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A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND PROMPTS: TOPIC MODELING OF AI ART SUBREDDIT COMMUNITIES
Authors: Han Jing , Iliadis Andrew
Published: February 2025

Text-to-image generation (AI art) has become a mainstream phenomenon since the introduction of DALL-E by OpenAI in January 2021 (Nast, 2023). ). On the one hand, AI art challenges definitions of creativity that center on anthropocentric values and discredits the contributions of artists in the training of these AI models (Knibbs, 2023). On the other hand, it blurs the line between artists and non-artists by enabling new ways of creating art (e.g., prompt engineering: an iterative and experimental text-based process to interact with text-to-image generation models). Regardless of one’s ethical stance, practitioners of AI art, including artists of various skills and non-artists, form and participate in online communities to showcase their wares, share practices and resources, and learn from each other.

This study uses a topic modeling approach to examine topics within three subreddit communities centered on three text-to-image generation models (r/StableDiffusion, r/midjourney, and r/weirddalle). The analysis, based on the top 500 posts from each subreddit over one month, reveals distinct community foci: r/StableDiffusion emphasizes technological innovations and technical learning, r/midjourney showcases AI art and prompt learning, while r/weirddalle is more competitive, focusing on creative or entertaining results. The study further derives topics from prompts extracted from the images, revealing preferences for popular media characters, high photorealism, and surrealist styles, with a notable emphasis on portraits of women.
FROM #BODYPOSITIVE TO #WEIGHTLOSSJOURNEY – EXPLORING WEIGHT LOSS NARRATIVES WITHIN THE FAT COMMUNITY
Authors: Holi Ella Maria
Published: February 2025

The body positive and fat activist community is an extensive online network crossing many social media platforms, particularly active on Instagram and TikTok. Social media platforms provide “offer opportunities to support, community and practical solutions to issues” (Kyrölä, 2021, p. 113), and a space for resistance (e.g. Puhakka, 2023) for the body positive and fat acceptance movements.

Even though there is not a commonly agreed set of rules for body positivity or fat activism, the idea of intentional weight loss has largely been rejected by the fat community in favor of encouraging health promoting behaviors without the need for weight loss. However, the previously unified activist front has started to crack as prominent figures within the fat community have taken a sharp turn from #bodypositive content to documenting their #weightlossjourney.

Drawing from heory on master narrative, counter narratives and narrative resistance (Bamberg, 2004; Bamberg & Wipff, 2020; Hochman & Spector‐Mersel, 2020; McLean & Syed, 2015; Meretoja, 2020; Ronai & Cross, 1998), as well as fat studies, I explore online social media weight loss narratives of members of the fat community, as well as the responses from the fat community. More specifically, using digital ethnographic methods, I examine how the weight loss narratives on Instagram and TikTok negotiate between hegemonic narratives and narratives emerging from the fat community.

The analysis of #weightlossjourney narratives shows how online activist communities can be splintered when versions of the master narrative the communities have collectively resisted become adapted by members of the community.
WHO HAS THE POWER?: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS TO PARENTAL CONTROLS ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
Authors: Horne Chelsea Leigh
Published: February 2025

One recent trend in social media platform practices as well as in proposed policy and regulation for online data rights is a turn towards parental controls. While concerns over children’s safety online and complaints about problematic settings are not necessarily new (Horne, 2021; Horne, 2023), there may be an emerging trend in some countries to try to address growing concerns about the impact of social media platforms by setting regulation on parental controls. To that end, more research is currently needed to study parental controls and age-specific settings for teens and children, as these are comparatively newer developments and a topic and platform feature in flux. This paper contributes to this needed research area by focusing on specific definitions and understandings of privacy.

The purpose of this study is two-fold. Many social media platforms offer both age-specific privacy settings to children under certain age, as well as parental controls to manage the account of their children. As a result, this study will examine which parental controls are available and how they are offered across some of the most popular social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, and YouTube. The dataset for this study will consist of each social media platform’s: 1. default settings of teen and children’s accounts and 2. parental control options. The analysis will broadly consider how each platform defines parental controls via privacy options.
CHEATGPT? THE REALITIES OF AUTOMATED AUTHORSHIP IN THE UK PR AND COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRIES
Authors: Kant Tanya
Published: February 2025

Drawing on interview and survey data from content writers in the UK communications industries, this paper critically and empirically explores content writers' engagements with generative text AI in relation to creative authorship and expertise. The project will utilize a critical framework of algorithmic literacy to consider avenues for empowering so-far overlooked stakeholders of AI tool use in this creative industry sector.

