P Siuda
Biographic Data
| ID | 57074 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Siuda |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Siuda |
| SIGNATURE | SIUDA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1644-5915 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Constructing an Elite
“I even saw four deer grazing”
Purpose This paper aims to examine evolving practices and discourses surrounding psilocybin mushrooms on an online drug forum. Situating use within hybrid digital and ecological contexts, it traces shifts in user engagement before and after the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic to contextualize localized realities of the contemporary psychedelic renaissance. Design/methodology/approach Using an agential cut framework, the authors conducted a thematic analys…
Navigating community-transaction and egalitarian-hierarchy divides
The darknet drug trade presents a complex interplay between transactional and communal dynamics. This study nuances these dual dimensions by employing a long-term digital ethnography and content analysis of over 16,000 posts, alongside in-depth interviews with users of Cebulka, the largest Polish-language market. It investigates whether darknet spaces lean more toward transactional or social dynamics and explores whether these spaces can be consi…
Dealing with Apps
This article examines how social media and messaging apps mediate everyday access to illicit psychoactive substances in Poland. While the study broadly engages with digital infrastructures, Telegram emerged as the primary hub where drug-related practices converge. Drawing on interviews with 19 mostly young, socio-economically mainstream drug users, we analyze how participants navigate app affordances, convenience, and risk in a prohibitive and st…
Medical Cannabis Industry and the Refracted Public of Polish Drug Users Forum
Drug users use surface, deep, or dark web to enhance their activity. This paper examines the intersection of the digital space and illicit substances and analyzes a Polish drug forum as a refracted public (Abidin, 2021). To illuminate the accommodation of the medical cannabis industry in the social worlds of users, their digital presence below the radar is studied through qualitative thematic analysis of the content of the major Polish surface we…
The Elite Among Users
This study delves into the digital identity formation of vendors and customers on darknet drug trade sites, focusing on Cebulka, the largest Polish-language cryptomarket. Recently, we have seen a rise in interest in studying online drug trade. Despite this growing attention, research on how individuals present themselves online and construct their identities in dark web environments remains relatively scarce. Through a dual-stage methodology comb…
“Now I like to know what I smoke”—differentiated cannabis normalization in Polish online discussions
Background This study explores how cannabis has been accommodated over the last 18 years in the social world of an online forum in Poland. It considers users who operate in the context of unhurried normalization and restrictive policy that has barely changed over the last two decades. Simultaneously, these users refer to global cannabis cultures and follow progressive policy developments worldwide.Methods Cannabis-related threads were scrapped fr…
Digital drug trading ecologies in context
Rather than attributing differences solely to local, transnational, or design factors in isolation, we argue that darknet drug trading ecologies emerge from the intersection of platform architecture, localization (geographic scope), and language. Our findings underscore the importance of considering these factors when conducting digital ethnography in illicit economies and providing concrete entry points for tailoring harm reduction interventions…
The opioid crisis in Poland? Insights from online forum data
The findings suggest that media narratives may be exaggerated and offer additional support for the view that Poland is currently not experiencing the early stages of a crisis. Nonetheless, we emphasize the need for further research on actual opioid consumption patterns
Ghosted by the drug trade
This Research Note reflects on a digital ethnography project that set out to explore whether, and in what ways, dating app Tinder is used in the online drug trade. Despite a carefully crafted 6-month study involving ethically transparent research profiles and off-platform recruitment attempts, no direct contact with drug vendors was established, and no explicit traces of illicit activity were observed. Rather than treating this outcome as a failu…
Overdried, Without Curing? F*Ck, this [Is Supposed to be] Government Licensed Skunk!' Medical Cannabis and the Refracted Publics Within an Online Polish Drug Forum
In this article, we analyze a Polish drug forum as a refracted public by focusing on the intersection of the digital space and illicit substances. To illuminate the reception of the medical cannabis industry in the social worlds of people who use cannabis, we apply qualitative thematic analysis of the content of the major Polish drug forum. The results reveal that there has been a widespread subcultural accommodation of medical cannabis for non-t…
The problematic nature of evaluating esports’ “genuineness” using traditional sports’ criteria
Researchers often use traditional sports’ theoretical frameworks to evaluate esports’ ‘genuineness’. Therefore, this article shows how esports is assessed by traditional sports and esports journalists and how this is important for esports research. We conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews (n = 15) with the journalists representing top-tier Polish media and used inductive conventional content analysis. Three main analytical categories and …
