在阴影中进化:暗网社交网络的媒介生态学研究

IF 0.9 Q3 COMMUNICATION

Journal of Communication Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI:10.1177/01968599231210776

Mohammed Madouh, K. Hazel Kwon

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摘要

本研究从媒介生态学的角度对暗网社会网络(DWSNs)进行概念化。我们综合现有文献，提出对dwsn作为一个交流组织系统缺乏理解的问题。然后，讨论的重点是dwsn如何与表面网络社交网络(SWSNs)互补、竞争和融合。这种交互将dwsn塑造成实践社区，既服务于用户的交流和信息需求，又随着用户的交流和信息需求而发展。我们介绍并阐述了DWSNs的两个媒介生态学概念:(1)媒介已成为Web 2.0的对立面;(2)与swns共同进化的生物体。解释这两个概念的一个经验指标是Hub，它是持久的dwsn之一。Hub作为一个例子，将dwsn与swsn并列，重点关注它们的中间关系，并描述dwsn作为宿主和它们的用户作为活生物体之间的共生关系。

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Evolving in the Shadows: A Media Ecology Study of Dark Web Social Networks

This study conceptualizes dark web social networks (DWSNs) through the lens of media ecology theory. We synthesize existing literature to problematize a lack of understanding of DWSNs as a communicatively organizing system. The discussion then focuses on how DWSNs complement, compete, and hybridize with surface web social networks (SWSNs). This Interaction shapes DWSNs as communities of practice that both serve and evolve with the communicative and informational needs of their users. We introduce and elaborate two media-ecological concepts of DWSNs: (1) a medium that has become a message of antithesis to Web 2.0 and (2) an organism that has coevolved with SWSNs. An empirical indicator to explicate these two concepts is The Hub, one of the long-lasting DWSNs. The Hub serves as an example to juxtapose DWSNs with SWSNs, with a focus on their intermedia relationship, and characterize the symbiosis between DWSNs as hosts and their users as living organisms.

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Journal of Communication Inquiry COMMUNICATION-

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2.90

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11.10%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Communication Inquiry emphasizes interdisciplinary inquiry into communication and mass communication phenomena within cultural and historical perspectives. Such perspectives imply that an understanding of these phenomena cannot arise soley out of a narrowly focused analysis. Rather, the approaches emphasize philosophical, evaluative, empirical, legal, historical, and/or critical inquiry into relationships between mass communication and society across time and culture. The Journal of Communication Inquiry is a forum for such investigations.