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Managing the visibility of dissent: Stigma, social media, and family relationships among Azerbaijani activists Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Katy E Pearce
This study examines the strategies young Azerbaijani activists use to manage the visibility of their stigmatized political identities, particularly in relation to their families. Drawing on concepts of socially mediated visibility, stigma, and honor culture, we analyze interviews with 29 activists to explore how they navigate the complex trade-offs between visibility and concealment in an authoritarian
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Producing intimacy in virtual reality Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Ragan Glover
This article offers an autoethnographic account of the author’s experiences with facilitating relational intimacy in the Oculus Meta Quest 2 virtual reality (VR) platform. In doing so, it provides accounts of the author conversing, playing games, and watching movies with her relational partner. It also details the author’s user practices for contending with such issues as limited social and physical
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From permissive to resistive tactics: How audience members engage with and make sense of datafied journalism Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Liisa Ovaska
While audience data are pivotal to producing journalism, audiences’ perspectives on the issue have received relatively little attention. Addressing this gap, the paper examines audience members’ tactics for making sense of and engaging with the datafied journalism into which they contribute with their data. Empirically grounded in group interviews and instant-messaging group chats with 21 readers of
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Digital placemaking and its discontents: Exploring practices, power relations, and socio-spatial dynamics in Salzburg’s ‘Andräviertel’ Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Helena Atteneder, Christine Lohmeier
Recent research on digital placemaking shows that digital media, especially those that have a direct or indirect spatial reference, can alter belonging and attachment to space and place and can thus create a spatial identity. Emerging digital practices evolve the practice of placemaking and refer to space as a nexus of experiences, online and physical components. This is created by people perceiving
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No Cap: ASCAP and the fragmentation of music publishing Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Ediz Ozelkan, Emmanuel Billias
The internet was originally conceptualized as a frontier within which creative and cultural output could thrive, bereft of the gatekeeping influence of major corporations in the analog era. As that digital era unfolded, the narrative shifted amid a concentration of media power and the precarity of digital labor, prompting questions about the democratization that the internet was purported to bring
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(In)visibilising diversity on national streaming platforms in France and Norway: A quantitative and qualitative visual analysis of thumbnails Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Maud Ceuterick, Marine Malet
In the film and television industry, many social movements as #MeToo, #BuryYourGay or #BlackLivesMatter have highlighted the necessity of better representations of marginalised communities on and off screen. As diversity and inclusion have become major issues in contemporary societies, video-on-demand (VOD) platforms have publicly committed to diversify representation in the films and series they produce
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Who pays the piper delivers the data: Audience measurement and programming in the crowdfunded radio Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Patryk Galuszka, Piotr Chmielewski
This paper investigates the functioning of Radio 357 – an Internet radio station financed since 2020, primarily by patrons. The empirical analysis based on in-depth interviews with patrons and radio staff shows how crowdfunded radio conceptualizes its activities, specifically how it acquires the knowledge of listeners and prepares its program offerings for them. In doing so, this study touches on the
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Exploring users’ algorithmic knowledge and reflexivity in a music streaming context: A critical realist approach Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Sebastian Cole
Digital platforms such as Spotify have specific characteristics and properties that influence, to some extent, how the platform is used. However, users develop their own interpretations of these properties as well as unique ways to engage with the platform. This study applies a critical realist framework to explore how reflexivity modes are practiced in the context of Spotify as an example of algorithmic
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Comparative VOD catalogue research: Circulation, presence and prominence of British content in Europe Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Cathrin Bengesser, Matthew Hilborn, Jeanette Steemers
Video-on-demand (VoD) platforms have become primary spaces for encounters with transnational film and television, particularly among younger audiences. The expansion of global US-owned VoD services like Netflix has generated questions about the availability, discoverability, and prominence of domestic and European content, making the issue of how to analyse VoD catalogues pressing. Two perspectives
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Digitally skilled but socially disadvantaged: Enabling digital capabilities in low-income families Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Anthony McCosker, Julie Tucker, Jenny Kennedy
This paper presents a case study of smart home technology use in a low-income household, focussing on the paradox within the digital divide of having high digital skills while experiencing social disadvantage. Contextualised within a larger study of digital disadvantage in low-income households, we use an ethnographic case study approach to examine the experiences of a single parent who lives with
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Troubleshooting the connected home: Exploring the perspectives of non-initiators Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Helene Fiane Teigen
Living with technology often entails work related to management and repair of it. The emerging literature on the work that goes into managing home networks and digital technologies has described it as ‘digital housekeeping’. Within this literature, a single person is often identified as being responsible for the domestic tech work and this is the same person who initiated bringing the technology into
