Tiziano Bonini
Biographic Data
| ID | 245134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tiziano Bonini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tiziano |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonini |
| SIGNATURE | BONINI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Siena |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0636-0555 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Platformed! How Streaming, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence are Shaping Music Cultures
Cooperative affordances: How instant messaging apps afford learning, resistance and solidarity among food delivery workers
This paper aims to understand the practices and meanings associated with the creation and use of private chat groups on instant messaging services such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Messenger and WeChat that are accessible only to platform workers of online food delivery services. We draw on participant observation in five countries (Italy, Spain, Mexico, China, and India), in-depth interviews with 68 food delivery couriers and digital ethnography ( Pin…
Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power
How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control our lives. Algorithms are all around us, permeating more and more aspects of our daily lives. While accounts of platform power tend to come across as bleak and monolithic, Algorithms of Resistance shows how people can resist algorithms across a variety of domains. Drawing from rich ethnographic…
Disconnecting from my smartphone is a privilege I do not have: Mobile connection and disconnection practices among migrants and asylum seekers in three migrant reception centres of Sicily
This article investigates online connection and disconnection practices among migrants and asylum seekers. It draws from an ethnography of three Sicilian reception centres that hosted migrants and asylum seekers between September and November 2020. We show how migrants, driven by different migratory motivations, enact different mobile connection and disconnection practices. We argue that these are characterised by the different affective meanings…
Amplification, evasion, hijacking: Algorithms as Repertoire for Social Movements and the Struggle for Visibility
While scholars of activism have begun to unfold the dynamics of the ‘contentious politics of data’, less explored are the forms of appropriation of algorithms to pursue political objectives by social movements. This article fills this gap by offering a novel theoretical framework, a conceptual vocabulary, and a typology to foreground and articulate algorithmic activism as a subset of algorithmic politics. It starts discussing why an excessive foc…
It Was Very Hard for Me to Keep Doing That Job: Understanding Troll Farm's Working in the Arab World
This article investigates the production culture and routines of 'troll farms' in three Arab countries-Tunisia, Egypt, and Iraq-from a production studies approach. A production studies approach enables us to focus on the working conditions of paid trolls. We employed qualitative methods to look inside the 'black box' of Arab troll farms. From February to April 2020, we conducted semi-structured interviews with eight disinformation workers at both…
A convivial-agonistic framework to theorise public service media platforms and their governing systems
This article addresses the need to find alternative ways to envision, develop and govern public service media’s (PSM) online services and data-driven systems. By critically discussing both opportunities and shortcomings of how European PSM organisations developed their online services and personalisation systems, we argue that in their own platformisation processes, PSM have partially lost their distinctiveness and have not been able to provide v…
The emergence of algorithmic solidarity: Unveiling mutual aid practices and resistance among Chinese delivery workers
This study explores how Chinese riders game the algorithm-mediated governing system of food delivery service platforms and how they mobilize WeChat to build solidarity networks to assist each other and better cope with the platform economy. We rely on 12 interviews with Chinese riders from 4 platforms (Meituan, Eleme, SF Express and Flash EX) in 5 cities, and draw on a 4-month online observation of 7 private WeChat groups. The article provides a …
A “segunda era” do podcasting: Reenquadrando o podcasting como um novo meio digital massivo
Este artigo busca analisar a história do podcasting como uma prática cultural de produção e consumo de conteúdo sonoro digital. Após uma revisão de estudos prévios sobre esta tecnologia, propõe-se que o podcasting entrou numa nova fase de sua evolução, em que começa a gerar um mercado que não é mais simplesmente complementar ao rádio, mas alternativo; um mercado que se move em direção à profissionalização da produção e à normalização do consumo. …
Podcasting in Transition: Formalization and Its Discontents
Podcasting has thrived since its popularization in 2004 as a bastion for amateur media production. Over the past ten years, however, entrepreneurs and legacy media companies have rapidly expanded their interests in podcasting, bringing with them professional standards and the logics of capital. Breakout hits such as 2014’s Serial (with nearly 40 million downloads) and This American Life have demonstrated to both programmers and advertisers the po…
Radio as a social media
