scholarly journals Counter-archiving Facebook

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-264
Author(s):  
Anat Ben-David
Keyword(s):  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Data ◽  
Colonial Archives ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Shifting Boundaries

The article proposes archival thinking as an analytical framework for studying Facebook. Following recent debates on data colonialism, it argues that Facebook dialectically assumes a role of a new archon of public records, while being unarchivable by design. It then puts forward counter-archiving – a practice developed to resist the epistemic hegemony of colonial archives – as a method that allows the critical study of the social media platform, after it had shut down researcher’s access to public data through its application programming interface. After defining and justifying counter-archiving as a method for studying datafied platforms, two counter-archives are presented as proof of concept. The article concludes by discussing the shifting boundaries between the archivist, the activist and the scholar, as the imperative of research methods after datafication.

Nonprobability Sampling and Twitter

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Rafail
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Sampling Strategies ◽  
Twitter Data ◽  
Large Databases ◽  
The Social ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Twitter Activity ◽  
Programming Interface

Twitter data are widely used in the social sciences. The Twitter Application Programming Interface (API) allows researchers to build large databases of user activity efficiently. Despite the potential of Twitter as a data source, less attention has been paid to issues of sampling, and in particular, the implications of different sampling strategies on overall data quality. This research proposes a set of conceptual distinctions between four types of populations that emerge when analyzing Twitter data and suggests sampling strategies that facilitate more comprehensive data collection from the Twitter API. Using three applications drawn from large databases of Twitter activity, this research also compares the results from the proposed sampling strategies, which provide defensible representations of the population of activity, to those collected with more frequently used hashtag samples. The results suggest that hashtag samples misrepresent important aspects of Twitter activity and may lead researchers to erroneous conclusions.

Study of Consumer Brand Following Intention on Instagram

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-51
Author(s):  
Simran Kaur Madan ◽  
Payal S. Kapoor
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Consumer Motivation ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Consumer Skepticism ◽  
Consumption Decisions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The research, based on uses and gratifications theory, identifies consumer motivation and factors that influence consumers' intention to follow brands on the social media platform of Instagram. Accordingly, this study empirically examines the role of need for self-enhancement, the need for entertainment, and deal-seeking behaviour on the intention to follow brands on Instagram. Further, the study investigates the mediation of social media usage behaviour for consumption decisions on eliciting brand following behaviour. Moderation of consumer skepticism on the relationship of deal-seeking behaviour, and intention to follow brands is also investigated. Findings reveal a significant direct effect of need for self-enhancement, need for entertainment, and deal-seeking behaviour on intention to follow brands. Indirect effect of social media usage behaviour for consumption decisions was also significant; however, moderation of consumer skepticism was not found to be significant. The study will help marketers create engaging content that enables consumer-brand interactions.

scholarly journals El concepto de Pertenencia (Belonging) como marco analítico para la investigación sobre la juventud de origen inmigrante

2017 ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Concepción Maiztegui ◽  
Esther Aretxabala ◽  
Aitor Ibarrola ◽  
Pedro J. Oiarzabal
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Social

<p>This article describes and explores an analytical framework based on the concept of belonging, which, in turn, takes into consideration the personal, social, and performative dimensions of the integration process of young migrants. The concept of belonging is becoming one of the central pillars in current research on migration and integration, since it allows us to look into the subjective experiences of individuals and into the social environments that have an impact on the daily lives and give shape to the identity frameworks of young migrants. Approaches based on this concept also take into account the role of participation in social processes.</p><p><strong>Published online</strong>: 11 December 2017</p>

Application Programming Interface (API) Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 76-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Ofoeda ◽  
Richard Boateng ◽  
John Effah
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Programming Interface ◽  
Level Of Analysis

The purpose of this study is to perform a synthesis of API research. The study took stock of literature from academic journals on APIs with their associated themes, frameworks, methodologies, publication outlets and level of analysis. The authors draw on a total of 104 articles from academic journals and conferences published from 2010 to 2018. A systematic literature review was conducted on the selected articles. The findings suggest that API research is primarily atheoretical and largely focuses on the technological dimensions such as design and usage; thus, neglecting most of the social issues such as the business and managerial applications of APIs, which are equally important. Future research directions are provided concerning the gaps identified.

scholarly journals Online Discourse in the Context of COVID-19, the First Health Crisis in China after the Advent of Mobile Social Media: A Content Analysis of China’s Weibo and Baidu

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Christian Carvajal-Miranda ◽  
Luis Mañas-Viniegra ◽  
Li Liang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Online Discourse ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Investigation Period ◽  
Universal Health

The COVID-19 epidemic was the first universal health crisis since China entered the era of mobile social media. When Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) broke out in 2003, it was not until almost six years later that Weibo was born, marking China’s entry into the era of mobile social media (Weixin 2020). In this context, this research analysed the role of the social media platform Weibo and the Internet search browser Baidu, in a government controlled online media environment, during the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to undertake this study, we applied the use of content and sentiment analysis to the discourse identified through the topics published during the investigation period, which encompassed 15 December 2019 until 15 March 2020. From the findings of this study, we concluded that, during the pre- and post-COVID-19 period, there was an important presence of social and lifestyle topic categories dominating the online discourse, which dramatically changed in correlation to the increasing spread of the disease. Additionally, there was a marked absence of topics in relation to economic and political information, and there was a notable absence of an official Government “voice” generating topics.

scholarly journals From the Social Shaping of Technology to the Staging of Temporary Spaces of Innovation − A Case of Participatory Innovation

