Content tagged "social media"
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Posted by Elizabeth Borneman S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2020
Podcast: Desmond Upton Patton, “Contextual Analysis of Social Media: The Promise and Challenge of Eliciting Context in Social Media Posts with Natural Language Processing”
Desmond Upton Patton introduces a critical systematic approach for extracting culture, context and nuance in social media data. The Contextual Analysis of Social Media (CASM) approach considers and critiques the gap between inadequacies in natural language processing tools and differences in geographic, cultural, and age-related variance of social media use and communication.
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Event: Thursday, February 20, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Desmond Upton Patton, “Contextual Analysis of Social Media: The Promise and Challenge of Eliciting Context in Social Media Posts with Natural Language Processing”
Desmond Upton Patton introduces a critical systematic approach for extracting culture, context and nuance in social media data. The Contextual Analysis of Social Media (CASM) approach considers and critiques the gap between inadequacies in natural language processing tools and differences in geographic, cultural, and age-related variance of social media use and communication.
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Posted by Rachel Thompson S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2019
Podcast, Stuart Cunningham and David Craig: “Social Media Entertainment”
Media scholars Stuart Cunningham and David Craig propose challenging, revisionist accounts of the political economy of digital media, the precarious status of creative labor and media management, and the possibilities of progressive cultural politics in commercializing environments.
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Event: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 @ 5:00 pm
Stuart Cunningham and David Craig: “Social Media Entertainment”
Media scholars Stuart Cunningham and David Craig propose challenging, revisionist accounts of the political economy of digital media, the precarious status of creative labor and media management, and the possibilities of progressive cultural politics in commercializing environments.
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Posted by Vicky Zeamer S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2018
Topics: ethnography, expertise, food, Internet, narrative, photography, social mediaInternet Killed the Michelin Star: The Motives of Narrative and Style in Food Text Creation on Social Media
While the underlying purpose of the construction and consumption of food texts remain the same from analog to digital form, the authority of food culture and its complimentary narrative control has shifted as a result of the convergence of food texts and digital media affordances.
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Posted by Michael Trice and Liza Potts
Building Dark Patterns into Platforms: How GamerGate Perturbed Twitter’s User Experience
“GamerGate trapped both its unwilling targets and willing participants in an unending cycle of rhetorical invention through a mechanism of aggressive, hostile, mob-like activism.”
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Posted by Sean Cubitt
Ecological Criticism in the Age of the Database
Sean Cubitt asserts the value of anecdotal evidence against the rise of statistics, but at the same time wants to confront the difficulties in bringing about an encounter between readers (human or otherwise) and the mass image constructed by social media and search giants.
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Event: Thursday, October 12, 2017 @ 5:00 pm
Ecological Criticism in the Age of the Database
Sean Cubitt asserts the value of anecdotal evidence against the rise of statistics, but at the same time wants to confront the difficulties in bringing about an encounter between readers (human or otherwise) and the mass image constructed by social media and search giants.
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Posted by George Tsiveriotis S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2017
Topics: George Tsiveriotis, humor, pro-social snark, snark, social mediaEverything is Awful: Snark as Ritualized Social Practice in Online Discourse
Snark can adopt a pro-social role in online environments whose architecture tends to reward vapid or deceptive content.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Nathan Saucier
Podcast: Jennifer Stromer-Galley, “Illuminating 2016: Using Social Listening Tools to Understand the Presidential Campaign”
Syracuse University’s Jennifer Stromer-Galley describes the large scale collection and machine learning techniques she and her team have used for the Illuminating 2016 project to study the ways the presidential candidates and the public have used social media.
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Event: Thursday, November 3, 2016 @ 5:00 pm
Illuminating 2016: Using Social Listening Tools to Understand the Presidential Campaign
Jennifer Stromer-Galley describes the large-scale collection and machine learning techniques used to study how presidential candidates use social media.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Kevin Driscoll
Podcast: Kevin Driscoll, “Re-Calling The Modem World: The Dial-Up History Of Social Media”
“While prevailing histories of the early internet tend to focus on state-sponsored experiments such as ARPANET, the history of bulletin-board systems reveals the popular origins of computer-mediated social life.”
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Event: Thursday, April 9, 2015 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Re-calling the Modem World: The Dial-up History of Social Media
Kevin Driscoll presents how the history of bulletin-board systems reveals the popular origins of computer-mediated social life.
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Posted by Jing Wang
NGO2.0 and Social Media Praxis: Activist as Researcher
The emergence of a particular brand of ICT activism that promotes the use of social media as a means of helping Chinese NGOs break out of their communication bottleneck.
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Posted by Sasha Costanza-Chock
Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets!
Drawing on extensive interviews, workshops, and media organizing projects, Sasha Costanza-Chock presents case studies of transmedia organizing in the immigrant rights movement.