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Queensland University of Technology
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Islamic Azad University of Sari
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Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences
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ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Communication and Media Studies | Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies | Media Studies | Communication Studies | Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified | Consumption and Everyday Life | Cultural Studies | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Culture, Gender, Sexuality | Law and Society | Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology | Journalism Studies | Communication And Media Studies | Film and Television
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
The Media | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture | Communication Networks and Services not elsewhere classified | Publishing and Print Services (incl. Internet Publishing) | School/Institution Policies and Development | Evaluation of Health Outcomes | Health Education and Promotion | Structure, Delivery and Financing of Community Services | Communication not elsewhere classified |
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Publications
Measuring Queensland's digital divide: The Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2017: Queensland
Publisher: RMIT University
Date: 2017
The Politics of Twitter Data
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2206225
Analysing scholarly contributions to public debate with social media issue mapping: a case study of the Australia Day controversy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2019
Australian Ad Observatory: Background paper
Publisher: ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.25916/7BGE-BP35
The arab spring and its social media audiences: English and Arabic twitter users and their networks
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-04-2014
IFI27 transcription is an early predictor for COVID-19 outcomes, a multi-cohort observational study
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 05-01-2023
DOI: 10.3389/FIMMU.2022.1060438
Abstract: Robust biomarkers that predict disease outcomes amongst COVID-19 patients are necessary for both patient triage and resource prioritisation. Numerous candidate biomarkers have been proposed for COVID-19. However, at present, there is no consensus on the best diagnostic approach to predict outcomes in infected patients. Moreover, it is not clear whether such tools would apply to other potentially pandemic pathogens and therefore of use as stockpile for future pandemic preparedness. We conducted a multi-cohort observational study to investigate the biology and the prognostic role of interferon alpha-inducible protein 27 ( IFI27 ) in COVID-19 patients. We show that IFI27 is expressed in the respiratory tract of COVID-19 patients and elevated IFI27 expression in the lower respiratory tract is associated with the presence of a high viral load. We further demonstrate that the systemic host response, as measured by blood IFI27 expression, is associated with COVID-19 infection. For clinical outcome prediction (e.g., respiratory failure), IFI27 expression displays a high sensitivity (0.95) and specificity (0.83), outperforming other known predictors of COVID-19 outcomes. Furthermore, IFI27 is upregulated in the blood of infected patients in response to other respiratory viruses. For ex le, in the pandemic H1N1/09 influenza virus infection, IFI27- like genes were highly upregulated in the blood s les of severely infected patients. These data suggest that prognostic biomarkers targeting the family of IFI27 genes could potentially supplement conventional diagnostic tools in future virus pandemics, independent of whether such pandemics are caused by a coronavirus, an influenza virus or another as yet-to-be discovered respiratory virus.
Mapping sociocultural controversies across digital media platforms: one week of #gamergate on Twitter, YouTube, and Tumblr
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2016
Everyday data cultures: beyond Big Critique and the technological sublime
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-06-2023
The walkthrough method: An approach to the study of apps
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-11-2016
Abstract: Software applications (apps) are now prevalent in the digital media environment. They are the site of significant sociocultural and economic transformations across many domains, from health and relationships to entertainment and everyday finance. As relatively closed technical systems, apps pose new methodological challenges for sociocultural digital media research. This article describes a method, grounded in a combination of science and technology studies with cultural studies, through which researchers can perform a critical analysis of a given app. The method involves establishing an app’s environment of expected use by identifying and describing its vision, operating model and modes of governance. It then deploys a walkthrough technique to systematically and forensically step through the various stages of app registration and entry, everyday use and discontinuation of use. The walkthrough method establishes a foundational corpus of data upon which can be built a more detailed analysis of an app’s intended purpose, embedded cultural meanings and implied ideal users and uses. The walkthrough also serves as a foundation for further user-centred research that can identify how users resist these arrangements and appropriate app technology for their own purposes.
