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Zhukovskaya, O. Y. "Social Capital and Social Networks under the Conditions of Digitalization: Interconnections and Implementation Features." Digital Transformation, no. 4 (January 7, 2021): 21–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.38086/2522-9613-2020-4-21-33.

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The goal of the article is to analyze the new aspects of accumulation and usage, as well as the opportunities for growth of an important determinant of well-being – social capital – in connection with the active development of social networks under the conditions of digitalization and current social and economic situation. The interconnections as well as the development of social capital, social media and social networks in the context of the digital divide concept were investigated. It was suggested to distinguish digital social capital taking into account different sources and effects of thi
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Pavari, Never. "Psychosocial Impacts of Covid 19 Pandemic in Zimbabwe." Journal of Public Administration and Governance 10, no. 3 (2020): 228. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jpag.v10i3.17687.

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The Covid-19 pandemic has continued to cause socio-economic damages which will take a long time to recover from while there is no vaccine in sight. The impacts are affecting the social well-being of global citizens which triggers the need to investigate the psychosocial effects. In order to achieve and to provide the missing African context, the study was done in Zimbabwe. Due to lockdown restrictions, samples were obtained using online survey and social media platforms. Analysis was done to determine the effects, so far, of the virus on the general economy, psychological and social aspects as
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Mutanana, Ngonidzashe. "Social Media and Political Mobilisation: An Analysis of the July 2016 Zimbabwe Shut Down." American Journal of Trade and Policy 4, no. 1 (2017): 19–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.18034/ajtp.v4i1.412.

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This study sought to carry out an analysis of the effects of the social media in political mobilization. These were analyzed using the following indicators (i) the social media as a communication tool and (ii) the role of social media in political mobilization. The study was using a one-day demonstration that occurred in Zimbabwe code named #ZimShutDown2016 as a case study. In the study, a qualitative case study research design was used. Secondary data from online newspaper reports and Social Media Networks was used to analyze the effects of the social media movement in bringing real socio-eco
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Bailey, Michael, Rachel Cao, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, and Arlene Wong. "Social Connectedness: Measurement, Determinants, and Effects." Journal of Economic Perspectives 32, no. 3 (2018): 259–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jep.32.3.259.

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Social networks can shape many aspects of social and economic activity: migration and trade, job-seeking, innovation, consumer preferences and sentiment, public health, social mobility, and more. In turn, social networks themselves are associated with geographic proximity, historical ties, political boundaries, and other factors. Traditionally, the unavailability of large-scale and representative data on social connectedness between individuals or geographic regions has posed a challenge for empirical research on social networks. More recently, a body of such research has begun to emerge using
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Garcia, David, Yonas Mitike Kassa, Angel Cuevas, et al. "Analyzing gender inequality through large-scale Facebook advertising data." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, no. 27 (2018): 6958–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1717781115.

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Online social media are information resources that can have a transformative power in society. While the Web was envisioned as an equalizing force that allows everyone to access information, the digital divide prevents large amounts of people from being present online. Online social media, in particular, are prone to gender inequality, an important issue given the link between social media use and employment. Understanding gender inequality in social media is a challenging task due to the necessity of data sources that can provide large-scale measurements across multiple countries. Here, we sh
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Parinsi, Mario Tulenan, and Keith Francis Ratumbuisang. "Indonesian Mobile Learning Information System Using Social Media Platforms." International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications 8, no. 2 (2017): 44–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijmcmc.2017040104.

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As a developing country, Indonesia continues to improve its quality as a state, in which the attempt to optimize all of its potential both in terms of economic, political, social, cultural, technological, educational, health, etc. This modern era, all aspects of life are depending on technology. This makes the technology becomes one of necessary in people's life. The utilization of technology has been used by all people in all aspects of life. Specifically, this paper tries to offer an innovation that has never been designed before, namely a platform of M-Learning in form of social media relat
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Rezaeian, Ali, Sajjad Shokouhyar, and Shahabedin Yousefi. "Intention to purchase behavior on social e-commerce website across cultures (case study: Iranian online purchaser)." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY 15, no. 9 (2016): 7077–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/ijct.v15i9.186.

