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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 2.268) 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 2.268) 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 2.268) 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 2.268) 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 2.268) 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 2.268) 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 2.268) 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 2.268) 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 2.268) 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
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Digital methods for sensory media research: Toolmaking as a critical technical practice Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Jason Chao, Daniela van Geenen, Carolin Gerlitz, Fernando N van der Vlist
‘Digital methods’ turn to medium-specific and online avenues for social and cultural research. While these approaches foster empirical media studies, it has become increasingly challenging to ‘follow the medium’ and ‘repurpose’ its methods. The prominence of sensory media such as ‘smart’ networked devices (e.g. mobile phones) in mundane practices and their infrastructural dependencies confront media
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The making of critical data center studies Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Dustin Edwards, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper, Mél Hogan
In this article, the authors demonstrate how the data center has become a key site, object, and metaphor for interdisciplinary scholarship of the internet. While the data center is a fabrication of engineering, computer science, and cognate fields, it has been the critical gaze of scholars outside of those industries. Together, this scholarship has established the field of Critical Data Center Studies
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Slantwise disengagement: Explaining Facebook users’ acts beyond resistance/internalization of domination binary Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Venetia Papa, Theodoros Kouros
This theoretical and empirical investigation builds upon the concept of ‘slantwise behavior’ to further complicate notions of the ‘digital disengagement’ of subjects within technological infrastructures such as Facebook. It has been previously suggested that the ubiquity of the data privacy paradox is the most common reason for disengagement practices. Our study contributes to this discussion by examining
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‘People don’t buy art, they buy artists’: Robot artists – work, identity, and expertise Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Daniel Ashton, Karen Patel
This article critically examines the construction of the artistic identity and career of Ai-Da, ‘the world's first ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist’. Engaging with scholarship on posthumanism and creative assemblages, and creative work, identity and expertise, this article conceptualises Ai-Da's distinctive positioning and focuses on the practices used to construct a creative worker identity and
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Sociohistorical development of sim racing in European and Asia-Pacific esports: A cross-cultural qualitative study Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Florian Lefebvre, Ville Malinen, Veli-Matti Karhulahti
With the accelerated growth of the sim racing industry over the last few years, research on the phenomenon has started to emerge. Nonetheless, the history of sim racing remains unmapped. This study aims to fill the gap by investigating the development in sim racing in Europe and in Asia-Pacific between 1997 and 2021. Twenty four semi-structured interviews were carried out with experts representing
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Nextdoor v. the community network literature: Do Nextdoor’s uses match the potential envisioned for ComNets Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Jonathan Lillie, Matthew Achhammer
This study considers whether the use of the neighborhood-focused social networking web application, Nextdoor, might in certain instances rise to the level of community development envisioned over 2...
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Know(ing) Infrastructure: The Wayback Machine as object and instrument of digital research Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Jessica Ogden, Edward Summers, Shawn Walker
From documenting human rights abuses to studying online advertising, web archives are increasingly positioned as critical resources for a broad range of scholarly Internet research agendas. In this...
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Delivery riders’ cultural production in Spain: A thematic analysis of their self-representation on YouTube Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Fernanda Pires, José M Tomasena, Martina Piña
This study analyses YouTube videos about delivery riders in Spain as well as the channels in which the videos were uploaded. The aim is to understand the ways that riders are represented in the vid...
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Politicizing witnessing: Testimonial user-generated content in the aftermath of Rousseff’s impeachment in Brazil Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Marcelo Santos
This research presents the concept of testimonial User-Generated Content (tUGC): media content generated by ordinary citizens that witness an extraordinary event and publish it on their own channel...
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Technoliberalism and the Complementary Relationships between Humanitarian, Conservation, and Entrepreneurial Dronework in Indonesia Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Adam Fish
Criticism of commercial drones as violators of personal privacy or unsafe public annoyances continues to influence public and academic discourse. At the same time, the commercial drone’s benefits f...
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‘If you press this, I’ll pay’: MrBeast, YouTube, and the mobilisation of the audience commodity in the name of charity Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Vincent Miller, Eddy Hogg
This paper examines a new form of philanthropic fundraising as pioneered by the YouTuber MrBeast. We argue that MrBeast, by harnessing the advertising revenue sharing model of YouTube’s Partner Pro...
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Political Solutions or user Responsibilization? How Politicians understand Problems Connected to Digital Overload Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Gunn Enli, Karin Fast
Politicians are decision-makers responsible for policy and opinion leaders with unique powers to construct challenges and problems as political. An emerging problematic issue pertains to users’ exp...
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Depression representations on the most popular Russian-language YouTube channels Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Oxana Mikhaylova
This article analyzes the mental health discourse on the most popular Russian-language channels on YouTube. The main research focus is depression representations. In total 345 videos were examined,...
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Engender(ing) immigrant space: A praxis through collaborative storytelling and interactive documentary Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Sana Akram
Immigrant space – a place of convergence of multiple movements – engenders through rhythms of the everyday and an art of inhabitation of its people. It comprises stories of resilience that must be ...
