIGITAL INTERVENTION AFFORDANCES WITH TASKS: THE CASE OF ZOOM AND WHATSAPP MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTION FOR SENIORS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "affordances; intervention; tasks; whatsapp; zoom", "summary": "Matching digital intervention affordances with tasks: The case of Zoom and WhatsApp mental health intervention for seniors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the media richness theory (MRT) and affordances approach, in this study we used netnography to explore how Zoom and WhatsApp technological affordances/constraints matched intervention tasks and increased intervention performance.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12266", "words": "1484", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Zaugg, Isabelle Alice; Reeve, Jonathan", "title": "THE HEGEMONY OF KEYBOARD DEFAULTS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "english; keyboard; language; qwerty; writing", "summary": "While widely recognized as a political move to distance ethnic Oromos from other Ethiopic language communities, one official justification given was that Latin characters are better supported by digital technologies (Yimam 1992). Furthermore, considering the global reach of QWERTY against the backdrop of language diversity, and particularly the approximately 300 non-Latin scripts in existence, the hegemony of default QWERTY keyboards is a manifestation of the ongoing impacts of the colonial legacy within digital technologies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12267", "words": "1382", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Zhao, Xinyu Andy; Abidin, Crystal", "title": "TIKTOK\u2019S \u2018FOX EYE\u2019 TREND AND EVERYDAY ACTIVISM: GEN Z AGENCY IN AN AUDIOVISUAL NARRATIVE CASE STUDY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "activism; eye; tiktok; trend", "summary": "Moreover, they strengthen TikTok narratives to make them more appealing and convincing. Similarly, hashtags are commonly used in TikTok videos.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12297", "words": "5639", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Duarte, Marisa Elena; George, Alaina ; Deschine-Parkhurst, Nicholet ; Soto, Alexander", "title": "CARING FOR OUR PEOPLE: INDIGENOUS RESPONSES TO COVID-19 ERA INFORMATIC COLONIALISM", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "access; communities; community; connectivity; covid-19; health; indian; information; internet; media; nation; navajo; pandemic; research; resources", "summary": "This Illusion of neutrality does not allow for the unique information needs of underrepresented and underserved populations, such as Indigenous communities in the United States, who could benefit from a listing of COVID-19 resources that addressed the impacts of the virus on their reservations, as well as the response of tribal communities to the pandemic. The scarcity of diverse, non-hegemonic web sources during the COVID-19 pandemic is evident in Indigenous communities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12298", "words": "47", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Lim, Elisha; Sipley, Gina Marie ; Mohamed, Ladan Siad ; Tripodi, Francesca Bolla Tripodi; Perez, Vincente ", "title": "DECLARATIONS OF INTERDEPENDENCE: HOW MEDIA LITERACY PRACTICES ARE DEVELOPED, NEGOTIATED, REJECTED, AND EXPLOITED ACROSS SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "browser", "summary": "Learn more Safari Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Opera Mozilla Firefox Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety \u00a9 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "spir-12299", "words": "47", "extension": ".htm", "flesch": "76", "author": "Toupin, Sophie ; Nikoi, Nii Kotei Nikoi; Mare, Admire ; Willems, Wendy ", "title": "COLONIALISM, INDEPENDENCE AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY", "date": "2021.0", "keywords": "browser", "summary": "Learn more Opera Safari Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Mozilla Firefox Remind me later About Copyright Contact us Terms Privacy Policy & Safety \u00a9 2025 Google LLC Update it to get the best YouTube experience and our latest features.", "mime": "text/html"}, {"id": "spir-12952", "words": "5343", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Bhandari, Aparajita; Bimo, Sara; Butkowski, Chelsea; Noone, Rebecca", "title": "WHAT DOES THE INTERNET SOUND LIKE?", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "data; digital; internet; listening; media; memory; research; sonic; sound; studies; tiktok; visual; work", "summary": "However, the constant recycling of TikTok sounds can also obscure important details about their original contexts and creators (Kaye et al., 2021). Third, strategic and imposed silences executed through the intended absence or forced removal of TikTok sounds can disconnect or destabilize memory work completed through platform archives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12953", "words": "5812", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Schumacher, Nina Fabiola; Bruns, Axel; Mathieu, Moritz; Nuernbergk, Christian; Righetti, Nicola; Giglietto, Fabio; Kavakand, Azade; Kulichkina, Aytalina; Marino, Giada; Terenzi, Massimo; Angus, Daniel; Graham, Timothy; Dehghan, Ehsan; Jude, Nadia; Matich, Phoebe; Andrejevic, Mark; Carlson, Bronwyn; Obeid, Abdul; Mai, Philip; Gruzd, Anatoliy", "title": "PANDEMIC POLITICS: THE 2021 AND 2022 GERMAN AND AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNS ON SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "advertising; analysis; campaign; candidates; centre; data; digital; election; facebook; media; parties; queensland; research; technology; twitter; university", "summary": "Twitter use in election campaigns. Approach Building on the methodology established in our studies of Australian federal elections in 2013, 2016, and 2019, this work-in-progress paper presents a first analysis of social media campaigning during the 2022 Australian federal election.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12954", "words": "6335", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Chia, Aleena; Malazita, James W.; Young, Chris J.; Nieborg, David B.; Joseph, Daniel J.; Gantt, Matthew D.", "title": "THE ENGINE IS THE MESSAGE: VIDEOGAME INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL PLATFORMS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "companies; digital; engine; epic; fortnite; game; infrastructure; metaverse; new; platform; press; production; space; tools; unity; university; worlds", "summary": "By juxtaposing the brash futurism of platform companies with a survey of creative pioneers working with networked digital platforms, this paper suggests alternative pathways towards immersive media futures. Rather than directly competing with platform companies such as Meta, Google, and Microsoft, which aim to host and monetize the metaverse, Unity\u2019s ambition is to supply the very tools necessary to build immersive virtual spaces.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12955", "words": "4939", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Herman, Andrew; Moylan, Katie; Markham, Annette; Kruse, Holly", "title": "RESONANCE, REVERBERATION, AND RHYTHMS: CONCEPTUALIZING VIBRATORY POWER IN DIGITAL MEDIA", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "community; internet; media; music; noisefilter; platforms; radio; resonance; reverberation; sound; streaming; time; walmart", "summary": "As an entrenched form of alternative media, community radio (in its myriad particularities) historically embodies radical expressive and representative capacities \u2018that express an alternative vision to hegemonic policies, priorities and perspectives\u2019 (Downing 2001, p. v). Is community radio in crisis in the global north?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12956", "words": "5565", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Iliadis, Andrew; Ford, Heather; Allhutter, Doris; McDowell, Zachary; Vetter, Matthew", "title": "SEMANTIC MEDIA: POLITICAL ECONOMY PERSPECTIVES ON PLATFORMIZED FACT PRODUCTION", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "data; facts; google; information; knowledge; metadata; platform; power; practices; semantic; systems; web; wikidata; wikipedia", "summary": "Such structured information is supposed to add a layer of contextual expressivity to web data that would otherwise be more difficult to parse, though the issue of context control is not unproblematic in relation to statements of facts. The ability to algorithmically search, retrieve, and reason with web data meaningfully often requires these machine-readable, manually crafted metadata models.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12957", "words": "4452", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Inwood, Olivia; Ippolito, Heidi; Laminack, Michael", "title": "CONFRONTING AND DEMYSTIFYING HARMFUL PARTICIPATORY CULTURES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "amway; communities; conspiracy; internet; neoliberalism; new; online; qanon; storytelling; videos; youtube", "summary": "The way QAnon followers engage with memes, religious beliefs, and conspiratorial thinking reveals the unique ways internet culture has collided with religious communities and pop culture fandoms. The first presentation explores a dataset of YouTube videos about the \u201cID2020\u201d conspiracy theory, which merges religious discourses about the \u201cMark of the Beast\u201d with discourses about quantum dot and blockchain technologies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12958", "words": "6033", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Jovic, Dahlia; Butt, Mahli-Ann; Stanton, Ryan; Willma, Tom", "title": "WHY PLAY WHEN YOU CAN WATCH OR LISTEN? MULTI-MODAL ENGAGEMENTS IN DIGITAL GAMING", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "content; culture; games; gaming; media; music; new; paper; play; practices; press; research; studies; university; video", "summary": "Video game music: High scores: Making sense of music and video games. Cheating: Gaining advantage in video games.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12959", "words": "5286", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Katzenbach, Christian; Redeker, Dennis; Magalh\u00e3es, Jo\u00e3o Carlos; Kopps, Adrian; S\u00fchr, Tom; Caplan, Robyn; Viejo Otero, Paloma; Celeste, Edoardo; Palladino, Nicola; Yilma, Kinfe", "title": "POLICING PLATFORMS: ADDRESSING POWER AND INEQUALITIES IN PLATFORM POLICIES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "content; copyright; human; internet; media; moderation; paper; platforms; policies; rights; university; verification", "summary": "The (4) fourth paper 2 adds a socio-legal perspective to the debate on the influences on (and principles embedded in) platform content moderation policies. Using the theoretical framework of digital constitutionalism, the paper examines to what extent either human rights standards or demands by civil society activism can represent a fitting standard for platform content moderation policies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12960", "words": "5423", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Livingstone, Sonia; Third, Amanda; Burton, Patrick; Witting, Sabine; Lievens, Eva; Steinberg, Stacey; Gilutz, Shuli; Souter, David", "title": "THE UN COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD\u2019S GENERAL COMMENT ON THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "children; comment; digital; environment; gc25; general; online; policy; protection; rights; states", "summary": "PAPER 4 DESIGNING FOR CHILDREN\u2019S RIGHTS IN A DIGITAL WORLD: INTRODUCING A GLOBAL VOLUNTEER NETWORK INITIATIVE Shuli Gilutz Tel-Aviv University EXTENDED ABSTRACT \u2013 PANEL INTRODUCTION Sonia Livingstone London School of Economics and Political Science Amanda Third Western Sydney University For too long, child rights advocates knew little about the internet while internet governance experts knew little about children\u2019s rights.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12961", "words": "5452", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Marwick, Alice E.; Losh, Elizabeth; Schl\u00fcter, Maximilian; Markham, Annette; Phipps, E. Brooke", "title": "FEMINIST APPROACHES TO DISINFORMATION STUDIES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "communication; communities; conspiracy; disinformation; feminist; identity; media; new; science; studies; theories; tiktok; trolling; videos", "summary": "By centering intersectional identity in \u201cdisinformation studies,\u201d we contribute to the long- standing scholarly recognition of knowledge production as a feminist issue. Critical disinformation studies: History, power, and politics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12962", "words": "5683", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Niessen, Niels; Atalaia, Nuno; Luchs, Inga; Riemens, Rianne", "title": "PLATFORM VISIONS AND INVASIONS: SPATIAL (RE)IMAGINATIONS IN BIG TECH DISCOURSE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "alexa; companies; data; google; new; paper; platform; sidewalk; space; tech; toronto; vision", "summary": "And the fourth paper analyzes how space companies, led by tech entrepreneurs Musk (Tesla) and Bezos (Amazon), imagine a future for humanity in extraterrestrial space. As Musk and Bezos hold prominent functions in space companies as well as tech companies (Tesla and Amazon), they are representative figures of the tech-on-climate discourse.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12963", "words": "6925", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "O'Connell, Carrie; Van De Wiele, Chad; Garcia, Melina; Ferris Dobles, Michele; Macon, June", "title": "THE UNDERSIDE OF TECHNOLOGY: LIFECYCLES OF LIBERACI\u00d3N IN THE DIGITAL AGE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "american; connections; dussel; experience; global; infrastructure; latinx; migration; new; press; reddit; resistance; systems; technology; university", "summary": "Advancements in digital technology, particularly in the realm of simulated communication and avatars, have made the extension of life (at least through digital simulation) evermore possible, inching us past the precipice of another massive technological and ontological shift. Centering the lens of the individual, we investigate the necessary utility of global technologies (the \u2018realities within which we live\u2019) while articulating how actual experience with, and consumption of, these technologies by those on the periphery (those who \u2018stand outside\u2019 that reality) can inform a critical understanding of their socio-technical impact.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12964", "words": "5616", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Ogden, Malcolm Keith; Eapen, Gayas; Dial, Aaron; Baker, Margaret; Glover-Rijkse, Ragan", "title": "PLATFORMING VIBES: TECHNICAL, INTIMATE AND POLITICAL PRACTICES OF THE EVERYDAY", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "affective; caste; culture; digital; intimacy; making; media; platforms; practices; toys; trucks; university; videos; work", "summary": "They articulate their corporeal force conjunctively with circulation of songs, playlists, tunes, discourses, and affect through content circulated via Youtube and Facebook among other platforms. This paper, then, poses a question: can anti-caste embodied technological practices be studied under the purview of decolonial media?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12965", "words": "8019", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Poell, Thomas; Nieborg, David; van Dijck, Jos\u00e9; Caplan, Robyn; Helmond, Anne; van der Vlist, Fernando; Chen, Julie; Plantin, Jean-Christophe", "title": "LOCATING AND THEORIZING PLATFORM POWER", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "app; caplan; data; dijck; helmond; internet; media; nieborg; platform; platform power; poell; power; van", "summary": "LOCATING AND THEORIZING PLATFORM POWER Thomas Poell University of Amsterdam David Nieborg University of Toronto Jos\u00e9 van Dijck Utrecht University Robyn Caplan Data & Society Research Institute Anne Helmond Utrecht University Fernando van der Vlist Utrecht University Julie Chen University of Toronto Jean-Christophe Plantin London School of Economics Amidst popular conversations about antitrust regulation and trillion-dollar valuations, the notion of \u201cplatform power\u201d has found firm footing in the scholarly lexicon. Media and communication scholars have tried to unpack platform power by theorizing forms of corporate control that include \u201calgorithmic power\u201d (Bucher, 2018), \u201ccuratorial power\u201d (Prey, 2020), and \u201cmetric power\u201d (Beer, 2017).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12966", "words": "6342", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Rentschler, Carrie Ann; Nothwehr, Benjamin; Morena, Nina; Mulvin, Dylan; McKinney, Cait; Horrocks, Stephen", "title": "ENACTING THE POLITICS OF CARE WITH CHRONIC AND CRIP TECHNOLOGIES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "aids; breast; cancer; care; chronic; data; deaf; diabetes; diabetics; mastectomy; people; press; selfies; type; university; ways", "summary": "Instead, as this paper analyzes, #mastectomy selfies on Instagram serve as potential sites of self and collective affirmation around another kind of articulation of breast cancer loss and grief, one that tarries more directly, but uncomfortably and unevenly, with the happiness politics of breast cancer philanthropy and the \u201crecovery\u201d focused aesthetics of so many self-help-oriented selfie aesthetics. What they do reveal, perhaps, is the ways women navigate the experience of loss and grief from mastectomy in the context of breast cancer through the processes of making, posting, and commenting on #mastectomy selfies on Instagram that communicate something else.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12967", "words": "3696", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Siapera, Eugenia; Bastos, Marco; Curley, Cliona; Khan, Mansura; Cunnigham, Padraig; Scally, Brendan; Tuters, Marc; Walker, Shawn; Suarez-Tangil, Guillermo; Bispham, Mary; Such, Jose", "title": "THE TOXIC TURN? CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES ON PROBLEMATIC CONTENTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "college; content; covid-19; dublin; media; narratives; platforms; right; twitter; university", "summary": "The removal of social media content results from the enforcement of the community standards and guidelines put together by social media platforms in the past years. Shawn Walker Arizona State University Sanaz Rasti University College Dublin Padraig Cunningham University College Dublin Cliona Curley University College Dublin Brendan Scally University College Dublin Mansura Khan University College Dublin The \u2018toxic turn\u2019 in social media platforms continues unabated.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12968", "words": "5292", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Stegeman, Hanne Marleen; Poell, Thomas; Duffy, Brooke Erin; Jokubauskait\u0117, Emilija; Cotter, Kelley; Velthuis, Olav; Meisner, Colten", "title": "PLATFORMS AND THE PRECARITY OF CREATOR (IN)VISIBILITY", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "body; creators; in)visibility; information; labor; media; performers; platforms; sex; society; visibility; webcam", "summary": "This precarity is further enhanced as webcam platforms, just as social media platforms, tend to obfuscate their curation mechanisms and business models. Whether vlogging on YouTube, camming on Chaturbate, or hyping products as an influencer on Instagram, creators require platform visibility to monetize their labor (Cotter, 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12969", "words": "6060", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Xiong-Gum, Mai Nou; Lee, JeongHyun; He, Guanqin; Zhang, Yijia; Wallis, Cara; de Souza e Silva, Adriana", "title": "MOBILE MEDIA DURING THE PANDEMIC: FOUR SCENARIOS TO HELP US IMAGINE A MOBILE MEDIA FUTURE TOWARDS LIBERATION", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "china; chinese; covid-19; data; digital; health; immobility; inclusion; information; media; pandemic; people; public; south; students", "summary": "In this panel, we examine how mobile media is being used in conjunction with governments, social media, privileged classes, and geographic information systems to better understand how we can imagine a future of mobile media uses in which there can be agency that is constituted in communities\u2019 cultural and situated practices. In this study, we discuss both the consequences and affordances of digital inclusion and mobile media to build on to two key scholarly conversations that concern the affordances of digital inclusion and the privacy issues of mobile media use.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12970", "words": "1291", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Amadori, Gaia; Mascheroni, Giovanna", "title": "HYBRID NETWORK METHODS TO DISENTANGLE DATAFICATION IN THE DOMESTIC CONTEXT", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "data; family; media; practices", "summary": "This pervasiveness, yet ambivalence, of data in family life, then, poses an \u201cepistemological puzzle\u201d (Milan & Trer\u00e9, 2019) that includes a methodological component. This paper has suggested how the adoption of a CGT methodology employing hybrid methods, which leverages the potential of network methods, may represent a way to materialize data relations and foster reflexivity to disentangle data colonialism in family life.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12971", "words": "1386", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Anast\u00e1cio, Kimberly; Sanchez, Mariana; Horne, Chelsea", "title": "A CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS OF INTERNET POLICIES: TRENDS IN INTERNET-RELATED BILLS IN BRAZIL, CHILE, AND THE UNITED STATES (1997-2021)", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "analysis; internet; policy; regulation", "summary": "Selected Papers of #AoIR2022: The 23rd Annual Conference of the Association of internet Researchers Dublin, Ireland / 2-5 Nov 2022 A CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS OF INTERNET POLICIES: TRENDS IN INTERNET-RELATED PROPOSED LEGISLATION IN BRAZIL, CHILE, AND THE UNITED STATES (1997-2021) Kimberly Anast\u00e1cio American University Chelsea Horne American University Mariana S\u00e1nchez-Santos American University This paper analyzes trends and shifts in internet policy over time through a cross-country comparative lens.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12972", "words": "1251", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Andreasen, Maja Brandt", "title": "INTERNET HUMOUR AND THE NORMALISATION OF RAPE CULTURE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "humour; internet; memes; rape", "summary": "However, the intersection between humour and sexual violence in internet memes specifically has been widely overlooked in the scholarship on social media. In addition to this, research has been conducted into the representation of gender in Internet memes (Massanari & Chess, 2018; Milner, 2016) and the role of humour in Internet memes (Milner, 2013a; Miltner, 2014; Shifman 2013b, 2014).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12973", "words": "1262", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Annabell, Taylor", "title": "COST OF REMEMBERING: GENDERED EXPERIENCES OF ENGAGING WITH \u2018MEMORIES\u2019 ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "data; memories; memory; platforms", "summary": "GENDERED EXPERIENCES OF ENGAGING WITH \u2018MEMORIES\u2019 ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS Taylor Annabell King\u2019s College London Instagram and Facebook assert through their memory products that certain previously shared digital traces are \u2018memories\u2019. A clear logic is presented by participants when they describe typical interactions with memory products.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12974", "words": "1248", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Bagdogan, Seyda", "title": "AFFECTIVE PUBLICS: \u201cMAY GOD BLESS YOUTUBE\u201d", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "cooking; digital; women; youtube", "summary": "To be precise, the research question I ask in this paper is: \u201cHow do Islamic values have impact on the hopes of Turkish Muslim women to construct their self-branding activities of digital domesticity?\u201d Therefore, my research on the spirituality of hopes Turkish Muslim women will contribute to the scarce literature.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12975", "words": "1258", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Bene, M\u00e1rton; Magin, Empowerment; Ha\u00dfler, J\u00f6rg; Russmann, Uta; Lilleker, Darren; Kruschinski, Simon; Jackson, Dan; Fenoll, Vicente; Farkas, X\u00e9nia; Baranowski, Pawe\u0142; Balaban, Delia", "title": "POPULISM IN CONTEXT. A CROSS-COUNTRY INVESTIGATION OF THE FACEBOOK USAGE OF POPULIST APPEALS DURING THE 2019 EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "appeals; communication; facebook; parties; populism", "summary": "Also, populist appeals prove to be highly popular on SNPs as they provoke more reactions, comments, and shares from users than non-populist appeals, which increases the reach of populist communication (Jost et al., 2020). By identifying the specific context of populist appeals, we can better understand communication- and actor-related factors that facilitate the heightened presence of populist communication on social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12976", "words": "1446", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Bidav, Tugce", "title": "MAKING A MEDIA CAREER ON AND BEYOND YOUTUBE: DIVERSITY IN PROFESSIONAL IDENTITIES OF YOUTUBE CREATORS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "creators; identities; media; work; youtube", "summary": "Making a media career on and beyond YouTube: diversity in professional identities of YouTube creators. The industrialisation and professionalisation of SME have created the assumption of a formalisation of professional identity as an influencer (van Driel and Dumitrica, 2021), a social media creator (Cunningham and Craig, 2019), a blogger (Hopkins, 2019), a vlogger (Burgess and Green, 2009), or more specifically a YouTuber (Lange, 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12977", "words": "1307", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Bolin, G\u00f6ran; Figueiras, Rita; Kalmus, Veronika", "title": "CONDUCTING CROSS-CULTURAL ONLINE AUDIENCE RESEARCH WITH TWO GENERATIONS: METHODOLOGICAL EXPERIENCES AND REFLECTIONS FROM THE PANDEMIC CONTEXT", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "interviews; online; participants; research", "summary": "Online interviews needed to be shorter than f2f interviews since it was more difficult to uphold concentration among participants, and a balance had to be struck between creating a calm atmosphere and time efficiency. Levels of digital skills and self-confidence in use also played a role in older participants' possibilities and willingness for taking part in online research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12978", "words": "1098", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Breuer, Jonas; Van Zeeland, Ine; Pierson, Jo", "title": "WALKSHOPS \u2013 TESTING A LOW THRESHOLD METHODOLOGY FOR PARTICIPATORY CITY MAKING", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "city; data; walkshops", "summary": "In smart, datafied cities, it could contribute to empowering citizens, or the data subjects (Christofi et al., 2022), through its accountability principles, transparency obligations, and data subject rights intended to enable control and empowerment (Ausloos, 2020). Specifically, Article 35(9) GDPR stipulates involvement of data subjects in risk assessments.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12979", "words": "1333", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Brodie, Patrick", "title": "EMERALD EXTRACTIVISM: BORDERS, ENERGY, AND DATA INFRASTRUCTURES IN IRELAND", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "centers; data; energy; ireland; university", "summary": "But as Dublin maintains one of the highest concentrations of data centers in the world, primarily from US big tech \u201chyperscalers\u201d (AWS, Facebook, Google, Microsoft) which have availed of the country\u2019s low corporate tax rate, the presence and influence of these companies has been profound in shaping ROI\u2019s current energy plans, which need to account for the expected ongoing growth of data centers (Bresnihan and Brodie, 2021). Data centers are thus clearly a crucial element in how contemporary digital systems are assembled across different environmental and territorial formations, but the extent of their influence on wider infrastructural arrangements and externalities is not yet widely understood.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12980", "words": "1353", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Burgess, Jean; Carah, Nicholas; Brown, Maria-Gemma; Angus, Daniel", "title": "#COTTAGECORE, #FUTURECORE, #SADCORE: USING CRITICAL SIMULATION TO EXPLORE THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN MACHINE VISION AND VERNACULAR INSTAGRAM AESTHETICS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "-cores; images; instagram; machine; vision", "summary": "Building on the first phase of the project, which explored the ability of machine vision to identify meaningful clusters of objects and environments given the Instagram images from a popular music festival (Carah, Angus & Burgess, 2022), this paper moves on to a harder problem: to understand the capacity of machine vision systems to recognise and reproduce the diverse vernacular aesthetics and affects (the \u2018vibes\u2019 and \u2018moods\u2019) associated with particular scenes on Instagram (Carah & Angus, 2018) - in this case, drawing on a case study of Instagram\u2019s \u2018-cores\u2019 hashtags. The tendency of vernacular aesthetics to evade verbal description and symbolic representation may pose a significant challenge to machine vision systems, which are primarily trained to detect and match objects and faces.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12981", "words": "1344", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Burns, Ryan; Hoffmann, Anna Lauren; Welker, Preston", "title": "TOWARD INTIMATE DATA: RE-THINKING DIGITAL, SOCIAL, POLITICAL RELATIONS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "data; datafication; intimacy", "summary": "\u201cIntimate data\u201d is hardly a consistent or unified category, but some salient themes do emerge. Often, intimate data is used to mark a particular category of tracked behaviors or activities that are deemed\u2014as a matter of legal or social convention\u2014private or sensitive (Weltevrede and Jansen 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12982", "words": "1261", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Butkowski, Chelsea Paige", "title": "SOCIAL MEDIA FEEDS AMID THE ELECTION EVERYDAY: DIGITAL BOUNDARIES AND DISRUPTION DURING THE 2020 U.S. ELECTION", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "election; everyday; feeds; media", "summary": "Social media feeds amid the election everyday: The internet and social media have contributed to collapsing abstract distinctions between personal or everyday life and political events, even amid democratic milestones (Highfield, 2016).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12983", "words": "1311", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Butkowski, Chelsea Paige; Bimo, Sara; Bhandari, Aparajita", "title": "DIGITAL TRACES, SOCIAL RESIDUES: USAGE AS SELF-REPRESENTATION ON LIFESTYLE APPS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "media; self; traces; usage", "summary": "(2) How might self-representational practices differ in these \u201cre-purposed\u201d environments, when compared to conventional self- representational practices on existing social media platforms? The qualified self: Social media and the accounting of everyday life.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12984", "words": "1078", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Butt, Mahli-Ann", "title": "VIDEOGAMES IN RELATIONSHIP CONFLICTS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "gaming; play; women", "summary": "Speaking with women about how they negotiate gaming with romantic partners thus helps to paint a more complex and complicated picture of their lives, gaming practices, and gaming lifeworlds. The medium of videogames is historically constructed around a default hypermasculine \u2018gamer\u2019 identity that views girls and women as \u2018Other\u2019 and \u2018outsiders\u2019 (Shaw, 2011; Vossen, 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12985", "words": "1301", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Carah, Nicholas; Brown, Maria-Gemma; Dobson, Amy; Robards, Brady", "title": "THE ALGORITHMIC FLOW OF HARMFUL INDUSTRIES ADVERTISING ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "ads; advertising; media; platforms", "summary": "While researchers have examined both the targeted advertising and promotional brand cultures of social media platforms (Banet-Weiser 2012, Bishop 2018, McGuigan 2019), in this paper we argue for the need to investigate the customised flow of advertising itself. The vast majority of advertising on social media platforms is \u2018dark\u2019 -- that is, only visible to the users being targeted.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12986", "words": "1200", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Carlon, Dominique Maree", "title": "DADBOT AND WHAT \u2018HE\u2019 REVEALS ABOUT REDDIT\u2019S EVERYDAY PLATFORM CULTURE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "bots; dadbots; platform; reddit", "summary": "Bots on Reddit frequently operate in clusters, and often have complex histories and relationships with other bots. Our cultural imaginary of bots, or software applications that run automated tasks or activities (Holmes & Lusso, 2018) tends to focus on the potential \u2018intelligence\u2019 of bots (Johnson, 2022), their usefulness to humans (Seering et al, 2018) and their capacity to cause harm by becoming indistinguishable from humans (Sheehan et al., 2020; Gehl & Bakardjieva, 2016).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12987", "words": "1268", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Chapman, Edward Miezio", "title": "ARCHIVING THE INSURRECTION: THE CASE OF R/DATAHOARDER", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "archive; datahoarder; insurrection; project", "summary": "Retrieved February 17, 2021 from https://facesoftheriot.com/. Appendix A: Code List Code Description evidence URL links to insurrection evidence strategy Coordinating archival efforts; technical support saving Downloading evidence content; uploading to archive analysis Analyzing insurrection media doxing Proposals to target rioters via release of personal information arguing Political arguments seeding Contributing internet bandwidth to help distribute the archive encouragement Words of encouragement motivation Personal motive for participating in the archive fbi Proposals to share archive with FBI removal Flagging evidence as removed by user or platform caution Expressing ethical hesitation regarding archive project Such activities included emotional arguments, political analysis, calls for doxing and punishment, calls for evidence submission to the FBI, as well as activities traditionally associated with digital archiving such as locating sources, deduplicating material, and preserving material.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12988", "words": "1271", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Chen, Shirley Xue; Zeng, Natasha", "title": "'GASLIGHT, GATEKEEP, GIRLBOSS': MEMEFIED FEMININITIES AND DISIDENTIFICATION IN TIKTOK YOUTH CULTURES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "disidentification; girl; girlboss; tiktok", "summary": "Expanding on scholarship examining teenage girlhood on TikTok (Kennedy 2020) and the \u2018memeified\u2019 politics of Gen Z (Zeng and Abidin 2021), we consider how young girls on TikTok have developed \u2018remixed\u2019 feminine identities by positioning figures such as the \u2018girlboss\u2019, the \u2018pick me girl\u2019 and \u2018that girl\u2019 as imagined others. Kennedy, M, 2020, \u2018\u201cIf the rise of the TikTok dance and e-girl aesthetic has taught us anything, it\u2019s that teenage girls rule the internet right now\u201d: TikTok celebrity, girls and the Coronavirus crisis\u2019, European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 23, no. 6, pp.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12989", "words": "1195", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Civila, Sabina; Jaramillo-Dent, Daniela", "title": "MOROCCAN-SPANISH COUPLES\u2019 DECOLONIAL RESPONSES ON TIKTOK", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "couples; moroccan; tiktok; videos", "summary": "And they were (not) happy: The fatality of mixed couples in colonial Spanish literature written by women during the 20th century. Theoretical framework In the past, mixed couples between Spanish women and Moroccan men were considered a threat to colonial policies and the relationship between colonizer and colonized.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12990", "words": "1008", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Cocq, Copp\u00e9lie", "title": "DATA COLONIALISM AND DATA SOVEREIGNTY IN INDIGENOUS SPACES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "colonialism; data; research; sovereignty", "summary": "This paper suggests critical perspectives for sustainable digital research in relation to Indigenous research, more particularly regarding collection and management of data. First, I will approach and examine practices and principles of data collection, data management and data curation through the lens of Indigenous research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12991", "words": "1313", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Cooper, Tony", "title": "LOST IN THE ETHER: THE IMPACT OF PLATFORM HEGEMONY ON SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "marketing; media; platforms; social; vol", "summary": "However, organic content strategies that use social media platforms to freely conduct consumer-brand dialogue are under threat (Fulgoni 2015; Loten et al. 2014). In the context of this emergent neo-colonialist struggle, we examine the power dynamic in commercial relationships between brands and social media platforms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12992", "words": "1241", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Coutant, Alexandre; Millerand, Florence; Delias, Lucie; Fortier, Marie-Soleil", "title": "LOOKING FOR MONTREAL DIGITAL CITIZENS: FOR WHO ARE OPEN DATA MADE?", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "citizen; data; portal; public", "summary": "Municipalities' development of open data portals is part of this political drive to bring citizens and local governments closer together. Furthermore, citizens have a minimal understanding of the concrete implications of open data, not to mention an unfamiliarity with how to access them or interpret them (Go\u00ebta, 2016).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12993", "words": "1291", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "de Souza e Silva, Adriana; Dufresne, Kelsey; Xiong-Gum, Mai Nou Xiong-Gum", "title": "DECOLONIZING CREATIVITY: A CROWDSOURCING PROJECT ABOUT CREATIVITY AS SURVIVAL", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "creativity; mobile; networked; pubpub", "summary": "In this presentation, we will describe the conceptualization and development of our online repository of Mobile Networked Creativity examples, focusing on how open science knowledge and crowdsourced information can help and inform non-traditional creative processes. Keeping in mind that most Mobile Networked Creativity processes occur outside Global North and English-speaking contexts, we are in the process of translating the PubPub into different languages, such as Spanish, Portuguese, and Mandarin.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12994", "words": "1238", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Dejmanee, Tisha", "title": "GRAPPLING WITH THE MODEL MINORITY MYTH: ASIAN AMERICAN FOOD BLOGGERS\u2019 ACTIVISM THROUGH BLACK LIVES MATTER ON INSTAGRAM.", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "american; asian; bloggers; food", "summary": "Instead, Asian American food bloggers distanced themselves from the structural racism experienced by Black Americans in subtle ways such as distinguishing between the microaggressions they had experienced and the \u2018more serious\u2019 racism and threats faced by Black Americans. Asian American food bloggers also acknowledged their many privileges and, while it is true that Asian American food bloggers \u2013 as with the majority of food bloggers \u2013 tend to be socioeconomically privileged given the cultural capital, skills and resources currently required to maintain a professional food blog, when they acknowledge their privilege in conjunction with their identification as Asian American, this works to conflate the myth of Asian American exceptionalism that discounts the distinct socioeconomic bifurcation and heterogeneity within the Asian American community.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12995", "words": "1849", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Divon, Tom; Ebbrecht-Hartmann, Tobia", "title": "PERFORMING DEATH AND TRAUMA? PARTICIPATORY MEM(E)ORY AND THE HOLOCAUST IN TIKTOK #POVCHALLENGES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "holocaust; memory; platform; tiktok; tiktokers; users", "summary": "They utilize the platform\u2019s features (like Green Screen) to convey aesthetics that relate to Holocaust memories, such as using Holocaust-related symbols (artifacts, customs, makeup, historical images, etc.), wearing ragged clothes (like concentration camp uniforms with yellow stars), and using makeup mimicking cuts, bruises, exhaustion, and malnourishment. The #POVHolocaustChallenge invites the inscription of Holocaust memory and other past atrocities into Gen-Z's (social media) lives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12996", "words": "1280", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Duan, Yiran; Hemsley, Jeff; Smith, Alexander; Gandhi, Dhwani; Gray, LaVerne", "title": "CURATING VIRALITY: EXPLORING CURATED LOGICS WITHIN #BLACKLIVESMATTER ON TWITTER", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "curation; hemsley; influencers; information", "summary": "With respect to RQ2, we do see differences in message types and influencer curations. In general, except for Mega-level influencers, reframing messages were curated more frequently than informative.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12997", "words": "1329", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Duguay, Stefanie; Chartrand, Alex; Tr\u00e9panier, Anne-Marie", "title": "HYBRID CONSTELLATIONS: EXAMINING SOCIAL MEDIA\u2019S ROLE IN THE MONTREAL LESBIAN SOCIAL SCENE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "constellations; lesbian; media; montreal; space", "summary": "This paper examines the role of social media, alongside other modes of communication, in the definition and organization of lesbian1 sociocultural landscapes. Preliminary findings indicate that social media is a focal tool, among others, to support lesbians\u2019 networked social arrangements but that platforms lack affordances for the fluidity integral to ever-fluctuating lesbian/queer identities, locations, and temporalities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12998", "words": "1538", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Eadon, Yvonne Melisande", "title": "THE VIBES ARE OFF: TRACING VIRAL TARGETED THEORIES ACROSS TIKTOK", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "creators; stella; theories; tiktok; vibes", "summary": "How are the identities of targeted creators who are marginalized exploited and even weaponized as part of targeted theorizing? In addition to Stella, other TikTok creators who have been subject to targeted theorization include The Daydream Collective, a person with dissociative identity disorder who was bullied off2 the platform after being accused of faking their mental illness (Colombo 2022); and Couch Guy, whose \u201cweird vibes\u201d in a video of his long-distance girlfriend surprising him with a visit resulted in speculation that he was cheating.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-12999", "words": "2442", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Eschmann, Rob; Guo, Lei; Copeland, Phillipe; Groshek, Jacob", "title": "UNCIVIL FOR CIVIL RIGHTS: A MACHINE LEARNING AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF INCIVILITY IN THE TWITTER-BASED CONVERSATION ABOUT BLACK LIVES MATTER", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "blm; disinhibition; gmo; lives; matter; mobile; tweets; twitter", "summary": "The #SayHerName campaign Table 2: \u201cTopics\u201d in Twitter Coverage of GMO Mobile tweets: \u201cTopic\u201d and associated words Label 1 antibiot, carb, enjoi, fat, final, free, gluten, low, meal, non, nongmo, organ, raw, settl, soi, vegan Viral tweet: \u201cEnjoying my vegan, gluten free, non GMO, soy free, antibiotics free, raw, organic, fat free, low carb meal.\u201d 2 act, bill block, boycott, bui, call, consum, countr, fight, food, help, know, label, law, live, mandator, product, right, righttoknow, state, stop, support, vote, want, will House passes bill to prevent mandatory GMO food labeling 3 anti, beer, berni, big, don, even, farm, isi, kill, let, make, monsanto, need, peopl, poison, pro, protect, scienc, take, tell, world Sanders on GMO, farming and Monsanto 4 can, cancer, caus, dai, eat, fact, feed, food, gaga, genet, get, ladi, like, love, modify, money, natur, oscar, safe, think, time, year GMO\u2019s linkage to cancer 5 farmer, glyphos, health, just, million, monsanto, new, now, pesticide, plant, roundup, sai, seed, show, studi, talk Health problems linked to Monsanto's roundup Non-mobile tweets: \u201cTopic\u201d and associated words Label 1 america, big, bring, clean, cleanfood, food, gmofre, gpdb, healthi, isbad, know, let, look, non, now, offer, organ, partner, right, secret, sell, tpp, trade The TPP and global trade of GMOs 2 act, bill , block, boycott, call, company, congress, dark, darkact, hous, know, label, labelgmo, law, mandator, new , pass, petit, product, protect, requir, righttoknow, sai, senat, sign, state, stop, support, tell, vote, will House passes bill to prevent mandatory GMO food labeling 3 antibiot, can, carb, dai, don, eat, farm, fat, free, get, gluten, help, just, like, low, make, meal, non, nongmo, organ, pleas, raw, safe, salmon, soi, vegan, win Viral tweet: \u201cEnjoying my vegan, gluten free, non GMO, soy free, antibiotics free, raw, organic, fat free, low carb meal.\u201d 4 ban, cancer, caus, contamin, corn, crop, end, environ, farmer, genet, glyphos, health, modifi, new, pesticid0, plant, roundup, seed, studi, usda GMO\u2019s linkage to cancer and other health and environmental problems 5 anti, berni, countri, hillari, kill, monsanto, need, peopl, poison, pro, scienc, take,.vaccin, world, year Sanders and Clinton on GMO Table 3 Themes in uncivil BLM conversation Codes Nonmobile Mobile # of tweets % of tweets # of tweets % of tweets Supporting BLM 236 22% 156 34% Challenging BLM 140 13% 67 15% Overtly racist / Anti-BLM 275 26% 61 13% Popular Culture and Media / Fake Activism 28 3% 22 5% Learning/Education about BLM 89 8% 50 11% Solutions, Raising Awareness to BLM 52 5% 22 5% Activism/BLM in Media 215 20% 78 17% Clickbait / other unrelated 38 3% 0 0% Out of all the mobile-generated tweets, 80,577 contained uncivil expression, with the percentage (6.49%) about twice as much as in non-mobile tweets (3.76%).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13000", "words": "1259", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Fiers, Floor", "title": "INEQUALITY AND DISCRIMINATION IN THE ONLINE LABOR MARKET: A SCOPING REVIEW", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "labor; market; participation; review", "summary": "While this is a type of online participation that is in theory accessible to all Internet users, online labor market participation requires external admission in the form of getting hired. We break down online labor participation into a progression of eleven behaviors leading to participation in an online labor platform: from having heard of a platform to receiving payments and reviews (see Figure 1).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13001", "words": "1360", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Fox, Izzy E", "title": "HASHTAGS, HIERARCHIES AND HEGEMONIES: MAINSTREAM DIGITAL FEMINIST ACTIVISM AND INTERSECTIONAL CRITIQUES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "discourse; feminist; paper; sex", "summary": "Furthermore, as illustrated by the discussion of Hollaback!, above, the failure by mainstream feminists to recognize the role that digital tools and platforms can play in perpetuating inequalities and discrimination under the guise of \u2018protecting women\u2019 underscores the duty of care that feminists have to ensure that intersectionality informs every stage of a campaign, including online activism. For Mohanty, western feminist discourse contributes to the construction of \u201cthe third world woman\u201d (1988 333) in opposition to the \u2018enlightened\u2019 western feminist, which often results in the perpetuation of a \u2018rescue narrative\u2019 by those assuming the role of \u2018white saviour\u2019.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13002", "words": "1275", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Fr\u0105tczak, Monika", "title": "DO EMOTIONAL RESPONSES TO DATA VISUALISATION MOBILISE PEOPLE TO ACT? A CASE STUDY OF CLIMATE CHANGE VISUALISATIONS IN DIFFERENT NATIONAL CONTEXTS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "data; datavis; kennedy", "summary": "A CASE STUDY OF CLIMATE CHANGE VISUALISATIONS IN DIFFERENT NATIONAL CONTEXTS Monika Fratczak University of Sheffield Background There has been a huge rise in the visual communication of data and information in the form of data visualisation (datavis) in everyday social life and on social media. Therefore, this empirical study employs a comparative mixed qualitative methods approach, incorporating semiotic analysis of thirteen data visualisations about climate change published on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, nine semi-structured interviews with ten data visualisation professionals from six organisations who design, commission and/or disseminate data visualisations about climate change on social media, thirty-four semi-structured interviews and thirteen follow-up interviews with diverse social media users who responded to the data visualisations about climate change on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13003", "words": "1219", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Frost-Arnold, Karen", "title": "EXPLOITATION IN ONLINE CONTENT MODERATION", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "ccm; content; labor; moderation", "summary": "The emotional trauma of PTSD reported by CCM workers and the emotionally desensitizing nature of the work both harm the mental health of workers. \u201cCCM Workers: Tales from the Moderation Screen.\u201d Presented at the All Things in Moderation Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, December 7.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13004", "words": "1068", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Gekker, Alex; Kotliar, Dan", "title": "THE DATA CENTER CANNOT HOLD: DATA COLONIALISM AND THE \u201cNIMBUS PROJECT\u201d", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "centers; colonialism; data; israel; paper", "summary": "Nothing epitomizes this turn more than the central object of our paper \u2013 data centers (Holt & Vonderau, 2015). The Data Center Cannot Hold: Data Colonialism and the \u201cNimbus Project\u201d.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13005", "words": "1292", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "George, Alaina Sarah; Parkhurst, Nicholet Deschine", "title": "INFRASTRUCTURES OF CARE IN NDN SPACES: MUTUAL AID AS A FORM OF RADICAL RELATIONALITY", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "decolonizing; din\u00e9; media; peoples", "summary": "Decolonizing Methodologies Decolonizing methodologies are a fundamental centering of Indigenous peoples and Indigenous knowledges (Smith, 2012). Indigenous Feminist Approach In Internet and social media studies, decolonizing research that takes an Indigenous feminist research approach unsettles the dominant theories of social media use and helps center our focus on the possibilities that Indigenous peoples already imagine for themselves whether it be to strengthen their communities and culture, to work towards resistance and decolonization, or to move them towards resurgence and beyond (Carlson & Frazer, 2020; Duarte & Vigil-Hayes, 2021; Deschine Parkhurst, 2021).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13006", "words": "1133", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Gerrand, Vivian", "title": "DRAWING TO DISRUPT: ALTERNATIVE NARRATIVES TO THE MANOSPHERE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "incels; instagram; men; o\u2019farrell", "summary": "Rogers, R. 2020 \u2018Deplatforming: Following extreme Internet celebrities to Telegram and alternative social media.\u2019 Popular feminist influencer and cartoonist Lily O\u2019Farrell\u2019s (@vulgadrawings) memes about sexism began to engage with the nuances of the manosphere in 2021 when she decided to talk to young men who were trolling her Instagram account.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13007", "words": "1289", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Ging, Debbie; Brace, Lewys; Baele, Stephane", "title": "CAN TOXIC MASCULINITIES BE DE-RADICALISED?: MAPPING THE DYNAMICS AND SPREAD OF INCEL IDEOLOGY ONLINE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "contagion; ideology; incel; online", "summary": "Platform contagion: the ways in which Incel ideology spreads across different digital platforms. Incel ideology is a misogynistic formation, whose male proponents blame women for their lack of sexual activity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13008", "words": "1274", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Ging, Debbie; Ringrose, Jessica; Mendes, Kaitlynn; Horeck, Tanya; Milne, Betsy; Desborough, Karen; Castellini de la Silva, Ricardo", "title": "RECLAIMING DIGITAL INTIMACY FOR YOUTH: PILOTING DIGITAL SEXUAL VIOLENCE WORKSHOPS FOR UNDER-18S DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "abuse; online; ringrose; women", "summary": "The respective studies used participatory workshops and focus groups as well as online surveys to explore young people\u2019s experiences of and attitudes towards online sexual abuse and harassment. Only sluts love sexting: Youth, sexual norms and non-consensual sharing of digital sexual images.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13009", "words": "1293", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Glatt, Zo\u00eb", "title": "PRECARITY, DISCRIMINATION AND (IN)VISIBILITY: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF \u201cTHE ALGORITHM\u201d IN THE INFLUENCER INDUSTRY", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "algorithm; content; creators; industry", "summary": "Some may wonder if ethnography is a useful method for investigating platforms\u2019 algorithmic recommendation systems, unable to get to the heart of how they \u201cactually work\u201d, but I argue that attending to the lived experiences of content creators who navigate algorithms on a daily basis adds a powerful and complimentary dimension to more macro structural critiques of the asymmetries of power built into capitalist algorithmic systems (for example, Noble, 2018). This paper explores with an anthropological lens the multifaceted and situated ways that YouTube content creators understand and respond to \u201cThe Algorithm\u201d in their working lives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13010", "words": "1843", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Graham, Richard; St\u00e4nicke, Line Indrevoll; Jensen, Tine; Livingstone, Sonia; Jessen, Reidar Schei; Staksrud, Elisabeth; Stoilova, Mariya", "title": "PLATFORM POWER AND EXPERIENCES FROM THE MARGIN: ADOLESCENTS\u2019 ONLINE VULNERABILITY AND MENTAL HEALTH", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "adolescents; health; people; skills", "summary": "We discuss firstly the role of digital engagement for young people\u2019s mental health and secondly whether digital skills can improve young people\u2019s outcomes. Is this because they lack digital skills that could have helped them avoid risks in the first place?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13011", "words": "1313", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Graham, Timothy; Whelan-Shamy, Daniel", "title": "IN ON THE GRIFT: HOW PLATFORMS GOVERN AUTHENTICITY FOR NEO-COLONIAL ENDS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "cryptocurrency; network; platforms; twitter", "summary": "It is evident that Twitter is ignoring CIB surrounding cryptocurrency on its platform. Twitter accounts that are connected by an edge if they retweeted the same tweet within 60 seconds of each other, at least twice.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13012", "words": "455", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Green, Avishai; Shibuya, Yuya; Trillo, Tommaso; Mizoroki, Saki; Scharlach, Rebecca; Hallinan, Blake; Park, Tim; Levi, Effi; Segev, Elad; Shaul Shenhav; Shifman, Limor", "title": "HOW TO DO THINGS WITH \u201cVALUES\u201d: A CROSS-LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE MEANINGS AND FUNCTIONS OF A CORE CONCEPT ON TWITTER", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "jerusalem; university", "summary": "Preliminary results suggest fundamental differences in how different cultures perceive and frame values: while the term in English, Italian, and German appears mainly in a partisan political context, Japanese and Korean usage is far more interpersonal and apolitical. Both quantitative tools are complemented by qualitative analysis of full tweets containing key terms and phrases.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13013", "words": "1127", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Grosse, Meghan", "title": "THE GEOGRAPHY OF 1990S INTERNET GOVERNANCE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "governance; internet; u.s", "summary": "This archive primarily represents the work on internet governance undertaken within the Department of Commerce, the department under which Clinton moved internet governance policy \u2013 a shift away from previous oversight coming from the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation. This work looks at the ways in which internet governance policy was established using neoliberal, culturally imperialist logics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13014", "words": "1284", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Gur-Ze'ev, Hadas; Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta", "title": "JOSS IS (NO LONGER?) BOSS: FANS\u2019 NEGOTIATIONS AROUND THE \u201cCANCELLING\u201d OF JOSS WHEDON", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "cancelling; culture; fans; whedon", "summary": "In order to understand how Whedon fans perceive \u201ccancelling\u201d as a tool to promote feminist ideals, and the perceived effect this practice has on the ambivalent relationship between creators, cultural products and audiences, we will conduct 20 in-depth interviews with Whedon fans and former fans, sampled from the fan community on Twitter. Over the past two decades, popular culture has been described as a \u201cnew front\u201d of culture wars between liberal and conservative opposing values, with a particular focus on gender.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13015", "words": "1308", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Hammelburg, Esther", "title": "INSTAGRAM\u2019S SHIFT TOWARDS LIVE: HOW STORIES AND LIVE VIDEOS SHAPE HOW WE EXPERIENCE BEING AT EVENTS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "event; instagram; live; stories", "summary": "While these images are often understood as displaying the unfolding unpredictable moment, they are themselves part of that happening; stories and streams have become part of event environments and create specific new physical realities that are experienced as authentic moments. Instagram\u2019s Shift Towards Live: How Stories And Live Videos Shape How We Experience Being At Event.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13016", "words": "1502", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Hardy, Alisa", "title": "THE INTELLECTUAL LABOR OF DIGITAL BLACK FEMINIST ENCLAVES IN HASHTAG CONSTRUCTION, RECEPTION, AND STRATIFICATION ONLINE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "digital; feminist; media; women", "summary": "Extending this research to online platforms, Steele (2022) argued that digital Black feminist enclaves are online spaces created for and by Black women that \u201cproduces knowledge through discussion\u201d (84-85). #MuteRKelly brings attention to musical artist's, Robert Sylvester Kelly, sexual exploitation of Black women and girls.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13017", "words": "1328", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Heikkil\u00e4, Tuomas; Laaksonen, Salla-Maaria; V\u00e4liverronen, Esa", "title": "CONTESTING THE COVID-19 CONSENSUS: CONNECTIVE ACTION OF PSEUDOANONYMOUS ACCOUNTS ON FINNISH TWITTER", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "accounts; action; covid-19; media; twitter", "summary": "Contesting the Covid-19 consensus: connective action of pseudoanonymous accounts on Finnish Twitter. Twitter Full-Archive API for academics was used to obtain all tweets sent by pseudoanonymous accounts during the study period.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13018", "words": "1398", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Helm, Paula Marie; De Goetzen, Amalia; Cernuzzi, Luca; Diwakar, Shyam; Hume, Alethia; Ruiz-Correa, Salvador; Gommesen, Niels; Gatica-Perez, Daniel", "title": "LEVERAGING OR EXPLOITING? BREAKING THROUGH DATA COLONIALISM AND ETHNOCENTRISM WHEN BUILDING A DIVERSITY-AWARE SOCIAL PLATFORM.", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "data; diversity; partners; project; research", "summary": "First, we provide an overview of recent studies and conceptual works that address the challenges of transnational research efforts and innovation projects under the conditions of postcolonial technoscience. Based on this analysis, we draw some conclusions, that we hope will be instructive for future projects facing similar challenges.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13020", "words": "1047", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Hermanova, Marie", "title": "FROM FRINGE TO MAINSTREAM: QANON NARRATIVES IN CENTRAL EUROPEAN DIGITAL SPACES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "conspiracy; content; influencers; narratives", "summary": "The paper proposes a structure for tracing the journey of conspiracy narratives from English to Czech/Slovak speaking digital spaces: 1) the emergence of the narrative on a website such as GreenMedInfo.com, in English 2) the posting of the narratives on a platform that within the CEE spaces could be consider fringe (Bail 2012) such as Reddit, 8chan, Telegram or local web fora and discussion groups, were the content is translated into a local language 3) the reposting of memes, banners or posts based on these narratives in both English and Czech/Slovak within semi-closed communities such as Facebook groups or parts of TikTok \u2013 I propose the term niche platforms to describe the function of these platforms within the local context 4) the reposting by mainstream and major influencers and in groups on mainstream platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and parts of TikTok where the context of the original post with local narratives about authoritarianism blurs and merges together and finally 5) following backlash from mainstream publics and attempts at content moderation, the content moves to dark platforms (Zeng & Sch\u00e4fer, 2021), within the Czech and Slovak speaking context now mostly represented by Telegram. Research has also focused on the role of influencers and digital opinion leaders in the proliferation of conspiracy narratives on social media (Lewis, 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13021", "words": "1274", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Homant, Ellie; Russell, Aspen", "title": "COMING OUT AND COMING UP: QUANTIFYING QUEER IMMATERIAL LABOR", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "beauty; labor; queer; youtube", "summary": "To be considered a makeup YouTuber, the channel must produce YouTube videos about makeup and adjacent products and processes. Moving forward, there are clear opportunities to investigate queer immaterial labor on YouTube, specifically to test the boundaries of claims made.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13022", "words": "1446", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Horne, Chelsea Leigh", "title": "RULE BY DEFAULT: A CROSS-PLATFORM ANALYSIS OF PRIVACY SETTINGS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "default; privacy; settings; users", "summary": "Privacy settings are a critical space of research; settings are uniquely positioned at the intersection between users and digital platforms and regulation, providing a visible privacy architecture\u2014unlike backend privacy infrastructure and code\u2014as well as an opportunity for users to interact with privacy choices\u2014unlike terms of service and privacy policy documents which offer only all-or-nothing options (Horne, 2021). Just as scholars study privacy policies, terms of service, and the technical infrastructure and architecture of digital platforms\u2019 privacy and security choices, privacy settings are critical in discussions of privacy and privacy rights.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13023", "words": "1294", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Hou, Jiaxi", "title": "TO GENERATE DATA AT ALL COSTS FOR TRAFFIC CELEBRITIES: THE REMAKING OF CHINESE NEW POOR THROUGH DATA-DRIVEN FAN CULTURE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "data; fans; traffic", "summary": "More importantly, datafication of social media platforms reinforces the power of quantification in reshaping new poor fans\u2019 perception of autonomy and future. Concentrating on fans of traffic celebrities, this article aims at understanding how datafication affects people\u2019s consumption and even reconfigures the intertwining socio-economic and techno-cultural inequalities in contemporary China.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13024", "words": "1262", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Hourigan, Aimee", "title": "\u2018HOW MUCH SPACE AM I SUPPOSED TO TAKE?\u2019: UNDERSTANDING 'DIGITAL INCLUSION FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT' THROUGH FA'ASAMOA", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "development; digital; fa\u2019asamoa; inclusion; samoan", "summary": "In the independent state of Samoa, local and foreign governments have argued digital inclusion will \u2018leapfrog\u2019 the nation into the 21st century (Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, 2020). The latter is especially influential to the extent that inclusionary paradigms of technology for social \u2018progress\u2019 (such as digital inclusion) are deeply encoded (practically and conceptually) into \u2018knowledge\u2019 of how the future (\u2018the modern\u2019)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13026", "words": "1371", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Jacobs, Naomi Jane; Kwon, Nuri; Mullagh, Louise", "title": "CREATIVE DESIGN METHODS FOR IOT DATA ETHICS IN HYBRID SPACES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "data; deployments; iot; public", "summary": "Conclusions Through this work, we have investigated ethical factors which must be considered in the construction of hybrid digital physical spaces where IoT deployments bring a data element to public space. In association with a local governmental authority located in the North-West of England, the project developed a prototype policy to support IoT deployments, to ensure they are conducted in a way that is ethical and secure.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13027", "words": "1219", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Jankowski, Steve J.", "title": "IMAGINARY PARLIAMENTS: EXCAVATING THE METAPHOR OF CONSENSUS WITHIN BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGIES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "blockchain; consensus; media; metaphor", "summary": "Through a combination of metaphor analysis and content analysis I demonstrate how the oscillation between technical and political meanings became the basis of the celebratory discourses around blockchain technologies. They use a combination of metaphor analysis and content analysis by providing a general etymology of data and big data which is connected to an analysis of how the metaphor was circulated within news media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13028", "words": "1329", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Jaramillo-Dent, Daniela", "title": "IMMIGRANT TIKTOKERS DECOLONIZING ALGORITHMIC VISIBILITY", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "content; immigrant; platform; tiktok", "summary": "For this, a critical multimodal content analysis of videos and posts by immigrant content creators, identified through a 16-month long digital ethnography was carried out. Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, content moderation, and the hidden decisions that shape social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13029", "words": "1209", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Jones, Bethan Victoria", "title": "REB/VODKA IS MY OTP: SCHOOL SHOOTER AND MASS MURDERER FANFICTION AS NARRATIVES OF RESISTANCE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "fan; killers; mass; studies", "summary": "Undertaking a content analysis of fanfiction posted to Archive of Our Own, as well as media reports focusing on these fans, I demonstrate \u2013 as Rico suggests \u2013 that \u201cdark fandoms remain rooted in the first wave [of fan studies] where these fans are dismissed as Others and their communities lack legitimization and acceptance by society\u201d (2015, online). Rather than fanfiction as a practice through which fans express emotional connections with popular media texts, I argue that fans write fanfiction about school shooters and mass killers not as a means of showing their \u2018love\u2019 for the perpetrators, but as a way to recontextualize and understand their motives and actions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13030", "words": "1222", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Jones, Shawn Suyong Yi", "title": "CARNAL PRACTICES: PORN CONSUMPTION AMONG QUEER EAST ASIAN MEN", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "affect; paasonen; porn", "summary": "Paasonen identifies three ways in which affect theory can be used in porn studies: theorizing the encounters and intensities between porn and the viewer (this position views affect as non-personal), examining how intensities and attachments are understood and communicated (which positions affect as embodied), and explicitly incorporating the researcher\u2019s affective experiences and reflections. My contribution to affective porn studies is to focus on the latter by building on Paasonen\u2019s concept of carnal resonance and applying it to the examination of how porn is used by consumers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13031", "words": "1307", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Jordan, Katy", "title": "\u2018SORT BY RELEVANCE\u2019 \u2013 WHOSE RELEVANCE? A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF ALGORITHM-MEDIATED ACADEMIC LITERATURE SEARCHES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "google; literature; relevance; scholar", "summary": "For example, following in the wake of its market dominance as a search engine, Google Scholar is an extremely popular way of searching the academic literature, and uses an algorithm to determine the order in which search results are presented: \u201cGoogle Scholar aims to rank documents the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who it was written by, as well as how often and how recently it has been cited in other scholarly literature.\u201d While Google Scholar has received a great deal of research attention in the bibliometric field, studies have more frequently focused upon questions relating to the size and coverage of the database, and reliability of citation counts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13032", "words": "1310", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Kappeler, Kiran; Festic, Noemi; Latzer, Michael", "title": "QUALITATIVE EVIDENCE ON CHILLING EFFECTS\u2014HOW USERS\u2019 IMAGINARIES OF DATAVEILLANCE LEAD TO INHIBITED DIGITAL BEHAVIOR", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "behavior; dataveillance; effects; internet", "summary": "The chilling effects of digital dataveillance: A theoretical model and an empirical research agenda. QUALITATIVE EVIDENCE ON CHILLING EFFECTS\u2014HOW USERS\u2019", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13033", "words": "1276", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Kempton, Allen", "title": "RESISTING FRANCHISE CORPORATE CONTROL: HOW THE INTERNET ENABLES LOCAL PRACTICES IN POK\u00c9MON PLAY", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "games; internet; play; players", "summary": "Methods and theory This research follows ethnographic methods in digital game studies (Boellstorff et al, 2012), creating a sort of mini ethnography for adult Pok\u00e9mon players within the \u201cDistrict\u201d, an anonymized region in Canada. The District historically was predominantly working class, and buying official guides was not on the table for many players.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13034", "words": "1157", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "King, W.E.", "title": "A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN: QUEER CHRISTIANS & DATING APPS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "apps; christians; queer", "summary": "I discuss the ways technoculture informs the creation and implementation of dating app identity categories and matchmaking methods and how queer Christians often do not fit the categories available to them. Queer Christians using dating apps complicates an already sensitive combination of social and cultural commitments, values, and beliefs.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13035", "words": "1299", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta; Literat, Ioana", "title": "\u201cHAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY, BEAUTIFUL QUEEN\u201d: #JUSTICEFORBRE AND THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT ON INSTAGRAM", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "birthday; breonna; instagram; taylor", "summary": "Neta Kligler-Vilenchik Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ioana Literat Teachers College, Columbia University Introduction and Theoretical Framework On March 13, 2020, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician (EMT) from Louisville, Kentucky, was killed by police officers during a raid on her apartment. In this study, we analyze the complex intersections between race, gender, and the aesthetic norms dominant on Instagram (see Leaver, Highfield & Abidin, 2020), as they played out in the political expression around the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement\u2014 specifically around the killing of Breonna Taylor.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13036", "words": "1345", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Klug, Daniel", "title": "DELETING VIDEOS ON TIKTOK AS ALGORITHM RELATED IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "tiktok; users; videos", "summary": "Questions concerned participants\u2019 motivations, strategies, and practices before, while, and after creating TikTok videos. Another main reason for deleting TikTok videos was lack of desired or intended feedback.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13037", "words": "1285", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Kumar, Priya", "title": "WHAT IS PRIVACY LITERACY FOR?", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "data; literacy; people; privacy", "summary": "What is privacy literacy for?. In other words, what is privacy literacy for?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13038", "words": "1298", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Lawson, Caitlin", "title": "A GIRL DEFINED BY GOD: BIBLICAL WOMANHOOD, ANTI-FEMINISM, AND WHITE EVANGELICAL MICROCELEBRITIES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "feminism; girl; womanhood; women", "summary": "Relevant Literature This project extends existing scholarship in three subject areas: women\u2019s agency in gender-traditional religions, questions of authority among Evangelical white women in the United States, and tensions around Evangelical microcelebrities. Research on Evangelical white women in the US has explored their reactionary relationship to two secular forces: anti-racism and feminism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13039", "words": "1337", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Leaver, Tama", "title": "ADAM MOSSERI: CONSTRUCTING INSTAGRAM\u2019S TOP DAD", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "children; instagram; kids; mosseri", "summary": "In this context, Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri is an important figure not just as the person most directly responsible for an Instagram Kids app, but also, I shall argue, in terms of the way he has carefully constructed a public persona as a caring and trustworthy parent, deeply involved in his children\u2019s lives, and that this persona has significant strategic value in Meta and Instagram\u2019s future chances of deploying Instagram Kids, or something similar. Rather than abandoning the Instagram Kids idea, this announcement remained consistent with Mosseri\u2019s own public persona as a concerned, active parent trying to ensure Instagram empowers other parents to guide their children\u2019s social media use.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13040", "words": "1296", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Lee, Jenny; Ahn, Chloe", "title": "COLONIZERS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF NEXTDOOR USERS\u2019 \u201cPOSTRACIAL\u201d SURVEILLANCE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "content; neighborhood; nextdoor; users", "summary": "Critical research on neighborhood platforms is still nascent and has mostly focused on the industry motivations behind these technologies, as well as their potential implications on race, privacy, and self-governance (e.g., Kurwa, 2019). Rather than examine the affordances and processes of smart home technologies or neighborhood platforms themselves, our study engages with the level of the user.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13041", "words": "1222", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Lehto, Mari; Mannevuo, Mona", "title": "THE CIRCULATION OF FEELINGS ON POLITICISED INSTAGRAM ", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "influencers; instagram; media", "summary": "When social media influencers go political: An exploratory analysis on the emergence of political topics among Finnish influencers. As the followers\u2019 written responses or reactions to Stories come via private DMs, they increase the desire for intimate connections, although popular influencers may receive hundreds or even thousands of messages every day.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13042", "words": "1290", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Levy-Eshkol, Keren; Ribak, Rivka", "title": "VOICES FROM THE MARGINS: PRIVACY DISCOURSE IN GITHUB README FILES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "design; developers; discourse; privacy; readme", "summary": "Privacy discourse in GitHub README files. Linking platforms, practices, and developer ethics: Levers for privacy discourse in mobile application development.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13043", "words": "1334", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Lewis, Kelly", "title": "COLONIZING THE NARRATIVE SPACE: UNLIVABLE LIVES, UNSEEABLE STRUGGLES AND THE NECROPOLITICAL GOVERNANCE OF DIGITAL POPULATIONS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "content; moderation; necropolitics; platforms", "summary": "I collected the ongoing digital traces of censorship and contestation articulated by people who called out and documented unjust forms of content moderation. Platform Necropolitics: content moderation and censoring of pro-Palestinian voices on social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13044", "words": "1379", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Luitse, Dieuwertje Maria Rebecca; Blanke, Tobias; Poell, Thomas", "title": "AI COMPETITIONS AS INFRASTRUCTURES: EXAMINING POWER RELATIONS ON KAGGLE AND GRAND CHALLENGE IN AI-DRIVEN MEDICAL IMAGING", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "challenge; competitions; imaging; research", "summary": "AI COMPETITIONS AS INFRASTRUCTURES: EXAMINING POWER RELATIONS ON KAGGLE AND GRAND CHALLENGE IN AI-DRIVEN MEDICAL IMAGING Dieuwertje Luitse University of Amsterdam Tobias Blanke University of Amsterdam Thomas Poell University of Amsterdam Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly being taken-up across scientific disciplines, medical imaging is no exception. A prime example of how they play a vital role in AI research is the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) (Russakovsky et al., 2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13045", "words": "1420", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Lupinacci, Ludmila", "title": "RECLAIMING \u2018THE EXPERIENCE\u2019: SOCIAL MEDIA, THE \u2018METAVERSE\u2019, AND EXTRACTIVE IMAGINARIES OF EXPERIENTIAL ENHANCEMENT", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "experience; internet; media; metaverse", "summary": "In short, I argue that a critical-phenomenological perspective is productive for scrutinizing social media precisely at the intersection of embodied affect and the political economy of platformization, whilst centering specifically what is so often framed as the driver of technical mediation: human experience. Reclaiming the experience: social media, the \u2018metaverse\u2019 and extractive imaginaries of experiential enhancement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13046", "words": "1281", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Lutz, Christoph; Stocker, Volker", "title": "LIQUID CONSUMPTION IN THE PLATFORM ECONOMY: A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF THREE PLATFORMS AND SIX USER GROUPS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "consumption; liquid; platforms; study", "summary": "Where do different platforms fall on the dimensions of the liquid-solid consumption spectrum? We use graphical maps \u2013 spider web diagrams \u2013 as analytical support tool to (i) visualize the results of the three individual case studies based on a structured scoring approach along key dimensions, and (ii) conduct multi-dimensional comparisons between different platforms to identify differences and trade-offs (Ahmed & Rafiq, 1998).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13047", "words": "1311", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Ma, Cindy", "title": "THINKING FOR THEMSELVES: EXAMINING THE REACTIONARY RIGHT'S \"BOOTSTRAPS EPISTEMOLOGY\"", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "bootstraps; epistemology; media; right", "summary": "Thinking for themselves: Examining the reactionary right\u2019s bootstraps epistemology. Just as the bootstraps narrative in politics argues that individuals have the duty to reject government \u201chandouts\u201d and improve their circumstances through hard work and thrift, bootstraps epistemology encourages people to reject dogma and instead pursue knowledge through solitary study and intellectual combat with opponents.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13048", "words": "1364", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Madianou, Mirca", "title": "CONTESTING TECHNOCOLONIALISM? THE 'ORDINARY TRANSCRIPTS' OF EVERYDAY RESISTANCE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "aid; practices; resistance; transcripts", "summary": "Drawing on seven years of research in the humanitarian and development sectors, the paper explores forms of resistance to digital aid practices. The following section explores the hidden transcripts of everyday resistance to digital aid projects among marginalized communities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13049", "words": "1273", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Mahl, Daniela; Zeng, Jing; Sch\u00e4fer, Mike S.", "title": "PLATFORMIZATION OF CONSPIRACISM: INTRODUCING A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR INVESTIGATING CONSPIRACY THEORIES ON \"ALTERNATIVE\" PLATFORMS USING A CASE STUDY OF BITCHUTE AND GAB", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "conspiracy; platforms; theories; users", "summary": "Platformization of conspiracism: Introducing a theoretical framework for investigating conspiracy theories on \u201calternative\u201d platforms using a case study of BitChute and Gab. PLATFORMIZATION OF CONSPIRACISM: INTRODUCING A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR INVESTIGATING CONSPIRACY THEORIES ON \u201cALTERNATIVE\u201d PLATFORMS USING A CASE STUDY OF BITCHUTE AND GAB Daniela Mahl University of Zurich Jing Zeng University of Zurich Mike S. Sch\u00e4fer University of Zurich Digital platforms have impacted the communication of conspiracy theories \u2013 defined as alternative explanations of events or practices by referring to individuals or groups acting in secret (Mahl et al., 2022) \u2013 in multiple ways: They enable users to publicly share their support for conspiratorial claims, to connect with each other, and to form like-minded communities (cf., DeWitt et al., 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13050", "words": "1190", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "McConnell, Stephen Joseph", "title": "MACHINE OVER MIND? THE CLASH OF AGENCY IN SOCIAL MEDIA ENVIRONMENTS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "agency; environments; theory", "summary": "Human agency in social cognitive theory. Stephen J. McConnell New York University / Colorado State University Extended Abstract Underlying many social media platforms are personalization engines designed to give people instant content and social recommendations to keep them engaged.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13051", "words": "1310", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "McCosker, Anthony", "title": "MODERATING MENTAL HEALTH: ARE AUTOMATED SYSTEMS TOO RISK AVERSE?", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "content; health; moderation; practices", "summary": "When \u2018integrity\u2019 and content moderation systems are trained primarily to find and restrict content designated as risky and harmful, they provide an incomplete response to mental health interaction and content. Background Gillespie and Aufderheide (2020, p2) define content moderation in relation to unacceptable content and behaviour.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13052", "words": "1291", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "McNally, Naoise; Bastos, Marco", "title": "AUDITING FACEBOOK ALGORITHMS: THE ELAPSED EFFECTS OF FACEBOOK NEWS FEED TO ENGAGEMENT WITH GUARDIAN ARTICLES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "articles; facebook; guardian; news", "summary": "This study addresses this gap by exploring the elapsed effects of changes in the Facebook News Feed on engagement with Guardian news articles. Figure 2: Time series of Facebook engagement with Guardian content 2010-2020 Figure 3: 3: Cross correlation between changes made to Facebook News Feed algorithms and Facebook engagement with Guardian content.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13053", "words": "1249", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Merriam-Pigg, Ailea Grace", "title": "NOTHING WITHOUT US: AGENTIC POWER IN #MYDISABLEDLIFEISWORTHY", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "disability; hashtag; people", "summary": "To receive disability benefits in the United States, disabled people cannot work, have more than $2,000 in their bank account, and typically only receive $800-$1800 on average. This is the environment in which we find ourselves when Dr. Walensky makes her ill-considered comment that allows disabled people to be seen as acceptable losses.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13054", "words": "1511", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Milosevic, Tijana; Verma, Kanishk; Vigil, Samantha; Carter, Michael; Staksrud, Elisabeth; Davis, Brian; O'Higgins Norman, James", "title": "LEVERAGING AI-BASED INTERVENTIONS TO ADDRESS CYBERBULLYING AMONG CHILDREN: A RIGHTS-BASED PERSPECTIVE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "children; cyberbullying; interventions; online; rights", "summary": "Leveraging AI-Based Interventions to Address Cyberbullying among Children: A Rights-Based Approach. LEVERAGING AI-BASED INTERVENTIONS TO ADDRESS CYBERBULLYING AMONG CHILDREN:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13055", "words": "1456", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Mniestri, Aikaterini; Randerath, Sebastian", "title": "ALGORITHMIC JUSTICE FROM BELOW", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "bipoc; creators; platform; tiktok", "summary": "With our research, we draw on Sophie Bishop's concept of algorithmic gossip:Algorithmic gossip refers to the communally informed strategising with regards to recommender algorithms, which is then communicated among creators and put to the task of engendering stable income and a spot under the algorithmic limelight within the precarious space of social media platforms. Given that the political economy of social media and advertising platforms is largely driven by participatory culture (Burgess & Green, 2018), platform companies are incentivised to open up the data vault to users, just a smidge, allowing them to access a series of metrics, neatly organized in analytics interfaces referred to as \u2018creator studios.\u2019", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13056", "words": "1453", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Monta\u00f1a-Ni\u00f1o, Silvia", "title": "EDITORIAL AUTOMATION: THE PURSUIT OF JOURNALISTIC MEANING IN AUTOMATED TOOLS AND AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING SYSTEMS IN AUSTRALIAN NEWSROOMS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "automation; data; journalism; news; tools", "summary": "Covering COVID-19 with automated news. To adopt automatic writing, the fact that English is the dominant language to train automated tools gives Australian news outlets a comparative advantage.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13057", "words": "1749", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Monta\u00f1a-Ni\u00f1o, Silvia; Riedlinger, Michelle; Watt, Net; Joubert, Marina; Garc\u00eda-Perdomo, V\u00edctor", "title": "FACT CHECKING THE PANDEMIC IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: CORRECTION STRATEGIES BY LATIN AMERICAN AND AFRICAN META FACT CHECKERS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "aoir; checkers; checking; fact; latin", "summary": "Fact Checking the Pandemic in the Global South: Correction Strategies by Latin American and African Meta Fact Checkers. Fact checkers addressed government-influenced accounts of the virus spread as \u201cmistakes\u201d, \u201cpartially true\u201d, or aggregated them into \u201cmultiple checks\u201d, or \u201cexplainers\u201d instead of declaring a single false verdict.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13058", "words": "1387", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Morales, Esteban; Reilly, Katherine", "title": "SUBORDINATED BY THE ALGORITHM: EXPLORING DATA COLONIALISM AMONG LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "aoir; citizens; colonialism; data", "summary": "Finally, participants show that various benefits of datafication promote their engagement with the information systems and should be considered when studying data colonialism, as shown by citizens who said that data collection and analysis allowed doctors better decision- making due to data available in medical history One of the most notorious effects of data colonialism is how its ideologies expand and reproduce power imbalances that arise from our contemporary economic and cultural ecosystems.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13059", "words": "1298", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Myles, David", "title": "SHAPING APP DATA PUBLICS AS A NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CFIUS-GRINDR AND CFIUS-TIKTOK RULINGS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "cfius; data; grindr; security", "summary": "Specifically, it highlights how app data publics are increasingly at the heart of important discursive struggles that seek to determine whether or how they constitute a risk. This shift transformed CFIUS into an influential actor in matters of Internet regulation and platform data (mal)practice.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13060", "words": "1310", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Nagappa, Ashwin; Dehghan, Ehsan", "title": "ALT-PLATFORMIZATION: RADICALIZATION OF DISCOURSES AND INFORMATION FLOWS IN THE ALTERNATIVE ECOSYSTEM.", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "discourse; gab; information; platforms", "summary": "Ashwin Nagappa Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Ehsan Dehghan Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Background and Objectives This work in progress paper examines the process of radicalization on the alternative social media platform Gab, and the flow of information between Gab and other similar platforms. Among such platforms, a few have succeeded in surviving the external pressures put on them through what van Dijck calls \u201cdeplatformisation\u201d (Van Dijck et al., 2021).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13061", "words": "1236", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Navon, Sarit", "title": "THE EMERGENCE OF NETWORKS ON FACEBOOK MEMORIAL PAGES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "admins; facebook; media; pages", "summary": "Social network site affordances and their relationship to the social capital processes. Logging on and letting out: Using online social networks to grieve and to mourn.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13062", "words": "1297", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Neill Hoch, Indira", "title": "TUMBLR META-FANDOM: REFLECTIONS AND REPAIR", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "ban; repair; tumblr; users", "summary": "Producing, distributing, and curating pornographic content, particularly queer pornographic content, had long been embedded in Tumblr practice (see Cho, 2015; McGlotten, 2020; Tiidenberg 2014, as examples). Participants maintained a sense of \u201cpast Tumblr\u201d but it was hardly an uncomplicated one.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13063", "words": "1211", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Noone, Rebecca", "title": "GEOGRAPHIES OF SELF-SUFFICIENCY: PROTOTYPING EXPLORATION, EXPERIENCE, AND ACCESS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "access; experience; google; maps", "summary": "PROTOTYPING EXPLORATION, EXPERIENCE, AND ACCESS Rebecca Noone University College London Introduction Scrolling through Google Maps application or website, it is difficult to avoid Google Maps\u2019 hallmark promises of explore and experience. What these critical modes of access demonstrate are the hard limits to Google Maps view of \u201cthe universal\u201d and how geographically insufficient Google Maps is in the face of all the radical spatial practices beyond the map.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13064", "words": "1383", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Obia, Vincent Adakole", "title": "MATRIX OF DEPENDENCE, POSTCOLONIALISM, AND SOCIAL MEDIA REGULATION IN AN AFRICAN CONTEXT", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "dependence; internet; media; regulation", "summary": "Findings From the interviews, I identify four themes/alternatives to social media regulation in Nigeria: copying Western nations, platform self-regulation, governance built on trust, and digital media literacy. As noted earlier, my initial aim was to identify what stakeholders understand as credible alternatives to social media regulation in an African context.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13065", "words": "1197", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Oezkula, Suay Melisa; Reilly, Paul", "title": "WHERE IS THE GLOBAL SOUTH? A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF GEOPOLITICAL REPRESENTATION IN DIGITAL ACTIVISM RESEARCH", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "activism; data; media; research", "summary": "A systematic review of geopolitical representation in digital activism research. A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF GEOPOLITICAL REPRESENTATION IN DIGITAL ACTIVISM RESEARCH Suay M. \u00d6zkula Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Trento Paul J. Reilly University of Glasgow Context Recent research has problematised the missing \u201cvoices\u201d in digital activism research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13066", "words": "1298", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Ooko, Gloria Anyango", "title": "EXPLORING THE MULTIPLICITY OF COLONIALITY: A FOCUS ON THE AGENCY OF INTERNET PROSUMERS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH IN THE COLONIALITY PROJECT.", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "coloniality; communities; internet; whatsapp", "summary": "Consequently, both the human and material components of WhatsApp technology contribute to the discourses of the WhatsApp communities, informing a multimodal data collection . To support this argument, the paper presents part of the findings of my PhD study which explored power struggles in two purposively selected political WhatsApp communities in Kenya.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13067", "words": "1281", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Park, Kirsty; Culloty, Eileen", "title": "BEYOND PERFORMATIVE TRANSPARENCY: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE EU CODE OF PRACTICE ON DISINFORMATION", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "code; data; disinformation; platforms", "summary": "As Busch (2021) writes, the pandemic has revealed the extent to which certain platforms act as systemic infrastructures in areas such as education, healthcare and communication, concluding that regulation of platforms should move towards a public infrastructure based regulation in which platforms are obligated to act in the public interest. Self- regulatory mechanisms to increase the accountability of digital platforms, such as the EU Code, have repeatedly failed to address these core issues.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13068", "words": "1274", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Persaud, Christopher Jahmail; Liang, Calvin Alan", "title": "\u2018WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?\u2019: SEXUAL IMAGINARIES AND AFFORDANCES ON GRINDR AND SCRUFF", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "grindr; men; platforms; queer", "summary": "The construction and circulation of sexual imaginaries on social media platforms (ie: Twitter and Reddit) and intimate platforms (ie: Grindr and Scruff) among queer men Designing for Multivalent Intimate Interests We follow up on Birnholtz et al. (2014), who found that Grindr users use specific language in their profiles to manage reactions and stigma from others, to investigate users\u2019 reasonings and strategies. In the context of Author 1\u2019s research on sexual content moderation and queer digital sexual cultures, interviews and fieldwork highlighted an enduring ambivalence towards the behavioral routes available to queer users on intimate platforms like Grindr and Scruff.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13069", "words": "1247", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Pinch, Annika C", "title": "NAVIGATING THE ECOSYSTEM OF BIG DATA AND ALGORITHMS AFTER INCARCERATION", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "citizens; data; society; systems", "summary": "An estimated 40-70 million Americans have criminal records (Lageson & Maruna, 2018), showing just how important it is to research people\u2019s lives after incarceration. Future work should focus on people\u2019s experiences with criminal records in other countries.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13070", "words": "1312", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Pluta, Magdalena; Siuda, Piotr", "title": "CANCER ON TIKTOK\u2013EVALUATING POSITIVE CULTURE AND ONLINE SELF-DISCLOSURE USING DIRECTED CONTENT ANALYSIS AND IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "content; research; self; tiktok", "summary": "The study focuses on TikTok videos by users with cancer and their experiences. The researchers ask the following questions: 1) are TikTok videos disclosing information in the manner the previous research on Instagram shows?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13071", "words": "1456", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Popiel, Pawel", "title": "ASSESSING POLICY TRADEOFFS AND SILOS IN REGULATING PLATFORM POWER, PLATFORMIZATION, AND DATAFICATION", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "datafication; inquiries; platform; policy; silos", "summary": "Using these codes and guided by platform policy literature, I constructed a typology of policy silos and tradeoffs presented below. First, policy area and market silos focus policy attention more on platform power\u2014as market power (competition policy) and as social infrastructure (content standards and algorithmic regulation)\u2014than on datafication and platformization.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13072", "words": "1252", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Pothong, Kruakae; Livingstone, Sonia", "title": "CHILD RIGHTS BY DESIGN: UNBOXING CHILDREN FROM THE CHILD-ONLY DIGITAL CORNER", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "children; compliance; products; rights", "summary": "CHILD RIGHTS BY DESIGN: UNBOXING CHILDREN FROM THE CHILD-ONLY DIGITAL CORNER Author #1 This framework maps a typical Child Rights Impact Assessment (CRIA) - UN-mandated tool for realising child rights, initially used by states parties (ENOC, 2020) - with a typical product development process abstracted from our interviews and designer workshops, supported by a universally accepted innovation process (Ball, 2022).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13073", "words": "1182", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Pr\u00e1, Raquel; Antonello, Claudia Simone", "title": "PROTEST MOVEMENTS ON LINKEDIN AS SPACE FOR CHALLENGING SOCIOTECHNICAL IMAGINARIES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "content; linkedin; platform; users", "summary": "The emergence of protest movements, posts aimed at criticizing circulating content (Hine, 2015) on the platform, reveals that, although certain technological configurations impose themselves on users, digital platforms such as LinkedIn are not unique, universal, or deterministic. PROTEST MOVEMENTS ON LINKEDIN AS SPACE FOR CHALLENGING SOCIOTECHNICAL IMAGINARIES Raquel Pr\u00e1 Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Claudia Simone Antonello Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Introduction This paper aims to reflect on how the transformation of LinkedIn into an online environment from which are carried out critiques and questionings about the labor market, management practices, and work relations in Brazil, allows to challenge of sociotechnical imaginaries (Silva, 2020) about the relationship with the platform.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13074", "words": "1146", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Proferes, Nicholas", "title": "ANTICIPATING SOCIO-TECHNICAL CHANGE: USERS BELIEFS AROUND REDDIT\u2019S IPO", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "media; reddit; socio; users", "summary": "ANTICIPATING SOCIO-TECHNICAL CHANGE: USERS BELIEFS AROUND REDDIT\u2019S IPO Nicholas Proferes Arizona State University Introduction Platform changes are a phenomenon endlessly confronting social media users, impacting how they create and consume content. While users often encounter platform change and respond to it directly through the techno-cultural side, the socio-economic conditions that undergird a platform ultimately play a formative role in user experience.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13075", "words": "1291", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Rama, Ilir", "title": "THE COMPLEX SIMPLICITY OF CONTEXT. AFFORDANCES AS FLOWS OF SOCIAL INFORMATION", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "affordances; context; environments; media", "summary": "Additionally, underlining how individual factors can affect social action on platforms points at how affordances can aid in structuring social situations on digital environments. Considering affordances sociologically allows to give greater weight to social norms and cultural codes, in turn going over situated understandings of the relation between technical features and social action.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13076", "words": "1208", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Rasmussen, Nina Vindum", "title": "THE NETFLIX MACHINE: HOW EUROPEAN SCREEN WORKERS INTERPRET AND INTERACT WITH STREAMING DATA", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "data; production; screen; workers", "summary": "A next-generation production study This project takes the form of a production study that examines how screen workers negotiate the production dynamics in a streaming era. The narratives shared by screen workers and streaming executives in these public settings have departed significantly from the ones my participants have told me in confidential interviews.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13077", "words": "1450", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Richter, Vanessa", "title": "SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AS MULTI-SIDED STAKEHOLDERS: YOUTUBE\u2019S ROLE IN SHAPING IMAGINARIES OF AI", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "imaginaries; platform; youtube", "summary": "While this preliminary study focuses on AI imaginaries in general, the framework allows both a deeper dive into specific aspects and industries of AI as well as a transition to other multisided stakeholders and other technological developments in future research to analyze the complex power dynamics in global digital networks. Simultaneously, AI technology has been at the center of public debate considering its societal impact.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13078", "words": "1263", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Ritter, Christian; Goel, Rahul; Sharma, Rajesh", "title": "DECOLONIZING NEWSMAKING ON YOUTUBE: THE CASE OF CLIMATE JOURNALISM DURING THE COP26 SUMMIT", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "climate; network; news; youtube", "summary": "We center our study on network analysis, to investigate how the clustering of YouTube channels evolved during the summit COP26. Three core metrics of network analysis were created in Gephi to assess the popularity of the network nodes: in-degree, out-degree, and PageRank.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13080", "words": "1253", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "25", "author": "Rogers, Jessa; Marshall, Amber; Osman, Kim", "title": "CONNECTING IN CAPE YORK: EXPLORING DIGITAL INCLUSION AND ACCESS FOR LOW INCOME INDIGENOUS FAMILIES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "people; research; ways", "summary": "Inclusive decision- making, respect, the participation of Indigenous people, equal sharing of input and control, acknowledging and respecting Indigenous knowledge systems, and benefit for all who participate are fundamental aspects of Indigenous research (Smith 1999; Weber- Pillwax 1999; Cajete 2000), as well as participants agreeing upon the appropriateness of the objectives, procedures and ways in which data is interpreted and used (Eldridge 2008). Our methodology and results are situated within the growing body of decolonising methodologies and Indigenous research, methods and methodologies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13081", "words": "1297", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Rohden, Frauke", "title": "COVID ONLY ON THURSDAYS: DEALING WITH AN INFODEMIC IN LANGUAGE- AND REGION-BASED ONLINE COMMUNITIES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "content; moderation; rules; subreddits", "summary": "Methods Some practical considerations make Reddit an interesting object of research to trace content moderation rules in relation to covid-19: Many subreddit communities actively engage in discussing moderation practices, giving insights into the negotiation of new rules related to the pandemic (accessible and searchable through the pushshift API (Baumgartner et al., 2020)).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13082", "words": "1315", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Rosamond, Emily", "title": "RACE AND RISK: EXPLORING ONLINE RESPONSES TO THE EURO 2020 FINAL", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "capitalism; euro; new; online; race; racism", "summary": "In this paper, I analyze online responses to the 2020 Euro finals, with a focus on narratives expressing expectations about posters\u2019 and platforms\u2019 roles in propagating online racism. Analyzing a range of online responses to the 2020 Euro finals, with a focus on narratives expressing expectations about the level of racism Black players would face, I contextualize these responses within what I call a topological-colonial space: layered, shifting colonial temporalities, from the long history of British empire and its racisms, expressed in recent conflict over immigration in the UK (Kapoor, 2018; Gunaratnam, 2019; Bhattacharyya, 2018); to \u201cdata colonialism\u201d (Couldry and Mejias, 2019), which sees large tech companies profiting from monopolizing data.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13084", "words": "1271", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Scharenberg, Antje; Barassi, Veronica", "title": "ALGORITHMIC RESISTANCE IN EUROPE AND THE QUESTION OF COLLECTIVE AGENCY", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "data; new; profiling; resistance", "summary": "Although over the last years much research has emerged on the civic and human rights implications of automated systems and algorithmic profiling, little attention has been paid to what was happening on the ground and how social movement actors were actively organising against algorithmic profiling. Although insightful, research in the field is still scarce and much more work is needed in the exploration of how social movement actors resist algorithmic profiling and reclaim a sense of collective agency.