item: #1 of 1758 id: spir-10019 author: Abidin, Crystal title: Towards A Theory Of Cross-Media Networked Microcelebrity: Of Bedrooms, Blogsites, Broadcasts, And Boardrooms date: 2017.0 words: 1281 flesch: 45 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. keywords: case; fame; internet; media; microcelebrity cache: spir-10019.pdf plain text: spir-10019.txt item: #2 of 1758 id: spir-10020 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 words: 4807 flesch: 45 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 “not a medium through which humans interact, but rather a medium with which humans interact” (Zhao, 2006, p. 402, emphasis added). keywords: advertisers; algorithms; communication; edwards; human; interaction; journalism; machine; paper; people; publics; robot cache: spir-10020.pdf plain text: spir-10020.txt item: #3 of 1758 id: spir-10022 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 words: 6094 flesch: 53 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. keywords: communities; culture; digital; game; groups; media; new; offline; online; private; production; public; spaces cache: spir-10022.pdf plain text: spir-10022.txt item: #4 of 1758 id: spir-10023 author: Frith, Jordan; Farman, Jason; Wilken, Rowan; Oppegaard, Brett; Meyer, Joseph title: The Temporality Of Mobile Media date: 2017.0 words: 5644 flesch: 55 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. keywords: location; media; messages; new; people; place; research; rhythms; space; text; time; yak; yik cache: spir-10023.pdf plain text: spir-10023.txt item: #5 of 1758 id: spir-10024 author: Golan, Oren; Evolvi, Giulia; Martini, Michele; Scott, Sasha; Vaisman, Carmel title: Religious Networked Publics: Seeking Authenticity By Digital Means date: 2017.0 words: 5813 flesch: 44 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). keywords: apps; authenticity; digital; internet; live; media; muslim; new; online; religion; ritual; women cache: spir-10024.pdf plain text: spir-10024.txt item: #6 of 1758 id: spir-10025 author: Harvey, Alison; Bain, Jessica; Whiteman, Natasha; Rambukkana, Nathan title: Networked Niceness: Gendered Affective Publics and Potentialities of Political Resistance date: 2017.0 words: 5697 flesch: 45 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 “human” in online research. keywords: affective; culture; digital; ethics; feminist; games; media; new; online; paper; publics; research; studies; support; university; women cache: spir-10025.pdf plain text: spir-10025.txt item: #7 of 1758 id: spir-10026 author: Lehto, Mari; Hynnä, Kaisu; Light, Ben; Tudor, Matilda; Cassidy, Elija title: Digital Networks, Digital Pub(L)Ics (2): Gender, Sex, Embodiment date: 2017.0 words: 5198 flesch: 52 summary: Through technological networks Niitti’s 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. keywords: body; digital; gay; media; men; new; online; paper; public; queer; selfies; sexuality; work cache: spir-10026.pdf plain text: spir-10026.txt item: #8 of 1758 id: spir-10027 author: Markham, Annette; Lingel, Jessa; Møller, Kristian; Driscoll, Kevin; Warfield, Katie title: Making Sense Of Life In 2017 - Metaphors Of The Internet date: 2017.0 words: 7066 flesch: 52 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. keywords: experience; internet; life; markham; media; metaphors; online; paper; place; press; sense; space; time; users; way cache: spir-10027.pdf plain text: spir-10027.txt item: #9 of 1758 id: spir-10028 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 words: 6796 flesch: 47 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). keywords: amateur; consumption; content; fantasies; labour; media; new; paper; porn; pornography; production; queer; rape; sex; studies; work cache: spir-10028.pdf plain text: spir-10028.txt item: #10 of 1758 id: spir-10029 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 words: 4668 flesch: 45 summary: By looking at democracy’s 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). keywords: cities; citizen; data; governance; new; paper; participation; practices; privacy; society; system; technology cache: spir-10029.pdf plain text: spir-10029.txt item: #11 of 1758 id: spir-10030 author: Tiidenberg, Katrin; Schreiber, Maria; Lehmuskallio, Asko; Fausing, Bent; Bechmann, Anja; Markham, Annette; Seppänen, Janne; Häkkinen, Jukka title: Panel: Shifts In Socially Mediated Visual Cultures: Images By/For Machines And Humans date: 2017.0 words: 6968 flesch: 51 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. keywords: affordances; communication; culture; digital; images; instagram; media; new; photography; pictures; practices; sense; snapchat; university cache: spir-10030.pdf plain text: spir-10030.txt item: #12 of 1758 id: spir-10031 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 words: 4930 flesch: 49 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 ‘materialist’ account. keywords: affect; analysis; events; hate; images; media; new; online; platforms; racism; speech; university; web cache: spir-10031.pdf plain text: spir-10031.txt item: #13 of 1758 id: spir-10032 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 words: 4365 flesch: 44 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. keywords: action; bots; election; internet; media; news; paper; propaganda; public; the_donald; twitter cache: spir-10032.pdf plain text: spir-10032.txt item: #14 of 1758 id: spir-10033 author: Allen-Robertson, James title: The Uber Game: Exploring Algorithmic Management and Resistance date: 2017.0 words: 1271 flesch: 50 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. keywords: game; management; paper; rules cache: spir-10033.pdf plain text: spir-10033.txt item: #15 of 1758 id: spir-10034 author: Ask, Kristine; Abidin, Crystal title: My Life Is A Mess: Self-Deprecating Relatability And The Memefication Of Student Publics date: 2017.0 words: 1273 flesch: 41 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? keywords: education; memes; publics; student cache: spir-10034.pdf plain text: spir-10034.txt item: #16 of 1758 id: spir-10035 author: Beauvisage, Thomas; Mellet, Kevin title: The Ordinary Market For Fake Likes date: 2017.0 words: 1264 flesch: 45 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). keywords: followers; likes; market; media cache: spir-10035.pdf plain text: spir-10035.txt item: #17 of 1758 id: spir-10036 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 words: 1329 flesch: 47 summary: Forums such as r/RetroGaming encourage discussion of nostalgic gaming memories. Enjoyment was more prevalent in recent memories. keywords: entertainment; experiences; gaming; memories cache: spir-10036.pdf plain text: spir-10036.txt item: #18 of 1758 id: spir-10037 author: Brandtzaeg, Petter Bae; Chaparro Domínguez, María Ángeles; Følstad, Asbjørn title: Context Collapse In News date: 2017.0 words: 1414 flesch: 45 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. keywords: context; media; news; stories cache: spir-10037.pdf plain text: spir-10037.txt item: #19 of 1758 id: spir-10038 author: Brandtzaeg, Petter Bae; Lüders, Marika; Følstad, Asbjørn title: How To Understand Trust In News Media – A Theoretical Model date: 2017.0 words: 1671 flesch: 50 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. keywords: media; model; news; trust; user cache: spir-10038.pdf plain text: spir-10038.txt item: #20 of 1758 id: spir-10039 author: Büchi, Moritz; Festic, Noemi; Latzer, Micheal title: Consequences Of Digital Divides: How Internet Use Affects Social Well-Being date: 2017.0 words: 1277 flesch: 42 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). keywords: internet; research; use cache: spir-10039.pdf plain text: spir-10039.txt item: #21 of 1758 id: spir-10040 author: Carter, Marcus; Gibbs, Martin; Witkowski, Emma title: Understanding eSports Spectatorship: Players, Fans, Recruits date: 2017.0 words: 1258 flesch: 49 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 “keeping up with the metagame” and “trying to understand how changes would change the way I have to play” drove them to third-party sites to engage with eSports content. keywords: content; esports; media; players cache: spir-10040.pdf plain text: spir-10040.txt item: #22 of 1758 id: spir-10041 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 words: 1300 flesch: 52 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. keywords: australia; gay; line; men cache: spir-10041.pdf plain text: spir-10041.txt item: #23 of 1758 id: spir-10042 author: Chia, Aleena title: Game Analytics and Participatory Efficacy date: 2017.0 words: 1279 flesch: 38 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’s vaunted electoral processes, and more because of their legitimation of “datafied” forms of collective self-knowledge that are not aggregated from players’ opinions and choices, but are extracted from game analytics. keywords: analytics; company; efficacy; game; players cache: spir-10042.pdf plain text: spir-10042.txt item: #24 of 1758 id: spir-10043 author: Daoudi, Omar title: The Saudi Government Reactions to YouTube based Programming: the Content Makers’ Perspective date: 2017.0 words: 1270 flesch: 51 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. keywords: media; research; saudi; youtube cache: spir-10043.pdf plain text: spir-10043.txt item: #25 of 1758 id: spir-10044 author: Daskal, Efrat; Orlova, Anna title: Performing Internet Governance: The Case Study of Youth Participation in The Internet Governance Forum date: 2017.0 words: 1229 flesch: 42 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 – 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) keywords: igf; internet; youth cache: spir-10044.pdf plain text: spir-10044.txt item: #26 of 1758 id: spir-10045 author: De Wolf, Ralf Patrick; Heyman, Rob title: Towards A Networked Privacy Paradigm: Assumptions And Implications date: 2017.0 words: 1141 flesch: 44 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’ right to be let alone, Westin’s privacy control, Nissenbaum’s contextual integrity, Petronio’s communication privacy management theory and recent work on networked privacy. keywords: management; privacy; users cache: spir-10045.pdf plain text: spir-10045.txt item: #27 of 1758 id: spir-10046 author: Djeffal, Christian title: Smart Government: Updating eGovernment with the IoT date: 2017.0 words: 9309 flesch: 52 summary: Internet der Dinge. im Internet der Dinge. keywords: act; administration; applications; baden; case; data; der; des; die; federal; government; internet; iot; law; protection; public; smart; systems; things; und; verwaltung cache: spir-10046.pdf plain text: spir-10046.txt item: #28 of 1758 id: spir-10047 author: Dremljuga, Ramona-Riin title: Practicing Disconnection in The Digital Age date: 2017.0 words: 1184 flesch: 44 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’ perceptions of social media in rural Zambia. keywords: disconnected; disconnection; media cache: spir-10047.pdf plain text: spir-10047.txt item: #29 of 1758 id: spir-10049 author: Duguay, Stefanie title: hirst Traps And #Relatable Vines: Investigating A Networked Counterpublic Of Queer Women date: 2017.0 words: 1333 flesch: 53 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’s now defunct video social network. keywords: queer; videos; vine; women cache: spir-10049.pdf plain text: spir-10049.txt item: #30 of 1758 id: spir-10050 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 words: 1289 flesch: 47 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. keywords: anonymity; information; internet; online cache: spir-10050.pdf plain text: spir-10050.txt item: #31 of 1758 id: spir-10051 author: Felt, Mylynn; Bakardjieva, Maria; Dumitrica, Delia title: The Mediatization Of Leadership: Grassroots Digital Facilitators As Organic Intellectuals date: 2017.0 words: 1226 flesch: 42 summary: Networks of outrage and hope: Social movements in the internet age. Social movements in an organizational society. keywords: leadership; media; movements cache: spir-10051.pdf plain text: spir-10051.txt item: #32 of 1758 id: spir-10052 author: Frost-Arnold, Karen title: How An Epistemology Of Ignorance Maintains Wikipedia’s Gender Gap date: 2017.0 words: 1324 flesch: 47 summary: Passing On is an experiment that uses reader-sourcing to create Wikipedia content to increase the coverage of women’s 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. keywords: gap; gender; ignorance; wikipedia cache: spir-10052.pdf plain text: spir-10052.txt item: #33 of 1758 id: spir-10053 author: Ganito, Carla Susana; Jorge, Ana title: On And Off: Digital Practices Of Connecting And Disconnecting Across The Life Course date: 2017.0 words: 1314 flesch: 58 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). keywords: course; internet; life; media; use cache: spir-10053.pdf plain text: spir-10053.txt item: #34 of 1758 id: spir-10054 author: Gerrard, Ysabel title: If You’re Going Through Something Difficult, We’d Like To Help: The Limitations Of Hashtag Logics In Pro-Eating Disorder Content Moderation date: 2017.0 words: 1306 flesch: 61 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’ 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. keywords: content; hashtag; media cache: spir-10054.pdf plain text: spir-10054.txt item: #35 of 1758 id: spir-10055 author: Gibbs, Martin; Carter, Marcus; Nansen, Bjorn title: Those Led-Lit Water-Kooled Multi-Screen Streamline Battlestations date: 2017.0 words: 1638 flesch: 45 summary: Battlestations are, we contend, monuments built and displayed to celebrate the personal computer’s 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. keywords: battlestations; computer; culture; figure; gaming cache: spir-10055.pdf plain text: spir-10055.txt item: #36 of 1758 id: spir-10056 author: Halegoua, Germaine; Lingel, Jessa title: Invisibility And Hypervisibility: Imagining Publics For Urban Broadband Networks date: 2017.0 words: 1432 flesch: 49 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. keywords: dark; fiber; internet; networks; public cache: spir-10056.pdf plain text: spir-10056.txt item: #37 of 1758 id: spir-10057 author: Hänska, Max; Bauchowitz, Stefan title: Mapping Twitter’s Information Sphere In The Lead-Up To The Brexit Referendum: How Eurosceptic Views Outpaced Their Rivals date: 2017.0 words: 1685 flesch: 56 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. keywords: leave; referendum; twitter; users cache: spir-10057.pdf plain text: spir-10057.txt item: #38 of 1758 id: spir-10058 author: Hoffmann, Christian Pieter; Lutz, Christoph; Müller, Severina; Meckle, Miriam title: Accidental Online Political Engagement: The Role of Social Media Escapism in Online Political Participation date: 2017.0 words: 1285 flesch: 49 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. keywords: escapism; facebook; opp; use cache: spir-10058.pdf plain text: spir-10058.txt item: #39 of 1758 id: spir-10059 author: Hoyng, Rolien title: Transparency as Rupture: Open Data and the Datafied Society of Hong Kong date: 2017.0 words: 1202 flesch: 45 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 “bordering” of data—the decision over the borders of Open Data--itself? Transparency as Rupture: Open Data and the Datafied Society of Hong Kong. keywords: data; hong; kong; transparency cache: spir-10059.pdf plain text: spir-10059.txt item: #40 of 1758 id: spir-10064 author: Jenson, Jennifer; Herbert, Cristyne title: Moving From Theory To Practice: Creating Empirical, Digital Game-Based Research With K-12 Teachers date: 2017.0 words: 1300 flesch: 57 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 Hébert 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). keywords: classroom; game; learning; play cache: spir-10064.pdf plain text: spir-10064.txt item: #41 of 1758 id: spir-10065 author: John, Nicholas title: Transparency, Research And Facebook: The Case Of Facebook.Com/Peace date: 2017.0 words: 1376 flesch: 51 summary: My own survey of a representative sample of the Israel’s 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’ friending behaviors. keywords: data; facebook; figure; media cache: spir-10065.pdf plain text: spir-10065.txt item: #42 of 1758 id: spir-10066 author: Kappler, Karolin Eva title: The Interplay Of Different Publics In Big Crisis Data date: 2017.0 words: 1026 flesch: 37 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. keywords: big; data; publics; social cache: spir-10066.pdf plain text: spir-10066.txt item: #43 of 1758 id: spir-10067 author: Kaufmann, Katja title: Navigating A New Life: Syrian Refugees And Their Smartphones In Vienna date: 2017.0 words: 1270 flesch: 53 summary: Forced migrants, new media practices, and the creation of locality. Mobility, migration and new media: Manoeuvring through physical, digital and liminal spaces. keywords: digital; media; new; refugees; smartphones cache: spir-10067.pdf plain text: spir-10067.txt item: #44 of 1758 id: spir-10068 author: Kiel, Paula title: Networked Publics and the Social Construction of Death, Dying and Bereavement in a Digital Age date: 2017.0 words: 1287 flesch: 52 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. keywords: death; practices; websites cache: spir-10068.pdf plain text: spir-10068.txt item: #45 of 1758 id: spir-10069 author: Kim, Young Rim title: Imagining Transnational Virus In The Digital Sphere – A Case Study Of Zika Virus During 2016 Rio Olympic Games date: 2017.0 words: 1517 flesch: 48 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 ‘critical techno-cultural discourse analysis’ (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. keywords: comments; disease; facebook; study cache: spir-10069.pdf plain text: spir-10069.txt item: #46 of 1758 id: spir-10070 author: Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta; Literat, Ioana title: Formative Events, Networked Spaces, And The Political Socialization Of Youth date: 2017.0 words: 1416 flesch: 55 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’ relationship towards politics, with a particular concern for young people. keywords: election; people; spaces; youth cache: spir-10070.pdf plain text: spir-10070.txt item: #47 of 1758 id: spir-10071 author: Knight, Jennifer; Bowman, Nicholas; Banks, Jaime; Primack, Brian; Colditz, Jason; Shensa, Ariel title: What’s On My Mind: Using Social Media To Discuss Stressful Situations date: 2017.0 words: 1293 flesch: 55 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: “Can you describe for us the type(s) of stressful or emotional situations that you typically discuss on social media?” School/Work, Daily Personal Struggles, and Relational Conflict all contained venting—a common motivation for SM use, particularly for people without offline support networks (Baker & Moore, 2008). keywords: people; support cache: spir-10071.pdf plain text: spir-10071.txt item: #48 of 1758 id: spir-10072 author: Koene, Ansgar; Perez Vallejos, Elvira; Webb, Helena; Patel, Menisha title: Human Agency on Algorithmic Systems date: 2017.0 words: 1356 flesch: 31 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 ‘fairness’ enhancing factors. keywords: algorithm; behavior; results; systems; user cache: spir-10072.pdf plain text: spir-10072.txt item: #49 of 1758 id: spir-10073 author: Koltsova, Olessia; Koltcov, Sergey; Nikolenko, Sergel; Alexeeva, Svetlana; Nagorny, Oleg title: National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation date: 2017.0 words: 1398 flesch: 48 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 “indigenous” to post-Soviet space. keywords: ethnicity; groups; russian cache: spir-10073.pdf plain text: spir-10073.txt item: #50 of 1758 id: spir-10074 author: Kotliar, Dan M title: Epistemic Amalgams: On Language, Theory And Expertise In Algorithmic Social Sorting date: 2017.0 words: 904 flesch: 55 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 – banking, insurance, education and more (Kennedy, 2016; Kockelman, 2013; O’Neil, 2016). What kinds of theories take part in algorithmic sorting, in the algorithmic construction of identities? keywords: data; language; new; sorting cache: spir-10074.pdf plain text: spir-10074.txt item: #51 of 1758 id: spir-10075 author: Laaksonen, Salla-Maaria; Porttikivi, Merja title: Jamming The Political With “Intergalactic Peace” – Constitution Of An Anti-Racist Online S date: 2017.0 words: 1402 flesch: 47 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 “the 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”. keywords: communication; episodes; jamming cache: spir-10075.pdf plain text: spir-10075.txt item: #52 of 1758 id: spir-10076 author: Lawson, Caitlin title: “Meanwhile I’m over here butt naked on CNN”: A multiplatform discourse analysis of the Leslie Jones hack date: 2017.0 words: 1553 flesch: 53 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. “Meanwhile I’m over here butt naked on CNN”: A multiplatform discourse analysis of the Leslie Jones hack. keywords: discourse; hack; jones; right; twitter cache: spir-10076.pdf plain text: spir-10076.txt item: #53 of 1758 id: spir-10077 author: Literat, Ioana title: Contemporary Creativity Online: An Examination of the Interplay between Art and Vernacular Creativity on the Internet date: 2017.0 words: 1275 flesch: 42 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. keywords: art; creativity; internet; online cache: spir-10077.pdf plain text: spir-10077.txt item: #54 of 1758 id: spir-10078 author: Lokot, Tetyana title: #IAmNotAfraidToSayIt: Stories