The paper presents findings from a survey of 1,074 PR and communications content writers and their managers/ employers and from 21 follow-up interviews with the same stakeholders. It will explore the realities of automated authorship and the opportunities and limitations that algorithmic literacy might bring in enhancing smaller stakeholder algorithmic empowerment and expertise. Findings suggest that a) generative text AI is increasingly being used by content writers in ways that challenge speculative forecasts of generative text use and that b) these tools are useful for saving time, idea generation and synthesising existing text, but cannot (yet) be used to replicate or generate authorially convincing tone of voice or brand identity. Such findings suggest that critical algorithmic literacy could be used to create dialogues in workplaces that foreground the problems related to automated authorship - especially in terms of promoting human expertise, challenging algorithmic power and reforming the boundaries of creative subjectivity.
“THE ALGORITHM IS YOUR MOM”: PLAYFUL ALGORITHMIC AGENCY IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC FELLA ORGANISATION
Authors: Kasianenko Kateryna , Boichak Olga
Published: February 2025

This paper explores playful engagement with algorithmic systems among members of the North Atlantic Fella Organisation (NAFO). NAFO are an international social movement that emerged on Twitter in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. We use a combination of textual analysis and semi-structured scroll-back interviews, to understand how NAFO members make sense of the algorithmic environment of Twitter, and how their understanding of algorithms affects their daily participation in a social movement. We examine the community’s practices, or allegorithms, through the prism of playful activism.

Our findings reveal that NAFO understand Twitter’s algorithm as both an instrumental and an antagonistic entity. Their self-professed status as an algorithmic actor reclaims power in a fragmented and increasingly hostile environment of Twitter. Instead of seeing algorithms as adversarial or omnipotent, NAFO members engage in playful vernacular practices to reclaim their agency over the information ecosystem.

NAFO do not succeed in fully understanding or rewriting the “rules of the game”, but achieve their objective of propagating civic ideas to ever-increasing international audiences. With the growing interest in harms that arise from online humour and memes, our paper highlights a contrasting and complementary aspect of online humour - the civic nature of playful practices in digitally mediated collectives.
CONNECTING WITH SPORTS FANS: GAMBLING MARKETING STRATEGIES ON INSTAGRAM
Authors: Kerr Aphra , Bidav Tugce , McEvoy Erin , Kitchin Paul
Published: February 2025

This paper presents findings from a larger mixed methods research project that examines the exposure, awareness and perceptions of young people to gambling marketing through and around live sport in two European countries. This paper is informed by the findings of an earlier set of focus groups with young people, but in this paper we focus on a qualitative analysis of gambling marketing communications around live sports events on Instagram from a number of major gambling companies. We collected a purposeful sample of posts, including image (N: 99) and video (N: 79), shared between October 2023 and early January 2024 from 7 major gambling brands’ Instagram accounts.

This study provides important insights into how gambling brands use Instagram, and potentially bypass existing regulations to prevent gambling communications being viewed by children and young people under 18 years. It furthers a growing body of evidence that evidences the extent of gambling marketing that young people are exposed to and how gambling companies exploit sports fandom to target both gamblers and non-gamblers alike and to (re)brand the gambling industry as a normal leisure industry.
BIOMETRIC GOVERNMENTALITIES: THE RISE OF DATAFICATION AND THE UNIQUE HEALTH IDENTIFICATION PROJECT IN INDIA
Authors: Muhammed M. P Faheem , Kachari Samarjit
Published: February 2025

The Indian state’s move towards the digitalisation of the health sector has serious implications for how health care is availed and experienced by the people, especially the poor. When biometric identity systems are established for authorisation and verification, people are forced to meet the demands of technical systems for accessing healthcare. What kinds of relations are formed through these biometric-based information assemblages? What are the materialities of patient data and experiences within these information assemblages? How health data is organised, accessed, and controlled within the territorialities of the digital? This paper will look into the rise of datafication of health information and the making of biometric-based Unique Health Identification Number (UHID) in India with the case of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) and the subsequent Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA). The ABHA number is a 14-digit identifier distinguishing individuals within India's digital healthcare system. It is a unique identity linked to Aadhaar, facilitating enrolment in Personal Health Records (PHR), and the public insurance scheme -Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY). With a case study of the South Indian states of Kerala and Puducherry, the paper investigates the norms of governmentalities in datafication by looking into the requirements and conditions of enrolment into the databases for accessing healthcare. The paper looks at datafication as a technique for population management and problematises how enrolment into health identity systems becomes a condition for citizens' rights to access healthcare.
CLOUD AS INFRASTRUCTURE: THEORISING THE LINKS BETWEEN ‘BIG’ TECH AND ‘SMALL’ TECH
Authors: Narayan Devika
Published: February 2025

