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Algorithm dependency in platformized news use 平台化新闻使用中的算法依赖
Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI: 10.1177/14614448231193093
N. Schaetz, Emilija Gagrčin, Roland Toth, Martin Emmer
Previous research has highlighted the ambiguous experience of algorithmic news curation whereby people are simultaneously comfortable with algorithms, but also concerned about the underlying data collection practices. The present article builds on media dependency theory and news-finds-me (NFM) perceptions to explore this tension. Empirically, we analyze original survey data from six European countries (Germany, Sweden, France, Greece, Poland, and Italy, n = 2,899) to investigate how young Europeans’ privacy concerns and attitudes toward algorithms affect NFM. We find that a more positive attitude toward algorithms and more privacy concerns are related to stronger NFM. The study highlights power asymmetries in platformized news use and suggests that the ambivalent experiences might be a result of algorithm dependency, whereby individuals rely on algorithms in platformized news use to meet their information needs, despite accompanying risks and concerns.
先前的研究强调了算法新闻策划的模糊体验,即人们同时对算法感到满意,但也担心潜在的数据收集实践。本文以媒体依赖理论和“新闻发现我”(NFM)观念为基础,探讨这种紧张关系。在实证方面,我们分析了来自六个欧洲国家(德国、瑞典、法国、希腊、波兰和意大利,n = 2,899)的原始调查数据,以调查欧洲年轻人对隐私的关注和对算法的态度如何影响NFM。我们发现,对算法更积极的态度和更多的隐私问题与更强的NFM有关。该研究强调了平台化新闻使用中的权力不对称,并表明这种矛盾的体验可能是算法依赖的结果,即个人依赖平台化新闻使用中的算法来满足他们的信息需求,尽管伴随着风险和担忧。
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Playbor, gamble-play, and the financialization of digital games 游戏、赌博和数字游戏的金融化
Pub Date : 2023-08-26 DOI: 10.1177/14614448231190907
Trevor Zaucha, C. Agur
This article examines non-fungible token (NFT) applications and their users through a qualitative textual analysis of NFT-based video game Axie Infinity’s Discord server. It considers NFT applications’ dual purposes as entertainment media and financial instruments and posits that the interests of capital inform users’ engagement. In an environment defined by distrust and uncertainty, predominantly Filipino digital laborers’ (“Scholars”) experiences and interactions with the game’s ownership class (“Managers”) reflect pre-existing patterns of exploitation made inexpensive by differences in currency valuations, accessible by access to digital devices, available by global financial uncertainty, possible by a lack of user protection and governance, and permissible by light government regulation. To navigate an interplay of designed systems and human behavior, users share gameplay and marketplace knowledge. The blurring of gaming, gambling, and finance discussed here risks fostering an increasingly gamified approach to work and finance and facilitates exploitation of global, stratified labor.
本文通过对基于NFT的视频游戏axxie Infinity的Discord服务器进行定性文本分析,研究了不可替代令牌(NFT)应用程序及其用户。它考虑了NFT应用作为娱乐媒体和金融工具的双重目的,并假设资本的利益决定了用户的参与度。在一个充满不信任和不确定性的环境中,主要是菲律宾数字劳动者(“学者”)的经历以及与游戏所有者(“管理者”)的互动反映了预先存在的剥削模式,这些模式由于货币估值的差异而变得廉价,由于数字设备的使用而变得容易,由于全球金融的不确定性而变得容易,可能由于缺乏用户保护和管理而被允许,并且政府监管宽松。为了驾驭设计系统和人类行为的相互作用,用户分享游戏玩法和市场知识。这里讨论的游戏、赌博和金融的模糊化可能会助长一种日益游戏化的工作和金融方式,并促进对全球分层劳动力的剥削。
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Posting photos that reflect positive aspects of everyday life on Instagram increases appreciation, life satisfaction, and happiness 在Instagram上发布反映日常生活积极方面的照片会增加欣赏、生活满意度和幸福感
Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI: 10.1177/14614448231193092
Ewelina Smoktunowicz, Olga Bialobrzeska, Z. Jakubik
We conducted two studies to verify whether using Instagram to post photos that reflect positive aspects of one’s life increased appreciation and subsequently improved well-being. In the correlational Study 1, participants ( N = 291) were regular users of Instagram, and in the randomized controlled trial Study 2 ( N = 283), they were newcomers. We found that regular users are motivated to use Instagram to capture life’s positive moments, and their higher frequency of posting was associated with increased appreciation and, in turn, greater life satisfaction and happiness (Study 1). New users, regardless of whether they were instructed to post positive photos (experimental conditions) or not (control conditions), posted exactly this kind of content. The more positive the photos were, the higher participants’ appreciation, life satisfaction, and happiness (Study 2). Posting appreciative content on social media might have a beneficial impact on users’ well-being and become a foundation for future interventions.