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With the increasing popularity of social media, millions of users use social media services in the space such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. Following that many organizations see this phenomenon as an opportunity to create new business and know this is known as social commerce. This phenomenon is not only due to the growth of social media, but is also because of users' participation in the fate of the marketing and sale of products. So, e-commerce has undergone a revolution, which is affected by the adoption of web 2 functionalities to increase customer participation and achieve greater e
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Gómez-Llanos, Eva, and Pablo Durán-Barroso. "Learning Design Decisions in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) Applied to Higher Education in Civil-Engineering Topics." Sustainability 12, no. 20 (2020): 8430. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12208430.

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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) reflect the relationship among social, economic, and environmental aspects of society. Massive online open courses (MOOCs) represent an opportunity to promote lifelong learning (SDG 4), complementing university education or providing knowledge to society free and openly. The objective of this work is to analyze experiences in one MOOC about wastewater treatment applied to higher education in civil engineering (SDG 6). The proposed educational methodology and the achieved participation results are studied. The MOOC had three editions and was hosted on the Mi
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Isaías, Pedro, and Fábio Coelho. "Web 2.0 Tools Adoption Model." International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development 5, no. 3 (2013): 64–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jicthd.2013070104.

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The Internet has become a major sales platform, assuming an emergent importance in increasing the economic growth of businesses. Web 2.0 has been a very important change in the way people use the internet and it has created an impact in all sectors of society. This study emphasises the importance of including Web 2.0 tools in online retailing as a contribution for success. The focus of this research lies in Portuguese online retailers and the elaboration of an adoption model for Web 2.0 tools. Through an observation of the 36 most visited Portuguese e-Commerce websites, it was possible to gath
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Yurko, Olha. "The functioning of information system in the society of the Second modern in conditions of military conflict." Grani 23, no. 3 (2020): 108–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/172031.

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The features of functioning of information system in the society of the Second modern in conditions of military conflict are analyzed in the article. Also we tried to analyze connection of this features with characteristics of the political and economic systems of this type of society. Television continues to be the main source of information about state of affairs in Ukraine and in the world, although it’s influence is decreasing. The concentration of media ownership in the hands of financial and industrial groups, associated with political forces, is an important issue. Online media and soci
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Caran, Gustavo Miranda, Rose Marie Santini, and Jorge Calmon de Almeida Biolchini. "Use of social network to support visually impaired people: A Facebook case study." Transinformação 28, no. 2 (2016): 173–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2318-08892016000200004.

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The use of Information and Communication Technologies can be seen as an important factor for social inclusion in its different aspects - economic, social, relational and informational, among others. Inclusion potentiality is even more relevant for groups of people who face limiting life conditions which determine social barriers. This study investigated the social support offered to people with disabilities based on the social network analysis method. The research objective was to make the online support dynamics for low vision people, friends and relatives evident, having as case study the Fa
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Senne, Fabio Jose Novaes de. "Mapping the origin of digital inequalities: an empirical study about the city of São Paulo." Law, State and Telecommunications Review 11, no. 1 (2019): 303–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.26512/lstr.v11i1.24860.

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Purpose – Approaches that attribute inequalities in access and use of the Internet to structural economic factors and contemplate the reproduction of individual off-line characteristics in the digital environment are predominant in the specialized literature. Recently, however, the focus has been shifting to the differences in patterns of digital inclusion according to characteristics of particular communities or territories.
 Methodology/approach/design – The empirical study investigates to what extent the territory matters to explain the variability of Internet use and the existence of
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Sogari, Giovanni, Chiara Corbo, Martina Macconi, Davide Menozzi, and Cristina Mora. "Consumer attitude towards sustainable-labelled wine: an exploratory approach." International Journal of Wine Business Research 27, no. 4 (2015): 312–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijwbr-12-2014-0053.

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Purpose – This paper aims to investigate, using an exploratory approach, how environmental values and beliefs about sustainable labelling shape consumer attitude towards sustainable wine. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected with an online survey from 495 Italian wine drinkers in 2013. The survey was advertised through websites, blogs, social networks and emails. Based on background research and literature review, ten hypotheses were tested. Then a structural equation model was constructed using latent variables to test the causal links specified in the model. Findings – The resul
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Marrow, Helen B., and Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels. "Modeling American Migration Aspirations: How Capital, Race, and National Identity Shape Americans’ Ideas about Living Abroad." International Migration Review 54, no. 1 (2018): 83–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0197918318806852.