Cloud providers, by creating and owning massive computing assets, produce new internet infrastructure. Large-scale data centres that aggregate hardware resources are an important element shaping the expansion of platform economies. The impact of this configuration of hardware on the dynamics of software development is still unclear. There is growing scholarship on data centres, however the aggregation of a highly scalable hardware system has a profound impact on industry dynamics. Cloud computing lowers the upfront cost of using and owning computing systems. The wide-ranging impact of platforms is explained at least in part by cloud infrastructure: the scalable provisioning of computing resources via the internet. I identify virtualized hardware, modularity, resource sharing, and externalisation as generative of a new internet-based infrastructure. I show these coalesce to form a new industry dynamic, with hardware centralisation on the one hand and decentralisation of cloud users and complement developers on the other. Scholarship in this area is beginning to examine the relations between dominant technology corporations and their networks of users and third-party companies. I contribute to this by examining changing organizational and market dynamics introduced by cloud computing. The findings and analysis are derived from two related studies of changing industrial practices. I focus on the anatomy of the infrastructure and how it activates a new set of relations between start-ups, developers, entrepreneurs, and investors. What is the techno-organisational structure of cloud computing? In answering this, the presentation will offer a view into cloud ecosystems from an industry level and organisational level.
GPT4 V THE OVERSIGHT BOARD: USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS FOR CONTENT MODERATION
Authors: Nelson Lucinda , Suzor Nicolas
Published: February 2025

Large-scale automated content moderation on major social media platforms continues to be highly controversial. Moderation and curation are central to the value propositions that platforms provide, but companies have struggled to convincingly demonstrate that their automated systems are fair and effective. For a long time, the limitations of automated content classifiers in dealing with borderline cases have seemed intractable. With the recent expansion in the capabilities and availability of large language models, however, there is reason to suspect that more nuanced automated assessment of content in context may now be possible. In this paper, we set out to understand how the emergence of generative AI tools might transform industrial content moderation practices. We investigate whether the current generation of pre-trained foundation models may expand the established boundaries of the types of tasks that are considered amenable to automation in content moderation.

This paper presents the results of a pilot study into the potential use of GPT4 for content moderation. We use the hate speech decisions of Meta’s Oversight Board as examples of covert hate speech and counterspeech that have proven difficult for existing automated tools. Our preliminary results suggest that, given a generic prompt and Meta’s hate speech policies, GPT4 can approximate the decisions and accompanying explanations of the Oversight Board in almost all current cases. We interrogate several clear challenges and limitations, including particularly the sensitivity of variations in prompting, options for validating answers, and generalisability to examples with unseen content.
VISIBILITY IN THE SHADOWS: TIPS IN MAINSTREAM VS. NICHE STREAMING ON CHATURBATE
Authors: Peeters Stijn , Jokubauskaitė Emilija
Published: February 2025

Webcam sex platforms have grown into a multi-billion industry over the past few decades and host large populations of performers. Success on these platforms is often framed in terms of appearing higher in the algorithmically ranked performance list on their homepage. However, among webcam performers, focusing on a smaller, niche audience is a recognized strategy. This suggests that financial success on these platforms takes a variety of forms and manifests beyond merely ‘ranking higher’.

To better understand the different ways the platform affords financial success for its performers, we collected public ranking, viewership and tip data from Chaturbate, one of the largest camming platforms, over a two-week period in July 2022. We use an array of analysis techniques and arrive at three preliminary findings. Firstly, we find a pronounced winners-take-all distribution of tips on Chaturbate, strongly correlating with viewership and homepage ranking. Secondly, we identify low-ranking performers with substantial earnings, suggesting viable paths to sustainable income beyond seeking front-page visibility. Thirdly, we uncover niche-visibility areas linked to specific labels and tags, where performers often rely on small numbers of generous tippers, or 'whales'.

Our findings reinforce previous academic observations concerning the competitive environment in webcam sex as well as creator industries at large. Yet, we also discern alternative income-generation strategies beyond high homepage ranking. However, the strong reliance on whale tippers within more niche areas of content underscores the precarity in the industry, and the fact that performers ultimately remain dependent on a combination of platform affordances and viewer attention.
LICENSE TO SURVEIL? IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF VEHICLES AS COMPUTERS
Authors: Pereira Gabriel
Published: February 2025

The widespread collection of vehicle data poses many privacy and justice issues. With the increasing datafication of vehicles, new questions are emerging, which are troublingthe imaginaries of different actors. This paper asks: How does the future-oriented imaginary of datafication relate to current practices in vehicle data, particularly for policing? At the same time, how is this imaginary unfolding as privacy/justice concerns for activists and regulators? It draws from semi-structured interviews with over 30 people working on algorithmic surveillance—including police officers and surveillance manufacturers, but also activists and regulators. It also builds on fieldwork conducted at policing/traffic conferences, particularly sessions on “the future” or “emergent technologies”.