我们进行了两项研究,以验证使用Instagram发布反映一个人生活积极方面的照片是否会增加欣赏,从而提高幸福感。在相关研究1中,参与者(N = 291)是Instagram的常规用户,在随机对照试验研究2中(N = 283),他们是新用户。我们发现,经常使用Instagram的用户更有动力去捕捉生活中的积极时刻,他们发布的频率越高,就越有欣赏感,反过来,也就越有生活满意度和幸福感(研究1)。新用户,不管他们是否被指示发布积极的照片(实验条件)(控制条件),都会发布这种内容。照片越积极,参与者的欣赏程度、生活满意度和幸福感就越高(研究2)。在社交媒体上发布欣赏内容可能对用户的幸福感产生有益影响,并成为未来干预措施的基础。
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Corrigendum to ‘Does aggressive commentary by streamers during violent video game affect state aggression in adolescents?’ “在暴力视频游戏中,主播的攻击性评论会影响青少年的国家攻击性吗?””
Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI: 10.1177/14614448231194873
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TikTok as algorithmically mediated biographical illumination: Autism, self-discovery, and platformed diagnosis on #autisktok TikTok作为算法中介的传记照明:自闭症、自我发现和#autisktok的平台诊断
Pub Date : 2023-08-19 DOI: 10.1177/14614448231193091
M. Alper, J. Rauchberg, Ellen Simpson, Joshua Guberman, Sarah Feinberg
Scholarship in the sociology of medicine has tended to characterize diagnosis as disruptive to one’s self-concept. This categorization, though, requires reconsideration in light of public conversations about mental health and community building around neurocognitive conditions, particularly among youth online. Drawing upon Tan’s notion of “biographical illumination” (BI), which describes how medical frameworks can enrich personal biographies, we explored the shifting nature of BI through the case of TikTok. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, we argue that TikTok serves as a space to discuss diagnosis and refine one’s sense of self as a result of diagnosis. However, such personal transformation is inseparable from the app’s affordances, or what we term “algorithmically mediated biographical illumination.” BI shapes TikTok as a platform, and TikTok informs BI as a psychosocial process, leading to what we call “platformed diagnosis.” These findings have broader critical applications for the study of algorithms, disability, and digital platforms.
医学社会学的学术研究倾向于将诊断定性为对一个人自我概念的破坏。然而,这种分类需要根据公众对心理健康的讨论和围绕神经认知状况的社区建设进行重新考虑,尤其是在网上的年轻人中。Tan的“传记启发”(BI)概念描述了医疗框架如何丰富个人传记,我们通过TikTok的案例探讨了BI的变化本质。结合定量和定性方法,我们认为TikTok是一个讨论诊断的空间,并通过诊断来完善自我意识。然而,这种个人转变离不开应用程序的功能,或者我们所说的“算法介导的传记照明”。BI将TikTok塑造成一个平台,而TikTok将BI作为一个心理社会过程来告知,从而导致我们所说的“平台诊断”。这些发现对于算法、残疾和数字平台的研究具有更广泛的关键应用。
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Mapping verification behaviors in the post-truth era: A systematic review 后真相时代的验证行为映射:系统回顾
Pub Date : 2023-08-18 DOI: 10.1177/14614448231191138
Wenting Yu, Fei Shen
Given the widespread misinformation problem in societies across the globe, scholars aiming to combat misinformation wish to change verification behaviors at the individual level. To map what is known about media users’ verification behaviors, this study reviewed 52 articles and analyzed how verification research has progressed so far. The results indicate that verification research has been conducted since 2000 but has increased considerably in recent years. However, a clear definition and a standard measure of verification behaviors were missing. Theories and methodologies from different disciplines have been adopted to investigate verification behaviors. The examined variables are diverse, but the overall understanding of the findings is fragmented. Interestingly, the COVID-19 pandemic boosted the number of studies on media users’ verification behaviors and brought changes to the direction of the research. This review calls for a better conceptualization and validated measures of verification behaviors and examinations of verification in more diverse contexts.
