The document discusses key concepts in digital sociology. It addresses 1) different terms used in digital sociology like cyber-sociology and digital sociology, 2) components of digital sociology like how technology impacts social worlds and selfhood, 3) prime activities of digital sociologists like using digital tools professionally and analyzing digital media use and data, and 4) information diffusion and how digital technologies influence information propagation.
Blocked by YouTube - Unseen digital intermediation for social imaginaries in ...University of Sydney
YouTube is one of the most globally utilised online content sharing sites, enabling new commercial enterprise, education opportunities and facilities for vernacular creativity (Burgess, 2006). Its user engagement demonstrates significant capacity to develop online communities, alongside its arguably more popular use as a distribution platform to monetise one’s branded self (Senft, 2013). However, as a subset of Alphabet Incorporated, its access is often restricted by governments of Asian Pacific countries who disagree with the ideology of the business. Despite this, online communities thrive in these countries, bringing into question the sorts of augmentations used by its participants. This article reframes the discussion beyond restrictive regulation to focus on the DIY approach (augmentation) of community building through the use of hidden infrastructures (algorithms). This comparative study of key YouTube channels in several Asia Pacific countries highlights the sorts of techniques that bypass limiting infrastructures to boost online community engagement and growth. Lastly, this article reframes the significance of digital intermediation to highlight the opportunities key agents contribute to strengthening social imaginaries within the Asia Pacific region.
"Open To The Public": Cultural Institutions, Digital Labor, and Local Network...jkmcgrath
Slides from a talk I gave as part of the "Public Humanities In A Digital Age" panel (organized by Nicky Agate) at ACLA 2016 (Harvard University). Additional context will be provided via a blog post about this talk; I'll update info here with the link when it's up.
Blocked by YouTube - Unseen digital intermediation for social imaginaries in ...University of Sydney
YouTube is one of the most globally utilised online content sharing sites, enabling new commercial enterprise, education opportunities and facilities for vernacular creativity (Burgess, 2006). Its user engagement demonstrates significant capacity to develop online communities, alongside its arguably more popular use as a distribution platform to monetise one’s branded self (Senft, 2013). However, as a subset of Alphabet Incorporated, its access is often restricted by governments of Asian Pacific countries who disagree with the ideology of the business. Despite this, online communities thrive in these countries, bringing into question the sorts of augmentations used by its participants. This article reframes the discussion beyond restrictive regulation to focus on the DIY approach (augmentation) of community building through the use of hidden infrastructures (algorithms). This comparative study of key YouTube channels in several Asia Pacific countries highlights the sorts of techniques that bypass limiting infrastructures to boost online community engagement and growth. Lastly, this article reframes the significance of digital intermediation to highlight the opportunities key agents contribute to strengthening social imaginaries within the Asia Pacific region.
"Open To The Public": Cultural Institutions, Digital Labor, and Local Network...jkmcgrath
Slides from a talk I gave as part of the "Public Humanities In A Digital Age" panel (organized by Nicky Agate) at ACLA 2016 (Harvard University). Additional context will be provided via a blog post about this talk; I'll update info here with the link when it's up.
A presentation I gave to introduce the Always on (them): Digital and Social Media Use in Education event at University of the West of Scotland in June 2016
How Does Social Media Negatively Influence Online BehaviourAllison Noble.
I shall be using this presentation to discuss my interdisciplinary research aims and progress. My work aims to research how social media is negatively influencing our online behaviours.
Exploring Research Opportunities in the Digital EraTogar Simatupang
The focus of this presentation is to specialize in the field of business sciences in areas that include entrepreneurship, finance, big data, and technology, operations and logistics, and human resources.
Digital sociology is a sub-discipline of sociology that focuses on understanding the use of digital media as part of everyday life, and how these various technologies contribute to patterns of human behaviour, social relationships, and concepts of the self.
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A century from now historians may look back on the beginning of the era of ubiquitous computing and note how human behavior fundamentally changed, when access to information and communication became instantaneous for nearly every person across the world.
This was the official presentation of SMART; a research group of iNOVA Media Lab. Presentation was held at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH), on 6 October 2016.
how to sell pi coins on Bitmart crypto exchangeDOT TECH
Yes. Pi network coins can be exchanged but not on bitmart exchange. Because pi network is still in the enclosed mainnet. The only way pioneers are able to trade pi coins is by reselling the pi coins to pi verified merchants.
