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Troubleshooting the connected home: Exploring the perspectives of non-initiators 为互联家庭排忧解难:探索非启动者的观点
IF 2.8 2区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1177/13548565241268062
Helene Fiane Teigen
Living with technology often entails work related to management and repair of it. The emerging literature on the work that goes into managing home networks and digital technologies has described it as ‘digital housekeeping’. Within this literature, a single person is often identified as being responsible for the domestic tech work and this is the same person who initiated bringing the technology into the home. However, remaining household members and persons who have been gifted with such technologies are under-researched, despite studies showing them to be vulnerable to skewed power dynamics and technical malfunctions when the responsible person is not around. Applying digital housekeeping as a theoretical lens, this article explores how people identified as ‘non-initiators’, that is, those living with smart home technologies but who did not initiate bringing the technology into their home, deal with malfunctioning devices. Drawing upon interviews with five identified non, this study provides an in-depth exploration of their troubleshooting routines conceptualized as diagnosing, performing, and delegating. Findings suggest that non-initiators also engage in digital housekeeping through troubleshooting, although this work is largely unacknowledged by themselves and others. Moreover, the image of non-initiators as vulnerable is nuanced by highlighting their active participation in the connected home. Non-initiators use smart home devices for daily activities, and they have the knowledge, skills, and resources to draw upon when encountering malfunctions. Furthermore, the non-initiators’ troubleshooting routines are affected by the devices’ materiality, the household’s social dynamics, and to some degree by societal perceptions of technology, age, and gender. This paper contributes to the existing literature on smart homes and digital housekeeping by emphasizing non-initiators’ contribution to digital housekeeping and by highlighting how their agency is asserted in line with their interests and needs.
与技术共存往往需要对技术进行管理和维修。关于家庭网络和数字技术管理工作的新兴文献将其描述为 "数字家务"。在这些文献中,通常只有一个人负责家务技术工作,而这个人也正是将技术引入家庭的始作俑者。然而,尽管有研究表明,当责任人不在时,其余的家庭成员和被赋予此类技术的人很容易受到权力动态失衡和技术故障的影响,但对他们的研究却不足。本文以数字家务管理为理论视角,探讨了被认定为 "非主动者 "的人,即那些生活在智能家居技术环境中但并未主动将技术引入家中的人,是如何处理设备故障的。本研究通过对五位被认定为 "非主动者 "的人进行访谈,深入探讨了他们的故障排除常规工作,这些常规工作被概念化为诊断、执行和委托。研究结果表明,非启动者也通过故障排除参与数字家务管理,尽管这项工作在很大程度上不被他们自己和他人所认可。此外,通过强调非启动者在互联家庭中的积极参与,非启动者的弱势形象也得到了细化。非启动者在日常活动中使用智能家居设备,当遇到故障时,他们拥有可以利用的知识、技能和资源。此外,非入门者的故障排除程序还受到设备的物质性、家庭的社会动力,以及一定程度上社会对技术、年龄和性别的看法的影响。本文强调了非启动者对数字家庭管理的贡献,并着重介绍了如何根据非启动者的兴趣和需求发挥他们的作用,从而为现有关于智能家居和数字家庭管理的文献做出了贡献。
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Streaming Diversité: Exploring representations within French-language scripted series on Canadian SVOD services 流媒体多样性:探索加拿大 SVOD 服务中法语系列剧的表现形式
IF 2.8 2区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1177/13548565241270691
Stéfany Boisvert
Canadian subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD) services have commissioned French-language ‘original’ content to attract local audiences. ICI TOU.TV, Club Illico and Crave have indeed commissioned more than a hundred French-language scripted series, mostly produced in the Quebec province. However, the current state of research only marginally documents these services. Even in Canada, most research focus on US-owned streaming giants such as Netflix and Amazon, thus providing little information on Canadian national SVOD services, and their affordances in terms of storytelling and representation. Current research also completely overlooks French-language original content. This paper therefore discusses the results of the very first research project to specifically focus on the production of original French-language series for Canadian streaming services. After reviewing all original (scripted and unscripted) French-language content available on Canadian-owned SVOD services, a textual analysis of more than 40 scripted series has been conducted, which led to intricate insights regarding prevailing narrative trends and characteristics of main and secondary characters. In so doing, the objective was also to determine the level of diversity included within this so-called original content. In a context characterized by an unprecedented proliferation of scripted series, it indeed becomes crucial to ascertain whether a greater quantity of productions necessarily leads to a greater diversity in representation, that is, the inclusion of a ‘multiplicity of forms’, and an equitable plurality of cultural expressions and identities. This research produced several findings that testify to a significant inclusion of sexual, gender, and racial diversity, as well as a noticeable trend towards intersectional representation. Yet, the analysis also led to identify persistent issues, such as the qualitative marginalization of non-normative characters (queer, BIPOC, with disability, etc.), as they mostly are relegated to supporting roles. These findings therefore call for a nuanced assessment of the ‘progress’ in representation on streaming services.
