Week 5: Discussion Resources

Below are readings that are mostly from the open journal First Monday arranged according to the three themes for this week:

  1. Information
  2. Social Media
  3. Communication

Choose one of these articles to address in your first post for the discussions based on the theme you will address. Note: If for some reason the link to an article is not working, please try cutting and pasting it into a new browser window. 

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Theme 1: Information

Allendorfer, W. H., and S. C. Herring. “ISIS Vs. the U.S. Government: A War of Online Video Propaganda.” First Monday, Vol. 20, no. 12, Dec. 2015.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v20i12.6336

Al-Rawi, A., and A. Rahman. “Manufacturing Rage: The Russian Internet Research Agency’s Political Astroturfing on Social Media.” First Monday, Vol. 25, no. 9, Aug. 2020.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i9.10801

Avieson, B. “Breaking News on Wikipedia: Collaborating, Collating, and Competing." First Monday, Vol. 24, no. 5, Apr. 2019.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i5.9530

Bay, M. “Weaponizing the Haters: The Last Jedi And the Strategic Politicization of Pop Culture through Social Media Manipulation.” First Monday, Vol. 23, no. 11, Nov. 2018.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v23i11.9388 

Burkell, J., and C. Gosse. “Nothing New Here: Emphasizing the Social and Cultural Context of Deepfakes.” First Monday, Vol. 24, no. 12, Dec. 2019.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i12.10287 

Carlson, C. R., and H. Witt. “Online Harassment of U.S. Women Journalists and Its Impact on Press Freedom.” First Monday, Vol. 25, no. 11, Oct. 2020.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i11.11071

Ferrara, E., H. Chang, E. Chen, G. Muric, and J. Patel. “Characterizing Social Media Manipulation in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.” First Monday, Vol. 25, no. 11, Oct. 2020.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i11.11431

Ferrara, E. “What Types of COVID-19 Conspiracies Are Populated by Twitter Bots?” First Monday, Vol. 25, no. 6, May 2020.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i6.10633

Hannah, M. “QAnon and the Information Dark Age.” First Monday, Vol. 26, no. 2, Jan. 2021.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v26i2.10868

Hara, N., and E. Frieh. “How Knowledge Contributors Are Legitimizing Their Posts on Controversial Scientific Topics: A Case of the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) Vaccine.” First Monday, Vol. 24, no. 11, Nov. 2019.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i11.9594

Head, A. J., E. DeFrain, B. Fister, and M. MacMillan. “Across the Great Divide: How Today’s College Students Engage With News.” First Monday, Vol. 24, no. 8, Aug. 2019.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i8.10166 

Le, V. “The Deepfakes to Come: A Turing Cop’s Nightmare.” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, vol. 17, no. 2-3, Dec. 2020.

https://doi.org/10.51151/identities.v17i2-3.468

Luceri, L., A. Deb, S. Giordano, and E. Ferrara. “Evolution of Bot and Human Behavior During Elections.” First Monday, Vol. 24, no. 9, Aug. 2019.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i9.10213 

Lysenko, V., and C. Brooks. “Russian Information Troops, Disinformation, and Democracy.” First Monday, Vol. 23, no. 5, Apr. 2018.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v22i5.8176 

Munn, L. “Alt-Right Pipeline: Individual Journeys to Extremism Online.” First Monday, Vol. 24, no. 6, June 2019.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i6.10108 

Paolillo, J. C. “The Flat Earth Phenomenon on YouTube.” First Monday, Vol. 23, no. 12, Dec. 2018.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v23i12.8251 

Sanfilippo, M. R., and Y. Lev-Aretz. “Topic Polarization and Push Notifications.” First Monday, Vol. 24, no. 9, Aug. 2019.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i9.9604

Shukla, S. “Infodemic Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic.” First Monday, Vol. 25, no. 12, Nov. 2020.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i12.10811

Woolley, S. C. “Automating Power: Social Bot Interference in Global Politics.” First Monday, Vol. 21, no. 4, Mar. 2016.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v21i4.6161 

 


Theme 2: Social Media

Albrechtslund, A.-M. B., and A. Albrechtslund. “Social Media As Leisure Culture.” First Monday, Vol. 19, no. 4, Mar. 2014.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v19i4.4877

Carlson, C. R., and H. Rousselle. “Report and Repeat: Investigating Facebook’s Hate Speech Removal Process.” First Monday, Vol. 25, no. 2, Jan. 2020.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i2.10288

Chapman, D., K. Miller-Stevens, J. C. Morris, and B. O’Hallarn. “A New Model to Explore Non-Profit Social Media Use for Advocacy and Civic Engagement.” First Monday, Vol. 20, no. 10, Oct. 2015.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v20i10.5912

Cirucci, A. M. “Redefining Privacy and Anonymity Through Social Networking Affordances.” First Monday, Vol. 20, no. 7, June 2015.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v20i7.5465

Engelmann, S., J. Grossklags, and L. Herzog. “Should Users Participate in Governing Social Media? Philosophical and Technical Considerations of Democratic Social Media.” First Monday, Vol. 25, no. 12, Nov. 2020.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i12.10525

Eranti, V., and M. Lonkila. “The Social Significance of the Facebook Like Button.” First Monday, Vol. 20, no. 6, May 2015.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v20i6.5505

Fornaciari, F. “Pricey Privacy: Framing the Economy of Information in the Digital Age.” First Monday, Vol. 19, no. 12, Dec. 2014.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v19i12.5008

Jardine, E. “Online Content Moderation and the Dark Web: Policy Responses to Radicalizing Hate Speech and Malicious Content on the Darknet.” First Monday, Vol. 24, no. 12, Dec. 2019.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i12.10266

