scholarly journals Chunk: an outline platform for flow, play and pattern recognition through "Chunking"

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan-John Whitbourne
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Online Platform ◽  
Meaning In Work ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Prototype Design

A platform to highlight meaningful work. This paper details the conceptual and initial prototype design of the online platform called Chunk, which aims to highlight personal projects and put passion-driven ideas at the forefront of an individual’s online profile. This paper will define “meaningful work,” and outline how the foundations, characteristics, and triggers of flow, play, and“chunking”connects“meaningful work”. It describes why applying them into an online platform, such as Chunk, can help users use their own projects to find greater intrinsic meaning in work. It addresses the lack of focused attention in current social media platforms, within creative work and productivity, and how chunk is able to provide a solution. This paper presents initial images of Chunk’s interface, and strategies to implement flow, play, and pattern recognition into its architecture. Lastly, this research paper will analyse and compare LinkedIn, Behance, Pinterest, and Climb (online platforms oriented towards work) to Chunk’s platform.

scholarly journals Chunk: an outline platform for flow, play and pattern recognition through "Chunking"

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan-John Whitbourne
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Online Platform ◽  
Meaning In Work ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Prototype Design

A platform to highlight meaningful work. This paper details the conceptual and initial prototype design of the online platform called Chunk, which aims to highlight personal projects and put passion-driven ideas at the forefront of an individual’s online profile. This paper will define “meaningful work,” and outline how the foundations, characteristics, and triggers of flow, play, and“chunking”connects“meaningful work”. It describes why applying them into an online platform, such as Chunk, can help users use their own projects to find greater intrinsic meaning in work. It addresses the lack of focused attention in current social media platforms, within creative work and productivity, and how chunk is able to provide a solution. This paper presents initial images of Chunk’s interface, and strategies to implement flow, play, and pattern recognition into its architecture. Lastly, this research paper will analyse and compare LinkedIn, Behance, Pinterest, and Climb (online platforms oriented towards work) to Chunk’s platform.

Social Media Analytics

2022 ◽  
pp. 385-410
Author(s):  
Časlav Kalinić ◽  
Miroslav D. Vujičić
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Social Media Analytics ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
New Information ◽  
People Participation ◽  
Management And Development ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Tourism Destinations

The rise of social media allowed greater people participation online. Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok enable visitors to share their thoughts, opinions, photos, locations. All those interactions create a vast amount of data. Social media analytics, as a way of application of big data, can provide excellent insights and create new information for stakeholders involved in the management and development of cultural tourism destinations. This chapter advocates for the employment of the big data concept through social media analytics that can contribute to the management of visitors in cultural tourism destinations. In this chapter, the authors highlight the principles of big data and review the most influential social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. On that basis, they disclose opportunities for the management and marketing of cultural tourism destinations.

scholarly journals The role of emotional marketing and UTAUT on donation intention through social media

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-46
Author(s):  
Desi Tri Kurniawati ◽  
Nadiyah Hirfiyana Rosita ◽  
Rila Anggraeni
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Real Condition ◽  
Structural Equation Analysis ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Equation Analysis ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Donation Intention ◽  
Willingness To Use

Donations through social media or any online platforms are becoming a new trend these days, thanks to the use of emotional marketing through narrations and visual depictions showing the real condition of people who need supports. Organizations are led to raise people’s emotions to increase their intention to make donations. This study aims to examine the effect of emotional marketing on donation intention through social media platforms and people’s willingness to use technology (UTAUT). This is explanatory research was conducted through a survey on 365 respondents of Malang city who had seen a crowdfunding commercial of Kitabisa.com. The structural equation analysis has led to findings that emotional marketing significantly influences people’s donation intention, implying that the commercial is able to affect people’s emotion into empathy and willingness to make donations through the charity campaign. Furthermore, this study also finds that UTAUT has a significant effect on the intention. The findings are useful for Kitabisa.com in their effort to increase people’s donation intention through the use of emotional marketing.

scholarly journals What types of COVID-19 conspiracies are populated by Twitter bots?

