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Weilenmann, Alexandra, 1974, et al.
(författare)
Selfies in the wild: Studying selfie photography as a local practice
2020
Ingår i: Mobile Media and Communication. - : SAGE Publications. - 2050-1579 .- 2050-1587. ; 8:1, s. 42-61
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat) abstract
Previous research on selfies has primarily focused on selfies as media products rather than as an activity. In this paper, we examine selfies as a situated practice, connecting the social media phenomenon to the local spaces where it is performed. Based on ethnographic studies of selfie photography, we present and discuss three aspects of selfies in the wild. First, we consider selfies as part of a larger photographic context and show how they are often taken in series with other genres of images. Second, we expand upon the notion of selfies as conversation and show how selfie photographers exchange messages with remote friends and followers while attending to the local environment. Third, we discuss socializing around selfies, examining how copresent friends socialize around the production of selfies. These findings show the importance of considering selfies beyond the online context, and highlight the many ways that selfies are interweaved with our everyday activities.
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Jungselius, Beata, 1982, et al.
(författare)
Same Same But Different: Changes in Social Media Practices Over Time
2019
Ingår i: SMSociety '19 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Social Media and Society. - New York, NY, USA : ACM. - 9781450366519
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat) abstract
In this paper, we examine how social media users reflect upon their own developments as social media users over time. We draw upon two interview studies with the same informants, conducted in 2012 and 2017. In the second study, we showed them snippets from their previous interviews, and asked them to comment on their five year old statements. This allowed us as researchers to get access to the participants own analysis of their changing social media practices. Based on this data and in relation to previous research, we outline the most prominent influencing factors that have had an impact on social media use over time: changes in life and time management, changes in technical capabilities, changes in privacy preferences and changes in modes of engagement. However, despite these changes, our informants describe having a similar approach to social media use in general.
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Weilenmann, Alexandra, 1974, et al.
(författare)
Mobile Video Literacy : Negotiating the Use of a New Visual Technology
2014
Ingår i: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1617-4909 .- 1617-4917. ; 18:3, s. 737-752
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat) abstract
In this article, we examine the practice of learning to produce video using a new visual technology. Drawing upon a design intervention at a science centre, where a group of teenagers tried a new prototype technology for live mobile video editing, we show how the participants struggle with both the content and the form of producing videos, i.e. what to display and how to do it in a comprehensible manner. We investigate the ways in which video literacy practices are negotiated as ongoing accomplishments, and explore the communicative and material resources relied upon by participants as they create videos. Our results show that the technology is instrumental in this achievement and that as participants begin to master the prototype, they start to focus more on the narrative aspects of communicating the storyline of a science centre exhibit. The participants are explicitly concerned with such issues as how to create a comprehensible storyline for an assumed audience, what camera angles to use, how to cut and other aspects of the production of a video. We consider these observed activities to be candidate steps in an emerging mobile video literacy trajectory that involves developing a capacity to document and argue by means of this specific medium.
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Hillman, Thomas, 1978, et al.
(författare)
Situated Social Media Use: A Methodological Approach to Locating Social Media Practices and Trajectories
2015
Ingår i: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. - New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 9781450331456
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat) abstract
In this paper we draw upon a number of explorations of social media activities, trying to capture and understand them as located, situated practices. This methodological endeavor spans over analyzing patterns in big data feeds (here Instagram) as well as small-scale video-based ethnographic studies of user activities. A situated social media perspective involves examining how social media production and consumption are intertwined. Drawing upon our studies of social media use in cultural institutions we show how visitors orient to their social media presence while attending to physical space during a visit, and how editing and sharing processes are formed by the trajectory through a space. We discuss the application and relevance of this approach for understanding social media and social photography in situ.
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Hillman, Thomas, 1978, et al.
(författare)
Traces of engagement: narrative-making practices with smartphones on a museum field trip
2016
Ingår i: Learning, Media & Technology. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1743-9884 .- 1743-9892. ; 41:2, s. 351-370
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat) abstract
In this paper, we explore museum visitor learning through the examination of the engagement in narrative-making practices of school children while visiting a natural history museum. Two groups of children are given worksheets and encouraged to use their own mobile technologies to document their visits in relation to the subject of evolutionary mechanisms. Their engagement is occasioned through this worksheet and we show how they negotiate the interpretation of the task and then go on to complete it in quite different ways. We examine, in turn, how the students structure their visits with walking paths through the museum exhibitions, and how they structure the narratives they produce to complete the tasks by using the tools at hand and incorporating different parts of the exhibits.
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Hård af Segerstad, Ylva, 1969, et al.
(författare)
Communication across platforms: Switching between talk and text in mobile phone communication
2015
Ingår i: 12th ICA Mobile Pre-Conference, May 20-21, 2015, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA..
Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt) abstract
During the last decade our communicative landscape has changed profoundly and mobile technologies offer a plethora of communication contexts and platforms in which people are engaging today. In this emerging polymedia environment of communicative opportunities different platforms and applications continuously intersect with other media, constantly creating new hybrid technologies that functions as an ‘integrated structure’ (Madianou & Miller, 2013). Users conceive of each medium in relation to this integrated structure of different media at their disposal, seamlessly switching between them to achieve their purposes: what cannot be achieved by voice calls, can be accomplished by text messaging. Few studies have been made of the integrated aspects of mobile communication. There are only a handful of studies of mobile phone communication, based on naturally occurring conversations (Laurier, 2001; Weilenmann, 2003; Arminen, 2005; Arminen & Weilenmann, 2008; Hutchby & Barnett, 2005), and a few studies of the sequential organization of text messaging (Laursen, 2006; 2012; Spagnolli & Gamberini, 2007; Hutchby & Tanna, 2008). One of the reasons is that it is still technically and ethically difficult to collect the data. This has forced many researchers to make a choice between studying either text or conversation, or to analyze communication logs. Laursen (2006) highlights a key aspect of mobile communication: text messages and mobile phone calls interrelate as parts of a continuous communication sequence. In this paper, we further develop this perspective drawing upon a corpus of empirical data of mobile communication. We have collected data from the personal communication of eleven individuals. Data is collected using software allowing for audio-recordings of naturally occurring mobile voice calls and logging of text messages, followed by interviews with informants. This material is then analyzed both by following whole chains of communication, when people switch between different communication channels. We also examine in detail the specifics of the communication, focusing on for instance how people formulate location in mobile communication (cf. Arminen, 2005). We present a brief example illustrating the type of material and analysis we are dealing with. In the talk this example will be accompanied by several other examples, alongside a more detailed analysis. This excerpt from our corpus is a mobile communication sequence of a couple meeting up to do grocery shopping. Anna, the female party of the couple, has arrived at Coop (a food store) where they have arranged to meet. In the transcription of their communication sequence we see first how she tries to reach her boyfriend (Carl), initially by calling, and when this fails, tries to reach him by sending him a text. Finally, he responds by calling her. All within the short timespan of three minutes. Communication sequence Time Contact Type Content 1 19:25 Anna to Carl phone call (missed) - 2 19:26 Anna to Carl SMS Inside Coop 3 19:28 Carl to Anna phone call (See transcript below) Phone call 4 ((Ringing)) 5 A: hej hej 6 C: halo (.) I was e: fumbling with my keys (.) before 7 A: you were what 8 C: I was fumbling with my keys 9 A: (.) ookay 10 C: at my door (.) so uhm: 11 A: aha: 12 C: the tram comes in like one minute so I’ll be there 13 in I don’t know four minutes or something five minutes 14 A: okay okay 15 A: well I’m I’m I’m inside Coop so it’s fine 16 C: okay okay I will find 17 A: I can (.) maybe just yeah already start 18 C: yeah yeah 19 A: grabbing things so yeah yeah 20 C: I’ll be looking for it 21 A: okay (.) hahaha bye 22 C: bye bye Carl provides an account for not answering the previous call (he was fumbling with his keys at his door, lines 8 and 10). On line 15, Anna provides her location, that she is already in the store where they agreed to meet. This is overlapping information with the content of the text message (line 2). We see that text message as a report on her location (cf. Arminen), letting him know that she has arrived to their meeting point. The example above illustrates how the users switch seamlessly from one medium to the other in the polymedia environment in order to achieve their purpose. The intertwined contributions through text and talk together make up the communication sequence. In this talk, we will discuss the benefits of analyzing mobile phone communication based on naturally occurring data of both talk and text. This will be developed based on some examples from our corpus of such communication.
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Hård af Segerstad, Ylva, 1969, et al.
(författare)
Methodological Challenges for Studying Cross-Platform Conversations
2013
Ingår i: Internet Research 14.0: Resistance and Appropriation, The Fourteenth International Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. - 2162-3317.
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat) abstract
During the last decade, the multimedia landscape has evolved in several ways, calling for a reconsideration of methodologies for studying mobile communication. Understanding mobile communication no longer entails focusing on either voice or text in isolation; rather we need to study how all aspects of mobile communication together make up a continuous conversation of intertwined messaging. People use a multitude of channels and platforms in their multi-media conversation. However, there are both ethical and technical challenges of studying evolving cross-platform conversation. In this talk, we address a few ethical and technological challenges involved in trying to capture a wider picture of the evolving cross-platform conversation.
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Jungselius, Beata, 1982, et al.
(författare)
Conceptualizing ‘Use’ in Social Media Studies
2018
Ingår i: SMSociety '18 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. - New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery. - 9781450363341
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat) abstract
In this work-in-progress paper, we draw upon previous work and our own ongoing studies of the practices surrounding social media to discuss the conceptualization of social media use. We ask “what is social media use?”, and discuss how very different levels of engagement, ranging from active involvement with producing or consuming social media to more passive ways of monitoring or planning social media activities, tend to be summarized under the general notion of “social media use”. Our informants orient to social media activities even when they are not actively engaged with their phones. As a consequence, we argue that there is a problem of using time to define or measure social media use. In a “permanently online, permanently connected” world, we need to move beyond such ways of conceptualizing how people live with technology.
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Obaid, Mohammad, 1982, et al.
(författare)
Social Drones for Health and Well-being
2022
Ingår i: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. - New York, NY, USA : ACM.
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat) abstract
Drone activities in our daily lives are on the rise, so is the need to advance research on how to design drones that can interact with human users in an autonomous and socially acceptable way. The focus of this workshop is to discuss this emerging technology in the context of health and well-being applications. In particular, we take an interdisciplinary approach to understand how to empower drones with more autonomous and AI-driven social features, hence leveraging possible methods, behaviors, and solutions for AI driven social drones in the context of health and well-being. The main activities of this workshop will entail hands on activities and discussions in collaborative format. The expected outcomes aim at building up synergies between participants to lead future steps in the domain of autonomous social drones in health care and well-being.