鉴于全球社会普遍存在的错误信息问题,旨在打击错误信息的学者希望改变个人层面的验证行为。为了了解媒体用户的验证行为,本研究回顾了52篇文章,并分析了迄今为止验证研究的进展。结果表明,自2000年以来进行了验证研究,但近年来大幅增加。然而,缺乏对验证行为的明确定义和标准度量。不同学科的理论和方法被用来研究验证行为。研究的变量是多种多样的,但对研究结果的总体理解是碎片化的。有趣的是,新冠肺炎疫情增加了对媒体用户验证行为的研究数量,也改变了研究方向。这一审查要求在更多样化的背景下对核查行为和核查审查进行更好的概念化和有效的措施。
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“Ironic memes” and digital literacies: Exploring identity through multimodal texts “讽刺模因”和数字素养:通过多模态文本探索身份
Pub Date : 2023-08-18 DOI: 10.1177/14614448231189801
Vinicio Ntouvlis, J. Geenen
This study examines so-called “ironic memes,” a seemingly inscrutable genre of memetic Internet content, as meaningful digital multimodal text. Considering Internet memes’ semiotic construction patterns and their social functions, this study connects these two concerns, asking: How is the provocatively “nonsensical” design of ironic memes organized and connected to the construction of (group) identities online? Adopting a digital ethnographic approach, we employ a combination of multimodal discursive methods in order to jointly analyze semiotic design patterns and the social actions underlying them. The analysis suggests that, despite their nonsensical appearance, ironic memes rely on distinct design strategies that contribute to the construction of (group) identities rooted in digital literacies. Specifically, ironic memes constitute generic hybrids where semiotic practices are associated with personas that are “less literate” in Internet memeing. Our findings indicate that digital literacies can feature as central in the construction of superdiverse identities through digital text-making and text-sharing.
这项研究考察了所谓的“讽刺模因”,一种看似难以理解的模因互联网内容,作为有意义的数字多模态文本。考虑到网络模因的符号建构模式及其社会功能,本研究将这两个问题联系起来,提出:讽刺模因的挑衅性“荒谬”设计是如何组织和连接到网络(群体)身份建构的?采用数字民族志方法,我们采用多模态话语方法的组合,以联合分析符号学设计模式及其背后的社会行为。分析表明,尽管具有荒谬的外观,讽刺模因依赖于独特的设计策略,这些策略有助于构建植根于数字素养的(群体)身份。具体来说,讽刺模因构成了一般的混合体,其中符号学实践与互联网模因中“文化程度较低”的人物角色有关。我们的研究结果表明,数字素养可以通过数字文本制作和文本共享在超多样性身份的构建中发挥核心作用。
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Politics of Deliberate Inaction: The disconnect between platform justifications and user imaginaries on content moderation in a ‘free speech’ online forum 故意不作为的政治:在一个“言论自由”的在线论坛上,平台的理由和用户对内容审核的想象之间的脱节
Pub Date : 2023-08-18 DOI: 10.1177/14614448231190905
Mathilda Åkerlund
This article analyses the ‘free speech’ online forum Flashback, which adheres to a strict non-interference policy when it comes to user-generated content, but beyond this also forbids users from deleting their own content or accounts. Through a qualitative content analysis, this article sought to understand the relationship between the platform and its users with respect to this unconventional approach to moderation and content removal. This article discusses both the position(s) taken by Flashback as it pertains to its policy of minimal moderation, and the expectations as expressed by users navigating Flashbacks rules and their practical implementations. The article shows a discrepancy between how Flashback (incoherently) justifies minimal moderation and how users had imagined the platform operating. The article also discusses how Flashback maintains these policies through its community’s active encouragement via supportive posting and silencing of non-conformers, and the consequences that Flashback’s inaction has in terms of residual hate.
