This paper concerns the future — a scenario that is not so distant in time, as the future starts today. With the increasing datafication of our society and the approval of the European Union Data Governance Act that establishes conditions and safeguards to encourage the free flow and reuse of data for scientific, economic and societal progress, we are left wondering whether the existing challenges surrounding personal data management will be solved by then — or whether they will only be exacerbated. This sci-fi short story depicts a future where individuals, since a young age, question whether they still retain agency over their lives and their destinies, given that data-hungry personalized services surveil them extensively and steer their personal development. Returning to science fiction narratives to explore a societal issue at the edge of technology and law has a threefold purpose, in: (1) developing critical skills and exploring future consequences safely through the imagination; (2) fostering foresight and proactivity in policy-making; and (3) democratizing the debate about technological developments that concern us all. If this story depicts a desirable or undesirable future is left to the readers to assess.
本文关注的是未来——一个在时间上并不遥远的场景，因为未来从今天开始。随着我们社会的日益数据化，以及欧盟数据治理法案(European Union Data Governance Act)的批准，该法案建立了条件和保障措施，鼓励数据的自由流动和再利用，以促进科学、经济和社会的进步，我们想知道，围绕个人数据管理的现有挑战是否会得到解决，还是只会加剧。这部科幻短篇小说描绘了这样一个未来:人们从很小的时候就开始质疑自己是否还能掌控自己的生活和命运，因为数据饥渴的个性化服务对他们进行了广泛的监控，并引导他们的个人发展。回归科幻小说叙事，探索处于技术和法律边缘的社会问题，有三个目的:(1)通过想象培养关键技能，安全地探索未来的后果;(二)培养决策的前瞻性和主动性;(3)使有关我们所有人都关心的技术发展的辩论民主化。这个故事描绘的是美好的未来还是不美好的未来，留给读者自己去判断。
{"title":"Undetermined: A semi-academic exploration of the future of European data spaces via science fiction","authors":"Arianna Rossi","doi":"10.5210/fm.v28i5.13192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v28i5.13192","url":null,"abstract":"This paper concerns the future — a scenario that is not so distant in time, as the future starts today. With the increasing datafication of our society and the approval of the European Union Data Governance Act that establishes conditions and safeguards to encourage the free flow and reuse of data for scientific, economic and societal progress, we are left wondering whether the existing challenges surrounding personal data management will be solved by then — or whether they will only be exacerbated. This sci-fi short story depicts a future where individuals, since a young age, question whether they still retain agency over their lives and their destinies, given that data-hungry personalized services surveil them extensively and steer their personal development. Returning to science fiction narratives to explore a societal issue at the edge of technology and law has a threefold purpose, in: (1) developing critical skills and exploring future consequences safely through the imagination; (2) fostering foresight and proactivity in policy-making; and (3) democratizing the debate about technological developments that concern us all. If this story depicts a desirable or undesirable future is left to the readers to assess.","PeriodicalId":38833,"journal":{"name":"First Monday","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84829361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
To better understand the role of memes in close relationships, this study synthesizes work on humor use in relationships (Hall, 2017), idiomatic communication (Hopper, et al., 1981) and memes as intergroup communication (Gal, 2019). Results from an online survey demonstrated that having a self-enhancing or self-defeating humor style was positively associated with meme usage in relationships, whereas having an affiliative humor style was negatively related to meme usage. Further, sending memes to fulfill the humor function of enjoyment was positively associated with relational satisfaction, whereas sending memes for the function of apology was negatively associated with relational satisfaction. Participants reported sharing memes most frequently in their closest relationships. Results demonstrate that the sharing of memes plays a meaningful role in many close relationships, and that the role of memes in relationships is partially a function of humor orientation of the individual and humor-related goals of the meme sharing.