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‘Listening closely’ to mediated intimacies and podcast intimacies in Song Exploder Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Kyra Clarke, Collin Bjork
Intimacy is an important and growing concept in both media studies and podcast studies. But research regarding intimacies in both disciplines has yet to fully account for the connection between sou...
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What is so funny about platform labour in Brazil? Ride-hailing drivers’ use of humour and memes on Facebook groups Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Fernanda Pires, Tugce Ataci, Willian Fernandes Araujo
In this article, we focused on data drawn from two Brazilian Facebook groups that discuss on-demand driving (Uber and 99Pop). We focus particularly on the use of humour in the stories that on-deman...
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Digital methods as ‘experimental a priori’ – how to navigate vague empirical situations as an operationalist pragmatist Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Anders Koed Madsen
Digitalisation and computation presents us with a vague empirical world that unsettles established links between measurements and values. As more and more actors use digital media to produce data a...
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The mutual configuration of affordances and technological frames: Content creators in the Chilean influencer industry Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Arturo Arriagada, Ignacio Siles
Examining the case of the Chilean influencer industry, this paper argues for situating affordances within a wider context in which the features of platforms acquire meanings. Our analysis focuses o...
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Augmented play: An analysis of augmented reality features in location-based games Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Kati Alha, Dale Leorke, Elina Koskinen, Janne Paavilainen
As well as popularising location-based games, Pokémon GO helped connect location-based play with augmented reality (AR), bringing this still-nascent technology into the mainstream. Despite growing ...
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Cyber Nuts and Bolts: Effective Participatory Online Learning, Theory and Practice Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Josie Barnard SFHEA
This article presents emergent findings from an empirical research study conducted during Covid lockdown with 52 undergraduate students at a UK university November 2020–April 2021. The research stu...
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Spray without politics? Contrasting street-based perceptions and computer vision framings of graffitied Rome Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Helton Levy, Eleonora Diamanti
The city of Rome has been a contested site for unauthorized graffiti since antiquity. Modern times have seen graffiti practices endure in their disruptive form and viral versions of digital street ...
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Relating, searching, and referencing: Assessing the appeal of using GIFs to communicate Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Scott Haden Church, Jesse King, Tom Robinson, Clark Callahan
GIF scholarship largely focuses on GIF use in online spaces such as Tumblr, but few studies explore the motivations of GIF users in other communicative contexts, like text messaging or messaging ap...
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Deep Nostalgia: Remediated memory, algorithmic nostalgia and technological ambivalence Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Jenny Kidd, Eva Nieto McAvoy
Digital recreations of the past, and of the deceased, are part of the Internet’s present. They circulate within social networks where logics of connection and connectivity underpin increasingly per...
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From Bitcoin to Farm Bank: An idiotic inquiry into blockchain speculation Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Rolien Hoyng
Bitcoin’s uptake in Turkey has ranked among the highest in the world. Meanwhile, moral judgment about cryptocurrency has remained unsure about its comparison to other types of investment: what is a...
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Theming electracy: An interview with Gregory L. Ulmer Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Jernej Markelj, Scott Sundvall
This interview seeks to provide a thorough and discerning overview of the various theories, concepts and issues guiding the work of Gregory L. Ulmer. The central aim of Ulmer’s multifaceted project...
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Reading literature in/against the digital age: Shallow assumptions, deep problems, expectant pedagogies Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Colette Gordon
Following the popular theme of Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (2010), various commentators observe the erosion of what used to be called ‘reading’, but is no...
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Cooperative affordances: How instant messaging apps afford learning, resistance and solidarity among food delivery workers Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Tiziano Bonini, Emiliano Treré, Zizheng Yu, Swati Singh, Daniele Cargnelutti, Francisco Javier López-Ferrández
This paper aims to understand the practices and meanings associated with the creation and use of private chat groups on instant messaging services such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Messenger and WeChat t...
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Mediatisation, digital spaces and live performance: Understanding Indian stand-up comedy and evolving performance landscapes Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Madhavi Shivaprasad
This paper is a reflection on the points of convergence between live performance and the media within Indian stand-up comedy. Traditionally, live performance has been seen in opposition to the medi...
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(De)constructing machines as critical technical practice Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Winnie Soon, Pablo R Velasco
This paper discusses the role of technology under the framework of Critical Technical Practice specifically in the form of constructing artefacts and deconstructing tools in order to produce what P...
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Spanish Twitch streamers: Personal influence in a broadcast model akin to television Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-01-07 José Sixto-García, Diego Losada-Fernández
Following the migration of influencers from YouTube to Twitch and the boom in popularity experienced by the latter social network, this paper explores if brands are capitalizing on the influence ca...
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Returning to critical pedagogy in a world of datafication Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Riccardo Pronzato, Annette N Markham
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a further extension of the sociotechnical logics of digital platforms to every realm of social life. Given the colonialist, oppressive and exploitative dynamics throu...
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Digital resource abundance: How social media shapes success and failure of online mobilisation Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Håkan Johansson, Gabriella Scaramuzzino
This article explores how and why some online protests manage to gain digital resource abundance, that is, mobilising large numbers of people and attracting wide interest and support in a short spa...