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Recent scholarship proposes a “two-step” approach for better understanding mechanisms underlying the migration process, suggesting we study migration aspirations separately from migration behavior and that the one does not always translate directly into the other. Research on aspirations, however, concentrates on the Global South, despite growing migration flows originating in the Global North. Here, we fill this gap, drawing on a nationally representative online survey we commissioned in 2014 in the United States. Bivariate analysis shows that fully one-third of Americans surveyed reveal some
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Frechette, Julie. "Keeping Media Literacy Critical during the Post-Truth Crisis over Fake News." International Journal of Critical Media Literacy 1, no. 1 (2019): 51–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/25900110-00101004.

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As citizens demand more media literacy education in schools, the criticality of media literacy must be advanced in meaningful and comprehensive ways that enable students to successfully access, analyze, evaluate and produce media ethically and effectively across diverse platforms and channels. Institutional analysis in the digital age means understanding who controls the architecture(s) of digital technology, and how they use it. Big data, high tech, and rich transnational global media all need to be carefully studied and held accountable. “Panopticonic” practices such as surveillance, geoloca
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Shulga, Olga. "Confidentiality and scam in the internet." University Economic Bulletin, no. 48 (March 30, 2021): 76–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.31470/2306-546x-2021-48-76-91.

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The purpose of the work is to consider the theoretical and practical aspects of fraud in the Internet sphere and on this basis to identify ways to ensure the confidentiality and cybersecurity of private users and commercial organizations. The methodological basis of the work is the use of general and special methods of scientific knowledge. Methods of combining analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction have been used to identify different types of fraud in the Internet. Generalization methods, logical and empirical, were used in determining the directions of development of the national c
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Mendoza Navarrete, Martha Lorena, Yenny Alexandra Zambrano Villegas, Lilia del Rocio Bermudez Cevallos, and Yanina Alexandra Viteri Alcivar. "New technologies and new paradigms: the new technological societies approach." Universidad Ciencia y Tecnología 25, no. 110 (2021): 155–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.47460/uct.v25i110.487.

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New technologies represent novelty depending on the era in which they are viewed, but in all cases they represent social evolution in some way. At present, new technologies are associated with the use of computer tools that strengthen processes, mechanisms, and undoubtedly, social communication. This paper evaluates new technologies focused on social transformations, their impact on human behavior and the social repercussions they may bring with their prevalence over time. Several academic documents of a scientific and technical nature are evaluated, with a view to defining the paradigms of te
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Gramatiuk, Svetlana Mykolaivna, Irina Yuriivna Bagmut, Michael Ivanivich Sheremet, et al. "Pediatric biobanks and parents of disabled children associations opinions on establishing children repositories in developing countries." Journal of Medicine and Life 14, no. 1 (2021): 50–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.25122/jml-2020-0106.

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Pediatric biobanks are an indispensable resource for the research needed to bring advances in personalized medicine into pediatric medical care. It is unclear how or when these advances in medical care may reach children, but it is unlikely that research in adults will be adequate. We conducted the screening for a hypothetic problem in various European and American pediatric biobanks based on online surveys through e-mail distribution based on the Biobank Economic Modeling Tool (BEMT) questionnaire model. Participants in the survey had work experience in biobanking for at least 3 years or more
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Лазаренко, Ірина Сергіївна, Станіслав Васильович Салоїд, Світлана Олександрівна Тульчинська, Сергій Олександрович Кириченко, and Ростислав Володимирович Тульчинський. "NECESSITY OF IMPLEMENTATING DATA SCIENCE COURSE IN ECONOMICS CURRICULA." Information Technologies and Learning Tools 78, no. 4 (2020): 132–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.33407/itlt.v78i4.3505.

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The article describes the relevance and feasibility of implementation Data Science courses for leading economics majors: 051 Economics, 075 Marketing, 073 Management. Application of computer technology, mathematical methods and models, statistical analysis in the study process for economics students became routine long time ago, then why is Data Science linked mostly only to the faculties of information technologies? The specificity of economic professions requires the acquisition of skills in the work with large data sets, qualitative evaluation of statistics, predicting a large number of eco
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Shchekotin, Evgeniy, Viacheslav Goiko, Mikhail Myagkov, and Darya Dunaeva. "Assessment of quality of life in regions of Russia based on social media data." Journal of Eurasian Studies, July 28, 2021, 187936652110341. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/18793665211034185.