It finds: 1) In direct relation to Gekker & Hind’s (2019) concept of “infrastructural surveillance”, that vehicles are already imagined as connected computers, constantly generating surveillance data. Among activists and regulators, this future leads to anxiety around function creep, as manufacturers may decide to change their policies, or new forms of analysis may be enabled for policing; 2) How concern over a future of data excess exists, particularly for policing institutions. This is responded through increased efforts of data integration and a techno-solutionist narrative of AI, but also smaller interventions. For activists, this relates to wider fears over "predictive policing" and its injustices.

The paper thus contributes to critical data studies literature, supporting renewed considerations for privacy and justice frameworks in a world where vehicles act as infrastructures for constant surveillance.
CREATOR CARTELS AS EMERGENT PLATFORM GOVERNANCE
Authors: Reynolds CJ , Hallinan Blake
Published: February 2025

Creators frequently collaborate to share knowledge of and strategies for countering negative experiences of platform governance, including around issues of harassment, copyright enforcement, and censorship. In some cases, they have tried to craft more formal arrangements like creator unions, but these have failed to find stability in the platform economy, which operates differently than traditional labor-employer relationships. We point to a different form of collaboration that casts creators as economic rivals that often have directly competing interests rather than as workers with shared interests. To this end, we propose the concept of creator cartels, understood as contingent alliances between creators leveraged to produce beneficial policy and economic conditions. Taking up a critical media industry studies framework, we analyze the struggle between competing creator cartels invested in Twitch’s policies regarding gambling streams, especially the events that played out in September 2022 as anti-gambling streamers threatened a boycott, pro-gambling streamers leaked damaging information about their rivals, and Twitch ultimately decided to curb the forms of gambling creating conflict between many of its highest profile creators. The gambling saga shows that creators ally and collude with each other to produce mutually desirable outcomes, leveraging audiences and advertisers to influence the platform economy. We contend that creator cartels represent a novel organizational practice that both responds to and harnesses platform power, representing a promising area of inquiry for researchers interested in community governance and the conditions of platform labor.
HACKERS’ PRIVACY APPROACHES: HOW PRIVACY VIOLATION AND PRIVACY PROTECTION GO HAND IN HAND
Authors: Ribak Rivka , Levy-Eshkol Keren
Published: February 2025

This study examines the apparent paradox of hackers engaging in both invading and safeguarding privacy. Drawing on digital materialism, which posits that code holds a material presence and cultural significance beyond its functional role, the research aims to illuminate the hackers' ethical dilemmas embedded in privacy code. To gain insight into the cultural logic behind this seeming contrast, we conducted qualitative content and code analyses on both malicious and non-malicious code projects from the open-source platform GitHub. We have narrowed down a list of 2500 hackers to 52 who own both malicious and non-malicious projects, with a reference to privacy. We found that these hackers justify their malicious projects as educational tools, often cautioning other users against illegal use. The hackers' logic asserts that those possessing private information are responsible for its protection, be it the end-user or the software owner managing the information post-collection. This logic is translated into code using two privacy approaches: a formal privacy-by-policy and a technically-oriented privacy-by-design. The hackers' polar approach to privacy materializes both in violating privacy when crafting breaching code and in writing code that expertly protects it. From this individualized, privatized standpoint, this duality makes perfect sense.
LATET ANGUIS IN HERBA: UNVEILING AGEISM OF GENERATIVE AI
Authors: Rosales Andrea , Linares-Lanzman Juan
Published: February 2025

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) burst into media industries as a cheaper, easier, and faster alternative to produce texts, images and videos. Social scientists are already starting to show how GenAI reinforces stereotypes and discrimination, partly due to gender, race and origin biases in the data used for machine learning. However, less has been said about ageism in GenAI. This is probably because ageist depictions are the norm, and ageism is widely disregarded and deprioritised in research, industry, and society. Building on ageist depictions, the media industry might be reinforcing stereotypes and harming self-perception. In this exploratory research, we analyse whether GenAI produces significant ageist outputs (or not) and to what extent GenAI reinforces age stereotypes through the analysis of 808 images generated with Midjourney. We compared older people's depictions with those of the general population. We employed computer vision and visual analysis to assess if Gen AI falls into associating ageist prejudices with older people. Preliminary results show that generative depictions not only fall into age stereotyping but also exploit mainly harmful tropes, disregarding all the diverse experiences of ageing. Thus, while the media industry has been moving towards an inclusive discourse, the ease of GenAI has burst as a threat to the inclusion of diverse perspectives.
TO SCREENSHOT OR NOT TO SCREENSHOT? TENSIONS IN REPRESENTING VISUAL SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM POSTS
Authors: Schafer Joseph Scott , Halperin Brett A. , Ghosh Sourojit , Vera Julie
Published: February 2025