Educating Cancer on TikTok
The article uses the concept of online self-disclosure and examines whether TikTok videos reveal information similar to what is reported in existing research on social media within this field. In addition, the study aims to identify the creators' motivations and the meanings they attribute to disclosing cancer and asks whether this disclosure challenges or supports the concept of a positive culture defined within the online self-disclosure framew…
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Cancer on Tiktok–evaluating Positive Culture and Online Self-Disclosure Using Directed Content Analysis and in-Depth Interviews
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Broken Promises Marketing. Relations, Communication Strategies, and Ethics of Video Game Journalists and Developers
Cyberpunk 2077 's negative reception stood in striking contrast to the pre-release hype around the video game built by the producer's marketing campaign and the gaming press. This study examines a selection of gaming websites, to consider their pre-release Cyberpunk 2077 coverage and the discrepancies between these early reports and the released game. Using inductive conventional content analysis, framed as thematic analysis, 148 press articles w…
T. L. Taylor „Play Between Worlds”, czyli „wychodząc” poza opakowanie
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Świat życia codziennego zalewany jest ogromną liczbą różnych skwantyfikowanych i zdigitalizowanych danych. Mogą one być przetwarzanie i traktowane jako materiał badawczy – również jakościowy. Zastosowanie w badaniach jakościowych wielkich zbiorów danych (Big Data) modyfikuje postępowanie na wszystkich etapach procesu badawczego: od projektowania badania aż po formułowanie wniosków końcowych. Czy osadzenie w badaniach jakościowych modelu Big Data …
Darknet imaginaries in Internet memes
Dominant discourses on the darknet present it either as a dangerous space with flourishing crime or a place for civic action and political activism. However, these depictions have been challenged in online popular culture, particularly in memes. By utilizing the concepts of double articulation of media and cultural imaginaries, this article reveals how memes shape popular definitions of darknet. Our qualitative, social semiotic content analysis o…
Mapping Digital Religion
Today, it is challenging to separate online and offline spaces and activities, and this is also true of digital religion as online and offline religious spaces become blended or blurred. With this background, the article explores the need for new typologies of what is religious on the Internet and proposes a conceptual framework for mapping digital religion. Four types of that which is religious on the Internet are presented based on influential …
A city as a virtual community — Several perspectives
We are currently dealing with the emergence of cities as virtual communities. They should be considered in terms of a specific relation of the local urban space with the cyberspace and rejection of dichotomy of the territory versus deterritorialization. The article characterizes city as a virtual community from several perspectives: 1) Resurgence of locality and changes in the nature of interpersonal relationships; 2) Changes in the understanding…
Natives and tourists of prosumer capitalism
This article pertains to the concept of prosumer capitalism, a term which refers to practices among companies of using consumers’ unpaid work (prosumption refers to the mixing of consumption and production). In the literature, this type of capitalism has been treated generally; how pro-prosumer activities differ among producers has been overlooked. This article illustrates these differences by showing the ways in which Polish pop culture producer…
In pursuit of pop culture
Researching the fans of pop culture texts, it is worth considering a direction that has been neglected in fan studies: the treatment of fan practices as opposition to the polity of a country. Such considerations are particularly crucial in the context of fan communities functioning in non-democratic countries. The author describes the conditions of reception of pop culture texts in Poland under communism. It was in this era that access to such tr…
Mapping Digital Religion
Today, it is challenging to separate online and offline spaces and activities, and this is also true of digital religion as online and offline religious spaces become blended or blurred. With this background, the article explores the need for new typologies of what is religious on the Internet and proposes a conceptual framework for mapping digital religion. Four types of that which is religious on the Internet are presented based on influential …
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Overdried, Without Curing? F*Ck, this [Is Supposed to be] Government Licensed Skunk!' Medical Cannabis and the Refracted Publics Within an Online Polish Drug Forum
In this article, we analyze a Polish drug forum as a refracted public by focusing on the intersection of the digital space and illicit substances. To illuminate the reception of the medical cannabis industry in the social worlds of people who use cannabis, we apply qualitative thematic analysis of the content of the major Polish drug forum. The results reveal that there has been a widespread subcultural accommodation of medical cannabis for non-t…
Educating Cancer on TikTok
