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.
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.
From KPIs to KOLs: Regulating social media and influencers within VietnamUniversity of Sydney
The recent Facebook livestream by Nguyen Phuong Hang, which lasted for over three hours, vocally criticised, and called-out online celebrities for their dysfunctional behaviour, signifies a new era for social media and influencers within the country. As a key opinion leader (KOL) herself, Nguyen Phuong Hang has the capacity to swing public opinion, triggering a key regulatory moment for the Vietnamese government. As an already regulatory-tight country, Vietnam faces a paradoxical social media regulation moment: significant investment in its digital media future, while maintaining a consistent political line. As a result of this Facebook livestream, the Vietnamese government are looking to pressure KOLs and online influencers by increasing control over livestreaming: any social media account that has more than 10,000 followers must provide their contact information to the authorities. Social media platforms will be asked to remove content that has been flagged as problematic by government officials, highlighting Vietnam’s position on regulating foreign social media platforms, not only YouTube or Facebook specifically. This research draws on algorithmic visibility literature to examine the current state of regulation for Vietnamese social media users with a specific focus on KOLs. Drawing on several recent case studies, we highlight the current state of social media regulation in Vietnam, while also extrapolating the tension the country faces as it invests in and develops its digital and creative industries.
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Democracy, Participation and Convergent Media: Case Studies in Contemporary N...Terry Flew
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Terry Flew, Professor of Media and Communication, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology
From KPIs to KOLs: Regulating social media and influencers within VietnamUniversity of Sydney
The recent Facebook livestream by Nguyen Phuong Hang, which lasted for over three hours, vocally criticised, and called-out online celebrities for their dysfunctional behaviour, signifies a new era for social media and influencers within the country. As a key opinion leader (KOL) herself, Nguyen Phuong Hang has the capacity to swing public opinion, triggering a key regulatory moment for the Vietnamese government. As an already regulatory-tight country, Vietnam faces a paradoxical social media regulation moment: significant investment in its digital media future, while maintaining a consistent political line. As a result of this Facebook livestream, the Vietnamese government are looking to pressure KOLs and online influencers by increasing control over livestreaming: any social media account that has more than 10,000 followers must provide their contact information to the authorities. Social media platforms will be asked to remove content that has been flagged as problematic by government officials, highlighting Vietnam’s position on regulating foreign social media platforms, not only YouTube or Facebook specifically. This research draws on algorithmic visibility literature to examine the current state of regulation for Vietnamese social media users with a specific focus on KOLs. Drawing on several recent case studies, we highlight the current state of social media regulation in Vietnam, while also extrapolating the tension the country faces as it invests in and develops its digital and creative industries.
Presentation for a Conference entitled ‘McLuhan and Global Communication’, The Global Communication Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 13 June 2011.
Democracy, Participation and Convergent Media: Case Studies in Contemporary N...Terry Flew
Presentation to "Journalism in the 21st Century: Between Globalization and National Identity". International Communications Association regional conference, University of Melbourne, July 16-17, 2009
UNESCO's Internet Universality Indicators - A Framework for Assessing Internet Development.
Presented by Adeline Hulin at 2018 CMPF conference, Measuring Media Pluralism in Europe - Between on Risks and New Threats
Andrew Chadwick and Simon Collister (2014) "Boundary-Drawing Power and the Re...andrewchadwick
Slides for a presentation to the American Political Science Association Political Communication Section Annual Preconference, 2014, George Washington University, Washington DC, August 2014.
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Terry Flew, Professor of Media and Communication, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology
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www.americanthinktank.net
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Part I: Smarter Environments Theoretical Grounding
What is a Smart Environment?
Technological enablers: IoT, Web of Data and Persuasive Technologies
Technology mediated Human Collaboration: need for co-creation
Killer application domains: Open Government & Age-friendly cities
Part II: Review of core enablers for Smarter Environments
Co-creation methodologies: Service Design and Design for Thinking
Internet of Things and Web of Things
Web of Data: Linked Data, Crowdsourcing & Big Data
Persuasive technologies and Behaviour Change
Part III: Implications for CyberParks
European projects on enabling Smarter Environments: WeLive, City4Age, GreenSoul
Reflections on the need for collaboration among stakeholders mediated with technology to realize CyberParks
Conclusions and practical implications
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This document is CC-BY-SA licensed.
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Shanghai jiao tong keynote 12 june 2015
1. Digital Media Law, Regulation and
Governance: Public Policy and the
Future of the Internet
PRESENTATION TO U21 GRADUATE RESEARCH
CONFERENCE, SCHOOL OF MEDIA AND DESIGN,
SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY, 10-12 JUNE 2015
Terry Flew, Professor of Media and Communication,
Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of
Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Digital Media Research Centre
2.
3. The Digital Challenge to Media Law
1. Unique attributes of digital information
2. Global nature of the Internet
3. Does Internet law exist?
– the “Law of the Horse”
Digital Media Research Centre
5. Internet Governance
• Internet governance is the development by
governments, the private sector, and civil
society, in their respective roles, of shared
principles, norms, decision-making procedures
and programs, that shape the evolution and
development of the Internet.