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The article offers a new method of quality of life assessment based on online activities of social networks users. The method has obvious advantages (quickness of research, low costs, large scale, and detailed character of the obtained information) and limitations (it covers only the “digital population,” whereas the rural population is not included). The article dwells on the potential of social networks as a data source to analyze the quality of life; it also presents the results of an empirical study of online activities of the users of VK, the most popular Russian social network. Using the
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Calvo, Dafne, Cristina Renedo Farpón, and María Díez- Garrido. "Podemos in the Regional Elections 2015: Online Campaign Strategies in Castile and León." RIPS: Revista de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociológicas 16, no. 2 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/rips.16.2.3897.

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Internet has revolutionized many aspects in the way that political parties communicate. The Network has induced a complete transformation of the political strategies used during election campaigns to spread their message to the electorate. Politicians use social networks and digital platforms to promote their messages and to communicate with citizens during these periods of time. Facebook has proven to be one of the most effective networks in this regard. The party Podemos was born in 2014 in Spain, surrounded by a deep economic, institutional and political crisis. This political party promise
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Kubheka, Brenda Zanele. "Bioethics and the use of social media for medical crowdfunding." BMC Medical Ethics 21, no. 1 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12910-020-00521-2.

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Abstract Background Social media has globalised compassion enabling requests for donations to spread beyond geographical boundaries. The use of social media for medical crowdfunding links people with unmet healthcare needs to charitable donors. There is no doubt that fundraising campaigns using such platforms facilitates access to financial resources to the benefit of patients and their caregivers. Main text This paper reports on a critical review of the published literature and information from other online resources discussing medical crowdfunding and the related ethical questions. The revie
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Tseng, Emy, and Kyle Eischen. "The Geography of Cyberspace." M/C Journal 6, no. 4 (2003). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2224.

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The Virtual and the Physical The structure of virtual space is a product of the Internet’s geography and technology. Debates around the nature of the virtual — culture, society, economy — often leave out this connection to “fibre”, to where and how we are physically linked to each other. Rather than signaling the “end of geography” (Mitchell 1999), the Internet reinforces its importance with “real world” physical and logical constraints shaping the geography of cyberspace. To contest the nature of the virtual world requires understanding and contesting the nature of the Internet’s architecture
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Leaver, Tama. "The Social Media Contradiction: Data Mining and Digital Death." M/C Journal 16, no. 2 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.625.

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Introduction Many social media tools and services are free to use. This fact often leads users to the mistaken presumption that the associated data generated whilst utilising these tools and services is without value. Users often focus on the social and presumed ephemeral nature of communication – imagining something that happens but then has no further record or value, akin to a telephone call – while corporations behind these tools tend to focus on the media side, the lasting value of these traces which can be combined, mined and analysed for new insight and revenue generation. This paper se
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Heemsbergen, Luke J., Alexia Maddox, Toija Cinque, Amelia Johns, and Robert Gehl. "Dark." M/C Journal 24, no. 2 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2791.

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This issue of M/C Journal rejects the association of darkness with immorality. In digital communication, the possibilities of darkness are greater than simple fears of what is hidden in online networks. Instead, new work in an emerging field of “dark social” studies’ consider “dark” as holding the potential for autonomy away from the digital visibilities that pervade economic, political, and surveillance logics of the present age. We shall not be afraid of the dark. We start from a technical rather than moral definition of darkness (Gehl), a definition that conceives of dark spaces as having l
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Dlouhá, Jana. "Call for papers – thematic issue Competences in Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)." Envigogika 9, no. 1 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/18023061.442.

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Competences have been identified as legitimate educational goals wherever it is not only knowledge that counts in learning (and educators are concerned with not only the cognitive domain in their teaching). There is an ongoing discussion on “key competences for all” identified by the European Parliament as a necessary prerequisite for personal fulfilment, active citizenship, social cohesion and employability in a knowledge society (cf. EP, 2006). Also in the field of EE and ESD, there have been attempts to find appropriate operationalisation of action-oriented, learner-centred, and socially an
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Marcheva, Marta. "The Networked Diaspora: Bulgarian Migrants on Facebook." M/C Journal 14, no. 2 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.323.