of Sexual Violence as Everyday Political Speech on Facebook date: 2017.0 words: 1199 flesch: 50 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 “within the personal”, which Highfield (2016) notes is a key characteristic of mundane political exchanges on social media as they are not always explicitly political. keywords: facebook; media; stories cache: spir-10078.pdf plain text: spir-10078.txt item: #55 of 1758 id: spir-10079 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 words: 1343 flesch: 51 summary: This paper asserts that a conflation of gender and technology may have contributed to Clinton’s 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. keywords: clinton; gender; privacy; technology; trump cache: spir-10079.pdf plain text: spir-10079.txt item: #56 of 1758 id: spir-10080 author: Loveluck, Benjamin title: Digital Vigilantism As A Form Of Political Engagement? A Comparative Approach date: 2017.0 words: 1225 flesch: 41 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. keywords: action; form; university; vigilantism cache: spir-10080.pdf plain text: spir-10080.txt item: #57 of 1758 id: spir-10081 author: Lundmark, Evelina title: Towards A Theory Of Cross-Media Networked Microcelebrity: Of Bedrooms, Blogsites, Broadcasts, And Boardrooms date: 2017.0 words: 1385 flesch: 48 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). keywords: videos; women; youtube cache: spir-10081.pdf plain text: spir-10081.txt item: #58 of 1758 id: spir-10082 author: Maggs, Catherine Ann title: Framing Wikileaks In The Networked Fourth Estate date: 2017.0 words: 1961 flesch: 47 summary: The paper analyses WikiLeaks’ 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. keywords: frame; framing; media; news; power; wikileaks cache: spir-10082.pdf plain text: spir-10082.txt item: #59 of 1758 id: spir-10083 author: Marino, Sara title: Transnational Social Spaces And Diasporic Publics. How Migrants Are Changing Traditional Conceptualisations Of The Public Sphere date: 2017.0 words: 1680 flesch: 46 summary: As Couldry and Dreher pointed out (2007), this framework fails to address the complexity of today’s 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. keywords: london; networks; public; spaces; sphere cache: spir-10083.pdf plain text: spir-10083.txt item: #60 of 1758 id: spir-10084 author: McCosker, Anthony; Wilken, Really owan title: Mapping Mental Health Intermediaries: Vulnerable Publics and Platformed Support date: 2017.0 words: 1388 flesch: 38 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. keywords: facebook; forums; health; page; publics cache: spir-10084.pdf plain text: spir-10084.txt item: #61 of 1758 id: spir-10085 author: Milan, Stefania title: Digital Traces and Bottom-up Data Practices date: 2017.0 words: 1923 flesch: 45 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. keywords: agency; data; media; traces; users cache: spir-10085.pdf plain text: spir-10085.txt item: #62 of 1758 id: spir-10086 author: Milan, Stefania; van der Velden, Lonneke title: Data Politics At The Grassroots date: 2017.0 words: 1737 flesch: 42 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. keywords: activism; data; datafication; engagement; new cache: spir-10086.pdf plain text: spir-10086.txt item: #63 of 1758 id: spir-10173 author: Cornelius Way, Kristin title: The Role Of Standard Form Contracts In An Information Society And ‘Smart Contract’ Furture date: 2017.0 words: 1378 flesch: 52 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 “same rules for everyone,” rather than just facilitate a platform. keywords: contracts; form; law; sfcs; standard cache: spir-10173.pdf plain text: spir-10173.txt item: #64 of 1758 id: spir-10174 author: Wittkower, D.E title: Disaffordances And Dysaffordances In Code date: 2017.0 words: 1141 flesch: 47 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. keywords: case; code; design; dysaffordances cache: spir-10174.pdf plain text: spir-10174.txt item: #65 of 1758 id: spir-10182 author: Moon, Brenda title: Characterising Twitter Reply Chains in the Australian Twittersphere date: 2017.0 words: 1312 flesch: 57 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. keywords: reply; trisma; tweets cache: spir-10182.pdf plain text: spir-10182.txt item: #66 of 1758 id: spir-10185 author: Newlands, Gemma; Lutz, Christopher title: So Close, Yet So Far Away: The Paradox of Status and Distinction among Instagram Influencers date: 2017.0 words: 1291 flesch: 50 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. keywords: capital; data; influencers; instagram; status cache: spir-10185.pdf plain text: spir-10185.txt item: #67 of 1758 id: spir-10186 author: Ogden, Jessica; Halford, Susan; Carr, Leslie title: Observing Archives: Web Archiving as Socio-Technical Practice date: 2017.0 words: 1321 flesch: 37 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’s (2016) work on the former Yugoslav top-level domain3) – to name a few. keywords: archives; labour; web; work cache: spir-10186.pdf plain text: spir-10186.txt item: #68 of 1758 id: spir-10187 author: Paris, Britt S; Currie, Morgan; Donovan, Joan title: Grand Intentions, Small Interventions: Climate Data Rescue as Counter-Data Action date: 2017.0 words: 1925 flesch: 44 summary: In fact, we might find that the importance of mirroring federal climate data lies less in rescuing data sets for the scientific community – since it’s too soon to tell whether more information will vanish or be defunded – 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. keywords: action; archiving; climate; data; edgi; web; work cache: spir-10187.pdf plain text: spir-10187.txt item: #69 of 1758 id: spir-10188 author: Rankine, Jennifer Margaret title: Disrupting Online Racism Against Māori In Aotearoa/New Zealand date: 2017.0 words: 1505 flesch: 53 summary: DISRUPTING ONLINE RACISM AGAINST MĀORI 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-Māori 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. keywords: anti; graphics; māori; new; pages; racism cache: spir-10188.pdf plain text: spir-10188.txt item: #70 of 1758 id: spir-10189 author: Rantasila, Anna title: Nuclear Fear And Loathing – Commenting News About Fukushima Daiichi Disaster On Facebook date: 2017.0 words: 1158 flesch: 53 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. keywords: affective; disaster; publics cache: spir-10189.pdf plain text: spir-10189.txt item: #71 of 1758 id: spir-10190 author: Rensfeldt, Annika; Hillman, Thomas; Selwyn, Neil title: Teachers ‘Liking’ Their Work? Exploring The Digital Labor Of Networked Professional Publics date: 2017.0 words: 1339 flesch: 52 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 ‘work’? keywords: facebook; group; teachers; work cache: spir-10190.pdf plain text: spir-10190.txt item: #72 of 1758 id: spir-10191 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 words: 1317 flesch: 47 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. keywords: guests; photographers; photography; wedding cache: spir-10191.pdf plain text: spir-10191.txt item: #73 of 1758 id: spir-10192 author: Richterich, Annika title: Tracing Controversies in Hacker Networks: Ethical Considerations for Research on Communal Publics date: 2017.0 words: 1365 flesch: 51 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 “[…] focused on the e- textiles message because we could make fun of it, not because it was especially horrible. keywords: gender; hacker; internet; research cache: spir-10192.pdf plain text: spir-10192.txt item: #74 of 1758 id: spir-10193 author: Robards, Brady; Lincoln, Sian title: Left Behind, Left Unsaid: Absences On Young People's Facebook Timelines date: 2017.0 words: 1543 flesch: 53 summary: In this paper we draw on data from the Facebook Timelines project to explore the multi- dimensional notion of ‘absence’ 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). keywords: absence; facebook; media; robards cache: spir-10193.pdf plain text: spir-10193.txt item: #75 of 1758 id: spir-10194 author: Rogerson, Melissa Jane; Gibbs, Martin; Smith, Wally title: Exploring the Digital Hinterland: Internet Practices surrounding the Pursuit of "Offline" Hobbies date: 2017.0 words: 1527 flesch: 59 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. keywords: games; goodreads; play; practices; ravelry cache: spir-10194.pdf plain text: spir-10194.txt item: #76 of 1758 id: spir-10195 author: Rosén, Anton; Lundmark, Sofia; Jonsson, Fatima; Håkansson, Jesper title: Control And Reward In Online Dating Practices – A Study Of Users’ Experiences Of Tinder date: 2017.0 words: 1362 flesch: 47 summary: To conclude, this study suggests that online dating practices are formed by an inseparable interplay of design functionalities, users’ attitudes and the use of specific mobile applications that taken together contributes to overall online dating experiences. Control and reward in online dating practices – a study of users experiences of Tinder. keywords: control; dating; experiences; users cache: spir-10195.pdf plain text: spir-10195.txt item: #77 of 1758 id: spir-10196 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 words: 1208 flesch: 50 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. keywords: campaign; marketing; media; music cache: spir-10196.pdf plain text: spir-10196.txt item: #78 of 1758 id: spir-10197 author: San Cornelio, Gemma; Roig, Antoni; Ardèvo, Elisenda; Enguix, Begonya title: Selfies And Cultural Events: Mixed Methodologies For The Study Of Selfies In Context date: 2017.0 words: 1542 flesch: 51 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 keywords: author; data; media; selfies cache: spir-10197.pdf plain text: spir-10197.txt item: #79 of 1758 id: spir-10198 author: Savic, Milovan; McCosker, Anthony title: Musical.Ly’s Sleight of Hand: Circumventing Family Social Media Governance date: 2017.0 words: 1341 flesch: 48 summary: CIRCUMVENTING FAMILY SOCIAL MEDIA GOVERNANCE Milovan Savic Swinburne University of Technology Anthony McCosker Swinburne University of Technology Introduction Young people’s engagement with networked publics, understood in boyd’s (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). keywords: media; musical.ly; platform; use cache: spir-10198.pdf plain text: spir-10198.txt item: #80 of 1758 id: spir-10199 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 words: 1298 flesch: 54 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. keywords: comments; contestation; inter cache: spir-10199.pdf plain text: spir-10199.txt item: #81 of 1758 id: spir-10200 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 words: 1290 flesch: 40 summary: From Port Arthur to the Lindt café siege: The role of digital publics in challenging Australian print media agenda setting practices. Dearing, JW and Rogers, EM 1996, ‘Media agenda studies’, Volume 6 of Communication Concepts, Sage Publications, California, pp. 24-39. keywords: agenda; media; reports; setting cache: spir-10200.pdf plain text: spir-10200.txt item: #82 of 1758 id: spir-10201 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 words: 1367 flesch: 42 summary: “IT’S NOT HOW I USE IT, BUT WHAT I BELIEVE ABOUT IT”: 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. keywords: adults; information; seeking cache: spir-10201.pdf plain text: spir-10201.txt item: #83 of 1758 id: spir-10202 author: Suetzl, Wolfgang title: Beyond the digital swarm? Byung-Chul Han's critical media pessismism. date: 2017.0 words: 5055 flesch: 54 summary: BYUNG-CHUL HAN’S CRITICAL MEDIA PESSIMISM Wolfgang Suetzl School of Media Arts & Studies, Ohio University Byung-Chul Han and digital media A review of Han’s 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. keywords: b.-c; berlin; communication; data; digital; form; han; media; neoliberalism; power; swarm; transparency cache: spir-10202.pdf plain text: spir-10202.txt item: #84 of 1758 id: spir-10203 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 words: 1229 flesch: 43 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. keywords: health; public; talk cache: spir-10203.pdf plain text: spir-10203.txt item: #85 of 1758 id: spir-10204 author: Trott, Verity Anne title: Black "Rantings": Indigenous feminist writers' online narratives in a postfeminist age. date: 2017.0 words: 1118 flesch: 44 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’ 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? keywords: postfeminist; women; writers cache: spir-10204.pdf plain text: spir-10204.txt item: #86 of 1758 id: spir-10205 author: Vickery, Jacqueline Ryan title: Mapping The Affordances And Dynamics Of Activist Hashtags date: 2017.0 words: 1524 flesch: 41 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. keywords: activist; affordances; dynamics; hashtags cache: spir-10205.pdf plain text: spir-10205.txt item: #87 of 1758 id: spir-10206 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 words: 1083 flesch: 46 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. keywords: groshek; internet; media cache: spir-10206.pdf plain text: spir-10206.txt item: #88 of 1758 id: spir-10207 author: West, Sarah Myers title: Do Ciphers Have Politics?: Discourses Of The Digital Rights Movement In The Crypto Wars 2.0 date: 2017.0 words: 1291 flesch: 51 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. keywords: encryption; new; power; rights; technology cache: spir-10207.pdf plain text: spir-10207.txt item: #89 of 1758 id: spir-10208 author: Williamson, George S.; Dennen, Vanessa title: Religious Narratives And Networked Learning Spaces: Using Blogs To Connect Individuals To History date: 2017.0 words: 1474 flesch: 58 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. keywords: blogs; course; learning; students cache: spir-10208.pdf plain text: spir-10208.txt item: #90 of 1758 id: spir-10209 author: Jurno, Amanda; d'Andréa, Carlos title: Do Algorithms Have Cosmopolitics? A Discussion Based On Facebook's Nudity Policy date: 2017.0 words: 1334 flesch: 43 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. keywords: algorithms; cosmopolitics; facebook; image cache: spir-10209.pdf plain text: spir-10209.txt item: #91 of 1758 id: spir-10463 author: Tzanetakis, Meropi; Décary-Hétu, David; Bakken, Silje; Munksgaard, Rasmus; Katzenbach, Christian; Demant, Jakob; Paquet-Clouston, Masarah; Weissinger, Laurin title: DRUG MARKETS AND ANONYMIZING TECHNOLOGIES date: 2018.0 words: 5525 flesch: 47 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. keywords: anonymity; cryptomarkets; drug; governance; internet; interviews; paper; reputation; trust cache: spir-10463.pdf plain text: spir-10463.txt item: #92 of 1758 id: spir-10464 author: De Ridder, Sander; Dhaenens, Frederik; Duguay, Stefanie; Ferris, Lindsay; Paasonen, Susanna title: INTIMACIES AND DIGITAL MEDIA INFRASTRUCTURES date: 2018.0 words: 5816 flesch: 47 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’ combination of Tinder’s imagined affordances with longstanding references to lesbian culture instantiated a digital lesbian imaginary on Tinder. keywords: aoir; cover; digital; identity; infrastructures; internet; intimacy; lesbian; media; paper; people; women cache: spir-10464.pdf plain text: spir-10464.txt item: #93 of 1758 id: spir-10465 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 words: 6728 flesch: 44 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. • Transference of human memory to cloud-based memory through voice commands as the foundation for algorithmic future-thinking. keywords: agents; communication; development; digital; future; human; machine; memory; new; relationships; research; robots; self; trust cache: spir-10465.pdf plain text: spir-10465.txt item: #94 of 1758 id: spir-10466 author: Miazhevich, Galina; Wijermars, Mariëlle; Gapova, Elena; Zvereva, Vera title: POLITICS, ACTIVISM AND TROLLING ON THE RUSSIAN INTERNET date: 2018.0 words: 4102 flesch: 47 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’s anti-hate speech measures are abused to isolate oppositional content. keywords: campaign; internet; media; new; online; paper; russia; sobchak; state; wikipedia; youtube cache: spir-10466.pdf plain text: spir-10466.txt item: #95 of 1758 id: spir-10467 author: Helles, Rasmus; Ørmen, 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 words: 5549 flesch: 47 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. keywords: analysis; audience; communication; data; internet; log; media; methods; research; researchers; trace; twitter; use cache: spir-10467.pdf plain text: spir-10467.txt item: #96 of 1758 id: spir-10468 author: Stanfill, Mel; Morris, Jeremy Wade; Sterne, Jonathan; Razlogova, Elena; Murray, Sarah title: WHEN, WHERE, AND HOW IS DIGITAL SOUND? date: 2018.0 words: 4969 flesch: 57 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. keywords: audio; culture; law; media; music; new; podcast; podcasting; press; production; sound; technology; university; work cache: spir-10468.pdf plain text: spir-10468.txt item: #97 of 1758 id: spir-10469 author: Myles, David; Trottier, Daniel; Millette, Mélanie; Bonneau, Claudine; Sergi, Viviane; Casemajor, Nathalie; Toupin, Sophie title: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYES: THE LENS OF VISIBILITY IN INTERNET RESEARCH date: 2018.0 words: 5645 flesch: 47 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 “public sphere” (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 Université du Québec à Montréal Viviane Sergi Université du Québec à Montréal Within the field of Internet studies, work, workers, and their mediated visibility have been examined either from the perspective of online surveillance, where workers’ 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 “calculated use of social media” to gain “status and attention online” (Duffy, 2017: 11) in order to showcase their potential and employability (Hogan, 2010; Pagis & Ailon, 2017). keywords: capital; media; new; online; platforms; public; society; studies; use; visibility; work cache: spir-10469.pdf plain text: spir-10469.txt item: #98 of 1758 id: spir-10470 author: Alarcon, Andrea title: LEGITIMATING INTERNET.ORG THROUGH DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE date: 2018.0 words: 1580 flesch: 51 summary: “The 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. keywords: development; discourse; facebook; internet.org; technology cache: spir-10470.pdf plain text: spir-10470.txt item: #99 of 1758 id: spir-10472 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 words: 1290 flesch: 57 summary: For this case study, two month’s 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 “predicts 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” (Wang, 2015; Ellett, 2017). keywords: facebook; home; news; page cache: spir-10472.pdf plain text: spir-10472.txt item: #100 of 1758 id: spir-10473 author: Bergstrom, Kelly title: WHAT CAN “WHY I LEFT BUZZFEED” VLOGS TEACH US ABOUT INVISIBLE LABOUR? date: 2018.0 words: 1467 flesch: 58 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: “Get Rich, or Die Vlogging.’” References Abidin, C. (2018). Data collection began by collecting links to YouTube videos related to the topic of quitting BuzzFeed using the keywords “quit” or “leave” and “buzzfeed”. keywords: buzzfeed; employees; videos; vlogs cache: spir-10473.pdf plain text: spir-10473.txt item: #101 of 1758 id: spir-10474 author: Blodgett, Bridget; Salter, Anastasia title: EVERY WORD YOU JUST SAID IS WRONG: ONLINE RAGE AND INCLUSIVITY IN DISNEY FRANCHISE FANDOM date: 2018.0 words: 1311 flesch: 57 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). keywords: case; february; film; panther cache: spir-10474.pdf plain text: spir-10474.txt item: #102 of 1758 id: spir-10475 author: Brekke, Anjuli Joshi title: SPREADING THE WORD: TRACING THE AFFECTIVE ECOLOGY OF DIGITAL ORAL STORIES date: 2018.0 words: 1286 flesch: 44 summary: Analysis of each platform acts as a separate chapter: 1) StoryCorps stories edited and broadcast through a partnership with National Public Radio’s 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. keywords: affective; difference; storycorps cache: spir-10475.pdf plain text: spir-10475.txt item: #103 of 1758 id: spir-10476 author: Cahill, Tiernan title: THE STRUCTURAL ROLE OF USER CLASS IN CHAT INTERACTIONS ON TWITCH date: 2018.0 words: 1276 flesch: 61 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. keywords: chat; game; twitch; user cache: spir-10476.pdf plain text: spir-10476.txt item: #104 of 1758 id: spir-10477 author: d'Andréa, Carlos Frederico de Brito; Mintz, André Goes title: STUDYING 'LIVE' CROSS-PLATFORM CIRCULATION OF IMAGES WITH A COMPUTER VISION API: AN EXPERIMENT BASED ON A SPORTS MEDIA EVENTd'Andréa, Carlos Frederico de Brito (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) date: 2018.0 words: 1276 flesch: 49 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). keywords: images; media; vision; web cache: spir-10477.pdf plain text: spir-10477.txt item: #105 of 1758 id: spir-10478 author: de Castell, Suzanne; Skardzius, Karen title: PUBLIC SPEECH: LISTENING TO WOMEN IN THE VIDEOGAME INDUSTRY date: 2018.0 words: 1451 flesch: 60 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. keywords: games; industry; public; women cache: spir-10478.pdf plain text: spir-10478.txt item: #106 of 1758 id: spir-10479 author: Dehghan, Ehsan title: FROM AD HOC ISSUE PUBLICS TO DISCOURSE COMMUNITIES: A YEAR OF PUBLIC DEBATE ON TWITTER date: 2018.0 words: 1524 flesch: 45 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. keywords: issue; publics cache: spir-10479.pdf plain text: spir-10479.txt item: #107 of 1758 id: spir-10480 author: Dworkin, Jodi; Brar, Pooja; Hessel, Heather title: WHEN THE TEACHER BECOMES THE STUDENT: YOUTH IMPACT ON PARENT TECHNOLOGY USE date: 2018.0 words: 1318 flesch: 48 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. keywords: child; family; parent; use cache: spir-10480.pdf plain text: spir-10480.txt item: #108 of 1758 id: spir-10481 author: Eberwein, Tobias; Gerard-Wenzel, Corinna title: MEMORY OF THE FUTURE? DIGITAL ARCHIVES IN PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA date: 2018.0 words: 1328 flesch: 45 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). keywords: archives; media; memory; public cache: spir-10481.pdf plain text: spir-10481.txt item: #109 of 1758 id: spir-10482 author: Gorea, Michelle title: NAVIGATING NETWORKED TIME: VISUAL SELF-IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT AMONG YOUTH date: 2018.0 words: 1366 flesch: 50 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’ 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. keywords: images; media; self; youth cache: spir-10482.pdf plain text: spir-10482.txt item: #110 of 1758 id: spir-10483 author: Gorwa, Robert title: TOWARDS FAIRNESS, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND TRANSPARENCY IN PLATFORM GOVERNANCE date: 2018.0 words: 1261 flesch: 48 summary: The paper explores Facebook’s recent (and ongoing) efforts to become more transparent, while also showing how Facebook policy is a kind of “black-box,” 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 “PR fires,” which could be said to constitute a narrow form of “public accountability”), but ultimately are limited in their accountability to the public due to their corporate structure and incentives. keywords: accountability; facebook; fairness; platforms cache: spir-10483.pdf plain text: spir-10483.txt item: #111 of 1758 id: spir-10484 author: Grønborg, Joeb Høfdinghoff 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 words: 1306 flesch: 55 summary: Few studies, however, have shed light on how people use self-tracking in their everyday lives (Lupton, 2016) – 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. keywords: data; exercise; people cache: spir-10484.pdf plain text: spir-10484.txt item: #112 of 1758 id: spir-10485 author: Hand, Martin title: RECALIBRATING DAILY LIFE: SYNCHRONIZING, COORDINATING, AND SCHEDULING THROUGH SMARTPHONES date: 2018.0 words: 1273 flesch: 36 summary: Interviews included talking through temporal data of many kinds on personal devices. There is a related ambivalence about temporal data, or the ‘fear’ of ‘wasting time’. keywords: activities; life; scheduling; time cache: spir-10485.pdf plain text: spir-10485.txt item: #113 of 1758 id: spir-10486 author: Harris, Jane title: “LIKE, COMMENT AND SUBSCRIBE”. EXPLORING THE ROLE PROFESSIONAL YOUTUBERS PLAY IN YOUNG PEOPLE’S HEALTH BEHAVIOURS AND IDENTITES IN THE UK date: 2018.0 words: 1275 flesch: 49 summary: The first stage, a school based questionnaire with 931 13-18 year olds quantified young people’s 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. keywords: content; health; information; people; youtubers cache: spir-10486.pdf plain text: spir-10486.txt item: #114 of 1758 id: spir-10487 author: Heemsbergen, Luke title: SECRET KILLERS “AFTER WIKILEAKS”: MAPPING, EVOLUTIONS, AND TAXONOMY OF RADICAL LEAKING date: 2018.0 words: 1267 flesch: 42 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 ‘transparency’ and democracy (Flyverbom, 2016; Hansen and Flyverbom, 2015) in the digital world. Specifically, we offer a critical assessment of leaks sites’ radical disclosures though a frame of governmentality and agonistic and algorithmic (Heemsbergen, 2016; Ananny and Crawford, 2016) democracy. keywords: leaks; sites; transparency; wikileaks cache: spir-10487.pdf plain text: spir-10487.txt item: #115 of 1758 id: spir-10488 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 words: 1429 flesch: 47 summary: The editorial perspectives of social news outlets are frequently overt, a quality I term ‘positionality’. Social news outlets also eschew and critique ‘balance’, an established journalistic norm. keywords: media; news; outlets; survey cache: spir-10488.pdf plain text: spir-10488.txt item: #116 of 1758 id: spir-10489 author: Johnson, Mark Richard; Woodcock, Jamie title: THE SOCIO-TECHNICAL ENTANGLEMENTS OF LIVE STREAMING ON TWITCH.TV date: 2018.0 words: 1277 flesch: 43 summary: Findings In seeking to understand the labour and work of Twitch streamers, audience interest and engagement with in the platform, and Twitch’s 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). keywords: media; platform; streaming; twitch cache: spir-10489.pdf plain text: spir-10489.txt item: #117 of 1758 id: spir-10490 author: Kowalchuk, Saskia title: ‘DEEP-FRIED’ AND DENATURALIZED: CRITIQUING MEMETIC META- ONTOLOGIES date: 2018.0 words: 1316 flesch: 50 summary: To understand the significance of trends in memetic redundancy, popularly known as ‘anti-memes’, I first conceived of reaction memes as highly entropic. Hito Steryl’s notion of ‘poor images’ provides an ideal conceptual framework for the potentially disruptive quality of memes. keywords: image; internet; memes; text cache: spir-10490.pdf plain text: spir-10490.txt item: #118 of 1758 id: spir-10491 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 words: 1427 flesch: 45 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. keywords: grace; media; sophia; youtube cache: spir-10491.pdf plain text: spir-10491.txt item: #119 of 1758 id: spir-10492 author: Lewis, Kelly Marie title: MEDIATED DEATH AND DIGITAL MARTYRDOM: ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR VISUAL SOCIAL MEDIA RESEARCHERS date: 2018.0 words: 1213 flesch: 35 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. keywords: death; digital; media cache: spir-10492.pdf plain text: spir-10492.txt item: #120 of 1758 id: spir-10493 author: Marler, Will title: CONNECTIVE AMBITION AND CREATIVE CAUTION AMONG HOMELESS USERS OF FACEBOOK date: 2018.0 words: 1265 flesch: 61 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). keywords: eric; vicki cache: spir-10493.pdf plain text: spir-10493.txt item: #121 of 1758 id: spir-10494 author: McEwan, Sean Rutherford title: THIS MEME IS WHAT WE CALL PROGRESS”: HISTORY-AS-MEME, MEME-AS-HISTORY ON 4CHAN date: 2018-10-31 words: 10.5210/spir.v2018i0.10494 flesch: Memes “act as the locus of memory”, 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 “infra-structures of feeling” (Coleman 2017). With this in mind, I use Benjamin’s reading of Klee’s 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. summary: None keywords: 4chan; content; history; internet; memes; new; politics; users cache: spir-10494Association of Internet Researchers plain text: spir-10494.txt item: #122 of 1758 id: spir-10495 author: None title: spir-10495 date: None words: 1273 flesch: 49 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. keywords: access; data; privacy; right cache: spir-10495.pdf plain text: spir-10495.txt item: #123 of 1758 id: spir-10496 author: None title: spir-10496 date: None words: 1618 flesch: 43 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). keywords: event; facebook; participation; protest; social cache: spir-10496.pdf plain text: spir-10496.txt item: #124 of 1758 id: spir-10497 author: None title: spir-10497 date: None words: 1672 flesch: 45 summary: To explore how individuals’ 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 < keywords: change; character; length; limit; tweet cache: spir-10497.pdf plain text: spir-10497.txt item: #125 of 1758 id: spir-10498 author: Myles, David title: ‘ANNE GOES ROGUE FOR ABORTION RIGHTS!’ EXPLORING DISCURSIVE MATERIALIZATION ACROSS AND BEYOND ONLINE PLATFORMS date: 2018.0 words: 1285 flesch: 47 summary: For this presentation, we use our case study to understand how pro- choice activists invoked the symbolic ‘figure’ 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.). keywords: abortion; anne; figure; rogue cache: spir-10498.pdf plain text: spir-10498.txt item: #126 of 1758 id: spir-10499 author: Nieborg, David; Young, Chris; Joseph, Daniel title: APP IMPERIALISM: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE CANADIAN APP STORE date: 2018.0 words: 1378 flesch: 48 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. keywords: app; canadian; developers; store cache: spir-10499.pdf plain text: spir-10499.txt item: #127 of 1758 id: spir-10500 author: O'Connell, Carrie title: A HAUNTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL MEMORIALIZATION OF THE DEAD date: 2018.0 words: 1174 flesch: 49 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. keywords: death; media; new cache: spir-10500.pdf plain text: spir-10500.txt item: #128 of 1758 id: spir-10501 author: Poell, Thomas; Nieborg, David; Van Dijck, José title: PLATFORM POWER & PUBLIC VALUE date: 2018.0 words: 1320 flesch: 45 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. keywords: data; platform; power; services cache: spir-10501.pdf plain text: spir-10501.txt item: #129 of 1758 id: spir-10502 author: Riedl, Martin Johannes title: WHO PUT THE ‘SOCIAL’ IN MOBILE AND SOCIAL PAYMENT PLATFORMS? RE-READING SIMMEL AND COLLEAGUES IN LIGHT OF THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION date: 2018.0 words: 1216 flesch: 55 summary: Mobile payments, social money: Social payments: Innovation, trust, Bitcoin, and the sharing economy. keywords: money; payment; simmel; social cache: spir-10502.pdf plain text: spir-10502.txt item: #130 of 1758 id: spir-10503 author: Ritter, Christian Simon title: DISTRIBUTING SERVICES THROUGH THE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE: THE CASE OF A NORWEGIAN SOFTWARE FIRM date: 2018.0 words: 1298 flesch: 41 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. keywords: cloud; services; socio; software cache: spir-10503.pdf plain text: spir-10503.txt item: #131 of 1758 id: spir-10504 author: Rusho, Yonit; Raban, Daphne R. title: THE EFFECTS OF INFORMATION PRODUCTION PROCESS ON EXPERIENCE AND EVALUATION date: 2018.0 words: 1298 flesch: 39 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. keywords: experience; information; production; value cache: spir-10504.pdf plain text: spir-10504.txt item: #132 of 1758 id: spir-10505 author: Saariketo, Minna title: FEELING THE RHYTHMS OF CODE date: 2018.0 words: 1233 flesch: 50 summary: The “absent presence” 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’s methodological reflections on the rhythmics of everyday life resonate prolifically with the idea of technological unconscious. keywords: data; everyday; people; software cache: spir-10505.pdf plain text: spir-10505.txt item: #133 of 1758 id: spir-10506 author: Smith, Trevor Garrison title: HATRED OF/AND DEMOCRACY: THE POLITICAL CONTRADICTIONS OF REDDIT’S MODERATION STRUCTURE date: 2018.0 words: 1506 flesch: 53 summary: If human moderators and algorithmic moderation are both “worse,” 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). keywords: canada; democracy; hate; reddit cache: spir-10506.pdf plain text: spir-10506.txt item: #134 of 1758 id: spir-10507 author: Standlee, Alecea Irene title: DOING YOUR HOMEWORK: THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AS A FRIENDSHIP FILTER date: 2018.0 words: 1273 flesch: 41 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. keywords: filter; media; networks; participants cache: spir-10507.pdf plain text: spir-10507.txt item: #135 of 1758 id: spir-10508 author: Strover, Sharon; Schrubbe, Alexis title: EXPLORING THE RURAL DIGITAL LANDSCAPE: LIBRARIES, EQUITY, AND SCALE date: 2018.0 words: 1545 flesch: 43 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). keywords: digital; hotspot; internet; libraries; library cache: spir-10508.pdf plain text: spir-10508.txt item: #136 of 1758 id: spir-10509 author: Tynes, Robert; Peters, Claire title: PURSUANCE AND THE PRACTICE OF DE-INSTITUTIONALIZED DEMOCRACY date: 2018.0 words: 1179 flesch: 49 summary: We then compare the experiences of digital activists to Pursuance’s 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. keywords: anonymous; democracy; project; pursuance cache: spir-10509.pdf plain text: spir-10509.txt item: #137 of 1758 id: spir-10510 author: von Essen, Emma; Jansson, Joakim title: CYBERHATE ANONYMITY AND THE RISK OF BEING EXPOSED date: 2018.0 words: 1290 flesch: 57 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. keywords: anonymity; economics; group; hate cache: spir-10510.pdf plain text: spir-10510.txt item: #138 of 1758 id: spir-10511 author: Wijermars, Mariëlle title: MASS MEDIA AND THE LEGITIMATION OF INTERNET CONTROL IN RUSSIA: THE CASE OF TELEGRAM
 date: 2018.0 words: 1191 flesch: 42 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 “[s]tate intrusion in media affairs has reached a level not seen in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union.” 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. keywords: control; freedom; internet; media cache: spir-10511.pdf plain text: spir-10511.txt item: #139 of 1758 id: spir-10512 author: Staudt Willet, K. Bret; Willet, Brooks D. title: LOOK WHO’S TALKING: USING HUMAN CODING TO ESTABLISH A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH TO TWITTER EDUCATION CHATS date: 2018.0 words: 1218 flesch: 44 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. keywords: education; purposes; tweets; twitter cache: spir-10512.pdf plain text: spir-10512.txt item: #140 of 1758 id: spir-10513 author: Woodbridge, Kenzie Ann Burniston title: NOT SUFFERING FOOLS GLADLY: CRAFTING PROSOCIAL COMMUNITY IN ONLINE MULTIPLAYER MINECRAFT date: 2018.0 words: 1291 flesch: 52 summary: However, game social spaces range from supportive and kindly (Williams et al., 2006; Ratan et al., 2010; Whippey, 2010; Kaye & Bryce, 2012; O’Connor 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’Connor et al., 2015, Riordan & Scarf, 2016). keywords: community; doi; games; online cache: spir-10513.pdf plain text: spir-10513.txt item: #141 of 1758 id: spir-10514 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 words: 1275 flesch: 53 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. keywords: fandom; fans; superparticipants; users cache: spir-10514.pdf plain text: spir-10514.txt item: #142 of 1758 id: spir-10515 author: Zargarian, Tannaz title: VOICES EMPOWERED: IRANIAN WOMEN AND WEBLOGS date: 2018.0 words: 1679 flesch: 42 summary: Derayeh’s theory argues that Iranian women “challenged gender-based discrimination and focused on women’s procedures for developing an independent identity,” which then “created opportunities for women to raise their voices and take action as a means to self-liberation” (Derayeh, 2010, p. 151). While institutionalized gender roles and customary law (urf) are the most important elements in restricting women’s 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). keywords: education; gender; realm; weblogs; women cache: spir-10515.pdf plain text: spir-10515.txt item: #143 of 1758 id: spir-10516 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 words: 1534 flesch: 53 summary: Specifically, we argue while fitness tracker users take steps to manage privacy boundaries (Petronio, 2002), they also succumb to “information flow solipsism” (Proferes, 2017), meaning that while users might understand the primary technical functions and features of their fitness trackers, they are broadly unaware of “how the technology operates at a broader techno-cultural or socioeconomic level” (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. keywords: data; fitness; pfi; privacy; users cache: spir-10516.pdf plain text: spir-10516.txt item: #144 of 1758 id: spir-10903 author: Aggio, Amanda title: INFANCY WITHIN ADVERTISING PLATFORM: YOUNG CHILDREN EXPERIENCES ON A VIDEO-SHARING WEBSITE. date: 2019.0 words: 1260 flesch: 52 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. keywords: children; internet; new; platform cache: spir-10903.pdf plain text: spir-10903.txt item: #145 of 1758 id: spir-10917 author: Albrechtslund, Anne-Mette Bech title: A BALANCING ACT: PUTTING UP BOOKSHELVES ON A SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM date: 2019.0 words: 1300 flesch: 55 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’ attempts to balance their trust in the platform. keywords: bookshelves; goodreads; platform; users cache: spir-10917.pdf plain text: spir-10917.txt item: #146 of 1758 id: spir-10918 author: Baack, Stefan title: 'GLOBAL, NETWORKED AND COLLABORATIVE': HOW THE NORMALIZATION OF LEAKING SHAPED THE IDENTITY AND PRACTICE OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM date: 2019.0 words: 890 flesch: 33 summary: First, it shows that parallel to the increased diversity of media organizations and ways of ‘doing journalism’ 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. keywords: data; journalism; leaking cache: spir-10918.pdf plain text: spir-10918.txt item: #147 of 1758 id: spir-10921 author: Balanzategui, Jessica title: EXAMINING THE “ELSAGATE” PHENOMENON: DISTURBING CHILDREN’S YOUTUBE CONTENT AND NEW FRONTIERS IN CHILDREN’S CULTURE date: 2019.0 words: 1396 flesch: 47 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’s video streaming genres are not “child-appropriate” according to extant definitions and guidelines, such as the internationally endorsed Children’s Television Charter. Furthermore, reportage consistently dwells on parents’ and adult commentators’ belated awareness of these unfamiliar, “bizarre” (Popper, 2017) genres popular with children, and suggests that children value this content for reasons that are unclear to adult guardians. keywords: children; content; genres; media; youtube cache: spir-10921.pdf plain text: spir-10921.txt item: #148 of 1758 id: spir-10922 author: Barnett, Tully title: LABOUR AND DIGITIZATION date: 2019.0 words: 1343 flesch: 50 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. keywords: digital; digitization; google; infrastructure; labour cache: spir-10922.pdf plain text: spir-10922.txt item: #149 of 1758 id: spir-10923 author: Baym, Nancy; Shifman, Limor ; Persaud, Christopher; Wagman, Kelly title: INTELLIGENT FAILURES: CLIPPY MEMES AND THE LIMITS OF DIGITAL ASSISTANTS date: 2019.0 words: 1559 flesch: 53 summary: Yet this failure in “knowing its limits” 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. keywords: aoir; clippy; digital; paper; shifman cache: spir-10923.pdf plain text: spir-10923.txt item: #150 of 1758 id: spir-10924 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 words: 1259 flesch: 54 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. keywords: devices; digital; rape; women cache: spir-10924.pdf plain text: spir-10924.txt item: #151 of 1758 id: spir-10925 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 words: 1616 flesch: 52 summary: Our study provides an analysis of users’ 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’s plans to use WhatsApp as a tool to track user data, lead developers to provide IM applications with greater security. keywords: chats; contents; group; media; social; users cache: spir-10925.pdf plain text: spir-10925.txt item: #152 of 1758 id: spir-10926 author: Butt, Mahli-Ann title: “I NEVER USE HEADSETS”: WOMEN, WARINESS, AND HYPERVIGILANCE FOR THE INEVITABILITY OF ONLINE HARASSMENT IN GAMING CULTURE date: 2019.0 words: 1293 flesch: 47 summary: In it, this research analyses the affective labour (Hardt 1999) of how people navigate and ‘cope’ with discrimination in gaming cultures. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-0212-8. Kirkpatrick, G. (2012) “Constitutive Tensions of Gaming’s Field: UK gaming magazines and the formation of gaming culture 1981-1995.” keywords: culture; gaming; harassment; press; women cache: spir-10926.pdf plain text: spir-10926.txt item: #153 of 1758 id: spir-10928 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 words: 1315 flesch: 64 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. keywords: apps; friends; hook cache: spir-10928.pdf plain text: spir-10928.txt item: #154 of 1758 id: spir-10929 author: Cabalquinto, Earvin Charles Borja; Soriano, Cheryll title: “HEY, I LIKE YOUR VIDEOS. RELATE MUCH!”LOCATING SISTERHOOD IN A POSTCOLONIAL PUBLIC ON YOUTUBE date: 2019.0 words: 1289 flesch: 49 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. keywords: comments; media; sisterhood; women cache: spir-10929.pdf plain text: spir-10929.txt item: #155 of 1758 id: spir-10930 author: Carah, Nicholas; Angus, Daniel; Smith, Adam title: CRITICAL SIMULATION: INVESTIGATING THE WORK OF MACHINE VISION IN VISUAL SOCIAL MEDIA CULTURE date: 2019.0 words: 1674 flesch: 37 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’ use of machine vision is a key frontier in the algorithmic classification of culture. keywords: culture; instagram; machine; platforms; vision cache: spir-10930.pdf plain text: spir-10930.txt item: #156 of 1758 id: spir-10931 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 words: 1303 flesch: 43 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). keywords: instagram; mardi; media; stories cache: spir-10931.pdf plain text: spir-10931.txt item: #157 of 1758 id: spir-10932 author: Cayari, Christopher title: COLLABORATIVE VIDEO LOGS: VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE AND ALIVENESS IN THE MUSIC CLASSROOM date: 2019.0 words: 1259 flesch: 48 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—or perhaps required students—to experience a flow and momentum for learning and online content creation. keywords: learning; students; video; youtube cache: spir-10932.pdf plain text: spir-10932.txt item: #158 of 1758 id: spir-10934 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 words: 1299 flesch: 46 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. keywords: community; science; trust cache: spir-10934.pdf plain text: spir-10934.txt item: #159 of 1758 id: spir-10935 author: Chesher, Chris title: TRUSTING SMART SPEAKERS: A TYPOLOGY OF INVOCATIONARY ACTS date: 2019.0 words: 1686 flesch: 55 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? keywords: act; acts; invocation; representative; speech cache: spir-10935.pdf plain text: spir-10935.txt item: #160 of 1758 id: spir-10936 author: Copland, Simon title: REDDIT QUARANTINED: CONSEQUENCES OF DEALING WITH DISTRUST IN SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS THROUGH RESTRICTING ENGAGEMENT date: 2019.0 words: 1427 flesch: 42 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. keywords: media; reddit; subreddits; users cache: spir-10936.pdf plain text: spir-10936.txt item: #161 of 1758 id: spir-10937 author: Croeser, Sky title: CRITICAL PEDAGOGIES IN INTERNET STUDIES: TEACHING FOR CHANGE date: 2019.0 words: 1680 flesch: 48 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 – critical pedagogies (Breuing 2011) - within Internet studies. keywords: aoir; conference; internet; studies; teaching cache: spir-10937.pdf plain text: spir-10937.txt item: #162 of 1758 id: spir-10938 author: Cumming, David; Rogerson, Melissa Jane title: THE SITUATED HINTERLANDS OF ONLINE GAMING PRACTICES date: 2019.0 words: 1540 flesch: 54 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. keywords: bar; esports; experience; tourism cache: spir-10938.pdf plain text: spir-10938.txt item: #163 of 1758 id: spir-10940 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 words: 5532 flesch: 50 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 ‘platform affects’. 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 “dynamics driving the integration of geographic information into the digital economy” (Alvarez León 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—and reengage— with digital systems as part of our everyday life practices. keywords: data; geographies; geolocation; maps; media; paper; platforms; practices; systems; trust; uber; university cache: spir-10940.pdf plain text: spir-10940.txt item: #164 of 1758 id: spir-10941 author: Chen, Pai-Lin; Cheng, Yu-Chung; Fu, Wen-Cheng; Lin, Trisha T.C title: TRUST IN TAIWAN’S MEDIA ECOLOGY, AUDIENCE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: 2018 TAIWANESE LOCAL ELECTIONS AND NATIONAL REFERENDA AS A CASE STUDY date: 2019.0 words: 4689 flesch: 47 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. keywords: election; liquid; media; news; online; participation; reality; referenda; society; study; taiwan; trust cache: spir-10941.pdf plain text: spir-10941.txt item: #165 of 1758 id: spir-10942 author: Neudert, Lisa-Maria; Bradshaw, Samantha; Lewis, Rebecca; Yin, Leon; Woolley, Samuel; Joseff, Katie; Metaxa, Danaë; Hogan, Alexander title: BLIND SPOTS OF INFORMATION OPERATIONS: OF MICRO PROPAGANDA, ALGORITHM GAMING & HOW TO PROFIT FROM IT date: 2019.0 words: 7161 flesch: 44 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. keywords: content; data; influence; information; manipulation; media; online; operations; oxford; paper; propaganda; research; results; search; social cache: spir-10942.pdf plain text: spir-10942.txt item: #166 of 1758 id: spir-10943 author: Smith, Naomi ; Davis, Jenny; Maddox, Alexia; Patella-Rey, PJ title: THE VISCERAL EMBODIMENT OF DIGITAL PLEASURES date: 2019.0 words: 5704 flesch: 49 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. keywords: aoir2019; asmr; association; australia; brisbane; conference; drugs; internet; intimacy; october; papers; pleasure; researchers; taking cache: spir-10943.pdf plain text: spir-10943.txt item: #167 of 1758 id: spir-10944 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 words: 5726 flesch: 49 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. keywords: apps; communication; control; data; face; internet; literacies; media; paper; posts; self; selfies; society; university; use; users cache: spir-10944.pdf plain text: spir-10944.txt item: #168 of 1758 id: spir-10945 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 words: 6910 flesch: 48 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. keywords: culture; digital; economy; free; game; horst; online; paper; play; practices; press; research; technologies; technology; university cache: spir-10945.pdf plain text: spir-10945.txt item: #169 of 1758 id: spir-10946 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 words: 4659 flesch: 46 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’ 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. keywords: australia; authenticity; chinese; communication; dating; media; online; social; trust; users cache: spir-10946.pdf plain text: spir-10946.txt item: #170 of 1758 id: spir-10947 author: Hakim , Jamie; Møller, Kristian; Florêncio, João; Murphy, Dean; Race, Kane; Pienaar, Kiran; Lea, Toby title: CHEMSEX: DIGITAL, CHEMICAL AND COMMUNAL INFRASTRUCTURE OF DISINHIBITION date: 2019.0 words: 5586 flesch: 49 summary: The overriding effect of consuming chemsex drugs was a ‘loss of inhibitions’. Notably, anxieties, risk, and modes of trust are not absent from chemsex practices and imaginaries, but rather co-constitutive of its pleasures. keywords: chemsex; digital; drugs; gay; london; media; men; new; paper; prep; press; race; trust cache: spir-10947.pdf plain text: spir-10947.txt item: #171 of 1758 id: spir-10948 author: Nansen , Bjorn; Hjorth, Larissa; Pitsillides, Stacey; Gould, Hannah title: THE AFTERLIVES OF MEMORIAL MATERIALS: DATA, HOAX, BOT date: 2019.0 words: 6541 flesch: 56 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 – as in the disapproval of Grantland for its vague headline – and news organisations or media more generally of poor quality journalism for prematurely (mis)reporting a death in the rush to publish first: • 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: • keywords: care; data; dead; death; digital; funeral; gibbs; human; internet; media; memorial; new; online; trust cache: spir-10948.pdf plain text: spir-10948.txt item: #172 of 1758 id: spir-10949 author: Sefton-Green, Julian; Zacher Pandya, Jessica; Hendry, Natalie; Pangrazio, Luci title: PLATFORM PEDAGOGIES: LEARNING, AUTHORISING AND VALIDATING TRUST IN EDUCATION date: 2019.0 words: 5532 flesch: 48 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. keywords: apps; data; education; learning; lms; media; pedagogy; people; platform; teachers; teaching; trust; use cache: spir-10949.pdf plain text: spir-10949.txt item: #173 of 1758 id: spir-10953 author: Damkjær, Maja Sonne; Southerton, Clare Victoria; Albrechtslund, Anders title: RELIEF FROM COMMUNICATION: PARENTAL SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGIES, TRUST AND CARE date: 2019.0 words: 1261 flesch: 41 summary: Trusting Children: How do surveillance technologies alter a child’s 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. keywords: communication; surveillance; technologies; trust cache: spir-10953.pdf plain text: spir-10953.txt item: #174 of 1758 id: spir-10954 author: Davis, Mark Raymound title: 'FASCISM IS THE NEW HIP': ONLINE ANTI-PUBLICS AND POST-NORMATIVE DEMOCRACY date: 2019.0 words: 1303 flesch: 50 summary: Examples are given of anti-public discourse used by white supremacist groups, ‘men’s rights’ 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 ‘anti-public sphere’, populated by overlapping ‘anti-publics’ such as the ‘alt-right’, white supremacist groups, ‘men’s rights’ groups, anti-climate science groups, and ‘neoreactionary’ or ‘Dark Enlightenment’ groups, among others. keywords: anti; groups; publics; right cache: spir-10954.pdf plain text: spir-10954.txt item: #175 of 1758 id: spir-10955 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 words: 1501 flesch: 46 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 ‘refugee crisis’ in Europe. keywords: analysis; discourse; immigration; politics cache: spir-10955.pdf plain text: spir-10955.txt item: #176 of 1758 id: spir-10956 author: Devitt, Susannah Kate; Mann, Monique; Daly, Angela title: PRINCIPLES OF GOOD DATA date: 2019.0 words: 1155 flesch: 50 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 ‘data’ and ‘goodness’ before defending fifteen principles of good data under four banners: keywords: data; good; information cache: spir-10956.pdf plain text: spir-10956.txt item: #177 of 1758 id: spir-10957 author: Dugmore, Harry title: “MISINFODEMICS”— UNPACKING THE CORE NARRATIVES OF MULTINATIONAL DRINK COMPANIES’ ONLINE MARKETING CAMPAIGNS AIMED AT YOUNG PEOPLE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES date: 2019.0 words: 1528 flesch: 52 summary: Social media marketing on popular sugar- sweetened beverages Facebook and Twitter pages in Mexico. This paper explores in particular how so-called ‘Big Food’ multinationals combine their traditional ‘sell more product’ marketing, via the relatively new overlay of their multiple social media channels, with a ‘our products are harmless’ 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. keywords: health; marketing; media; products cache: spir-10957.pdf plain text: spir-10957.txt item: #178 of 1758 id: spir-10958 author: Egliston, Ben title: VIDEOGAME ANALYTICS, SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM AND THE RETENTIONAL ECONOMY OF PLAY date: 2019.0 words: 1284 flesch: 42 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. keywords: data; dotaplus; surveillance cache: spir-10958.pdf plain text: spir-10958.txt item: #179 of 1758 id: spir-10959 author: Einarson Pérez, Cecilie; Leong, Lorian title: CALL ME MAYBE: SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS AND TRUST ASSOCIATED WITH TELEPHONY date: 2019.0 words: 1282 flesch: 51 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. keywords: calls; communication; mobile; telephony cache: spir-10959.pdf plain text: spir-10959.txt item: #180 of 1758 id: spir-10960 author: Epstein, Dmitry; Quinn, Kelly title: MAKING SENSE OF SOCIAL MEDIA PRIVACY: A FRAMING EXPERIMENT date: 2019.0 words: 1403 flesch: 41 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’s ‘frames in thought’ and ‘frames in communication’ have on privacy concerns and privacy self- efficacy? keywords: concerns; frames; framing; privacy cache: spir-10960.pdf plain text: spir-10960.txt item: #181 of 1758 id: spir-10961 author: Fagerjord, Anders title: SPOTIFY AND NETFLIX AS INNOVATIONS: STREAMING MEDIA HISTORY IN THE LIGHT OF INNOVATION THEORY date: 2019.0 words: 1293 flesch: 58 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. keywords: innovation; music; new; streaming cache: spir-10961.pdf plain text: spir-10961.txt item: #182 of 1758 id: spir-10962 author: Sophie Olivia, Freeman title: TRUST IN THE MUSIC? AUTOMATED MUSIC DISCOVERY, MUSIC RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS & ALGORITHMIC CULTURE. date: 2019.0 words: 1292 flesch: 40 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. keywords: discovery; music; systems cache: spir-10962.pdf plain text: spir-10962.txt item: #183 of 1758 id: spir-10964 author: Fabio, Giglietto; Righetti, Nicola; Marino, Giada title: API AND BEYOND: DETECTING COORDINATED BEHAVIOURS IN FACEBOOK INTERACTIONS AROUND POLITICAL NEWS STORIES date: 2019.0 words: 1478 flesch: 46 summary: Selective exposure in the age of social media: Endorsements trump partisan source affiliation when selecting news online. Media manipulation and disinformation online. keywords: election; facebook; media; news; online cache: spir-10964.pdf plain text: spir-10964.txt item: #184 of 1758 id: spir-10965 author: Gray, Joanne; Suzor, Nicolas title: ALGORITHMIC COPYRIGHT ENFORCEMENT ON YOUTUBE: USING MACHINE LEARNING TO UNDERSTAND AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING AT SCALE date: 2019.0 words: 1285 flesch: 49 summary: The initial sample of YouTube videos is derived from YouTube’s search API (‘list’ 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). keywords: content; copyright; scale; videos; youtube cache: spir-10965.pdf plain text: spir-10965.txt item: #185 of 1758 id: spir-10967 author: Grosse, Meghan Leigh title: LASTING IMPACTS OF 1990S ON INTERNET GOVERNANCE date: 2019.0 words: 1167 flesch: 36 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’ ability to do so. The prioritization of commercial interests has continued impacts. keywords: interests; internet; system cache: spir-10967.pdf plain text: spir-10967.txt item: #186 of 1758 id: spir-10970 author: Holloway, Donell Joy; Archer, Catherine; Willson, Michele title: ENTRUSTING CHILDREN'S DATA date: 2019.0 words: 4474 flesch: 51 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, ‘When trust goes wrong: Children on the dark web’ investigates what happens when trust goes wrong; when children’s personal data is hacked and circulated on the dark web? keywords: brand; children; dark; data; media; new; paper; practices; trust; use; web cache: spir-10970.pdf plain text: spir-10970.txt item: #187 of 1758 id: spir-10971 author: Dobson, Amy Shields; Race, Kane; O'Riordan, Kate title: QUEER DE/STABILIZATIONS IN AND OF DIGITAL CULTURAL RESEARCH date: 2019.0 words: 4662 flesch: 43 summary: I suggest that in such socially striated and digitally collapsed contexts, a kind of “reparative reading” of youth social media practices (following Wiegman, 2014, on Sedgwick), especially acts and practices of “seeking attention”, is politically important; so too, an ethics of “queer comradery and generosity” (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 “show up”, or make appearances, in data on youth social media practices, with discussion of some examples from our data. keywords: digital; human; media; new; practices; queer; research; sexuality; social; theory; youth cache: spir-10971.pdf plain text: spir-10971.txt item: #188 of 1758 id: spir-10972 author: Lewis, Kelly ; Berents, Helen; Myles, David; Cabalquinto, Earvin Charles ; Matamoros Fernández, Ariadna; Estrada-Grajales, Carlos title: PERFORMING (IN)JUSTICE: THE CONTENTIOUS POLITICS OF DIGITALLY MEDIATED VISUALS date: 2019.0 words: 7910 flesch: 45 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 “resocializing the political” (Fenton, 2016). The premise of this presentation is that digitally mediated images not only perform representational or illustrative functions but are also operationalized – as instruments and agents in activist practice, as products and producers of sociopolitical work – 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’s 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. keywords: activism; aoir; association; australia; brisbane; conference; digital; images; internet; media; memes; october; politics; researchers; visual; women cache: spir-10972.pdf plain text: spir-10972.txt item: #189 of 1758 id: spir-10973 author: Yecies, Brian; Ren, Xiang (Tony); Shim, Aegyung; Wang, Dingkun title: BANKING ON CULTURAL INTERMEDIARIES ACROSS WEBTOON, WEBNOVEL AND VIDEO-SHARING PLATFORMS IN ASIA’S DIGITAL CREATIVE ECONOMY date: 2019.0 words: 1022 flesch: 28 summary: Dr. Xiang (Tony) Ren: Transmedia Online Literature in China and Global Platform Ecosystems The second paper, “Transmedia Online Literature in China and Global Platform Ecosystems”, 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. keywords: paper; platforms; webtoon cache: spir-10973.pdf plain text: spir-10973.txt item: #190 of 1758 id: spir-10975 author: Plaut, Ethan; Mannell, Kate ; Kania-Lundholm, Magdalena; Beattie, Alex title: DOUBT AND DISENGAGEMENT: TECHNOLOGIES AND PRACTICES OF DIGITAL DISCONNECTION date: 2019.0 words: 5335 flesch: 46 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 ‘attention economy’ is a dominant socio-economic system underpinning digital technology that degrades user trust by driving undesirable hyper-connectivity. keywords: disconnection; literacy; media; new; paper; people; practices; self; strategies; technologies; technology; use cache: spir-10975.pdf plain text: spir-10975.txt item: #191 of 1758 id: spir-10976 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 – A CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE date: 2019.0 words: 6385 flesch: 50 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. keywords: bruns; campaigning; campaigns; candidates; election; facebook; media; new; studies; time; twitter; use cache: spir-10976.pdf plain text: spir-10976.txt item: #192 of 1758 id: spir-10977 author: Whelan, Andrew; James, Alexandra; Humphry, Justine; Dreher, Tanja ; Hynes, Danielle; Wilcock, Scarlet title: SMART TECHNOLOGIES, ALGORITHMIC GOVERNANCE AND DATA JUSTICE date: 2019.0 words: 5405 flesch: 45 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 ‘apply innovative smart technologies that generate, store and process data to target urban challenges’ (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’s efficiency and ‘awareness’, 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. keywords: cities; city; data; governance; initiatives; justice; linknyc; new; processes; services; social; state; technologies; welfare; wifi cache: spir-10977.pdf plain text: spir-10977.txt item: #193 of 1758 id: spir-10979 author: Hare, Kathleen Allyson title: ‘SENSORIAL LITTER’: BUILDING REFLEXIVE TRUST THROUGH EXAMINING DIGITAL DETRITUS date: 2019.0 words: 1447 flesch: 44 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. keywords: experiences; litter; participants; research cache: spir-10979.pdf plain text: spir-10979.txt item: #194 of 1758 id: spir-10980 author: Haytin, Sofia; Livio, Oren title: WHAT WE CANNOT SPEAK ABOUT WE MUST TWEET: TRUST AMONG ISRAELI TWITTER USERS WITH DEPRESSION date: 2019.0 words: 1321 flesch: 53 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. keywords: trust; twitter; users cache: spir-10980.pdf plain text: spir-10980.txt item: #195 of 1758 id: spir-10981 author: Healy, Guy Hamilton title: LEVERAGING TRUST: YOUTUBE ENTERTAINERS AND THE ROLE OF PROBLEM-SOLVING IN ENGENDERING TRUST. date: 2019.0 words: 1504 flesch: 46 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 ‘idiotic’ stunts as part of their audience-building and sustainability (Goriunova, 2012), for example the Bird Box and Tide Pod challenges. keywords: creators; problem; solving; trust; youtube cache: spir-10981.pdf plain text: spir-10981.txt item: #196 of 1758 id: spir-10982 author: Heemsbergen, Luke; Molnar, Adam title: VPNs AND ENCRYPTION AS BOUNDARY OBJECTS OF THE INTERNET: (MIS)TRUST IN THE TRANSLATION(S) date: 2019.0 words: 1486 flesch: 47 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 ‘on’ the internet to consider conceptualizing objects ‘of’ the internet, which opens a fruitful reconfiguration of Star’s work for internet research. keywords: encryption; internet; objects; star; technical cache: spir-10982.pdf plain text: spir-10982.txt item: #197 of 1758 id: spir-10983 author: Henman, Paul title: ASSESSING ETHICAL AI-BASED DECISION-MAKING: TOWARDS AN APPLIED ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK date: 2019.0 words: 1349 flesch: 31 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) keywords: context; data; decision; making cache: spir-10983.pdf plain text: spir-10983.txt item: #198 of 1758 id: spir-10984 author: Henry, Claire title: DESIGNING EFFECTIVE ONLINE ADVERTISEMENTS FOR A PREVENTION CAMPAIGN: MISTRUST AND OTHER BARRIERS date: 2019.0 words: 1313 flesch: 40 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 ‘nudging’ potential offenders away from CSAM and toward seeking therapeutic intervention—shifts that require a significant fostering of trust. keywords: advertisements; internet; prevention; research; trust cache: spir-10984.pdf plain text: spir-10984.txt item: #199 of 1758 id: spir-10985 author: Hurcombe, Edward title: TROLLING FOR ENGAGEMENT: AUSTRALIAN LEGACY NEWS OUTLETS SEEKING AUDIENCE INTERACTION METRICS ON FACEBOOK THROUGH DELIBERATELY DIVISIVE CONTENT date: 2019.0 words: 1381 flesch: 51 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 “trolling”, as it appears that news outlets are adopting faux-naïve, as well as deliberately incendiary, practices in order to satisfy Facebook’s logic of engagement. keywords: engagement; facebook; news; outlets cache: spir-10985.pdf plain text: spir-10985.txt item: #200 of 1758 id: spir-10986 author: Jensen, Jakob Linaa title: THE RETURN OF MEDIEVAL SOCIETY – CONTROL, SURVEILLANCE AND NEO-FEUDALISM IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET date: 2019.0 words: 1403 flesch: 47 summary: It is claimed that the interplay between big tech companies, nation states’ battle for control and citizens’ 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’ battle for control and citizens’ participatory surveillance, for instance exercised through social media, resembles medieval principles of feudalism and tight social control. keywords: control; internet; medieval; surveillance cache: spir-10986.pdf plain text: spir-10986.txt item: #201 of 1758 id: spir-10987 author: Jensen, Jennifer; de Castell, Suzanne; Skardzius, Karen title: PLAYING WHILE FEMALE: RE-READING IDENTITY FIXATIONS IN OVERWATCH date: 2019.0 words: 1317 flesch: 