A verified merchant is someone who buys pi network coins and resell it to exchanges looking forward to hold till mainnet launch.
I will leave the telegram contact of my personal pi merchant to trade with.
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A presentation I gave to introduce the Always on (them): Digital and Social Media Use in Education event at University of the West of Scotland in June 2016
How Does Social Media Negatively Influence Online BehaviourAllison Noble.
I shall be using this presentation to discuss my interdisciplinary research aims and progress. My work aims to research how social media is negatively influencing our online behaviours.
Exploring Research Opportunities in the Digital EraTogar Simatupang
The focus of this presentation is to specialize in the field of business sciences in areas that include entrepreneurship, finance, big data, and technology, operations and logistics, and human resources.
Digital sociology is a sub-discipline of sociology that focuses on understanding the use of digital media as part of everyday life, and how these various technologies contribute to patterns of human behaviour, social relationships, and concepts of the self.
Ms. Preeti M Surya HOD Department of Journalism & Mass Communication of #JIMSVKII has shared about Core News Values in Digital Age.
For More Query Call us on 09990474829, 011 61199191
Visit us at https://www.jimssouthdelhi.com/
Follow us on:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JIMSVASANTKUNJII/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jimsljptweets
Instagram : : https://www.instagram.com/jims_vk2/?hl=en
YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZgioa2rpculDY7bHlljD6g
Blog: https://jimssouthdelhi.com/blog/
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jims-vasant-kunj-38785a85/
A century from now historians may look back on the beginning of the era of ubiquitous computing and note how human behavior fundamentally changed, when access to information and communication became instantaneous for nearly every person across the world.
This was the official presentation of SMART; a research group of iNOVA Media Lab. Presentation was held at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH), on 6 October 2016.
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how to sell pi coins on Bitmart crypto exchangeDOT TECH
Yes. Pi network coins can be exchanged but not on bitmart exchange. Because pi network is still in the enclosed mainnet. The only way pioneers are able to trade pi coins is by reselling the pi coins to pi verified merchants.
A verified merchant is someone who buys pi network coins and resell it to exchanges looking forward to hold till mainnet launch.
I will leave the telegram contact of my personal pi merchant to trade with.
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how to sell pi coins in South Korea profitably.DOT TECH
Yes. You can sell your pi network coins in South Korea or any other country, by finding a verified pi merchant
What is a verified pi merchant?
Since pi network is not launched yet on any exchange, the only way you can sell pi coins is by selling to a verified pi merchant, and this is because pi network is not launched yet on any exchange and no pre-sale or ico offerings Is done on pi.
Since there is no pre-sale, the only way exchanges can get pi is by buying from miners. So a pi merchant facilitates these transactions by acting as a bridge for both transactions.
How can i find a pi vendor/merchant?
Well for those who haven't traded with a pi merchant or who don't already have one. I will leave the telegram id of my personal pi merchant who i trade pi with.
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Currently there are no website or exchange that allow buying or selling of pi coins..
But you can still easily sell pi coins, by reselling it to exchanges/crypto whales interested in holding thousands of pi coins before the mainnet launch.
Who is a pi merchant?
A pi merchant is someone who buys pi coins from miners and resell to these crypto whales and holders of pi..
This is because pi network is not doing any pre-sale. The only way exchanges can get pi is by buying from miners and pi merchants stands in between the miners and the exchanges.
How can I sell my pi coins?
Selling pi coins is really easy, but first you need to migrate to mainnet wallet before you can do that. I will leave the telegram contact of my personal pi merchant to trade with.
Tele-gram.
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@Pi_vendor_247
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Well as we all know pi isn't launched yet. But you can still sell your pi coins effortlessly because some whales in China are interested in holding massive pi coins. And they are willing to pay good money for it. If you are interested in selling I will leave a contact for you. Just telegram this number below. I sold about 3000 pi coins to him and he paid me immediately.
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Buying/Selling or investing in pi network coins is highly possible through the help of vendors. You can buy from vendors[ buy directly from the pi network miners and resell it]. I will leave the telegram contact of my personal vendor.
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Currently pi network is not tradable on binance or any other exchange because we are still in the enclosed mainnet.
Right now the only way to sell pi coins is by trading with a verified merchant.
What is a pi merchant?
A pi merchant is someone verified by pi network team and allowed to barter pi coins for goods and services.
