scholarly journals #FeministAntibodies: Asian American Media in the Time of Coronavirus

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630512097836
Author(s):  
Rachel Kuo ◽  
Amy Zhang ◽  
Vivian Shaw ◽  
Cynthia Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
American Media ◽  
Media Objects ◽  
Social Economies

This article examines the tensions, communal processes, and narrative frameworks behind producing collective racial politics across differences. As digital media objects, the Asian American Feminist Collective’s zine Asian American Feminist Antibodies: Care in the Time of Coronavirus and corresponding #FeministAntibodies Tweetchat responds directly to and anticipates a social media and information environment that has racialized COVID-19 in the language of Asian-ness. Writing from an autoethnographical perspective and using collaborative methods of qualitative discourse analysis as feminist scholars, media-makers, and interlocuters, this article looks toward the technological infrastructures, social economies, and material forms of Asian American digital media-making in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Tweet Carefully, Museums: A Case Study of the #decolonizeourmuseums Protest

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Natalie Liverant
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Asian American ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
The Public ◽  
Online Audiences

<p>Tweet Carefully, Museums presents an in-depth case study of audiences and a museum using social media in the current Web 2.0 age. It explores online protest and controversy over an event held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) in 2015. This dissertation addresses a current gap in the literature centred on public use of social media as a platform to engage in museum-centred debate and discussion. At the moment, literature discussing new technologies in museums focuses heavily on an institution-to-audiences model. While this is indeed useful information, there is another aspect of digital media that has been largely neglected. In their case study, Gronemann et al. observed that overall, museums distanced themselves from discursive co-construction in their Facebook posts. The lack of engagement with audience can have adverse effects as social media grows in its popularity to mobilise the public in the name of social justice. “Western” museums, many of which have a history of fostering colonial narratives, can also be perceived as authoritative institutions. Museums need to engage more conscientiously with their online audiences. Unconsidered or insensitive engagement over social media may have adverse effects on institutions.  Kimono Wednesdays was an event where the public was invited to try on kimono in Gallery 255 at the MFA. The MFA advertised the event on a few social media platforms. On Facebook, the advertisement drew the harshest criticisms from a section of the Asian-American community. The sensational attention on Facebook grew quickly into physical protest inside Gallery 255. This case study analyses a sample of the dialogic posts, comments, and replies left on Facebook during the protests. It also analyses a symposium organised by the MFA, Kimono Wednesdays: A Conversation, where a panel made up of academics, museum staff, and a protester discussed the various concepts and perceptions of the museum’s controversial advertising and event.  This case study demonstrates that social media is a double-edged sword for museums, as it is a useful tool, but presents uncomfortable challenges. The key findings from this study show how content on the internet can be misinterpreted and how implicit bias can occur from any institution. As museums embrace Web 2.0 applications, they too must become more aware of their online presence and set in place methods of dialogic co-construction so as to better understand and communicate with the diversifying cultures that surround them.</p>

scholarly journals Tweet Carefully, Museums: A Case Study of the #decolonizeourmuseums Protest

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Natalie Liverant
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Asian American ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
The Public ◽  
Online Audiences

<p>Tweet Carefully, Museums presents an in-depth case study of audiences and a museum using social media in the current Web 2.0 age. It explores online protest and controversy over an event held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) in 2015. This dissertation addresses a current gap in the literature centred on public use of social media as a platform to engage in museum-centred debate and discussion. At the moment, literature discussing new technologies in museums focuses heavily on an institution-to-audiences model. While this is indeed useful information, there is another aspect of digital media that has been largely neglected. In their case study, Gronemann et al. observed that overall, museums distanced themselves from discursive co-construction in their Facebook posts. The lack of engagement with audience can have adverse effects as social media grows in its popularity to mobilise the public in the name of social justice. “Western” museums, many of which have a history of fostering colonial narratives, can also be perceived as authoritative institutions. Museums need to engage more conscientiously with their online audiences. Unconsidered or insensitive engagement over social media may have adverse effects on institutions.  Kimono Wednesdays was an event where the public was invited to try on kimono in Gallery 255 at the MFA. The MFA advertised the event on a few social media platforms. On Facebook, the advertisement drew the harshest criticisms from a section of the Asian-American community. The sensational attention on Facebook grew quickly into physical protest inside Gallery 255. This case study analyses a sample of the dialogic posts, comments, and replies left on Facebook during the protests. It also analyses a symposium organised by the MFA, Kimono Wednesdays: A Conversation, where a panel made up of academics, museum staff, and a protester discussed the various concepts and perceptions of the museum’s controversial advertising and event.  This case study demonstrates that social media is a double-edged sword for museums, as it is a useful tool, but presents uncomfortable challenges. The key findings from this study show how content on the internet can be misinterpreted and how implicit bias can occur from any institution. As museums embrace Web 2.0 applications, they too must become more aware of their online presence and set in place methods of dialogic co-construction so as to better understand and communicate with the diversifying cultures that surround them.</p>

scholarly journals Identitas digital: Konstruksi identitas pada pameran karya seni Biennale Jawa Timur 8