A âBig Dataâ Approach to Mapping the Australian Twittersphere
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date: 2014
(NOT) THE TWITTER ELECTION
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2012
Social media rituals: The uses of celebrity death in digital culture
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 06-08-2018
Mapping the Australian networked public sphere
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-09-2011
Abstract: This article reports on a research program that has developed new methodologies for mapping the Australian blogosphere and tracking how information is disseminated across it. The authors improve on conventional web crawling methodologies in a number of significant ways: First, the authors track blogging activity as it occurs, by scraping new blog posts when such posts are announced through Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. Second, the authors use custom-made tools that distinguish between the different types of content and thus allow us to analyze only the salient discursive content provided by bloggers. Finally, the authors are able to examine these better quality data using both link network mapping and textual analysis tools, to produce both cumulative longer term maps of interlinkages and themes, and specific shorter term snapshots of current activity that indicate current clusters of heavy interlinkage and highlight their key themes. In this article, the authors discuss findings from a yearlong observation of the Australian political blogosphere, suggesting that Australian political bloggers consistently address current affairs, but interpret them differently from mainstream news outlets. The article also discusses the next stage of the project, which extends this approach to an examination of other social networks used by Australians, including Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr. This adaptation of our methodology moves away from narrow models of political communication, and toward an investigation of everyday and popular communication, providing a more inclusive and detailed picture of the Australian networked public sphere.
Mediatisation and institutions of public memory: Digital storytelling and the apology
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2010
Locked down apps versus the social media ecology: Why do young people and educators disagree on the best delivery platform for digital sexual health entertainment education?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-06-2018
Abstract: This article reports on focus groups exploring the best way to reach young men with vulgar comedy videos that provide sexual health information. Young people reported that they found the means by which the material was presented – as a locked down app – to be problematic, and that it would better be delivered through social media platforms such as YouTube. This would make it more ‘spreadable’. By contrast, adult sex education stakeholders thought the material should be contained within a locked down, stand-alone app – otherwise it might be seen by children who are too young, and/or young people might misunderstand the messages. We argue that the difference in approach represented by these two sets of opinions represents a fundamental stumbling block for attempts to reach young people with digital sexual health materials, which can be understood through the prism of different cultural forms – education versus entertainment.
Algorithmic recommender systems and everyday data cultures: the view from jazz TikTok
Publisher: University of Illinois Libraries
Date: 15-09-2021
DOI: 10.5210/SPIR.V2021I0.12088
Abstract: This panel deploys a range of qualitative methodologies to investigate how processes of datafication meet with the subjective experiences of ordinary people, and the practices of everyday life. We draw on the model of ‘everyday data cultures’ proposed by Burgess (2017) to explore the ways erse data practices – including the production and circulation of data visualisations, modes of data storage and vernacular engagements with data literacy – can be understood as aspects of culture. Following Burgess, we define everyday data cultures as the practices that form around and in response to the social media and other data (and data trails) that people generate as we go about our daily lives. These practices form from our erse engagements with, experiences of, and approaches to understanding and negotiating these data Across these four papers, we address the everyday politics of social media platforms the development of vernacular pedagogies of AI and machine leaning practices the historical datafication of sex and gender, and mundane workplace practices of storing, concealing and revealing personal data. In doing so, we seek to highlight and lify everyday human agency, as well as explore its limits and uneven distribution, and consider how it is being transformed through the logics of data and the machines that feed on them.
What’s ‘up next’? Investigating algorithmic recommendations on YouTube across issues and over time
Publisher: University of Illinois Libraries
Date: 15-09-2021
DOI: 10.5210/SPIR.V2021I0.12208
Abstract: YouTube’s ‘up next’ feature algorithmically suggests videos to watch after a video that is currently playing. This feature has been criticised for limiting users’ exposure to erse media content and information sources meanwhile, YouTube has reported that they have implemented technical and policy changes to address these concerns. Yet, there is limited data to support either the existing concerns or YouTube’s claims. Drawing on the concept of platform observability, this paper combines computational and qualitative methods to investigate the types of content YouTube’s ‘up next’ feature lifies over time, using three search terms associated with sociocultural issues where concerns have been raised about YouTube’s role: ‘coronavirus’, ‘feminism’ and ‘beauty’. Over six weeks, we collected the videos (and their metadata) that were highly ranked in the search results for each keyword, as well as the top-ranked recommendations associated with each video, repeating the exercise for three steps in the recommendation chain. We then examined patterns in the recommended videos (and channels) for each query and their variation over time. We found evidence of YouTube's stated efforts to boost ‘authoritative’ media outlets, but at the same time, misleading and controversial content continues to be recommended. We also found that while algorithmic recommendations offer ersity in videos over time, there are clear ‘winners’ at the channel level that are given a visibility boost in YouTube’s 'up next' feature. These impacts were attenuated differently depending on the nature of the search topic.