Since pi network is not doing any pre-sale The only way exchanges like binance/huobi or crypto whales can get pi is by buying from miners. And a merchant stands in between the exchanges and the miners.
I will leave the telegram contact of my personal pi merchant. I and my friends has traded more than 6000pi coins successfully
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2. Focal Issues : by
Deborah Lupton :
Department of
Sociology and
Social Policy,
University of
Sydney
• Research: to let others know about, to learn
about that of others and to gather material to
support research.
• Creativity: using social media can be a great
way to create items to share with others quickly
and easily and often in a pleasing visual form.
• Engagement: social media offer an accessible
way to engage with other academics and non-
academics.
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3. Social Change
and
Information
Technologies
• Optimistic interpretations: ignoring social relations
that influence the social distribution and impact of
the new ICTs.
• The new digital technologies function as
commodities, and their distribution – at least
initially – tends to follow existing divisions of class,
race and gender.
• Rather than assisting with equalization, the new
information and communication technologies tend
to reinforce social inequality, and lead to the
formation of socially and technologically
disadvantaged and excluded individuals (Golding,
1996; Zappala, 2000).
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4. Terminological
Turmoil
• Sociologists have engaged in research related to the internet
since its inception. They have addressed many varied social
issues relating to online communities, cyberspace and
cyberidentities.
• 'cyber-sociology’,
• 'the sociology of the internet’,
• ‘the sociology of online communities’,
• 'the sociology of social media’,
• 'the sociology of cyberculture' or something else again.
• While the term 'cyber' was in vogue in the 1990s and early
2000s, reference to the ‘cyber’ seems to have been largely
replaced by the ‘digital’. ‘Digital sociology’ encapsulates the
concerns previously addressed by 'cybersociology' and extends
into this new era of mobile digital computer use. It is a neat
descriptive term that also references other disciplines and
their use of the term 'digital’.
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5. Digital
Humanities
• The definition of the digital humanities is being
continually formulated by scholars and practitioners.
Since the field is constantly growing and changing,
specific definitions can quickly become outdated or
unnecessarily limit future potential. The second volume
of Debates in the Digital Humanities (2016)
acknowledges the difficulty in defining the field: "Along
with the digital archives, quantitative analyses, and tool-
building projects that once characterized the field, DH
now encompasses a wide range of methods and
practices: visualizations of large image sets, 3D modeling
of historical artifacts, 'born digital' dissertations, hashtag
activism and the analysis thereof, alternate reality games,
mobile makerspaces, and more. In what has been called
'big tent' DH, it can at times be difficult to determine with
any specificity what, precisely, digital humanities work
entails."
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6. Digital
Humanities
• Historically, the digital humanities developed out of
humanities computing and has become associated with
other fields, such as humanistic computing, social
computing, and media studies. In concrete terms, the digital
humanities embraces a variety of topics, from curating
online collections of primary sources (primarily textual) to
the data mining of large cultural data sets to topic modeling.
Digital humanities incorporates both digitized (remediated)
and born-digital materials and combines the methodologies
from traditional humanities disciplines (such as history,
philosophy, linguistics, literature, art, archaeology, music,
and cultural studies) and social sciences,[6] with tools
provided by computing (such as hypertext, hypermedia, data
visualisation, information retrieval, data mining, statistics,
text mining, digital mapping), and digital publishing. Related
subfields of digital humanities have emerged like software
studies, platform studies, and critical code studies. Fields
that parallel the digital humanities include new media
studies and information science as well as media theory of
composition, game studies, particularly in areas related to
digital humanities project design and production, and
cultural analytics.
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7. Components
of Digital
Sociology
• Impact, development and use of technologies
and their impact upon and incorporation into
social worlds
• Concepts of selfhood may be investigated,
analyzed and understood.
• The Ways digital technologies have infiltrated
everyday life and have become such an
important dimension of how people gather
information
• How to connect socially with others the digital
world should now be a central feature of
sociological study and research.
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9. Prime
activities of
digital
sociologists
• Professional digital practice : using digital media tools for
professional
purposes: to build networks, construct an e-profile, publicise
and share
research and instruct students.
• Sociological analyses of digital media use : researching the
ways in which
people's use of digital media configures their sense of selves,
their
embodiment and their social relations.
• Digital data analysis : using digital data for social research,
either
quantitative or qualitative.