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-198
Author(s):  
Jokhanan Kristiyono ◽  
Rachmah Ida
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Data Archives ◽  
Digital Discourse ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Community Movement

Biennale merupakan pameran dan diskusi karya seni yang rutin diadakan setiap dua tahun. Tahun 2019 merupakan kegiatan Biennale Jawa Timur (Jatim) ke-8 dengan tema “GAS TOK! Lebur Sakjeroning Jawa Timur” melibatkan 500 seniman dan 40 kurator, terdiri 65 kegiatan yang tersebar di 16 kota dan kabupaten di Jawa Timur. Berbeda dengan kegiatan Biennale Jatim sebelumnya, tahun ini lokasi pameran tersebar di berbagai daerah Jawa Timur. Seluruh arsip data dan dokumentasi rangkaian Biennale Jatim 8 dikumpulkan dan dipublikasikan melalui akun Instagram @jatimbiennale8 sebagai bentuk identitas gerakan komunitas Biennale Jawa Timur. Gelaran Biennale Jatim 8 merupakan sebuah perayaan dan imajinasi bersama yang bersifat inklusif. Penelitian ini mengangkat permasalahan tentang konstruksi identitas komunitas Biennale Jatim.  Metode analisa wacana digital dalam penelitian ini menganalisa kontruksi identitas yang diciptakan oleh Biennale Jatim 8 melalui media komunikasi digital media sosial Instagram. Akun Instagram @jatimbienale8 dan @biennalejatim menjadi obyek penelitan analisa wacana kontruksi identitas, dan praktik seni yang terjadi pada Biennale Jatim. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan sebuah wacana perubahan dan perlawanan terhadap kegiatan Biennale Jatim sebelumnnya. Perubahan ditunjukkan dari segi penyelanggara, pendanaan, format acara, lokasi berlangsungnya kegiatan, dan kerja kuratorial. Biennale Jatim 8 mendobrak dan melawan stigma tersebut. Diskursus kontruksi identitas baru tersebut ditunjukkan dengan jelas dan tegas pada proses produksi karya seni, pameran Biennale hingga pasca pameran melalui media sosial Instagram @biennalejatim8 yaitu identitas digital Biennale Jatim.     Biennale, an art event (visual) both exhibition and discussion of artworks, comes on regularly every two years. 2019 is the 8th East Java (Jatim) Biennale with the theme “GAS TOK! Lebur Sakjeroning Jawa Timur” involves 500 artists and 40 curators, consisting of 65 activities spread across 16 cities and regencies in East Java. Unlike the previous East Java Biennale, the exhibition locations are spreading across various regions of East Java. All data archives and documentation of the East Java 8 Biennale series are collected and published through the @jatimbiennale8 Instagram account as a form of identity for the East Java Biennale community movement. The 8th East Java Biennale is a celebration and shared inclusive imagination. This research raises the issue of the identity construction of the East Java Biennale community. The digital discourse analysis method in this study analyzes the identity construction created by the East Java 8th Biennale through the digital communication media of Instagram social media. Instagram accounts @jatimbienale8 and @biennalejatim became the object of research on the discourse analysis of identity construction and art practices at the East Java Biennale. The results of this study indicate a discourse of change and resistance to the previous East Java Biennale activities. The changes show organization, funding, event format, location of activities, and curatorial work. The 8th East Java Biennale breaks and fights the stigma. The discourse on constructing a new identity is clearly and unequivocally demonstrated in the art production process, the Biennale exhibition, and post-exhibition through social media Instagram @biennalejatim8, the digital identity of the East Java Biennale.

scholarly journals Walking Through, Going Along and Scrolling Back

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (s1) ◽  
pp. 95-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Møller ◽  
Brady Robards
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Gps Data ◽  
Small Data ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Bodily Movement ◽  
Media Objects ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Social Media Research ◽  
Significant Attention

Abstract Spatial metaphors have long been part of the way we make sense of media. From early conceptualizations of the internet, we have come to understand digital media as spaces that support, deny or are subject to different mobilities. With the availability of GPS data, somatic bodily movement has enjoyed significant attention in media geography, but recently innovations in digital ethnographic methods have paid attention to other, more ephemeral ways of moving and being with social media. In this article, we consider three case studies in qualitative, “small data” social media research methods: the walkthrough, the go-along and the scroll back methods. Each is centred on observing navigational flows through app infrastructures, fingers hovering across device surfaces and scrolling-and-remembering practices in social media archives. We advocate an ethnography of ephemeral media mobilities and suggest that small data approaches should analytically integrate four dimensions of mediated mobility: bodies and affect, media objects and environments, memory and narrative, and the overall research encounter.

