Audiences’ Coping Practices with Intrusive Interfaces: Researching Audiences in Algorithmic, Datafied, Platform Societies

Mollen, Anne; Dhaenens, Frederik

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-75638-7_3

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“…Kahn, 1996), a number of platform architecture management strategies were employed by fathers to work with and within, enabling them to manage their disclosure and support-seeking attempts using the tools presented by social media platforms. Developing tactics which Mollen and Dhaenens (2018) call technology management, fathers ‘establish practices – both individually as well as collectively – allowing them to still act in emancipated ways within the . .…”

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Affective coding: Strategies of online steganography in fathers’ mental health disclosure

Das

Hodkinson

2019

New Media & Society

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This article introduces the idea of ‘affective coding’ as a form of affectively loaded, digital social steganography – a form of hiding messages – as it presents findings from interviews with new fathers struggling to cope with and disclose mental illnesses, against the context of cultures of silencing. While previous expositions of online social steganography have considered its role in privacy management or its employment in concealing identities, we conceptualise affective coding as an agentic and discursive-material digital practice of attempted revelation, occupying a liminal space between silence and more explicit attempts to reach out, disclose and seek support. Our findings show men undertaking a range of seemingly minor online acts, each demonstrating subtle strategies of managing self-disclosure and social media architecture, and each encoded with a substantial amount of affective investment. We discuss motivations, strategies and outcomes of affective coding, before discussing its significance for self-disclosure in platform societies.

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Affective coding: Strategies of online steganography in fathers’ mental health disclosure

Das

Hodkinson

2019

New Media & Society

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“…There is, for instance, a growing literature about the ways users cope with data collection and develop tactics to avoid being registered, seen, etc. (Mayer, 2016;Mollen & Dhaenens, 2018), or on the contrary, tactics for being seen by the algorithm (Ruckenstein & Granroth, 2019), which Vignette 3 illustrates. As Lomborg and Kapsch observe:…”

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Data loop of media and audience

Mathieu¹,

Vengerfeldt

2020

MedieKultur

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As our digital footprints are collected and analysed by the media and fed backat us as new experiences, providing more data to collect, data circulates in a loopfrom audiences to media and back. This data loop is for media studies an occasionto revisit the media–audience nexus in an age of datafication. We argue that anaudience perspective is needed in order to break with the structure–agency linearityin current understanding of datafication. In this article, we develop a modelof the data loop that first presents the fundamentals of data circulation betweensocial actors and digital interfaces, then the moments of agency between actorsin a relation of mutual dependence. The article closes with a discussion of previousmodels within media and communication that have addressed similar ideas, suchas audience feedback, mutuality and circularity.

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“…Research has started to explore in more nuanced ways the tensions between datafication processes, the possibility of resistance and 'the spaces in between' (Kenney et al, 2015: 3) where intentionally resistant but also mundane forms of users agency can arise (Kennedy et al 2015;Selwyn and Pangrazio, 2018). Recent research has shown that users develop coping practices with intrusive digital media to suit their personal needs and by doing so resist certain features, functions or expectations attached to the platforms that they use (Mollen and Dhaenens, 2018). This includes well-researched online impression management strategies and technology management strategies (see Best and Tozer, 2012).…”

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Tactical agency? Young people’s (dis)engagement with WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger

Gangneux

2020

Convergence

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Drawing on empirical data, this article examines the ways in which young people negotiated messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp in their everyday lives, focusing in particular on the read-receipt feature embedded in the applications. While it is important to continue exposing and critically examining the power structures and socio-technological relations in which young people’s everyday engagement with social media platforms and messaging applications are entangled, the article argues that it is also crucial not to overlook the possibilities and forms of agency that can exist in this complex environment. Combining insights from Foucault and de Certeau, the article seeks to shed new light on the ways in which tactical agency can be enacted and cultivated by young people. This article contributes to current debates about agency, resistance and power in contemporary digital society as well as makes recommendations to foster more responsive digital literacies.

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Audiences’ Coping Practices with Intrusive Interfaces: Researching Audiences in Algorithmic, Datafied, Platform Societies

Cited by 24 publications

References 47 publications

Affective coding: Strategies of online steganography in fathers’ mental health disclosure

Affective coding: Strategies of online steganography in fathers’ mental health disclosure

Data loop of media and audience

Tactical agency? Young people’s (dis)engagement with WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger

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