The rise to prominence of visual social media platforms (VSMPs) including TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube has led to increasing amounts of research attention directed to these platforms. As research engages multimodal platforms, representing their content (including text, audio, image, and video components) increasingly becomes both important and complex. The AoIR Internet Research Ethics (IRE) 3.0 guidelines stipulate that “we need to elaborate an ethics addressing the distinctive issues clustering around the production, sharing, and thereby research on visual images” (franzke et al., 2020). In this paper, we begin making such an elaboration, describing considerations necessary when representing screenshots. We provide an overview of four current approaches to representing VSMP posts and annotate their tensions.
FEELING MYSELF: THE RISE OF INTIMACY AS AUTHENTICITY IN ADDRESSING IMAGINED PODCAST LISTENERS
Authors: Sharon Tzlil , John Nicholas
Published: February 2025

This study aims to theorize the parasocial relationships between podcast creators and listeners, but with a unique focus on the perspective of the creators themselves. While parasocial relationships are typically studied from the perspective of the audience, understanding the creator's viewpoint can provide valuable insights into the dynamics of these relationships and the modes of addressivity they evoke, particularly with the emergence of intimacy as a keyword in podcast studies (Swiatek, 2018; Spinelli & Dann, 2019; Euritt, 2020, 2023). Through in-depth interviews with prominent podcasters in the Israeli podcast scene, we explore: How do podcast creators imagine their listeners? How are these imagined listeners shaped by the creators’ personal dispositions, their own experiences as podcast listeners, their assumptions about podcasting as a medium, and their actual interactions with their listeners? We argue that the starting point for the postulated intimacy between podcasters and listeners is an imagined addressee whom the podcaster conceives as similar to themselves. Just as authors imagine their audience as they write novels, we assume that the creator’s imagined audience impacts the actual audience that emerges. We also argue that this addressee is brought into being through a shared understanding of intimacy as authenticity, even though only the notion of intimacy actually implies some form of relationship. In making these arguments, we propose a typology of different kinds of imagined relationships with perceived listeners, contributing to a more complex understanding of podcasting and its cultural meaning.
AGENCY PERSPECTIVES ON INDUSTRY DIGITAL ETHNOGRAPHY
Authors: Tibert Dylan MacLean
Published: February 2025

Our intention is to share some of our experiences and methodologies as a research agency practicing applied digital ethnography in industry spaces. We aim to bring the perspective of our agency to AoIR 2024’s theme of industry so that we can share, engage, and facilitate discussions with scholars interested in applications of digital ethnography outside academia.

We will explore the challenges of introducing ethnography into industry spaces and discuss our approaches. These include strategic data storytelling to confront bias and stigma from industry leadership, triangulation of data through multiple methodologies and sources to combat skepticism around qualitative data, using ethnographic analysis as an engine for synthesizing data across different models, maintaining the fast-paced operational speed required in the industry, and working within the tension between leadership and their publics.

Our insights are primarily based on our own research experience. However, we also connect our experiences and methodologies with scholarly theory on ethnographic definitions/key concepts, informal discussion ethnography, ethics in digital ethnography, and triangulation of varied sources and perspectives in ethnography.

We have been conducting digital ethnography for almost two decades. We draw from this extensive body of work, including perspectives on how online behavior and platform changes have influenced our research methods.

We not only bring scholarly ethnographic theory into industrial arenas but also have extensive experience operationalizing these theories in live settings due to the fast pace at which we complete projects for clients.

Our work continues with a diverse client base across government, healthcare, education sectors among others.
PLATFORMS ON TRIAL: MAPPING THE FACEBOOK FILES/PAPERS CONTROVERSY
Authors: Valderrama Barragán Matías
Published: February 2025

Big Tech has been involved in several controversies in recent years. Data leaks, whistleblowers, and social experiments have raised alarms about the dubbed toxic and unaccountable power of platforms and, more broadly, about the increasing crisis of accountability in digital societies (Cooper et al., 2022; Khan, 2018; Marres, 2021). At the intersection of digital sociology, media studies, and STS, this research explores how different actors make and unmake connections between social media platforms and societal harms. The study focuses on mapping a specific platform controversy: the Facebook Files/Papers, a leak in 2021 of internal documents from Meta by the former employee Frances Haugen. The disclosures partially exposed what Meta knew about the consequences of its interface designs, data, and algorithms (Hendrix, 2021; Horwitz, 2021). By combining digital and ethnographic methods, I followed the disclosures across different media settings to analyse how they were made public and which actors, issues, and framings gained prominence during the controversy. As I will show, journalists, advocacy groups, and critics promoted a ‘strategic causalism’ to strengthen the connection between Meta platforms and specific social harms. This was contrasted by the ‘strategic ambiguity’ mobilised by Meta spokespersons to undermine such claims and disperse their responsibility to other actors (e.g. users, malicious actors). The analysis highlights a US-centric theatre of accountability that overlooks crucial issues from the actual disclosures, revealing the asymmetries and displacements when platforms are put on trial.
PROTOTYPING AN EDTECH ASSESSMENT TOOLKIT: TOWARDS TECHNICAL DEMOCRACY
Authors: Witzenberger Kevin , Swist Teresa , Gulson Kalervo
Published: February 2025