加拿大收费视频点播(SVOD)服务已委托制作法语 "原创 "内容,以吸引当地观众。ICI TOU.TV、Club Illico 和 Crave 确实委托制作了一百多部法语剧本系列剧,其中大部分是在魁北克省制作的。然而,目前的研究仅对这些服务进行了少量记录。即使在加拿大,大多数研究也只关注美国的流媒体巨头,如 Netflix 和亚马逊,因此几乎没有提供加拿大本国 SVOD 服务的信息,也没有提供它们在讲故事和代表性方面的能力。目前的研究也完全忽视了法语原创内容。因此,本文讨论了首个专门针对加拿大流媒体服务原创法语系列剧制作的研究项目的成果。在回顾了加拿大所有 SVOD 服务上的所有原创(有剧本和无剧本)法语内容后,对 40 多部有剧本的系列剧进行了文本分析,从而对当前的叙事趋势以及主要和次要人物的特点有了深入的了解。这样做的目的还在于确定这些所谓原创内容的多样性程度。在剧集数量空前激增的背景下,确定作品数量的增加是否必然导致表现形式的多样性,即 "形式的多样性 "以及文化表现形式和身份的公平多元性,确实变得至关重要。这项研究得出了一些结论,证明了性 别、性别和种族多样性的显著融入,以及交叉代表性的明显趋势。然而,分析也发现了一些长期存在的问题,例如非正常角色(同性恋、双性恋和变性者、残疾人等)在质量上被边缘化,因为他们大多只能充当配角。因此,这些发现要求对流媒体服务中的代表性 "进步 "进行细致的评估。
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Different diversities: Policies and practices at three European public service VoD services 不同的多样性:欧洲三家公共网络视频服务机构的政策与实践
IF 2.8 2区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1177/13548565241270897
Cathrin Bengesser, Jannick Kirk Sørensen
While globally operating SVoDs have discovered identity-based diversity as a branding strategy, diversity has a longer history and broader meaning in public service media (PSM) tied to the foundational ideals of universality and pluralism that oblige PSM to speak to all members of a society and to offer diverse programmes and viewpoints. We investigate: How are these two understandings of ‘diversity’ expressed 1) in legal and policy requirements to the PSM, 2) in strategy papers and audits issued by PSM, 3) in the presentation and exposure of content in VoD interfaces? And 4) How can PSMs' practice around diversity on VoD be tracked methodologically? The article examines these questions by comparing: BBC iPlayer (UK), DRTV (Denmark) and ARD Mediathek (Germany). A document analysis examines how legal remits and strategies governing these institutions talk about diversity. We analyse the presentation and exposure of ‘diversity’ in VoD content via longitudinal datasets that document the three VoD landing pages daily between early 2022 and late 2023, recording the position of every programme title at the VoDs’ front pages, as well as deck titles. We test four approaches to this dataset: Spotting diversity in deck titles, looking for content tagged as diverse on IMDb and by Chat GPT, calculating diversity of exposed content with the Gini-Simpson-Index and assessing diversity through a manual coding of deck titles and sampling content displayed in selected decks. The article shows how differently diversity can be conceptualised and operationalised in VoD practice and concludes that multi-dimensional methodological approaches are needed. This article is a report on different publishing strategies for ‘diversity content’ in PSM VoD interfaces; a discussion of the conflicting relation between public service ideals and the notion of identity-based ‘branded diversity' of globally operating VoDs; and a contribution to developing methods for monitoring diversity on VoD.