Spaces of Vernacular Creativity
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 29-10-2009
What’s newsworthy about ‘social news’? Characteristics and potential of an emerging genre
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 23-01-2021
Abstract: This article describes the emerging genre of ‘social news’ – characterised by a ‘born-digital’ form of journalism which is both symptomatic of and a pragmatic response to the logics of social media. The article outlines the genre’s key formal characteristics, illustrating them through discussions of three key Australia-based publications – BuzzFeed Oz News, Junkee, and Pedestrian.tv. The analysis of these ex les indicates that social news departs from traditional journalistic norms around objectivity, instead exhibiting a strong and explicit positionality, and actively critiquing ideas like ‘balance’. The article argues that social news demonstrates the progressive potential of new forms of journalism that have emerged from the same technological and economic developments that have caused the crisis in the news business. It concludes with a more elaborated description of the social news genre, with suggestions for further research.
Making Digital Cultures of Gender and Sexuality With Social Media
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2016
Abstract: This article introduces a special issue concerning the interweaving of gender, sexuality, and social media. There are 10 articles included in the issue which together map out a landscape of erse areas of interest covering topics such as sexism and harassment, health and wellbeing, relationships, and leisure.
Tuning machines: an approach to exploring how Instagram’s machine vision operates on and through digital media’s participatory visual cultures
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-02-2022
Domestic violence on #qanda: The man question in live Twitter discussion on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Q&A
Publisher: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Date: 04-2016
Abstract: Domestic violence is currently undergoing a period of heightened visibility in Australia. This article uses social media to analyze public discussions about this violence with respect to a specific theoretical frame, which Adrian Howe has called the “Man” question: where and how are men visible or invisible in narratives about their violence against women? The article presents a qualitative study of the Twitter conversation surrounding a special episode of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television program Q& A, themed around family violence, which aired in February 2015. We found that the place of men in this conversation was contested. Some tweets privileged men's voices and concerns, as did the organization and production of the program. However, feminist voices were also highly visible via presenting facts, legitimating survivor voices, and recuperating anti-feminist memes to challenge hegemonic patriarchal discourses on men's violence against women.
Queer women's experiences of patchwork platform governance on Tinder, Instagram, and Vine
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 19-06-2020
Abstract: Leaked documents, press coverage, and user protests have increasingly drawn attention to social media platforms’ seemingly contradictory governance practices. We investigate the governance approaches of Tinder, Instagram, and Vine through detailed analyses of each platform, using the ‘walkthrough method’ (Light, Burgess, and Duguay, 2016 The walkthrough method: An approach to the study of apps. New Media & Society 20(3).), as well as interviews with their queer female users. Across these three platforms, we identify a common approach we call ‘patchwork platform governance’: one that relies on formal policies and content moderation mechanisms but pays little attention to dominant platform technocultures (including both developer cultures and cultures of use) and their sustaining architectures. Our analysis of these platforms and reported user experiences shows that formal governance measures like Terms of Service and flagging mechanisms did not protect users from harassment, discrimination, and censorship. Key components of the platforms’ architectures, including cross-platform connectivity, hashtag filtering, and algorithmic recommendation systems, reinforced these technocultures. This significantly limited queer women’s ability to participate and be visible on these platforms, as they often self-censored to avoid harassment, reduced the scope of their activities, or left the platform altogether. Based on these findings, we argue that there is a need for platforms to take more systematic approaches to governance that comprehensively consider the role of a platform’s architecture in shaping and sustaining dominant technocultures.
What’s “up next”? Investigating algorithmic recommendations on youtube across issues and over time
Publisher: Cogitatio
Date: 18-11-2021
Abstract: YouTube’s “up next” feature algorithmically selects, suggests, and displays videos to watch after the one that is currently playing. This feature has been criticized for limiting users’ exposure to a range of erse media content and information sources meanwhile, YouTube has reported that they have implemented various technical and policy changes to address these concerns. However, there is little publicly available data to support either the existing concerns or YouTube’s claims of having addressed them. Drawing on the idea of “platform observability,” this article combines computational and qualitative methods to investigate the types of content that the algorithms underpinning YouTube’s “up next” feature lify over time, using three keyword search terms associated with sociocultural issues where concerns have been raised about YouTube’s role: “coronavirus,” “feminism,” and “beauty.” Over six weeks, we collected the videos (and their metadata, including channel IDs) that were highly ranked in the search results for each keyword, as well as the highly ranked recommendations associated with the videos. We repeated this exercise for three steps in the recommendation chain and then examined patterns in the recommended videos (and the channels that uploaded the videos) for each query and their variation over time. We found evidence of YouTube’s stated efforts to boost “authoritative” media outlets, but at the same time, misleading and controversial content continues to be recommended. We also found that while algorithmic recommendations offer ersity in videos over time, there are clear “winners” at the channel level that are given a visibility boost in YouTube’s “up next” feature. However, these impacts are attenuated differently depending on the nature of the issue.