New forms of facial recognition, aggression detection systems, bus routing optimization software, generative AI detection, and online exam proctoring: the edtech industry is rapidly increasing its influence over schools and universities by introducing new AI-powered products and services. As the ubiquity and complexity of AI systems intensifies, deliberation among practitioners about immediate and long-term risks is becoming ever more challenging.

To help education practitioners and administrators critically explore these systems and deliberate about their consequences, this paper presents the prototype of an edtech assessment toolkit. The toolkit is embedded in a body of work aiming to make technical democracy a key feature in the design, implementation, and use of public sector AI systems. This prototype brings awareness to the potential of participatory design to explore the accountability, transparency, and governance of AI-based systems through collective forms of experimentation.

The paper itself consists of four parts. First, it puts forward a framework for technical democracy to govern AI systems through shared uncertainty. Secondly, it presents how the toolkit has been co-created to encourage collective learning and experimentation. Thirdly, it highlights three tools that have emerged from a series of workshops, collaborations, and dialogues: the counter-archive, the issues register, and the possibilities matrix. The paper finishes by discussing how this methodology produces an exploratory tool for enacting technical democracy design experiments to interrupt the design and implementation of AI into the public sector by making spaces that value dissensus over consensus in an age of automated decision-making.
THE DIGITAL CHILDHOOD INDUSTRY
Authors: Levido Amanda , Dezuanni Michael , Woods Annette , Leaver Tama , Rodriguez Aleesha , MacKenzie Janelle , Theobald Maryanne , Danby Susan , Johnson Daniel , Langton Katrin , Scott Fiona
Published: February 2025

Many children lead lives that are heavily influenced by the digital world, whether that’s through digital products, services, and practices made for them, or made about them. For children and their families, their digital childhood is mediated across many dimensions, including play, learning, communication and the everyday routines of family life. In this panel, we examine some of the ways digital childhood is mediated through Industry. In particular, we explore the ways that children, their families, policymakers and the wider public all contribute to the construction of, what can be thought of as, the ‘digital childhood industry’. This panel is concerned with the myriad ways that digital industries both benefit and are challenged by practices of children, their families, and policymakers. The papers in the panel are purposely diverse to showcase the breadth of the digital childhood industry. Each paper has a focal point on children, the internet, and the industry that often mediates the relationship between the two. From critically examining children’s play on Roblox, surfacing policymaker discourses about children's social media, exploring children’s perspectives on video games, showcasing the digital labour of contemporary parenthood, and investigating children’s digital play and wellbeing, this panel highlights the digital childhood industry from several starting points.
Analisis Faktor-Faktor yang Mempengaruhi Konsumsi Beras Rumah Tangga Petani di Kelurahan Karya Jaya Kecamatan Kertapati Kota Palembang
Authors: Dinda Ayu Iswanna  , Nasir  , Ekanopi Aktiva
Published: February 2025

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menghitung jumlah konsumsi beras dan menganalisis faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi konsumsi beras rumah tangga petani di Kelurahan Karya Jaya Kecamatan Kertapati Kota Palembang. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode acak sederhana (simple random sampling). Jumlah konsumsi beras pada penelitian ini sebesar 13.428 kg per rumah tangga per tahun dengan rata-rata konsumsi beras sebesar 448 kg per rumah tangga per tahun. Faktor pendapatan rumah tangga mempengaruhi konsumsi beras rumah tangga petani di Kelurahan Karya Jaya Kecamatan Kertapati Kota Palembang. Sedangkan faktor lainnya, seperti jumlah anggota rumah tangga, jenis kelamin anggota rumah tangga, usia anggota rumah tangga dan pendidikan anggota rumah tangga, tidak berpengaruh nyata.
Discovering an Expeditiously Accelerating Case of Motor Neuron Disease Electrophysiologically:
A Case Report
Authors: Palkhade Meghana , Reinai Thaiba , Vadhel Rahul , Kumbhar Satyajit
Published: February 2025

Motor neuron diseases (MNDs) are rare, progressive neurodegenerative disorders affecting upper and lower motor neurons, causing muscle weakness, wasting, and disability. Subtypes include ALS and spinal muscular atrophy. Diagnosis involves clinical evaluation and electrodiagnostic testing. Though incurable, interdisciplinary care improves survival and quality of life. Onset typically occurs at 55–65 years. We report a case of a 25-year-old male who presented with rapidly progressive weakness, muscle wasting, and fasciculations evident in her tongue. Electrophysiological studies revealed evidence of motor neuron disease. This case highlights the aggressive nature of MND and the importance of early diagnosis and palliative care.