为了更好地理解模因在亲密关系中的作用，本研究综合了关于幽默在关系中的使用(Hall, 2017)、习惯交际(Hopper, et al.， 1981)和模因作为群体间交际(Gal, 2019)的研究。一项在线调查的结果表明，拥有自我提升或自我挫败的幽默风格与人际关系中的模因使用呈正相关，而拥有附属式幽默风格与模因使用负相关。此外，发送满足幽默享受功能的模因与关系满意度正相关，而发送道歉功能的模因与关系满意度负相关。参与者报告说，在他们最亲密的关系中分享表情包的频率最高。研究结果表明，模因分享在许多亲密关系中发挥着重要作用，模因在人际关系中的作用部分取决于个体的幽默取向和模因分享的幽默相关目标。
{"title":"Meme sharing in relationships: The role of humor styles and functions","authors":"Nicholas Brody, Sean Cullen","doi":"10.5210/fm.v28i5.12789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v28i5.12789","url":null,"abstract":"To better understand the role of memes in close relationships, this study synthesizes work on humor use in relationships (Hall, 2017), idiomatic communication (Hopper, et al., 1981) and memes as intergroup communication (Gal, 2019). Results from an online survey demonstrated that having a self-enhancing or self-defeating humor style was positively associated with meme usage in relationships, whereas having an affiliative humor style was negatively related to meme usage. Further, sending memes to fulfill the humor function of enjoyment was positively associated with relational satisfaction, whereas sending memes for the function of apology was negatively associated with relational satisfaction. Participants reported sharing memes most frequently in their closest relationships. Results demonstrate that the sharing of memes plays a meaningful role in many close relationships, and that the role of memes in relationships is partially a function of humor orientation of the individual and humor-related goals of the meme sharing.","PeriodicalId":38833,"journal":{"name":"First Monday","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81705485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Undetermined: A short story","authors":"A. Rossi","doi":"10.5210/fm.v28i5.13194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v28i5.13194","url":null,"abstract":" ","PeriodicalId":38833,"journal":{"name":"First Monday","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84432623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Starting from the idea that understanding Big Tech ideologies is a prerequisite for assessing how major tech corporations see a (re)organization of society, this paper offers an analysis of the opening statements of the CEOs of four of these corporations during 2020 antitrust hearings before the U.S. House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee. These statements were ‘critical discourse moments’ that foregrounded the beliefs of the CEOs in the collision between their discourse and that of government and politics. Using a critical perspective on discourse analysis as a main research approach, this research found that the opening statements blended (inter)national imaginaries, identity narratives and corporate values. Together, these factors communicated the notion of an ideal society in which tech companies awarded themselves a dual role: (1) national conductors towards what we call ‘techno/opportunity’ for individuals, and (2) politically neutral agents in the service of American world dominance. In this sense, ‘competition’ was reconstructed as a practice that, on a national level, must occur within Big Tech instead of between tech corporations and other actors. On an international level competition existed between ideologically opposed nation states where corporations were envisioned as representatives of these states.
{"title":"‘Here in the US’: Identity narratives, national beliefs and corporate governance values in Big Tech Hearing discourse","authors":"Inge Beekmans, I. Maly, T. Van Hout","doi":"10.5210/fm.v28i5.12803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v28i5.12803","url":null,"abstract":"Starting from the idea that understanding Big Tech ideologies is a prerequisite for assessing how major tech corporations see a (re)organization of society, this paper offers an analysis of the opening statements of the CEOs of four of these corporations during 2020 antitrust hearings before the U.S. House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee. These statements were ‘critical discourse moments’ that foregrounded the beliefs of the CEOs in the collision between their discourse and that of government and politics. Using a critical perspective on discourse analysis as a main research approach, this research found that the opening statements blended (inter)national imaginaries, identity narratives and corporate values. Together, these factors communicated the notion of an ideal society in which tech companies awarded themselves a dual role: (1) national conductors towards what we call ‘techno/opportunity’ for individuals, and (2) politically neutral agents in the service of American world dominance. In this sense, ‘competition’ was reconstructed as a practice that, on a national level, must occur within Big Tech instead of between tech corporations and other actors. On an international level competition existed between ideologically opposed nation states where corporations were envisioned as representatives of these states.","PeriodicalId":38833,"journal":{"name":"First Monday","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85836822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As climate continues to change, severe weather events continue to increase in both severity and frequency. The U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) established storm prediction centers around the country to monitor and produce predictions, warnings, and watches about weather events. However, the NWS relies mostly on local television stations to communicate this information to the public. Although many storm prediction centers have Twitter accounts, residents often turn to local news stations for information on these weather events. In this study we analyzed one year of tweets from a small prediction team as well as tweets from the lead meteorologist twitter accounts from ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC stations. We focused on tweets sent on days that severe weather occurred (N = 17,259). Agenda setting theory served as a lens to examine these results and advance our understanding of weather communication in the digital age. We found that tweets from television meteorologists differed significantly from those of the NWS for clout, analytical thinking, and positive emotional valence. Tweets were also significantly different for authenticity and negative emotional valence, but only when individual stations were compared to the NWS. This paper contributes to small group literature the idea that expert teams, who rely on the media to report their decisions, may have their decisions reported in differing manners based on the motivations of the media.
