Users like you? Theorizing agency in user-generated content

Dijck, José van

doi:10.1177/0163443708098245

Cited by 875 publications

(430 citation statements)

References 21 publications

(12 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

386

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Massa yleisö on siis edelleen olemassa, mutta sen tavat kuluttaa mediaa massana ja olla yhteydessä toisiinsa ovat monipuolistuneet (Heikkilä & Ahva 2015). Kaikkiaan kaksinapainen ja polarisoiva jako vanhan ja passiivisen sekä uuden ja aktiivisen yleisön kesken on historiallisesti katsoen liian kärjistävä (Heikkilä & Ahva 2015;van Dijck 2009).…”

Section: Yleisön Uusi Rooliunclassified

Aktiivinen yleisö? <br>Tutkimus yleisön asenteista sisällön tuottamista ja jakelua sekä verkossa osallistumista kohtaan

Matikainen¹,

Villi²

2015

m&v

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Verkko ja sosiaalinen media ovat muuttaneet mediasisältöjen tuotantoon, jakeluun ja kuluttamiseen liittyviä asetelmia. Näiden muutosten myötä mediayleisöä on kuvattu entistä aktiivisemmaksi. Muutoksesta kertovat tutkimukset ja tilastot keskittyvät yleisesti tarkastelemaan verkon ja sosiaalisen median käyttötapoja ja yleisön toimintaa. Tässä artikkelissa näkökulmana on yleisön asenteiden tutkimus, eli miten yleisö arvottaa omaa rooliaan aktiivisina osallistujina. Tavoitteena on tarkastella erityisesti yleisön asennoitumista sisällön tuottamista ja jakelua kohtaan verkossa. Tutkimusaineistona on laaja survey-aineisto suomalaisista verkon käyttäjistä. Analyysimenetelmänä käytetään tilastollisia menetelmiä (faktorianalyysi, summamuuttajat ja ristiintaulukoinnit). Tulosten mukaan yleisö asennoituu varauksellisesti aktiiviseen osallistumiseen ja haluaa olla näkymättömissä. Tuloksia tulkitaan artikkelissa myös sosiaalisten representaatioiden kautta. Asenteiden perusteella muotoillaan kolme mediayleisöä kuvaavaa representaatiota: perinteisen mediayleisön, aktiivisen kansalaisen ja digieläjän representaatio. Tutkimuksen päällimmäisin havainto on, että asenteellisella tasolla yleisö suhtautuu itseensä perinteisenä mediayleisönä.

show abstract

Section: Yleisön Uusi Rooliunclassified

Aktiivinen yleisö? <br>Tutkimus yleisön asenteista sisällön tuottamista ja jakelua sekä verkossa osallistumista kohtaan

Matikainen¹,

Villi²

2015

m&v

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Here, it is the ability to move through space(s) that is deemed important and implicated in these constructions is also the notion of choice as a key facet of agency. As many new media theorists would argue (see for example van Dijck 2009van Dijck , 2011Barbules 2002, Gillespie 2010, Kember & Zylinska 2012 this undermines and negates the technology as a framing, meaningful or powerful actor, constructing it as a malleable if not passive space to be moved through. It is interesting to note that this construction emerges in relation to pregnant maternal subjectivity, but seems less possible (as I discuss later) for a mothering subjectivity.…”

Section: Technology Information and Agencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Irreconcilability in the Digital: Gender, Technological Imaginings and Maternal Subjectivity

Thornham¹

2015

Feminist Review

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract:Drawing on empirical research from two focus groups, this article investigates the narratives and discourses that emerged around pregnancy, technology, birth and motherhood. In so doing, the article engages in some longstanding debates within feminism around embodied and maternal subjectivity, agency and identity (see for example Hirsch 1992, Irigaray 1985, Kristeva 1980, Lazarre 1976, Adams 1994. Seen here, the focus groups serve initially to remind us of the pervasiveness of gender inequality and the continual ambiguity of, and anxieties around, maternal subjectivity. Secondly, the focus groups reconfigure these issues through a technological lens, which in turn, seems to offer new spaces where agency can be (momentarily, problematically) claimed. This in turn, extends existing debates in new directions through the particular framework of technology that is variously figured here as an object, as information and as imaginary digital space. All of these constructions however, become problematic as they -despite their promises -nevertheless ultimately and profoundly return the women to an emplaced, embodied subjectivity that has been at the heart of feminist debate for so long.

show abstract

“…In the last decade, several studies have been focussed on building credibility models [41], analysing quantitatively and qualitatively user generated content fluxes on the web by discussing their intrinsic characteristics, sources, subjects, drives [42][43][44], and the issue is still open and debated.…”

Section: Data Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Alpine Glaciology: An Historical Collaboration between Volunteers and Scientists and the Challenge Presented by an Integrated Approach

Criscuolo

Pepe

Seppi

et al. 2013

IJGI

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

European Alpine glaciology has a long tradition of studies and activities, in which researchers have often relied on the field work of some specialized volunteer operators. Despite the remarkable results of this cooperation, some problems in field data harmonization and in covering the whole range of monitored glaciers are still present. Moreover, dynamics of reduction, fragmentation and decline, which in recent decades characterize Alpine glaciers, make more urgent the need to improve spatial and temporal monitoring, still maintaining adequate quality standards. Scientific field monitoring activities on Alpine glaciers run parallel to a number of initiatives by individuals and amateur associations, keepers of alternative, experiential and para-scientific knowledge of the glacial environment. Problems of harmonization, coordination, recruitment and updating can be addressed with the help of a collaborative approach-citizen science-like-in which the scientific coordination guarantees information quality and web 2.0 tools operate as mediators between expert glaciologists and non-expert contributors. This paper gives an overview of glaciological information currently produced in the European Alpine region, representing it in an organized structure, functional to the OPEN ACCESS

show abstract