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- Svensson, Jakob, 1976-
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Deliberation or Updating? : The Case of Southern Stockholm Activists Online
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In: Proceedings of the 12<sup>th</sup> European Conference on eGovernment. - Reading : ACI Academic Conferences International. - 9781908272416 - 9781908272423 ; , s. 691-697
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Based on a (n)ethnographic inspired study of middle class activists in southern Stockholm, the aim is to understand contemporary political action and to discuss changing practices of participation in digital and late modernity. More specifically this paper addresses the Internet and its promise of deliberation. However instead of echoing techno-deterministic and optimist accounts of the Internet and online social networking affording a digital public sphere where deliberation can flourish, this paper argues that it is more accurate to understand the practices among the activists in southern Stockholm as updating. Updating is described here as a two-way practice,to be updated what is happening in your social networks as well as updating your social networks what is happening.These practices of updating are understood in light of late modern theories of reflexivity, identity negotiation and maintenance, practices that arguably are heightened in digital and networked societies. Hence to avoid determinism without resorting to the idea of technology as neutral, the paper is based in atechno-social dialectical understanding of our time as digital late modernity.The paper will end with a brief discussion of the implications of updating on political participation in digital late modernity. Even though not deliberation, practices of updating has consequences for participation and political action that perhaps could be considered positive and encouraging for democratic tradition in general.
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- Svensson, Jakob, 1976-, et al.
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The Emergence of a New Media Logic : A Theoretical Approach
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this paper we argue that online social media platforms operate with a decidedly different logic than traditional mass media. This has led to different ways of producing content, distributing information and the way recipients use media. The changes in the media and communication landscape are embedded in a larger societal transformation context of fragmentation, individualization and reflexivity, a late modern context that sustains the modus operandi of social media platforms. By discussing the differences between traditional mass media and social media platforms, we carve out the central elements of a new network media logic - that is, the inherent rules of the game on social media platforms - and this logic's consequences for political communication and political actors.
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- Strand, Cecilia, 1972-, et al.
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“Fake News” on Sexual Minorities is “Old News” : Study of Digital Platforms as Spaces for Challenging Inaccurate Reporting on Ugandan Sexual Minorities
- 2019
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In: Ecquid Novi. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0256-0054 .- 1942-0773. ; 40:4, s. 77-95
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- For sexual minorities in Africa, fake news is nothing new. However, with the arrival of self-controlled digital platforms, sexual minorities are presented with new ways to counter coverage that misrepresents the community. Inspired by affordance theory and agenda-setting theory, this study explores whether self-controlled digital platforms are used to challenge false media reports on sexual minorities in Uganda, and if so, to what extent. Through a cross-media research design, the largest English-language daily newspaper, the government-owned New Vision, is analysed and positioned against the main sexual minority network's (SMUG’s) public Facebook and Twitter accounts at two points in time in 2013/2014 and in 2018. The study finds that, although social media channels afford direct engagement with false media reports, the platforms are under-utilised as spaces regarding countering false reporting on LGBTQIs. Furthermore, this lack of engagement with the media was found to be stable over time.
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- Svensson, Jakob, 1976-
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Artificial intelligence is an oxymoron : The importance of an organic body when facing unknown situations as they unfold in the present moment
- 2023
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In: AI & Society. - : Springer. - 0951-5666 .- 1435-5655. ; 38:1, s. 363-372
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Departing from popular imaginations around artificial intelligence (AI), this article engages in the I in the AI acronym but from perspectives outside of mathematics, computer science and machine learning. When intelligence is attended to here, it most often refers to narrow calculating tasks. This connotation to calculation provides AI an image of scientificity and objectivity, particularly attractive in societies with a pervasive desire for numbers. However, as is increasingly apparent today, when employed in more general areas of our messy socio-cultural realities, AI- powered automated systems often fail or have unintended consequences. This article will contribute to this critique of AI by attending to Nicholas of Cusa and his treatment of intelligence. According to him, intelligence is equally dependent on an ability to handle the unknown as it unfolds in the present moment. This suggests that intelligence is organic which ties Cusa to more contemporary discussions in tech philosophy, neurology, evolutionary biology, and cognitive sciences in which it is argued that intelligence is dependent on having—and acting through—an organic body. Understanding intelligence as organic thus suggests an oxymoronic relationship to artificial.
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- Svensson, Jakob, 1976-
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Participation as a Pin. : Political Discussions in an Online Swedish LGBT Community
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In: <em>Proceedings of the 14<sup>th</sup> European Conference on eGovernment ECEG 2014</em>. - Reading : Academic Conferences Publishing. ; , s. 235-241
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article is based on a research project studying political discussions in the Swedish LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi- Transsexual) community Qruiser. Political discussions on Qruiser is defined as cultural participation and it is argued that not only may non institutionalized online arenas become spaces for political participation, we should broaden our focus to arenas of popular culture if aiming at understanding political participation in digital and late modern societies. The aim of this particular paper is to understand what motivated participation and how did participants understand their participating in Qruiser political clubs. This aim is operationalised by attending to a cultural method focusing on processes of meaning making. However, during the studied period very little participation took place in these clubs. The interview material suggests that club membership rather had the function of wearing a pin, in the digital age translated to displaying an icon on your profile page. It is further found that this declaration of content was important in a community primarily set up for dating. The paper then concludes that the participation in the clubs did not center on discussions, but rather around finding a potential date. The frame that thus motivated much of participation - here understood as displays of club memberships - was to find a date. Hence, political participation and dating are not mutually exclusive and may intersect in a network society.
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