本文分析了“言论自由”的在线论坛Flashback,该论坛在用户生成内容时遵循严格的不干涉政策,但除此之外,它还禁止用户删除自己的内容或账户。通过定性内容分析,本文试图了解平台与其用户之间的关系,以及这种非常规的审核和内容删除方法。本文讨论了Flashback所采取的立场,因为它与它的最小节制政策有关,以及用户在浏览Flashback规则及其实际实现时所表达的期望。这篇文章显示了Flashback(不连贯地)如何证明最低限度的节制与用户想象的平台运行方式之间的差异。文章还讨论了Flashback如何通过社区的积极鼓励,通过支持性发帖和压制异类来维持这些政策,以及Flashback的不作为对残余仇恨造成的后果。
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The higher the news literacy, the wider the partisan gap on misinformation acceptance? The three-way interaction effects of news literacy, partisanship, and exposure to partisan YouTube channels on misinformation acceptance 新闻素养越高,两党在接受错误信息方面的差距就越大?新闻素养、党派关系和对党派YouTube频道的曝光对错误信息接受的三方互动效应
Pub Date : 2023-08-18 DOI: 10.1177/14614448231191142
Kyungeun Jang, Y. Baek
Drawing on two competing hypotheses from the prevention and partisan gap frameworks, this study tests how news literacy, partisanship, and exposure to partisan YouTube channels interact to influence misinformation acceptance. Partisan YouTube channels in this study refer to a type of soft journalistic content with a partisan perspective. Panel survey data ( N = 808) collected during the 2020 South Korean General Election campaign were analyzed. Supporting the partisan gap hypothesis, the results show that when exposed to partisan YouTube channels, those with higher news literacy were more likely to process misinformation in a biased manner, such that party-congenial misinformation is more likely to be accepted, while party-uncongenial misinformation is more likely to be rejected with an increase in news literacy level. This indicates that the effects of news literacy on misinformation acceptance vary depending on political factors. Furthermore, in the context of politically biased media, the partisan gap widens among those with greater news literacy.
根据预防和党派差距框架的两个相互竞争的假设,本研究测试了新闻素养、党派关系和对党派YouTube频道的曝光如何相互作用,以影响错误信息的接受。本研究中的党派YouTube频道是指一种带有党派观点的软新闻内容。对2020年韩国议会选举期间收集的小组调查数据(N = 808)进行分析。支持党派鸿沟假设,结果表明,当暴露于党派YouTube频道时,新闻素养较高的人更有可能以偏见的方式处理错误信息,因此,随着新闻素养水平的提高,党派一致的错误信息更有可能被接受,而党派不一致的错误信息更有可能被拒绝。这表明新闻素养对错误信息接受的影响因政治因素而异。此外,在有政治偏见的媒体背景下,新闻素养较高的人之间的党派差距扩大了。
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Online memes on anti-American propaganda and the overlooked “silent majority” in support of authoritarian populism in Putin’s Russia 反美宣传的网络表情包,以及支持普京领导下的俄罗斯威权民粹主义的被忽视的“沉默的大多数”
Pub Date : 2023-08-18 DOI: 10.1177/14614448231191137
Volha Kananovich
Although memes are considered disruptive to elite control over political discourse, their viability for contestation in authoritarian settings remains uncertain. The present study addresses this question by analyzing Russian memes created to ridicule the Kremlin’s propaganda, which accuses the United States of undermining Russia domestically and internationally. These memes depict US presidents engaging in trivial acts of sabotage, from damaging worn-out roads to urinating in dilapidated buildings, thereby exposing the absurdity of Russia’s claims to superpower status. Importantly, the memes go beyond ridiculing the regime to vilify “ordinary Russians” as unsophisticated subscribers to the government’s narrative. The study shows that by focusing on the tug-of-war between the authorities and the protesting “vocal minority,” communication scholars may overlook a sizable “silent majority” that enables authoritarian consolidation. I argue that such outgroup memetic articulations, despite their limitations in mobilizing broader publics, offer valuable insights into authoritarian populism that surpass this empirically flawed binary logic.
尽管模因被认为破坏了精英对政治话语的控制,但它们在威权环境中进行争论的可行性仍不确定。本研究通过分析俄罗斯的模因来解决这个问题,这些模因是用来嘲笑克里姆林宫的宣传,指责美国在国内和国际上破坏俄罗斯。这些表情包描绘了美国总统从事琐碎的破坏行为,从破坏破旧的道路到在破旧的建筑物里小便,从而暴露了俄罗斯声称自己是超级大国的荒谬。重要的是,这些表情包超越了对政权的嘲笑,还将“普通俄罗斯人”诋毁为政府叙事的不成熟的订阅者。这项研究表明,由于关注当局与抗议的“发声的少数人”之间的拉锯战,传播学学者可能会忽视规模可观的“沉默的大多数”,这使得威权得以巩固。我认为,尽管这种外群体模因表达在动员更广泛的公众方面存在局限性,但它为威权民粹主义提供了有价值的见解,超越了这种经验上有缺陷的二元逻辑。
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