IR14 | AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research

Papers A

Twitter in the Context of the Arab Spring

Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Christopher Brown, Dua'a Abu-Elhij'a
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Grassroots Organizing in the Digital Age: Considering Values and Technology Decision-making in Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street

Sheetal D Agarwal, Courtney N Johnson, W. Lance Bennett, Alan Borning
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Just in time: a new modality for community via networks

Matthew Allen
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User resistance and repurposing: a look at the iOS jailbreaking scene in Brazil

Adriana da Rosa Amaral, Rosana Vieira Souza
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From Laptops to Toasters: Designing and Repairing Modern Childhood Imaginaries

Morgan G. Ames, Daniela K. Rosner
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Technologizing Touch: Tactile Magic, Education, and Domestication in Apple iPad Advertisements

Jason Edward Archer
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Papers B

Governing Our Souls, Mutilating Our Bodies – The appropriation of social media as a means of corporeal annihilation, resisting the neoliberal logic of self-optimization

Thomas Christian Bächle
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Close intimate playthings? Understanding player-avatar relationships as a function of attachment, agency, and intimacy

Jaime Banks, Nicholas David Bowman
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Social Media, Data Analytics and Videogames Development: Halfbrick Case Study

John Banks, Darryl Woodford
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"But Still It Moves": Screens, Print, and Reading

Naomi S. Baron
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EVE Online Newbie Guides: Helpful information or gatekeeping mechanisms at work?

Kelly Bergstrom
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Next Generation Users: Changing Access to the Internet

Grant Blank, William H. Dutton
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Hearing "Lady Game Creators" Tweet: #1ReasonWhy, Women and Online Discourse in the Game Development Community

Bridget Marie Blodgett, Anastasia Salter
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Writing for Old and New Media: A Natural Experiment

Leticia Bode
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Hybrid-Identities: Degrees of Digital Selves

Kelly Boudreau
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Designerly Ways of Knowing Internet Research: A Case for Critical Media Design

Daren C. Brabham
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User or Not, Forever an Endorser: FTC Regulation of Online Endorsement and Content Control

Matthew Thomas Bray
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Copyright and the New Materiality

Dan Burk
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Papers C

Leaving Church: Resisting Mormon authority and community in online-offline dimensions

Pauline Hope Cheong, Megan Fisk
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The Mystery of the Hidden Gamer: Women, Leisure, and Hidden Object Games

Shira Chess
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Wave-Riding and Hashtag-Jumping: Twitter, Minority ‘Third Parties’ and the 2012 US Elections

Christian Christensen
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Screaming more, Listening less? An investigation of participation and deliberation dynamics in the Italian Five Stars Movement

David Coppini
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Financial Markets and Online Advertising Demand: Reevaluating the Dotcom Investment Bubble

Matthew Crain
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Papers D

Audiences as Publics. Tweeting with the Television on.

Evelien D'heer, Pieter Verdegem, Cédric Courtois
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“Watch out, organize, inform yourself!”: Tracing the Dynamics of Twitter Discourse on Anti-Nazi Street Protests

Mark Dang-Anh, Michael Eble
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Urban Jamification: Gincanas as location-based mobile games in Brazil

Adriana de Souza e Silva, Isabel Froes
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'More Awesome than Electronic Arts': resistance and appropriation in The Sims gaming communities

Ruth Deller
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Boundaries, Privacy, and Social Media Use in Higher Education: What do Students Think, Want, and Do?

Vanessa P. Dennen, Kerry J. Burner
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The Onlife Manifesto: rethinking the human condition in a hyperconnected era

Nicole Dewandre
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Digital inequality and intergenerational solidarity: The role of social support in proxy internet use

Vesna Dolničar, Maša Filipović Hrast, Vasja Vehovar, Andraž Petrovčič
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Property or Privacy? Reconfiguring Ethical Concerns Around Web Archival Research Methods

Meghan Dougherty
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Big Bird, Binders, and Bayonets: Humor and live-tweeting during the 2012 U.S. Presidential Debates

Kevin Driscoll, Mike Ananny, François Bar, Kristen Guth, Abe Kazemzadeh, Alex Leavitt, Kjerstin Thorson
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“Regular People with a Passion for Fashion”: Authenticity, Community, and Other Social Media Myths

Brooke Erin Duffy
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Papers E

Hacking healthcare: Navigating disconnection in the pursuit of medical care

Lindsay Ems, Amy Gonzales
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Transitioning in Thailand Online

Jillana Beth Enteen
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Papers F

Site-Specificity, Pervasive Computing, and the Reading Interface

Jason Farman
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What We Talk About When We Talk Data: Metrics, Mobilization, and Materiality in Performing Health Online

Brittany Fiore-Silfvast, Gina Neff
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From Internet to the streets: An approach to activism in Aguascalientes, Mexico

