bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
To talk as if they had a manifesto in their mouth
Authors: Costa Pêdra
Published: March 2024

The act of writing and/or reading a manifesto is inherently political: bearing the weight of historical struggles and contemporary aspirations. Situating the camera inside my mouth, this video art piece reclaims the manifesto as an intimate, visceral experience, grounding it in the physicality of the body. This artistic approach invites the viewer to traverse the blurred boundaries between reader and performer, queerness and academia, provoking contemplation on the deeply personal and subjective nature of the inside of my mouth. My body is a manifestation of queer activism and activity, highlighting that it’s not merely about the words spoken but the understanding rooted in life experiences and embodied knowledge.

As I read my The Southern Butthole Manifesto with a dildo camera inside my mouth, the words become unintelligible, mirroring the material, historical, and experiential complexities inherent in the manifesto’s message. This deliberate refusal to be clearly understood underscores the challenge of understanding, akin to the difficulty of comprehending the manifold layers of my queer experience as someone from the global south based in the global north (where interpretations of my body differ significantly.) Reflecting on the expectations such as “learn German to get a better job”, or “if you don’t speak English, you won’t be part of the international art market”, or “if you don’t change your voice, you will never have a partner”, or “you need to change the way you speak to stay here” (it was at the end of my first semester in Social Sciences, in 1998), reinforces the disparities in how my body and voice are perceived in these two contrasting worlds.

The division between South and North transcends mere geopolitics; it extends into the realm of discourse, influencing our experiences, freedoms, movements, and ways of being. These discourses shape our possibilities, our accesses, and our ways to be understood. Consequently, when my southern language is not comprehended by northern ears, I grapple with the question: What should I do? In response to Gayatri Spivak’s query about whether the subaltern can speak, I affirm yes, the subaltern can speak. The issue lies in the unwillingness of those in power to listen. To maintain this lack of receptivity, they have devised tools that are intentionally inscrutable, elusive, and inaccessible. While some embrace so-called “science” with its narratives and empirical evidence, others rely on whispers, prayers, and dreams to understand the world beyond its surface. The question here is what holds more significance: what is said, what is heard, who is speaking, within or outside the confines of the mouth, what is sense, or what the eyes perceive.

This multifaceted work challenges conventional perceptions of language and communication, inviting viewers to delve into the intricacies of embodied knowledge and the relentless struggle for recognition in the face of linguistic, political and geographical disparities.
Protocolos de uma ideia. Protokolle einer Idee
Authors: Salgado Rubia
Published: March 2024

The contribution draws on experiences in the field of basic education and literacy, gained in the context of two organizations (maiz and das kollektiv, Linz, Austria) of migrant and refugee FLINTAS (WomenLesbiansInterTransAsexuals). Written during the implementation of a project of poetry-based approaches in basic education the text reflects by means of protocols a movement of searching for speech (especially when speaking about the learners). Since it unfolds from a dissonance with the self, the narrative is fragmentary and chronologically non-linear, consisting of short notes, called protocolos, which have been written down for months. It ranges between different languages and registers; it is sometimes poetic, metaphorical and opaque, sometimes factual, sometimes narrative, sometimes theoretical. It is kept in pencil because it is fragile, vulnerable, unstable, opaque, unfinishable. It can be erased at any time, or expanded, or changed. Writing as material and metaphor: skin of language. The article is partly an exercise in palimpsesting, understood as a counter-figure to monocausal discourses of authenticity. The main palimpsest in the text concerns the narrative figure, I-Paloma, which originates from a song by Luís Capucho and Rafael Julião: Balada da Paloma.
В этом смысле да
an intersectional Play
Authors: Bavyka Ju , Beketova Masha
Published: March 2024

The authors Маша и Ю met in 2021 at the PostOst Kongress in a small town in Germany, Гёттинген, where a bunch of people, queer and non-queer, with cultural connections to the former European East оттуда were trying to figure out what connects us beyond the usual migrant identity concepts (if anything). Masha has cultural ties to Ukraine and lives in Berlin, Germany. Ju has cultural ties to Kazakhstan and Germany and lives in Sydney, Australia, on Gadigal Land. At the Kongress the question of queerness presented itself as the most fragile and the least important one: in the context of the intergenerational migrant trauma on one hand, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the other. Nonetheless, the authors are interested exactly in this queerness, when developing out of 1368 text messages, 56 photos, 6 videos and 8 voice messages, 30 links and one gif over multiple time zones sent to each other in the months after the Kongress the experimental text, here called В этом смысле да. an intersectional Play.
HUBUNGAN SOSIAL EKONOMI KELUARGA DENGAN PRAKTIK PEMBERIAN MAKANAN PENDAMPING ASI PADA BAYI USIA 6-12 BULAN
Authors:   STIKes Bahrul Ulum Jombang, Jawa Timur, Indonesia, Stianto Mitayakuna , Lianawati Feni ,   STIKes Bahrul Ulum Jombang, Jawa Timur, Indonesia, Rahayu Yustina ,   STIKes Bahrul Ulum Jombang, Jawa Timur, Indonesia
Published: March 2024