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The need to sustain and/or create a collective identity is regularly seen as one of the cultural priorities of diasporic peoples and this, in turn, depends upon the existence of a uniquely diasporic form of communication and connection with the country of origin. Today, digital media technologies provide easy information recording and retrieval, and mobile IT networks allow global accessibility and participation in the redefinition of identities. Vis-à-vis our understanding of the proximity and connectivity associated with globalisation, the role of ICTs cannot be underestimated and is clearly
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Kadivar, Jamileh. "Government Surveillance and Counter-Surveillance on Social and Mobile Media: The Case of Iran (2009)." M/C Journal 18, no. 2 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.956.

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Human history has witnessed varied surveillance and counter-surveillance activities from time immemorial. Human beings could not surveille others effectively and accurately without the technology of their era. Technology is a tool that can empower both people and governments. The outcomes are different based on the users’ intentions and aims. 2,500 years ago, Sun Tzu noted that ‘If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win numerous (literally, "a hundred") battles without jeopardy’. His words still ring true. To be a good surveiller and counter-surveiller it is essential to know both
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Dieter, Michael. "Amazon Noir." M/C Journal 10, no. 5 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2709.

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 There is no diagram that does not also include, besides the points it connects up, certain relatively free or unbounded points, points of creativity, change and resistance, and it is perhaps with these that we ought to begin in order to understand the whole picture. (Deleuze, “Foucault” 37) Monty Cantsin: Why do we use a pervert software robot to exploit our collective consensual mind? Letitia: Because we want the thief to be a digital entity. Monty Cantsin: But isn’t this really blasphemic? Letitia: Yes, but god – in our case a meta-cocktail of authorship and copyright –
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Teh, David. "Fibre." M/C Journal 6, no. 4 (2003). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2216.

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At first, no doubt, only the reproduction and transmission of works of art will be affected. It will be possible to send anywhere or to re-create anywhere a system of sensations, or more precisely a system of stimuli, provoked by some object or event in any given place. Works of art will acquire a kind of ubiquity. We shall only have to summon them and there they will be…They will not merely exist in themselves but will exist wherever someone with a certain apparatus happens to be. (Paul Valéry, ‘The Conquest of Ubiquity’, 225-6) Paul Valéry made these remarks in 1934, as the first drive-in mo
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Goggin, Gerard. "Broadband." M/C Journal 6, no. 4 (2003). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2219.

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Connecting I’ve moved house on the weekend, closer to the centre of an Australian capital city. I had recently signed up for broadband, with a major Australian Internet company (my first contact, cf. Turner). Now I am the proud owner of a larger modem than I have ever owned: a white cable modem. I gaze out into our new street: two thick black cables cosseted in silver wire. I am relieved. My new home is located in one of those streets, double-cabled by Telstra and Optus in the data-rush of the mid-1990s. Otherwise, I’d be moth-balling the cable modem, and the thrill of my data percolating down
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Brown, Adam, and Leonie Rutherford. "Postcolonial Play: Constructions of Multicultural Identities in ABC Children's Projects." M/C Journal 14, no. 2 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.353.

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In 1988, historian Nadia Wheatley and indigenous artist Donna Rawlins published their award-winning picture book, My Place, a reinterpretation of Australian national identity and sovereignty prompted by the bicentennial of white settlement. Twenty years later, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) commissioned Penny Chapman’s multi-platform project based on this book. The 13 episodes of the television series begin in 2008, each telling the story of a child at a different point in history, and are accompanied by substantial interactive online content. Issues as diverse as religious diff
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Burgess, Jean, and Axel Bruns. "Twitter Archives and the Challenges of "Big Social Data" for Media and Communication Research." M/C Journal 15, no. 5 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.561.

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Lists and Social MediaLists have long been an ordering mechanism for computer-mediated social interaction. While far from being the first such mechanism, blogrolls offered an opportunity for bloggers to provide a list of their peers; the present generation of social media environments similarly provide lists of friends and followers. Where blogrolls and other earlier lists may have been user-generated, the social media lists of today are more likely to have been produced by the platforms themselves, and are of intrinsic value to the platform providers at least as much as to the users themselve
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Maddox, Alexia, and Luke J. Heemsbergen. "Digging in Crypto-Communities’ Future-Making." M/C Journal 24, no. 2 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2755.

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Introduction This article situates the dark as a liminal and creative space of experimentation where tensions are generative and people tinker with emerging technologies to create alternative futures. Darkness need not mean chaos and fear of violence – it can mean privacy and protection. We define dark as an experimental space based upon uncertainties rather than computational knowns (Bridle) and then demonstrate via a case study of cryptocurrencies the contribution of dark and liminal social spaces to future(s)-making. Cryptocurrencies are digital cash systems that use decentralised (peer-to-
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Hagen, Sal. "“Trump Shit Goes into Overdrive”: Tracing Trump on 4chan/pol/." M/C Journal 23, no. 3 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1657.