Key words: Motor neuron disease, Nerve conduction study, Electrophysiology
Protective Effects of Cucumeropsis Mannii (Egusi Seed) on Hematological Parameters in Diabetic Wistar Rats
Authors: S. P. Abriba , F.C. Chuka , E. Chindo , H. B. Osadolor
Published: February 2025

Background: Cucumeropsis mannii is rich in bioactive compounds, including phenolic compounds, flavonoids, and essential fatty acids, which contribute to their protective properties across multiple organ systems. Considering the adverse effects of hyperglycemia and its complications; this study is aimed at evaluating the protective properties of cucumeropsis mannii in diabetic Wistar rats’ hematological parameters.
Methods: Twenty (20) Wistar rats were used in the study. The rats were grouped into five groups: Control group as Group 1, Group 11 (Alloxan induced diabetes), Group 111(Negative group that were induced with diabetes and treated with only metformin for two weeks), Group IV (Induced with diabetes and treated daily with only Cucumeropsis mannii oil 10ml/kg body weight for 2 weeks)., and Group V (Induced with diabetes and treated daily with metformin and Cucumeropsis mannii oil 10ml/kg body weight for 2 weeks). After which the Wistar rats were euthanized and the blood sample were collected into EDTA and Floride oxalate containers for the estimation of hematological parameters and blood glucose levels; using hematology analyzer and glucose oxidase method respectively.
Results: The combination of metformin and Cucumeropsis mannii show statistically significant difference of reduction of blood glucose levels p<0.001, and improved hematological parameters in group V, when compared with the other groups.
Conclusion: Cucumeropsis mannii when administered along with metformin demonstrates its positive protective effects on hematological parameters and reduction in blood glucose.

Key words: Egusi seed, Diabetes, Hematological parameter, WBC, Metformin
Proposing a level of maturity in strategic sourcing: A case study and survey in Brazil
Authors: Konrath Thiago , Nunes Fabiano , Nodari Cristine H. , Miranda Ana Lucia
Published: February 2025

The objective of this study is to propose an instrument for identifying the level of maturity of purchasing and supply management in relation to Strategic Sourcing. Based on an initial model, a maturity measurement instrument was applied to a case study company in a chemical industry company in Vale dos Sinos, in order to validate the tool. Based on this, a survey was carried out with the aim of capturing the perception of purchasing professionals on the topic. By sending a questionnaire to 250 professionals in the purchasing and supply management area, a return rate of 28% (70 respondents) was obtained from this sample. For the data obtained, structural equation modeling (SEM) was carried out using Smart PLS 3.0® software. With the modeling, a load of 0.428 was obtained for the suppliers construct, 0.555 for the inventory construct and 0.158 for the indicators construct. Overall, the satisfactory constructs for this sample positively impact 67.8% on the Strategic Sourcing construct. Therefore, for this specific sample, the constructs referring to suppliers, inventory and indicators jointly impact Strategic Sourcing. The research in question proposed a model for a better understanding of Strategic Sourcing structures and aims to contribute to practical and organizational contexts regarding the maturity of this topic among purchasing professionals. This understanding aims to provide readers with greater empirical and academic understanding of this emerging and important topic for business and company competitiveness.
Formative evaluation of the regional development planning policies: A study on the consistency of the regional development planning in Kebumen regency
Authors: Isna Alizar , Zauhar Soesilo , Supriyono Bambang , Hermawan Hermawan
Published: February 2025

This study aims to describe, analyze, and interpret the role of multi-set data consistency in regional development planning in Kebumen Regency, Central Java Province, Indonesia. This study uses qualitative research methods. The selection of informants used purposive and snow-ball sampling. Data collection uses in-depth interviews, observations, and documentation. Data analysis was carried out through open coding, axial coding, and selective coding procedures. The validity of the data is determined through an examination technique based on the criteria of credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability. The results of the study show: (1) Regional development planning policies, which regulate the process and stages of the preparation of regional long-term development plans/RPJPD, regional medium-term development plans/RPJMD, and regional development work plans/RKPD were developed in the process of preparing the three regional development planning documents of Kebumen Regency to meet local needs; (2) The process of preparing the 2005–2025 RPJPD, 2006–2010 RPJM, 2010–2015 RPJMD, and 2006 to 2014 RKPD uses a technocratic approach that emphasizes the importance of multi-sector data (3) Factors that affect the process of preparing and documenting regional development planning documents are compliance in the hierarchy of multi-sector existing data administration, the development of regulations for the implementation of regional development planning policies, the existence of existing multi-sector planning data documents national, provincial, and regional development documents related to development planning, as well as the use of technocratic approaches; (4) The 2010–2015 RPJMD is inconsistent with the 2010–2015 RPJPD.
Perception of Online Learning among Undergraduate Nursing Students in selected College, Puducherry, India
Authors: P Hemavathi. , R Rajam. , M Ramya. , K. J Reena. , M Sindhuja. , P Sumathy. , M Suvathy.
Published: February 2025