Introduction: Complementary breast milk food (MPASI) is food given to babies aged 6-24 months in addition to breast milk starting from food with a liquid consistency until it gradually becomes solid and takes place in stages. Giving MP-ASI incorrectly will risk the baby becoming malnourished. This study aims to determine the socio-economic relationship between mothers and the practice of providing complementary breast milk to babies aged 6-12 months. Method: This research is an observational analytical research, cross sectional study design. The population in this study were mothers who had babies aged 6-12 months in the Tembelang Community Health Center area, Jombang Regency. The technique used to determine the sample in this research used incidental sampling with a total of 55 respondents. Data collection using a questionnaire. Results: Data analysis using the Spearman rank test showed that there was no significant relationship between family socioeconomics and the practice of providing MPASI (p value= 0.092). Conclusion: Family socio-economics does not have a significant relationship with the practice of providing MPASI
COMPARATIVE STUDY ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS OF THE INTEGRATED REPORTS OF THE BANKING SECTOR
Authors: Lima Mathias Spínola de Góis , Santos Fernando de Almeida
Published: March 2024

Essa pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar os relatos gerados por empresas do setor bancário que estão na B3, verificando as similaridades de informações para, assim, averiguar a possibilidade de análise e nível de governança corporativa de cada empresa. Ao final da pesquisa, foi possível entender as semelhanças e as diferenças ente os relatórios para obter um diagnóstico de possíveis correlações entre a criação do relato integrado, suas qualidades e o nível de governança corporativa.
Daytime variation in the aerosol indirect effect for warm marine boundary layer clouds in the eastern North Atlantic
Authors: Qiu Shaoyue , Zheng Xue , Painemal David , Terai Christopher R. , Zhou Xiaoli
Published: March 2024

Abstract. Warm boundary layer clouds in the eastern North Atlantic region exhibit significant diurnal variations in cloud properties. However, the diurnal cycle of the aerosol indirect effect (AIE) for these clouds remains poorly understood. This study takes advantage of recent advancements in the spatial resolution of geostationary satellites to explore the daytime variation in the AIE by estimating the cloud susceptibilities to changes in cloud droplet number concentration (Nd). Cloud retrievals for the month of July over 4 years (2018–2021) from the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) on Meteosat-11 over this region are analyzed. Our results reveal a significant “U-shaped” daytime cycle in susceptibilities of the cloud liquid water path (LWP), cloud albedo, and cloud fraction. Clouds are found to be more susceptible to Nd perturbations at noon and less susceptible in the morning and evening. The magnitude and sign of cloud susceptibilities depend heavily on the cloud state defined by cloud LWP and precipitation conditions. Non-precipitating thin clouds account for 44 % of all warm boundary layer clouds in July, and they contribute the most to the observed daytime variation. Non-precipitating thick clouds are the least frequent cloud state (10 %), and they exhibit more negative LWP and albedo susceptibilities compared to thin clouds. Precipitating clouds are the dominant cloud state (46 %), but their cloud susceptibilities show minimal variation throughout the day. We find evidence that the daytime variation in LWP and albedo susceptibilities for non-precipitating clouds is influenced by a combination of the diurnal transition between non-precipitating thick and thin clouds and the “lagged” cloud responses to Nd perturbations. The daytime variation in cloud fraction susceptibility for non-precipitating thick clouds can be attributed to the daytime variation in cloud morphology (e.g., overcast or broken). The dissipation and development of clouds do not adequately explain the observed variation in cloud susceptibilities. Additionally, daytime variation in cloud susceptibility is primarily driven by variation in the intensity of cloud response rather than the frequency of occurrence of cloud states. Our results imply that polar-orbiting satellites with an overpass time at 13:30 LT underestimate daytime mean values of cloud susceptibility, as they observe susceptibility daily minima in the study region.
The importance of digital elevation model accuracy in XCO2 retrievals: improving the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 Atmospheric Carbon Observations from Space version 11 retrieval product
Authors: Jacobs Nicole , O'Dell Christopher W. , Taylor Thomas E. , Logan Thomas L. , Byrne Brendan , Kiel Matthäus , Kivi Rigel , Heikkinen Pauli , Merrelli Aronne , Payne Vivienne H. , Chatterjee Abhishek
Published: March 2024