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13086", "words": "1283", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Sinnreich, Aram; John, Nicholas", "title": "ONLINE SPACES, IMPOSSIBLE IMAGINARIES, AND SYNTHETIC SOCIALITY", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "feature; media; sociality", "summary": "The affordances of social media platforms are not handed down from on high, or birthed in their final form (Bijker & Law, 1992); to the contrary, this ever-changing feature set is continually reshaped through a contingent set of circumstances: the fact of online abuse and harassment (Massanari, 2017); the features for controlling the presence of others (Author, 2022); the economic incentives for social media platforms, which grant users control over their experience so that they remain on the platform (Light & Cassidy, 2014); and the large-scale political functions of social media (Gillespie, 2018). However, not everyone wishes to be in contact with so many people at once; nor do social media users wish to hear everything that every other user has to say.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13087", "words": "354", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Starita, Giovanni Daniele; Trill\u00f2, Tommaso", "title": "FOLLOW ME THROUGH INSTAGRAM: FRONT-STAGE, BACK-STAGE, AND INTIMATE-STAGE IN GIORGIA MELONI\u2019S AND MATTEO RENZI\u2019S PERFORMANCES OF CELEBRITY POLITICS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "stage", "summary": "FRONT-STAGE, BACK-STAGE, AND INTIMATE-STAGE IN GIORGIA MELONI\u2019S AND MATTEO RENZI\u2019S PERFORMANCES OF CELEBRITY POLITICS Giovanni Daniele Starita University of Perugia Tommaso Trill\u00f2 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Abstract Over the last decade, social media became an indispensable tool for political campaigning for populist political leaders, who successfully used social media to circumvent traditional media elite and establish a seemingly direct relationship with their constituents. Thus, we claim that the two leaders navigate this tension by selectively posting images set \u201con stage\u201d (e.g., while being interviewed during a talk show), \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d (e.g., while working in their office), or on an \u201cintimate stage\u201d (e.g., on a day hike with their family).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13088", "words": "1241", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Stepnik, Agata Joanna", "title": "ACTIVE CURATION FOR CULTURAL COMMENTARY: YOUNG ADULTS, ALGORITHMS, AND NEWS CONTENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "content; media; news; practices", "summary": "Active curation for cultural commentary: young adults, algorithms, and news content on social media. ACTIVE CURATION FOR CULTURAL COMMENTARY: YOUNG ADULTS, ALGORITHMS, AND NEWS CONTENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA Agata Stepnik The University of Sydney, Australia Introduction Social media is a key source of news for young people (Newman et al., 2021).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13089", "words": "1391", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Strand, Cecilia Karolina; Svensson, Jakob", "title": "IS THERE A TEMPLATE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM? \u2013 A STUDY OF UGANDAN LGBT+ ORGANIZATIONS\u2019 DIGITAL SPACES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "development; lgbt+; organizations; rights; ugandan", "summary": "Against this backdrop of decades of state-sponsored homophobia, and more recent intensified attention from conservative transnational norm entrepreneurs in partnership with local partners, as well as contemporary LGBT+ inclusive actors\u2019 norms diffusion; this study seeks to explore if and how Ugandan LGBT+ organizations working towards equal rights for individuals with non-conforming sexualities and/or expression of gender identities, take advantages of digital media\u2019s affordances of unrestricted voice-giving. Six Ugandan LGBT+ organizations met the criteria.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13090", "words": "1202", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Stromer-Galley, Jennifer; Kim, Pyeonghwa; Khoury, Christy; McKernan, Brian; Hemsley, Jeff", "title": "SEEDING DOUBTS ABOUT VOTING BROADLY AND STRATEGICALLY: TRUMP AND BIDEN RHETORIC ONLINE IN THE 2020 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "ballots; election; trump", "summary": "During the general election, Trump\u2019s ads and his social media accounts argued that absentee ballots were legitimate but \u201cmail in\u201d ballots were fraudulent. He described mail-in ballots as those automatically sent by state governments to all registered voters, as compared with absentee ballots where voters had to request a ballot to be sent to them.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13091", "words": "1260", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Su\u00e1rez-Gonzalo, Sara; L\u00f3pez-Gabrielidis, Alejandra", "title": "OUR DATA BODIES. RE-FRAMING OUR CONCEPTUAL AND NORMATIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH PERSONAL DATA", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "data; person; rights", "summary": "Personal data are the object of the fundamental right to personal data protection, recognised in Article 8 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Reframing our conceptual and normative relationship with personal data presented at AoIR 2022:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13092", "words": "1271", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Sund\u00e9n, Jenny", "title": "DIGITAL KINK OPACITY: SEXUAL SOCIAL MEDIA BEYOND VISIBILITY AND COMPREHENSION", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "digital; kink; media; opacity; visibility", "summary": "Digital kink opacity: Sexual social media beyond visibility and comprehension. DIGITAL KINK OPACITY: SEXUAL SOCIAL MEDIA BEYOND VISIBILITY AND COMPREHENSION Jenny Sund\u00e9n S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University Building on and expanding discussions of the value of anonymity and pseudonymity in digital cultures in general (Hogan 2012, Marwick & boyd 2011, van der Nagel 2017, van der Nagel & Frith 2015), and in queer digital cultures in particular (e.g. Cassidy 2013, Dhoest & Szulc 2016), this paper explores notions of opacity as modes of resistance to dominating regimes of visibility on and beyond social media platforms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13093", "words": "1194", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Toupin, Sophie", "title": "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AS IM/MOBILITY: PRE-LIMIRARY THOUGHTS ON UNDERSTANDING THE USE OF AI IN IMMIGRATION SYSTEMS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "canada; immigration; system", "summary": "These populations become testing grounds to experiment with AI systems and decide who is worthy of im/mobility. Methodologically, this conference paper is informed by access to information requests made to the government of Canada to shed light on the use of AI systems within the IRCC.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13094", "words": "345", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Trill\u00f2, Tommaso; Hallinan, Blake; Green, Avishai; Kim, Bumsoo; Mizoroki, Saki; Scharlach, Rebecca; Frosh, Paul; Shifman, Limor", "title": "\u201cI LOVE THIS PHOTO! I CAN FEEL THEIR HEARTS\u201d. HOW USERS ACROSS THE WORLD EVALUATE SOCIAL MEDIA PORTRAITURE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "journalism", "summary": "HOW USERS ACROSS THE WORLD EVALUATE SOCIAL MEDIA PORTRAITURE Tommaso Trill\u00f2 Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Blake Hallinan Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Avishai Green Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Bumsoo Kim Department of Media & Communication, Pusan National University Saki Mizoroki Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Rebecca Scharlach Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Paul Frosh Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Limor Shifman Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Abstract Personal portraits on social media are value-laden constructs. We thus ask: What values do people identify in different types of social media portraits?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13095", "words": "1255", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Urman, Aleksandra; Makhortykh, Mykola", "title": "SEARCHING FOR (AND FINDING) NEOCOLONIAL FANTASIES: SEXUALIZATION OF WOMEN FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH AND THE GLOBAL EAST IN GOOGLE'S TEXT SEARCH RESULTS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "global; groups; results; search", "summary": "While this important work has examined representations of different ethnic groups in text search results, this examination was focused on the Global North context. Research Questions We address the following Research Questions: RQ1: Is there evidence of sexualization of different groups in sponsored search results? RQ2:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13096", "words": "1306", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Vaidya, Akhil Raghav; Lingel, Jessa", "title": "#FREEBRITNEY: STRATEGIES OF COUNTERNARRATIVES AND SELF-REGULATION WITHIN FAN ACTIVISM", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "conservatorship; freebritney; movement; spears", "summary": "In the full version of this paper, we expand on these themes, particularly as they relate to scholarship on fandom (e.g. Dym, 2020) and social movements (e.g. Jackson & Foucault-Welles, 2015). From social movements to cloud protesting: The evolution of collective identity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13098", "words": "1255", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "van Leeuwen, Cora; Jacobs, An; Mari\u00ebn, Ilse; Consortium, Digital Ageing", "title": "EXAMINING OLDER ADULTS DIGITAL INCLUSION THROUGH THE LENS OF INTERSECTIONALITY AND CONTINUITY THEORY", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "adults; continuity; theory; use", "summary": "The digital inclusion of older adults stumbles partly because digital technology is perceived as unneeded or useless by them, as has been observed while assessing the applicability of digital assistive technology. EXAMINING OLDER ADULTS\u2019 DIGITAL INCLUSION THROUGH THE LENS OF INTERSECTIONALITY AND CONTINUITY THEORY Cora van Leeuwen imec-SMIT, VUB and University of the Western Cape An Jacobs imec-SMIT, VUB Ilse Mari\u00ebn imec-SMIT, VUB Introduction The possible ubiquitous presence of technology connected to the internet and a growing ageing population has necessitated a renewed interest in the digital inclusion of older adults.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13099", "words": "1279", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Vaughan, Antonia C", "title": "SUCCESS AS ANTITHETICAL TO SAFETY: RESEARCHING THE FAR RIGHT IN AN ACADEMIC CONTEXT", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "right; safety; success", "summary": "This paper critiques the broader environment researchers of the far right operate in, particularly focusing on the impact of digital presence and success metrics on researcher safety and wellbeing. Success metrics in academia, both of institutions and individual researchers, have increasingly moved towards emphasising impact, production, and efficiency.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13100", "words": "1642", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Verma, Kanishk; Davis, Brian; Milosevic, Tijana", "title": "EXAMINING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED CYBERBULLYING MODERATION ON ONLINE PLATFORMS: TRANSPARENCY IMPLICATIONS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "cyberbullying; feb; online; platforms; solutions", "summary": "Our search yielded 150 relevant web-resources, indicating that AI solutions encompass various techniques to recognise and extract user features from multimodal human interaction data. How does the information available about these processes shed light on the transparency of online platforms?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13101", "words": "1310", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Vetter, Matthew A.; McDowell, Zachary J.", "title": "WIKIPEDIA'S ENLIGHTENMENT PROBLEM: DECOLONIZING WESTERN EPISTEMOLOGIES THROUGH CRITICAL OPEN EDUCATION PRACTICES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "encyclopedia; knowledge; vetter; wikipedia", "summary": "WIKIPEDIA\u2019S ENLIGHTENMENT PROBLEM: DECOLONIZING WESTERN EPISTEMOLOGIES THROUGH CRITICAL OPEN EDUCATION PRACTICES Matthew A. Vetter Indiana University of Pennsylvania Zachary J. McDowell University of Illinois Chicago Wikipedia\u2019s founder Jimmy Wales once described the vision behind Wikipedia in the following optimistic terms: \u201cImagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge\u201d (\u201cWikipedia Founder,\u201d 2004). Wikipedia survey overview of results.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13102", "words": "1297", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Vicari, Stefania", "title": "YOU CAN'T SEE IT BUT IT'S A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH. OF PLATFORMS, POWER, AND THE INVISIBLE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "cancer; health; media; platforms", "summary": "Not only has the very structure of contemporary social media platforms been shown to open new routes for minority voices to make a point, be heard and be seen, for example through \u201cnetworked counterpublics\u201d (Jackson et al., 2020). On the one hand, research investigates the consequences of the infrastructural turn of contemporary digital structures: social media are increasingly becoming ubiquitous and in so doing, they are turning into essential and mundane infrastructures of our everyday life (Plantin et al., 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13103", "words": "1412", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Vickery, Jacqueline", "title": "\u201cCHECK YOUR FACTS, FETUS\u201d: #GENZ VS. #MILLENNIALS AND THE ROLE OF TIKTOK IN THE GENERATIONING PROCESS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "gen; millennials; tiktok", "summary": "I argue that simply dismissing these debates as trivial \u201cgenerational conflicts\u201d masks Gen Z\u2019s attempt to resist colonization of their digital spaces and obscures deeper anxieties about space, belonging, social change, and the development of a generational habitus. Memetic Discursive Patterns Figure 2 Memetic Discursive Cycle between Gen Z and Millennials on TikTok As the memetic discursive cycle in Figure 2 reveals, a paradox emerges in which Millennials disavow Gen Z\u2019s credibility because of Gen Z\u2019s young age, yet such a defense serves to reify Millennials\u2019 credibility precisely because they are the older generation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13104", "words": "1310", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Vinhas, Ot\u00e1vio Iost; Bastos, Marco", "title": "WHEN FACT-CHECKING IS NOT WEIRD: CHALLENGES IN FACT-CHECKING BEYOND THE WESTERN WORLD", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "challenges; checkers; checking; fact; misinformation", "summary": "There are, however, peculiar challenges that emerge in contexts where public discourse lacks a well-established stable political body and political sphere to support deliberation, including non-partisan organizations providing support for deliberation and democratic dispute so that they are kept apart from partisan disputes that cut across the fault-lines in local politics. We aimed to identify the emerging challenges posed to non-WEIRD fact-checkers and what strategies they implement in their fight against misinformation locally.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13105", "words": "1661", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Waldenburger, Lisa; Wimmer, Jeffrey", "title": "DIGITAL MEDIA USE IN PUBLIC SPACE \u2013 AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF SELF-SERVICE TECHNOLOGY DURING COVID19-PANDEMIC.", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "devices; media; stress; technology; use", "summary": "In regard to the increase of digital stress in everyday life and its long- term health consequences, the use of digital devices in public spaces should be analysed. Especially people who did not grow up with digital devices as ubiquitous experience the demands on their own media literacy and understanding of technology as stressful.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13106", "words": "1222", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Walker, Shawn; Roschke, Kristy; Padejski, Djordje; Simeone, Michael; Muldoon, Anna; Brown, Major", "title": "VIRAL HEALTH MISINFORMATION FROM GEOCITIES TO COVID-19", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "geocities; health; misinformation; pages", "summary": "Examining health misinformation from a historical perspective, using an archive dataset of the popular 1990s and 200s online community GeoCities, widens our lens to better understand how people have been using technology to communicate important health information over time. \u2022 What is the relationship between sensemaking and misinformation surrounding early HIV information posted on GeoCities?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13107", "words": "1286", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Wissinger, Elizabeth", "title": "SUPREMACY OF SYMBIOSIS? THE GENDERED AFFORDANCES OF EMBODIED TECHNOLOGY DESIGN", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "body; design; gendered; practices; technology", "summary": "Technology design is supposedly as neutral as technology itself. 2 When gendered power structures affect design practice, critiquing its outcomes is crucial.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13108", "words": "1246", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Wong, Jamie; Long, Vesper; Qu, Yilia; Jones, Graham", "title": "\u201cMELON-EATING MASSES\u201d: CONSUMER-CITIZENS AND PUBLIC INTERNET DISCOURSE IN CHINA", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "china; eating; internet; melon; press; public", "summary": "By examining how Chinese internet users participate in public gossip when the state looms as the final arbiter of judgement, this study illuminates how the politics of \u201cknowing what not to know\u201d (Hillenbrand 2020) unfold in day-to-day (digital) lives in China. As Chinese internet users form \u201cpartial theories\u201d about \u201crelationships and events\u201d (Van Vleet 2003) through public gossip, \u201cmelon-eating\u201d can paradoxically normalize the unknowability of truth under an already-opaque governmental regime.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13109", "words": "1297", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Yang, Stephen", "title": "FROM \u201cTEXT FOR LOCATION\u201d TO \u201cNO PHONE ON THE DANCE FLOOR\u201d: NEGOTIATING VISIBILITY IN UNDERGROUND ELECTRONIC/DANCE MUSIC ", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "media; phone; underground; visibility", "summary": "As engagement with social media increasingly turned mobile, the spatial and temporal dimensions of mobile and social media use afford new possibilities of visibility management. Much of visibility management entails the calibration \u201cbetween hyper-visibility and under-visibility to avoid over-exposure in some areas and redirect audience interest to others\u201d (Abidin, 2021, p. 1).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13110", "words": "1266", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Yeshua-Katz, Daphna; Shapira, Stav; Braun-Lewensohn, Orna", "title": "PARENTS\u2019 DIGITAL COPING RESOURCES WITH ONGOING POLITICAL CONFLICTS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "coping; parents; whatsapp", "summary": "To date, the role WhatsApp groups play for individuals, families, and communities living in regions affected by ongoing conflicts has yet to be investigated. PARENTS\u2019 DIGITAL COPING RESOURCES WITH ONGOING POLITICAL CONFLICTS Daphna Yeshua-Katz Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Stav Shapira Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Orna Braun-Lewensohn Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Mobile technologies such as the instant messaging application WhatsApp have become significant resources for information and social support in times of crisis (Laranjo et al., 2015) ), as well as for crisis communication (Afifi et al., 2019, 2020; Stephens et al., 2020).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13111", "words": "1284", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Zaffaroni, Lorenzo Giuseppe; Mascheroni, Giovanna; Amadori, Gaia", "title": "SMART SPEAKERS AND DATA RELATIONS IN FAMILIES WITH YOUNG CHILDREN", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "children; data; families; speakers", "summary": "Research so far on the domestication of smart speakers into the domestic context, family relations, practices and imaginaries has been sparse. Other families enthusiastically accepted smart speakers as the latest technological gadget, conceiving of privacy risks as an inevitable yet trivial consequence.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13112", "words": "1339", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Zaher, Zulfia; Dejmanee, Tisha; Weber, Kirsten", "title": "USERS\u2019 SENSE OF EMPOWERMENT, COMMUNICATIVE BEHAVIOR, AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ON INSTAGRAM: AN EXAMINATION OF THE #BLACKOUTTUESDAY CONVERSATIONS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "behavior; empowerment; instagram; sense; users", "summary": "Black Lives Matter has been the focus of a number of studies. We argue that the study of #BlackoutTuesday Instagram posts is a significant contribution to research on Black Lives Matter as 1) they reflect the commentary of a large community of allies who do not fit the main demographic groups of participants in BLM conversation previously identified by Freelon, McIlwain and Clark (2016), and 2) this conversation was centered around Instagram, rather than Twitter which is often considered the foundational platform of the movement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13113", "words": "1309", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Zulli, Diana; Mann, Marcus; Foote, Jeremy; Ku, Emily; Primm, Emily", "title": "PATHWAYS TO RADICALISM: EXAMINING ONLINE COMMUNITY AND POLITICAL PATHWAYS TO MORE RADICAL BELIEFS ON REDDIT", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "communities; participants; radicalization; reddit", "summary": "We report four themes below, using them to propose new theoretical insights about political radicalization. Collectively, the \u201cUnsorting the Self\u201d model offers a new framework for studying radicalization on online platforms like Reddit that addresses gaps in current understandings of political radicalization and the role of online communities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13240", "words": "1276", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Parnell, Claire", "title": "GLOBAL PLATFORMS, LOCAL MARKETS: THE PLATFORMIZATION OF MEDIA AND PUBLISHING IN THE PHILIPPINES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "filipino; media; philippines; platform; wattpad", "summary": "Literature and media featuring LGBTQIA+ themes and characters have historically been excluded in Filipino media. Wattpad, a global creative writing and reading social media platform, has altered the way intellectual property and creative content is sourced and produced in the Philippines.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13387", "words": "1632", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Abdelbagi, Abubakr", "title": "PROACTIVE MEMEFICATION AND POLITICAL CATHARSIS: HOW ONLINE HUMOR PROMPTS POLITICAL EXPRESSION AMONG SUDANESE SOCIAL MEDIA USERS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "media; page; shabab; sudan; users", "summary": "Therefore, this study asks, how does online humor prompt political expression among Sudanese social media users? The second finding highlights how Sudanese social media users sought political catharsis and collective relief from the Shabab Hilween page\u2019s humorous videos and the comment section.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13388", "words": "1647", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Adams, Philippa R; Scholl, Ben; Sommers, Maria", "title": "GAMING PLATFORMS AS CHAOTIC NEUTRAL?: TOXIC PERFORMANCE, COMMUNITY RESISTANCE, AND AGONISTIC POTENTIAL", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "games; gaming; participants; toxicity; university", "summary": "The first tool, a tier-list maker, asked participants to drag icons of toxic behaviours to the list and explain the rationale behind their choices. Our gaming-themed tools encouraged participants to pause and think through their experiences of toxicity during play.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13389", "words": "1576", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Angus, Daniel ; Burgess, Jean; Carah, Nicholas; Hayden, Lauren; Obeid, Abdul", "title": "EXPLORING FACEBOOK\u2019S \u201cWHY AM I SEEING THIS AD\u201d FEATURE: MEANINGFUL TRANSPARENCY OR FURTHER OBFUSCATION?", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "advertising; facebook; feature; waist", "summary": "Our contribution to this global effort is the Australian Ad Observatory project, which extends similar ad donation approaches (ProPublica, 2020) to investigate whether, how and when Facebook ads are targeted to Australian users (Burgess et al., 2022). Investigating ad transparency mechanisms in social media: A case study of Facebook's explanations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13390", "words": "2324", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Are, Carolina", "title": "RESEARCHING UNDER PLATFORMS\u2019 GAZE: RETHINKING THE CHALLENGES OF PLATFORM GOVERNANCE RESEARCH", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "governance; media; platforms; research; researchers; sex; work", "summary": "The Daily Dot. https://www.dailydot.com/pleaser/sex- work-academia/. Hammond, N., Kingston, S. (2014) \u2018Experiencing stigma as sex work researchers in professional and personal lives.\u2019 Armstrong, L. (2022) \u2018The courage to \u201cget naked\u201d: Stigma, disclosure and lived experience in sex work research.\u2019", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13391", "words": "2140", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Badola, Anand", "title": "EVERYDAY HATE ON FACEBOOK: VISUAL MISOGYNY AND THE ANTI-FEMINIST MOVEMENT IN INDIA", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "everyday; facebook; india; misogyny; movement; mra", "summary": "In the Indian context, the broader #metoo movement is perceived by many as one of the catalysts to the crisis among Indian men (Dey & Mendes, 2022). They claim feminism has disrupted the Indian family and the #metoo movement is a pernicious attempt to ruin Indian men.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13392", "words": "1636", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Bainotti, Lucia", "title": "TRENDING RESISTANCE: A STUDY OF THE TIKTOK #DEINFLUENCING PHENOMENON.", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "content; deinfluencing; tiktok; trend", "summary": "If searching TikTok for this hashtag (which counts over 264 million views), one can see videos aimed at challenging the hype about specific products (especially fashion and make-up products) and criticising the large number of consumer goods purchased as a result of influencers\u2019 recommendations and TikTok trends. The emergence of the deinfluencing trend is not a new phenomenon, as it represents an iteration of already existing critiques concerning content creators and the influencer industry.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13393", "words": "1804", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Bartol, Jo\u0161t ; Vehovar, Vasja; Petrov\u010di\u010d, Andra\u017e", "title": "ANTECEDENTS OF PRIVACY PROTECTION BEHAVIORS AT THE VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL LEVELS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "concerns; levels; opl; ppbs; privacy; vertical", "summary": "This suggests that horizontal privacy concerns are more easily translated into protection from other internet users, presumably because related privacy protections are more readily available and easier to employ compared to privacy protections against institutions (Heyman et al., 2014). Research has shown that privacy concerns (threat appraisal) and online privacy literacy (OPL; coping ability) are two important factors that increase the frequency and diversity of PPBs, and that OPL might moderate the influence of privacy concerns on PPBs because a certain level of literacy is required to understand privacy threats and employ appropriate protective measures (Li, 2012;", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13394", "words": "1367", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Bastos, Marco ; Recuero, Raquel", "title": "THE INSURRECTIONIST PLAYBOOK: JAIR BOLSONARO AND THE NATIONAL CONGRESS OF BRAZIL", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "bolsonaro; electoral; figure; statements", "summary": "Public statements that included no such elements were coded as 0 (no problematic content), with statements coded 1 identifying messages attacking democratic institutions. Figure 3: Public statements made by Bolsonaro fact-checked during the official electoral period The core tenets of this playbook are centered on nationalism, religion, family, and the right to bear arms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13395", "words": "2361", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "25", "author": "Bessant, Claire ; Cook, Laurel Aynne; Ong, Luei Lin; Fox, Alexa; Hoy, Mariea Grubbs; Gan, Pingping; Nottingham, Emma; Pereira, Beatriz; Steinberg, Stacey", "title": "EXPLORING PARENTS\u2019 KNOWLEDGE OF DARK DESIGN AND ITS IMPACT ON CHILDREN\u2019S DIGITAL WELL-BEING", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "children; design; digital; online; parents; patterns; rights; university", "summary": "EXPLORING PARENTS\u2019 KNOWLEDGE OF DARK DESIGN AND ITS IMPACT ON CHILDREN\u2019S DIGITAL WELL-BEING Claire Bessant Northumbria University L. Lin Ong California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Laurel Aynne Cook West Virginia University Mariea Grubbs Hoy University of Tennessee Beatriz Pereira Monash University Alexa Fox University of Akron Emma Nottingham University of Winchester Stacey Steinberg Levin College of Law, University of Florida Pingping Gan Iowa State University Digital technology is increasingly important to children for their education, entertainment, and social lives. \u201cThe Protection of Children Online: Risks faced by children online and policies to protect them: OECD Digital Economy Paper 179.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13396", "words": "1199", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Bhargava, Rahul", "title": "DATA REPRESENTATION AS EPISTEMOLOGICAL RESISTANCE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "community; data; representation; visualization", "summary": "We can derive inspirations for other possible epistemologies of data representation by drawing from approaches in other domains of study. Applied to this domain, this idea suggests that focusing on a single epistemological approach to data representation excludes potential participants in data-centered community deliberation and sense-making.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13397", "words": "1391", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Bimo, Sara ; Bhandari, Aparajita", "title": "ALGORITHMS, AESTHETICS AND THE CHANGING NATURE OF CULTURAL CONSUMPTION ONLINE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "aesthetic; analysis; microtrends; users", "summary": "CTDA highlights the power relations embedded in technological artifacts, allowing for the in-depth examination of the relationships between technology, culture, and user practices. We are guided by three related research questions: (1) What tactics and practices constitute user participation in microtrends?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13398", "words": "1861", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Bosse, Eva Maria; Wiese, Amelie", "title": "PRACTICES AND PARTICIPATION OF MARGINALISED YOUTH IN NON-FORMAL AND DIGITALISED EDUCATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "arrangements; education; kutscher; participation; research; und; youth", "summary": "Research Questions The question emerges, whether non-formal digitalised educational arrangements actually succeed in enabling educational participation of marginalised youth, therefore reducing social and digital inequalities. Non-formal educational institutions often aim at targeting marginalised youth as participants, for example by residing in \u2018deprived\u2019 urban areas, potentially creating opportunities to reduce educational inequalities among youth.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13399", "words": "1769", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Bourne, Joe ; Jacobs, Naomi; Coulton, Paul; Duffy, Clare; Goodwins, Rupert; Macpherson-Pope, Tom", "title": "HACK YOUR AGE: OLDER ADULTS AS PROVOCATIVE AND SPECULATIVE IOT CO-DESIGNERS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "adults; internet; iot; participants; prototypes; technology", "summary": "The wisdom of older technology (non)users. Hack Your Age Older Adults as Provocative and Speculative IoT Co- designers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13400", "words": "1764", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Bowman, Nicholas David ; Condis, Megan; Yoshimura, Koji; Bohaty, Emily", "title": "VICARIOUS NOSTALGIA? PLAYING RETROGAMES FOSTERS AN APPRECIATION FOR GAMING HISTORY", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "bowman; nostalgia; play; retrogames; video", "summary": "Once upon a game: Exploring video game nostalgia and its impact on well-being. As gamers age, so does an interest in the history of video games.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13401", "words": "1457", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Brites, Maria Jos\u00e9; Castro, Teresa Sofia; Maneta, Margarida; Pinto de Sousa, Andreia", "title": "VIEWS OF THE WORLD AND LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE OF NEWS: RESEARCHING YOUTH, NEWS, AND CITIZENSHIP IN PORTUGAL", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "future; media; news; world; youth", "summary": "Retrieved from http://spir.aoir.org VIEWS OF THE WORLD AND LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE OF NEWS: RESEARCHING YOUTH, NEWS, AND CITIZENSHIP IN PORTUGAL Maria Jos\u00e9 Brites Lus\u00f3fona University, CICANT Teresa Sofia Castro Lus\u00f3fona University, CICANT Margarida Maneta Lus\u00f3fona University, CICANT Andreia Pinto de Sousa Lus\u00f3fona University, HEI-Lab The study of young people and news has been dominated by a Westernized research- centred view of the youth\u2019s relation with the news and about their life contexts. \u201cI imagine the news going completely digital, taking newspapers out of the picture - not that this is a good thing, but I can see it\u201d (Cape Verde, Neutral, 19, High school, student); \u201cIn the future, perhaps there will be more evolved news, i.e. news that can not only be projected on a television or mobile phone\u201d (Peru, M, 23, works and has a degree); \u201cIn the future I imagine that the news will disappear for several reasons, one of which is fake news, another is that there's almost no reason for there to be news and if there is, it will all be with intelligent computers\u201d (Venezuela, M, 23, technical-professional course, works).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13402", "words": "1884", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Brodie, Patrick", "title": "THEORIZING ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIATION THROUGH IRELAND'S PEATLANDS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "carbon; climate; environmental; ireland; media; peatlands; university", "summary": "From Energetic Resource to Natural Capital The Irish Free State, established as a dominion of Britain in the early-1920s after a long revolutionary period, inherited ways of seeing Irish peatlands as \u201cwastelands\u201d in need of \u201cimprovement\u201d (Ruuskanen 2018), drawing upon colonial maps to learn how to develop them for large-scale industry like agriculture and energy. The bogs of Ireland: an introduction to the natural, cultural and industrial heritage of Irish peatlands.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13403", "words": "1270", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Brown, James J", "title": "GROUPS ARE EASY, FEDERATING IS HARD", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "groups; mastodon; servers; users", "summary": "Users of Slack have the relatively easy job of establishing a group, but on Mastodon users have to manage internal group dynamics while also federating (or defederating) with other groups. Federating Practices Robert Gehl and Diana Zulli argue that Mastodon relies on a shared \u201cpolitical and social worldview,\u201d and they suggest that this worldview was tested when many servers decided to defederate from Gab, a far-right social media platform, after the January 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13404", "words": "1890", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Burns, Ryan ; Mouton, Morgan", "title": "A RIVER OF DATA RUNS THROUGH IT: EXAMINING URBAN CIRCULATIONS IN THE DIGITAL AGE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "cities; city; data; internet; studies; urban", "summary": "Digital urban infrastructure, understood broadly, has long been conceptualized as a vessel that enables and (re)directs flows of capital, matter, energy, or living organisms like humans and vegetation (Amin & Thrift 2002; Bowker & Star 2000; Brown 2010; Hughes 1983). Overall, we argue that reframing urban circulations in the digital age can help us rethink ways to \u201curbanize\u201d Internet Studies and related fields as we explore how data transform urban materialities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13405", "words": "1428", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Cardozo Sarli, Andr\u00e9", "title": "_EVEN MORE_ COMPLICATED: THE NETWORKED LIVES OF TEENAGERS IN A CONTEXT OF EXCLUSION IN BRAZIL", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "access; brazil; exclusion; media; teenagers", "summary": "Even more complicated: the networked lives of teenagers in a context of exclusion in Brazil. EVEN MORE COMPLICATED: THE NETWORKED LIVES OF TEENAGERS IN A CONTEXT OF EXCLUSION IN BRAZIL", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13406", "words": "1493", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Casteel, Diana Michelle; Leiser, Sarah; Papacharissi, Zizi", "title": "\u201cARE WE DATING THE SAME GUY?\u201d: COLLECTIVE SENSEMAKING AS A MORAL RESPONSIBILITY IN FACEBOOK GROUPS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "dating; group; knowledge; sensemaking; women", "summary": "Using discourse analysis, this study analyzes the collective sensemaking practices of AWDTSG groups oriented at constructing knowledge, managing privacy boundaries, content moderation, and providing social support. Providing and seeking social support in AWDTSG groups are an integral part of the broader practice of collective sensemaking.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13407", "words": "1361", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Chess, Shira", "title": "MAGIC IN THE AIR: MEMES, MAGIC, AND THE INTERNET", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "internet; magic; meme; new; occult", "summary": "Just as spiritualist s\u00e9ances articulated hopes and anxieties of mass communication, meme magic speaks to contemporary concerns and desires about the spread of propaganda. As the term continued to be used, it became associated with meme magic, and many 4channers discovered that \u201cKek\u201d is the name of the Egyptian god of chaos (Tuters, 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13408", "words": "1909", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Conner, Viki", "title": "FEVER DREAMS AND THE FUTURE OF NOSTALGIA ON TIKTOK", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "media; nostalgia; press; tiktok; time", "summary": "FEVER DREAMS AND THE FUTURE OF NOSTALGIA ON TIKTOK Viki Askounis Conner University of Illinois \u2013 Chicago From politics to popular culture, no aspect of contemporary society appears to be immune from nostalgia \u2013 the bittersweet emotion commonly associated with \u201ca sentimental longing for the past\u201d (Sedikides & Wildschut, 2019). To the extent digital media condition us to see the world through nostalgia-colored glasses at the same time that they afford new forms of nostalgic expression, the political issue at stake is whether these emergent social formations of nostalgia invite us to look regressively (restoratively) back or enable us to move forward imaginatively (reflectively) in the face of the complex problems facing societies around the world, as Svetlana Boym (2001) invites us to consider in The Future of Nostalgia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13409", "words": "1641", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Couture, St\u00e9phane ; Toupin, Sophie; Latzko-Toth, Guillaume", "title": "PUSHING BACK: DIGITAL RESISTANCE AS A SENSITIZING CONCEPT", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "digital; press; resistance; studies; technology", "summary": "In the discourse analysis, the concept of sociotechnical imaginary will be used to understand digital resistance as such and to analyze how these discourses are reflected in the design of digital technologies. How can we define digital resistance?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13410", "words": "1432", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "de Coning, Alexis", "title": "USING \u201cSMALL DATA\u201d TO MAP HOW MEN\u2019S RIGHTS CAME ONLINE (WORK-IN-PROGRESS)", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "data; men; movement; rights", "summary": "In my case, a \u201csmall data\u201d approach refers to collecting a preliminary dataset by manually trawling through print and digital archive materials, using simple spreadsheets to track the data, and Google My Maps to visualize the data. While the advent of the Internet can be seen as a \u201crevolution\u201d in how social movements communicate and organize \u2013 for instance, through connective action (Bennet & Segerberg, 2013) \u2013 digital methods and materials do not necessarily constitute a \u201crevolution\u201d in how we study these movements or their histories (Nanni, 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13411", "words": "1477", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "DeCusatis, Cara Maria Carmel", "title": "STABLE SCIENCE AND FICKLE BODIES: AN EXAMINATION OF TRUST AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF EXPERTISE ON R/SKINCAREADDICTION", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "expertise; science; skincare; users", "summary": "I argue that such delineations both uphold formalized systems of expertise and make space for alternative, community-specific forms of skincare expertise. The theory of lay expertise (Epstein, 1995; Bryan Wynne, 1996) is essential to unpacking r/SkincareAddiction because it helps illuminate the central tension present in this research\u2013 how do people determine expertise in a lay community, when the topic of that expertise (skincare) is ill-defined and distributed across both scientific and non-scientific domains?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13412", "words": "1642", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Divon, Tom ; Jaramillo-Dent, Daniela; Gekker, Alex", "title": "#VLADDYDADDY ON TIKTOK: IMAGINED INTIMACY AND MEMETIC PARTICIPATION IN TIMES OF WAR", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "intimacy; meme; putin; tiktok; videos; vladdydaddy", "summary": "We gathered #Vladdydaddy meme re-emergence on TikTok's 'for you' page from the days before the Ukraine invasion in February 2022 to July 2022. For instance, one popular meme addresses Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski\u2019s \u201ctoo many bitches\u201d - implying he is an object of courtship by members of the opposite sex.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13413", "words": "1566", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Dos Santos JR, Marcelo Alves ; D'Andrea, Carlos", "title": "THE INFRASTRUCTURAL POWER OF PROGRAMMATIC ADVERTISING NETWORKS: ANALYZING DISINFORMATION INDUSTRIES IN BRAZIL", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "advertising; data; disinformation; infrastructures; networks; platform; power", "summary": "The infrastructural power of programmatic advertising networks: Analyzing disinformation industries in brazil. This paper builds on critical platform and infrastructure research literature for analyzing the multilateral infrastructural power of programmatic advertising networks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13414", "words": "1728", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Duan, Yiran; Hemsley, Jeff; Smith, Alexander O.", "title": "\u201cTHIS TWEET IS UNAVAILABLE\u201d: #BLACKLIVESMATTER TWEETS DECAY", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "blm; decay; rate; tweets; twitter", "summary": "Previous studies show that random tweet collections that include more than one hashtag had relatively low rate of unavailable tweets while political related datasets have a higher rate of tweet decay (Almuhimedi et al., 2013; Bastos, 2021; Bhattacharya & Ganguly, 2016; McCammon, 2022; Zubiaga, 2018). Given above, we propose the following two research questions: RQ1: how does the percentage of unavailable BLM tweets compare to the numbers published by previous research?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13415", "words": "1792", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Duguay, Stefanie; Acar, \u00d6zgem Elif; Jamet-Lange, Hannah", "title": "DEAR BABY GAYS: INVESTIGATING THE SOCIOTECHNICAL PRACTICES OF OLDER LGBTQ+ TIKTOK USERS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "content; lgbtq+; media; queer; tiktok; users", "summary": "Investigating the sociotechnical practices of older LGBTQ+ TikTok users. While Zeng & Abidin\u2019s (2021) study is one of the few to include older users\u2019 content, further investigation is necessary regarding older LGBTQ+ users, whose content may be less antagonistic given offline instances of queer intergenerational sociality and support (Emmer, 2012).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13416", "words": "1498", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Eadon, Yvonne", "title": "CONSPIRITUALITY CAPITALISM: YOGA, AUTHENTICITY, AND WHITENESS ON A STREAMING VIDEO PLATFORM ", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "age; capitalism; conspirituality; gaia; yoga", "summary": "A preliminary topic model of Gaia article headlines from 2019 \u2013 2022 (n=778) reveals that, despite billing itself as primarily a website for on-demand yoga classes, yoga is only the fourth most common topic discussed on the website. Gaia\u2019s particular brand of conspirituality capitalism involves structures that are rooted in the partnership between authenticity and whiteness.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13417", "words": "1730", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Evans, Jabari Miles", "title": "THESE GIRLS (STRIP) FOR THE CLOUT: EXPLORING ASPIRATIONAL, EMOTIONAL AND EROTIC LABOR OF BLACK WOMEN HIP-HOP ARTISTS ON ONLYFANS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "digital; hip; hop; labour; onlyfans; women", "summary": "Within strip club culture, Black women routinely use their bodies to seek monetary and cultural capital within their social networks. In both instances, Black women are required to use their racial identity in emotional labour to fulfill men\u2019s fantasies and use relational labour to accomplish the illusion of intimacy, submissiveness, and attraction.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13418", "words": "1807", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Fang, Cindy; Iliadis, Andrew", "title": "INVITATION TO LISTEN: MAPPING CLUBHOUSE\u2019S EARLY INVITE-ONLY SOCIAL CAPITAL NETWORK", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "capital; clubhouse; individuals; media; network; structure", "summary": "Bonini defines this new listening experience as the \u201caugmented radio listening experience\u201d which consists of listening, discussion, comments, and the production of content on social networks connected to the radio (p.14-15). Social capital theory explains the processes of capitalization in social networks and argues that capital transforms into social relations as a form of investment with expected market returns, whether economic, political, labor, or community (Lin, 2001).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13419", "words": "1770", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Foster, Margaret E; Omapang, Aspen K.B.; Johnson-Zafiris, Marina", "title": "IS IT (MICRO)CHEATING? HOW SOCIAL MEDIA CONFOUND ASSUMPTIONS IN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "cheating; discourse; media; monogamy; reddit", "summary": "The phenomenon of interest in our study is discourse around what constitutes \u201ccheating\u201d as it relates to social media, that is, discourse around the limits of new technologies\u2019 acceptable uses for relating outside an established relationship. Individuals have long used technologies to coordinate extramarital sex (Rambukkana, 2015), and social media have introduced spaces for new transgressions to emerge (Muise et al., 2009; Tokunaga, 2011).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13420", "words": "1452", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Fridzema, Nathalie; Aasman, Susan; Smit, Rik; Slootweg, Tom", "title": "REVOLUTIONARY DISCOURSES IN A TIME CAPSULE: A HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF CANONICAL, INTELLECTUAL LITERATURE CONCERNING THE SOCIAL IMPACT AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE INTERNET.", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "impact; internet; university", "summary": "By critically analyzing this canon of internet history captured at a certain point in time, this paper shows which key themes were understood as having the most impact whilst also diving deeper into how these themes developed and why. Discourses like this were frequently produced by key actors from academic communities who were both eyewitnesses as well as participants in various digital advances.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13421", "words": "2062", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Garcia Iglesias, Jaime; Heaphy, Brian; Yodovich, Neta", "title": "AN INTIMATE REVOLUTION: DIGITAL PRACTICES OF INTIMACY DURING COVID-19 AND BEYOND", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "apps; changes; covid-19; dating; intimacy; practices", "summary": "This paper reports on the first study of its kind to explore how dating app use during COVID-19 transformed practices of intimacy, how these transformations were spread among populations\u2014comparing heterosexual and LGBT+ communities\u2014, and whether these changes have endured after COVID-19. COVID-19 has developed in a time marked by the transformative possibilities for relating and social connection on the internet, particularly by means of dating apps\u2014 which have long been the subject of internet and social scholarship (Mowlabocus 2010;", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13422", "words": "1442", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Glatt, Zo\u00eb", "title": "THE INTIMACY TRIPLE BIND: STRUCTURAL INEQUALITIES AND RELATIONAL LABOUR IN THE INFLUENCER INDUSTRY", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "creators; industry; influencer; labour; media", "summary": "This involved a number of complimentary methods: (1) offline participant observation at key industry events (VidCon London and L.A., Summer in the City), as well as formal and informal content creator meet-ups and events; (2) online participant observation of content creator/influencer culture across a wide range of social media platforms (YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, personal blogs, and so on); (3) in-depth semi-structured interviews with 30 London-based content creators; and (4) autoethnographic research in the form of becoming a YouTube creator myself, with the aim of gaining first-hand experiential insights into the nature of content creator labour. The work of content creators, or influencers, bears many of the hallmarks of creative labour that have been identified by researchers of the Creative and Cultural Industries going back three decades.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13423", "words": "2267", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Gliniecka, Martyna", "title": "DISCUSSING HEALTH WITHOUT ADULTS \u2013 YOUTH VOICES IN PEER-LED DISCUSSIONS ON TEENAGERS\u2019 SUBREDDITS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "digital; health; people; reddit; voices; youth", "summary": "The second part of the paper focuses on Redditors\u2019 voices about human and non-human actors engaged in youth digital health. Therefore, sites such as Reddit are important sites for the study of youth health.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13424", "words": "1466", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Gray, Joanne Elizabeth ; Bay, Morten", "title": "PLATFORM POWER, XR, AND THE METAVERSE: NEW CHALLENGES OR OLD STRUCTURES?", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "economy; media; metaverse; platform", "summary": "For instance, Meta is aiming to convert billions of social media platform users to its XR offerings and recently proposed a policy for lowering the age limit of its Horizon Worlds social VR platform to correspond with the age limits on Facebook and Instagram, i.e. from 18 to 13 (Rodriguez, 2023). Through XR technologies, new digital spaces are being developed that combine features of existing digital platforms with elements of the immersiveness of gaming, sometimes referred to informally as \u2018the metaverse\u2019.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13425", "words": "1415", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Grosse, Meghan", "title": "ALTERNATIVE VISIONS FOR THE DNS: CORE, IAHC, AND THE POSSIBILITY FOR EXPANDED GTLDS IN EARLY GOVERNANCE POLICY", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "clinton; governance; internet; magaziner", "summary": "Grosse-ALTERNATIVE VISIONS FOR THE DNS-ALTERNATIVE VISIONS FOR THE DNS Selected Papers of #AoIR2023: The 24th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Philadelphia, PA, USA / 18-21 Oct 2023 ALTERNATIVE VISIONS FOR THE DNS: CORE, IAHC, AND THE POSSIBILITY FOR EXPANDED GTLDS IN EARLY GOVERNANCE POLICY Meghan Grosse Washington College Introduction In 1994, U.S. President Clinton stated that the commercialization of the internet was a \u201ctop priority\u201d for his administration.1 The domain name system (DNS), which was developed to deal with the growing unwieldiness of the commercial internet, was an early battleground in shaping the values of early internet governance policies. This archive primarily represents the work on internet governance undertaken within the Department of Commerce, the department under which Clinton moved internet governance policy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13426", "words": "1379", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Grosse, Meghan; Clarke-De Reza, Sara", "title": "THE HASHTAG SYLLABUS AS CLASS ASSIGNMENT: FROM CRITICAL INFORMATION LITERACY TO CULTURAL CRITIQUE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "hashtag; information; literacy; students; syllabus", "summary": "As instructors and scholars working in distinct, but highly interdisciplinary fields, we have used hashtag syllabus assignments across our curriculum to support unique learning objectives in both introductory and upper-level courses. Critical information literacy, a growing area of scholarship most frequently addressed by librarians and literacy scholars, \u201cinvolves developing a Suggested Citation (APA): Grosse, M., Clark-De Reza, S. (2023, October).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13427", "words": "1264", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Gu, Yuejie; Yang, Ying; Saiyinjiya; Wu, Wanyu; Chen, Qingyun; Chen, Siqi; Literat, Ioana", "title": "#STOPMENSTRUALSHAMING: XIAOHONGSHU USERS\u2019 ONLINE ADVOCACY FOR WOMEN\u2019S ISSUES IN CHINA", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "platform; users; women; xiaohongshu", "summary": "#StopMenstrualShaming: Xiaohongshu users\u2019 online advocacy for women\u2019s issues in China. Findings The study revealed how Xiaohongshu provided a space for Chinese female users to express solidarity and engage in activism against menstrual shame.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13428", "words": "1572", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Haimson, Oliver L", "title": "EXPLORING THE CURRENT LANDSCAPE OF TRANS TECHNOLOGY DESIGN", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "design; people; technologies; technology; trans", "summary": "I conducted an in-depth interview study with 115 creators of existing trans technologies to understand the world of trans technology design, both its exciting aspects and its limitations. What \u201ctrans technology\u201d is, and what it means for technology design, is an important conversation that impacts how technological innovation may improve trans lives and wellbeing.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13429", "words": "1515", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Holm, Malin Charlotte", "title": "EQUALITY THROUGH EXCLUSION? TOWARDS A NEW CONCEPTUALIZATION OF DEMOCRATIC EXCLUSION IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITAL PUBLIC VENUES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "exclusion; groups; online; venues", "summary": "However, the dramatic consequences of the rapid development of digital public venues for democratic processes and practices show the urgent need for also analysing when and how the access to public venues needs to be limited or even denied. Nevertheless, we lack systematic studies of how digital public venues should be governed to protect \u2013 rather than undermine \u2013 democratic values through exclusion.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13430", "words": "2104", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Iantorno, Mathew; Guadagnolo, Dan; Petterson, Adrian", "title": "DARK PATTERNS AND PEDAGOGY: EXPANDING SCHOLARSHIP AND CURRICULUM ON MANIPULATIVE MARKETING PRACTICES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "design; digital; patterns; university", "summary": "Dark patterns and pedagogy: Expanding scholarship and curriculum on manipulative marketing practices. Originally coined by cognitive scientist Harry Brignull in 2010, dark patterns refer to a set of design strategies that co- opt the human-centered values advocated for in the fields of user experience (UX) design and human-computer interaction (HCI) for deceptive aims (Gray et al., 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13431", "words": "1684", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Ju, Ran", "title": "LIFESTYLE GOVERNMENTALITY IN CHINA: GOVERNING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL CITIZEN SUBJECTS THROUGH LIFESTYLE PRACTICES ON XIAOHONGSHU (RED)", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "china; governmentality; lifestyle; red; subjects; users", "summary": "The third section highlights when lifestyle governmentality works through the formation of users as entrepreneurial subjects, this form of governmentality also bears the enduring possibility of resistance (Ettlinger, 2018). But this body of literature tends to overlook the interplay between the top-down and the bottom-up networks in which management and guidance over individuals and populations could occur with the active engagement of political authorities, lifestyle platforms, professional associations, and citizen subjects themselves.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13432", "words": "1740", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Kamish, D W ; Hilstob, Kayla", "title": "DIGITAL LABOR AND RENTIER PLATFORM CAPITALISM: REFORM OR REVOLUTION?", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "capitalism; labor; media; new; platforms; users", "summary": "The horizon of our platform politics must not stop short at remuneration for the daily activities of platform users but extend to the creation of genuinely democratic infrastructures. From this foundation, we engage with ongoing debates on the audience commodity (Kaplan 2019) and digital rent (Frayss\u00e9 2015) to begin articulating a more precise account of social media platforms\u2019 valorization process and the user/platform relation therein.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13433", "words": "723", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Kantachote, Krittiya", "title": "\u201cWOULD YOU DATE A MAID?\u201d", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "singapore; workers", "summary": "In Singapore, the temporary legal status of migrant domestic workers binds them in servitude to their employer-sponsor as their residency is contingent on their continuous and sole live-in employment with a sponsor whose permission they must secure to transfer jobs. Each year, thousands of domestic workers from India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines seek legal employment in Singapore.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13435", "words": "1372", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Kerby, Natalie ; Romano, Salvatore; Schueler, Miazia; Beraldo, Davide", "title": "THE WORLD ACCORDING TO TIKTOK: AN OBSERVATORY ON CROSS-NATIONAL CONTENT PRIORITIZATION AND PLATFORM-MEDIATED PROXIMITIES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "content; countries; platform; tiktok", "summary": "Cross-national analysis of TikTok content prioritization TikTok\u2019s main access point to content is its For You Page (FYP), a continuous feed of content that is algorithmically curated by the platform\u2019s recommendation system (TikTok 2019). Overall, it allows users to view, filter, sort, and extrapolate FYP data as prioritized in different countries and territories, making it a unique access point for researchers, journalists, and content creators who aim to investigate trends, content moderation, and content promotion from a cross-national perspective.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13436", "words": "1627", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Khoury, Christy; Hemsley, Jeff", "title": "COLLECTIVE SENSEMAKING AND INTERSEMIOTIC DISSONANCE: A STUDY OF CRISIS DISCOURSE ON TIKTOK", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "analysis; crisis; https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?hjdtbm https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?hjdtbm; sensemaking; tiktok; videos", "summary": "I. Videos Gillian Rose\u2019s Visual Methodologies informed the foundation of video analysis, with a specific focus on semiology, which questions how images make meanings (2001). However, one under-researched category within TikTok scholarship is crisis discourse as current research focuses on the COVID- 19 pandemic (Carter et al., 2021).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13437", "words": "1547", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Kim, Do Own", "title": "REAL BUT FAKE, REAL BECAUSE FAKE: TECHNOLOGICALLY AUGMENTED K-POP IDOLS AND META-AUTHENTICITY", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "authenticity; fans; media; monster; pop", "summary": "TECHNOLOGICALLY AUGMENTED K-POP IDOLS AND META-AUTHENTICITY Do Own (Donna) Kim University of Illinois at Chicago Introduction \u201cHi, H. I.,\u201d greets the two heavily filtered faces of JHo and Tan, the duo from the K-pop idol group \u201cMad Monster\u201d. According to the self-claimed fans in YouTube comments, Mad Monster is the most authentic K-pop idol group there is despite their \u201cnatural\u201d autotune singing voice, highly curated \u201cgenuine\u201d fan interactions\u2014such as their \u201ccool\u201d signature move to spell out all (but only if it is easy) English words like \u201cHi, H. I.\u201d, and their \u201cborn beautiful\u201d heavily filtered faces that occasionally morph back into the original whenever the members \u201cmistakenly\u201d disturb the AR filter sync.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13438", "words": "1556", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Kim, Youngrim ; Finn, Megan", "title": "EPISTEMOLOGIES OF MISSING DATA: COVID DATA BUILDERS AND THE PRODUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF MARGINALIZED COVID DATASETS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "builders; covid; data; pandemic", "summary": "The Landscape of Missing COVID Data One type of missing data we learned from our interviews was disappearing and ephemeral data. The second type of missing data that we identified is obscuring data.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13439", "words": "1617", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Kumar, Priya; Hyde, Lily", "title": "EXPLORING HOW U.S. K-12 EDUCATION ADDRESSES PRIVACY LITERACY", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "education; kumar; literacy; privacy; standards", "summary": "The 5Ds of privacy literacy: A framework for privacy education. Taken together, these analyses will contribute a comprehensive picture of what expectations for privacy education exist across the U.S. Scholars involved in developing privacy literacy efforts can then tailor their work toward meeting these standards or advocating for changes that reflect the kinds of privacy lessons important for children who grow up immersed in digital environments.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13440", "words": "1918", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Kuznetsov, Dmitry ; Ismangil, Milan", "title": "ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF GLOBAL ATTENTION ON SUBREDDIT COMMUNITY PRACTICES: THE CASE OF /R/HONGKONG", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "community; events; media; reddit; subreddit", "summary": "In this extended abstract, we will briefly examine the existing research on subreddits as a community, consider the potential significance of media events and subsequent influxes of new users for community practice, outline our methodological approach, and highlight some findings. Media Events Our analysis of /r/hongkong aims to explore the changes in posting behaviour and content since the establishment of the subreddit.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13441", "words": "1722", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Lackey, Cait; Hardman Taylor, Samuel", "title": "ALGORITHMIC FOLK THEORIES OF ONLINE HARASSMENT: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA ALGORITHMS ENABLE ONLINE HARASSMENT AND PREVENT INTERVENTION", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "algorithms; folk; harassment; media; theories", "summary": "Algorithmic folk theories of online harassment: How social media algorithms enable online harassment and prevent intervention. ALGORITHMIC FOLK THEORIES OF ONLINE HARASSMENT: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA ALGORITHMS ENABLE ONLINE HARASSMENT AND PREVENT INTERVENTION Cait Lackey University of Illinois Chicago Samuel Hardman Taylor University of Illinois Chicago The prevalence of online harassment is undeniable, with 64% of U.S. citizens under the age of 30 having experienced some form of online harassment, and people with marginalized identities reporting being victimized most often (Lenhart & Zickuhr, 2016; Vogels, 2021).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13442", "words": "1546", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Lee, Jeehyun Jenny ; Lee, Jin", "title": "CARE-LESS DATA POP CULTURES: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE DATA IMAGINARIES AND DATA CULTURES OF THE PANDEMIC", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "care; data; lee; media", "summary": "Our findings indicate that when we discuss the harms and violence of data cultures, we need to consider not only institutional bodies\u2019 responsibilities, but also that of the wider culture and everyday participation of people. We describe this process of cultural interpretation and shaping of pandemic data through social media\u2019s participatory culture as data pop culture.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13443", "words": "1273", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Levi-Eshkol, Keren; Ribak, Rivka", "title": "IDENTIFYING WITH PRIVACY: REFERENCES TO PRIVACY IN DEVELOPERS\u2019 GITHUB PROFILES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "developers; freedom; privacy; software", "summary": "Using VOSviewer software, an NLP tool designed for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks (van Eck & Waltman, 2010), we identified four distinct clusters that, based on the words in each cluster, we labeled: \u201cfreedom\u201d (in red), \u201cprivacy advocacy\u201d (green), \u201cacademia\u201d (blue), and \u201cprofessional experience\u201d (yellow). Identifying with privacy: References to privacy in developers\u2019 GitHub profiles.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13444", "words": "1700", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Li, Yuening ; Garwood-Cross, Lisa; Kerr, Aphra", "title": "WOMEN REVOLUTIONISING MONEY?: INVESTIGATING MEANING-MAKING AND GENDER MESSAGING IN FEMALE-TO-FEMALE FINFLUENCING ON INSTAGRAM", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "female; instagram; posts; university; women", "summary": "The existing scholarly work largely criticises the lack of credibility for social media influencers in providing financial advice and the potential for compromised content generated under paid partnerships, leaving a gap in understanding female financial influencing as a cultural phenomenon of female- to-female online community support and care (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2017). These phases will further delve into issues related to finfluencer labour, monetisation, risk, and the socio-technical, economic, and cultural significance of the emergence of female personal finance influencers and the practice of online saving communities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13445", "words": "1545", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Liang, Fan ; Ji, Li", "title": "MANUFACTURING INFLUENCERS: THE REVOLUTIONARY ROLES OF MCNS (MULTI-CHANNEL NETWORKS) IN THE PLATFORM ECONOMY", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "economy; influencers; mcns; media; platform", "summary": "Influencers were recruited through a snowballing sampling approach: we first contacted two influencers who ended their MCN contracts and then built connections with other influencers. Previous studies have explored the emergence of influencers and creators from various perspectives, including platformization (Lin & de Kloet, 2019), creative labor (Duffy, 2017), and algorithmic power (Bishop, 2020).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13446", "words": "1988", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Liao, Tony; Porter, Debriunna; Rodwell, Elizabeth", "title": "ARTIFICIAL LOVE: REVOLUTIONS IN HOW AI AND AR EMBODIED ROMANTIC CHATBOTS CAN MOVE THROUGH RELATIONSHIP STAGES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "human; people; relationships; replika", "summary": "EMBODIED ROMANTIC CHATBOTS CAN MOVE THROUGH RELATIONSHIP STAGES Tony Liao University of Houston Debriunna Porter University of Houston Liz Rodwell University of Houston Introduction Depictions of romantic relationships between humans and computers/machines/robots have been a common theme in science fiction. Romantic relationships are theorized as a separate category, due to the different levels of physical/emotional intimacy, trust/vulnerability, and a wider range of interactions/negotiations over independence and about:blank interdependence they introduce (Knapp, 1978, Knapp & Vangelisti, 2009).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13447", "words": "1625", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Lin, Bibo", "title": "COMMEMORATING AS CRITICIZING: HOW LI WENLIANG\u2019S WEIBO HOMEPAGE BECOMES A PLACE FOR QUESTIONING CHINA\u2019S COVID-19 POLICIES AND A \u201cWAILING WALL\u201d", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "users; weibo; wenliang", "summary": "Preliminary Findings and Conclusion The preliminary findings suggest that Weibo offers a space for users to (1) see the mundane life of Li Wenliang, (2) shortly express their grief and frustration, and (3) interact with other users to remember Li. First, the rich life details of Li Wenliang on his Weibo homepage, including 2014 posts from December 31, 2010, to January 31, 2020, allow the public to revisit many junctures of the developments and changes of Li\u2019s life in his twenties to his thirties.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13448", "words": "1351", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Lin, Hui", "title": "CIVIC PARTICIPATION IN CHINA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN WECHAT AND DOUYIN AS A DEMOCRATIC ARENA", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "douyin; media; participation; wechat", "summary": "As social media platforms in China are highly censored by the government and have followed the state\u2019s internet regulations (Chen et al., 2021), how does democratic civic participation develop in the Chinese media landscape? To answer this question, this study examines how citizens express democratic opinions against dominant interpretations, what role social media platforms play as an arena for activists\u2019 participation, and what social media factors facilitate active online civic participation and influence it to be translated into offline activities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13449", "words": "1715", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Literat, Ioana ; Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta", "title": "CLIMATE ANXIETY AS A LENS INTO YOUNG PEOPLE'S POLITICAL EXPRESSION ON YOUTUBE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "anxiety; change; climate; videos; youtube", "summary": "However, though our data included users from across the world, videos seemed to focus on the experience of climate anxiety by youth in Western contexts, versus those most directly affected by climate change, living in the Global South. Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: A global survey.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13450", "words": "1603", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Lucia, Brent ; Vetter, Matthew; Adubofour, Isaac", "title": "BEHOLD THE METAVERSE: FACEBOOK\u2019S META REVOLUTION AND THE CIRCULATION OF ELITE DISCOURSE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "discourse; facebook; media; meta; metaverse", "summary": "Frances Haugen, in her role in the Facebook Papers case, revealed the harmful algorithms Facebook used and its handling of hate speech. Facebook especially has deployed these sociotechnical imaginaries to either flatten or amplify values surrounding its company, creating impressions of the future for its own political or cultural power.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13451", "words": "1489", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Lukan, Tinca; \u010cehovih Zajc, Jo\u017eica", "title": "\u201cGETTING PAID TO TAKE CARE FOR THE ONES YOU LOVE\u201d: SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCING AS A MEANS FOR PAID SOCIAL REPRODUCTION LABOR", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "activities; influencers; media; time; work", "summary": "Our study aims to examine the expansion of platform capitalism into the domestic sphere of social media influencers, taking into account the specific semi-peripheral socioeconomic context of Slovenia. We posit the following research question: RQ: How do social media influencers in Slovenia manage work and household responsibilities?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13452", "words": "1915", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Lupinacci, Ludmila", "title": "\u2018NOT LIKE OTHER SOCIAL NETWORKS\u2019? BEREAL AND THE REMEDIATION OF LIVENESS IN THE PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "authenticity; bereal; experience; liveness; media", "summary": "BeReal\u2019s normative conception of authentic experience seems grounded in values such as spontaneity, simultaneity, and shared experience \u2013 which is a clear refashioning of historical claims of mediated liveness (Scannell 2014). Yet, I argue that BeReal favors a new modality of platformized social organization envisioning the production of authentic experiences.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13453", "words": "2500", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "MacDonald, Maggie", "title": "THE ALGORITHMIC MODERATION OF SEXUAL EXPRESSION: PORNHUB, PAYMENT PROCESSORS AND CSAM", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "abuse; child; content; csam; media; moderation; platform; porn; pornhub; risk", "summary": "\u201cInternet.gov: Tech Companies as Government Agents and the Future of the Fight Against Child Sexual Abuse.\u201d \u201cDetecting Child Sexual Abuse Material: A Comprehensive Survey.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13454", "words": "1602", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Mahetaji, Kaushar; Nieborg, David", "title": "THE POLITICS AND EVOLUTION OF TIKTOK AS PLATFORM TOOL", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "content; media; platform; software; tiktok; tools", "summary": "The politics and evolution of TikTok as platform tool. We argue that critical to the platform\u2019s success is its emphasis on platform tools:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13455", "words": "2073", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Mann, Monique ; Heemsbergen, Luke; Bennett, Catherine; McCosker, Anthony", "title": "TECHNO-POLITICAL PROMISES OF PANDEMIC MANAGEMENT: A SITUATION OF APPS AND EXCEL IN PUBLIC HEALTH", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "app; apps; contact; covid-19; digital; health; information; public", "summary": "Likewise, a healthy and critical literature on digital app interventions into COVID-19 has developed due to the seemingly shared policy position across the global north (Taylor 2021; Mann et al., 2022) to implement CTA. Habich-Sobiegalla, Sabrina & Genia Kostka (2022): Sharing is caring: willingness to share personal data through contact tracing apps in China, Germany, and the US, Information, Communication & Society, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2113421 J\u00f6rling, M., Eitze, S., Schmid, P., Betsch, C., Allen, J. and B\u00f6hm, R., 2022.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13456", "words": "1943", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Martin, Zelly C; Montiel Valle, Dominique A; Shorey, Samantha", "title": "CARE, INC.: HOW BIG TECH RESPONDED TO THE END OF ROE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "activism; care; data; end; platforms; society", "summary": "When thinking about platform activism, then, we must engage with \u201cmatters of care\u201d (de la Bellacasa, 2011). We analyze a collection of statements and policy changes by technology companies to understand how corporate decisions are leveraged as a branding strategy and to identify the limits of corporate care.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13457", "words": "1906", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Martin, Zelly C; Trauthig, Inga K; Woolley, Samuel C", "title": "FEMINIST QUEEN OR CONSPIRACY THEORIST? FEMALE SPREADERS OF WOMEN'S HEALTH DISINFORMATION", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "abortion; conspiracy; control; disinformation; knowledge; women", "summary": "In fact, Graumann and Moscovici (2012) argue that those with fewer civil liberties (e.g., Black Americans, women, and particularly Black women due to intersectional oppression) are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories. This problematizes definitions of conspiracy theories as \u201cfalse, harmful, and unjustified\u201d\u2014notably only one definition (Graumann & Moscovici, 2012, p. 204).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13458", "words": "2179", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Masterson, Annette Marie", "title": "CONSTRUCTING AND MARKETING SEXUAL FANTASY: ANALYZING THE SOCIAL MEDIA OF SEX ROBOTS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "media; realbotix; realdoll; robots; sex; technology", "summary": "Constructing and marketing sexual fantasy: Analyzing the social media of sex robots. ANALYZING THE SOCIAL MEDIA OF SEX ROBOTS Annette Masterson Temple University Abstract Since the release of sex robots in 2017 by RealDoll, they have been marketed as companions and sexual fantasies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13459", "words": "1306", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "May, Emma", "title": "TECHNOLOGICAL PRACTICES OF REFUSAL: RADICAL REIMAGINATION IN M EIFLER\u2019S COMPUTATIONAL PROSTHETICS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "eifler; feminist; practices; refusal", "summary": "Extending the literature concerning feminist refusal and technology, technological practices of refusal additionally look toward Black feminist theory and critical disability studies to examine how technological practices are means to challenge normative logics and engage in collective world-making practices toward liberation and societal transformation. Integrating race, transforming feminist disability studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13460", "words": "1472", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "McCosker, Anthony ; Heemsbergen, Luke", "title": "VERNACULAR PEDAGOGIES FOR THE SYNTHETIC MEDIA AGE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "data; generative; learning; media", "summary": "And there are extensive community sites and spaces exploring the limits and uses of generative AI tools through \u2018prompt engineering\u2019 (Liu and Chilton, 2022). VERNACULAR PEDAGOGIES FOR THE SYNTHETIC MEDIA AGE Anthony McCosker Swinburne University of Technology Luke Heemsbergen Deakin University Introduction and background This paper draws on our research into the cultures of production surrounding the development of deepfakes and use of other forms of generative AI across public sites such as GitHub and YouTube, and subsequent reflective classroom experimentation and learning.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13461", "words": "1610", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "McCosker, Anthony; Farmer, Jane; Kamstra, Peter", "title": "MENTAL HEALTH AND THE DIGITAL CARE ASSEMBLAGE: MODERATION PRACTICES & USER EXPERIENCES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "assemblage; care; health; moderation; moderators", "summary": "MENTAL HEALTH & THE DIGITAL CARE ASSEMBLAGE: USER & MODERATOR PRACTICES Anthony McCosker Swinburne University of Technology Jane Farmer Swinburne University of Technology Peter Kamstra University of Melbourne Introduction and background This paper examines the socio-technical ecosystems that shape the moderation of mental health content. While mental health content often falls into the category of 'problematic', 'borderline' and ambiguous content for commercial platforms, it poses different challenges to other moderated material such as misinformation, 'obscenity', or hate speech (Gillespie and Aufderheide, 2020).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13462", "words": "1511", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "McDowell, Zachary ; Tiidenberg, Katrin", "title": "INTERNET GOVERNANCE AND MORAL ENTREPRENEURS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "cda; internet; ncose; sex; trafficking", "summary": "NCOSE (then MIM) was \u201cdeeply involved in the issue of Internet pornography\u201d and \u201cactive supporters of the 1996 Communications Decency Act.\u201d In this paper, we analyze NCOSE\u2019s archive of statements to trace how NCOSE\u2019s crusade against \u201cobscenity\u201d led them to intervene in internet governance: first, via the Communication Decency Act (CDA), then the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), and finally, the already mentioned SESTA and FOSTA.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13463", "words": "1862", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Medina Perea, Itzelle ; Bates, Jo; Fratczak, Monika; Kennedy, Helen; Ochu, Erinma", "title": "BELIEFS, VALUES AND EMOTIONS IN PRACTITIONERS\u2019 ENGAGEMENTS WITH LEARNING ANALYTICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "analytics; beliefs; data; education; learning; values", "summary": "Through enhancing our understanding of the beliefs, values and emotional engagements of education practitioners with data and learning analytics systems, we aim to contribute to empower practitioners in higher education and relevant stakeholders to foster the development of critical and reflective data cultures that are able to exploit the possibilities of learning analytics, while being critically responsive to their societal implications and limitations. The research project as a whole examines these cultures of practice across three contrasting contexts: higher education, science, and arts practice.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13464", "words": "1603", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Meng, Xingyuan; Literat, Ioana", "title": "#AVERAGEYETCONFIDENTMEN: CHINESE STAND-UP COMEDY AND FEMINIST DISCOURSE ON DOUYIN", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "chinese; comedians; comedy; douyin; feminist", "summary": "Whereas in traditional Chinese forms of comedy like sketch shows or crosstalk, women have typically been the butt of the joke, stand-up comedy\u2014a Western performance genre that has recently seen surging popularity\u2014has given Chinese female comedians a space to push back against dominant gender stereotypes. Their performances have received intense attention and circulation online, becoming trending topics on Chinese social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13465", "words": "10.5210/spir.v2023i0.13465", "extension": "Association of Internet Researchers", "flesch": "Coding bootcamps are intensive training programs that aim to turn adults with no computer programming experience into professional software developers in as little as 12 to 16 weeks. In both the US and the UK, coding bootcamps are positioned as an alternative pathway into the tech \u201cpipeline\u201d for groups who are traditionally excluded from computing careers (Schnell, 2019; UK Digital Strategy, 2022). Framed as a form of \u201ccoding equity\u201d, bootcamps are said to provide \u201ctransformative access\u201d for participants and have even been characterized as a form of social justice activism (Rea, 2022). However, our ongoing comparative study about coding bootcamps in the US and UK indicates that the benefits of attending a coding bootcamp accrue disproportionately across different groups. Drawing upon ethnographic, interview, and survey data, this work-in-progress paper focuses on the bootcamp experiences of people with disabilities, who were more likely to experience unfair bias and/or exclusion and are less likely to have experienced employment-related benefits than people without disabilities. This paper discusses some of the contributing factors to these outcomes and explores the impact that these experiences have on bootcamp students with disabilities. In doing so, it casts some doubt on the \u201ctransformative\u201d possibilities of bootcamps for marginalized groups. Although some bootcamps declare their \u201csupport\u201d for \u201cpeople with disabilities and neurodiversities\u201d (Northcoders, n.d.), our study indicates that even if and when this support exists, it falls short of what people with disabilities need to thrive in a bootcamp setting.", "author": "Miltner, Kate ; Kadar-Satat, Gitit; Ashton, Emily", "title": "I WORKED SO HARD, AND I STILL DIDN'T SUCCEED\u201d: CODING BOOTCAMP EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES", "date": "2023-12-31", "keywords": "bootcamps; coding; disabilities; people", "summary": null, "mime": "eng"}, {"id": "spir-13466", "words": "1746", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": null, "title": "spir-13466", "date": null, "keywords": "content; lgbtq+; mar; moderation; tiktok", "summary": "The second portion of the paper examines how LGBTQ+ TikTok users have built up folk knowledges and intuitive understandings of TikTok\u2019s blackboxed algorithms and opaque content moderation policies, situating this discussion within theories of the \u2018algorithmic imaginary\u2019. Utilizing comment spaces and forums on other platforms to collectively produce, collect, archive, and disseminate folk knowledge for LGBTQ+ TikTok users", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13467", "words": "1571", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": null, "title": "spir-13467", "date": null, "keywords": "algorithms; controversies; imaginaries; lgbtq+; participants", "summary": "We pay close attention to how participants made sense of algorithmic controversies and their social implications for LGBTQ+ communities by queering dominant algorithmic imaginaries. \u2018IF WE LOOK AT IT FROM AN LGBT POINT OF VIEW\u2026\u2019 MOBILIZING LGBTQ+ STAKEHOLDERS TO QUEER ALGORITHMIC IMAGINARIES David Myles Institut national de la recherche scientifique Alex Chartrand Concordia University Stefanie Duguay Concordia University Introduction In the past decade, platform algorithms, implemented to curate, exploit, and predict user activities online, have been criticized for exacerbating social inequalities that disproportionally affect women and people of color (Noble, 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13468", "words": "1662", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": null, "title": "spir-13468", "date": null, "keywords": "average; groups; labor; misinformation; nemer", "summary": "In this paper, we articulate the labor executed by the Human Infrastructure of Misinformation (HIM) as heteromated labor (see Nemer & Marks, in press). As for Bolso-Army, they did not engage in heteromated cognitive labor, instead, they were in charge of repetitive microtasks that followed a predefined script and/or reacted to a previous trigger.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13469", "words": "1662", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": null, "title": "spir-13469", "date": null, "keywords": "average; groups; labor; misinformation; nemer", "summary": "In this paper, we articulate the labor executed by the Human Infrastructure of Misinformation (HIM) as heteromated labor (see Nemer & Marks, in press). As for Bolso-Army, they did not engage in heteromated cognitive labor, instead, they were in charge of repetitive microtasks that followed a predefined script and/or reacted to a previous trigger.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13470", "words": "1443", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": null, "title": "spir-13470", "date": null, "keywords": "advertising; ecosystem; mobile; platform; power", "summary": "While anonymized, this persistent identifier allowed advertising platforms to match in-app actions with device-specific profiles and \u2018sell\u2019 those to advertisers. ANALYSING RELATIONS OF DEPENDENCY IN THE MOBILE DIGITAL ADVERTISING ECOSYSTEM David B. Nieborg University of Toronto Thomas Poell University of Amsterdam Introduction One of the main drivers of the global platform economy, if not the digital economy at large, is digital advertising.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13471", "words": "1475", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": null, "title": "spir-13471", "date": null, "keywords": "analysis; coders; coding; content; crowdworkers", "summary": "Against this background, we investigate comparatively, in a sample of crowdworkers and student coders, which influence coder characteristics have on the validity and reliability of the coding results. All coders ere adequatly compensated, either in form of credit points (student coders) or with a monetary incentive (crowdworker).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13472", "words": "1150", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": null, "title": "spir-13472", "date": null, "keywords": "civvl; data; geofences; platform; space", "summary": "The paper conceptualizes the geofence apparatus of non-consensual acts of data intimacy undergirding digital infrastructures of space, and points to the material impacts of location-driven algorithmic systems and the infrastructures that enable them. The paper draws awareness to the geofence as a dangerous apparatus to initiate awareness of the non- consensual acts of platform intimacy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13473", "words": "1953", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": null, "title": "spir-13473", "date": null, "keywords": "activism; data; digital; rights; vol", "summary": "Infrastructuring human rights means scaffolding the lack of data to avoid the effects of data poverty and invoke, for example migrants' rights. This paper presents findings from a study of activists and human rights defenders and how they try to manage the infrastructure of digital data (Baack 2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13474", "words": "1897", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": null, "title": "spir-13474", "date": null, "keywords": "automation; human; people; roles; status", "summary": "Approaches to understanding AI perceptions There are disciplinary differences in researchers\u2019 approaches to explaining how and why people perceive AI in various roles. It is not yet clear the extent to which these differing approaches prevail in understanding AI perceptions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13475", "words": "1817", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": null, "title": "spir-13475", "date": null, "keywords": "city; data; datafication; quality; services; stavanger", "summary": "Deliberating on the results, the paper advances that data quality is a \u2018floating signifier\u2019 comprising the different articulations of data scientists, municipal workers and services vendors who have different professional cultures but do the data work of assessing data quality in Stavanger smart city datafication. With the concepts of \u2018floating signifiers\u2019 (Laclau and Mouffe, 2001; J\u00f8rgensen and Phillips, 2011) and \u2018frictions\u2019 (Edwards et al., 2011; Tsing, 2011), this paper articulates its arguments showing that 1) in Stavanger as a relevant case, data quality assessment in smart cities datafication materialises through the different articulations of people who engage in \u2018data work\u2019 (e.g., data scientists, municipal workers and services vendors), 2) friction from the different articulations of data quality assessment is often inevitable, and 3) some forms of negotiations are desirable over the friction from the different articulatory assessment of data quality.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13476", "words": "1338", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": null, "title": "spir-13476", "date": null, "keywords": "media; platforms; sexual; sociality", "summary": "Our interviews speak of the felt value of sexual social media platforms as sites of seeing and being seen, and learning about sexual selves and the sexual tastes of others. This yields particular types of sexual sociality experienced as more social than those of sex-only platforms but also as more sexual and intensely social than those of generic social media platforms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13477", "words": "1420", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": null, "title": "spir-13477", "date": null, "keywords": "authors; content; moderation; paratext", "summary": "It follows a bifurcated approach to theorizing and mapping algo-design: first, it tracks instances of content moderation of book paratext; and second, it looks at examples of paratext design that is intended to evade content moderation algorithms, or at least responsive to algorithmic imaginaries (Bucher, 2017). Building on conceptualizations of algospeak, a strategy that involves creating code words or phrases to create a brand-safe lexicon, I theorize algo-design as a broader creative strategy used by online creators that involves using and avoiding specific language and visuals to evade content moderation by platforms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13478", "words": "1587", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": null, "title": "spir-13478", "date": null, "keywords": "app; apps; business; dark; design", "summary": "To provide a nuanced picture of this, we conducted a 2022-study combining data about dating apps and Norwegian app users: (A) 22 in-depth interviews with current and previous users (aged 24\u201349 years) of dating applications users; (B) a systematic analysis of 30 dating apps for persons looking for a partner (and not a fling, hook up or friends) in Google Play and Apple\u2019s App Store; and (C) a diary study of four of these 30 dating applications where a female and a male researcher individually studied the apps for one week each in a walk-through-method way (Light et al., 2018) by employing an ethnographic approach (writing daily field notes). Mobile app monetization: app business models in the digital era.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13479", "words": "1577", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": null, "title": "spir-13479", "date": null, "keywords": "data; platform; twitter; users", "summary": "As Muira McCammon and Jessa Lingel (2022) explain, studying dying platforms is a way \u201cfor designers and practitioners to think about the lifecycles of the devices and services they create, and for users seeking to understand the relationships between people, platforms and data\u201d (2). Since 2021, community notes that are rated as \u201chelpful\u201d are displayed underneath Tweets that are identified by Birdwatch users as needing additional context.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13480", "words": "1508", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": null, "title": "spir-13480", "date": null, "keywords": "media; solidarities; twitter", "summary": "paper explores this \u2018paradox of media solidarity\u2019 (Nikunen, 2019) with reference to a big data study examining the potential for media solidarities with Muslims on Twitter. A key scholar of media solidarities Kaarina Nikunen (2019:3) defines them as \u2018the ways in which media shapes, circulates and takes part in expressions and representations of solidarity\u2019 which may take the form of \u2018media engagements, representations and productions that express or enhance solidarity\u2019.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13481", "words": "1789", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": null, "title": "spir-13481", "date": null, "keywords": "autism; bios; media; platform; tiktok; user", "summary": "The #ActuallyAutistic hashtag and movement were created on Tumblr in response to the saturation of non-autistic users perpetuating anti-autistic ableism under the #Autism hashtag to reclaim narratives about autism and validate autistic experiences and knowledges (Osorio, 2020). Notably, the bios of white autistic users in the corpus did not discuss racial identity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13482", "words": "1669", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": null, "title": "spir-13482", "date": null, "keywords": "participants; people; pna; queer; rural; users", "summary": "For rural queer people, visibility in relation to sexuality is carefully negotiated and cannot be taken for granted (Gray, 2009). In M. L. Gray, C. R. Johnson, & B. J. Gilley (Eds.), Queering the countryside: New frontiers in rural queer studies (223-243).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13483", "words": "1493", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": null, "title": "spir-13483", "date": null, "keywords": "authenticity; bereal; media; participants", "summary": "We then asked questions about their general use of BeReal, the kinds of pictures they post on the app, their reactions to BeReal features like the random notification and time limits, their thoughts about authenticity and social media, and how BeReal compared to other social media apps they used. One participant likened BeReal posts to \u201cold Instagram,\u201d saying the app seems to be appealing to nostalgia and \u201cthe good ol\u2019 days\u201d of social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13484", "words": "1703", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": null, "title": "spir-13484", "date": null, "keywords": "accountability; creators; platform; videos; youtube", "summary": "\u201cYouTube\u201d was cited the most often in videos that invoked at least one target of accountability, appearing in 141 videos (70.85%) from this subset. We coded for 16 non-exclusive content elements within videos that identified specific complaints or problems with YouTube.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13485", "words": "1810", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Richter, Vanessa; Poell, Thomas", "title": "THE POLITICS OF PLATFORM IMAGINARIES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "apple; fitbit; health; imaginaries; platform; tracking", "summary": "This episode highlights how digital health tracking platforms have become centrally imbricated in crucial societal issues, such as female bodily autonomy and reproductive rights. To examine how these platforms are involved in current debates on female health tracking, we use a combination of critical discourse analysis (Wodak, 2015) of user and platform content and walkthroughs (Light et al., 2016) of the two platforms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13486", "words": "1424", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Rochefort, Alexander", "title": "SOCIAL MEDIA GOVERNANCE VIA AN \u201cANEMIC\u201d POLICY REGIME? HOW BOUNDARY SPANNING, COMPETING ISSUE DEFINITIONS, LACK OF COHESION, AND ADMINISTRATIVE FRAGMENTATION IMPEDE REGULATORY REFORM", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "internet; media; platforms; policy; regime", "summary": "Building upon these theoretical foundations, this project undertakes a comparable analysis of social media policy making in the United States, using the policy regime lens to provide a \u201cthick\u201d understanding of the forces that shape government action toward social media platforms. In simpler terms, policy regimes are \u201cgoverning arrangements for addressing policy problems\u201d (p. 428), and boundary-spanning regimes refer to those that span multiple policy areas.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13487", "words": "1518", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Romano, Salvatore ; Kerby, Natalie; Sch\u00fcler, Miazia; Beraldo, Davide; Rama, Ilir", "title": "THE IMPACT OF TIKTOK POLICIES ON INFORMATION FLOWS DURING TIMES OF WAR: EVIDENCE OF \u2018SPLINTERNET\u2019 AND \u2018SHADOW-PROMOTION\u2019 IN RUSSIA", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "content; russian; tiktok; war", "summary": "Test 2: Pro-War Content Further investigations showed how TikTok unevenly applied their content policies, allowing pro-war content to proliferate in Russia despite their claim that they had enforced a ban on new content uploads in Russia (Gilbert 2022). We started monitoring TikTok's response to the Russian invasion with the initial aim of comparing the content t<hat was prioritized to Ukrainian versus Russian TikTok users.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13488", "words": "1783", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Ross, Alexander M", "title": "THEORIZING AND ANALYZING THE CONTINGENT CASINO", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "casino; doubledown; gambling; games; platforms; playtika", "summary": "DoubleDown Interactive succeeds by not sucking at social casino games (interview). Social casino apps, a niche, but still significant digital game commodity, embody how risk and contingency manifests in the app economy (Nieborg & Poell, 2018; Zittrain, 2008).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13489", "words": "1591", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Rouse, Lauren; Stanfill, Mel", "title": "MAPPING TUMBLR THROUGH FANNISH HOMOPHILIES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "content; media; platform; site; tumblr; users", "summary": "Attu and Terras note (2017) that \u201cthe majority of papers published have a conceptual focus: explaining how Tumblr works when positioned within a specific field of interest, closely followed by message-based works which study Tumblr content\u201d (3). The experience of Tumblr is organized around the \u201cdashboard,\u201d which\u2014rare among contemporary social media platforms\u2014is a reverse chronological feed of the blogs a user follows.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13490", "words": "1887", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Scharlach, Rebecca", "title": "PLATFORM PR \u2013 THE PUBLIC MODERATION OF PLATFORM VALUES THROUGH TIKTOK FOR GOOD ", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "content; good; media; platform; tiktok; values", "summary": "Other campaigns from social media platforms have similar histories: Douyin\u2019s #positiveenergy campaign to promote more \u201cappropriate, patriotic content\u201d was a response to the Chinese government\u2019s criticism of pornographic content on the platform (Chen et al., 2021) and Facebook\u2019s \u201cData for Good\u201d data sharing campaign was a response to data leaks. This strain of research adds to our understanding of the importance of social media for corporate social responsibility, yet research has evaded looking at CSR initiatives taken by social media platforms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13491", "words": "1704", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Scharlach, Rebecca; Hallinan, Blake", "title": "THE VALUE AFFORDANCES OF SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT FEATURES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "affordances; engagement; features; media; values", "summary": "Our value cards included the name and basic definition of 32 values, combining values used in values in design research (Belman et al., 2011; Flanagan & Nissenbaum, 2014) and studies of social media values (Scharlach et al., 2023; Trill\u00f2 et al., 2021). Defined as core features of engagement (C. Kim & Yang, 2017), modes of interaction such as liking, sharing, and commenting are ubiquitous on social media platforms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13492", "words": "1619", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Schreiber, Maria ; Hendry, Natalie Ann", "title": "COMMUNICATING CARE - HEALING, THERAPY AND INFLUENCER PRACTICES ON SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "cultures; health; influencers; media; social", "summary": "Theorising health-related influencer practices Other scholarship demonstrates how health influencers emerge in different ways. In anonymous mental health groups, users become health influencers who are peer mentors and role models through their intensive engagement, non-professional expertise, and authority (McCosker, 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13493", "words": "2616", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "22", "author": "Seipp, Theresa Josephine", "title": "THE GREAT RESET: \u201cCOUNTERPOWER\u201d IN THE CONTEXT OF MEDIA CONCENTRATION AND PLATFORM DEPENDENCE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "concentration; counterpower; digital; journalism; media; news; platforms; power; press", "summary": "While some legal initiatives aim to address the imbalanced power dynamics between platforms and news media, such as the efforts at the EU level through the Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA) to establish a fair playing field in digital markets, it is crucial to empower countervailing forces. To foster direct and engaged journalism, power dynamics between news media and the audience must be dispersed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13494", "words": "1310", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Shaffer, Gwen Lisa", "title": "DEPLATFORMING THE SMART CITY: GIVING RESIDENTS CONTROL OVER THEIR PERSONAL DATA", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "beach; city; data; long", "summary": "This emergent digital rights platform will provide Long Beach residents with not only a clear understanding of how local government applies predictive and diagnostic analytics to personal data, but will also empower community members by granting them agency. The project will take a \u201chuman centered\u201d and \u201cactivity\u201d design approach to ensure resident concerns and needs are met; that racial and social inequities are addressed; and, ultimately, that Long Beach residents experience improved quality of life.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13495", "words": "1695", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "20", "author": "Stegeman, Hanne Marleen ; Are, Carolina; Poell, Thomas", "title": "STRATEGIC (IN)VISIBILITY: HOW MARGINALISED CREATORS NAVIGATE THE RISKS AND CONSTRAINTS OF ONLINE VISIBILITY", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "creators; https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?iey3hk https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?iey3hk; media; platform; sex; visibility", "summary": "Faced with dangers of overexposure, surveillance, and deplatforming while simultaneously trying to build an audience, creators may find themselves having to constantly balance the potential risks and benefits of platform visibility. Hence, platform visibility needs to be understood as ambiguous.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13496", "words": "2066", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Steinberg, Marc", "title": "THE CONVENIENCE STORE REVOLUTION: COMPUTER NETWORKS, LOGISTICS, AND THE REINVENTION OF RETAIL IN JAPAN", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "convenience; internet; japan; press; revolution; store", "summary": "As Joseph Turow (Turow, 2017) points out in his work, networked computing and surveillance are as much a part of retail history as of Internet history. Charting some of this longer network history and Internet history leading to the present is another aim of this paper.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13497", "words": "1845", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Stillman, Ari", "title": "THE EMERGENT R/ANTIWORK REVOLUTION AND MANAGERIAL ALLIES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "2022; antiwork; class; managers; members", "summary": "In this digital space, without directly referencing Antiwork, managers, recruiters, and business owners critique strawmen business practices and assert how they better serve workers. Heralded by some as the successor to #OccupyWallSt (O\u2019Connor 2022), Antiwork is the other side of the Great Resignation for those who cannot afford to leave their livelihood.