Felipe Bonow Soares
Biographic Data
| ID | 336657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Felipe Bonow Soares |
| GIVEN NAMES | Felipe Bonow |
| FAMILY NAME | Soares |
| SIGNATURE | SOARES F B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4850-9255 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Have Digital Media Platforms a Role in Fostering a Polarized Public Debate? Evidences From Latin America
In recent years, democracies worldwide have experienced a sharp rise in political polarization, coinciding with the global spread of digital media platforms (Yarchi et al., 2021). After the Pink Tide in Latin America, which brought left-wing leaders to power following years of autocratic rule, the past decade has seen a resurgence of a new conservative right, leading to protests and the rise of illiberal populism. Over the past two years, several…
The sky is bluer on the other side: Fleeing from toxic vibes on #Xodus
Although Twitter has been subject to modifications since its conception, the acquisition by Elon Musk in 2022 represented perhaps its most dramatic vibe shift. The rebranding to X and the extremist political orientation increasingly encouraged by Musk have recently led to a mass exodus of users to alternative platforms – a pattern of migration many referred to as #Xodus. We explore this transition in which ordinary users have decided that it was …
Wrap your head around it: Algorithmic self-making and performances of taste on Spotify Wrapped
This paper examines how Spotify Wrapped is perceived and understood by Brazilian users, exploring the algorithmic imaginaries (Bucher, 2017). that surround its appropriation in everyday life and how the datafication and the dashboarding of music consumption are incorporated into performances of taste (Airoldi, 2021; Prey, 2018). Focusing on Wrapped as an annual ‘algorithmic event' (Annabell & Rasmussen, 2024) we contextualise it as part of ongoin…
Wrap Your Head Around It: Brazilian Users’ Algorithmic Imaginaries of Spotify Wrapped
‘Spotify Wrapped’ is a promotional initiative offered by the music platform consisting of a summary of each user’s yearly listening habits. Although Spotify is generally classified as a streaming service, initiatives such as Wrapped have a clear component of sociability (Hagen & Lüders 2017) – in this case, not only because they are based on the harvesting of users’ behavioural data but also because they are created to be shared on platforms such…
Controversies, Problematic Information, and Polarisation: Case Studies Across Six Countries
Political trends around the world have drawn further scholarly attention to the study of polarisation, especially also as it is expressed and potentially deepened by public communication on digital and social media platforms. The very concept of polarisation itself, however, remains ill-defined especially in communication research, where it is often used as a mere buzzword without sufficient definition – even in spite of a wide range of conceptua…
Reverse influence: The social production of disinformation in the 2022 Brazilian general election
This paper examines the shortcomings of applying prescriptive notions of disinformation to the 2022 Brazilian general election. We unpack the disinformation framework based on the assumption of linear cascades of influence with three case studies drawing from the visual analysis of Facebook posts during the election, text analysis of posts by elected representatives on Twitter, and four in-depth interviews with Brazilian fact-checkers. The case s…
Social Media and Society: Platforms, Publics, and Anti-Publics
The Special Issue on Platforms, publics, and anti-publics focused on the complex intersection of platforms, including issues around their ownership, datafication, business models, and algorithms; and the emergence of publics and anti-publics online, which has been increasingly impacted by platforms infrastructures and designs. This Special Issue underscores the need to understand how online publics are influenced by sociotechnical affordances and…
“Made in China”: Desinformação e sinofobia no Facebook durante a pandemia de Covid-19 no Brasil
Neste estudo, analisamos postagens no Facebook para explorar o papel da desinformação e da sinofobia no contexto da pandemia de Covid-19 no Brasil. Embora o discurso sinofóbico não seja novo, tem sido frequentemente associado à desinformação sobre a Covid-19 no país (Recuero; Soares, 2022). Depois de coletar postagens relacionadas à China de grupos públicos no Facebook, utilizamos a Análise de Redes Sociais para explorar as redes e analisar melho…
Falling for Russian Propaganda: Understanding the Factors that Contribute to Belief in Pro-Kremlin Disinformation on Social Media
As Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, social media was rife with pro-Kremlin disinformation. To effectively tackle the issue of state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, this study examines the underlying reasons why some individuals are susceptible to false claims and explores ways to reduce their susceptibility. It uses linear regression analysis on data from a national survey of 1,500 adults (18+) to examine t…
Trust and Safety on Social Media: Understanding the Impact of Anti-Social Behavior and Misinformation on Content Moderation and Platform Governance
The Special Issue on Trust and Safety on Social Media delves into two pressing and interlinked concerns: the growing prevalence of anti-social behavior and the widespread presence of misinformation within and across various social media platforms. The collection of articles featured in the issue collectively examines factors that contribute to these concerns and proposes potential strategies to mitigate their negative impact on social media users…
Youtube as a Source of Information About Unproven Drugs for Covid-19: The Role of the Mainstream Media and Recommendation Algorithms in Promoting Misinformation
In this study, we address how YouTube videos promote misinformation about hydroxychloroquine in Brazil. We follow two research questions. RQ1: How is pro-hydroxychloroquine content propagated on YouTube? RQ2: How does YouTube’s recommendation system suggest videos about hydroxychloroquine on the platform? We use mixed methods (content analysis and social network analysis) to analyze 751 YouTube videos. We found that most pro-HCQ videos in our dat…
How coordinated link sharing behavior and partisans' narrative framing fan the spread of Covid-19 misinformation and conspiracy theories
This study examines the presence and role of Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior (CLSB) on Facebook around the "America's Frontline Doctors" press conference, and the promotion of several unproven conspiracy theories including the false assertion that hydroxychloroquine is a "cure" for COVID-19 by Dr. Stella Immanuel, one of the doctors who took part in the press conference. We collected 7,737 public Facebook posts mentioning Stella Immanuel using …
How the Mainstream Media Help to Spread Disinformation about Covid-19
Introduction In this article, we hypothesise how mainstream media coverage can promote the spread of disinformation about Covid-19. Mainstream media are often discussed as opposed to disinformation (Glasser; Benkler et al.). While the disinformation phenomenon is related to the intentional production and spread of misleading and false information to influence public opinion (Fallis; Benkler et al.), mainstream media news is expected to be based o…
Infodemia e Instagram: Como a plataforma é apropriada para a produção de desinformação sobre a hidroxicloroquina
Neste artigo, analisamos as estratégias de apropriação do Instagram para a produção de discursos desinformativos sobre o Covid-19. O nosso estudo de caso é focado na divulgação do uso da hidroxicloroquina como tratamento para a doença. Para isso, coletamos publicações na plataforma que mencionavam o medicamento. Selecionamos as 67 publicações desinformativas com maior número de interações e utilizamos Análise de Conteúdo para identificar como a m…
Vachina: How Politicians Help to Spread Disinformation About Covid-19 Vaccines
This paper focuses on how Brazilian politicians helped to spread disinformation about Covid-19 vaccines, discussing legitimation strategies and actors that played a significant role on Twitter and Facebook. Based on data gathered through CrowdTangle and Twitter API, we selected the 250 most shared/retweeted posts for each dataset (n=500) and examined if they contained disinformation, who posted it, and what strategy was used to legitimize this di…
Covid-19, desinformação e Facebook: Circulação de URLs sobre a hidroxicloroquina em páginas e grupos públicos1
Neste artigo, analisamos a circulação de URLs desinformativas no Facebook. Nosso estudo de caso é o uso da hidroxicloroquina como cura ou profilaxia para o Covid-19. Analisamos a presença de URLs em mais de 70 mil publicações de páginas e grupos públicos no Facebook. Utilizamos a Análise de Redes Sociais para mapear a circulação das URLs em redes de páginas e grupos e a Análise de Conteúdo para identificar as fontes das informações e a presença d…
Hashtag Wars: Political Disinformation and Discursive Struggles on Twitter Conversations During the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Campaign