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Streaming Diversité: Exploring representations within French-language scripted series on Canadian SVOD services Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Stéfany Boisvert
Canadian subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD) services have commissioned French-language ‘original’ content to attract local audiences. ICI TOU.TV, Club Illico and Crave have indeed commissioned more than a hundred French-language scripted series, mostly produced in the Quebec province. However, the current state of research only marginally documents these services. Even in Canada, most research focus
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Different diversities: Policies and practices at three European public service VoD services Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Cathrin Bengesser, Jannick Kirk Sørensen
While globally operating SVoDs have discovered identity-based diversity as a branding strategy, diversity has a longer history and broader meaning in public service media (PSM) tied to the foundational ideals of universality and pluralism that oblige PSM to speak to all members of a society and to offer diverse programmes and viewpoints. We investigate: How are these two understandings of ‘diversity’
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Exclusionary inclusion? Streaming platforms and trans inclusive policies and practices: A case study of Netflix Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Romeo Fraccari, Páraic Kerrigan
This article examines the incongruence within Netflix’s corporate practice: while on the one hand the streamer promotes trans inclusion along with trans talent development in Netflix’s production culture, both on and off screen, on the other hand its industrial practices and representational output demonstrate a different approach. This article argues that, while the streamer positions itself as a
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The quantification of diversity: Netflix, visibility politics and the grammar of transnationalism Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Mareike Jenner
This article argues for Netflix’ efforts to create a transnational middlebrow, highlighting especially the strategy of visibility politics as a measure to create a metrics for ‘diversity and inclusion’ in a process I call the quantification of diversity. Hence, the article seeks to draw together themes of Netflix’ efforts in transnationalism, the platform’s efforts in diversity and inclusion and the
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‘Disciplining the audience’: Audience experiences with MUBI Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Aslı Ildır
Through the case of MUBI, this article inquires into the changing audience habits with the proliferation of video-on-demand services and the discourse of control and choice, increased mobility, and democratic access. Drawing on in-depth interviews with subscribers of MUBI Turkey, this article explores the ways the audience relates to the imagined audience that MUBI assumes, promotes, and celebrates
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Streaming diversity: Studying screen diversity in the streaming era Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Maura Edmond, Olivia Khoo, Claire Perkins, Verity Trott
The unprecedented growth of video-on-demand (VOD) streaming platforms has brought both new optimism and new complications to concerns around screen ‘diversity’. To what extent have major global and smaller regional VOD platforms invested in screen diversity, at the level of genres, languages, country-of-origin, social representation or creative labour? Just how ‘diverse’ are the catalogues of VOD services
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Sociable desires and gendered commitments: Video gaming and food in everyday life Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Kristian H Jensen, Thomas AM Skelly
Food consumption in video gaming culture has been linked to convenience, nutritionally poor food, and unconventional eating norms. However, little attention has been given to video gaming and food interactions in mundane settings. This article explores how video gaming and food practices compete for time and attention in everyday life. We use theories of practice approach and data from a qualitative
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Strategies for communicating and mitigating algorithmic control on delivery platforms Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Aarni Tuomi, Brana Jianu, Maizi Hua, Maartje Roelofsen, Mário Passos Ascenção
Delivery platforms use algorithmic control mechanisms to control couriers’ work. Despite studies looking at how algorithmic control manifests on different delivery platforms, there is a dearth of research exploring how delivery platforms communicate their approaches to algorithmic control, what kinds of strategies delivery workers adopt to mitigate algorithmic control, and to what extent information
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Data reflexivity as work-in-progress Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-04 Ranjana Das
Datafication, across private and public sectors demonstrably touches upon, and indeed, alters, with profound consequences, diverse domains of people’s daily lives. However, also, increasingly, critical scholarship on datafication is the locus of careful attention to not solely platform and algorithmic power but also people’s sociocultural practices to make sense of, cope with, feel and show new literacies
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What Brazilianness looks like: SVODs’ impact on cultural representation Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-04 Melina Meimaridis, Daniela Mazur, Daniel Rios
This article investigates the complex interplay between subscription video on-demand services (SVODs) and the representation of Brazilianness in global media. Focusing on Brazil’s video streaming landscape, our study delves into the challenges of representing the diverse tapestry of national culture, particularly in content commissioned by foreign platforms. These challenges include technical barriers
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What is ‘children’s television’ in the streaming era?: Assessing content discoverability through Australian children’s streaming platform fluencies Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Jessica Balanzategui, Djoymi Baker, Georgia Clift