Background: Online learning meets the educational need of the present generation students worldwide. The teaching learning process over online makes students more comfortable and paves way to listen at international speakers. Objectives and Methodology: The Descriptive cross sectional research design was adopted to assess the level of Perception on Online Learning among Undergraduate Nursing Students. Proportionate stratified random sampling technique was used to select 200 participants from selected Professional College, Puducherry. The data was collected for a period of one week with the help of Google form using five-point rating scale. Google form link was created and shared with the students in WhatsApp group. Results: Overall Perception of online learning shows that 63.0% participants perceived online learning as moderately favorable, 31.5% perceived as unfavorable and 5.5% perceived as favorable. Further domain wise results found that participants perceived subject matter in online learning, benefits of online learning and Feasibility of online learning as moderately favorable (62.5%, 57.5% and 50.0% respectively). About 59.0% and 50.0% perceived teacher and student interaction in online learning and online evaluation as unfavorable respectively. Conclusion: Undergraduate Nursing students perceived online learning as moderately favorable.
Whistle-blowing
Authors: Tamilselvi P. , Ramamurthy G.
Published: February 2025

“Whistle blowing” occurs when an employee informs the public about inappropriate activities going on inside the organization. whistle blowing entails information about criminal activity, a contravention of any statute, improper or unauthorized use of bublic and other funds, miscarriage of justice, abuse of power, misadministration, danger to the health or safety of an individual, and any other misbehavior or malpractice.”
Prevalence of Nomophobia among the Undergraduate students
Authors: Baruah Aparajita Phukan , Singh Bharati
Published: February 2025

Smart phones today have become an important part of our techno culture, especially among the students. Overuses the mobile phone may cause various health effects. A study was conducted to assess the prevalence of Nomophobia among the undergraduate students of Tinsukia district with the objectives to assess the prevalence of Nomophobia among the undergraduate students and to find out the association between the nomophobia and socio demographic variable of the undergraduate students in selected colleges of Tinsukia district. Total 60 undergraduate students of age 18-25 years who have access to smart phone with internet connection of Tinsukia were selected through Non-probability snowball sampling techniques and data collected through online mode. The result of the study showed that out of 60 undergraduate students majority i.e. 18.33% were in the age of 19 and 22 years, 56.66% were female, 76.66% stays in their own resident, 41.66% were from Science, 31.66% were from Arts, 26.66% were from Commerce stream. 43.33% usage smart phone for 6-10hours, 23.33% usage smart phone for 11-15 hours, 30% usage smart phone for 4-5 hours, 3.33% usage smart phone for 16-20 hours. In level of Nomophobia 0% participants showed no Nomophobia, 0% participants showed no Mild Nomophobia, 6.66% participants showed Moderate Nomophobia, 93.33% participants showed no Severe Nomophobia. There was no association found between demographic variables and level of Nomophobia. Conclusion: The researcher came to the conclusion that Nomophobia is prevalent among the under graduate students.
Can Guanxi Influence Firms’ Dynamic Capabilities? Evidence from Triadic Relationships in East Asia's Automobile Industry
Authors: Huang Hancheng , Huang Jun , Zhu Lei , Yan Xiao , X Qiu , Zhao Lei
Published: February 2025

This study advances the discourse on strategic management by integrating resource-based and capability-based frameworks with an informal social network perspective, specifically examining the role of guanxi in shaping dynamic capabilities within firms in East Asia’s Automobile Industry. This study explores two key dimensions: (1) the impact of guanxi on the development of dynamic capabilities and (2) the interaction between guanxi and formal institutional structures. This research employs a longitudinal case study approach to analyze the experiences of an automobile manufacturer in Taiwan during its business collaborations with Japanese and mainland Chinese partners. This study elucidates how specific attributes of guanxi-sentimentality, reciprocity, functionality, and openness-enhance the firm’s ability to develop dynamic capabilities and effectively navigate the volatile market conditions prevalent in East Asia. This research underscores the strategic importance of guanxi in corporate management and offers critical insights into leveraging relational networks to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage in East Asian markets. Furthermore, this study provides implications for multinational automobile manufacturers aiming to develop new capabilities to address operational challenges in this region.