On Algorithmic Amplification

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hany Farid
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
The Real

The culprits in the plunge into delusion are not deepfakes. The real culprit is more mundane and pernicious: the algorithms that curate the information recommended by search engines and social media.

DERADICALISATION IDEAS IN SOCIAL MEDIA THROUGH THE RELIGIOUS-MULTICULTURAL THERAPY APPROACH TO THE DA'WAH CULTURE

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Anwar Hafidzi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real World ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Therapy Approach ◽  
The Real ◽  
Multicultural Therapy ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Library Research

This research begins with an understanding of the endemic radicalism of society, not only of the real world, but also of various online social media. This study showed that the avoidance of online radicalism can be stopped as soon as possible by accusing those influenced by the radical radicality of a secular religious approach. The methods used must be assisted in order to achieve balanced understanding (wasathiyah) under the different environmental conditions of the culture through recognizing the meaning of religion. The research tool used is primarily library work and the journal writings by Abu Rokhmad, a terrorist and radicalise specialist. The results of this study are that an approach that supports inclusive ism will avoid the awareness of radicalization through a heart-to-heart approach. This study also shows that radical actors will never cease to argue dramatically until they are able to grasp different views from Islamic law, culture, and families.Keywords: radicalism, deradicalization, multiculturalism, culture, religion, moderate.Penelitian ini berawal dari paham radikalisme yang telah mewabah di masyarakat, bukan hanya di dunia nyata, bahkan sudah menyusup di berbagai media sosial online. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa cara menangkal radikalisme online dapat dilakukan pencegahan sedini mungkin melalui pendekatan konseling religius multikultural terhadap mereka yang terkena paham radikal radikal. Diantara teknik yang digunakan adalah melalui pemahaman tentang konsep agama juga perlu digalakkan agar memunculkan pemahaman yang moderat (wasathiyah) diberbagai keadaan lingkungan masyarakat. Metode yang digunakan untuk penelitian ini adalah library research dengan sumber utama adalah karya dan jurnal karya Abu Rokhmad seorang pakar dalam masalah terorisme dan radikalisme. Temuan penelitian ini adalah paham radikalisasi itu dapat dihentikan dengan pendekatan hati ke hati dengan mengedepankan budaya yang multikultural. Kajian ini juga membuktikan bahwa pelaku paham radikal tidak akan pernah berhenti memberikan argumen radikal kecuali mampu memahami perbedaan pendapat yang bersumber dari syariat Islam, lingkungan sosial, dan keluarga.Kata kunci: radikalisme, deradikalisasi, multikultural, budaya, agama, moderat.

Avenues to News and Diverse News Exposure Online: Comparing Direct Navigation, Social Media, News Aggregators, Search Queries, and Article Hyperlinks

2021 ◽  
pp. 194016122110091
Author(s):  
Magdalena Wojcieszak ◽  
Ericka Menchen-Trevino ◽  
Joao F. F. Goncalves ◽  
Brian Weeks
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
News Websites ◽  
The Us ◽  
Social Media Platforms

The online environment dramatically expands the number of ways people can encounter news but there remain questions of whether these abundant opportunities facilitate news exposure diversity. This project examines key questions regarding how internet users arrive at news and what kinds of news they encounter. We account for a multiplicity of avenues to news online, some of which have never been analyzed: (1) direct access to news websites, (2) social networks, (3) news aggregators, (4) search engines, (5) webmail, and (6) hyperlinks in news. We examine the extent to which each avenue promotes news exposure and also exposes users to news sources that are left leaning, right leaning, and centrist. When combined with information on individual political leanings, we show the extent of dissimilar, centrist, or congenial exposure resulting from each avenue. We rely on web browsing history records from 636 social media users in the US paired with survey self-reports, a unique data set that allows us to examine both aggregate and individual-level exposure. Visits to news websites account for about 2 percent of the total number of visits to URLs and are unevenly distributed among users. The most widespread ways of accessing news are search engines and social media platforms (and hyperlinks within news sites once people arrive at news). The two former avenues also increase dissimilar news exposure, compared to accessing news directly, yet direct news access drives the highest proportion of centrist exposure.

The platform beat: Algorithmic watchdogs in the disinformation age

2021 ◽  
pp. 026732312110283
Author(s):  
Philip M Napoli
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Social Media Platforms

As digital platforms have come to play a central role in the news and information ecosystem, a new realm of watchdog journalism has emerged – the platform beat. Journalists on the platform beat report on the operation, use and misuse of social media platforms and search engines. The platform beat can serve as an important mechanism for increasing the accountability of digital platforms, in ways that can affect public trust in the platforms, but that can also, hopefully, lead to the development of stronger, more reliable, and ultimately more trustworthy, platforms. However, there are a number of tensions, vulnerabilities and potential conflicts of interest that characterize the platform beat. This article explores these complex dynamics of the platform beat in an effort assess the capacity of those on the platform beat to enhance the accountability and trustworthiness of digital platforms.

scholarly journals Rethinking the Perceived Self: Samples from Facebook

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-228
Author(s):  
Anita Kasabova
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
The Self ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Active Participant ◽  
The Real ◽  
Group I ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Anglo American