• Critical digital sociology : undertaking reflexive and critical
analysis of
digital media informed by social and cultural theory
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10. Professional
Digital Practice
• Building networks
• Facilitating public engagement
• Receiving feedback
• Establishing an e-profile
• Curation and sharing of content
• Teaching
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11. Analysing
Digital Data
The terms 'webometrics' or 'cybermetrics' have
been used to describe quantitative social research
using digital data sets drawn from network
websites and social media sites. While these
approaches seem quite widely used in such fields
as information science and technology, thus far
they seem little used by sociologists.
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12. Critical digital
sociology
• Directs critical attention at the ways in which
sociologists and other academics themselves
use digital media. This is a reflexive approach
that draws on contemporary social and cultural
theory to analyze and interrogate the kinds of
subject positions or assemblages that are
configured via digital technology use as part of
professional practice. While such a critical
approach does not preclude professional digital
use, it opens up a space for reflection upon the
implications and unintended consequences of
such practices.
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13. Information
Propagation
• Human social relationships were bounded
according to time and space, but the evolution
of information and communication technologies
tools allowed people to inexpensively and
reliably share information anytime and
anywhere through social media.
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14. The
“managed”
information
society
• Information is a reference point for contemporary (post)-
modern societies.
• Among the most important characteristics of the 20th
century is the intensification of persuasion efforts, due to
the modernization of politics, (generalization of political
participation).
• Information management is part of perception
management. Perception management includes the -
aligned with specific interests- attempt to influence the
public opinion and the adoption of the influence tactics
to the rationale of media used to disseminate the pre-
managed information.
• Under this scope, information becomes a specific means
of (re)orientation of power structures, a means for
constructing reality.
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15. Describing
propaganda
• In an age of managed information, hence of propaganda,
our actions should aim to recognize propaganda for what
it actually is: a form of communication and part of our
everyday life.
• The interests implementing propagandistic strategies may
agree or disagree with ours.
• Therefore, propaganda has to do with “sides” as well. The
information we believe in is education; the information
we don’t believe in is propaganda”.
• Propaganda is based on four interacting characteristics:
• 1. the attempt to influence peoples’ minds and behavior,
• 2. the efficient use of mass media,
• 3. the understanding of the psychological condition of the
pursuees and
• 4. the exploitation of socially established behavioral patterns.
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16. Propaganda, post-
truth (new
[media]
propaganda):
Similarities
and…similarities
(as
notion/approach)
• Just like propaganda, post-truth as a term
incorporates an inherent negativism, due to its
emergence in the public sphere after the
propagandistic campaigns of Trump and BREXIT
political representatives (persuasive definition).
• We should bear in mind that the term
propaganda and its contemporary equivalent,
post-truth, denote the fight of ideologically
different sides for the hearts and minds of the
people
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17. Comparative presentation of key aspects
of propaganda and post-truth
Propaganda Post-truth
Definition
Deliberate, mainly political, communication
process, exercised through the dissemination
of managed information. Seeks to influence
views, opinions and behaviors
Objective facts are less influential in
shaping public opinion than appeals to
emotion and personal belief
Communication environment
Unilateral mass communication/ interactive
communication
Unilateral mass communication/ mainly
interactive communication
Main aim Public opinion influence Public opinion influence
Discursive Characteristics
Emotion
Personal opinions/beliefs
Lies and the deliberate construction and
dissemination of specific -unilateral-
information
Emotion,
Personal opinions/beliefs
fake news
Approaches to the notion (+/-/0) Predominantly negative Negative
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18. Social Capital
A Conceptualization of Social
Capital
(see Castiglione 2008, chapter 7)
- The intellectual origins of the
concept of social capital
are wide-ranging:
- Human capital (Gary
Becker)
- Civicness (Alexis de
Tocqueville)
- Community (Tönnies)
- Social norms of cooperation
(Durkheim,
Weber, Simmel)
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19. Social Capital
Coleman ‘Social capital is defined by
its function. It is not a single entity,
but a variety of different entities
having two characteristics in
common: They all consist of some
aspect of social structure, and they
facilitate certain actions of individuals
who are within the structure’
(Coleman 1990, p. 302)[25].
Fukuyama ‘the
ability of people to work together for
common purposes in groups and
organizations’ (Fukuyama 1995, p.
10)[26].’Social capital can be defined
simply as the existence of a certain
set of informal values or norms
shared among members of a group
that permit cooperation among them’
(Fukuyama 1997)[26].
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