Abstract. Knowledge of surface pressure is essential for calculating column-averaged dry-air mole fractions of trace gases, such as CO2 (XCO2). In the NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) Atmospheric Carbon Observations from Space (ACOS) retrieval algorithm, the retrieved surface pressures have been found to have unacceptable errors, warranting a parametric bias correction. This correction depends on the difference between retrieved and a priori surface pressures, which are derived from a meteorological model that is hypsometrically adjusted to the surface elevation using a digital elevation model (DEM). As a result, the effectiveness of the OCO-2 bias correction is contingent upon the accuracy of the referenced DEM. Here, we investigate several different DEM datasets for use in the OCO-2 ACOS retrieval algorithm: the OCODEM used in ACOS v10 and previous versions, the NASADEM+ (a composite of SRTMv4, ASTER GDEMv3, GIMP, and RAMPv2 DEMs) used in ACOS v11, the Copernicus GLO-90 DEM (GLO-90 DEM), and two polar regional DEMs (ArcticDEM and REMA). We find that the NASADEM+ (ASTER GDEMv3) has a persistent negative bias on the order of 10 to 20 m across most regions north of 60° N latitude, relative to all the other DEMs considered (OCODEM, ArcticDEM, and GLO-90 DEM). Variations of 10 m in DEM elevations lead to variations in XCO2 of approximately 0.4 ppm, meaning that the XCO2 from OCO-2 ACOS v11 retrievals tends to be 0.4 to 0.8 ppm lower across regions north of 60° N than XCO2 from OCO-2 ACOS v10. Our analysis also suggests that the GLO-90 DEM has superior global continuity and accuracy compared to the other DEMs, motivating a post-processing update from OCO-2 v11 Lite files (which used NASADEM+) to OCO-2 v11.1 by substituting the GLO-90 DEM globally. We find that OCO-2 v11.1 improves accuracy and spatial continuity in the bias-corrected XCO2 product relative to both v10 and v11 in high-latitude regions while resulting in marginal or no change in most regions within ± 60° latitude. In addition, OCO-2 v11.1 provides increased data throughput after quality control filtering in most regions, partly due to the change in DEM but mostly due to other corrections to quality control parameters. Given large-scale differences north of 60° N between the OCODEM and NASADEM+, we find that replacing the OCODEM with NASADEM+ yields a ∼ 100 TgC shift in inferred carbon uptake for the zones spanning 30 to 60° N and 60 to 90° N, which is on the order of 5 % to 7 % of the estimated pan-Arctic land sink. Changes in inferred fluxes from replacing the OCODEM with the GLO-90 DEM are smaller, and given the evidence for improved accuracies from this DEM, this suggests that large changes in inferred fluxes from the NASADEM+ are likely erroneous.
Evaluating the meteorological transport model ensemble for accounting uncertainties in carbon flux estimation over India
Authors: Mathew Thara Anna , Ravi Aparnna , Pillai Dhanyalekshmi , Saradambal Lekshmi , Kumar Jithin S. , Gopalakrishnan Manoj M. , Thilakan Vishnu
Published: March 2024

Abstract. The existing climate change scenario calls for immediate intervention to curb rising greenhouse gas emissions. An improved understanding of the regional distributions of carbon sources and sinks under the perturbed climate system is vital for assisting the above mitigation efforts. The current uncertainties in estimation can potentially be reduced by employing a multi-data modelling system capable of representing atmospheric tracer transport adequately. This study focuses on the mesoscale transport patterns that can affect atmospheric tracer distribution and examines how well they are represented in the meteorological models employed. We investigate the capability of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to predict meteorological fields such as temperature, humidity, wind, and planetary boundary layer height (PBLH) by comparing different model simulations with surface and vertical profile observations available at urban and rural stations, Cochin and Gadanki, and with global reanalysis data over India. Combining different model schemes and data products allows us to present a model ensemble of 11 members. Using these ensemble simulations, the impacts of changes in physics schemes, initial and boundary conditions, and spatial resolutions on meteorology and, consequently, on CO2 mixing ratio simulations are quantified. Most simulations capture variations in temperature and moisture very well (R2> 0.75). The wind (R2> 0.75 for height above 2 km) and PBLH simulations (R2> 0.75 for daytime) are also reasonably correlated with the observations. The sensitivity to changing planetary boundary layer (PBL) schemes and land surface model (LSM) schemes on meteorological and CO2 mixing ratio simulations is significant, thereby producing higher inter-model differences between experiments. Our analysis provides an assessment of expected CO2 transport errors when using WRF-like models in the inverse modelling framework. We emphasise the importance of treating these errors in the carbon data assimilation system to utilize the full potential of the measurements and conclude that WRF can be utilised as a potential transport model for the regional carbon flux estimations in India.
Assessing the sea ice microwave emissivity up to submillimeter waves from airborne and satellite observations
Authors: Risse Nils , Mech Mario , Prigent Catherine , Spreen Gunnar , Crewell Susanne
Published: March 2024

Abstract. Upcoming submillimeter wave satellite missions require an improved understanding of the sea ice emissivity to separate atmospheric and surface microwave signals under dry polar conditions. This work investigates hectometer-scale airborne sea ice emissivity observations between 89 and 340 GHz combined with high-resolution visual imagery from two Arctic airborne field campaigns in summer 2017 and spring 2019 northwest of Svalbard, Norway. We identify four distinct sea ice emissivity spectra through K-Means clustering, which occur predominantly over multiyear ice, first-year ice, young ice, and nilas. Nilas features the highest, and multiyear ice features the lowest emissivity among the clusters. Each cluster exhibits similar nadir emissivity distributions from 183 to 340 GHz. To relate hectometer-scale airborne to kilometer-scale satellite footprints, we quantify the reduction of airborne emissivity variability with increasing footprint size. At 340 GHz, the emissivity interquartile range decreases by almost half from the hectometer scale to a footprint of 16 km, typical for satellite instruments. Furthermore, we collocate the airborne observations with polar-orbiting satellite observations. After resampling, the absolute relative bias between airborne and satellite emissivities at similar channels lies below 3 %. Additionally, spectral nadir emissivity variations on the satellite scale are low, with slightly decreasing emissivity from 183 to 243 GHz, which occurs for all hectometer-scale clusters except for predominantly multiyear ice. Our results will enable the development of microwave retrievals and assimilation over sea ice from current and future satellite missions such as Ice Cloud Imager (ICI) and European Polar System (EPS) Sterna.
GC Insights: Communicating changes in local climate risk using a physically plausible causal chain
Authors: Hawkins Ed , Arnell Nigel , Hannaford Jamie , Sutton Rowan
Published: March 2024