在全球运营的 SVoD 将基于身份的多样性作为品牌战略的同时,多样性在公共服务媒体(PSM)中有着更悠久的历史和更广泛的含义,它与普遍性和多元化的基本理想息息相关,这些理想要求公共服务媒体面向社会的所有成员,提供多样化的节目和观点。我们对此进行了研究:这两种对 "多样性 "的理解是如何表达的:1)在法律和政策对公共广播事业的要求中;2)在公共广播事业发布的战略文件和审计中;3)在网络视频点播界面的内容展示和曝光中?4) 如何从方法上跟踪 PSM 在 VoD 多样性方面的实践?本文通过比较以下几个方面来探讨这些问题:BBC iPlayer(英国)、DRTV(丹麦)和 ARD Mediathek(德国)。通过文件分析,研究了这些机构的法律职责和战略是如何谈论多样性的。我们通过纵向数据集分析了网络视频内容中 "多样性 "的表现形式和曝光情况,这些数据集记录了 2022 年初至 2023 年末三个网络视频登陆页面的日常情况,记录了每个节目标题在网络视频首页的位置以及甲板标题。我们对该数据集进行了四种方法测试:在甲板标题中发现多样性、在 IMDb 和 Chat GPT 上寻找标记为多样性的内容、使用吉尼-辛普森指数计算曝光内容的多样性,以及通过对甲板标题进行手动编码和对选定甲板中显示的内容进行抽样来评估多样性。文章展示了在网络视频实践中如何以不同的方式对多样性进行概念化和操作化,并得出结论:需要多维度的方法论。这篇文章报告了在 PSM 网络视频点播界面中 "多样性内容 "的不同发布策略;讨论了全球运营的网络视频点播的公共服务理想与基于身份的 "品牌多样性 "概念之间的冲突关系;以及对开发网络视频点播多样性监测方法的贡献。
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Streaming diversity: Studying screen diversity in the streaming era 流媒体多样性:研究流媒体时代的屏幕多样性
IF 2.8 2区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1177/13548565241270887
Maura Edmond, Olivia Khoo, Claire Perkins, Verity Trott
The unprecedented growth of video-on-demand (VOD) streaming platforms has brought both new optimism and new complications to concerns around screen ‘diversity’. To what extent have major global and smaller regional VOD platforms invested in screen diversity, at the level of genres, languages, country-of-origin, social representation or creative labour? Just how ‘diverse’ are the catalogues of VOD services? How is this content represented to audiences and made discoverable through platform interfaces and recommendation systems? How might this vary across the major US-based services, compared with smaller and more niche platforms, or with local broadcaster VODs, or with national public service VODs? This introduction to a special collection on diversity in the streaming era surveys recent developments in screen and media studies scholarship that attempt to address these questions. In doing so, we examine how streaming platforms are addressing diversity at the levels of industry, policy, texts, technologies and audiences. At each level, we observe different definitions, operationalisations, and practices of ‘diversity’ that are informed by a range of disciplinary theorisations, policy histories and priorities, and national and regional contexts, all of which come to intersect with each other in new and challenging ways in the VOD era. In conclusion, we argue that to properly respond to the problem of ‘diversity’, research on screen diversity and on VODs must engage with these diverse dimensions of ‘diversity’.