The article uses the concept of online self-disclosure and examines whether TikTok videos reveal information similar to what is reported in existing research on social media within this field. In addition, the study aims to identify the creators' motivations and the meanings they attribute to disclosing cancer and asks whether this disclosure challenges or supports the concept of a positive culture defined within the online self-disclosure framew…
Darknet imaginaries in Internet memes
Dominant discourses on the darknet present it either as a dangerous space with flourishing crime or a place for civic action and political activism. However, these depictions have been challenged in online popular culture, particularly in memes. By utilizing the concepts of double articulation of media and cultural imaginaries, this article reveals how memes shape popular definitions of darknet. Our qualitative, social semiotic content analysis o…
Natives and tourists of prosumer capitalism
This article pertains to the concept of prosumer capitalism, a term which refers to practices among companies of using consumers’ unpaid work (prosumption refers to the mixing of consumption and production). In the literature, this type of capitalism has been treated generally; how pro-prosumer activities differ among producers has been overlooked. This article illustrates these differences by showing the ways in which Polish pop culture producer…
In pursuit of pop culture
Researching the fans of pop culture texts, it is worth considering a direction that has been neglected in fan studies: the treatment of fan practices as opposition to the polity of a country. Such considerations are particularly crucial in the context of fan communities functioning in non-democratic countries. The author describes the conditions of reception of pop culture texts in Poland under communism. It was in this era that access to such tr…
Natives and tourists of prosumer capitalism
This article pertains to the concept of prosumer capitalism, a term which refers to practices among companies of using consumers’ unpaid work (prosumption refers to the mixing of consumption and production). In the literature, this type of capitalism has been treated generally; how pro-prosumer activities differ among producers has been overlooked. This article illustrates these differences by showing the ways in which Polish pop culture producer…
A city as a virtual community — Several perspectives
We are currently dealing with the emergence of cities as virtual communities. They should be considered in terms of a specific relation of the local urban space with the cyberspace and rejection of dichotomy of the territory versus deterritorialization. The article characterizes city as a virtual community from several perspectives: 1) Resurgence of locality and changes in the nature of interpersonal relationships; 2) Changes in the understanding…
Mapping Digital Religion
Today, it is challenging to separate online and offline spaces and activities, and this is also true of digital religion as online and offline religious spaces become blended or blurred. With this background, the article explores the need for new typologies of what is religious on the Internet and proposes a conceptual framework for mapping digital religion. Four types of that which is religious on the Internet are presented based on influential …
T. L. Taylor „Play Between Worlds”, czyli „wychodząc” poza opakowanie
Od redaktorów
Świat życia codziennego zalewany jest ogromną liczbą różnych skwantyfikowanych i zdigitalizowanych danych. Mogą one być przetwarzanie i traktowane jako materiał badawczy – również jakościowy. Zastosowanie w badaniach jakościowych wielkich zbiorów danych (Big Data) modyfikuje postępowanie na wszystkich etapach procesu badawczego: od projektowania badania aż po formułowanie wniosków końcowych. Czy osadzenie w badaniach jakościowych modelu Big Data …
Darknet imaginaries in Internet memes
Dominant discourses on the darknet present it either as a dangerous space with flourishing crime or a place for civic action and political activism. However, these depictions have been challenged in online popular culture, particularly in memes. By utilizing the concepts of double articulation of media and cultural imaginaries, this article reveals how memes shape popular definitions of darknet. Our qualitative, social semiotic content analysis o…
Cancer on Tiktok–evaluating Positive Culture and Online Self-Disclosure Using Directed Content Analysis and in-Depth Interviews
The presented paper characterizes TikTok practices of users with cancer and uses notions of social media as positive culture (presenting oneself without undesirable traits) and online self-disclosure understood as providing intimate, private information about oneself. The research continues the work on self-disclosure of women with breast cancer using Instagram. However, this previous research revolved around posts, and thus was limited. The curr…
Broken Promises Marketing. Relations, Communication Strategies, and Ethics of Video Game Journalists and Developers
Cyberpunk 2077 's negative reception stood in striking contrast to the pre-release hype around the video game built by the producer's marketing campaign and the gaming press. This study examines a selection of gaming websites, to consider their pre-release Cyberpunk 2077 coverage and the discrepancies between these early reports and the released game. Using inductive conventional content analysis, framed as thematic analysis, 148 press articles w…
The problematic nature of evaluating esports’ “genuineness” using traditional sports’ criteria
Researchers often use traditional sports’ theoretical frameworks to evaluate esports’ ‘genuineness’. Therefore, this article shows how esports is assessed by traditional sports and esports journalists and how this is important for esports research. We conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews (n = 15) with the journalists representing top-tier Polish media and used inductive conventional content analysis. Three main analytical categories and …