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-94
Author(s):  
Christian Clausen ◽  
Wendy Gunn
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Indoor Climate ◽  
Social Shaping Of Technology ◽  
Intermediary Objects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Social Shaping ◽  
Qualitative Knowledge ◽  
Political Dimensions

This paper addresses recent developments within the social shaping perspective, specifically the forward-looking and political dimensions of intervening in processes of innovation. With a focus on the concept of ‘temporary spaces’ as an analytical framework we present a study of a case on participatory innovation concerned with indoor climate practices in the building sector. Based on an analysis of the travel and uptake of narratives derived from fi eld studies in industrial and research environments, we discuss the role of intermediaries such as ethnographic provocations concerning user practices in the staging of these temporary spaces. While the direct uptake of qualitative knowledge on user practice in the engineering worlds of indoor climate is limited, the paper highlights the role of staging temporary spaces and intermediary objects in collaboration with stakeholders as a way of reframing conceptions of indoor climate practices.

scholarly journals Programming the platform university: Learning analytics and predictive infrastructures in higher education

2020 ◽  
pp. 003452372096562
Author(s):  
Carlo Perrotta
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Analytics ◽  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Social Scientific Study ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Human Actors

This article offers a case study of how platforms and predictive infrastructures are emerging in higher education. It examines a Learning Analytics Application Programming Interface (API) from a popular Learning Management System. The API is treated firstly as an artefact based on the computational abstraction of educational principles, and secondly as an empirical entry point to investigate the emergence of a Learning Analytics infrastructure in a large Australian university. Through in-depth ethnographic interviews and the interpretative analysis of software development workflows, the paper describes an API-mediated platformisation process involving a range of actors and systems: computational experts, algorithms, data-savvy administrative staff and large corporate actors inserting themselves through back-ends and various other dependencies. In the conclusion, the article argues that the platformisation of higher education is part of a broader project that mobilises programmability and computation to re-engineer educational institutions in the interest of efficiency and prediction. However, the social-scientific study of this project cannot ignore the practical and compromised dimension where human actors and technical systems interact and, in the process, generate meaning.

scholarly journals What You Can Scrape and What Is Right to Scrape: A Proposal for a Tool to Collect Public Facebook Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630512094070 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moreno Mancosu ◽  
Federico Vegetti
Keyword(s):  
Personal Information ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Published Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
The Social ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Ethical And Legal Issues ◽  
Programming Interface

In reaction to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has restricted the access to its Application Programming Interface (API). This new policy has damaged the possibility for independent researchers to study relevant topics in political and social behavior. Yet, much of the public information that the researchers may be interested in is still available on Facebook, and can be still systematically collected through web scraping techniques. The goal of this article is twofold. First, we discuss some ethical and legal issues that researchers should consider as they plan their collection and possible publication of Facebook data. In particular, we discuss what kind of information can be ethically gathered about the users (public information), how published data should look like to comply with privacy regulations (like the GDPR), and what consequences violating Facebook’s terms of service may entail for the researcher. Second, we present a scraping routine for public Facebook posts, and discuss some technical adjustments that can be performed for the data to be ethically and legally acceptable. The code employs screen scraping to collect the list of reactions to a Facebook public post, and performs a one-way cryptographic hash function on the users’ identifiers to pseudonymize their personal information, while still keeping them traceable within the data. This article contributes to the debate around freedom of internet research and the ethical concerns that might arise by scraping data from the social web.

Video Activists from Aleppo and Raqqa as ‘Modern-Day Kinoks’?

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 159-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josepha Ivanka Wessels
Keyword(s):  
Social Revolution ◽  
Video Content ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
The Government ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
Syrian Revolution

The popular uprising that began in Syria in 2011 generated an unprecedented number of YouTube videos recording events in Syria; this emphasized how the social media platform had become an important alternative space for news and information, a space beyond the control of the government. In this article, I address the role of Syrian video activism in the Syrian revolution, and pay particular attention to why young Syrian anti-regime protesters started recording and uploading their videos on YouTube. As such, I do not focus on technology or the medium per se, but on the peoples’ motivations—what led them to upload digital video content as testimonies of revolutionary events and violence. Based on observation of verified YouTube clips, field visits to Turkey and Syria and semi-structured interviews with Syrian video activists between the years 2014 and 2016, I suggest that Syrian video activists can be seen as revolutionary filmmakers similar to the twentieth-century ‘Kinoks’, or kino-ki, that formed part of Dziga Vertov’s Soviet filmmakers collective whose radical experiment aimed to bridge social revolution and realist cinematic practice (Tomas 1992) and document reality ‘As It Is’.

Time and Fantasy in Narratives of Jihad: The Case of the Islami Jamiat-I-Tuleba in Karachi

Human Affairs ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nichola Khan
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Political Subjectivity ◽  
Student Organization ◽  
The Social ◽  
Violent Action ◽  
The City ◽  
National Local

Time and Fantasy in Narratives of Jihad: The Case of the Islami Jamiat-I-Tuleba in KarachiThis article proposes an analytical framework for thinking about violence in the Islami Jamiat-i-Tuleba (IJT), the student organization of Jamaat e Islami (JI), Pakistan's longstanding Islamist party. It prioritises the intersection of the psychic and the social, and the role of politics, history and biography in mediating the modalities, narration and praxis of violence in the city of Karachi. The dominant explanations tend to emphasise political instrumentalism, and structural and ideological factors, and to "Islamicise" the violence, collapsing Islamic rhetoric into an extemporization of conditions, ignoring the deep affective appeal of violence to individuals, and leaving unelaborated the role of intersecting national, local and individual contexts and temporalities in structuring political subjectivity and violent action.

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