视频点播(VOD)流媒体平台的空前发展,为人们对银幕 "多样性 "的关注带来了新的乐观和复杂性。在类型、语言、原产国、社会代表性或创造性劳动方面,全球主要和较小的地区性 VOD 平台在多大程度上对屏幕多样性进行了投资?VOD 服务的目录有多 "多样化"?如何通过平台界面和推荐系统向观众展示这些内容并使其能够被发现?与规模较小的小众平台相比,与地方广播公司的 VOD 相比,或与国家公共服务 VOD 相比,美国的主要服务又有哪些不同?本文是流媒体时代多样性特辑的导言,介绍了屏幕和媒体研究学术界试图解决这些问题的最新进展。在此过程中,我们考察了流媒体平台如何在产业、政策、文本、技术和受众等层面解决多样性问题。在每个层面上,我们观察到 "多样性 "的不同定义、操作和实践,这些都受到一系列学科理论、政策历史和优先事项以及国家和地区背景的影响,在 VOD 时代,所有这些都以新的和具有挑战性的方式相互交错。最后,我们认为,要正确应对 "多样性 "问题,有关银幕多样性和 VOD 的研究必须涉及 "多样性 "的这些不同层面。
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Sociable desires and gendered commitments: Video gaming and food in everyday life 社交欲望与性别承诺:日常生活中的电子游戏和食物
IF 2.8 2区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1177/13548565241270868
Kristian H Jensen, Thomas AM Skelly
Food consumption in video gaming culture has been linked to convenience, nutritionally poor food, and unconventional eating norms. However, little attention has been given to video gaming and food interactions in mundane settings. This article explores how video gaming and food practices compete for time and attention in everyday life. We use theories of practice approach and data from a qualitative study on young Danish adults who frequently play video games. The findings suggest the competition between video gaming and food is decided by the practice that best realizes the desire to be sociable and gendered commitments to healthiness and housekeeping. We discuss the sociable appeal of video gaming over extensive performances of cooking and eating in relation to the individualization of daily social encounters and interrogate the conventional perceptions of food in video gaming culture in the context of inattention to gender differentiation.
电子游戏文化中的饮食消费与便利性、营养不良的食物和非传统的饮食规范有关。然而,人们很少关注电子游戏与食物在日常生活中的互动。本文探讨了电子游戏和饮食实践如何在日常生活中争夺时间和注意力。我们采用了实践理论方法,并通过对经常玩电子游戏的丹麦年轻人进行定性研究获得了数据。研究结果表明,电子游戏和饮食之间的竞争取决于哪种做法最能满足人们的交际愿望,以及对健康和家务的性别承诺。我们讨论了电子游戏对社交的吸引力,而不是烹饪和饮食的广泛表现,这与日常社交的个性化有关,并在不关注性别差异的背景下,对电子游戏文化中对食物的传统看法进行了质疑。
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Strategies for communicating and mitigating algorithmic control on delivery platforms 传达和减轻交付平台算法控制的策略
IF 2.8 2区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2024-08-05 DOI: 10.1177/13548565241270908
Aarni Tuomi, Brana Jianu, Maizi Hua, Maartje Roelofsen, Mário Passos Ascenção
Delivery platforms use algorithmic control mechanisms to control couriers’ work. Despite studies looking at how algorithmic control manifests on different delivery platforms, there is a dearth of research exploring how delivery platforms communicate their approaches to algorithmic control, what kinds of strategies delivery workers adopt to mitigate algorithmic control, and to what extent information regarding such ‘algoactivistic approaches’ is shared among communities of delivery couriers who in many cases are in direct competition with one another. To that end, two studies are conducted. Study 1 analyses five publicly listed delivery companies’ annual reports ( n = 14), highlighting a lack of transparency on how the platforms’ algorithms function. In Study 2, a netnographic approach is used to conduct interviews ( n = 12) and a qualitative analysis of delivery workers’ online discussion forum posts ( n = 830) on the discussion forum Reddit. Four approaches to mitigating algorithmic control are found, and the way these are shared among couriers is considered.