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13498", "words": "1471", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Sullivan, John L", "title": "GET WITH THE PROGRAM: PROGRAMMATIC ADVERTISING AND THE DATAFICATION OF PODCAST AUDIENCES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "advertising; content; platforms; podcast; podcasting", "summary": "The key innovation in podcast advertising has been the Suggested Citation (APA): Sullivan, J. L. (2023, October). DAI enables a whole new range of capabilities for podcast advertising, such as the ability to place advertisements instantly across hundreds or thousands of podcast episodes, to place limits or caps on either the time range for a particular campaign (30 days long, for example) or the number of times the ad is played (to reduce advertising load on listeners), or even to offer slightly different versions of the same campaign to the same listener across multiple podcasts (Barletta, 2022).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13499", "words": "1496", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Sun, Qingyue", "title": "DIGITAL LABOR UNDER THE STATE/CAPITALIST DUOPOLY: STATE LABOR AND PLAYFUL WORKAHOLICS IN CHINESE DIGITAL SPACE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "china; chinese; digital; labor; mcns", "summary": "What are some different implications of Chinese digital labor? As full-fledged service providers, MCNs are actively involved in Chinese digital creative industries.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13500", "words": "1409", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Sweeney, Miriam E ; Lynch, Casey", "title": "EVOLVING SPATIALITIES OF DIGITAL LIFE: TROUBLING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE SMART CITY/HOME DIVIDES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "city; digital; home; life", "summary": "Bringing together home studies and urban studies, this research agenda aims to \u201caddress the interplay between lived experiences https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_org&hl=en&org=12285976989264514140 of urban homes and the contested domestication of urban space\u201d (Ibid., p. 829-830) by exploring the complex entanglement of urban dwelling and mobility, including migration. Four Conceptual Lenses This conceptual/theoretical paper brings recent scholarship on digital geographies together with feminist insights on the relationship between domestic and urban space in order to explore emerging smart city domesticities and the urban entanglements of the smart home, and question how these categories are troubled by processes of digitalization.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13501", "words": "1820", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Tavares, Camilla; Recuero, Raquel", "title": "TOXICITY AGAINST BRAZILIAN WOMEN DEPUTIES ON TWITTER: A CATEGORIZATION OF DISCURSIVE VIOLENCE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "2020; deputies; discourse; toxicity; tweets; violence; women", "summary": "These ways of describing and depreciating women associate female behavior with elements already observed in the literature and disqualify women deputies in front of their male colleagues. Thus, these platforms can effectively decrease women's representation as they increase gender violence (Paz, Montero-D\u00edaz, & Moreno-Delgado, 2020; Silva, Francisco, & Sampaio, 2021) and increase the trend of growing global political violence against women (Krook, 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13502", "words": "1984", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "ten Oever, Niels; Becker, Christoph", "title": "INFRASTRUCTURAL INSECURITY: GEOPOLITICS IN THE STANDARDIZATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "communication; internet; networks; security; standardization; standards; surveillance; united", "summary": "This is an important contribution because it asks fundamental questions about the adequacy and legitimacy of standardization processes. We bring these methods into conversation with theoretical approaches from material media studies, science and technology studies, and critical security studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13503", "words": "1773", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Terenzi, Massimo", "title": "EXPLORING THE DARK SIDE OF CRYPTOCURRENCIES ON FACEBOOK AND TELEGRAM: UNCOVERING MEDIA MANIPULATION AND \u201cGET-RICH-QUICK\u201d DECEPTIVE SCHEMES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "cryptocurrencies; facebook; media", "summary": "Particularly, in the era of social media, the so-called information-based manipulation, perpetuated through spreading false rumors or information, can be conducted through numerous sources of information. This incident highlights the power of coordination on social media in shaping financial markets and its potential to disrupt traditional investment strategies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13504", "words": "1687", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Tran, Christine H", "title": "BLEEDING PURPLE, SEEING PINK: DOMESTIC VISIBILITY, GENDER & SOCIAL REPRODUCTION IN THE HOME STUDIOS OF TWITCH.TV", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "home; labour; media; platform; twitch; visibility; work", "summary": "Visualizing the career and domestic biographies of Twitch streamers are intertwined, I argue that the collaborative and homemaking affordance of self-broadcasting activities associated with Twitch are best understood as belonging to the same genus of domestic labour and its slippages towards privatized caretaking within the familial home. Confronting the affinities between the processes of domesticity and platformization in Twitch streamer visibility, this paper reframes Twitch slogan of \u201cBleed Purple\u201d as more than a playful work ethos, branded by emojis and emotes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13505", "words": "1738", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Trkman, Marina ; Reisdorf, Bianca C.; Bartol, Jo\u0161t; Petrov\u010di\u010d, Andra\u017e", "title": "TESTING THE ROLE OF CATEGORICAL AND RESOURCE INEQUALITIES IN INDIRECT INTERNET USES OF OLDER ADULTS: A PATH ANALYSIS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "internet; non; ubp; users", "summary": "These findings are particularly relevant because they indicate that social inequalities affect not only disparities between internet users and non-users (Hargittai et al., 2019; Testing the role of categorical and resource inequalities in indirect internet uses of older adults: A path analysis.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13506", "words": "1438", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Turvy, Alex", "title": "POTHOLES AND POWER: A MULTIMODAL CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF \u2018LOOK AT THIS F*CKIN\u2019 STREET\u2019 ON INSTAGRAM", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "analysis; city; latfs; power", "summary": "I argue that LATFS is an effective and powerful participatory platform for exposing a broad range of systemic problems and their causes, allowing residents to take back the narrative of their city\u2019s infrastructure challenges, diminish and demean the powerful interests responsible, and ultimately attempt to reclaim the power lost to negligent or even bad-faith municipal authorities in New Orleans. Foundationally, I take my approach from Fairclough's (2003) socio-cultural approach to critical discourse analysis (CDA), which is a three-dimensional framework for the analysis of text and discourse and thus views discourse as simultaneously a text, discourse practice, and socio-cultural practice.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13507", "words": "1689", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Tylstedt, Beatrice; Sadowski, Helga; Eklund, Lina; Normark, Maria", "title": "REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH APPS AND EMPOWERMENT \u2013 A CONTRADICTION?", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "apps; design; health; tracking; women", "summary": "Reproductive health apps and empowerment\u2013a contradiction?. While reproductive health apps are often marketed in terms of female empowerment (Hendl & Jansky, 2021; Healy, 2021) and seem to offer women new and improved ways of managing their health, they are at the same time criticized for lacking data privacy (Mehrnezhad & Almeida, 2021; Fox, Howell, Wong & Spektor, 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13508", "words": "2256", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Udenze, Silas", "title": "*EXPLORING NIGERIA`S ENDSARS MOVEMENT THROUGH THE NEXUS OF MEMORY*", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "digital; endsars; media; memory; movement; social; story; studies", "summary": "The rhythms of social movement memories: the mobilisation of Silvio Meier\u2019s activist remembrance across platforms. In this vein, the cultural turn in social movement studies has meant that growing attention is being paid to how protesters make sense of themselves, their environments, and the past (Baumgarten, Daphi, and Ullrich, 2014; Johnston, 2009).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13509", "words": "1434", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "van der Vlist, Fernando ; Helmond, Anne; Dieter, Michael; Weltevrede, Esther", "title": "SUPER-APPIFICATION: CONGLOMERATION IN THE MOBILE ECOSYSTEM", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "apps; doi; platform; super; van", "summary": "While the term super app can be ambiguous, reflecting industry hype and speculative investment (Pitre, 2022), it nevertheless speaks to the complexity of conglomeration processes occurring in the mobile ecosystem. With their capacity to merge and expand services and users within a single unified experience, emerging studies of super apps have focussed on themes of enclosure and media concentration as they intensify the \u201cappification\u201d of everyday life (Morris & Elkins, 2015; Morris & Murray, 2018) and take on the role of a seemingly indispensable critical infrastructure (Athique, 2019, Dieter et al., 2021).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13510", "words": "1678", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "van der Vlist, Fernando N; Helmond, Anne; Ferrari, Fabian", "title": "BIG AI: THE CLOUD AS MARKETPLACE AND INFRASTRUCTURE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "cloud; doi; infrastructure; tech", "summary": "Big AI is not just \u201cbig\u201d because of this infrastructural dependence, but also because it provides marketplaces for the commodification of AI solutions. The Political Economy of AI This paper critically examines what we call Big AI, or those types and deployments of AI that simply would not be feasible or even possible without the infrastructural support, Suggested Citation (APA): van der Vlist, F., Helmond, A., & Ferrari, F. (2023, October).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13511", "words": "1611", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Van Schenck, Reed", "title": "ONE HUNDRED NAZI SCREENS: INTERFACES AND THE STRUCTURE OF U.S. WHITE NATIONALIST DIGITAL NETWORKS ON TELEGRAM", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "interface; public; right; telegram; user; white", "summary": "Findings I argue that white nationalist Telegram networks co-opt the \u201cenclave public\u201d (Squires 2002; Bratich 2006) or a constituent and oppositional mode of secrecy within the unitary public, as a mode of white supremacist countermovement. One hundred Nazi screens: Interfaces and the structure of U.S. white nationalist digital networks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13512", "words": "2197", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Verma, Kanishk ; Milosevic, Tijana; Davis, Brian; Norman, James O'higgins", "title": "DESIGNING ETHICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) SYSTEMS WITH MEANINGFUL YOUTH PARTICIPATION: IMPLICATIONS AND CONSIDERATIONS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "association; children; content; design; online; research", "summary": "However, ethical and rights-based concerns persist regarding informed consent, participation, and addressing biases, necessitating safeguarding measures for children in AI system design. By engaging children and young people in role-playing online bullying and aggression scenarios, computational researchers [17], [18], were able to devise conversations that serve as training data for AI systems to identify both bullying and aggression.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13513", "words": "1848", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Vinhas, Otavio ; Bastos, Marco", "title": "THE WEIRD GOVERNANCE OF FACT-CHECKING: FROM WATCHDOGS TO CONTENT MODERATORS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "checkers; checking; content; disinformation; fact; media; platforms", "summary": "With social media hosting the ecosystem where much political deliberation occurs, unpacking the governance of fact-checking by social platforms is thus crucial to understanding the sociotechnical entanglements determining the digital infrastructure of knowledge and facts (Ford, 2022). THE WEIRD GOVERNANCE OF FACT-CHECKING: FROM WATCHDOGS TO CONTENT MODERATORS Ot\u00e1vio Vinhas University College Dublin Marco Bastos University College Dublin; City, University of London Introduction Fact-checking has undergone steady transformations of recent.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13514", "words": "1455", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Volcan, Taiane de Oliveira", "title": "MINERAL EXPLORATION IN INDIGENOUS LANDS: THE DISCURSIVE NORMALIZATION OF ILLEGAL MINING IN BRAZIL", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "agenda; debate; lands; mining; network", "summary": "Illegal mining in indigenous lands is the kind of a challenge that needs to be faced by the state and the judiciary, but also by society and, mainly, by the press, which often approaches the issue from an exclusively economic perspective, as if the debate on environmental preservation and the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples was a threat to the financial market and the brazilian economic interests. In a country that experienced a 495% increase in mining in indigenous lands and 301% in conservation units between 2010 and 2020 [2], we believe that analyzing how such profound transformations in a society like the Brazilian has been discursively constructed is fundamental to understanding the current and relevant challenges such as environmental preservation and the subsistence of indigenous peoples.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13515", "words": "1281", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Watson, TX", "title": "PERCEIVED ENTITLEMENT AND OBLIGATION BETWEEN TIKTOK CREATORS AND AUDIENCES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "audience; creators; tiktok", "summary": "The purpose of this paper is to examine and describe the specific demands on the affective labor and attention of content creators on TikTok, the ways in which those demands tend to exceed what the creators themselves are comfortable with or capable of sustaining, and the challenges and limitations that prevent creators from setting, communicating, or maintaining boundaries around their labor, relationships, or personal and professional lives. To explore this phenomenon of interconnectedness, I combined my ongoing participation observation with my experiences as a content creator and six semi- structured one-hour interviews with content creators.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13516", "words": "1618", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Whelan-Shamy, Daniel; Carlon, Dominique", "title": "THE IMPERIAL HAIKU COMMISSION APPROVES THIS MESSAGE\u2019: AN EXAMINATION OF AUTOMATED PLAY AND CULTURE AS (RE)DESIGNED BY BOTS.\u202f \u202f", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "bots; community; culture; subreddit", "summary": "Interactions with bots in Subreddit Simulator reflect an environment where bots are treated not solely as clever automations, but as what Bollmer & Rodley (2017) refer to as \u2018bots qua bots with their own distinctive goals\u2019. Since then, people have experimented and played with bots, and online communities have arisen to specifically foster \u2018ecologies\u2019 (Bollmer & Rodley, 2017 p. 161) where bots interact with other bots, creating narratives, and adopting personas to be performed for an audience.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13517", "words": "2555", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Yatharth, .", "title": "TOWARDS ANTICASTE INTERNET: THE OPERATION, CHALLENGES AND ASPIRATIONS OF BAHUJAN PUBLISHERS.", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "bahujan; caste; dalit; hate; india; internet; media; publishers", "summary": "Further, we found shadowbanning of caste issues to be a common experience for publishers. As a result, issues, perspectives and voices of marginalized castes are suppressed and often erased from mass media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13518", "words": "1951", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Yang, Misti ; Salzano, Matthew", "title": "WEIZENBAUM'S PERFORMANCE AND THEORY MODES: LESSONS FOR CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL CHATBOTS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "human; mode; performance; theory; weizenbaum", "summary": "Working from the perspective of digital rhetoric, we revive a historical vocabulary and illustrate, in a few suggestive anecdotes, its theoretical utility.2 We conclude by forecasting how theory mode may inform public accountability of AI. Thus, we theorize theory mode as a mode of engagement that questions results or products against an understanding or responsibility for how a program should work\u2014not just technically, but also ethically.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13519", "words": "1715", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Zhu, Guangnan ; Graham, Timothy; Whelan-Shamy, Daniel; Fleet, Robert", "title": "REVEALING COORDINATED IMAGE-SHARING IN SOCIAL MEDIA: A CASE STUDY OF PRO-RUSSIAN INFLUENCE CAMPAIGNS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "coordination; image; multimodal; network; text", "summary": "Pro-Russian images shared in the influence campaigns from the Russia- Ukraine War. Revealing image-based coordination in social media: A case study of pro-Russian influence campaigns.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13520", "words": "1826", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Zhu, Guangnan; Chand, Kunal; Angus, Daniel; Graham, Timothy", "title": "MEMES, MULTIMODALITIES, AND MACHINES: ASSEMBLING MULTIMODAL PATTERNS IN MEME CLASSIFICATION STUDY", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "analysis; machine; media; memes; text", "summary": "One of the most interesting and prevalent multimodal information forms online is visual memes such as image macros, which are media objects made up of photos and superimposed texts, symbols and other exploitables. Understanding visual memes: An empirical analysis of text superimposed on memes shared on twitter.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13521", "words": "1428", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Zong, Jonathan ; Matias, J. Nathan", "title": "DATA REFUSAL FROM BELOW: A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING, EVALUATING, AND ENVISIONING REFUSAL STRATEGIES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "data; framework; people; refusal", "summary": "To address this question, we develop the idea of data refusal from below by presenting a design framework for illuminating the spectrum of refusal. The concept of data refusal from below draws on conversations in feminist standpoint theory, understanding acts of refusal undertaken by the marginalized differently from refusal by the institutionally privileged.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13522", "words": "7779", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Frenzel, Janna ; Toupin, Sophie; Ruddock, Jenna; Liu, Jen; Jansen, Fieke; Finnegan, Shawna; Radloff, Jennifer", "title": "DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: POLICIES, PRACTICES, AND VISIONS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "center; climate; communities; computing; data; digital; environmental; feminist; infrastructures; internet; justice; new; press; repair; right; technology; university", "summary": "Specifically, I draw from ongoing fieldwork in southeast Louisiana on the impact of climate change on Internet infrastructures. For some of these frontline communities, these sensors can often be difficult to set up and maintain due to both the state of Internet infrastructures in this region (Gabrys, 2016).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13523", "words": "4709", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Christian, Aymar J ; Aufderheide, Patricia A; Haywood, Antoine; Clark, Jessica", "title": "REPARATIVE MEDIA: REVOLUTIONARY STORYTELLING AND ITS ENEMIES IN A STREAMING ERA", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "access; community; culture; development; documentary; media; philadelphia; phillycam; press; production; public; streaming; television; university", "summary": "Reparative research is work that is not only about but with reparative media communities, using both quantitative and qualitative research. However, the reparative work also builds upon efforts in previous eras in self-styled movements for alternative media, community media, public-service media, and activist media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13524", "words": "7376", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Mwaura, Job ; Dambo, Tamar; Ataguba, Ochega; Mare, Admire; Mukhongo, Lusike; Chuma, Wallace; Mano, Winston", "title": "DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND REVOLUTION IN AFRICA: COMPLEXITIES, AMBIVALENCES, AND CONTEXTUAL REALITIES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "africa; digital; global; information; kenya; media; movements; nigeria; protests; research; socio; study; technologies; twitter; use; youth", "summary": "Despite growing interest in digital media for political participation in the region, there is a lack of empirical studies on how social media is used in political and grassroots protests. Social media has become essential for political participation in Kenya, particularly among marginalised communities such as the youth and women.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13525", "words": "6737", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Karppi, Tero ; Paris, Britt; Gehl, Robert W.; Cath, Corinne; Myers West, Sarah", "title": "IF NOT, ELSE: STANDARDS, PROTOCOLS, NETWORKS AND HOW THEY MAKE A DIFFERENCE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "2022; activitypub; control; data; design; encryption; future; infrastructure; internet; media; network; new; paris; press; protocol; technology; time; university", "summary": "While many see Internet infrastructure as a foregone conclusion, Paris, Cath and Myers West (2023) write \u201cInternet infrastructure is built slowly, over time, protocol by protocol, in response to many different technical, social, political, environmental, and economic imperatives\u201d. http://rhizomes.net/issue34/devries.html FAKE NEW FUTURES: TIME AS A DESIGN IDEOLOGY IN INTERNET PROTOCOLS Britt S. Paris Rutgers University The neoliberal drive to privatize public infrastructure and public-serving institutions is intertwined with ongoing, overlapping social, political, and economic crises that continue to shape Internet infrastructure.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13527", "words": "6840", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Bruns, Axel ; Bechmann, Anja; Charquero-Ballester, Marina; Walter, Jessica G.; Stromer-Galley, Jennifer; McKernan, Brian; Giglietto, Fabio; Righetti, Nicola; Stanziano, Anna; Choucair, Tariq; Esau, Katharina; Svegaard, Sebastian; Vilkins, Samantha", "title": "REVISITING KEY CONCEPTS IN DIGITAL MEDIA RESEARCH: INFLUENCE, POPULISM, PARTISANSHIP, POLARISATION", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "analysis; attention; communication; digital; influence; media; media research; news; paper; partisanship; polarisation; populism; research; university", "summary": "The third approach offers a more efficient and unbiased way of classifying political media, at least in that it is entirely data-driven. The prevalence of extremist positions over moderate ones in some recent elections and the emergence of hyperpartisan media (Benkler et al., 2018) have brought renewed attention to the impact of political polarisation (Wojcieszak, 2015) on public discourse in liberal democracies (Katsambekis, 2017).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13528", "words": "5150", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Banet-Weiser, Sarah ; Higgins, Kathryn Claire; Hewa, Nelanthi; Ging, Debbie; Baker, Catherine; Andreasen, Maja Brandt; Truss, Azsane\u00e9", "title": "MISOGYNY, SURVIVORSHIP, AND BELIEVABILITY ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS: EMERGING TECHNIQUES OF ABUSE, RADICALIZATION, AND RESISTANCE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "believability; content; digital; internet; manosphere; media; new; press; university; violence; youtube", "summary": "In this paper, we test the optimism of much #MeToo scholarship and of the emerging market for anti-sexual violence by tracking what actually happens to and with these digital artifacts in struggles over the \u201ctruth\u201d of sexual violence allegations taking place on social media platforms. It is certainly nothing new to suggest that social media imply certain vulnerabilities to harassment, abuse, and disbelief that are explicitly gendered and raced, as feminist and anti-racist scholars of digital media have long documented (see Noble, 2018; Banet- Weiser, 2018; Steele, 2021).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13529", "words": "6785", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Leaver, Tama; Mannell, Kate; Bunn, Anna; Duffy, Gavin; Ng, Rebecca; Zhao, Andy", "title": "TOWARD A REVOLUTION IN AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN\u2019S DATA AND PRIVACY", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "brokers; children; data; digital; information; paper; policies; practices; privacy; research; rights; students; university; use", "summary": "Scholars have become increasingly focused on conceptualising and theorising models of data privacy that resist the usual focus on individuals, including drawing attention to the need for collective rights for Indigenous data sovereignty (Rainie et al., 2019). A focus on how children are implicated in data brokerage is also salient given the momentum around reforming data privacy regulations to protect children (Lomas, 2021) \u2013\u2013 a momentum which extends well beyond the appetite for regulating programmatic advertising more generally.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13530", "words": "8221", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Bach, Parker ; Gitomer, Adina; Devries, Melody; Walker, Christina; Freelon, Deen; Atienza-Barthelemy, Julia; Welles, Brooke Foucault; Deyoe, Diana; Zulli, Diana", "title": "STITCHING POLITICS AND IDENTITY ON TIKTOK", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "action; content; gender; identity; media; new; politicians; politics; research; right; tiktok; university; users; videos; women; youth", "summary": "While some studies have navigated limited data access and the platform\u2019s relative infancy to offer an examination of political TikTok (see Literat & Kligler-Vilenchik, 2019; Medina Serrano et al., 2020; Vijay & Gekker, 2021; Guinaudeau et al., 2022), there remains a significant need for more analysis and theorization of how TikTok can become both a site for political discourse and a feature caught up within political mobilization. Likewise, average individuals will continue to post, duet, or stitch political TikTok's.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13531", "words": "5763", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Nanditha, Narayanamoorthy ; Hermanova, Marie; Rega, Rosella; Henrichsen, Jennifer; Lalwani, Sheila Babulal; Gehrke, Mar\u00edlia", "title": "GENDER AND MISINFORMATION: DIGITAL HATE AND HARASSMENT (PART II)", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "digital; gender; harassment; hate; india; journalists; media; misinformation; misogyny; news; parliamentarians; politics; university; violence; women", "summary": "Women parliamentarians who report online harassment may be new to elected office, and others have served for years. The chilling: Global trends in online violence against women journalists.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13532", "words": "9064", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Pilipets, Elena ; Geboers, Marloes; Divon, Tom; B\u00f6sch, Marcus; Delavar-Kasmai, Dariia; Tuters, Marc; Noordenbos, Boris; Rogers, Richard; Zhang, Xiaoke", "title": "WARTOK: NETWORKED SOUNDSCAPES OF MEMETIC WARFARE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "2020; 2022; analysis; audio; communication; content; digital; disinformation; information; media; memes; platform; propaganda; sound; tiktok; ukraine; ukrainian; videos; war", "summary": "One of such pushbacks is the use of the same template in pro-Ukrainian videos, featuring Jesus and Zelensky. Recent studies highlight the templatability of TikTok sounds, offering insights into content creators' attention- grabbing techniques (Abidin & Kaye 2021), logics of trend dilution (Bainotti et al., 2022), issue-specific remix cultures (Primig et al. 2023), and infrastructural meme collection (Rogers & Giorgi 2023).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13533", "words": "6970", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Svegaard, Sebastian ; Barnes, Renee; Vieira, Eloy; Aquino, Maria Clara; Ferreira, Driele; Blanco, Beatriz; Amaral, Adriana; Schuch, Cassia; Moody, Kyle; Rosenberg, Allegra; Vilkins, Samantha", "title": "IDEOLOGY AND AFFECT IN POLITICAL POLARIZATION AND FANDOM ONLINE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "consumption; culture; debate; fandom; fans; game; hogwarts; identity; labor; legacy; media; online; paper; politics; public; university", "summary": "The conflict between fan communities and ideologies regarding Harry Potter and Hogwarts Legacy remains a strong one, highlighting how personal identities and brands are wrapped up in the very public act of playing video games online. As consequence, there are prominent recent streams of work explicating what exactly the fields of fan studies and political sociology can offer each other for researching communities online in such contexts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13534", "words": "7229", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Morales, Esteban ; Divon, Tom; Lundqvist, Martin; Halabi, Nour", "title": "EXPLORING THE CONTEXTUAL COMPLEXITIES OF VIOLENCE ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS: INTERSECTIONS, IMPACTS, AND SOLUTIONS", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "belfast; content; cultural; internet; ireland; media; memes; northern; platforms; study; tiktok; twitter; university; users; videos; violence", "summary": "Here, the author explores how social media platforms have fundamentally altered the way users perceive and interpret meaning-making processes around violence. In so doing, this project is not only interested in capturing the \u201cephemerality\u201d of social media platforms in general and Twitter in particular, but it also offers insight, or the \u201cscoop\u201d as Rogers (2009) puts it, of the affordances of a platform may structure the horizons of public debate.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13535", "words": "6612", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Pa\u00dfmann, Johannes ; Gerzen, Lisa; Schories, Martina; Ogden, Jessica; Maemura, Emily; MacKinnon, Katherine", "title": "WEB HISTORIES IN THE MAKING: WEB ARCHIVES & THE LOGICS OF PRACTICE", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "archive; archiving; data; digital; histories; history; ideals; internet; logics; online; platform; practices; research; researchers; tools; web; web archives", "summary": "Web archives, and their underlying data, align themselves with the promise of \u2018data revolutions\u2019 (Kitchin 2014) and so-called \u2018big data\u2019 for studying social and cultural worlds, allowing researchers to develop large-scale, longitudinal and \u2018multi-layered\u2019 approaches to platform historiographies (Helmond and van der Vlist Suggested Citation (APA): Pa\u00dfmann, J, Gerzen, L, Schories, M., Ogden, J., Maemura, E., Mackinnon, K. (2023, October).Web Histories in the making: Web Archives & the Logics of Practice. We contend that web archive criticism has to be taken seriously: Web archive data have never fulfilled the requirements of positivist ideals such as \u2018representativeness\u2019 (Hegarty 2022a) or objectivity, and the methodological consequences of this observation currently do not go far enough.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13536", "words": "6652", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Butkowski, Chelsea Paige ; Bhandari, Aparajita; Corry, Frances; Moses, Adetobi", "title": "DIGITAL MEMORY, PANDEMIC TEMPORALITIES: REFLECTIONS ON STUDYING AND STORING CRISIS MEDIA", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "collecting; covid-19; crisis; digital; internet; media; memory; pandemic; participants; past; research; social; time; university", "summary": "Whether examining how groups use social media platforms to create community memory around incidents of racial injustice (Smit, Heinrich, & Broersma, 2017) or how individuals use the internet to document the aftermath and unfolding of environmental disasters (Tandoc & Takahashi, 2017), studies at this intersection probe how crisis events are processed, historicized and reinterpreted through digital media. CRISIS MEDIA Chelsea Butkowski American University Frances Corry University of Pittsburgh Adetobi Moses University of Pennsylvania Aparajita Bhandari University of Waterloo A strength of the wide-ranging field of digital memory studies is its ability to interpret how digital media use shapes the experience and interpretation of crises.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13537", "words": "7062", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Rudenshiold, Alexander ; Dame-Griff, Avery; MacLean, Liam; MacKinnon, Katie", "title": "DISPATCHES FROM THE EARLY INTERNET: HISTORIES, IMAGINARIES, AND ARCHAEOLOGIES", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "community; furries; furry; german; histories; history; information; internet; left; media; new; online; people; press; search; transgender; university; web; york", "summary": "Similarly, it was a country that had already developed significant communication infrastructure, along with a population that was ranked 3rd globally in internet users by 1995. The \u201cearly web\u201d and \u201cmodem world\u201d (Lingel 2020; Driscoll 2022) represent periodizations of internet histories which look and feel markedly different from much of the contemporary popular internet.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13538", "words": "4717", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "de Keulenaar, Emillie ; Magalh\u00e3es, Jo\u00e3o; dos Santos Junior, Marcelo Alves; Rogers, Richard", "title": "AFTER DEPLATFORMING: RETRACING CONTENT MODERATION EFFECTS ACROSS PLATFORMS AND A POST-AMERICAN WEB", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "content; content moderation; january; media; moderation; paper; platform; research; speech; twitter; youtube", "summary": "This panel examines a three-fold revolution, namely: populist revolutions (on the right) facilitated by agnostic content moderation philosophies; the internal revolutions that platform content moderation underwent to address the political violence of the former; and the adjustments that digital methods research needs to adopt to facilitate content moderation research in a \u201cpost-API\u201d environment. This panel examines a three-fold revolution, namely: popular revolutions (on the right) facilitated by agnostic content moderation philosophies; the internal revolutions that platform content moderation underwent to address the political violence of the former; and the adjustments that digital methods research needs to adopt to facilitate content moderation research in a \u201cpost-API\u201d environment (Perriam, Birkbak and Freeman, 2020).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13539", "words": "6862", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Iliadis, Andrew ; Tripodi, Francesca; Dave, Aashka; Jones, Leslie Kay; Acker, Amelia; Ford, Heather", "title": "INFRASTRUCTURES OF MANIPULATION", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "abortion; data; facts; iliadis; information; infrastructures; media; new; palantir; paper; press; public; search; studies; surveillance; university; wikipedia", "summary": "According to Bowker et al. (2010, p. 98), information infrastructure refers to \u201cdigital facilities and services usually associated with the internet.\u201d Information infrastructures are thus enabling resources, in network form, whose key role is that of a distributor, but rather than goods or services, information infrastructures distribute \u201cknowledge, culture, and practice\u201d (Bowker et al., 2010, p. 114).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13624", "words": "1656", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Ringel, Sharon; Davidson, Roei", "title": "DEMOGRAPHIC, OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL PREDICTORS OF TWEET DELETION AMONG U.S. JOURNALISTS", "date": "2024.0", "keywords": "deletion; harassment; journalists; media; tweets", "summary": "In in- depth interviews, American journalists reported deleting tweets frequently. In interviews with American journalists, they linked their feeling of occupational uncertainty with their decision to delete tweets as a means of constructing an online presence that would not offend employers and therefore would not endanger their future employment prospects (Ringel & Davidson, 2022).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13625", "words": "1544", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Zedan, Moatasem; Ringel, Sharon; Davidson, Roei", "title": "WHY DO ARAB-PALESTINIAN JOURNALISTS DELETE TWEETS?", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "arab; israel; journalists; tweets", "summary": "Interviews with American journalists suggested many journalists deleted tweets. Women and minority journalists are especially likely to be harassed under such conditions (Waisbord, 2022).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13661", "words": "2212", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Be'ery , Gilad; Epstein, Dmitry", "title": "THE HIGH-TECH ELITE? ASSESSING VALUE PRIORITIES OF TECHIES USING THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL SURVEY 2012-2020", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "researchers; tech; value; workers", "summary": "Inspired by those findings, we build on Schwartz\u2019s taxonomy of basic values as a validated approach to assess value orientations at an individual level, to ask how the values of tech workers differ from those of the general public as well as among people working in tech. https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/78715 SHORT ABSTRACT Using data from the European Value Survey 2012-2020 and Schwartz\u2019s theory of basic values, this paper aims to map the value priorities of people working in tech compared to the general population, understand to what extent those value priorities differ from value priorities of other occupational elites, and how they vary among tech workers, focusing particularly on developers as a sub-group.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13665", "words": "1646", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Lim, Elisha", "title": "REVOLUTIONARY TACTICS: ABOLISH PRIVACY", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "data; new; online; privacy; property; rights", "summary": "We talked to the professor who fought Cambridge Analytica to get his data back in Netflix's 'The Great Hack' about why privacy rights in the US are lagging behind the rest of the world. ABOLISH PRIVACY This paper addresses internet scholars who promote online privacy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13666", "words": "1417", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Lim, Elisha", "title": "UNFREE; INDENTURED; INFLUENCER", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "ads; categories; content; tiktok", "summary": "For example, Instagram users could be targeted by subjects that they or their friends have shown interest in, as specific as, for example \u201ccredit cards / credit finance / credit history,\u201d once an advertiser selects that as a user interest, they are offered even more refined suggestions like Loans or Personal Finance or Line of Credit. TikTok\u2019s 28 categories of potential tastes in ads are based on what kind of creators users follow uploaded content, and how users interact with them, for example, how long they watch or repeat or like or share videos.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13702", "words": "1593", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Rodrigues, Beatrys; Peruzzo, Andr\u00e9", "title": "REAL HARASSMENT, VIRTUAL ROBOTS? IMPLICATIONS OF ONLINE HARASSMENT GEARED AT VIRTUAL ASSISTANT BIA", "date": "2023.0", "keywords": "bia; bradesco; campaign; comments; gender; harassment", "summary": "Most of the commenters seem oblivious to the importance of symbolic harassment, at the same time, they support their objection by reclaiming the boundaries of humanness, especially the humanness that is denied women in assistant roles. The video was aligned with UNESCO's international initiative Hey Update My Voice, a movement aiming at pushing back against gender bias and sexual harassment of AIs (heyupdatemyvoice.org, 2021).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13894", "words": "1814", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "23", "author": "Agarwal, Simran", "title": "PLATFORMIZATION INTERMEDIARIES: OPTIMIZING NEWS FOR PLATFORMS IN INDIA", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "distribution; intermediaries; news; platformization; platforms; publishers", "summary": "Facebook, news media and platform dependency: The institutional impacts of news distribution on social platforms. PLATFORMIZATION INTERMEDIARIES: OPTIMIZING NEWS FOR PLATFORMS IN INDIA Simran Agarwal LabEx ICCA, Universit\u00e9 Sorbonne Paris Nord Introduction : Platformization Intermediaries Previous research studying the platformization of news has focused on the dominance of search and social media platforms in news distribution.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13895", "words": "1473", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "29", "author": "Amit-Danhi, Eedan; Pentzold, Christian; Rakebrand, Thomas", "title": "BETWEEN GRAPHICAL 'EXCELLENCE\u2018, LITERACY, AND POLYSEMY: A BI-NATIONAL STUDY OF DIGITAL POLITICAL VISUALIZATION RECEPTION", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "group; literacy; participants; visualizations", "summary": "1: The spectrum of graphical polysemy in digital political visualizations Across our focus groups, participants thought of graphical literacy as the ability to read beyond the intended meaning and to discern underlying political strategies among the inevitable polysemy of political visualizations. We thus suggest that the inevitability of polysemic meanings in political visualizations requires audiences to develop a different set of graphical literacy skills.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13896", "words": "1559", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Amit-Danhi, Eedan", "title": "\u2018GUERILLA ANALYSIS\u2019 AND THE INSTITUTIONAL VOICE: THE TELEGRAM\u2019S PRODUCTIVE MESO-SPACE OF CORONAVIRUS VISUALIZATIONS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "data; meso; telegram; visualizations", "summary": "They correct and re- visualize institutional visualizations, often taking bolder swings in proposing actionable narratives missing or edited out of MoH visualizations. In this paper, I explore the informational ecosystem created by both institutional and \u2018guerilla\u2019 Telegram channels engaging in informing the public about the unfolding crisis through data visualizations, by comparing their visualizations of MoH data, and the discursive patterns that they provoke.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13897", "words": "1730", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Andreasen, Maja Brandt", "title": "HUMOUR, HARM, AND HATE: THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF RACE, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY IN FAR-RIGHT EXTREMIST MEMES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "gender; humor; memes; paper; right", "summary": "Harlow, S., Rowlett, J. T., & Huse, L.K. (2020) \u2018Kim Davis be like\u2009\u2009\u2026\u2009\u2019: a feminist critique of gender humor in online political memes. Going beyond current focus on the importance of definitions in relation to memes (Bogerts & Fielitz, 2019; Shifman, 2013), I characterize the visual posts on my selected platforms as visual culture (McSwiney et al., 2021) encompassing a multitude of visual content including but not limited to strict definitions of memes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13898", "words": "1414", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Arminio, Luigi; Rossi, Luca", "title": "TRACING THE SOCIOLINGUISTIC PATTERNS OF POLARIZATION IN THE FACEBOOK DEBATE ON CLIMATE ACTION", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "actors; climate; language; posts; score", "summary": "Reflecting on the previously posited and discussed relevance of communicational patterns in political communication, it must be noted that while some studies discuss language codes' impact on political discourse, we can spot a lack of systematic examination of the full range of linguistic features determining the stylistic diversity of social actors and how they impact political polarization dynamics. The findings indicated both the restricted accessibility of certain parties' communicational styles (Gyasi, 2023) and the enhanced accessibility of language codes employed by specific political figures (Kayam, 2023).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13899", "words": "1740", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Asmolov, Gregory; Logunova, Olga", "title": "THE UNFRIENDING PERFORMANCE: THE LOGIC OF DISCONNECTIVE ACTION IN CRISES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "action; analysis; disconnection; memory; unfriending", "summary": "THE UNFRIENDING PERFROMANCE: THE LOGIC OF DISCONNECTIVE ACTION IN CRISES Gregory Asmolov King\u2019s College London Olga Logunova King\u2019s College London Introduction: A broad literature addresses the role of crises as times of increasing connectivity and triggers for manifestations of connective action (Bennett & Segerberg, 2012), where digital media serve as organizing agents. Therefore, alongside the logic of connective action, there is a need to explore the logic of disconnective action as a process of social untying where digital media serve as disorganizing agents.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13900", "words": "1381", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Badiei, Bahareh", "title": "MEDIATING, MEDIATIZING, OR DATAFYING IRANIAN WOMEN\u2019S STRUGGLES? IMPERIAL FEMINIST CAMPAIGNS, THE ECONOMIES OF VISIBILITY, AND SUFFERING OF OTHER WOMEN", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "campaign; feminist; media; women", "summary": "By emphasizing the bravery of Iranian women while neglecting the impact of U.S.-imposed sanctions and other structural inequalities, these narratives reinforced a racialized dichotomy between gendered and racialized suffering. Theoretical Frameworks The research puts the frameworks of imperialist feminist and platform feminism into conversation to explore how the Orientalist trope of the veil emerges as a discursive and material metric to measure the suffering of Other women and mobilize platform feminism for women in Iran, who are under multiple of forms of systemic oppression including the compulsory hijab.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13901", "words": "1624", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Baines, Annalise; Hargittai, Eszter", "title": "OLDER ADULTS\u2019 RESPONSES TO MISINFORMATION ON SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "media; misinformation; response; strategies; use", "summary": "To address the third research question, we look at how use of misinformation strategies relates to sociodemographic factors using both logit (any such use) and OLS (number of response strategies used) regressions. We developed a list of misinformation response strategies based on existing literature (Munyaka et al., 2022; Wasike, 2023; Zhou et al., 2023).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13902", "words": "1762", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Basak, Subham", "title": "LIVELIHOOD-RELATED INTERNET USE AMONG LOW-PRIVILEGED YOUNG MEN IN KOLKATA", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "digital; domestication; internet; media; youtube", "summary": "While generalisations are impossible, we see the general connections of online use with offline contexts, which determine the success of the life chances of the young men. Additionally, as they grapple with making the best of digital resources for life chances, the role and responsibility of institutions, especially the government, receding to the back seat in a market-driven economy is further normalized.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13903", "words": "1464", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Berge, PS; Schmalzer, Madison", "title": "\u201cI TOOK A DEEP BREATH AND CAME OUT AS GC\u201d: EXCAVATING GENDER CRITICAL INFORMATION LITERACY PRACTICES AND ANTI-TRANS RADICALIZATION ON OVARIT AND MUMSNET", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "media; ovarit; practices; trans", "summary": "Following the closure of r/GenderCritical (and subsequent banning of dozens of high-profile, transphobic subreddits including r/ActualWomen, r/GenderCriticalSociety, and r/truelesbians), GC users\u2014especially those in North America and Western Europe\u2014migrated to more hidden, invite-only spaces. GC users regularly perform transphobic mythmaking.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13904", "words": "1910", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Berman, Glen; Williams, Kate; Cohen, Eliel", "title": "A STUDY OF INDUSTRY INFLUENCE IN THE FIELD OF AI RESEARCH", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "field; industry; influence; research; university", "summary": "Findings We find that national research funders and university bureaucracies incentivise industry investments in AI research, both at the level of researchers, for whom career progression may be tied to their ability to broker intersectoral collaborations, and at the level of research networks, whose funding may be tied to their facilitation of industry- academic partnerships. A study of industry influence in the field of AI research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13905", "words": "1713", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Bernardini, Vittoria; Comunello, Francesca; Scarcelli, Cosimo Marco; Parisi, Lorenza", "title": "GENDER, INTIMACY, AND DIGITAL PRACTICES: INSIGHTS INTO ITALIAN TEENAGERS' EXPERIENCES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "gender; media; practices; research", "summary": "In the Italian context, despite interesting insights coming from works on teens and digital media (Mascheroni & \u00d3lafsson, 2018), research is still scarce and there are no systematic works on digital practices, gender, and intimacy in teens\u2019 everyday life. Through this framework, scholars have sought to understand how the social meaning of digital media is shaped by widespread gender conceptions (Wajcman, 1991), and how technologies help to re-shape or co-construct gender itself as \u201csomething that is done\u201d and continuously re-created by social action and discursive negotiations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13906", "words": "1828", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Bessant, Claire", "title": "FAMILY PRIVACY, FAMILY AUTONOMY AND COERCION IN DIGITAL HEALTHCARE", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "children; data; family; health; parents; privacy", "summary": "The UNCRC itself explicitly affords children rights, including a right to privacy and a right to be heard on matters affecting them (Articles 12 and 16). Where health professionals encourage child patients\u2019 parents to register with health technology providers but do not inform them how children\u2019s data will be used, the parent\u2019s role as steward of the child\u2019s privacy is diminished.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13907", "words": "1510", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Birrer, Alena; Just, Natascha", "title": "SPOTLIGHT ON DEEPFAKES: MAPPING RESEARCH AND REGULATORY RESPONSES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "deepfakes; literature; research; responses; review", "summary": "The literature review shows that emphasis is on three major regulatory challenges (i.e., difficulties in detecting deepfakes, deepfake disinformation, and deepfake pornography). Moreover, there is some evidence that common countermeasures such as raising awareness or labelling deepfake content may not be as effective in mitigating their potential harms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13908", "words": "1774", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Bombaci, Mael; Nespoli, Francesco", "title": "MY PRODUCT, YOUR GREEN CHOICE: EXPLORING THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN INFLUENCER\u2019S SUSTAINABILITY COMMUNICATION AND GREEN MARKETING STRATEGIES ON TIKTOK", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "communication; influencers; sustainability; tiktok", "summary": "TikTok, with its distinctive communicative style characterised by highly visual, vernacular, and meme-based content (Hautea et al., 2021), emerges as a particularly effective channel for addressing companies' communication needs, especially through the narratives shaped by green influencers. Green influencers are emerging, committed to raising public awareness of sustainability (Abell & Pittman, 2021).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13909", "words": "1639", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Bosse, Eva M.; Wiese, Amelie; Kutscher, Nadia", "title": "RESEARCHING YOUTH PERSPECTIVES \u2013 GROUP DISCUSSIONS IN NON-FORMAL DIGITISED EDUCATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "arrangements; discussions; education; group; institutions; participation; youth", "summary": "Recognising (marginalised) youth\u2019s realities and establishing trust and respect are considered important factors in order to successfully reduce inequalities in non-formal educational arrangements (Fujii et al. 2021; Streicher et al. 2014; Walther 2014). Applying a broad understanding of education1 as a transformation of self-world-relations (J\u00f6rissen/Marotzki 2009), non-formal digitalised educational arrangements aim at 1 In accordance with the German tradition of \u2018Bildung\u2019.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13910", "words": "1703", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Brilli, S`tefano; Gemini, Laura; Spaggiari, Chiara", "title": "GENERIC WAR IMAGINARIES: AI-GENERATED IMAGES OF THE ISRAEL-GAZA CONFLICT IN THE ADOBE STOCK CONTROVERSY", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "adobe; images; media; photography; stock", "summary": "\u2022 Image site: A computational analysis was performed on the RGB spectra of 762 most downloaded images from Adobe Stock, collected in October 2024. \u2022 Image site: Computational analysis, dividing the dataset into 10 clusters, revealed no clear separation between photographic and AI-generated images.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13911", "words": "1531", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Byron, Paul", "title": "INSTAGRAM CLOSE FRIEND STORIES FOR MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT AMONG LGBTQ+ YOUNG PEOPLE", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "friend; health; instagram; stories", "summary": "As such, the use of Instagram Close Friend Stories can foster more intense experiences of connection, intimacy, and a culture of vulnerable sharing that is felt to be reciprocal. Madianou\u2019s (2016) concept of \u2018ambient co-presence\u2019 is used to consider participants\u2019 everyday Instagram use, and a range of Close Friend Story practices related to mental health support \u2013 whether this is sought or offered.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13912", "words": "1392", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Bystrytska, Kateryna", "title": "\u201cWHY DOES THE AIR SIREN WORK?\u201d: HOW TELEGRAM CHANNELS IN UKRAINE USE OPEN SOURCE DATA ABOUT MILITARY DANGER FOR CONSTRUCTING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE WAR", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "channels; information; media; war", "summary": "However, this information is limited; all the details about missile types and drone movements are provided by Telegram channels. This paper examines the transformative role of Telegram channels in shaping public understanding and responses to drone attacks in Ukraine, emphasizing their contribution to digital warfare and participatory knowledge creation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13913", "words": "1577", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Cabbuag, Samuel Idris; Abidin, Crystal", "title": "TIKTOK \u2018DOGSHOWS\u2019 AND THE AMPLIFICATION OF ONLINE INCIVILITY AMONG GEN Z INFLUENCERS IN THE PHILIPPINES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "children; dogshows; gen; incivility; tiktok", "summary": "Summary of findings We found two types of dogshow content: (1) Egging on dogshows, where the influencer provokes or promotes the dogshow, and thus invites the audience to contribute to the flaming; and (2) Self-inflicting dogshows, where the influencer willingly places themselves as the victim in the dogshow. We historicise and explore TikTok dogshows in the context of the Philippines, beginning with setting the local context, reviewing relevant scholarship on TikTok and online incivility, and considering how our study contributes to age-based and culturally- specific developments of emergent TikTok cultures.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13914", "words": "1792", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Caldeira, Sofia P.", "title": "(RE)SHARING FEMINISMS: RE-SHARING INSTAGRAM STORIES AS EVERYDAY FEMINIST PRACTICES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "feminist; instagram; media; stories", "summary": "(Re)sharing feminisms: Re-sharing Instagram Stories as everyday feminist practices. As engaging with political topics online can be perceived as risky (Ekstr\u00f6m, 2015), it\u2019s essential to explore these small acts of engagement that for different degrees of political engagement, facilitating the integration of feminist practices into everyday life, even for reticent participants.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13915", "words": "2689", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Camarasa San Juan, Violeta; Kuznetsov, Dmitry", "title": "BROKERS OF THE METAVERSE: HOW A WEB3 PLAY-TO-EARN GAMING GUILD ACTS AS CULTURAL MEDIATOR ON TWITTER", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "accounts; axie; blockchain; community; games; gaming; guild; topic; twitter; ygg", "summary": "Blockchain Gaming, Play-to-ear Gaming Splinterlands Giveaway NFT Gaming, NFT Marketplace Splinterlands, Axie 1 Axis staking, Axis Player NFTs, NFT Community Blockchain Gaming, Web Gaming Blockchain Gaming, Web Gaming 2 NFT Drop, NFT Community Bitcoin, Crypto Bear Markets, Crypto World Good, Hope, GM (General Communication) 3 Crypto Market, Crypto World Axie Infinity, Scholarships Axie Infinity Origin, Axie NFTs Token Incentives, Token 4 Crypto Twitter, YGG Discord Land Sales, Auction YGG Managers Cup Staking, Airdrop 5 Gamehunters, NFT Gaming Metaverse, WeAreStartAtlas AMA Session, Discord Community Metaverse, Storyverse 6 Axie Scholars, Axie Scholarship Pyr Vulcan, ForgeYourWorld YGG Twitter Spaces, YGG Discord Beta, app, android 7 Mental Health Day Awork, Collection NFT Giveaway, INDIGG Vulcan, Pyr 11 8 YGG Managers Cup, Charity Tournament Mint, Presale, Space Misfits Builders, Knowledge, Community Voxedit, Live Contest 9 YGG Token Sale, YGG Founders Coin Space Misfits Community YGG Guild Advancement Program Cathletes, Breeding 1 0 Highest Sale, NFT Auctions Discord, Telegram Philippine Web Festival, Guild Meetup Builders Program, Community 1 1 Product Building, Marketing Hex, Pulsechain Mint Details, Upcoming Mint 1 2 Year End Festivities, Happiness Reflection OS, Windows, Steam MonkeyFans, MonkeyLeauge 1 3 Creation Moment, Sculpture Atari, First Edition Stepn, Walkn 1 4 NFT Giveaway, NFT Mystery Boxes Start Atlas Metaverse Music Video Contest, Trailer 1 5 Odette Donations, Crypto Donations Bored Apes PA Community, Journey 1 6 Dao governance, dao community NFT Gaming Sipher Bear Market, Bull Market 1 7 Freya Mask, Mask Piece Floor Price, Sales Solana, NFTs 1 8 Brooklyn, New York Amouranth, Misogyny Awesome Mech Photo 1 9 Metaverse Economy, Metaverse Work Community Discord, Stream 2 0 Coffee, Food We used network analysis to examine the structure of YGG communication on Twitter (Rathnayake, 2023), we analysed tweets using BERTopic topic modeling (Grootendorst, 2022), and extracted links to determine what information is shared within the network (Hoyng, 2023).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13916", "words": "1711", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Campos Valverde, Raquel", "title": "ENGINEERED INEQUALITY: MUSICAL TAXONOMIES AND STREAMING RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "industry; music; platforms; recommendation; streaming; taxonomies", "summary": "It aims to illuminate how might musical taxonomies in streaming services may influence music cultures and understand whether music streaming taxonomies contain Western biases or forms of cultural imperialism. The emphasis of music industry and streaming PR is placed on visible diversity, such as international curation and discovery.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13917", "words": "1493", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Carah, Nicholas; Brown, Maria-Gemma; Tesiram, Rani; Kahukura, Hine; Enright, Lisa; Hawker, Kiah", "title": "SCROLL, PRINT, ALGORITHMICALLY CLUSTER: A CO-ANALYSIS APPROACH TO EXPLORE THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN USERS, PLATFORMS AND ALGORITHMIC MODELS ON INSTAGRAM", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "images; instagram; machine; vision", "summary": "We have \u2018critically simulated\u2019 the capacity of machine vision models to recognise and reproduce the patterns in the visual cultures of Instagram including images posted on hashtags relating to cultural events like music festivals, food and dining scenes, and intimate publics surrounding alternative art, culture and fashion. We have also explored the capacity of machine vision models to recognise visual patterns in advertisements on Instagram.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13918", "words": "1512", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Casteel, Diana Michelle", "title": "BOYCOTT WOKENESS, SHOP LIKE A PATRIOT: A DISCURSIVE ANALYSIS OF CONSERVATIVE MLM PROMOTION ON INSTAGRAM", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "influencers; instagram; media; mlms; women", "summary": "The genesis of conservative MLMs such as Patriot Wellness Box is unclear due to the lack of transparent business practices that purposefully obfuscate who owns or runs the company. Conceptual Framework Using Abidin\u2019s (2021) framework of refracted publics and Cotter\u2019s (2019) concept of \u201cplaying the visibility game,\u201d this study seeks to understand the ways that vaguely coded conservative MLMs such as Patriot Wellness Box enable conservative female influencers to circumvent algorithms and sentiment seed more radical conspiracies within lifestyle content.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13919", "words": "1385", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Chatterjee, Nivedita", "title": "I HAVE STOPPED CARING IF I SHOULD THINK BEFORE POSTING ONLINE: JOURNEY OF INDIAN WOMEN TO DIGITAL ACTIVISM AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "activism; violence; women", "summary": "Yet, there remains a gap, when it comes to understanding what motivates women to become digital activists and how do they take digital activism beyond social media activism and why, in a socio-cultural framework marked by digital and power divide. This project investigates digital activism by Indian women against sexual violence under the overarching question of; how digital feminist protest by Indian women activists against sexual violence transpire in India?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13920", "words": "1943", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Chen, Meilun", "title": "DIGITAL DISCONNECTION, THE BROKEN PROMISE OF ATTENTION, AND POTENTIAL FOR CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF THE FOREST", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "app; attention; digital; forest; study; use", "summary": "Together with the background of an attention economy that underpinned the mobile technology and Internet industry (Eyal, 2014; Williams, 2018), the public become more concerned with the mobile industry\u2019s design of luring attention and the potential digital attention crisis brought by the smartphone use and digital overconnection (Baym, Wagman, & Persaud, 2020). Technology addiction is portrayed as the natural inclination toward distraction, with attention\u2014aroused through effective app design\u2014offered as an antidote to technology addiction when the design is properly implemented (Jablonsky, 2022).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13921", "words": "2129", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "30", "author": "Chung, Hiu-Fung", "title": "BETTING ON (UN)CERTAIN FUTURES: SOCIOTECHNICAL IMAGINARIES OF AI AND VARIETIES OF TECHNO-DEVELOPMENTALISM IN ASIA", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "data; hong; imaginaries; kong; policy; societies; technology", "summary": "Studying the AI innovation discourses of these underrepresented societies can provide critical insights into the complexity and unevenness of global AI development. However, much literature on AI innovation often lean towards Euro-American-centric perspectives (Introna, 2016; Just & Latzer, 2017), regarding AI production and governance strategy \u2013 both normative and practical \u2013 as universally applicable (Adams, 2021; Fukuda-Parr & Gibbons, 2021; Mohamed et al., 2020).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13922", "words": "1941", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Conner, Viki", "title": "NOSTALGIC NEIGHBORHOODS OF TIKTOK: MAPPING A TOPOLOGY OF AFFECTIVE PUBLICS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "affective; media; network; nostalgia; publics; tiktok", "summary": "Conceptualizing Networked Nostalgia This study brings the scholarship on nostalgia and media (e.g., Niemeyer, 2021) into dialogue with theories of social organization in the networked public sphere to define and operationalize networked nostalgia. Given the centrality of technical hashtags (#fyp, #viral) in the overall co-tag network connected to #nostalgia (figure 1), I found the differential use of technical hashtags, as co-linked with affective and discursive hashtags, impacted the affective intensities and meanings of nostalgia within these publics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13923", "words": "2197", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Cotter, Kelley", "title": "EPISTEMIC-DEMOCRATIC TENSION IN THE BOTTOM-UP GOVERNANCE OF ALGORITHMS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "algorithms; everyday; governance; knowledge; people; society", "summary": "The theoretical vocabulary explaining how everyday people understand algorithms has grown increasingly complex over the last several years, with frameworks including the algorithmic imaginary (Bucher, 2017), algorithmic folk theories (e.g., DeVito, 2021; DeVito et al., 2018; Eslami et al., 2016; Siles et al., 2020), algorithmic knowledge (Cotter, 2022; Cotter & Reisdorf, 2020); algorithmic literacy (Cotter, 2020; DeVito, 2021; Dogruel et al., 2021; Oeldorf-Hirsch & Neubaum, 2023), algorithm skills (Gruber & Hargittai, 2023; Klawitter & Hargittai, 2018), algorithmic competencies (Jarrahi & Sutherland, 2019), algorithmic gossip (Bishop, 2019), hermeneutics of algorithm (Andersen, 2020), everyday auditing (Shen et al., 2021), among others. Discussions on algorithmic governance often center on top-down approaches developed primarily by policymakers and private companies (Bloch-Wehba, 2022; Saurwein et al., 2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13924", "words": "1726", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Dalpizol Valiati, Vanessa Am\u00e1lia; Lupinacci, Ludmila; Bonow Soares, Felipe", "title": "WRAP YOUR HEAD AROUND IT: BRAZILIAN USERS\u2019 ALGORITHMIC IMAGINARIES OF SPOTIFY WRAPPED", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "data; media; messages; spotify; users", "summary": "Network of X/Twitter users around Spotify Wrapped In this paper, we propose to scrutinise how this algorithmic event is perceived and understood by Brazilian users whilst also identifying and unpacking the platform affordances and algorithmic imaginaries (Bucher, 2017) that inform those interpretations and their associated performances of taste and identity (Airoldi, 2019, Prey, 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13925", "words": "1369", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "de Keulenaar, Emillie", "title": "LLMS AND THE GENERATION OF MODERATE SPEECH", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "language; llms; questions", "summary": "Emillie de Keulenaar University of Groningen Extended abstract In the emerging sociological research on large language models, it has become clear that LLMs have become both new actors and interfaces of public debate. Six discursive techniques used by Mistral, GPT 3.5 & 4, Llama 2 & 3, and Claude 3, 3 Sonnet and 3.5 when answering \u201crisky\u201d and controversial questions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13926", "words": "1311", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Dennin, Kimberly Grace", "title": "MERGING QUEER READINGS AND GAMES: AN ANALYSIS OF CO-CREATED QUEER NARRATIVES OF SIDON AND LINK THROUGH PLAY IN TEARS OF THE KINGDOM", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "link; queer; sidon", "summary": "In K. Hellekson & K. Busse (Eds.), Fan fiction and fan communities in the age of the internet: New essays. Outside of the creation of new narratives, there was a consistent acknowledgment that Sidon and Link are often romantically paired together.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13927", "words": "1907", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Depounti, Iliana; Saukko, Paula", "title": "\u2018YOU CANNOT EXPECT SUCH VALIDATION IN REAL LIFE:\u2019 HISTORICAL CONTINUITIES AND CHANGE IN WOMEN\u2019S ROMANCING WITH AI CHATBOT REPLIKA", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "change; media; replika; self; users; women", "summary": "While the idea is not new, since Radway suggested that the Smithton women in the 1980s found romance reading \u2018therapeutic, a tranquilizer and tension reliever\u2019 (Radway, 1984), there is a change from \u2018the therapeutic\u2019 as an abstract concept to a more organized experience of self-help in female users of contemporary media and in this case, AI companion chatbots. However, it has also been pointed out that many women do not seek to change the world but simply aim to survive in or bear with it (Berlant, 2008).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13928", "words": "1601", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Diesen, Plata Sofie", "title": "FATHERHOOD ON DATING APPS: A NORWEGIAN TWIST", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "apps; children; custody; dating; research", "summary": "On dating app profiles, men disclosed details about their fatherhood in various ways, often making it their focal point beside name, age, and profession. In this paper, I aim to address the following question: How do single dads in mid-life present themselves as parents on dating apps in Norway?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13929", "words": "1401", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Ditchfield, Hannah; Vicari, Stefania", "title": "PERFORMING PREVIVORSHIP ONLINE: EXAMINING IDENTITY MANAGEMENT ON TIKTOK", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "cancer; media; self; tiktok", "summary": "Social media platforms have been established as important spaces for the performance of both health and illness identities (see Tembeck, 2016; Kent 2020). We also found that previvors identity performances are still very much networked, interactive and connected to specific communities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13930", "words": "1890", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Docherty, Niall; Valderrama Barrag\u00e1n, Mat\u00edas", "title": "EDUCATED USERS: REFINING MANNERS THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA CORPORATE CURRICULUMS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "curriculums; digital; manners; media; paper; platforms", "summary": "Yet while these highly publicised interventions have been rightly critiqued as attempts to restrict the terms available to hold social media to account (Gillespie, 2023), these are not the only means through which social media companies are currently seeking to shape both the narrative surrounding and actual use of their services. Whereas Elias identified Western European etiquette guides as key instructional devices to this civilising process, of the thirteenth century onwards, our paper presents social media corporate curriculums of healthy, safe, and educated use as one aspect of its present-day digital incarnation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13931", "words": "1527", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Dr\u00fceke, Ricarda; Peil, Corinna; Spencer-Smith, Charlotte", "title": "\u201cTHEY WILL DESTROY TELEGRAM\u201d \u2013 NARRATIVES OF PLATFORM CENSORSHIP IN THE GERMAN-SPEAKING COVID-19 CONSPIRACY COMMUNITY ON TELEGRAM", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "conspiracy; content; media; moderation; platforms; telegram", "summary": "The infrastructure for content moderation is crucial for content production and communication possibilities. While previous studies explore how non-conspiracy users perceive content moderation (e.g., Myers West 2018), there is a lack of research on how conspiracy theorists interpret content moderation and how it fits into broader censorship narratives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13932", "words": "1945", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Duan, Shichang", "title": "\u201cI\u2019M AN E-COMMERCE STREAMER, NOT INFLUENCER\u201d \u2014\u2014THE LOGISTICAL STRUGGLE FOR PERFORMING AUTHENTICITY ON DOUYIN", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "authenticity; commerce; media; products; streamers; streaming", "summary": "The visibility politics on platforms (Peter et al, 2019; Bishop, 2019; Duguay, 2016) impact what kinds of authenticity streamers will perform. These stories will contribute to a typology of platform labor and a global perspective on platformization.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13933", "words": "1946", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Dugmore, Harry", "title": "FABRICATING STATELESS INCOME: DECONSTRUCTING THE DISCOURSES OF MULTINATIONAL PLATFORM CORPORATIONS\u2019 TAX AVOIDANCE STRATEGIES IN AUSTRALIA AND CANADA", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "australia; journalism; media; news; strategies; tax", "summary": "DECONSTRUCTING THE DISCOURSES OF MULTINATIONAL PLATFORM CORPORATIONS\u2019 TAX AVOIDANCE STRATEGIES IN AUSTRALIA AND CANADA Harry Dugmore University of the Sunshine Coast While upending domestic and global news media\u2019s advertising income streams via the provision of superior \u201ccommercial datafication\u201d (Mansell, 2021) and \u201cdigital tracking and profiling\u201d (Christl, 2017) functionalities, Multinational Platform Corporations (MNPCs) have also implemented opaque strategies to minimize their domestic and global tax liabilities. MNPCs have been able to not just continue to transform the majority of their revenue into stateless\u201d income (Kleinbard, 2016), which is not taxed in the country where the income is generated (nor, often, even in the country where the corporation is headquartered) but to get better at this and other forms of tax avoidance, via improving both their ability to \u201cnavigate institutional complexity\u201d (Kornelakis & Hublart, 2022) and, as this paper argues, to shape national and transnational discourses about their strategies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13934", "words": "1969", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Durham, Charlotte", "title": "BETWEEN THE (LIVE) STREAM: CONFIGURATIONS OF/FOR EMBODIMENT, TECHNICITY AND VICARIOUS SPACES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "disney; methods; press; space; streaming", "summary": "As such, we can see live streaming not as two separate, discrete spaces, but as transmitting across this binary and as complexly and powerfully embodied, lived and everyday. By positioning live streaming among the mundane, I am asking us to consider how, as a practice, it is embedded within a set of routine and normative experiences (see Morris, 1988; Seigworth, 2000) that are part and parcel of Internet culture more broadly.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13935", "words": "1220", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Entrena Serrano, Carlos; Trisha, Meyer", "title": "ARTIFACTS, PRACTICES AND SOCIAL ARRANGEMENTS IN CONTENT CURATION ON TIKTOK: A STUDY ON POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES CONTENT", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "content; curation; tiktok; users", "summary": "First, because it uses donated data to contrast and complement how users perceive their experiences with algorithmic content curation in social media, fostering further reflections. Furthermore, we consider how users\u2019 perception and skills, as well as their institutional and cultural arrangements (Davis, 2020), shape their practices and experiences with algorithmic personalization, and how they experience algorithmic curation in two different but interrelated ways, as instrumental and/or intimate (Savolainen & Ruckenstein, 2022).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13936", "words": "2094", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Evans, Jabari Miles", "title": "WORD ON THE (DIGITAL) STREET: EXPLORING YOUTUBE VLOGS AS REPUTATION MANAGEMENT FOR ARTISTS IN CHICAGO\u2019S DRILL RAP SCENE", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "chicago; digital; drill; drillers; media; music; rap; youtube", "summary": "Moreover, the highlighted narratives suggest that in the world of social media entertainment, Driller\u2019s ability to monetize YouTube content incentivizes them to both embellish and/or promote their past participation in gang activities. Though Drillers have inherently violent reputations from their music, their authenticity and established fan community, combined with the ability to monetize YouTube content, has created new opportunities for Drill musicians to establish themselves as influential figures in the creator economy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13937", "words": "1419", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Farries, Elizabeth Erin; Siapera, Eugenia", "title": "INDUSTRY INFLUENCE ON CONTENT MODERATION REGULATION: TENSIONS FOR CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "csos; governance; platform; society", "summary": "The DSA and CSOs While for the most part the role of civil society in platform governance is to develop normative approaches (as in digital constitutionalism) or to advocate for rights and fundamental freedoms, for the first time the DSA provides a path for direct participation in governance rather than looking to exert influence and shape policy. Platform governance and Civil Society Organisations: tensions and insider perspectives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13938", "words": "1740", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Ferrari, Elisabetta", "title": "THE OFFLINE STRIKES BACK: COMPLICATING THE ROLE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN COVID-19 MUTUAL AID ACTIVISM", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "activism; activists; aid; pandemic; technologies", "summary": "The offline strikes back: complicating the role of digital technologies in Covid-19 mutual aid activism. One aspect discussed in this literature is particularly important to examine Covid-19 mutual aid activism: the relationship between the online and the offline.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13939", "words": "1813", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Ferrari, Elisabetta; Owens, Liv; Bichard-Collins, Lily", "title": "QUEER DIGITAL LIVES: UNDERSTANDING DATAFICATION THROUGH CREATIVE COLLABORATIVE APPROACHES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "data; datafication; digital; participants; queer; surveillance", "summary": "In the second session, participants read two media articles on the topic of Instagram shadowbanning and Facebook's \u201creal name\u201d policy and discussed the tension between safety and visibility for queer communities. Scholars have proposed to address this tension surrounding queer visibilities by proposing tactics of hypervisibility, such as dazzle camouflage (Lingel, 2021) and drag as obfuscation (Kornstein, 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13940", "words": "1749", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Elfen, Z", "title": "FROM GLOBAL TO LOCAL: A STUDY OF OFFLINE-FIRST COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "development; organization; organizing; p4p; self; systems", "summary": "Open-source, Peer-to-Peer (P2P), and local-first networks \u2014 collectively termed \u201cP4P\u201d (Peer-for-Peer) \u2014 have emerged as promising models for resilient communication systems. Modularity in both technical design and social organization enhanced adaptability and local innovation, with lower financial barriers enabling community- aligned protocols.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13941", "words": "1707", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Fridzema, Nathalie; Aasman, Susan; Slootweg, Tom; Smit, Rik", "title": "SMALL-SCALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP ON THE EARLY WEB: SOCIO-ECONOMICAL PRACTICES OF LOCAL/REGIONAL BUSINESSES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "businesses; economy; internet; new; university; web", "summary": "Egmond\u2019s story was not unique; throughout the mid-1990s, numerous traditional businesses created websites to join the digital revolution, and by the early 2000s, countless startups emerged to capitalize doing internet business (Ackermans, 2003). In The SAGE Handbook of Web History (pp.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13942", "words": "1361", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Frizzera, Luciano", "title": "PREDICTIONS OF THE SELF: AI AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SUBJECTIVATION", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "competitions; models; press; subjectivation", "summary": "Focusing on Kaggle, a platform for crowdsourcing AI development, I examine the practices of the data science community on three high- profile machine learning projects and conclude by arguing that machine learning has been thought of and developed as a prediction of the self in order to prescribe individual behaviour to fulfill specific economic conditions. AI systems datafy our body\u2014our face, our gender, the colour of our skin\u2014and our identity, producing live databases for computable linkages between humans and nonhumans.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13943", "words": "1546", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Garvey, Kevin Patrick; Flonk, Dani\u00eblle", "title": "ADAPTIVE GOVERNANCE BY DIGITAL PLATFORMS: HOW TWITCH CHANGED ITS PLATFORM OVER TIME", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "changes; features; governance; platforms; twitch", "summary": "The literature on Twitch platform policy focuses mainly on how the platform mimics features that were first introduced by users, a process Partin (2020) called \u201cenvelopment\u201d. An empirical study on the motivations of Twitch users.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13944", "words": "1510", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Ge, Liang", "title": "AMBIVALENT AFFECTIVE LABOUR, DATAFICATION OF QING AND DANMEI WRITERS IN THE CULTURAL INDUSTRY", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "affective; affects; danmei; qing; writers", "summary": "First, danmei writers as affective laborers, their temporality is governed by writing male-male romance and erotica, and the flexible hours significantly disorders their work-life balance. For danmei writers, the datafication and monetization of qing leads to increasingly formulaic writing.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13945", "words": "2040", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Gekker, Alex; Hind, Sam", "title": "IN THE SHADOW OF LLMS: TROUBLE IN THE \u201cSMART\u201d AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "2022; automotive; industry; limitations; limits; new; vehicles", "summary": "Technical limitations expose the inadequacies of autonomous vehicles in meeting their promised capabilities. Until large language models (LLMs) took the crown with OpenAI\u2019s launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, autonomous vehicles were considered the greatest possible application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the modern era.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13946", "words": "1734", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Genon, Lynrose Jane", "title": "\u201cDIGITAL PEACEBUILDING\u201d: EXAMINING YOUNG WOMEN LEADERS' USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO BUILD PEACE IN THE PHILIPPINES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "digital; media; peacebuilding; use; women; youth", "summary": "Lumad young women focus on mobilising solidarity around land rights and addressing their marginalisation within BARMM, Muslim young women work towards combating anti-Islamic rhetoric, emphasising the peaceful aspects of Islam, and Christian young women prioritise peace education and interfaith dialogue as pathways to peace across sectors. This paper presents preliminary findings from Phase 1, focusing on social media analysis, while Phase 2, involving kwentuhan (talkstory) and co- participatory design workshops with young women, is not included in these initial results.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13947", "words": "1725", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Bounegru, Liliana; Gray, Jonathan", "title": "FROM PLATFORMS TO PROTOCOLS, FORGES, STACKS AND DAOS: ON THE PLATFORMISATION AND DEPLATFORMISATION OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "development; github; media; platform; platformisation; software", "summary": "These features, just as in the case of other social media platforms, are organised around nurturing a platform ecosystem that multiplies valorisation of connectivity around several registers (Gerlitz, 2016; Marres, 2017). ON THE PLATFORMISATION AND DEPLATFORMISATION OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT Liliana Bounegru King\u2019s College London Jonathan W. Y. Gray King\u2019s College London This paper contributes to the critical study of platformisation and deplatformisation of software development and how networked infrastructures commodify, configure and challenge relations between code, coders, communities, technologies, investors and industries.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13948", "words": "1609", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Grohmann, Rafael; Barbosa,, Alexandre Costa", "title": "BIG TECH SOVEREIGNTY: PLATFORMS AND DISCOURSE OF SOVEREIGNTY-AS-A-SERVICE", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "companies; company; digital; microsoft; sovereignty", "summary": "According to Amazon, digital sovereignty is about \u201chaving control over digital assets\u201d, and the company is able to help \u201ccustomers to meet digital sovereignty requirements\u201d. AoIR 2024.docx Selected Papers of #AoIR2024: The 25th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Sheffield, UK / 30 Oct - 2 Nov 2024 BIG TECH SOVEREIGNTY: PLATFORMS AND DISCOURSE OF SOVEREIGNTY-AS-A-SERVICE Alexandre Costa Barbosa University of Arts Berlin Rafael Grohmann University of Toronto Introduction The notion of digital sovereignty has been mobilized by various stakeholders as a response to platform power (Dijck, Nieborg & Poell 2019, Herlo et al. 2021).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13949", "words": "1645", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Grover, Rohan", "title": "UNPACKING EXPERTISE IN THE PRIVACY TECH INDUSTRY", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "data; expertise; industry; privacy; tech", "summary": "These dynamics characterize privacy expertise as something that cannot be found organically \u201cwithin\u201d individuals but instead as technical skills and knowledge only accessible to professionals with proximity to technical systems. At scale, then, privacy tech software promotes managerial processes that manifests as checkbox compliance, in which individuals such as the senior developer mentioned above simply perform isolated actions that should, theoretically, add up to upholding the spirit of the law, but, in practice, may fail to achieve accountability.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13950", "words": "1735", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Guerra, Abel", "title": "VISUALISING 10 THOUSAND CITIES? UBER'S DATA STORIES ON KNOWING URBAN SPACE", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "blog; data; engineering; space; uber; ueb", "summary": "Following Dourish and G\u00f3mez Cruz (2018) propositions on narrating data and narrating with data, I use data narratives to refer to processes \u201cby which data is found to be meaningful\u201d (p.5), attending to metaphors, tropes and conventions at work, as well as patterns of interpretation that may be indicative of epistemic orders imposed into urban space and those inhabiting it. Data visualization plays a central role as both rhetorical and epistemic devices (Mackenzie, 2015), being central to the interpretation of large amounts of multidimensional data and in the validation of knowledge produced.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13952", "words": "1039", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Hallinan, Blake; Trill\u00f2, Tommaso; Mizoroki, Saki; Scharlach, Rebecca; Park, Pyung Hwa; Green, Avishai; Shifman, Limor", "title": "THE COLLECTIVE INDIVIDUALISM OF YOUTUBE MAKEUP REVIEWS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "media; reviews; university; youtube", "summary": "If a review answers the questions of what a product is and whether is it any good (Blank, 2006), YouTube beauty reviews spend most of their time on the former. We employed content analysis on the top 20 videos in each language (n=100) to compare the videos\u2019 evaluative criteria using a codebook of ten values we adapted from Boltanski and Th\u00e9venot\u2019s (2006) typology of justifications for a prior study of YouTube reviews (Hallinan, 2023).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13953", "words": "2227", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Han, Jing; Iliadis, Andrew", "title": "A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND PROMPTS: TOPIC MODELING OF AI ART SUBREDDIT COMMUNITIES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "art; image; midjourney; models; photo; prompts; topics", "summary": "TOPIC MODELING OF AI ART SUBREDDIT COMMUNITIES Jing Han Klein College of Media and Communication Temple University Andrew Iliadis Klein College of Media and Communication Temple University Text-to-image generation (AI art) has become a mainstream phenomenon since the introduction of DALL-E by OpenAI in January 2021 (Nast, 2023). Our study explores this aspect of AI art, aiming to understand the topics and themes within online AI art communities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13954", "words": "1612", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "27", "author": "Han, Seungtae; Kuerbis, Brenden", "title": "FROM BLACK TO WHITE: DISSECTING PROPGAGNDA IN NUCLEAR EMERGENCIES, FINDING AI-ENABLED DISINFORMATION", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "analysis; disinformation; narratives; nuclear; propaganda", "summary": "The research categorized disinformation narratives using Martino et al.'s (2020) framework of 18 propaganda techniques, enabling systematic analysis of how these methods are deployed across different contexts and platforms (M\u00e9ndez-Muros et al., 2024). The research identified several key disinformation narratives in each case.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13955", "words": "1766", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Hardcastle, Faranak; Raman, Sujatha; de Silva, Christer; Davis, Jenny; Tavakoli-Nabavi, Ehsan", "title": "RETHINKING AI FOR GOOD: CRITIQUE, REFRAMING AND ALTERNATIVES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "data; good", "summary": "We argue that even when principles and definitions are offered, they tend to be abstracted from the complex social realities and contexts that shape both the design and implementation of AI technologies and their ability (or inability) to create social good, especially in the global South. Applying AI for social good.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13956", "words": "1629", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Harris, Brandon C.; Maddox, Jessica", "title": "GROOMERS, \u2018TITTIES\u2019, & STREAMERS, OH MY!: TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF ANDROCENTRIC PLATFORM GOVERNANCE ON TWITCH", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "governance; media; platform; social; twitch", "summary": "This means many of Twitch\u2019s policies and attempts at platform governance are often implemented inconsistently or in an ad-hoc manner, leading to greater confusion about what is and isn\u2019t permissible on the platform (Winslow, 2024). Platform governance, also known as content moderation, harkens to how \u201cplatforms don\u2019t make content, but they will make important choices about that content; what they will distribute and to whom, how they will connect users and broker their reactions, and what they will refuse\u201d (Gillespie, 2018, pp.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13957", "words": "1868", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Harris, Brandon C.; Tran, Christine H.; Persaud, Christopher J.", "title": "RECONTEXTUALIZING VIOLENCE IN REAL TIME: LIVE STREAMING & THE GOVERNANCE OF INCONSISTENCY ON TWITCH.TV", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "content; media; moderation; platform; society; streamers; twitch", "summary": "Twitch streamer appalled after \u2018fake\u2019 mod shuts down her stream. We must consider how Twitch users weaponize ephemeral affordances to enact both lulz-based trolling for mischievous humor (Phillips, 2016) as well as hate raids on and off the platform (Grayson, 2021).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13958", "words": "1517", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Hayden, Lauren; Carah, Nicholas; Robards, Brady; Dobson, Amy", "title": "SCREENSHOT METHODOLOGIES TO COLLECT AND ANALYSE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM ADVERTISING", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "ads; advertising; media; platforms; screenshot", "summary": "By facilitating observability of digital advertising, these methods generate a novel research object: collections of digital ads illustrating the output of social media platforms content curation models. In this paper, we present three projects that combine participatory and digital methods to study dark and ephemeral forms of digital advertising.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13959", "words": "1812", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Heemsbergen, Luke; Hawker, Kiah; Meyrick, Tonya; Greuter, Stefan", "title": "DYING AND BEING DEAD IN XR: IMMERSIVE REHEARSALS OF DEATH; AFFECTIVE ARTEFACTS POST-LIFE", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "death; dying; reality", "summary": "We explore theorisation of two multi-site case studies of dying and being dead in Extended Reality (XR) to investigate immersive death experiences facilitated by these media. Re-feminizing death: Gender, spirituality and death care in the anthropocene.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13960", "words": "1488", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Hegarty, Kieran", "title": "WEB ARCHIVING AFTER PLATFORMIZATION: READING ARCHIVED SOCIAL MEDIA ALONG THE GRAIN", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "archives; collecting; media; platformization; web", "summary": "Yet, the impact of platformization on the records of the web\u2019s past\u2014in web archives\u2014is only starting to be explored (Acker & Kreisberg, 2020; Ben-David, 2020). While this recent work sheds light on the changing power dynamics that condition the formation of archives, there is currently little research exploring how platformization impacts the day-to-day work of building collections, how web archivists navigate the challenges of collecting material from platform environments, and what this means for the content and character\u2014and therefore the future use\u2014of web archives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13961", "words": "1796", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Holi, Ella Maria", "title": "FROM #BODYPOSITIVE TO #WEIGHTLOSSJOURNEY \u2013 EXPLORING WEIGHT LOSS NARRATIVES WITHIN THE FAT COMMUNITY", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "body; content; fat; loss; narratives; weight", "summary": "I argue that the body positive weight loss narratives represent a change in how body positivity is understood. Furthermore, some of the content creators subvert the traditional before and after element of hegemonic weight loss narratives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13962", "words": "1637", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Holroyd, Deanna", "title": "CONTENT CREATORS VS THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY: A CASE STUDY OF THE TECHNO-CULTURAL AUTHORITY OF ADHD TIKTOK", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "adhd; authority; content; media; tiktok", "summary": "I ultimately argue that the techno-cultural authority of ADHD TikTok challenges customary understandings of medical authority figures and disrupts the traditional authority of the medical and healthcare industry, by impacting how users understand themselves and their mental health, and who is deemed an expert on the body. Traditionally, medical anthropologists and science and technology scholars have understood medical authority as a discursive, normalizing power generated through institutional knowledge; by creating medical knowledge about the body, and then circulating this knowledge through medical textbooks, research journals, and practitioner training programs, medical and educational institutions create particular scientific discourses that become standardized \u2018regimes of truth\u2019 (Foucault, 1973, 1980; Starr, 1984).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13963", "words": "1226", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Horne, Chelsea Leigh", "title": "A GAME OF PRIVACY TUG OF WAR: A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF PRIVACY SETTINGS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "changes; meta; privacy; settings", "summary": "In 2008, Facebook deployed privacy settings that set user information to private by default (Kirkpatrick, 2010), indicating that privacy was central for Facebook and the main place where privacy was controlled and enacted was via user privacy settings. At the heart of this longstanding, ongoing privacy \u201cgame\u201d are privacy settings, a key lever of power at the intersection of platforms, users, and regulation (Horne, 2023a).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13964", "words": "1314", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Horne, Chelsea Leigh", "title": "WHO HAS THE POWER?: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS TO PARENTAL CONTROLS ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "controls; media; platforms; privacy", "summary": "While concerns over children\u2019s safety online and complaints about problematic settings are not necessarily new (Horne, 2021; Horne, 2023b), there may be an emerging trend in some countries to try to address growing concerns about the impact of social media platforms by setting regulation on parental controls. The apparent appeal of parental controls is the ability of social media platforms to offer a visible space to exert \u201cchoice and control\u201d to users\u2019 parents (Freishtat & Sandlin, 2010;", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13965", "words": "1715", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Hou\u0161ka, Jan", "title": "BOUNDARYLESS CAREERS IN-BETWEEN VIDEO GAME FIELDS AND INDUSTRIES: THE JOB EXPERIENCES OF EXPATRIATE AND REMOTE WORKERS IN CZECH VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "czech; game; industries; industry; production; workers", "summary": "The one-off interviews would be at risk of missing this dynamic side of game industries. But in comparison with commercial engines such as Unity or Unreal, proprietary engines point to the specific provenance of local game industries and contextually specific games (Nicoll & Keogh, 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13966", "words": "1714", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Jacobs, Naomi Jane; Changede, Sejal; Gradinar, Adrian", "title": "MINDFUL AUTOMATION: TECHNOLOGY AND MEANING IN SMART HOMES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "design; home; meaning; practice; ritual", "summary": "Conclusion We concur with Markum (2024) that HCI and internet research fields will benefit from further research into connected technology interacting with embodied experience and ritual in home practice. We ask: how is value and meaning in embodied ritual practice impacted by intervention with digital technologies in the home?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13967", "words": "1448", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Jorge, Ana; Kubrusly, Ana", "title": "AFFECTIVE TEMPORALITIES ON SOCIAL MEDIA: WORLD YOUTH DAY 2023", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "event; media; pilgrimage; pilgrims; social; world", "summary": "Pilgrimage can be augmented by digital media, for instance in the form of blogs, groups, or virtual pilgrimage that support the preparation of the experience; as well as in the sharing of the experience through social media, as a form of 'expressive release', sense-making and community affirmation (Maddrell & della Dora, 2013). The official WYD app and website also offered an interactive map which highlighted points of interest to pilgrims and a daily schedule with events across the city.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13968", "words": "1553", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Kalisky, Alma; Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta", "title": "UNEARTHING CONNECTIONS: EXAMINING THE ROLE OF SENSE OF COMMUNITY IN A CONSPIRACY BELIEVERS\u2019 FACEBOOK GROUP", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "community; conspiracy; group; members", "summary": "Yet, in the case of conspiracy theory groups, such a sense of belonging can also have negative repercussions. This research thus asks: How is a sense of community established and maintained in online conspiracy groups?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13969", "words": "1284", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Kant, Tanya", "title": "CHEATGPT? THE REALITIES OF AUTOMATED AUTHORSHIP IN THE UK PR AND COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRIES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "generative; literacy; text", "summary": "Finally, though we find the majority respondents believe generative text AI use is ethical, many writers and managers lack the assurances needed to confidently negotiate the legal, IP and employment implications of generative AI tools. This project looks to map generative AI usage and understanding of smaller stakeholders in UK communications sectors in ways that might empower such stakeholders to use generative text AI tools ethically and critically.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13970", "words": "1440", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Karathanasopoulou, Evi", "title": "PODCASTING, VR, AI AND THE EVOLUTION OF INTIMACY", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "intimacy; podcasting; space", "summary": "This paper then, will situate intimacy as place-based affect and will look to find common ground with previous radiophonic and podcast intimacies as well as to reveal where there may be new intimacies if/when podcasting enters the Virtual Reality media space. I examine this antithesis: On the one hand, radiophonic intimacy is based on the listener filling in the visual gaps through imagination and by using their private and personal noumenal imagery.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13971", "words": "1684", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Kasianenko, Kateryna; Boichak, Olga", "title": "\u201cTHE ALGORITHM IS YOUR MOM\u201d: PLAYFUL ALGORITHMIC AGENCY IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC FELLA ORGANISATION", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "algorithm; fellas; media; nafo; twitter", "summary": "A collage showcasing avatars of some of the NAFO members We combine insights from qualitative textual analyses of a sample from over 4 million tweets with 25 semi-structured interviews with NAFO members. The algorithm is your mom: Playful algorithmic agency in the North Atlantic Fella Organization.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13972", "words": "1724", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Katsirea, Irini", "title": "FROM FLORIDA AND TEXAS TO KARLSRUHE: ONLINE PLATFORMS AS PUBLISHERS OF YORE OR AS (UN)COMMON CARRIERS?", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "content; law; online; platforms; rights; speech", "summary": "https://perma.cc/9KF3-LEQX http://laws.flrules.org/2021/32#page=9 doctrine to online platforms has been viewed as problematic as it would likely undermine their power to exercise editorial control over speech.6 In Germany, the question of platform regulation by human rights has been fought in manifold court cases, and has divided courts and commentators alike. Newspapers mostly run their own content and exhibit their own editorial voice, while online platforms merely provide links to foreign content, thus resembling broadcasters or cable operators who choose what to include in their schedules.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13973", "words": "1849", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Kelly, Anthony Patrick", "title": "\u201cOH, YOU MEAN\u2026 GAY?\u201d: RELATIONAL LABOUR AND THE INDUSTRIAL ARTICULATION OF HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY BY ANDREW TATE AND HIS FOLLOWERS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "influencer; labour; masculinity; media; tate", "summary": "\u201cOh, you mean\u2026 gay?\u201d: Relational labour and the industrial articulation of hegemonic masculinity by Andrew Tate and his followers. \u201cOH, YOU MEAN\u2026 GAY?\u201d: RELATIONAL LABOUR AND THE INDUSTRIAL ARTICULATION OF HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY BY ANDREW TATE AND HIS FOLLOWERS Anthony Patrick Kelly University College Dublin Introduction This paper examines how the figures and imaginaries of hegemonic masculinity are co- produced and contested among a reactionary influencer fandom.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13974", "words": "1655", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Kerr, Aphra; Bidav, Tugce; McEvoy, Erin; Kitchin, Paul", "title": "CONNECTING WITH SPORTS FANS: GAMBLING MARKETING STRATEGIES ON INSTAGRAM", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "content; gambling; instagram; marketing; media; sports", "summary": "Unlike televised live sporting events that provide an avenue for distributing direct gambling messages, social media platforms such as Instagram facilitate the distribution of a wide variety of content types that not only seek to capture the attention of adult and youth sports fans, but also users who would not typically engage with gambling content. It furthers a growing body of evidence that evidences the extent of gambling marketing that young people are exposed to and how gambling companies exploit fandom to target both gamblers and non-gamblers alike.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13975", "words": "1613", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Knuutila, Aleksi; Arjoranta, Jonne", "title": "FOLLOWING LENIN AND STALIN THROUGH INSTAGRAM: VARIETIES OF DISSIMULATIVE PLAY IN LEFT-REVOLUTIONARY MEMES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "accounts; lenin; memes; politigram; stalin", "summary": "We also ask how Politigram establishes itself as a community through memes and how participants express political stances. Methods and data We identified accounts posting political memes on Instagram by combining several search strategies. Online political ideation and how fringe political perspectives circulate widely through memes have become pressing concerns for research, particularly after meme culture has been appropriated and weaponised by reactionary political forces.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13976", "words": "1507", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Kopelman, Sara", "title": "THE PHOTOJOURNALISTIC GIF: VISUAL JOURNALISM IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA ERA", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "digital; gif; journalism; media; news", "summary": "The ceaseless repetitive motion of the GIF stands in overt contrast to conventional photographs and videos in the news but, at the same time, seems to echo the transformations that followed the intense use of smartphones that have affected visual news production and news consumption. The emergence of the GIF in online news as a legitimate image for the documentary representation of disaster, violence, and tragedy is unexpected.