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- Burkart, Patrick, et al.
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The Spotifyication of public service media
- 2019
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In: The Information Society. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0197-2243 .- 1087-6537. ; 35:4, s. 173-183
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article investigates contemporary cultural policy reforms enabled by paid digital media distribution services, taking the case of the integration of Spotify into the Swedish public media system. Specifically, it reflects on the conflicts arising over the prioritization of digital distribution over cultural preservation, during the gradual substitution of the Spotify digital services for the services provided by the traditional material media archive, the Grammofonarkivet. It considers the factors influencing changes in the Swedish cultural policy environment and the nature of the complaints and human rights claims made by employees of the Grammofonarkivet to UNESCO regarding its structural transformation. It also postulates a “Spotification” model of public service media emerging in Sweden but potentially affecting other countries with public media systems served by traditional media archives.
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- Dujeancourt, Erwan, et al.
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The effects of algorithmic content selection on user engagement with news on Twitter
- 2023
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In: The Information Society. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0197-2243 .- 1087-6537. ; 39:5, s. 263-281
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this article, we investigate how Twitter's switch from a reverse-chronological timeline to algorithmic content selection in March 2016 influenced user engagement with tweets published by German newspapers. To mitigate concerns about omitted variables, we use the Facebook postings of these newspapers as a counterfactual. We find that the number of likes increased by 20% and the number of retweets by 15% within a span of 30 days after the switch. Importantly, our results indicate a rich-get-richer effect, implying that initially more popular outlets and news topics benefited the most. User engagement also increased more for sensationalist content than quality news stories.
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- Hsieh, J. J. Po-An, et al.
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The Bumpy Road to Universal Access : An Actor-Network Analysis of a U.S. Municipal Broadband Internet Initiative
- 2012
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In: The Information Society. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0197-2243 .- 1087-6537. ; 28:4, s. 264-283
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Universal high-speed Internet access can productively transform a nation's economy. However, many municipalities in the United States have been left behind in terms of Internet penetration. Some municipal governments have tried to address this by launching initiatives that aim at offering citywide, universal broad-band access. Unfortunately, most of these initiatives either have been discontinued or have ended in failure. Drawing on actor-network theory, we conducted a 3-year study to investigate the evolution of the Internet TV initiative in LaGrange, Georgia, in the United States. The results reveal distinct interpretations of the initiative by different actor groups (the government, the service providers, socioeconomically advantaged residents, and socioeconomically disadvantaged residents), at different stages of implementation, pointing to tensions among the various groups. These tensions reflect the structural problems embedded in the macro political, economic, and societal context. The findings offer in-sights for policymakers who intend to achieve universal broadband access.
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- Huvila, Isto, 1976-
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Another Wood Between the Worlds? : Regimes of Worth and the Making of Meanings in the Work of Archivists
- 2015
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In: The Information Society. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0197-2243 .- 1087-6537. ; 31:2, s. 121-138
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Through interviews of Nordic archives professionals, this article explicates the transformation and complexities of the worth and meaning of archival records and archival work. The analysis shows how the worth and meaning of archival records and the work of archivists are constituted in a complex interplay of quasi-institutionalized orders of archival work, their associated but often conflicting regimes of worth and information, and changing local intermediary practices. Through interviews of Nordic archives professionals, this article explicates the transformation and complexities of the worth and meaning of archival records and archival work. The analysis shows how the worth and meaning of archival records and the work of archivists are constituted in a complex interplay of quasi-institutionalized orders of archival work, their associated but often conflicting regimes of worth and information, and changing local intermediary practices.
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- Huvila, Isto, 1976-
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Awkwardness of becoming a boundary object : Mangle and materialities of reports, documentation data and the archaeological work
- 2016
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In: The Information Society. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0197-2243 .- 1087-6537. ; 32:4, s. 280-297
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Abstract Information about an archaeological investigation is documented in an archaeological report that makes it the boundary object par excellence for archaeological information work across stakeholder communities from field archaeologists to heritage managers and land developers. The quality of reports have been a subject of debate and recently it has been argued that more emphasis should be placed on making primary research data at least similarly available as the reports. This study explores the changing materialities and reciprocal formation of documents and their users in the advent of digitisation, and how documents become and lose their status as boundary objects in these processes. The study posits that in order to be functional, a boundary object needs to provide a disclosure, means to access reality for adjacent communities. Further, it shows how assumptions of the functioning of the human and non-human (material artefacts) influence the ways how the archaeologists conceptualise the preservation and archiving of archaeological information and the role and potential of different types of digital and paper-based documents. This article is based on an interview study of Swedish archaeology professionals (N=16) with theoretical underpinnings in the notions of boundary objects, mangle of practice and disclosure.