快递平台使用算法控制机制来控制快递员的工作。尽管有研究探讨了算法控制在不同外卖平台上的表现形式,但对于外卖平台如何传达其算法控制方法、外卖配送员采取何种策略来缓解算法控制,以及在很多情况下相互直接竞争的外卖配送员群体之间在多大程度上共享有关此类 "算法控制方法 "的信息,却缺乏研究。为此,我们进行了两项研究。研究 1 分析了五家上市快递公司的年度报告(n = 14),强调了平台算法运作方式缺乏透明度的问题。在研究 2 中,我们采用了网络地理学方法进行访谈(n = 12),并对外卖配送员在讨论论坛 Reddit 上发表的在线讨论帖子(n = 830)进行了定性分析。研究发现了四种减轻算法控制的方法,并考虑了快递员之间分享这些方法的方式。
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What Brazilianness looks like: SVODs’ impact on cultural representation 巴西是什么样子?SVOD 对文化表现形式的影响
IF 2.8 2区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2024-08-04 DOI: 10.1177/13548565241270674
Melina Meimaridis, Daniela Mazur, Daniel Rios
This article investigates the complex interplay between subscription video on-demand services (SVODs) and the representation of Brazilianness in global media. Focusing on Brazil’s video streaming landscape, our study delves into the challenges of representing the diverse tapestry of national culture, particularly in content commissioned by foreign platforms. These challenges include technical barriers, such as the concentration of audiovisual production infrastructure in the Rio-São Paulo axis, and textual hurdles, like the perpetuation of stereotypes and exoticization of Brazilian narratives. Our investigation includes a review of historical limited portrayal of Brazilianness on domestic television, an analysis of SVOD content from 2016 to 2023, and a case study of two Brazilian original series: Cangaço Novo and How to be a Carioca. These series illuminate different aspects of Brazilian reality. Cangaço Novo depicts a less fictionalized ‘Brasil’ prevalent in mainstream media, featuring themes of drought, the sertão, and local resistance. In contrast, How to be a Carioca presents a more stereotyped ‘Brazil’ tailored for international audiences, focusing on preconceived notions about Rio de Janeiro. Our findings reveal a paradox in the role of SVODs: they perpetuate national stereotypes even as they provide global access to Brazilian content. These platforms shape and export perceptions of Brazil, influencing how the country is viewed both domestically and globally. We explore the tensions between local content creation and global distribution, emphasizing the complexities of globalization, diversity, and cultural identity within the markets of the Majority World.
本文探讨了订阅视频点播服务(SVODs)与全球媒体中的巴西形象之间复杂的相互作用。我们的研究以巴西的视频流媒体景观为重点,深入探讨了表现民族文化多样性的挑战,特别是在外国平台委托制作的内容中。这些挑战包括技术上的障碍,如视听制作基础设施集中在里约-圣保罗轴心地带,以及文本上的障碍,如对巴西叙事的刻板印象和异国情调的延续。我们的调查包括回顾历史上国内电视对巴西的有限描述,分析 2016 年至 2023 年的 SVOD 内容,以及对两部巴西原创剧集的案例研究:Cangaço Novo 和 How to be a Carioca。这两部剧集展现了巴西现实生活的不同侧面。Cangaço Novo》描绘的是主流媒体中不那么虚构的 "巴西",以干旱、塞唐和地方反抗为主题。与此相反,《如何成为一名卡里奥卡人》则为国际受众量身打造了一个更加刻板的 "巴西",重点是关于里约热内卢的先入为主的观念。我们的研究结果揭示了 SVOD 所扮演角色的悖论:它们在向全球提供巴西内容的同时,也延续了对本国的刻板印象。这些平台塑造并输出了人们对巴西的看法,影响了国内和全球对巴西的看法。我们探讨了本地内容创作与全球发行之间的紧张关系,强调了多数世界市场中全球化、多样性和文化认同的复杂性。
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Data reflexivity as work-in-progress 数据反身性是正在进行的工作
IF 2.8 2区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2024-08-04 DOI: 10.1177/13548565241270889
Ranjana Das
Datafication, across private and public sectors demonstrably touches upon, and indeed, alters, with profound consequences, diverse domains of people’s daily lives. However, also, increasingly, critical scholarship on datafication is the locus of careful attention to not solely platform and algorithmic power but also people’s sociocultural practices to make sense of, cope with, feel and show new literacies with data and datafied systems. It is in this context of genuinely listening to what people do with, through and around data, and to what end, that this special issue invites us to ponder the notion of data reflexivity. In this paper, I adopt a working definition of data reflexivity as – a vernacular and relational set of practices and strategies in relation to data and data infrastructures, working with, within and sometimes against platforms, where, such practices and strategies morph and change across the life course, through a web of cross-cutting relationships with individuals, communities and institutions. I draw upon illustrative instances from a project in England which explored parents’ perspectives on personal data and algorithms in the context of raising children. First – I suggest that we approach data reflexivity through a relational lens rather than as an individual and inward-looking strategy, where such relationality is experienced in relation to institutions, individuals, families, friendships, and networks. Second – I suggest that we look at data reflexivity as a fluid, lifelong journey – where a life course approach enables us to consider how data reflexivity morphs, adapts and transitions through the course of life, involving numerous acts of unspectacular, ephemeral agency. I conclude with a reminder that attention to data reflexivity, or indeed, more broadly, people’s agency, must not mean a shift of focus away from scrutinising and holding accountable, powerful institutions, both public and private.