Abstract. Directly linking greenhouse gas emissions or global warming to experiences of local climatic changes or extreme events is a potentially important communication tool. We develop a physically plausible ‘causal chain’ as one approach to demonstrate the connections between global carbon dioxide emissions and real-life events, using a case study of flood risk in one river basin in the UK.
The importance of model horizontal resolution for improved estimation of Snow Water Equivalent in a mountainous region of Western Canada
Authors: Sabetghadam Samaneh , Fletcher Christopher , Erler Andre
Published: March 2024

Abstract. Accurate estimation of snow water equivalent (SWE) over high mountainous regions is essential to support water resource management. Due to the sparse distribution of in situ observations, models have been used to estimate SWE. However, the influence of horizontal resolution on the accuracy of simulations remains poorly understood. This study evaluates the potential of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model at horizontal resolutions of 9, 3 and 1 km to estimate the daily values of SWE over the mountainous South Saskatchewan River Basin (SSRB) in Western Canada, for a representative water year, 2017–18. Results show an accumulation period from October 2017 to the annual peak in April 2018, followed by a melting period to the end of water year. All WRF simulations tend to underestimate annual SWE, with largest biases (up to 58 kg/m2, i.e. relatively 24 %) at higher elevations and coarser horizontal resolution. The two higher-resolution simulations capture the magnitude (and timing) of peak SWE very accurately, with only a 3 to 6 % low bias for 1 km and 3 km simulations, respectively. This demonstrates that a 3 km resolution may be appropriate for estimating SWE accumulation across the region. A relationship is identified between model elevation bias and SWE biases, suggesting that the smoothing of topographic features at lower horizontal resolution leads to lower grid cell elevations, warmer temperatures, and lower SWE. Overall, high resolution WRF simulations can provide reliable SWE values as an accurate input for hydrologic modeling over a sparsely monitored mountainous catchment.
The Tibetan Plateau space-based tropospheric aerosol climatology: 2007–2020
Authors: Pan Honglin , Huang Jianping , Li Jiming , Huang Zhongwei , Wang Minzhong , Mamtimin Ali , Huo Wen , Yang Fan , Zhou Tian , Kumar Kanike Raghavendra
Published: March 2024

Abstract. A comprehensive and robust dataset of tropospheric aerosol properties is important for understanding the effects of aerosol–radiation feedback on the climate system and reducing the uncertainties of climate models. The “Third Pole” of Earth (Tibetan Plateau, TP) is highly challenging for obtaining long-term in situ aerosol data due to its harsh environmental conditions. Here, we provide the more reliable new vertical aerosol index (AI) parameter from the spaceborne-based lidar CALIOP (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization) on board CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations) for daytime and nighttime to investigate the aerosol's climatology over the TP region during 2007–2020. The calculated vertical AI was derived from the aerosol extinction coefficient (EC), which was rigorously quality-checked and validated for passive satellite sensors (MODIS) and ground-based lidar measurements. Generally, our results demonstrated that there was agreement of the AI dataset with the CALIOP and ground-based lidar. In addition, the results showed that, after removing the low-reliability aerosol target signal, the optimized data can obtain the aerosol characteristics with higher reliability. The data also reveal the patterns and concentrations of high-altitude vertical structure characteristics of the tropospheric aerosol over the TP. They will also help to update and make up the observational aerosol data in the TP. We encourage climate modelling groups to consider new analyses of the AI vertical patterns, comparing the more accurate datasets, with the potential to increase our understanding of the aerosol–cloud interaction (ACI) and aerosol–radiation interaction (ARI) and their climate effects. Data described in this work are available at https://doi.org/10.11888/Atmos.tpdc.300614 (Huang, 2023).
On optimization of calibrations of a distributed hydrological model with spatially distributed information on snow
Authors: Tiwari Dipti , Trudel Mélanie , Leconte Robert
Published: March 2024

