Assembling via ‘Danmu’

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-119
Author(s):  
Wenhao Bi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Speaking Out ◽  
Media Platform

The ‘danmu’ system in the Chinese video-sharing social media platform Bilibili, in allowing comments to sync to any specific playback time, has constructed a community where separated viewers can join in the seemingly simultaneous conversations at the same time they watch videos. The participatory design of such co-presence demonstrates the political and cultural gesture of speaking out and exchanging ideas as the main orientation of the platform. Through danmu comments are the living networks connected both in the videos they are attached to, and in Bilibili as a whole. Despite the instantaneous emotions displayed in individual danmu comments, there are affective connections that shape the temporal quality of participation. The playfulness embedded in the interface design has further directed the gratification of speaking out on the platform.

Political Knowledge and Misinformation in the Era of Social Media: Evidence From the 2015 UK Election

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Kevin Munger ◽  
Patrick J. Egan ◽  
Jonathan Nagler ◽  
Jonathan Ronen ◽  
Joshua Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
News Media ◽  
Political Knowledge ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Political Information ◽  
The Political ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Media Platform

Abstract Does social media educate voters, or mislead them? This study measures changes in political knowledge among a panel of voters surveyed during the 2015 UK general election campaign while monitoring the political information to which they were exposed on the Twitter social media platform. The study's panel design permits identification of the effect of information exposure on changes in political knowledge. Twitter use led to higher levels of knowledge about politics and public affairs, as information from news media improved knowledge of politically relevant facts, and messages sent by political parties increased knowledge of party platforms. But in a troubling demonstration of campaigns' ability to manipulate knowledge, messages from the parties also shifted voters' assessments of the economy and immigration in directions favorable to the parties' platforms, leaving some voters with beliefs further from the truth at the end of the campaign than they were at its beginning.

Facebook seeks new users and markets as troubles mount

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Regulatory Regime ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Barriers To Entry ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Business Response ◽  
European Markets

Subject Facebook's troubles and business response. Significance Facebook’s financial performance is determined by its success in adding, retaining and engaging active users of its products, particularly its eponymous social media platform and photo- and video-sharing service Instagram. Its North American and West European markets are reaching their ceiling for new users while removing fake accounts, estimated by the company to account for 3-4% of the total, is reducing overall numbers. Meanwhile, privacy, data sharing and security, and false and bot-created content concerns, put user engagement and retention at risk, further endangering revenue. Impacts A global regulatory regime against social media is highly improbable. Some US and EU regulation could be useful for Facebook as barriers to entry, as it does in such industries as banking and airlines. Sustaining advertiser loyalty is as vital to the sustainability of Facebook’s business model as growing users.

scholarly journals Affective investments, queer archives, and lesbian breakups on YouTube

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kira Deshler
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Queer Archives ◽  
Distinct Features

YouTube, as both a video-sharing platform and a social media platform, has become a dynamic space for the proliferation of queer female fandom, including lesbian YouTube couples, around which fans congregate. Two specific YouTube couples, Shannon and Cammie, and Kaelyn and Lucy, both broke up in summer 2016. Their breakups, and the subsequent breakup videos, were met with emotionally intense responses from their fans. To investigate how both fans and the couples themselves invest in these relationships, I conducted a discourse analysis of the language the YouTubers use to speak to their fans as well as the ways in which fans express their connection to these videos in the comments section. The distinct features of this fandom are the result of the affordances of YouTube as a platform, the intensity of queer fandom investments, and the particular liveliness of the fan object. Fan investment in these couples is connected to fans' own sense of (queer) futurity. At the same time, these videos now circulate as monuments of queer melancholia, viewed as they are through the lens of grief or nostalgia.

