Teh Internet Is Serious Business

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniël de Zeeuw ◽  
Marc Tuters
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Internet Culture ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Platform Economy ◽  
The Web

At the fringes of an increasingly hegemonic platform economy, there exists another web of anonymous forums and image boards whose unique “mask culture” the article aims to deconstruct by tracing its roots in the cyber-separationist imaginary of early internet culture, in a way that can be seen to undermine the new “face culture” of social media platforms like Facebook. The practices that characterize this “deep vernacular web” are anti- and impersonal rather than personal, ephemeral and aleatory rather than persistent and predictable, collective rather than individual, stranger-rather than friend-oriented, and radically public and contagious rather than privatized, filtered, and contained. Characterized by its ephemerality and anonymity, and preoccupied with dissimulative identity play, memes, and trolling, the set of subcultural attitudes that characterizes this part of the web can be summarized by the ironic and intentionally misspelled phrase “Teh internet is serious business.” By exploring the vernacular significance of this saying and how it can be seen to articulate an oppositional attitude to the currently hegemonic platform culture, this article simultaneously aims to contribute to contemporary debates on the reactionary turn in internet culture associated with the global rise of the alt-right.

scholarly journals Internet Celebrities Bodies/Emotions in China’s Society 4.0

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 189-200
Author(s):  
Adrián Scribano ◽  
Zhang Jingting
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Sina Weibo ◽  
Internet Culture ◽  
Body Sensation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Virtual Platform ◽  
Depth Interviews

Internet celebrities, as a group of stars spawned by the market economy and The Internet, reveal both the state of Internet culture and the transformation of mass media in China. The bodies and pictures of these ‘celebs’, while unique, also take on a cultural symbolism. The 4.0 Revolution is the carrier of social practices and kinds of interaction in which the social media play a very special role. In this paper we will focus on the intersections and ruptures between the bodyindividual, body-subjective and body-social (Scribano, 2007) of Chinese Internet celebrities and the articulations and links between body-image and their body-in-movement. With the introduction ofChinese social media platforms such as WeChat (微信), Sina Weibo (新浪微博), Douyin, we try to trace links between the sociability, experiences and social sensibilities of the Internet celebrities and their influence on Society 4.0. This paper: (a) looks at the Chinese social media as a virtual platform for the Internet celebrities; (b) delves into the images and practices of the Internet celebrities; (c) highlights the link between body, sensation and perception regarding social celebrities; (d) shows the kinds of sociability and social sensibilities exhibited by celebrities in China’s Society 4.0. home foreclosure) in several Catalan municipalities. It was conducted by participatory observation, focus groups and in-depth interviews with activists.

Grounding Cyber

2015 ◽  
pp. 428-524
Author(s):  
Shalin Hai-Jew
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Penetration Testing ◽  
Critical Step ◽  
Testing Tool ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Physical Spaces ◽  
The Web

Tying “cyber” entities, spaces, and events to real-world physical spaces is a critical step in de-mythifying cyberspace. This chapter introduces Maltego Tungsten™, a penetration testing tool, as one method to extract geolocational information from social media platforms, the Web, and the Internet—in order to relate online accounts, emails, aliases, and online-discussed events to specific physical spaces. This tool may be used for general research or applied “oppo” (opposition) or “doxing” (documenting) research of targets. This also discusses how the geolocational information may be further used to extract deeper understandings. Also, Network Overview, Discovery, and Exploration for Excel (NodeXL) is applied for some geolocational information extractions.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Angèle Christin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Professional Identities ◽  
Diffusion Of Information ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Content Management Systems ◽  
The Web

This chapter examines how the multiplication of digital metrics, analytics, and algorithms is reconfiguring work practices and professional identities. It focuses on the case of journalism, a field that has been profoundly changed by digital technologies. It describes modern newsrooms that use digital tools in the gathering, production, and diffusion of information on the web, from group chats to social media platforms and content management systems. The chapter also introduces a new market that emerged for “web analytics” or software programs that track the behaviour and preferences of internet users. It describes how editors and journalists are provided with a constant stream of data about their audience, receiving increasingly detailed information in real time about the number of visitors, comments, likes, and tweets that their articles attract.