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Content warning: although it was kept to a minimum, this text displays instances of (anti-Semitic) hate speech. During the 2016 U.S. election and its aftermath, multiple journalistic accounts reported on “alt-right trolls” emanating from anonymous online spaces like the imageboard 4chan (e.g. Abramson; Ellis). Having gained infamy for its nihilist trolling subcultures (Phillips, This Is Why) and the loose hacktivist movement Anonymous (Coleman), 4chan now drew headlines because of the alt-right’s “genuinely new” concoction of white supremacy, ironic Internet humour, and a lack of clear leaders
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Lotti, Laura. "DIY Cheese-making and Individuation: Towards a Reconfiguration of Taste in Contemporary Computer Culture." M/C Journal 17, no. 1 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.757.

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Introduction The trope of food is often used in the humanities to discuss aspects of a culture that are customarily overlooked by a textualist approach, for food embodies a kind of knowledge that comes from the direct engagement with materials and processes, and involves taste as an aesthetics that exceeds the visual concept of the “beautiful.” Moreover, cooking is one of the most ancient cultural practices, and is considered the habit that defines us as humans in comparison to other animals—not only culturally, but also physiologically (Wrangham). Today we have entered a post-human age in whi
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Potts, Jason. "The Alchian-Allen Theorem and the Economics of Internet Animals." M/C Journal 17, no. 2 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.779.

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Economics of Cute There are many ways to study cute: for example, neuro-biology (cute as adaptation); anthropology (cute in culture); political economy (cute industries, how cute exploits consumers); cultural studies (social construction of cute); media theory and politics (representation and identity of cute), and so on. What about economics? At first sight, this might point to a money-capitalism nexus (“the cute economy”), but I want to argue here that the economics of cute actually works through choice interacting with fixed costs and what economists call ”the substitution effect”. Cute, in
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Simpson, Catherine. "Cars, Climates and Subjectivity: Car Sharing and Resisting Hegemonic Automobile Culture?" M/C Journal 12, no. 4 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.176.

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Al Gore brought climate change into … our living rooms. … The 2008 oil price hikes [and the global financial crisis] awakened the world to potential economic hardship in a rapidly urbanising world where the petrol-driven automobile is still king. (Mouritz 47) Six hundred million cars (Urry, “Climate Change” 265) traverse the world’s roads, or sit idly in garages and clogging city streets. The West’s economic progress has been built in part around the success of the automotive industry, where the private car rules the spaces and rhythms of daily life. The problem of “automobile dependence” (New
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Dwyer, Tim. "Transformations." M/C Journal 7, no. 2 (2004). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2339.

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The Australian Government has been actively evaluating how best to merge the functions of the Australian Communications Authority (ACA) and the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA) for around two years now. Broadly, the reason for this is an attempt to keep pace with the communications media transformations we reduce to the term “convergence.” Mounting pressure for restructuring is emerging as a site of turf contestation: the possibility of a regulatory “one-stop shop” for governments (and some industry players) is an end game of considerable force. But, from a public interest perspective,
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Cham, Karen, and Jeffrey Johnson. "Complexity Theory." M/C Journal 10, no. 3 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2672.

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 Complex systems are an invention of the universe. It is not at all clear that science has an a priori primacy claim to the study of complex systems. (Galanter 5) Introduction In popular dialogues, describing a system as “complex” is often the point of resignation, inferring that the system cannot be sufficiently described, predicted nor managed. Transport networks, management infrastructure and supply chain logistics are all often described in this way. In socio-cultural terms “complex” is used to describe those humanistic systems that are “intricate, involved, complicated
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Grossman, Michele. "Prognosis Critical: Resilience and Multiculturalism in Contemporary Australia." M/C Journal 16, no. 5 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.699.

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Introduction Most developed countries, including Australia, have a strong focus on national, state and local strategies for emergency management and response in the face of disasters and crises. This framework can include coping with catastrophic dislocation, service disruption, injury or loss of life in the face of natural disasters such as major fires, floods, earthquakes or other large-impact natural events, as well as dealing with similar catastrophes resulting from human actions such as bombs, biological agents, cyber-attacks targeting essential services such as communications networks, o
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Busse, Kristina, and Shannon Farley. "Remixing the Remix: Fannish Appropriation and the Limits of Unauthorised Use." M/C Journal 16, no. 4 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.659.

