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- Handler, Reinhard, 1979-, et al.
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Open Data, Crowdsourcing and Game Mechanics : A case study on civic participation in the digital age
- 2016
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Ingår i: Computer Supported Cooperative Work. - : Springer Science+Business Media B.V.. - 0925-9724 .- 1573-7551. ; 25:2-3, s. 153-166
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this paper is to shed light on the dynamics of civic participation, media agency, anddata practices. To do so we analyse an investigative journalism story run by The Guardian that combinedopen data, crowdsourcing and game mechanics with the purpose of engaging readers. The case studyhighlights how data can be made accessible to people who usually do not have access; how game mechanicscan be deployed in order to foster civic participation by offering users a sense of autonomy, competence andrelatedness; and how crowdsourcing can organise a large group of people into achieving a common goal. Thecombination of these three elements resulted in a case for civic participation in the digital era.
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- Durl, James, et al.
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Co-designing with young consumers : Reflections, challenges and benefits
- 2017
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Ingår i: Young Consumers. - Bingley, UK : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1747-3616 .- 1758-7212. ; 18:4, s. 439-455
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose - This paper aims to explore co-design as a method for actively involving young consumers in the design of an alcohol education program that utilizes an interactive Virtual Reality (VR) component. Design/methodology/approach - Dietrich et al. (2017) six-step framework was applied to a co-design project involving four groups of 14- to 16-year-old Australian high school students. Data collection included observations by three facilitators, written feedback from members of each group and video presentations of the generated ideas. The data analysis focused on investigating the applicability of the six-step framework to young consumers and evaluating the quality and practicality of the generated ideas. Findings - Sensitization is key to enabling young consumers to become equal participants during the co-design process. Sensitization allowed the participants to engage in the design task in a playful manner, which fostered active participation and creative insights during the co-design session. A team approach based on interactivity and group autonomy enabled adolescents to contribute insights into their specific needs and wants. This was complemented by a trusting environment and the presence of immediately available yet "hands off" facilitators. Research limitations/implications - The findings are limited to one specific sample and design task. Future research is required that investigates co-design with young consumers in different contexts. Practical implications - This paper provides guidance for the application of co-design with young consumers by highlighting the importance of sensitization and facilitation. Originality/value - This study marks one of the first approaches to co-designing alcohol education programs, including VR components, with young consumers. The findings contribute to a better understanding of the consequences of involving young consumers through co-design.
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- Elblaus, Ludvig, 1981-, et al.
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Singing Interaction : Embodied Instruments for Musical Expression in Opera
- 2014
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Ingår i: Leonardo music journal. - : MIT Press Journals. - 0961-1215 .- 1531-4812. ; 24, s. 7-12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the opera Sing the Body Electric! A Corporatorio, artists from the disciplines of opera, dance and the development of new musical instruments collaborated to create an onstage fusion of different technologies and artistic practices that connected performer, scenography and instrument. Gestures and movements of singers were captured by custom-built technologies. The singers also used custom-built technologies for transforming their vocal qualities and for creating synthesized accompaniment in real time. In this way the singers’ bodily musical processes further extended their vocal performances, rooted in operatic praxis, allowing for heightened expressivity and emergent scenic subjects.
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- Elblaus, Ludvig, 1981-, et al.
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Uncanny materialities : Digital Strategies for Staging Supernatural Themes Drawn from Medieval Ballads
- 2017
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Ingår i: Leonardo music journal. - Cambridge : MIT Press. - 0961-1215 .- 1531-4812. ; 27:1, s. 62-66
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the medieval tradition of ballads, a recurring theme is that of transformation. In a staged concert for chamber orchestra, singers and dancers called Varelser och Ballader (Beings and Ballads), we explored this theme using ballads coupled with contemporary poetry and new music. The performance made use of custom-made digital musical instruments, using video analysis and large-scale physical interfaces for transformative purposes. In this article, we describe the piece itself as well as how uncanny qualities of the digital were used to emphasize eerie themes of transformation and deception by the supernatural beings found in the medieval ballads.
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- Murmann, Patrick
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Towards Usable Transparency via Individualisation
- 2019
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The General Data Protection Regulation grants data subjects the legal rights of transparency and intervenability. Ex post transparency provides users of data services with insight into how their personal data have been processed, and potentially clarifies what consequences will or may arise due to the processing of their data. Technological artefacts, ex post transparency-enhancing tools (TETs) convey such information to data subjects, provided the TETs are designed to suit the predisposition of their audience. Despite being a prerequisite for transparency, however, many of the TETs available to date lack usability in that their capabilities do not reflect the needs of their final users.The objective of this thesis is therefore to systematically apply the concept of human-centred design to ascertain design principles that demonstrably lead to the implementation of a TET that facilitates ex post transparency and supports intervenability. To this end, we classify the state of the art of usable ex post TETs published in the literature and discuss the gaps therein. Contextualising our findings in the domain of fitness tracking, we investigate to what extent individualisation can help accommodate the needs of users of online mobile health services. We introduce the notion of privacy notifications as a means to inform data subjects about incidences worthy of their attention and examine how far privacy personas reflect the preferences of distinctive groups of recipients. We suggest a catalogue of design guidelines that can serve as a basis for specifying context-sensitive requirements for the implementation of a TET that leverages privacy notifications to facilitate ex post transparency, and which also serve as criteria for the evaluation of a future prototype.
