Playing ‘Pong’ Together: Emergent Coordination in a Doubles Interception Task

From fact-checking chatbots to community-maintained misinformation databases, Taiwan has emerged as a critical case-study for citizen participation in politics online. Due to Taiwan’s geopolitical history with China, the recent 2020 Taiwanese Presidential Election brought fierce levels of online engagement led by citizens from both sides of the strait. In this article, we study misinformation and digital participation on three platforms, namely Line, Twitter, and Taiwan’s Professional Technology Temple (PTT, Taiwan’s equivalent of Reddit). Each of these platforms presents a different facet of the elections. Results reveal that the greatest level of disagreement occurs in discussion about incumbent president Tsai. Chinese users demonstrate emergent coordination and selective discussion around topics like China, Hong Kong, and President Tsai, whereas topics like Covid-19 are avoided. We discover an imbalance of the political presence of Tsai on Twitter, which suggests partisan practices in disinformation regulation. The cases of Taiwan and China point toward a growing trend where regular citizens, enabled by new media, can both exacerbate and hinder the flow of misinformation. The study highlights an overlooked aspect of misinformation studies, beyond the veracity of information itself, that is the clash of ideologies, practices, and cultural history that matter to democratic ideals.

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Extending the Information-Processing View of Coordination in Public Sector Crisis Response

Technology Enabled Transformation of the Public Sector ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-1776-6.ch020 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 326-345

Author(s):

Rafael A. Gonzalez ◽

Alexander Verbraeck ◽

Ajantha Dahanayake

Keyword(s):

Information Processing ◽

Public Sector ◽

Communication Technology ◽

Large Scale ◽

Crisis Response ◽

Public Agencies ◽

The Public ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Emergent Coordination

Coordinating the response of multiple public agencies to a large-scale crisis is a challenge that has been studied predominantly according to the information-processing view. In this paper, the authors extend this view with the notion of emergence giving special attention to information and communication technology (ICT). The extended framework is applied in a case study of crisis response exercises in the public sector. The findings suggest that current practices concentrate on standards and hierarchy, but mutual adjustment and emergent coordination also occur and are susceptible to analysis and equally relevant to understand coordination practices. In addition, ICT can provide information processing capabilities needed for coordination but may also create information processing needs by increasing the volume of data and the interconnectedness of responders. Applying the extended framework improves the understanding of coordination and forms the basis for its future use in designing ICT to support coordination in crisis response and e-government.

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Investigating emergent coordination in small music groups

10.1093/oso/9780198860761.003.0005 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 45-53

Author(s):

Nicola Pennill ◽

Jane W Davidson

Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

Longitudinal Studies ◽

Real Life ◽

Observational Methods ◽

Creative Collaboration ◽

Behavioral Interactions ◽

Coding Schemes ◽

High Level ◽

Emergent Coordination ◽

Over Time

It is people that make group music work. For researchers, this provides many interesting and diverse opportunities for study. This chapter focuses on ways in which musicians establish coordination in musical contexts with particular consideration of methods of investigation. It takes a high-level view of coordination relating to the alignment of ideas, intentions, and actions in creative collaboration processes. It outlines observational methods for real-life contexts, coding schemes for group behaviors, and the increased employment of mixed-methods that observe and measure interaction in lab and ecological settings. The chapter closes with a consideration of the relevance of longitudinal studies of ensembles that showcase emergent coordination, and an example is offered of an investigation of the development of behavioral interactions over time in two vocal quintets.

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Extending the Information-Processing View of Coordination in Public Sector Crisis Response

International Journal of Electronic Government Research ◽

10.4018/jegr.2010100103 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 25-44 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rafael A. Gonzalez ◽

Alexander Verbraeck ◽

Ajantha Dahanayake

Keyword(s):

Information Processing ◽

Public Sector ◽

Communication Technology ◽

Large Scale ◽

Crisis Response ◽

Public Agencies ◽

The Public ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Emergent Coordination

Coordinating the response of multiple public agencies to a large-scale crisis is a challenge that has been studied predominantly according to the information-processing view. In this paper, the authors extend this view with the notion of emergence giving special attention to information and communication technology (ICT). The extended framework is applied in a case study of crisis response exercises in the public sector. The findings suggest that current practices concentrate on standards and hierarchy, but mutual adjustment and emergent coordination also occur and are susceptible to analysis and equally relevant to understand coordination practices. In addition, ICT can provide information processing capabilities needed for coordination but may also create information processing needs by increasing the volume of data and the interconnectedness of responders. Applying the extended framework improves the understanding of coordination and forms the basis for its future use in designing ICT to support coordination in crisis response and e-government.

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