First Monday ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilio Ferrara
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Early Evidence ◽  
Containment Measures ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

With people moving out of physical public spaces due to containment measures to tackle the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, online platforms become even more prominent tools to understand social discussion. Studying social media can be informative to assess how we are collectively coping with this unprecedented global crisis. However, social media platforms are also populated by bots, automated accounts that can amplify certain topics of discussion at the expense of others. In this paper, we study 43.3M English tweets about COVID-19 and provide early evidence of the use of bots to promote political conspiracies in the United States, in stark contrast with humans who focus on public health concerns.

scholarly journals Marginalizing the Mainstream: How Social Media Privilege Political Information

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Web Search ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Cross Platform ◽  
Data Journalism ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Official Sources

The following reports on research undertaken concerning the “misinformation problem” on social media during the run-up to the U.S. presidential elections in 2020. Employing techniques borrowed from data journalism, it develops a form of cross-platform analysis that is attuned to both commensurability as well as platform specificity. It analyses the most engaged-with or top-ranked political content on seven online platforms: TikTok, 4chan, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Google Web Search. Discussing the extent to which social media platforms marginalize mainstream media and mainstream the fringe, the analyses found that TikTok parodies mainstream media, 4chan and Reddit dismiss it and direct users to alternative influencer networks and extreme YouTube content. Twitter prefers the hyperpartisan over it. Facebook’s “fake news” problem also concerns declining amounts of mainstream media referenced. Instagram has influencers (rather than, say, experts) dominating user engagement. By comparison, Google Web Search buoys the liberal mainstream (and sinks conservative sites), but generally gives special interest sources, as they were termed in the study, the privilege to provide information rather than official sources. The piece concludes with a discussion of source and “platform criticism”, concerning how online platforms are seeking to filter the content that is posted or found there through increasing editorial intervention. These “editorial epistemologies”, applied especially around COVID-19 keywords, are part of an expansion of so-called content moderation to what I call “serious queries”, or keywords that return official information. Other epistemological strategies for editorially moderating the misinformation problem are also treated.

scholarly journals ‘ANNE GOES ROGUE FOR ABORTION RIGHTS!’ EXPLORING DISCURSIVE MATERIALIZATION ACROSS AND BEYOND ONLINE PLATFORMS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Myles
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Prince Edward Island ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
The Social ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
Do So

This presentation examines the social media campaign #SupportIslandWomen that was undertaken by reproductive rights activists in Prince Edward Island (PEI). The initiative gained popularity in 2016 due to both the off- and online circulation of posters throughout PEI landmarks depicting the Green Gables-like image of a young girl (“rogue Anne”) wearing red braids and a bandana. These posters showcased specific hashtags that encouraged debates on various online platforms. For this study, we underline how human actors invoked the symbolic ‘figure’ of rogue Anne to give weight to their own arguments by speaking or acting in her name. By ‘figure’, we mean any symbolic entity that is materialized through interaction and that possesses agency, or the ability to make a significant difference in interaction. Hence, our study examines the processes through which rogue Anne was made present in interaction, the role of digital (online) and physical (offline) affordances in the materialization of this figure, and the differentiated effects that these invocations generated. To do so, we build our dataset by performing non-participant observation on social media platforms and by exploring Canadian blogs and newspapers. Drawing from organizational discourse theory, our results show that invoking the figure of rogue Anne allowed for pro-choice collectives to assert their authority in abortion debates by labelling the fictional character as a modern feminist icon. They also underline the importance of studying the intervention of symbolic figures, their effects, and their materialization within political initiatives that incorporate and go beyond the practice of ‘hashtagging’.

scholarly journals Detecting Fake News using Machine Learning: A Systematic Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 1932-1939
Author(s):  
Alim Al Ayub Ahmed Et al.
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Machine Learning Classifiers ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Learning Classifiers ◽  
Social Media Platforms

Internet is one of the important inventions and a large number of persons are its users. These persons use this for different purposes. There are different social media platforms that are accessible to these users. Any user can make a post or spread the news through these online platforms. These platforms do not verify the users or their posts. So some of the users try to spread fake news through these platforms. These fake news can be a propaganda against an individual, society, organization or political party. A human being is unable to detect all these fake news. So there is a need for machine learning classifiers that can detect these fake news automatically. Use of machine learning classifiers for detecting the fake news is described in this systematic literature review.

