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Facebook’s ad hoc groups: a potential source of communicative power of networked citizens
2017
Ad hoc groups (sporadically formed on social network sites for achieving particular common objectives) have been seen as a public space for citizen participation and debate. This study focuses on Facebook’s ad hoc groups in Finland. The aim is to detect the potential of these groups to enhance networked citizens’ communicative power for raising societally important issues to public agenda and initiate changes in society. We suggest a categorization of the groups according to their missions, and present their members’ specific motivations and objectives through an online survey. Despite the general entertainment-orientation and self-referential nature of social media, the results show that a…
The overstated generational gap in online news use? A consolidated infrastructural perspective
2021
Recent research by Taneja et al. suggested that digital infrastructures diminish the generational gap in news use by counteracting preference structures. We expand on this seminal work by arguing that an infrastructural perspective requires overcoming limitations of highly aggregated web tracking data used in prior research. We analyze the individual browsing histories of two representative samples of German Internet users collected in 2012 ( N = 2970) and 2018 ( N = 2045) and find robust evidence for a smaller generational gap in online news use than commonly assumed. While short news website visits mostly demonstrated infrastructural factors, longer news use episodes were shaped more by …
The invisible setting of digital space: the Facebook case
2018
La neutralidad en la red no existe. El espacio digital puede ser adaptado de forma automática al perfil de cada usuario. Sin que este tenga que identificarse, las empresas de gestión de contenidos en Internet disponen de suficientes datos de cualquier individuo para poder filtrar los resultados de su búsqueda y personalizarlos, sin previo aviso, condicionando así su experiencia en la red. Esta investigación, de carácter exploratorio, aborda en primer lugar la descripción del espacio público digital. En segundo lugar, plantea una tipología de espacios digitales que se definen en función del grado de adaptación de los contenidos al usuario. Finalmente, presenta un análisis de caso de espacio …
Chances and Challenges of Computational Data Gathering and Analysis
2015
Digital and social media and large available data-sets generate various new possibilities and challenges for conducting research focused on perpetually developing online news ecosystems. This paper presents a novel computational technique for gathering and processing large quantities of data from Facebook. We demonstrate how to use this technique for detecting and analysing issue-attention cycles and news flows in Facebook groups and pages. Although the paper concentrates on a Finnish Facebook group as a case study, the demonstrated method can be used for gathering and analysing large sets of data from various social network sites and national contexts. The paper also discusses Facebook pla…
Natural light in the architectural interior: Fake news on the Caravaggio of Palermo
2022
The paper investigates the mystery of a painting, Caravaggio’s The Nativity, and the scope of certain design devices implied in the interior/exterior relationship and described as a function of recognisable physical elements. For a long time, it was believed that this painting, placed on the altar of the oratory of San Lorenzo, was made in Palermo. It is a piece of fake news detected by interpreting and examining an architectural interior. Here, the value of natural light emerges, and we glimpse an irrefutable truth and therefore achieve an understanding of what happens when observing The Nativity and the oratory. What is the difference between recognising and identifying the arche, that is…
Media and fake news: An analysis of citizens’ attitudes toward misinformation in European countries
2021
The rapid changes determined by the rise of Internet and the recent development of social media in daily life have led to profound consequences on the quantity and quality of data made available and on the mechanisms of their dissemination. The rapid spread of on-line disinformation is one of the most discussed topic, and has been identified as one of the top-trends in modern societies by the World Economic Forum, also because of the link between these processes and political communication. Thanks to the availability of micro-data from the Flash Eurobarometer survey on “Fake news and disinformation online”, the present work aims at analyzing the attitude of European citizens toward fake new…
Il progetto Fake News e lo spazio della città
2022
Attraverso una disamina di alcuni punti di passaggio e cambiamento della struttura delle tecnologie dell’informazione e della loro strumentalizzazione da parte dei sistemi di potere è possibile individuare alcune costanti utili per organizzare difese per una corretta informazione pubblica. Nella continua ricerca della libertà di comunicare le persone hanno bisogno di agganciare la dimensione del sociale in uno spazio della comunicazione in cui lo spazio fisico della città non è secondario. Questo perché la dimensione spaziale urbana e territoriale è l’ambiente indirettamente affetto dalle pratiche e politiche di governo della città generate dall’elaborazione delle informazioni pubbliche. Lo…
Fake news and infodemia at the time of covid-19
2020
The essay has as its object fake news and excess of pieces of information with particular attention to the pandemic emergency we are currently living: COVID-19. After a careful consideration about what fake news actually are, the paper analyzes the pitfalls concerning the communication through virtual technologies, where social networks let the news reach the user only if they pass some requirements, in order to give the user a personalized experience of being informed. As a result, the profiling process traps the user in a cage, which is a paradox, because the internet it’s literally supposed to be without borders and barriers. The current crisis caused by the global pandemic has brought t…
Re-thinking news: Information design and “antibody” contents
2022
Rethinking news and producing quality (“antibody”) contents as a remedy against the rampant proliferation of fake news (and the related erosion of democracy), starting from the values and approaches shared by the worlds of design and journalism can be - and certainly are - an effective and interesting way forward. The fertile confluence of the body of knowledge (and know-how) of these two disciplines has already produced excellent results, starting with design-driven experiments tried and tested in several significant experiences in Italy and abroad. As Paolo Ciuccarelli stated, “once again, designers as ‘meaning makers’ find today in the narrative of the world of the infosphere a design gr…
Viltus ziņu apkarošanas risinājumi Baltijas valstīs
2020
Darba tēma ir viltus ziņu apkarošanas risinājumi Baltijas valstīs. Darba mērķis ir noskaidrot, kā Baltijas valstīs risina jautājumus, lai ierobežotu manipulāciju ar komunikāciju infrastruktūru, radot, izplatot un pastiprinot viltus ziņas.Darba teorētiskajā daļā tiek izpētītas un aprakstītas teorētiskās nostādnes par viltus ziņām, definējumu dažādību, interneta vides izmaiņām un apskatīti viltus ziņu veidi. Darba empīriskajā daļā- izpētīti un aprakstīti valsts kā aktiera izmantotie instrumenti viltus ziņu apkarošanai- normatīvie akti, u.c. risinājumi; analizēti dažādu ekspertu viedokļi par iespējamiem viltus ziņu risinājumiem, analizēti sociālo tīklu viltus ziņu apkarošanas rīki; izpētīti ES…