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The (de)-politicization of Internet memes in Chinese national youth propaganda campaign 网络表情包在中国全国青年宣传中的(去)政治化

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-10-05 DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2023.2266005

Jie Cui

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Breaking the social media prism: how to make our platforms less polarizing 打破社交媒体的棱镜:如何让我们的平台不那么两极分化

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-09-13 DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2023.2258608

Maham Sufi

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Transgressing local, national, global spheres: the blackboxed dynamics of platformization and infrastructuralization of primary education 超越地方、国家和全球范围:初等教育平台化和基础设施化的黑箱动态

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-09-12 DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2023.2257293

Niels Kerssens, José van Dijck

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Multi-site domestication: taming technologies across multiple institutional settings 多站点驯化:跨多个机构设置的驯化技术

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-09-11 DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2023.2255644

Lars E. F. Johannessen, Maja Nordtug, Marit Haldar

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Decolonising the internet: an introduction to the #AoIR2022 special issue 互联网非殖民化:#AoIR2022特刊简介

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-09-10 DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2023.2262554

Andrew Iliadis, Eugenia Siapera, Tetyana Lokot

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Challenging the legacy of the past and present intimate colonialization – a study of Ugandan LGBT+ activism in times of shrinking communicative space 挑战过去和现在亲密殖民的遗产——在交流空间缩小的时代对乌干达LGBT+活动的研究

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-09-05 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2023.2252505

Cecilia Strand, Jakob Svensson

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The unhomed data subject: negotiating datafication in Latin America 无主数据主体:拉丁美洲的谈判数据化

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-08-30 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2023.2250436

Esteban Morales, K. Reilly

{"title":"The unhomed data subject: negotiating datafication in Latin America","authors":"Esteban Morales, K. Reilly","doi":"10.1080/1369118X.2023.2250436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2023.2250436","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Critical scholarship about datafication reveals the implications of algorithmically driven digital transformations for both social processes and human experiences of subjectivity. Digital transformations embed ontological beliefs in the information systems that drive new organizational processes and are accompanied by techno-positivist discourses that promote the benefits of these schemes. The dual power of new information systems plus strong discursive influences has led to fears that data subjects will come to be defined by data and information systems – that their subjectivity will be subordinated by the algorithm. However, in this paper, we argue that real experiences of data sharing offer a means to reveal actual experiences with subjectification, and that often these experiences are multiple and complex. Drawing on the results of five digital literacy interventions carried out by partner organizations in Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay in 2021, we consider participants’ lived experiences with datafication. Our work reveals how people experience, negotiate, reject, and accept data power’s multiple manifestations in ways that strategically mobilize data resources, constituting a fractured data subjectivity that overlaps the bounds of any one information system. This leads us to suggest the idea of the ‘unhomed’ as a useful concept for understanding data subjectification in the contemporary moment.","PeriodicalId":48335,"journal":{"name":"Information Communication & Society","volume":"38 1","pages":"2457 - 2471"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80643176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Colonizers in the neighborhood: a critical discourse analysis of Nextdoor users’ postracial strategies 邻居中的殖民者:Nextdoor用户事后策略的批判性话语分析

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-08-30 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2023.2252484

J. Lee, Chloe Ahn

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Queering the ‘resourcing’ of LGBTQ+ young people in the Asia Pacific 为亚太地区LGBTQ+年轻人提供“资源”

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-08-28 DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2023.2249970

Niki Cheong, Amelia Johns, P. Byron

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Leveraging digital methods in the quest for peaceful futures: the interplay of sincere and subjunctive technology affordances in peace mediation 利用数字方法寻求和平的未来:真诚和虚拟技术在和平调解中的相互作用

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Information Communication & Society Pub Date : 2023-08-20 DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2023.2247070

Andreas T. Hirblinger, Ville Brummer, Felix Kufus

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