In line with international trends, increasing numbers of children in Australia use streaming video platforms to watch television on-demand from extensive catalogues. Child viewers thus tend to negotiate platform interfaces organised by algorithmic curation to select content, rather than accessing content via scheduled linear TV. The deeper implications of this substantial shift in child audience habits
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Attention, memory, and narrative interpretation of Michel Gondry’s The Green Hornet: Comparing 2D and 3D film viewing using eye-tracking and self-report Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Miklós Kiss, David Hayes, Brendan Rooney
Historically 3D effect in film has been used as a relatively superficial aesthetic attraction. Here we consider and test the idea that 3D can be used to guide viewer attention and narrative interpretation in film. The current study used self-report measures in conjunction with eye-tracking technology to record attention, memory and narrative interpretation of 32 participants (25 female). Eye-gaze behaviour
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Finding the future in digitally mediated ruin: #nostalgiacores and the algorithmic culture of digital platforms Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Maria Gemma Brown, Nicholas Carah, Xue Ying (Jane) Tan, Daniel Angus, Jean Burgess
The #nostalgiacores are a series of interrelated hashtags on Instagram and TikTok where users recirculate content from the digital and consumer cultures of the 1990s and 2000s – childhood play centres, dead malls, long-gone toys, and superseded game consoles and phones. In this article, we explore these digital cultures using a critical platform studies approach that involves a combination of network
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Formatting work: Cloud platforms and the infrastructuring of capitalist asymmetries in software work Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Sebastian Randerath
Since the 2000s, so-called cloud computing infrastructures have had a profound impact on the capitalist relationship among labor, software, and organizations. This infrastructuring did not only affect the outsourcing of servers and databases but extends to the on-demand delivery of middleware and operating systems through so-called platforms-as-a-service (PaaS). As a result, the capitalist relationship
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Loved everywhere?: Netflix’s top 10 and the popularity of geographically diverse content Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Michael L Wayne, Nahuel Ribke
Using Netflix’s weekly Global Top 10 lists for English-language and non-English-language series and films, this article highlights some of the ways in which the world’s most popular streaming platform misrepresents both the production and consumption of its most popular geographically diverse global content. First, the Global Top 10 lists create a series of false equivalencies between the popularity
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Make (digital) space for and with the young: Arts-inspired co-design of civic tech for youth mental health policies Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Sonia Bussu, Enric Senabre Hidalgo, Olivier Schulbaum, Zarah Eve
Public engagement, digital or in-person, is mostly adult-centric and ableist, often universalising the experience of participation of a narrow demographic (white, older and middle class). In Mindset Revolution we combined arts-based and creative methods with civic tech to co-design participatory spaces with a diverse group of young people, where to discuss and influence mental health policy and practice
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Streaming women: Hayu, Passionflix and gendered demographics in subscription video-on-demand Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Alexa Scarlata, Andrew Lynch
The focus of most academic analysis of subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services so far has been on “first tier” platforms like Netflix and Prime Video. These platforms are spending and charging significant amounts of money to adopt a generalist strategy that rhetorically disregards demographics . However, not all SVODs operate in this manner. This article will consider examples of second (subsidiary)
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Book review: Media ruins: Cambodian postwar media reconstruction and the geopolitics of technology Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Yovanna Pineda
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Sexual diversity and streaming television: Toward a platform studies approach to analyzing LGBTQ+ TV Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Hollis Griffin
This essay argues for the utility of a platform-studies approach alongside textual analysis when studying the politics of sexual representation in contemporary television programming. Using a corpus of four LGBTQ+-themed programs that represent queer and trans sexualities and HIV/AIDS, the paper argues that funding mechanisms play a constitutive role in determining the kinds of sexual diversity that
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Memetic memory as vital conduits of troublemakers in digital culture Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Alexander O Smith, Jordan Loewen-Colón
Recent fears of data capitalism and colonialism often argue using implicit assumptions about cybernetic technology’s ability to automate data about culture. As such, the level of data granularity made possible by cybernetic engineering can be used to dominate society and culture. Here we unpack these implicit assumptions about the datafication of culture through memes, which both act as cultural data
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Computational cross-media research: tracing divergences between normative Dutch television and social media discourses on the ‘refugee crisis’ (2013-2018) Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Emillie de Keulenaar, Thomas Poell, Anne Helmond, Bernhard Rieder, Jasmijn Van Gorp
This article examines how the ‘refugee crisis’, sparked by the arrival of refugees from the Syrian civil war and other conflicts around the world, was articulated across Dutch television news programs and social media between 2013 and 2018. This crisis has been described as a key catalyst of the radicalization of European political discourse. Crucially, it took shape during a period of profound transformation
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Queer media in the age of streaming video Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Whitney Monaghan