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13977", "words": "1453", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Kuai, Joanne; Brantner, Cornelia; Karlsson, Michael; Van Couvering, Elizabeth; Romano, Salvatore", "title": "THE DARK SIDE OF LLM-POWERED CHATBOTS: MISINFORMATION, BIASES, CONTENT MODERATION CHALLENGES IN POLITICAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "chatbots; information; language; study", "summary": "Thirdly, recognizing the importance of information quality and transparency in the sources used by AI chatbots, we investigate the factuality of the synopses and the sources provided by the chatbot (all prompts). Finally, considering the language limitations of AI chatbots and the geopolitical context in which they operate, we explore the universality of AI chatbot gatekeeping and sourcing.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13978", "words": "1875", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Laaksonen, Salla-Maaria; Pantti, Mervi; Hatakka, Niko", "title": "EMPOWERING VOTERS AND FOSTERING HEALTHY POLITICAL DISCOURSE: DISCURSIVE LEGITIMATION BY DIGITAL MEDIA PLATFORMS IN THE CONTEXT OF ELECTIONS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "communication; discourse; legitimation; media; platforms; society; van", "summary": "Platform companies eagerly communicate that they generate social good, yet they are commercial companies motivated by private, economic interests (van Dijck et al., 2018; Van Dijck & Nieborg, 2009). We ask, how do platform companies articulate elections as a context through which they discursively construct their role and legitimacy as actors in society?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13979", "words": "1369", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Lai, Signe Sophus; Pybus, Jennifer; Lomborg, Stine; Svendsen, Kristian Sick", "title": "AUDITING THE CLOSED IOS ECOSYSTEM: IS THERE POTENTIAL FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL APP INSPECTIONS?", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "app; apple; apps; data; mobile", "summary": "As part of the project, we have collected a dataset of 1000+ apps, and inspected these for embedded permissions for accessing data via the app as well as identified the SDKs of each app. Moreover, few open access tools or databases like Exodus Privacy for Android apps, are available to make it easier for interested interlocutors or academics to inspect its applications.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13980", "words": "1208", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Lalvani, Simiran", "title": "THEORISING TOGGLING: BEING PUSHED AND MOVED BY UI", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "information; push; toggling; users", "summary": "Prior to digital information push, push buttons in electric circuits on doorbells and typewriters, created similar concerns about users becoming lazy and disconnected. Then I will illustrate how toggling as a concept, enables reframing two dominant views on (1) how information is imagined to push users to do things and (2) how being a user, especially a consumer, is imagined to move us \u201cout of touch.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13981", "words": "1499", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Lauriault, Tracey P.; Theus, Anna Lena", "title": "INDUSTRY 4.0: DIGITAL TWINS AND ACCOUNTABILITY", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "data; digital; records; research", "summary": "Currently there are no a-is BIMs as that was not stipulated in contracts; the ownership of sensor data is unclear as the sensor company is different from the company that does the analytics. The University archives is interested in the records related to contracts, the procurement of BIMs, and of weekly status reports from the companies that read and report sensor data and not ICDT.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13982", "words": "1491", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Le, Trang", "title": "HISTORICIZING FEMINIST DATA ACTIVISM: A MEDIA GENEALOGY OF THE WOMEN\u2019S SAFETY AUDITS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "activism; data; feminist; women; wsa", "summary": "Trang Le Monash University Introduction This paper historicizes feminist data activism, particularly as it relates to the use of grassroots data by feminist activists to address gendered violence in public spaces. Against the presentism in common data narratives, as in the claim of scholars such as Yu Sun and Siyuan Yin (2022) that feminist data activism has emerged as a new form of feminist activism, a historical perspective, as I shall argue, allows us to unpack what seems to be a novel action repertoire within contemporary feminist activism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13983", "words": "1664", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Lee, Jin", "title": "EXPLORING THE NEXUS OF K-POP DANCE CHALLENGES: CHILDREN\u2019S K-POP DREAM, INTERNET STARDOM, AND CUTE LABOR IN THE EVOLVING CULTURE INDUSTRY", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "challenges; children; dance; idol; pop", "summary": "Similarly, the influencer industries across the Asia Pacific region, mainly in Korea, Japan, and China, have introduced \u201cK-pop academy programs\u201d aimed at nurturing children into child influencers and debuting \u201cchild idol\u201d groups that serve as stepping stones towards professional idol careers in the entertainment industry amidst the rise of K-pop culture (Lee et al., forthcoming). Consequently, the challenges transform into online K-pop auditions, similar to child pageant shows where visualities of children are assessed against the criteria of \u2018idol materials\u2019 and \u2018idol standards\u2019.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13984", "words": "1551", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Lemos, Andr\u00e9; Walmir, Estima", "title": "AUTONOMY UNDER SURVEILLANCE: A FAILED EXPERIENCE ON PLATFORM COOPERATIVISM IN BRAZIL", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "autonomy; cooperativism; data; experience; platform; power", "summary": "Reframing platform power. Method: Tracing power relationships through data relations The power of global infrastructural platforms is operating in the locatable action flows of the entities involved in the experience.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13985", "words": "1650", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Li, Yuening; Kerr, Aphra; Ryan, Linzi", "title": "TRUST ISSUES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: SOCIAL IMAGINARIES, RISK, AND USER LABOUR IN DIGITAL BANKING APPS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "apps; banking; money; university; users; van", "summary": "These groups shape the broader understanding and design of money and digital banking services, influenced by cultural norms, historical contexts, technological advancements, and economic practices. It views digital banking apps as platforms that enable personalised interactions (Poell, Nieborg, and van Dijck, 2019), and aim to investigate the datafication (van Dijck, 2014; Sadowski, 2019) and platformisation of banking.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13986", "words": "1221", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Liang, Boyang", "title": "FROM NEIJUAN TO BUJUAN: CHINESE IT PROFESSIONALS' CHANGING PHILOSOPHY TOWARDS WORKING", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "bujuan; chinese; industry; neijuan; professionals", "summary": "FROM NEIJUAN TO BUJUAN: CHINESE IT PROFESSIONALS' CHANGING PHILOSOPHY TOWARDS WORKING Boyang Liang School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds Introduction Having the highest average salary in China, IT professionals have enjoyed rapid development and upgrades in their industry. Given the high uncertainty within the industry itself, the outcome of neijuan among IT professionals is not necessarily success in competition; it can lead to a sense of anxiety for others and calls for more internal competition (Mulvey & Wright, 2022).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13987", "words": "1498", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Lin, Hui", "title": "THE ROLE OF THE DRAMA INTERPRETATION INDUSTRY IN THE TRANSNATIONAL RECEPTION OF KOREAN TV SERIES IN CHINA", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "drama; series; videos", "summary": "This contrasts with drama interpretation videos on YouTube which thrives for participatory culture, where low-barrier interactive features allow users to re-edit TV series (Jenkins, 2006), or share clips of TV series to participate (Hutchinson, 2016; Ford & Green, 2013). This article examines how the drama interpretation industry on video-streaming platforms influences the transnational reception of Korean TV series in China.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13988", "words": "1796", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Liu, Diyi", "title": "BORDERLINE CONTENT AND PLATFORMISED SPEECH GOVERNANCE: MAPPING TIKTOK\u2019S MODERATION CONTROVERSIES IN SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "content; governance; moderation; platform; speech; tiktok", "summary": "As part of their increasing role in the public sphere (Fischer & Jarren, 2023), content moderation of UGC platforms involves an ongoing process of legitimation through interactions among platforms and other social actors, who continually rearticulate moderation norms sensitive to each national context. While extensive research has explored content moderation of digital platforms in democratic contexts, there remains a gap in understanding whether the Western communication order\u2019s legitimation tools adequately address the complexities of less- than-democratic developing nations (Ramesh et al., 2022).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13989", "words": "1597", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "13", "author": "Lo, Claudia; Walton, Sam", "title": "AUTOMODERATOR AS AN EXAMPLE OF COMMUNITY DRIVEN PRODUCT DESIGN", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "automoderator; community; design; development; product", "summary": "Product development for the Automoderator project included a participatory process, where the product team integrated volunteer feedback and direction on a continuous basis, rather than writing software in isolation and deploying rapidly. We hope that by sharing more about a contemporary alternative system for product development, we demonstrate that it is possible to conduct product development in a more collaborative manner within the technology world.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13990", "words": "1882", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Lott, Kaarel", "title": "THE PROFESSIONALISATION OF NETWORKED AND REFRACTED MISOGYNY AMONG ESTONIAN MANFLUENCERS ON TIKTOK", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "content; gender; manfluencers; media; study", "summary": "Persistence guarantees that content is difficult to delete; searchability ensures that content is easily found; replicability allows for the copying of information and lastly, scalability enables the viral spread of misogynist content (boyd, 2010). Methods and Data First, digital ethnography (Pink et al., 2016; Markham, 2017) is conducted to deeply immerse the researcher in misogynist content on various social media platforms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13991", "words": "1882", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Luitse, Dieuwertje Maria Rebecca; Schj\u00f8tt Hansen, Anna", "title": "THE POLITICS OF MACHINE-LEARNING EVALUATION: FROM LAB TO INDUSTRY", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "development; evaluation; learning; machine", "summary": "Taking a Critical AI Studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS) research approach, we outline how to study what we call industrialised accounts of AI evaluation beyond the laboratory. Concretely, we present three analytical entry points that address the sociotechnical and political nature of AI evaluation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13992", "words": "2025", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Lupinacci, Ludmila", "title": "MIXED FEELINGS: THE PLATFORMISATION OF MOODS AND VIBES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "feelings; moods; platforms; press; university; vibes", "summary": "Over the past few years, digital platforms from different sectors have started tailoring their content, affordances, rhetoric, and interfaces to both respond to and create certain moods and vibes. I start from the premise that, in our contemporary mediascape, part of the lure seems to be to delegate this labour to digital platforms themselves.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13993", "words": "2198", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Lutz, Christoph; Gmyrek, Pawe\u0142; Newlands, Gemma", "title": "ASSESSING OCCUPATIONS THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A COMPARISON OF HUMANS AND GPT-4", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "gpt-4; occupations; osv; prestige", "summary": "We follow this idea by differentiating two distinct axes of occupational evaluation: occupational prestige (OP) and occupational social value (OSV). Occupational prestige and occupational social value in the United Kingdom: New indices for the modern British economy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13994", "words": "2107", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Lutz, Christoph; Whalley, Jason; Stocker, Volker", "title": "FREELANCING IN THE DIGITAL AGE: UNDERSTANDING FIVERR WITHIN THE GIG ECONOMY", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "economy; fiverr; gig; platform; work", "summary": "Finally, there is a rich body of research on capital platform work (Duggan et al., 2020), especially Airbnb (e.g., Dann et al., 2019). FREELANCING IN THE DIGITAL AGE: UNDERSTANDING FIVERR WITHIN THE GIG ECONOMY Jason Whalley Northumbria University, Volker Stocker Weizenbaum Institute, Christoph Lutz BI Norwegian Business School, Introduction and Methods In recent times, a series of platforms have emerged as key actors within the economy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13995", "words": "1672", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Mackinnon, Katherine; Maemura, Emily", "title": "FROM IA_ARCHIVER TO OPENAI: THE PASTS AND FUTURES OF AUTOMATED DATA SCRAPERS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "archives; crawlers; data; internet; rep; web", "summary": "We argue here that web archives should never be exempt from adhering to web creators\u2019 intentions for their data and a renewed interest in their position is warranted as web archives data is increasingly being made available to ML models and methods (Baack, 2024; van Strien, 2023). Paired with some of the work on critical archival theory, we aim to find new ways for web archives and modes of collection to become unbound from the \u201ccapitalist logics of data extraction\u201d upon which they\u2019re currently built (Theilen et al., 2021).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13996", "words": "1365", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Madapathi, Manisha", "title": "POLICY AT ODDS- DIGITAL INDIA VERSUS INTERNET SHUTDOWNS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "citizens; digital; india; internet", "summary": "Establishing digital networks to remote rural India serve very defined goals for the project of Digital India. The government of India, in 2014, through the Department of Electronics and Information Technology launched a flagship programme called Digital India, with a vision to transform India into a \u2018digitally empowered society and knowledge economy\u2019.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13997", "words": "1308", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Madianou, Mirca", "title": "SURREPTITIOUS EXPERIMENTATION: DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES AND STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE IN THE HUMANITARIAN INDUSTRY.", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "experimentation; infrastructures; people; systems", "summary": "Humanitarian systems are built on privatised or government networks and systems; in turn humanitarian systems become the infrastructure for the provision of basic services. Humanitarian infrastructures encompass humanitarian workers, host governments, donors (which largely includes western governments), private companies, volunteers, digital developers and crisis- affected communities and the relations between them.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13998", "words": "1722", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "21", "author": "Maqbool, Kainaat; Tsaliki, L.", "title": "DECOLONISING THE INTERNET: EXPERIENCES OF (CYBER)BULLYING AND DEVELOPING COLLECTIVE CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS FOR YOUTH OF AFRICAN DESCENT IN ATHENS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "collective; https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?yzpwsk https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?yzpwsk; internet; race; research; youth", "summary": "This study explores the intricate convergence of the internet as an industry, the cyber(bullying) experiences of AfroGreek youth in Athens, Greece, and experiments with the idea of developing a relationship of resistance to Afrophobia. The findings stem from an ethnographic approach, drawing on field notes and follow-up interviews from participatory focus group workshops involving AfroGreek youth as knowledge-holders.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-13999", "words": "1465", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Marino, Giada; Almeida Paroni, Bruna; Giglietto, Fabio", "title": "THE BRAZILIAN DIGITAL BATTLEFIELD: INVESTIGATING THE DYNAMICS OF POLITICAL INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS IN POST-BOLSONARO ERA", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "bolsonaro; facebook; giglietto; posts; reactions", "summary": "a b Figure 4 \u2013 Mocking posts by pro-Lula users in pro-Bolsonaro groups. In 2023, we observed mocking content targeting Bolsonaro, his family, and allies, shared by presumed Lula supporters within pro-Bolsonaro groups.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14000", "words": "1719", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "McCosker, Anthony; Kang, Yong-Bin; Shaw, Frances; Albury, Kath", "title": "FROM TECH-SOLUTIONISM TO COMMUNITY-CENTRED DATA CAPABILITY FOR DISASTER PREPAREDNESS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "community; data; disaster; mapping; platform; preparedness", "summary": "A central finding for the model of community data capability developed through the project workshops and platform design is the role that data donation can play as a new form of volunteering and humanitarian action (Boeschoten et al., 2022). While disaster data and analysis has become its own industry and research field (Cuthbertson et al., 2021), new approaches are needed that are not premised on imposing \u2018techno solutionism\u2019 (Morozov, 2013) from the outside on communities vulnerable to disaster and climate change.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14001", "words": "1449", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Meng, Fancheng", "title": "MONETIZING QUEERBAITING: BOYFRIEND DAILY CHECK-INS AS A STRATEGY TO ENGAGE QUEER FANDOM", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "douyin; influencers; media; queer; queerbaiting", "summary": "Furthermore, most queer content creators on Douyin often present themselves as straight precisely because of their tacit engagement with queerbaiting strategies. The research sample consists of 10 male influencers who use the boyfriend's daily report queerbaiting strategy, with follower counts ranging from 10,000 to 1 million.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14002", "words": "1785", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Milik, Oskar Tadeusz; Jang, Dayeoun; Foxman, Maxwell; Klebig, Brian; Beyea, David; Leith, Alex; Ratan, Rabindra", "title": "FOCUSING ON VIRTUAL GROUPS: A METHOD FOR FOCUS GROUP INTERVIEWS IN XR/VR GROUP SETTINGS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "digital; focus; group; meeting; platform", "summary": "Considering social group interactions are affected by technology (Milik, 2015), we need a new methodological approach to understand group dynamics in virtual meeting spaces. Focusing On Virtual Groups: A Method for Focus Group Interviews in XR/VR Group Settings.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14003", "words": "1887", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Milne, Betsy; Ringrose, Jessica; Horeck, Tanya; Mendes, Kaitlynn", "title": "TINDER FOR TEENS: AN IN-DEPTH EXPLORATION OF YOUTH INTIMATE CULTURES AND SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE ON SNAPCHAT", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "experiences; media; people; snapchat; users; youth", "summary": "Young people often reported receiving unsolicited sexual images from Snapchat users they believed were peers but were actually adult men, also known as catfishing. Approach While it is important to protect young people from emerging digital risks, scholars are increasingly emphasising youth digital sexual rights, and the positive potential that digital technologies can play in young people\u2019s sexual and bodily self-expression online (Albury, 2017; Albury et al., 2017; Livingstone & Third, 2017; Setty, 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14004", "words": "1576", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Miltner, Kate", "title": "\u201cA.I. IS HOLDING A MIRROR TO OUR SOCIETY\u201d: LENSA AND THE DISCOURSE OF VISUAL GENERATIVE AI", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "corpus; coverage; discourse; lensa", "summary": "Critiques of Lensa\u2019s sexualized and racialized results map directly onto discourses about \u201calgorithms of oppression\u201d (Noble, 2017) and other forms of gendered and racialized algorithmic biases, and analyses of Lensa user behaviors were plucked directly from the selfie moral panic playbook, with their insistence that digital technologies amplify our most deleterious narcissistic tendencies (e.g., Tiidenberg, 2018). Articles were sourced from Nexis using the term \u201cLensa AI\u201d in English-language coverage across all regions from November 2022 to July 2023.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14005", "words": "1445", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Mitchell, Peta; Marshall, Amber", "title": "THE WORK OF DIGITAL INCLUSION: EXPOSING THE DIGITAL LABOUR OF COMMUNITY WORKERS FOSTERING DIGITAL PARTICIPATION", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "community; digital; inclusion; support; work", "summary": "In light of our results, our study extends the concept of digital labour to include work undertaken in the service and advocacy of digital inclusion in community contexts. We argue that these activities are forms of \u2018digital labour\u2019 and that the digital labour involved in supporting individuals towards achieving digital inclusion is under-recognised both in digital inclusion theory and practice.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14006", "words": "1592", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Mitchell, Peta; Riedlinger, Michelle; Goldenfein, Jake; Snoswell, Aaron; Burgess, Jean; Witzenberger, Kevin", "title": "RESEARCH GENAI: SITUATING GENERATIVE AI IN THE SCHOLARLY ECONOMY", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "economy; genai; platforms; research; rgai", "summary": "Through their freemium pricing models, their endorsement and promotion by academic AI \u201cthought leaders,\u201d and their growing inclusion on lists of recommended research tools developed by university libraries, RGAI platforms are becoming embedded within the scholarly economy and, we argue, contributing to the growth and complexity of automation and platformisation of scholarly research and publishing. ChatGPT\u2019s release in late 2022 initiated significant and ongoing debate over GenAI\u2019s implications for academic research and publishing.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14007", "words": "1658", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Morris, Jeremy Wade", "title": "ARTIFICIAL AUDIO: EMERGING USES OF AI IN PODCASTING", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "audio; industry; media; podcasting; podcasts", "summary": "Even shows that remain on platforms, like AI Radio - a \u201ccurrent events\u201d show hosted by chat bots Adam and Bella that discuss topics like different sex acts human enjoy and kangaroos invading Uganda - come with content warnings and feel like they could be taken down any day: \u201cThese segments are made up by AI. The paper will also present a discourse analysis of industry texts about a variety of AI tools designed for podcasters.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14008", "words": "2003", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Muenster, Roxana Mika; Foster, Margaret E.", "title": "BREADWINNER OR BREADMAKER: CONTRADICTIONS IN TRADWIVES' CREATOR LABOR, RELIGIOUS VERNACULAR, AND AESTHETICS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "creators; instagram; labor; media; tradwife; tradwives", "summary": "We ask the following research questions: RQ1: How do tradwife creators reconcile their professed identification with traditional gender roles and their entrepreneurial activities in text and audiovisual content? RQ2: However, this seems at odds with their labor as content creators.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14009", "words": "1391", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Muhammed M. P, Faheem; Kachari, Samarjit", "title": "BIOMETRIC GOVERNMENTALITIES: THE RISE OF DATAFICATION AND THE UNIQUE HEALTH IDENTIFICATION PROJECT IN INDIA", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "aadhaar; abha; biometric; health; india", "summary": "Whereas, enrolment into health identity systems becomes a condition for citizens' rights to access healthcare and welfare. Dwelling on how citizen bodies and identities are formed and (re)negotiated across multiple identity systems, it concludes that digital health and biometric welfare often make enrolment into health identity systems a condition for citizens' rights to healthcare.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14010", "words": "1576", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Nagappa, Ashwin", "title": "TRANSIENT-PLATFORM PARADIGMS: NARRATIVES OF BLOCKCHAIN EXPERIMENTS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "media; new; paradigm; platform", "summary": "For example, social media platforms have prominently shaped everyday communication practices and several industries, including media, telecommunication, information technology and advertising. It emerged amid a rapidly changing landscape of digital technologies such as social media platforms, financial technology systems, GenAI, and cloud computing.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14011", "words": "2428", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Nansen, Bj\u00f8rn; Bliss, Lauren", "title": "FINANCE APPS AND THE DATAFICATION OF CHILDREN\u2019S ECONOMIC LIVES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "apps; children; chore; datafication; family; features; finance; prepaid", "summary": "The paper undertakes an analysis of features across child finance apps, exploring their role in the datafication of children\u2019s finances and economic participation. We identify and argue that the data produced by child finance apps simultaneously enables increased agency and control of children\u2019s financial lives by initiating a lifelong digital trace.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14012", "words": "1236", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Narayan, Devika", "title": "CLOUD AS INFRASTRUCTURE: THEORISING THE LINKS BETWEEN \u2018BIG\u2019 TECH AND \u2018SMALL\u2019 TECH", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "cloud; computing; industry; new; platform", "summary": "Thus, I contribute to literature on platform ecosystems by examining changing organizational and market dynamics introduced by cloud computing within the corporate computing sector. Selected Papers of #AoIR2024: The 25th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Sheffield, UK / 30 Oct - 2 Nov 2024 CLOUD AS INFRASTRUCTURE: THEORISING LINKS BETWEEN \u2018BIG TECH\u2019 AND \u2018SMALL TECH\u2019 Devika Narayan University of Bristol Introduction This paper focuses on the political economy of cloud computing and the new industry dynamics it activates.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14013", "words": "1546", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Nelson, Lucinda; Suzor, Nicolas", "title": "MEASURING MISOGYNY: DEPP V HEARD AND THE LIMITS OF ATOMISTIC CONTENT MODERATION", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "content; misogyny; moderation; violence; women", "summary": "While they have made some changes \u2013 banning specific groups and pages; committing to reducing the spread of \u201cborderline content\u201d; introducing features that allow users to add additional context when reporting content \u2013 the foundational approach to content moderation has remained largely the same. DEPP V HEARD AND THE LIMITS OF ATOMISTIC CONTENT MODERATION Lucinda Nelson Queensland University of Technology Nicolas Suzor Queensland University of Technology Introduction and background There is a fundamental disconnect between existing approaches to content moderation and the dynamics of violence against women.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14014", "words": "1433", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Nelson, Lucinda; Suzor, Nicolas", "title": "GPT4 V THE OVERSIGHT BOARD: USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR CONTENT MODERATION", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "content; hate; language; models; moderation", "summary": "We deliberately focus on hard cases as a way of exploring the potential that foundation models present to approach content moderation tasks in a radically different way. GPT4 v the Oversight Board: Using large language models for content moderation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14015", "words": "1439", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Newton, Giselle", "title": "DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER DNA PLATFORMS & DIGITAL DISPLAYS OF FAMILY ", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "dna; family; genealogy; participants", "summary": "(Brad, 65, male, genealogy enthusiast) Participants often described how it was important that they added accurate and detailed information and photos to, not only to their DNA profile, but also to other social media profiles so that they were \u2018findable\u2019 or \u2018discoverable\u2019 if/when family members matched with them and began sleuthing. As such, direct-to-consumer DNA testing raises novel and complex questions related to how this technology might (re)shape individuals\u2019 sense of self and connectedness to family.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14016", "words": "1443", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Nguyen-Thu, Giang; Munn, Luke", "title": "TAMING THE ALGO: GRAB BIKERS GRAPPLING WITH PLATFORM LOGICS FROM BELOW", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "logics; platform; taming; workers", "summary": "Tropes of freedom, autonomy, and flexibility recur whenever platform workers explain what drew them to the platform and why they stay on it. Illusory freedom of physical platform workers: Insights from Uber Eats in Japan.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14017", "words": "1613", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Nieborg, David; Mahetaji, Kaushar", "title": "WHERE MY AI APPS AT? A HISTORIOGRAPHIC APPROACH TO ANALYZING PLATFORM TOOLS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "apps; bytedance; media; platform; tools", "summary": "Moreover, platform tools diverge and converge to produce new platform tools\u2014e.g., Live. A historiographic approach to analyzing platform tools.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14018", "words": "1697", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Nieborg, David; Simon,, Godwin Iretomiwa", "title": "RECIPROCAL PLATFORM LABOUR IN THE NIGERIAN SOCIAL MEDIA VIDEO INDUSTRY", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "content; creators; industry; labour; media; platform", "summary": "In sum, reciprocal platform labour provides a more granular case for how platform-dependent workers leverage relational practices to navigate the unstable economic and contingent infrastructural logics of platforms. Theorizing platform labour The rise of the platform economy has engendered diverse forms of labour for \u201cplatform- dependent\u201d workers (Poell et al., 2022).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14019", "words": "1363", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Niemann-Lenz, Julia; Kleinen-von K\u00f6nigsl\u00f6w, Katharina; Kantenwein, Leia; Oelschl\u00e4gel, Leonie; Scherf, Hannah", "title": "UNVEILING TIKTOK'S SHADOW: A TYPOLOGY OF WHITE NATIONALIST NARRATIVES AS EUDAIMONIC ENTERTAINMENT", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "content; narratives; tiktok; videos", "summary": "Indeed, research on nationalist videos disseminated on digital platforms has identified recurring motifs, such as nature symbolizing patriotism and the portrayal of women confined to traditional roles. Our typology of nationalist videos on German TikTok offers nuanced insights into the specific strategies extremists use for narrative dissemination on the platform, and sheds light on potential avenues for platform moderation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14020", "words": "1246", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Nikunen, Kaarina; Valtonen, Sanna", "title": "PLATFORMIZATION OF THE INDUSTRY OF HUMAN SMUGGLING", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "media; platforms; research; smuggling", "summary": "However, at the same time the transition of smuggling markets to social media platforms can also be considered at some level, to increase the safety of migrants and refugees due to information, evaluations, reviews and recommendations shared among peers. Our paper explores the emergence of the industry of human smuggling that operates on social media platforms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14021", "words": "1514", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Odermatt, C\u00e9line; Kappeler, Kiran; Festic, Noemi; Latzer, Michael", "title": "TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF CHILLING EFFECTS OF DATAVEILLANCE: EMPIRICAL FINDINGS FROM A LONGITUDINAL FIELD EXPERIMENT", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "dataveillance; effects; sense; time", "summary": "TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF CHILLING EFFECTS OF DATAVEILLANCE: EMPIRICAL FINDINGS FROM A LONGITUDINAL FIELD EXPERIMENT C\u00e9line Odermatt University of Zurich Kiran Kappeler University of Zurich Noemi Festic University of Zurich Michael Latzer University of Zurich Introduction Everyday internet use generates vast amounts of data enabling a specific form of surveillance of individuals, i.e., digital dataveillance: \u201cthe automated, continuous, and unspecific collection, retention, and analysis of digital traces by state and corporate actors\u201d (B\u00fcchi et al., 2022, p. 1). Empirical research on chilling effects is sparse.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14022", "words": "1858", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Oh, Dayei; Sykora, Martin; Elayan, Suzanne", "title": "SOCIAL IDENTITIES IN TWITTER ISSUE PUBLICS: BIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF HYPERACTIVE UNCIVIL AND INTOLERANT USERS IN AMERICAN ABORTION DISCOURSE", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "abortion; identities; identity; twitter; users", "summary": "In December 2022, we rehydrated the biographical data of the top 1% of most hyperactive uncivil and intolerant users and a random sample of non-hyperactive users in a similar size for comparison. Non-hyperactive users, however, focus more on apolitical and personal identity markers including one\u2019s gender, sexual orientations, and hobbies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14023", "words": "1635", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Oh, Dayei; Downey, John", "title": "DOES ALGORITHMIC CONTENT MODERATION RPOMOTE DEMOCRATIC DISCOURSE? RADICAL DEMOCRATIC CRITIQUE OF TOXIC LANGUAGE AI", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "content; discourse; incivility; language; moderation", "summary": "Google\u2019s Perspective API is an example of toxic language moderation algorithms to remove content that are \u2018rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable [\u2026] that is likely to make someone leave a discussion\u2019 (Dixon et al., 2018: 68). Does algorithmic content moderation promote democratic discourse?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14024", "words": "1521", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Oliveira Matos, Carolina", "title": "DE-CONSTRUCTING \u2018GENDER IDEOLOGY\u2019 MYTHS ON REPRODUCTION AND DIGITAL STORYTELLING THROUGH CDA: A CASE STUDY OF WOMEN\u2019S NGOS SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK\u201d", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "health; media; ngos; rights; women", "summary": "Some of the experts interviewed recognized that public health arguments and the mere adherence to advocating on reproductive health based on facts, reports and statistics is not enough and is not \u2018winning hearts\u201d, at a particularly crucial time where emotions and cultural values around various political, cultural and social issues run high, particularly in the digital age and in the context of increasing political polarization, populism and rise of opinionated commentary in the media and online sphere. This includes the ability to provide in depth, detailed and critical information on SRHR, permitting that citizens can question messages and information, and can also make connections between reproductive health rights to issues of poverty and inequality.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14025", "words": "1984", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Orton Johnson, Kate", "title": "FIRST GLASS OF WINE IN 8 MONTHS!: AN EXAMINATION OF SOBER CURIOUS COMMUNITIES ON TIKTOK", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "alcohol; health; journal; tiktok; use", "summary": "In this paper I argue that sober curious communities on TikTok represent a significant cultural phenomenon offering a haven for individuals navigating the complexities of sobriety. In this intoxigenic culture the emergence of sober curious communities raises some interesting questions about evolving identities, processes of cultural normalisation and tensions between the \u201csober curious\u201d and the \u201csober serious\u201d (Matei, 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14027", "words": "2145", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Park/Parke, Jul", "title": "A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF VIRTUALHUMANS.ORG AND ITS ROLE IN VIRTUAL INFLUENCER RESEARCH, 2019 TO PRESENT", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "industry; influencers; media; research; virtualhumans.org; website", "summary": "Often driven by a team of creators, an agency, or conglomerate which participates in their aesthetic design, storyline, tone of voice, and real-time interaction with followers in the comments section or inbox (Oosterom et al., 2023; Sands et al., 2022), virtual influencers represent a nascent presence on social media platforms. Background Since 2019, VirtualHumans.org has described itself as \u201cthe best source of information on virtual influencers, directly from industry insiders\u201d (homepage).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14028", "words": "1675", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Peeters, Stijn; Jokubauskait\u0117, Emilija", "title": "VISIBILITY IN THE SHADOWS: TIPS IN MAINSTREAM VS. NICHE STREAMING ON CHATURBATE", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "performers; platform; tips; visibility; webcam", "summary": "How rankings constitute competition on webcam sex platforms, and what performers can do about it. Streaming to a niche, therefore, is a recognized approach among webcam performers, often advised to beginners as a way to \u201cstand out and build a dedicated fan base\u201d (Sah, 2024).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14029", "words": "1595", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Pereira, Gabriel", "title": "LICENSE TO SURVEIL? IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF VEHICLES AS COMPUTERS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "data; future; policing; surveillance; vehicles", "summary": "These futures of vehicle data analysis are responses to both the belief that AI is well-suited for dealing with an ever-increasing scale of vehicle data; but also to a wider techno-solutionist framing: as stated by a police manager, \u201cgenerative AI will change how we send emails and write reports, but also radically change policing.\u201d This is just an instance of the many privacy and justice issues posed by widespread collection of vehicle data around the world, a history that traces back decades (Bridle, 2013).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14030", "words": "1387", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Perrig, Luca", "title": "READY TO HACK: HOW BUG BOUNTY PLATFORMS CREATE THEIR WORKFORCE", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "bounty; bug; information; platforms; security", "summary": "In contrast to usual platforms of the gig economy however, bug bounty platforms cannot tap on an already existing workforce (Goerzen & Coleman, 2022). The building of a workforce The paper will discuss four ways in which bug bounty platforms seek to build a competent and sufficient workforce.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14031", "words": "1874", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Pilipets, Elena; Caldeira, Sofia; Flores, Ana Marta M.", "title": "\u201cWANT BOYFRIEND \u274c\u274c\u274c\u201d: PORN BOTS, AUTHENTICITY AND SOCIAL AUTOMATION ON INSTAGRAM", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "bot; bots; instagram; media; platform; porn", "summary": "The evolution of Instagram porn bots. In academic discussions, scholars usually define porn bots as automated or semi-automated software agents that operate via sexual solicitation to capture attention (Narrang 2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14032", "words": "1922", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Pinch, Annika Caroline; Suenzo, Facundo", "title": "CULTURES OF SEX ADVICE: EXAMINING TIKTOK COMMUNITIES AROUND SEXUAL HEALTH IN THE US", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "advice; creators; health; media; sex; tiktok", "summary": "Our research builds upon Steven Epstein\u2019s (2022) thesis on the diversification of sexual health expertise, where the \u201cblossoming of expertise constitutes a kind of democratization of knowledge and advice-giving, while also raising perplexing questions about who should be trusted and why\u201d (p.19). However, little is known about how audiences engage with sexual advice, with some exceptions (Yeo & Chu, 2017).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14033", "words": "1660", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Pothong, Kruakae; Hooper, Louise; Livingstone, Sonia; Atabey, Ay\u00e7a; Day, Emma", "title": "THE \u2018GOOGLISATION\u2019 OF THE CLASSROOM: HOW DOES THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN\u2019S PERSONAL DATA FARE?", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "classroom; data; education; google; services", "summary": "Given the prevalence of Google Classroom, downloaded 1.34 million times in the UK in 2021 (Clark, 2022) and endorsed by the Department for Education (DfE, 2021b), this paper examines the use of Google\u2019s compliance with data protection laws. Legal analysis of the privacy policies governing Google Classroom and other Google services accessible to children in the Google Classroom environment found that the privacy policies and legal terms governing these services are opaque, layered and inconsistent with data protection laws (Hooper et al., 2022).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14034", "words": "1993", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Premika, Anuja", "title": "BEAUTY BRANDS ONLINE: VISUALITY, LABOUR, AND REPRESENTATION", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "beauty; brands; content; culture; media; press; university", "summary": "Beauty brands online: Visuality, labour, and representation. Online beauty culture, however\u2014co-produced by beauty brands, content creators, and audiences\u2014 presents a space where the imprecise lines between individual and industry become still hazier.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14035", "words": "1399", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Proferes, Nicholas; Cotter, Kelley; Thorson, Kjerstin; Battocchio, Ava Francesca; De, Ankolika; Chang, Chia-Fang", "title": "LOCALIZED VOLUNTEER MODERATION AND ITS DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "community; moderators; platforms; volunteer", "summary": "We extend Gillespie\u2019s logic to trace how the social media industry\u2019s discourse contributes to public beliefs about what local community groups are, how they should be used and maintained, their place in civic life, and the role of local volunteer moderators within them. Volunteer moderators with localized knowledge are important agents in the creation, maintenance, and upkeep of these digital spaces.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14036", "words": "1419", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Quelhas Freire, Sebasti\u00e3o", "title": "SIMULATING SUBJECTIVITY - BAUDRILLARD AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LLMS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "baudrillard; llms; social; systems", "summary": "Thus, I propose that Baudrillard's dense and polemical conceptual apparatus serves critical AI studies by placing the onus on the identification of human social agency in the context of processes of valorisation Baudrillard himself could not fully anticipate. The problem of subjectification has been examined extensively by the post-operaist tradition, through discussions of immaterial labour in the context of digital systems (Terranova, 2000; Virno & Hardt, 2010), wherein it is argued that the digital economy relies on the capture of the social knowledge of the networked interactions of subjects acting therein.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14037", "words": "1898", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Rajan, Benson", "title": "BEYOND THE SWIPE: UNPACKING INDIAN WOMEN\u2019S SAFETY STRATEGIES ON BUMBLE ", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "app; bumble; dating; india; safety; women", "summary": "Background India is the fifth fastest-growing dating app market globally, and it is projected to become the second-largest revenue-grossing country for dating apps by 2027 (Gupta, 2023). Despite the persistence of patriarchal forms of marital arrangements and the complexities of restrictions surrounding caste, class, and religion, the proliferation of dating apps has led to some degree of normalisation of digital dating culture in urban India (George et al., 2021).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14038", "words": "1524", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Annabell, Taylor; Rasmussen, Nina Vindum", "title": "AN ALGORITHMIC EVENT: THE CELEBRATION AND CRITIQUE OF 'SPOTIFY WRAPPED'", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "data; event; participants; people; spotify", "summary": "In collaboration with participants, we tease out how normative assumptions are baked into Wrapped data stories and mobilise particular understandings of individuals, their habits, tastes and identities. In this paper, we present emerging findings from our creative workshops in which we invite participants to analyse and discuss algorithmic events like Wrapped.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14039", "words": "1707", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Rawlings, Richard Eric; Brown, Genavee; Sorainen, Antu; Thomas, Lisa; Coventry, Lynne", "title": "\u2018IT\u2019S A CANDY STORE. YOU CAN SEE THE CANDIES, BUT THE DOOR IS CLOSED.\u2019 (NEURO)QUEERING THE HOOK-UP APP INDUSTRY IN NON-METROPOLITAN FINLAND.", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "app; hook; participants; queer; time; university; work", "summary": "Global design undermines local contexts (Hardy & Lindtner, 2017), while app time is too fast or slow, dependent on user motives of immediacy or futurity (Bonner-Thompson, 2023). Industrial time and space produce marginalities and resistance: Colonial imposition of arbitrary borders and linear time undermined geosocial order in parts of the Global South (Arfaoui, 2021), and queer lives were historically excluded from normative trajectories of marriage and child-rearing.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14040", "words": "1602", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Recuero, Raquel; Tavares, Camilla", "title": "TOXICITY & SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE: A FRAMEWORK FOR STUDYING VIOLENCE ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "discourse; media; platforms; toxicity; violence", "summary": "We argued that toxicity is an effect of the spread of online violence and symbolic violence. We posit that these concepts are pivotal in comprehending two crucial dimensions of online violence: its propagation and legitimation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14041", "words": "1372", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Reinis, Sara", "title": "MASCULINE OPTIMIZATION INFLUENCERS AND THE SACRALITY OF SELF-OPTIMIZATION", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "body; influencers; optimization; self", "summary": "In this space, the mind and body are inextricably bound and proper discipline of both is necessary for general success. Through identifying how \u201cemotions circulate between bodies and signs,\u201d and paying particular attention to the emotions of shame and disgust, this research examines how this affective economy mobilizes emotions to sacralize their ascendance in a dissymmetric economic system (Ahmed, 2004, p. 119).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14042", "words": "1505", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Reinis, Sara", "title": "THE ZEALOUS PRACTICES OF TECH INDUSTRY LEADERS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "death; leaders; practices; tech; technology", "summary": "Fears about the end of the world as we know it seem to haunt, or perhaps excite, many tech leaders. Whether climate collapse, an AI takeover, or societal unrest, many tech leaders have their eyes on potential doomsdays.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14043", "words": "1871", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Reschiglian, Rachele; Robards, Brady; Scarcelli, Cosimo Marco", "title": "\u201cTO BE QUEER, TO BE IN DATING APPS, TO BE QUEER IN DATING APPS\u201d: THE ON-LIFE INDUSTRIOUSNESS OF CREATING STRATEGIES BEHIND STIGMAS AND FEARS OF ONLINE DATING OF ITALIAN AND AUSTRALIAN QUEER YOUNG ADULTS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "apps; dating; online; queer", "summary": "Scripts and sexual markets of transgender people on online dating apps: a Netnographic study. The nuanced dynamics of online dating practices among queer young adults in Italy and Australia are presented here, shedding light on the complexities of navigating stigmatisation and fears within digital intimacy spaces.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14044", "words": "1960", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Reynolds, CJ; Hallinan, Blake", "title": "CREATOR CARTELS AS EMERGENT PLATFORM GOVERNANCE", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "cartels; creators; gambling; governance; media; platform; streamers; twitch", "summary": "Adin Ross losing millions after Twitch gambling ban. To make sense of this emergent practice of platform governance, we propose the concept of creator cartels, understood as contingent alliances between creators leveraged to produce beneficial policy and economic conditions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14045", "words": "1423", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Ribak, Rivka; Levy-Eshkol, Keren", "title": "HACKERS\u2019 PRIVACY APPROACHES: HOW PRIVACY VIOLATION AND PRIVACY PROTECTION GO HAND IN HAND", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "code; hackers; information; privacy", "summary": "Selected Papers of #AoIR2024: The 25th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Sheffield, UK 30 Oct - 2 Nov 2024 HACKERS\u2019 PRIVACY APPROCHES: HOW PRIVACY VIOLATION AND PRIVACY PROTECTION GO HAND IN HAND Keren Levi-Eshkol Rivka Ribak Our study focuses on the enigmatic world of hackers and the seeming paradox of their engagement in both invading and safeguarding privacy. Hackers are involved in cyber incidents that result in substantial technological and financial repercussions for companies, organizations, governments, and individuals.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14046", "words": "1626", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Richter, Vanessa", "title": "TIKTOK\u2019S AI HYPE - CREATORS\u2019 ROLE IN SHAPING (PUBLIC) AI IMAGINARIES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "content; creators; imaginaries; media", "summary": "The study does this by inquiring into the different types of AI content, types of creators posting on AI, different topical foci, and lastly larger AI imaginaries. Therefore, the first analysis of AI content is based on a hashtag network analysis and mapping of TikTok content on AI to understand the composition of video content and account clusters.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14047", "words": "1555", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Robards, Brady; Carah, Nicholas; Hayden, Lauren; Dobson, Amy", "title": "ALGORITHMIC GOSSIP IN YOUNG PEOPLE\u2019S ACCOUNTS OF \u2018UNHEALTHY\u2019 ADVERTISING ON SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "ads; advertising; gossip; media; participants", "summary": "This makes me think that the platforms had collected some data, but their predictions were off\u2019 and Erika (20, female) explained \u2018I actually find it funny that I get alcohol ads as I myself have never drank and don't plan on doing so either!\u2019 Notably, many participants also commented on how being part of the study and taking screenshots of certain ads changed their algorithm: \u2018I noticed that the more I screenshotted the alcohol ads in particular the more I got them\u2019 (Samantha, 19, female) and \u2018as a result of interacting with these ad pop ups by screenshotting, I believe the algorithm changed to show me more ads associated with that product\u2019 (Gracie, 19, female).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14048", "words": "1745", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Robinson, Jessica Yarin; Cole, Sebastian", "title": "PROPOSING RECIPROCAL DIGITAL METHODS: A USER-CENTRIC METHOD FOR ALGORITHMIC SOCIAL PLATFORMS IN A POST-API WORLD", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "data; media; methods; research; trace; user", "summary": "A recent line of literature has examined best practices for obtaining and analyzing donated data (Keusch et al., 2024; Gomez Ortega et al., 2023; Pfiffner & Friemel, 2023), yet we find so far little scholarly writing has addressed combining user data with interviews. In this paper we build on scholarly discourse on the epistemology and ethics of social media data (Lomborg & Bechmann, 2014; Marres & Gerlitz, 2016), and the current debates about the future of social media research (Bruns, 2019; Freelon, 2018; Ohme & Araujo, 2022; Tromble, 2021).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14049", "words": "1586", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "30", "author": "Rosales, Andrea; Linares-Lanzman, Juan", "title": "LATET ANGUIS IN HERBA: UNVEILING AGEISM OF GENERATIVE AI", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "generative; images; people; person", "summary": "Stereotypical depictions of old age reinforce not only the imaginaries society has about this life stage but also the images older people have of themselves, negatively affecting self-perception and everyday attitudes. This research demonstrates the emergence of what we propose to call \u201cGenerative Ageism\u201d: the reproduction and reinforcement of age stereotypes through generative AI tools, taking the form of text, images or videos (our focus here is on AI image generation).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14050", "words": "1392", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Rossi, Luca; Segerberg, Alexandra; Magnani, Matteo; Arminio, Luigi", "title": "DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? EMOTIONAL REACTION TO VISUAL CONTENT IN THE ONLINE DEBATE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "actors; change; climate; content", "summary": "We ask the following questions: (1) whether visual content posted in the context of progressive action and activism is shared also on pages and groups that oppose such progressive climate action and activism; (2) whether emotional reaction to visual content changes as it is shared in ideologically distinct pages and groups; Methods The data builds on the online communication performed by a manually curated list of public Facebook pages and groups, manually coded as actors or counter actors, respectively advocating for more urgent action against climate change, or supporting climate change denialism and/or objecting to progressive action on climate change. We focus on the role of visual content in these processes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14051", "words": "1192", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Rossini, Patricia; Vaccari, Cristian; Theocharis, Yannis; Tromble, Rebekah", "title": "UNDERSTANDING PERCEPTIONS AND EFFECTS OF ONLINE INTOLERANCE: A FOUR-COUNTRY EXPERIMENTAL STUDY", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "discourse; incivility; intolerance; speech", "summary": "To address this gap, we focus intolerant online discourse\u2014content that is hateful, threatening, discriminatory, or harassing (Rossini, 2022). We leverage pre-registered survey experiments on large samples (N = 2,000 per country) constructed to mirror the adult population on key characteristics in these countries to examine perceptions of and reactions to intolerant online discourse.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14052", "words": "1448", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Roy, Debopriya; Chakraborty, Joya", "title": "AFFECTIVE LABOUR AND EMOTIONAL LABOUR IN THE COMMODIFICATION OF \u2018SELF\u2019 IN INDIAN WOMEN\u2019S FAMILY VLOGGING (WORKING TITLE)", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "family; labour; vloggers; work", "summary": "This paper goes beyond that to observe the negotiations of affective labour and emotional labour in the lives and content of Indian women family vloggers as they engage in microcelebrity practices on YouTube. We specifically looked for family vloggers without a professional team to handle content creation, as it would allow us to observe the different arrays of labour involved.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14053", "words": "1555", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Salles, D\u00e9bora; Mattos, Bruno; Santini, Rose Marie; Canavarro, Marcela", "title": "UNFAIR PLAY: DIGITAL PLATFORM'S ABUSE OF POWER TO INFLUENCE BRAZILIAN POLICY AGENDA", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "ads; bill; companies; platforms; tech; users", "summary": "Selected Papers of #AoIR2024: The 25th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Sheffield, UK / 30 Oct - 2 Nov 2024 UNFAIR PLAY: DIGITAL PLATFORMS\u2019 ABUSE OF POWER TO INFLUENCE BRAZILIAN POLICY AGENDA Rose Marie Santini Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Bruno Mattos Federal University of Rio de Janeiro D\u00e9bora Salles Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Marcela Canavarro Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Introduction Over the last decades, the tech exceptionalism myth has tried to convince public opinion that governmental regulation could limit tech companies\u2019 ability to promote efficiency and innovation, uniting consumers and companies in favor of deregulatory politics (Culpepper & Thelen, 2020; Eisenstat & Gilman, 2022). Data and Results We collected primary evidence from April 20 to May 10, 2023, simultaneously to the tech companies\u2019 lobbying campaign and performed multiplatform observations as a means to identify messages and ads produced and distributed by tech companies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14054", "words": "1656", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Savic, Milovan; McCosker, Anthony; Farmer, Jane", "title": "DIGITAL SOCIAL CONNECTION AT THE LONELY URBAN FRINGE", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "community; connection; groups; media; university", "summary": "These were used to facilitate different modes of digital social connection, enabling distinct functions across four layered categories of social connection. The project addresses the need to revisit mediated or digital social connections in place-based digital media research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14055", "words": "2346", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Schafer, Joseph Scott; Halperin, Brett A.; Ghosh, Sourojit; Vera, Julie", "title": "TO SCREENSHOT OR NOT TO SCREENSHOT? TENSIONS IN REPRESENTING VISUAL SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM POSTS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "media; posts; researchers; screenshots; vsmp", "summary": "Alongside image formats of VSMP screenshots, we also see diversity in what screenshots are taken. Below, we outline three value questions researchers should reflect upon when including VSMP screenshots (or not): what is (in)visibilized, what is consensual, and what is legal, when representing VSMP posts?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14056", "words": "1899", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Scott, Fiona Louise", "title": "HOW DO THE DIVERSE DRIVERS OF CHILDREN\u2019S (6-12) DIGITAL PLAY MEDIATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIGITAL GAMES AND CHILDREN\u2019S SUBJECTIVE WELLBEING?", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "children; digital; drivers; games; play", "summary": "The significant time that children invest in digital game play on and offline poses risks, but also presents an opportunity for stakeholders to make bold decisions that will contribute positively to children\u2019s well-being. Though welcome, this positioning of children\u2019s subject learning, cognition and skills development as central to the value of digital play is at odds with how children\u2019s play has been valued more generally, with due acknowledgment of the diverse and vital purposes it serves.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14057", "words": "1696", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Sharon, Tzlil; John, Nicholas", "title": "FEELING MYSELF: THE RISE OF INTIMACY AS AUTHENTICITY IN ADDRESSING IMAGINED PODCAST LISTENERS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "audience; intimacy; listeners; media; podcast", "summary": "How are these imagined listeners shaped by the creators\u2019 personal dispositions, their own experiences as podcast listeners, their assumptions about podcasting as a medium, and their actual interactions with their listeners? Indeed, podcast scholarship and popular media have highlighted the strong engagement, loyalty and trust podcast listeners express toward their favorite podcast personalities (Marx et al., 2021; Schl\u00fctz & Hedder, 2021; Soto-V\u00e1squez et al., 2022).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14058", "words": "1571", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Shen, Jie", "title": "CHINESE SMART CITY, AN ORGANIC ENTITY IN THE AGE OF AI: A GENEALOGY OF CHINESE SMART CITY METAPHORS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "china; cities; city; metaphor", "summary": "Chinese smart city serves as a microcosm of the nationwide intelligent infrastructure still underway in China. With the increasing integration of digital and intelligent technologies, such as AI, Chinese cities are evolving into smart cities with a new image.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14059", "words": "2013", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Siuda, Piotr", "title": "THE ELITE AMONG USERS: IDENTITY FORMATION OF VENDORS AND CUSTOMERS ON DARKNET DRUG TRADE SITES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "darknet; drug; identities; users", "summary": "Additionally, the connection between these online identities and the broader identities prevalent within the so-called drug subculture or the social worlds of drug users (Sandberg, 2013; Wanke et al., 2022) still needs to be better understood. Furthermore, perceived differences between drug users involved in darknet and traditional trading were investigated.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14060", "words": "1719", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Siuda, Piotr; Wanke, Micha\u0142", "title": "MEDICAL CANNABIS INDUSTRY AND THE REFRACTED PUBLIC OF POLISH DRUG USERS FORUM", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "cannabis; drug; forum; industry; public; users", "summary": "The medicalisation of revolt: A sociological analysis of medical cannabis users. Drug forum users discuss highly personal issues that require trust and sensitivity and urge them to remain hidden in plain sight to avoid context collapse, yet maintaining visibility (Marwick & boyd, 2014).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14061", "words": "1675", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Skop, Yarden; Schj\u00f8tt Hansen, Anna", "title": "HOW FACT-CHECKERS ARE BECOMING MACHINE LEARNERS: A CASE OF META\u2019S THIRD PARTY PROGRAMME", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "checkers; checking; fact; machine; meta", "summary": "De- and recoding algorithmic systems: The case of fact checkers and fact checked users. The first is a series of semi-structured interviews with fact checkers who are members of the International Fact Checkers\u2019 Network (IFCN) and partake in Meta\u2019s third-party fact-checking program (3PFC).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14062", "words": "1329", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Stewart, Michelle Robin; Laperle, Samuel; Gagnon, Dominique", "title": "TRANSPHOBIC MEMES IN THE QUEBEC ALTERNATIVE NEWS INDUSTRY", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "content; media; memes; quebec; right", "summary": "The repetition of content (hashtags, memes, news items, reposts, videos) between larger hyperpartisan media outlets (in the U.S. and Canada \u2013 The Daily Wire, Rebel News) and in the smaller Quebec-linked network of influencers led us to investigate the dynamics that enabled transphobic content to travel so quickly (and effectively) between different countries, across linguistic barriers and without coordination. By tracking a range of right-wing content, we traced the opportunistic mobilisation and reach of transphobic content between a range of right-wing influencers producing content linked to Quebec politics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14063", "words": "2034", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "\u0160ubelj, \u017diva; Vehovar, Vasja; Wisteria, Avis; Bartol, Jo\u0161t; Petrov\u010di\u010d, Andra\u017e", "title": "EXPLORING SURVEY INSTRUMENTS IN ONLINE HATE SPEECH RESEARCH: A COMPREHENSIVE SCOPING REVIEW", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "hate; ohs; online; speech; survey", "summary": "Exploring survey instruments in online hate speech research: A comprehensive scoping review. EXPLORING SURVEY INSTRUMENTS IN ONLINE HATE SPEECH RESEARCH: A COMPREHENSIVE SCOPING REVIEW \u017diva \u0160ubelj Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana Vasja Vehovar Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana Avis Wisteria Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana Andra\u017e Petrov\u010di\u010d Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana Jo\u0161t Bartol Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana Introduction Over the last decade, online hate speech (OHS) has emerged as a subject of active debate among a wide range of scholars as well as governmental and private entities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14064", "words": "1307", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Tacheva, Zhasmina; Appedu, Sarah; Wright, Mirakle", "title": "AI AS \u201cUNSTOPPABLE\u201d AND OTHER INEVITABILITY NARRATIVES IN TECH: ON THE ENTANGLEMENT OF INDUSTRY, IDEOLOGY, AND OUR COLLECTIVE FUTURES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "benjamin; fridman; industry; technology", "summary": "To map out the scope of AI industry entanglements, however, we must also examine its discursive framework, which is as potent as its material infrastructure. In this conference paper, we apply a combination of critical discourse analysis, literary criticism, and critical quantitative methods to conduct a critical examination of a wide array of AI discourses, including company statements, scholarly literature, policy briefs, media narratives, research institute webpages, and online platform content, developing a discursive snapshot of the AI industry.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14065", "words": "1441", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Terenzi, Massimo", "title": "NAVIGATING THE GRAY: THE ECONOMIC UNDERBELLY OF TIKTOK'S SIDE HUSTLES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "attention; content; engagement; media; tiktok", "summary": "[RQ2] What strategies are used to transition from economic content to ideologically driven narratives, and how do these tactics leverage TikTok\u2019s algorithmic features? Platforms capitalize on this resource by selling user attention to advertisers and optimizing algorithms for maximum engagement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14066", "words": "1331", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Tibert, Dylan MacLean", "title": "AGENCY PERSPECTIVES ON INDUSTRY DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "data; ethnography; industry; perspectives; research", "summary": "Industry research, like Feedback\u2019s, has roots and sustaining connections in scholarly ethnography, and continues to carry forward that theoretical complexity as well as the centeredness on data ethics and public good. Industry research experience offers insight into how industry might be studied in kind.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14067", "words": "1657", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Tracey, Pelle; Zhang,, Ben Zefeng; Garcia, Patricia; Haimson, Oliver; Thomas, Michaelanne", "title": "THE TECHNOPOLITICS OF WAITING: CASE STUDIES OF AI TRAINING IN CHINA AND HOMELESS SERVICES SYSTEMS IN THE U.S.", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "data; services; time; waiting; work", "summary": "Recordkeeping, logistics, and translation: A study of homeless services systems as infrastructure. In the rapidly evolving world of AI, AI trainers\u2014the people who meticulously perform tasks like data annotation\u2014are vital, yet overlooked and unacknowledged (Wu, 2023; Zhang, 2023).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14068", "words": "1726", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Valderrama Barrag\u00e1n, Mat\u00edas", "title": "PLATFORMS ON TRIAL: MAPPING THE FACEBOOK FILES/PAPERS CONTROVERSY", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "controversy; facebook; harms; media; platforms; research", "summary": "Altogether, this is a fruitfully case to study platform controversies and exploring how various actors establish, demonstrate, and challenge the connection between platforms and societal harms across multiple settings. Situated at the intersection of Digital Sociology, Media Studies, and Science and Technology Studies (STS), this research inquiry into how actors make and unmake connections between social media platforms and societal harms across different settings, in order to contribute a better understanding of how platforms are put on trial.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14069", "words": "1607", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Valente, Jonas Chagas Lucio; Ustek Spilda, Funda; Alyanak, Oguz; Brittain, Lola; Graham, Mark", "title": "FAIRNESS IN THE WORK BEHIND THE AI INDUSTRY: HOW ACTION-RESEARCH APPROACHES CAN BUILD BETTER LABOUR CONDITIONS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "companies; labour; work", "summary": "Instead, the ongoing development of AI systems presents us with opportunities and threats that will emerge in different ways in different contexts. Comprehending the labour relations in the AI industry is an increasingly important task since many critical aspects of AI systems rely on global production networks characterised by atypical and, many times, precarious arrangements (Howson et al., 2022).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14070", "words": "1305", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "van der Nagel, Emily", "title": "NAVIGATING THE DIGITAL IDENTITY INDUSTRY", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "identity; industry; integrity; privacy", "summary": "A discussion of whether or not participants feel they have achieved, or could achieve, digital identity integrity will then be held, with a focus on attitudes towards identity verification and resistance strategies to having one\u2019s entire digital identity connected. In this paper, I present a concept to aid those working in this space: digital identity integrity, the ability to use a range of personal accounts and platforms to meaningfully participate in digital cultures and economies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14071", "words": "1740", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Van Schenck, Reed", "title": "REPLATFORMIZATION: RACIAL CAPITALISM AND THE STACK-CONSCIOUSNESS OF KIWI FARMS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "capitalism; deplatformization; internet; platform; right; stack; web", "summary": "Racial capitalism has inspired Internet researchers to identify the whiteness, masculinity, and bourgeois character of platform capitalism as it manifests through predatory inclusion (McMillan Cottom 2020), value extraction (Franklin 2021), and the geopolitics of platform economies (Gebrial 2022). To meet this problem with the scale it requires, I address the following research question: How do reactionary digital platforms modulate the Stack to amplify their leverage within (de)platformization?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14072", "words": "2298", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Vasudevan, Roopa", "title": "TAPPING THE \"UNTAPPED RESOURCE\": HOW TWENTIETH-CENTURY INDUSTRIAL PRIORITIES HAVE SHAPED CONTEMPORARY NEW MEDIA ART PRACTICES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "art; artists; media; new; press; technology; university; work", "summary": "This contribution outlines the findings from the second chapter of my doctoral dissertation, High-Level Creativity: New Media Art and the Priorities of the Tech Industry, which argues that, rather than operating wholly autonomously or externally to the tech industry, new media artists instead rely on an infrastructural foundation that greatly depends on its standard practices and routine protocols. However, viewing new media artists as fully independent actors, devoid of any connection to industrial and corporate aims, serves to eclipse the long-standing and substantial ties that the field has to the protocols and priorities of the mainstream technology industry.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14073", "words": "1791", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Vigren, Minna", "title": "ALTERNATIVE FUTURES! FOSTERING ECO-DIGITAL AGENCY IN GENERATIVE AI WORKSHOPS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "agency; digital; futures; people; research", "summary": "It gave a spark to the ongoing research project in which methods to imagine alternative digital futures are experimented with to foster eco-digital agency. The paper presents methodological reflections, observations, and critical considerations from workshops in which sustainable digital futures were imagined with young people using an artificial intelligence (AI) image generator as a tool.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14074", "words": "1665", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Svegaard, Sebastian; Vilkins, Samantha", "title": "ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL: NEWS INFLUENCERS AND AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT IN LOCAL AND STATE POLITICS DISCOURSE DYNAMICS ON TIKTOK", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "elections; news; queensland; state; tiktok", "summary": "What is considerably understudied is how TikTok is forging connections in political discourses more locally. Growing generational differences in behaviour on the app, as well as its unique affordances, means political discourse on TikTok may operate differently to elsewhere.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14075", "words": "1530", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Walton, Marion; Aderibigbe, Deborah", "title": "HAIRY INDUSTRIES: THE POLITICS OF ADVERTISING HAIR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES TO SOUTH AFRICA ON FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "ads; facebook; hair; sample; women", "summary": "Commercial ads for hair products are not considered a \u201cpolitical issue\u201d and thus they are not archived or accessible via the Meta API, but they are briefly available in the Library while active on University of Cape Town University of Cape Town Meta platforms. Hairy industries The politics of advertising hair products and services to South Africans on Facebook and Instagram.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14076", "words": "1400", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "Wang, Yingwen", "title": "NAVIGATING THE DIGITAL WAVE: THE UNIQUE CHALLENGES OF ORDINARY ELDERLY SHORT VIDEO CREATORS IN CHINA", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "adults; challenges; creators; video", "summary": "Results This study reveals the multifaceted challenges faced by older content creators on Douyin and the adaptive strategies they have adopted to overcome these barriers. The short video involvement not only fortifies the social connections of older adults but also bolsters their social adaptation and participation following their exit from the workforce.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14077", "words": "1601", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Witzenberger, Kevin; Swist, Teresa; Gulson, Kalervo", "title": "PROTOTYPING AN EDTECH ASSESSMENT TOOLKIT: TOWARDS TECHNICAL DEMOCRACY", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "edtech; education; issues; toolkit", "summary": "Prototyping an EdTech Assessment Toolkit: Towards technical democracy. When we refer to technical democracy, we mean attempts to include, activate, and mobilise ordinary citizens into the development and implementation of emerging information technologies (such as teachers into the implementation of AI products in school) through collective forms of experimentation (Callon et al., 2011).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14078", "words": "1659", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Ye, Zhen", "title": "WHEN INDUSTRY LORE DOESN'T WORK: EXPLORING MCNS' LIMITED INTERMEDIARY ROLES IN PROMOTIONAL CULTURE", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "china; liang; livestreaming; mcns; media; platform", "summary": "Evolving with what Craig and Cunningham (2019) called \u201cthe new screen ecology\u201d, MCNs gradually extended their business models to adapt to the proliferated monetization schemes of social media platforms used for marketing and advertising (Edwards, 2022; M. Liang, 2022). Responding to this phenomenon, guilds became mediators of livestreaming platforms, fulfilling the role to train and manage individual streamers, and institutionally monetized of female streamers\u2019 gendered performativity via platforms\u2019 virtual gifting (Liu et al. 2021).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14079", "words": "1760", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Zhang, Ben Zefeng; Yang, Tianling; Haimson, Oliver; Thomas, Michaelanne", "title": "CONCEPTUALIZING PRECISION LABOR IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TRAINING", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "accuracy; data; labor; precision; work", "summary": "We propose precision labor as a lens to understand the often unnecessary and unrecognized labor, along with the various harms stemming from the relentless quest for technical accuracy. Narratives about doing AI training work correctly and accurately were often emphasized even before the employees started working as AI trainers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14080", "words": "1552", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Zhao, Xinyu; Ng, Rebecca; Zomer, Chris; Duffy, Gavin; Sefton-Green, Julian", "title": "RESEARCHING THE EDTECH INDUSTRY FOR CHILDREN: METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON A DESIGN-BASED APPROACH", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "children; companies; database; design; edtech", "summary": "How do EdTech companies frame the educational needs of children? The design process consisted firstly of collecting and curating publicly available data about EdTech companies and services for young children in Australia, including those that may be intentionally obscured by commercial providers, such as countries of operation, APIs, and third-party data sharing.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14081", "words": "1614", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Zhu, Silei; Liu, Xuanbo; Peng, Xinyi; Luo, Yaqin", "title": "STRATEGIC AUTONOMY IN FLUX: EXAMINING POWER DYNAMICS IN TIKTOK SHOP'S MANAGED MODELS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "douyin; model; platform; power; shop; tiktok", "summary": "Employing online ethnography since November 2022, we have been actively tracking updates of TikTok Shop policies and services, documenting live streams, and engaging in forums to discuss with sellers on TikTok Shop to gather materials for analysis. Following Douyin's success, TikTok embarked on a similar path by launching its TikTok Shop marketplace and services in the UK and Asia in 2021.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14082", "words": "6713", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Monea, Alexander; McGlotten, Shaka; Paasonen, Susanna; Sund\u00e9n, Jenny; Tiidenberg, Katrin; Jacobsson, Robert", "title": "SEX AS/AND/ON SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "community; content; gooners; grindr; media; men; new; online; people; platforms; pornography; press; queer; sex; university; users; vanilla; york", "summary": "Drawing on analyses of platform governance policies, ethnographic observation, and over 60 interviews with users, developers, and moderators, these authors examine the ways in which platforms built to facilitate the dissemination of sexual content themselves produce new boundaries and norms around sexuality online. First, the notion of safety is uncoupled from sexual content and the imperatives of moderating it, becoming reframed through the notions of consent, authenticity, harassment, shaming, and violence instead (cf.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14083", "words": "7395", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Monea, Alexander; Are, Carolina; Stegeman, Hanne; Franco, R\u00e9becca; Stardust, Zahra", "title": "SEXUAL CONTENT MODERATION", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "blunt; censorship; content; content moderation; instagram; internet; media; moderation; new; platform; queer; sex; society; tiktok; users; workers", "summary": "Taking sex work, and particularly erotic webcam streamers, as a case study, this paper contends that content moderation does not just manage \u201cpermissable platform content\u201d, it also manages platform workers. Since platform content moderation disproportionately focusses on sexual content (Gillespie, 2018), some of the effects, experiences and issues with moderation efforts are most prominent in relation to the regulation of this content.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14084", "words": "7135", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Lupinacci, Ludmila; Hesmondhalgh, David; Campos Valverde, Raquel; Siles, Ignacio; Valerio-Alfaro, Luciana; Arriagada, Arturo; Burgess, Jean; Albury, Kath; McCosker, Anthony; Wilken, Rowan", "title": "REVITALISING THE CONCEPT OF THE EVERYDAY IN INTERNET RESEARCH", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "attention; data; everyday; life; media; music; new; people; platforms; practices; press; research; scrolling; streaming; university; use", "summary": "In our interviews, conducted between July and September 2023, we focused on two primary issues: everyday music consumption practices and experiences with music discovery on social media. Social media platforms have emerged as key sites for fans to listen to music.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14085", "words": "7651", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Hepp, Andreas; Couldry, Nick; Bolin, G\u00f6ran; Velkova, Julia; Brevini, Benedetta", "title": "CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNICATIVE AI", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "capitalism; communication; data; digital; energy; environmental; futures; human; imaginaries; intelligence; media; new; paper; production; social; university", "summary": "From this starting point, communicative AI draws our attention to a certain \u201cfamily resemblance\u201d (Wittgenstein 1971: 65-71) that various examples of today\u2019s automated communication systems share: Communicative AI (1) is based on technologically advanced forms of automation for the purpose of communication, (2) is embedded within digital infrastructures, and (3) is closely entangled with human practices. Critical Perspectives on Communicative AI.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14086", "words": "8984", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Stanusch, Natalia Barbara; Rogers, Richard; Baym, Nancy; Liu, Chuncheng; Shaw, Ryland; Katzenbach, Christian; Richter, Vanessa; Kannengie\u00dfer, Sigrid; Mollen, Anne; Brause, Saba Rebecca; Yang, Heng; Sch\u00e4fer, Mike; Zeng, Jing", "title": "AI INDUSTRY EXPECTATIONS AND UNDERPERFORMING IMAGINARIES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "analysis; communication; future; healthcare; imaginaries; imaginary; industry; jasanoff; media; research; science; society; study; technologies; technology; university", "summary": "The present analysis on AI healthcare imaginaries is part of a larger comparison of AI imaginaries in U.S., German and Chinese newspapers. Taking up this invitation, in the panel, we bring together studies of AI imaginaries performed within but also beyond the AI industry.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14087", "words": "7743", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Tiidenberg, Katrin; Davidjants, Jaana; Rose, Gillian; Hamper, Josie; Schreiber, Maria; Liedtke, Marius", "title": "VISUAL TRUST ON SOCIAL MEDIA \u2013 MEANING, MONEY AND MOTIVATION", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "authenticity; bodies; body; content; creators; digital; fitness; gym; health; images; media; participants; trust; users; visual; youtube", "summary": "Interviews with social media content creators explored the planning, making and posting of health-related content, again attending to the role of visuals in creating \u201cgood\u201d content. As demonstrated both by our findings and other scholarship (e.g. Enli and Rosenberg 2018; Hund 2023; Reade 2021), the 'authenticity' of social media content is critical to gaining the trust of users.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14088", "words": "7746", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "van der Vlist, Fernando N.; Helmond, Anne; Luitse, Dieuwertje M. R.; Rieder, Bernhard; Hind, Sam; Kanderske, Max", "title": "THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AI AS PLATFORM: INFRASTRUCTURES, POWER, AND THE AI INDUSTRY", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "challenges; cloud; data; der; doi; economy; google; microsoft; models; platform; power; services; van; vlist", "summary": "These resources \u2018convene\u2019 third-party businesses and developers to build an ecosystem of new products and services around cloud AI infrastructure platform providers. Their visions range from Meta\u2019s \u2018future of connection in the metaverse\u2019 (Meta), Microsoft\u2019s vision for AI in the enterprise (Microsoft), Amazon\u2019s ambition of \u2018AI becoming the new electricity in our homes\u2019 (Zeghari, 2023), to Google\u2019s portrayal of AI as \u2018a foundational and transformational technology that will provide compelling and helpful benefits to people and society through its capacity to assist, complement, empower, and inspire people in almost every field of human endeavor\u2019 (Google AI).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14089", "words": "8779", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Esau, Katharina; Bruns, Axel; Vodden, Laura; Riedlinger, Michelle; Vilkins, Samantha; Lefevre, Laura; Lubicz-Zaorski, Carly; Srinivas, Arjun; Obeid, Abdul; Meese, James; Angus, Daniel; Graham,, Timothy; Burgess, Jean; M\u00fcnch, Felix; Gaisbauer, Felix; Pournaki, Armin; Ohme, Jakob; Watt, Ned; Monta\u00f1a-Ni\u00f1o, Silvia", "title": "ANALYSING NEWS POLARISATION: FROM PRODUCTION TO ENGAGEMENT AND BEYOND", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "australian; centre; checkers; climate; content; digital; fact; media; media research; news; polarisation; queensland; research; sources; study; technology; university; users", "summary": "Building on theoretical approaches from political science and media and communication studies, we examine four types of polarisation that we suggest are critical to determining news media polarisation: source polarisation (which actors get to speak?), positional polarisation (what positions are represented?), value polarisation (what societal and/or individual values are explicitly or implicitly privileged?), and affective polarisation (what emotions are attached to different actors and perspectives?). ANALYSING NEWS POLARISATION: FROM PRODUCTION TO ENGAGEMENT AND BEYOND Axel Bruns Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Katharina Esau Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Laura Vodden Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Michelle Riedlinger Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Samantha Vilkins Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Laura Lefevre Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Carly Lubicz-Zaorski Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Arjun Srinivas Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Abdul Obeid Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology James Meese RMIT University Daniel Angus Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Timothy Graham Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Jean Burgess Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Felix M\u00fcnch Leibniz-Institut", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14090", "words": "8678", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Bruns, Axel; Bastos, Marco; Vinhas, Ot\u00e1vio; Recuero, Raquel; Soares, Felipe; Iannelli, Laura; Marino, Giada; Serani, Danilo; Valeriani, Augusto; Choucair, Tariq; Svegaard, Sebastian; Vodden, Laura; Whelan-Shamy, Daniel; Azmi, Alia; Stromer-Galley, Jennifer", "title": "CONTROVERSIES, PROBLEMATIC INFORMATION, AND POLARISATION: CASE STUDIES ACROSS SIX COUNTRIES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "australia; campaign; case; communication; digital; disinformation; election; government; media; messages; news; polarization; public; research; study; university; violence; women", "summary": "This was particularly salient in Brazil\u2019s latest election cycle, when Bolsonaro supporters took up a central role in promoting narratives antithetical to democratic principles and that endorsed alternative facts with self-validating participatory disinformation ecosystems crafted via social media and messaging applications like WhatsApp and Telegram (Ozawa et al., 2023). Explaining beliefs in electoral misinformation in the 2022 Brazilian election: The role of ideology, political trust, social media, and messaging apps.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14091", "words": "6699", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Stardust, Zahra; Albury, Kath; Sund\u00e9n,, Jenny; Kennedy, Jenny; van der Nagel, Emily; Learmonth, Caitlin", "title": "SEXTECH INDUSTRIES AND CULTURES: TOWARDS MEDIATED PLEASURES AND DATA JUSTICE", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "content; data; experiences; health; industry; onlyfans; participants; platform; pleasure; research; services; sextech; technologies; technology; testing; university; users", "summary": "Drawing on user and founder accounts of the Australian sexual health platform STIgma Health, we recommend that future evaluations of sexual health testing platforms should extend beyond consideration of platform adherence to formal health policy and guidelines (for example, Gibbs et al., 2017) or data-sharing practices (for example, Van Dijck & Poell, 2016). It also demands an attention to local health policies and industry-specific \u201cquality indicators\u201d; and contextual understanding of the diverse ways that sexual sub-cultures and communities engage with and understand \u201cdigital sexual health\u201d.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14092", "words": "9817", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Levido, Amanda; Dezuanni, Michael; Woods, Annette; Leaver, Tama; Rodriguez, Aleesha; MacKenzie, Janelle; Theobald, Maryanne; Danby, Susan; Johnson, Daniel; Langton, Katrin; Scott, Fiona", "title": "THE DIGITAL CHILDHOOD INDUSTRY", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "children; digital; industry; instagram; labour; media; metaverse; paper; parenting; parents; play; practices; research; roblox; technology; university; use", "summary": "The trouble with Roblox, the video game em- pire built on child labour. For children and their families, their digital childhood is mediated across many dimensions (Livingstone & Blum-Ross, 2017), including play, learning, communication and the everyday routines of family life (Gee et al., 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14093", "words": "8968", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Poell, Thomas; Lukan, Tinca; Arriagada,, Arturo; Bulut, Ergin; Ye, Zhen; Nieborg, David; Duffy, Brooke Erin; Tse, Tommy; de Kloet, Jeroen; Mutsvairo, Bruce; Ping, Sun; Krijnen, Tonny; Huang, Qian; Craig, David", "title": "GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON PLATFORMS AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "american; chinese; content; creators; culture; governance; influencers; latin; media; platforms; practices; precarity; press; production; research; social; society; state; studies; university; work", "summary": "Regardless of their success on social media platforms, influencers have diversified income streams through standard employment, working on other platforms, welfare state, running a business, consulting and dropshipping goods. Finally, it offers insight into how the business model of social media platforms on the periphery is piggybacked on exploiting the local conditions of social reproduction, with platforms having plugged into pre-existing regimes of accumulation (Pileti\u0107, 2023).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14094", "words": "9158", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Geboers, Marloes Annette; Pilipets, Elena; B\u00f6sch, Marcus; Divon, Tom; Rogers, Richard; Righetti, Nicola; Tuters, Marc; Bos, Linda; Noordenbos, Boris; Daban\u0131yast\u0131, Furkan", "title": "AMBIENT AMPLIFICATION: ATTENTION HIJACKING AND SOCIAL MEDIA PROPAGANDA", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "2020; 2022; amplification; amsterdam; analysis; attention; content; digital; media; military; platform; press; propaganda; russian; society; tiktok; university; videos; war", "summary": "The affordances of social media platforms. As established in the growing body of literature on digital diplomacy, embassies no longer merely project their presence via social media platforms, but are increasingly involved processes of observation, listening, and digital data gathering, or what Marcus Holmes refers to as retrieval (Holmes in Bjola & Manor 2024, epub).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14095", "words": "5953", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Westwood, Hannah Louisa; Tylstedt, Beatrice; Stein, Krysten; Holroyd, Deanna", "title": "SOCIAL MEDIA AS A KEY ACTOR IN REDEFINING HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY DYNAMICS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "adhd; analysis; content; cycles; femtech; health; healthcare; industry; influencers; instagram; media; medical; research; users", "summary": "The results of this digital ethnographic study show that social media ADHD content tends to follow one of two formats \u2013 1) educational, myth-busting content, or 2) trending content. This paper therefore argues that contrary to previous research on online health discourse, ADHD social media content is not simply a source of advocacy, awareness, and activism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14096", "words": "10146", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Berryman, Rachel; Abidin, Crystal; Kim, Do Own Donna; Hwang, Seol; Miyake, Esperanza", "title": "VIRTUAL CELEBRITY INDUSTRIES IN EAST ASIA", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "analysis; asia; celebrity; china; chinese; culture; digital; east; entertainment; human; idols; imma; industries; industry; influencers; japanese; journal; marketing; media; new; news; paper; pop", "summary": "Based on digital ethnography and visual analysis, it proposes virtual influencers are used to signify technological advancement, extending a \u201chalo of innovation\u201d to associated brands and products. This paper\u2019s chronology is by no means comprehensive of all predecessors but uniquely incorporates Japanese and Korean cases that are historically rich but lesser known in English-based international Internet research, drawing on a larger project on virtual influencers (Kim, 2022; see Kim, forthcoming).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14097", "words": "7530", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Ogden, Malcolm Keith; Eapen, Gayas; Singha, Sagorika; Howard, Matthew; Nizaruddin, Fathima", "title": "THE PRECARITY, PERILS, AND PROMISES OF EMERGING CREATOR ECONOMIES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "boss; content; creators; crystaltok; digital; healing; hindutva; india; industry; influencers; media; paper; platforms; social; state; university; world; youtube", "summary": "CrystalTok content creators will also often engage in a kind of ekphrastic narration, describing the physical appearance of specific minerals (or in some cases, specific pieces) using highly subjective and poetic language. I ask: How do content creators understand and leverage platforms, and their technical operations, as tools?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14098", "words": "6782", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Arriagada, Arturo; Duffy, Brooke; Glatt, Zoe; Wissinger, Elizabeth; Wood, Rachel", "title": "INDUSTRY TENSIONS: LABOR SUBJECTIVITIES AND SELF-REINVENTION IN PLATFORM WORK", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "bishop; brands; data; industry; influencer; labor; marketing; media; models; new; platform; self; sustainability; university; work", "summary": "Between commerciality and authenticity: The imaginary of social media influencers in the platform economy. Between commerciality and authenticity: The imaginary of social media influencers in the platform economy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14099", "words": "8198", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "van der Vlist, Fernando N.; Helmond, Anne; Weltevrede, Esther; Dieter, Michael; Duguay, Stefanie; Emsley, Iain; Zhang, Fangzhou; Burton, Anthony Glyn; Dietzel, Christopher; Filice, Eric; Parry, Diana C.; Johnson, Corey W.", "title": "EXPLORING APPIFICATION", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "appification; apps; der; helmond; media; platform; research; society; studies; super; university; user; van; vlist", "summary": "Lastly, the fifth paper examines the emerging ecosystems of AI apps, exploring their infrastructural features and relationships. AI apps, created by diverse developers, showcase AI's potential and diverse applications, driving expectations and exploration across domains.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14100", "words": "5437", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Hristova, Tsvetelina; Cinque, Toja; Heemsbergen, Luke; Jones, Allan; Yang, Fan; Fordyce, Robbie", "title": "INDUSTRIES OF INFRASTRUCTURAL FUTURES, AUTOMATED CULTURES, AND ALGORITHMIC DYNAMICS", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "biases; chinese; content; data; digital; generative; information; media; network; platforms; research; time; voice; wechat", "summary": "In their paper, Toija Cinque and Allan Jones illuminate the interplay between AI agency, human cognition, and digital media platforms, thereby contributing to discourse on ethical AI use, sociotechnical systems, and information integrity in the digital age. Trying to understand criticality as both an analytical approach and a characteristic of the objects we research, we interrogate the aspects of digital media infrastructures that add new layers to how datafication acquires subtle cultural and technopolical inflections.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14101", "words": "4772", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Abhari, Rod Morgan; Ma, Lai; Schneider, Jodi; Tosoni, Simone; Loeb, Zachary", "title": "MISINFORMATION, CONSPIRACY, AND POLITICIZATION IN DIGITALLY MEDIATED SCIENCE", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "article; covid-19; literacy; media; mentions; misinformation; public; research; retraction; science; scientists; social", "summary": "In this way, science misinformation may have immediate effects on specific science issues as well as long-term consequences for the ability of science to contribute to public policy (Southwell et al., 2022). Motivated by these challenges, our proposed panel will discuss how the internet shapes public (mis)understandings of science and explore possible regulatory and design decisions to counteract science misinformation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14102", "words": "8835", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Kathirgamalingam, Ahrabhi; Choucair, Tariq dos Santos; Lind, Fabienne; Bernhard, Jana; Boomgaarden, Hajo; Oliveira, Bruna; Maia, Rousiley; Vodden, Laura; Esau, Katharina; Bruns, Axel; Svegaard, Sebastian; Farfan, Kate; Meyer, Hendrik; Puschmann, Cornelius; Br\u00fcggemann, Michael; Giglietto, Fabio; Rossi, Luca; Righetti, Nicola; Marino, Giada", "title": "TRANSFORMATIVE TOOLS, EMERGING CHALLENGES: EMPIRICAL AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR TEXT CLASSIFICATION AND ANNOTATION IN COMMUNICATION STUDIES", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "analysis; challenges; climate; coders; coding; communication; content; data; human; language; large; llms; media; models; research; study; text; university", "summary": "Panel TRANSFORMATIVE TOOLS, EMERGING CHALLENGES: EMPIRICAL AND PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR TEXT CLASSIFICATION AND ANNOTATION IN COMMUNICATION STUDIES Tariq Choucair Queensland University of Technology Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam University of Vienna Fabienne Lind University of Vienna Jana Bernhard-Harrer University of Vienna Hajo G. Boomgaarden University of Vienna Bruna Silveira de Oliveira Federal University of Minas Gerais Rousiley Maia Federal University of Minas Gerais Sebastian Svegaard Queensland University of Technology Kate O'Connor Farfan Queensland University of Technology Katharina Esau Queensland University of Technology Carly Lubicz-Zaorski Queensland University of Technology Laura Vodden Queensland University of Technology Axel Bruns Queensland University of Technology Hendrik Meyer University of Hamburg Cornelius Puschmann University of Bremen Michael Br\u00fcggemann University of Hamburg Fabio Giglietto University of Urbino Luca Rossi IT University of Copenhagen Nicola Righetti University of Urbino Giada Marino University of Urbino Panel Introduction Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have opened significant research opportunities within the field of media and communication studies. Fabio Giglietto and colleagues (Paper 5) concludes the panel by reflecting on their investigation of the role of social media, particularly Facebook, in shaping exposure to and engagement with political news during the 2018 and 2022 Italian elections, employing large language models (LLMs) to address key methodological challenges.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14103", "words": "6295", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Raman, Usha; Premika, Anuja; Mehta, Chinar; Madapathi, Manisha; Rangaswamy,, Nimmi", "title": "CONSTRUCTING THE DIGITAL: WORKING FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "beauty; content; data; digital; global; india; influencers; journalists; labor; media; platforms; south; surveillance; women; work; workers", "summary": "All gig work is not platform work: we need to go beyond the current imagination of gig work as being entirely platform mediated, with a resulting exclusion of older, more entrenched forms of \u201cpiece work\u201d and non-contractual casual labor 2 Raman, U. (2024, October). Without diminishing the information asymmetry, algorithmic tyranny, and performance pressure challenges on digital labor, our study offers an ethnographic view of everyday opportunities, however small, to counter the 'despotism' of platform work.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14151", "words": "1099", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Redeker, Dennis", "title": "TRUST IN ALTERNATIVE GOVERNORS: EXPLORING USER CONFIDENCE IN COMPANIES, STATES AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN PLATFORM CONTENT MODERATION", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "content; governors; moderation", "summary": "Trust in alternative governors: Exploring user confidence in companies, states and civil society in platform content moderation. Even less so, we know what users think about different roles for states, international organizations or different civil society actors in platform content moderation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14152", "words": "2439", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Rutherford McEwan, S.", "title": "STUFF (IS SOMETHING) WHITE PEOPLE LIKE: ON THE WHITE PROTOTYPICALITY OF FACEBOOK", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "affinity; capitalism; data; facebook; media; platform; race; society", "summary": "Ethnic affinity was removed from Facebook after press coverage and subsequent lawsuits alleged that the category violated the Fair Housing Act by allowing advertisers to hide housing advertisements from protected classes, including (but not limited to) those defined by race. As the Department of Housing and Urban Development argued in their lawsuit against Facebook, ethnic affinity as category \u201cinevitably recreates groupings defined by their protected class\u201d in the course of its targeting function.4 1 Cooiman, \u201cImprinting the Economy\u201d; Shestakofsky and Petre, \u201cSociotechnical Change.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-14165", "words": "8687", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Divon, Tom; Annabell, Taylor; Goanta, Catalina; Abidin, Crystal; Beuckels, Emma; Hudders, Liselot; Van den Abeele, Elisabeth; de Brabandere, Marloes; Vanwesenbeeck, Ini; De Jans, Steffi; Leaver, Tama; Livingstone, Sonia; Cantwell, Nigel; \u00d6zkul, Didem; Shekhawat, Gazal; Kidron, Beeban", "title": "The Place of a Child on Platforms: Responsibilities, Obligations, and Expectations", "date": "2025.0", "keywords": "abidin; childhood; children; content; dashboards; data; digital; influencer; interests; internet; media; monetisation; online; paper; parents; platforms; practices; rights; sharenting; university", "summary": "Several papers use the phenomenon of kidfluencers and child influencers as a departure point, building on scholarly interest in the integration of children into parents' influencer content (Abidin, 2015) and their active role as creators within the influencer economy (Craig & Cunningham, 2017; Nicoll & Nansen, 2018). Another central thread across the panel, consistent with current debates, concerns the integration of children and child influencers on platforms within regulatory frameworks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8215", "words": "6733", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Reagle, Joseph", "title": "410 Gone - Infocide in Open Content Communities", "date": "2012.0", "keywords": "communities; community; content; contributions; exit; infocide; information; internet; online; pilgrim; suicide; ubuntu; web; wikipedia", "summary": "Keywords infocide; online communities; open content; online ethnography. This analysis is based upon a naturalistic inquiry (Lincoln & Guba, 1985; Thomas & Jones, 2006) into exit and infocide from Web communities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8216", "words": "4576", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Feldman, Zeena", "title": "Beyond Freedom and Oppression - Social Media, Refusal, and the Politics of Participation", "date": "2012.0", "keywords": "couchsurfing; media; members; new; profile; profit; refusal; resistance; site", "summary": "Through these practices, CS members took up the \u201cright to refusal,\u201d which Patrick Hanafin argues, \u201cinvolves a questioning of why it is that the law presumes to be in control of language. Beyond this, ordinary CS members \u2013 so not volunteers in any formal sense of the term \u2013 did the site\u2019s main work of hospitality exchange; they were the ones welcoming strangers into their homes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8217", "words": "7315", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Recuero, Raquel; Amaral, Adriana; Monteiro, Camila", "title": "Fandoms, Trending Topics and Social Capital in Twitter", "date": "2012.0", "keywords": "band; capital; fans; groups; hashtags; new; restart; ties; topics; trending; tts; twitter", "summary": "Our results show that through practices that increase the clusterization in the group, Restart fans are able to cooperate in order to reach and maintain their hashtags in Twitter's TTs, to quickly win fights against anti-fans and other fans for TTs, and learn how to lure Twitter's spam detection. Cooperating with other fan groups - For fans, often maintaining a top ten hashtag is difficult.