Working Group on Internet Governance
Digital Media Research Centre
6. Policy, Regulation and Governance
• policy: goals and norms that inform and underpin relevant
legislation, and the intentions and instruments associated
with shaping the structure and behaviour of actors within a
bounded policy system (e.g. example media policy,
telecommunications policy);
• regulation: operations and activities of specific agencies that
have responsibility for oversight of the policy instruments
that have been developed to manage a policy system (e.g. US
Federal Communications Commission, Ofcom in the UK,
Australian Communications and Media Authority);
• governance: the totality of institutions and instruments that
shape and organise a policy system—formal and informal,
national and supranational, public and private, large-scale
and smaller-scale.
Des Freedman, The Politics of Media Policy (2008), pp. 13-14.
Digital Media Research Centre
7. Internet Governance in broad and
narrow senses
• Narrow sense: ‘the ordering of whatever technical systems
enable the operation of the global network of networks as
a platform for applications’ (Solum 2009: 49)
• Broad sense: ‘The technical infrastructure of the Internet
interacts with the ability of governments to regulate
applications, content and human activities that are enabled
and facilitated by use of the Internet. In other words, the
technical infrastructure of the Internet is connected to the
legal regulation of gambling and child pornography, to the
efficiency and transparency of the world economic system,
and to fundamental human rights, such as liberty of
conscience and freedom of speech’ (Solum 2009: 50)
Digital Media Research Centre
8. Models of Internet governance
1. spontaneous ordering: regulation of conduct
according to shared norms and values among user
communities
2. transnational institutions and international
governance
3. code and Internet architecture: design attributes of
internet hardware and software themselves regulate
how it is used
4. national governments and law
5. market regulation and economics
6. hybrid models (e.g. self-regulation overseen by
independent agencies)
Digital Media Research Centre
9. Internet Governance
• The best models of Internet governance are
hybrids that incorporate elements from all five
models. Internet governance is a complex task
requiring a complex set of regulatory
mechanisms. As a result, the optimal system
of governance is a combination of regulation
by transnational institutions, respect for the
architecture that creates transparency,
national regulation, and markets (Solum 2009:
87).
Digital Media Research Centre
10. The Policy Challenges of
Media Convergence
• ‘Australia’s policy and regulatory framework for content services is still focused
on the traditional structures of the 1990s – broadcasting and
telecommunications. The distinction between these categories is increasingly
blurred and these regulatory frameworks have outlived their original purpose’
(Convergence Review 2012: vii).
• ‘The industry is going through fundamental change in technology, in business
models and in corporate structures. It has become a single industry, thoroughly
converged and integrated’ (Konrad von Finckenstein, Canadian Radio-
Telecommunications Chair, 2012).
• ‘Lines are blurring quickly between the familiar twentieth-century consumption
patterns of linear broadcasting received by TV sets versus on-demand services
delivered to computers’ (European Commission, Preparing for a Fully Converged
Audiovisual World: Growth, Creation and Values, 2013 Green Paper, p. 1)
• ‘Policy and regulatory frameworks which were designed for traditional media
platforms and industry structures are no longer able to cope with the
characteristics of the converged media environment’ (Singapore Media
Development Authority, 2012, p. 5).
Digital Media Research Centre
11. What is Convergence?
1. Technological – combination of communication,
computing and media content (Three C’s)
2. Economic – digitally-based media conglomerates
and the digital conversion of traditional media
3. Social – user-created content; multi-screen
media
4. Textual – content re-use and transmedia
storytelling
Digital Media Research Centre
12. Related changes
• Ubiquitous high-speed broadband access
• Globalisation of media platforms, content and
services
• Accelerated platform/service innovation
• Proliferation of user-created and pro-am
media content
• Blurring of public-private and age-based
distinctions in media access
Digital Media Research Centre
13. Issues arising
1. What is a media company? Google>? Apple?
Facebook?
2. Political economy of platforms
3. Regulatory parity between “old” and “new”
media
4. Equivalent treatment of media content
across platforms
5. Platform neutral regulation?
Digital Media Research Centre
16. New complexities of copyright
1. Low cost digital
reproduction and
distribution (Internet, 3D
printing)
2. Growing economic
importance of IPRs
3. Copyrighted products and
global popular culture
4. Globalisation of copyright
and IP law
Digital Media Research Centre
17. Copyright and the creative industries
• ‘Societies that are open … assume that individual
expressions of a literary and artistic nature should be
freely shared as part of ordinary discourse … [as] our
contribution to a conversation’ (John Howkins, The
Creative Economy 2001, p. 55).
• ‘The principle that people deserve to be rewarded for
their creative efforts, and will only do so if they are
rewarded, and that society as a whole benefits if the
resulting creations and inventions are put into the
public domain and made freely available’ (John
Howkins, The Creative Economy 2001, p. 28).
Digital Media Research Centre
18. The Digital Economy Challenge
• Creative industries policy makers have tended
to be defensive about impact of new digital
platforms (Bakhshi, Hargreaves and Mateos-
Garcia, 2013 on UK case)
• Impact of digital distribution has been high on
incumbent CIs, but has made digital content
more widely available – business model
innovation
Digital Media Research Centre
19. Copyright central to global debates
about digital creative economy
Digital Media Research Centre
20. Global copyright debates
• Vast bulk of IPRs held in small number of
countries
• Piracy may be a rational response to such
inequalities of access BUT
• Very hard to develop local creative industries
in the absence of copyright/IPR protections
Digital Media Research Centre