This article contributes to an emerging field of research on the classification and organisation of film and television on streaming video platforms. While scholarship has begun to grapple with the complexities of the streaming video landscape, critical frameworks have yet to be established for examining issues of LGBTIQA+ inclusion in this context. This article explores questions about what queer
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Repairing what’s not broken – Algorithm repair manual as reflexivity device Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Ana Pop Stefanija, Jo Pierson
In this article, we outline an innovative participatory method for reflexive engagement with algorithmic systems and the underlying processes of datafication that accompany them. Faced with the challenges of thinking critically and reflexively about algorithmic systems, both as non-expert individuals and expert researchers, we develop and elaborate on an approach for engaging participants in thinking
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From subculture to mainstream: Nostalgia, criticism and negotiation in a fan community Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Leticia-Tian Zhang
Extensive research has been conducted on social media and fandom, particularly on how digital platforms facilitate community formation and cultural production among fans. However, there remains a gap in understanding how these communities react to and interpret changes such as commercialization or mainstreaming of their platforms. This study addresses this gap by focusing on Bilibili’s danmu culture
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Service withdrawal: The uncertain future of the games-as-a-service model Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Louis-Etienne Dubois, Alex Chalk
The last decade has seen a rapid growth of service-based offerings – also known as Game-as-a-Service or GaaS – in the video game industry, among which are some of the most popular franchises, such as Fortnite or League of Legends. Yet, even though these games are designed to be played and supported for an indefinite period of time, many studios have recently chosen to curtail services after introducing
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Combating contamination and contagion: Embodied and environmental metaphors of misinformation Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Yvonne M Eadon, Stacy E Wood
In recent years, government agencies, information institutions, educators and researchers have paid increasing attention to issues of misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theorizing. This has prompted a seemingly endless supply of guides, frameworks and approaches to ‘combating’ the problem. In studies of mis- and disinformation, a constellation of analogous concepts are defined in multiple
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Collecting streaming services Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Andreas Lenander Aegidius, Mads Møller Tommerup Andersen
In the streaming era, the very thing that defines it is what threatens to impede access to important media history and cultural heritage. Streaming’s barriers to entry and its interim content catalogs challenge the actual collection and preservation of it for research and teaching purposes. If researchers and libraries do not work together to document and preserve these, we will keep losing important
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Digitalization of cultural industries: Evidence from the official Spider-Man movie TikTok account Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Alicia Hernando Velasco, Mitsuko Matsumoto, Susana Dominguez-Santos, Pilar Lacasa
The digitalization of culture and creative industries has presented both challenges and opportunities. To effectively engage audiences and ensure their constant interest, these industries must continually adapt their circulation strategies. The objectives of this study are threefold: 1) analyze the strategies employed by the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) to engage with the fan community; 2) examine
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Joe Rogan v. Spotify: Platformization and worlds colliding Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Terje Colbjørnsen
In May 2020, the music streaming service Spotify acquired exclusive rights to The Joe Rogan Experience, one of the world’s most popular podcasts. While the music streamer had started its foray into the podcasting world with acquisitions in 2019 of podcasting networks and production companies, the investment on Rogan was widely seen as a strong commitment. Rogan’s podcast is known to be humorous, crass
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The emergence of virtual production – a research agenda Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Jon Swords, Nina Willment
Virtual production is increasingly seen as a way to make film and television more efficiently by harnessing the power of game engines to create unique locations and sets, offer directors more flexibility, and to cut carbon emissions. But while the technologies at the centre of virtual production are not new, their combination into filmmaking pipelines is in its infancy and the field is evolving fast
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Playing with persona: Highlighting older adults’ lived experience with the digital media Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Larissa Hjorth, Jacob Sheahan, Bernardo Figueiredo, Diane Martin, Mike Reid, Torgeir Aleti, Buschgens Mark
During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns (2020-2021), almost all facets of life were rendered digital – health, work, schooling, and logistics. In this phenomenon, not only did digital access become synonymous with social inclusion but inequalities were also amplified – particularly in the case of older adults (65 years and over). Contemporary older adults represent one of the most diverse spectrums
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Platform policy and online abuse: Understanding differential protections for public figures Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Rob Cover, Nicola Henry, Thuc Bao Huynh, Joscelyn Gleave, Viktor Grechyn, Sharon Greenfield
Public figures are subject to high rates of online abuse than everyday users. This article presents findings from a study on digital platforms’ higher threshold for protecting public figures in contrast to everyday users. Presenting a summary of extant literature on the experience, impact and harms of online abuse of public figures, we analyse 31 platform terms of service and related policies to understand