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8218", "words": "7383", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Harper, Richard; Whitworth, Eryn; Page, Ruth", "title": "Fixity: Identity, Time and Dur on Facebook", "date": "2012.0", "keywords": "content; facebook; identity; people; press; research; self; sns; time; users; ways", "summary": "As should be clear, Facebook postings don\u2019t even manage this, in all instances. We might have networked identities, but these are bound to the culture of the real.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8219", "words": "6043", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Pedersen, Sarah; Burnett, Simon; Smith, Robert; Neill, Anne", "title": "Motivations for police blogging and how fear of being 'outed' can force a blogger to cease", "date": "2012.0", "keywords": "2004; bloggers; blogging; blogs; motivations; police; public; research; storytelling; time; work", "summary": "The police bloggers quite often mentioned other police bloggers as having inspired their own blogging and several stated that they started blogging after being readers of other police blogs and 10 finding that they had more to say than could be put into a comment on someone else\u2019s blog. Given such risks, this project set out to investigate what attracts police bloggers to blogging and whether the fear of being \u2018outed\u2019 as a blogger eventually overcomes the satisfactions of blogging and causes a police blogger to cease blogging.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8220", "words": "9204", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Reisdorf, Bianca Christin; Axelsson, Ann-Sofie; Maurin, Hanna", "title": "Living Offline - A Qualitative Study of Internet Non-Use in Great Britain and Sweden", "date": "2012.0", "keywords": "computers; internet; interviewees; need; non; reasons; research; swedish; technologies; things; use; users", "summary": "With regards to digital inequalities and internet use and non-use we find a large proportion of studies on young people (e.g. Hargittai & Hinnant, 2008; Livingstone & Helsper, 2007) and the elderly (e.g. Kiel, 2005; Milligan & Passey, 2011). Reasons for Non-Use As internet use is widely spread and omnipresent in media and everyday life, not doing something that the majority of a population does, such as not driving a car (Wyatt 2003), is likely have more behind it than \u2018no interest\u2019.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8221", "words": "7165", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Unsworth, Kristene; Axelsson, Ann-Sofie; Goggins, Sean; Mascaro, Christopher", "title": "Exercising Control: A Comparative Study of Government Agencies and their Relationships with the Public Using Social Media", "date": "2012.0", "keywords": "agencies; agency; analysis; consumer; control; discourse; giddens; government; information; media; public; swedish; twitter; use", "summary": "One caution we offer for analysis of government social media use as a technology of control is that the form of social media analysis that takes place in the larger literature on social media must adapt to and recognize the structuration and control oriented nature of government information dissemination. This paper introduces a framework for analyzing social media use and interaction between government agencies and the public, focusing on a comparative analysis of two consumer protections agencies; one, the Konsumentverket in Sweden, the second, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the US.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8222", "words": "7927", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Jones, John", "title": "Creating Networks Through Search - PageRank, Algorithmic Truth, and Tracing the Web", "date": "2012.0", "keywords": "google; information; links; network; pagerank; pages; results; search; users; web", "summary": "Impact of search networks on information-seeking We know that PageRank continues to play an important role in Google searches, despite the fact that it is not the only factor used to calculate search results. In the case of monitoring the rise of hate groups, even when access to that material is inaccessible via search networks, users could connect with groups that monitor such activity\u2014as the Southern Poverty Law Center <splcenter.org> does with hate groups in the United States.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8223", "words": "8028", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Pettersen, Lene; Brandtz\u00e6g, Petter Bae", "title": "Privacy challenges in Enterprise 2.0", "date": "2012.0", "keywords": "company; content; e2.0; employees; knowledge; participants; people; platform; privacy; sharing; study; trust; use; work", "summary": "What functionalities in E2.0 govern employee privacy and reduces the monitoring and surveillance risk? In contrast to knowledge-management tools, E2.0 platforms intertwine knowledge and 19 people.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8224", "words": "7835", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Cochrane, Thomas; Keegan, Helen", "title": "New Global Learning Cultures: Interdisciplinarity through networked technologies", "date": "2012.0", "keywords": "collaboration; community; design; google; international; learning; lecturers; media; mobile; new; practice; project; student; technology; tools", "summary": "Collaboration in curriculum design or in student teamwork projects was a new experience for the project participants, and did not necessarily come naturally \u2013 it needed careful nurturing and support via sustained interaction and experimentation over the projects\u2019 life-span. This illustrates the increased student engagement and the pedagogical impact and transformation that can be achieved by collaborative mobile social media projects.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8379", "words": "1244", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "de vries, Maya; Alyan, Eman; Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta; Ma\u2019oz, Moshe; Maoz, Ifat", "title": "#\u200fal_Aqsa_Is_In_Danger\u202c: The digital gatekeepers of al-Aqsa mosque", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "jerusalem; media", "summary": "#pray_in_Alaqsa \u00a0#Resist \u00a0#Hang_on \u00a0#al_aqsa_is_ours \u00a0(15.8.14) \u00a0 \u00a0 When \u00a0media \u00a0is \u00a0controlled \u00a0or \u00a0inaccessible \u00a0(Morozov, \u00a02011), \u00a0as \u00a0happens \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0case \u00a0 study \u00a0of \u00a0East \u00a0Jerusalem \u00a0Palestinians \u00a0(Berger, \u00a02013), \u00a0social \u00a0media \u00a0platforms \u00a0such \u00a0as \u00a0 Facebook \u00a0permit \u00a0individuals \u00a0to \u00a0bypass \u00a0traditional \u00a0gatekeepers \u00a0and \u00a0contribute \u00a0directly \u00a0to \u00a0 the \u00a0production \u00a0of \u00a0news \u00a0(Castells, \u00a02013). \u00a0 #AL_AQSA_IS_IN_DANGER: \u00a0THE \u00a0DIGITAL \u00a0GATEKEEPERS \u00a0OF \u00a0AL-\u00ad AQSA \u00a0MOSQUE \u00a0 \u00a0 Maya \u00a0de \u00a0Vries, \u00a0Neta \u00a0Kligler-\u00adVilenchik, \u00a0Eman \u00a0Alyan, \u00a0Moshe \u00a0Ma\u2019oz \u00a0and \u00a0Ifat \u00a0Maoz \u00a0 \u00a0 Hebrew \u00a0University \u00a0of \u00a0Jerusalem \u00a0 \u00a0 One \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0most \u00a0religiously \u00a0and \u00a0nationally \u00a0contested \u00a0sites \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0asymmetrical \u00a0conflict \u00a0 between \u00a0Israelis \u00a0and \u00a0Palestinians \u00a0is \u00a0al-\u00adAqsa \u00a0Mosque \u00a0(Temple \u00a0Mount)1. \u00a0 ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8380", "words": "2132", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Carter, Marcus; Gibbs, Martin; Nansen, Bjorn; Arnold, Michael", "title": "#FUNERAL", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "death; funeral; media; platforms; practices", "summary": "This suggests the need to consider the shifting boundaries, ecologies and contexts of media platforms in shaping emergent cultural practices around death, grieving and commemoration. This study analyses photographs tagged with \u201c#funeral\u201d and contributes to research into death and digital media by extending the focus from social networking sites such as Facebook to consider the photo- sharing application Instagram, and how different media platforms are connected with the physical event of funerals.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8381", "words": "1009", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "D'heer, Evelien; Verdergem, Pieter; De Grove, Frederik", "title": "#MissingData: A methodological inquiry of the hashtag to collect data from Twitter", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "network; non; twitter", "summary": "The data allows us (1) to compare the characteristics of hashtagged and non-hashtagged responses, (2) to assess the changes in the network structure and (3) to assess the relative positions of the users in the network. Following, the combination of the hashtag and user streams allows us to reconstruct full conversations containing both hashtagged tweets and non-hashtagged responses.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8382", "words": "1325", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Vickery, Jacqueline Ryan", "title": "#YesAllWomen (have a collective story to tell): Feminist hashtags and the intersection of personal narratives, networked publics, and intimate citizenship", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "hashtags; personal; women", "summary": "Twitter \u00a0hashtags \u00a0invite \u00a0women \u00a0to \u00a0 participate \u00a0in \u00a0a \u00a0more \u00a0temporal, \u00a0ephemeral, \u00a0contextual \u00a0manner \u00a0\u2013 \u00a0that \u00a0is, \u00a0to \u00a0articulate \u00a0a \u00a0 particular \u00a0subjectivity \u00a0\u2013 \u00a0which \u00a0is \u00a0made \u00a0visible \u00a0in \u00a0that \u00a0moment, \u00a0both \u00a0individually \u00a0and \u00a0 collectively. \u00a0 I \u00a0have \u00a0organized \u00a0the \u00a0hashtags \u00a0that \u00a0fit \u00a0the \u00a0criteria \u00a0into \u00a0four \u00a0categories \u00a0that \u00a0all \u00a0reflect \u00a0the \u00a0 ways \u00a0in \u00a0which \u00a0public \u00a0discourses \u00a0and \u00a0institutions \u00a0aim \u00a0to \u00a0regulate \u00a0the \u00a0bodies \u00a0and \u00a0 experiences \u00a0of \u00a0women: \u00a0rape, \u00a0domestic \u00a0violence, \u00a0sexual \u00a0(street) \u00a0harassment, \u00a0and \u00a0bodily \u00a0 autonomy. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8383", "words": "4606", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Rossi, Luca; Magnani, Matteo; Iadarola, Barbara", "title": "#rescatemineros: global media events in the microblogging age", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "communication; information; media; messages; network; news; propagation; twitter; users", "summary": "This suggests that not only their messages are judged as worthy to be spread (and trustable) by several Twitter users but that, at the same time, Twitter users use the microblogging site as a platform that gives them the opportunity to address messages directly to VIPs. Users communication seems to stay within sub-networks geographically defined.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8384", "words": "1386", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Richterich, Annika", "title": "'Do not hack'. Rules, values, and communal practices in hacker- and makerspaces", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "hacker; hacking; makerspaces; rules; technology", "summary": "Hacker practice: Moral genres and the cultural articulation of liberalism. Based on interviews with community members in England, observations of physical spaces and online message boards, it shows how rules, social values, and communal practices are interrelated.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8385", "words": "1525", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Deller, Ruth", "title": "'More Awesome than Electronic Arts': resistance and appropriation in The Sims gaming communities", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "content; resistance; sims; users", "summary": "Sims communities and players can be find on almost all blogging, forum and social media platforms \u2013 and appropriation and resistance form a key part of many gamers\u2019 experiences, from their use of game mods and custom content, to the way they discuss the EA/Maxis created characters, worlds and scenarios and appropriate (or resist) these in their own gameplay, world building and story creation. The act of paid creation is controversial and some sites recirculate this content for free, arguing that charging for custom content contravenes the EA terms of service forbidding users to profit from EA content, as the items are based on EA meshes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8386", "words": "1349", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Steele, Catherine Knight; Korn, Jenny", "title": "A DIFFERENT MODEL FOR ACADEMIC MENTORING: HOW RACE, MULTIPLICITY AND HOLISM INTERSECT WITH ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "media; mentoring; model; women", "summary": "Online social networks afford an integration of the self that is encouraged by Black feminist mentoring models. Context collapse facilitates holistic selves A participant described online mentoring relationships as more impactful in providing deep connections than those which she cultivated in person.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8387", "words": "1109", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Williams, Miya Christine", "title": "A Digital Black Press?: Exploring What Constitutes the Black Press Online", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "news; online; press", "summary": "Interview \u00a0subjects \u00a0were \u00a0selected \u00a0based \u00a0on \u00a0the \u00a0following \u00a0 criteria: \u00a0their \u00a0publication \u00a0attracted \u00a0a \u00a0sizable \u00a0audience, \u00a0their \u00a0content \u00a0was \u00a0news \u00a0related \u00a0 and \u00a0had \u00a0a \u00a0clear \u00a0emphasis \u00a0on \u00a0African \u00a0Americans \u00a0and \u00a0their \u00a0website \u00a0was \u00a0up-\u00adto-\u00addate. \u00a0 The \u00a0consumption \u00a0of \u00a0online \u00a0news \u00a0by \u00a0black \u00a0audiences \u00a0is \u00a0also \u00a0integral \u00a0to \u00a0this \u00a0research. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8389", "words": "1287", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Allen-Robertson, James", "title": "A MATERIAL DESCENT INTO DIGITAL MEDIA", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "affordances; material; media", "summary": "By \u2019descending\u2019 into the Hard Disk Drive the paper demonstrates how its operation plays a role in the affordances of digital media and how these affordances are prefigured in older media technologies. The paper hopes to demonstrate that, given the right conceptual frameworks, we can learn from a radically material approach to media technologies whilst retaining recognition of the social.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8390", "words": "1889", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Phillips, Laurie", "title": "A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in the \"It Gets Better Project\"", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "analysis; class; discourse; gender; igbp; participants", "summary": "Findings contribute to online participation research concerning how the internet is used for social change and how social inequalities are (re)produced in online projects. Method: Critical Discourse Analysis is concerned with \u201cthe effect of power relations and inequalities in producing social wrongs,\u201d with the ultimate goal of moving beyond the interpretation of texts and advocating for social change (Fairclough, 2010, p. 8).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8391", "words": "9610", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Beyl, Joke", "title": "A Narrative Approach to Studying Writers Weblogs as Interactive Processes of Identity Performance", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "artist; audience; author; blog; blog comments; blog posts; blogging; case; comments; narrative; number; posts; readers; self; writer", "summary": "Keywords linguistic ethnography, online identity, weblog research, literary writers, blog readers New media as transformers of artistic relations According to Susan Sontag (1966, p.49-51), artists are granted authority because they possess the sense of a personal and intellectual extremity. Abstract Our research is directed at understanding how literary writers together with their readers narratively construct a sense of self through blogging.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8392", "words": "1904", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Jackson Young, Sarah", "title": "A NO LONGER IMAGINED COMMUNITY: THE VISIBILITY OF THE ONLINE MUG SHOT", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "community; criminal; mug; shot", "summary": "According to Finn (2009), mug shots were designed with the same essential objective of the Bentham\u2019s Panopticon: visibility. For mug shots, the photos were part of system where criminal monitoring could also take place.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8393", "words": "1617", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Wittkower, D.E.", "title": "A Phenomenology of SNS Sharing", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "experience; sharer; sharing", "summary": "This is similar to the internal narrativization of daily experience in anticipation of the possibility of later recounting to friends who may be concerned with or amused by the events experienced, but is substantially different in that sharing constructs the object itself as subject to shared experience, while narrative recounting can aim only towards an \u201cas if\u201d presence of the object of experience to the other. While the focus of this paper is SNS sharing, it is hoped that the analysis will be of a kind fundamental enough to be clearly applicable (although perhaps sometimes in different and incomplete ways) to these similar modes of mediated construction of shared experience.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8394", "words": "1545", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Dillon, Kelly", "title": "A PROPOSED CYBERBYSTANDER INTERVENTION MODEL FOR THE 21ST CENTURY", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "communication; cyberbystander; intervention; model", "summary": "Individuals uninvolved in incidents are considered cyberbystanders, and a new model is necessary to test the boundary conditions of cyberbystander intervention. A more comprehensive model of cyberbystander intervention is proposed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8395", "words": "1211", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Larsen, Malene Charlotte; Kofoed, Jette", "title": "A snap of intimacy: Investigating photo sharing practices on Snapchat and Instagram", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "intimacy; photo; sharing; snapchat", "summary": "A snap of intimacy: Investigating photo sharing practices on Snapchat and Instagram . A SNAP OF INTIMACY: INVESTIGATING PHOTO SHARING PRACTICES ON SNAPCHAT AND INSTAGRAM Malene Charlotte Larsen Aalborg University Jette Kofoed Aarhus University In this paper we investigate photo sharing practices among young people on the social media platform Snapchat.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8396", "words": "5978", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Nishimura, Yukiko", "title": "A SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF EMOTICON USAGE IN JAPANESE BLOGS: VARIATION BY AGE, GENDER, AND TOPIC", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "age; bloggers; blogs; communication; emoticons; gender; graphics; harassment; inline; japanese; study; usage; use; women", "summary": "Though there is no statistically significant general effect of age, two non-significant trends with respect to age and gender are noteworthy, namely a tendency for Senior Males to use more emoticons than Junior Males and a tendency for Senior Females to use more emoticons than Junior Males. Since Junior Females also use more emoticons than Junior Males, this tendency provides tentative support for a general effect of gender on the frequency of emoticon usage.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8397", "words": "1488", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Moon, Brenda", "title": "A Topic Analysis Approach To Revealing Themes In The Australian Twittersphere", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "blei; dataset; topic", "summary": "Blei and Lafferty (2009) warn us about the interpretation of topic models: The topics and topical decomposition found with LDA and other topic models are not \u201cdefinitive\u201d. Rather, topic models are a useful exploratory tool.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8398", "words": "1359", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Kovic, Marko; Rauchfleisch, Adrian; Sele, Marc", "title": "A Typology of Digital Astroturfing", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "astroturfing; digital; research", "summary": "For \u00a0example, \u00a0research \u00a0designs \u00a0that \u00a0are \u00a0routinely \u00a0used \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0study \u00a0of \u00a0other \u00a0 forms \u00a0of \u00a0political \u00a0communication \u00a0can \u00a0be \u00a0impossible \u00a0to \u00a0implement \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0study \u00a0of \u00a0digital \u00a0 astroturfing, \u00a0since \u00a0very \u00a0basic \u00a0facts \u00a0such \u00a0as \u00a0who \u00a0is \u00a0doing \u00a0what \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0pursuit \u00a0of \u00a0which \u00a0 strategic \u00a0goals \u00a0is, \u00a0by \u00a0definition, \u00a0absent \u00a0in \u00a0digital \u00a0astroturfing. \u00a0 Second, \u00a0we \u00a0propose \u00a0a \u00a0typology \u00a0of \u00a0different \u00a0forms \u00a0of \u00a0 digital \u00a0astroturfing, \u00a0based \u00a0on \u00a0the \u00a0type \u00a0of \u00a0actor \u00a0and \u00a0the \u00a0type \u00a0of \u00a0goal \u00a0that \u00a0is \u00a0pursued \u00a0by \u00a0the \u00a0 digital \u00a0astroturfing \u00a0effort. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8399", "words": "2234", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Velasquez, Alcides", "title": "ACCESS BARRIERS AND LOCAL STRATEGIES FOR INTRAFAMILIAL MOBILE COMMUNICATION IN RESOURCE CONSTRAINED CONTEXTS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "access; communication; internet; mobile; resources", "summary": "Using van Dijk's digital divide framework (Dijk, 2005), this study asks about parents\u2019 development of local strategies to access mobile communication technologies for intrafamilial communication in a resource constrained context. Access Dimension Resources lacking Resources available Strategy Material Financial resources Social resources \uf0b7 Call from other person's phone (neighbor, friend)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8400", "words": "1289", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Oostveen, Anne-Marie; Reisdorf, Bianca; Eccles, Kathryn", "title": "ACCESS DENIED: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF INADEQUATE BROADBAND ACCESS IN RURAL BRITAIN", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "access; areas; broadband; internet", "summary": "Although the government has committed funding to improve broadband in rural areas, it has had to delay its initial target of universal availability of at least 2Mb/s by 2015 to the year 2017. Furthermore, Internet speeds in rural areas are not just slow but also unreliable, and there is contention at peak times.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8401", "words": "1586", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Lampinen, Airi; Huotari, Kai; Cheshire, Coye", "title": "ACCESS TO PARTICIPATION IN THE SHARING ECONOMY: THE CASE OF LOCAL ONLINE EXCHANGE IN A SINGLE PARENTS\u2019 NETWORK", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "exchange; network; participation; sharing", "summary": "We present a case study of local online exchange among an existing community network of single parents, including participant observation and thirteen formal, semi-structured interviews. Building on fieldwork we conducted with single parents in the San Francisco Bay Area, this paper considers access to participation in local online exchange and issues that can hinder sharing practices from taking off even when the potential benefits of participation are considered desirable and needed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8402", "words": "4977", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Baack, Stefan; Velkova, Julia; Kubitschko, Sebastian; Ferrer, Raul; Handler, Reinhard", "title": "Acting through technology: The proliferation of open source practices and its consequences", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "crowdsourcing; data; information; media; new; online; paper; practices; public; sharing; source; technology", "summary": "The next two papers each look at the social structures through open source practices by exploring how actors ACTING THROUGH TECHNOLOGY:THE PROLIFERATION OF OPEN SOURCE PRACTICES AND ITS CONSEQUENCES Suggested Citation (APA): Baack,S., Velkova, J., Kubitschko,S., Ferrer, R., & Handler, R.. (2016, October 5-8). Along with this development, media technologies and infrastructures are increasingly sites of an active political struggle in their own right.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8404", "words": "3682", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Famiglietti, Andrew", "title": "ADIEU WIKIPEDIA: UNDERSTANDING THE ETHICS OF WIKIPEDIA AFTER GAMERGATE", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "arbcom; article; case; editors; gamergate; levinas; web; wikipedia", "summary": "It is exactly this limitation of strategic action on the part of Wikipedia editors that the battleground policy seeks to achieve. \u201cWikipedia Is Not A Battleground:\u201d The Ethical Importance of Civility for Wikipedia While the arbcom cited a variety of Wikipedia policies in their decision on the gamergate case, one in particular was presented by the committee as key to their decision, and used in the rationale for almost all of the actions taken to discipline editors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8405", "words": "5541", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Larsson, Anders Olof; Bruns, Axel; Highfield, Tim; Stromer-Galley, Jennifer; Kenski, Kate; Hemsley, Jeff; Bryant, Lauren; Xiu, Huichuan; Semaan, Bryan; Rossi, Luca; Giglietto, Fabio", "title": "ADOPTION AND ADAPTATION: DIACHRONIC PERSPECTIVES ON THE GROWING SOPHISTICATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA USES IN ELECTIONS CAMPAIGNS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "campaign; campaigning; communication; election; facebook; media; new; parties; party; twitter; university; use", "summary": "Such tendencies are perhaps most evident in relation to the study of political elections: here, the effective use of social media by the successful Obama campaign in the 2008 US presidential election is often positioned as an obvious starting point for mainstream political uses of contemporary social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, creating the impression that its strategies emerged fully formed rather than themselves building on the lessons learnt from previous campaigns, and that subsequent campaigns merely needed to copy Obama\u2019s successful formula in their own electioneering efforts (e.g Miller, 2013). However, the bulk of research into these issues has continued to be designed as single-country or single-election case studies, providing useful findings but lacking a longitudinal, 2 diachronic, or comparative perspective that would be able to trace any developmental trends in political social media use between or during elections.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8406", "words": "1695", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Sargsyan, Tatevik", "title": "ADVANCING POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC INTERESTS THROUGH DATA LOCALIZATION IN THE NAME OF PRIVACY AND SECURITY", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "data; governments; internet; privacy; security", "summary": "More recently, increased privacy and security concerns following revelations about NSA surveillance have generated new government initiatives for data localization, once again encapsulating governments\u2019 desire to achieve goals relying on Internet infrastructure. Efforts to create national e-mail services, or cloud servers dedicated to support country- level networks are also drivers of data localization (Chander & Le, 2015; Hill, 2014).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8407", "words": "5842", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Quinn, Kelly; Massanari, Adrienne; Birkland, Johanna; Comunello, Francesca; Rosales, Andrea; Mulargia, Simone; Fern\u00e1ndez-Ard\u00e8vol, Mireia; Quan-Haase, Anabel", "title": "Aging in a Digital World", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "adults; aging; digital; icts; internet; life; literacy; media; seniors; technology; use; users", "summary": "Results and Discussion Based upon the 17 cases of older adult ICT users, a user typology emerged. Older adults have been slower to use the internet, are less likely to have broadband access, and adopt technologies such as social media and smartwatches at lower rates.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8408", "words": "6493", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Markham, Annette N; Kruse, Holly; Hemsley, Jeff; Steenson, Molly", "title": "Algorithmic Identity: Networks, Data, and the terrible beauty of the black box", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "algorithms; data; denver; identity; internet; media; music; network; papers; place; research; social; usa; youtube", "summary": "In this paper I explore this mediating effect using three different algorithms for network data visualization. The algorithmic self: Layered accounts of life and identity in the 21st century Holly Kruse: Identity and musical genre in the age of algorithms Molly Steenson: SNPs to Sheepy: Genetic genealogy and place identity Jeff Hemsley: Algorithmically supported sensemaking of network visualizations:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8409", "words": "1477", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Vickery, Jacqueline Ryan", "title": "ALL QUIET ON THE FACEBOOK FRONT: TEENS\u2019 NEGOTIATION OF SOCIAL AND MOBILE MEDIA PRIVACY", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "mobile; privacy; research; teens", "summary": "Additionally, compared to adults, teens ( and in particular low- income teens) are subjected to greater surveillance (Kelly, 2000, 2003), thus further complicating privacy management. ALL QUIET ON THE FACEBOOK FRONT: TEENS\u2019 NEGOTIATION OF SOCIAL AND MOBILE MEDIA PRIVACY Jacqueline Ryan Vickery University of North Texas Introduction & Research Question At a time when teens increasingly communicate via mobile and social media, it is not a surprise they are willing to share incredibly personal information with their peers, yet this should not be misinterpreted as a disregard for social privacy (boyd; 2014; boyd and Marwick, 2011).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8410", "words": "2207", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Fornaciari, Federica", "title": "Amazon is my hangout! Self-disclosure and community building in Amazon\u2019s reviews", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "amazon; community; disclosure; information; online; self", "summary": "Keywords Amazon reviews; online community; self-disclosure; sensitive information; textual analysis. For many, disclosing online has become key to enjoying the therapeutic benefits of social connection by fostering socialization, online community, and access to social capital (Andrejevic, 2011; boyd, 2011; Jarvis, 2011).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8426", "words": "2064", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Jobin, Anna", "title": "AN IMAGINARY ALGORITHMIC PUBLIC: HOW MEDIA REPORT ON \ufffcSEARCH QUERY METRICS \ufffc", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "google; media; query; search; year", "summary": "Selected Papers of Internet Research 16: The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers Phoenix, AZ, USA / 21-24 October 2015 AN IMAGINARY ALGORITHMIC PUBLIC: HOW MEDIA REPORT ON SEARCH QUERY METRICS Anna Jobin University of Lausanne Abstract Web search engines provide search query metrics in different formats for different audi- ences, notably annual search query statistics by country, which are often reported on by traditional media outlets. An imaginary algorithmic public: how media report on search query metrics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8427", "words": "1307", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Mortensen, Torill Elvira", "title": "An inappropriate sense of place", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "grandma; media; meyrowitz; place", "summary": "This discussion reactivates his understanding of how media changes society, while it underlines the extent to which digital media have changed society. Since then print and electronic media have converged in and been altered by digital media, and the sense of place has changed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8428", "words": "1154", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Reisdorf, Bianca Christin; Triwibowo, Whisnu; Nelson, Michael; Dutton, William", "title": "An interrupted history of digital divides", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "divides; internet; research", "summary": "Changing \u00a0definitions \u00a0of \u00a0digital \u00a0divides \u00a0and \u00a0inequalities \u00a0are \u00a0reflected \u00a0in \u00a0how \u00a0questions \u00a0 about \u00a0Internet \u00a0access \u00a0and \u00a0use \u00a0have \u00a0changed \u00a0overtime, \u00a0when \u00a0asked \u00a0at \u00a0all. \u00a0 Internet \u00a0(non-\u00ad) \u00a0use \u00a0types \u00a0and \u00a0motivational \u00a0access: \u00a0 Implications \u00a0for \u00a0digital \u00a0inequalities \u00a0research. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8429", "words": "7635", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Lee, Ju Young", "title": "An Old Regime for Viewpoint Diversity of the New Media: protecting anonymity for a functioning marketplace of ideas in cyberspace", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "amendment; anonymity; commission; court; doctrine; internet; mcintyre; ohio; protection; right; speech; v. ohio", "summary": "Through the analysis of McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, which is a landmark case of the protection of anonymous political speech, in light of three principles derived from Red Lion and Miami Herald, it will be examined how the First Amendment protection of anonymous speech can play a crucial role in creating a functioning \u201emarketplace of ideas\u201f on the internet. Despite the implication of this normative approach (i.e., the consideration of the value and impact of anonymous speech relative to the attributes of human), Constantine (1996) concluded that the McIntyre court remained legislative uncertainty, that is, failed to delineate \u201cthe requirements of a constitutionally sound statute regulating anonymous political speech\u201d (p. 8).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8430", "words": "5987", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Johns, Mark D; Nelson, Shelby", "title": "ANALYZING MAIN CHANNEL AND BACK-CHANNEL TWEETS DURING THE OCTOBER CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS GENERAL CONFERENCE", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "backchannel; belonging; channel; church; conference; group; lds; media; members; tweets; twitter", "summary": "In addition, religious groups have used the internet for internal communication among adherents, and some may find that the internet provides more direct connection between members and central authorities, helping members to bond more closely to the organization and allowing increased direct control by hierarchies. Literature Review Lundby has recently (2011) adapted to religious groups the concept of \u201ccultural belonging\u201d from the work of sociologist G\u00f6ran Therborn (1991).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8431", "words": "6038", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Helmond, Anne; van der Vlist, Fernando N; Gerlitz, Carolin; Weltevrede, Esther; Nieborg, David; Poell, Thomas; de Kloet, Jeroen; Zeng, Guohua; Pa\u00dfmann, Johannes", "title": "App Studies: Platform Rules and Methodological Challenges", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "app; apps; data; facebook; media; mobile; new; paper; platform; practices; retweet; studies; twitter; wechat", "summary": "They connect platform studies and app studies by drawing attention to their intricate relations, e.g. in the case of platforms offering apps, apps built on top of platforms, apps facilitating practices that inform platforms, and apps functioning as platforms. Apps, platforms, and their associated use practices emerge as a dynamic assemblage, a perspective that calls for extending platform studies to take into account the app ecologies around them, as well as for advancing app studies by considering apps as situated and ecological entities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8432", "words": "1423", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Vieira, Kate", "title": "Appropriating new communication technologies in migrants\u2019 home communities: A case study from Brazil", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "communication; family; migrants; migration; technologies", "summary": "First, literacy scholars have begun to examine the pedagogy of transnational communication technologies from the perspective of migrant youth. My coding categories included: how particular technologies contribute to feelings of proximity or distance; the material and practical means by which migrants sponsored family members\u2019 learning of new communication technologies (such as by giving them a computer and/or teaching them how to use it); the way that transnational communication technologies permeated local interactions and professional goals.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8433", "words": "1835", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Seko, Yukari; Kidd, Sean; Wiljer, David", "title": "Apps for Those Who Help Themselves: Mobile Self-Guided Interventions for Adolescent Mental Health", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "health; interventions; mobile; phone; self; tools", "summary": "Discussion The authors of the reviewed articles tend to favor implementing mobile phone tools to clinical practices as a suitable and effective means for facilitating self-monitoring among users. Literatures on mobile mental health tools were identified by searching for peer-reviewed, English articles in electronic databases including MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Web of Science, and CINAHL.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8434", "words": "252", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "-389", "author": "Abokhodair, Norah; Woolley, Samuel; Howard, Philip; McDonald, David", "title": "ARCHITECTURE FOR UNDERSTANDING THE AUTOMATED IMAGINARY: A WORKING QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGY FOR RESEARCH ON POLITICAL BOTS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "internet; research", "summary": "Paper presented at Internet Research 16: The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers. Selected Papers of Internet Research 16: The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers Phoenix, AZ, USA / 21-24 October 2015 ! ARCHITECTURE FOR UNDERSTANDING THE AUTOMATED IMAGINARY: A WORKING QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGY FOR RESEARCH ON POLITICAL BOTS ) Norah&Abokhodair&& University&of&Washington,&Information&School&& & Samuel&Woolley& University&of&Washington,&Communication&Department& & Philip&Howard& University&of&Washington,&Communication&Department& & David&McDonald& University&of&Washington,&Human&Centered&Design&and&Engineering&Department& Introduction) Social&media&\u2013&especially&social&networking&sites&\u2013&have&substantially&transformed&the& ways&in&which&people&discuss&current&affairs&and&obtain&political&news&and&information.& Because&of&increased&affordances&for&building&and&maintaining&social&connections,& young&people&are&better&able&to&cultivate&a&political&identity&and&engage&civically&in&both& authoritarian&and&democratic&regimes&[1].&Activist&causes&and&democratic&movements& have&been&born,&organized&and&disseminated&on&sites&including&Facebook,&Twitter,& Weibo,&and&YouTube&[2].&Like&any&technology,&though,&the&interfaces,&applications,&and& modes&of&communication&on&social&networking&sites&are&in&constant&negotiation,& transformation,&and&repurposing&\u2013&and&by&a&wide&variety&of&social&and&political&actors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8435", "words": "1983", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Hopkins, Julian", "title": "Assembling affordances: towards a theory of relational affordances", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "affordances; assemblage; blog; components; deleuze; internet", "summary": "Denver, USA 1 Assembling affordances: towards a theory of relational affordances Julian Hopkins Monash University Malaysia julian.hopkins@monash.edu Abstract Drawn from a long-term ethnographic research into personal blogging, this paper proposes a theoretical approach to the issue of materiality and culture in technology that combines the concept of affordances and that of Deleuze & Guattari\u2019s concept of assemblage. Affordances Hutchby has defined affordances as \u201cfunctional and relational aspects which frame, while not determining, the possibilities for agentic action in relation to an object\u201d (2001, p. 444).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8436", "words": "1589", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "D'heer, Evelien; Verdegem, Pieter; Courtois, C\u00e9dric", "title": "Audiences as Publics. Tweeting with the Television on.", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "audiences; public; research; television; twitter", "summary": "Method The research presented combines a content analysis of Twitter conversation (September 2012) and twelve Computer-Assisted Online Interviews (CAOI\u2019s) with Twitter users (October 2012). This paper presents a study on Twitter conversation whilst watching television and discusses the findings in the ongoing debates on Twitter research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8437", "words": "1233", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Liao, Tony Chung-Li; Yang, Hocheol; Lee, Songyi; Xu, Kun; Feng, Ping; Bennett, Spencer", "title": "Augmented Criminality \u2013 How Mobile Augmented Reality Crime Overlays Affect People\u2019s Sense of Place", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "crime; information; place", "summary": "Drawing on this real-world application, this study aims to understand 1) how seeing AR crime information might onse to that place. These findings are a first step toward understanding the possible effects of AR crime information, as well as to understand more broadly how mobile AR can mediate perceptions of place/space.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8438", "words": "1298", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Liao, Tony Chung Li", "title": "AUGMENTED OR ADMENTED REALITY? THE BOUNDARY CONTEST OVER MARKETING APPLICATIONS AND THE FUTURE OF AN EMERGING TECHNOLOGY", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "industry; marketing; technology", "summary": "From this perspective, the visions that actors hold for AR technology and the promises they choose to advance are an important unit of analysis, because they are \u201c\u2018constitutive\u2019 or \u2018performative\u2019 in attracting the interest of necessary allies (various actors in innovation networks, investors, regulatory actors, users, etc.) and in defining roles and in building mutually binding obligations and agendas.\u201d While nominally all of the members support AR technology, they have markedly different visions for what the technology should be used for and what the technology will look like.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8439", "words": "1022", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "29", "author": "Latzer, Michael; Just, Natascha", "title": "AUTOMATED AND COMMERCIALIZED REALITY CONSTRUCTIONS: GOVERNANCE BY ALGORITHMS ON THE INTERNET", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "algorithms; internet; media; selection", "summary": "A wide range of our daily activities in general and our media consumption in particular are increasingly shaped by algorithmic selection \u2013 in essence, by the automated assignment of relevance to certain automatically selected pieces of information. More precisely, it explores the reality construction by algorithmic selection on the Internet that includes and at the same time goes far beyond the formation of collective imaginaries of networked technologies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8440", "words": "1185", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Kruzan, Kaylee Payne; Appigani, Tim; Neill Hoch, Indira", "title": "AVATARS AS GHOSTS IN MMORPG", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "analysis; avatars; internet; new; research", "summary": "However, avatar research typically focuses more sharply on \u2018living\u2019 avatars and their relationship to identity construction. Avatars as ghosts in MMORPG.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8441", "words": "1495", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Klastrup, Lisbeth", "title": "\u201cHEARTWARMING MOMENT OF THE DAY\u201d: GLOBAL SHARING OF VIRAL CONTENT ON FACEBOOK", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "content; facebook; memes; photo", "summary": "This research project, the framework of which this paper seeks to describe, aims at understanding more closely Facebook user engagement with this form of shared content. \u201cHeartwarming moment of the day\u201d: global sharing of viral content on Facebook.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8442", "words": "7201", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Kadi, Selma", "title": "\u201cI DON\u2019T KNOW A MAN WHO ISN\u2019T KNEE-DEEP IN IT\u201d: INTERSECTIONS OF AGE AND GENDER IN OLDER PEOPLE\u2019S INTERNET USE", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "age; computer; gender; internet; men; people; relations; technology; use; women", "summary": "Traditional gender- technology relations exclude women from the use of particularly advanced technology, tend to neglect technology used mainly by women (in the definition of advanced technology) and describe women as less competent in technology use. Traditional gender-technology relations result in women being structurally excluded from technology use (e.g. due to a gender segregated job 1 The integration of technology and ICTs into households has also been discussed as their integration into a gendered space, e.g. due to the use of different rooms for differently gendered activities (Mallett, 2004) and due to links between domesticity and femininity (Flynn, 2003).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8443", "words": "2451", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Weller, Katrin; Kinder-Kurlanda, Katharina", "title": "\u201cI LOVE THINKING ABOUT ETHICS!\u201d PERSPECTIVES ON ETHICS IN SOCIAL MEDIA RESEARCH", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "ethics; media; research; researchers; social", "summary": "Our intention in this paper is therefore a) to show how the adapting of guidelines plays out and what the resulting individual strategies look like b) to shed some light on social media researchers\u2019 stances and opinions on the issue of ethics in social media research, and c) to offer these insights with the intent to allow other social media researchers to learn from these examples. Perspectives on ethics in social media research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8444", "words": "1164", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta", "title": "\u201cIMAGINE WE\u2019RE ALL IN THE LIVING ROOM TALKING ABOUT POLITICS\u201d: ISRAELI WHATSAPP GROUPS DEVOTED TO INFORMAL POLITICAL TALK", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "group; talk; whatsapp", "summary": "At the same time, Israeli political talk has its own challenges, many of which are mirrored in online spaces. Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Theorists point to informal political talk as a way for citizens to deepen their understanding of why the political world matters to them, form opinions, and set the ground for collective action (Barber, 1984).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8445", "words": "1905", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Magee, Rachel M.", "title": "\u201cIs There Anything Else You Would Like to Share?\u201d: Methods to Support Teen Agency", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "experiences; methods; research; teens; youth", "summary": "This rises from multiple perceptions, including the difficulty of working with ethics review boards to achieve approval for study with youth (Rode, 2009), or as critiqued by Amato and Ochiltree (1987), the developmental, experiential, or communicative skills of youth participants. Denver, USA 3 Conclusion As this work highlights, there are many opportunities to support the agency of teen participants.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8446", "words": "1497", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Highfield, Tim; Duguay, Stefanie", "title": "\u201cLIKE A MONKEY WITH A MINIATURE CYMBAL\u201d: CULTURAL PRACTICES OF REPETITION IN VISUAL SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "culture; media; practices; tumblr; vine", "summary": "In addition to textual analysis of LGBTQ looping visual social media content, the study will further explore the platform context as part of the experience of looped media. Research context This paper analyses practices around looping visual media, focusing on gifs and Vine videos.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8447", "words": "1095", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Jarrett, Kylie", "title": "\u201cMY MARXIST FEMINIST DIALECTIC BRINGS ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD\u201d: WHAT MARXIST FEMINIST THEORY CAN TELL US ABOUT CONSUMER LABOUR IN DIGITAL MEDIA", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "digital; labour; marxist; media", "summary": "This paper will argue that a renewed emphasis on the particularity of domestic labour is essential to a more complete understanding of how consumer labour is implicated in capitalism. \u201cMy Marxist feminist dialectic brings all the boys to the yard\u201d: What Marxist feminist theory can tell us about consumer labour in digital media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8448", "words": "1374", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Roth, Yoel", "title": "\u201cNO OVERLY SUGGESTIVE PHOTOS OF ANY KIND\u201d: TECHNICS AND NORMATIVITY IN SOCIAL NETWORK CONTENT MANAGEMENT POLICIES", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "apple; content; google; policies", "summary": "In evaluating the relationship between policy and practice on these services, this study outlines both a model of content policies as their most specific, as well as a model for how the relationship between technical systems and subcultural practice should be conceptualized. Framing content management policies as derived from the technical rules of platforms like Apple\u2019s App Store obscures normative judgements about proper self-presentation and community formation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8449", "words": "1503", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Hentrich, Nicole", "title": "\u201cNOT AVAILABLE FROM YOUR LOCATION\u201d: CONTROL AT THE INTERSECTION OF GEOGRAPHY, TECHNOLOGY, AND POLICY \u2013 A CASE STUDY OF NETFLIX IN AUSTRALIA", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "content; digital; internet; television", "summary": "Whether this is the segmenting of the globe into regions for DVD and Blu-ray playback, or the practice of geoblocking online content, the material boundaries of nation states are continually applied to digital content and to the internet at large. With the move to digital content and distribution, the television industry is in a state of flux both within the United States and around the world.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8450", "words": "2226", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Plothe, Theo", "title": "\u201cPLAY IS PULLING THE GODDAMN TRIGGER\u201d: DIGITAL GAME VIDEO CONTENT PRODUCERS AND THE BOUNDARIES OF GAMESPACE", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "creators; game; gamespace; play; videos", "summary": "Video game worlds: Working at play in the culture of EverQuest. Their videos remix characters and situations from digital games, and their videos range from hundreds to millions of views.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8451", "words": "1542", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Duffy, Brooke Erin", "title": "\u201cRegular People with a Passion for Fashion\u201d: Authenticity, Community, and Other Social Media Myths", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "bloggers; blogging; fashion; media; myth", "summary": "The ascendance of fashion bloggers is also reshaping other sites of cultural production, particularly the women\u2019s magazine and fashion industries. Indeed, fashion bloggers are now granted access to Fashion Week and other haute couture events, encroaching on territory once exclusively reserved for magazine editors and A-list celebrities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8452", "words": "1722", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Dang-Anh, Mark; Eble, Michael", "title": "\u201cWatch out, organize, inform yourself!\u201d: Tracing the Dynamics of Twitter Discourse on Anti-Nazi Street Protests", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "analysis; discourse; media; protest; twitter", "summary": "As the unequaled proportioned power law distribution reveals, \u201c@dd_nazifrei\u201d seems to be the key agent in protest discourse. Speech act analysis reveals that \u201cInforming\u201d is by far the most uttered speech act whereas \u201cinsulting\u201d, \u201cjudging\u201d or \u201cwarning\u201d were uttered less frequently in protest discourse (Figure 2).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8453", "words": "1617", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Ihleb\u00e6k, Karoline Andrea; L\u00f8vlie, Anders Sundnes", "title": "\u201cWhat we write is used against us\u201d: The participants' views on tightened control in online debate after the Oslo terrorist attacks", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "control; debate; editorial; participants; respondents", "summary": "Denver, USA 1 \u201cWhat we write is used against us\u201d: The participants' views on tightened control in online debate after the Oslo terrorist attacks Karoline Andrea Ihleb\u00e6k University of Oslo Norway k.a.ihlebak@media.uio.no Anders Sundnes L\u00f8vlie Gj\u00f8vik University College Norway anders.lovlie@hig.no Abstract This paper investigates the participants' experience of changes in the editorial control with online debate after the 22 July 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8455", "words": "1769", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Plothe, Theo", "title": "\u201cYou\u2019re in my World 1-1 Now!\u201d - The practice of remixing gaming culture on YouTube", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "comments; content; culture; remix; videos; youtube", "summary": "An analysis of personal medical information disclosed in YouTube videos created by patients with multiple sclerosis. YouTube is the logical destination for many users and their expressions of remix culture, but there are the looming issues of copyright and creative culture in a formal context.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8456", "words": "1299", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "John, Nicholas; Gal, Noam", "title": "\u2018I can\u2019t see you any more\u2019: A phenomenology of political Facebook unfriending", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "communication; facebook; media; unfriending", "summary": "Through unfriending, Facebook users shape both the content and the style of expression to which they are exposed on their feed. Israeli Facebook users\u2019 News Feeds were dominated by content pertaining to the conflict to the extent that it was even considered inappropriate to post content about anything else.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8457", "words": "1577", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Kalmus, Veronika", "title": "\u2018iTIME\u2019 AS A BLESSING OR A CURSE: IMAGINARIES OF SMARTPHONE USE AND PERSONAL AND SOCIAL TIME AMONG GENERATION GROUPS IN ESTONIA", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "imaginaries; smartphone; time; use", "summary": "\u2018iTIME\u2019 AS A BLESSING OR A CURSE: IMAGINARIES OF SMARTPHONE USE AND PERSONAL AND SOCIAL TIME AMONG GENERATION GROUPS IN ESTONIA Veronika Kalmus University of Tartu, Estonia The ontological problems of social time and space and their interconnectedness with social imaginaries and the related concepts have become an important stream in social sciences since the classic works of social constructivism in the 1970s. Recent theoretical elaborations have focused on problems related to acceleration of social time, time-space compression and (de)synchronization, offering models and critical insights concerning social, psychological and political implications of the speeding up of these processes, reaching beyond the capacity of human control and self-regulation (Adam 2003; Rosa 2005; Scheuerman 2009; M\u00fcckenberger 2011).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8458", "words": "1280", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Comunello, Francesca; Mulargia, Simone", "title": "\u2018No more birthday greetings on my Facebook wall, please.\u2019 Social media platform usage patterns, user perceptions, and idioms of practice among young Italian users", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "media; platforms; usage", "summary": "Media \u00a0ideologies \u00a0are \u00a0often \u00a0 shared \u00a0among \u00a0smaller \u00a0or \u00a0larger \u00a0groups \u00a0of \u00a0users \u00a0and \u00a0are \u00a0related \u00a0to \u00a0idioms \u00a0of \u00a0practice, \u00a0as \u00a0 \u201cpeople \u00a0figure \u00a0out \u00a0together \u00a0how \u00a0to \u00a0use \u00a0different \u00a0media \u00a0and \u00a0often \u00a0agree \u00a0on \u00a0the \u00a0 appropriate \u00a0social \u00a0uses \u00a0of \u00a0technology \u00a0by \u00a0asking \u00a0advice \u00a0and \u00a0sharing \u00a0stories \u00a0with \u00a0each \u00a0 other\u201d \u00a0(Gershon, \u00a02010, \u00a0p. \u00a06). \u00a0 Media \u00a0ideologies \u00a0are \u00a0 \u201cpeople\u2019s \u00a0beliefs \u00a0about \u00a0how \u00a0a \u00a0medium \u00a0communicates \u00a0and \u00a0structures \u00a0communication\u201d \u00a0 (Gershon, \u00a02010, \u00a0p. \u00a021). ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8459", "words": "1273", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "John, Nicholas", "title": "\u2018SEEDBOX HOGS\u2019 AND \u2018RATIO WHORES\u2019: DISCUSSIONS OVER FILE SHARING STRATEGIES IN PRIVATE BITTORRENT COMMUNITIES", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "file; ratio; sharing", "summary": "Second, file sharing is a site in which we can see the metaphor of \u2018sharing\u2019 at work and enquire into its modus operandi there, both by looking at the ways in which the word itself is used, as well as the ways it is explicitly highlighted as a resource in attempts to shape the moral contours of the file sharing endeavor. In this regard, the paper builds on previous work on sharing as a keyword for Web 2.0 (John, 2013), as a new/old form of distribution (Belk, 2010), and as a crucial metaphor in the term \u2018file sharing\u2019 (Gillespie, 2009; Litman, 2004; Mirghani, 2011; Yar, 2008).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8460", "words": "1323", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Van den Bulck, Hilde; Larsson, Anders Olof", "title": "\u2018There\u2019s a Starman waiting in the Sky\u2019: Mourning David #Bowie on Twitter", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "celebrity; media; tweets; twitter", "summary": "\u2018THERE\u2019S \u00a0A \u00a0STARMAN \u00a0WAITING \u00a0IN \u00a0THE \u00a0SKY\u2019: \u00a0MOURNING \u00a0DAVID \u00a0 #BOWIE \u00a0ON \u00a0TWITTER Hilde \u00a0Van \u00a0den \u00a0Bulck University \u00a0of \u00a0Antwerp Anders \u00a0Olof \u00a0Larsson Westerdals \u00a0Oslo \u00a0School \u00a0of \u00a0Arts, \u00a0Communication \u00a0and \u00a0Technology \u00a0 Extended \u00a0Abstract \u00a0 This \u00a0contribution \u00a0analyses \u00a0the \u00a0Twitter \u00a0response \u00a0to \u00a0the \u00a0death \u00a0of \u00a0musician \u00a0and \u00a0popular \u00a0 culture \u00a0icon \u00a0David \u00a0Bowie \u00a0as \u00a0an \u00a0inroad \u00a0to \u00a0discuss \u00a0key \u00a0characteristics \u00a0and \u00a0functions \u00a0of \u00a0 Twitter \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0mediated \u00a0relationships \u00a0between \u00a0celebrities, \u00a0fans \u00a0and \u00a0the \u00a0popular \u00a0culture \u00a0 industry. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Twitter \u00a0allows \u00a0celebrities \u00a0to \u00a0 communicate \u00a0(seemingly) \u00a0directly, \u00a0intimately \u00a0and \u00a0authentically \u00a0with \u00a0audiences \u00a0and \u00a0fans \u00a0 (Marwick \u00a0& \u00a0boyd, \u00a02011), \u00a0and \u00a0provides \u00a0the \u00a0latter \u00a0with \u00a0tools \u00a0to \u00a0discuss \u00a0celebrity \u00a0news \u00a0and \u00a0 to \u00a0engage \u00a0in \u00a0fan \u00a0behaviour \u00a0(Van \u00a0den \u00a0Bulck \u00a0et \u00a0al. \u00a02014). ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8461", "words": "1318", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Best, Camilla Michelle", "title": "\u2018THESE SNAPS ARE MADE FOR TALKING\u2019: VISUAL COMMUNICATION AND INSTANT EXPRESSION ON SNAPCHAT", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "communication; data; photography; sharing; snapchat", "summary": "Although there is significant research on personal photography and photo sharing practices on social media (Livingstone, 2005; Van Dijck, 2007, 2008; Tifentale, 2014; Gye, 2007), only a relatively small body of emerging research has focused on application Snapchat as a communication platform (Bayer et al., 2015; Roesner et al., 2014; In Snapchat interactions, a photo typically begins as the impetus but as the \u2018conversation\u2019 continues, greater value is placed on the text (the caption).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8462", "words": "1740", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Doty, Colin", "title": "BELIEVING THE INTERNET: USER COMMENTS ABOUT VACCINE SAFETY", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "beliefs; information; internet; safety; vaccine", "summary": "Somewhat contradictorily, the abundance of information on the Internet might also make it easier than ever to verify information (Floridi, 1996), while at the same time leading to echo chambers where Internet users encounter only information that confirms their beliefs (Sunstein, 2007). For Internet users displeased with traditional sources of authority, the Internet\u2019s enabling of one\u2019s \u201cown research\u201d implies a truth now unobscured because of the Internet, there to be discovered as self-evident once one makes the effort to look.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8463", "words": "1416", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Filipova, Anna; Cho, Hichang", "title": "BELOW BOILING POINT: NEGOTIATING CONFLICT THRESHOLDS IN DISTRIBUTED WORK", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "conflict; software; teams; work", "summary": "Recent analysis suggests conflict types may co-exist or evolve over time, yet little empirical work has been done to examine this (de Wit, Greer, & Jehn, 2012). Interviews were carried out with 18 representatives of various FOSS teams to examine conflict episodes in the projects, their antecedents and consequences.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8464", "words": "3950", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Harper, Todd", "title": "BEYOND BAYONETTA'S BARBIE BODY", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "bayonetta; character; drag; games; gender; player; video; ways; women", "summary": "Their work predates the appearance of the first Bayonetta title by three years, and was an exploration of the question: do women occupy a greater and more prominent space in video games as heroes and player characters than they had to that point in history? Put reductively, Mulvey argues that women characters in screen media often become objects onto which a dominant, hegemonic heterosexual gaze is imprinted for the pleasure of an assumed viewer coming from that very viewpoint.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8466", "words": "1245", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Driscoll, Kevin; Leavitt, Alex; Guth, Kristen; Bar, Franc\u0327ois", "title": "BEYOND BIG BIRD: THE ROLE OF HUMOR IN THE AGGREGATE INTERPRETATION OF LIVE-TWEETED EVENTS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "analysis; humor; media; tweets", "summary": "Microsoft Word - Driscoll-Beyond Big Bird-Beyond Big Bird.doc Selected Papers of Internet Research 16: The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers Phoenix, AZ, USA / 21-24 October 2015 BEYOND BIG BIRD: THE ROLE OF HUMOR IN THE AGGREGATE INTERPRETATION OF LIVE-TWEETED EVENTS Driscoll, Kevin Microsoft Research New England Leavitt, Alex Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California Guth, Kristen Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California Bar, Fran\u00e7ois Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California How do emergent discourses impact the interpretation of large social media events? The initial findings underscore an urgency for considering humor and other contextual aspects of communication in studies of participatory politics on social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8467", "words": "1293", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Antonijevic, Smiljana", "title": "BEYOND EXPECTATIONS: IMAGINING DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "humanities; research; scholarship", "summary": "Disentangling digital humanities from digital scholarship in the humanities is a prologue to rethinking a set of disciplinary, educational, organizational, and funding questions. Humanities scholarship, even the \u201cmainstream\u201d one, already follows the route of digital scholarship as a condition of contemporary research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8468", "words": "1544", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Moon, Brenda; Suzor, Nicolas; Matamoros Fern\u00e1ndez, Ariadna", "title": "Beyond Hashtags: Collecting And Analysing Conversations On Twitter", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "conversations; media; tweets; twitter", "summary": "Many existing methods of exploring Twitter data do not present conversation chains in a linked format (Bruns, 2012, Grant, Moon, & Busby Grant, 2010); we investigate how using network visualization might help researchers better understand the qualitative content and context of conversations. Many existing methods of exploring Twitter data do not present conversation chains in a linked format (Bruns, 2012, Grant, Moon, & Busby Grant, 2010); we investigate how using network visualization might help researchers better understand the qualitative content and context of conversations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8469", "words": "1548", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Nemer, David", "title": "Beyond Internet Access: a study of social and cultural practices in LAN Houses", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "government; houses; internet; lan", "summary": "Politicians, who once perceived such facilities as \u201cbad guys\u201d in richer neighborhoods, now are trying to revoke past bills in order to promote the spread of more LAN Houses in poor areas. Denver, USA 1 Beyond Internet Access: a study of social and cultural practices in LAN Houses David Nemer Indiana University USA dnemer@indiana.edu", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8470", "words": "1860", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Driscoll, Kevin; Ananny, Mike; Bar, Fran\u00e7ois; Guth, Kristen; Kazemzadeh, Abe; Leavitt, Alex; Thorson, Kjerstin", "title": "Big Bird, Binders, and Bayonets: Humor and live-tweeting during the 2012 U.S. Presidential Debates", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "accounts; analysis; humor; sentiment; tweets; twitter", "summary": "Keywords humor; politics; sentiment analysis; social media; content analysis Introduction Researchers in both industry and the academy are attempting to analyze sentiment on Twitter, assigning numerical scores to tweets through algorithmic analysis. Sentiment analysis became an integral component of the campaign coverage.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8471", "words": "1197", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Kappler, Karolin Eva", "title": "Big Dataphenomenology: Embodied Big Data", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "body; crawford; data; february", "summary": "Therefore, Crawford pleads for the combination of Big Data and Small Data, in orde ) of social life and experience. Karolin Eva Kappler Soziologie II: Soziologische Gegenwartsdiagnosen, Institut f\u00fcr Soziologie, FernUniversit\u00e4t in Hagen Introduction Currently, Big Data is attributed a high potential of control and value creation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8472", "words": "1521", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Assmann, Karin", "title": "Bill Cosby on Twitter and Beyond", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "bill; cosby; media; news; twitter", "summary": "Although images can help an issue gain traction and generate traffic, the mobilization of opinion requires trusted influencers within a social media network, in short, a new kind of news media that is more personalized and self-selected. Yet in the Cosby case, \u201cprodusers\u201d of social media content led the way and initiated, perhaps even sanctioned mainstream news media coverage.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8473", "words": "1499", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Giglietto, Fabio; Checcaglini, Chiara; Mazzoli, Lella", "title": "Binge watching the algorithmic catalog: an analysis of Twitter\u2019s reaction to the launch of Netflix Italia", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "binge; netflix; series; watching", "summary": "Methodology Dataset consists of 36,976 tweets (45% retweets, 0.6% @replies) created by 22,635 unique contributors between 10/20/2015 and 10/24/2015 and containing the official hashtag #ciaoNetflix, a mention to the official Twitter account of Netflix Italia (@NetflixIT) or the generic term Netflix in tweets written in Italian language. Longly awaited by local fans of TV series, the launch of the platform in the Italian market expanded the existing growing offer of TV content providers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8474", "words": "1536", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Fotopoulou, Aristea; O'Riordan, Kate", "title": "BIOSENSORY EXPERIENCES AND MEDIA MATERIALITY", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "fitbit; health; media; promotion", "summary": "Fitbit \u00a0wearables \u00a0form \u00a0part \u00a0of \u00a0a \u00a0 digital \u00a0health \u00a0promotion \u00a0apparatus, \u00a0which \u00a0as \u00a0Deborah \u00a0Lupton \u00a0(2014) \u00a0argues, \u00a0 emphasises \u00a0individual \u00a0responsibility \u00a0to \u00a0the \u00a0disregard \u00a0of \u00a0social \u00a0and \u00a0political \u00a0dimensions \u00a0 of \u00a0technology. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Fitbit \u00a0is \u00a0designed \u00a0to \u00a0address \u00a0users \u00a0and \u00a0consumers \u00a0as \u00a0learners \u00a0 of \u00a0technology, \u00a0instructed \u00a0to \u00a0incorporate \u00a0self-\u00adlogging \u00a0in \u00a0their \u00a0everyday \u00a0lives, \u00a0making \u00a0 everyday \u00a0practices \u00a0productive, \u00a0and \u00a0engaging \u00a0discourses \u00a0about \u00a0the \u00a0responsibility \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0 1 Juniper \u00a0Research \u00a0www.juniperresearch.com \u00a0and \u00a0NDP \u00a0www.npd.com, \u00a0both \u00a0figures \u00a0were \u00a0reported \u00a0widely \u00a0in \u00a02013 \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0press \u00a0with \u00a0 estimates \u00a0that \u00a0the \u00a0market \u00a0was \u00a0worth \u00a0$330 \u00a0million. \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8475", "words": "3344", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Jones, Dave", "title": "Black Boxes and Co-Creation in LittleBigPlanet 2", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "actors; black; grief; moderation; network; player; system", "summary": "System within a black box, locking the moderation process away from the view of other network actors, including the reporting player and the player-creator of the griefed level (see Figure 2). In this way, network actors outside of the black box \u2015need focus only on [the black box\u2018s] inputs and outputs and not on its internal complexity\u2016 (1999, p. 304).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8476", "words": "1372", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Korn, Jenny Ungbha", "title": "BLACK WOMEN EXERCISERS, ASIAN WOMEN ARTISTS, WHITE WOMEN DATERS, AND LATINA LESBIANS: HOW RACE AND GENDER MATTER IN FACEBOOK GROUPS", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "facebook; groups; internet; race; women", "summary": "In contrast, White women Facebook groups totaled 162, Latina Facebook groups equaled 75, and Asian- American women Facebook groups numbered only 32.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8477", "words": "6708", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Steele, Catherine Knight", "title": "Blogging While Black: a critical analysis of resistance discourse by black female bloggers", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "blogging; blogs; discourse; dominant; gossip; media; new; oppression; resistance; use; ways; women", "summary": "Using a typology crafted from Patricia Hill Collins\u2019 work on the levels of oppression faced by African American women, this study will examine Black celebrity gossip blogs and the ways in which they resist or tolerate oppression at three levels: the personal, the communal and the institutional, uncovering the ways in which Black women \u2018talk back\u2019 (Hooks, 1988) to systems and structure from which they are excluded or exploited. While this work causes us to consider blogging as an avenue of incorporation into mainstream political participation, it does not chart the ways in which blogging may be used as subversive act to resist oppression by Black women in particular.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8478", "words": "1265", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Klang, Mathias; Nolin, Jan", "title": "Book Pirates: Tethered Technologies and their Domestication", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "drm; ebook; technology; users", "summary": "Bloody battles for the right to copy are exceptions to the norm, the goal of this paper is to understand the performances of resistance towards the experience of copy limitations in ebook technologies. Keywords piracy; ebooks; ebook readers; domestication; tethered technology Introduction", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8479", "words": "1643", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Geiger, R. Stuart", "title": "BOT-BASED COLLECTIVE BLOCKLISTS IN TWITTER: THE COUNTERPUBLIC MODERATION OF A PRIVATELY-OWNED NETWORKED PUBLIC SPACE", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "blockbots; harassment; public; twitter", "summary": "Communities have formed around many blockbots, whose developers, moderators, and subscribers give each other a wide variety of logistical, emotional, and institutional support \u2013 in addition to the average, everyday work involving in collectively curating a blocklist. Bot-based collective blocklists in Twitter: The counterpublic moderation of a privately-owned networked public space.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8480", "words": "1500", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Dennen, Vanessa P.; Burner, Kerry J.", "title": "Boundaries, Privacy, and Social Media Use in Higher Education: What do Students Think, Want, and Do?", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "media; personal; students; use", "summary": "Students and professors alike are using social media in their everyday lives as well as to support learning and instruction, and consequently it is no surprise that the two worlds \u2013 school and personal \u2013 might overlap or collide at points. Students were not enthusiastic about using social media to support coursework; few felt it should be required (16; 10%) or that instructors should be encouraged to integrate social media (42; 29%).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8481", "words": "1377", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Kuehn, Kathleen M", "title": "Branding the Local: Anti-corporate Resistance in Online Consumer Reviews", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "consumer; local; localism; reviews", "summary": "Through a case study of one such listing site, Yelp.com, the following textual analysis asks the following questions: How do consumers construct localism in consumer reviews? Similarly, consumer reviews as expressions of lifestyle politics also appears in the articulations of the \u201clocal.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8483", "words": "911", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Enyon, Rebecca", "title": "BUCKING THE TREND? UNDERSTANDING THE \u201cOUTLIERS\u201d IN DIGITAL INCLUSION RESEARCH", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "digital; internet; research", "summary": "Indeed, qualitative research on Internet use by people from lower socio economic backgrounds (e.g. work by Bakardijeva and Smith, 2001; Clayton and McDonald, 2013; Mehrat and Merkel, 2004) highlights the significant complexity of this area, raising issues around the meaning and value of the Internet in people\u2019s lives and what it really means to be digitally included. Understanding the \u201coutliers\u201d in digital inclusion research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8485", "words": "1272", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Buck, Amber", "title": "BUILDING PROFESSIONAL IDENTITIES THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "identities; media; students", "summary": "Building professional identities through social media. Professional Identities and Online Spaces In a transitional space between school and the workplace, upper-level courses in students\u2019 majors allow them to not only practice more advanced disciplinary work, but also allow students the opportunity to develop professional identities in these fields.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8486", "words": "1369", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Liao, Tony", "title": "BUT IS IT \u2018AUGMENTED REALITY\u2019? BOUNDARY WORK OVER THE NAMING, DEFINITION, AND CATEGORIZATION OF AN EMERGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "reality; technology; work", "summary": "\u2018Hard AR\u2019 supporters dismissed mobile AR as frivolous, preferring to focus on head worn displays for hands free applications (medical, maintenance, etc.). These criteria were debated and contested around emerging developments like the 1st and 10 line, and further challenged by mobile AR browsers (Layar, Wikitude, etc.), and finally Google Glass.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8487", "words": "2100", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Baron, Naomi S.", "title": "But Still It Moves: Screens, Print, and Reading", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "copy; distraction; internet; print; reading; study", "summary": "Reading on digital screens (including desktops, laptops, eReaders, tablets, and mobile phones) has become integrally tied to simultaneous internet availability.2 Given the growing shift from reading in hard copy to reading onscreen, we need to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of digital reading. The Case for Reading Onscreen General Considerations Among the advantages of digital reading are these: \u00a7\uf0a7 eBooks are generally less expensive than print counterparts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8488", "words": "1794", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Schwartz, Sander Andreas", "title": "Can social network sites bridge the politician-citizen divide: Interaction on SNS during the Danish parliamentary election 2011", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "citizen; election; facebook; media; politicians", "summary": "The case of Denmark, a Facebook Nation Denmark has a very high percentage of Facebook users per capita1, but much fewer are active on Twitter and so most Danish political candidates also chose Facebook over Twitter as their preferred social medium (Hoff, Jensen, Klastrup, Schwartz, & Br\u00fcgger, 2013; Skovsgaard & Van Dalen, 2013). Variations in communication and style might make sense when considering politicians\u2019 various audiences, different political candidates and their respective political parties.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8489", "words": "1304", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Kronman, Linda", "title": "CAN TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING LEARN FROM HYPERTEXT FICTION? INTRODUCING THREE EXAMPLES OF 4TH GENERATION DIGITAL FICTION", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "digital; fiction; hypertext; media", "summary": "I argue that hypertext fiction theory offers us an understanding of how we read social media fiction. Can transmedia storytelling learn from hypertext fiction?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8490", "words": "3863", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Lawson, Caitlin", "title": "CASCADING EXPLOITATIONS: THE CELEBRITY NUDE PHOTO HACK AS DIGITAL PHENOMENON", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "celebrity; hacking; images; media; online; photos; pornography; women", "summary": "For the \u201ccrackers\u201d who stole the celebrity nudes, the \u201cproblem\u201d they sought to solve was their lack of access to nude photos of celebrity women. Thus the masculine aspects of hacker culture, its fringe nature, the affordances of social media sites like 4chan and Reddit, and the resonances of online pornography coalesce to explain the celebrity nude photo hack as a digital extension of misogyny, sexual harassment, and our culture\u2019s fascination and desire for intimacy with celebrities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8491", "words": "5832", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Loosen, Wiebke; Bastos, Marco T; Puschmann, Cornelius; Hasebrink, Uwe; Ho\u0308lig, Sascha; Merten, Lisa; Schmidt, Jan\u00ad-Hinrik; Kinder\u00ad-Kurlanda, Katharina E; Weller, Katrin", "title": "Caught in a feedback loop? Algorithmic personalization and digital traces", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "algorithms; author; content; data; friend; information; media; news; public; repertoires; research; researchers; systems; twitter; users", "summary": "The findings show significant differences in topical preferences between news editors and social media users, with social media users favoring opinion pieces, along with national, local, and world news. Characterizing information diets of social media users.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8492", "words": "6776", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Bruns, Axel; Highfield, Tim; Vimieiro, Ana; Vimieiro, Renato; Sauter, Theresa; Puschmann, Cornelius", "title": "Celebrity Crises on Twitter", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "@regsprecher; account; analysis; armstrong; breaking; bruns; internet; media; news; research; tweets; twitter; users", "summary": "These capabilities are, of course, also available to other Twitter users; if the stream of tweets responding to breaking news acts as \u201ca first draft of the present, to be revised and completed as further information comes to hand\u201d (Bruns & Highfield, 2012), this is, in a sense, a contested draft. This, however, has not stopped other Twitter users from continuing to @mention the account (as an alternative to referring to Benedict XVI by name, or to the office of the Pope in general); through in-depth quantitative and qualitative analysis we intend to examine the overall patterns and tenor of such @mentions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8493", "words": "7384", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Oliveira, Raquel Gomes de", "title": "Citizen Journalism and its Democratic Potencial -Brazilian case studies: Viva Favela and dios Online", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "citizen; citizen journalism; communities; content; democracy; favela; information; journalism; media; native; online; public; social; viva; \u00edndios", "summary": "Much of the literature about citizen journalism from authors such as Lacy, Duffy, Riffe, Thorson, and Fleming (2010) relates three aspects: the exploration of the internet\u2019s potential for citizen journalism, the description of the nature of citizen journalism, and the characteristics of websites used by citizen journalists. 4.3 Acting as citizen journalists The portals we studied, with interesting news for these communities posted mostly by their own members, reflect the idea of citizen journalism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8494", "words": "1265", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Boccia Artieri, Giovanni; Giglietto, Fabio; Gemini, Laura", "title": "CITIZENFOUR: INTERNET PUBLICS AND THE IMAGINARY OF PRIVACY A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF TWITTER COMMENTARIES AROUND THE 2015 OSCAR WINNING DOCUMENTARY", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "citizenfour; documentary; privacy; snowden", "summary": "We\u00a0 focused\u00a0on\u00a0the\u00a0type\u00a0of\u00a0representations\u00a0produced\u00a0around\u00a0the\u00a0relationship\u00a0between\u00a0 privacy\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0Internet,\u00a0ie\u00a0the\u00a0imaginary\u00a0related\u00a0to\u00a0privacy\u00a0conveyed\u00a0by\u00a0Snowden\u00a0case.\u00a0 Finally,\u00a0a\u00a0sample\u00a0of\u00a0original\u00a0tweets\u00a0will\u00a0be\u00a0 content\u00a0analyzed\u00a0using\u00a0a\u00a0codeset\u00a0derived\u00a0by\u00a0DeCew\u00a0(1997)\u00a0definitions\u00a0in\u00a0order\u00a0to\u00a0 identify\u00a0the\u00a0emerging\u00a0imaginary\u00a0of\u00a0privacy.\u00a0\u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8495", "words": "2120", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Gordon, Eric; Mihailidis, Paul", "title": "CIVIC MEDIA: TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF ITS RELEVANCE", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "community; internet; media; practice; public; term", "summary": "From the widespread use of social media to aid in campaigns and democratic movements throughout the world, to debates over the public\u2019s right to data or the individual\u2019s right to protect their data from public use, to government\u2019s design and deployment of digital tools, the umbrella of civic media has widened. TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF ITS RELEVANCE Eric Gordon Emerson College Paul Mihailidis Emerson College In 2007, Henry Jenkins wrote on the occasion of the founding of the Center for Future Civic Media at MIT, that civic media refers to \u201cany use of any medium which fosters or enhances civic engagement.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8496", "words": "7361", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Dillon, Kelly P; Neo, Rachel L.; Seely, Natalee", "title": "CIVIL KEYSTROKES: EXAMINING ANONYMITY, POLITENESS, AND CIVILITY IN ONLINE NEWSPAPER FORUMS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "anonymity; anonymous; civility; comments; communication; condition; discourse; doi; facebook; news; newspapers; online; people; politeness; research", "summary": "Furthermore, online political news stories generally tend to receive more comments than non-political online news stories (Tsagkias, Weerkamp, & de Rijke, 2009). Methods Sample Four Midwest newspapers that allow online comments to Associated Press articles were chosen for the current study.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8497", "words": "2267", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Hopkins, Julian", "title": "CLICK FRAUD: ADVERTISING AND THE TERRITORIALISATION OF PERSONAL BLOGS", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "advertising; bloggers; blogs; callon; click; market", "summary": "ADVERTISING AND THE TERRITORIALISATION OF PERSONAL BLOGS Julian Hopkins Monash Unversity Malaysia Abstract Drawing upon Deleuze & Guattari\u2019s concept of the assemblage, and Callon\u2019s actor- network theory analysis of economic markets, this paper draws upon ethnographic research to examine a case study of changing practices amongst personal bloggers in Malaysia. Introduction This paper looks at how Malaysian personal bloggers\u2019 practices became entangled with market relations through the use of web analytics that enable the \u2018cost per click\u2019 (CPC) pricing model, whereby the advertiser pays for metered clicks on advertisements (Bermejo, 2007, pp. 113\u201314).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8498", "words": "1947", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Banks, Jaime; Bowman, Nicholas David", "title": "Close intimate playthings? Understanding player-avatar relationships as a function of attachment, agency, and intimacy", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "agency; avatar; games; intimacy; player; video", "summary": "Work has attempted to explain the relationship by focusing on the technologies of social presence, the socio-emotional relationship between players and avatars as distinct social others, the capability of players to adopt the personae of their avatars, and the psychological merging of player and avatar as a unified person. Banks (2013) suggested these two dimensions coalesce, with lower intimacy associated with player agency and higher intimacy associated with avatar agency.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8499", "words": "557", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Arvidsson, Adam", "title": "COLLABORATIVE CROWDING, A DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF ADOLESCENT FAN CULTURES ON TWITTER", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "internet; twitter", "summary": "Looking at fan-culture on twitter form he point of view of crowd dynamics provides new insights on the nature of value and value creation on social media platforms. Collaborative crowding, a digital ethnography of adolescent fan cultures on twitter.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8500", "words": "1324", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Lorincz, Laszlo; Gyor, Anna Fruzsina; Koltai, Julia; Karoly, Takacs", "title": "Collapse of an Online Social Network: Who Started the Avalanche?", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "collapse; network; users", "summary": "Considering \u00a0the \u00a0collapse \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0 network, \u00a0the \u00a0presence \u00a0of \u00a0network \u00a0externalities \u00a0has \u00a0straightforward \u00a0predictions: \u00a0users, \u00a0 who \u00a0have \u00a0fewer \u00a0connections \u00a0enjoy \u00a0lower \u00a0utility \u00a0from \u00a0this \u00a0specific \u00a0network, \u00a0therefore \u00a0they \u00a0 are \u00a0more \u00a0willing \u00a0to \u00a0change \u00a0for \u00a0an \u00a0alternative \u00a0one. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 After \u00a0 significant \u00a0cascading \u00a0mechanism \u00a0were \u00a0found \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0abandoning \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0site \u00a0(T\u00f6r\u00f6k, \u00a0 Janos, \u00a0Ruan, \u00a0Zhongyuan, \u00a0and \u00a0Kert\u00e9sz, \u00a0Janos \u00a02016), \u00a0we \u00a0concentrate \u00a0on \u00a0the \u00a0 specification \u00a0of \u00a0users, \u00a0who \u00a0leave \u00a0the \u00a0OSN \u00a0first, \u00a0and \u00a0start \u00a0these \u00a0avalanches. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8501", "words": "1739", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Aitamurto, Tanja", "title": "COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE IN JOURNALISM: THE CONFLICT AND THE INTERPLAY OF THE LOGIC OF THE CROWD AND THE LOGIC OF JOURNALISM", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "crowd; intelligence; journalism; logic; stories", "summary": "The readers were asked to share their knowledge, experience, and expertise as bases for stories, which were then written by professional journalists. The cases include several instances, in which professional journalists crowdsourced knowledge for articles in established publications.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8503", "words": "1106", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Yale, Camille", "title": "COMMERCIAL-FREE TV?: EXAMINING THE COMMODITY FLOW OF NETFLIX", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "commodity; media; netflix; new", "summary": "In this paper I take on the assertion that Internet media services like Netflix are challenging the commercially- driven traditional media model and democratizing media consumption. Netflix is a player in this TV revolution, and its rallying cry is its modest price and personalized, commercial-free experience.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8504", "words": "4178", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Stanfill, Mel; Fiesler, Casey; Morrissey, Katherine E.; Noppe, Nele", "title": "CONCEPTUALIZING COPY/RIGHTS: INTERNET FANDOM, CULTURAL NORMS, AND THE LAW", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "communities; copyright; fan; fandom; fans; internet; law; media; norms; online; use", "summary": "\u201cImagined Policies\u201d addresses the longstanding practices of fan communities and the ways their creative practices have adapted to new production technologies and digital networks. However, though these types of creativity have become widespread in an Internet- enabled world, fan communities have had appropriation at the core of their creative practices since long before the first networked computers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8505", "words": "8037", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Park, Sora; Middleton, Catherine; Allen, Matthew; Freeman, Julie; Rickard, Scott; Nansen, Bjorn; Arnold, Michael; Wilken, Rowan; Gibbs, Martin; Williams, Jocelyn", "title": "Conceptualizing non users of the internet and mapping digital (dis)engagement", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "access; adoption; broadband; communication; digital; government; information; internet; media; new; non; participation; research; social; technologies; technology; use; users", "summary": "As such, this panel illustrates that digital engagement is influenced by the capabilities and willingness of individuals, communities and organizations to decipher, adapt to, and identify potential benefits from digital media use. Together, these papers provide broad insight into the appropriation of digital technologies, and responses from both the public sector and communities towards fostering digital engagement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8506", "words": "1587", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Duncan, Sean; Huang, Joey", "title": "CONNECTING BADGES: EXPLORING THE UTILITY OF DIGITAL BADGES FOR LEARNING IN AFFINITY SPACES", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "affinity; badges; learning; online; spaces", "summary": "Supplementary interviews were conducted with members of each affinity space in order to capture first-person accounts of digital badge considerations, as well as the ways that individuals within affinity spaces conceived of the social practices within each space. While some have advocated for the implementation of digital badges in order to better credentialize, assess, and promote informal learning practices online, there has been very little study of how current, non-educational badging (and other recognition systems) may impact activities within existing online spaces (if at all).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8507", "words": "1361", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Hamada, Tadahisa; Tamura, Takaori", "title": "CONSERVATIVE CHALLENGES TO FEMINISM ON THE JAPANESE INTERNET: AN HISTORICAL ANALYSIS", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "feminism; groups; internet; japanese; women", "summary": "Haneko Inoue, a founder member for an online feminist group \u201cWoman in Kansai,\u201d invited feminism organizations to attend lectures about to use the Internet for feminist ends. This irritated not only China and Korea governments but also the U.S. Among the supporting groups for this tendency are rightist groups and Internet users with rightist or racist ideas who are also largely anti-feminist.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8508", "words": "1348", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Larsen, Jessica Nicole", "title": "CONTRADICTIONS OF THE SOCIAL IMAGINARY: MAKING SENSE OF DIGITAL FOOD SNAPS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "food; online; photography; sharing", "summary": "Food photography has been claimed to affect restaurant experience, create conflict between chefs and consumers, and has been ridiculed for its amateurism. Ultimately, however, the ideological criticism of food photography contradicts with its existence as a popular practice among the social collective.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8509", "words": "11523", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Klang, Mathias; H\u00e5rd af Segerstad, Ylva; Jones, Steve; Farkas, Ashley; Lange, Patricia; Micalizzi, Alessandra; Leaver, Tama; Ess, Charles", "title": "Coping with Death and Grief Through Technology", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "child; communication; death; denver; facebook; google; grief; grieving; identity; internet; loss; media; new; online; papers; process; research; university; usa; users", "summary": "While issues around digital death and online services are relatively new, a survey of existing policies and practices leads to the following tentative conclusions and broad recommendations for change: \u2022 at present the official policies of social media companies and online corporations are minimal and relatively blunt; \u2022 where a single account or authentication service is a gateway to different tools, services and content, there should be some ability to separate and curate these posthumously, allowing final curatorial decisions by digital executors; \u2022 due to the lack of available options and the lack of awareness of official options, many users resort to ad hoc responses, such as transferring control of online profiles to immediate family members after a user\u2019s death; \u2022 as digital executors and online wills increasingly address social media, policies and practices will need to emerge which provide more fine-grained control over the digital legacies; and Selected Papers of Internet Research 14.0, 2013: Keywords digital death; identity; social media; Facebook; Google.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8510", "words": "4663", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Aufderheide, Patricia Ann; Sinnreich, Aram; Milosevic, Tijana; Burroughs, Benjamin", "title": "COPYRIGHT AND REMIX ATTITUDES IN DIGITAL SPACES: HOW DO THEY DIFFER WITH AGE, EXPERIENCE AND KIND OF USE?", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "communication; copyright; digital; filmmakers; law; material; media; research; scholars; streaming; use", "summary": "This clearly reflects the fact that savvier scholars have taken advantages of recent policy wins in favor of digital fair use. Another compares two surveys, from 2009 and 2014, of communication scholars on scholarly research decision-making before and after creating a best practices code to clarify fair use for the field.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8511", "words": "1758", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Burk, Dan", "title": "Copyright and the New Materiality", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "copyright; digital; material; media; work", "summary": "Consequently, it has been unclear and controversial how the first sale doctrine might apply to digital works \u2013 first sale applies to distributions, not to reproductions (Reese, 2003; Liu, 2001). To have done otherwise held the potential to eviscerate the statute as the most valuable instantiations of creative works are increasingly digital forms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8512", "words": "1428", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Walker Rettberg, Jill", "title": "CORPSES, FETUSES AND ZOMBIES: THE DEHUMANIZATION OF MEDIA USERS IN SCIENCE FICTION AND MAINSTREAM MEDIA", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "fiction; humans; media; science", "summary": "In Daemon software and augmented reality media appear to control humans completely and in a very frightening manner, but in the sequel Freedom we see how that same software and media tools allow humans to create a better society. Today MMOGs like World of Warcraft are important alternate worlds for millions of people, but in mainstream discourse, and in some scholarship such as Sherry Turkle\u2019s Alone Together (2011), immersive media have become a threat.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8513", "words": "1951", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Yeshua-Katz, Daphna", "title": "Couch Award Winner: Stigma Resistance in Online Communities", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "ana; community; group; online; stigma", "summary": "Abstract Media scholars often employ concepts from Goffman\u2019s dramaturgical approach to study online communities of stigmatized individuals as a \u201cbackstage\u201d -- a refuge from social disapproval. This paper contributes to the theoretical development of the study of online communities, specifically to communities of stigmatized individuals.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8514", "words": "1273", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Kaiser, Jonas", "title": "Countering Climate Change: Climate Skeptic Comments in the German Networked Public Sphere", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "climate; comments; skeptics", "summary": "This \u00a0is \u00a0especially \u00a0 visible \u00a0in \u00a0a \u00a0country \u00a0like \u00a0Germany \u00a0where \u00a0skeptics \u00a0are \u00a0a \u00a0small \u00a0minority \u00a0(Metag, \u00a0F\u00fcchslin, \u00a0 & \u00a0Sch\u00e4fer, \u00a02015) \u00a0that \u00a0have \u00a0formed \u00a0a \u00a0counterpublic \u00a0online \u00a0(Kaiser \u00a0& \u00a0Puschmann, \u00a02016). \u00a0 The \u00a0study \u00a0at \u00a0hand \u00a0is \u00a0looking \u00a0at \u00a0the \u00a0relationship \u00a0between \u00a0counterpublic \u00a0and \u00a0mainstream \u00a0 in \u00a0the \u00a0networked \u00a0public \u00a0sphere \u00a0(Benkler, \u00a02006) \u00a0to \u00a0find \u00a0out \u00a0how \u00a0and \u00a0where \u00a0skeptics \u00a0are \u00a0 trying \u00a0to \u00a0make \u00a0their \u00a0voices \u00a0heard \u00a0and \u00a0how \u00a0users \u00a0from \u00a0the \u00a0mainstream \u00a0react \u00a0to \u00a0that. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8516", "words": "2099", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Unkel, Julian; Haas, Alexander", "title": "CREDIBILITY AND SEARCH ENGINES. THE EFFECTS OF SOURCE REPUTATION, NEUTRALITY AND SOCIAL RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE SELECTION OF SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "credibility; reputation; research; results; search; selection", "summary": "From a theoretical perspective, (1) this small influence can be seen as evidence for the secondary nature of credibility (cues) when it comes to the selection of search engine results. This means that neither were there any limitations of search results allowed to be viewed, nor were there any consequences of being exposed to inaccurate or biased information.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8517", "words": "2082", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Sun, Huatong", "title": "Critical Design Sensibility in Postcolonial Conditions", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "acm; design; new; postcolonial; technology; york", "summary": "The critical design sensibility aims to negotiate the design opportunities and constraints social media technology brings as it integrates a) agency and structure, b) identity and culture with a focus on power for cross-cultural social media technology design. This type of na\u00efve responses often contests and exemplifies the common problem in cross-cultural technology design, the disconnect of action and meaning (Sun, 2012).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8519", "words": "1694", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Ryasvy, Wayne Erik", "title": "Culpable Media: Digital Disembodiment and the Rise of \u201cCrowdsourced Morality\u201d", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "expression; individual; media; morality; public", "summary": "I draw on the dramaturgical metaphors for impression management and public life from Erving Goffman (1959) and Richard Sennett (1977) to consider how public expression has changed and how \u201ccrowdsourced morality\u201d is performed as an increasingly common practice of online interactions. Microsoft Word - 818-564-1-PB.docx Culpable Media/Culpable Selves: Digital Disembodiment and the Rise of \u201cCrowdsourced Morality\u201d Wayne Erik Rysavy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States wrysavy@email.unc.edu Abstract Social media encourage collective practices of public expression and individualized practices of privacy and reputation management.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8520", "words": "1647", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Hutchinson, Jonathon", "title": "CULTURAL INTERMEDIATION AT THE INTERSECTION POINT OF INSTITUTIONAL CO-CREATION: RECONFIGURING PARTICIPATION WITHIN THE AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION (ABC)", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "abc; media; online; production; research", "summary": "Here the term refers to the role \u2018in the middle\u2019 facilitating cultural production. The process of managing the co-creative arrangement for cultural artifact production was previously understood to be the role of the community manager (Wilson, Hutchinson & Shea, 2010).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8521", "words": "1274", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Williams, J. Patrick; Suhaimi, Zahirah", "title": "CULTURE, DISCOURSE, AND GAMEPLAY: NEW MEDIA CITIZENSHIP IN SINGAPORE", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "citizenship; media; narratives; singapore", "summary": "Culture, discourse, and gameplay: new media citizenship in Singapore. Description of the study and methods In this presentation, we report on a study that seeks to connect (macro-level) public discourses on new media citizenship with (micro-level) interactional narratives about online gameplay.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8522", "words": "1157", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Rey, PJ; Boesel, Erin", "title": "CYBERBULLYING, CREEPSHOTS, AND REVENGE PORN: THREE CASE STUDIES IN AUGMENTED SUBJECTIVITY", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "abuse; cyberbullying; digital; media", "summary": "At the same time, however, digital dualism also tells us that digitally mediated interaction is less \u201creal\u201d or meaningful than are other types of interaction, which allows digitally mediated abuse to be brushed off as somehow \u201cless real,\u201d less harmful, or even not abuse at all. While the negative consequences for victims of cyberbullying, creepshots, and revenge porn are often clear, we have difficulty acknowledging and addressing these issues because our culturally inherited framework for understanding them, and even our language for describing them, is encoded with assumptions that our experiences with or through digital technologies are separate and distinct from the rest of our lives.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8523", "words": "1848", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Milosevic, Tijana", "title": "CYBERBULLYING POLICIES OF SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "companies; cyberbullying; internet; media; policies; research", "summary": "Selected Papers of Internet Research 16: The 16 th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers Phoenix, AZ, USA / 21-24 October 2015 CYBERBULLYING POLICIES OF SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES Tijana Milosevic University of Oslo Scope, Theoretical Framework and Significance of the Research Topic \u201cWhy don\u2019t you kill yourself?\u201d was the question 14-year-old Hannah Smith from the United Kingdom received on social media website Ask.fm, before she hanged herself in her bedroom (Smith-Spark, 2013). This kind of systematic analysis of cyberbullying policies of social media companies has not been conducted thus far and through interviews with key companies, which are difficult to obtain, this study seeks to provide pioneering steps towards a framework for analysis of effectiveness of industry self-regulation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8524", "words": "830", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Stevenson, Michael", "title": "CYBERSPACE, THE SOCIAL GRAPH AND NEW MEDIA RUPTURE- TALK", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "new; rupture; talk", "summary": "CYBERSPACE, THE SOCIAL GRAPH AND NEW MEDIA RUPTURE- TALK Michael Stevenson University of Groningen From visions of virtual community in the early 1990s to more recent claims that social media are instilling a culture of openness, the web has long been associated with radical change in the media landscape. What should be made of these narratives of rupture in new media culture?