Abstract How the self perceives reality is a traditional topic of research across several disciplines. I examine the perceived self on Facebook, as a case-study of self-knowledge on „classical” social media. Following Blascovich & Bailenson (2011), I consider the distinction between the real and the virtual as relative. Perceptual self-knowledge, filtered through social media, requires rethinking the perceived self in terms of social reality (Neisser, 1993). This claim dovetails Jenkins’s (2013) notion of the self as an active participant in consumption. I argue that the perceived self in social media could be conceived in terms of how it would like to be perceived and appraised by its virtual audience. Using Neisser’s (1993) typology of self-knowledge and Castañeda’s (1983) theory of I-guises, I analyse seven samples from Anglo-American and Bulgarian Facebook sites and show that the perceived self produces itself online as a captivating presence with a credible story. My samples are taken from FB community pages with negligible cultural differences across an online teenage/twens (twixter) age group. I then discuss some problematic aspects of the perceived self online, as well as recent critiques of technoconsumerism.

scholarly journals OPTIMALISASI PLATFORM ONLINE INTERNET MARKETING UNTUK SME LITTLE ROSE BANDUNG

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Budi Harto ◽  
Rita Komalasari
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
Internet Marketing ◽  
Online Marketing ◽  
Internet Search ◽  
Further Training ◽  
Marketing Program ◽  
Keywords Internet ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
New Jobs

Almost everyone now has been searching for anything through internet search engines such as Google, e-commerce sites / buying and selling sites, and social media. This online internet marketing program can be started by SMEs easily, several ways that can be applied are by making Google My Business, Google Website, E-Commerce Shopee, and Social media such as Facebook and Instagram. Little Rose as an Indonesian SME that manufactures various kinds of fabric crafts made from fabric makes it has a lot of opportunities to become a marketable product, unfortunately the lack of marketing activities makes it still not widely known. Little Rose needs a new market in order to increase revenue, expand businesses, and create new jobs. After this training, the Little Rose team can still be given further training on the platforms that have been provided. In the future if there is already a budget for marketing, it would be better to create a website with a better appearance, e-commerce sites can be upgraded to become paid if there are already many products, and use social media ads to advertise Little Rose even further Keywords: Internet Marketing, Online Marketing, UMKM, SME

scholarly journals My Work is Yours to Do What I Want

Media-N ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebekah Modrak
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The Real ◽  
Fictitious Character ◽  
A Company ◽  
Parasitic Manipulations

My Work is Yours to Do What I Want narrates the trajectory of two companies, one of them actual (Best Made Co.), and the second (Re Made Co.), an artwork posing as a company that uses remix to strategically confuse, conflate, and disrupt consumer culture. Re Made appears to be an online company founded by the fictitious character Peter Smith-Buchanan, and selling $350 hand-painted plungers. The entire event of Re Made offers an alternate universe—both digital and real—for Best Made Company, which was founded by (the real) Peter Buchanan-Smith, and specializes in $350 artisanal axes. Like a cloned twin or digital virus, Re Made and Buchanan-Smith mimic Best Made and Smith-Buchanan. If Best Made posts a decapitated pig’s head with an axe in its mouth on social media, Re Made’s BBQ pig gnashes a plunger on Instagram. When a New York Times feature refers to the Best Made axe as “manly,” a divergent NYTimes article heralds the masculine plunger. Peter Buchanan-Smith declares the axe to be “embedded in men’s DNA,” and Smith-Buchanan proclaims the plunger an extension of men’s bodies. The real Peter Buchanan-Smith emails Re Made’s CEO Peter Smith-Buchanan insisting he stop this plunder of reality. Acting as Smith-Buchanan’s intern, I (the female creator of the artwork) reply. Best Made’s lawyers send Re Made’s lawyers a 32-page cease-and-desist documenting the paths converging too closely for their liking. Just as the artwork Re Made uses remix via a media-based platform to intentionally confuse “original” content and appropriated material, My Work is Yours to Do What I Want playfully narrates the impulses and parasitic manipulations 

The Understanding of Hadith “Ballighû ‘annî walau Âyah" in Twitter

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 192
Author(s):  
Qurrata A'yun ◽  
Yor Hananta
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Real ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Comprehensive Discussion ◽  
Analyze Data

So far, in social media, the hadith "ballighū 'annī walau āyah" has been widely misunderstood as a proposition for preaching even if it is only one verse. On the other hand, this hadith is also used as a suggestion for preaching without understanding the full meaning of a verse. This understanding is different from the real understanding, so a comprehensive discussion is needed to describe it. This article aims to identify misconceptions in understanding the hadith "ballighū 'annī walau āyah" on social media twitter and meet them with the correct meanings of the hadith. This study is a qualitative study which classify and analyze data by descriptive analysis. The discussion of this article explains how the hadith ballighū 'annī walau āyah is understood by Twitter netizens. The understanding of netizens is grouped into two categories, namely those that are appropriate and not in accordance with their real understanding. The factors that lead to misunderstanding of the hadith ballighū 'annī walau āyah are the insights of the hadith that are conveyed only a piece (not intact) and the dissemination of understanding through social media twitter with a short number of characters. This phenomenon causes a transformation of the hadith understanding in the form of degradation and distortion

Safe Distances

2019 ◽  
pp. 304-340
Author(s):  
Shalin Hai-Jew
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Abductive Reasoning ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
The Real ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution

Online human-to-human (and human-to-robot) hyper-personal relationships have evolved over the years, and their prevalence has broadened the available cyberattack surfaces. With the deployment of malicious socialbots on social media in the virtual and AI-informed embodied socialbots in the real, human interests in socializing have become more fraught and risky. Based on the research literature, abductive reasoning from in-world experiences, and analogical analysis to project into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, this work suggests the importance of greater awareness of the risks in interrelating in the virtual and the real and suggests that there are no safe distances.

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