Pub Date : 2023-11-14DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2023.2279557
Marjolein Lanzing
This paper contains a normative interpretation and critique of Palantir’s expansion into the health domain by using the conceptual lens of ‘sphere transgressions’. The technology company, known for its activities in the sphere of security, expanded into the health domain during the pandemic, providing software to monitor the spread of Covid-19. In 2019 Palantir was severely criticized by human rights organizations for its role in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the Trump administration. Activists and politicians worry about Palantir’s move into health. However, critique is often limited to data protection. These concerns fail to grasp the risks and harms of this expansion. In this paper, I explore the risks of Palantir’s expansion into the health sphere using Sharon’s sphere transgressions framework as a conceptual lens and critical tool to understand and judge this move. We should anticipate the risks of no public returns, dominance, and new dependencies. While this might be true for many Big Tech actors, I add that Palantir’s expansion might be particularly pernicious. Palantir’s history reveals the perversion of logics under exclusionary politics in the sphere of security. At the very least, this warrants special vigilance when importing their technologies into the sphere of health. I conclude that the sphere transgressions framework reveals risks beyond data protection regarding Palantir’s expansion into the health domain.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2023.2279554
Vera Gallistl, Roger von Laufenberg
This article examines the datafication of ageing by drawing on a practice approach toward care. We describe the datafication of ageing as a matter of care, achieved through the local tinkering of actors – technology designers, care staff, older adults, and highlighting the practices necessary to develop, maintain and implement data infrastructures. This paper draws on research conducted in a qualitative interview study in a LTC facility that uses AI-supported sensors to detect, predict and alarm care staff about falls of older residents. 18 interviews with developers, staff, residents and interest groups were conducted, as well as 24 h of participant observation in the care facility.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2023.2275012
Claudia Wilhelm, Andreas Schulz-Tomančok
Social media are used by populist radical right parties for anti-gender campaigns to mobilize against the ‘gender ideology’. Anti-gender hate speech targets women, sexual minorities, and feminist activists and therefore poses a threat to their participation in society. In this study, we examine the engagement with anti-gender hate speech on social media in Germany and Hungary, using anti-gender, homophobic, and sexist Facebook posts as examples. These countries were chosen because of the cultural differences in the way gender issues and discrimination are dealt with, as well as the position of populist radical right parties. Employing a choice-based conjoint design, we analyze which content and source characteristics as well as cultural and individual factors influence users’ engagement with such postings. Findings show country differences in the acceptance (likes, shares) and disapproval (flagging behavior) of anti-gender hate speech but also with respect to relevance of the three main topics of hate speech (anti-gender, homophobia, sexism).
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Pub Date : 2023-10-27DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2023.2275005
Olivia Nuss, Hannah Ross, Fanny Ramirez
ABSTRACTThis article uses the framework of ‘digitized narratives’ to examine how, in the aftermath of the Gabby Petito case, survivors of narcissistic abuse turned to Twitter to share personal narratives and educate others about violence against women. Drawing on a qualitative content analysis of 204 tweets collected during Domestic Violence Awareness Month in the U.S. in October 2021, we argue that survivors of narcissistic abuse used #NarcissisticAbuse to build community, publicize the characteristics of narcissistic abuse, and encourage survivors to recognize warning signs and seek help. The strong educational focus in the discourse around #NarcissisticAbuse separates it from other social media movements (e.g., #MeToo, #WhyIStayed) in that women strategically drew on their personal narratives to describe the traits of a narcissist, the control mechanisms used to subdue victims, and the types of abuse they experienced. In doing so, they educated the public about the dangers of narcissistic abuse and raised awareness about this often less visible and less talked about form of abuse.KEYWORDS: Intimate partner violencenarcissistic abusesocial mediahashtagsonline communitiescontent analysis Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsOlivia NussOlivia Nuss is a graduate student at the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where she is completing a joint degree program that will allow her to receive her Juris Doctor, her Master of Mass Communication, and her Graduate Diploma in Comparative Law. Her primary areas of research include new media technologies, gender studies, and emerging sports law issues.Hannah RossHannah Ross is a graduate student in the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University. Her research interests include digital media and gender studies, technology and media ethics in wartime, and virtual reality in war reporting.Fanny RamirezFanny Ramirez is an Assistant Professor of Media Law at Louisiana State University where she holds a joint appointment with the Manship School of Mass Communication and LSU's interdisciplinary Center for Computation and Technology. Her research examines the use of information communication technologies in sexual violence and criminal justice contexts with an eye towards issues of race and gender inequality, discrimination, and privacy.