Is a social/convivial use of radio and new media in the age of proprietary algorithms-driven cultural consumption still possible? In order to try answering these questions, we have made a selection of the contributions presented to the 6th ECREA Radio Research Section Conference, held at the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences of the University of Siena, Italy, on 19–21 September 2019. The main theme of this conference was, in …
The Field as a Black Box: Ethnographic Research in the Age of Platforms
This article aims to provide a detailed rendering of the struggles we experienced while undertaking ethnographic research for the study of music curators working at online music streaming platforms. Based on the field notes generated during a multi-sited ethnography, the article will critically discuss the 'black boxing' strategies employed by these platforms in order to protect themselves from public scrutiny, and how media scholars can countera…
First Week Is Editorial, Second Week Is Algorithmic: Platform Gatekeepers and the Platformization of Music Curation
This article investigates the logics that underpin music curation, and particularly the work of music curators, working at digital music streaming platforms. Based on ethnographic research that combines participant observation and a set of interviews with key informants, the article questions the relationship between algorithmic and human curation and the specific workings of music curation as a form of platform gatekeeping. We argue that music s…
Invisible, solidary, unbranded and passionate: Everyday life as a freelance and precarious worker in four Italian radio stations
This article presents an investigation into the everyday lives of freelance radio producers in the Italian radio industry from a perspective that applies the sociology of work to the study of media production. The study adopted an ethnographic approach to explore working conditions and experiences of insecurity, uncertainty, socialising, networking and isolation. The authors identified four features of the radio producers' work, which go well bey…
Understanding the value of networked publics in radio: Employing digital methods and social network analysis to understand the Twitter publics of two Italian national radio stations
Radio audiences are today a mix of traditional radio broadcasting audiences and networked publics (boyd, d. [2007]. Why youth (heart) social network sites: The role of networked publics in teenage social life. In D. Buckingha (Ed.), MacArthur foundation series on digital learning–youth, identity, and digital media volume (pp.119–142). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; Ito, M. [2008]. Introduction. In K. Varnelis (Ed.), Networked publics (pp. 1–14). Cambr…
Production Studies, The Sequel!: Cultural Studies of Global Media Industries
This chapter examines the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters (NARTB) discourses of self-regulation leading up to the implementation of the 1952 Television Code, which attempted to answer television's vocal critics by constructing a paradigm for wholesome content. The NAB's propaganda consistently projects an image of a stable and antagonistic relationship with the government, but this belies the complexities of their day-to…
The new role of radio and its public in the age of social network sites
A culture of co–creation is emerging in art, design, architecture (Armstrong and Stojmirovic, 2011), music, video, literature and other productive fields like manufacturing, urban agriculture and biotech. Many of the tools of production and distribution used by professionals are available to the broader public. Publics are becoming more and more productive (Jenkins, 1992; Arvidsson, 2011). The rise of these phenomena suggests that a new modality …
Radio formats and social media use in Europe – 28 case studies of public service practice
The aim of this article is to report, summarize and spread the results of a largescale European research project funded by EBU Radio in 2011 to map best practices in social media and European public radio, focusing on the way successful public service radio formats have incorporated social media in their production flow. The programmes have been selected for one of the following reasons: programmes that are audience leaders in their country, use …
Doing radio in the age of Facebook
This article begins with the hypothesis that social media are the prosecution of radio by other means; its aim will be to focus on the changes that radio has undergone since it started to mix with social media, in particular Facebook (FB). How deeply have such changes affected the relationship between radio producers and listeners? The article will analyse the cases of three Italian radio programmes that have developed an intense interaction with…
No news from abroad: A comparative content analysis of news issues on Italian radio
This article examines radio information in Italy. A quantitative content analysis was performed of the news editions of the main national broadcasters that transmit mainly informational content (RTL 102.5, Radio24, RAI Radio1, Radio Capital), as well as a regional broadcaster with a strong focus on information (Radio Popolare) and a national network whose informational spaces are minimal due to target and format (Radio 105). The study sampled one…
Valuing audience passions: From Smythe to Tarde
Audience research is undergoing substantial transformation. The old 'eyeballs' paradigm has been losing adequacy since, at least, the 1980s. At the same time, social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook provide data that allow a far deeper and more intrusive view into the everyday life of media consumers. As a result, many companies are now developing systems based on social media data in order to represent, measure and value audience dynami…