Kalsnes, B., A. O. Larsson, and G. S. Enli. “The Social Media Logic of Political Interaction: Exploring Citizens’ and Politicians’ Relationship on Facebook and Twitter.” First Monday, Vol. 22, no. 2, Jan. 2017.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v22i2.6348

Kofoed, J., and M. C. Larsen. “A Snap of Intimacy: Photo-Sharing Practices Among Young People on Social Media.” First Monday, Vol. 21, no. 11, Oct. 2016.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v21i11.6905

Lapenta, G. H., and R. F. Jørgensen. “Youth, Privacy and Online Media: Framing the Right to Privacy in Public Policy-Making.” First Monday, Vol. 20, no. 3, Feb. 2015.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v20i3.5568

Leiter, Bryan. “Cleaning Cyber-Cesspools: Google and Free Speech.”  Levmore, Saul, and Martha Craven Nussbaum. The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy, and Reputation. Harvard University Press, 2010. Pages 155-172.

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March, L. “Rebel Reviewers: Social Media Review Pages as Sites of Confederate Memorial Discourses.” First Monday, Vol. 25, no. 12, Nov. 2020

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i12.10221

Nansen, B., D. O’Donnell, M. Arnold, T. Kohn, and M. Gibbs. “‘Death by Twitter: Understanding False Death Announcements on Social Media and the Performance of Platform Cultural Capital.” First Monday, Vol. 24, no. 12, Dec. 2019.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i12.10106

Park, G. “Eating (alone) With Facebook: Digital Natives’ Transition to College.” First Monday, Vol. 23, no. 11, Nov. 2018.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v23i11.8308

Raun, T. “"Talking About His Dead Child, Again! Emotional Self-Management in Relation to Online Mourning.” First Monday, Vol. 22, no. 11, Oct. 2017.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v22i11.7810

Seelig, M. I. “Social Activism: Engaging Millennials in Social Causes.” First Monday, Vol. 23, no. 2, Feb. 2018.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v23i2.8125

Seo, H., R.-W. Harn, H. Ebrahim, and J. Aldana. “International Students’ Social Media Use and Social Adjustment.” First Monday, Vol. 21, no. 11, Oct. 2016.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v21i11.6880

Shade, L. R., and T. Shepherd. “Viewing Youth and Mobile Privacy Through a Digital Policy Literacy Framework.” First Monday, Vol. 18, no. 12, Dec. 2013.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v18i12.4807

Stanger, N., N. Alnaghaimshi, and E. Pearson. “How Do Saudi Youth Engage With Social Media?” First Monday, Vol. 22, no. 5, May 2017.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v22i5.7102

Švelch, J., and V. Štětka. “The Coup That Flopped: Facebook as a Platform for Emotional Protest.” First Monday, Vol. 21, no. 1, Jan. 2016.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v21i1.6333

 


Theme 3: Community

Bostwick, E. N., D. Liao, and S. K. Lee. “Could I Be Pregnant? A Study of Online Adolescent Pregnancy Forums for Social Support.” First Monday, Vol. 24, no. 9, Aug. 2019.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i9.9950 

Brewster, K., and B. Ruberg. “SURVIVORS: Archiving the History of Bulletin Board Systems and the AIDS Crisis.” First Monday, Vol. 25, no. 10, Sept. 2020.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i10.10290

Forman, A. E., R. Kern, and G. Gil-Egui. “Death and Mourning as Sources of Community Participation in Online Social Networks: R.I.P. Pages in Facebook.” First Monday, Aug. 2012.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v0i0.3935 

Galuszka, P., and V. Bystrov. “The Rise of Fanvestors: A Study of a Crowdfunding Community.” First Monday, Vol. 19, no. 5, Apr. 2014.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v19i5.4117 

Golbeck, J., S. Ash, and N. Cabrera. “Hashtags as Online Communities With Social Support: A Study of Anti-Sexism-in-Science Hashtag Movements.” First Monday, Vol. 22, no. 9, Sept. 2017.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v22i9.7572 

Golbeck, J. “The More People I Meet, the More I Like My Dog: A Study of Pet-Oriented Social Networks on the Web.” First Monday, Vol. 16, no. 2, Jan. 2011.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v16i2.2859 

Kavanaugh, A. L., and Z. Song. “Engaging a Community Through Social Media-Based Topics and Interactions.” First Monday, Vol. 23, no. 4, Apr. 2018.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v23i4.8146 

Kavanaugh, A. L., and Z. Song. “Engaging a Community Through Social Media-Based Topics and Interactions.” First Monday, Vol. 23, no. 4, Apr. 2018.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v23i4.8146 

Massanari, A. L. “DIY Design: How Crowdsourcing Sites Are Challenging Traditional Graphic Design Practice.” First Monday, Vol. 17, no. 10, Sept. 2012.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v17i10.4171 

Moilanen, J., and T. Vadén. “3D Printing Community and Emerging Practices of Peer Production.” First Monday, Vol. 18, no. 8, July 2013.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v18i8.4271 

Velkova, J. “Open Cultural Production and the Online Gift Economy: The Case of Blender.” First Monday, Vol. 21, no. 10, Sept. 2016.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v21i10.6944 

Warmelink, Harald, and Marko Siitonen. “A Decade of Research into Player Communities in Online Games.” Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, vol. 5, no. 3, Sept. 2013, pp. 271–293.

http://ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=iih&AN=91913869&site=ehost-live&scope=site 

Whyte, C. “Of Commissars, Cults and Conspiratorial Communities: The Role of Countercultural Spaces in ‘Democracy Hacking’ Campaigns.” First Monday, Vol. 25, no. 4, Mar. 2020.

https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i4.10241