Abstract. In northern cold-temperate countries, a large portion of annual streamflow is produced by spring snowmelt, which often triggers floods. It is important to have spatial information about snow variables such as snow water equivalent (SWE), which can be incorporated into hydrological models, making them more efficient tools for improved decision-making. The present research implements a unique spatial pattern metric in a multi-objective framework for calibration of hydrological models and attempts to determine whether raw SNODAS (SNOw Data Assimilation System) data can be utilized for hydrological model calibration. The spatial efficiency (SPAEF) metric is explored for spatially calibrating SWE. Different calibration experiments are performed combining Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE) for streamflow and root-mean-square error (RMSE) and SPAEF for SWE, using the Dynamically Dimensioned Search (DDS) and Pareto Archived Dynamically Dimensioned Search multi-objective optimization (PADDS) algorithms. Results of the study demonstrate that multi-objective calibration outperforms sequential calibration in terms of model performance (SWE and discharge simulations). Traditional model calibration involving only streamflow produced slightly higher NSE values; however, the spatial distribution of SWE could not be adequately maintained. This study indicates that utilizing SPAEF for spatial calibration of snow parameters improved streamflow prediction compared to the conventional practice of using RMSE for calibration. SPAEF is further implied to be a more effective metric than RMSE for both sequential and multi-objective calibration. During validation, the calibration experiment incorporating multi-objective SPAEF exhibits enhanced performance in terms of NSE and Kling–Gupta efficiency (KGE) compared to calibration experiment solely based on NSE. This observation supports the notion that incorporating SPAEF computed on raw SNODAS data within the calibration framework results in a more robust hydrological model. The novelty of this study is the implementation of SPAEF with respect to spatially distributed SWE for calibrating a distributed hydrological model.
Linkages between atmospheric rivers and humid heat across the United States
Authors: Raymond Colin , Shreevastava Anamika , Slinskey Emily , Waliser Duane
Published: March 2024

Abstract. The global increase in atmospheric water vapor due to climate change tends to heighten the dangers associated with both humid heat and heavy precipitation. Process-linked connections between these two extremes, particularly those which cause them to occur close together in space or time, are of special concern for impacts. Here we investigate how atmospheric rivers relate to the risk of summertime humid heat in the United States. We find that the hazards of atmospheric rivers and humid heat often occur in close proximity, most notably across the northern third of the United States. In this region, high levels of water vapor – resulting from the spatially organized horizontal moisture plumes that characterize atmospheric rivers – act to amplify humid heat, generally during the transition from dry high-pressure ridge conditions to wet low-pressure trough conditions. In contrast, the US Southeast, Southwest, and Northwest tend to experience atmospheric rivers and humid heat separately, representing an important negative correlation of joint risk.
EXPLORING FACEBOOK’S “WHY AM I SEEING THIS AD” FEATURE: MEANINGFUL TRANSPARENCY OR FURTHER OBFUSCATION?
Authors: Angus Daniel , Burgess Jean , Carah Nicholas , Hayden Lauren , Obeid Abdul
Published: March 2024

For more than a decade, digital advertising has been the primary means of funding online content and services. The evolution of digital advertising towards algorithmically targeted advertising, believed to be highly personalized and tailored to the individual, has presented new challenges for public oversight. Whereas previously, public concern centred on the content of ads and their exposure to audiences, the rise of platform-based advertising means focus has shifted to the distribution of ads and how they reach us. In response to public concerns and regulatory pressures, companies such as Meta (the parent of Facebook) have introduced transparency tools for researchers and consumers to ‘explain’ the function of advertising on the platform, including the Ad Library and the “Why Am I Seeing This Ad” feature. Despite being a central feature of Meta’s response towards increasing external scrutiny, little is known about how the WAIST feature works, or how it operates at a population level. In response we offer a description of WAIST data collected at scale, informed from a nationwide citizen data donation project of Facebook advertising. We analyse this data with a view to better understand Meta’s algorithmic advertising system, and to inform questions regarding the sufficiency of WAIST as an algorithmic explanatory mechanism for users.
TRENDING RESISTANCE: A STUDY OF THE TIKTOK #DEINFLUENCING PHENOMENON.
Authors: Bainotti Lucia
Published: March 2024

Starting from January 2023, a new trend gained momentum on TikTok: It is called #deinfluencing, and it collects a series of videos which criticise the consumerist logic of the influencer industry and its tendency to overconsumption, as well as the platforms’ architectures that further fuel these processes. This contribution aims at investigating the #deinfluencing trend on TikTok to analyse to what extent it represents a form of resistance to issues of overconsumption and consumerism. I argue that the deinfluencing phenomenon is an example of how forms of resistance are becoming “trending”, that is, not only currently popular or widely discussed online, but also increasingly intertwined with the affordances and algorithmic nature of TikTok. The empirical research is based on a digital method approach and qualitative data analysis techniques. After collecting data from hashtags such as “#deinfluencing” and “#antihaul”, a content analysis aimed at highlighting the emerging themes in the trend has been performed. The results show that the deinfluencing trend is composed of three main categories of content: resistance; consumerist reappropriation; and trend-surfing. Ultimately, the analysis of the deinfluencing trend shows the different ways in which resistance becomes “trending”, meaning intertwined and progressively mitigated by the logic and architecture of TikTok. It is exactly in the trending nature of these forms of resistance that lies the highly controversial and potentially problematic nature of deinfluencing: a form of resistance to and through the platform’s logic, as well as to and through consumption.
ANTECEDENTS OF PRIVACY PROTECTION BEHAVIORS AT THE VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL LEVELS
Authors: Bartol Jošt , Vehovar Vasja , Petrovčič Andraž
Published: March 2024