The media as ‘home-making’ tools: Life story of a Filipino migrant in Milan
According the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) there are 850 million international passenger arrivals each year; and according to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), in 2008 there were 42 million refugees across the globe. The condition of mobility, in all its spatial and temporal variations is a condition of daily life in a globalized world. Even those who are lucky enough not to be forced to abandon their home are at times obliged to b…
On and off the air: Radio-listening experiences in the San Vittore prison
This article examines the results of a research project we conducted on social uses of radio in the San Vittore prison, Milan, Italy. Our aim is to survey and understand the everyday practices of radio consumption by such a special audience as that of prison inmates. Although the use that’s being made of radio in prison is mature and aware, it is mostly neglected by the medium itself, for being considered a scarcely interesting share of the marke…
Crazy radio: The domestication of mental illness over the airwaves
May community radio be a therapy for patients who suffer from mental diseases? Can radio be a useful tool both for recovering the selves of the patients and for the normal people outside the hospitals, helping to communicate less stereotyped images of the mental illness? This article will try to answer these questions, analysing two different case histories, the ones of Radio la Colifata of Buenos Aires the first radio station to be totally condu…
Twitter as a public service medium? A content analysis of the Twitter use made by Radio RAI and RNE
Twitter seems to be, among the other social media, one of the best new media for drawing back the audience from internet to radio and to improve the engagement with listeners. This paper analyses the practices of public radio in Social Media focusing on the use of Twitter by two European public broadcasters: RAI (Italy) and RNE (Spain). PSM role in society is being questioned and asked to extend its service to include a new media strategy. The st…
First Week Is Editorial, Second Week Is Algorithmic: Platform Gatekeepers and the Platformization of Music Curation
This article investigates the logics that underpin music curation, and particularly the work of music curators, working at digital music streaming platforms. Based on ethnographic research that combines participant observation and a set of interviews with key informants, the article questions the relationship between algorithmic and human curation and the specific workings of music curation as a form of platform gatekeeping. We argue that music s…
The Field as a Black Box: Ethnographic Research in the Age of Platforms
This article aims to provide a detailed rendering of the struggles we experienced while undertaking ethnographic research for the study of music curators working at online music streaming platforms. Based on the field notes generated during a multi-sited ethnography, the article will critically discuss the 'black boxing' strategies employed by these platforms in order to protect themselves from public scrutiny, and how media scholars can countera…
The emergence of algorithmic solidarity: Unveiling mutual aid practices and resistance among Chinese delivery workers
This study explores how Chinese riders game the algorithm-mediated governing system of food delivery service platforms and how they mobilize WeChat to build solidarity networks to assist each other and better cope with the platform economy. We rely on 12 interviews with Chinese riders from 4 platforms (Meituan, Eleme, SF Express and Flash EX) in 5 cities, and draw on a 4-month online observation of 7 private WeChat groups. The article provides a …
Valuing audience passions: From Smythe to Tarde
Audience research is undergoing substantial transformation. The old 'eyeballs' paradigm has been losing adequacy since, at least, the 1980s. At the same time, social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook provide data that allow a far deeper and more intrusive view into the everyday life of media consumers. As a result, many companies are now developing systems based on social media data in order to represent, measure and value audience dynami…
The media as ‘home-making’ tools: Life story of a Filipino migrant in Milan
According the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) there are 850 million international passenger arrivals each year; and according to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), in 2008 there were 42 million refugees across the globe. The condition of mobility, in all its spatial and temporal variations is a condition of daily life in a globalized world. Even those who are lucky enough not to be forced to abandon their home are at times obliged to b…
Amplification, evasion, hijacking: Algorithms as Repertoire for Social Movements and the Struggle for Visibility
While scholars of activism have begun to unfold the dynamics of the ‘contentious politics of data’, less explored are the forms of appropriation of algorithms to pursue political objectives by social movements. This article fills this gap by offering a novel theoretical framework, a conceptual vocabulary, and a typology to foreground and articulate algorithmic activism as a subset of algorithmic politics. It starts discussing why an excessive foc…
