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In the rapidly developing information society, big data has become an important resource among countries. Whoever controls the data will control the right to speak. The ideology of big data is becoming increasingly obvious, mainly manifested as discourse ...

In this short paper I propose the concept "Kitsch criticality" understood as a superficial, mostly rhetorical, form of critical argumentation in design projects. I connect this phenomenon to the difficulty within the practice to go beyond ...

Social movements form coalitions to gain leverage and achieve mutual goals, however little is known about how coalitions work, especially in the realm of social media. In this paper we examine the 2020 #StopHateForProfit coalition which pressured ...

The rapid development of information and technology results in the involvement of technology channels like communication devices, and simultaneously it acts as a vital part of life. It emerged as a significant concern in the student's educational ...

Increasing demographic diversity is undoubtedly important and can aid in debiasing decision makers. Yet, the promises of demographic diversity are not always realized due to social integration problems. We consider why and for whom differences combined ...

There are rising concerns that social network sites (SNS) facilitate the creation of echo chambers, in which attitude-consistent information becomes the norm while attitude-challenging information is avoided. This study aims to investigate theoretically ...

In this paper I reconstruct and outline some realisations of different forest ideologies, through the analysis of the digital adaptation of the boardgame ROOT - A Game of Woodland Might and Right. In particular, I use a semiotic square to map the ...

Forests are, both culturally and ecologically, one of the most important environments on our planet. As such, there are countless representations of them - with Digital Games being no exception. In this paper we adopt the perspective of ecocriticism, ...

Traditionally, public opinion on different issues of public debate has been studied through polls and surveys. Recent advancements in network ideological scaling methods, however, have shown that digital behavioral traces in social media platforms can ...

The prevalence of algorithmic recommendations has raised public concern about undesired societal effects. A central threat is the risk of polarization, which is difficult to conceptualize and to measure, making it difficult to assess the role of ...

Organizations often learn vicariously by observing what other organizations do. Our study examines vicarious learning–related communication through which individuals share their observations with other organizational members. Most students and members of ...

Little is known about when and where hybrid organizations diffuse. We argue that neo-institutional perspectives, which stress the constraining role of market categories and institutional logics, have to be complemented with demand-side perspectives that ...

Bitcoin is an innovative technological network, a new, non-governmental currency, and a worldwide group of users. In other words, Bitcoin is a complex sociotechnical system with a complex set of risks and challenges for anyone using it. We investigated ...

This paper examines the history of the learning theory "constructionism" and its most well-known implementation, Logo, to examine beliefs involving both "C's" in CSCW: computers and cooperation. Tracing the tumultuous history of one of the first examples ...

This paper presents a methodology for automatically detecting the presence of hate speech within the terrorist argument. Hate speech can be used by a terrorist group as a means of judging possible targets' guilt and deciding on their punishment, as well ...

People are shifting from traditional news sources to online news at an incredibly fast rate. However, the technology behind online news consumption promotes content that confirms the users» existing point of view. This phenomenon has led to polarization ...

Many have conjectured that people in the IT occupation are different from non-IT business users and that such differences can lead to negative organizational outcomes. This study investigates how to measure these differences by developing a new, ...

All disciplines have competing theoretical perspectives and paradigms that are aligned with individuals' broader ideological convictions. To some extent these convictions are shaped by training and socialization that occurs in specific professional ...

Open source communities rely on the espoused premise of complete openness and transparency of source code and development process. Yet, openness and transparency at times need to be balanced out with moments of less open and transparent work. Through ...

Many cite the growing tendency of political parties to nominate ideologically extreme candidates in U.S. primary elections as a reason for increasing congressional polarization. However, a lack of quantitative data on candidate ideology makes this claim ...