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- Appelgren, Ester, 1977-
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[Book review:] Mirko Tobias Schäfer and Karin van Es (Eds.), The Datafied Society : Reviewed by Ester Appelgren
- 2018
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Ingår i: International Journal of Communication. - 1932-8036. ; 12, s. 433-435
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Will the current practice of data and digital analysis harm humanities scholarship? Or will increasing access to data and easy-to-use tools for digital analysis instead strengthen the ability to critically interpret culture and contemporary life? These two perspectives permeate The Datafied Society: Studying Culture through Data, edited by Mirko Tobias Schäfer and Karin van Es.
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- Appelgren, Ester, 1977-
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The Reasons Behind Tracing Audience Behavior : A Matter of Paternalism and Transparency
- 2017
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Ingår i: International Journal of Communication. - : USC Annenberg Press. - 1932-8036. ; 11, s. 2178-2197
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyzes privacy agreement texts and cookie consent information collected from 60 news sites in three countries (U.S., UK, and Sweden) within the context of paternalism. The goal of this study is to explore how paternalism is present in news media companies’ stated reasons for collecting behavioral data. Twenty-five categories of reasons were identified and divided into six categories: personalization and enhanced user experience, delivery and maintenance of services, internal and corporate use of data, legal reasons, communication with the user, and third-party use of data. The analysis shows that the reasons can be formulated in both paternalistic and nonpaternalistic ways, and that the market-driven logic of Web analytics seems to collide with ethics in a journalistic context.
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- Berglez, Peter, 1973-, et al.
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The Panama and Paradise Papers : The Rise of a Global Fourth Estate
- 2018
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Ingår i: International Journal of Communication. - : USC Annenberg Press. - 1932-8036. ; 12, s. 4573-4592
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article theorizes the work of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). This work is motivated by the need to link recent large-scale ICIJ projects such as the Panama and Paradise Papers revelations to ongoing theoretical discussions about emergent forms of journalism. It is argued that the ICIJ provides evidence of the emergence of a “global network journalism” characterized by a particular epistemology (a global outlook on social reality) that is embedded in a networked rationale. It is further suggested that this journalistic practice paves the way for the media’s role as a global fourth estate, responding to the budding demand for a new type of reporting that influences political decisions and expressing society’s development toward an internalized sense of globalization. We discuss the usefulness of applying the presented concepts to other cases than the ICIJ and provide suggestions for further studies.
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- Bolin, Göran, 1959-
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The Rhythm of Ages : Analysing Mediatization through the Lens of Generations Across Cultures
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Journal of Communication. - 1932-8036. ; 10, s. 5252-5269
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A criticism raised about mediatization research is that although the concept of mediatization presupposes a long-term temporal perspective, there are few projects that have studied the process methodologically over time. This article argues that a generational approach can serve as one suggested analytical solution to the problem of studying long-term social, cultural, and societal change. The article describes a recently finished project on media generations in Sweden and Estonia and discusses overcoming the problem of conducting research on mediatization as a long-term process. Through intergenerational and cross-cultural analysis, the article shows how media memories from childhood and the formative years of youth can reveal specific traits in the historical process and how the role of the media has changed over time in the minds of different generations. The article focuses on four generations that had their formative years during significant historical moments in the late 20th century; these formative moments were marked by specificities both in the respective national media landscapes and in the vast historical and geopolitical differences between the two countries.
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- Borges, Priscila Monteiro, et al.
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The Role of Beliefs and Behavior on Facebook : A Semiotic Approach to Algorithms, Fake News, and Transmedia Journalism
- 2019
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Ingår i: International Journal of Communication. - : University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. - 1932-8036. ; 13, s. 603-618
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses, from a Peircean semiotic perspective, (1) the logic of algorithms employed by Facebook to foster audience engagement as it relates to the spreadability of fake news in the context of transmedia journalism, and (2) how our own methods of fixation of beliefs influence this process. The methodological approach encompasses a qualitative conceptual study of Peircean semiotics, focusing on concepts such as truth, reality, representation, fixation of beliefs, and collateral experiences, as a proposition to investigate the relationship between algorithms, fake news, and transmedia journalism. The research findings point to the fact that social media networks such as Facebook have their share of responsibility in the current fake news furor, but audiences are also involved in this issue as their behavior and beliefs play an important role in feeding Facebook’s algorithms.
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- Bossetta, Michael
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Political Campaigning Games : Digital Campaigning With Computer Games in European National Elections
- 2019
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Ingår i: International Journal of Communication. - 1932-8036. ; 13, s. 3422-3443
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study examines how politically themed computer games function as digital campaigning tools during elections. To make sense of this understudied phenomenon, the concept of political campaigning games (PCGs) is introduced and defined as advergames that promote a partisan political position in an electoral context. The study bridges theoretical literatures from game studies, media studies, and political communication to mount the argument that PCGs convey a persuasive political message through the rhetorical devices deployed in political cartoons as well as computer games. Methodologically, I develop a framework for rhetorical game analysis and apply it to 4 games from European national elections. The analysis expounds the games’ strategic political messages as well as how they are rhetorically argued through game mechanics. The findings reveal that PCGs exemplify changing dynamics in digital campaigning, reify the enduring effectiveness of conflict framing, and codify how games can be designed to enact political rhetoric.
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- Burkart, Patrick, et al.
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Editorial Introduction : Piracy and Social Change— Revisiting Piracy Cultures
- 2015
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Ingår i: International Journal of Communication. - Los Angeles, CA : USC Annenberg Press. - 1932-8036. ; 9:1, s. 792-797
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article introduces the contributions to this special section of the journal, frames the scope of contemporary digital piracy research in the social sciences and humanities, and relates the research project to neighboring fields in communication and media studies.
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- Ekström, Anders, 1965-
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When Is the Now? Monitoring Disaster in the Expansion of Time
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Journal of Communication. - 1932-8036. ; 10, s. 5342-5361
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This essay inquires into the temporalities that emerge in the context of online news of extreme nature events. It draws on a larger empirical study of what has become a dominant template for online reports on disasters of a different character, scale, and location: short videos, Web TV clips, and series of stills published in a real-time aesthetic frame. In this article, this case study is used as a background for a more theoretical discussion of three temporal registers in particular: (1) the paces and rhythms of the modes of publication and address that this template supports; (2) the interaction of past, present, and future in online news of disasters; and (3) the sense of extended temporalities that emerge from contemporary reports of nature emergencies and geological extremes. The essay also engages with two recurring themes in media history: first, the relationship between new media technologies and the modern notion of an increasingly pervasive culture of the now; and second, the long-standing role of disasters in the history of exploring new media formats and technologies.
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- Ericson, Staffan
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Stormy Weather : The Pre- and Post-History of Television
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Journal of Communication. - 1932-8036. ; 10, s. 5304-5323
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines Ingmar Bergman's first (and only) television adaptations of dramatist August Strindberg: The Storm (1960) and A Dream Play (1963). Both were broadcast live and favorably received by contemporary critics. A recurrent reaction was that television finally "did justice" to these plays from the early 20th century; implying, as did Raymond Williams in his 1974 book on television, that Strindberg's later drama somehow "anticipated" television. This claim is explored in relation to various thematic and formal expressions of temporality in both plays (motifs of enclosed spaces, telephones, clouds, and faces and the dialectics of progress and repetition) and the specificities of television (the "management of liveness," " mobile privatization," monitoring, etc.). The type of historicity involved in the claim that art may anticipate oncoming media technology is related to Walter Benjamin's notion of pre- and post-history.
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