摘要本文运用“数字化叙事”的框架来考察Gabby Petito案之后，自恋虐待的幸存者如何转向Twitter分享个人叙事，并教育其他人关于对妇女的暴力行为。通过对2021年10月美国家庭暴力意识月期间收集的204条推文进行定性内容分析，我们认为自恋虐待的幸存者使用#自恋虐待建立社区，宣传自恋虐待的特征，并鼓励幸存者认识到警告信号并寻求帮助。与其他社交媒体运动(例如，#MeToo， #WhyIStayed)不同，围绕#自恋虐待的话语具有很强的教育意义，因为女性有策略地利用她们的个人叙述来描述自恋者的特征、用来制服受害者的控制机制以及她们所经历的虐待类型。在这样做的过程中，他们向公众宣传了自恋虐待的危险，并提高了人们对这种通常不太明显、也很少被谈论的虐待形式的认识。关键词:亲密伴侣暴力自恋虐待社交媒体标签在线社区内容分析披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。solivia Nuss是路易斯安那州立大学Paul M. Hebert法律中心的一名研究生，在那里她正在完成一个联合学位课程，这将使她获得法学博士学位，大众传播硕士学位和比较法研究生文凭。她的主要研究领域包括新媒体技术、性别研究和新兴的体育法问题。Hannah Ross是路易斯安那州立大学大众传播学院的一名研究生。她的研究兴趣包括数字媒体和性别研究，战时技术和媒体伦理，以及战争报道中的虚拟现实。范妮·拉米雷斯范妮·拉米雷斯是路易斯安那州立大学媒体法的助理教授，她在路易斯安那州立大学大众传播学院和路易斯安那州立大学计算与技术跨学科中心共同任职。她的研究考察了信息通信技术在性暴力和刑事司法背景下的使用，并着眼于种族和性别不平等、歧视和隐私问题。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-25DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2023.2264919
Linnet Taylor, Aaron Martin, Siddharth Peter de Souza, Joan Lopez-Solano
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{"title":"What do participants participate in? Insights from the community of Peccioli","authors":"Manuela Farinosi, Adriano Cirulli, Leopoldina Fortunati","doi":"10.1080/1369118x.2023.2275004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2023.2275004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48335,"journal":{"name":"Information Communication & Society","volume":"23 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135168567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-16DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2023.2267628
Will Mari
{"title":"More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in TechMeredith Broussard, <i>More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech</i> (Cambridge, Mass.: TheMITPress, 2023). Hardcover, 248 pages, $26.95","authors":"Will Mari","doi":"10.1080/1369118x.2023.2267628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2023.2267628","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48335,"journal":{"name":"Information Communication & Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136142489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-16DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2023.2264954
David Beer, Alison Wallace, Alexandra Ciocanel, Roger Burrows, James Cussens
Drawing upon a qualitative research project examining the use of algorithms in decisions relating to access to housing, this article develops the concept of automation hesitancy. It reflects on the emergence of automation and considers the need for detailed accounts of the implementation of algorithms within specific sectors. In particular, it looks at the confidence deficits that exist. From this starting point it then considers how established limits and notional horizons shape and define the use of algorithms in decision-making processes. The concept of automation hesitancy is used to explore the reaction of those who make decisions concerning access to housing to the presence of algorithmic processing. This central concept of automation hesitancy highlights the hesitations that occur over the implementation of algorithms. The article looks at why this hesitancy exists, what its limits are and also at the role of future horizons in continually reshaping those limits. Overall, the article uses detailed analysis of the UK private rental sector (PRS) to challenge notions of the slickness and frictionless integration of algorithmic decision-making, offering instead a series of insights into the types of liminality and reservations that create variegated algorithmic social landscapes.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-12DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2023.2265978
Xiaotong Chu, Lukas Otto, Rens Vliegenthart, Sophie Lecheler, Claes de Vreese, Sanne Kruikemeier
Whilst data-driven strategies are allegedly prevalent in political campaigns, evidence regarding their actual effectiveness is scarce. This study investigates, from an individual perspective, the effect of issue congruency in political ads on immediate responses and voting behaviors. To reach our goal, we combined different types of data collection: mobile experience sampling method (mESM), panel survey, and content analysis. The combined approach allowed us to effectively study targeted ads within the cross-device and cross-platform environment. The results showed that voters perceive online political ads that are about a topic that they care about as more interesting, informative, and persuasive regardless of their partisanship. This positive ad perception subsequently leads to a higher probability of voting for the promoted party in the ad. We also found that an ad discussing a topic in line with the receiver’s concerns positively affects the evaluation of the promoted party in the ad only when the party is already favored by the voter. Taken together, this study provides insights into the conditional effectiveness of data-driven strategies in political campaigns.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2023.2257294
Qing Yan, Hanbo Hou, Meiling Du, Fan Yang
ABSTRACTIn a platform society, the realization of the public value of platforms is not only affected by goals constructed based on national interest but also closely related to the rights and interests of platform users. In this context, how a platform mediates between the interests of a country, its users, and its businesses becomes a topic worthy of discussion. Through participatory observation and in-depth interviews, this study reveals that online platforms strategically transfer public values that enjoy national policy support and have a broad popular base into their ecosystems, employing techniques such as bridging different parties, gamification management, and the masking effect to produce green users. The findings reveal the unique logic of contemporary China’s platform-driven environmental protection practices and mainstream value cultivation while also highlighting the conflicts and contradictions inherent in realizing public values. This study provides a valuable perspective for understanding the Chinese platform society in terms of public value realization.KEYWORDS: Platform societyplatform governanceenvironmental protectionthe green userpublic value Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 23NJYH10).Notes on contributorsQing YanQing Yan (PhD, Sichuan University, 2013) is a professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Jinan University. His research focuses on entertainment and media culture especially in the context of new media. He is interested in examining fan cultures using the grounded theory approach and mixed methods.[yanqing2008@163.com].Hanbo HouHanbo Hou is a PhD candidate in the School of Journalism and Communication at Jinan University in China, and she focuses on platform economy.[hhb19480912@163.com].Meiling DuMeiling Du is a postgraduate student in the School of Journalism and Communication at Jinan University in China, and she focuses on media culture. [email:calledmeiling@gmail.com].Fan YangFan Yang (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University) is an assistant professor in the Zimmerman School of Advertising and Mass Communications at the University of South Florida. Her research focuses on human and AI interactions. She is interested in examining psychological effects of new communication technologies on decision making using methods such as experiment, big-data analysis, and meta-data analysis. [yangfan6908@gmail.com]
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