55 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, “Ellie” 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). keywords: ellie; female; identity; overwatch cache: spir-10987.pdf plain text: spir-10987.txt item: #202 of 1758 id: spir-10991 author: John, Nicholas; Agbarya, Aysha title: PUNCHING UP OR TURNING AWAY? WHEN PALESTINIANS UNFRIEND JEWS IN ISRAEL date: 2019.0 words: 1375 flesch: 55 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. keywords: facebook; interviewees; israel; unfriending cache: spir-10991.pdf plain text: spir-10991.txt item: #203 of 1758 id: spir-10993 author: Kamal, Ahmad; Rossi, Luca title: MAPPING THE MIGRANT DIGITAL SPACE, METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES AND PRELIMINARY RESULTS date: 2019.0 words: 1388 flesch: 52 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. keywords: facebook; mds; migrant; pages cache: spir-10993.pdf plain text: spir-10993.txt item: #204 of 1758 id: spir-10994 author: Kant, Tanya title: ALGORITHMIC WOMEN’S WORK: THE LABOUR OF NEGOTIATING BLACK-BOXED REPRESENTATION date: 2019.0 words: 1295 flesch: 40 summary: I consider the ways in which the ‘algorithmic imaginary’ 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 – and unequally – in web users’ everyday engagements. keywords: black; data; users cache: spir-10994.pdf plain text: spir-10994.txt item: #205 of 1758 id: spir-10995 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 words: 1303 flesch: 45 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’s technology use using familiar televisual genres of a “nature documentary” (to capture household technology use in its “natural habitat”), “news report”, “paparazzi shot”, “diary room entry”, and “chat show interview”. keywords: participants; research; researchers; use cache: spir-10995.pdf plain text: spir-10995.txt item: #206 of 1758 id: spir-10996 author: Kininmonth, Samuel Stanley title: ‘MARKING THEIR OWN HOMEWORK’: TRUST AND AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT IN THE AUSTRALIAN DIGITAL ADVERTISING INDUSTRY date: 2019.0 words: 1296 flesch: 48 summary: ‘MARKING THEIR OWN HOMEWORK’: 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. keywords: advertising; industry; trust; verification cache: spir-10996.pdf plain text: spir-10996.txt item: #207 of 1758 id: spir-10997 author: Kirkwood, Katherine title: TOO MANY COOKS: TRUSTING NEW VOICES IN ONLINE CULINARY ADVICE date: 2019.0 words: 1343 flesch: 51 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 “food citizens increasingly require a critical media literacy…”. keywords: evans; food; gibson; media cache: spir-10997.pdf plain text: spir-10997.txt item: #208 of 1758 id: spir-10998 author: Kristensen, Jakob Bæk title: MAKING THE UNSEEN VISIBLE: EXPLORING CROSSCUTTING SOCIAL MEDIA PUBLICS AND THEIR SOCIOPOLITICAL TRAITS date: 2019.0 words: 1151 flesch: 51 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 Bæk 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. keywords: clusters; media; users cache: spir-10998.pdf plain text: spir-10998.txt item: #209 of 1758 id: spir-10999 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 words: 1418 flesch: 1 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. 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 cache: spir-10999.pdf plain text: spir-10999.txt item: #210 of 1758 id: spir-11000 author: Kyza, Eleni A.; Varda, Christiana title: NAVIGATING THE POST-TRUTH ERA: TRUST, MISINFORMATION, AND CREDIBILITY ASSESSMENT ON ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIA date: 2019.0 words: 1627 flesch: 40 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. keywords: media; misinformation; news; online cache: spir-11000.pdf plain text: spir-11000.txt item: #211 of 1758 id: spir-11001 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 words: 1283 flesch: 50 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). keywords: algorithms; people; personality cache: spir-11001.pdf plain text: spir-11001.txt item: #212 of 1758 id: spir-11003 author: Lin, Chang; Jacobson, Jenna; McEwen, Rhonda title: PERSONAL INFORMATION ARCHIVING: BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSES TO THE PERCEPTION OF RISK date: 2019.0 words: 1268 flesch: 40 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. keywords: behaviour; information; internet; risk cache: spir-11003.pdf plain text: spir-11003.txt item: #213 of 1758 id: spir-11004 author: Lüders, Marika title: CONVENIENCE TRUMPS ALGORITHMS: PREDICTING CONTINUED INTENTION TO USE MUSIC STREAMING SERVICES date: 2019.0 words: 1609 flesch: 51 summary: Convenience trumps algorithms: predicting continued intention to use music streaming services. CONVENIENCE TRUMPS ALGORITHMS: PREDICTING CONTINUED INTENTION TO USE MUSIC STREAMING SERVICES Marika Lüders 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. keywords: music; services; streaming; value cache: spir-11004.pdf plain text: spir-11004.txt item: #214 of 1758 id: spir-11005 author: Marshall, Amber Hope title: GENDERED LIVED EXPERIENCE OF DIGITAL INCLUSION IN RURAL AUSTRALIA date: 2019.0 words: 1286 flesch: 44 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. keywords: digital; inclusion; research; women cache: spir-11005.pdf plain text: spir-11005.txt item: #215 of 1758 id: spir-11006 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 words: 1291 flesch: 56 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. keywords: algorithms; news; recommender; systems cache: spir-11006.pdf plain text: spir-11006.txt item: #216 of 1758 id: spir-11008 author: Maxigas, .; Latzko-Toth, Guillaume title: TRUSTED COMMONS: WHY “OLD” SOCIAL MEDIA MATTER date: 2019.0 words: 1315 flesch: 50 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’s (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—groups who are key to the collaborative production of software, hardware and politics. keywords: communication; media; technology; users cache: spir-11008.pdf plain text: spir-11008.txt item: #217 of 1758 id: spir-11009 author: McCann, Hannah; Southerton, Clare title: FANGIRLS AND FAKE NEWS: DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE AFFECTS OF FANDOM date: 2019.0 words: 1282 flesch: 47 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. keywords: ethnography; fandom; fans; larry cache: spir-11009.pdf plain text: spir-11009.txt item: #218 of 1758 id: spir-11010 author: Mckie, Indra Ayu Susan; Narayan, Bhuva title: COMMUNICATING A TRUSTWORTHY ONLINE ORGANISATIONAL IDENTITY WITH CHATBOTS date: 2019.0 words: 1491 flesch: 43 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. keywords: chatbots; identity; information; trust; users cache: spir-11010.pdf plain text: spir-11010.txt item: #219 of 1758 id: spir-11011 author: Münch, 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 words: 1315 flesch: 51 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. ​Bots among us: prevalence, influence and role of automated accounts in the German Twitter follow network​. Paper presented at AoIR 2019: keywords: accounts; bots; figure; german; sample cache: spir-11011.pdf plain text: spir-11011.txt item: #220 of 1758 id: spir-11012 author: Munn, Luke title: “ALEXA, CAN I TRUST YOU?”: SMALL SISTERS AND FRIENDLY POWER date: 2019.0 words: 1510 flesch: 58 summary: “Amazon Says It Has Over 10,000 Employees Working on Alexa, Echo.” “Alexa Gives Amazon a Powerful Data Advantage.” keywords: alexa; conference; internet; power cache: spir-11012.pdf plain text: spir-11012.txt item: #221 of 1758 id: spir-11013 author: Mwaura, Job title: #RESISTHUDUMANAMBA: KENYAN GOVERNMENT AT A CROSSROAD date: 2019.0 words: 1565 flesch: 50 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. keywords: association; conference; government; internet; researchers cache: spir-11013.pdf plain text: spir-11013.txt item: #222 of 1758 id: spir-11015 author: nansen, bjorn; o'neill, christopher title: ‘SMART WAKE UP’ AND ‘BINAURAL BEATS’: SLEEP APPS AND THE ACOUSTIC MODULATION OF SLEEP-WAKE RHYTHMS date: 2019.0 words: 1420 flesch: 50 summary: ‘Smart wake up’ and ‘binaural beats’: 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 – ‘smart wake up’ alarms and ‘binaural beats’ frequencies. keywords: apps; beats; sleep; wake cache: spir-11015.pdf plain text: spir-11015.txt item: #223 of 1758 id: spir-11017 author: Neill Hoch, Indira title: THANKS SVETLANA: PRIVACY, TRUST, HUMOR, AND THE RUSSIAN PSYOP ON TUMBLR date: 2019.0 words: 1316 flesch: 57 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’t “in trouble,” and that they didn’t “need to take any action if you don’t want to.” Tumblr users responded to the reveal of the Russian “Psyop” with a mix of disbelief, humor, and accusations. keywords: accounts; ira; posts; tumblr cache: spir-11017.pdf plain text: spir-11017.txt item: #224 of 1758 id: spir-11018 author: Nicoll, Benjamin title: VIDEOGAME ENGINES AND THE POLITICS OF 'DEMOCRATISED' SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT date: 2019.0 words: 1359 flesch: 49 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—a key player in this industry, and the main case study of this paper—aims to ‘democratise game development’ 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. keywords: development; game; software; unity; videogame cache: spir-11018.pdf plain text: spir-11018.txt item: #225 of 1758 id: spir-11019 author: Nieborg, David; Poell, Thomas; van Dijck, José title: ANALYZING PLATFORM POWER: APP STORES AS INFRASTRUCTURAL PLATFORM SERVICES date: 2019.0 words: 1337 flesch: 49 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. keywords: app; platform; power; services cache: spir-11019.pdf plain text: spir-11019.txt item: #226 of 1758 id: spir-11020 author: Oquendo, Jacqueline; Porter, Lance title: THE ECOLOGY OF LATINX TWITTER date: 2019.0 words: 1709 flesch: 49 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. keywords: afro; heritage; latinx; networks; twitter cache: spir-11020.pdf plain text: spir-11020.txt item: #227 of 1758 id: spir-11021 author: Pym, Tinonee; Albury, Kath; Byron, Paul; McCosker , Anthony; Race, Kane title: “I STILL WANT TO KNOW THEY’RE NOT TERRIBLE PEOPLE”: NEGOTIATING TRUST, PLEASURE AND QUEER ETHICS IN LGBTQ+ YOUNG PEOPLE’S DATING APP USE date: 2019.0 words: 1369 flesch: 50 summary: Our workshops invited app users to articulate their ‘rules’ 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. keywords: app; people; users cache: spir-11021.pdf plain text: spir-11021.txt item: #228 of 1758 id: spir-11022 author: Ramizo, Godofredo Jr title: TRUST UNDER TRIAL: THE EFFECT OF SURGE PRICING ON TRUST TOWARD RIDE-HAILING PLATFORMS IN MANILA date: 2019.0 words: 1310 flesch: 48 summary: Hence, this paper investigates two related questions: First, how do attitudes on surge pricing influence trust toward Manila’s ride- hailing platforms? Second, why do attitudes on surge pricing influence trust of ride- hailing platforms the way they do? keywords: pricing; surge; trust cache: spir-11022.pdf plain text: spir-11022.txt item: #229 of 1758 id: spir-11023 author: Ren, Xiang title: FROM OPEN KNOWLEDGE SHARING TO SEMI-CLOSED GROUPING: THE EVOLUTION OF ACADEMIC SOCIAL MEDIA IN CHINA date: 2019.0 words: 1291 flesch: 41 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). keywords: china; knowledge; media; wechat cache: spir-11023.pdf plain text: spir-11023.txt item: #230 of 1758 id: spir-11024 author: Rensinghoff, Jan; Farke, Florian Marius; Dürmuth, Markus; Gostomzyk, Tobias title: WORK IN PROGRESS: THE EUROPEAN "RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN" – LEGAL AND TECHNICAL CHALLENGES OF SEARCH ENGINES COMPLYING THE RIGHT TO ERASURE date: 2019.0 words: 1355 flesch: 56 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. keywords: data; engines; right; search cache: spir-11024.pdf plain text: spir-11024.txt item: #231 of 1758 id: spir-11025 author: Zhao, Luolin; John, Nicholas title: THE CONCEPT OF ‘SHARING’ IN CHINESE SOCIAL MEDIA date: 2019.0 words: 1338 flesch: 59 summary: Fenxiang and gongxiang—the Mandarin words for ‘sharing’—are 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—fenxiang and gongxiang—are indeed both keywords in Chinese SNSs. keywords: fenxiang; media; self; sharing cache: spir-11025.pdf plain text: spir-11025.txt item: #232 of 1758 id: spir-11026 author: Rivera, Yonaira M; Smith, Katherine C; Moran, Meghan B title: “WHY WOULD SOMEONE INTENTIONALLY LIE?”: ASSESSING THE CREDIBILITY OF CANCER (MIS)INFORMATION ON FACEBOOK date: 2019.0 words: 1354 flesch: 44 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. keywords: cancer; credibility; facebook; information; media cache: spir-11026.pdf plain text: spir-11026.txt item: #233 of 1758 id: spir-11027 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 words: 1356 flesch: 59 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. keywords: gender; people; use cache: spir-11027.pdf plain text: spir-11027.txt item: #234 of 1758 id: spir-11028 author: Wyatt, Danielle Ray; Leorke, Dale title: FROM KNOWLEDGE CATHEDRALS TO NETWORKED CO-CREATION: PUBLIC LIBRARIES, TRUST AND THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY date: 2019.0 words: 1320 flesch: 39 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. keywords: information; knowledge; libraries; public cache: spir-11028.pdf plain text: spir-11028.txt item: #235 of 1758 id: spir-11029 author: Ross, Janet Nalubega; Walker, Shawn title: THE BIRDS AND THE BEES ONLINE: UNDERSTANDING AMERICAN ONLINE SEX-ED SITES date: 2019.0 words: 1358 flesch: 45 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. keywords: adolescents; education; health; online cache: spir-11029.pdf plain text: spir-11029.txt item: #236 of 1758 id: spir-11030 author: Witt, Alice Elizabeth Ameila title: A NEW BLACK BOX METHODOLOGY: THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF INTERROGATING THE MODERATION OF IMAGES DEPICTING WOMEN’S BODIES ON INSTAGRAM date: 2019.0 words: 1437 flesch: 44 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). keywords: content; images; instagram; moderation cache: spir-11030.pdf plain text: spir-11030.txt item: #237 of 1758 id: spir-11031 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 words: 1288 flesch: 57 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. keywords: groups; iot; meetup cache: spir-11031.pdf plain text: spir-11031.txt item: #238 of 1758 id: spir-11032 author: Savic, Milovan title: “I PREFER TO BUILD TRUST” – EXAMINING PARENTAL CONFIDENCE IN CHILDREN’S DIGITAL SKILLS date: 2019.0 words: 1271 flesch: 58 summary: “I PREFER TO BUILD TRUST” – EXAMINING PARENTAL CONFIDENCE IN CHILDREN’S 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). keywords: children; skills; trust cache: spir-11032.pdf plain text: spir-11032.txt item: #239 of 1758 id: spir-11033 author: Setianto, Yearry Panji title: TRUSTING TWITTERSPHERE AS A GENUINE POLITICAL DEBATE? THE CASE OF INDONESIAN ELECTION HASTAGS date: 2019.0 words: 1720 flesch: 46 summary: Political networks on Twitter: Tweeting the Queensland state election. Twitter use in political campaigns: A systematic literature review. keywords: election; hashtags; media; network; twitter cache: spir-11033.pdf plain text: spir-11033.txt item: #240 of 1758 id: spir-11034 author: Venema, Rebecca; Lobinger, Katharina title: A NEW STANDARD OF PROOF? DISCOURSES ON VISUAL DATA AFTER THE 2017 G20-PROTESTS date: 2019.0 words: 1298 flesch: 44 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. keywords: data; police; tools; visual cache: spir-11034.pdf plain text: spir-11034.txt item: #241 of 1758 id: spir-11035 author: Sinnreich, Aram; Gilbert, Jesse title: THE CARRIER WAVE PRINCIPLE date: 2019.0 words: 1249 flesch: 43 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 “big data ethics” (boyd & Crawford, 2012), the disruptions to traditional media and communications industries (Craig & Cunningham, 2019), and the dangers of algorithmic governance (Gillespie, 2018). keywords: data; media; new; principle cache: spir-11035.pdf plain text: spir-11035.txt item: #242 of 1758 id: spir-11036 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 words: 1339 flesch: 41 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 “inside the gates”. keywords: comments; news; reader cache: spir-11036.pdf plain text: spir-11036.txt item: #243 of 1758 id: spir-11037 author: Soriano, Cheryll; Cabalquinto, Earvin title: BRIDGING, COACHING, AND BOUNDARY SPANNING: BROKERAGE AND INTERMEDIATION IN THE PHILIPPINE ONLINE PLATFORM LABOR ECONOMY date: 2019.0 words: 1286 flesch: 37 summary: Yet, we see an emerging category of digital labor intermediaries—locally 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 ‘possibilities’ of the digital labor economy, on how to address the structural ambiguities of digital labor platforms, on how to build ‘marketable skills’ to attract and sustain foreign clients, and on how to find ‘good jobs’ 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. keywords: brokerage; economy; labor; lehdonvirta; workers cache: spir-11037.pdf plain text: spir-11037.txt item: #244 of 1758 id: spir-11038 author: van der Nagel, Emily title: SUNSET AND MEMORIES: HOW WE BURY AND MOURN DEAD PLATFORMS date: 2019.0 words: 1032 flesch: 57 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. keywords: media; people; platform cache: spir-11038.pdf plain text: spir-11038.txt item: #245 of 1758 id: spir-11039 author: Stark, Luke ; Hoey, Jesse title: THE ETHICS OF EMOTION IN AI SYSTEMS date: 2019.0 words: 1276 flesch: 44 summary: Many such systems seek to model emotional interactions through “digital phenotyping,” 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). keywords: data; expression; systems cache: spir-11039.pdf plain text: spir-11039.txt item: #246 of 1758 id: spir-11040 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 words: 1289 flesch: 50 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 “talking about the Internet with others” affect teenagers’ experience of online risks? keywords: boys; girls; online cache: spir-11040.pdf plain text: spir-11040.txt item: #247 of 1758 id: spir-11041 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 words: 1287 flesch: 44 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. keywords: copyright; industry; music; myanmar cache: spir-11041.pdf plain text: spir-11041.txt item: #248 of 1758 id: spir-11042 author: Sundén, Jenny ; Paasonen, Susanna title: LAUGHTER OUT OF PLACE: AFFECTIVE HOMOPHILY AND THE ABSURD COMEDY OF #METOO date: 2019.0 words: 1391 flesch: 47 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. keywords: affective; feminist; humor; metoo cache: spir-11042.pdf plain text: spir-11042.txt item: #249 of 1758 id: spir-11043 author: Taffel, Sy title: TRUSTED MACHINES? MACHINE LEARNING, MORE-THAN-HUMAN SPEED AND DEAD LABOR IN PLATFORM CAPITALISM date: 2019.0 words: 1270 flesch: 43 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. keywords: automation; human; machines; systems cache: spir-11043.pdf plain text: spir-11043.txt item: #250 of 1758 id: spir-11044 author: Trott, Verity title: #METOO AND INTERSECTIONALISM: "RADICAL COMMUNITY HEALING" OR "VOYEURISTIC TRAUMA PORN?" date: 2019.0 words: 1332 flesch: 46 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. keywords: feminist; metoo; movement; women cache: spir-11044.pdf plain text: spir-11044.txt item: #251 of 1758 id: spir-11045 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 words: 1324 flesch: 41 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. keywords: collection; data; research; studies cache: spir-11045.pdf plain text: spir-11045.txt item: #252 of 1758 id: spir-11046 author: Tomlinson, Christine title: DISAPPOINTING AND BEING DISAPPOINTED: VIDEO GAME PLAYER TRUST IN EACH OTHER date: 2019.0 words: 1250 flesch: 55 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). keywords: games; online; players cache: spir-11046.pdf plain text: spir-11046.txt item: #253 of 1758 id: spir-11047 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 words: 1266 flesch: 54 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 “overly polite” 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 Güneş Tavmen King's College London Following the common criticism that smart cities are top-to-bottom, neoliberal, and technocratic corporate-led ambitions (McNeill, 2015; Söderström 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). keywords: cities; city; data; government cache: spir-11047.pdf plain text: spir-11047.txt item: #254 of 1758 id: spir-11048 author: Taylor, Simon; Witzenberger, Kevin title: PRESSURE CONTROLS: DATA FORCES CREEPING THROUGH FINGERTIP COMMANDS date: 2019.0 words: 1432 flesch: 43 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’s knowledge or experience. keywords: computing; data; force; media; pressure; user cache: spir-11048.pdf plain text: spir-11048.txt item: #255 of 1758 id: spir-11049 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 words: 2405 flesch: 54 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. keywords: course; discussion; learning; participants; posts cache: spir-11049.pdf plain text: spir-11049.txt item: #256 of 1758 id: spir-11050 author: Ferris-Dobles, Michele Francis title: CENTRAL AMERICAN MIGRATION: TRUSTING THE MOBILE PHONE TO CROSS BORDERS date: 2019.0 words: 1275 flesch: 48 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). keywords: american; central; migration; new cache: spir-11050.pdf plain text: spir-11050.txt item: #257 of 1758 id: spir-11051 