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8526", "words": "1263", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Larsson, Stefan; Halbert, Debora", "title": "DEAD, ENCRYPTED OR STREAMED? AMERICAN FILE SHARING AND THE FUTURE OF PIRACY", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "american; file; privacy; sharing", "summary": "American file sharing and the future of privacy. How do American file sharers conceptualize and understand future landscapes of file sharing and media consumption?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8528", "words": "1398", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Kiel, Paula", "title": "DEAD ONLINE: PRACTICES OF POST-MORTEM DIGITAL INTERACTION", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "death; digital; interaction; post", "summary": "Most recently, digital platforms such as www.deadsoci.al, www.lifenaut.com and www.liveson.org, open up new possibilities for post-mortem forms of interaction that potentially allow an active participation of the dead through digital media. The aim of this section is to provide an analysis of available platforms designed to enable post-mortem digital interaction.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8529", "words": "1518", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Maiers, Claire", "title": "Decoding Risk: Making Sense of Predictive Data Analytics", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "analytics; clinicians; data; horizon", "summary": "That judgement of the Horizon risk score is based primarily on the clinician\u2019s existing experience with a particular infant or experiential information passed on from other clinicians. Data and Methods During 2015-2016, I spent eight months regularly observing the use of Horizon at Eastern Hospital1.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8530", "words": "1338", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Burgess, Jean; Cassidy, Elija; Light, Ben", "title": "DEEPLY SUPERFICIAL DIGITAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT? THE CASE OF TWITTER AND MOVEMBER 2013", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "engagement; health; media; movember", "summary": "In enfolding clinical practice expectations, evaluation is configured as seeking to establish irrefutable links between a deep and meaningful intervention (or social media engagement) and a clinical outcome. A key actor with Movember has been social media \u2013 Movember has presences on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube and Twitter.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8531", "words": "3892", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Rennie, Ellie", "title": "DEMIC DEAL-BREAKERS AND THE STATISTICAL IMAGINARY OF THE DIGITAL DIVIDE", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "australia; broadband; communities; digital; divide; exclusion; internet; people; research", "summary": "Our research suggests that it is not necessarily attitudes to technologies that are influencing digital choices in remote Indigenous communities, but the conditions under which technologies are made accessible. At home on the outstation: barriers to home internet in remote Indigenous communities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8532", "words": "1809", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Geiger, R.Stuart", "title": "Design by Bot: Power and Resistance in the Development of Automated Software Agents", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "bot; bots; developers; development; new; software", "summary": "Given the way in which bot developers see themselves, how are the inevitable issues surrounding bot development articulated and resolved? However, bots raise new issues in the development of software, as bot developers cannot rely on the same regimes of sovereignty that make a feature embedded into a platform instantly implementable.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8533", "words": "2095", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Brabham, Daren C.", "title": "Designerly Ways of Knowing Internet Research: A Case for Critical Media Design", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "communication; design; internet; media; research; studies; theory", "summary": "Critical communication research, with its roots in the Frankfurt School, Marxism, feminism, and other schools of thought, is concerned with injustice and imbalances of power in the world\u2014often in consideration of historical material conditions and along lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, and other identity markers\u2014and seeks to intervene in such unjust discourses and practices (Hardt, 1992; McChesney, 1993; Rogers, 1982; Slack & Allor, 1983). Critical communication research at the crossroads.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8534", "words": "1292", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Holmes, Jeffrey Brandon", "title": "DESIGNING A GAME-INSPIRED CLASSROOM: VIDEOGAMES AS MODELS OF GOOD TEACHING", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "design; learning; students", "summary": "Indeed, it is possible to reconsider Gee\u2019s learning principles as design principles which can drive instructional practice. Students played games--primarily World of Warcraft--as a regular part of their class meetings and course assignments.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8535", "words": "6233", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Venter, Anja", "title": "DIGITAL ALTERNATIVES: MOBILE-CENTRIC CREATIVES", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "access; bongani; creative; design; internet; mobile; neo; people; phones; school; south; students; university", "summary": "[12] for young people who seek agency and a means of personal expression \u2013 cultivating a \u2018first touch\u2019, as Beth Kolko [13] would frame it, of instrumental visual design. Instead, I present a picture of the systemic inequalities that make it difficult for young people from low-resourced backgrounds to gain access to the skills and epistemologies that are required for access into exclusive design courses.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8536", "words": "1254", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Madison, Nora", "title": "DIGITAL BISEXUALITY: THE SEMIOTICS OF ONLINE SEXUAL IDENTITY", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "bisexual; bisexuality; digital; online", "summary": "These social spaces included national and regional websites for bisexual organizations, blogs dedicated to bisexual issues and topics, bisexual groups on Facebook, and bisexual list-serves. Participant observation and semiotic analysis was employed to analyze how bisexual representation was discussed and performed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8537", "words": "10509", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Selg, Ha\u030akan", "title": "DIGITAL CONTACT TOOLS IN PROFESSIONAL LIFE: WHAT GOVERNS THE CHOICE?", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "choice; communication; contact; contact tools; contexts; information; mail; mean; media; new; professional; research; respondents; situations; sms; tools; use; voice", "summary": "Given the importance of role expectations in professional life, the questions arose as to how the new tools should be implemented and, considering the wide range of contact tools available, which particular tool should be used in which situation(s)? The survey questions related to the use of contact tools such as voice calls (fixed-line telephony, mobile telephony and VoIP2), and text (e-mail, SMS 1 Sw.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8538", "words": "1287", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Halford, Susan; Weal, Mark; Tinati, Ramine; Carr, Les; Pope, Catherine", "title": "Digital Data Infrastructures: interrogating the social media data pipeline", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "data; media; research; science", "summary": "Social media data offer none of this. This paper seeks a middle path in the space between \u2018giving in and getting out\u2019 (Gehl 2015; 148): between accepting social media data at face value and abandoning the opportunities that they might offer.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8539", "words": "1220", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Ritter, Christian", "title": "Digital Dublin: the Water Protests and Social Media in Ireland", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "digital; irish; media", "summary": "In \u00a0the \u00a0same \u00a0year, \u00a0social \u00a0media \u00a0were \u00a0used \u00a0for \u00a0the \u00a0first \u00a0time \u00a0by \u00a0social \u00a0 movements \u00a0in \u00a0Ireland \u00a0to \u00a0disseminate \u00a0their \u00a0motion \u00a0to \u00a0a \u00a0national \u00a0audience. \u00a0 In \u00a0the \u00a0political \u00a0 field, \u00a0social \u00a0media \u00a0are \u00a0widely \u00a0considered \u00a0as \u00a0tools \u00a0for \u00a0democratization \u00a0from \u00a0below. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8540", "words": "3442", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Szablewicz, Marcella", "title": "DIGITAL GAMES AND HETERONORMATIVITY: THE CASE OF CHINA\u2019S \u2018LOSERS\u2019", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "china; culture; game; gaming; gaoji; internet; men; term", "summary": "With regard to digital game culture specifically, consider the following statement, offered by the director of one of China\u2019s most famous machinimas: In tying digital game culture to economic disempowerment, the above statement shares much in common with the rhetoric of the Chinese \u2018diaosi.\u2019", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8541", "words": "1238", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Madianou, Mirca", "title": "DIGITAL HUMANITARIANISM: MYTHS AND REALITIES", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "disaster; media; people; technologies", "summary": "Despite good intentions, \u2018humanitarian technologies\u2019 become instruments of management and audit, rather than tools for participation and empowerment. Digital communication technologies are welcomed for their potential to catalyze a \u2018power-shift\u2019 in humanitarianism by building feedback structures that empower local communities to hold humanitarian and government agencies into account.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8543", "words": "2488", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Dolni\u010dar, Vesna; Filipovi\u0107 Hrast, Ma\u0161a; Vehovar, Vasja; Petrov\u010di\u010d, Andra\u017e", "title": "Digital inequality and intergenerational solidarity: The role of social support in proxy internet use", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "internet; networks; proxy; support; use; users", "summary": "The results of multivariate analysis on survey data from a nation-wide representative sample show that between emotional and socializing support only the latter is associated with proxy internet use: internet non-users with larger socializing networks and stronger intergenerational support (e.g., a higher proportion of (grand)children) are more likely to be proxy internet users. By showing that the presence of (grand)children in internet non-users\u2019 socializing support networks increases the probability of proxy internet use, it might be concluded that a form of functional solidarity exists in socializing networks between proxy internet users and their (grand)children.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8553", "words": "4400", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Passonen, Susanna; Sund\u00e9n, Jenny; Tzankova, Veronika", "title": "Digital, material, affective", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "affect; affective; analog; digital; intensities; media; networks; new; press; steampunk; thread", "summary": "2) Turkish online sexual networks mediate affective states by providing the conditions for transforming the physical sexual body into a verbal abstraction. Whereas Turkish governmental politics have extensively reinforced morally conservative sexual norms for the last several years, Turkish online sexual networks have been expanding sexual practice, expression, and understanding.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8556", "words": "1763", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Halegoua, Germaine", "title": "DIGITAL NAVIGATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE EXPERIENCE OF URBAN PLACE", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "media; mobile; navigation; place; technologies", "summary": "While mobile communication between users, the utilization of geo-coded texts and GPS coordinates in locative media projects and games, and the disclosure or sharing of location within social media systems tends to be the focus of scholarly and industry research, there is still much to investigate about the lived experiences and practices of utilizing digital navigation technologies to interact with public space and place. In contrast to popular assumptions about the distracted perception of space and place encouraged by digital navigation technologies, this study illustrates and analyzes the ways in which the exact opposite processes are observable: that navigation technology users are developing wayfinding strategies that re-embed themselves within urban space, re- Suggested Citation (APA): Halegoua, G. (2015, October 21-24).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8557", "words": "1298", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Jordan, Katy", "title": "Digital scholarship and the social network site: How academics conceptualise their networks on academic social network sites and Twitter", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "academic; networks; sns", "summary": "DIGITAL \u00a0SCHOLARSHIP \u00a0AND \u00a0THE \u00a0SOCIAL \u00a0NETWORKING \u00a0SITE: \u00a0HOW \u00a0 ACADEMICS \u00a0CONCEPTUALISE \u00a0THEIR \u00a0NETWORKS \u00a0ON \u00a0ACADEMIC \u00a0 SOCIAL \u00a0NETWORKING \u00a0SITES \u00a0AND \u00a0TWITTER \u00a0 Katy \u00a0Jordan \u00a0 Institute \u00a0of \u00a0Educational \u00a0Technology, \u00a0The \u00a0Open \u00a0University, \u00a0UK \u00a0 \u00a0 Background \u00a0 \u00a0 Academic \u00a0social \u00a0networking \u00a0sites \u00a0(SNS) \u00a0seek \u00a0to \u00a0bring \u00a0the \u00a0benefits \u00a0of \u00a0online \u00a0networking \u00a0 to \u00a0an \u00a0explicitly \u00a0academic \u00a0audience. \u00a0 Network \u00a0analysis \u00a0showed \u00a0that \u00a0the \u00a0structure \u00a0of \u00a0academics\u2019 \u00a0ego-\u00adnetworks \u00a0differs \u00a0 according \u00a0to \u00a0platform \u00a0(Jordan, \u00a0forthcoming);\u037e \u00a0discussing \u00a0the \u00a0structures \u00a0with \u00a0participants \u00a0 uncovered \u00a0reasons \u00a0behind \u00a0the \u00a0structural \u00a0differences. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8560", "words": "5252", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Boellstorff, Tom; Davis, Donna; Krueger, Alice", "title": "Disability and Virtual Worlds: New Frontiers of Appropriation", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "disabilities; disability; individuals; internet; life; online; people; persons; research; support; worlds", "summary": "Moving beyond the game: Social virtual worlds. Abstract People with disabilities are proportionately over-represented in virtual worlds, with probably one in five people in a virtual world having one or more disabilities\u2014physical, mental, emotional, or sensory.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8561", "words": "1326", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Brooks, Catherine; Heidorn, P. Bryan; Stahlman, Gretchen; Chong, Steven", "title": "DISCOURSES, A COMMUNITY OF SCIENTISTS, AND LONG-TAIL DATA IN THE CLOUD", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "data; science; scientists; workshop", "summary": "This is particularly true for little data that often do not conform to established standards (Borgman et al., 2007). If dark data from smaller projects were drawn together, scientists would have a broad set of data available to them.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8562", "words": "1892", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Jack, Caroline", "title": "Discourses of internet freedom", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "discourses; freedom; internet; new; power; press", "summary": "This paper analyzes public instances of internet freedom discourse, using discourse as an analytical construct that characterizes language practices as expressions of systems of power. Textual analysis of press accounts, policy texts and influential digital manifestos finds that internet freedom discourses increasingly signify a system of power relations in which individual autonomy can be facilitated or limited by private enterprise organizations, but is predominantly limited by the actions of nation-states.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8563", "words": "1478", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Dodson, James; Hodges, Duncan; Witte, Monica; Creese, Sadie", "title": "DOES PERSONALITY AND SECURITY EXPERTISE PREDICT PASSWORD STRENGTH?", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "individuals; information; password; security", "summary": "Improving password security and memorability to protect personal and organizational information. We hypothesised the following: H1: Security experts will be more likely to create secure passwords compared to non- experts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8564", "words": "6459", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Katzenbach, Christian; Hofmann, Jeanette; Gollatz, Kirsten; Musiani, Francesca; Epstein, Dmitry; DeNardis, Laura; Hackl, Andrea; Blanchette, Jean-Franc\u0327ois", "title": "DOING INTERNET GOVERNANCE - STS-INFORMED PERSPECTIVES ON ORDERING THE NET", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "case; denardis; governance; information; infrastructure; internet; internet governance; lgbt; new; paper; power; press; rights; science; society; sts; technology; university", "summary": "and Susan Leigh Star\u2019s work on standards (1996), Bruno Latour\u2019s technical mediation (1994), Michel Callon\u2019s sociology of translation (1986), as well as Tarleton Gillespie\u2019s more recent research on the \u201cpolitics of platforms\u201d (2010) are mobilized and updated in order to bring to the fore the \u201cpower and politics\u201d qualities of technical architectures, the uses of Internet governance technologies as \u201chidden levers for content control\u201d, and the privatization of IG (DeNardis, 2012). The paper explains the applicability of the six-layer typology for analyzing the various layers of Internet infrastructure governance, develops the six case areas in which each of these layers directly mediates LGBT rights conflicts, and presents a future agenda for research into this nascent phenomenon.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8565", "words": "1760", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Martey, Rosa Mikeal; Stromer-Galley, Jennifer; Banks, Jaime; Wu, Jingsi; Consalvo, Mia; Castillo, Daniella", "title": "Dwarf acts like a lady: The importance of gender roles in understanding gender switching and player behavior", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "gender; male; men; play", "summary": "Results and Conclusions Initial findings reveal that player gender correlated strongly (.702, p < .0001) with avatar gender, and men were more likely (35%) to switch genders than women (10%). Levels of femininity or masculinity however, did not correlate with avatar gender, nor with player gender.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8566", "words": "3153", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Breideband, Thomas", "title": "ECOLOGIES OF SUBVERSION AND INSPIRATION ON TWITTER: THE HIJACKING OF #MYNYPD", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "communication; ecologies; hashtag; media; new; print; twitter; users", "summary": "The analysis of the second dataset in this category revealed how various top hashtags influenced not only the direction of the conversation on #myNYPD but also the emergence of other new hashtags (see Fig. 6). On the other hand, this particular campaign provided an added rhetorical dimension pertaining to the photographic material that Twitter users were asked to post to the hashtag.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8567", "words": "5721", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Jarrett, Kylie; Velkova, Julia; Jakobsson, Peter; Graham, Roderick; Gehring, David", "title": "ECONOMIES OF THE INTERNET I: INTERSECTIONS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "commons; crowdfunding; economies; economy; gift; internet; market; media; new; paper; press; production; public; spaces; work", "summary": "At the content level, government can subsidize the creation and sustaining of nonprofit community web pages and social media sites. Cornwall (1997) similarly argues that classical economics is drawn from general ideas about liberty with an emphasis on the sovereignty of economic actors that is not available to all actors such as homosexuals for whom self-surveillance has been an important strategy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8568", "words": "5801", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Kruse, Holly; O\u2019Hallarn, Brendan; McKnight, John Carter; Tekkobe, Cindy; Shepherd, Tamara; Shtern, Jeremy", "title": "ECONOMIES OF THE INTERNET III: SPHERES", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "digital; economies; economy; horse; intermediaries; internet; media; new; online; racing; sphere; sport; study; twitter; work", "summary": "Study of social media\u2019s role in creating a Habermassian informational economy through public spheres has been studied in emerging democracies (Hoskins, 2013), through analysis of White House Facebook and YouTube posts (Halpern & Gibbs, 2013), and through analysis of thousands of politically-themed tweets, which determined that \u201csocial media would have a potential as a public sphere, supporting arguments in political deliberation\u201d (Waldhauser, 2014, p. 13). This analysis will seek to extend research of the public sphere into a new realm, specifically, the potential for issues in sport to create spheres of deliberative democracy on social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8569", "words": "5796", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Baym, Nancy; Paasonen, Susanna; Mowlabocus, Sharif; Wittkower, D.E.", "title": "ECONOMIES OF THE INTERNET II: AFFECT", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "attention; care; culture; distraction; economy; interactions; internet; labor; media; new; relationships; social; value; work", "summary": "Social media relies on the interactions between users and the investment in those interactions to generate consumer lock-in and facilitate the on-going contribution of taste-identifying data that is appropriated and sold to internet advertisers and marketers. The first speaker begins with an exploration of personal and intimate connections in social media, offering musicians as the exemplification of the contemporary trend towards self-branding in the way they use online relationships with fans as a professional strategy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8570", "words": "1478", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Tirthali, Devayani", "title": "Educating About Diabetes: Conversations on a Social Networking Site", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "diabetes; education; health; research", "summary": "Conclusion As Walkley (2009) pointed out, health education is \u2018social, ubiquitous, and partially authorized by authorities\u2019 and there is little research on these \u2018unscripted, unobserved educational moments\u2019. There was a lot more that Y1 and participants she interacted with had to 'figure out' in order to apply the abstract/generalized knowledge that they receive from health professionals in structured interactions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8571", "words": "6981", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Park, Sora", "title": "Effects of Home Environment on Internet Use and Dependence of Children and Adolescents", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "children; dependence; home; internet; internet use; media; mediation; parents; time; use; young", "summary": "Internet use time included all activities including games, searching, chatting, etc. Depending on the type of parental mediation, the effects on internet use time varied.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8572", "words": "1461", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Karpf, David", "title": "E-Government and Its Limitations: Assessing the True Demand Curve for Citizen Public Participation", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "government; interest; new; polarization; public", "summary": "To avoid the Field of Dreams Fallacy, digital government efforts must be calibrated in light of existing public interest levels. The problem with these initiatives is rooted in a set of common misunderstandings about the structure of citizen interest in public participation \u2013 simply put, the Internet does not create public interest, it reveals public interest.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8573", "words": "1758", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Mulvin, Dylan Wesley", "title": "EMBEDDED DANGERS: THE HISTORY OF THE YEAR 2000 PROBLEM AND THE POLITICS OF TECHNOLOGICAL REPAIR", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "bug; computer; repair; y2k", "summary": "By \u00a0studying \u00a0these \u00a0 three \u00a0effects, \u00a0this \u00a0paper \u00a0reconfigures \u00a0the \u00a0role \u00a0of \u00a0Y2K \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0history \u00a0of \u00a0computers, \u00a0 infrastructure, \u00a0and \u00a0information \u00a0systems \u00a0by \u00a0placing \u00a0the \u00a0bug \u00a0within \u00a0the \u00a0larger \u00a0contexts \u00a0of \u00a0 infrastructure \u00a0renewal, \u00a0public \u00a0works, \u00a0and \u00a0technological \u00a0literacy. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Y2K: \u00a0 Millennial \u00a0 reflections \u00a0 on \u00a0 computers \u00a0 as \u00a0 infrastructure. \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8574", "words": "8234", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Puschmann, Cornelius; Ford, Heather; Recuero, Raquel; Phillips, Whitney; Sauter, Theresa; Bruns, Axel; Eckert, Stine", "title": "Enacting conflict, controversy, and aggression in online spaces", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "analysis; auspol; communication; community; debate; drork; facebook; hashtag; internet; media; online; research; stigma; trolling; twitter; usa; users; violence; wikipedia", "summary": "This is not to say that Facebook users are solipsists. Impact and diffusion of sentiment in political communication: An empirical analysis of public political Facebook pages.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8575", "words": "1474", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Lim, Sun Sun", "title": "ENGAGING JUVENILE DELINQUENTS AND YOUTHS-AT-RISK: YOUTH WORKERS\u2019 USE OF FACEBOOK FOR MEDIATED PASTORALISM", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "clients; facebook; workers; youth", "summary": "ENGAGING JUVENILE DELINQUENTS AND YOUTHS-AT-RISK: YOUTH WORKERS\u2019 USE OF FACEBOOK FOR MEDIATED PASTORALISM Sun Sun Lim National University of Singapore Abstract Youth work seeks to rehabilitate juvenile delinquents for re-entry into mainstream society and to prevent youths-at-risk from falling into delinquency, thus necessitating that youth workers assiduously monitor their clients. With the avid use of social media by youths, youth workers must also adopt these communication platforms to reach out to their young clients.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8577", "words": "7429", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Davis, Donna Z.", "title": "Engaging the Disengaged via Performance in Online Virtual Worlds", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "environment; individuals; interviewee; life; media; new; online; participants; people; percent; relationships; research; study; world", "summary": "Online virtual worlds that allow users to generate content provide opportunities for artistic, altruistic, and intellectual collaboration as well as development of community, enhanced by the power of telepresence. The unbearable likeness of being digital: The persistence of nonverbal social norms in online virtual environments.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8578", "words": "1294", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Harvey, Alison; Grimes, Sara M.", "title": "ENGENDERING CREATIVITY, ENGENDERING LABOUR: GIRLS AND DIY MEDIA", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "children; girls; kearney; media", "summary": "Our paper engages with some of the gaps and questions that remain unanswered in these studies, in particular the social, spatial, and technical limitations that can still shape the creative practices of young girls. While the above-mentioned body of work made a major contribution towards addressing the absence of girls\u2019 creative practices in research on digital spaces, the tendency towards finding the use of the Internet and participation in virtual realms emancipatory can fall into the trap of overlooking the significant barriers and constraints young girls and women face in both online and offline spaces.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8579", "words": "1274", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "B\u00fcchi, Moritz; Just, Natascha; Latzer, Michael", "title": "ENHANCING ONLINE PRIVACY AT THE USER LEVEL: THE ROLE OF INTERNET SKILLS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "behavior; information; internet; privacy; skills", "summary": "Digital literacy and privacy behavior online. From a public-policy perspective, this calls for adequate policies and rules for privacy protection (Bennett & Parsons, 2013).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8581", "words": "8430", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Boskic, Natasha", "title": "Ethical Behaviour, Personal Growth and Becoming a Citizen of the World: the power of online games", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "design; eds; education; ethics; evoke; game; new; participants; players; teaching; values; york", "summary": "Cheating in video games is treated differently than cheating in other games. Phelps claims that \u201cas game players, we are not just systemic thinkers, but ethical actors\u201d (p. 145).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8583", "words": "4610", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Dich, Linh; McKee, Heidi A.; Porter, James E.", "title": "Ethical Issues in Online Course Design: Negotiating Identity, Privacy, and Ownership", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "asian; content; course; data; moocs; online; privacy; public; sites; students", "summary": "This issue should concern faculty developing online courses, whether MOOCs or OOCs (i.e., not \u201cmassive\u201d). At the same time we should be suspicious about an emerging development model for MOOCs: Many universities are outsourcing their MOOCs to third-party host/providers such as Coursera and Udacity \u2014 in much the same way that they are outsourcing quality assurance review for online courses to third parties like Quality Matters.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8584", "words": "1852", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Bergstrom, Kelly", "title": "EVE Online Newbie Guides: Helpful information or gatekeeping mechanisms at work?", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "eve; game; guides; online; players", "summary": "EVE newbie guides In this paper I expand on Paul\u2019s explorations and investigate the content of these necessary player generated resources in order to learn more about what EVE players think about this particular MMOG\u2019s community makeup. These guides provide clues to the behaviours, slang, and norms that must be met if one wishes to be welcomed by other players to become part of the EVE community.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8587", "words": "1279", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Robinson, Laura", "title": "EVERYDAY EXCLUSION FROM THE INFORMATION SOCIETY: DIGITAL INEQUALITIES, IDENTITY WORK, AND EMOTION MANAGEMENT", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "emotion; identity; work", "summary": "When studies of digital identity work target their attention on digitally advantaged segments of the population, it obscures the pernicious effects of digital inequality. Based on in-depth interviews, the research sheds light on digital inequality as a daily phenomenon necessitating emotion management and identity work.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8588", "words": "1256", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "L\u00f8vlie, Anders Sundnes; Ihleb\u00e6k, Karoline Andrea", "title": "EXPERIENCES OF REPERCUSSIONS FROM PARTICIPATION IN ONLINE DEBATE", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "comments; online; survey", "summary": "Respondents \u00a0who \u00a0answered \u00a0yes \u00a0to \u00a0this \u00a0first \u00a0question \u00a0(11%), \u00a0were \u00a0presented \u00a0with \u00a0a \u00a0 conditional \u00a0follow-\u00adup, \u00a0free-\u00adtext \u00a0question: \u00a0Can \u00a0you \u00a0give \u00a0an \u00a0example \u00a0of \u00a0problems \u00a0that \u00a0 have \u00a0occurred \u00a0as \u00a0a \u00a0consequence \u00a0of \u00a0online \u00a0discussions \u00a0(as \u00a0mentioned \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0previous \u00a0 question)? \u00a0 The \u00a0diagram \u00a0below \u00a0(Figure \u00a01) \u00a0shows \u00a0the \u00a0types \u00a0of \u00a0problems \u00a0mentioned \u00a0by \u00a0 respondents, \u00a0separated \u00a0by \u00a0gender. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8589", "words": "1582", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Bruns, Axel; Woodford, Daryl; Sadkowsky, Troy", "title": "EXPLORING THE GLOBAL DEMOGRAPHICS OF TWITTER", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "accounts; information; twitter; user; userbase", "summary": "Geographic and Language Distribution In the conference paper, we also intend to pursue the question of the geographic distribution of Twitter users. An additional metric of interest, for example, is also the use of the more recently introduced favouriting functionality by Twitter users; our working hypothesis is that more recent users, for whom Twitter favouriting may appear as analogous to Facebook liking, use this functionality more readily than older users who came to know Twitter before favouriting was introduced.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8591", "words": "1916", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Rao, Anuradha", "title": "EXTENDING THE DEBATE ON ICTs FOR CIVIL AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT: RUPTURES BETWEEN OLD AND NEW CIVIL SOCIETY IN A HIGH-TECH CITY", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "engagement; internet; new; praja; society", "summary": "EXTENDING THE DEBATE ON ICTs FOR CIVIL AND POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT: RUPTURES BETWEEN OLD AND NEW CIVIL SOCIETY IN A HIGH-TECH CITY Anuradha Rao National University of Singapore Introduction and theoretical overview This paper examines the issues confronting civil society actors as they leverage the internet to create spaces for citizen participation in public affairs. This paper examines the efforts of a new type of civil society actor in Bangalore city, India, whose extensive use of ICTs distinguishes him and his activities1 from the more conventional civil society actors in the city.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8593", "words": "1297", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Dennen, Vanessa P.; Burner, Kerry J.", "title": "FACEBOOK, \u201cFRIENDS,\u201d AND THE HIGHER EDUCATION CLASSROOM: STUDENT PREFERENCES AND ATTITUDES", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "facebook; friends; students; use", "summary": "Similarly, students were split on the issue of being Facebook friends with instructors, with only 54% comfortable with that idea. Facebook, \u201cfriends,\u201d and the higher education classroom: student preferences and attitudes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8594", "words": "3495", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Karppi, Tero Jukka; Schrock, Andrew Richard; Herman, Andrew; McKelvey, Fenwick", "title": "FACEBOOK\u2019S FUTURES", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "access; facebook; future; internet; internet.org; media; mobile; new; users; value", "summary": "They argue that these different product developments need to be understood in the context of affective capitalism: on one hand they are designed to capture Facebook users and transform them into value on the other they are designed so that the we do not use the interent to access Facebook but we use Facebook to access the internet. N.N3\u2019s paper approaches the IPO of Facebook and the way financial markets continue to speculate on the value of the company based up its estimation of the way it will be able to monetize the activity of Facebook users on and through mobile media platforms such as smartphones, tablets, and phablets.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8595", "words": "1141", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Pattwell, Ashley B.", "title": "FACEBOOKING TOWARD DEATH: HOW DIGITAL LEGACY IMPACTS CURATION IN ONLINE SETTINGS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "identity; legacy; media; new", "summary": "By considering Heidegger\u2019s being-toward-death in matters of digital identity and online social interaction, we might get a sense of some of the values or standards by which users choose to curate their online identity. Often a look at the press\u2019s coverage of someone\u2019s death will show the ways online identity is mined for clues as to who a person was, what they valued, or even what their \u201clast words\u201d and pictures were.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8596", "words": "9982", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Abidin, Crystal; Limkangvanmongkol, Vimviriya; Lindsay, Megan; Powers, Renee; Cirucci, Angela", "title": "FAME AND MICROCELEBRITY ON THE WEB", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "beauty; celebrification; culture; facebook; fame; instagram; instaselfie; internet; marwick; media; microcelebrity; new; online; research; self; selfie; users; vloggers; women; youtube", "summary": "In response, this paper reports on long-term online and offline ethnographic fieldwork among cohorts of social media microcelebrities in Singapore and East Asia. In fact, recent local movie productions are exclusively casting social media microcelebrities to pander to the youth dollar.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8597", "words": "4632", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Blodgett, Bridget; Salter, Anastasia; Torrey, KT; Lowe, JSA", "title": "FANBOYS, FANGIRLS, AND GEEKS PANEL", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "actors; dean; episode; fan; fandom; fans; female; marie; series; supernatural; women", "summary": "While previous episodes have only depicted fan women as predators (literally, in the case of Becky\u2019s use of a spell to ensnare Sam as her husband) and otherwise as a minority within the Supernatural fan community, the 200th episode thus placed teenage girls front and center as fans and producers. The 200th episode of Supernatural takes another step in constructing the fan as subject: entitled \u201cFan Fiction,\u201d it centers on young women fans creating a musical based on the Supernatural characters.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8599", "words": "1373", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Bergstrom, Kelly", "title": "FEMINISM IS FOR ANGRY WHITE WOMEN: EXPLORING IMAGES OF FEMINISM ON REDDIT.COM", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "feminism; image; internet; macros", "summary": "Image macros are a particular type of Internet meme where a short phrase is overlaid on top of a photo (Figure 2). Previous research on this type of meme has shown that the sharing of image macros has become a key part of online political dialogue and discussions (Milner, 2012), and Suggested Citation (APA): Bergstrom, K. (2015, October 21-24)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8600", "words": "1476", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "O'Neil, Mathieu; Ackland, Robert", "title": "FIELDS OR NETWORK? STRATEGIC ACTION AND SOCIAL SKILL AMONGST TWITTER ACTIVISTS", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "ackland; actors; field; network", "summary": "To what extent are new online activist fields likely to emerge nearby existing fields, likely to be populated by existing groups who \u201cmigrate\u201d or by offshoots of existing groups? Online social networks and bottom-up politics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8601", "words": "1527", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Crain, Matthew", "title": "Financial Markets and Online Advertising Demand: Reevaluating the Dotcom Investment Bubble", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "advertising; dotcom; internet; investment; new", "summary": "While the period is often dismissed as a false start in the history of the web\u2019s commercial development, it is better conceived of as highly generative of modern structures of online advertising. Keywords online advertising; dotcom bubble; financial markets; venture capital; new economy The political economic structures of the internet impact the types of communication it enables.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8603", "words": "1286", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Jungselius, Beata; Hilman, Thomas; Weilenmann, Alexandra", "title": "FISHING FOR FOLLOWERS: USING HASHTAGS AS LIKE BAIT IN SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "followers; hashtags; likes", "summary": "Receiving likes has been shown to be a major concern for many social media users (blinded for review). Even those users who did not use hashtags themselves stated that instagrams with many hashtags receive more likes than those without.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8604", "words": "1914", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Humphreys, Lee; Liao, Tony", "title": "Foursquare and the Parochialization of Public Space", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "foursquare; mobile; person; urban; users", "summary": "Keywords mobile social networks; public space; parochial realm; Foursquare; social interaction Background There is a growing body of literature around mobile social networks and locative media. Parochialization is the process by which people share socio-locational information with one another through communication technologies such as check-ins on mobile social networks, such that the public realm, where people had previously encountered strangers, starts to feel more familiar due to the social exchanges through the network.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8605", "words": "2030", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Wilken, Rowan Cameron", "title": "Foursquare, the Politics of Location Platforms, and the Importance of Geocoded Data", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "business; check; data; foursquare; media; platform", "summary": "The first of these is the \u201cExplore\u201d feature, aimed at Foursquare users. This applies a range of filters to search results that combine common queries (such as price, opening hours, and so on), with additional information drawn from check-ins and user data.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8607", "words": "1588", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Hansen, Lone Koefoed; Stephensen, Jan L\u00f8hmann", "title": "Free Universal Construction Kit: On appropriation and parasites", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "construction; f.a.t; kit", "summary": "A collaboration with Sy-lab, Free Universal Construction Kit (figure 1) is a project promising \u201ccomplete interoperability between 10 popular construction toys\u201d. Free Universal Construction Kit thus also reflects an anti-capitalist and anti-proprietary attitude where resistance is primarily a matter of \u201cfreeing\u201d material from the hands of capitalist corporations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8609", "words": "1944", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Weller, Katrin; Bruns, Axel", "title": "Friends or Followers? The Relations between German Soccer Clubs and Their Fans on Twitter", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "account; clubs; fans; soccer; twitter", "summary": "Figure 3: Two cases of fan accounts that were closed down in favour of an official club account. Abstract This paper shows how soccer clubs from Germany\u2019s first division have started to use Twitter.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8610", "words": "2007", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Tkach-Kawasaki, Leslie", "title": "FRIENDS, TWEETS, AND YOUTUBE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN ONLINE CAMPAIGNING IN JAPAN", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "campaigning; candidates; internet; online; parties; party", "summary": "While prior to 2013 it was particularly challenging to evaluate professionalism in Japanese political campaigns under the old restrictions in the POEL, the lifting of the ban on internet-based campaigning has ushered in a new era in political campaign communication in Japan. First, from a theoretical perspective, this paper identifies online strategies that appeared in the 2013 Upper House election in Japan in order to assess professionalization in campaigning (often referred to as the \u201cAmericanization\u201d of political campaigns).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8611", "words": "1113", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Boccia Artieri, Giovanni; Gemini, Laura; Giglietto, Fabio; Orefice, Mario", "title": "FROM #XF6 TO #SERVIZIOPUBBLICO: CROSS-GENRE ANALYSIS OF TV AUDIENCE PARTICIPATORY PRACTICES IN ITALY", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "italy; tweets; twitter", "summary": "From #x6 to #ServizioPubblico: cross-genre analysis of tv audience participatory practices in Italy. To answer the above research questions we collected, during TV season 2012/2103, two complete datasets of Tweets.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8612", "words": "8247", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Szablewicz, Marcella", "title": "From Addicts to Athletes: participation in the discursive construction of digital games in urban China", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "china; chinese; computer; danji; dianzi; games; internet; jingji; online; play; sports; time; wangluo; wangluo games; youxi", "summary": "The notion that games, whether they be danji or wangluo, took a back seat to \u2018real life\u2019 was an important one for many of the students I spoke with and they used this as one of the criteria by which they separated themselves from game wangluo game \u2018addicts\u2019. In the instance to be discussed herein, I will analyze different applications of the Chinese terms wangluo youxi (literally defined as \u2018internet games\u2019) danji youxi (literally defined as \u2018single computer games\u2019) and dianzi jingji (literally defined as \u2018electronic sports\u2019) in order to unearth cultural assumptions and contradictions about different types of game play and their varied motivations and effects.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8613", "words": "1211", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Wissinger, Elizabeth", "title": "FROM \u201cGEEK\u201d TO \u201cCHIC:\u201d WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY AND THE WOMAN QUESTION", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "fashion; tech; women", "summary": "This \u00a0failure \u00a0to \u00a0catch \u00a0on \u00a0is \u00a0 informative, \u00a0arguably \u00a0stemming \u00a0from \u00a0problematic \u00a0cultural \u00a0attitudes \u00a0about \u00a0women \u00a0and \u00a0 technology \u00a0revealed \u00a0by \u00a0device \u00a0designs.1 \u00a0 and \u00a0the \u00a0products \u00a0themselves, \u00a0to \u00a0uncover \u00a0how \u00a0negative \u00a0attitudes \u00a0about \u00a0women \u00a0are \u00a0being \u00a0 smuggled \u00a0into \u00a0wearables, \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0name \u00a0of \u00a0what \u00a0the \u00a0market \u00a0\u2018wants.\u2019 ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8614", "words": "2752", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Hallinan, Blake", "title": "From Borking to Streaming: The Normalization of Media Surveillance", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "data; information; media; netflix; privacy; social; surveillance; video", "summary": "As such, the two events bracket a number of changes in media consumption, technology, and society that collectively result in the normalization of media surveillance, or the collection of information about individuals related to the use of media. For any given consumer, these services may have access to the following kinds of information: the name of the content; time and location of access; behavior during access, such as pausing, rewinding, and fast-forwarding; ratings; device information; metadata from third parties; social media data; search information; and, increasingly, information about the content itself (Harris 2012; Havens 2014).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8615", "words": "1435", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Flores M\u00e1rquez, Dorismilda", "title": "From Internet to the streets: An approach to activism in Aguascalientes, Mexico", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "communication; coverage; media; practices", "summary": "This research project addresses to analyze the connection between public space and online communication, by examining participation of activist groups in public space through online expression practices. Keywords Public expression, online communication, protest, media coverage, activism The study of online public expression of activists in Aguascalientes, Mexico: A research in progress The paper presents the outcomes of an empirical exploration on activism and the link among online communication practices, the streets demonstrations, and media coverage, as well as the implications for their study.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8616", "words": "1610", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Ames, Morgan G.; Rosner, Daniela K.", "title": "From Laptops to Toasters: Designing and Repairing Modern Childhood Imaginaries", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "childhood; children; clinic; olpc; technology", "summary": "Imagining Childhood, Technology, and Design Our research explores the contested role of technology in childhood and the role of childhood, in turn, in technology development. Where these narratives diverge is on whether the use of screen technologies such as computers help or hinder this conception of childhood.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8617", "words": "1292", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Giglietto, Fabio; Rossi, Luca; Kim, Jiyoung", "title": "FROM MOON TO COMET LANDING: RE-IMAGINING (SCIENTIFIC) MEDIA EVENTS IN THE AGE OF TWITTER", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "event; media; twitter", "summary": "Concerning \u00a0RQ1, \u00a0following \u00a0the \u00a0approach \u00a0used \u00a0by \u00a0Bruns \u00a0and \u00a0Stieglitz \u00a0(2013) \u00a0to \u00a0classify \u00a0 media \u00a0and \u00a0emergency/crisis \u00a0Twitter \u00a0events, \u00a0we \u00a0compared \u00a0#CometLanding \u00a0with \u00a0other \u00a0 events \u00a0ranging \u00a0from \u00a0#londoriots \u00a0to \u00a0#royalwedding \u00a0and \u00a0#eurovision. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 While \u00a0even \u00a0traditional \u00a0well \u00a0established \u00a0events \u00a0such \u00a0as \u00a0the \u00a0broadcast \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0Olympic \u00a0 Games \u00a0are \u00a0increasingly \u00a0facing \u00a0challenges \u00a0in \u00a0fitting \u00a0the \u00a0original \u00a0definition \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0concept \u00a0 (Rivenburgh \u00a02002), \u00a0it \u00a0is \u00a0clear \u00a0that \u00a0a \u00a0media \u00a0event \u00a0must, \u00a0by \u00a0definition, \u00a0interrupt \u00a0daily \u00a0lives. \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8619", "words": "1286", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Rossi, Luca", "title": "FROM MOON TO COMET LANDING: RE-IMAGINING (SCIENTIFIC) MEDIA EVENTS IN THE AGE OF TWITTER", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "comet; event; media; twitter", "summary": "We focused on the following questions: RQ1) How #CometLanding compares to previously studied Twitter media events? RQ2) Can we still talk about media events when the audience feeling viewing as mandatory is a globally scattered elite, instead of the masses?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8620", "words": "2313", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Kniep, Ronja", "title": "From the \u201cFive Eyes\u201d to the \u201cSIGINT Seniors Europe\u201d: The intelligence community as a transnational field", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "agencies; field; intelligence; internet; nsa; practices; sigint", "summary": "Ronja Kniep WZB Berlin Social Science Center Introduction Technology and the practices of intelligence agencies have long been closely intertwined. Firstly, by describing intelligence as a socially constructed and contingent social space which is shaped by specific institutional histories, the sociological theory counters the narrative that the surveillance practices of intelligence agencies are simply a natural response to a given technological development.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8621", "words": "1340", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Banks, Jaime; Bowman, Nicholas David", "title": "FROM TOY AND TOOL TO PARTNER AND PERSON: PHENOMENAL CONVERGENCE/DIVERGENCE AMONG GAME AVATAR METAPHORS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "avatar; metaphors; player; sociality", "summary": "As such, we ask: RQ1: Can avatar metaphors be meaningfully situated within the sociality continuum? and, if so: RQ2: Can avatar metaphors be collapsed into a parsimonious model for metaphorically characterizing player-avatar sociality?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8622", "words": "1457", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Witkowski, Emma", "title": "GIRL GAMERS?: PLAYER AND INSTITUTIONAL ORIENTATIONS TOWARDS WOMEN\u2019S PARTICIPATION IN AND AROUND E-SPORTS", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "gamer; girl; players; taylor; women", "summary": "The variety of organizations and players I have collaborated with since 2008 comprises ethnographic work within progress raiding guilds, where women were guild leaders and key players (2009 - 2012); qualitative fieldwork at organized LAN e-sports tournaments (DreamHack 2009, 2011; MLG 2010; WCG 2010; BlizzCon 2010; Blizzard Invitational 2008; D3 Expo 2008); and extensive player/team and e-sports organizer interviews conducted online or on-site at various events. Player and institutional orientations towards women\u2019s participation in and around e-sports.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8623", "words": "1745", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Klastrup, Lisbeth", "title": "Global Face with a National Body? Facebook Appropriation and Use in a National Context", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "christensen; danes; danish; facebook; use", "summary": "Thus, this study aims to contribute with new knowledge about national use and appropriation of Facebook, in a culturally and racially homogeneous Scandinavian country, which is often referred to as a \u201cFacebook nation\u201d (in Denmark, Facebook penetration is at least 52%, much more for younger ages). A majority of all respondents communicated with other Facebook users only in Danish (24% ) or mostly in Danish (52,5%).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8624", "words": "1164", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Oreglia, Elisa", "title": "GOING ONLINE AT THE MARGINS: HOW TO BECOME (AND REMAIN) AN INTERNET USER", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "digital; ict; use", "summary": "This paper draws from a year-long ethnography of ICT use in rural China to argue that people at the margins of Chinese modernization and of ICT use\u2014farmers and older rural residents, in particular women\u2014need the time and opportunities to build an image of themselves as ICT users. AN INTERNET USER Elisa Oreglia Nanyang Technological University The debate over the digital divide has moved on from the binary distinction between the haves and the have-nots of its early days to a more nuanced discourse on issues of unequal access (Gunkel, 2003), digital divides and social capital (Chen, 2013), skills and usage (Dijk & Hacker, 2003; van Deursen & van Dijk, 2010), and on gradations of digital inclusion (Dimaggio, Hargittai, Celeste, & Shafer, 2004; Livingstone & Helsper, 2007).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8625", "words": "1847", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Hoffmann, Anthony L", "title": "Google Books as Infrastructure of In/Justice", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "books; google; infrastructure; justice; practice", "summary": "Employing a practice-dependent account of social justice informed by the concept of \u201cinfrastructural inversion\u201d (Bowker, 1994), this paper examines the interdependence between technologies and social practices organized by Google and inquires whether or not the \u201cegalitarianism of information\u201d touted by Google is rendered possible by the sociotechnical relations it mobilizes. A focus on infrastructure, the author argues, allows a close examination of the interdependence between technologies, individuals and social practices mobilized by the Google Books project.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8626", "words": "1449", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Saurwein, Florian; Just, Natascha; Latzer, Michael", "title": "GOVERNING ALGORITHMS ON THE INTERNET APPROACHES, OPTIONS, GAPS", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "algorithms; governance; market", "summary": "The \u00a0paper \u00a0centers \u00a0on \u00a0a \u00a0risk-\u00adbased \u00a0approach \u00a0and \u00a0a \u00a0classification \u00a0of \u00a0modes \u00a0of \u00a0 governance \u00a0and \u00a0provides \u00a0an \u00a0explorative \u00a0assessment \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0governance \u00a0of \u00a0algorithms \u00a0 (Latzer \u00a0et \u00a0al. \u00a0 Approach: \u00a0risk-\u00adbased \u00a0approach \u00a0and \u00a0governance \u00a0options \u00a0 \u00a0 Justifications \u00a0for \u00a0governance \u00a0are \u00a0provided \u00a0by \u00a0the \u00a0risks \u00a0that \u00a0arise \u00a0with \u00a0the \u00a0diffusion \u00a0of \u00a0 algorithms \u00a0(Latzer \u00a0et \u00a0al. \u00a02016). ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8627", "words": "1817", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "B\u00e4chle, Thomas Christian", "title": "Governing Our Souls, Mutilating Our Bodies \u2013 The appropriation of social media as a means of corporeal annihilation, resisting the neoliberal logic of self-optimization", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "governmentality; media; optimization; regulation; self", "summary": "Keywords governmentality; body; self regulation; digital media; social media Discussion Coping with depression; watching your sexual health; preventing cancer; healthy lifestyles and the war against obesity; pre-implantation genetic diagnostics in in-vitro-fertilization; calculating genetic risk and proactive breast amputation; optimization of self through therapy; or biopolitics and incentives for reproduction.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8628", "words": "1605", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Agarwal, Sheetal D; Johnson, Courtney N; Bennett, W. Lance; Borning, Alan", "title": "Grassroots Organizing in the Digital Age: Considering Values and Technology Decision-making in Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "occupy; party; tea; technology", "summary": "Though Occupy\u2019s Global Square never took off, Teapartycommunity.com has gained traction; the site, which is remarkably similar to Facebook but touted as a \u201csafe haven\u201d for Tea Party members and other conservatives, boasts more than 100,000 members. To examine stakeholder values and potential sites of value tensions we use semi-structured interviews conducted with three distinct groups of stakeholders in Tea Party and Occupy: members with some type of leadership or facilitator position, members tasked with organizing and facilitating technology use in their community, and lay members.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8629", "words": "3922", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Monea, Alex", "title": "Guattaris on Facebook?! affects, refrains and the digital cloud", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "affect; affective; cloud; deleuze; facebook; guattari; new; refrains", "summary": "I will make the case that Facebook functions according to cloud logic, working to organize people into social rhizomes with a closeness that constitutes a reworking of tribalism (a neo-tribalism), and further that Facebook makes possible a becoming-cloud in which identity is spread out into a cloud in the manner of a subjective pluralism. Keywords Facebook; affect; digital cloud; becoming-cloud; neo-tribalism 2 In the introduction to A Thousand Plateaus, Gilles Deleuze and F\u00e9lix Guattari (1987) argue that, as an assemblage, a text has only itself, and its connections to and relations with other assemblages and bodies without organs.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8630", "words": "1236", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "White, Michele", "title": "GUT AND BUTT DESIRES AND THE HETEROSEXUAL IMAGINARY: THE PIONEER WOMAN BLOGS ABOUT FOOD, FAT, AND COWBOYS IN CHAPS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "drummond; food; pioneer; woman", "summary": "Hello, \u00a0lover\u201d \u00a0and \u00a0highlights \u00a0varied \u00a0sorts \u00a0of \u00a0gut \u00a0feelings.8 \u00a0Pie \u00a0Near \u00a0 Woman \u00a0stresses \u00a0the \u00a0queer \u00a0eroticism \u00a0of \u00a0these \u00a0addresses \u00a0by \u00a0depicting \u00a0Drummond \u00a0 rubbing \u00a0against, \u00a0penetrating \u00a0herself \u00a0with, \u00a0and \u00a0dousing \u00a0herself \u00a0in \u00a0food. \u00a0 She \u00a0dreams \u00a0of \u00a0a \u00a0feminine \u00a0world \u00a0where \u00a0the \u00a0 combination \u00a0of \u00a0physically \u00a0touching \u00a0and \u00a0emotionally \u00a0feeling \u00a0produces \u00a0clean \u00a0whiteness.2 \u00a0 Through \u00a0such \u00a0images \u00a0and \u00a0accounts, \u00a0Drummond \u00a0and \u00a0many \u00a0of \u00a0her \u00a0readers \u00a0articulate \u00a0a \u00a0 culture \u00a0of \u00a0shared \u00a0tastes, \u00a0histories, \u00a0and \u00a0identities \u00a0and \u00a0begin \u00a0to \u00a0trouble \u00a0these \u00a0positions \u00a0by \u00a0 offering \u00a0visions \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0queer \u00a0relationship \u00a0and \u00a0child\u2014the \u00a0daughter \u00a0as \u00a0dirty, \u00a0\u201cman,\u201d \u00a0and \u00a0 husband.3 \u00a0Drummond \u00a0thus \u00a0performs \u00a0a \u00a0version \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0\u201cheterosexual \u00a0imaginary\u201d \u00a0that, \u00a0as \u00a0 Chrys \u00a0Ingraham \u00a0argues, \u00a0is \u00a0a \u00a0\u201cway \u00a0of \u00a0thinking \u00a0which \u00a0conceals \u00a0the \u00a0operation \u00a0of \u00a0 heterosexuality \u00a0in \u00a0structuring \u00a0gender\u201d \u00a0while \u00a0constantly \u00a0hinting \u00a0at \u00a0the \u00a0queer.4 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Drummond\u2019s \u00a0articulation \u00a0of \u00a0norms \u00a0should \u00a0be \u00a0cause \u00a0for \u00a0concern \u00a0because \u00a0her \u00a0The \u00a0 Pioneer \u00a0Woman \u00a0blog \u00a0has \u00a0millions \u00a0of \u00a0readers \u00a0every \u00a0month.5 \u00a0In \u00a0the \u00a0blog, \u00a0Drummond \u00a0 promises \u00a0that \u00a0she \u00a0is \u00a0\u201cKeepin\u2019 \u00a0it \u00a0Real\u201d;\u037e \u00a0indicates \u00a0her \u00a0\u201clove\u201d \u00a0for \u00a0readers;\u037e \u00a0and \u00a0chronicles \u00a0 her \u00a0life \u00a0as \u00a0a \u00a0rancher, \u00a0wife, \u00a0mother, \u00a0homeschooler, \u00a0author, \u00a0and \u00a0television \u00a0personality.6 \u00a0 Drummond\u2019s \u00a0self-\u00adidentification \u00a0as \u00a0an \u00a0ordinary \u00a0white \u00a0heteronormative \u00a0woman, \u00a0without \u00a0of \u00a0 course \u00a0ever \u00a0using \u00a0these \u00a0terms, \u00a0is \u00a0undermined \u00a0by \u00a0her \u00a0own \u00a0corporeal \u00a0expressions \u00a0and \u00a0a \u00a0 group \u00a0of \u00a0blogging \u00a0critics, \u00a0including \u00a0the \u00a0Pie \u00a0Near \u00a0Woman \u00a0blogger \u00a0who \u00a0deploys \u00a0 photographs \u00a0of \u00a0doll \u00a0tableaus \u00a0as \u00a0a \u00a0means \u00a0of \u00a0parodying \u00a0Drummond. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8631", "words": "1939", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Ems, Lindsay; Gonzales, Amy", "title": "Hacking healthcare: Navigating disconnection in the pursuit of medical care", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "communication; health; media; staff; subculture", "summary": "Denver, USA 1 Overcoming the authority problem: A subculture-centered approach for health communications Lindsay Ems Indiana University United States lems@indiana.edu Amy Gonzales Indiana University United States gonzaamy@indiana.edu Keywords Social media; social marketing; health communication; social support; subcultures; inequalities A subculture-centered approach Traditionally, health communicators have assumed an interventionist stance, seeing their job as \u201cdistributing\u201d or \u201ctransferring\u201d knowledge to at-risk populations. Findings Interviews with staff at the clinic revealed that they circumvent the authority problem using a subculture-centered approach to circulate salacious, personalized health messages through a variety of subcultural social media platforms Below we focus on two specific examples of this: one describes the use of Instagram and the other describes the use of Grindr for communicating HIV health information.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8632", "words": "1155", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Yew, Jude; Monroy-Herna\u0301ndez, Andre\u0301s", "title": "HARNESSING SERENDIPITY: A STUDY OF ACCIDENTAL CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS IN TWO ONLINE REMIXING COMMUNITIES", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "content; remixing; work", "summary": "We make the argument that designing for reuse and remixing requires supporting serendipitous discovery of new content and new collaborators, as well as providing ways to signal intention, authorship, credit and thanks. Prominent academics like Henry Jenkins (2006) have also argued that remixing offers a hands-on approach towards cultivating media/cultural literacy and encouraging creativity amongst young people.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8633", "words": "1593", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Blodgett, Bridget Marie; Salter, Anastasia", "title": "Hearing \"Lady Game Creators\" Tweet: #1ReasonWhy, Women and Online Discourse in the Game Development Community", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "development; game; hashtag; industry; twitter; women", "summary": "; gender; game development; social movements; twitter Introduction The demographics of the game industry skew towards men: in an industry survey in 2012, women were a minority in most industry disciplines, making up only 3% of programmers, 13% of artists and animators, 11% of designers, 6% of audio developers, and 5% of QA testers (GameCareerGuide.com, 2012). The women and allies detailed their own experiences with sexism in the field of game development along with other obstacles that prevent women from joining game development as a career.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8634", "words": "1290", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Hews, Rachel Jane", "title": "High-profile criminal trials, social media conversations and juror prejudice: understanding media regulation in the digital age", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "information; media", "summary": "Information \u00a0that \u00a0might \u00a0prejudice \u00a0an \u00a0ongoing \u00a0trial \u00a0may \u00a0be \u00a0spread \u00a0through \u00a0social \u00a0media \u00a0in \u00a0 a \u00a0way \u00a0that \u00a0is \u00a0not \u00a0as \u00a0easily \u00a0controlled \u00a0as \u00a0information \u00a0disseminated \u00a0through \u00a0mainstream \u00a0 media. \u00a0 [1998] \u00a0NSWSC \u00a028);\u037e \u00a0statements \u00a0as \u00a0to \u00a0 innocence \u00a0(Director \u00a0of \u00a0Public \u00a0Prosecutions \u00a0v \u00a0Wran \u00a0(1987) \u00a086 \u00a0FLR \u00a092);\u037e \u00a0content \u00a0that \u00a0 criticized \u00a0or \u00a0disparaged \u00a0the \u00a0accused \u00a0(Director \u00a0of \u00a0Public \u00a0Prosecutions \u00a0v \u00a0Francis \u00a0(2006) \u00a0 95 \u00a0SASR \u00a0302);\u037e \u00a0information \u00a0about \u00a0confessions \u00a0(Attorney-\u00adGeneral \u00a0(NSW) \u00a0v \u00a0TCN \u00a0Channel \u00a0 Nine \u00a0Pty \u00a0Ltd \u00a0(1990) \u00a020 \u00a0NSWLR \u00a0368) \u00a0or \u00a0information \u00a0about \u00a0prior \u00a0convictions \u00a0(Maxwell \u00a0v \u00a0 Director \u00a0of \u00a0Public \u00a0Prosecutions ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8635", "words": "2511", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Kennedy, Helen; Hill, Rosemary Lucy", "title": "HOW CONVENTIONS MAKE VISUALISATIONS (AND THEIR DATA) SEEM OBJECTIVE", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "association; conventions; data; internet; research; visualisations", "summary": "Indeed, some visualisation designers argue that a core skill needed to make sense of data visualisations is the ability to understand that in a visualisation, some things have been transformed into other things (research Suggested Citation (APA): Kennedy, H and Hill, Rosemary Lucy. This focus on visualisation conventions is important in order to make sense of the apparent contradiction between critics\u2019 assertions that visualisations serve as mechanisms of control and designers\u2019 assertions of their desire to \u2018do good with data\u2019 (Periscopic, nd).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8638", "words": "1226", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Fernback, Jan; Shaffer, Gwen", "title": "HOW MOBILE PHONE SURVEILLANCE CONTRIBUTES TO DIGITAL INEQUALITIES FOR DISADVANTAGED URBAN RESIDENTS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "internet; mobile; research; surveillance", "summary": "Selected Papers of Internet Research 16: The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers Phoenix, AZ, USA / 21-24 October 2015 HOW \u00a0MOBILE \u00a0PHONE \u00a0SURVEILLANCE \u00a0CONTRIBUTES \u00a0TO \u00a0DIGITAL \u00a0 INEQUALITIES \u00a0FOR \u00a0DISADVANTAGED \u00a0URBAN \u00a0RESIDENTS \u00a0 \u00a0 Jan \u00a0Fernback \u00a0 Temple \u00a0University \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Gwen \u00a0Shaffer \u00a0 California \u00a0State \u00a0University \u00a0Long \u00a0Beach \u00a0 \u00a0 Background \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Participation \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0social \u00a0world \u00a0demands \u00a0disclosure \u00a0of \u00a0personal \u00a0information, \u00a0and \u00a0the \u00a0 increasing \u00a0reliance \u00a0on \u00a0mobile \u00a0devices \u00a0compounds \u00a0this \u00a0reality. \u00a0 Additionally, \u00a0nearly \u00a0half \u00a0of \u00a0Internet \u00a0users \u00a0in \u00a0households \u00a0with \u00a0an \u00a0annual \u00a0income \u00a0 below \u00a0$30,000 \u00a0tend \u00a0to \u00a0use \u00a0phones \u00a0to \u00a0go \u00a0online\u2014compared \u00a0with \u00a027% \u00a0of \u00a0Internet \u00a0users \u00a0 in \u00a0households \u00a0with \u00a0an \u00a0annual \u00a0income \u00a0exceeding \u00a0$75,000 \u00a0(Pew \u00a0Research \u00a0Center, \u00a02013). \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8640", "words": "1975", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Ku\u0308mpel, Anna Sophie; Springer, Nina", "title": "HOW USER COMMENTS ON A NEWS SITE AFFECT PERCEPTIONS OF JOURNALISTIC QUALITY. AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY USING STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "comments; media; news; online; perceptions; quality; user", "summary": "Method To examine the effects of user comments on perceptions of journalistic quality, we used a 2 \u00d7 4 between-subjects experimental design and exposed German participants (n = 224) to an online news article and corresponding user comments. News articles and user-generated information\u2014like user comments or metrics about sharing and ratings\u2014are inseparable in modern-day online journalism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8641", "words": "1699", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Boudreau, Kelly", "title": "Hybrid-Identities: Degrees of Digital Selves", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "content; facebook; identity; play; users", "summary": "This paper will look at the ways in which Facebook and Pinterest offer two different platforms for identity play with both actual and idealized forms of selves through the posting and framing of personal information and the (re)appropriation of pre-existing content on the internet. Pixels, Parts & Pieces: Constructing digital identity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8642", "words": "952", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Berg, Martin", "title": "I HAVE A DREAM! ON THE PERCEIVED LIMITS AND MAGINED POSSIBILITIES OF BODY MONITORING", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "body; media; monitoring", "summary": "Focusing on how the practice and outcome of body monitoring are described in textual and graphic communication between developers and designers in online communities and discussion boards along with a study of technical documentation, this paper provides an understanding of how the technological limits and possibilities of body monitoring software and hardware are perceived and imagined. Kozinets, 2010) study of a number of body monitoring devices, most importantly Withings, RunKeeper, FitBit and Jawbone Up!", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8643", "words": "1293", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Rossi, Luca; Neumayer, Christina; Vulpius, Julie", "title": "Images of protest in contested social media: Production, propagation, and narratives", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "images; media; violence", "summary": "Media, \u00a0on \u00a0the \u00a0opposite, \u00a0largely \u00a0used \u00a0images \u00a0containing \u00a0explicit \u00a0violence \u00a0 (56.8%), \u00a0but \u00a0only \u00a0sharing \u00a0a \u00a0minor \u00a0number \u00a0for \u00a0images \u00a0with \u00a0no \u00a0violence \u00a0(18.2%) \u00a0or \u00a0latent \u00a0 violence \u00a0(11.4%). \u00a0 Combining \u00a0these \u00a0two \u00a0approaches \u00a0we \u00a0were \u00a0able \u00a0to \u00a0observe \u00a0how \u00a0different \u00a0actors \u00a0 produce \u00a0specific \u00a0types \u00a0of \u00a0visual \u00a0content \u00a0and \u00a0to \u00a0identify \u00a0the \u00a0conflicting \u00a0narratives \u00a0 produced \u00a0by \u00a0police, \u00a0activists, \u00a0and \u00a0journalists/media. \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8660", "words": "1308", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Allaste, Airi-Alina; Tiidenberg, Katrin", "title": "IMAGINARY INACTIVITY AND THE SHARE BUTTON", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "imaginary; media; participation; people", "summary": "Instead of questioning how social media enables activism (Papacharissi & Oliveira, 2012, Coleman, 2013) or contrasting political commitment in internet based and physical-space activism (Morozov, 2011), our interest lies with understanding young people\u2019s social media practices that could be considered a form (political) participation (liking and sharing political critique and parody, signing petitions), but which young people themselves do not recognize as such. Based on van Dicjk (2013) we argue, that the coded structure of social media draws young Estonians into subactivism that they don\u2019t experience as activism because of their social imaginary of political participation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8661", "words": "1171", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Osman, Kim", "title": "IMAGINING ACCESS FOR ALL: THE FAILED INTRODUCTION OF A NEW EDITING INTERFACE FOR WIKIPEDIA", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "new; users; wikipedia", "summary": "This research follows the events that lead to a sanctioned community hack disabling the default editor for English Wikipedia users three months after its introduction to examine how editors in Wikipedia enact shared values and ideals around knowledge and knowledge creation. This discussion is contextualised by situating VisualEditor\u2019s introduction in a history of reactions to new user interfaces from Engelbart\u2019s \u201cmother of all demos\u201d in 1968, to Blogger\u2019s \u201cpush- button publishing for the people\u201d (Streeter, 2011; Walker Rettberg, 2014).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8663", "words": "2328", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "McGuire, Mark", "title": "IMAGINING AND ENABLING THE COLLABORATIVE COMMONS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "commons; design; internet; media; new; open; work", "summary": "Groom highlights the importance of what he refers to as the \u201c3 Faces of Open\u201d: \u201copen platforms, open pedagogy, and open community\u201d (Groom 2014). Similarly, Open Design practitioners advocate the use of open networks to share work with others and to collaborate in the creation of solutions and artifacts that can then be published with an open licence.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8664", "words": "1229", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Hunsinger, Jeremy", "title": "IMAGINING DARKNETS: PRIVACY AS COMMODITY AESTHETICS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "capital; darknets; internet; privacy", "summary": "Darknets and their users are clearly participating in reconstituting field of consumption, as is the internet in which darknets exist. A more technical understanding of the type of darknet that I am investigating is that darknets are securitized internet networks operating over existing networks through encrypted traffic on those networks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8665", "words": "6613", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Elledge, Tracy; Kwon, Hazel", "title": "IMAGINING HOME AWAY FROM HOME: WI-FI USE IN SUBURBAN COFFEHOUSES", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "coffee; community; home; people; place; public; suburban; use; work", "summary": "Thus, consumers had to stay \u201cphysically rooted to fixed personal computers and Internet connections at home, work, school, or public places\u201d (Wellman, et al., 2003, Netville section, para. 6). \u201cThe third place is a generic designation for a great variety of public places that host the regular, voluntary, informal, and happily anticipated gatherings of individuals\u2026\u201d (Oldenburg, 1989, p. 16).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8666", "words": "865", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "-415", "author": "Eckert, Stine; Deller, Ruth; Croeser, Sky; Donovan, Gregory", "title": "IMAGINING SOCIAL JUSTICE THROUGH THE INTERNET AND BEYOND", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "context; generalizability; injustice; media; public; references", "summary": "(( The(city\u2019s(rationalization(for(why(this(policing(policy(was(not(a(matter(of(unconstitutional(( racial(profiling,(was(predicated(on(the(notion(that(police(officers(were(simply(stopping( and(frisking(those(statistically(most(likely(to(be(carrying(an(illegal(weapon.(Data,(and(not( the(passions(of(cultural(politics,(supposedly(guided(the(practice(despite(88%(of(those( stopped((3.8M(people)(being(found(of(no(wrong(doing.(To(counter(the(ways(black(and( brown,(and(mostly(male,(youth(have(been(represented(within(public(databases,(as(well( as(the(local(and(national(urban(imaginary,(the(RFP(have(been(developing(videos(for( social(media(that(look(critically(at(the(statistics(behind(Stop(and(Frisk(and(also(amplify( the(narratives(of(young(people(who\u2019ve(been(frisked.(Examples(from(their(public(media( work(will(be(highlighted(and(discussed(as(a(way(of(organizing(meaningful( understandings(of(injustice(in(the(smart(city(through(the(sharing(of(lived(experience.(& The(more(material(aspects(of(smart(urbanism\u2019s(uneven(geography(will(also(be(explored( by(comparing(and(contrasting(two(different(WiFi(initiatives(in(NYC.(The(first(example,( LinkNYC,(is(a(cityAwide(initiative(to(convert(existing(payphones(into(high(bandwidth(WiFi( kiosks.(Following(the(publicAprivate(partnership(model(that(governs(most(NYC(parks(in(( affluent(areas,(this(\u2018public(Wifi\u2019(is(being(developed(as(a(profitAdriven(infrastructure( focused(on(generating(ad(revenue.(In(contrast,(Red(Hook(WiFi(is(a(communityAbased( initiative(aimed(at(enhancing(digital(access(within(the(Red(Hook(Houses(and(their( surrounding(community(in(Brooklyn.(In(this(example,(the(community(itself(builds(and( maintains(a(free(mesh(network(that(provides(people(in(the(area(with(access(to(both(a( local(intranet(and(the(broader(internet.(While(LinkNYC(is(a(consortium(of(corporations( represented(within(the(digital.nyc(map(that(aims(to(generate(more(revenue(for(the(city( by(upgrading(an(existing(communication(infrastructure,(Red(Hook(WiFi(builds(a(local( infrastructure(with(and(within(a(lowAincome(neighborhood(unlikely(to(generate(significant( advertising(revenue(and(thus(unlikely(to(attract(many((if(any)(LinkNYC(kiosks.( Empathy&as&Ontological&Stance( Quantified measurements of WiFi access in NYC, or of innocent youth frisked by armed officers in their own neighborhoods, are unlikely to produce statistical generalizability and thus warrant broad public concern. ( ( While(73(percent(of(interviewees(said(they(had(negative(experiences(due(to( blogging/writing(online,(all(109(interviewees(said(they(had(at(least(one(positive( experience(due(to(blogging/writing(online.(These(included(personal,(professional(and,(in( some(cases,(also(commercial(benefits.(Interviewees(cherished(having(a(digital(room(of( their(own(to(write(what(they(want(in(a(space(for(which(they(set(the(rules.(Interviewees( dealt(with(negative(experiences(mostly(on(a(personal(level,(as(police,(state(and( lawmakers(have(been(slow(in(recognizing(and(prosecuting(online(discrimination(and( abuse(leveled(against(women.(Positive(experiences(are(nearly(guaranteed(but(negative( interactions(remain(and(are(more(likely(to(happen(to(women(who(identify(as(feminists( and/or(say(that(their(writing(is(political.(SeventyAtwo(percent(of(interviewees(remained( skeptical(about(the(democratic(potential(of(social(media.(Most(interviewees(had( 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Squires,(C.((2002).(Rethinking(the(black(public(sphere:(an(alternative(vocabulary(for( multiple(public(spheres.(Communication&Theory,&12(4),(446A468.( ( Women\u2019s(Media(Center.((2014).(The&status&of&women&in&U.S.&media&2014.(Retrieved( from(http://wmc.3cdn.net/ae1a5542872fc8810b_5tm62xgrd.pdf( & & & & & IMAGINING&THE&SOCIAL&JUSTICE&WARRIOR& & Ruth(Deller( Sheffield(Hallam(University,(UK( ( The(term(Social(Justice(Warrior,(or(SJW,(is(one(that(has(become(common(in(internet( parlance(over(the(past(few(years.((This(pejorative(term(is(used(to(criticise(those(deemed( as('excessive'(in(seeking(digital(inclusion(and(representation(of(a(range(of(identities(and( interests,(usually(by(portraying(them(as(histrionic,(unreasonable(and(hypocritical.( ( In(this(paper,(I(look(the(construction(of(the(SJW(as(a(figure(of(derision(across(a(number( of(sites(and(memes(and(explore(how(the(imaginary(SJW(is(presented(as(someone( 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Selected Papers of Internet Research 16: The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers Phoenix, AZ, USA / 21-24 October 2015 IMAGINING THE ENDS OF IDENTITY: BIRTH AND DEATH ON INSTAGRAM Tama Leaver Curtin University Tim Highfield QUT Introduction While social media is communal by definition, the use, regulation and understanding of social media is frequently limited to individuals (even if those individuals add together as a group or community of some kind).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8669", "words": "2024", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Kift, Paula", "title": "In Search of Safe Harbors - Privacy and Surveillance of Refugees in Europe", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "data; privacy; protection; regulation", "summary": "Two \u00a0EU \u00a0regulations \u00a0are \u00a0particularly \u00a0noteworthy \u00a0in \u00a0this \u00a0regard: \u00a0Eurosur \u00a0(mandating \u00a0drone \u00a0 and \u00a0satellite \u00a0surveillance \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0Mediterranean \u00a0Sea)1 \u00a0and \u00a0Eurodac \u00a0(biometric \u00a0 information \u00a0collection \u00a0at \u00a0the \u00a0border).2 \u00a0While \u00a0biometric \u00a0data \u00a0collection \u00a0under \u00a0Eurodac \u00a0 clearly \u00a0raises \u00a0both \u00a0privacy \u00a0and \u00a0data \u00a0protection \u00a0concerns, \u00a0as \u00a0defined \u00a0in \u00a0European \u00a0law, \u00a0 Eurosur \u00a0is \u00a0said \u00a0to \u00a0raise \u00a0neither \u00a0because \u00a0drone \u00a0and \u00a0satellite \u00a0surveillance \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0 Mediterranean \u00a0Sea \u00a0only \u00a0involves \u00a0the \u00a0collection \u00a0of \u00a0information \u00a0about \u00a0boats, \u00a0but \u00a0not \u00a0the \u00a0 collection \u00a0of \u00a0any \u00a0personally \u00a0identifiable \u00a0information \u00a0(PII) \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0passengers \u00a0on \u00a0those \u00a0 boats. \u00a0 Regulation \u00a0(EU) \u00a0No. \u00a01052/2013 \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0European \u00a0Parliament \u00a0and \u00a0the \u00a0Council \u00a0of \u00a022 \u00a0October \u00a02013 \u00a0 establishing \u00a0the \u00a0European \u00a0Border \u00a0Surveillance \u00a0System \u00a0(Eurosur) ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8670", "words": "1801", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Hasinoff, Amy Adele", "title": "Information and consent", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "consent; information; media; people; privacy", "summary": "Given the quantity of personal information created and stored in digital formats, scholars, policymakers, technology developers, and users alike need to develop social norms and technological mechanisms for obtaining meaningful and informed consent before circulating private information. The common idea that personal information is impossible to control is particularly problematic when it allows legal and educational authorities to punish teens who create sexual images of themselves while completely ignoring malicious forwarders (Hasinoff, forthcoming).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8671", "words": "1338", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "34", "author": "Burnett, Gary; Lee, Jisue; Hollister, Jonathan M.; Skinner, Julia", "title": "INFORMATION WORLDS: BOUNDARIES AND INTERSECTIONS IN THREE ONLINE SETTINGS", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "boundaries; information; worlds", "summary": "Information worlds: boundaries and intersections in three online settings. Although information worlds can be conceptualized and analyzed as recognizable and discrete entities, they are never isolated from the larger worlds in which they are situated, and multiple worlds interact with and influence each other in a variety of ways.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8673", "words": "2353", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Zhang, Guo; Herring, Susan C.", "title": "In-game marriage and computer-mediated collaboration: An exploratory study of Audition", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "audition; battle; collaboration; couple; game; marriage; players", "summary": "Keywords collaboration; dance; gender; in-game marriage; multiplayer online game; sexual orientation Introduction and background Multiplayer Online Games (MOGs) provide software platforms that \u201cencourage sophisticated collaboration [\u2026] in a way that players find fulfilling\u201d (Pace et al., 2010, p. 233) via computer- mediated and avatar-mediated communication. Out-battle garden in farm c. Out-battle matching clothing and accessories d. Out-battle matching poses Figure 4: Examples of in-battle and out-battle couple collaboration In-game and out-game collaboration Compared to other MOG collaborations, the collaborations of Audition couples are more likely to cross the boundary between the game world and out-game worlds due to their emotional intensity, which can be similar to what is experienced in committed real-life relationships (Kolotkin et al., 2012).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8674", "words": "3444", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Mun\u0303oz-Bates, Sarah", "title": "INSTANT RESULTS WITH LINGERING EFFECTS: HOW GOOGLE CAN BIAS OUR SOCIAL CONVERSATIONS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "feb; google; immigration; results; search; searches; web; word", "summary": "This study takes a comparative approach by examining the US Google search results side by side with Google results in Mexico and the Dominican Republic. With the above explanation of how Google returns search results, it seems that the search engine serves merely as a reflection of society and what it thinks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8675", "words": "1245", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Burroughs, Benjamin", "title": "INSTITUTIONAL MEMETICS: METONYMY, LIMINALITY, AND DIGITAL RELIGION", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "culture; memes; memetics; religion", "summary": "Despite the rapidly growing body of scholarly work on Internet memes, very little research has been conducted on religious memes. This is most often performed as small, banal enactments and engagements with religious memes--simple, facile, and non-threatening avenue for sharing faith with others online.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8676", "words": "1585", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Goggin, Gerard; McLelland, Mark; Lee, Kwangsuk; Frances, Shaw; Tkach-\u00ad\u2010Kawasaki, Leslie; Tamura, Takanori; Yu, Haiqing", "title": "Internet Activism in Asia-Pacific: A Comparative, Cultural History", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "activism; case; freedom; internet; media", "summary": "Drawing from the wider project on Asia-Pacific internet histories, this paper presents three case studies of internet activism \u2013\u2013 respectively in Australia, South Korea, and Japan. Importantly, it takes a comparative, cultural historical approach to tracking the roots of internet activism, documenting, and analysing Selected Papers of Internet Research 14.0, 2013:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8677", "words": "2341", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Santaniello, Mauro", "title": "INTERNET POLITICS. MAPPING WSIS+10 CONTROVERSIES ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "actors; bindingness; governance; internet; policy; stakeholder", "summary": "This \u00a0controversy \u00a0too \u00a0is \u00a0operationalised \u00a0in \u00a0a \u00a0variable \u00a0with \u00a0four \u00a0modalities, \u00a0from \u00a0the \u00a0least \u00a0 binding \u00a0to \u00a0the \u00a0most \u00a0one: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I) \u00a0 actor \u00a0asking \u00a0for \u00a0private \u00a0self-\u00adregulation \u00a0and \u00a0opposing \u00a0even \u00a0a \u00a0policy \u00a0debate \u00a0as \u00a0an \u00a0 interference \u00a0with \u00a0technological \u00a0innovation \u00a0and \u00a0freedom \u00a0of \u00a0economic \u00a0initiative;\u037e \u00a0 II) \u00a0 actor \u00a0maintaining \u00a0a \u00a0debate-\u00adoriented \u00a0approach \u00a0promoting \u00a0policy \u00a0discussion \u00a0 among \u00a0stakeholders \u00a0but \u00a0with \u00a0no \u00a0binding \u00a0statements \u00a0or \u00a0agreements \u00a0at \u00a0the \u00a0end \u00a0of \u00a0 the \u00a0process;\u037e \u00a0 \u00a0 III) \u00a0actors \u00a0demanding \u00a0for \u00a0binding \u00a0multilateral \u00a0treaties \u00a0and \u00a0national \u00a0laws \u00a0and \u00a0policies \u00a0 as \u00a0process' \u00a0outputs;\u037e \u00a0 \u00a0 IV) \u00a0actors \u00a0preferring \u00a0binding \u00a0principles \u00a0and \u00a0declarations \u00a0framed \u00a0into \u00a0the \u00a0international \u00a0 human \u00a0rights \u00a0law \u00a0and \u00a0national \u00a0constitutions. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 In \u00a0the \u00a0early \u00a02000s \u00a0the \u00a0failure \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0\u201cself-\u00adgovernance \u00a0model\u201d \u00a0 legitimised \u00a0governments \u00a0and \u00a0public \u00a0authorities \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0IG \u00a0arena \u00a0together \u00a0with \u00a0the \u00a0global \u00a0 civil \u00a0society \u00a0and \u00a0non-\u00adstate \u00a0actors \u00a0(Hofmann \u00a02005), \u00a0allowing \u00a0the \u00a0rise \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0multi-\u00ad stakeholder \u00a0governance \u00a0model. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8681", "words": "1973", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Ess, Charles; Seko, Yukari; Tiidenberg, Katrin; Gray, Mary; Granholm, Camilla; Ha\u030ard af Segerstad, Ylva; Kasperowski, Dick", "title": "INTERNET RESEARCH ETHICS: NEW CONTEXTS, NEW CHALLENGES \u2013 NEW (RE)SOLUTIONS?", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "data; ethics; internet; research; university", "summary": "The research acknowledges both the opportunities and ethical challenges that the implementation of ICT brings for social work research and practice. Camilla Granholm (University of Helsinki, Finland): \u201cOnline counseling as a part of social work practice; ethical challenges in research and practice\u201d During the last two decades there has been a rapid development and a public demand for online services in the social and healthcare sector.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8684", "words": "1794", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Schwarz, Elizabeth Anne Gervais", "title": "Internet Use and Global Activism at the United States Social Forum", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "global; internet; movement; social; use", "summary": "Testing these hypotheses using survey data from the 2010 United States Social Forum, this study extends research exploring internet use and global social movement activity by examining activists\u2019 use of four different internet technologies as they relate to three facets of global activism. In part, the findings challenge traditional notions of the relationship between internet use and global activism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8686", "words": "921", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Bork-Hu\u0308ffer, Tabea", "title": "INTERSECTIONS OF OFFLINE AND VIRTUAL CONTACT ZONES: TRANSNATIONAL MIGRANTS\u2019 TRANSCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN SINGAPORE", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "contact; encounters; new", "summary": "There are diverse and multiple types of virtual contact zones in the times of polymedia (Madianou and Miller 2013). In this paper different web 2.0 applications are analysed in regard to their role as virtual contact zones.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8687", "words": "1512", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Richard, Gabriela T.", "title": "INTERSECTIONS OF PLAY AT THE MARGINS: EXPERIENCES ACROSS GENDER, TEHNICITY AND SEXUALITY IN GAME CULTURE", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "experiences; games; gender; kafai; play", "summary": "However, LGBT gamers are often frustrated by the homophobia and hetereonormative nature of gamer lingo, which often frames homosexuality in negative terms (such as \u201cgay\u201d being used as a term for incompetence or stupidity in game play). In particular, the paper will discuss how gender and ethnic signifiers play similar and different roles in shaping play, as well as the tenuous role of negotiating homophobic norms in game space.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8689", "words": "5412", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Polson, Erika; Wilken, Rowan; Halegoua, Germaine; Renninger, Bryce; Russell, Adrienne", "title": "INTERSECTIONS OF TECHNOLOGY & PLACE", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "cities; city; communication; media; mobile; paper; place; space; technologies; use; york", "summary": "To \u00a0conceive \u00a0of \u00a0LBS \u00a0in \u00a0this \u00a0way\u2014which \u00a0draws \u00a0from \u00a0recent \u00a0scholarship \u00a0within \u00a0 anthropology \u00a0and \u00a0geography\u2014requires \u00a0a \u00a0reorientation \u00a0in \u00a0how \u00a0we \u00a0approach \u00a0and \u00a0think \u00a0of \u00a0 place, \u00a0such \u00a0that \u00a0places \u00a0are \u00a0understood \u00a0less \u00a0as \u00a0stable \u00a0(if \u00a0not \u00a0fixed) \u00a0sites \u00a0and \u00a0more \u00a0as \u00a0 deriving \u00a0much \u00a0of \u00a0their \u00a0meaning \u00a0from \u00a0the \u00a0possibilities \u00a0of \u00a0mobility \u00a0and \u00a0movement \u00a0 (Cresswell, \u00a02011: \u00a0576;\u037e \u00a0Agnew, \u00a02011: \u00a0325), \u00a0and \u00a0as \u00a0acquiring \u00a0\u2018dynamic \u00a0meaning \u00a0as \u00a0a \u00a0 consequence \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0location-\u00adbased \u00a0information \u00a0that \u00a0is \u00a0attached \u00a0to \u00a0them\u2019 \u00a0(de \u00a0Souza \u00a0e \u00a0 Silva \u00a0& \u00a0Frith, \u00a02012: \u00a09). \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Media \u00a0now \u00a0readily \u00a0flow \u00a0back \u00a0and \u00a0 forth \u00a0across \u00a0geographic \u00a0borders, \u00a0media \u00a0genres \u00a0and \u00a0platforms, \u00a0and \u00a0on \u00a0and \u00a0offline \u00a0space \u00a0 and \u00a0place. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8691", "words": "1696", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Greene, Kiersten", "title": "Investigating Teacher Voice Through Blogs: Policy, Practice, and Local Knowledge", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "blogs; new; policy; teachers; work", "summary": "Keywords teachers; education; policy; blogs; practice Lost in the Shuffle: Locating Teacher Voice in the Blogosphere K-12 public school teachers are provided little if any voice in the construction of education policy. Methodology 2.0: A Thematic Analysis of Public, Anonymous New York City Teacher Blogs As is often the case, web searches can \u201cproduce pages of results that need a final human filtering stage to remove spurious matches\u201d (Wilkinson & Thelwall, 2011, p. 390), and indeed the initial stage of research required filtering through hundreds of blogs in order to identify ones appropriate by this study\u2014authored by New York City teachers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8692", "words": "11472", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Finn, Megan; Mathew, Ashwin; Yeo, ShinJoung; Irani, Lilly; Kelkar, Sheeharsh; Chia, Aleena; Ames, Morgan; Crawford, Kate", "title": "(Invisible) Internet infrastructure labor", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "centers; data; denver; edx; engine; human; industry; information; infrastructure; internet; internet research; labor; media; network; new; papers; paraguay; platform; power; research; space; technical; usa; work; workers; world", "summary": "- How is Internet infrastructure labor bound or in opposition to traditional ideas of \u201cclass\u201d? Denver, USA 1 Panel: (Invisible) Internet Infrastructure Labor This panel looks at information infrastructure labor in order to understand the work that is often invisible to many Internet users.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8693", "words": "1662", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Sims, Christo", "title": "Is it time to rethink \u2018digital inequality\u2019 (again)?", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "divide; inequalities; inequality; media", "summary": "This short paper identifies three persistent shortcomings with prevailing views about digital inequality: slippage between \u2018digital inequalities\u2019 and \u2018social inequalities\u2019; unacknowledged normativity; and a deficit model of difference. Keywords digital inequality; digital divide; social inequality; skill; education Digital Inequality in the Twenty-First Century Over roughly the past decade, scholars concerned with relations between digital media and social inequalities rightly criticized the concept of the \u2018digital divide\u2019 for oversimplifying and distorting relations between digital media and social inequalities (e.g. DiMaggio & Hargittai, 2001; Hargittai, 2002; Mossberger, Tolbert, & Stansbury, 2003; Selwyn, 2004; van Dijk, 2005; Warschauer, 2003).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8696", "words": "6764", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "-2166", "author": "Gehl, Robert William", "title": "Is the Dark Web Legit? 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Checklist of Enemy Characteristics: ISIS videos ISIS video/scene 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 1-1 1-2 1-3 2-1 2-2 2-3 2-4 3-1 3-2 4-1 4-2 4-3 5-1 5-2 6-1 6-2 6-3 6-4 Totals 1 2 1 4 0 0 1 5 3 0 8", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8699", "words": "1292", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Witte, John James", "title": "ISLANDS OF FREEDOM: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WIKILEAKS, AND THE ARCHIVE IMAGINARY", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "congress; library; wikileaks", "summary": "Not only that, but the Library of Congress has spent most of the last two and half decades seeking to move fully into the information age, and to establish a universal digital archive which might one day provide every single piece of information in existence to all citizens of the United States, and even other citizens of the UN community. Islands Of Freedom: Library Of Congress, Wikileaks, And The Archive Imaginary.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8701", "words": "1279", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Wilken, Rowan Cameron; Kennedy, Jenny", "title": "IT\u2019S ALWAYS IN MY BAG, MY LITTLE TRUSTY USB", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "drives; flash; media; usb", "summary": "USB portable flash drives. While there is a vast literature on mobile media and communications, and a smaller yet significant literature on portable music storage devices (Sterne 2012; Bull 2008) and other portable objects (Ito, Okabe and Anderson 2009), very little work has been done to date specifically on more general portable storage devices, such as USB portable flash drives, and associated practices of use.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8702", "words": "7884", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Tyma, Adam W.; Leonard, Lynnette G.", "title": "Its Not All Zeroes and Ones: constructing online identity assembly theory", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "assembly; communication; identities; identity; online; osc; process; research; theory; user", "summary": "Often, the reported age of an individual user via her/his online identity will invite unsolicited contact from other online identities, thereby expanding the user\u2019s network and further assembling the user\u2019s presented online identity. Abstract The construction of online identity, though examined in other disciplines, has not yet been approached theoretically in the communication scholarship.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8704", "words": "1195", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Thimm, Caja J.; Einsp\u00e4nner, Jessica; Dang-Anh, Mark", "title": "Joint Digital Storytelling on Twitter: Creative Appropriation in Political Deliberation", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "deliberation; level; storytelling; twitter", "summary": "This paper explores on the basis of empirical research, how patterns of interaction and argumentation in political discourse on Twitter evolve as online discursive practices. 3 Data and methods To underpin the role, function, and creativity of storytelling on Twitter in a political context, we differentiate three media-based levels of political storytelling: (1) the textual level of storytelling, (2) the operative level of storytelling (hashtags, @- and RT-Symbol, hyperlinks etc.) and (3) the visual level of storytelling (embedded fotos, videos).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8705", "words": "1797", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Allen, Matthew", "title": "Just in time: a new modality for community via networks", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "community; computer; internet; networks; place", "summary": "Community is intimately connected to the individuals who comprise it and the individual relations between them, unbounded by any sense of the individual collective which community implies. Place is losing its capacity, even symbolically, to contribute to community effects by giving us a sense of collective identity; shared place becomes attenuated in the face of the self- centered emplacement of the individual while using placeless networks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8706", "words": "5248", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Burnam-Fink, Michael; Tiidenberg, Katrin; McKnight, John; Tekobbe, Cindy", "title": "KARMA POLICING: RE-IMAGINING WHAT WE CAN (AND CAN'T) POST ON THE INTERNET.", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "comments; community; culture; harassment; instagram; internet; media; memes; online; platforms; press; women", "summary": "Women \u00a0have \u00a0 traditionally \u00a0been \u00a0seen \u00a0as \u00a0more \u00a0embodied \u00a0than \u00a0men, \u00a0thus \u00a0the \u00a0discourses \u00a0that \u00a0equate \u00a0 slenderness \u00a0and \u00a0youth \u00a0with \u00a0beauty \u00a0and \u00a0fitness \u00a0with \u00a0moral \u00a0character, \u00a0have \u00a0particularly \u00a0 strong \u00a0implications \u00a0to \u00a0whether \u00a0women \u00a0are \u00a0accorded \u00a0\u2018embodied \u00a0subjecthood\u2019 \u00a0(Gill, \u00a02008: \u00a0 44) \u00a0or \u00a0not. \u00a0 \u00a0 Together, \u00a0this \u00a0panel \u00a0presents \u00a0a \u00a0range \u00a0of \u00a0imagined \u00a0alternatives \u00a0to \u00a0polarized \u00a0and \u00a0bitter \u00a0 online \u00a0discourse, \u00a0from \u00a0perspectives \u00a0of \u00a0media \u00a0and \u00a0cultural \u00a0studies, \u00a0political \u00a0philosophy, \u00a0 counterinsurgency \u00a0theory, \u00a0science \u00a0and \u00a0technology \u00a0studies, \u00a0and \u00a0rhetorical \u00a0genre \u00a0theory. \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8707", "words": "1384", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Ferrari, Elisabetta", "title": "Keeping It Fake: Exploring User-Generated Political Fakes and Their Publics", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "accounts; public; satire", "summary": "(USA) Introduction This paper investigates user-generated political satire, focusing in particular on one genre: fake political accounts. Table 1 - Characteristics of the sample of fake accounts Fake Account Facebook likes Twitter followers Number of interviewees Number of authors Renzo Mattei 14,511 37,000 3 3 Gianni Kuperlo 2,392 27,300 1 1 Casalegglo 304 74,100 2 7", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8708", "words": "1355", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Callahan, Ewa; Kirshenbaum, Nurit", "title": "LANGUAGE CHOICE ON UNIVERSITY WEBSITES IN ARAB COUNTRIES", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "countries; language; sites", "summary": "Currently English is considered the international lingua franca, but this mode of communication also allows other languages to have a strong presence on the web. However, questions about the current status of languages on the Internet requires constant research considering the effects of globalization, increased popularity of English, and, at the same time increased popularity of other languages (Callahan and Herring, 2012).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8709", "words": "2248", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Titak, Ashley", "title": "LANGUAGE SOCIALIZATION AND GENRE ADHERENCE IN REDDIT.COM", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "community; corpus; language; users; year", "summary": "Through these analyses, differences in language use on Reddit can be examined according to the user\u2019s year of use, comment score, and the overarching sub-community in which the comment was made, and reveal a picture of larger language patterns. However, there is a paucity research considering language use in digital genres from a language socialization perspective.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8710", "words": "1613", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Cheong, Pauline Hope; Fisk, Megan", "title": "Leaving Church: Resisting Mormon authority and community in online-offline dimensions", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "church; disaffiliation; members; religion; research", "summary": "Yet some members choose to leave their religious organizations, resist religious authorities and (re)appropriate religious texts as they exit the church. Prior research on religious disaffiliation have focused on demographic variables such as education level (e.g. Caplovitz & Sherrow, 1977), socio-psychological traits like rebellion against parental control (e.g. Hoge, Johnson, & Luidens, 1993) and life events where positive life experiences, such as job promotion, are associated with increased faith while negative experiences, such as death of a family member, are associated with loss of faith (Albrect and Cornwall, 1989).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8711", "words": "1407", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "McNealy, Jasmine", "title": "Legal issues in BYOP: Bring Your Own Persona", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "account; business; employees; media", "summary": "Although researchers have and are currently studying the impact of social media on business and the use of social media strategy by business, little research exists concerning the legal issues related to having employees create and maintain social media personas related to their work. The researcher calls this phenomenon BYOP as a reference to a related trend in business, \u201cBring Your Own Device,\u201d in which companies allow employees to use their own smart devices or provide employees with smart technology in the workplace, and as a direct invocation of the marketing practices from which business social media usage has its foundation (Oliver, 2012).