Dorismilda Flores Márquez
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Transgressive Networks: This Week in Blackness and Resistance through Online Programming

Sarah Florini
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Resisting and Remaking the Smart City and the ‘Internet of Things’

Laura Forlano
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Amazon is my hangout! Self-disclosure and community building in Amazon’s reviews

Federica Fornaciari
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Papers G

Design by Bot: Power and Resistance in the Development of Automated Software Agents

R.Stuart Geiger
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Serenity Now bombs a World of Warcraft funeral: Negotiating the Morality, Reality and Taste of Online Gaming Practices

Martin Ross Gibbs, Marcus Carter, Michael Arnold, Bjorn Nansen
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Second screen and Political Talk-Shows: Measuring and Understanding the Italian Participatory Couch Potato

Fabio Giglietto
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The NRA and Social Media: Power, Multilevel Identity Construction, and Resisting Context Collapse

Dawn R. Gilpin
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Internet Activism in Asia-Pacific: A Comparative, Cultural History

Gerard Goggin, Mark McLelland, Kwangsuk Lee, Shaw Frances, Leslie Tkach-‐Kawasaki, Takanori Tamura, Haiqing Yu
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Investigating Teacher Voice Through Blogs: Policy, Practice, and Local Knowledge

Kiersten Greene
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Making Machines Safe for Humans: The Case of Siri

Andrea L. Guzman
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Papers H

Microcredentials on the Open Web

Alexander Halavais
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Free Universal Construction Kit: On appropriation and parasites

Lone Koefoed Hansen, Jan Løhmann Stephensen
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Methodological Challenges for Studying Cross-Platform Conversations

Ylva Hård af Segerstad, Alexandra Weilenmann
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Information and consent

Amy Adele Hasinoff
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News via Voldemort: The role of parody and satire in topical discussions on Twitter

Tim Highfield
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Google Books as Infrastructure of In/Justice

Anthony L Hoffmann
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Twitter Storytelling as a New Literacy Practice

Jeff Holmes
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Assembling affordances: towards a theory of relational affordances

Julian Hopkins
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Foursquare and the Parochialization of Public Space

Lee Humphreys, Tony Liao
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Subversive Memes: Internet Memes as a Form of Visual Rhetoric

Heidi E. Huntington
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Papers I

“What we write is used against us”: The participants' views on tightened control in online debate after the Oslo terrorist attacks

Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk, Anders Sundnes Løvlie
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Papers J

Discourses of internet freedom

Caroline Jack
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Professionally Yours: Anonymity, Trust, and Self-Portrayal on the Deep Web

Leah Berkman Jakaitis, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
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Playing ‘for Real’: A Lab-Based Study of MMOGs

Jen Jenson, Kelly Bergstrom, Suzanne de Castell
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Papers K

E-Government and Its Limitations: Assessing the True Demand Curve for Citizen Public Participation

David Karpf
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The Circuit of Culture: A Useful Theoretical Model for Studying Social Media

Emily Sue Keats
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Book Pirates: Tethered Technologies and their Domestication

Mathias Klang, Jan Nolin
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Global Face with a National Body? Facebook Appropriation and Use in a National Context

Lisbeth Klastrup
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The Forum, the Sardine Can and the Fake: contesting, adapting and practicing the Massive Open Online Course.

Jeremy Keith Knox
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Branding the Local: Anti-corporate Resistance in Online Consumer Reviews

Kathleen M Kuehn
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Revisiting the Emergent Norm Theory to Understand Protest Communication in Social Media: the Improvisation-Verification-Solidification (IVS) Framework

Hazel Kwon
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Papers L

The Source of Open-Source Culture: Participation in the Production of an Open Media Artifact, Minecraft

Alex Leavitt
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Voice in a virtual world: From resistance to appropriation

Lynnette G. Leonard, John C. Sherblom, Lesley A. Withers
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Using Mobile Augmented Reality to Tactically Re-Encounter, Re-Create, and Re-Appropriate Public Spaces

Tony Chung Li Liao, Lee Humphreys
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Papers M

“Is There Anything Else You Would Like to Share?”: Methods to Support Teen Agency

Rachel M. Magee
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Dwarf acts like a lady: The importance of gender roles in understanding gender switching and player behavior

Rosa Mikeal Martey, Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Jaime Banks, Jingsi Wu, Mia Consalvo, Daniella Castillo
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Playful Participatory Culture: Learning from Reddit

Adrienne Massanari
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Legal issues in BYOP: Bring Your Own Persona

Jasmine McNealy
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The Social Media Overture of the Pan-European Anti-ACTA Protest: An Empirical Examination of Coordination in Connective Action

Dan Mercea, Andreas Funk, Paul Nixon
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Media Lingua Franca: Fixity, Novelty, and Vernacular Creativity in Internet Memes