The dark side of blogging: Digital metal communities and metal influencers

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Sackl-Sharif
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Online Interaction ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Social Media Platforms

At the 2016 Dimebash event, Phil Anselmo made a Nazi salute and shouted ‘White power!’ at the end of his performance of the Pantera song ‘Walk’ onstage. The attendant YouTuber Chris R shared a video of the incident and thus provoked a discussion about racism in metal that also included widely discussed statements of Robb Flynn and Scott Ian, who both labelled Anselmo’s actions as racist. This is one of many examples that demonstrate changing information flows and increasingly fast-paced communication processes on social media platforms, including metal communities. Online platforms such as YouTube or Facebook not only enable musicians and bands to share videos, songs, tour dates or band gossip, but also to directly engage in discussions with their fans, which may also involve social and political issues. To provide an illustration of metal bands’ possibilities for online interaction, I have created a digital metal landscape that includes a set of digital tools, platforms and applications for different music- and non-music-related activities. Against this background, I discuss here contemporary metal musicians’ political and social engagement on social media and the reach of their comments within metal communities. Based on an analysis of Robb Flynn’s online presence in his The General Journals: Diary of a Frontman and Varg Vikernes’ Thulean Perspective, I will show that in the digital age, it is possible for metal musicians to become important influencers not only regarding music but also regarding social and political issues.

Brand yourself, design your future: Portfolio-building in the social media age

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 1891-1909 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Scolere
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Graphic Design ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
The Self ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Depth Interviews

While the portfolio-building narrative has long been established as central to work in the creative industries, the evolving form of the creative portfolio as a key component of the self-brand and the implications on creative work in the age of social media have been comparatively underexplored. This empirical project draws on a year-long qualitative study composed of in-depth interviews of 56 graphic design professionals about their use of social media platforms that cater to creative professionals. This study identifies the social media logics of the design portfolio as multi-platformed, connected, and temporally dynamic, suggesting a new pace, constancy, and subjectivity of what it means for cultural producers to build, maintain, and distribute their portfolio of projects to sustain their creative careers. As the portfolio becomes digitally distributed across a social media ecology, the labor of portfolio production for creative aspirants becomes never-ending and requires an intensified performative of “always designing.”

scholarly journals Scholarly Sharing via Twitter: #icanhazpdf Requests for Health Sciences Literature

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Swab ◽  
Kristen Romme
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Social Media Platforms

<p><strong>Introduction:</strong><span> Although requesting access to journal articles and books via colleagues and authors is a long-established academic practice, websites and social media platforms have broadened the scope and visibility of academic literature sharing among researchers. On Twitter, the #icanhazpdf hashtag has emerged as a way for researchers to request and obtain journal articles quickly and efficiently. This study analyzes use of the #icanhazpdf hashtag as a means of obtaining health sciences literature. </span><strong>Methods:</strong><span> RowFeeder software was used to monitor and aggregate #icanhazpdf requests between 1 February and 30 April 2015. This software records data such as Twitter handle, tweet content, tweeter location, date, and time. Tweets were hand-coded for the journal subject area, the requestor’s geographic location, and the requestor’s occupational sector. </span><strong>Results:</strong><span> There were 302 requests for health sciences literature during the study period. Many requests were made by users affiliated with a post-secondary academic institution (45%, </span><em>n</em><span> = 136). Very few requests were made by users located in Canada (</span><em>n</em><span> = 15). </span><strong>Conclusion:</strong><span> #icanhazpdf requests for health sciences literature account for a relatively small proportion of peer-to-peer article sharing activities when compared with other online platforms. Nevertheless, this study provides evidence that some faculty and students are choosing social media over the library as a means of obtaining health sciences literature. Examining peer-to-peer article sharing practices can provide insights into patron behaviour and expectations.</span></p>

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