{"title":"Sharing expert group decisions: Examining television meteorologists' tweets of a severe weather forecasting team’s warnings","authors":"Miranda McLoughlin, W. Howe","doi":"10.5210/fm.v28i5.10885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v28i5.10885","url":null,"abstract":"As climate continues to change, severe weather events continue to increase in both severity and frequency. The U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) established storm prediction centers around the country to monitor and produce predictions, warnings, and watches about weather events. However, the NWS relies mostly on local television stations to communicate this information to the public. Although many storm prediction centers have Twitter accounts, residents often turn to local news stations for information on these weather events. In this study we analyzed one year of tweets from a small prediction team as well as tweets from the lead meteorologist twitter accounts from ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC stations. We focused on tweets sent on days that severe weather occurred (N = 17,259). Agenda setting theory served as a lens to examine these results and advance our understanding of weather communication in the digital age. We found that tweets from television meteorologists differed significantly from those of the NWS for clout, analytical thinking, and positive emotional valence. Tweets were also significantly different for authenticity and negative emotional valence, but only when individual stations were compared to the NWS. This paper contributes to small group literature the idea that expert teams, who rely on the media to report their decisions, may have their decisions reported in differing manners based on the motivations of the media.","PeriodicalId":38833,"journal":{"name":"First Monday","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84008752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Athus Cavalini, Fabio Malini, Fabio Gouveia, Giovanni V. Comarela
Over the past few years, with the increasing popularization of network communication in place of traditional mass communication, supported by social platforms and messengers, political campaigns have come to rely on new tools and methods, including the use of these structures to promote an environment of information disorder for the purpose of mobilization. This work followed the use of Telegram as a tool for political mobilization in Brazil, collecting data from a dense network of information disorder used to mobilize voters in support of then-president Jair Bolsonaro on 7 September 2021 and 2022, Independence Day in Brazil. The results showed that engagement was reduced, mainly due to the lack of support from certain groups such as anti-vaccination advocates and the truck drivers’ class. There was also a decrease in extremism on discussion themes and lower user activity levels.
{"title":"Politics and disinformation: Analyzing the use of Telegram's information disorder network in Brazil for political mobilization","authors":"Athus Cavalini, Fabio Malini, Fabio Gouveia, Giovanni V. Comarela","doi":"10.5210/fm.v28i5.12901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v28i5.12901","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past few years, with the increasing popularization of network communication in place of traditional mass communication, supported by social platforms and messengers, political campaigns have come to rely on new tools and methods, including the use of these structures to promote an environment of information disorder for the purpose of mobilization. This work followed the use of Telegram as a tool for political mobilization in Brazil, collecting data from a dense network of information disorder used to mobilize voters in support of then-president Jair Bolsonaro on 7 September 2021 and 2022, Independence Day in Brazil. The results showed that engagement was reduced, mainly due to the lack of support from certain groups such as anti-vaccination advocates and the truck drivers’ class. There was also a decrease in extremism on discussion themes and lower user activity levels.","PeriodicalId":38833,"journal":{"name":"First Monday","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87400771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper documents the evolution of Korea’s digital platforms. By using a historical approach in tandem with platformization — helpful in determining the causes behind the changing processes of new technologies — we examine the advancement of digital platforms. The digital platform era can be divided into three significant periods based on major technical advancements and corporate transformations, including the early construction of ICT infrastructure between the mid-1990s and early 2000s; the early platformization period of Internet portals amidst the smartphone revolution between the mid-2000s and mid-2010s; and the duopoly market of Naver and Kakao from the mid-2010s, after the merge of Daum and Kakao, to the present. Multiple causes led to the advent of digital platforms, both in terms of technologies and systems. Power relations developed between several major players, such as the government, corporations, and global forces. This work ultimately describes the relationship between sociocultural transitions and accompanying structural changes in digital platforms and relevant policies.