Consumer Co‐creation and Situated Creativity
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2008
Community Uses of Co-creative Media
Publisher: Unpublished
Date: 2015
Data cultures of mobile dating and hook-up apps: Emerging issues for critical social science research
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-07-2017
Editorial - Entanglements - activism and technology
Publisher: The Fibreculture Journal
Date: 22-12-2015
DOI: 10.15307/FCJ.26
Protective Effects of Edaravone Against Hypoxia-Induced Lethality in Male Swiss Albino Mice
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date: 26-05-2020
DOI: 10.1101/2020.05.22.111401
Abstract: Edaravone has been recently used for the treatment of acute cerebral infarction. However, there is no data on the protective effects of this drug against hypoxia-induced lethality. Here, we aimed to evaluate the protective effects of edaravone against hypoxia-induced lethality and oxidative stress in mice through three experimental models of hypoxia. male Swiss albino mice were randomly housed in groups of 10. Mice received single i.p. injections of edaravone for four consecutive days. Three experimental models of hypoxia: asphyctic, circulatory, and haemic were applied in this study. Oxidative stress, lipid peroxidation and glutathione content were assessed after hypoxia induction. Significant protective activities were observed in all models of hypoxia. Antihypoxic activities were highly significant in asphytic and circulatory hypoxia. These effects were dose-dependent. Edaravone, at 5 mg kg −1 , showed statistically significant activities concerning the control groups. Edaravone significantly prolonged the latency for death. At 2.5 mg kg −1 , it prolonged survival time (26.08 ± 0.79 min). This effect was statistically significant ( P .05). Also, edaravone significantly inhibited hypoxia-induced oxidative stress (lipid peroxidation and glutathione oxidation) in three models of hypoxia. Edaravone showed an excellent protective effect against hypoxia in all tested models and decreased the oxidative stress in the brain tissue of hypoxic mice. Notably, results showed significant and dose-dependent effects on the models of asphytic and circulatory hypoxia. The antioxidant activity itself might be a proposed mechanism for the antihypoxic activities of this drug. This study provides a novel proof-of-concept for a FDA approved drug, which will open a new area of research in the field and drug repurposing.
Is citizen journalism better than professional journalism for fact-checking rumours in China? How Weibo users verified information following the 2015 Tianjin blasts
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-2019
Abstract: This article investigates how citizens contribute to rumour verification on social media in China, drawing on a case study of Weibo communication about the 2015 Tianjin blasts. Three aspects of citizen engagement in verifying rumours via Weibo are examined: (1) how they directly debunked rumours related to the blasts, (2) how they verified official rumour messages and (3) how they used Weibo’s community verification function to collectively identify and fact-check rumours. The article argues that in carrying out such activities, ordinary Weibo users were engaging in practices of citizen journalism. Findings from our analysis suggest that even though citizen journalists’ direct engagement in publishing debunking messages was not as visible as that of the police and mainstream media, self-organised grassroots rumour-debunking practices demonstrate great potential. In terms of both the reposts and the positive comments they received, rumour-debunking posts from non-official actors appear to have been given more credibility than those from their official counterparts. In contrast, the official narratives about the Tianjin blasts were challenged, and the credibility of the official rumour-debunking messages was commonly questioned. Nevertheless, this article also shows that Weibo’s community verification system had limited effects in facilitating how Weibo users could collaboratively fact-check potentially false information.
Critical simulation as hybrid digital method for exploring the data operations and vernacular cultures of visual social media platforms
Publisher: Center for Open Science
Date: 06-11-2021
Abstract: In this paper we outline and demonstrate the critical simulation approach to understanding the data operations of visual social media platforms. We situate this approach within the field of platform studies and position it as a ‘hybrid digital method’, before describing its application for descriptive, forensic and speculative purposes in two current research projects: one that uses machine vision combined with mixed-methods qualitative research to explore Instagram’s algorithmic visual culture and one that combines automated data donation and machine vision to explore Facebook’s ad targeting practices.