私营和公共部门的数据化显然触及并改变了人们日常生活的各个领域,产生了深远的影响。然而,关于数据化的批判性学术研究也越来越多地关注不仅是平台和算法的力量,而且还有人们的社会文化实践,通过数据和数据化系统来理解、应对、感受和展示新的素养。正是在这一背景下,本特刊邀请我们思考 "数据反身性 "的概念,即真正倾听人们如何使用、通过和围绕数据以及达到什么目的。在本文中,我将数据反身性定义为--与数据和数据基础设施相关的一系列实践和策略的方言和关系,与平台合作,在平台内工作,有时甚至反对平台,在整个生命过程中,通过与个人、社区和机构的交叉关系网,这些实践和策略会发生变形和变化。我借鉴了英格兰一个项目中的实例,该项目探讨了父母在养育子女过程中对个人数据和算法的看法。首先,我建议我们从关系的角度来看待数据的反思性,而不是将其作为一种个人的、内向型的策略,因为这种关系性是与机构、个人、家庭、友谊和网络相关联的。其次,我建议我们将数据反身性视为一个流动的、终生的旅程--在这个旅程中,生命历程方法使我们能够考虑数据反身性如何在生命历程中变形、适应和过渡,其中涉及无数不引人注目的、短暂的代理行为。最后,我想提醒大家,关注数据反身性,或者更广义地说,关注人们的能动性,并不意味着不再关注对强大的公共和私人机构的审查和问责。
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What is ‘children’s television’ in the streaming era?: Assessing content discoverability through Australian children’s streaming platform fluencies 什么是流媒体时代的 "儿童电视"?通过澳大利亚儿童流媒体平台的流畅性评估内容的可发现性
IF 2.8 2区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2024-08-03 DOI: 10.1177/13548565241264002
Jessica Balanzategui, Djoymi Baker, Georgia Clift
In line with international trends, increasing numbers of children in Australia use streaming video platforms to watch television on-demand from extensive catalogues. Child viewers thus tend to negotiate platform interfaces organised by algorithmic curation to select content, rather than accessing content via scheduled linear TV. The deeper implications of this substantial shift in child audience habits around television have yet to be robustly reckoned with across scholarly and national policy approaches. Indeed, policy settings in Australia have not kept pace with these transformations, one result of which has been that 84% less Australian content was aired on free-to-air commercial broadcasters in 2022 compared to 2019. Key producer bodies fear the sector is in serious peril and may not withstand the current instability. Given that local children’s television meets Australian children’s best interests by situating them within their own socio-cultural context, the issue has become a site of significant policy, industry, and cultural concern. At this precarious time for the Australian children’s television sector, this article outlines key findings of a mixed method study with Australian children aged 7–9 ( n = 37) and their adult guardians to illustrate how children understand, identify, and discover ‘local’ and ‘children’s’ content on streaming platforms. This child audience research contributes to current policy and scholarly debates around the ‘routes to content’ audiences develop in the streaming era. A focus of our analysis is how and if children find Australian content. Our aim is to shed light on how ‘discoverability’ issues compound the current state of turmoil for the sector. We elucidate children’s digital fluencies with platform interfaces but highlight their limited cultural literacies with the content itself, which poses significant implications for industry and policy strategy around local content discoverability for child audiences on streaming platforms.