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 words: 1218 flesch: 55 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 – what de Souza e Silva and Sutko (2009) term “net-local space” – and the place of mobile media in people’s nighttime practices and their experience and perception of the urban dark. keywords: darkness; media; night; safety cache: spir-11051.pdf plain text: spir-11051.txt item: #258 of 1758 id: spir-11109 author: Abidin, Crystal; van der Nagel, Emily; Johns, Amelia; Bailo, Francesco; Rodriguez, Aleesha; Valdovinos-Kaye, Bondy; Wikstrom, Patrik; Gerrard, Ysabel; Leaver, Tama title: ‘PLEASE READ THE COMMENTS’: COMMENTING CULTURES ACROSS PLATFORMS date: 2020.0 words: 7249 flesch: 51 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. keywords: 2020; 9gag; commenting; comments; content; cultures; facebook; instagram; internet; media; meme; paper; platform; posts; section; tiktok; university; users; video cache: spir-11109.pdf plain text: spir-11109.txt item: #259 of 1758 id: spir-11111 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 words: 6219 flesch: 48 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. keywords: delivery; economy; fairwork; food; foundation; global; graham; institute; internet; labour; new; platform; resistance; workers cache: spir-11111.pdf plain text: spir-11111.txt item: #260 of 1758 id: spir-11112 author: Bossio, Diana; Grønning, Anette; Cabalquinto, Earvin; Milne, Esther; Schleser, Max; McCosker, Anthony; Albury, Kath title: OLDER PEOPLE'S DIGITAL LIVES date: 2020.0 words: 5954 flesch: 44 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 ‘digital intervention’ into ageism as a primary driver of abuse against older people in Victoria, Australia. OLDER PEOPLE’S DIGITAL LIVES Esther Milne, Anthony McCosker and Kath Albury Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Anette Grønning 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. keywords: abuse; ageing; care; communication; consultations; digital; media; online; people; research; social; tools; use cache: spir-11112.pdf plain text: spir-11112.txt item: #261 of 1758 id: spir-11113 author: Buck, Amber M.; Tekobbe, Cindy; Edwards, Dustin; Beck, Estee title: THE INTERNET IS TRASH: MAKING SENSE OF TOXIC NETWORKS date: 2020.0 words: 3789 flesch: 50 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. keywords: communities; digital; group; internet; life; media; memes; press; researchers; stories; university cache: spir-11113.pdf plain text: spir-11113.txt item: #262 of 1758 id: spir-11114 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 words: 6500 flesch: 44 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. keywords: analysis; dialogue; discourse; expression; findings; media; new; online; people; platforms; political; research; study; youth cache: spir-11114.pdf plain text: spir-11114.txt item: #263 of 1758 id: spir-11115 author: de Vries Kedem, Maya; Haapio-Kirk, Laura; Hawkins, Charlotte; Miller, Daniel title: AGEING WITH SMARTPHONES ‘FROM BELOW’: INSIGHTS FROM JAPAN, UGANDA, AL-QUDS AND IRELAND date: 2020.0 words: 5612 flesch: 57 summary: AGEING WITH SMARTPHONES ‘FROM BELOW’: 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’s perception of age, health, digital skills and quality of life as associated with smartphone use. keywords: care; digital; home; japan; life; money; paper; people; smartphone; theory; university; use cache: spir-11115.pdf plain text: spir-11115.txt item: #264 of 1758 id: spir-11116 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 words: 6082 flesch: 51 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 “data frontiers” (Beer 2019) by highlight problematic shifts in industry dynamics, where non- medical information is transformed into health data, and vice versa. keywords: college; companies; data; devices; digital; google; health; industry; internet; marketing; new; people; schools; surveillance; university; voice cache: spir-11116.pdf plain text: spir-11116.txt item: #265 of 1758 id: spir-11117 author: Ess, Charles; franzke, aline shakti; Kaufmann, Katja; Rauhala, Marjo; Gudowsky-Blatakes, Niklas; Rutzinger, Martin; Bork-Hüffer, Tabea; Hård af Segerstad, Ylva; Vanacker, Bastiaan title: THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL RESEARCH ETHICS: THREE CASES date: 2020.0 words: 4652 flesch: 43 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. keywords: aoir; data; ethics; internet; media; methods; paper; research; researchers; virtue cache: spir-11117.pdf plain text: spir-11117.txt item: #266 of 1758 id: spir-11118 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 words: 5932 flesch: 46 summary: Keywords – Artificial Intelligence, AI ethics guidelines, Virtue Ethics Paper type – 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’s rightful collection of large-scale big data, arguing for the state’s central role in harnessing large-scale big data to ameliorate digital inequalities and deepen democracy. keywords: algorithmic; aoir; big; collection; data; ethics; good; guidelines; internet; paper; public; state; technology cache: spir-11118.pdf plain text: spir-11118.txt item: #267 of 1758 id: spir-11119 author: Gekker, Alex; Hind, Sam title: RE-VALUING PLATFORMS, RECLAIMING THE LOCAL date: 2020.0 words: 5868 flesch: 43 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’ roles and all this entails as the underlying layer behind platforms’ economic, social, and environmental ‘behavior’ (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. keywords: business; city; data; governance; infrastructures; market; media; models; new; platform; public; services; society; university; value cache: spir-11119.pdf plain text: spir-11119.txt item: #268 of 1758 id: spir-11120 author: Glatt, Zoë; Banet-Weiser, Sarah; Bishop, Sophie; Sobande, Francesca; Wissinger, Elizabeth; Entwistle, Joanne; Duffy, Brooke Erin; Rocamora, Agnès; Arriagada, Arturo title: A GOOD LIFE? CRITICAL FEMINIST APPROACHES TO INFLUENCER ECOLOGIES date: 2020.0 words: 6603 flesch: 44 summary: Social media influencers are envied by audiences as having achieved ‘the good life’, one in which they are able to ‘do what they love’ for a living (Duffy 2017). In 2020, influencer content can lie on a spectrum of amateur to highly professional; mythologies about influencers’ independence have also been complicated as we catch glimpses of managers, photographers and PR teams. keywords: analysis; content; creators; culture; duffy; fashion; feminist; influencer; media; mum; new; press; style; university; visibility; york; youtube cache: spir-11120.pdf plain text: spir-11120.txt item: #269 of 1758 id: spir-11121 author: Glover-Rijkse, Ragan; Stone, Melissa; Fletcher, Megan Alyssa; Eapen, Gayas title: MEDIATING PRECARITY THROUGH MOBILE APPS date: 2020.0 words: 4226 flesch: 46 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. keywords: apps; data; precarity; presentation; safety; spaces; users; violence; women cache: spir-11121.pdf plain text: spir-11121.txt item: #270 of 1758 id: spir-11122 author: Grandinetti, Justin; DeAtley, Tyler; Bruinsma, Jeffery title: THE DEAD SPEAK: BIG DATA AND DIGITALLY MEDIATED DEATH date: 2020.0 words: 4479 flesch: 49 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 (Öhman and Watson 2019). keywords: data; dead; death; digital; griefbots; human; media; platforms; streaming; user cache: spir-11122.pdf plain text: spir-11122.txt item: #271 of 1758 id: spir-11123 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 words: 5626 flesch: 49 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 “replatforming” on mainstream platforms. However, studies on the effectiveness (and ethics) of deplatforming have yet to engage with deplatforming’s effects beyond this initial migration to alternative platforms. keywords: /pol/; 4chan; alt; media; milieus; new; paper; platforms; right; university; vernacular; web; youtube cache: spir-11123.pdf plain text: spir-11123.txt item: #272 of 1758 id: spir-11124 author: Halavais, Alexander; Massanari, Adrienne; Bergstrom, Kelly; Poor, Nathaniel title: REDDIT'S COMMUNITIES & CONSEQUENCES date: 2020.0 words: 4139 flesch: 57 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 “leakage” of some of these ideas and forms of argument. keywords: communities; community; culture; dark; play; reddit; subreddits; users cache: spir-11124.pdf plain text: spir-11124.txt item: #273 of 1758 id: spir-11125 author: Hård 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 words: 4830 flesch: 54 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. keywords: aoir; association; death; digital; dying; event; internet; paper; researchers; taboo cache: spir-11125.pdf plain text: spir-11125.txt item: #274 of 1758 id: spir-11126 author: Hartmann, Maren; Jimenez, Carlos; Coates, Jamie; Norum, Roger title: SOCIALIZING THE NETWORKED INDIVIDUAL date: 2020.0 words: 5542 flesch: 51 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. “Mobile socialities” 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. keywords: day; digital; experience; laborers; media; mobile; mobility; new; people; socialities; sociality; time; work cache: spir-11126.pdf plain text: spir-11126.txt item: #275 of 1758 id: spir-11127 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 words: 6301 flesch: 45 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. keywords: data; digital; experiences; health; illness; media; online; paper; platforms; psychiatry; social; technology; university; user; woebot cache: spir-11127.pdf plain text: spir-11127.txt item: #276 of 1758 id: spir-11128 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 words: 7351 flesch: 49 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’s standards have effectively bootstrapped the semantic web into what it is today, undergirding web data in several domains. keywords: companies; data; google; graphs; information; knowledge; media; metadata; new; platforms; press; research; schema.org; society; users; web cache: spir-11128.pdf plain text: spir-11128.txt item: #277 of 1758 id: spir-11129 author: Jones, Steve; Guzman, Andrea; Conner, Thomas; Pashevich, Ekaterina title: HUMAN-MACHINE COMMUNICATION: ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES date: 2020.0 words: 5144 flesch: 48 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). keywords: children; communication; data; empathy; ethics; human; journalism; machines; research; robots; technology cache: spir-11129.pdf plain text: spir-11129.txt item: #278 of 1758 id: spir-11130 author: Karppi, Tero; Chia, Aleena; Lampinen, Airi; Feldman, Zeena; Dieter, Michael; Ferreira, Pedro; Beattie, Alex title: DISCONNECTION: DESIGNS AND DESIRES date: 2020.0 words: 6775 flesch: 48 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. ‘Number of monthly active Facebook users worldwide as of 4th quarter 2019’. keywords: activity; connectivity; design; disconnection; experiments; facebook; light; media; new; paper; participants; phone; technology; university; users; work cache: spir-11130.pdf plain text: spir-11130.txt item: #279 of 1758 id: spir-11131 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 words: 5287 flesch: 48 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). keywords: data; digital; human; labor; media; new; press; prison; prisoners; production; university; work; workers cache: spir-11131.pdf plain text: spir-11131.txt item: #280 of 1758 id: spir-11132 author: Keller, Tobias; Graham, Tim; Angus, Dan; Bruns, Axel; Nijmeijer, Rolf; Nielbo, Kristoffer Laigaard; Bechmann, Anja; Neudert, Lisa-Maria; Marchal, Nahema; Bradshaw, Samantha; Rossini, Patrícia; Stromer-Galley, Jennifer; Baptista, Erica Anita; Veiga de Oliveira, Vanessa title: ‘COORDINATED INAUTHENTIC BEHAVIOUR’ AND OTHER ONLINE INFLUENCE OPERATIONS IN SOCIAL MEDIA SPACES date: 2020.0 words: 5740 flesch: 39 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’s 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). keywords: accounts; arsonemergency; digital; facebook; information; media; misinformation; news; platforms; research; sharing; twitter; university; whatsapp cache: spir-11132.pdf plain text: spir-11132.txt item: #281 of 1758 id: spir-11134 author: Kotliar, Dan M; Ribak, Rivka; Ahmed, Shazeda; Roberge, Jonathan; Senneville, Marius title: ALGORITHMIC PRODUCTION BEYOND SILICON VALLEY date: 2020.0 words: 6085 flesch: 52 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. keywords: algorithms; china; companies; culture; data; developers; discrimination; information; new; press; privacy; society; technology; university; york cache: spir-11134.pdf plain text: spir-11134.txt item: #282 of 1758 id: spir-11135 author: Lammes, Sybille; Hjorth, Larissa; Richardson, Ingrid; Jungnickel, Kat; Hickey-Moody, Anna title: RESCRIPTING FAILURE: THE REFLEXIVE STORIES THAT FIELDWORK TELLS date: 2020.0 words: 4194 flesch: 52 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. keywords: digital; failure; fieldwork; human; media; methods; play; research; university; ways cache: spir-11135.pdf plain text: spir-11135.txt item: #283 of 1758 id: spir-11136 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’S AND PARENTS’ DATA PRACTICES, CHILDREN’S RIGHT TO PRIVACY AND PARENTS’ DILEMMAS date: 2020.0 words: 5484 flesch: 46 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, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy Davide Cino, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy Ellen Wartella, Northwestern University Introductory statement In the age of continuous data collection and algorithmic predictions, children’s privacy seems threatened by the variety of surveillance and data practices in which parents, institutions, corporations and children themselves engage. keywords: children; concern; data; internet; media; online; parenting; parents; practices; privacy; social; use cache: spir-11136.pdf plain text: spir-11136.txt item: #284 of 1758 id: spir-11137 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 words: 5732 flesch: 41 summary: How are biometric data constituted and what are their limitations and biases? Who benefits from the extraction of biometric data, including ‘digital identity’ programmes for refugees? keywords: asylum; biometrics; border; data; digital; european; migrants; migration; paper; refugees; security; technologies; traces; university cache: spir-11137.pdf plain text: spir-11137.txt item: #285 of 1758 id: spir-11138 author: McCosker, Anthony; Maddox, Alexia; Albury, Kath; Dietzel, Christopher; Barratt, Monica title: DIGITAL CULTURES OF CARE, SAFETY AND WELLBEING date: 2020.0 words: 5882 flesch: 48 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. keywords: app; apps; care; community; data; dating; health; online; participants; people; research; use; users; wellbeing cache: spir-11138.pdf plain text: spir-11138.txt item: #286 of 1758 id: spir-11139 author: McKelvey, Fenwick; Carmi, Elinor; ten Oever, Niels; Gürses, Seda title: OPTIMIZING OUR NETWORKED LIVES date: 2020.0 words: 6082 flesch: 46 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. keywords: control; data; experience; externalities; facebook; google; internet; kubernetics; network; optimization; people; power; standards; systems; users; way cache: spir-11139.pdf plain text: spir-11139.txt item: #287 of 1758 id: spir-11140 author: Møller, Kristian; Jensen, Mie Birk; Nebeling, Michael; Raun, Tobias title: MEDICALIZED MASCULINITIES date: 2020.0 words: 4604 flesch: 54 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 “frozen moments” (Haraway, 1994) that give insight into changes in the medicalization of masculinity and men’s everyday lives, both online and offline, as the boundaries between human and technology are increasingly blurred. keywords: culture; masculinity; media; men; self; spam; tracking; university; viagra; video cache: spir-11140.pdf plain text: spir-11140.txt item: #288 of 1758 id: spir-11141 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 words: 7273 flesch: 48 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. keywords: amazon; chicago; communication; data; digital; human; information; media; migration; network; new; society; systems; technologies; technology; university cache: spir-11141.pdf plain text: spir-11141.txt item: #289 of 1758 id: spir-11143 author: Pelletier, Caroline; Ruffino, Paolo; Woodcock, Jamie; Bulut, Ergin; Nieborg, David; Fordyce, Robbie title: GAMES OF EMPIRE TEN YEARS ON date: 2020.0 words: 5510 flesch: 54 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’s limitations in relation to empirical developments within the games sector and games culture. keywords: culture; digital; dyer; empire; games; industry; new; peuter; production; video; witheford; work cache: spir-11143.pdf plain text: spir-11143.txt item: #290 of 1758 id: spir-11144 author: Persaud, Christopher Jahmail; Guarriello, Nick-Brie; Maris, Elena; Abidin, Crystal; Zeng, Meg Jing title: RACING THE PLATFORM/PLATFORMING RACE date: 2020.0 words: 6113 flesch: 48 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 Pokémon GO influencers. Moreover, a plethora of community meet-ups, live streams, and let’s plays on YouTube has stemmed from Pokémon GO in a way that has resonated with most gamers and created a community of Pokémon GO influencers. keywords: community; content; creators; influencers; internet; media; memes; platform; pokémon; porn; race; racism; tiktok; university; work cache: spir-11144.pdf plain text: spir-11144.txt item: #291 of 1758 id: spir-11146 author: Sameshima, Pauline; Katz, Rebecca; Shariff, Shaheen; Dietzel, Christopher title: NOVEL, EDUCATIONAL AND LEGAL RESPONSES TO TECHNOLOGY-FACILITATED SEXUAL VIOLENCE date: 2020.0 words: 4794 flesch: 44 summary: The second presentation addresses a narrower branch of law and its potential application to one sub-category of online sexual violence, ‘revenge porn.’ 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). keywords: canada; copyright; internet; law; media; porn; project; research; revenge; university; victims; violence cache: spir-11146.pdf plain text: spir-11146.txt item: #292 of 1758 id: spir-11147 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 words: 7836 flesch: 46 summary: The second paper by Cheryll Ruth Soriano and Jason Vincent Cabañes 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. keywords: aoir; collective; drivers; formations; karatzogianni; labor; new; platform; solidarities; soriano; workers cache: spir-11147.pdf plain text: spir-11147.txt item: #293 of 1758 id: spir-11148 author: Bowman, Nick; Johnson, Mark Richard; Woodcock, Jamie; Partin, Will; Jackson, Nathan title: SOCIALITY AND MONETIZATION ON LIVE STREAMING PLATFORMS date: 2020.0 words: 5266 flesch: 49 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—those performing for others—are influenced by the experience of using streaming platforms and navigating their infrastructures. keywords: game; gaming; live; media; monetization; new; platform; play; streamers; streaming; time; twitch; viewers cache: spir-11148.pdf plain text: spir-11148.txt item: #294 of 1758 id: spir-11149 author: Spilker, Hendrik Storstein; Reuter, Lisa; Broomfield, Heather; Aasback, Anne; Dahl-Jørgensen, Tangni Cinningham title: DATAFICATION IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: EXPLORING THE BORDERS BETWEEN PUBLIC SERVICES AND CITIZENS date: 2020.0 words: 4257 flesch: 45 summary: Focusing on the ways practitioners include and problematize citizen’s 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. Aasback) keywords: citizens; clients; data; datafication; design; digital; new; participation; public; sector; services cache: spir-11149.pdf plain text: spir-11149.txt item: #295 of 1758 id: spir-11150 author: Sullivan, John; Aufderheide, Patricia; Bonini, Tiziano; Berry, Richard; Llinares, Dario title: PODCASTING IN TRANSITION: FORMALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS date: 2020.0 words: 9589 flesch: 36 summary: WLPH´ ������ ����� 5HIHUHQFHV 'XQEDU�+HVWHU� &� ������� /RZ SRZHU WR WKH SHRSOH� 3LUDWHV� SURWHVW� DQG SROLWLFV LQ )0 UDGLR DFWLYLVP� 0,7 3UHVV� (%8 ������ 'LJLWDO 5DGLR 5HSRUW ����� *HQHYH� (%8 3UHVV� /REDWR� 5� ������� 1HWIOL[ QDWLRQV� 7KH JHRJUDSK\ RI GLJLWDO GLVWULEXWLRQ� 1<8 3UHVV� 6WHUQH� -�� 0RUULV� -�� %DNHU� 0� %�� )UHLUH� $� 0� ������� 7KH SROLWLFV RI SRGFDVWLQJ� ILEUHFXOWXUH� 6XOOLYDQ� -� /� ������� 7KH SODWIRUPV RI SRGFDVWLQJ� 3DVW DQG SUHVHQW� 6RFLDO 0HGLD� 6RFLHW\� ����� ����������������� :LOOLDPV� 5� ������ 7HOHYLVLRQ� 7HFKQRORJ\ DQG &XOWXUDO ) 3ODWIRUPV RI 3RGFDVWLQJ� 3DVW DQG 3UHVHQW� 6RFLDO 0HGLD � 6RFLHW\� KWWSV���GRL�RUJ������������������������� :X keywords: 6rflhw\ �; dqg wkh; eurdgfdvwlqj �; fxowxuh �; gv �; h[shulhqfh �; huu\ �; hzh\ �; irupdol]dwlrq �; kwwsv �; lqgxvwu\ �; phgld �; phglxp �; plg �; qhzv �; r,5 �; ri wkh; ri �; rqlql �; sodwirup �; srgfdvwlqj �; srgfdvwv �; surgxfwlrq �; surjudpv �; udglr �; uhodqg �; vskhuh �; whfkqrorj\ �; wrs �; xuhdx �; ± �; ´ �; � +; � 1hz; � 3dvw; � 5hwulhyhg; � 6xoolydq; � 7kh; � 7klv; � dqg; � duh; � dv; � exw; � frp; � fxowxudo; � grl; � kdv; � kdyh; � krzhyhu; � rqh; � ru; � ruj; � s; � ss; � sxeolf; � v; � wkdw; � wkh; � zzz; � ±; � ´; � � cache: spir-11150.pdf plain text: spir-11150.txt item: #296 of 1758 id: spir-11151 author: Sundén, Jenny; Tiidenberg, Katrin; Paasonen, Susanna title: PLATFORMED SEX LIVES date: 2020.0 words: 4476 flesch: 48 summary: But with current crackdowns on sexual content on social media platforms, online venues for sexual expression are growing increasingly limited. 