Disconnecting from my smartphone is a privilege I do not have: Mobile connection and disconnection practices among migrants and asylum seekers in three migrant reception centres of Sicily
This article investigates online connection and disconnection practices among migrants and asylum seekers. It draws from an ethnography of three Sicilian reception centres that hosted migrants and asylum seekers between September and November 2020. We show how migrants, driven by different migratory motivations, enact different mobile connection and disconnection practices. We argue that these are characterised by the different affective meanings…
A convivial-agonistic framework to theorise public service media platforms and their governing systems
This article addresses the need to find alternative ways to envision, develop and govern public service media’s (PSM) online services and data-driven systems. By critically discussing both opportunities and shortcomings of how European PSM organisations developed their online services and personalisation systems, we argue that in their own platformisation processes, PSM have partially lost their distinctiveness and have not been able to provide v…
On and off the air: Radio-listening experiences in the San Vittore prison
This article examines the results of a research project we conducted on social uses of radio in the San Vittore prison, Milan, Italy. Our aim is to survey and understand the everyday practices of radio consumption by such a special audience as that of prison inmates. Although the use that’s being made of radio in prison is mature and aware, it is mostly neglected by the medium itself, for being considered a scarcely interesting share of the marke…
Crazy radio: The domestication of mental illness over the airwaves
May community radio be a therapy for patients who suffer from mental diseases? Can radio be a useful tool both for recovering the selves of the patients and for the normal people outside the hospitals, helping to communicate less stereotyped images of the mental illness? This article will try to answer these questions, analysing two different case histories, the ones of Radio la Colifata of Buenos Aires the first radio station to be totally condu…
Radio as a social media
Is a social/convivial use of radio and new media in the age of proprietary algorithms-driven cultural consumption still possible? In order to try answering these questions, we have made a selection of the contributions presented to the 6th ECREA Radio Research Section Conference, held at the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences of the University of Siena, Italy, on 19–21 September 2019. The main theme of this conference was, in …
Radio formats and social media use in Europe – 28 case studies of public service practice
The aim of this article is to report, summarize and spread the results of a largescale European research project funded by EBU Radio in 2011 to map best practices in social media and European public radio, focusing on the way successful public service radio formats have incorporated social media in their production flow. The programmes have been selected for one of the following reasons: programmes that are audience leaders in their country, use …
Doing radio in the age of Facebook
This article begins with the hypothesis that social media are the prosecution of radio by other means; its aim will be to focus on the changes that radio has undergone since it started to mix with social media, in particular Facebook (FB). How deeply have such changes affected the relationship between radio producers and listeners? The article will analyse the cases of three Italian radio programmes that have developed an intense interaction with…
Twitter as a public service medium? A content analysis of the Twitter use made by Radio RAI and RNE
Twitter seems to be, among the other social media, one of the best new media for drawing back the audience from internet to radio and to improve the engagement with listeners. This paper analyses the practices of public radio in Social Media focusing on the use of Twitter by two European public broadcasters: RAI (Italy) and RNE (Spain). PSM role in society is being questioned and asked to extend its service to include a new media strategy. The st…
Crazy radio: The domestication of mental illness over the airwaves
May community radio be a therapy for patients who suffer from mental diseases? Can radio be a useful tool both for recovering the selves of the patients and for the normal people outside the hospitals, helping to communicate less stereotyped images of the mental illness? This article will try to answer these questions, analysing two different case histories, the ones of Radio la Colifata of Buenos Aires the first radio station to be totally condu…
On and off the air: Radio-listening experiences in the San Vittore prison
This article examines the results of a research project we conducted on social uses of radio in the San Vittore prison, Milan, Italy. Our aim is to survey and understand the everyday practices of radio consumption by such a special audience as that of prison inmates. Although the use that’s being made of radio in prison is mature and aware, it is mostly neglected by the medium itself, for being considered a scarcely interesting share of the marke…
The media as ‘home-making’ tools: Life story of a Filipino migrant in Milan
According the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) there are 850 million international passenger arrivals each year; and according to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), in 2008 there were 42 million refugees across the globe. The condition of mobility, in all its spatial and temporal variations is a condition of daily life in a globalized world. Even those who are lucky enough not to be forced to abandon their home are at times obliged to b…
