The Invisible Digital Identity: Assemblages in Digital Networks

Beck, Estee

doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2015.01.005

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“…These include Miguel Sicart's 'second self' (Sicart, 2009), Grant Tavinor's 'fictive self' (Tavinor, 2009), Marie-Laure Ryan's notion of 'narrative memory' informing the outcome of endings in interactive narra- tive (Ryan, 2015), and Barry Atkin's observation that accumulated memory allows a machine to 'see' a user (Atkins, 2013). A similar idea can also be found in the field of software studies, that of Estee Beck's 'invisible digital identity' (Beck, 2016).…”

Section: The Expressed Selfmentioning

confidence: 63%

Ethical Self-Reflection in Papers, Please

Sarian

2019

Cultural Science Journal

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This article argues that multiple endings and narrative memory within interactive narratives can engender ethical self-reflection in relationship with broader discourses surrounding controversial issues. It introduces the term 'expressed self' to describe this process. The expressed self is how an interactive text 'sees' the player-through either their alignment, faction favour, flags, etc-and is used to generate a personalised response to the player through their unlocked ending. This concept is then applied to a close analysis of Papers, Please by juxtaposing the 'Antegrian Husband and Wife' choice with the 'Snowier Pastures' ending. The manner in which this process takes place has implications for the ways in which videogames and interactive narratives engage with open literacy.

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Section: The Expressed Selfmentioning

confidence: 63%

Ethical Self-Reflection in Papers, Please

Sarian

2019

Cultural Science Journal

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“…Employing an example related to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Kellner and Share emphasize the subjective and ideological nature of human communication but fail to thoroughly consider how non-human actors might also influence communicative acts in new media. At the same time, the nonhuman exploration of new media appears frequently in the works of digital rhetoric scholars (Beck 2015;Brock 2019;Brown 2015). Our extension of Kellner and Share's model, accordingly, is meant to highlight the complex distribution of subjectivity, ideology, and agency across non-human and human relations.…”

Section: Problematic Information and Critical Media Literacymentioning

confidence: 93%

The Good, the Bot, and the Ugly: Problematic Information and Critical Media Literacy in the Postdigital Era

Jiang

Vetter

2019

Postdigit Sci Educ

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This paper explores Wikipedia bots and problematic information in order to consider implications for cultivating students' critical media literacy. While we recognize the key role of Wikipedia bots in addressing and reducing problematic information (misinformation and disinformation) on the encyclopedia, it is ultimately reductive to construe bots as merely having benign impacts. In order to understand bots and other algorithms as more than just tools, we turn towards a postdigital theorization of these as 'agents' that coproduce knowledge in conjunction with human editors and actors. This paper presents case studies of three specific bots on Wikipedia, including ClueBot NG, AAlertbot, and COIBot, each of which engages in some type of information validation in the encyclopedia. The activities involving these bots, illustrated in these case studies, ultimately support our argument that information validation processes in Wikipedia are complicated by their distribution across multiple human-computer relations and agencies. Despite the programming of these bots for combating problematic information, their efficacy is challenged by social, cultural, and technical issues related to misogyny, systemic bias, and conflict of interest. Studying the function of Wikipedia bots makes space for extending educational models for critical media literacy. In the postdigital era of problematic information, students should be on the alert for how the human and the nonhuman, the digital and the nondigital, interfere and exert agency in Wikipedia's complex and highly volatile processes of information validation.

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“…Social media services embed their algorithm into the web system to offer customized and personalized commercials and news feeds to the users as a way to commodify audiences. These automated algorithms seem to be neutral, but they encode human bias and are inherently constructed by designers, programmers, and architects (Beck, ; Gourarie, ). The predetermined algorithms favor certain kinds of participants and participations, thus reinforcing social, economic, and cultural classifications.…”

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“…These automated algorithms seem to be neutral, but they encode human bias and are inherently constructed by designers, programmers, and architects (Beck, 2015;Gourarie, 2016). The predetermined algorithms favor certain kinds of participants and participations, thus reinforcing social, economic, and cultural classifications.…”

Section: The Problems Of Consumerist Networked Audiences In Neolibementioning

confidence: 99%

Networked audiences and cultural globalization

Jung

2018

Sociology Compass

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Most research approaches globalization from a top‐down perspective that looks at how past economic, political, and cultural arrangements influence non‐Western cultures. This essay instead uses the concept of the networked audience as an entry point to understand the dynamics of cultural globalization. We first discuss the mass audience in relation to cultural imperialism/homogenization. We then examine the recent shift to the networked audience in the context of digital globalization, computer networking, and social media. Afterwards, we investigate how the conceptualization of global networked audiences contributes to new understandings of global cultures and exchanges. The network perspective suggests that the traditional conceptualization of globalization via the center‐periphery model no longer works, but rather that cultural flows through networks enable individuals to have some, but limited, agency and power to resist corporate and elite controls.

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The Invisible Digital Identity: Assemblages in Digital Networks

Cited by 59 publications

References 11 publications

Ethical Self-Reflection in Papers, Please

Ethical Self-Reflection in Papers, Please

The Good, the Bot, and the Ugly: Problematic Information and Critical Media Literacy in the Postdigital Era

Networked audiences and cultural globalization

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