Educating Cancer on TikTok
The article uses the concept of online self-disclosure and examines whether TikTok videos reveal information similar to what is reported in existing research on social media within this field. In addition, the study aims to identify the creators' motivations and the meanings they attribute to disclosing cancer and asks whether this disclosure challenges or supports the concept of a positive culture defined within the online self-disclosure framew…
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Medical Cannabis Industry and the Refracted Public of Polish Drug Users Forum
Drug users use surface, deep, or dark web to enhance their activity. This paper examines the intersection of the digital space and illicit substances and analyzes a Polish drug forum as a refracted public (Abidin, 2021). To illuminate the accommodation of the medical cannabis industry in the social worlds of users, their digital presence below the radar is studied through qualitative thematic analysis of the content of the major Polish surface we…
The Elite Among Users
This study delves into the digital identity formation of vendors and customers on darknet drug trade sites, focusing on Cebulka, the largest Polish-language cryptomarket. Recently, we have seen a rise in interest in studying online drug trade. Despite this growing attention, research on how individuals present themselves online and construct their identities in dark web environments remains relatively scarce. Through a dual-stage methodology comb…
“Now I like to know what I smoke”—differentiated cannabis normalization in Polish online discussions
Background This study explores how cannabis has been accommodated over the last 18 years in the social world of an online forum in Poland. It considers users who operate in the context of unhurried normalization and restrictive policy that has barely changed over the last two decades. Simultaneously, these users refer to global cannabis cultures and follow progressive policy developments worldwide.Methods Cannabis-related threads were scrapped fr…
Digital drug trading ecologies in context
Rather than attributing differences solely to local, transnational, or design factors in isolation, we argue that darknet drug trading ecologies emerge from the intersection of platform architecture, localization (geographic scope), and language. Our findings underscore the importance of considering these factors when conducting digital ethnography in illicit economies and providing concrete entry points for tailoring harm reduction interventions…
The opioid crisis in Poland? Insights from online forum data
The findings suggest that media narratives may be exaggerated and offer additional support for the view that Poland is currently not experiencing the early stages of a crisis. Nonetheless, we emphasize the need for further research on actual opioid consumption patterns
Ghosted by the drug trade
This Research Note reflects on a digital ethnography project that set out to explore whether, and in what ways, dating app Tinder is used in the online drug trade. Despite a carefully crafted 6-month study involving ethically transparent research profiles and off-platform recruitment attempts, no direct contact with drug vendors was established, and no explicit traces of illicit activity were observed. Rather than treating this outcome as a failu…
Overdried, Without Curing? F*Ck, this [Is Supposed to be] Government Licensed Skunk!' Medical Cannabis and the Refracted Publics Within an Online Polish Drug Forum
In this article, we analyze a Polish drug forum as a refracted public by focusing on the intersection of the digital space and illicit substances. To illuminate the reception of the medical cannabis industry in the social worlds of people who use cannabis, we apply qualitative thematic analysis of the content of the major Polish drug forum. The results reveal that there has been a widespread subcultural accommodation of medical cannabis for non-t…
Constructing an Elite
“I even saw four deer grazing”
Purpose This paper aims to examine evolving practices and discourses surrounding psilocybin mushrooms on an online drug forum. Situating use within hybrid digital and ecological contexts, it traces shifts in user engagement before and after the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic to contextualize localized realities of the contemporary psychedelic renaissance. Design/methodology/approach Using an agential cut framework, the authors conducted a thematic analys…
Navigating community-transaction and egalitarian-hierarchy divides
The darknet drug trade presents a complex interplay between transactional and communal dynamics. This study nuances these dual dimensions by employing a long-term digital ethnography and content analysis of over 16,000 posts, alongside in-depth interviews with users of Cebulka, the largest Polish-language market. It investigates whether darknet spaces lean more toward transactional or social dynamics and explores whether these spaces can be consi…
Dealing with Apps
This article examines how social media and messaging apps mediate everyday access to illicit psychoactive substances in Poland. While the study broadly engages with digital infrastructures, Telegram emerged as the primary hub where drug-related practices converge. Drawing on interviews with 19 mostly young, socio-economically mainstream drug users, we analyze how participants navigate app affordances, convenience, and risk in a prohibitive and st…
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