Ryan M. Milner
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An inappropriate sense of place

Torill Elvira Mortensen
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Papers N

Beyond Internet Access: a study of social and cultural practices in LAN Houses

David Nemer
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Papers P

The process of adapting to mobile tablet devices by switching between distractive and productive multitasking

Sora Park
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Resisting Meritocracy and Reappropriating Games: Rhetorically Rethinking Game Design

Christopher Paul
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Non-Lethal Farce: "Pepper Spray Cop" Photoshopping as Visual Rhetoric

Andrew M Peck
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A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in the "It Gets Better Project"

Laurie Phillips
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“You’re in my World 1-1 Now!” - The practice of remixing gaming culture on YouTube

Theo Plothe
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Papers Q

The ‘Friending’ rules: Social norms of connection and disconnection at midlife

Kelly Quinn
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Papers R

Re-examining the relationship between civil society and the internet: Pessimistic visions in India’s ‘IT City’

Anuradha Rao
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Virtually managing (in)visibility: Girls, social media, and rural U.S. family relationships

Aimee Rickman
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The Genesis of Crisis Communication in Twitter: from Witnesses to Gatewatchers

Luca Rossi, Elisabetta Zurovac
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Culpable Media: Digital Disembodiment and the Rise of “Crowdsourced Morality”

Wayne Erik Ryasvy
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Papers S

Can social network sites bridge the politician-citizen divide: Interaction on SNS during the Danish parliamentary election 2011

Sander Andreas Schwartz
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Internet Use and Global Activism at the United States Social Forum

Elizabeth Anne Gervais Schwarz
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Apps for Those Who Help Themselves: Mobile Self-Guided Interventions for Adolescent Mental Health

Yukari Seko, Sean Kidd, David Wiljer
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Is it time to rethink ‘digital inequality’ (again)?

Christo Sims
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Tweeting to the Choir: Online Performance and Academic Identity

sava saheli singh
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Understanding Digital Network Engagement: Aiding Resistance and Appropriation of Technology

Diane Spencer-Scarr
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Online political memes and Youth Political engagement in Singapore

T. T. Sreekumar, Shobha Vadrevu
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Shaking off the ‘Other’: Appropriation of marginalized cultures and the ‘Harlem Shake’

Catherine Knight Steele
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The paradox of networked politics: A critical examination of presidential campaigns in the United States

Jennifer Stromer-Galley
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Critical Design Sensibility in Postcolonial Conditions

Huatong Sun
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Papers T

Who has the right to speak? The role of social media in spreading dissent among anti-nuclear groups in post 3-11Japan

Takanori Tamura, Tadahisa Hamada
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Joint Digital Storytelling on Twitter: Creative Appropriation in Political Deliberation

Caja J. Thimm, Jessica Einspänner, Mark Dang-Anh
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Educating About Diabetes: Conversations on a Social Networking Site

Devayani Tirthali
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Papers V

Tweeting the elections in Belgium. An analysis of social and traditional cross-media patterns

Pieter Verdegem, Evelien D'heer, Peter Mechant
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The Curious Case of Confession Bear: Analyzing anonymity and online memes

Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Andrew J. Nelson
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Appropriating new communication technologies in migrants’ home communities: A case study from Brazil

Kate Vieira
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Papers W

Friends or Followers? The Relations between German Soccer Clubs and Their Fans on Twitter

Katrin Weller, Axel Bruns
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Foursquare, the Politics of Location Platforms, and the Importance of Geocoded Data

Rowan Cameron Wilken
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A Phenomenology of SNS Sharing

D.E. Wittkower
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Managing community through digital talk: Podcasting in the South Asian diaspora

Lia Wolock
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Queer Travels: Networked Society, Digitizing Queerness and Political Surveillance

Yuenmei Wong
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Papers Y

Couch Award Winner: Stigma Resistance in Online Communities

Daphna Yeshua-Katz
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The (not so) invisible hand: Perceptions of game designers and the impact on play

Alyson Leigh Young, Wayne Lutters
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Papers Z

Personal Digital Storyworlds, Narrative Architects, and Gmail

Jason Zalinger
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In-game marriage and computer-mediated collaboration: An exploratory study of Audition

Guo Zhang, Susan C. Herring
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Panels

Who’s Running the Show? Negotiating Control for Community Participation

Stacy Blasiola, James Carivou, Miao Feng, Jun Liu, Rachel Magee, Melinda Sebastian
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Disability and Virtual Worlds: New Frontiers of Appropriation

Tom Boellstorff, Donna Davis, Alice Krueger
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Celebrity Crises on Twitter

Axel Bruns, Tim Highfield, Ana Vimieiro, Renato Vimieiro, Theresa Sauter, Cornelius Puschmann
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Social Media in Crisis Communication