Frequency and Symptomatology of Hiccups in Patients With Cancer: Using an On-Line Medical Community to Better Understand the Patient Experience

2021 ◽  
pp. 104990912110069
Author(s):  
Christopher Ehret ◽  
Colleen Young ◽  
Christine J. Ellefson ◽  
Lee A. Aase ◽  
Aminah Jatoi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Cancer Therapy ◽  
Patient Experience ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Patients With Cancer ◽  
On Line ◽  
Media Platform

Background: Cancer patients are at risk for hiccups, but the incidence and impact on quality of life are unclear. Methods: A survey (modified from the Functional Living Index with the inclusion of qualitative elements) was developed and launched on an 80,000-member medical social media platform, Mayo Clinic Connect https://connect.mayoclinic.org/ . Results: Among 213 respondents, 34 (16%; 95% CI: 11, 22%) reported “yes” that they had experienced hiccups with cancer therapy. Of those patients who reported hiccups, only 12 (35%) were men, and most were older than 50 years of age. Over 25% noted that hiccups occurred frequently around the time of cancer therapy; 30% described that hiccups interfered with their leisure or recreational activities; and over 15% described hiccups interfered with their ability to enjoy a meal. A few patients seemed to express frustration with hiccups with comments such as, “Totally uncontrollable,” “It’s extremely pain[ful] with throat cancer,” and “Once I had them bad. Almost choked.” Conclusion: Hiccups occur in16% of patients who are receiving cancer therapy and, by our estimates and extrapolation, appear highly problematic in approximately 5%.

Communication (Part II): Building Alternative Social Media

2020 ◽  
pp. 119-142
Author(s):  
Thomas Swann
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Weak Ties ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Self Organisation ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Chapter Seven presents a schematic account of the functions a social media platform would need to have in order to fulfil the roles required of it by anarchist cybernetics. Drawing on the negative critiques of existing social media platforms and the positive requirements outlined by activists and scholars, this chapter asks what an alternative social media platform would look like and how it would be different from the commercial platforms we use everyday. The chapter identifies four broad lines of critique aimed at the use of social media in anarchist cybernetic organising: (1) the privacy critique (2) the political economy critique; (3) the weak ties critique; and (4) the political subjectivity critique. The chapter provides a sketch of what such an alternative platform would look like, identifying the key features that aid the functionality of such a platform for self-organisation.

scholarly journals Utilization of Social Media Platform Instagram as Participatory Design Tools in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Fitorio Bowo Leksono ◽  
◽  
Toufiq Panji Wisesa
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
The Other ◽  
Design Tools ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Media Platform

Indonesia as the biggest archipelago country in the world has problem for the implementation of participatory design, especially due to the poor communication infrastructure and the distance between host and users. On the other hand, Indonesia has more than 100 million of internet users. In addition, Indonesian also social media savvy with Facebook, Instagram and Twitter serve as the top 3 social media platform in Indonesia. This study explores the potential of Instagram to serve as Participatory Design tools through experimentation method. The outcome of this study is conclusion that will serve as guideline for any Participatory Design initiative in the future.

scholarly journals Sentiment Analysis: Classifier and Summarizer

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (VII) ◽  
pp. 3997-4016
Author(s):  
Ayushi Aggarwal
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Unstructured Data ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Basic Model ◽  
Media Platform

Sentiment Analysis and summarization has a large number of application that are useful for determining the sentiment of the text and summarizing a big text into a small paragraph of few lines. Thus it has become an important topic to work on and for fulling the requirements of the customer. It has also become an important topic for researchers to focus on, as it is highly demanded and beneficial in different fields of product, services and growth of the business. At present when 89.9% of people are using social media platform, they express their reviews, feelings, emotions and share their comments and some exciting activities of their life through social media platform, so it becomes very important to analyses them and classify them as positive or negative, this can be done with the help of sentiment analysis. Also, to find the summary of a big document with large amount of data summarizer is very useful as we can get the summary of a document in the favorable number of line. The basic model of sentimental analysis classify the word as positive as negative with the help of some machine learning approaches, which will help in improving the quality of product and providing the service to the customer for building up a healthy competition in market and keeping the goodwill of the business . It also displays the output in the form of graph whose data is taken from social media platform. Sentimental analysis also helps in getting the summary of the document by picking the lines containing the words having maximum repetitions. It has been found that sentiment analysis able to classify the positive sentence by giving the output as 1 and negative sentences as 0. The model which is being built also graphically represents the classifications of positive and negative words picked from the dataset and it’s also useful in summarizing a document Thus sentiment analysis comes out to be very important for classify the unstructured data on social media platform and so there is always a scope of building a better model which is more accurate and efficient.

