Mapping civic experiences in Estonia

Kaun, Anne

doi:10.1515/commun-2012-0014

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“…Whereas the interviews capture users’ knowledge about algorithmic curation, the think-aloud walk-through makes it possible to observe how such algorithmic literacy is applied in practice. Second, while the interviews highlight the unspecific experiences that users acquire over time ( Erfahrung ), the walk-through and think-aloud methods bring consciousness to users’ concrete encounters with algorithms ( Erlebnisse ) (see Turner’s, 1985, distinction in Kaun, 2012) that they might normally take for granted (Hamilton et al, 2014). Finally, conducting walk-throughs in addition to in-depth interviews enables users to show, not just tell, researchers their algorithmic experiences.…”

Section: Studying Algorithmic Literacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Experiencing Algorithms: How Young People Understand, Feel About, and Engage With Algorithmic News Selection on Social Media

Swart

2021

Social Media + Society

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The news that young people consume is increasingly subject to algorithmic curation. Yet, while numerous studies explore how algorithms exert power in citizens’ everyday life, little is known about how young people themselves perceive, learn about, and deal with news personalization. Considering the interactions between algorithms and users from an user-centric perspective, this article explores how young people make sense of, feel about, and engage with algorithmic news curation on social media and when such everyday experiences contribute to their algorithmic literacy. Employing in-depth interviews in combination with the walk-through method and think-aloud protocols with a diverse group of 22 young people aged 16–26 years, it addresses three current methodological challenges to studying algorithmic literacy: first, the lack of an established baseline about how algorithms operate; second, the opacity of algorithms within everyday media use; and third, limitations in technological vocabularies that hinder young people in articulating their algorithmic encounters. It finds that users’ sense-making strategies of algorithms are context-specific, triggered by expectancy violations and explicit personalization cues. However, young people’s intuitive and experience-based insights into news personalization do not automatically enable young people to verbalize these, nor does having knowledge about algorithms necessarily stimulate users to intervene in algorithmic decisions.

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Section: Studying Algorithmic Literacymentioning

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Experiencing Algorithms: How Young People Understand, Feel About, and Engage With Algorithmic News Selection on Social Media

Swart

2021

Social Media + Society

156

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“…This article proposes an analysis of media criticism from citizens’ perspective that is based on material conducted for a study on civic and media experiences (Kaun 2013, 2012), namely, how young Estonians experience themselves in their role as citizens. While investigating civic and media experiences of young Estonians, their media criticism was exceptionally prominent.…”

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‘I really don’t like them!’ – Exploring citizens’ media criticism

Kaun

2014

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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In information and media affluent societies, the critical ability of citizens is increasingly important. This is reflected in a number of political initiatives that aim at engaging citizens in questions of media content and production, often labelled as media literacy. In this context, skills related to media technologies that are often accentuated in media literacy education are a necessary but not sufficient condition for media literacy. Critical reflexivity and critical practices are crucial for media literacy and therefore in the centre of this article. This article proposes an analysis of media criticism from a citizens’ perspective. Drawing on solicited, open-ended online diaries as well as in-depth interviews with young Estonian citizens, the article applies an inductive approach to media criticism while paying attention to the specific context in which the media criticism arises.

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“…They argued for a broader definition of "politics" and defined "public connection" as the connection (via the media) to public issues beyond purely private concerns (Couldry et al, 2010). The notion of "public connection" was further developed by Kaun (2012), who defined public connection as sets of civic experiences rather than predefined practices, focusing particularly on public connection as an orientation and less on the formal political acts. Following Mouffe's concept of "radical democratic citizenship," Kaun (2012) emphasized the importance of agonistic struggles and power relations to citizenship practices and argued that the conflictual perspective in the theoretical framework proposed by Couldry et al (2010) was underdeveloped, indicating that what constitutes common concerns is a struggle and constant negotiation.…”

Section: Citizenship As Everyday Mediated Orientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stratified Citizens: Conceptualizing Civic Capital in Mediatized Societies

Sivertsen

Hartley

2023

Social Media + Society

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While there are many ways to understand citizenship in terms of what constituents (should) do, think, feel, and say, there is a felt absence of a perspective that factors in the social reasons for how people enact citizenship and the role of media in enacting such forms of citizenship. Based on a review of key studies of citizenship in audience research and political science, this study introduces a Bourdieusian perspective to examine citizenship in mediatized societies. We argue for two main advantages to this approach. First, it cuts across scholarly silos and scrutinizes the civic habitus of people as it unfolds across both mediated and non-mediated life. Citizenship is thus seen as a complex interplay of online and offline practices that vary for agents across the social space. Second, this approach is attentive to dimensions of social inequality and power, emphasizing how the many citizenship practices in the modern era are situated in a vertically stratified social world with a distinct symbolic order. Linking this to the concepts of symbolic power and dominance, we develop the notion of civic capital to illuminate how certain forms of citizenship practices, mostly those available to the affluent strata, are elevated as correct expressions of legitimate citizenship, whereas others are frowned upon.

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Mapping civic experiences in Estonia

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

Experiencing Algorithms: How Young People Understand, Feel About, and Engage With Algorithmic News Selection on Social Media

Experiencing Algorithms: How Young People Understand, Feel About, and Engage With Algorithmic News Selection on Social Media

‘I really don’t like them!’ – Exploring citizens’ media criticism

Stratified Citizens: Conceptualizing Civic Capital in Mediatized Societies

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