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Notes towards infrastructure governance for large language models 大型语言模型基础设施管理说明

First Monday Pub Date : 2024-02-11 DOI: 10.5210/fm.v29i2.13567

Lara Dal Molin

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Influence government, platform power and the patchwork profile: Exploring the appropriation of targeted advertising infrastructures for government behaviour change campaigns 影响政府、平台权力和拼凑概况：探索政府行为改变活动对定向广告基础设施的利用

First Monday Pub Date : 2024-02-11 DOI: 10.5210/fm.v29i2.13579

Ben Collier, James Stewart, Shane Horgan, Daniel R. Thomas, Lydia Wilson

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Governing work through personal data: The case of Uber drivers in Geneva 通过个人数据管理工作：日内瓦优步司机案例

First Monday Pub Date : 2024-02-11 DOI: 10.5210/fm.v29i2.13576

Jessica Pidoux, Paul-Olivier Dehaye, Jacob Gursky

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Notes towards infrastructure governance for large language models 大型语言模型基础设施管理说明

First Monday Pub Date : 2024-02-11 DOI: 10.5210/fm.v29i2.13567

Lara Dal Molin

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Why do people use ChatGPT? Exploring user motivations for generative conversational AI 人们为什么使用 ChatGPT？探索用户使用生成式人工智能对话的动机

First Monday Pub Date : 2024-01-03 DOI: 10.5210/fm.v29i1.13541

Marita Skjuve, P. B. Brandtzaeg, Asbjørn Følstad

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Studying digital disconnection: A mapping review of empirical contributions to disconnection studies 研究数字失联：对断开研究的实证贡献的映射回顾

First Monday Pub Date : 2024-01-03 DOI: 10.5210/fm.v29i1.13269

Nina Altmaier, Victoria A. E. Kratel, Nils S. Borchers, G. Zurstiege

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Norm enforcement on and of Reddit: Rules of engagement and participation Reddit 上和 Reddit 中的规范执行：接触和参与规则

First Monday Pub Date : 2024-01-03 DOI: 10.5210/fm.v29i1.13141

Daniel Trottier, Frazer Woodhead

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"Unlock a better life: Here's how!": A critical inquiry into how life coaches gain capital and shape legitimacy using Instagram's affordances "开启更美好的生活：就是这样！"：批判性探究生活教练如何利用 Instagram 的实惠获得资本并塑造合法性

First Monday Pub Date : 2024-01-03 DOI: 10.5210/fm.v29i1.13181

Bert Verhulst, Ralf De Wolf, Tom Evens, M. V. Vanden Abeele

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Uncovering the potential of Twitch as a source for social media metrics 挖掘 Twitch 作为社交媒体指标来源的潜力

First Monday Pub Date : 2024-01-03 DOI: 10.5210/fm.v29i1.13214

Enrique Orduña-Malea, Carlos Lopezosa

{"title":"Uncovering the potential of Twitch as a source for social media metrics","authors":"Enrique Orduña-Malea, Carlos Lopezosa","doi":"10.5210/fm.v29i1.13214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v29i1.13214","url":null,"abstract":"The social live streaming service Twitch was launched in 2008 as Justin.tv, rebranded as Twitch Interactive in 2011, and acquired by Amazon in 2014. Although launched originally as a portal to broadcast videogames, Twitch currently hosts a wide range of content, including science and technology channels. Yet, despite growing interest in this online video sharing platform, Twitch’s potential for the study of science videos has been underexploited to date. This paper seeks to go some way to remedying this by studying the potential of Twitch as a data source for social media academic metrics. To do so, a scientometrics-inspired framework (the OBA framework) is proposed to integrate the analysis of Twitch, science videos and research organizations under a common conceptual space. Then, a science-related Twitch channel — National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) — is used as a case study. We analyse 197 videos published by NASA between March 2017 and December 2022, as well as 51,935 clips created from NASA videos. Data were collected from the official Twitch API, which is also analysed to identify the units and metrics available and the channel’s performance in retrospective quantitative studies (i.e., non-live broadcasts). The results show that Twitch allows in-depth metric analyses of science videos to be undertaken, facilitating identification of both the activity and output-level impact of a scientific organization such as NASA. However, the Twitch API presents a few constraints, due, in the main, to the limited availability of many metrics that are restricted in time range, quantity, accuracy, or access, and which as such limit comprehensive retrospective studies. Despite these technical limitations, it is estimated that Twitch offers considerable potential for the study of science-related activity. The OBA model proposed facilitates the analysis of the activity of specific scientific agents (not only organizations but journals or other aggregates) under a conceptual framework based on approaches applied in quantitative studies of science.","PeriodicalId":38833,"journal":{"name":"First Monday","volume":"16 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139389606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Reconsidering Ru(li)net: Russian literary self-publishing platforms and the war in Ukraine. A case study of Litnet.com 重新审视 Ru(li)net：俄罗斯文学自助出版平台与乌克兰战争。Litnet.com 案例研究

First Monday Pub Date : 2023-12-07 DOI: 10.5210/fm.v28i12.13224

Anna Murashova

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