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- Huvila, Isto, Professor, 1976-
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Monstrous hybridity of social information technologies : Through the lens of photorealism and non-photorealism in archaeological visualization
- 2021
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In: The Information Society. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0197-2243 .- 1087-6537. ; 37:1, s. 46-59
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The entanglement of social information technologies and their users unfolds as a problem if “wrong” users enmesh with “wrong” technologies. A long-standing debate on the merits of photorealism versus non-photorealism in archaeological visualization provides an educating example of such a “problematic” or in Haraway's words, monstrous social information technology. This article shows how a closer look at the perceived monstrosities of social information technologies can help us understand how people conceptualize information, technologies, and other people and their role in information interactions as they unfold as part of information work. It shows how a lifelike photorealistic visualization together with its spectator forms a cyborg, which is a monstrous runaway “object” when it drives with its own cultural force a programme that contradicts with other programmes considered important. The parallels in the critiques of archaeological visualizations and other informational cyborgs in information research – including search engines, information systems and services – suggest usefulness of a monstrous perspective in the analysis of social information technologies in general.
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- Huvila, Isto, Professor, 1976-
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Putting to (information) work : A Stengersian perspective on how information technologies and people influence information practices
- 2018
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In: The Information Society. - : TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC. - 0197-2243 .- 1087-6537. ; 34:4, s. 229-243
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Instead of merely subscribing to an unspecific inseparability in the co-constitution or mangle of information technologies and human-actors, there is a need for conceptual tools to describe and explicate the mechanics of how the enmeshment of technologies and human-beings is occurring in information contexts: how information technologies are both setting standards of the social conduct of information practices, and how people are using information technologies to regulate the social process. Building on an empirical study of human-technology relations in the context of archaeological information work, this article discusses how the imaginary of putting Stengers to work can make a contribution to such an end. Stengers describes an ideal system of human-actors and technology working seamlessly World-as-Clockthat is unattainable but can serve as a benchmark and a lens for understanding frictions and discrepancies in the cohesion of the two.
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- Larsson, Anders Olof
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Understanding Nonuse of Interactivity in Online Newspapers : Insights From Structuration Theory
- 2012
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In: The Information Society. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0197-2243 .- 1087-6537. ; 28:4, s. 253-263
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- While some online newspapers have embellished their online presence with a variety of interactive features, most online newspapers still appear to take on the role of cautious traditionalists, adopting a mostly conservative stance toward the new medium. Correspondingly, most audience members appear to act in a similar way. This article shows how concepts related to structuration theory can be utilized to further our theoretical understanding of the use (and nonuse) of interactive features in the online newspaper context. It employs concepts from the structuration theory to provide another interpretation of the existing empirical research. The paper concludes by suggesting that "nonuse" in this regard can be understood as part of reproducing what might be called a "structure of audiencehood" rather than a "structure of prosumerism."
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- Mayer, Vicki, et al.
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This site is a dead end? Employment uncertainties and labor in data centers
- 2023
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In: The Information Society. - : Routledge. - 0197-2243 .- 1087-6537. ; 39:2, s. 112-122
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Would technological changes increase the need for human workers or eliminate them altogether? This uncertainty has produced an unresolved tension, from the industrial revolution to the rise of the information society. The data center industry has been largely invisible in public debates about this question. Yet the same tensions exist within the industry itself: Will automation create data center jobs or kill them? In this article, we work inside the “black box” – the data center, to examine uncertainties faced by those who work there. We do so through interviews and observations, first, of data center managers and executives at international trade expos, where anxieties about the shortage of data center workers but also their irrelevance were palpable. Then, we turn to a remote data center in Finland, where security guards and technical operators negotiate employment uncertainties through the biopolitics of their labor. In both sites, the uncertainties about data center employment are manifest and embodied, even if they are expressed and experienced in different ways. On both the top and bottom levels of data center hierarchies, people are discomfited by the possibility of their own redundancy. At the same time, they present the sunnier sides of data center work when they talked about their efforts to resolve ongoing issues of worker shortage, the lack of diversity in data centers, and the routines that could easily slide into boredom or anomie. We situate our findings on the long arc of capitalist transformations and discuss the insights they might provide for today’s data-driven economy in general.
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