Internet users face privacy threats when using online services. Privacy protection behaviors, such as adjusting privacy settings, can alleviate some of these threats. Research shows that individuals’ privacy protection behaviors (PPBs) depend on their socio-demographics characteristics, digital engagement, privacy concerns, and online privacy literacy (OPL). In addition, it has been suggested that due to the complexity of privacy issues online, an adequate level of OPL is required to translate privacy concerns into protective actions. Although previous research examined the antecedents of PPBs at a general level, it has rarely made a clear distinction and comparison between PPBs aimed toward the practices of institutions (vertical level) and those aimed toward other internet users (horizontal level). This is somewhat surprising given that many scholars underscored the importance of context in online privacy-related matters. Therefore, this study compared the antecedents of PPBs at the general, vertical, and horizontal levels. To this end, we tested three models to examine how socio-demographic characteristics, digital engagement, privacy concerns, and OPL influence PPBs at the general, vertical, and horizontal levels, and assessed whether OPL moderates the relationship between privacy concerns and PPBs at different levels. The models were tested using linear regression on a nation-wide sample of 1,015 internet users aged 18+ from Slovenia. The analysis revealed important differences between the levels in case of gender, age, and privacy concerns, but not OPL.
THE INSURRECTIONIST PLAYBOOK: JAIR BOLSONARO AND THE NATIONAL CONGRESS OF BRAZIL
Authors: Bastos Marco , Recuero Raquel
Published: March 2024

In this paper we unpack the 2022 Brazilian Presidential campaign marked by multiple claims of electoral fraud and support for a coup d’état by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro. We identify the narrative frames underpinning the insurrectionist playbook by analyzing Bolsonaro’s statements during the presidential campaign. We subsequently test the penetration of this playbook on members of the Brazilian National Congress during the campaign trail and the transition of power to the opposition candidate, when pro-Bolsonaro protesters attempted to overthrow the Federal Government. Our analyses lend support to the hypothesis that the coup d’état was not successful due to the dwindling support beyond the hard-core Bolsonaro base. Our results also show that the insurrectionist playbook, largely centered on the blueprint of false claims of electoral fraud, can be monitored through the public statements of elected officials. We conclude with a discussion of our findings and recommendations for future research.
HACK YOUR AGE: OLDER ADULTS AS PROVOCATIVE AND SPECULATIVE IOT CO-DESIGNERS
Authors: Bourne Joe , Jacobs Naomi , Coulton Paul , Duffy Clare , Goodwins Rupert , Macpherson-Pope Tom
Published: March 2024

This research explores whether the co-design of provocative prototypes with older adults can scaffold critical thought concerning ethics, trustworthiness, security and privacy of age-oriented Internet of Things (IoT) products and services, and associated data-driven technologies (DDT). By inviting 15 adults defining themselves as ‘experiencing or anticipating old age’ to co-design IoT and DDT which addressed their hopes and fears for the future, we encouraged them to imagine a revolution in ‘technology for aging’. Three workshops utilized theatre and design research approaches including speculative design (Dunne, 2013) and co-design of provocative prototypes and social design fiction (Pilling, 2019),  to stimulate discussion around imagined futures for aging and technology. Participants modelled the internet as they understood and imagined it. They were then introduced to sensors, actuators and machine learning through interactive demonstrations. Four randomly formed groups ideated ways these technologies could be applied to earlier identified hopes and fears for the future of aging. Creative technologists then created prototypes of these ideas over two weeks of feedback and iteration with participants. Participants wrote and performed performances incorporating these prototypes, which explored cybersecurity and cyberharm (Agrafiotis, 2019). Six participants also partook in post-workshop semi-structured interviews. Methods developed in this research scaffolded critical thought concerning the ethics, trustworthiness, security and privacy of age oriented IoT, and associated DDT, regardless of experience or existing knowledge. Participants found it easy to interrogate the ethics, privacy and security of their speculations because, while they may not have been technically scalable or feasible, they understood them.
VIEWS OF THE WORLD AND LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE OF NEWS: RESEARCHING YOUTH, NEWS, AND CITIZENSHIP IN PORTUGAL
Authors: Brites Maria José , Castro Teresa Sofia , Maneta Margarida , Pinto de Sousa Andreia
Published: March 2024