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). keywords: community; content; darkside; gender; images; kink; media; platform; sex; sexuality; site; users cache: spir-11151.pdf plain text: spir-11151.txt item: #297 of 1758 id: spir-11152 author: Wilken, Rowan; Humphreys, Lee; Polson, Erika; Norum, Roger; Witteborn, Saskia; Halegoua, Germaine; Frith, Jordan; Richter, Jacob title: DIGITAL PLACEMAKING date: 2020.0 words: 6548 flesch: 49 summary: The authors locate the embodied role of the local ‘host’ 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. keywords: communication; digital; experiences; media; migration; new; online; people; place; placemaking; practices; selfies; space; university cache: spir-11152.pdf plain text: spir-11152.txt item: #298 of 1758 id: spir-11153 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 words: 5166 flesch: 44 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. ‘Life’ and education policy: intervention, augmentation and computation. keywords: data; education; governance; human; knowledge; learning; life; machine; new; paper; policy; technology; university cache: spir-11153.pdf plain text: spir-11153.txt item: #299 of 1758 id: spir-11154 author: Agbarya, Aysha; John, Nicholas title: SOCIAL MEDIA AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITY CHANGE AMONG MUSLIM ARAB WOMEN IN ISRAEL date: 2020.0 words: 1363 flesch: 56 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. keywords: change; identity; media; women cache: spir-11154.pdf plain text: spir-11154.txt item: #300 of 1758 id: spir-11155 author: Ahn, Soyun title: COMBINING MULTIPLE DISINFORMATION COUNTERMEASURES TO REGULATE ELECTION DISRUPTIONS: THE SOUTH KOREAN CASE date: 2020.0 words: 1166 flesch: 31 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). keywords: disinformation; election; offenders; south cache: spir-11155.pdf plain text: spir-11155.txt item: #301 of 1758 id: spir-11156 author: Amit-Danhi, Eedan title: TMI: INFORMATION RHETORIC TYPES IN DIGITAL POLITICAL INFOGRAPHICS date: 2020.0 words: 1100 flesch: 37 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? keywords: data; information; visualizations cache: spir-11156.pdf plain text: spir-11156.txt item: #302 of 1758 id: spir-11159 author: Annabell, Taylor title: CURATING MEMORIES: THE ROLE OF EMOTION IN THE DIGITAL MEMORY WORK OF YOUNG WOMEN ON INSTAGRAM & FACEBOOK date: 2020.0 words: 1269 flesch: 54 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. keywords: facebook; instagram; memory; women cache: spir-11159.pdf plain text: spir-11159.txt item: #303 of 1758 id: spir-11160 author: Arriagada, Arturo; Siles, Ignacio title: NOT NATURAL, NOR NEUTRAL: THE CULTURAL CONFIGURATIONS OF SOCIAL MEDIA AFFORDANCES WITHIN CHILEAN INFLUENCER INDUSTRY date: 2020.0 words: 1447 flesch: 47 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. keywords: affordances; content; influencer; media cache: spir-11160.pdf plain text: spir-11160.txt item: #304 of 1758 id: spir-11162 author: Azer, Evronia; Zheng, Yingqin; Harindranath, G. title: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICTS) AS OPPRESSORS OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: A POWER PERSPECTIVE date: 2020.0 words: 1292 flesch: 53 summary: The oppression of social movements raises the question of how surveillance makes ICTs work against collective action, and threatens activists’ 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. keywords: activists; icts; power cache: spir-11162.pdf plain text: spir-11162.txt item: #305 of 1758 id: spir-11164 author: Baik, Sophia Jeeyun title: LAYERS OF “NETWORKED PRIVACY”: CONTEXT COLLAPSES ACROSS RELATIONS, TECHNOLOGIES, INSTITUTIONS, AND DATA date: 2020.0 words: 1342 flesch: 46 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. keywords: context; data; marwick; privacy cache: spir-11164.pdf plain text: spir-11164.txt item: #306 of 1758 id: spir-11167 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 words: 1358 flesch: 48 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. keywords: movements; paper; political; women cache: spir-11167.pdf plain text: spir-11167.txt item: #307 of 1758 id: spir-11169 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 words: 20403 flesch: 47 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. 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 cache: spir-11169.pdf plain text: spir-11169.txt item: #308 of 1758 id: spir-11170 author: Bergmann, Rachel title: WHOSE SHAREDPLANS? SCRIPTS, COLLABORATION, AND FEMINIST AI RESEARCH date: 2020.0 words: 1314 flesch: 45 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. keywords: feminist; grosz; research; women cache: spir-11170.pdf plain text: spir-11170.txt item: #309 of 1758 id: spir-11171 author: Bergroth, Harley; Saariketo, Minna title: MOVE, EAT, SLEEP, REPEAT: RHYTHMIC STRUGGLES IN PROACTIVE SELF-TRACKING PRACTICES date: 2020.0 words: 1369 flesch: 50 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. keywords: devices; everyday; rhythms; self; tracking cache: spir-11171.pdf plain text: spir-11171.txt item: #310 of 1758 id: spir-11172 author: Bhandari, Aparajita; Bimo, Sara title: TIKTOK AND THE “ALGORITHMIZED SELF”: A NEW MODEL OF ONLINE INTERACTION date: 2020.0 words: 1283 flesch: 52 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’s profiles (boyd, 2010). In this project, we examine the degree to which TikTok exemplifies this “common mode” of social media use. keywords: app; self; tiktok; users cache: spir-11172.pdf plain text: spir-11172.txt item: #311 of 1758 id: spir-11173 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 words: 1290 flesch: 41 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. keywords: disability; internet; media; users cache: spir-11173.pdf plain text: spir-11173.txt item: #312 of 1758 id: spir-11174 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 words: 1409 flesch: 55 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). keywords: groups; messages; research; voice cache: spir-11174.pdf plain text: spir-11174.txt item: #313 of 1758 id: spir-11176 author: Bork-Hueffer, Tabea; Mahlknecht, Belinda; Kaufmann, Katja title: BULLYING IN CON/FFLATING SPACES – WHY A ‘SPACE’ PERSPECTIVE MATTERS FOR UNDERSTANDING YOUNG PEOPLE’S EXPERIENCES AND PRACTICES OF BULLYING date: 2020.0 words: 1210 flesch: 44 summary: Even when bullying practices themselves seemed to be restricted to digital spaces, they are still entangled within the spatialities of participants’ relations, practices, identities and life-worlds that stretch across inseparable socio-material and technological spheres. In our view, more recent conceptualisations of ‘space’ 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. keywords: bork; bullying; hüffer; spaces cache: spir-11176.pdf plain text: spir-11176.txt item: #314 of 1758 id: spir-11177 author: Bowman, Nicholas David; Banks, Jaime title: EXTENDING GAMING DEMAND: SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCES OF COGNITIVE, EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL, AND SOCIAL VIDEOGAMING REQUIREMENTS date: 2020.0 words: 1333 flesch: 37 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) “humanness;” 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. keywords: analysis; bowman; demand; game cache: spir-11177.pdf plain text: spir-11177.txt item: #315 of 1758 id: spir-11178 author: Breuer, Jonas; Pierson, Jo title: THE RIGHT TO THE CITY AND DATA PROTECTION: COMPLEMENTARY FOR DEVELOPING CITIZEN-CENTRIC DIGITAL CITIES? date: 2020.0 words: 1300 flesch: 49 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. keywords: cities; city; data; protection; right cache: spir-11178.pdf plain text: spir-11178.txt item: #316 of 1758 id: spir-11179 author: Bridges, Lauren E. title: MATERIAL ENTANGLEMENTS OF COMMUNITY SURVEILLANCE & INFRASTRUCTURAL POWER date: 2020.0 words: 2108 flesch: 47 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. keywords: amazon; community; neighbors; networks; power; recognition; ring; surveillance cache: spir-11179.pdf plain text: spir-11179.txt item: #317 of 1758 id: spir-11180 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 words: 1327 flesch: 42 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’ 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 “ethical software” to address concerns of equity and ethics. keywords: design; media; percent; youth cache: spir-11180.pdf plain text: spir-11180.txt item: #318 of 1758 id: spir-11181 author: Brøvig-Hanssen, Ragnhild; Jones, Ellis title: DETECTION ALGORITHMS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR PARTICIPATION: THE CASE OF MASHUPS date: 2020.0 words: 1303 flesch: 43 summary: This empirical data shows that engagements with platforms’ detection procedures are an ‘everyday’ 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. keywords: detection; mashup; platforms cache: spir-11181.pdf plain text: spir-11181.txt item: #319 of 1758 id: spir-11182 author: Büchi, Moritz title: TOWARDS THEORIES OF DIGITAL WELL-BEING date: 2020.0 words: 1221 flesch: 38 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: keywords: media; practices; use cache: spir-11182.pdf plain text: spir-11182.txt item: #320 of 1758 id: spir-11184 author: Burk, Dan title: ALGORITHMIC LEGAL METRICS date: 2020.0 words: 1265 flesch: 34 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. keywords: algorithms; data; effects; metrics cache: spir-11184.pdf plain text: spir-11184.txt item: #321 of 1758 id: spir-11185 author: Burkhardt, Marcus; Helmond, Anne; Seitz, Tatjana; van der Vlist, Fernando title: THE EVOLUTION OF FACEBOOK'S GRAPH API date: 2020.0 words: 1367 flesch: 52 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’s Graph API. keywords: api; apis; data; facebook; graph cache: spir-11185.pdf plain text: spir-11185.txt item: #322 of 1758 id: spir-11186 author: Burns, Ryan; Welker, Preston title: MORAL ECONOMIES OF OPEN DATA PLATFORMS date: 2020.0 words: 1260 flesch: 55 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. keywords: data; economies; labor; new; platforms cache: spir-11186.pdf plain text: spir-11186.txt item: #323 of 1758 id: spir-11187 author: Bury, Rhiannon; Easton, Lee title: LIFE WITH DICK AND DICK: RACE AND MALE PORNOGRAPHIC SELF-REPRESENTATION ON REDDIT date: 2020.0 words: 1205 flesch: 64 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. keywords: dick; posters; psr; subscribers cache: spir-11187.pdf plain text: spir-11187.txt item: #324 of 1758 id: spir-11188 author: Butkowski, Chelsea Paige title: PAYING RESPECTS, STREAMING AFFECT: ELECTION DAY 2016 AT SUSAN B. ANTHONY'S GRAVESITE date: 2020.0 words: 1283 flesch: 54 summary: In line with traditions of media events and media witnessing, I examine each of them. Media events: The live broadcasting of history. keywords: anthony; election; livestream; media cache: spir-11188.pdf plain text: spir-11188.txt item: #325 of 1758 id: spir-11189 author: Cao, Tiancheng title: ACTIVIST BROWSER EXTENSIONS AS INTERFACE DÉTOURNEMENT: REMINDING, COPING, AND INFRASTRUCTURAL ALIGNMENT date: 2020.0 words: 1296 flesch: 37 summary: Activist browser extensions as interface détournement: Reminding, coping, and infrastructural alignment. “Activist extensions” disrupt a webpage’s intended use and redirect users’ attention by modifying textual, visual, or auditory elements of the web user interface. keywords: activist; browser; extensions; interface cache: spir-11189.pdf plain text: spir-11189.txt item: #326 of 1758 id: spir-11190 author: Carvajal, Laura; Iliadis, Andrew title: DEEPFAKES: A PRELIMINARY SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE date: 2020.0 words: 1315 flesch: 47 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). keywords: articles; deepfakes; sources cache: spir-11190.pdf plain text: spir-11190.txt item: #327 of 1758 id: spir-11193 author: Ciccone, Vanessa title: LIFE, CULTURE AND SUBJECTIVITY IN THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY: THE DISCOURSE OF “FULL SELFHOOD” AMONG TECH PROFESSIONALS date: 2020.0 words: 1251 flesch: 48 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 “full selfhood” within the sector. Norms around subjectivity in professional software settings can influence the judgements that become coded within platforms themselves. keywords: industry; platforms; software; work cache: spir-11193.pdf plain text: spir-11193.txt item: #328 of 1758 id: spir-11194 author: Coromina, Oscar; Matamoros-Fernández, Ariadna; Rieder, Bernhard title: FOLLOW THE MONEY: A LARGE-SCALE INVESTIGATION OF MONETIZATION AND OPTIMIZATION ON YOUTUBE date: 2020.0 words: 1261 flesch: 45 summary: Our method sheds light on YouTube’s 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’s 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. keywords: channels; content; monetization; platform; youtube cache: spir-11194.pdf plain text: spir-11194.txt item: #329 of 1758 id: spir-11195 author: Cousineau, Luc S. title: DISPLACED DISCUSSION: THE IMPLICATIONS OF REDDIT QUARANTINE AND THE MOVEMENT OF THEREDPILL TO SELF-HOSTING date: 2020.0 words: 1287 flesch: 55 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. keywords: communities; community; content; discussion; reddit cache: spir-11195.pdf plain text: spir-11195.txt item: #330 of 1758 id: spir-11197 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 words: 1346 flesch: 48 summary: What made this project distinctive, and especially promising, is that the bonds between and among partners weren’t just forged for this particular grant, but in the majority of cases had years of collaborative work and scholarly association behind them—and 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 – frequently with far reaching professional and or personal consequences. keywords: data; feminist; research; twitter cache: spir-11197.pdf plain text: spir-11197.txt item: #331 of 1758 id: spir-11199 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 words: 1460 flesch: 49 summary: Interestingly, these clusters reflect antagonistic political affiliations—one 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. keywords: accounts; bots; iran; protests; twitter cache: spir-11199.pdf plain text: spir-11199.txt item: #332 of 1758 id: spir-11200 author: Demirkol Tonnesen, Naciye Ozlem title: “TWO CAN PLAY AT THAT GAME”: COMMUNICATING DISSENT AS A MICRO-CELEBRITY IN A RESTRICTED NATIONAL TWITTERSPHERE date: 2020.0 words: 1301 flesch: 51 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. keywords: celebrity; government; micro; twitter cache: spir-11200.pdf plain text: spir-11200.txt item: #333 of 1758 id: spir-11201 author: DiBella, Samuel title: THE UNCERTAIN DECORUM OF ONLINE IDENTIFICATION: A STUDY IN QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS date: 2020.0 words: 1243 flesch: 43 summary: Using ethnographic interviewing techniques and a thematic analysis inspired by grounded theory, I describe respondents ’investigations 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. keywords: digital; internet; interviews; study cache: spir-11201.pdf plain text: spir-11201.txt item: #334 of 1758 id: spir-11202 author: Ditchfield, Hannah title: PRESENTING PERFECTION: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY IN THE REHEARSAL STAGE OF ONLINE INTERACTION date: 2020.0 words: 1232 flesch: 48 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). keywords: interaction; media; post cache: spir-11202.pdf plain text: spir-11202.txt item: #335 of 1758 id: spir-11204 author: Duffy, Brooke Erin; Miltner, Kate; Wahlstedt, Amanda title: POLICING "FAKE" FEMININITY: ANGER AND ACCUSATION IN INFLUENCER "HATEBLOG" COMMUNITIES date: 2020.0 words: 1205 flesch: 47 summary: Key repositories of such critique are influencer “hateblogs,” 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—and vitriolic—sites for communities of anti-fans to collectively police the activities of highly visible Instagrammers, YouTubers, and the like. keywords: gomi; hateblogs; influencers; women cache: spir-11204.pdf plain text: spir-11204.txt item: #336 of 1758 id: spir-11205 author: Dunham, Ian title: FACELESS YOUTUBERS: HOW CONTENT CREATORS SHAPE AUDIENCE EXPECTATIONS date: 2020.0 words: 1243 flesch: 50 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—which includes preventing access to “gender, weight, age, occupation, ethnic origin and residential location” (Lapidot-Lefler & Barak, 2015)— proves a key concept since Faceless YouTubers generate a bond with their audience through this selective disclosure. keywords: content; faceless; information; youtubers cache: spir-11205.pdf plain text: spir-11205.txt item: #337 of 1758 id: spir-11206 author: Eadon, Yvonne Melisande title: ILLUMINATI(NG) THE SEARCH PROCESS: THEORIZING THE RESEARCH PRACTICES OF "ALTERNATIVE" OR "CONTROVERSIAL" RESEARCH date: 2020.0 words: 2164 flesch: 41 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 keywords: conspiracy; new; research; theories; theory; york cache: spir-11206.pdf plain text: spir-11206.txt item: #338 of 1758 id: spir-11207 author: Eberwein, Tobias title: WATCHING THE WATCHDOG: ONLINE DISCOURSES ABOUT MEDIA FRAUDS date: 2020.0 words: 1232 flesch: 44 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). keywords: journalism; media; narrative; relotius cache: spir-11207.pdf plain text: spir-11207.txt item: #339 of 1758 id: spir-11209 author: Ellis, Jack Michael title: SKIPPING DISCOVERY? MUSIC DISCOVERY AND PERSONAL MUSIC COLLECTIONS IN THE STREAMING ERA date: 2020.0 words: 1279 flesch: 37 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. keywords: collections; discovery; music; users cache: spir-11209.pdf plain text: spir-11209.txt item: #340 of 1758 id: spir-11210 author: Eneman, Marie title: CRIME INVESTIGATIONS OF ‘CHILD ABUSE MATERIAL’: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES POSED BY DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES date: 2020.0 words: 1772 flesch: 27 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). keywords: abuse; child; material; technologies cache: spir-11210.pdf plain text: spir-11210.txt item: #341 of 1758 id: spir-11211 author: Esteve Del Valle, Marc; Smit, Rik title: MOONWALKING: TRACING REDDITORS’ DIGITAL MEMORY WORK ON MICHAEL JACKSON date: 2020.0 words: 1284 flesch: 59 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’s memory. When Redditors’ engage in memory work, they are mostly sharing information about MJ’s persona (23.37%), immediately followed by posts and comments containing personal memories related to MJ (21. 