In this article, we analyze the spread of political disinformation in events of discursive struggles on Twitter, during the 2018 presidential election in Brazil. These were disputes for the hegemonic narrative between two stories based on opposed hashtags: one based on news from mainstream media and the other, based on disinformation, mostly from hyperpartisan outlets. Our goal was to understand how hyperpartisan outlets created and shaped these …
Political Fandoms and Superparticipants in Political Conversations on Twittertwitter, Social Network Analysis, Political Polarization, Fandoms
In this proposal, we discuss the role of superparticipants in political conversations on Twitter. Our hypothesis is that these highly active users show a clear political position and intentionally act to give visibility to some topics and to reduce the visibility of others, practices that are similar to those observed among fans in popular culture. In terms of methods, we use social network analysis metrics to identify the modularity of the netwo…
Disinformation Campaigns on Twitter During the Brazilian 2018 Presidential Election
This proposal focuses on discussing the results of two-year study about disinformation in political conversations on Twitter during the 2018 presidential campaign in Brazil. Based on a dataset of over 20 million tweets, we explore the research question: What are the key characteristics of the disinformation campaigns aimed to influence the Brazilian 2018 election through political conversations on Twitter? To discuss this question, we aligned our…
Discursive strategies for disinformation on WhatsApp and Twitter during the 2018 Brazilian presidential election
This paper aims to analyze and compare the discursive strategies used to spread and legitimate disinformation on Twitter and WhatsApp during the 2018 Brazilian presidential election. Our case study is the disinformation campaign used to discredit the electronic ballot that was used for the election. In this paper, we use a mixed methods approach that combined critical discourse analysis and a quantitative aggregate approach to discuss a dataset o…
Desinformação e esfera pública no Twitter: Disputas discursivas sobre o assassinato de Marielle Franco
This study aims to analyze the discursive struggles on Twitter based on disinformation campaigns about Marielle Franco’s case. We used content analysis to identify how disinformation spread and which discursive struggles were involved in the conversation. We created two categories of tweets in our analysis: those that helped to reverberate disinformation, trying to disqualify Marielle, and those that tried to deny the false accusations, defending…
Using Social Network Analysis and Social Capital to Identify User Roles on Polarized Political Conversations on Twitter
In this article, we discuss the roles users play in political conversations on Twitter. Our case study is based on data collected in three dates during the former Brazilian president Lula's corruption trial. We used a combination of social network analysis metrics and social capital to identify the users' roles during polarized discussions that took place in each of the dates analyzed. Our research identified four roles, each associated with diff…
A Argumentação dos Deputados na Votação do Processo de Impeachment de Dilma Rousseff
This study seeks to analyze the arguments used by Brazilian federal deputies in the first voting of Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment in April 2016. The proposal is to perform an analysis anchored on three bases: a content analysis, network analysis and argumentative analysis. It is intended to discover how the deputies argued and which are the discursive differences observed among those who voted for and who voted against the process
Opinião Pública No Twitter: Análise Da Indicação De Alexandre De Moraes Ao STF
Este estudo busca discutir e analisar a construção da opinião pública no Twitter, tomando como estudo de caso a nomeação de Alexandre de Moraes para substituir Teori Zavascki como ministro do Supremo Tribunal Federal. A base teórica é formada a partir das relações entre o conceito de esfera pública e os sites de redes sociais. Para realizar esta análise, foram adotados métodos mistos, baseados na análise de contingência e na análise de redes. O c…
Using Social Network Analysis and Social Capital to Identify User Roles on Polarized Political Conversations on Twitter
In this article, we discuss the roles users play in political conversations on Twitter. Our case study is based on data collected in three dates during the former Brazilian president Lula's corruption trial. We used a combination of social network analysis metrics and social capital to identify the users' roles during polarized discussions that took place in each of the dates analyzed. Our research identified four roles, each associated with diff…