Jean Burgess, Axel Bruns, Kate Crawford, Megan Finn, Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Leysia Palen
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Sharing Death

Dorthe Refslund Christensen, Kjetil Sandvik, Lisbeth Klastrup, Stine Gotved, Natalie Pennington
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Ethical Issues in Online Course Design: Negotiating Identity, Privacy, and Ownership

Linh Dich, Heidi A. McKee, James E. Porter
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Third Spaces, Religion and Spirituality in the Digital Age

Nabil Echchaibi, Rachael Liberman, Deborah Whitehead
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Third Spaces, Religion and Spirituality in the Digital Age Panel 2

Nabil Echchaibi, Susanne Stadlbauer, Samira Rajabi, Giulia Evolvi, Seung Soo Kim
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Social Media and Elections: The Use of Twitter in the 2013 Campaigns in Italy, Australia, Germany, and Norway

Gunn Enli, Anders Larsson, Bente Kalsnes, Eli Skogerbø, Hallvard Moe, Axel Bruns, Tim Highfield, Theresa Sauter, Christian Nuernbergk, Julia Neubarth, Luca Rossi, Fabio Giglietto, Mario Orefice, Giovanni Boccia Artieri
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(Invisible) Internet infrastructure labor

Megan Finn, Ashwin Mathew, ShinJoung Yeo, Lilly Irani, Sheeharsh Kelkar, Aleena Chia, Morgan Ames, Kate Crawford
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That was Then, This is Now

Ilana Gershon, Nathan Ensmenger, Gordon Carlson, Mark Deuze
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The Anti-Social Web

Daniel Greene, Burcu Bakioglu, David Parry, Jessie Daniels
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Youth Participation, Media Literacy and Social Justice

Chelsey Hauge, Tamara Shepherd, Antero Garcia, Giuliana Cucinelli, Mary Bryson
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Strategies and Tactics for Promoting Indie Game Design

Aphra Kerr, Jennifer R. Whitson, Alison Harvey, Tamara Shepherd, Casey O'Donnell
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Coping with Death and Grief Through Technology

Mathias Klang, Ylva Hård af Segerstad, Steve Jones, Ashley Farkas, Patricia Lange, Alessandra Micalizzi, Tama Leaver, Charles Ess
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Will the Revolution Be Tweeted? Mapping Complex Data Patterns from Sites of Protest

Elizabeth Losh, Beth Coleman, VJ Um Amel
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Algorithmic Identity: Networks, Data, and the terrible beauty of the black box

Annette N Markham, Holly Kruse, Jeff Hemsley, Molly Steenson
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Navigating Boundaries and Taboos in the Digital Frontier

John Carter McKnight, Katrin Tiidenberg, Michael Burnam-Fink, Cindy Tekkobe
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Conceptualizing non users of the internet and mapping digital (dis)engagement

Sora Park, Catherine Middleton, Matthew Allen, Julie Freeman, Scott Rickard, Bjorn Nansen, Michael Arnold, Rowan Wilken, Martin Gibbs, Jocelyn Williams
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Digital, material, affective

Susanna Passonen, Jenny Sundén, Veronika Tzankova
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Resisting and Appropriating Method: Part 1 - the panel

David J Phillips, Gregory Donovan, Lee Humphreys
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Enacting conflict, controversy, and aggression in online spaces

Cornelius Puschmann, Heather Ford, Raquel Recuero, Whitney Phillips, Theresa Sauter, Axel Bruns, Stine Eckert
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The appropriation of privacy: Policies and practices of everyday technology use

Kelly Quinn, Michael Zimmer, Jan Fernback, Undrah Baasanjav, Alice Marwick
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Navigating Media Ambivalence: Strategies of Resistance, Avoidance, and Engagement with Media Technology in Everyday Life

Michele Rosenthal, Rivka Ribak, Rachael Liberman, Nabil Echchaibi, Laura Portwood-Stacer
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Re-examining Affordances, technical agency, and the politics of technologies of cultural production

Sam Srauy, Gina Neff, Miles Coleman, Jessica Beyer, Joshua McVeigh-Schultz
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Rethinking Resistance: Nonparticipation, Consumption, and the Recruitment of Affirmation in Internet Fandom

Mel Stanfill, Paul Booth, Rhiannon Bury
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Watching the Watchers: New Perspectives on Spectatorship, Gaming and Online Media

Nicholas Taylor, Marcella Szablewicz, Nicholas Bowman, Todd Harper
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Reconfiguring Embodiment: Online Experimentation and Embodied Practices of Self

Katrin Tiidenberg, Jenny Ungbha Korn, Hilary Wheaton, Kyle Moody
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Slicing Big Data

Darryl Woodford, Shawn Walker, Avijit Paul
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