scholarly journals Media forensics on social media platforms: a survey

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Pasquini ◽  
Irene Amerini ◽  
Giulia Boato
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Open Systems ◽  
Forensic Analysis ◽  
Provenance Analysis ◽  
Multimedia Forensics ◽  
Media Forensics ◽  
Media Objects ◽  
Social Media Platforms

AbstractThe dependability of visual information on the web and the authenticity of digital media appearing virally in social media platforms has been raising unprecedented concerns. As a result, in the last years the multimedia forensics research community pursued the ambition to scale the forensic analysis to real-world web-based open systems. This survey aims at describing the work done so far on the analysis of shared data, covering three main aspects: forensics techniques performing source identification and integrity verification on media uploaded on social networks, platform provenance analysis allowing to identify sharing platforms, and multimedia verification algorithms assessing the credibility of media objects in relation to its associated textual information. The achieved results are highlighted together with current open issues and research challenges to be addressed in order to advance the field in the next future.

scholarly journals Social Media and Health Communication

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-53
Author(s):  
Asuman Kaya ◽  
Ozan Bilge Mantar
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Health Communication ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Reference Source ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
Analysis Methods ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject

The content presented in the media, especially with the element of fear, appears to be the most important factor in the formation and spreading of phobias related to diseases. Especially when it comes to epidemics, the influence of the media increases remarkably. Individuals now use digital media as the initial reference source, especially on issues related to their health, and tend to see social media as a reference platform. However, uncontrolled information, conspiracy theories, and information pollution spread through social media make the subject difficult to understand; online shared manipulative news, excessive and unfounded information cause fear and panic. These posts about vaccines affect the perception and attitude towards vaccines. In this study, the comments and social media posts will be analysed using content analysis and discourse analysis methods in order to reveal the effect of social media in vaccine rejection and hesitation.

Effects of Image Upload on Social Media as Media Promotion in Journal Publishers

CCIT Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-31
Author(s):  
Untung Rahardja ◽  
Ani Wulandari ◽  
Marviola Hardini
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Three Solutions ◽  
Conventional Process ◽  
Promotion System

Digital content is content in various formats, whether written, image, video, audio or combination so that it can be read, displayed or played by a computer and easily sent or hared through digital media. Digital content has abundant benefits, especially in the field of promotion. Where when a place of business or a body wants to introduce a product or service that is owned, it definitely requires content such as images as a promotional media. However, if you have to distribute posters to everyone you meet, it is not in line with current technological advancements because you are still using a conventional process. Therefore, to overcome this problem, social media can be used to process digital content easily and quickly. In this study, there are 3 (three) problems that will be overcome by 2 (two) methods, and 3 (three) solutions are produced. The advantage of digital content in social media is that it can be accessed anytime and anywhere, so it is concluded that the use of digital content in social media is able to overcome problems and is a creativepreneur effort found in the promotion system of a journal publisher.   Keywords—Digital Content, Creativepreneur, ATT Journal, Social Media

Social Media Marketing as a tool to promote regional investment web portals in the information environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 2167-2182
Author(s):  
Ya.Yu. Sokolenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Social Media Marketing ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Regional Investment ◽  
Internet Portals

Subject. This article focuses on the investment web portal as a necessary communication tool and a way to govern the investment attractiveness of the region. Objectives. The article aims to conduct a comprehensive study of the problem of promoting regional investment web portals in the information environment. Methods. For the study, I used the methods of logical and statistical analyses, induction and deduction, comparison, and generalization. Results. The article describes the advantages of Internet portals of investment projects and the peculiarities of using Social Media Marketing (SMM) within public structures. It highlights the function of social networks in the process of interacting with the audience. Conclusions. Social Media Marketing is an integral tool for engaging with the investment community and one of the most effective ways to promote a regional investment web portal. The presented original methodology can be used by regional investment portals to analyze interaction with the audience and design a development strategy.

“Tradition,” Vernacularism, and Learning to Be a Folk Musician With Social Media

2020 ◽  
pp. 442-466
Author(s):  
Simon Keegan-Phipps ◽  
Lucy Wright
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Learning Mechanisms ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Shaping

This chapter considers the role of social media (broadly conceived) in the learning experiences of folk musicians in the Anglophone West. The chapter draws on the findings of the Digital Folk project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), and begins by summarizing and problematizing the nature of learning as a concept in the folk music context. It briefly explicates the instructive, appropriative, and locative impacts of digital media for folk music learning before exploring in detail two case studies of folk-oriented social media: (1) the phenomenon of abc notation as a transmissive media and (2) the Mudcat Café website as an example of the folk-oriented discussion forum. These case studies are shown to exemplify and illuminate the constructs of traditional transmission and vernacularism as significant influences on the social shaping and deployment of folk-related media technologies. The chapter concludes by reflecting on the need to understand the musical learning process as a culturally performative act and to recognize online learning mechanisms as sites for the (re)negotiation of musical, cultural, local, and personal identities.

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