Novel augmented reality solution for improving health literacy around antihypertensives in people living with type 2 diabetes mellitus: Protocol of a technology evaluation study
Publisher: BMJ
Date: 04-2018
'Press play for pride': The cultural logics of LGBTQ-themed playlists on Spotify
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-10-2019
Abstract: This article explores the cultural practice of creating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ)-themed playlists on music streaming services. It aims to understand how LGBTQ identities and cultures are represented and negotiated through the use of, and shaped by, digital media platforms. Through the textual analysis of 37 LGBTQ-themed Spotify playlists, we identified four cultural logics that structure the practice of playlist curation, each of which demonstrates the significance of music consumption to in idual identity work and collective belonging. We conclude that the practice of playlist curation engages with LGBTQ culture in three productive ways: first, the curators contribute to a library of libraries by sharing their erse perspectives on what constitutes LGBTQ music culture second, the Spotify platform engages in community-building through enabling the sharing of tastes, pleasures, and experiences and third, the curation of playlists brings erse identity politics to the table, resulting in playlists that are politically queer, heteronormative, or ideologically ambiguous.
Digital Journalism as Symptom, Response, and Agent of Change in the Platformed Media Environment
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-03-2019
Increasing access to research via amplifier platforms: exploring public engagement with The Conversation articles
Publisher: University of Illinois Libraries
Date: 15-09-2021
DOI: 10.5210/SPIR.V2021I0.12130
Abstract: The Conversation (theconversation.com) represents a unique model for communicating scholarly research to the general public via explanatory journalism. Rather than relying on scholars’ personal networks, the promotional efforts of university press offices, or requests from science journalists for comments on current developments, The Conversation offers a platform for scholars across all disciplines to pitch their own stories, gain support from its in-house journalistic staff to develop those stories for a general audience, and see the resulting articles published under Creative Commons licences, enabling them to be republished by commercial and public service news outlets around the world. The overall success of this model, which may be described as ‘journalism-as-a-service’, is evident: articles from The Conversation are regularly republished by major international news outlets from the New York Times through CNN to The Guardian, as well as by domestic outlets across the eight countries and regions in which The Conversation now operates. This panel provides a broad-ranging and multi-faceted assessment of the status of the Conversation project, in its tenth year of operation. The current COVID-19 crisis has particularly highlighted the crisis of expertise and unevenness of scientific literacy amongst journalists, politicians, and the general public. The panel’s assessment of the successes and failures of one of the leading digital science communication initiatives of the past decade provides an important reality check, and offers new insights on what can be done to increase the visibility and impact of rigorous scholarly perspectives from all disciplines of research in public and political debates.
Emerging Methods for Digital Media Research: An Introduction
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2013
Agency and controversy in the YouTube community
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Date: 2016
REVIEW ARTICLE: Revisiting 'the Popular': New Work in Cultural Studies
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2005
Digital Storytelling as Participatory Public History in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-04-2009
RESEARCHING NEWS DISCUSSION ON TWITTER
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2012
The future of human behaviour research
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-01-2022
Technology facilitated coercive control: domestic violence and the competing roles of digital media platforms
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-03-2018
“Laughs and Legends” or the Furniture that Glows? Television as History
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2008
Human Rights by Design: The Responsibilities of Social Media Platforms to Address Gender‐Based Violence Online
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-09-2019
DOI: 10.1002/POI3.185
Content Creation and Curation
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-11-2014
DOI: 10.1002/9781118767771.WBIEDCS112
Abstract: Platforms for content created by web users have been associated with some of the most significant economic paradigm shifts in digital media. At the same time, user created content has often been at the center of heated scholarly debates around the democratization of media production, cultural participation, and public communication. In this entry, we provide an overview of such debates within media and communication research, particularly in relation to the evolution of mainstream platforms for content creation, curation, and sharing.