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8712", "words": "10928", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Humphrey, Michael", "title": "LIFE NARRATIVE IN THE #RACEWARS: TERMINISTIC SCREENS AND TWITTER FIGHTS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "color; help; kids; life; like; people; privilege; race; screen; stories; story; white; women", "summary": "I \u00a0will \u00a0then \u00a0discuss \u00a0how \u00a0challenging \u00a0one\u2019s \u00a0own \u00a0life \u00a0story, \u00a0 especially \u00a0by \u00a0placing \u00a0a \u00a0filter \u00a0of \u00a0privilege \u00a0on \u00a0that \u00a0life, \u00a0could \u00a0lead \u00a0to \u00a0an \u00a0identity \u00a0that \u00a0is \u00a0 woven \u00a0more \u00a0broadly \u00a0with \u00a0realities \u00a0beyond \u00a0one\u2019s \u00a0own \u00a0experience \u00a0and \u00a0enculturation. \u00a0 \u00a0 The \u00a0interaction \u00a0of \u00a0these \u00a0two \u00a0themes, \u00a0an \u00a0agentic \u00a0self \u00a0 in \u00a0communion \u00a0with \u00a0her/his \u00a0surroundings, \u00a0can \u00a0produce \u00a0structural \u00a0filters \u00a0for \u00a0a \u00a0person \u00a0in \u00a0a \u00a0 state \u00a0of \u00a0privilege. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8713", "words": "1508", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Eklund, Lina", "title": "LINKING ONLINE AND OFFLINE SOCIAL LIFE THROUGH DIGITAL GAMING", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "internet; life; offline; online", "summary": "During those years social digital gaming, both online and offline, was investigated. These relations connect different social worlds, both online and offline.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8714", "words": "5147", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Wirth, Richard; Guadagno, Rosanna", "title": "LIVING A LIFE ONLINE: TRUST, EXPRESSION, AND INTERACTION IN MMOGS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "disclosure; guild; online; participants; players; self; study; trust", "summary": "Once the ability to measure self-disclosure levels in online game players is established, the challenge becomes finding the methodology with which one relates disclosure to trust, and the context at work in online games. According to Yee, social players are motivated by relationships, teamwork, and self-disclosure.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8715", "words": "1932", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Hemphill, Libby", "title": "LOOKING FOR (LESBIAN) LOVE: SOCIAL MEDIA SUBTEXT READINGS OF RIZZOLI AND ISLES", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "gayzzoli; isles; lesbian; rizzoli; tweets", "summary": "Though he didn\u2019t introduce the term semiotic supermarket until later (Fiske, 1989), Fiske does provide a semiotic framing that is useful for analyzing social media readings of television texts. Of those tweets, 499 were retweets and 1125 were original tweets.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8716", "words": "4186", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Tiidenberg, Katrin; Abidin, Crystal; Siibak, Andra", "title": "MAKING AND BREAKING RULES ON THE INTERNET", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "attention; influencers; media; online; practices; press; shame; teachers; university", "summary": "We \u00a0analyze \u00a0the \u00a0rule \u00a0breaking \u00a0and \u00a0rule \u00a0making \u00a0through \u00a0social \u00a0media \u00a0 practices \u00a0like \u00a0teacher-\u00adstudent \u00a0interactions \u00a0on \u00a0Facebook, \u00a0friendship \u00a0and \u00a0flirting \u00a0on \u00a0 Tumblr, \u00a0microcelebrity \u00a0attention \u00a0seeking \u00a0practices \u00a0and \u00a0self-\u00adpresentation \u00a0on \u00a0 different \u00a0social \u00a0networking \u00a0sites. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 It \u00a0brings \u00a0together \u00a0three \u00a0presentations, \u00a0all \u00a0of \u00a0which \u00a0speak \u00a0to \u00a0the \u00a0central \u00a0 conference \u00a0theme \u00a0by \u00a0engaging \u00a0with \u00a0how \u00a0specific \u00a0rules \u00a0and \u00a0norms \u00a0regarding \u00a0 privacy, \u00a0friendship, \u00a0shame \u00a0and \u00a0commodification \u00a0are \u00a0appropriated, \u00a0rejected \u00a0or \u00a0 transformed. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8718", "words": "1423", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Beck, Estee; Hutchinson, Leslie", "title": "MAKING ETHICAL DECISIONS: SEEING TWITTER BOTS AS (NON) \u2018HUMAN SUBJECTS\u2019 WHEN INCLUDING THEM AS RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "code; human; internet; research; twitter", "summary": "Drawing on media and actor network theories, this proposed talk (re)defines the ethics of data(text)/persons with consideration of non-human Twitter bots by asking what are the ethics involved in researching and working with non-human language objects, i.e., computer code operating without human intervention? Later in the document, the authors describe complications of data(text)/personhood, using bots as an example of research with non-human subjects.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8719", "words": "1567", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Guzman, Andrea L.", "title": "Making Machines Safe for Humans: The Case of Siri", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "apple; machine; news; siri", "summary": "Snide, sassy Siri has plenty to say. Denver, USA 1 Making Machines Safe for Humans: The Case of Siri Andrea L. Guzman University of Illinois at Chicago United States aguzma31@uic.edu Abstract This paper explores cultural conceptions of human-machine communication through a discourse analysis of U.S. news media accounts of Apple\u2019s launch of Siri \u2013 a voice-activated, personal assistant application.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8720", "words": "1281", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Katz, Yuval; Shifman, Limor", "title": "Making Sense? The structure and meaning of digital memetic nonsense", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "meaning; memes; nonsense; texts", "summary": "Nonsensical \u00a0texts \u00a0in \u00a0these \u00a0environments \u00a0often \u00a0take \u00a0the \u00a0form \u00a0of \u00a0memes \u00a0\u2013 \u00a0clusters \u00a0of \u00a0 digital \u00a0texts \u00a0imitated \u00a0and \u00a0circulated \u00a0by \u00a0many \u00a0participants \u00a0(who, \u00a0for \u00a0instance, \u00a0put \u00a0their \u00a0 heads \u00a0in \u00a0freezers \u00a0or \u00a0pretend \u00a0to \u00a0be \u00a0owls). \u00a0 Memes \u00a0strongly \u00a0embody \u00a0the \u00a0three \u00a0 aforementioned \u00a0features \u00a0of \u00a0digital \u00a0environment: \u00a0many \u00a0of \u00a0them \u00a0are \u00a0visual, \u00a0they \u00a0are \u00a0often \u00a0 based \u00a0on \u00a0remixes, \u00a0and \u00a0they \u00a0are \u00a0used \u00a0for \u00a0community-\u00adbuilding \u00a0purposes \u00a0(Milner, \u00a02013;\u037e \u00a0 Shifman, \u00a02013). ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8722", "words": "1296", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Chabot, Shersta", "title": "MAKING SPACE FOR WOMEN\u2019S HISTORY: RHETORIC, DIGITAL ACTIVISM AND THE NATIONAL WOMEN\u2019S HISTORY (CYBER)MUSEUM", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "history; museum; nwhm; women", "summary": "Using the National Women\u2019s History (Cyber)Museum (NWHM) as a focus, this paper explores the significant shifts that history museums in the United States have recently undergone within the cultural imaginary, shifts necessitated by a booming digital entertainment industry, social media and mobile devices. From a cultural-political standpoint, the existence and mission of a women\u2019s history \u201ccyber\u201d museum calls into question the traditional role that history museums have played in the United States.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8723", "words": "1744", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Wolock, Lia", "title": "Managing community through digital talk: Podcasting in the South Asian diaspora", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "asian; community; media; south; talk", "summary": "Denver, USA 2 category of South Asian diasporic podcasts frequently overlaps with the other two major categories: institution-affiliated and interview programs. It is a community with porous, and variable borders, welcoming all and managing discordant temporalities (e.g. time zones and delayed listening) and backgrounds, but providing a special site of exalted interaction for those who are professional journalists of South Asian heritage covering South Asian topics living in North America.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8724", "words": "1553", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Raval, Noopur", "title": "MAPPING THE SPIRITUAL SENSORIUM: AN ACCOUNT OF RELIGION AND MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN NORTHERN INDIA", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "india; media; new; religion; technologies", "summary": "Drawing on the framework of \u201caesthetic formations\u201d or dynamic communities bound through sensorial experiences, as explained by Birgit Meyer (Meyer 2009), I attempt to map religious practice across Hindi speaking peoples from northern India and the diaspora to discover the throbbing parallel life of spiritual practice through decades in the post-colony. Before one can engage with the transformation of religious practice, it is necessary to critically consider how religious practice itself becomes a space, a site of articulation and interaction with the contemporary political, legal and the idea of modern.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8725", "words": "1651", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Milner, Ryan M.", "title": "Media Lingua Franca: Fixity, Novelty, and Vernacular Creativity in Internet Memes", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "figure; internet; memes; vernacular", "summary": "Abstract This paper argues internet memes \u2013 discursive artifacts spread by mediated cultural participants who remix them along the way \u2013 weave \u2018fixity\u2019 and \u2018novelty\u2019. Once in class \u2013 with a photoshopped picture of Kanye West interrupting Martin Luther King Jr. on the screen behind me (Figure 1) \u2013 I asked my students to define \u2018internet meme\u2019.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8726", "words": "8206", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Kimbrough, Amanda; Guadagno, Rosann", "title": "MEDIATED-COMMUNICATION IN LONG-DISTANCE AND GEOGRAPHICALLY-CLOSE ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS AND ITS EFFECTS ON IDEALIZATION, IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT, AND RELATIONSHIP SATISFACTION", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "communication; couples; distance; face; idealization; impression; journal; ldr; ldrs; management; relationships; satisfaction; self; use", "summary": "Garcia, E. (2011, September 26) Space between us: Long distance relationships. Controversy exists in the field over how to measure and define distance relationships.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8727", "words": "7191", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Vivienne, Sonja", "title": "Mediating Identity Narratives: a case study in queer digital storytelling as everyday activism", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "digital; distribution; face; family; identity; online; people; production; self; spaces; stories; story; storytellers; storytelling", "summary": "Unlike story production, story distribution tends not to be so orchestrated or outcome oriented and often occurs in fits and bursts over extended time frames. In doing so, they may confront some of the difficulties they encountered in story production \u2013 fear of intimate exposure to both familiar and unknown audiences; technical problems (both user and hardware oriented); time; motivation; money etc.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8728", "words": "1593", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Huntington, Heidi", "title": "MENACING MEMES? AFFECT AND EFFECTS OF POLITICAL INTERNET MEMES", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "affect; effects; media; memes; politics", "summary": "Political memes are used to critique and comment on social and political issues, from elections, to food stamps, police violence and issues of equality. By exploring this question of meme effects, this paper seeks to answer Shifman\u2019s (2014) call for future meme research to establish what constitutes an effect of memes and how such effects might be measured.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8729", "words": "1925", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "H\u00e5rd af Segerstad, Ylva; Weilenmann, Alexandra", "title": "Methodological Challenges for Studying Cross-Platform Conversations", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "communication; conversation; data; mobile; text", "summary": "Denver, USA 1 Methodological Challenges for Studying Cross-Platform Conversations Ylva H\u00e5rd af Segerstad Dept. of Applied IT, University of Gothenburg Sweden hardy@ituniv.se Alexandra Weilenmann Dept. of Applied IT, University of Gothenburg Sweden alexandra.weilenmann@ituniv.se Abstract During the last decade, the multimedia landscape has evolved in several ways, calling for a reconsideration of methodologies for studying mobile communication. Understanding mobile communication no longer entails focusing on either voice or text in isolation; rather we need to study how all aspects of mobile communication together make up a continuous conversation of intertwined messaging.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8730", "words": "1931", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Proferes, Nicholas", "title": "METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN TRACING USER KNOWLEDGE OF INFORMATION FLOWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA SITES", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "flows; information; knowledge; media; users", "summary": "METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN TRACING USER KNOWLEDGE OF INFORMATION FLOWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA SITES Nicholas Proferes University of Maryland Introduction Following a number of recent examples of where social media users have been confronted by information flows that did not match their understandings and expectations\u2014such as in the wake of the \u201cFacebook contagion\u201d study (Kramer, Guillory, & Hancock, 2014) Although it may seem administrative to close on such a note, one of the potential challenges of studying social media systems is that design elements, protocols, algorithms, data structures, ownership, etc. can change quickly.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8732", "words": "1512", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Halavais, Alexander", "title": "Microcredentials on the Open Web", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "badges; certification; microcredentials; university", "summary": "In many cases (though there are certainly exceptions) traditional certifications or licenses are difficult to share digitally. Keywords identity; reputation; badges; microcredentials; learning; recruiting Beyond Canine Online Identity The online world provides a new context for the presentation of self, and a number of technologies of the social web are built around the process of introducing oneself to others.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8733", "words": "2223", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "van Geenen, Daniela; Bakker, Piet; Sch\u00e4fer, Mirko Tobias; Hekman, Erik; Moons, Jonas; Boeschoten, Thomas", "title": "Mining one week of Twitter. Tracing local networked publics in the Dutch Twittersphere", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "accounts; data; dutch; media; publics; twitter; university", "summary": "Different dimensions of Twitter use We singled out two case studies focused on Twitter networks and conversations in two different cities in the Netherlands: 1) On a local level (cities or villages) we can observe the emergence of local Twitter elites.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8734", "words": "1129", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Thomas, Bronwen", "title": "Moderating Readers and Reading Online", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "moderators; online; reading", "summary": "This \u00a0paper \u00a0reports \u00a0on \u00a0a \u00a0study \u00a0of \u00a0 moderators \u00a0of \u00a0online \u00a0book-\u00adrelated \u00a0sites, \u00a0which \u00a0used \u00a0interviews, \u00a0ethnographic \u00a0 observation \u00a0and \u00a0textual \u00a0analysis \u00a0of \u00a0online \u00a0interactions \u00a0to \u00a0consider \u00a0the \u00a0issues \u00a0of \u00a0 authority, \u00a0hierarchy, \u00a0power \u00a0and \u00a0control \u00a0that \u00a0arise \u00a0from \u00a0their \u00a0framing \u00a0of \u00a0discussions. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 There \u00a0has \u00a0been \u00a0much \u00a0less \u00a0emphasis \u00a0on \u00a0how \u00a0moderators \u00a0interact \u00a0 and \u00a0deal \u00a0with \u00a0forum \u00a0users \u00a0and \u00a0those \u00a0outside \u00a0the \u00a0community, \u00a0or \u00a0how \u00a0they \u00a0influence \u00a0and \u00a0 shape \u00a0the \u00a0direction \u00a0that \u00a0discussion \u00a0takes. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8735", "words": "3440", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Velez, Natalia", "title": "MODERN DIGITAL IMAGINARIES: FACEBOOK AS A SOURCE OF INDEPENDENT NARRATIVES IN COLOMBIA", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "alzate; facebook; farc; general; mainstream; media; voces", "summary": "Conclusions While this case study answers a few questions about the newly established relationship between radical media and social networks in Latin America, which is still very immature in comparison to more developed countries, it leads to bigger questions about the use of social media by social movements in the region. This article expands the existing theories about the power of social media in countries with corrupted political sceneries and provides insights that could be used for comparative analysis between Latin American countries in hopes of characterizing the networked environment in the region.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8736", "words": "1245", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Br\u00f8vig-Hanssen, Ragnhild", "title": "MUSICAL RECYCLING: MASHUP AESTHETICS AND AUTHORSHIP", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "copyright; mashup; music; new", "summary": "While mashup music continues to increase in relative ubiquity and variety, its practice is generally characterized by the extensive use of samples from popular recordings, according to the principle that those samples reveal themselves as samples to the informed listener. Mashup music is also banned from the commercial marketplace due to its much-disputed legal status, though there have been, to date, no verdicts against mashup music in court.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8737", "words": "1228", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Colbj\u00f8rnsen, Terje", "title": "My Algorithm: User Perceptions of Algorithmic Recommendations in Cultural Contexts", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "algorithms; recommendations; users", "summary": "As \u00a0users \u00a0feed \u00a0the \u00a0services \u00a0with \u00a0more \u00a0information \u00a0on \u00a0their \u00a0likes \u00a0and \u00a0dislikes, \u00a0 algorithms \u00a0can \u00a0suggest \u00a0more \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0same \u00a0kind \u00a0that \u00a0we \u00a0seem \u00a0to \u00a0like, \u00a0creating \u00a0a \u00a0cultural \u00a0 \u201cfilter \u00a0bubble\u201d \u00a0(Pariser, \u00a02011). \u00a0 That \u00a0is \u00a0not \u00a0 to \u00a0forget \u00a0that \u00a0a \u00a0presumptively \u00a0large \u00a0group \u00a0will \u00a0be \u00a0unconcerned \u00a0or \u00a0ignorant \u00a0of \u00a0how \u00a0 algorithms \u00a0provide \u00a0recommendations. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8738", "words": "1284", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Plothe, Theo", "title": "N00BS NEED NOT APPLY: WiiWARE, GENERATIVITY, AND INDIE GAME DESIGNERS", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "game; internet; nintendo; wiiware", "summary": "Proprietary systems for distributing cultural content online, such as Nintendo WiiWare, interfere with this generative principle. Independent game developer Different Cloth produced a critically-acclaimed and award- winning game called Lilt Line for iOS and WiiWare.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8739", "words": "1475", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Farinosi, Manuela; Taipale, Sakari", "title": "Navigating between privacy settings and visibility rules: online self-disclosure in the social web", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "disclosure; facebook; privacy", "summary": "As highlighted by Stutzman et al., \u2018Because social network sites thrive on peer- produced content, disclosure is often concomitant with site use\u2019 (2012:10). Sociality through social network sites.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8741", "words": "6168", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "McKnight, John Carter; Tiidenberg, Katrin; Burnam-Fink, Michael; Tekkobe, Cindy", "title": "Navigating Boundaries and Taboos in the Digital Frontier", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "body; boundary; communities; community; female; forums; geek; gender; girl; identity; online; press; self; social; university; work", "summary": "This paper will examine the realities of moderator-user activity in two internet forums, SomethingAwful.com and RPG.net, which value high-quality conservations on many subjects, and how their divergent approaches to moderation and community norms sheds light on internet governance. Yet, in practice, admins do not use these powers arbitrarily, instead acting to maintain community norms.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8742", "words": "5869", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Rosenthal, Michele; Ribak, Rivka; Liberman, Rachael; Echchaibi, Nabil; Portwood-Stacer, Laura", "title": "Navigating Media Ambivalence: Strategies of Resistance, Avoidance, and Engagement with Media Technology in Everyday Life", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "gender; home; labor; media; muslims; new; paper; practices; refusal; resistance; technologies; use; users", "summary": "Keywords social media; resistance; labor; lifestyle; activism A small but vocal contingent of social media users are fed up. In particular, the author argues that given their media deficit in American society, Muslims often feel they cannot afford to resist media technologies, particularly smart phones and social media because of their connective qualities and their interventionist affordances.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8743", "words": "1725", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Carstensen, Tanja", "title": "NEGOTIATING THE DIGITIZATION OF WORK: NEW CHALLENGES FOR EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS\u2019 COUNCILS FROM THE USE OF SOCIAL COLLABORATION PLATFORMS", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "employees; media; use; work", "summary": "Negotiating \u00a0the \u00a0Digitization \u00a0of \u00a0work: \u00a0New \u00a0 Challenges \u00a0for \u00a0employees \u00a0and \u00a0workers\u2019 \u00a0councils \u00a0from \u00a0the \u00a0use \u00a0of \u00a0social \u00a0collaboration \u00a0platforms. \u00a0 This \u00a0paper \u00a0therefore \u00a0investigates \u00a0the \u00a0negotiations \u00a0on \u00a0use \u00a0and \u00a0design \u00a0 between \u00a0employers, \u00a0employees, \u00a0and \u00a0workers\u2019 \u00a0councils \u00a0\u2013 \u00a0or \u00a0in \u00a0other \u00a0words, \u00a0rule-\u00admaking \u00a0 and \u00a0rule-\u00adbreaking\u2014and \u00a0follows \u00a0the \u00a0questions: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0 which \u00a0issues \u00a0are \u00a0contested \u00a0by \u00a0implementing \u00a0and \u00a0using \u00a0a \u00a0social \u00a0media \u00a0platform, \u00a0 \u00a0 2 \u2022 \u00a0 which \u00a0(new) \u00a0demands \u00a0are \u00a0employees \u00a0confronted \u00a0with \u00a0by \u00a0the \u00a0use \u00a0of \u00a0social \u00a0media, \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0 how \u00a0do \u00a0employers, \u00a0employees \u00a0and \u00a0workers\u2019 \u00a0councils \u00a0deal \u00a0with \u00a0these \u00a0challenges, \u00a0plus \u00a0 what \u00a0kind \u00a0of \u00a0usage \u00a0and \u00a0working \u00a0conditions \u00a0do \u00a0they \u00a0negotiate \u00a0and \u00a0develop, \u00a0and \u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0 how \u00a0far \u00a0do \u00a0employees \u00a0adopt, \u00a0modify \u00a0or \u00a0resist \u00a0the \u00a0company\u2019s \u00a0social \u00a0media \u00a0rules? \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8744", "words": "1598", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Manalu, Rouli", "title": "NEGOTIATION OF INTERESTS IN GOVERNING COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY: TRACING ACTOR-NETWORK IN THE USE OF 2.4GHZ BAND FOR WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS IN INDONESIA", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "actors; band; ghz; internet; policy", "summary": "Second moment, DGPT tried to lock other actors in a particular position in the network. Thus, through persuasion and authority of state regulation, the DGPT was tried to interest and locking other actor to what was deemed as proper positions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8745", "words": "6013", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Yin, Siyuan", "title": "Netizen Mobs and Their Performance: a content analysis of participants and their political participation in Chinese online forum", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "china; civility; class; engagement; forum; levels; online; participants; participation; performance; social", "summary": "The study found that social classes (based on occupation) and monthly income exert no significant effect on online civilized behavior, but the specific uncivilized behavior varies with different social classes. On one hand, it breaks the social hierarchy and promotes the flow of social classes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8746", "words": "5018", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Carmi, Elinor; Gehl, Robert W.; Sullivan, John L.; Burk, Dan", "title": "NETWORK STANDARDS AND CULTURE", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "advertising; daa; european; html5; internet; law; media; spam; standards; web", "summary": "The \u00a0HTML5 \u00a0standard \u00a0was \u00a0developed \u00a0beginning \u00a0in \u00a02003 \u00a0under \u00a0the \u00a0auspices \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0 World \u00a0Wide \u00a0Web \u00a0Consortium \u00a0(W3C), \u00a0a \u00a0non-\u00adprofit \u00a0consortium \u00a0founded \u00a0by \u00a0Tim \u00a0Berners-\u00ad Lee \u00a0in \u00a01994 \u00a0to \u00a0guide \u00a0the \u00a0development \u00a0of \u00a0standards \u00a0for \u00a0the \u00a0web. \u00a0 Standards \u00a0are \u00a0usually \u00a0meant \u00a0to \u00a0make \u00a0technical \u00a0artefacts, \u00a0protocols, \u00a0features \u00a0and \u00a0 infrastructures \u00a0operate \u00a0in \u00a0an \u00a0efficient \u00a0and \u00a0uniform \u00a0way. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8747", "words": "6978", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Bastos, Marco; Lubell, Mark", "title": "NETWORKING AGGIE: BROADCASTING INFORMATION TO TOPICAL COMMUNITIES", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "agriculture; community; core; data; information; media; messages; network; public; retweets; tweets; twitter; users", "summary": "In fact, Twitter users often begin interacting within a hashtagged stream only to subsequently drop the hashtag as their one-to-one interaction unfolds. Firstly, we present a census-based, viable, cost- effective, and replicable research design to track the information exchange within a community of Twitter users.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8748", "words": "9193", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Svensson, Jakob", "title": "New Media, New Logics: power and participation among activists in southern Stockholm", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "activists; bathhouse; facebook; group; identity; information; internet; media; network; new; online; power; society", "summary": "(Leaning, 2009, p. 30), often referred to as social media and online social networking. Causal models of explanation are potentially misleading since it is impossible to isolate Internet and media use from other social practices and determine what 7 causes what (Anduiza, 2009).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8749", "words": "1393", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Nansen, Bjorn; Jayemanne, Darshana", "title": "NEW RULES: YOUNG CHILDREN\u2019S TOUCHSCREEN HABITUS", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "children; habitus; media; touchscreen", "summary": "Touchscreen \u00a0 habitus \u00a0 considers \u00a0 how \u00a0 embodied \u00a0 practices, \u00a0 norms \u00a0 and \u00a0 imperatives \u00a0 are \u00a0 produced \u00a0 through \u00a0 situated \u00a0media \u00a0 relations: \u00a0 children \u00a0 are \u00a0 no \u00a0 longer \u00a0 necessarily \u00a0 \u2018sat\u2019 \u00a0 in \u00a0 front \u00a0 of \u00a0 media. \u00a0 Drawing \u00a0 from \u00a0 ongoing \u00a0 qualitative \u00a0research \u00a0with \u00a0families \u00a0and \u00a0children \u00a0aged \u00a0from \u00a00 \u00a0to \u00a05 \u00a0in \u00a0their \u00a0domestic \u00a0media \u00a0 settings \u00a0in \u00a0Melbourne, \u00a0Australia, \u00a0this \u00a0paper \u00a0reports \u00a0on \u00a0young \u00a0children\u2019s \u00a0embodiment \u00a0and \u00a0 enculturation \u00a0of \u00a0dispositions \u00a0towards \u00a0touchscreen \u00a0media \u00a0by \u00a0developing \u00a0the \u00a0concept \u00a0of \u00a0a \u00a0 touchscreen \u00a0or \u00a0haptic \u00a0media \u00a0\u2018habitus\u2019. \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8750", "words": "1198", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Karnowski, Veronika; Keyling, Till; Leiner, Dominik", "title": "NEWS DIFFUSION ACROSS SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "diffusion; facebook; news; twitter", "summary": "To answer these questions, we developed a large-scale driven methodical framework which matches standardized information on news articles with the available indicators of interest on Facebook and Twitter. Real-time data provided by the API1 of Facebook and Twitter further provide us with insight into different communicative behavior with respect to news articles: in 10- minute intervals, the cumulative total number of Facebook shares and Twitter tweets for each article are measured and stored.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8751", "words": "4676", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Zago, Gabriela; Belochio, Vivian", "title": "News Media Appropriation: strategical possibilities of pro-am on Twitter", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "figure; guardian; journalism; media; news; place; public; tool; twitter; use; users", "summary": "But news media Twitter presence doesn\u2019t need to be limited to that. This is the case of Twitter, whose appropriation for news circulation made news media outlets to also seek to use the space for the extension of its contents (Jenkins, 2006), as well of its contexts of actions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8752", "words": "1537", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Bruns, Axel; Moon, Brenda; M\u00fcnch, Felix; Schmidt, Jan-Hinrik; Merten, Lisa; Moe, Hallvard; Schwartz, Sander", "title": "News Sharing on Twitter: A Nationally Comparative Study", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "bruns; news; sharing; sites; twitter", "summary": "In total, this approach has resulted in datasets comprising some 45 million tweets linking to Australian news sites; some 50 million linking to German news sites; and some 10 million linking to Nordic news sites. Gathering Twitter data since mid-2012, we have managed \u2013 within the limitations set by the public Twitter API \u2013 to capture all tweets linking to a large selection of news sites in Australia, Germany, and the Nordic countries; our analysis of these data shows the distribution of attention to these sites, the dynamics of such marketshare over time, and the structure of each nation\u2019s news-sharing user populations on Twitter, as well as comparing these patterns across the countries against the backdrop of their respective media ecologies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8753", "words": "1704", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Highfield, Tim", "title": "News via Voldemort: The role of parody and satire in topical discussions on Twitter", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "accounts; discussions; media; parody; twitter", "summary": "However, these aspects of Twitter parody accounts have their roots in earlier online humor, including the merging of fiction and reality, and the comic commodification of celebrities (Shifman, 2007, p. 205). This paper then analyses the contributions of parody accounts - alongside other satirical tweets - across multiple contexts, drawing on various political and cultural Twitter datasets collected between 2011 and 2013, to examine the extent to which such accounts are central, or disconnected, to the wider discussions at hand.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8761", "words": "1754", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Blank, Grant; Dutton, William H.", "title": "Next Generation Users: Changing Access to the Internet", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "access; generation; internet; users", "summary": "Next Generation Users are defined as Internet users who access the Internet (1) on mobile devices and (2) on multiple devices. By this definition, in 2011, almost a third of Britons, and 44.4% of Internet users in Britain, were Next Generation Users (Figure 1 and Figure 2).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8762", "words": "1642", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Malazita, James W.", "title": "NON-HUMANS AS MEANING-MAKERS: ELIZABETH AS A CO- DESIGNER of BIOSHOCK INFINITE", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "elizabeth; human; meaning; world", "summary": "More specifically, Bogost argues for a post- postmodern model of object inquiry, where due respect is given to the relationships and interpretations of the world aside from those with humans that objects undergo: To be sure, computers often do entail human experience and perception. Even Actor-Network Theory, which attributes causal power to non-human material objects, stops short of crediting objects with interpretive power and meaning-making ability.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8763", "words": "1112", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Peck, Andrew M", "title": "Non-Lethal Farce: \"Pepper Spray Cop\" Photoshopping as Visual Rhetoric", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "pepper; photoshopping; spray", "summary": "When viewed in this way, Pepper Spray Cop photoshopping suggests some of the possibilities for vernacular expression now afforded by networked communication. Abstract This paper examines photoshopping as an important emerging genre of vernacular civic discourse on the Internet.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8764", "words": "1164", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Shorey, Samantha", "title": "NOT MYSELF: ANTI-SURVIELLANCE AESTHETICS AND THE CHIN- DOWN SELFIE", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "privacy; selfie; tumblr", "summary": "Yet, \u00a0the \u00a0desire \u00a0for \u00a0anonymity \u00a0results \u00a0in \u00a0an \u00a0interesting \u00a0hurdle \u00a0for \u00a0selfies, \u00a0which \u00a0are \u00a0 common \u00a0feature \u00a0of \u00a0Tumblr\u2019s \u00a0visual \u00a0vocabulary. \u00a0 \u00a0 While \u00a0the \u00a0 discussions \u00a0of \u00a0anonymity \u00a0and \u00a0privacy \u00a0found \u00a0in \u00a0this \u00a0paper \u00a0are \u00a0derived \u00a0from \u00a0in-\u00adperson \u00a0 interactions, \u00a0the \u00a0discussion \u00a0of \u00a0selfies \u00a0is \u00a0drawn \u00a0primarily \u00a0from \u00a0a \u00a0year \u00a0long \u00a0period \u00a0of \u00a0 observation \u00a0during \u00a0the \u00a0completion \u00a0of \u00a0this \u00a0project. \u00a0 ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8765", "words": "1328", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Hemsley, Jeff; Tanupabrungsun, Sikana; Semaan, Bryan; Stromer-Galley, Jennifer", "title": "ON THE ATTACK: U.S. GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE DIRECT CAMPAIGN DIALOGUE ON TWITTER", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "attack; candidates; tweets", "summary": "Table \u00a01: \u00a0Shows \u00a0number \u00a0of \u00a0candidates \u00a0and \u00a0tweets \u00a0by \u00a0party \u00a0 \u00a0 Incumbents \u00a0mention \u00a0challengers \u00a0in \u00a01,207 \u00a0tweet, \u00a0but \u00a0challengers \u00a0mention \u00a0incumbents \u00a0in \u00a0 1,362 \u00a0tweets. \u00a0 Table \u00a01 \u00a0shows \u00a0the \u00a0number \u00a0of \u00a0candidates \u00a0and \u00a0tweets \u00a0by \u00a0party \u00a0and \u00a0 incumbent \u00a0/ \u00a0challenger \u00a0status. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8766", "words": "1266", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Klang, Mathias", "title": "ON THE INTERNET NOBODY CAN SEE YOUR CAPE: THE ETHICS OF ONLINE VIGILANTISM", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "information; internet; vigilantism", "summary": "Selected Papers of Internet Research 16: The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers Phoenix, AZ, USA / 21-24 October 2015 ON \u00a0THE \u00a0INTERNET \u00a0NOBODY \u00a0CAN \u00a0SEE \u00a0YOUR \u00a0CAPE: \u00a0THE \u00a0ETHICS \u00a0OF \u00a0 ONLINE \u00a0VIGILANTISM \u00a0 \u00a0 Mathias \u00a0Klang \u00a0 \u00a0 Umass \u00a0Boston \u00a0 \u00a0 Introduction \u00a0 \u00a0 The \u00a0discussion \u00a0of \u00a0vigilantism \u00a0has \u00a0been \u00a0most \u00a0active \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0legal \u00a0discourse, \u00a0in \u00a0which \u00a0the \u00a0 term \u00a0has \u00a0been \u00a0classified \u00a0historically \u00a0and \u00a0divided \u00a0into \u00a0classical \u00a0vigilantism, \u00a0 neovigilantism, \u00a0pseudo-\u00advigilantism \u00a0and \u00a0faux-\u00ad(Hine \u00a01998). \u00a0 This \u00a0paper \u00a0will \u00a0open \u00a0up \u00a0the \u00a0discussion \u00a0and \u00a0merge \u00a0the \u00a0theoretical, \u00a0 social \u00a0and \u00a0technical \u00a0discussion \u00a0on \u00a0vigilantism \u00a0by \u00a0drawing \u00a0on \u00a0its \u00a0modern \u00a0forms. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8767", "words": "1563", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Vimieiro, Anna Carolina; Vimieiro, Renato", "title": "ONLINE FOOTBALL FANDOM: AN ANALYSIS OF THE COMMUNITIES FORMED AROUND 12 BRAZILIAN TOP PROFESSIONAL CLUBS ON TWITTER", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "clubs; fandom; fans; football; twitter", "summary": "We apply a series of digital methods to investigate what football fans are doing on Twitter, what they are sharing, how they are talking to each other, and which devices they are using to post their messages. In Brazil, football fans have gathered online at least since early in the 2000\u2019s to chat about their clubs, players\u2019 performance and so on.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8768", "words": "959", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Kasra, Mona", "title": "ONLINE IMAGERY: THE NON-STATE MEANS OF SOCIAL CONTROL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "control; images; power", "summary": "Images of humiliation and public shaming exercise power by making the target visible and by the pervasive power of internalization of discipline through normalization or self-policing. Any vigilante or vigilante group with access to the Internet is able to disseminate images of abomination, humiliation, grief, and punishment as a way to stir fear in the viewers or to prompt them to discipline and police others.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8769", "words": "2127", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Bastiaensens, Sara; Vandebosch, Heidi; Poels, Karolien; Van Cleemput, Katrien; DeSmet, Ann; De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse", "title": "ONLINE PEER SUPPORT IN CYBERBULLYING: INVESTIGATING ONLINE FORA OF YOUTH HELPLINE ORGANISATIONS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "cyberbullying; fora; members; online; support; victims", "summary": "Furthermore, this study aimed to contribute to existing cyberbullying research that was limited to identifying social support providers (Dehue, Bolman, & V\u00f6llink, 2008; e.g. Jacobs et al., 2015; Livingstone et al., 2011), by investigating the content of adolescents\u2019 (online) social support with regard to cyberbullying: what kind of social support is sought or provided and how is social support provided (what do adolescents exactly say to cyberbullying victims). Sara Bastiaensens University of Antwerp Heidi Vandebosch University of Antwerp Karolien Poels University of Antwerp Katrien Van Cleemput University of Antwerp Ann DeSmet Ghent University Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij Ghent University Research aim: Investigating online social support with regard to cyberbullying Cyberbullying is a pervasive problem with adolescents.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8770", "words": "1969", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Sreekumar, T. T.; Vadrevu, Shobha", "title": "Online political memes and Youth Political engagement in Singapore", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "engagement; internet; media; memes; press; singapore", "summary": "If indeed political memes tap on a history of satire and future of cultural convergence via artefacts of cyberspace, might they not have a powerful impact on politicising a generation that is always connected (Turkle 2008)? From this small corpus of Singaporean online political memes, 3 were selected for a detailed semiotic analysis based on their appropriateness for offering insight into the manner in which they employed intertextuality to embed political messages into common meme formats and attempted to resonate with their audiences.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8771", "words": "1365", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Neill Hoch, Indira", "title": "OPEN FOR PROMPTS, OPEN FOR FILLS: CREATIVE DEPLOYMENT OF SOCIAL NETWORK SITES INTO FANDOM KINK MEMES", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "kink; meme; network; sites", "summary": "The seeming contradiction between the public aspect of social network sites and the private notion of diary or journal writing is examined. Research concerning LiveJournal.com's connection with fan cultures focuses on the fan and her product, rather than the particular interaction between fan, product and social network site (Lothian, Busse, & Reid, 2007).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8772", "words": "1378", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Geiger, R.Stuart; Halfaker, Aaron", "title": "Open algorithmic systems: lessons on opening the black box from Wikipedia", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "bots; systems; wikipedia", "summary": "In \u00a0the \u00a0English-\u00adlanguage \u00a0Wikipedia, \u00a022 \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a025 \u00a0most \u00a0active \u00a0editors \u00a0are \u00a0bots, \u00a0and \u00a0 in \u00a0January \u00a02016, \u00a0they \u00a0made \u00a028% \u00a0of \u00a0all \u00a0edits \u00a0to \u00a0pages \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0project \u00a0and \u00a020% \u00a0of \u00a0all \u00a0edits \u00a0 to \u00a0encyclopedia \u00a0articles.1 \u00a0Bots \u00a0and \u00a0bot \u00a0developers \u00a0have \u00a0long \u00a0been \u00a0an \u00a0important \u00a0part \u00a0of \u00a0 the \u00a0volunteer \u00a0community \u00a0of \u00a0editors. \u00a0 OPEN \u00a0ALGORITHMIC \u00a0SYSTEMS: \u00a0LESSONS \u00a0ON \u00a0OPENING \u00a0THE \u00a0BLACK \u00a0BOX \u00a0 FROM \u00a0WIKIPEDIA \u00a0 R. \u00a0Stuart \u00a0Geiger, \u00a0Berkeley \u00a0Institute \u00a0for \u00a0Data \u00a0Science \u00a0 Aaron \u00a0Halfaker, \u00a0Wikimedia \u00a0Foundation \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Methodological \u00a0and \u00a0theoretical \u00a0overview \u00a0 An \u00a0ethnography \u00a0of \u00a0algorithmic \u00a0governance \u00a0 \u00a0 This \u00a0paper \u00a0reports \u00a0from \u00a0a \u00a0multi-\u00adyear \u00a0ethnographic \u00a0study \u00a0of \u00a0automated \u00a0software \u00a0agents \u00a0 in \u00a0Wikipedia, \u00a0where \u00a0bots \u00a0have \u00a0fundamentally \u00a0transformed \u00a0the \u00a0nature \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0notoriously \u00a0 decentralized, \u00a0\u2018anyone \u00a0can \u00a0edit\u2019 \u00a0encyclopedia \u00a0project. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8774", "words": "1664", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Robinson, Jerry Lamont", "title": "ONLINE SHARING OF OFFLINE DO-IT-YOURSELF ACCESSIBILITY HACKING PRACTICES", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "accessibility; disabilities; disability; discourses; diy; hack", "summary": "Medical, corporate, consumer and other common disability discourses are built on certain assumptions about what it means to be disabled and can inform the provision of service to people with disabilities [3]. Wheelchairjunkie threads and Hackability blog posts will be content analyzed and coded based on general themes found in the hacker literature and definitions of common disability discourses.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8776", "words": "1151", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Seaver, Nick", "title": "PARKS AND RECOMMENDATION: SPATIAL IMAGINARIES IN ALGORITHMIC SYSTEMS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "music; space; systems; work", "summary": "Although pastoral metaphors may appear to work in the service of naturalizing music spaces that are in fact constructions, my informants wielded these metaphors ambivalently, using them instead to locate their work at the interface of the natural, cultural, and technical. The technologies that mathematically generate musical spaces descend from spatializing techniques that originated in the social sciences (Shepard et al. 1972; Stefflre 1971;", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8777", "words": "9271", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Schofield Clark, Lynn", "title": "PARTICIPANTS ON THE MARGINS: EXAMINING THE USE OF SNAPCHAT, FACEBOOK, AND TWITTER AMONG POLITICAL NEWCOMERS DURING THE STUDENT FERGUSON PROTESTS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "action; artifacts; communication; counterpublics; facebook; ferguson; media; networks; online; participation; people; protests; public; school; spaces; students; twitter", "summary": "High school students around the country are walking out of class for Ferguson. Whereas some young people received encouragement to participate in the protests via social media, a number of participants later received criticism in a variety of online venues for acting rudely or violently toward law enforcement, for participating in protests merely as an excuse to skip class, for not understanding the issues, and for merely \u201cfollowing the crowd.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8778", "words": "5937", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Vivienne, Sonja; Robards, Brady; Abidin, Crystal; Byron, Paul", "title": "Patrolling Sexuality and Gender in Digital Social Spaces", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "education; gender; influencers; media; people; rules; sexuality; singapore; spaces; stories; subreddit; tgd; totallystraight", "summary": "This panel presents four examples in which sexuality and gender are \u2018patrolled\u2019 in digital social spaces, through both explicit rules and implicit ideals: hook\u00adup/dating app codes of conduct, informal digitally mediated sex education in Singapore, the circulation of pornography and \u2018sexual storytelling\u2019 on subreddit r/TotallyStraight, and boundary patrolling of memory and materiality in a trans and gender diverse (TGD) community in Adelaide. It is argued that this phenomenon could be representative of broader cultural shifts towards less rigidly defined sexual identities, and that this case study points to the potentials for digital social spaces to act as sites for organising and affirming non\u00addominant identity\u00adprojects.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8779", "words": "1255", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Walton, Marian Nicole", "title": "PAVEMENT INTERNET AND DIGITAL INVISIBILITY IN THE MARIKANA MASSACRE", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "africa; internet; marikana; media; mobile", "summary": "Despite the growing importance of pavement internet in South Africa, commodified network infrastructure and local discursive organisation curtail popular appropriations of mobile internet for public discourse. These informal political conversations are extended by mobile phones.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8780", "words": "1463", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Consalvo, Mia; Paul, Christopher", "title": "PAYING TO PLAY: THE EVOLVING STRUCTURE OF GAME PRICING AND INDUSTRY LEGITIMACY", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "games; payment; play; real", "summary": "This project builds on existing work into the rhetorical construction of real games, which identified several traits that mark certain games as \u2018real\u2019 and other games as outside that boundary. payment structure intersect with other elements of real games?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8782", "words": "8144", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Strand, Dixi Louise", "title": "Performing Presence in the Pop Art Lab", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "case; experience; life; music; new; object; pal; paper; people; presence; research; study; work; worlds", "summary": "Presence as sociality Another strand of literature based in anthropology and sociology moves away from evaluating different technological design's immersion capabilities and towards the notion of presence as sociality, sociability or social engagement. Interview appearances of presence in the Pop Art Lab Presence as a technical imaginaire Assembling presence - keeping it together, making it happen Presence as fluctuating assemblage Sensitizing research to emergence, process and flux", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8783", "words": "1613", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "McCosker, Anthony", "title": "PERIPHERIES OF CIVIL DISSENT: YOUTUBE\u2019S CIVIC CULTURES AND PLURALISTIC MICROPUBLICS", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "channel; comments; protest; videos; youtube", "summary": "Keywords Digital protest, micro-publics, peripheral voices, YouTube channel, video, comments This paper examines peripheral channels of protest, or more specifically the use of YouTube vlogs to garner large numbers of subscribers around acts of civil dissidence and dissident beliefs. Despite the coherence of these themes, the analysis of video comments reveals a far greater contestation over identity and affinity or affiliation than might be expected by the high subscriber numbers and as a factor of effective civic cultures in Dahlgren\u2019s framework.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8784", "words": "1868", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Zalinger, Jason", "title": "Personal Digital Storyworlds, Narrative Architects, and Gmail", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "gmail; narrative; storyworlds; winston", "summary": "Facebook and Google have become what I call personal digital storyworlds. The goal is to provide new insights that advance academic conversations about personal digital archives, which will become an essential element of Web 3.0.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8785", "words": "8527", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Scolere, Leah; Humphreys, Lee", "title": "PINNING ORIGINALITY: CURATION PRACTICES OF CREATIVE PROFESSIONALS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "boards; curation; design; designers; images; media; originality; pinning; pins; pinterest; practices; process; professionals", "summary": "The strategic and creative selection and arrangement of digital images becomes a mode of artistic production that results in a series of ongoing exhibits in the form of Pinterest boards. Discussion Curation as understood through the designers of this study can be described as a type of creative authorship where creative selection and arrangement of digital images becomes a mode of artistic production that results in a series of ongoing exhibits in the form of Pinterest boards.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8786", "words": "5423", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Burgess, Jean; Baym, Nancy; Cunningham, Stuart; Craig, David; Helmond, Anne; Bucher, Taina; John, Nicholas; Nissenbaum, Asaf", "title": "Platform Studies: The Rules of Engagement", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "affordances; apis; data; media; platform; studies; technology; twitter; university; users", "summary": "While \u00a0the \u00a0importance \u00a0of \u00a0and \u00a0methods \u00a0for \u00a0studying \u00a0platforms \u00a0have \u00a0long \u00a0been \u00a0debated \u00a0in \u00a0 game \u00a0studies \u00a0(Bogost \u00a0& \u00a0Montfort, \u00a02009;\u037e \u00a0Apperley \u00a0& \u00a0Parikka, \u00a02015), \u00a0this \u00a0panel \u00a0 represents \u00a0a \u00a0more \u00a0inclusive \u00a0and \u00a0deeper \u00a0iteration \u00a0of \u00a0platform \u00a0studies, \u00a0one \u00a0that \u00a0focuses \u00a0 on \u00a0thinking \u00a0critically \u00a0about \u00a0the \u00a0best \u00a0ways \u00a0to \u00a0understand \u00a0the \u00a0roles \u00a0platforms \u00a0play \u00a0in \u00a0 mediating \u00a0our \u00a0media, \u00a0communication \u00a0and \u00a0cultural \u00a0environments;\u037e \u00a0and \u00a0one \u00a0that \u00a0integrates \u00a0 materialist \u00a0approaches \u00a0such \u00a0as \u00a0software \u00a0studies \u00a0with \u00a0the \u00a0core \u00a0concerns \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0media \u00a0 and \u00a0communication \u00a0disciplines \u00a0understood \u00a0more \u00a0broadly. \u00a0 We \u00a0bring \u00a0together \u00a0four \u00a0papers \u00a0 that \u00a0examine, \u00a0first, \u00a0how \u00a0platforms \u00a0shape \u00a0what \u00a0can \u00a0be \u00a0known \u00a0about \u00a0them;\u037e \u00a0and \u00a0second, \u00a0to \u00a0 what \u00a0extent \u00a0we \u00a0can \u00a0understand \u00a0them \u00a0not \u00a0only \u00a0despite \u00a0but \u00a0through \u00a0those \u00a0processes \u00a0and \u00a0 the \u00a0traces \u00a0they \u00a0leave \u00a0behind. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8787", "words": "1844", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Massanari, Adrienne", "title": "Playful Participatory Culture: Learning from Reddit", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "culture; game; play; reddit; research", "summary": "Abstract This project considers how we might understand participatory culture platforms such as Reddit through the lens of game studies. My work suggests that using concepts from game studies as a lens for understanding interactions on participatory culture platforms like Reddit can provide a richer description of play in these spaces.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8789", "words": "1821", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Jenson, Jen; Bergstrom, Kelly; de Castell, Suzanne", "title": "Playing \u2018for Real\u2019: A Lab-Based Study of MMOGs", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "data; game; lab; players; research", "summary": "Observational data indicated that not only were such players well versed in the mechanics of a fantasy- based gameworld, they were experienced enough that they could provide detailed instructions to two first time Rift players. Instead we were able to identify highly skilled players who on the face of it looked as if they were novices (they had little gold or did not pick up items), but when fuller contextualization was possible, proved to be expert players who were mobilizing their expertise to assist other players, who were expert players in a different genre of game.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8791", "words": "1273", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Willson, Michele; Kinder-Kurlanda, Katharina", "title": "Playing the algorithm: Mobile gamers\u2019 everyday (in)visibility strategies", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "data; everyday; mobile; practices", "summary": "Through the use of qualitative interviews and a questionnaire, we investigate the practices of casual mobile gamers around management of visibility and invisibility, mainly focusing on the following: \uf0b7 deciding at which point and in which way to link games to social network platforms such as Facebook \uf0b7 balancing sometimes incommensurable game interests such as social interaction, building and stress relief by making use of game features for player interaction (e.g. managing membership in player groups such as \u2018neighbourhoods\u2019 or \u2018clans\u2019 to fit in with different levels of intimacy and anonymity depending on the situation) \uf0b7 navigating geolocation, personal and social information data choices through game practices We consider these practices as ways of managing privacy requirements within algorithmic public spheres. Such practices lead to data containing an element of recursiveness and \u2018cultures of circulation\u2019 emerge as the algorithms adapt to user behaviour and users in turn adapt to the results of algorithmic analyses (Beer and Burrows 2013).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8792", "words": "1497", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Mor, Yifat; Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta; Maoz, Ifat", "title": "Political expression on Facebook in a context of conflict: Dilemmas and coping strategies of Jewish-Israeli youth", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "context; expression; facebook; strategies", "summary": "POLITICAL \u00a0EXPRESSION \u00a0ON \u00a0FACEBOOK \u00a0 IN \u00a0A \u00a0CONTEXT \u00a0OF \u00a0 CONFLICT: \u00a0 DILEMMAS \u00a0 AND \u00a0 COPING \u00a0 STRATEGIES \u00a0 OF \u00a0 JEWISH-\u00adISRAELI \u00a0YOUTH \u00a0 \u00a0 Yifat \u00a0Mor, \u00a0The \u00a0Department \u00a0of \u00a0Communication \u00a0and \u00a0Journalism, \u00a0the \u00a0Hebrew \u00a0 University \u00a0of \u00a0 \u00a0Jerusalem \u00a0 \u00a0 Dr. \u00a0Neta \u00a0Kligler-\u00adVilnechik, \u00a0The \u00a0Department \u00a0of \u00a0Communication \u00a0and \u00a0Journalism, \u00a0 the \u00a0Hebrew \u00a0University \u00a0of \u00a0Jerusalem \u00a0 \u00a0 Prof. \u00a0Ifat \u00a0Maoz, \u00a0The \u00a0Department \u00a0of \u00a0Communication \u00a0and \u00a0Journalism, \u00a0the \u00a0 Hebrew \u00a0University \u00a0of \u00a0Jerusalem \u00a0 \u00a0 Introduction \u00a0 Social \u00a0media \u00a0and \u00a0Facebook \u00a0in \u00a0particular \u00a0embody \u00a0a \u00a0complex \u00a0and \u00a0challenging \u00a0 context \u00a0for \u00a0impression \u00a0management, \u00a0particularly \u00a0when \u00a0it \u00a0comes \u00a0to \u00a0political \u00a0 expression. \u00a0 Coping \u00a0strategies \u00a0and \u00a0practices \u00a0 According \u00a0to \u00a0our \u00a0findings \u00a0our \u00a0interviewees \u00a0are \u00a0considerably \u00a0motivated \u00a0to \u00a0 express \u00a0political \u00a0content \u00a0on \u00a0Facebook, \u00a0while \u00a0being \u00a0well \u00a0aware \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0risks \u00a0and \u00a0 challenges \u00a0involved \u00a0in \u00a0such \u00a0acts \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0context \u00a0of \u00a0their \u00a0divisive \u00a0socio-\u00adpolitical \u00a0 reality. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8793", "words": "1223", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Shin, Jieun; Jian, Lian; Driscoll, Kevin; Bar, Franc\u0327ois", "title": "POLITICAL RUMORING ON TWITTER DURING THE 2012 US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "research; rumors; tweets; twitter", "summary": "We compared rumor tweets that endorsed 57 rumors with randomly chosen political tweets from our larger dataset in order to explore systematic differences between two datasets. The result showed that rumor tweets had a much higher proportion of retweets (65.48%) than non-rumor tweets (44.43%).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8794", "words": "1264", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "K\u00fcmpel, Anna Sophie; Haim, Mario", "title": "Popularity indicators in online media. A review of research on the effects of metric user information", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "pis; research; users", "summary": "These \u00a0popularity \u00a0indicators \u00a0(PIs), \u00a0which \u00a0we \u00a0define \u00a0as \u00a0metric \u00a0 information \u00a0about \u00a0users\u2019 \u00a0behavior \u00a0or \u00a0their \u00a0evaluations \u00a0of \u00a0entities, \u00a0serve \u00a0as \u00a0social \u00a0signals \u00a0 for \u00a0users \u00a0who \u00a0are \u00a0confronted \u00a0with \u00a0them. \u00a0 As \u00a0prior \u00a0research \u00a0shows, \u00a0PIs \u00a0are \u00a0thereby \u00a0able \u00a0 to \u00a0influence \u00a0users\u2019 \u00a0perceptions \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0evaluated \u00a0object \u00a0and \u00a0might \u00a0thus \u00a0affect \u00a0their \u00a0 subsequent \u00a0decisions. \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8796", "words": "7395", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Niemi, Fa Martin", "title": "Positively Deviant: the role of moderately anti-normative behaviours in online forums", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "behaviours; crowd; deviance; discussion; forum; members; network; norms; online; study; stupid", "summary": "This paper focuses on the empirical material coded as \u2018deviant behaviour\u2019 and in particular on forum members \u2018calvin\u20193 While most members of the forum interacted in pro-normative manners, there was also deviance evident. Most of the interaction between forum members follows distinct patterns of behaviour.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8798", "words": "5549", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Vivienne, Sonja; Leaver, Tama; Robards, Brady; van der Nagel, Emily", "title": "PRESENCE, PRIVACY, AND PSEUDONYMITY", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "facebook; identity; network; new; online; people; presence; privacy; self; social; surveillance; users; violentacrez", "summary": "Through the unmasking of Violentacrez this paper maps a disruption to the idea of the anonymous troll, an event that presents social media users with a challenge to their sense of privacy, but also an opportunity to be reminded that the boundaries of public and private on social media are never stable. The third paper considers new conventions governing physical and online spaces as they emerge among a small population of young Facebook users in Tasmania.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8799", "words": "826", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Zimmer, Michael; Hoffmann, Anna Lauren", "title": "PRIVACY AND CONTROL IN MARK ZUCKERBERG\u2019S DISCOURSE ON FACBEOOK", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "discourse; facebook; privacy", "summary": "Instead, his use of language is purposeful \u2013 \u201cperformative and functional\u201d (Rapley, 2008, p. 2) \u2013 and helps shape available conceptions of online social life in ways that serve Facebook\u2019s interests. In the end, this discourse analysis represents an important contribution to understanding the ways in which the founder and CEO of the world\u2019s largest social network conceptualizes the role of information privacy and control\u2014 concepts indispensible to navigating online social life today.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8800", "words": "1303", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Abidin, Crystal", "title": "PRIVACY FOR PROFIT: COMMODIFYING PRIVACY IN LIFESTYLE BLOGGING", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "bloggers; privacy; status", "summary": "Retrieved from http://spir.aoir.org. PRIVACY FOR PROFIT: COMMODIFYING PRIVACY IN LIFESTYLE BLOGGING Crystal Abidin University of Western Australia Commercial lifestyle bloggers in Singapore publicize their personal lives on blogs and social media, using their lifestyles as a vehicle to advertise goods and services. Through a processual analysis of how bloggers manipulate privacy throughout their careers, I analyze progress from lesser-known \u2018low-status\u2019 bloggers to well-known \u2018high- status\u2019 bloggers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8801", "words": "1380", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Gotved, Stine; Bjerager, Klaus", "title": "PRIVACY WITH PUBLIC ACCESS: DIGITAL MEMORIALS ON QR CODES", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "death; memorials; public", "summary": "Privacy with public access: digital memorials on QR codes. In sum, the physical space around QR codes on gravestones is an arena for renewed negotiations of private- public distinctions, closely connected to contextual integrity (Nissenbaum, 2010) and the physical introduction of digital memorials.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8802", "words": "1310", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Pruchniewska, Urszula; Duffy, Brooke Erin", "title": "Production Politics: Gender, Feminism, and Social Media Labor", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "female; feminist; labor; media; politics", "summary": "Production politics: Gender, feminism, and social media labor. In the end, we argue that these findings are symptomatic of key trends at the intersection of post-feminism, neoliberal economies, and social media labor.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8803", "words": "1399", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Jakaitis, Leah Berkman; Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad", "title": "Professionally Yours: Anonymity, Trust, and Self-Portrayal on the Deep Web", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "anonymity; trust; web", "summary": "In spite of their involvement in illegal activities, DW marketplaces are observably aware of this fact. In this paper, we have shown how anonymity and trust play a crucial role in DW marketplaces and how the same rules with regards to these concepts on the surface web apply to the DW, but not without nuances.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8804", "words": "1621", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Dougherty, Meghan", "title": "Property or Privacy? Reconfiguring Ethical Concerns Around Web Archival Research Methods", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "ethics; information; research; web", "summary": "These digital traces can be captured and archived using web archival research methods to study the evolution of web culture, and changing structure of web objects. Field observations, interviews, best practice guides, and published scholarly work describing archival web research methods\u2014show change over time as well as how these different levels of discourse influence each other.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8805", "words": "8260", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Wong, Yuenmei", "title": "Queer Travels: Networked Society, Digitizing Queerness and Political Surveillance", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "cities; city; london; lumpur; malaysia; merdeka; new; politics; press; public; queer; rights; saskia; sassen; sexuality; space; women; york", "summary": "The first festival was organized in conjunction with the Independence Day of Malaysia (August 31) by a small group of gay and lesbians in the capital city of Malaysia Kuala Lumpur in 2008. As Mitchell explained, (public spaces are) very importantly, spaces for representation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8806", "words": "1324", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Hanchard, Sandra", "title": "RACE AND RELIGION IN EVERYDAY INFORMAITON SEEKING ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN MALAYSIA", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "information; media; networks; users", "summary": "Abstract This paper investigates the range of social networks that Malaysian users value on social media for information seeking in everyday contexts. Results from an online questionnaire of 400 Malaysian users, including Bahasa Malay, Chinese, Indian and English speakers demonstrates that social media in general helps users increase their connectedness, both online and offline, with different types of social networks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8807", "words": "1417", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Forno, Richard", "title": "REALISTICALLY IMAGINING THE INTERNET: OVERCOMING (MIS)PERCEPTIONS WHEN EDUCATING POLICYMAKERS AND THE PUBLIC", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "internet; policy; public; technology; understanding", "summary": "Situations then arise that depict just how deeply such perceptions and narratives of deviance have permeated the public psyche and underlie the discourse when developing national Internet policy; one only needs to observe legislative bodies deliberating Internet policy or watch mainstream news media reporting on the heterogeneous, amorphous \u2018hacker\u2019 entity known as Anonymous for examples of this. Can we prevent another oversimplified the Internet is a series of tubes moment to ensure that knowledge about the Internet, cyberspace, and its related technologies used in crafting Internet policy remains based on fact and reality instead of stereotypes, fantasy, or wishful thinking?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8808", "words": "2908", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Bain, Philip", "title": "RECLAIMING NETWORKED SPACE THROUGH ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF CONNECTIVITY", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "alternative; community; infrastructure; internet; networking; networks; new; technology", "summary": "Additionally, alternative networks can be made privately and hidden, thus providing local free network initiatives the ability to add network infrastructure surreptitiously as deemed necessary. Alternative networks are mostly small-scale, and community driven.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8809", "words": "8310", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Tiidenberg, Katrin; Ungbha Korn, Jenny; Wheaton, Hilary; Moody, Kyle", "title": "Reconfiguring Embodiment: Online Experimentation and Embodied Practices of Self", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "analysis; body; chatroulette; community; culture; dating; digital; internet; media; modding; new; online; practices; research; self; sites; users", "summary": "This feedback cycle can be conceptualized as the process of a transforming embodied self: as we internalize a reconfigured embodiment, we get used to it until further transformation happens. Analysis of self shooters\u2019 (17 people aged 20 \u2013 51, from USA, Australia, New-Zealand, Canada and UK) individual and group interviews illuminated self-shooting as a transformative practice.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8811", "words": "6940", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Baykurt, Burcu", "title": "Redefining Citizenship and Civic Engagement: political values embodied in FixMyStreet.com", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "citizens; community; deliberation; design; engagement; fms; information; problems; process; public; systems; values", "summary": "However, bearing in mind that community values constitute a separate category from individuals\u2019, designers are challenged to incorporate such community-centered design perspective in their projects, if communities are one of the stakeholders. To illustrate how civic values can be incorporated into design, the related literature and methodology on value sensitive design guides the analysis while relying on the measures of deliberative participation for betterment of design features as well as the designing process.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8812", "words": "7016", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Srauy, Sam; Neff, Gina; Coleman, Miles; Beyer, Jessica; McVeigh-Schultz, Joshua", "title": "Re-examining Affordances, technical agency, and the politics of technologies of cultural production", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "affordances; agency; anonymity; communities; gibson; internet; norman; place; research; social; space; technology; users; virus", "summary": "Keywords affordance; reflexive use; space; place Affordance out of Place: reflexive use and the designerly capacities of \u201cusers\u201d Psychologist James Gibson developed affordance theory as a way of reframing visual perception in terms of what he called \u2018ecological physics.\u2019 Keywords affordance; anonymity; political mobilization; online communities Online Communities and Affordances of Anonymity In many cases the affordances of an online space have a crucial role in creating the \u201cshape\u201d of an online community including the adoption of cultural norms based on the structural restrictions of a given space.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8813", "words": "2101", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Rao, Anuradha", "title": "Re-examining the relationship between civil society and the internet: Pessimistic visions in India\u2019s \u2018IT City\u2019", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "activism; group; information; internet; new; society", "summary": "Keywords: Bangalore; civil society; internet; activism; cyber/techno-pessimism Introduction The central themes in this paper relate to a re-examination of the relationship between civil society and the internet, particularly the assumption regarding civil society\u2019s willingness and ability to embrace the internet in its democratic quest. Net-working/Networking: Citizen initiated Internet politics (pp. 1-38).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8814", "words": "1292", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Buchbach, Jacinta", "title": "REGULATING THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN WORK AND SELF: EMERGING LEGAL TENSIONS AROUND SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE WORKPLACE", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "employees; employment; law; media", "summary": "This paper calls for a new conceptual framework to better evaluate employer risk and employee interests in online social contexts. REGULATING THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN WORK AND SELF: EMERGING LEGAL TENSIONS AROUND SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE WORKPLACE Jacinta Buchbach Queensland University of Technology Both law and business practice are struggling to grapple with the blurred boundaries of identity in social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8815", "words": "1255", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "28", "author": "Nagy, Krisztina", "title": "Regulatory issues concerning the promotion of media literacy", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "literacy; media; regulatory", "summary": "Media \u00a0literacy \u00a0 presumes \u00a0knowledge \u00a0and \u00a0skills \u00a0that \u00a0result \u00a0in \u00a0responsible \u00a0and \u00a0autonomous \u00a0decision-\u00ad making, \u00a0as \u00a0well \u00a0as \u00a0the \u00a0maximisation \u00a0of \u00a0opportunities \u00a0that \u00a0arise \u00a0out \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0informational \u00a0 environment \u00a0and \u00a0the \u00a0minimisation \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0corresponding \u00a0risks. \u00a0 References \u00a0 \u00a0 Lunt, \u00a0P. \u00a0& \u00a0Livingstone \u00a0S. \u00a0(2012) \u00a0Media \u00a0regulation \u00a0\u2013 \u00a0Governance \u00a0and \u00a0the \u00a0Interest \u00a0of \u00a0 Citizens \u00a0and \u00a0Consumers. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8816", "words": "1371", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Kwon, K. Hazel; Cho, Daegon", "title": "REIMAGINING SWEARING EFFECTS ONLINE: THE USE OF SWEARWORDS IN NEWS AUDIENCE COMMENTING", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "comments; effect; news; swearing", "summary": "The results of this study provoke two topics for further discussions: First, swearing norms may vary across news topical areas: Swearing in political comments, on the one hand, could have become the norm in audience community and thus not as surprisingly perceived as in non-political comments. Political comments include more swearing than non-political topics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8817", "words": "3149", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Dahya, Negin; Jenson, Jennifer", "title": "(RE)MAKING DIGITAL IMAGINARIES WITH VIDEOGAME DEVELOPMENT: DO-IT-YOURSELF (DIY) DISRUPTIONS TO SOCIAL INEQUITY", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "association; internet; meeting; phoenix; research; researchers; usa", "summary": "Research related to education and videogames has examined the learning potential of playing digital games. At the end of this project, students, parents, researchers and educators came together to play student made games at multiple celebratory events.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8818", "words": "1290", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Slaker, Janine Sakiko", "title": "REPAIRING AT THE APP CLINIC: A CASE STUDY OF AN ONLINE WELLNESS APPLICATION", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "body; care; platform; self", "summary": "Work at the app clinic Shilling (1993) postulates that people go about creating and taking part in body projects to aid in defining their identities. In J. Edwards, P. Harvey & P. Wade (Eds), Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies: Anthropological Approaches to a New Politics of Vision (pp.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8819", "words": "1162", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Halegoua, Germaine", "title": "RE-PLACEING THE CITY: DIGITAL NAVIGATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE EXPERIENCE OF URBAN PLACE", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "media; navigation; place; technologies", "summary": "In contrast to popular assumptions about the distracted sense of space and place encouraged by digital navigation technologies, I illustrate and analyze the ways in which the exact opposite processes are observable: that navigation technology users are developing wayfinding strategies to re-embed and imagine themselves within urban space and to cultivate a sense of place within urban environments. Through interviews and questionnaires with 132 navigation technology users, this paper identifies the ways that people actually use digital navigation technologies, why they use these technologies, how these technologies influence their physical movement, and how navigation technology users cognitively map and understand their embeddedness within urban space.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8820", "words": "1565", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Draper, Nora", "title": "REPUTATION, INC.: THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF DIGITAL SELF PRESENTATION AND ONLINE PRIVACY", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "companies; digital; industry; online; privacy", "summary": "In the context of a new information environment that lacks both appropriate regulation and shared social norms, a collection of for profit companies has emerged over the past two decades to help support and define personal privacy for the digital age. Reputation Inc.: The industrialization of digital self presentation and online privacy.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8821", "words": "6494", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Giglietto, Fabio; Valeriani, Augusto; Iannelli, Laura; Rossi, Luca; Dvir Gvirsman, Shira; Zeng, Jing; Chan, Chung-hong; Fu, King-wa; Farkas, Johan; Schou, Jannick", "title": "RESEARCHING MISLEADING INFORMATION WITHIN HYBRID MEDIA ECOLOGIES. WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE ARE GOING", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "communication; facebook; information; media; news; pages; public; rumour; time; university; users", "summary": "This body of literature can be traced back to the stream of post-II-world-war studies on the effects of media on public opinion. This \u00a0is \u00a0yet \u00a0another \u00a0example \u00a0for/of \u00a0media \u00a0convergence[1]: \u00a0 an \u00a0on-\u00adgoing \u00a0long \u00a0term \u00a0process \u00a0that \u00a0created \u00a0a \u00a0world \u00a0in \u00a0which \u00a0it \u00a0is \u00a0no \u00a0longer \u00a0feasible \u00a0to \u00a0 differentiate \u00a0between \u00a0mass \u00a0communication \u00a0and \u00a0inter-\u00adpersonal \u00a0communication \u00a0(Castells, \u00a0 2013;\u037e \u00a0Walther \u00a0et \u00a0al., \u00a02010). ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8822", "words": "6223", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Phillips, David J; Donovan, Gregory; Humphreys, Lee", "title": "Resisting and Appropriating Method: Part 1 - the panel", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "data; design; hip; hop; internet; knowledge; media; new; papers; people; practices; research; researchers; surveillance; usa", "summary": "This paper is a methodological reflection on a broad study of social media practices and historical precedents. I end by articulating elements of what I term \u201chip hop methodology,\u201d discussing its value for social media researchers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8824", "words": "1674", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Forlano, Laura", "title": "Resisting and Remaking the Smart City and the \u2018Internet of Things\u2019", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "city; design; internet; technologies; things", "summary": "Denver, USA 2 Over the past five years, a growing body of academic scholarship has employed new concepts that challenge the separation of physical from digital, global from local, and private from public, which are relevant to the understanding of the way in which digital technologies are enabling emergent forms of organizing (Humphreys, 2008), new modes of citizen engagement (Foth, 2008; Foth, Forlano, Gibbs, & Satchell, 2011) and novel ways of experiencing urban space (Ito, 2003). These popular framings are important sites of appropriation and resistance because they greatly shape our imaginations of the opportunities and constraints of urban technologies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8825", "words": "1384", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Paul, Christopher", "title": "Resisting Meritocracy and Reappropriating Games: Rhetorically Rethinking Game Design", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "balance; design; games; video", "summary": "Keywords Game studies; rhetoric; game design; meritocracy; game balance Video Games, Meritocracy, and Resistance One of the foundational principles of video games is that they should be balanced (Paul, 2012). In an attempt to account for the prominence of balance as a rhetorical trope in video game discourse, this project discusses the implications of balance in video games and explores the impacts of centering design choices around a framework of balance in an effort to reappropriate a key trope of game design and foment resistance to broaden what is considered as a \u2018good\u2019 game.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8827", "words": "1328", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Lingel, Jessa; Sinnreich, Adam", "title": "RESISTING SOVEREIGN SURVEILLANCE: AN ACTIVIST AGENDA FROM THE INCARCERATED", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "communication; hunger; resistance; self; surveillance", "summary": "RESISTING SOVEREIGN SURVEILLANCE: AN ACTIVIST AGENDA FROM THE INCARCERATED Jessa Lingel Microsoft Research Aram Sinnreich Rutgers University Keywords online surveillance, information activism, prisons In the wake of recent disclosures about government surveillance, longstanding questions of privacy and individual control of information have become vitally and politically important. These tactics form the crux of our inquiry, in that we use these forms of protest as a means of thinking through possibilities for coping with and perhaps even undermining institutional surveillance.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8828", "words": "1301", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Koniakou, Vasiliki", "title": "Re-thinking Internet\u2019s Regulability: From Lessig to IPv6", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "internet; law; protocol; regulation", "summary": "In the meantime in response to the growing demand for IPs a number of solutions were \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 deployed, such as Large Internet Carriers, furtherly obscuring identification. Internet Protocol version six The current version of the Internet Protocol (IPv4) was developed in the 1970s, when nothing foreshadowed the rapid spread of the Internet or the multiple applications attached to it.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8830", "words": "6296", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Stanfill, Mel; Booth, Paul; Bury, Rhiannon", "title": "Rethinking Resistance: Nonparticipation, Consumption, and the Recruitment of Affirmation in Internet Fandom", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "audience; consumption; culture; digital; fan; fandom; fans; internet; media; new; participatory; series; transmedia; web", "summary": "Media fans are doing more than just \u201cpoaching\u201d texts or even \u201ctransforming\u201d what already exists (to use a more recent phrase from the Organization for Transformative Works). This paper examines fan consumption as a key shift in audience engagement with media texts.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8831", "words": "3085", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Nemer, David; Freeman, Guo Zhang", "title": "RETHINKING SELFIES: EMPOWERING THE MARGINALIZED THROUGH SELF-PORTRAITS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "drug; facebook; friends; lords; marginalized; people; selfies", "summary": "selfies are considered nonverbal, visual communication that implies one\u2019s thoughts, intentions, emotions, desires, and aesthetics captured by facial expressions, body language, and visual art elements. Previous studies have investigated selfies in light of adolescent development (e.g., how teenagers use selfies to seek attention; see McLean, 2014) and prestigious user groups (e.g., celebrities\u2019 self-promotion; see Wallop, 2013).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8832", "words": "885", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "De Grove, Frederik; D'heer, Evelien; Verdegem, Pieter", "title": "Retweeting the News: Towards a formalized approach to the study of Twitter networks", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "network; news; twitter", "summary": "Retweeting the News: Towards a formalized approach to the study of Twitter networks. These measures could serve as a baseline to compare our results, as well as other work on retweet networks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8834", "words": "1655", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Kwon, Hazel", "title": "Revisiting the Emergent Norm Theory to Understand Protest Communication in Social Media: the Improvisation-Verification-Solidification (IVS) Framework", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "communication; framework; improvisation; media; verification", "summary": "We revisit the classical theory of collective behavior, called the emergent norm theory by Killian and Turner (1987), to introduce the analytic framework that highlights major genres of protest communication activities in social media. In particular, ENT helps to articulate three characteristics of social media communication, manifest especially during political crises when the society is challenged by high-level of uncertainty and ambiguity of information: the hybridity of interpersonal conversations and factual news (Papacharizzi & De Fatima Oliveira, 2012), the instantaneous and episodic flow of contents (Kwak et al., 2010), and the spontaneous communicative participation (Bennett & Segerberg, 2012).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8835", "words": "1761", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Phillips, David J", "title": "Rules As Theatrical Method In Internet Surveillance Research", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "desire; project; research; surveillance", "summary": "These \u00a0games \u00a0would \u00a0be \u00a0designed \u00a0to \u00a0recreate \u00a0and \u00a0disrupt \u00a0rules \u00a0and \u00a0theories \u00a0 organizing \u00a0our \u00a0practice \u00a0and \u00a0understanding \u00a0of \u00a0surveillance. \u00a0 \u00a0 My \u00a0research \u00a0continues \u00a0to \u00a0ask \u00a0the \u00a0question \u00a0\u201cWhat \u00a0is \u00a0it \u00a0to \u00a0live \u00a0our \u00a0lives \u00a0 mediated \u00a0by \u00a0infrastructures \u00a0and \u00a0practices \u00a0of \u00a0surveillance? \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8836", "words": "1444", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Yeo, Tien Ee Dominic", "title": "SCALING THE GREAT FIREWALL OF CHINA: USES AND GRATIFICATIONS FOR CIRCUMVENTING STATE-IMPOSED INTERNET BOUNDARIES", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "china; fanqiang; internet; users", "summary": "Abstract This paper examines the motivation of Chinese Internet users for circumventing state- imposed Internet restrictions \u2013 a practice called fanqiang (to scale the Great Firewall of China). Through a series of focus group interviews with Chinese Internet users in Guangzhou, the study in this paper found fanqiang to be driven by more deliberative motives \u2013 largely information-seeking but also, to a smaller extent, entertainment and social utility.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8837", "words": "1153", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Marwick, Alice E.", "title": "Scandal or Sex Crime? Ethical Implications of the Celebrity Nude Photo Leaks", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "fappening; photos; privacy; reddit", "summary": "At \u00a0the \u00a0same \u00a0time, \u00a0celebrities \u00a0are \u00a0somewhat \u00a0of \u00a0a \u00a0unique \u00a0class \u00a0in \u00a0American \u00a0law, \u00a0as \u00a0they \u00a0 have \u00a0fewer \u00a0privacy \u00a0rights \u00a0than \u00a0the \u00a0average \u00a0American. \u00a0 Thus, \u00a0 attitudes \u00a0towards \u00a0nude \u00a0photos \u00a0of \u00a0celebrities \u00a0may \u00a0mirror \u00a0public \u00a0attitudes \u00a0towards \u00a0stolen \u00a0 photos \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0non-\u00adfamous \u00a0(e.g. \u00a0revenge \u00a0porn). \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8839", "words": "1430", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Coppini, David", "title": "Screaming more, Listening less? An investigation of participation and deliberation dynamics in the Italian Five Stars Movement", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "comments; deliberation; internet; movement", "summary": "Indeed, a lot of new grassroots political movements are less likely to have a hierarchical structure (Bimber, 2003) and tend to be organized around online communities. Overall, the implications for political deliberation are not very positive: while the Five Stars movement, through the internet, has promoted civic engagement and participation, his members do not seem to be engaged in a civil and rational discussion, at least on the Movement\u2019s most important communication platform.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8840", "words": "1310", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Wang, Wilfred Yang", "title": "SEARCHING GUANGZHOU: REGIONALIZING CHINA\u2019S WEIBO", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "china; guangzhou; identity; weibo", "summary": "It seems like Weibo groups, such as EDPF, attempt to formulate a network of identity that its algorithmic networking function helps its users to recognize the online presence of their geo-identity, and to develop a sense of belonging to the city. Weibo intersects with this identification process and mediates the tension between the region and the nation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8841", "words": "1793", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Giglietto, Fabio", "title": "Second screen and Political Talk-Shows: Measuring and Understanding the Italian Participatory Couch Potato", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "audience; internet; nielsen; twitter", "summary": "Keywords second screen, social tv, twitter, talk-show Introduction Despite the fact that the idea of \u2018interactive television\u2019 dates back a couple of decades, a commonly accepted definition of social TV is still lacking. Denver, USA 2 Measuring TV audiences is becoming increasingly difficult due to the growing use of digital-video- recorders to watch shows later or order \u201cvideo-on-demand\u201d from the set-top boxes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8842", "words": "2456", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Kennedy, Helen; Hill, Rosemary Lucy", "title": "SEEING DATA, FEELING NUMBERS: HOW PEOPLE INTERACT WITH DATA VISUALISATIONS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "data; internet; participants; people; research; visualizations", "summary": "Abstract Whilst there has been considerable attention to the development of strategies to maximise effectiveness in data visualization research, only some of this has engaged actual users in the research process. We argue that socio-cultural factors matter when it comes to engaging with data visualizations, and the field of visualization engagement research needs to pay attention to them.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8843", "words": "1454", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Kasra, Mona; Shen, Cuihua; O'Brien, James", "title": "Seeing Is Believing: Do People Fail to Identify Fake Images on the Web?", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "image; participants; source; study", "summary": "Seeing Is Believing: Do People Fail to Identify Fake Images on the Web? Our exploratory study is an initial step toward addressing the need to better understand how and why people trust online images, and how people are influenced by manipulated images both when they are aware or unaware of the manipulation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8844", "words": "2023", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Gibbs, Martin; Nansen, Bjorn; Carter, Marcus; Kohn, Tamara", "title": "SELFIES AT FUNERALS: REMEDIATING RITUALS OF MOURNING", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "death; funerals; media; mourning; selfies", "summary": "Contextualizing the culture of funeral selfies Others frame the problem more broadly to suggest it is not simply a product of youth, but rather belongs to a contemporary western and increasingly secularized culture that has disengaged from death and emptied the grieving process of established rituals: \u201cOur cultural traditions have failed them, and selfies at funerals are one of their only outlets to ritual and mourning in the age of the smartphone\u201d (Doughty 2013). Given the waning of institutionalized mourning rituals in contemporary western societies (Margry & S\u00e1nchez-Carretero 2011; Wouters 2002), disentangling the vitriol from the vernacular in expressions of digital culture are needed if we are to adequately comprehend how funeral rituals are being remediated.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8845", "words": "2119", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Gibbs, Martin Ross; Carter, Marcus; Arnold, Michael; Nansen, Bjorn", "title": "Serenity Now bombs a World of Warcraft funeral: Negotiating the Morality, Reality and Taste of Online Gaming Practices", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "game; online; serenity; video; warcraft; world", "summary": "Evans (2010) points to contested notions of the reality and consequences of online game spaces and suggests both groups, raiders and mourners, have an entirely valid, if conflicted, perception of the gamespace. Others argue that serious matters such as funerals have no place in online games and that the raiders were playing the game how it should be played.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8846", "words": "1436", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Wade, Alex Christopher; Turner, Jerome; Weckesser, Annalise; J\u00f8rgensen, Clara Ru\u0308bner", "title": "SEXTUALLY ACTIVE: TEENAGE VIEWS ON SEXTING AND ITS INTERVENTIONS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "media; people; research; sexting", "summary": "Conflicting viewpoints are commonplace, for example The Guardian ran three contradictory pieces concerning sexting in editorial (see Barbieri, 2009; Coslett, 2013; Wiseman, 2012), and while assumptions are made that apps such as \u2018Snapchat\u2019 are used inappropriately, research shows that young people use it for harmless fun (Boyd, 2014). Young people were identified as imagining a greater concern over the approaches of unknown others (traditional notions of \u2018stranger danger\u2019), while the actual threat appeared from \u2018peers . . .", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8849", "words": "1600", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Steele, Catherine Knight", "title": "Shaking off the \u2018Other\u2019: Appropriation of marginalized cultures and the \u2018Harlem Shake\u2019", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "appropriation; culture; harlem; media; shake", "summary": "Drawing upon the idea of misappropriation and \u2018eating the other\u2019, this internet phenomenon allows us to address the ways in which participatory culture can serve to further marginalize rather than liberate. This case follows similar patterns within the historical legacy of commodification of Black culture and causes us to complicate our sometimes overly optimistic notions of participatory culture online.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8851", "words": "1307", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "J\u00f8rgensen, Kristian M\u00f8ller", "title": "Shameful transgressions and intimate boundary works: On gay hook-up app research ethics", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "app; ethics; intimacy; media; queer", "summary": "Boundary crossing, backstabbing opportunist\u201d: Practice based ethics as intimate boundary work. Networked privacy: How teenagers negotiate context in social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8852", "words": "6408", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Christensen, Dorthe Refslund; Sandvik, Kjetil; Klastrup, Lisbeth; Gotved, Stine; Pennington, Natalie", "title": "Sharing Death", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "child; death; deceased; facebook; grief; memorial; mourning; online; page; research; time", "summary": "Earlier findings Previous research shows that on social network sites people use \u201cR.I.P\u201d or memorial pages dedicated to people they know for sensemaking and relational continuity purposes (Degroot 2012) and \u201cpost- mortem social networking\u201d (Brubaker and Hayes 2011). The R.I.P and memorial pages are places to commune with, and about the dead in public (Kern 2012), and places to both publicly and visibly express symbolic loss and solidarity, creating a biography of the person lost through personal narratives (Caroll and Landry 2010).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8853", "words": "1627", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Quinn, Kelly; Powers, Renee", "title": "SHARING IS THE NEW PRIVATE: CONCEPTUALIZING SHARING AND PRIVACY THROUGH READER COMMENTS TO ONLINE NEWS", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "comments; news; online; privacy; sharing", "summary": "Public is the new private: conceptualizing sharing and privacy through reader comments to online news. SHARING IS THE NEW PRIVATE: CONCEPTUALIZING SHARING AND PRIVACY THROUGH READER COMMENTS TO ONLINE NEWS Kelly Quinn University of Illinois \u2013 Chicago Renee Powers University of Illinois \u2013 Chicago Abstract Sharing, as a counterposition to privacy as a normative state, is under-theorized and under-conceptualized.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8854", "words": "1504", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Ibarra Herrera, Daniela; Unger, Johann Wolfgang", "title": "SHOUTING AT THE TELEVISION: ARGUMENTATION STRATEGIES IN SECOND SCREEN SOCIAL MEDIA USE FOR CHILEAN POLITICAL TV SHOWS", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "media; screen; shows", "summary": "The \u00a0displaying \u00a0of \u00a0tweets \u00a0on \u00a0screen \u00a0could \u00a0be \u00a0relevant \u00a0to \u00a0the \u00a0users \u00a0of \u00a0 these \u00a0type \u00a0of \u00a0media \u00a0because \u00a0the \u00a0fact \u00a0of \u00a0their \u00a0opinions \u00a0can \u00a0be \u00a0display \u00a0on \u00a0the \u00a0screen \u00a0and \u00a0 be \u00a0part \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0TV \u00a0show, \u00a0maybe \u00a0influence \u00a0the \u00a0structure \u00a0of \u00a0their \u00a0arguments \u00a0and \u00a0the \u00a0 resources \u00a0used \u00a0in \u00a0them. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 This \u00a0is \u00a0particularly \u00a0visible \u00a0in \u00a0situations \u00a0where \u00a0tweets \u00a0are \u00a0 displayed, \u00a0commented \u00a0on \u00a0or \u00a0alluded \u00a0to \u00a0during \u00a0TV \u00a0programmes, \u00a0thus \u00a0creating \u00a0a \u00a0multi-\u00ad directional \u00a0relation \u00a0between \u00a0viewers \u00a0and \u00a0TV \u00a0shows \u00a0(Jensen, \u00a02015). ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8855", "words": "1511", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Elicessor, Elizabeth", "title": "SICK GIRLS: GENDER, DISABILITY, AND CYBORG HOAXES", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "disability; identity; internet; media; new", "summary": "Gerard Goggin and Christopher Newell refer to a \u201clacuna\u201d within internet studies where disability is concerned5; this paper combines a critical review of internet studies literature featuring \u201cJoan\u201d with theories of normalcy drawn from disability studies and with contemporary cases of gender and disability deception. Disability studies has as its mission the politicized revelation of the ways in which a normative, able body is used as a default basis for various forms of social, cultural, and material interaction.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8856", "words": "1845", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Driscoll, Kevin", "title": "SINGING DATA OVER THE PHONE: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE MODEM", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "computer; data; internet; modem; new; sound", "summary": "In response, entrepreneurial modem makers began to compete with one another with proprietary protocols and faster speeds.6 Fragmentation among modem standards reflected a fragmentation in the PC industry at large. Amid the rapid deregulation of U.S. telecommunications during the 1970s, modems enabled thousands of far-flung microcomputer enthusiasts to exchange data and ideas over standard telephone wires.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8857", "words": "1551", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Farman, Jason", "title": "Site-Specificity, Pervasive Computing, and the Reading Interface", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "media; mobile; projects; story; storytelling", "summary": "By employing a media archaeology approach (Gitelman, 2008; Huhtamo, 2011; Parikka, 2012), an analysis of mobile story projects is contextualized in light of the historical practices of sited narratives. Mobile media storytelling project seek to intervene in these dichotomies by sitting at the hinge of durable and ephemeral inscriptions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8859", "words": "221", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "-376", "author": "Calhoun, Kendra Nicole", "title": "Six seconds to talk back: The emergence of racial comedy as a sociopolitical discourse genre on Vine", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "comedy; http://spir.aoir.org", "summary": "Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity. (( ( Carpio,(Glenda.(2008.(Laughing,Fit,to,Kill:,Black,Humor,in,the,Fictions,of,Slavery.(New( York:(Oxford(University(Press.( \ufffd( Dresner,(Eli(&(Susan(Herring.(2010.(Functions(of(the(Nonverbal(in(CMC:(Emoticons(and( Illocutionary(Force.(Communication,Theory(20.(249\u2013268.(( ( Friend,(Tad.(2014.(Hollywood(and(Vine.(The,New,Yorker.,December(14(issue.(Online:( http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/15/hollywoodAvine., , Green,(Lisa.(2002.(African,American,English:,A,Linguistic,Introduction.(New(York:( Cambridge(University(Press.( ( Hall,(Stuart,(Jessica(Evans(&(Sean(Nixon((Eds).(2013.(Representation,(Second, Edition).(Thousand(Oaks:(SAGE(Publications( ( Hutchby,(Ian.(2001.(Technologies,(Texts,(and(Affordances.(Sociology,35(2).(441A456.( ( Kozinets,(Robert.(2010.(Netnography:,Doing,Ethnographic,Research,Online.(Thousand( Oaks:(SAGE(Publications.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8860", "words": "4793", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Woodford, Darryl; Walker, Shawn; Paul, Avijit", "title": "Slicing Big Data", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "analysis; crisis; data; information; internet; keyword; movement; occupy; research; time; tweets; twitter; user", "summary": "Selecting Twitter Information Whilst analysis of past events is useful, it is more relevant to consider how such tweets could be isolated for future use. To do so, it is necessary to consider how incoming tweets can be profiled to ascertain firstly whether they contain information which may impact upon a current or future prediction market, and secondly the reliability of information contained within them.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8861", "words": "1024", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Orwat, Carsten; H\u00fcgle, Anika; K\u00f6nig, Ren\u00e9", "title": "Smart world, smart rules? On the Legitimacy of Digital Systems of Social Rules", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "legitimacy; rules", "summary": "Keywords: \u00a0Rules, \u00a0Legitimacy, \u00a0Politics, \u00a0Governance \u00a0 \u00a0 The \u00a0rapid \u00a0realization \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0\u201cInternet \u00a0of \u00a0Everything\u201d, \u00a0e.g. \u00a0connected \u00a0smart \u00a0homes, \u00a0smart \u00a0 cities, \u00a0smart \u00a0cars \u00a0and \u00a0infrastructures, \u00a0smart \u00a0grids, \u00a0etc., \u00a0requires \u00a0and \u00a0causes \u00a0that \u00a0 systems \u00a0of \u00a0social \u00a0rules \u00a0for \u00a0human \u00a0and \u00a0machine \u00a0interactions \u00a0are \u00a0implemented, \u00a0 administered \u00a0and \u00a0enforced \u00a0by \u00a0digital \u00a0means \u00a0to \u00a0an \u00a0unprecedented \u00a0level. \u00a0 Furthermore, \u00a0increasingly \u00a0\u201csubnets\u201d \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0Internet \u00a0emerge \u00a0(such \u00a0as \u00a0more \u00a0or \u00a0less \u00a0closed \u00a0 traffic \u00a0management \u00a0networks, \u00a0connected \u00a0value \u00a0chains, \u00a0smart \u00a0home \u00a0and \u00a0entertainment \u00a0 networks, \u00a0commercial \u00a0platforms) \u00a0with \u00a0rules \u00a0defining \u00a0access \u00a0and \u00a0usages \u00a0options. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8862", "words": "1279", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Gilbert, Anne", "title": "SMUTTY FANTASY IN THE DIGITAL SPHERE: SELF-PUBLISHED EROTIC ROMANCE AND SPACES OF ALTERNATIVE FEMININISM", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "blogs; book; romance", "summary": "Romance/erotica \u00a0brought \u00a0in \u00a0 $1.1 \u00a0billion \u00a0in \u00a02013, \u00a0with \u00a0digital \u00a0book \u00a0sales \u00a0outpacing \u00a0romances \u00a0published \u00a0in \u00a0other \u00a0 formats \u00a0(Terrero, \u00a02014). \u00a0 Blogs, \u00a0with \u00a0names \u00a0such \u00a0as \u00a0Shh \u00a0Moms \u00a0Reading, \u00a0Flirty \u00a0and \u00a0Dirty \u00a0Book \u00a0Blog, \u00a0The \u00a0 SubClub \u00a0Books, \u00a0and \u00a0Up \u00a0All \u00a0Night \u00a0Book \u00a0Blog, \u00a0are \u00a0modeled \u00a0on \u00a0longer-\u00adstanding \u00a0romance \u00a0 review \u00a0sites \u00a0such \u00a0as \u00a0All \u00a0About \u00a0Romance \u00a0and \u00a0Smart \u00a0Bitches, \u00a0Trashy \u00a0Books. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8863", "words": "1355", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Yu, Haiqing", "title": "SOCIAL IMAGINARIES OF THE INTERNET IN CHINA", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "china; chinese; internet; online", "summary": "Broadly speaking, an underlining dichotomy between control and resistance, or between the \u201cevil\u201d and \u201ccontrol-freak\u201d Chinese government and the \u201cgood\u201d and rebellious netizens, has been central in many works in Chinese Internet studies. The Internet as a Battlefield The Internet as a battlefield metaphor has been used to describe the effort by entrepreneurs, private Internet companies and ICT starters to compete with one another to come up with the next new idea and capitalize on it to reap the maximum profit, and by average Chinese netizens to \u201cscale the walls\u201d to access censored websites.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8864", "words": "7516", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Enli, Gunn; Larsson, Anders; Kalsnes, Bente; Skogerb\u00f8, Eli; Moe, Hallvard; Bruns, Axel; Highfield, Tim; Sauter, Theresa; Nuernbergk, Christian; Neubarth, Julia; Rossi, Luca; Giglietto, Fabio; Orefice, Mario; Boccia Artieri, Giovanni", "title": "Social Media and Elections: The Use of Twitter in the 2013 Campaigns in Italy, Australia, Germany, and Norway", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "analysis; australian; bruns; campaign; communication; data; election; internet; media; online; politicians; research; tweets; twitter; use", "summary": "By comparing previous results with those from the current election, we are in a unique position to provide longitudinal insights into political Twitter use in a country with high degrees of voter participation and Internet use. Specifically, we focus on three areas of Twitter use.