scholarly journals Tiered Governance and Demonetization: The Shifting Terms of Labor and Compensation in the Platform Economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630512093663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Caplan ◽  
Tarleton Gillespie
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Incentive Structure ◽  
Open Platform ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Governance Strategy ◽  
Platform Economy

Social media platforms have profoundly transformed cultural production, in part by restructuring the terms by which culture is distributed and paid for. In this article, we examine the YouTube Partner Program and the controversies around the “demonetization” of videos, to understand these arrangements and what happens when they shift beneath creators’ feet. We use the testimony of YouTubers, provided in their own videos, to understand how creators square the contradiction between YouTube’s increasingly cautious rules regarding “advertiser-friendly” content, its shifting financial and algorithmic incentive structure, and its stated values as an open platform of expression. We examine YouTube’s tiered governance strategy, in which different users are offered different sets of rules, different material resources, and different procedural protections when content is demonetized. And we examine how, especially when the details of that tiered governance are ambiguous or poorly conveyed, creators develop their own theories for why their content has been demonetized—which can provide some creators a tactical opportunity to advance politically motivated accusations of bias against the platform.

scholarly journals Shani on the Web: Virality and Vitality in Digital Popular Hinduism

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 456
Author(s):  
Varuni Bhatia
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Sacred Object ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
The Web

What do god posters circulating online tell us about the practice of popular Hinduism in the age of digital mediatization? The article seeks to address the question by exploring images and god posters dedicated to the planetary deity Shani on Web 2.0. The article tracks Shani’s presence on a range of online platforms—from the religion and culture pages of newspapers to YouTube videos and social media platforms. Using Shani’s presence on the Web as a case study, the article argues that content drawn from popular Hinduism, dealing with astrology, ritual, religious vows and observances, form a significant and substantial aspect of online Hinduism. The article draws attention to the specific affordances of Web 2.0 to radically rethink what engaging with the sacred object in a virtual realm may entail. In doing so, it indicates what the future of Hindu religiosity may look like.

scholarly journals A tool for tracking the propagation of words on Reddit

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-132
Author(s):  
Tom Willaert ◽  
Paul Van Eecke ◽  
Jeroen Van Soest ◽  
Katrien Beuls
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Diffusion ◽  
Computational Social Science ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Online Tool ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Over Time ◽  
The Web

Abstract The data-driven study of cultural information diffusion in online (social) media is currently an active area of research. The availability of data from the web thereby generates new opportunities to examine how words propagate through online media and communities, as well as how these diffusion patterns are intertwined with the materiality and culture of social media platforms. In support of such efforts, this paper introduces an online tool for tracking the consecutive occurrences of words across subreddits on Reddit between 2005 and 2017. By processing the full Pushshift.io Reddit comment archive for this period (Baumgartner et al., 2020), we are able to track the first occurrences of 76 million words, allowing us to visualize which subreddits subsequently adopt any of those words over time. We illustrate this approach by addressing the spread of terms referring to famous internet controversies, and the percolation of alt-right terminology. By making our instrument and the processed data publically available, we aim to facilitate a range of exploratory analyses in computational social science, the digital humanities, and related fields.

New Communication Strategies and the Future of Advertising Narration

2019 ◽  
pp. 333-340
Author(s):  
Murat Koçyiğit
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Web 3.0 ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Web Experience ◽  
The Web

Nowadays, almost all consumers use social media platforms. Therefore, many consumers share their brand-related experiences on online platforms. Social media platforms have changed the way consumers communicate. It offers consumers the opportunity to contribute to the debate. By means of online media, individuals are no longer just content consumers. Online media users are both content-producing and prosumer. Hence, the prosumer, which produces the content itself and consumes itself, provides the multiple uses in the mass market. It has a comprehensive impact on the purchasing decisions of other consumers. Developing and changing communication technologies are to provide the development of new communication strategies. Moreover, Web 3.0 technology, the third level on the Web, is used by semantic web consumers. Web 3.0 (semantic web) technologies combine information. Semantic Web improves the web experience and makes it more relevant to their search. Web 3.0 stands out with its ability to share meaning and run useful and entertaining web applications.

