tomnkls

STS student, Munich

[tomnkls @tomnkls]

Always intriguing to use the Harawayian "God Trick" as starting point! Wang, & Liu (2021) demonstrate what would get lost in purely quant. #BigData studies & why the granular, in-depth accounts do no only count for science but for actual people and their lives #digimediapublics2

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Enjoyed Merten's (2020) understanding of repertoire maps. The simplicity, interviewee involvement and treating media practices as a choice to use or non-use from a certain agnostic perspective is a strength of this paper and method #digimediapublics2

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"Hello, World"... Looking forward to getting hands on with R for the first time tomorrow📊👨‍💻 #digimediapublics2

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"Dictionaries can be particularly useful for coding emotion, as they are difficult for humans to reliably code" (W. et al., 2019: 703) Put differently, do our own emotions keep us from coding other humans' emotions reliably? A problem that machines don't have.. #digimediapublics2

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@motoko42 Very interesting! Have you already identified some - what Walter et al. (2019) would call - "power users" central to the network or even self-declared (pseudo-)scientists in there? Studying their tone, e.g. emojis, & the notion of certainty will be exciting. #digimediapublics2

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Walter et al. (2019) raise important issues on making the public understanding of science 21st century-proof. Can we finally get rid of the ideal of this mystical (and longly overdue) "pure scientist"? Or to put it in Latour's words: Have we never been modern? #digimediapublics2

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Picking up the author's claim for making more intersectionality visible, today's news from our French neighbor illustrate how a crossnational icon enters the Panthéon - the French Hall of Fame. As 6th woman next to 75 men and first black woman at all... #digimediapublics2

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Why France is declaring Josephine Baker a national hero https://t.co/ssKclePku5

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@Hyazinth9 That passage struck me too. Do entertainment and spectacles always go hand in hand with trivializing or ridiculing the message?! In my view, a spectacle denotes something that catches attention & attracts spectators -- an integral learning from Adut, 2012. #digimediapublics2

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Trenchant intro into the German #outcry movement by Antonakis-Nashif (2015), leaving us with pertinent questions: What is the responsibility of initiators and activists when a movement spills over? Who are its legitimate spokespersons? Do we need spectacles? #digimediapublics2

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@LouseAesthetic Agreed. Her biologically-infused lens makes movements, their actions & power more tangible. However, with all the evolutionary “survival of the fittest“-rhetoric going on in fields like economy & innovation, where is the limit of such biological allegories?
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I was just brainstorming what further dimensions to add to her capacity-catalogue? Certainly, there are movements which also gain power in an economic sense, e.g. MAGA and its merch + donations. So what about a commercialization capacity? What else? #digimediapublics2

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Tufekci’s (2017) writing style and strong focus on storytelling makes the reading experience captivating, rich & entertaining. Especially her multiple-capacities lens turns out to be a valuable tool for systematic analyses of protest movements & #socialmedia #digimediapublics2

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With his last remark, he begs the juicy question whether journalists & mass media stay the “synthetizors“ of our increasingly complex world. Why shouldn’t algorithms & the coders inscribing them rule who is still visible to tomorrow's public? #platformization #digimediapublics2

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Ending on the desire for “synthetization“ to reduce complexity, journalists and mass media are still key for Schrape (2021). They create reference bases in our media environment marked by more ind. viewpoints & new sociotechnical logics of public visibility. #digimediapublics2

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En passant, Couldry (2013:45) opens up the philosophical question of existence and ties it to the practice of searching. What does it mean to exist in (social) media nowadays? Is being referenced by a search-engine still sufficient? #socialontology #digimediapublics2

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I truly enjoyed Adut’s (2012) view on the public sphere as a spatial construct, driven by attention as currency, the desire for fame (or at least gratification) and attempts to control/censor this spectacle. Interesting background on today's #attentioneconomy #digimediapublics2

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Towards the end of their work, Turner & Killian (1987:212) raise an interesting question about the primacy of competitiveness over correction in cases of protests: Is contemporary public attitude still merely focused on “what are they asking for this time?“ #digimediapublics2

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Great intro to the topic of #BigData research by Bone et al. (2016). However, I ask myself to what extent this approach (methodologically & content-wise) differs from state-of-the-art practices in data journalism. Where does this research project go beyond? #digimediapublics2