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8865", "words": "1300", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Humphreys, Lee; Wilken, Rowan", "title": "SOCIAL MEDIA, COMMERCIALIZATION, AND THE CONTROL OF INFORMATION", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "business; information; media; privacy", "summary": "The paper suggests that as we expand our definition of social media user, we again find dialectical values and motivations regarding privacy. Social media, commercialization, and the control of information.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8866", "words": "1667", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Banks, John; Woodford, Darryl", "title": "Social Media, Data Analytics and Videogames Development: Halfbrick Case Study", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "analytics; data; games; halfbrick; research", "summary": "Research with Australian developer, Halfbrick, provides an opportunity to consider many of these issues and challenges confronting games developers as they seek to adapt to and with Big Data analytics. Big data analytics potentially transforms studio workplaces and professional game developer identities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8867", "words": "6759", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Burgess, Jean; Bruns, Axel; Crawford, Kate; Finn, Megan; Monroy-Hernandez, Andres; Palen, Leysia", "title": "Social Media in Crisis Communication", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "communication; crisis; data; disaster; emergency; events; information; internet; media; new; palen; people; public; research; twitter; usa; use", "summary": "However, social media data looks at a disaster in a specific and often short time-period, typically defined by the spike or \u201cburstiness\u201d in Twitter messages (Burgess and Crawford 2011). Social media data is always partial and incomplete.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8868", "words": "2012", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Hajibayova, Lala; Buente, Wayne", "title": "SOCIAL MEDIA KALEIDOSCOPE", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "comments; facebook; isa; lgbt; shahmarli; suicide", "summary": "This study attempts to shed light on how the LGBT community of Azerbaijan perceived Isa Shahmarli death through an analysis of comments responding to related posts on the website of the Azerbaijan Free LGBT Organization. A screenshot of the first Facebook posting related to Isa Shahmarli \u2018s suicide.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8869", "words": "1391", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Gustafsson, Nils", "title": "Social media, participation, peer pressure, and the European refugee crisis: a force awakens?", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "action; crisis; media; refugee", "summary": "These \u00a0extraordinary \u00a0events \u00a0calls \u00a0for \u00a0revisiting \u00a0a \u00a0number \u00a0of \u00a0recent \u00a0theoretical \u00a0 developments \u00a0in \u00a0participation \u00a0research: \u00a0taking \u00a0into \u00a0account \u00a0the \u00a0vast \u00a0societal \u00a0impact \u00a0of \u00a0 the \u00a0refugee \u00a0crisis \u00a0and \u00a0Sweden \u00a0as \u00a0a \u00a0country \u00a0characterised \u00a0by \u00a0high \u00a0levels \u00a0of \u00a0both \u00a0civic \u00a0 voluntarism \u00a0and \u00a0social \u00a0media \u00a0use, \u00a0as \u00a0well \u00a0as \u00a0extreme \u00a0degrees \u00a0of \u00a0individualism \u00a0and \u00a0 social \u00a0trust \u00a0(cf. \u00a0Gustafsson, \u00a02013: \u00a057f), \u00a0they \u00a0can \u00a0be \u00a0considered \u00a0to \u00a0be \u00a0a \u00a0critical \u00a0case \u00a0for \u00a0 evaluating \u00a0Bennett \u00a0& \u00a0Segerberg's \u00a0(2013) \u00a0notions \u00a0of \u00a0personal \u00a0action \u00a0frames \u00a0and \u00a0 connective \u00a0action, \u00a0as \u00a0well \u00a0as \u00a0Amn\u00e5 \u00a0and \u00a0Ekman's \u00a0(2014) \u00a0standby \u00a0citizens \u00a0and \u00a0latent \u00a0 participation, \u00a0describing \u00a0emerging \u00a0personalised \u00a0ways \u00a0of \u00a0interacting \u00a0with \u00a0social \u00a0and \u00a0 political \u00a0issues \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0day \u00a0in \u00a0digitally \u00a0enabled \u00a0networks, \u00a0and \u00a0occasionally \u00a0becoming \u00a0 mobilised \u00a0into \u00a0action. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Sweden \u00a0slams \u00a0shut \u00a0its \u00a0open-\u00addoor \u00a0policy \u00a0towards \u00a0 refugees. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8870", "words": "1280", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Stromer-Galley, Jennifer; G. C. Rossini, Patricia; Hemsley, Jeff; Kenski, Kate; Zhang, Feifei; Bryant, Lauren; Semaan, Bryan", "title": "Social Media, U.S. Presidential Campaigns, and Public Opinion Polls: Disentangling Effects", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "campaign; data; messages", "summary": "Because \u00a0social \u00a0media \u00a0is \u00a0now \u00a0an \u00a0important \u00a0site \u00a0of \u00a0communication \u00a0for \u00a0campaigns \u00a0and \u00a0the \u00a0 electorate, \u00a0we \u00a0seek \u00a0 to \u00a0understand \u00a0 the \u00a0 types \u00a0and \u00a0nature \u00a0of \u00a0messaging \u00a0 that \u00a0campaigns \u00a0 produce. \u00a0 Tables \u00a0 Strategic Messages Sub-category Precision Recall F1 NO. of messages", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8871", "words": "2240", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Ku\u0308mpel, Anna Sophie; Karnowski, Veronika", "title": "(SOCIAL) MEDIA USE AND NEWS: NEWS USAGE PATTERNS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON POLITICAL PARTICIPATORY BEHAVIOR", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "media; news; participation; sns; use", "summary": "In the context of online media and the simultaneous utopian and dystopian imaginaries of the internet for civic engagement, the debate about the impact of news media use on political participation and efficacy continues. Connecting news media use with gaps in knowledge and participation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8872", "words": "1254", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Byron, Paul", "title": "SOCIAL MEDIA\u2019S CHALLENGE TO THE PROMOTION OF YOUNG PEOPLE\u2019S SEXUAL HEALTH", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "health; media; people; promotion", "summary": "Using focus group data in which young people (16-22 years) discuss their social media practices and the possibility of incorporating sexual health promotion into these, I propose an interdisciplinary approach to sexual health in which media studies inform public health agendas. Sexual health promotion strategies seeking to engage with young people via social media must acknowledge young people\u2019s expertise as media users and producers, and the cultural importance of friendship in these practices.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8874", "words": "1913", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Oztok, Murat", "title": "SOCIAL PRESENCE AND SOCIAL ABSENCE: SOCIO-CULTURAL PRODUCTION OF SELF IN ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "absence; online; presence", "summary": "Social presence and social absence: socio- cultural production of self in online learning environments. Social absence is not the opposite of social presence; rather, one\u2019s social presence and absence are always related to each other and both are situated in and defined by Discourses.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8875", "words": "7156", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Woodford, Darryl; Prowd, Katie; Bruns, Axel; Burgess, Jean; Goldsmith, Ben; Harrington, Stephen; Hutchinson, Jonathan; Highfield, Tim; Chatman, Dayna; Driscoll, Kevin; Bar, Franc\u0327ois; Leavitt, Alex; Wang, Renxia", "title": "Social TV: Quantifying the Intersections between Television and Social Media", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "accounts; analysis; audience; data; media; network; production; research; shows; television; tweets; twitter; twittersphere; university; users", "summary": "Here, we explore in particular the following three key areas: the location of audiences for specific social TV programming within the Australian Twittersphere; the overlap and interconnection (or lack thereof) between specific shows\u2019 audiences; the correlation between participation in social TV audiences and existing follower/followee relationships; and the visibility across the Australian Twittersphere which audience activities afford these shows. The point of departure for this research is to understand how social network analysis can be embedded into the production process itself.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8876", "words": "2817", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Cirucci, Angela", "title": "SOCIALLY DIVIDED: AFFORDANCES, GENDER, AND RACE IN FACEBOOK", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "affordances; facebook; gender; new; race; users", "summary": "None of the Above Identifications like gender are required for Facebook users. Therefore, Facebook\u2019s active decision to leave out race/ethnicity affordances, while constantly updating and posting messages about gender affordances, has led users to view gender as a more important, but less messy, identification aspect.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8877", "words": "4769", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Barton, David; Lee, Carmen; Jones, Rodney; Vasquez, Camilla", "title": "Sociolinguistic perspectives on everyday digital practices", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "digital; discourse; hashtags; online; paper; people; practices; reviews; work", "summary": "Online \u00a0reviews \u00a0can \u00a0certainly \u00a0be \u00a0considered \u00a0a \u00a0form \u00a0of \u00a0consumer \u00a0 empowerment \u00a0from \u00a0the \u00a0point \u00a0of \u00a0view \u00a0of \u00a0individuals \u00a0writing \u00a0reviews. \u00a0 More \u00a0recently, \u00a0reports \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0media \u00a0have \u00a0also \u00a0begun \u00a0to \u00a0show \u00a0what \u00a0happens \u00a0 when \u00a0business \u00a0owners \u00a0respond \u00a0publicly \u00a0to \u00a0reviews, \u00a0as \u00a0they \u00a0engage \u00a0in \u00a0processes \u00a0of \u00a0 \u201cservice \u00a0recovery\u201d \u00a0and \u00a0\u201conline \u00a0reputation \u00a0management.\u201d \u00a0 ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8879", "words": "1292", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Knaudt, Lena; Siebe, Renske; Harbers, Frank; Graham, Todd", "title": "Sourcing and engaging the crowd: Audience interaction and participation in online-only slow journalism platforms", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "audience; journalism; quality", "summary": "And \u00a0how \u00a0do \u00a0journalists \u00a0 and \u00a0the \u00a0audience \u00a0together \u00a0negotiate \u00a0journalism\u2019s \u00a0quality \u00a0standards \u00a0in \u00a0their \u00a0interaction? \u00a0 Consequently, \u00a0the \u00a0exchange \u00a0between \u00a0newspaper \u00a0staff \u00a0and \u00a0audience \u00a0is \u00a0usually \u00a0 given \u00a0a \u00a0low \u00a0priority, \u00a0which \u00a0means \u00a0that \u00a0journalists \u00a0often \u00a0lack \u00a0the \u00a0motivation \u00a0as \u00a0well \u00a0as \u00a0the \u00a0 time \u00a0to \u00a0engage \u00a0more \u00a0with \u00a0the \u00a0public \u00a0(Canter \u00a02013). \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8880", "words": "5127", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Ribak, Rivka; Bohbot, Hagar; Davidson, Roei; Marciano, Avi; Ringel, Sharon; Ziskind, Neta; Turow, Joseph", "title": "Standards rule? Regulations, literacies and algorithms in times of transition", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "algorithms; facebook; lampland; literacy; media; memory; press; standards; star; university", "summary": "In \u00a0this \u00a0panel \u00a0we \u00a0seek \u00a0to \u00a0reflect \u00a0upon \u00a0the \u00a0theme \u00a0internet \u00a0rules \u00a0by \u00a0drawing \u00a0on \u00a0the \u00a0notion \u00a0 of \u00a0standards, \u00a0developed \u00a0in \u00a0Science \u00a0and \u00a0Technology \u00a0Studies. \u00a0 In \u00a0the \u00a0panel, \u00a0we \u00a0explore \u00a0the \u00a0production \u00a0of \u00a0 standards \u00a0as \u00a0they \u00a0become \u00a0transparent \u00a0infrastructures, \u00a0heeding \u00a0Star \u00a0and \u00a0Lampland's \u00a0call \u00a0 to \u00a0restore \u00a0these \u00a0standards' \u00a0historical \u00a0development, \u00a0their \u00a0political \u00a0consequences, \u00a0and \u00a0 the \u00a0smoke-\u00adfilled \u00a0rooms \u00a0always \u00a0attached \u00a0to \u00a0decisions \u00a0made \u00a0about \u00a0them \u00a0(2009:13). \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8881", "words": "1146", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Tynes, Robert M", "title": "State-Aiding, Empire-Building or Multitude Fulfilling? An Anonymous Role in International Politics", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "anonymous; ghostsec; negri; state", "summary": "In order to tease out the socio-political dynamics of GhostSec actions, this study utilizes discourse analysis of news stories about, and interviews with, GhostSec and the Ghost Security Group. According to GhostSec member, TorReaper, the US government helped funnel funding to GhostSec (Raincoaster 2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8882", "words": "5895", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Kerr, Aphra; Whitson, Jennifer R.; Harvey, Alison; Shepherd, Tamara; O'Donnell, Casey", "title": "Strategies and Tactics for Promoting Indie Game Design", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "companies; culture; design; developers; development; game; homebrew; indie; industry; internet; media; new; production; research; work", "summary": "Nadav Lipkin (2013), in his analysis of the history of indie games provides an explanation. However, Paolo Ruffino (2013) argues that despite the discourses of freedom and emotional investment linked to creating indie games, indies organize themselves with practices that are very similar to those of 'dependent' (i.e. AAA) companies, and that indie games often reinforce the power structures of those they oppose.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8883", "words": "1253", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Steinfeld, Nili", "title": "STRATEGIES OF INFORMATION DISCLOSURE", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "information; privacy; users", "summary": "Papacharissi, \u00a0Z. \u00a0and \u00a0Gibson, \u00a0P.L. \u00a0(2011), \u00a0Fifteen \u00a0minutes \u00a0of \u00a0privacy: \u00a0privacy, \u00a0sociality, \u00a0 and \u00a0publicity \u00a0on \u00a0social \u00a0network \u00a0sites, \u00a0in \u00a0Trepte, \u00a0S. \u00a0and \u00a0Reinecke, \u00a0L. \u00a0(Eds), \u00a0Privacy \u00a0 Online: \u00a0Perspectives \u00a0on \u00a0Privacy \u00a0and \u00a0Self-\u00adDisclosure \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0Social \u00a0Web, \u00a0Springer-\u00adVerlag, \u00a0 Berlin, \u00a0pp. \u00a075-\u00ad89. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 References Acquisti, \u00a0A. \u00a0and \u00a0Grossklags, \u00a0J. \u00a0(2005), \u00a0Privacy \u00a0and \u00a0rationality \u00a0in \u00a0individual \u00a0decision \u00a0 making, \u00a0IEEE \u00a0Security \u00a0and \u00a0Privacy, \u00a0Vol. \u00a03 \u00a0No. \u00a01, \u00a0pp. \u00a026-\u00ad33. \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8886", "words": "2129", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Huntington, Heidi E.", "title": "Subversive Memes: Internet Memes as a Form of Visual Rhetoric", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "culture; media; memes; rhetoric; visual", "summary": "Based on the literature, the paper then proposes that the theory of visual rhetoric\u2014not known to have been previously applied to the study of memes\u2014is an appropriate theoretical and methodological lens for research on internet memes as a form of public discourse. Denver, USA \u00a0 parallels to traditional media and by considering memes as a form of subversive communication, scholars have a platform by which to elevate the study of internet memes within a participatory media culture.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8887", "words": "1396", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Kibby, Marjorie; Fulton, Janet", "title": "SURVEILLANCE, PRIVACY, AND SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "facebook; information; media; surveillance", "summary": "Keywords mutual surveillance; Facebook; social media; Millennials; privacy Introduction The Millenial generation (Howe and Strauss, 2009) seems to use Facebook for four primary reasons: socializing, entertainment, information, and status seeking (Park, Kee and Valenzuela, 2009), functions that are dependent on users\u2019 self-disclosure of personal information. Facebook suggests the sharing of \u201cstatus updates\u201d, \u201clife events\u201d and \u201cphotos/videos\u201d encouraging a flow of personal information.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8888", "words": "1280", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Geiger, R. Stuart", "title": "SUCCESSOR SYSTEMS: THE ROLE OF REFLEXIVE ALGORITMS IN ENACTING IDEOLOGICAL CRITIQUE", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "harassment; street; successor; systems", "summary": "Hollaback, a system for reporting and representing street harassment, provides a safe space for victims of street harassment to assemble as a networked public. When faced with issues like the institutional ignorance of street harassment, the exploitation of microtask workers, and the gender gap in Wikipedia, ideological critique can be enacted not only through discourse, but also through the production of infrastructure.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8889", "words": "4629", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Switzer, Jamie S.; Switzer, Ralph V.", "title": "Taxation of Virtual World Economies: an empirical review", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "currency; economies; goods; income; law; life; tax; taxation; transactions; worlds", "summary": "Keywords real money trading; tax code; virtual world transactions; virtual worlds 2 The taxation of virtual world economies is uncharted terrain, one that both researchers and government officials are just beginning to scrutinize. One possible consequence of taxation would be for virtual worlds to move to a peer-to-peer network or another country to avoid detection and identification by a government.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8890", "words": "1238", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Gerlitz, Carolin; Rieder, Bernhard", "title": "TECHNIQUES OF INTERSECTION \u2013 METRICS AS CONNECTORS AND SEPARATORS IN TWITTER RESEARCH", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "metrics; practices; research; twitter", "summary": "By starting from a random sample, we can inquire how metrics are both related and separate from each other, and to what extent different metrics can qualify or characterise each other (Do Twitter users writing from different devices use hashtags differently? When studying Facebook or Twitter, questions and techniques of delimitation, i.e. the selection of subsets and the use of specific metrics, are particularly relevant.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8993", "words": "1490", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Archer, Jason Edward", "title": "Technologizing Touch: Tactile Magic, Education, and Domestication in Apple iPad Advertisements", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "human; ipad; machine; touch", "summary": "How does machine touch compare to human touch in influencing perceptions and development? This study provides a discourse analysis about the tactility of human-machine communication by using Apple iPad advertisements as case studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8996", "words": "1256", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Leshnick, Anat; Livio, Oren", "title": "Technology Meets Postmodern Epistemology: The Discourse of Hebrew Wikipedia Deletion Pages", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "deletion; knowledge; wikipedia", "summary": "In \u00a0this \u00a0study \u00a0we \u00a0analyze \u00a0deletion \u00a0discussion \u00a0pages \u00a0on \u00a0 the \u00a0Hebrew \u00a0Wikipedia \u00a0in \u00a0order \u00a0to \u00a0examine \u00a0the \u00a0ways \u00a0in \u00a0which \u00a0definitions \u00a0of \u00a0\u201cworthy\u201d \u00a0and \u00a0 \u201cunworthy\u201d \u00a0encyclopedic \u00a0knowledge \u00a0are \u00a0negotiated \u00a0in \u00a0contemporary \u00a0discourse, \u00a0 reflecting \u00a0local \u00a0perceptions \u00a0regarding \u00a0the \u00a0role \u00a0of \u00a0Wikipedia \u00a0and \u00a0its \u00a0meanings, \u00a0as \u00a0well \u00a0as \u00a0 broader \u00a0cultural \u00a0perceptions \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0relation \u00a0between \u00a0technology \u00a0and \u00a0epistemology \u00a0in \u00a0an \u00a0 age \u00a0characterized \u00a0by \u00a0an \u00a0ongoing \u00a0tension \u00a0between \u00a0modernist \u00a0and \u00a0postmodern \u00a0 conceptions \u00a0of \u00a0truth, \u00a0knowledge, \u00a0and \u00a0authority. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Second, \u00a0while \u00a0encyclopedias \u00a0since \u00a0the \u00a018th \u00a0century \u00a0 were \u00a0customarily \u00a0viewed \u00a0as \u00a0representing \u00a0authoritative \u00a0knowledge \u00a0produced \u00a0by \u00a0experts \u00a0 (Sullivan, \u00a01990), \u00a0Wikipedia \u00a0operates \u00a0within \u00a0a \u00a0sociocultural \u00a0atmosphere \u00a0characterized \u00a0by \u00a0 greater \u00a0ambivalence, \u00a0and \u00a0sometimes \u00a0downright \u00a0skepticism, \u00a0toward \u00a0traditional \u00a0sources \u00a0of \u00a0 authority \u00a0and \u00a0knowledge \u00a0(Van \u00a0Zoonen, \u00a02012).Third, \u00a0whereas \u00a0in \u00a0traditional \u00a0encyclopedias \u00a0 deleted \u00a0entries \u00a0were \u00a0simply \u00a0not \u00a0included \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0published \u00a0volumes \u00a0\u2013 \u00a0with \u00a0relatively \u00a0little \u00a0 information \u00a0made \u00a0public \u00a0regarding \u00a0the \u00a0process \u00a0whereby \u00a0decisions \u00a0regarding \u00a0inclusion \u00a0and \u00a0 exclusion \u00a0were \u00a0made \u00a0\u2013 \u00a0on \u00a0Wikipedia, \u00a0even \u00a0when \u00a0a \u00a0particular \u00a0entry \u00a0is \u00a0deleted, \u00a0the \u00a0 negotiations \u00a0that \u00a0took \u00a0place \u00a0regarding \u00a0the \u00a0article\u2019s \u00a0fate \u00a0remain \u00a0available \u00a0on \u00a0the \u00a0site \u00a0and \u00a0 are \u00a0accessible \u00a0by \u00a0any \u00a0internet \u00a0user \u00a0\u2013 \u00a0thus \u00a0providing \u00a0a \u00a0rich \u00a0source \u00a0for \u00a0examining \u00a0the \u00a0actual \u00a0 process \u00a0of \u00a0boundary \u00a0construction. \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8997", "words": "3987", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Stevenson, Michael; Ankerson, Megan Sapnar; Gehl, Robert; Murray, Sarah", "title": "TECHOLOGIES OF THE IMAGINATION", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "calculation; counting; digital; history; media; paper; perl; self; software; web", "summary": "What is the status of Perl in web history, and how was it implicated in early imaginings of the web\u2019s identity? This paper situates the uncertainty and confusion surrounding popular understandings of web history alongside the recent surge in web nostalgia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8998", "words": "1058", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Gershon, Ilana; Ensmenger, Nathan; Carlson, Gordon; Deuze, Mark", "title": "That was Then, This is Now", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "latour; media; paper; sports", "summary": "Expansion in several sports during the 1980s and early 1990s aided by an explosion in cable television and a concerted effort by several sport leagues, professional sports rapidly shifted into a traditional \u201cbig business\u201d phase modeling other successful industries (transmission in Carey\u2019s context). This paper argues this occurred because of the rapid increase in speed and richness of information about professional sports brought about by ubiquitous web access.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-8999", "words": "1266", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Thorhauge, Anne Mette; Lomborg, Stine", "title": "THE AMBIGUITIES OF LOG DATA: SMART PHONES IN EVERYDAY LIFE", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "data; everyday; life", "summary": "Smart phone data as an expression of everyday life or as an expression of the integration of smart phones into everyday life Smart phones are not just everyday technologies, they are social artifacts endowed with particular social and symbolic values in different social contexts. THE AMBIGUITIES OF LOG DATA: SMART PHONES IN EVERYDAY LIFE Anne Mette Thorhauge University of Copenhagen Stine Lomborg University of Copenhagen In this paper we will discuss the analysis of smart phone log data as an expression of everyday life.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9000", "words": "6476", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Hauge, Chelsey; Shepherd, Tamara; Garcia, Antero; Cucinelli, Giuliana; Bryson, Mary", "title": "Youth Participation, Media Literacy and Social Justice", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "canada; community; engagement; literacy; media; new; paper; participation; people; production; research; york; youth; youth media", "summary": "The first paper, \u201cHope, youth media, and democratic practice,\u201d addresses the ways in which youth enact democratic practice as they participate in media production programming, conceptualizing of democratic engagement through Ranci\u00e8re\u2019s work on radical democracy to theorize how youth make their stories visible from within the colonial context of community development practice. In this paper, I attempt to move beyond the assumption of autonomy in youth media production about social justice issues in order to conceptualize of youth political engagement through new media in ways that do not require a causal relationship between action and resolution of social inequalities, in order to understand how it is young people come to wonder about and provoke change and questions of citizenship in today\u2019s world while they produce media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9001", "words": "3133", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Leonard, Lynnette G.", "title": "Youth Participation in Civic Engagement Through Social Media: a case study", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "civic; engagement; media; noma; omaha; project; students", "summary": "Incorporating media literacy into civic engagement projects that involve social media ensures that participants understand how to produce good content and empowers participants with the skills to continue participating well beyond the initial project. Social media can facilitate the process and disseminate the results of civic engagement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9002", "words": "1163", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Johnson, Nicola Frances", "title": "You're always online: Negotiating internet temporalities in the secondary school", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "internet; school; time", "summary": "Schools \u00a0have \u00a0been \u00a0predicated \u00a0by \u00a0these \u00a0particular \u00a0rhythms \u00a0of \u00a0time, \u00a0i.e. \u00a0being \u00a0\u2018present\u2019. \u00a0 As \u00a0 internet \u00a0technologies \u00a0and \u00a0media \u00a0are \u00a0an \u00a0integral \u00a0element \u00a0of \u00a0contemporary \u00a0education, \u00a0 and \u00a0increasingly \u00a0shape \u00a0the \u00a0ways \u00a0in \u00a0which \u00a0time \u00a0is \u00a0experienced \u00a0in \u00a0schools, \u00a0internet \u00a0 technology \u00a0use \u00a0is \u00a0often \u00a0shaped \u00a0and \u00a0bounded \u00a0by \u00a0dominant \u00a0structures \u00a0and \u00a0\u2018grammars\u2019 \u00a0of \u00a0 schooling \u00a0\u2013 \u00a0not \u00a0least \u00a0formal \u00a0assessment \u00a0and \u00a0curriculum \u00a0requirements, \u00a0tacit \u00a0 expectations \u00a0of \u00a0time, \u00a0space \u00a0and \u00a0place, \u00a0and \u00a0management \u00a0regimes \u00a0of \u00a0accountability \u00a0and \u00a0 performativity. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9003", "words": "1542", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Blasiola, Stacy", "title": "YOU [DON\u2019T] GOTTA PAY THE TROLL TOLL: A TRANSACTION COSTS MODEL OF ONLINE HARASSMENT", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "costs; harassment; transaction", "summary": "The language of transaction costs is commonplace in economics and I will argue that it presents an opportunity to rethink platform design in ways that create quantifiable differences for harassers and victims. Additionally, transaction costs can be understood as a type of friction that is introduced to a market to curb a particular outcome (Klaes, 2000).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9004", "words": "5437", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Losh, Elizabeth; Coleman, Beth; Um Amel, VJ", "title": "Will the Revolution Be Tweeted? Mapping Complex Data Patterns from Sites of Protest", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "activism; cambridge; data; egypt; internet; media; new; press; public; research; revolution; twitter; university; usa", "summary": "I suggest that the importance of this approach lies in how one might understand better the strategic, tactical, and personal transmissions enacted in social media by activist. Activism, Tactical communication, and the Bodily Risk of Danger Perhaps Malcolm Gladwell\u2013\u2013in what was received by internet cognoscenti as a largely reactionary, luddite position in regard to social media (Shirky)\u2013\u2013is right in his estimation that without \u201cskin in the game,\u201d without bodily presence at sites of political conflict that there can only be \u201csmall change\u201d to be had.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9005", "words": "2143", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Roginsky, Sandrine", "title": "WHY AND HOW POLITICIANS USE SOCIAL MEDIA? UNDERSTANDING SENSEMAKING AND REPRESENTATIONS OF DIGITAL PLATFORMS. THE CASE OF \u201cFACEBOOK\u201d AND \u201cTWITTER\u201d IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "media; practices; social; technology; use", "summary": "THE CASE OF \u201cFACEBOOK\u201d AND \u201cTWITTER\u201d IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Sandrine Roginsky Universit\u00e9 catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium Introduction The mainstream perspective on politicians who use social media has been based on the premise that social media technology is, by nature, an innovative tool and that politicians are not using it to its full potential (Roginsky, 2014). I will challenge the mainstream normative approach and will rely on a socio-technical approach to demonstrate that social media technology is not innovative by nature and innovation is not necessarily where it is expected, nor it is necessarily easily visible: it is however part of a \u201ctechnical imaginaire\u201d (Flichy, 2004:10).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9006", "words": "1531", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Bode, Leticia", "title": "Writing for Old and New Media: A Natural Experiment", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "content; journalism; media; online", "summary": "While a growing number of scholars are pursuing questions of content across medium (Lee 2007, Baum and Groeling 2008, Haynes and Pitts 2009, Bode and Hennings 2012), these are generally restricted to particular subject, and often to online media only. Research on online political news coverage and blogs, for example, shows that users of online media are influenced in different ways as compared with traditional media like newspapers and television (Atkinson 2007, Johnson and Kaye 2004).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9007", "words": "1270", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Hild\u00e9n, Jockum Philip", "title": "WHOSE PRIVACY? LOBBYING FOR THE FREE FLOW OF EUROPEAN PERSONAL DATA", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "data; regulation", "summary": "The \u00a0European \u00a0Union \u00a0aims \u00a0to \u00a0regulate \u00a0beyond \u00a0its \u00a0 territorial \u00a0borders, \u00a0as \u00a0the \u00a0Regulation \u00a0will \u00a0affect \u00a0all \u00a0businesses \u00a0and \u00a0organizations \u00a0which \u00a0 collect \u00a0data \u00a0on \u00a0EU \u00a0citizens, \u00a0regardless \u00a0of \u00a0country \u00a0of \u00a0origin. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 This \u00a0paper \u00a0focuses \u00a0on \u00a0presenting \u00a0how \u00a0the \u00a0EU \u00a0Council\u2019s \u00a0 amendments \u00a0to \u00a0the \u00a0draft \u00a0Regulation \u00a0reflects \u00a0the \u00a0positions \u00a0of \u00a0stakeholders \u00a0from \u00a0a \u00a0wide \u00a0 array \u00a0of \u00a0sectors \u00a0that \u00a0will \u00a0be \u00a0affected \u00a0by \u00a0the \u00a0new \u00a0law. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9008", "words": "5830", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Blasiola, Stacy; Carivou, James; Feng, Miao; Liu, Jun; Magee, Rachel; Sebastian, Melinda", "title": "Who\u2019s Running the Show? Negotiating Control for Community Participation", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "analysis; culture; fans; media; new; participation; practices; recap; research; tweets; twitter; use", "summary": "This explicit countdown language stimulates audience anticipation, and often, the show accounts go further and retweet or share fan tweets that discuss looking forward to the next episode or season. Digital fandom: New media studies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9009", "words": "1758", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Tamura, Takanori; Hamada, Tadahisa", "title": "Who has the right to speak? The role of social media in spreading dissent among anti-nuclear groups in post 3-11Japan", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "groups; japan; mcan; media; t\u014djisha", "summary": "One reasons for this lack of unity is the contention around \u201cwho has legitimacy to assert opinions about the matter\u201d (in Japanese, t\u014djisha). However, the premise of solidarity was shown to be somewhat fragile as conflict began to arise not only between t\u014djisha and hi-t\u014djisha (non-t\u014djisha) but also among t\u014djisha themselves.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9010", "words": "1254", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Brock, Andr\u00e9", "title": "WHITENESS AS DIGITAL IMAGINARY: SJW AS BOUNDARY OBJECT", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "game; sjw; social; star", "summary": "This paper seeks to extend research into this area by applying the concept of boundary objects (Star and Griesemer 1989; Star 2010; Bowker and Star 1999) to racial ideology as articulated in a video game, Social Justice Warriors, alongside associated online discussions about the game, and video games and race in general. Video games, through their capacity for simulation, representation, and ludic experience, are an uniquely concretized take on cultural belief and discourse.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9011", "words": "1222", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Nelson, Jacob; Webster, James", "title": "WHERE LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES MEET: A NETWORK ANALYSUS OF POLITICAL NEWS SITE AUDIENCES", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "audiences; media; network; news", "summary": "Using network analysis and web data provided by comScore, we argue that political news sites share more audiences than many realize, and that this holds true regardless of the political ideologies of either the audience or the outlet. As Boczkowski, Mitchelstein, and Walter observed (2013), news audiences exercise more interest in political news as Election Day nears, so this month was chosen because it was a month leading up to political elections throughout the country.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9012", "words": "1130", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Yoon, Ho Young; Kang, Woo Chang", "title": "When Censorship is not an option: Internet Trolling by National Intelligence Agency of S. Korea:", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "censorship; government; trolling", "summary": "In \u00a0a \u00a0certain \u00a0context, \u00a0however, \u00a0there \u00a0are \u00a0far \u00a0more \u00a0advantages \u00a0of \u00a0employing \u00a0trolling \u00a0for \u00a0 controlling \u00a0public \u00a0discourses \u00a0and \u00a0opinions \u00a0than \u00a0employing \u00a0censorship. \u00a0 Furthermore, \u00a0censorship \u00a0is \u00a0a \u00a0passive \u00a0measure \u00a0of \u00a0intervention \u00a0whereas \u00a0 trolling \u00a0is \u00a0more \u00a0active \u00a0measure, \u00a0enabling \u00a0the \u00a0government \u00a0to \u00a0create \u00a0public \u00a0noise \u00a0or \u00a0to \u00a0 manipulate \u00a0public \u00a0discourse \u00a0\u2013 \u00a0which \u00a0causes \u00a0more \u00a0detrimental \u00a0effects \u00a0on \u00a0democracy. \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9013", "words": "1225", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Wesley-Smith, Ian N.; Chapin, W. E.", "title": "What\u2019s Behind the Mask?: Understanding Stealth Practices of Grindr Users", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "grindr; profile; users", "summary": "We \u00a0explore \u00a0this \u00a0concept \u00a0of \u00a0stealth \u00a0in \u00a0relationship \u00a0to \u00a0users \u00a0of \u00a0Grindr \u00a0and \u00a0their \u00a0choices \u00a0of \u00a0 profile \u00a0pictures. \u00a0 If \u00a0users \u00a0of \u00a0Grindr \u00a0are \u00a0in \u00a0some \u00a0sense \u00a0self-\u00adidentifying \u00a0as \u00a0gay \u00a0by \u00a0using \u00a0the \u00a0app, \u00a0we \u00a0 wondered \u00a0why \u00a0users \u00a0would \u00a0choose \u00a0to \u00a0hide \u00a0their \u00a0identity \u00a0in \u00a0their \u00a0profile \u00a0pictures. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9014", "words": "1907", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Fiore-Silfvast, Brittany; Neff, Gina", "title": "What We Talk About When We Talk Data: Metrics, Mobilization, and Materiality in Performing Health Online", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "communities; data; health; valences; wellness", "summary": "Across the communities of technology designers, \u201ce-health\u201d providers and advocates, and users of health and wellness data we find that tensions emerge not around the meaning or legitimacy of particular data points, but rather around how data is expected to perform socially, organizationally and institutionally, what we term data valences. Our paper identifies data valences in health and wellness data, shows how these valences are mediated, and demonstrates that distinct data valences are more apparent in the interstitial interactions occurring in the spaces between institutions or among powerful stakeholder groups. \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9016", "words": "1949", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Christensen, Christian", "title": "Wave-Riding and Hashtag-Jumping: Twitter, Minority \u2018Third Parties\u2019 and the 2012 US Elections", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "candidates; party; tweets; twitter", "summary": "The ultimate goal of the paper is to generate a broader picture of how Twitter was utilized by minority party candidates, as well as identifying the issues which led followers (and their respective followers) to engage in the \u201cconversational\u2019 act of re-tweeting. \u00a0 Discussion/Conclusions \u00a0 \u00a0 As smaller political parties in the US struggle to garner even minimal mainstream media coverage, the well-documented flood of tweets surrounding the third presidential election debate (the first two were not covered in the scope of this study) provided an excellent opportunity for minority party candidates to jump on top of that tweet wave, and to weave their respective political messages into the broader political discourse.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9018", "words": "6123", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Greene, Daniel; Bakioglu, Burcu; Parry, David; Daniels, Jessie", "title": "The Anti-Social Web", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "access; data; digital; divide; governance; information; internet; libraries; library; life; new; politics; public; site; surveillance; use", "summary": "Read in conjunction with Daniel Kreiss's Taking Our Country Back (2012) one begins to gain a picture of how startling the shift in digital data driven politics has been. There is little transparency in how this data is used, and while in the early days of hypermedia campaigns the suggestion was that the digital campaign would lower the cost of running for office, this type of data drive, social engineering campaign does precisely the opposite, creating powerful new players in the political landscape (many of them online trackers or social media services).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9019", "words": "7599", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Quinn, Kelly; Zimmer, Michael; Fernback, Jan; Baasanjav, Undrah; Marwick, Alice", "title": "The appropriation of privacy: Policies and practices of everyday technology use", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "applications; chinese; human; information; internet; law; layers; media; new; online; privacy; reality; regulation; research; speech; technologies; usa; users", "summary": "Implications focus on the reproduction of Chinese collectivist ideology and the lack of regulation surrounding information privacy. The paper explores the culturally fluid notions of information privacy in connection with the \u201cHuman Flesh Search Engine\u201d phenomenon.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9020", "words": "1978", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Quinn, Kelly", "title": "The \u2018Friending\u2019 rules: Social norms of connection and disconnection at midlife", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "adults; connection; meaning; media; network", "summary": "Despite arguments that social network site connections do not possess characteristics of friendship (Condella, 2010; Tedesco, 2010), connection on social network sites for participants has substance: connections are not just passing acquaintances, but are grounded personal history, and do not include those who might share only a peripheral interest. Denver, USA 1 The \u2018Friending\u2019 rules: Social norms of connection and disconnection at midlife Kelly Quinn University of Illinois at Chicago USA kquinn8@uic.edu Abstract \u2018Friending\u2019 is most commonly understood to convey the idea that some relationship exists between individuals, yet the unnuanced and decontextualized nature of social media connections and their discursive association with friendship has obscured the meaning of this practice.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9021", "words": "1325", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Seko, Yukari", "title": "THE BODY IN PAIN ONLINE: EXPLORING DIGITAL AFFECT THROUGH USER-GENERATED SUFFERING", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "images; pain; self", "summary": "In response to dominant psychomedical and popular media approach, this paper employs a critical and interdisciplinary perspective to identify how SI images are actually perceived by those who self-injure and whether these visuals enable or disable the imagining of others\u2019 pain. The following discussion draws on empirical findings from a series of semi-structured online interviews with 17 producers of SI images conducted via email and chat, as well as in-depth visual analysis of 300 SI images uploaded on a micro-blogging network, Tumblr.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9022", "words": "1238", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Kripe, Zane", "title": "THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE BUSINESS: THE ROLE OF FINANCE IN THE DESIGN OF WEB SERVICES", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "business; internet; services", "summary": "Abstract This article explores the production of internet services by looking at how web technology startups design their products and develop their business models. To summarize this paper calls for a more holistic investigation of internet services.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9023", "words": "1304", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Johnson, Amy", "title": "The Case of the Missing Fair Use: A Multilingual History & Analysis of Twitter\u2019s Policy Documentation", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "documentation; parody; policy; twitter; use", "summary": "But the plight of fair use documentation contrasts sharply with that of the parody policy. Here are links to everything from the Twitter Rules to the username squatting policy to the child sexual exploitation policy to fair use.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9024", "words": "3686", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Zeng, Jing; Burgess, Jean; Bruns, Axel", "title": "THE CHALLENGES OF WEIBO FOR DATA-DRIVEN DIGITAL MEDIA RESEARCH", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "api; china; chinese; data; media; research; twitter; weibo", "summary": "This paper builds on this model to explore the practical and political challenges and opportunities associated with the \u2018regimes of access\u2019 to Weibo data, and their consequences for digital media and communication studies. As a modest first step, it focuses on comparing the academic affordances of Twitter data and Weibo data.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9025", "words": "1226", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Jensen, Jakob Linaa", "title": "THE CHANGING PATTERNS OF NEWS \u2013 FROM GATE-KEEPING TO SOCIAL SHARING", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "media; news; patterns; sharing", "summary": "On the meso level, I focus on the citizens and analyze their patterns of news sharing through Twitter. This paper is a theoretical discussion of such issues and a first quantitative assessment of changing news patterns among Danish media users.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9026", "words": "1868", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Keats, Emily Sue", "title": "The Circuit of Culture: A Useful Theoretical Model for Studying Social Media", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "circuit; culture; media; model; self", "summary": "Social media environments have illustrated the interconnections between production and consumption given that consumers can now produce content to be consumed by other participants in the environment. While producers at the corporate level were once solely in charge of creating messages for mass consumption, consumers who engage in social media environments now have a great deal of power in how such messages are received and reproduced.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9027", "words": "1216", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Cassidy, Elija Marc", "title": "THE CONVERGENCE OF NICHE AND MAINSTREAM SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICES IN GAY MEN\u2019S DIGITAL CULTURE: HOW GENERATION Y USES FACEBOOK TO EXTEND AND ENHANCE THE GAYDAR EXPERIENCE", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "facebook; gay; men", "summary": "For owners and designers of niche social networking sites aimed specifically at gay men, for example, it raises the issue of how to best provide the kind of services their target demographic is now looking for from niche social networking sites. Being amongst the earliest adopters of Friendster, during its initial growth period, gay identified users in New York perceived gay dating to be the site\u2019s purpose and invited other gay men (boyd, 2007).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9028", "words": "1399", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Shifman, Limor", "title": "THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF PHOTO-BASED MEME GENRES", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "genres; meme; photography; photos", "summary": "Yet photo based meme genres represent a transition from death to life and from past to present. The three memetic genres explored in this paper vary greatly in terms of their content, form and stance: (1) Reaction Photoshops are collections of images created in response to memetic photos (author, 2013b): a small group of photographs that provoke extensive creative reactions (e.g. The Situation Room).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9029", "words": "1893", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Vickery, Jacqueline Ryan; Nelson, Andrew J.", "title": "The Curious Case of Confession Bear: Analyzing anonymity and online memes", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "bear; confession; internet; memes; research", "summary": "Denver, USA Looking at the evolution of Confession Bear memes, we pose the following research questions. Methodology & Theoretical Framework We viewed hundreds of Confession Bear memes posted to QuickMeme.3", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9030", "words": "1376", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "38", "author": "Lutz, Christoph; Hoffmann, Christian Pieter", "title": "The Dark Side of Online Participation: Exploring Non- and Negative Participation", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "internet; online; participation", "summary": "The participation divide literature tends to apply normatively affirmative frames to online participation: online participation, thereby, is held to contribute to the success and prosperity both of individuals and communities (Lutz et al., 2014; Jenkins et al., 2006). Despite some critical voices (e.g, Fuchs, 2014, chapter 2) challenging such affirmative views, the current discourse on online participation tends to neglect the negative aspects or \u201cdark side\u201d of online participation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9031", "words": "1415", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Conti, Olivia G", "title": "The DMCA Rulemaking and Digital Legal Vernaculars", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "dmca; process; rights; rulemaking", "summary": "A common theme that I have found throughout my work on digital rights is the discursive evolution of technological principles (like DRM) into rights issues, a process that is certainly evident in the DMCA proceedings. However, given that the Rulemaking process is grounded in U.S. law, the commenters also assert a sort of \u201cdual citizenship,\u201d invoking their rights as Americans alongside their fundamental mistrust of the United States government and their unshakeable faith in the forward march of digital progress.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9032", "words": "1468", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Bowman, Nick; Banks, Jaime; Downs, Ed", "title": "The duo is in the details: Game genre differences in player-avatar relations", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "banks; game; par; pax", "summary": "Conversely,\u00a0PAR/PAX\u00a0might\u00a0be\u00a0more\u00a0characteristic\u00a0of\u00a0 players\u2019\u00a0orientations\u00a0toward\u00a0games\u00a0and\u00a0avatars\u00a0broadly,\u00a0given\u00a0that\u00a0these\u00a0relations\u00a0(a)\u00a0 persist\u00a0through\u00a0drastic\u00a0game\u00a0changes\u00a0character\u00a0models\u00a0and\u00a0environments\u00a0(Banks,\u00a0in\u00a0 press)\u00a0and\u00a0(b)\u00a0given\u00a0demographics\u00a0have\u00a0little\u00a0impact\u00a0on\u00a0PAR/PAX\u00a0variance\u00a0(Banks\u00a0&\u00a0 Bowman,\u00a02016).\u00a0 From\u00a0a\u00a0total\u00a0sample\u00a0\u200bN\u00a0\u200b =\u00a01,302,\u00a0all\u00a0listed\u00a0videogames\u00a0were\u00a0 coded\u00a0into\u00a0their\u00a0representative\u00a0genres\u00a0(using\u00a0available\u00a0data\u00a0from\u00a0Wikipedia\u00a0and\u00a0 IGN.com),\u00a0and\u00a0genres\u00a0mentioned\u00a0a\u00a0minimum\u00a0\u200bn\u00a0\u200b =\u00a030\u00a0times\u00a0were\u00a0included\u00a0in\u00a0final\u00a0 analysis,\u00a0along\u00a0with\u00a0\u200bn\u00a0\u200b =\u00a030\u00a0randomly\u00a0selected\u00a0\u200bWoW\u200b \u00a0cases\u00a0as\u00a0an\u00a0anchor\u00a0for\u00a0comparison\u00a0 with\u00a0extant\u00a0literature\u00a0on\u00a0PAR/PAX.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9033", "words": "1259", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Kiel, Paula", "title": "The emerging practices of the collective afterlife: multimodal analysis of websites for post-mortem digital interaction", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "afterlife; death; websites", "summary": "The \u00a0emerging \u00a0practices \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0collective \u00a0afterlife: \u00a0Multimodal \u00a0analysis \u00a0of \u00a0 websites \u00a0for \u00a0post-\u00admortem \u00a0digital \u00a0interaction. \u00a0 THE \u00a0EMERGING \u00a0PRACTICES \u00a0OF \u00a0THE \u00a0COLLECTIVE \u00a0AFTERLIFE: \u00a0 MULTIMODAL \u00a0ANALYSIS \u00a0OF \u00a0WEBSITES \u00a0FOR \u00a0POST-\u00adMORTEM \u00a0 DIGITAL \u00a0INTERACTION \u00a0 Paula \u00a0Kiel \u00a0 London \u00a0School \u00a0of \u00a0Economics \u00a0and \u00a0Political \u00a0Science \u00a0 \u00a0 Introduction \u00a0 \u00a0 This \u00a0paper \u00a0offers \u00a0to \u00a0deploy \u00a0Scheffler\u2019s \u00a0notion \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0collective \u00a0afterlife \u00a0in \u00a0order \u00a0to \u00a0 conceptualize \u00a0and \u00a0explore \u00a0newly \u00a0emerging \u00a0websites \u00a0enabling \u00a0the \u00a0planning \u00a0and \u00a0 preparing \u00a0of \u00a0post-\u00admortem \u00a0online \u00a0interactions. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9036", "words": "1701", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Knox, Jeremy Keith", "title": "The Forum, the Sardine Can and the Fake: contesting, adapting and practicing the Massive Open Online Course.", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "course; education; learning; mooc; university", "summary": "A student review, posted online during the course, described E-learning and Digital Cultures as analogous to a \u2018sardine can\u2019 that had been smuggled into an art gallery to fool the unsuspecting visitors. In addition to specific content from E-learning and Digital Cultures, this section will draw upon promotional material from MOOC providers and example video lectures and assessment exercises from a number of Coursera MOOCs.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9037", "words": "1751", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Rossi, Luca; Zurovac, Elisabetta", "title": "The Genesis of Crisis Communication in Twitter: from Witnesses to Gatewatchers", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "information; messages; research; twitter; users", "summary": "We then adopted a SNA approaches to study the network produced by the retweet activity and focused our attention on the presence of a giant component made of users connected to one another through the Figure 1: Tweet, retweets and single users per hour. Earthquake shakes Twitter users: real-time event detection by social sensors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9038", "words": "12541", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Rambukkana, Nathan", "title": "THE HITCHHIKER\u2019S GUIDE TO COMMUNITY: TERRITORIALITY, INTIMACY AND OWNERSHIP IN ONLINE SPACES", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "apr; barney; bbc; communities; community; entries; guide; h2g2; internet; like; new; online; people; post; rheingold; site; space; time; world; zaphodista", "summary": "The more substantial question, from the perspective of many observing the progress of community sites on the internet becomes: As the possibility of community is a matter of design, will not the pressures of profit making, economic growth and top-down management then influence site design, limiting the ability for user initiatives to properly develop or maintain virtual communities? Though Feenberg and Bakardjieva also identify this problematic trend in the actual operations of many internet community sites, they are a little more optimistic.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9040", "words": "2104", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Duffy, Brooke", "title": "THE LABOR OF VISIBILITY: GENDERED SELF-EXPRESSION IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGINARY", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "culture; female; labor; media; self; visibility", "summary": "Despite significant attention to the texts and contexts of gendered self- branding in recent years, further insight is needed to better understand the cultural implications for female social media producers. Despite the insight of this scholarship, more research is needed to understand the cultural experiences of female social media producers in their own voices.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9041", "words": "1231", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "de Souza e Silva, Adriana; Farman, Jason; de Cunto Bueno, Daniela", "title": "THE LIFE CYCLE OF A MOBILE PHONE: MATERIAL CULTURES OF MANUFACTURING AND CONSUMPTION", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "mobile; phones; silva", "summary": "Hyper-coordination via mobile phones in Norway. The fields of mobile communication and internet studies have increasingly pushed toward an examination of the material conditions that contextualize digital media use in general, and mobile phone use specifically (de Souza e Silva, 2006; Packer & Wiley, 2013; Sheller & Urry, 2006).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9042", "words": "1598", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Chess, Shira", "title": "The Mystery of the Hidden Gamer: Women, Leisure, and Hidden Object Games", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "games; leisure; object; player", "summary": "Hidden object games include series such as Mystery Case Files (produced by Big Fish), Time Mysteries, and Surface (though there are hundreds of games that are not at all part of a larger series). But hidden object games also are capable of helping us learn more about their audiences.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9043", "words": "1317", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Quinn, Kelly", "title": "THE NAVIGATION OF BOUNDARIES IN ONLINE SOCIAL SPACES", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "boundaries; boundary; media; work", "summary": "The proliferation of social media, and their widespread adoption, elevates the significance that boundary work and boundary transitions have to everyday living. Researchers have attended to the ways in which individuals navigate this new environment, for example by examining how individuals negotiate privacy in these spaces, however much less consideration has been given to the other ways in which social boundaries are established.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9044", "words": "1286", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Mitchell, Peta; Bruns, Axel; M\u00fcnch, Felix Victor", "title": "The (net)work of mourning: emotional contagion, viral performativity, and the death of David Bowie", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "bowie; death; twitter", "summary": "Spiked \u00a0editor \u00a0Brendan \u00a0O\u2019Neill \u00a0(2016), \u00a0for \u00a0 instance, \u00a0contrasted \u00a0the \u00a0\u201cshallow\u201d \u00a0sadness \u00a0expressed \u00a0by \u00a0\u201chacks\u201d \u00a0and \u00a0\u201cfans\u201d \u00a0on \u00a0social \u00a0 media \u00a0with \u00a0the \u00a0\u201cdeep \u00a0and \u00a0raw \u00a0and \u00a0real\u201d \u00a0grief \u00a0of \u00a0Bowie\u2019s \u00a0family, \u00a0which \u00a0in \u00a0his \u00a0view \u00a0was \u00a0 signalled \u00a0by \u00a0their \u00a0relative \u00a0distance \u00a0from \u00a0social \u00a0media, \u00a0their \u00a0need \u00a0to \u00a0grieve \u00a0in \u00a0private: \u00a0 \u201cBowie\u2019s \u00a0son, \u00a0Duncan \u00a0Jones, \u00a0left \u00a0Twitter \u00a0immediately \u00a0after \u00a0announcing \u00a0his \u00a0father\u2019s \u00a0 death. \u00a0 This \u00a0focus \u00a0on \u00a0the \u00a0macro-\u00adlevel \u00a0 of \u00a0Twitter\u2019s \u00a0communicative \u00a0layers \u00a0(Bruns \u00a0& \u00a0Moe, \u00a02014) \u00a0misses \u00a0a \u00a0potentially \u00a0much \u00a0 broader \u00a0and \u00a0more \u00a0diverse, \u00a0as \u00a0well \u00a0as \u00a0less \u00a0public, \u00a0range \u00a0of \u00a0responses \u00a0to \u00a0Bowie\u2019s \u00a0death, \u00a0 by \u00a0users \u00a0who \u00a0did \u00a0not \u00a0include \u00a0the \u00a0hashtag. \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9045", "words": "1552", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Young, Alyson Leigh; Lutters, Wayne", "title": "The (not so) invisible hand: Perceptions of game designers and the impact on play", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "control; game; players; puppetmasters", "summary": "One player astutely compared player control to the experience of an amusement park ride where you are given a degree of freedom in steering the vehicle but you are ultimately tethered to the track: \u201cWe control the game about as much as we control those Autopia go-carts in Disneyland\u201d (P367). An ARG fansite, Unfiction.com, hosted the Haunted Apiary message board that served as the primary communication hub for ILB players.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9046", "words": "1535", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Gilpin, Dawn R.", "title": "The NRA and Social Media: Power, Multilevel Identity Construction, and Resisting Context Collapse", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "identity; issue; media; nra; organizations", "summary": "Henderson (2005) pointed out that issue identities have practical consequences, since \u201cthe ways in which public issues are signified in discourse . . . Given the importance of interactivity in constituting issues, many organizations turn to social media platforms in an attempt to strategically influence the emergence of publics and issue identities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9047", "words": "1615", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Dewandre, Nicole", "title": "The Onlife Manifesto: rethinking the human condition in a hyperconnected era", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "arendt; making; new; policy", "summary": "From that basis, I have set up the Onlife Initiative4, which has gathered 12 scholars5 for a one-year collective thought process, around a background note6 calling for the need to re-engineer the concepts on which policy frameworks rely. They are deeply inspired both by my professional experience, as policy maker, and by Hannah Arendt\u2019s work.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9048", "words": "1424", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Stromer-Galley, Jennifer", "title": "The paradox of networked politics: A critical examination of presidential campaigns in the United States", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "campaigns; dcts; media; social", "summary": "Paradox of Networked Politics 3 Yet, for the innovations and shifts in presidential campaign practices to integrate digital media, an emancipatory transformation of presidential campaigns has not come to pass. Thus, although political elections are essential to a democracy, political campaigns are decidedly undemocratic.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9049", "words": "2068", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Antonyuk, Artem", "title": "The place of free speech in Internet governance debate", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "concepts; dynamic; freedom; internet; speech", "summary": "For example, while technological discourse claims that decentralized infrastructure supports free speech, a skeptical theoretically informed view argues that social, cultural and political contexts of implementation of free speech matter. Selected\u00a0Papers\u00a0of\u00a0AoIR\u00a02016:\u00a0 The\u00a017th\u00a0Annual\u00a0Conference\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0 Association\u00a0of\u00a0Internet\u00a0Researchers Berlin,\u00a0Germany\u00a0/\u00a05\u00ad8\u00a0October\u00a02016 THE PLACE OF FREE SPEECH IN INTERNET GOVERNANCE DEBATE Artem Antonyuk St. Petersburg State University Introduction In an outline of cultural construction of computers in terms of an opposition between sacred and profane, Alexander states that \u2018[w]e must learn to see technology as a discourse, as a sign system that is subject to semiotic constraints and responsive to social and psychological demands\u2019 (Alexander 1998, pp. 35-36).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9050", "words": "8255", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Reinhard, CarrieLynn D.; Amsterdam, Pooky", "title": "The Positioning of Pooky: a semi-professional's utilization of a virtual world for experimenting with television", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "audience; content; interview; media; new; people; pooky; positioning; production; technology; television; web; worlds", "summary": "3 First, I discuss the issue of content interactivity, interactive television, and Internet- based interactive television in which I argue that for a particular type of content interactivity, virtual worlds television production may be better suited as a production technology. Second, as the topic is virtual world television, issues of Web 2.0, and the discourses surrounding Web 2.0 are considered.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9051", "words": "2811", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Park, Sora", "title": "The process of adapting to mobile tablet devices by switching between distractive and productive multitasking", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "devices; distraction; media; multitasking", "summary": "Distractive multitasking \ufffd\uf09e distraction from studies (Diana) \ufffd\uf09e straying off to non-relevant information (Jacob) \ufffd\uf09e push applications as source of distraction (Rene) \ufffd\uf09e Self modulation; \ufffd\uf09e", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9052", "words": "1063", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Berg, Martin", "title": "THE PRODUCTION OF ONLINE SPACE: FACEBOOK AND ALGORITHMIC METAPOWER", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "internet; online; space", "summary": "Explicitly focusing on Facebook, this paper aims at exploring the effects of algorithms as social structures and strives at advancing the study of how algorithms contribute to a production of online space and its impact on various social processes concerning self and subjectivity.1 The opening section revolves around a literature review which establishes an understanding of how the algorithmic processing of personal and interactional data on Facebook forms the basis for the emergence of a certain kind of \u201dmetapower\u201d. Online and offline spaces are increasingly thought of as merged and researchers tend to assume that social network sites such as Facebook are deeply embedded in everyday life social practices.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9055", "words": "1322", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Suzor, Nicolas", "title": "The responsibilities of platforms: a new constitutionalism to promote the legitimacy of decentralized governance", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "governance; law; platforms; rights", "summary": "In \u00a0this \u00a0paper, \u00a0I \u00a0propose \u00a0that \u00a0the \u00a0legitimacy \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0ways \u00a0in \u00a0which \u00a0the \u00a0users \u00a0of \u00a0platforms \u00a0 are \u00a0governed \u00a0should \u00a0be \u00a0evaluated \u00a0against \u00a0the \u00a0principles \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0rule \u00a0of \u00a0law. \u00a0 The \u00a0Responsibilities \u00a0of \u00a0Platforms: \u00a0A \u00a0New \u00a0 Constitutionalism \u00a0to \u00a0Promote \u00a0the \u00a0Legitimacy \u00a0of \u00a0Decentralized \u00a0Governance. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9056", "words": "1427", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Tanweer, Anissa; Fiore-Gartland, Brittany; Aragon, Cecilia", "title": "THE ROLE OF BREAKDOWN IN IMAGINING BIG DATA: IMPEDIMENT TO INSIGHT TO INNOVATION", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "breakdown; data; research; science", "summary": "We argue that encounters with breakdown \u2013 conceived of as points at which progress is stopped due to a material obstacle \u2013 represent essential sites of knowledge production for data science and any other big data analysis. This program brings together data science methodology experts with domain researchers across a range of disciplines, from astronomy to oceanography to political science, to collaborate on data science projects throughout the academic term.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9057", "words": "5206", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Blasiola, Stacy; Lampinen, Airi; Lehmuskallio, Asko; Schwartz, Sander; Uski, Suvi", "title": "The Rules of Engagement: Managing Boundaries, Managing Identities", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "communication; facebook; privacy; profile; public; teachers; wilma; work", "summary": "In \u00a0order \u00a0 to \u00a0understand \u00a0 the \u00a0link \u00a0between \u00a0privacy \u00a0and \u00a0identity \u00a0this \u00a0paper \u00a0exploits \u00a0the \u00a0concept \u00a0of \u00a0profile \u00a0work \u00a0(e.g., \u00a0 Uski \u00a0and \u00a0Lampinen, \u00a02014) \u00a0and \u00a0explains \u00a0the \u00a0changed \u00a0dynamics \u00a0of \u00a0self-\u00adpresentation \u00a0that \u00a0 create \u00a0a \u00a0threat \u00a0towards \u00a0one\u2019s \u00a0networked \u00a0privacy \u00a0(Marwick \u00a0and \u00a0boyd, \u00a02014) \u00a0in \u00a0terms \u00a0of \u00a0 authenticity. \u00a0 \u00a0 Privacy \u00a0theorists \u00a0recognize \u00a0that \u00a0privacy \u00a0is \u00a0a \u00a0social \u00a0norm \u00a0that \u00a0is \u00a0culturally \u00a0situated \u00a0 (Altman, \u00a01975;\u037e \u00a0Nissenbaum, \u00a02010;\u037e \u00a0Petronio, \u00a02002). ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9058", "words": "5750", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Suzor, Nicolas; Burgess, Jean; Light, Ben; Matamoros-Fernandez, Ariadna; Buchbach, Jacinta; Duguay, Stefanie; Goldsmith, Ben; Gray, Mary; Wikstrom, Patrik; Chen, Yujie; Qiu, Jack; Kulkarni, Deepti; Suri, Siddharth", "title": "The Sharing Economy and its discontents", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "crowdwork; economy; labor; legitimacy; media; self; sharing; uber; women; work; workers", "summary": "THE \u00a0SHARING \u00a0ECONOMY \u00a0AND \u00a0ITS \u00a0DISCONTENTS: \u00a0LABOUR, \u00a0 FAIRNESS, \u00a0AND \u00a0LEGITIMACY \u00a0 \u00a0 Nicolas \u00a0Suzor \u00a0 Queensland \u00a0University \u00a0of \u00a0Technology \u00a0(QUT) \u00a0 \u00a0 Jean \u00a0Burgess \u00a0 Queensland \u00a0University \u00a0of \u00a0Technology \u00a0(QUT) \u00a0 \u00a0 Mary \u00a0L. \u00a0Gray \u00a0 Microsoft \u00a0Research \u00a0 \u00a0 Yujie \u00a0\u201cJulie\u201d \u00a0Chen \u00a0 School \u00a0of \u00a0Journalism \u00a0and \u00a0Communication, \u00a0Chinese \u00a0University \u00a0of \u00a0Hong \u00a0Kong \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 This \u00a0panel \u00a0brings \u00a0together \u00a0a \u00a0series \u00a0of \u00a0related \u00a0critiques \u00a0over \u00a0labor \u00a0and \u00a0fairness \u00a0in \u00a0the \u00a0 sharing \u00a0economy. \u00a0 This \u00a0panel \u00a0begins \u00a0with \u00a0a \u00a0mapping \u00a0of \u00a0the \u00a0Chinese \u00a0sharing \u00a0economy. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9059", "words": "1431", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Shklovski, Irina; Hervik, Simon Bruun", "title": "THE SILLY PICTURES DISAPPEAR: EPHEMERAL SOCIAL MEDIA AS BOUNDARY PLAY", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "content; ephemerality; media; snapchat", "summary": "In contrast to the total recall and save everything ethos of digital pioneers (Bell & Gemmell, 2009), recent popularity of applications such as Snapchat that offer erasure of shared media by default suggests that ephemerality of digital content is important. The notion of ephemerality is in direct conflict with the underlying perception of permanence of digital content and its endless multiplication.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9060", "words": "1838", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Mercea, Dan; Funk, Andreas; Nixon, Paul", "title": "The Social Media Overture of the Pan-European Anti-ACTA Protest: An Empirical Examination of Coordination in Connective Action", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "acta; action; coordination; media; protest", "summary": "9 (2%) .84 Personal Communicatio n A post that is a comment unrelated to ACTA and anti-ACTA actions. The first derives from social movement scholarship and alerts investigators to the pivotal position of activist organisations in fostering mobilisation in collective action by way of incentivising prospective participants.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9061", "words": "9731", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Leavitt, Alex", "title": "The Source of Open-Source Culture: Participation in the Production of an Open Media Artifact, Minecraft", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "community; developers; experience; game; minecraft; mods; mojang; new; participants; participation; players; playing; process; produsage", "summary": "Minecraft players fall in line with Bartle\u2019s typology of game players: achievers (action on the world), explorers (interaction with the world), socializers (interaction with other players), and killers (action on other players) (Bartle 1996). While many players refer to their gameplay as simply \u201caddictive,\u201d familiarity with the game\u2019s mechanics and elements also impacts how players perceive the extent of Minecraft\u2019s world: for instance, experiences players prefer to explore advanced features and experiment with modifications, while new players are content to investigate the boundaries provided by the original game.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9062", "words": "5928", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Appignani, Timothy; Jones, Steve; Guzman, Andrea; Archer, Jason; Neill Hoch, Indira", "title": "THE SPECTACLE OF SPECTACLES", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "communication; construction; glass; google; media; new; packaging; people; press; research; technologies; technology", "summary": "Google Glass packaging looks a lot like Apple iPhone packaging. According to Glass-The World According to Glass.docx Selected Papers of Internet Research 16: The 16th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers Phoenix, AZ, USA / 21-24 October 2015 THE SPECTACLE OF SPECTACLES Tim Appignani University of Illinois at Chicago Though Google Glass has not yet been released in the consumer market, the release of its beta version, and the prospect of its future debut, have evoked immediate scholarly and popular response.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9063", "words": "1402", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Guth, Kristen; Brabham, Daren", "title": "THE SPIRIT OF TECHNOLOGY IN E-GOVERNMENT: DESIGNING DEMOCRACY CAPABILITIES FOR ONLINE CITIZEN-GOVERNMENT INTERACTION", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "government; science; study; technology; values", "summary": "Technology designers can strategically market these platforms to serve multiple constituencies and their desired values through particular vocabulary, while duly neglecting to acknowledge tensions in fulfilling these conflicting needs (Gillespie, 2010). Building on those investigations, this study seeks to explore questions about intentions built into crowdsourcing technologies, designers\u2019 thoughts about user groups, and intended outcomes of the technologies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9064", "words": "1538", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Shaffer, Gwen", "title": "THE TELECOM INDUSTRY EFFORT TO DEREGULATE IP-ENABLED SERVICES THROUGH CREATION OF A DIGITAL IMAGINARY", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "deregulation; discourse; imaginary; internet; state; voip", "summary": "New York lawmakers asserted that VoIP deregulation would allow rural residents to \u201cconnect to a new world of remote job opportunities.\u201d In Rhode Island, pending legislation states that VoIP deregulation is necessary to \u201cpromote the creation of new jobs.\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9065", "words": "1333", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Tildenberg, Katrin; Tekobbe, Cindy", "title": "THE THINGS WE CAN\u2019T SAY IN SELFIES \u2013 NARRATING THE SELF THROUGH GPOY, REACTION-GIF AND \u2018CURRENT STATUS\u2019 IMAGES", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "gpoy; images; self; status", "summary": "GPOY based visual self-narration is, thus, a result of identity work (Alvesson, Ashcraft & Thomas, 2008). Communicating in GPOY thus emerges as a coherent genre at the service of identity work.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9066", "words": "3523", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Forelle, Michelle", "title": "THE WILDERNESS ONLINE: HOW INTERACTIVITY IS CHANGING MUSIC VIDEOS ON THE INTERNET", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "dir; internet; music; music videos; new; videos; web; youtube", "summary": "HOW INTERACTIVITY IS CHANGING MUSIC VIDEOS ON THE INTERNET Michelle C Forelle Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism University of Southern California Video games are like video clips\u2026the game is the youth saving himself from the threat of domination posed by the industrialized world. It provides a history of music videos leading up to the ascendance of interactive music videos, and then explores a series of projects to illustrate the range of approaches the genre covers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9067", "words": "6626", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Massanari, Adrienne; Chess, Shira; Newsom, Eric; Phillips, Whitney; Milner, Ryan; Leavitt, Alex", "title": "Theorizing the \u201cWeird Internet\u201d: Case Studies in the Strange and Uncanny", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "asmr; behaviors; character; communities; culture; digital; fan; folklore; internet; man; media; new; press; researchers; slender; trypophobia; university", "summary": "A faceless Slender Man gets to have whatever face the fan chooses. The short story \u201cWhen Your Dad is Slender Man\u201d explores the inner life of the Slender Man\u2019s daughter.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9068", "words": "4013", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Echchaibi, Nabil; Liberman, Rachael; Whitehead, Deborah", "title": "Third Spaces, Religion and Spirituality in the Digital Age", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "communities; digital; islam; media; new; online; postsecret; religion; space; users", "summary": "Far from being mere technological events, religious third spaces in the digital realm are different not because they are radically new, but because they build from the ambivalent encounter of old and new forms of sociality and negotiate differing poles of cultural identity. I also look at how the site produces new religious practices and generates new templates and narratives of social action for its users while policing at the same time the terms and boundaries of what it calls modern Islam.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9069", "words": "5085", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Echchaibi, Nabil; Stadlbauer, Susanne; Rajabi, Samira; Evolvi, Giulia; Kim, Seung Soo", "title": "Third Spaces, Religion and Spirituality in the Digital Age Panel 2", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "internet; islamic; media; neda; neo; new; religion; salafism; space; video; world; youtube", "summary": "I analyze some Neo-Pagan and Wiccan presences (like the website www.wicca.com, The Celtic Connection) on the web to show how new spiritualties based on ancient rituals and beliefs can use Internet to enhance connections and to create new spaces of action. In this perspective, internet gives the possibility to create new meanings and new spaces where spirituality can be experienced in a way that is outside the mainstream view of religious rituals and practices of the society.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9071", "words": "1381", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Velkova, Julia", "title": "THRESHOLDS FOR PARTICIPATION IN OPEN ANIMATION PRODUCTION: A CRITICAL EXPLORATION OF SOME ASSUMPTIONS ON PEER-PRODUCTION", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "media; participation; production; project", "summary": "The case is one of two which I explore within a bigger research project on open- content media production with the aim to understand the mechanics and cultural aspects of producing independent industry-quality animation films in the domain of digital commons .\u201cMorevna\u201d project is an interesting case because in the course of 4 years it tried different models of alternative production. Coordination of production tasks over email and Internet with project contributors has been recognized as cumbersome and time- consuming.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9072", "words": "80", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "117", "author": "Last Name1, First Name1 Middle Name1; Last Name2, First Name2 Middle Name2", "title": "Title of Paper or Panel Goes Here", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "lot", "summary": "A lot of words here. A lot of words here.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9073", "words": "1661", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Koosel, Stacey May", "title": "TL;\u037eDR: TEMPORALITY SHIFTS IN DIGITAL CULTURE", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "culture; information; online; time", "summary": "Why \u00a0have \u00a0our \u00a0new \u00a0forms \u00a0of \u00a0entertainment \u00a0and \u00a0communication \u00a0lost \u00a0the \u00a0ability \u00a0to \u00a0 withstand \u00a0the \u00a0tests \u00a0of \u00a0time \u00a0and \u00a0stay \u00a0in \u00a0collective \u00a0memory? \u00a0 Often \u00a0online \u00a0writing \u00a0is \u00a0more \u00a0ephemeral \u00a0with \u00a0more \u00a0similarities \u00a0in \u00a0time \u00a0and \u00a0space \u00a0to \u00a0 spoken \u00a0conversation \u00a0rather \u00a0than \u00a0written \u00a0communication, \u00a0traditional \u00a0story \u00a0telling \u00a0and \u00a0 literature \u00a0genres. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9074", "words": "1268", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Giglietto, Fabio; Lee, Yenn", "title": "TO BE OR NOT TO BE CHARLIE: TWITTER HASHTAGS AS A DISCOURSE AND COUNTER-DISCOURSE IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE 2015 CHARLIE HEBDO SHOOTING IN FRANCE", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "charlie; hashtag; jenesuispascharlie; tweets", "summary": "Literature Review The present study draws upon a combination of three strands of work in the current scholarship: the network characteristics of Twitter-mediated discussion; the roles of hashtags in such discussion; and the expressions of identity in social media activism. We created a by-minute time series (N=6,444, AVG TPM=11.5) of activity and used the Breakout Detection R package, which had recently been open-sourced by Twitter (James, Kejariwal, & Matteson, 2014), to identify breakouts or shifts in the mean of tweet per minute (TPM).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9075", "words": "1240", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "25", "author": "Hestres, Luis", "title": "TOOLS BEYOND CONTROL: PRIVATE INFORMATION INTERMEDIARIES AND THE WORK OF ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "advocacy; intermediaries; tools", "summary": "If current trends hold, non-specialized private information intermediaries\u2014particularly social networking services\u2014should become even more important as collective action platforms. Content Censorship in Intermediary Platforms Some strategists recalled instances when non-specialized intermediaries disrupted their work more directly by censoring content.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9076", "words": "6027", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Boot, Peter", "title": "Towards a Genre Analysis of Online Book Discussion: socializing, participation and publication in the Dutch booksphere", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "affordances; book; book discussion; community; discussion; dutch; genre; information; number; reviews; sites; theme; web", "summary": "Summary site Sites collecting book summaries especially targeting high school students. Parts of the booksphere can be characterized along the lines of the produsage process described by Bruns (2008).5 But book sites can\u2019t be adequately described just in terms of the book reviews they produce.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9077", "words": "1283", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Kneidinger-M\u00fcller, Bernadette", "title": "TRACK YOURSELF AND SHARE WITH US. DIGITAL SELF-TRACKING AS A SOCIAL PRACTICE.", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "data; life; self; tracking", "summary": "Self-Tracking, also referred to as life-logging, quantified self or personal informatics, describes \u201cthe practice of systematically recording information about one\u2019s diet, health, or activities, typically by means of a smartphone, so as to discover behavioral patterns that may be adjusted to help improve one\u2019s physical or mental well-being\u201d (Oxford Dictionary). Long ago people like to store memories and life data in journals or diaries or record body related data (Swan 2013: 85).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9078", "words": "1278", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Florini, Sarah", "title": "Transgressive Networks: This Week in Blackness and Resistance through Online Programming", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "blackness; media; network; twib", "summary": "As a result of its transgressive programming, designed in ways that are largely incompatible with the logics of existing media networks, TWiB has found difficulty gaining support from advertisers and other media outlets. Keywords race and ethnicity; podcasts; independent media This paper explores the dynamics of power and resistance that surround the programming of the independent online media network This Week in Blackness (TWiB).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9079", "words": "783", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Enteen, Jillana Beth", "title": "Transitioning in Thailand Online", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "gender; thailand; websites", "summary": "Abstract This paper argues, via transnational cyberculture studies and the examination of English language websites generated in Thailand marketing gender-related surgeries, that both sexuality and gender are diffuse sets of social, political, and interpersonal expectations with particular histories and effects. This paper will show, through the examination of English language websites generated in Thailand marketing gender-related surgeries, that both sexuality and gender are diffuse sets of social, political, and interpersonal expectations with particular histories and effects.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9080", "words": "8374", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Hackl, Andrea; Newman, Todd", "title": "TRUVADA: PROMOTING GAY PROMISCUITY OR ENDING THE HIV STIGMA? THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ADVOCATE AS FACILITATORS OF ONLINE DEBATES AROUND THE HIV PREVENTION PILL", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "advocate; articles; comments; health; hiv; media; new york; news; pill; platforms; prevention; public; study; times; truvada; york", "summary": "News Media Frames Helping us Understand Public Health Debates This study seeks to advance the current literature by focusing not only on the frames of reference journalists adopt in their coverage on public health issues, but by further examining how reader perceptions align or differ with the news platforms\u2019 framing. Their findings suggest that early on in the coverage of the issue, commenter frames dictate media frames, but as coverage continues, news media frames become less influential on the frames used for online discourse.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9081", "words": "1339", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Navar-Gill, Annemarie", "title": "TWEETING @THEWRITERSROOM: MAPPING THE TELEVISION INDUSTRY'S IDEAL FAN THROUGH WRITERS' ROOM TWITTER ACCOUNTS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "fan; room; twitter; writers", "summary": "Twitter accounts are geared toward promoting fan identities that are productive for the industry, the specifics of the fan identities hailed vary based on the particular branding that the show and its network (or online distribution platform) are looking to support. Research Questions RQ1: What are the various social media strategies that writers\u2019 room Twitter accounts use to engage with fan audiences?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9082", "words": "1557", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Verdegem, Pieter; D'heer, Evelien; Mechant, Peter", "title": "Tweeting the elections in Belgium. An analysis of social and traditional cross-media patterns", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "actors; belgium; election; media; twitter", "summary": "The top ten receivers are all established or elite actors (i.e. politicians and media actors), whereas the top senders are primarily citizen-users. Denver, USA 3 In addition to hashtags referring to politicians or political parties (N= 2763) and municipalities (N= 2513), we found a moderate amount of hashtags related to traditional media outlets (N= 902).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9083", "words": "1685", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "singh, sava saheli", "title": "Tweeting to the Choir: Online Performance and Academic Identity", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "academic; practices; scholars; scholarship; twitter", "summary": "They assert that the movement of scholarly practice into a more techno-cultural space is influenced by the change from a passive culture to a more participatory one as noted by Jenkins et al (2009), leading to more collaboration and crowd-sourcing. Propagating publications \u2013 both traditional and non- traditional \u2013 via Twitter and creating platform-specific artifacts like \u201cstorified\u201d conversations are things scholars seeking to legitimize alternative forms of scholarship do to give voice to their dissatisfactions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9084", "words": "1427", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad; Brown, Christopher; Abu-Elhij'a, Dua'a", "title": "Twitter in the Context of the Arab Spring", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "arabic; spring; tweets; twitter", "summary": "The fact that cultural and political tweets are the most frequent in TAC indicates that Arabic Twitter users are less interested in personal issues than they are in community-based issues. Except for some initial analyses (Abdul-Mageed & Albogmi, 2011; Abdul-Mageed, Albogmi, Gerrio, Hamed & Aldibasi, 2011; Abdul-Mageed & Abu Mostafa, 2012; Abdul-Mageed, 2013), Arabic Twitter has not been the target of much research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9085", "words": "1484", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Holmes, Jeff", "title": "Twitter Storytelling as a New Literacy Practice", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "feed; stories; story; twitter", "summary": "Keywords Literacy; transmedia; social media; performance; discourse Introduction This paper argues that the growing number of fictional stories told through social media site Twitter represents a new form of literacy practice. But it is also about how we share and access stories in multiple contexts and through multiple lenses; it is about how we tell fictional stories in truthful ways, and ways in which the truths of the stories are bound to the fictions of the everyday world.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9086", "words": "1177", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Davies, Rodrigo", "title": "THREE PROVOCATIONS FOR CIVIC CROWDFUNDING", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "crowdfunding; davies; new; projects", "summary": "Yet on the other hand, civic crowdfunding can also be framed as a mechanism that expands the range of public-private partnerships that are possible, since government can partner with crowdfunded groups. The campaigns, which emerged within a few days of each other, demonstrated the risk of a 'contagion effect' through which resourced communities could use civic crowdfunding campaigns from other localities as templates for building their replacement public services.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9087", "words": "1686", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "de Souza e Silva, Adriana; Froes, Isabel", "title": "Urban Jamification: Gincanas as location-based mobile games in Brazil", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "games; location; mobile; silva; souza", "summary": "Playful urban spaces: A historical approach to mobile games. By exploring the history of Brazilian gincanas and how they have evolved through the spread and appropriation of mobile technologies, this article addresses two main research questions: (1) how mobility and the configuration of urban space influence the design and performance of location-based mobile games; and (2) how the urban and socio-economic context of developing countries, specifically Brazil, shape mobile technology appropriation and location- based mobile game design.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9088", "words": "1480", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Bray, Matthew Thomas", "title": "User or Not, Forever an Endorser: FTC Regulation of Online Endorsement and Content Control", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "ftc; guides; online", "summary": "The FTC Revised Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsement and Testimonials in Advertising (hereinafter Guides) was an attempt to gain a modicum of control over online commercial speech. Was it or is it necessary to regulate online commercial speech with the Guides?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9089", "words": "1686", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Amaral, Adriana da Rosa; Souza, Rosana Vieira", "title": "User resistance and repurposing: a look at the iOS jailbreaking scene in Brazil", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "apps; devices; ios; jailbreaking; users", "summary": "The study is based on a qualitative approach that examined both motivations to engage in jailbreaking and critical incidents and included interviews with Cydia Store users from Brazil, the primary jailbreak apps store available to users of iOS devices. Some scholars (Benkler, 2006; Galloway, 2006 and Zittrain, 2008) point out that users of mobile devices are being locked down in a new wave of closed environments.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9090", "words": "1705", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Choi, Beatrice", "title": "USER TE\u0301CINO: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, EMERGING TECHNICAL ACTORS, AND BRAZILIAN OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "brazil; computer; policy; software; state; technology", "summary": "The rhetoric concerning the local production of computer technology, its transfer between international markets, and the State\u2019s protectionist role in the market during the dictatorship diverges greatly from the tone that the prior president takes in the present. foster protectionist measures for local computer production to provide an incubating space for Brazilian innovators (Tigre 1983, Evans 1986, Schwartzman 1988).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9091", "words": "1241", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Buchbach, Jacinta", "title": "USER\u2019S DIGITAL IMAGINARIES OF SELF USURPED THROUGH WORK: WHY USERS AUTONOMY IS AT RISK", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "employees; media; policies; work", "summary": "By conducting a legal analysis of social media policies through the theoretical lens of boundary theory, I argue that restrictive policies impede an employee\u2019s ability to manage their identities by collapsing boundaries which facilitate further blurring of domains. Employees are legally bound to follow social media policies which exist as either contractual terms within the employment contract or as directive guidelines in policies.1 Organisations typically implement social media policies that constrain employee behaviour in an effort to minimise the firm\u2019s legal and reputational risk.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9092", "words": "1754", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Boxman-Shabtai, Lillian", "title": "USER-GENERATED PARODY AS NEGOTIATION OVER MEANING:A TYPOLOGY OF FRAME ALIGNMENT IN MUSICAL RENDITIONS", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "alignment; frame; music; original; parody; video", "summary": "Taxonomy of frame alignment in music video parodies Frame Bridging Frame Extension Referential frame transformation Rhetorical frame transformation Frame abandonment Definition The reproduction of a frame into a new text Extension of frame's original boundaries to encompass new meanings Referential components in original frame reversed to convey opposite meaning Rhetorical components in the original frame exposed and ridiculed Original material used as a shell to which unrelated meanings and frames are cast Content similar broadened twisted/reversed meta- communicative un-related Stance uncritical uncritical thematic critique textual critique, critique of artist uncritical Salient form close- rendition spin-off spin-off close-rendition spin-off User-generated parody as negotiation over meaning: A typology of frame alignment in musical renditions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9093", "words": "1817", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Liao, Tony Chung Li; Humphreys, Lee", "title": "Using Mobile Augmented Reality to Tactically Re-Encounter, Re-Create, and Re-Appropriate Public Spaces", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "mobile; place; reality; space", "summary": "As augmented reality (AR) is becoming technologically possible and publicly available through mobile smartphone and tablet devices, there has been relatively little empirical research studying how people are utilizing mobile AR technologies and forming social practices around mobile AR. While there are structural and pervasive power asymmetries in the strategic creation of physical spaces, we see examples in this study where people are utilizing mobile AR technology to tactically exert their own power on these places.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9094", "words": "1313", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Menchen-Trevino, Ericka", "title": "Using web browsing histories to facilitate multi-method research", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "data; history; web", "summary": "Furthermore, \u00a0this \u00a0user-\u00adfocused \u00a0data \u00a0crosses \u00a0between \u00a0platforms \u00a0where \u00a0 data \u00a0is \u00a0often \u00a0siloed, \u00a0such \u00a0as \u00a0different \u00a0social \u00a0media \u00a0sites \u00a0and \u00a0web \u00a0services \u00a0making \u00a0it \u00a0 particularly \u00a0useful \u00a0for \u00a0extending \u00a0platform-\u00adbased \u00a0studies \u00a0of \u00a0digital \u00a0traces \u00a0(Menchen-\u00ad Trevino, \u00a02013). \u00a0 This \u00a0project \u00a0will \u00a0 build \u00a0on \u00a0the \u00a0work \u00a0of \u00a0Dubious \u00a0and \u00a0Ford \u00a0by \u00a0using \u00a0a \u00a0different \u00a0and \u00a0more \u00a0individual-\u00adfocused \u00a0 form \u00a0of \u00a0data. \u00a0 \u00a0", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9095", "words": "1239", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Fisk, Nathan", "title": "VILE PORNOGRAPHY, SEXUAL MISCREANTS, AND ELECTRONIC STALKERS \u2013 POLICY DISCOURSES OF YOUTH INTERNET SAFETY", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "information; internet; technology; youth", "summary": "Across the generations of youth who have had access to information technologies, prevalent media and legislative discourses have taken as their object the protection of children as they go about playing, communicating and working online. As such, the various concerns over youth Internet safety can be contextualized within the broader, disjointed shift from disciplinary society (Foucault, 1977) to societies of control (Deleuze, 1992), undergirded by the adoption of information technologies.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9096", "words": "1506", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Rickman, Aimee", "title": "Virtually managing (in)visibility: Girls, social media, and rural U.S. family relationships", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "family; media; research; use", "summary": "Keywords: social media; youth; gender; family The past decade has seen in a steady growth in social media use throughout the United States. While 55% of teen internet users took part in social media in 2006, in 2011, 80% reported being social media users.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9097", "words": "1302", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Witte, John James", "title": "VISION, KNOWLEDGE, POWER: EROWID.ORG AND THE \u201cTRIP REPORT\u201d", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "internet; media; reports; trip", "summary": "From Albert Hoffman\u2019s first account of his legendary bicycle ride, to the writings of drug luminaries like Timothy Leary and Aldous Huxley, trip reports have striven to describe the indescribable. Whole sections of older communities like WELL and Usenet are dedicated to the posting of trip reports, and the tradition has continued onto newer forums like Reddit and 4chan.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9098", "words": "1247", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Aufderheide, Patricia; Sinnreich, Aram", "title": "Visual Arts in Digital and Online Environments: Changing Copyright and Fair Use Practice among Institutions and Individuals Abstract", "date": "2016.0", "keywords": "arts; code; use", "summary": "Permissions, \u00a0a \u00a0survival \u00a0guide \u00a0: \u00a0blunt \u00a0talk \u00a0about \u00a0art \u00a0as \u00a0 intellectual \u00a0property. \u00a0 Selected Papers of AoIR 2016: The 17th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers Berlin, Germany / 5-8 October 2016 \u00a0 VISUAL \u00a0ARTS \u00a0IN \u00a0DIGITAL \u00a0AND \u00a0ONLINE \u00a0ENVIRONMENTS: \u00a0CHANGING \u00a0 COPYRIGHT \u00a0AND \u00a0FAIR \u00a0USE \u00a0PRACTICE \u00a0AMONG \u00a0INSTITUTIONS \u00a0AND \u00a0 INDIVIDUALS \u00a0 \u00a0 Patricia \u00a0Aufderheide, \u00a0American \u00a0University \u00a0 Aram \u00a0Sinnreich, \u00a0American \u00a0University \u00a0 Louisa \u00a0Imperiale, \u00a0American \u00a0University \u00a0 \u00a0 Abstract \u00a0 \u00a0 This \u00a0study \u00a0measures \u00a0changes \u00a0in \u00a0behavior \u00a0and \u00a0attitudes \u00a0about \u00a0fair \u00a0use \u00a0among \u00a0 visual \u00a0arts \u00a0professionals, \u00a0the \u00a0future \u00a0of \u00a0whose \u00a0field \u00a0depends \u00a0on \u00a0advancing \u00a0into \u00a0 online, \u00a0digital \u00a0environments \u00a0that \u00a0depend \u00a0upon \u00a0it. ", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9099", "words": "1745", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Leonard, Lynnette G.; Sherblom, John C.; Withers, Lesley A.", "title": "Voice in a virtual world: From resistance to appropriation", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "communication; group; time; use; voice", "summary": "Communication research: Asking questions, finding answers. Introduction to communication research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9100", "words": "1246", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Johnson, Amy", "title": "VOICING TECHNOLOGICAL OBJECTS ON TWITTER: FROM @big_ben_clock to @SelfAwareROOMBA", "date": "2014.0", "keywords": "anthropology; objects; twitter; voice; voicing", "summary": "This corpus of Twitter accounts offers a unique opportunity to explore how we understand this phenomenon\u2014when we look at how we voice technological objects on Twitter, we see not necessarily how posthuman society is, but how we currently imagine it and ourselves as members of it. VOICING TECHNOLOGICAL OBJECTS ON TWITTER: FROM @big_ben_clock to @SelfAwareROOMBA Amy Johnson Massachusetts Institute of Technology On Twitter, existence is envoiced rather than embodied.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9101", "words": "7839", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Taylor, Nicholas; Szablewicz, Marcella; Bowman, Nicholas; Harper, Todd", "title": "Watching the Watchers: New Perspectives on Spectatorship, Gaming and Online Media", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "audience; china; culture; events; games; gaming; internet; media; mlg; performance; play; research; spectatorship; sports; taylor; video", "summary": "These findings resonate with existing literature on public video game play and competition, particularly in the form of analysis of e-sports competitions and competitive gaming. Boasting over 23 million subscribers a month, the platform has not only offered a means for e-sports organizations, teams and individual players to reach potentially massive audiences, but it has served to further enact and legitimate the notion of gaming as something we watch as well as something we do.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9105", "words": "1297", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Appignani, Timothy; Jones, Steve; Watson-Manheim, Mary Beth; Welch, Eric", "title": "SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE WORKPLACE", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "media; research; use; work; workplace", "summary": "By examining the impact of social media use at the level of individual users engaged in a variety of job types across a university campus our research will help to expand the current research landscape on social media, which is dominated by literature focused on either organizational social media or enterprise social media. The primary objectives were to understand: 1) the extent of social media use in the organization and the purpose of this use, 2) how employees use the tools to manage and integrate or separate work and non-work activities, 3) how social media networks coincide (or not) with an individual\u2019s work network 4) what implications there are for collaboration and other work-related outcomes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9106", "words": "3543", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "singh, sava saheli", "title": "SUBVERTING SOCIAL MEDIA", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "features; media; new; people; tweets; twitter; users; way", "summary": "In what seems to be an attempt to emulate Facebook, Twitter introduced this feature to show users tweets they might have missed from people they follow, based on engagement and other metrics (Rosania, 2015). In the context of researching behavior in and culture of these spaces, these kinds of uses of Twitter features can add messiness \u2013 desired and undesired (Tufekci, 2014) \u2013 to the data collected.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9107", "words": "10230", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Troumbley, Rex", "title": "DIGITAL POLITICAL THOUGHT AND THE REWRITABLE USER", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "app; books; clean; community; content; control; data; digital; facebook; freedom; ibid; internet; language; march; new; press; reader; speech; state; technology; u.s; users; words", "summary": "I then turn to the more difficult study of digital language control by examining technical interventions into the conditions under which expressions can be made, \u201cpre-speech\u201d and interventions into the \u201cchoice architecture\u201d of digital interfaces. Instead, digital language control simply counts every expression made by every user and, as Deleuze puts it, \u201csubstitutes for the individual or numerical body the code of a \u2018dividual\u2019 material to be controlled.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9110", "words": "10590", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Ems, Lindsay", "title": "CRITICAL MAKING: AMISH INNOVATION FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT", "date": "2015.0", "keywords": "amish; business; communities; company; computers; email; figure; internet; making; noah; owner; printing; service; use; word; work", "summary": "In this way, the technologies appearing in this publication communicate standards for what technologies are acceptable among Amish business owners and what are not. In other cases Amish business owners had employees and/or relatives who were not Amish who made use of computers, software and the internet for them.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9111", "words": "4408", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Millette, melanie", "title": "Independent Podcasting as a Specific Online Participative Subculture: a case study of Montreal\u2019s podcasters", "date": "2011.0", "keywords": "audio; broadcasting; content; media; podcasters; podcasting; practice; radio; subculture; usage", "summary": "The project is directed by Professor Serge Proulx; Professor Lorna Heaton is conducting a case study on a botanical wiki (TelaBotanica), Mary Jane Kwok Choon is studying the use of Facebook by two NGOs in Mauritius, and I am doing a third case study on independent podcasters and the linkage between their individual and group contributions. In the discussions of Montreal podcasters and their listeners, we observed recurring references to urban and local geography.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "spir-9112", "words": "1965", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Spencer-Scarr, Diane", "title": "Understanding Digital Network Engagement: Aiding Resistance and Appropriation of Technology", "date": "2013.0", "keywords": "engagement; individual; personality; research; technology", "summary": "Abstract Some individuals actively resist the impact of digital network technology or appropriate it for their own ends while others passively accept it. Keywords engagement; personality; decision-making; individual Commercial interests use digital network technology to extract benefits from audience engagement aiming for exclusive locked in relationships not necessarily to the individuals\u2019 advantage.", "mime": "application/pdf"}]