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How to play in slow time: Embodying creativity literacies in digital learning environments Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Bryoni Trezise, Alexandra Tálamo, Maria White
This article considers how the emergent digital pedagogies used in a new creativity course run at the Univeristy of New South Wales contribute to the building of sensed, intuitive and embodied crea...
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Gazing or glancing? Mapping student engagement when film studies moves online Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Alexia Kannas, James Douglas, James Thompson
This article presents the findings of a study undertaken by a team of three film studies teacher-researchers working with undergraduate students in a course titled ‘Histories of Film Theory’. In th...
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From school strikes to webinars: Mapping the forced digitalization of Fridays for Future’s activism during the COVID-19 pandemic Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2022-12-24 Giuliana Sorce, Delia Dumitrica
This paper discusses the forced digitalization of activism brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic in the case of the transnational environmental youth movement Fridays for Future (FFF). Theoretical...
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From tool to tool-making: Reflections on authorship in social media research software Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2022-12-17 Bernhard Rieder, Stijn Peeters, Erik Borra
Social media research software has come to play increasingly important roles in processes of knowledge production. While epistemological, logistical, legal, and ethical concerns put the spotlight o...
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reCAPTCHA challenges and the production of the ideal web user Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Ben T. Pettis
The CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is found throughout many websites. By challenging users to read a line of scrambled letters, identify crosswalks in...
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‘People tell me quite intimate things’: The circulation of feelings and vague intimacy on politicised Instagram Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Mari Lehto, Mona Mannevuo
In recent years, Instagram has become an increasingly politicised platform. Even those who have become popular for producing lifestyle content have begun to merge societal issues with personal and ...
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Faking it deeply and universally? Media forms and epistemologies of artificial faces and emotions in Japanese and Euro-American contexts Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Thomas Christian Bächle
Attempts to visually represent the human face in various media forms have a long history. Fairly recent examples can be found in techniques that are used in animated films and video games (performa...
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Interface critique at large Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Michael Jason Dieter
This article considers how the pursuit of problematization advocated by Agre’s concept of critical technical practice has been articulated in relation to the increasing proliferation of interfaces ...
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Reproduce and adapt: Homestuck in print and digital (Re)Incarnations Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 FS Nakhaie
Homestuck is a hypermediated webcomic adventure that tells its story through music, animation, gameplay and even the structural features of its Web site interface. But it has also been 1) published...
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Independent podcast networks in Spain: A grassroots cultural production facing cultural industry practices Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Toni Sellas, Montse Bonet
This article analyses the main Spanish independent podcast networks. It is a two-phase qualitative study based on direct observation of the networks, a number of secondary sources and, especially, ...
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Stretching immersion in virtual reality: How glitches reveal aspects of presence, interactivity and plausibility Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Linda Ryan Bengtsson, Elizabeth Van Couvering
Virtual reality (VR) immerses users in others’ lives, creating empathy and understanding long after the VR scenario has finished. As VR technology has matured, VR scenarios have begun to be used in...
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From critical technical practice to reflexive data science Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Simon David Hirsbrunner, Michael Tebbe, Claudia Müller-Birn
In this article, we reconsider elements of Agre’s critical technical practice approach (Agre, 1997) for critical technical practice approach for reflexive artificial intelligence (AI) research and ...
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Interfering with the black-box-tradeoff model: Gephisto, a one-click Gephi for critical technical practice Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Mathieu Jacomy, Anders Kristian Munk
This paper presents and justifies Gephisto, an experimental tool visualizing networks in one click. Gephisto’s design exemplifies how we can interfere with a user’s utilitarian goals, by giving the...
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Never forget? Memory maintenance on an aging platform Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Frances Corry
This article addresses the intersection between platforms, their sociotechnical process of aging and memory practice, by focusing on local social platform OakdaleTalk and its use in reflecting on S...
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Systemic issues with narratives of identity: Toxicity and esports media professionals Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Mateusz Felczak
This paper aims to highlight structural issues concerning the conduct of esports media professionals and their work as social media influencers. The data selected for this study include footage fro...
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Rhetoric in the metaverse Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Sergio C Figueiredo
During the summer of 2021, the concept of the metaverse emerged as a macro goal for Big Tech and entertainment industry leaders. The concept is a familiar one: the creation of an embodied internet ...
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Social media, migration and the platformization of moral panic: Evidence from Canada Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 James P Walsh, Dallas Hill
As a contentious issue affecting the character, boundaries and future of social order, migration represents a recurrent source of moral panic. While analysts have considered conventional outlets’ r...
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Players’ perceptions of sexuality and gender-inclusive video games a pragmatic content analysis of steam reviews Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Joseph Kohlburn, Hyerim Cho, Hollis Moore
Video games reflect the current culture and society. Games stand as points of transmission that reflect cultural trends and social norms, although not comprehensively. While it seems that more game...
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When youth ecological commitment is hindered by identity issues: the case of commitment visibility on social networks Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (IF 2.268) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Jocelyn Lachance, Mathias Przygoda
Young ecologists find themselves torn between the desire to expose their commitment on social networks and the risks inherent in this exposure. Based on a qualitative methodology, we analyzed the v...