与国际趋势一致,澳大利亚越来越多的儿童使用流媒体视频平台,从丰富的节目目录中点播电视。因此,儿童观众倾向于在平台界面上通过算法策划来选择内容,而不是通过排定的线性电视来获取内容。儿童电视观众习惯的这一重大转变所产生的深层次影响,还有待学术界和国家政策方针的深入研究。事实上,澳大利亚的政策制定并未跟上这些转变的步伐,其结果之一是,与2019年相比,2022年澳大利亚免费商业广播公司播出的内容减少了84%。主要制作机构担心,该行业正处于严重的危险之中,可能经受不住当前的不稳定。鉴于本地儿童电视将澳大利亚儿童置于其自身的社会文化背景中,从而满足了他们的最大利益,因此这一问题已成为政策、行业和文化界关注的焦点。在澳大利亚儿童电视行业岌岌可危之际,本文概述了一项混合方法研究的主要发现,研究对象是 7-9 岁的澳大利亚儿童(37 人)及其成年监护人,目的是说明儿童如何理解、识别和发现流媒体平台上的 "本地 "和 "儿童 "内容。这项儿童受众研究有助于当前政策和学术界围绕流媒体时代受众发展的 "内容路径 "展开讨论。我们的分析重点是儿童如何以及是否发现澳大利亚的内容。我们的目的是揭示 "可发现性 "问题是如何加剧该行业目前的混乱状态的。我们阐明了儿童对平台界面的数字流畅性,但也强调了他们对内容本身的文化素养有限,这对流媒体平台上儿童受众在本地内容可发现性方面的行业和政策战略产生了重大影响。
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Finding the future in digitally mediated ruin: #nostalgiacores and the algorithmic culture of digital platforms 在以数字为媒介的废墟中寻找未来:数字平台的算法文化与 #Nostalgiacores
IF 2.8 2区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI: 10.1177/13548565241270669
Maria Gemma Brown, Nicholas Carah, Xue Ying (Jane) Tan, Daniel Angus, Jean Burgess
The #nostalgiacores are a series of interrelated hashtags on Instagram and TikTok where users recirculate content from the digital and consumer cultures of the 1990s and 2000s – childhood play centres, dead malls, long-gone toys, and superseded game consoles and phones. In this article, we explore these digital cultures using a critical platform studies approach that involves a combination of network analysis and close textual analysis augmented with purpose-built machine vision tools. We scrape a collection of 359,150 images from Instagram that used one or more of 30 ‘-cores’ hashtags (such as #y2kcore, #webcore and #childhoodcore) that we chose following a period of immersive qualitative investigation of #nostalgiacore scenes on Instagram during 2021 and 2022. 10,000 Instagram images were then randomly selected and processed using a purpose-built unsupervised machine vision model that clusters images together based on their similarities. This research is part of a multi-year project where we develop hybrid digital methods for critically simulating and exploring the interplay between our image-making practices and the algorithmic systems that cluster and curate them. By combining computational approaches with critical platform and cultural studies approaches we speculatively explore both practices of curation and their interplay with the algorithmic classification and recommendation models of digital platforms. Our platform-oriented mode of textual analysis helps us to explore how our digital cultures are both symbolically and technically nostalgic. Instagram users in the #nostalgiacore scene recirculate images from the past as part of practices of critically reflecting on digital platforms and consumer cultures. At the same time those images are recuperated as archives used to train the algorithmic models that optimise attention on digital media platforms like Instagram.
在 Instagram 和 TikTok 上,#nostalgiacores 是一系列相互关联的标签,在这些标签上,用户重新传播着 20 世纪 90 年代和 2000 年代数字和消费文化的内容--童年的游戏中心、死气沉沉的商场、消失已久的玩具以及过时的游戏机和手机。在本文中,我们采用一种批判性平台研究方法来探索这些数字文化,该方法结合了网络分析和文本分析,并使用了专用的机器视觉工具。我们从 Instagram 搜刮了 359,150 张图片,这些图片使用了 30 个"-cores "标签(如 #y2kcore、#webcore 和 #childhoodcore)中的一个或多个标签,这些标签是我们在 2021 年和 2022 年期间对 Instagram 上的 #nostalgiacore 场景进行沉浸式定性调查后选择的。随后,我们随机选取了 10,000 张 Instagram 图像,并使用专门建立的无监督机器视觉模型进行处理,该模型可根据图像的相似性将图像聚类在一起。这项研究是一个多年期项目的一部分,我们在该项目中开发了混合数字方法,用于批判性地模拟和探索我们的图像制作实践与聚类和策划图像的算法系统之间的相互作用。通过将计算方法与批判性平台和文化研究方法相结合,我们对策划实践及其与数字平台的算法分类和推荐模型之间的相互作用进行了推测性探索。我们以平台为导向的文本分析模式有助于我们探索我们的数字文化是如何在象征意义上和技术上怀旧的。在 #nostalgiacore 场景中,Instagram 用户将过去的图片作为对数字平台和消费文化进行批判性反思的实践的一部分重新传播。与此同时,这些图片也被作为档案重新保存起来,用于训练算法模型,以优化 Instagram 等数字媒体平台上的注意力。
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