A central objective of a Portuguese research project on Young people, News and Digital citizenship – YouNDigital (PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021) is to grab news definitions and their connection with youth’s (aged 15-24) democratic needs. The project relies on complementary methods to approach the senses of what news is and how young people get in touch with the world. We developed a representative online survey in Portugal (N=1300) where we explored how young people reach their notion of the world. The survey reflected the existence of several nationalities, such as Angolan, Cape Verdeans, Mozambican and Brazilian (official Portuguese-speaking countries), and also Ukrainian. It also included two open research questions about how respondents build their views of the world and how they see the future of news. In this presentation, we will rely on these identified nationalities and their answers to these questions. Data points to the envision that technology will continue to have a paramount sophistication and intervention in the production of news in the coming future (they predict evolutions such as a futuristic technology in the form of an intraocular device for searching news), but they also reveal negative feelings towards the speed at which information is produced and circulates, opening way for the increasing of manipulative, and untrusty information production (they claim for more trustworthy news while at the same time they see a pathway for the news that has no salvation).
USING “SMALL DATA” TO MAP HOW MEN’S RIGHTS CAME ONLINE (WORK-IN-PROGRESS)
Authors: De Coning Alexis
Published: March 2024

While the advent of the Internet can be seen as a “revolution” in how social movements communicate and organize, digital methods and materials do not necessarily constitute a “revolution” in how we study movements or their histories. My paper enters this discussion by suggesting a "small data" approach for studying the early digital presence of the men’s rights movement, and its transition from print to digital media. I compare two unique data sets involving print and digital archives to map out the geographical locations of men's rights groups and adherents in the early 1990s. I demonstrate how: 1) there is significant overlap between the print organizations and early digital spaces for men's rights activists; and 2) men’s rights communities in North America were often concentrated in areas like Southern California, the Pacific Northwest, and the North Eastern Seaboard. Ultimately, I argue that print materials, “small data,” and non-computational methods are still valuable tools to study social movements and their early digital histories.
CONSPIRITUALITY CAPITALISM: YOGA, AUTHENTICITY, AND WHITENESS ON A STREAMING VIDEO PLATFORM
Authors: Eadon Yvonne
Published: March 2024

Entering “best online yoga classes,” into Google Search returns lists from fitness websites like VeryWell Fit, Yogi Times, Prevention, Self, and Shape—most of these sites will include Gaia.com, a subscription-based streaming video platform, in their recommendation lists, labeling it variously as “best for the whole family,” “best intermediate/advanced,” and, most notably, “best for delving into yogic philosophy.” None of the blurbs written about Gaia in these articles mention its thousands of videos about conspiracy theories. These articles also fail to mention the connection between Gaia and Gaiam, one of the largest global yoga equipment brands. Formerly GaiamTV, Gaia.com offers videos and articles about yoga alongside videos and articles about UFOs, extraterrestrials, alternative archaeology, and universal consciousness, among a variety of other topics related to conspiracy theories, the paranormal, and new age spirituality. This paper examines Gaia, Inc., as a case study in conspirituality capitalism. The blatant obfuscation of the connection between Gaiam yoga equipment and the Gaia media empire functions to strengthen the mechanisms of conspirituality capitalism: not only are supporters of conspiratorial and alternative content financially contributing to its production through subscriptions to Gaia, but yoga practitioners who purchase Gaiam equipment may be unknowingly supporting Gaia’s conspiritual content. Using qualitative, grounded-theory-informed content analysis of video and textual content hosted on the site, as well as participant observation at two Gaia conferences held at the GaiaSphere Event Center outside Denver, Colorado, this paper, which is exploratory in nature, will introduce the term conspirituality capitalism and examine Gaia as a case study in it.
IS IT (MICRO)CHEATING? HOW SOCIAL MEDIA CONFOUND ASSUMPTIONS IN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS
Authors: Foster Margaret E , Omapang Aspen K.B. , Johnson-Zafiris Marina
Published: March 2024

Social media have changed the ways we communicate, meet others, and form intimate relationships. However, technology can also mediate intimate partner surveillance and abuse (Muise, 2009; Tokunaga, 2010). One of the most explicit ways to understand these shifts is through the transgressing of relationship boundaries, defined and enforced by settler-colonial notions of compulsory monogamy (TallBear, 2020). Anxieties around cheating have evolved along with our technologies, as evidenced by ambiguous new terms like “microcheating” and “emotional cheating” (Lusinski, 2018). In this in-progress, mixed-methods study, we examine new definitions of cheating through analyzing discussions about potential transgressions on Reddit. Specifically, we investigate 1) which behaviors cause uncertainty in emerging forms of social media-enabled infidelity and 2) the degree to which relationship discourse online naturalizes the extension of compulsory monogamy into online space. For our pilot analysis, we used computational techniques to elicit common subjects within subreddit posts to then analyze qualitatively. We began with Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), an unsupervised natural language processing tool, to organize Reddit posts and comments by topic (Blei, 2012). Then we qualitatively analyzed Reddit discourse by using critical discourse analysis. Our pilot analysis suggested a belief that proof of (in)fidelity can be found on a partner’s smartphone, such as by reading texts. This orientation toward evidence then justifies surveillance and hacking of a partner’s phone and computer presence, construing the invasion of privacy as the right to truth. This preliminary finding suggests that discourse around transgressive behaviors on social media likely reiterates compulsory monogamy and settler sexuality.
DISCUSSING HEALTH WITHOUT ADULTS – YOUTH VOICES IN PEER-LED DISCUSSIONS ON TEENAGERS’ SUBREDDITS
Authors: Gliniecka Martyna
Published: March 2024

