Convergence (London, England)最新文献

From school strikes to webinars: Mapping the forced digitalization of Fridays for Future's activism during the COVID-19 pandemic. 从罢课到网络研讨会：绘制 COVID-19 大流行期间 "未来星期五 "活动被迫数字化的地图。

Convergence (London, England) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Epub Date: 2022-12-24 DOI: 10.1177/13548565221148112

Giuliana Sorce, Delia Dumitrica

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QR codes during the pandemic: Seamful quotidian placemaking 大流行期间的二维码:巧妙的日常场所设置

Convergence (London, England) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 DOI: 10.1177/13548565231160623

Hugh Davies, L. Hjorth, M. Andrejevic, I. Richardson, R. DeSouza

引用次数: 1

Mapping an online production network: The field of 'actual play' media. 绘制在线制作网络:“实际播放”媒体领域。

Convergence (London, England) Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1177/13548565221103987

Alex Chalk

引用次数: 2

"Through the digits, through the fingers": Variations on the string figure as imaginary digital medium. “通过数字，通过手指”:作为假想数字媒介的字符串图形的变奏。

Convergence (London, England) Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI: 10.1177/13548565221122912

Henry Adam Svec

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How to play in slow time: Embodying creativity literacies in digital learning environments. 如何在慢节奏中玩耍？在数字学习环境中体现创造力素养。

Convergence (London, England) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Epub Date: 2022-12-27 DOI: 10.1177/13548565221148106

Bryoni Trezise, Alexandra Tálamo, Maria White

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Digital pedagogies post-COVID-19: The future of teaching with/in new technologies. COVID-19之后的数字化教学法：使用新技术进行教学的未来。

Convergence (London, England) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1177/13548565231155077

Jernej Markelj, Scott Sundvall

引用次数: 0

Shades of digital deception: Self-presentation among men seeking men on locative dating apps. 数字欺骗的阴影:在定位约会软件上寻找对象的男性的自我表现。

Convergence (London, England) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Epub Date: 2022-05-16 DOI: 10.1177/13548565221102714

Eric Filice, Corey W Johnson, Diana C Parry, Harrison Oakes

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引用次数: 1

RPC-Lex: A dictionary to measure German right-wing populist conspiracy discourse online. RPC-Lex:一本衡量德国右翼民粹主义阴谋论的在线词典。

Convergence (London, England) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Epub Date: 2022-06-21 DOI: 10.1177/13548565221109440

Cornelius Puschmann, Hevin Karakurt, Carolin Amlinger, Nicola Gess, Oliver Nachtwey

{"title":"RPC-Lex: A dictionary to measure German right-wing populist conspiracy discourse online.","authors":"Cornelius Puschmann, Hevin Karakurt, Carolin Amlinger, Nicola Gess, Oliver Nachtwey","doi":"10.1177/13548565221109440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565221109440","url":null,"abstract":"We describe a novel computational dictionary for the study of right-wing populist conspiracy discourse (RPC) on the internet, specifically in the context of contemporary German politics. After first presenting our definition of conspiracy discourse and grounding it in antecedent research on mediated rhetoric at the intersection of right-wing populism and conspiracy theory, we proceed by outlining our approach to dictionary construction, relying on a combination of manual and automated methods. We validate our dictionary via parallel manual coding of 2,500 sentences using the categories contained in the dictionary as labels and compare the consensus result with the label assigned to each sentence by the dictionary, achieving satisfactory results. We then test our approach on two different datasets composed of alternative news articles and Facebook comments that spread conspiracy theories. Finally, we summarize our observations both on the methodological premises of the approach and on the object of populist right-wing conspiracy discourse and its dynamics more broadly. We close with an outlook on the potentials and limitations of the dictionary-based approach and future directions in applications of content analysis to the study of conspiracy discourse.","PeriodicalId":72707,"journal":{"name":"Convergence (London, England)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9515517/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40390536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 6

Conspiracy theories in digital environments: Moving the research field forward. 数字环境中的阴谋论：推动研究领域向前发展。

Convergence (London, England) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Epub Date: 2022-08-10 DOI: 10.1177/13548565221117474

Jing Zeng, Mike S Schäfer, Thaiane M Oliveira

引用次数: 0

Streaming ambivalence: Livestreaming and indie game development. 流媒体的矛盾心理：直播与独立游戏开发。

Convergence (London, England) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Epub Date: 2021-07-28 DOI: 10.1177/13548565211027809

Felan Parker, Matthew E Perks

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