The new role of radio and its public in the age of social network sites
A culture of co–creation is emerging in art, design, architecture (Armstrong and Stojmirovic, 2011), music, video, literature and other productive fields like manufacturing, urban agriculture and biotech. Many of the tools of production and distribution used by professionals are available to the broader public. Publics are becoming more and more productive (Jenkins, 1992; Arvidsson, 2011). The rise of these phenomena suggests that a new modality …
Radio formats and social media use in Europe – 28 case studies of public service practice
The aim of this article is to report, summarize and spread the results of a largescale European research project funded by EBU Radio in 2011 to map best practices in social media and European public radio, focusing on the way successful public service radio formats have incorporated social media in their production flow. The programmes have been selected for one of the following reasons: programmes that are audience leaders in their country, use …
Doing radio in the age of Facebook
This article begins with the hypothesis that social media are the prosecution of radio by other means; its aim will be to focus on the changes that radio has undergone since it started to mix with social media, in particular Facebook (FB). How deeply have such changes affected the relationship between radio producers and listeners? The article will analyse the cases of three Italian radio programmes that have developed an intense interaction with…
No news from abroad: A comparative content analysis of news issues on Italian radio
This article examines radio information in Italy. A quantitative content analysis was performed of the news editions of the main national broadcasters that transmit mainly informational content (RTL 102.5, Radio24, RAI Radio1, Radio Capital), as well as a regional broadcaster with a strong focus on information (Radio Popolare) and a national network whose informational spaces are minimal due to target and format (Radio 105). The study sampled one…
Valuing audience passions: From Smythe to Tarde
Audience research is undergoing substantial transformation. The old 'eyeballs' paradigm has been losing adequacy since, at least, the 1980s. At the same time, social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook provide data that allow a far deeper and more intrusive view into the everyday life of media consumers. As a result, many companies are now developing systems based on social media data in order to represent, measure and value audience dynami…
Production Studies, The Sequel!: Cultural Studies of Global Media Industries
This chapter examines the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters (NARTB) discourses of self-regulation leading up to the implementation of the 1952 Television Code, which attempted to answer television's vocal critics by constructing a paradigm for wholesome content. The NAB's propaganda consistently projects an image of a stable and antagonistic relationship with the government, but this belies the complexities of their day-to…
Invisible, solidary, unbranded and passionate: Everyday life as a freelance and precarious worker in four Italian radio stations
This article presents an investigation into the everyday lives of freelance radio producers in the Italian radio industry from a perspective that applies the sociology of work to the study of media production. The study adopted an ethnographic approach to explore working conditions and experiences of insecurity, uncertainty, socialising, networking and isolation. The authors identified four features of the radio producers' work, which go well bey…
Understanding the value of networked publics in radio: Employing digital methods and social network analysis to understand the Twitter publics of two Italian national radio stations
Radio audiences are today a mix of traditional radio broadcasting audiences and networked publics (boyd, d. [2007]. Why youth (heart) social network sites: The role of networked publics in teenage social life. In D. Buckingha (Ed.), MacArthur foundation series on digital learning–youth, identity, and digital media volume (pp.119–142). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; Ito, M. [2008]. Introduction. In K. Varnelis (Ed.), Networked publics (pp. 1–14). Cambr…
First Week Is Editorial, Second Week Is Algorithmic: Platform Gatekeepers and the Platformization of Music Curation
This article investigates the logics that underpin music curation, and particularly the work of music curators, working at digital music streaming platforms. Based on ethnographic research that combines participant observation and a set of interviews with key informants, the article questions the relationship between algorithmic and human curation and the specific workings of music curation as a form of platform gatekeeping. We argue that music s…
A “segunda era” do podcasting: Reenquadrando o podcasting como um novo meio digital massivo
Este artigo busca analisar a história do podcasting como uma prática cultural de produção e consumo de conteúdo sonoro digital. Após uma revisão de estudos prévios sobre esta tecnologia, propõe-se que o podcasting entrou numa nova fase de sua evolução, em que começa a gerar um mercado que não é mais simplesmente complementar ao rádio, mas alternativo; um mercado que se move em direção à profissionalização da produção e à normalização do consumo. …