Creating Extended-Form Eventgraphs from Social Media Using Publicly Available Software Tools

2015 ◽  
pp. 31-105
Author(s):  
Shalin Hai-Jew
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real World ◽  
Software Tools ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Extended Form ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Channels ◽  
The Web

This chapter explores the feasibility of exploring surprise and unfolding events through the extraction of strategic data from social media platforms and the Web and Internet to form extended-form eventgraphs. “Extended-form eventgraphs” are conceptualized as those involving multivariate descriptors of events: participants, their respective roles, their interrelationships, their messaging, the timeline, related locations, and other event features and dynamics. What are the current extant methods and tools, then, and how are they applied in sequence, and what is ultimately knowable to sketch out an eventgraph based on social media channels? What sorts of real-world human events, which may not be directly “social” or pre-planned, are observable in online spaces? This chapter offers an initial proof-of-concept of a non-scalable manual-based eventgraphing process with two real-world examples: one of a mainstream tracked event and one of a more silent event. Finally, it offers a simple sense of a possible way forward which may be used in whole or in part. The challenge here involves using publicly available software tools for this information capture (versus self-created programs).

#BlackProtest from the web to the streets and back: Feminist digital activism in Poland and narrative potential of the hashtag

2020 ◽  
pp. 135050682097690
Author(s):  
Anna Nacher
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Black Protest ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Web

In this article, I would like to take a somewhat closer look at the politics of hashtags surrounding wave of street actions known as Black Protest (Czarny Protest), held nation-wide in Poland on October 2016. Analysing the use of social media as the form of digital activism, I strive at both mitigating the fallacy of digital dualism and demystifying the notion of ‘Twitter revolutions’. The term was popularized by over-enthusiastic accounts of the social movements between 2009 and 2011. I propose to see the employment of social media platforms as the form of weak opposition and to some extent, to explain its efficiency by the ability to reclaim and mobilize the narrative power of hashtags. ‘Weak’ here means everyday, often mundane, and hence under-recognized acts as opposed to activity considered ‘heroic’ and placed in the spotlight, with all gender-based ideological and interpretative undercurrents associated with such a juxtaposition.

scholarly journals دور الألتمتريقا في قياس تأثير المنتجات العلمية والفكرية: بحثٌ وثائقيٌ

2020 ◽  
pp. 34-69
Author(s):  
وليد محمد هيكل
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Web Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Web

Altmetrics is one of the recent impact measures to measure all sources of information without bias or exception. These measurements are completely dependent on the Web 2.0 environment to track posts, comments and public discussions around research products in the social media, as they are not only based on reference citations that are considered in the traditional measurements but considered them as one of the factors in a variety of other measurements. Since the start of talking about these measurements, a number of services and tools have emerged which are developed continuously. Like any new field, it has its supporters and opponents due to the restrictions, problems and manipulations that face the application of these measurements. That is why this study targeted the concept of altmetrics and the advantages of their application, the expected disadvantages behind their use, as well as the methods of manipulation used by researchers and publishers and ways to confront them. The researcher has depended on documentary approach to discuss the topic of altmetrics, and then explain the related terms, and describe them accurately. This study found that the altmetrics is one of the new measurements as a branch of the scientometrics stemming from the informetrics. It mainly focuses on capturing, collecting and analyzing data of the impact of research products on the web environment. Therefore, this study recommends the necessity of concerting the efforts of the academic and research institutions to spread awareness of the use and the application of altmetrics in the academic community, as well as encourages the researchers to publish and share their researches on social media platforms.

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