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In August 2006 the LiveJournal (hereafter LJ) community sga_flashfic posted its bimonthly challenge: a “Mission Report” challenge. Challenge communities are fandom-specific sites where moderators pick a theme or prompt to which writers respond and then post their specific fan works. The terms of this challenge were to encourage participants to invent a new mission and create a piece of fan fiction in the form of a mission report from the point of view of the Stargate Atlantis team of explorers. As an alternative possibility, and this is where the trouble started, the challenge also allowed to
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Banks, John. "From Fetish to Factish and Back Again." M/C Journal 2, no. 5 (1999). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1769.

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Introduction This essay is very much an anxious response to an earlier article, "Controlling Gameplay", that I wrote for M/C about gameplay: the immersive, visceral experience of playing computer and video games. I argued that gameplay concerns the event status of playing computer and video games, and that as such it exceeds the symbolic content of games. Now, I continue to be troubled by the implications of this assertion -- does it not give up too much ground gained by the understanding that social practices such as gaming are socially constructed? Does it not return us to all of the problem
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Grandinetti, Justin Joseph. "A Question of Time: HQ Trivia and Mobile Streaming Temporality." M/C Journal 22, no. 6 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1601.

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One of the commonplace and myopic reactions to the rise of televisual time-shifting via video-on-demand, DVD rental services, illegal downloads, and streaming media was to decree “the death of the communal television experience”. For many, new forms of watching television unconstrained by time-bound, regularly scheduled programming meant the demise of the predominant form of media liveness that existed commercially since the 1950s. Nevertheless, as time-shifting practices evolved, so have attendant notions of televisual temporality—including changing forms of liveness, shared experience, and t
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Wagman, Ira. "Wasteaminute.com: Notes on Office Work and Digital Distraction." M/C Journal 13, no. 4 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.243.

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For those seeking a diversion from the drudgery of work there are a number of websites offering to take you away. Consider the case of wasteaminute.com. On the site there is everything from flash video games, soft-core pornography and animated nudity, to puzzles and parlour games like poker. In addition, the site offers links to video clips grouped in categories such as “funny,” “accidents,” or “strange.” With its bright yellow bubble letters and elementary design, wasteaminute will never win any Webby awards. It is also unlikely to be part of a lucrative initial public offering for its owner,
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Bayes, Chantelle. "The Cyborg Flâneur: Reimagining Urban Nature through the Act of Walking." M/C Journal 21, no. 4 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1444.

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The concept of the “writer flâneur”, as developed by Walter Benjamin, sought to make sense of the seemingly chaotic nineteenth century city. While the flâneur provided a way for new urban structures to be ordered, it was also a transgressive act that involved engaging with urban spaces in new ways. In the contemporary city, where spaces are now heavily controlled and ordered, some members of the city’s socio-ecological community suffer as a result of idealistic notions of who and what belongs in the city, and how we must behave as urban citizens. Many of these ideals emerge from nineteenth cen
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Ibrahim, Yasmin. "Commodifying Terrorism." M/C Journal 10, no. 3 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2665.

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 Introduction Figure 1 The counter-Terrorism advertising campaign of London’s Metropolitan Police commodifies some everyday items such as mobile phones, computers, passports and credit cards as having the potential to sustain terrorist activities. The process of ascribing cultural values and symbolic meanings to some everyday technical gadgets objectifies and situates Terrorism into the everyday life. The police, in urging people to look out for ‘the unusual’ in their normal day-to-day lives, juxtapose the everyday with the unusual, where day-to-day consumption, routines an
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Cutler, Ella Rebecca Barrowclough, Jacqueline Gothe, and Alexandra Crosby. "Design Microprotests." M/C Journal 21, no. 3 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1421.

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IntroductionThis essay considers three design projects as microprotests. Reflecting on the ways design practice can generate spaces, sites and methods of protest, we use the concept of microprotest to consider how we, as designers ourselves, can protest by scaling down, focussing, slowing down and paying attention to the edges of our practice. Design microprotest is a form of design activism that is always collaborative, takes place within a community, and involves careful translation of a political conversation. While microprotest can manifest in any design discipline, in this essay we focus
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