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A holistic framework for the analysis of predictive rhetoric in digital visualizations Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Eedan R Amit-Danhi, Christian Pentzold, Nik Maurice Krämer
In digital culture, visualizations are a prevalent and ubiquitous form of communication. A veteran journalistic tool, and an increasingly popular one in digital politics, visualizations offer informative value, attract readership, and increase engagement. Visualizations’ multimodality enables them to convey rhetoric through informative, narrative and visual strategies, making them particularly well-suited
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Perspectives on citizen data privacy in a smart city – An empirical case study Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Evie Lucas, Seamus Simpson
Digitisation is arguably an inevitable feature of contemporary urban development, yet privacy issues arising from the mass data collection, transmission and processing it entails continue to be a poorly understood and contentious issue for people living in cities. This article uses a case study approach to provide new evidence of the detailed perspectives of citizens and policy makers on data privacy
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Publication notice Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-17
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Navigating the information environment about the Ukraine war Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Nicoleta Corbu, Georgiana Udrea, Raluca Buturoiu, Elena Negrea-Busuioc
The concern about misinformation in the public space has become more worrisome during the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. In this context, we investigate what make people correctly recognize accurate information and detect misinformation about the war at the beginning of the conflict in Romania, a bordering country. By means of a national survey ( N = 1006) conducted in April-May 2022, we
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Ranting in emotional public spheres: Publicizing participatory challenges on YouTube Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Patricia G Lange
Ranting has a bad reputation. But is it always deserved? Online ranting has been alternatively decried for its emotion-laden hostility and praised as a beloved video genre. By exploring a qualitative corpus of YouTube rant videos, this article analyzes how problem-centric rants may serve as forms of proto civic engagement. The article shows that problem-centric rants contribute to emotional public
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Book review: Living with algorithms: Agency and user culture in Costa Rica Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Víctor Ávila Torres
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Book review Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Natalia Kovalyova
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Wikipedia and AI: Access, representation, and advocacy in the age of large language models Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Zachary J McDowell
Wikipedia, despite its volunteer-driven nature, stands as a trustworthy repository of information, thanks to its transparent and verifiable processes. However, Large Language Models (LLMs) often use Wikipedia as a source without acknowledging it, creating a disconnect between users and Wikipedia’s rich framework. This poses a triple threat to information literacy, Wikipedia’s vitality, and the potential
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Book Review: The perception machine: Our photographic future between the eye and AI Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Natalia Kovalyova
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Book Review: The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Amy Gaeta
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Book Review: Paul Roquet’s The Immersive Enclosure Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Monique Santoso
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The digitally manipulated family photograph: MyHeritage’s ‘Deep Nostalgia’, and the extended temporality of the photographic image Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Fern Conaghan
This article examines how the digitally manipulated family photograph functions as a means of understanding the temporal instability of the use and interpretations of photographic images. It begins by taking a close look at scholarly debates on how ‘credible’ the documentary value of a still photograph is, as well as how it is able to emotionally resonate with spectators. From this discussion, it becomes
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Theaters, social media, and streams: Evaluating social word-of-mouth patterns of pandemic-era blockbuster films on Twitter Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Chris DeFelice, Lance Porter
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the U.S. film industry, prompting major studios to release blockbuster films on streaming platforms. This study examines the impact of pandemic-related changes on the film industry by analyzing social media conversations on Twitter as a proxy for success. We introduce a novel metric to measure social word-of-mouth (sWOM) longevity for 40 movies released across different
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Book Reviews Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Wan-Yun Tsai
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Screenness in Google Maps navigation: An agential realist analysis Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Charu Maithani
This article articulates screenness to comprehend the agency of screens in the postmedia condition. Being a common element in different kinds of media, screens contribute towards medial collaboration and relationality in postmedia where they do much more than display. Screenness, understood in Karen Barad’s agential realist framework, is performative and contingent upon the relations of the postmedia
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Social media and platform work: Stories, practices, and workers’ organisation Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Júlia Vilasís-Pamos, Fernanda Pires, Rafael Grohmann, Willian Fernandes Araujo
This article introduces the special issue, ‘Social Media and Platform Work: Stories, Practices, and Workers’ Organisation’. In recent years, platform labour studies have increasingly focused on how the growing platformisation of labour has changed work activities, labour processes, work organising, identities, and collectivities. The literature has highlighted the role of media, communication, and