The Use of YouTube and Other Platforms in Russian Oppositional Activism
PoliticsBlogs and BloggingSocial MediaAoIR 2018The next speaker at AoIR 2018 is Mariëlle Wijermars. She continues our focus on the recent Russian election, and shifts our attention to banned...
View ArticleThe Weaponisation of Digital Vigilantism
JournalismSocial MediaAoIR 2018The next session at AoIR 2018 starts with Daniel Trottier’s paper on on digital vigilantism. He begins with the story of a video of an elderly woman in the Netherlands...
View ArticleRadical Transparency after WikiLeaks
PoliticsJournalismSocial MediaAoIR 2018The next speaker in this AoIR 2018 session is Luke Heemsbergen, whose interest is in the evolution of radical leaking online, after the initial WikiLeaks moment....
View ArticleThe /r/TheRedPill Sidebar as a Tool of Collective Identity
PoliticsSocial MediaAoIR 2018Next up in this AoIR 2018 session is Julia deCook, who shifts our focus to Reddit– and particular its /r/TheRedPill men’s rights activism (MRA) space. MRA has grown in...
View ArticleHate Speech on the Swedish Flashback Platform
PoliticsSocial MediaAoIR 2018The final speakers in this AoIR 2018 session are Emma von Essen and Joakim Jansson, whose focus is on online hate speech towards women and foreigners, and the role of...
View ArticleThe Affective Politics of Information Warfare
‘Fake News’'Big Data'Social MediaAoIR 2018The next speaker in this AoIR 2018 session is Megan Boler, who continues our focus on algorithms. She begins by noting a concern about the affective politics...
View ArticleThe People’s Internet Project and Its Struggle with Big Data
'Big Data'Social MediaAoIR 2018I’ve spent the morning in an AoIR Executive meeting, but I’m back for the second session on this Friday morning at AoIR 2018– and I also have a paper in this session....
View ArticleCombining Digital Trace Data and Social Science Data
'Big Data'Social MediaAoIR 2018The next speaker in our AoIR 2018 session is Ericka Menchen-Trevino, whose research interest is on the study of selective exposure; this is often studied through surveys...
View ArticleTracking Activity in a National Twittersphere
'Big Data'Social MediaSocial Media Network MappingTrISMA (ARC LIEF)TwitterAoIR 2018The last paper in this AoIR 2018 session was mine, presenting on our TrISMA project to gather social media data in...
View ArticleImagined Audiences for DIY Music Content
Social MediaStreaming MediaAoIR 2018The final speaker in this AoIR 2018 session is Ellis Jones, who focusses on the connections between context collapse and the imagined audience. Social media users...
View ArticleThe Reappropriation of Anne of Green Gables in Support of Abortion Rights
PoliticsSocial MediaFacebookTwitterAoIR 2018Oh noes, due to a very slow elevator I’ve come in late to the morning session at AoIR 2018, and have missed some of David Myles’s talk already. He studied...
View ArticleA Participatory Media Systems Perspective on Digital Media
Social MediaStreaming MediaAoIR 2018The second speaker in this AoIR 2018 session is William Moner, whose focus is on participatory media systems analysis, especially in relation to the political...
View ArticleThe Harassment of Iranian Dissidents on Instagram
PoliticsSocial MediaAoIR 2018The final speaker in this AoIR 2018 session is Simin Kargar, whose focus is on the harassment of civil society actors on the Iranian Internet. Such harassment and...
View ArticleYouth Political Engagement on Social Media in the Age of Trump
PoliticsElections‘Fake News’Social MediaTwitterAoIR 2018I’ve missed another session due to AoIR business, but I’m back for the last paper session at AoIR 2018. We start with Joel Penney, whose focus is...
View ArticleThe Features of Successful Infographics in the 2016 U.S. Presidential...
PoliticsElectionsSocial MediaAoIR 2018Then next speaker at AoIR 2018 is Eedan Amit-Danhi, who continues our focus on the 2016 U.S. presidential election and especially investigates the role of...
View ArticleSuperparticipants in the Brazilian Impeachment Debate on Twitter
PoliticsElectionsSocial MediaSocial Media Network MappingTwitterAoIR 2018The next speaker at AoIR 2018 is Gabriela Zago, who shifts our focus to the prevalence of ‘fake news’ in Brazilian politics; she...
View ArticleWeibo’s Evolution from Public Debate to Commodification
Social MediaAoIR 2018The final speakers in this final session of AoIR 2018 are Lianrui Jia and Xiaofei Han, whose focus is on the changing politics of the major Chinese social media platform Weibo. It...
View ArticleFour Key Misunderstandings about ‘Fake News’
PoliticsElectionsJournalismIndustrial Journalism‘Fake News’Social MediaEcho Chambers and Filter BubblesiCS 2018The first keynote at the iCS Symposium is by Alice E. Marwick, whose focus is on the...
View ArticleLegal and Regulatory Approaches to ‘Fake News’
PoliticsGovernment‘Fake News’Social MediaiCS 2018The next session at this iCS Symposium starts with Irini Katsirea, who continues with our ‘fake news’ theme. There are a great many definitions for this...
View ArticleFighting ‘Fake News’ in Brazil after Marielle Franco’s Assassination
Politics‘Fake News’Social MediaiCS 2018The second paper in this session at the iCS Symposium is by Daniel Gobbii and Pedro Abelin, whose focus is on the political context in Brazil. Their case study is...
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