68%). keywords: comments; memory; replies cache: spir-11211.pdf plain text: spir-11211.txt item: #342 of 1758 id: spir-11212 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 words: 1378 flesch: 36 summary: Anti-sexist, anti-feminist, and “pro male” 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. keywords: discourses; groups; masculinity; men cache: spir-11212.pdf plain text: spir-11212.txt item: #343 of 1758 id: spir-11215 author: Frizzo-Barker, Julie A. title: WOMEN IN BLOCKCHAIN: DISCOURSE & PRACTICE IN THE CO-CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES date: 2020.0 words: 1276 flesch: 50 summary: In contrast, events and networks designed ‘by women, for women’ 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, “why aren’t there more women in blockchain?” or “how can we attract more women into blockchain?” keywords: bitcoin; blockchain; gender; technology; women cache: spir-11215.pdf plain text: spir-11215.txt item: #344 of 1758 id: spir-11216 author: Garrison, Stephanie T; Jacobs, Naomi Jane title: LIFE AS A NETWORKED FAN date: 2020.0 words: 1262 flesch: 50 summary: Implications – 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. keywords: community; fan; fans; spaces cache: spir-11216.pdf plain text: spir-11216.txt item: #345 of 1758 id: spir-11218 author: Gemini, Laura; Brilli, Stefano title: BETWEEN LIVE AND LIFE: EXPLORING THE ONLINE PRESENCE OF PERFORMANCE ARTISTS date: 2020.0 words: 1408 flesch: 48 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. keywords: artists; media; performance; theatre; work cache: spir-11218.pdf plain text: spir-11218.txt item: #346 of 1758 id: spir-11219 author: Giglietto, Fabio; Righetti, Nicola; Marino, Giada title: DETECTING COORDINATED LINK SHARING BEHAVIOR ON FACEBOOK DURING THE ITALIAN CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK date: 2020.0 words: 1549 flesch: 46 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. keywords: association; conference; internet; researchers cache: spir-11219.pdf plain text: spir-11219.txt item: #347 of 1758 id: spir-11222 author: Grill, Gabriel title: RESEARCHING ONLINE LABOR STRIKE AND PROTEST PREDICTION TECHNOLOGIES date: 2020.0 words: 1245 flesch: 41 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. keywords: analysis; data; prediction; protests; research cache: spir-11222.pdf plain text: spir-11222.txt item: #348 of 1758 id: spir-11223 author: Gunderson, Marianne title: HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE SEEN BY A MACHINE LIVELY DEVICES IN DIGITAL HORROR date: 2020.0 words: 1141 flesch: 54 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? keywords: devices; machine; stories cache: spir-11223.pdf plain text: spir-11223.txt item: #349 of 1758 id: spir-11224 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 words: 1295 flesch: 57 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 “onlining” 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. keywords: archive; cowan; materials; queer cache: spir-11224.pdf plain text: spir-11224.txt item: #350 of 1758 id: spir-11225 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 words: 1281 flesch: 45 summary: ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF DIGITAL SKILLS Leslie Haddon LSE, London, UK Sonia Livingstone, LSE, London, UK Giovanna Mascheroni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy Mariya Stoilova, LSE, London, UK Davide Cino Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy Mary-Alice Doyle LSE, London, UK Introduction What actors and factors shape children and young people’s 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. keywords: activities; consequences; skills; studies cache: spir-11225.pdf plain text: spir-11225.txt item: #351 of 1758 id: spir-11226 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 words: 1475 flesch: 50 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. keywords: data; life; open; platform cache: spir-11226.pdf plain text: spir-11226.txt item: #352 of 1758 id: spir-11228 author: Harper, Paula Clare title: VIRAL MUSICKING: AESTHETICS AND ITERATIONS IN ONLINE CONTAGION date: 2020.0 words: 1155 flesch: 26 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 “viral musicking,” which forces proximity between the human-forward sociality of Small’s “musicking” concept, and “viral”—a term somewhat famously rejected by media scholar Henry Jenkins, for its tendency to construe users as passive zombie hosts.4 In my conception of “viral musicking,” I seek to highlight this tension. keywords: century; media; musicking; virality cache: spir-11228.pdf plain text: spir-11228.txt item: #353 of 1758 id: spir-11229 author: Harrisson, Annie; Jones, Shawn; Marchessault, Jessie; Pedraça, Sâmia; Consalvo, Mia title: THE VIRTUAL CENSUS 2.0: A CONTINUED INVESTIGATION ON THE REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER, RACE AND AGE IN VIDEOGAMES date: 2020.0 words: 1291 flesch: 51 summary: Given the media’s influence to shape a consumer’s worldview, there is growing concern over the lack of diversity in the representation of videogame characters, which could have significant social impacts on players—for 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. keywords: characters; games; race; representation cache: spir-11229.pdf plain text: spir-11229.txt item: #354 of 1758 id: spir-11233 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 words: 1278 flesch: 49 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 ‘algorithmic literacy’ become an essential element for digital literacy in young adult media education. keywords: literacy; new; privacy; research; toolkit cache: spir-11233.pdf plain text: spir-11233.txt item: #355 of 1758 id: spir-11234 author: Hernandez, Antonia title: THE MANY SIDES OF A COIN: EXPLORING THE COST AND VALUE OF TOKENS IN CHATURBATE date: 2020.0 words: 1511 flesch: 60 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. keywords: chaturbate; performers; platform; tokens cache: spir-11234.pdf plain text: spir-11234.txt item: #356 of 1758 id: spir-11235 author: Hong, Sun-ha title: THE MORALISATION OF PREDICTIVITY IN THE AGE OF DATA-DRIVEN SURVEILLANCE date: 2020.0 words: 1312 flesch: 50 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 ‘do something’ 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. keywords: data; new; predictivity; surveillance; terrorist cache: spir-11235.pdf plain text: spir-11235.txt item: #357 of 1758 id: spir-11236 author: Hong, Sun-ha; Hermann, Selena Neumark title: FUCK YOUR FEELINGS: THE AFFECTIVE WEAPONISATION OF FACTS AND REASON date: 2020.0 words: 1279 flesch: 44 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’s physical appearance and biography, their debating techniques and slogans, consistently emphasise a confident, adversarial, patronising performance of rationality. keywords: affective; fact; shapiro; white cache: spir-11236.pdf plain text: spir-11236.txt item: #358 of 1758 id: spir-11237 author: Horne, Chelsea; Sinnreich, Aram title: THE INTERNET IS A SERIES OF ANALOGIES: COMPARATIVE LANGUAGE AS POWER IN ONLINE GOVERNANCE date: 2020.0 words: 1322 flesch: 43 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—one 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. keywords: analogies; governance; internet; metaphors cache: spir-11237.pdf plain text: spir-11237.txt item: #359 of 1758 id: spir-11238 author: Jackson, Nathan J title: “I’VE GOTTA DO IT FOR THE BIT”: MEMETIC MEDIA AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY THROUGH STREAMER PERFORMANCE ON TWITCH date: 2020.0 words: 1293 flesch: 51 summary: Internet memes as contested cultural capital: The case of 4chan’s /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. keywords: collective; memes; memesis; twitch cache: spir-11238.pdf plain text: spir-11238.txt item: #360 of 1758 id: spir-11239 author: Jensen, Jakob Linaa title: FACEBOOK: FROM PERSONAL MEDIUM TO MASS MEDIUM – AND BACK AGAIN? - THE USE OF FACEBOOK ACROSS AGE GROUPS 2015-19 date: 2020.0 words: 1207 flesch: 57 summary: The vast majority of Facebook users are only “lurkers” (Preece. In 2015 there were not significant differences in Facebook use across age groups. keywords: facebook; media; medium cache: spir-11239.pdf plain text: spir-11239.txt item: #361 of 1758 id: spir-11240 author: Johnson, Mark Richard title: DISABILITY AND MENTAL HEALTH AS A PROFESSIONAL LIVE STREAMER date: 2020.0 words: 1262 flesch: 48 summary: Pires and Simon (2015, p. 225) define live streaming as a platform or practice through which ‘anyone can become a TV provider’. 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. keywords: digital; health; streaming; twitch cache: spir-11240.pdf plain text: spir-11240.txt item: #362 of 1758 id: spir-11242 author: Kant, Tanya; Reed, Elizabeth title: ONE DONOR EGG AND “A DOLLOP OF LOVE”: THE BANAL AMBIGUITIES OF EGG DONATION ADVERTISING ON FACEBOOK date: 2020.0 words: 1271 flesch: 37 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. keywords: adverts; donation; egg; facebook cache: spir-11242.pdf plain text: spir-11242.txt item: #363 of 1758 id: spir-11243 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 words: 1348 flesch: 44 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). keywords: digital; internet; non; use cache: spir-11243.pdf plain text: spir-11243.txt item: #364 of 1758 id: spir-11244 author: Karlsen, Faltin title: DIGITAL DETOX CAMP: VALUES AND MOTIVATIONS FOR ENGAGING IN DIGITAL DISCONNECT date: 2020.0 words: 1264 flesch: 44 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). keywords: activities; camp; media; participants cache: spir-11244.pdf plain text: spir-11244.txt item: #365 of 1758 id: spir-11245 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 words: 2142 flesch: 58 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. keywords: access; media; mobile; news; repertoires; types cache: spir-11245.pdf plain text: spir-11245.txt item: #366 of 1758 id: spir-11246 author: Karsgaard, Carrie; Hockenhull, Michael; MacDonald, Maggie title: RENAME AND RESIST COLONIAL EXTRACTION: TWITTER’S TOPONYMIC POLITICS date: 2020.0 words: 1297 flesch: 33 summary: Other toponymic identifiers focus on the theft and occupation of Indigenous lands with such modifiers as “stolen,” “occupied,” and “colonized.” 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? keywords: colonial; land; twitter; users cache: spir-11246.pdf plain text: spir-11246.txt item: #367 of 1758 id: spir-11247 author: Kaye, D. Bondy Valdovinos; Gray, Joanne E title: COPYRIGHT GOSSIP: EXPLORING COPYRIGHT KNOWLEDGE, SENTIMENT AND BLACKBOX THEORIES ON YOUTUBE date: 2020.0 words: 1257 flesch: 43 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. keywords: copyright; creators; enforcement; law; youtube cache: spir-11247.pdf plain text: spir-11247.txt item: #368 of 1758 id: spir-11248 author: Kerr, Aphra; Barry, Marguerite; Kelleher, John title: SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS OF AI AND THE PERFORMATIVITY OF ETHICS date: 2020.0 words: 1269 flesch: 41 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. keywords: ethics; expectations; public cache: spir-11248.pdf plain text: spir-11248.txt item: #369 of 1758 id: spir-11249 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 words: 1280 flesch: 44 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 “already public” 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. keywords: data; database; research; systems; transgender cache: spir-11249.pdf plain text: spir-11249.txt item: #370 of 1758 id: spir-11250 author: Kim, Youngrim; Chen, Yuchen; Liang, Fan; Hussain, Muzammil title: SURVEILLANCE INFRASTRUCTURES IN AND FOR CRISES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CHINA AND SOUTH KOREA’S DEVELOPMENT OF QUARANTINE SURVEILLANCE MOBILE APPLICATIONS DURING COVID-19 date: 2020.0 words: 1319 flesch: 45 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’S 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’s health surveillance infrastructures that are being developed and deployed during the 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic (COVID19). keywords: china; infrastructures; korea; surveillance cache: spir-11250.pdf plain text: spir-11250.txt item: #371 of 1758 id: spir-11251 author: Kinder-Kurlanda, Katharina E.; Weller, Katrin title: RESEARCH ETHICS PRACTICES IN A CHANGING SOCIAL MEDIA LANDSCAPE date: 2020.0 words: 1049 flesch: 41 summary: RESEARCH ETHICS PRACTICES IN A CHANGING SOCIAL MEDIA LANDSCAPE Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Katrin Weller GESIS – 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. keywords: media; practices; research cache: spir-11251.pdf plain text: spir-11251.txt item: #372 of 1758 id: spir-11252 author: Koltai, Kolina title: VACCINE INFORMATION SEEKING AND SHARING: HOW PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUPS CONTRIBUTED TO THE ANTI-VACCINE MOVEMENT ONLINE date: 2020.0 words: 1324 flesch: 51 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. keywords: facebook; information; members; vaccine cache: spir-11252.pdf plain text: spir-11252.txt item: #373 of 1758 id: spir-11253 author: Kopelman, Sara; Frosh, Paul title: RELIVING MEMORIES (OVER AND OVER AGAIN): GIFS, MOVING PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE SMARTPHONE ALBUM date: 2020.0 words: 1305 flesch: 49 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 – which organize and display images but also initiate temporally novel photographic formats – are at the heart of these complex intersections between continuities in mnemonic practices and techno-cultural transformations. keywords: image; memory; photography; smartphone cache: spir-11253.pdf plain text: spir-11253.txt item: #374 of 1758 id: spir-11254 author: Kuntsman, Adi title: SMART CITIES’ ENVIRONMENTAL DREAMS AND THEIR DIRTY MATERIAL POLITICS date: 2020.0 words: 1280 flesch: 36 summary: The literature about smart cities, similarly, talks about “sharing cities”; “green growth”, “green infrastructure”, “progressive urbanisation”, “sustainable urbanism”, “green technology innovation”, “resilient cities”, “smart future” 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? keywords: cities; city; data; digital cache: spir-11254.pdf plain text: spir-11254.txt item: #375 of 1758 id: spir-11255 author: Kutscher, Nadia; Fujii, Michi title: RESEARCHING THE ROLE OF DIGITAL MEDIA IN ENABLING EDUCATIONAL PARTICIPATION OF YOUNG REFUGEES date: 2020.0 words: 1516 flesch: 44 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. keywords: education; kutscher; media; participation; refugees; research cache: spir-11255.pdf plain text: spir-11255.txt item: #376 of 1758 id: spir-11256 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 words: 1397 flesch: 51 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. keywords: companies; defenders; governance; media cache: spir-11256.pdf plain text: spir-11256.txt item: #377 of 1758 id: spir-11257 author: Lanson, Klare Louise title: #UNMASKEDSELFIESINSOLIDARITY: FROM SELF CARE TO COLLECTIVE CARE—AFFECTIVE ARTIVISM, NETWORKED BELONGING AND MOBILE MEDIA PARTICIPATORY ART. date: 2020.0 words: 2511 flesch: 50 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. keywords: art; care; media; mobile; new; selfie; university cache: spir-11257.pdf plain text: spir-11257.txt item: #378 of 1758 id: spir-11258 author: Larsen, Malene Charlotte title: SOCIAL MEDIA INSECURITIES IN EVERYDAY LIFE AMONG YOUNG ADULTS – AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF ANONYMOUS JODEL DISCLOSURES date: 2020.0 words: 1250 flesch: 51 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’s wellbeing and overall purpose of using the apps: Human connectedness. keywords: adults; jodel; media; scollon cache: spir-11258.pdf plain text: spir-11258.txt item: #379 of 1758 id: spir-11259 author: Lehto, Mari Tellervo title: NEUROTIC INFLUENCER – FEELING RULES AND THE AFFECTIVE PRACTICE OF ANXIETY IN SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCER WORK date: 2020.0 words: 1237 flesch: 46 summary: Applying social psychologist Margaret Wetherell’s (2012, 2014) concept of “affective practice” and Akane Kanai’s (2019, 2019b) implementation of Arlie Hochschild’s 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. keywords: anxiety; influencers; media; work cache: spir-11259.pdf plain text: spir-11259.txt item: #380 of 1758 id: spir-11260 author: Lin, Jian title: ONE APP, TWO VERSIONS: TIKTOK AND THE PLATFORMIZATION FROM CHINA date: 2020.0 words: 1213 flesch: 37 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 – the contradictions behind their business discourses and platform governance and the challenges brought by them to the global platform society. keywords: chinese; platform; tiktok cache: spir-11260.pdf plain text: spir-11260.txt item: #381 of 1758 id: spir-11261 author: Lingel, Jessa title: IN THE RING AND ONLINE: RELATIONAL LABOR AND AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT IN THE WWE date: 2020.0 words: 1279 flesch: 49 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. keywords: kayfabe; work; wrestling; wwe cache: spir-11261.pdf plain text: spir-11261.txt item: #382 of 1758 id: spir-11262 author: Locatelli, Elisabetta title: OBJECTIFYING THE PLATFORM SOCIETY: INVESTIGATING USERS’ PERCEPTION OF SMART SPEAKERS' ALGORITHMIC SUGGESTIONS AND DATA PROCESSING date: 2020.0 words: 1302 flesch: 49 summary: Objectifying the platform society: investigating users’ perception of smart speakers’ algorithmic suggestions and data processing. INVESTIGATING USERS’ PERCEPTION OF SMART SPEAKERS’ ALGORITHMIC SUGGESTIONS AND DATA PROCESSING Elisabetta Locatelli Università 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). keywords: data; research; speakers; users cache: spir-11262.pdf plain text: spir-11262.txt item: #383 of 1758 id: spir-11263 author: Lokot, Tetyana; Boichak, Olga title: EXPLORING NETWORKED IDENTITY AND TRANSNATIONAL MOBILIZATION IN UKRAINE’S EUROMAIDAN PROTEST date: 2020.0 words: 1334 flesch: 36 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. keywords: euromaidan; media; protest; ukraine cache: spir-11263.pdf plain text: spir-11263.txt item: #384 of 1758 id: spir-11265 author: Lupinacci, Ludmila title: LIVENESS AND DEADNESS IN SOCIAL MEDIA: ON THE PERCEIVED LACK OF LIFE OF THE INFINITE STREAM date: 2020.0 words: 1265 flesch: 49 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 “brings humanity, enlightenment, progress” (Carey 1989:309). While the results discussed here are not meant to be exhaustive – and, in fact, this paper represents a small fragment of a broader project –, they offer a good hint of how it feels to use a range of social media platforms in the context of everyday life. keywords: life; media; platforms; use cache: spir-11265.pdf plain text: spir-11265.txt item: #385 of 1758 id: spir-11266 author: Maddox, Jessica title: “EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED FOR A GOOD NIGHT’S REST”: TRANSACTIONAL TINGLES AND ASMR AS EMERGING MEDIA GENRE date: 2020.0 words: 1268 flesch: 54 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. keywords: asmr; media; tingles; youtube cache: spir-11266.pdf plain text: spir-11266.txt item: #386 of 1758 id: spir-11267 author: Madianou, Mirca title: NON-HUMAN HUMANITARIANISM: WHEN AI FOR GOOD TURNS OUT TO BE BAD date: 2020.0 words: 1450 flesch: 39 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. keywords: data; good; humanitarianism; madianou cache: spir-11267.pdf plain text: spir-11267.txt item: #387 of 1758 id: spir-11268 author: Mahnke, Martina Skrubbeltrang; Kjær, Katrine Meldgaard title: HEALTH DEBATES ON SOCIAL MEDIA: LINKING DIGITAL HEALTH TO COMMUNICATION AND AI STUDIES date: 2020.0 words: 1056 flesch: 46 summary: HEALTH DEBATES ON SOCIAL MEDIA: LINKING DIGITAL HEALTH TO COMMUNICATION AND AI STUDIES Martina Skrubbeltrang Mahnke Roskilde University, Denmark Katrine Meldgaar Kjær 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 ‘health data’ 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. keywords: data; health; media cache: spir-11268.pdf plain text: spir-11268.txt item: #388 of 1758 id: spir-11269 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 words: 1087 flesch: 43 summary: ​The great randomizer: using virtual agents for auditing the effects of Youtube recommendation algorithm on ideologically-charged news content distribution ​. Paper presented at AoIR 2020: The 21 ​th ​ 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). keywords: agents; algorithms; news; youtube cache: spir-11269.pdf plain text: spir-11269.txt item: #389 of 1758 id: spir-11272 author: Markham, Annette N title: ECHOLOCATING THE DIGITAL SELF: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK date: 2020.0 words: 1701 flesch: 55 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. keywords: material; media; notifications; participants; self cache: spir-11272.pdf plain text: spir-11272.txt item: #390 of 1758 id: spir-11274 author: Martini, Franziska title: COUNTERING THE COUNTERPUBLIC? THE GERMAN #METOO NETWORK ON TWITTER date: 2020.0 words: 1082 flesch: 48 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 “equal” and horizontal than often assumed. keywords: metoo; network; twitter cache: spir-11274.pdf plain text: spir-11274.txt item: #391 of 1758 id: spir-11275 author: Mays, Kate K.; Lei, Yiming; Katz, James E. title: LIVING WITH ROBOTS: AN ONTOLOGICAL LEAP? date: 2020.0 words: 1292 flesch: 48 summary: While “social robots” (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’s 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. keywords: comments; human; people; robots; technology cache: spir-11275.pdf plain text: spir-11275.txt item: #392 of 1758 id: spir-11276 author: McGrane, Caitlin; Hjorth, Larissa title: CAREFUL ATTUNEMENTS: THE CHOREOGRAPHING OF CARE THROUGH SMARTPHONE PRACTICES DURING, AND AFTER, CRISIS date: 2020.0 words: 1217 flesch: 50 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—care 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. keywords: affective; care; crisis; witnessing cache: spir-11276.pdf plain text: spir-11276.txt item: #393 of 1758 id: spir-11277 author: McKee, Heidi A.; Porter, James E. title: HUMAN-MACHINE WRITING AND THE ETHICS OF LANGUAGE MODELS date: 2020.0 words: 1657 flesch: 51 summary: Human-machine writing and the ethics of language models. Language models are unsupervised multitask learners. keywords: language; machine; model; writing cache: spir-11277.pdf plain text: spir-11277.txt item: #394 of 1758 id: spir-11278 author: McKinney, Cait title: BAD ATTACHMENTS: EMAIL AND QUEER ANTI-CENSORSHIP PROTESTS date: 2020.0 words: 1268 flesch: 51 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, “dirty” communication, once removed from the message itself, and a secondary aim of this research is to expand understandings of attachments and their materiality. keywords: attachments; email; internet; protest; queer cache: spir-11278.pdf plain text: spir-11278.txt item: #395 of 1758 id: spir-11280 author: Michaelsen, Marcus title: RESISTING TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION: THE DIGITAL SECURITY PRACTICES OF DIASPORA AND EXILED HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS date: 2020.0 words: 1045 flesch: 36 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. keywords: activists; digital; rights; security cache: spir-11280.pdf plain text: spir-11280.txt item: #396 of 1758 id: spir-11281 author: Mniestri, Aikaterini; Gekker, Alex title: TEMPORAL FRAMES FOR PLATFORM PUBLICS: THE PLATFORMIZATION OF BREADTUBE date: 2020.0 words: 1349 flesch: 54 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. keywords: breadtube; october; platform; youtube cache: spir-11281.pdf plain text: spir-11281.txt item: #397 of 1758 id: spir-11282 author: Morgenstern, Michelle title: “TUMBLR TOLD ME…”: THE POLITICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CONCEPTUALIZING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AS LIVING ACTORS date: 2020.0 words: 1290 flesch: 42 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). “Tumblr told me…”: The political and methodological significance of conceptualizing social media platforms as living actors. keywords: media; platform; tumblr cache: spir-11282.pdf plain text: spir-11282.txt item: #398 of 1758 id: spir-11283 author: Münch, Felix Victor; Rossi, Luca title: A TALE OF TWO TWITTERS? 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