scholarly journals “Something You Just Don’t Talk About”: An Analysis of Teenage Boys’ Experiences of Non-Consensual Sexting in Lower Secondary School

2021 ◽  
pp. 106082652110427
Author(s):  
Kristina Hunehäll Berndtsson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Ninth Grade ◽  
Northern Sweden ◽  
Lower Secondary School ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Ninth Grade Students

The current study explores Swedish teenage boys’ exposure to non-consensual sexting, drawing on interviews with ninth-grade students, age 14 to 15 years, in a lower secondary school in northern Sweden. The results reveal that boys are exposed to unsolicited “dick pics,” unsolicited “female nudes” and non-consensual “explicit video” sharing via the social media platform Snapchat. However, traditional notions of heteronormativity and heterosexual masculinity prevented boys from talking about, understanding and handling experiences that may be identified as digital sexual harassment. Additionally, because of traditional gendered perceptions, students had difficulty categorizing victims and perpetrators of sexting. The study shows that there is a link between male vulnerability and male loneliness that can be manifested in both an individual and collective sense.

scholarly journals Innovation of Regional Participation Budgeting Through A Social Media Platform Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-178
Author(s):  
Lesmana Rian Andhika ◽  
Heru Nurasa ◽  
Nina Karlina ◽  
Candradewini Candradewini
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Participatory Budgeting ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Planning Decision ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Budgeting Process

The participatory budgeting process through social media has received attention in recent years, aims to increaseg citizen participation in government budgeting. The use of social media in many cases opposes the political practice assumptions of a budget lobbying to decide a specific budget post. Using conceptual article methods, we identified a participatory budgeting framework simulation using social media (Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube, Google+, Telegram) to provide detailed explanations of procedures or techniques, specific instructions, discuss, and describe the participatory budgeting practices determination. Therefore, it required an innovative way, academically claimed to give better budget transparency. This research resulted in some information i.e., with the participatory budgeting model through social media, the citizen can take part in the planning, decision-making, and monitoring budgets democratically. Finally, we consider the weaknesses of our knowledge, suggesting the participatory budgeting that can be tested in future research. Keywords: Participatory Budgeting, Social Media, Citizen Participation, Innovative Abstrak Proses penganggaran partisipatif melalui media sosial telah mendapat perhatian dalam beberapa tahun terakhir, bertujuan untuk meningkatkan partisipasi masyarakat dalam penganggaran pemerintah. Penggunaan media sosial di banyak kasus menentang asumsi praktik politis anggaran dengan cara lobi untuk menentukan pos anggaran tertentu. Dengan menggunakan metode conceptual article, kami mengidentifikasi simulasi kerangka kerja penganggaran partisipatif menggunakan media sosial (Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube, Google+, Telegram) untuk memberikan penjelasan rinci tentang prosedur atau teknik, dan menyediakan instruksi spesifik, mendiskusikannya, dan menggambarkan penentuan praktik penganggaran partisipatif. Oleh sebab itu diperlukan cara yang inovatif, secara akademis diklaim memberikan transparansi anggaran yang lebih baik. Penelitian ini menghasilkan beberapa informasi yaitu, dengan model penganggaran partisipatif melalui media sosial, masyarakat lebih demokratis untuk ikut dalam perencanaan, pengambilan keputusan, dan pengawasan anggaran. Terakhir, kami mempertimbangkan kelemahan pengetahuan kami, menyarankan penganggaran partisipatif yang dapat diuji dalam praktik penelitian masa depan. Kata Kunci: Penganggaran Partisipatif, Media Sosial, Partisipasi Masyarakat, Inovatif

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