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- Fornäs, Johan, 1952-, et al.
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Digital Borderlands : Cultural Studies of Identity and Interactivity on the Internet
- 2002
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The Internet crosses established boundaries of previously separate fields of communication and research. In its wake, new borderlands are opened up - characterized by mixes of private and public, production and consumption, and play and politics. This book explores those borderlands and overviews key issues in the study of Internet culture. Digital Borderlands investigates four ways in which identities are shaped through interactive uses of the Internet - love relations, gendered bodies, girl webzines, and cosmopolitan sites all exemplify how new media transforms older forms of popular entertainment and political culture.
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- Skågeby, Jörgen, 1972-
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Gifting Technologies : Ethnographic Studies of End-users and Social Media Sharing
- 2008
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis explores what dimensions that can be used to describe and compare the sociotechnical practice of content contribution in online sharing networks. Data was collected through online ethnographical methods, focusing on end-users in three large media sharing networks. The method includes forum message elicitation, online interviews, and application use and observation. Gift-giving was used as an applied theoretical framework and the data was analyzed by theory-informed thematic analysis. The results of the analysis recount four interrelated themes: what kind of content is given; to whom is it given; how is it given; and why is it given? The five papers in this thesis covers the four themes accordingly: Paper I presents the research area and proposes some initial gifting dimensions that are developed over the following papers. Paper II proposes a model for identifying conflicts of interest that arise for end-users when considering different types of potential receivers. Paper III presents five analytical dimensions for representing how online content is given. The dimensions are: direction (private-public); identification (anonymous-identified); initiative (active-passive); incentive (voluntary-enforced); and limitation (open-restricted). Paper IV investigates photosharing practices and reveals how social metadata, attached to media objects, are included in sharing practices. The final paper further explores how end-users draw on social metadata to communicate bonding intentions when gifting media content. A general methodological contribution is the utilization of sociotechnical conflicts as units of analysis. These conflicts prove helpful in predicting, postulating and researching end-user innovation and conflict coordination. It is suggested that the conflicts also provide potent ways for interaction design and systems development to take end-user concerns and intentions on board.
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- Sveningsson, Malin, 1968-
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Creating a sense of community : Experiences from a Swedish web chat
- 2001
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The Internet has opened up a wide range of new ways of socializing with other individuals. This is an explorative study, where the ultimate purpose can be described as to find out what web chat as activity is about. This was done through two and a half years of observations in a Swedish web chat room, and through interviews with fourteen Swedish web chat users.In web chat, users gather around subjects of conversation and activities, of which some are playful and some serious, some strictly realistic while others involve made up elements. Web chat is a dynamic and constantly shifting discourse, in which the participants make innovative use of the language, which altogether forms a bricolage of various styles and genres. Important characteristics are those of play, performance, presentation of self and support.A theme that turned out to be central in both interviews and observations is regular chat users' sense of community, which is expressed through their views of self and others, their activities, their communicative styles, and their values, ideals and norms of behavior. My analyses therefore mainly rely on theories of'community' and Goffman's theories of social interaction.In my data, issues of inclusion and exclusion and the drawing of boundaries against other types of users were also apparent. Boundaries mark the beginning and the end of a community, but are also the positions where the members of a community become aware of their community and what distinguishes it from others. For a sense of community to exist, something has to exist outside of it. In this way, exclusion is a prerequisite for the community to exist, and the members of a community need outsiders in order to become insiders.
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