{"title":"Platformization of Korean Internet portals toward mega-platforms: A historical approach","authors":"D. Jin","doi":"10.5210/fm.v28i5.12682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v28i5.12682","url":null,"abstract":"This paper documents the evolution of Korea’s digital platforms. By using a historical approach in tandem with platformization — helpful in determining the causes behind the changing processes of new technologies — we examine the advancement of digital platforms. The digital platform era can be divided into three significant periods based on major technical advancements and corporate transformations, including the early construction of ICT infrastructure between the mid-1990s and early 2000s; the early platformization period of Internet portals amidst the smartphone revolution between the mid-2000s and mid-2010s; and the duopoly market of Naver and Kakao from the mid-2010s, after the merge of Daum and Kakao, to the present. Multiple causes led to the advent of digital platforms, both in terms of technologies and systems. Power relations developed between several major players, such as the government, corporations, and global forces. This work ultimately describes the relationship between sociocultural transitions and accompanying structural changes in digital platforms and relevant policies.","PeriodicalId":38833,"journal":{"name":"First Monday","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88877295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This research investigates the effect of photographic style on trust and interest in social media accounts. In a survey of 3,255 subjects, we asked them to assess their trust in a social media account’s post regarding dog food based only on a set of photos of dogs displayed in that account. Subjects reported significantly higher trust in and more interest in following accounts that posted well-composed, well-lit, more professional photos as compared with account with more casual photos. This suggests interesting future work on how aesthetic photo quality affects follower count and perceived trustworthiness and credibility on social media.
{"title":"Photo aesthetics as a factor in trust and interest assessments","authors":"J. Golbeck","doi":"10.5210/fm.v28i5.10162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v28i5.10162","url":null,"abstract":"This research investigates the effect of photographic style on trust and interest in social media accounts. In a survey of 3,255 subjects, we asked them to assess their trust in a social media account’s post regarding dog food based only on a set of photos of dogs displayed in that account. Subjects reported significantly higher trust in and more interest in following accounts that posted well-composed, well-lit, more professional photos as compared with account with more casual photos. This suggests interesting future work on how aesthetic photo quality affects follower count and perceived trustworthiness and credibility on social media.","PeriodicalId":38833,"journal":{"name":"First Monday","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91356277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study aims to propose and test an integrated model of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and uses and gratifications theory (U&G) to understand viewers’ intention to watch video game live streaming on Twitch. Data are collected from 207 Twitch users and analysed using partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) and necessary condition analysis (NCA). Based on the PLS-SEM results, attitudes and subjective norm have a significant positive influence on intention. However, perceived behavioural control does not have a significant influence on intention. Furthermore, entertainment and information seeking have a significant positive influence on attitudes, but socialisation has no significant influence. According to the NCA results, attitudes and perceived behavioural control are the necessary conditions for intention. Moreover, entertainment and information seeking are identified to have necessary effects on attitudes. Subjective norm and socialisation are found to have no necessary effects on intention and attitudes, respectively. This study is the first to investigate the factors that influence viewers’ intention to watch video game live streaming on Twitch based on an integrated perspective of the TPB and U&G theory using the sufficiency (PLS-SEM) and necessary (NCA) logics.
{"title":"Understanding factors influencing viewers’ intention to watch video game live streaming on Twitch: Combined use of PLS-SEM and NCA","authors":"K. Koay, Jian Yi Teoh, M. Cheung","doi":"10.5210/fm.v28i5.12644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v28i5.12644","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to propose and test an integrated model of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and uses and gratifications theory (U&G) to understand viewers’ intention to watch video game live streaming on Twitch. Data are collected from 207 Twitch users and analysed using partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) and necessary condition analysis (NCA). Based on the PLS-SEM results, attitudes and subjective norm have a significant positive influence on intention. However, perceived behavioural control does not have a significant influence on intention. Furthermore, entertainment and information seeking have a significant positive influence on attitudes, but socialisation has no significant influence. According to the NCA results, attitudes and perceived behavioural control are the necessary conditions for intention. Moreover, entertainment and information seeking are identified to have necessary effects on attitudes. Subjective norm and socialisation are found to have no necessary effects on intention and attitudes, respectively. This study is the first to investigate the factors that influence viewers’ intention to watch video game live streaming on Twitch based on an integrated perspective of the TPB and U&G theory using the sufficiency (PLS-SEM) and necessary (NCA) logics.","PeriodicalId":38833,"journal":{"name":"First Monday","volume":"176 5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72529134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：