Contemporary digital health research, policy and practice often engage young people in voicing their opinions with a participatory approach. Simultaneously, young people organise themselves on peer-led platforms like Reddit to talk about health without adults. Peer-led discussions on platforms like Reddit gives us access to a new perspective on how young people understand and experience health. This study investigates youth voices on health in teenagers’ subreddits on Reddit and responds to three research questions: how youth voices about health matters are represented in peer-led discussions; how the platform supports plural voices; and how the Bakhtinian dialogical account of voice can offer an alternative of non-unified, heterogeneous voices of young people to shortcomings of some participatory research, service, and policymaking. This study used unobtrusive digital ethnography and extant data collection methods to sample 50 posts related to physical, mental, and sexual health. Thematic analysis was conducted with grounded theory principles. Youth plural voices revealed different conceptualisations of health and diverse narratives about actors like parents, teachers, healthcare professionals and technologies involved in health experiences. Redditors engage in humorous and factual discussions equally and share both positive and negative health experiences. There is no unity in youth health meanings, but plurality and heterogeneity deserve more recognition and support. Analysing Reddit allows us to know what and how young people talk about health with their peers. Learning from the Reddit environment, adults may redefine their ideas of youth health to be more youth-centred and better align with young people’s needs.
EXPLORING THE CURRENT LANDSCAPE OF TRANS TECHNOLOGY DESIGN
Authors: Haimson Oliver L
Published: March 2024

Transgender people face substantial challenges in the world, such as discrimination, harassment, and lack of access to basic resources. Some of these challenges could be addressed to some extent with technology. In this paper I examine the world of trans technology design through interviews with 115 creators of trans technologies: apps, games, health resources, and other types of technology. I demonstrate that trans technology design processes are often deeply personal, and focus on the technology creator’s needs and desires. Thus, trans technology design can be empowering because technology creators have agency to create tools they need to navigate the world. However, in some cases when trans communities are not involved in design processes, this can lead to overly individualistic design that speaks primarily to more privileged trans people’s needs.
DIGITAL LABOR AND RENTIER PLATFORM CAPITALISM: REFORM OR REVOLUTION?
Authors: Kamish D W , Hilstob Kayla
Published: March 2024

Digital labor has become an umbrella term for describing a range of digitally mediated practices from paid work in the gig economy (Srnicek 2017) to cultivating a personal brand online (Scolere, Pruchniewska, and Duffy 2018). This wellspring of activities now referred to as labor has muddied the waters, making digital labor an ambiguous concept at best (Gandini 2021; Goodwin 2022). This framing of user activity as labor also has limitations, as it necessarily produces reformist, rather than revolutionary, political ends.

Following Sadowski (2020), this paper challenges the conceptual framework of digital labor by re-theorizing the user/platform relation as rentier capitalism. Engels (1970) explained how tenants confront landlords not as sellers of labor-power but buyers of a commodity, and we argue that typical social media users confront platforms in an analogous way. Platforms thus only circulate existing value rather than create it, and this distinction matters in understanding their role in economic crises.

Because the digital labor concept misidentifies the user/platform relationship and concedes the commoditization of communication, reformist demands emerge from this discourse, like “Wages for Facebook” (Ptak 2014 as cited in Jung 2014) or data ownership as compensation (Chakravorti 2020). Capitalist data relations (Couldry and Mejias 2020) and the profit motive of corporate platforms cannot be addressed by renumerating users. As platforms attain infrastructural status (Plantin et al. 2018), our politics must reflect the need for their transformation into public utilities with democratic accountability, a revolutionary demand that has been displaced in the turn towards digital labor.
EPISTEMOLOGIES OF MISSING DATA: COVID DATA BUILDERS AND THE PRODUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF MARGINALIZED COVID DATASETS
Authors: Kim Youngrim , Finn Megan
Published: March 2024

During COVID-19, countless dashboards have served as central media where people learn critical information about the pandemic. Varied actors, including news organizations, government agencies, universities, and NGOs created and maintained these dashboards, conducting the onerous labor of collecting, categorizing, and taking care of COVID data. This study uncovers different forms of data practices and labor behind the building of these dashboards, based on in-depth interviews with volunteers and practitioners across India and the United States who have participated in COVID dashboard projects.

Specifically, we are interested in projects that have focused on underrepresented or missing COVID data such as COVID cases in prisons and long-term care facilities, racial/ethnic breakdown of cases, as well as deaths due to COVID enforcement. These data builders employed sometimes creative, sometimes mundane and laborious data practices to not simply collect, but to produce these data that are often invisible in the official COVID dataset. In this process of data production, dashboard builders grappled with the questions of how certain data is collected, who/what is missing from the dataset, and how these data voids shape and manipulate our understanding of the pandemic. Interviewing 74 data builders who participated in COVID dashboard projects, this paper demonstrates the range of underrepresented and messy COVID data that these data builders have identified, fixed, and maintained to render them useful: disappearing data, lumped data, and absent data. Such critical engagement with messy COVID data reveals different data injustices that have tremendous potential to affect future pandemic preparation and management.