Podcasting in Transition: Formalization and Its Discontents
Podcasting has thrived since its popularization in 2004 as a bastion for amateur media production. Over the past ten years, however, entrepreneurs and legacy media companies have rapidly expanded their interests in podcasting, bringing with them professional standards and the logics of capital. Breakout hits such as 2014’s Serial (with nearly 40 million downloads) and This American Life have demonstrated to both programmers and advertisers the po…
Radio as a social media
Is a social/convivial use of radio and new media in the age of proprietary algorithms-driven cultural consumption still possible? In order to try answering these questions, we have made a selection of the contributions presented to the 6th ECREA Radio Research Section Conference, held at the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences of the University of Siena, Italy, on 19–21 September 2019. The main theme of this conference was, in …
The Field as a Black Box: Ethnographic Research in the Age of Platforms
This article aims to provide a detailed rendering of the struggles we experienced while undertaking ethnographic research for the study of music curators working at online music streaming platforms. Based on the field notes generated during a multi-sited ethnography, the article will critically discuss the 'black boxing' strategies employed by these platforms in order to protect themselves from public scrutiny, and how media scholars can countera…
A convivial-agonistic framework to theorise public service media platforms and their governing systems
This article addresses the need to find alternative ways to envision, develop and govern public service media’s (PSM) online services and data-driven systems. By critically discussing both opportunities and shortcomings of how European PSM organisations developed their online services and personalisation systems, we argue that in their own platformisation processes, PSM have partially lost their distinctiveness and have not been able to provide v…
The emergence of algorithmic solidarity: Unveiling mutual aid practices and resistance among Chinese delivery workers
This study explores how Chinese riders game the algorithm-mediated governing system of food delivery service platforms and how they mobilize WeChat to build solidarity networks to assist each other and better cope with the platform economy. We rely on 12 interviews with Chinese riders from 4 platforms (Meituan, Eleme, SF Express and Flash EX) in 5 cities, and draw on a 4-month online observation of 7 private WeChat groups. The article provides a …
Platformed! How Streaming, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence are Shaping Music Cultures
Cooperative affordances: How instant messaging apps afford learning, resistance and solidarity among food delivery workers
This paper aims to understand the practices and meanings associated with the creation and use of private chat groups on instant messaging services such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Messenger and WeChat that are accessible only to platform workers of online food delivery services. We draw on participant observation in five countries (Italy, Spain, Mexico, China, and India), in-depth interviews with 68 food delivery couriers and digital ethnography ( Pin…
Algorithms of Resistance: The Everyday Fight against Platform Power
How global workers, influencers, and activists develop tactics of algorithmic resistance by appropriating and repurposing the same algorithms that control our lives. Algorithms are all around us, permeating more and more aspects of our daily lives. While accounts of platform power tend to come across as bleak and monolithic, Algorithms of Resistance shows how people can resist algorithms across a variety of domains. Drawing from rich ethnographic…
Disconnecting from my smartphone is a privilege I do not have: Mobile connection and disconnection practices among migrants and asylum seekers in three migrant reception centres of Sicily
This article investigates online connection and disconnection practices among migrants and asylum seekers. It draws from an ethnography of three Sicilian reception centres that hosted migrants and asylum seekers between September and November 2020. We show how migrants, driven by different migratory motivations, enact different mobile connection and disconnection practices. We argue that these are characterised by the different affective meanings…
Amplification, evasion, hijacking: Algorithms as Repertoire for Social Movements and the Struggle for Visibility
While scholars of activism have begun to unfold the dynamics of the ‘contentious politics of data’, less explored are the forms of appropriation of algorithms to pursue political objectives by social movements. This article fills this gap by offering a novel theoretical framework, a conceptual vocabulary, and a typology to foreground and articulate algorithmic activism as a subset of algorithmic politics. It starts discussing why an excessive foc…
It Was Very Hard for Me to Keep Doing That Job: Understanding Troll Farm's Working in the Arab World
This article investigates the production culture and routines of 'troll farms' in three Arab countries-Tunisia, Egypt, and Iraq-from a production studies approach. A production studies approach enables us to focus on the working conditions of paid trolls. We employed qualitative methods to look inside the 'black box' of Arab troll farms. From February to April 2020, we conducted semi-structured interviews with eight disinformation workers at both…
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