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- Adams, Paul C.
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Geographies of media and communication II : Arcs of communication
- 2018
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Ingår i: Progress in Human Geography. - : Sage Publications. - 0309-1325 .- 1477-0288. ; 42:4, s. 590-599
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Some of the most perceptive contributions to the geographic study of media and communication have been in areas of landscapes studies and geohumanities. To bring landscape and geohumanities insights together more explicitly with communication and media, this progress report draws on George Revill’s concept of an ‘arc of sound’, expanding the concept’s scope to an arc of communication – a dynamic trajectory connecting one vantage point to another through various translations and shifts. It is a mix of integration and translation that forms its own space, place and time, integrating elements of embodied performance, multiple sensory modalities, temporality, absence and excess. Arcs of communication often depend on collaboration and can produce transformations of identity. The concept of the arc of communication enables discovery of numerous threads connecting landscape studies to geohumanities while deepening geographical understandings of media and communication.
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- Beck, Michael Till, et al.
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A Simulation Framework for Virtual Network Embedding Algorithms
- 2014
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Ingår i: 16th International Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning Symposium (Networks). - New York : IEEE. - 9781479965151 ; , s. 1-6
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Network virtualization is seen as an enabling technology for the Future Internet. In this context, many Virtual Network Embedding algorithms have been introduced in literature so far. This paper discusses an open source framework for the evaluation of such algorithms. The paper describes features provided by the framework, how to use the framework for evaluating these algorithms, and how to extend the software with respect to novel algorithms and simulation scenarios. Lessons learned are presented, describing how the software evolved towards a mature and highly extensible simulation framework.
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- Fast, Karin, 1979-
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The disconnection turn : Three facets of disconnective work in post-digital capitalism
- 2021
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Ingår i: Convergence. The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. - : Sage Publications. - 1354-8565 .- 1748-7382. ; 27:6, s. 1615-1630
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In post-digital capitalism, digital disconnection is not merely a “luxury” but also an obligation. Aiming to re-contextualize digital disconnection outside of digital detox resorts, social media, and elitist activism, this article asks how the ongoing disconnection turn affects how we (think about) work. With cues taken from digital disconnection studies and (digital) work/labour research, I inquire three facets of disconnective work. I elaborate, firstly, what disconnection might mean for work, as I scrutinize ideals pertaining to “deep” and “slow” work. Secondly, I unveil how disconnection may materialize at work, as I inspect “the post-digital workplace” and “disconnective technologies of work.” Thirdly, using “The Post-Digital Housewife” as a rhetorical figure for grasping the daily, typically unpaid, work that the disconnection turn makes acute, I recognize disconnection as work. The article concludes by presenting four dialectics of disconnective work, which serve to remind us of the paradoxical role of disconnection in processes of empowerment and exploitation.
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- Ferrer Conill, Raul, 1979-
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Camouflaging church as state : A study of journalism’s native advertising
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The conflicting powers that drive journalism are entangled within tensions between commercial and professional logics, trying to dictate the future of the trade. The professional logic, which regards audiences as citizens, is the driving force that nurtures the civic and ideal-typical values properties of journalism. The commercial logic, which regards audiences as consumers, addresses the fact that most news outlets are subjected to commercial urges in order to sustain the organization. Traditionally, the journalistic ideals have aimed to keeping editorial lines independent from commercial influences. This has been historically known as the separation of church and state.This paper examines the increasing trend of adopting native advertising in the digital fronts of traditional news media outlets. Native advertising defined here as a form of paid media where the commercial content is delivered within the design and form of editorial content with the attempt to recreate the user experience of reading news instead of advertising content. Methodologically, this study looks at news websites of 12 legacy newspapers from Sweden, Spain, the UK, and the USA, and analyses the adoption of native advertising during the span of a month. Subsequently, these advertisements are analyzed in terms of content, format, and the degree of transparency when linking each piece to the marketer who pays for the ad.Native advertising delivers commercial advertising as if it was real news. If this practice proves to be a lucrative one in the long term, the new commercial journalism might be based on camouflaging church as state.
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