Hearing Ordinary Voices: Cultural Studies, Vernacular Creativity and Digital Storytelling
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2006
Digital Methods in Africa and Beyond: A View from Down Under
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2020
User-Created Content and Everyday Cultural Practice
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date: 2011
A Companion to New Media Dynamics
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-01-2013
Blogforschung: Der ,Computational Turn‘
Publisher: OLDENBOURG WISSENSCHAFTSVERLAG
Date: 2013
Methodological Innovation in Precarious Spaces: The Case of Twitter
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2016
Katrin Weller / Axel Bruns / Jean Burgess / Merja Mahrt / Cornelius Puschmann (eds.) (2014): Twitter and Society. New York: Peter Lang
Publisher: Nomos Verlag
Date: 2014
Studying mobile media: Cultural technologies, mobile communication, and the iPhone
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 23-04-2012
Australian farmers left behind in the digital economy - Insights from the Australian Digital Inclusion Index
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2020
The Digital Storyteller's Stage: Queer Everyday Activists Negotiating Privacy and Publicness
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2012
The Arab Spring and Social Media Audiences: English and Arabic Twitter Users and Their Networks
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-06-2013
Abstract: Although popular media narratives about the role of social media in driving the events of the 2011 “Arab Spring” are likely to overstate the impact of Facebook and Twitter on these uprisings, it is nonetheless true that protests and unrest in countries from Tunisia to Syria generated a substantial amount of social media activity. On Twitter alone, several millions of tweets containing the hashtags #libya or #egypt were generated during 2011, both by directly affected citizens of these countries and by onlookers from further afield. What remains unclear, though, is the extent to which there was any direct interaction between these two groups (especially considering potential language barriers between them). Building on hashtag data sets gathered between January and November 2011, this article compares patterns of Twitter usage during the popular revolution in Egypt and the civil war in Libya. Using custom-made tools for processing “big data,” we examine the volume of tweets sent by English-, Arabic-, and mixed-language Twitter users over time and examine the networks of interaction (variously through @replying, retweeting, or both) between these groups as they developed and shifted over the course of these uprisings. Examining @reply and retweet traffic, we identify general patterns of information flow between the English- and Arabic-speaking sides of the Twittersphere and highlight the roles played by users bridging both language spheres.
Automating the digital everyday: an introduction
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 14-11-2018
Abstract: This Special Issue brings together a range of social science and humanities perspectives on the relationships among automation, digital media and everyday life. We have aimed to get beyond the current hype and anxieties around self-driving cars, algorithms and robotics, and to achieve a more precise and grounded understanding of exactly what might be meant by automation, how and with what effects it is becoming entangled with everyday life and how investigating these relationships also helps us in understanding processes of media change in society more broadly.
Editors' Introduction
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2006
Digital media and generations
Publisher: Peter Lang US
Date: 24-02-2016
The remediation of the personal photograph and the politics of self-representation in digital storytelling
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2013
Abstract: Over the past couple of decades, the cultural field formerly known as ‘domestic’, and later ‘personal’ photography has been remediated and transformed as part of the social web, with its convergence of personal expression, interpersonal communication and online social networks (most recently via platforms such as Flickr, Facebook and Twitter). Meanwhile, the digital storytelling movement (involving the workshop-based production of short autobiographical videos) from its beginnings in the mid-1990s relied heavily on the narrative power of the personal photograph, often sourced from family albums and later from online archives. This article addresses the new issues arising for the politics of self-representation and personal photography in the era of social media, focusing particularly on the consequences of online image-sharing. It discusses in detail the practices of selection, curation, manipulation and editing of personal photographic images among a group of activist-oriented queer digital storytellers who have in common a stated desire to share their personal stories in pursuit of social change and whose stories often aim to address both intimate and antagonistic publics.
Twitter-Archive und die Herausforderungen von »Big Social Data« für die Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Date: 08-09-2014
Safety for Whom? Investigating How Platforms Frame and Perform Safety and Harm Interventions
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-2022
DOI: 10.1177/20563051221144315
Abstract: This article reports on a thematic content analysis of 486 newsroom posts published between 2016 and 2021 by five prominent digital platforms (Facebook, Tinder, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter). We aimed to understand how these platforms frame and define the issues of harm and safety, and to identify the interventions they publicly report introducing to address these issues. We found that platforms respond to and draw upon external controversies and media panics to selectively construct matters of concern related to safety and harm. They then reactively propose solutions that serve as justification for further investment in and scaling up of automated, data-intensive surveillance and verification technologies. We examine four key themes in the data: locating harm with bad actors and discrete content objects (Theme 1), framing surveillance and policing as solutions to harm (Theme 2), policing “borderline” content through suppression strategies (Theme 3), and performing ersity and inclusion (Theme 4).
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