Hashtag Wars: Political Disinformation and Discursive Struggles on Twitter Conversations During the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Campaign
In this article, we analyze the spread of political disinformation in events of discursive struggles on Twitter, during the 2018 presidential election in Brazil. These were disputes for the hegemonic narrative between two stories based on opposed hashtags: one based on news from mainstream media and the other, based on disinformation, mostly from hyperpartisan outlets. Our goal was to understand how hyperpartisan outlets created and shaped these …
How coordinated link sharing behavior and partisans' narrative framing fan the spread of Covid-19 misinformation and conspiracy theories
This study examines the presence and role of Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior (CLSB) on Facebook around the "America's Frontline Doctors" press conference, and the promotion of several unproven conspiracy theories including the false assertion that hydroxychloroquine is a "cure" for COVID-19 by Dr. Stella Immanuel, one of the doctors who took part in the press conference. We collected 7,737 public Facebook posts mentioning Stella Immanuel using …
Vachina: How Politicians Help to Spread Disinformation About Covid-19 Vaccines
This paper focuses on how Brazilian politicians helped to spread disinformation about Covid-19 vaccines, discussing legitimation strategies and actors that played a significant role on Twitter and Facebook. Based on data gathered through CrowdTangle and Twitter API, we selected the 250 most shared/retweeted posts for each dataset (n=500) and examined if they contained disinformation, who posted it, and what strategy was used to legitimize this di…
Reverse influence: The social production of disinformation in the 2022 Brazilian general election
This paper examines the shortcomings of applying prescriptive notions of disinformation to the 2022 Brazilian general election. We unpack the disinformation framework based on the assumption of linear cascades of influence with three case studies drawing from the visual analysis of Facebook posts during the election, text analysis of posts by elected representatives on Twitter, and four in-depth interviews with Brazilian fact-checkers. The case s…
Social Media and Society: Platforms, Publics, and Anti-Publics
The Special Issue on Platforms, publics, and anti-publics focused on the complex intersection of platforms, including issues around their ownership, datafication, business models, and algorithms; and the emergence of publics and anti-publics online, which has been increasingly impacted by platforms infrastructures and designs. This Special Issue underscores the need to understand how online publics are influenced by sociotechnical affordances and…
Falling for Russian Propaganda: Understanding the Factors that Contribute to Belief in Pro-Kremlin Disinformation on Social Media
As Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, social media was rife with pro-Kremlin disinformation. To effectively tackle the issue of state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, this study examines the underlying reasons why some individuals are susceptible to false claims and explores ways to reduce their susceptibility. It uses linear regression analysis on data from a national survey of 1,500 adults (18+) to examine t…
Trust and Safety on Social Media: Understanding the Impact of Anti-Social Behavior and Misinformation on Content Moderation and Platform Governance
The Special Issue on Trust and Safety on Social Media delves into two pressing and interlinked concerns: the growing prevalence of anti-social behavior and the widespread presence of misinformation within and across various social media platforms. The collection of articles featured in the issue collectively examines factors that contribute to these concerns and proposes potential strategies to mitigate their negative impact on social media users…
Opinião Pública No Twitter: Análise Da Indicação De Alexandre De Moraes Ao STF
Este estudo busca discutir e analisar a construção da opinião pública no Twitter, tomando como estudo de caso a nomeação de Alexandre de Moraes para substituir Teori Zavascki como ministro do Supremo Tribunal Federal. A base teórica é formada a partir das relações entre o conceito de esfera pública e os sites de redes sociais. Para realizar esta análise, foram adotados métodos mistos, baseados na análise de contingência e na análise de redes. O c…
A Argumentação dos Deputados na Votação do Processo de Impeachment de Dilma Rousseff
This study seeks to analyze the arguments used by Brazilian federal deputies in the first voting of Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment in April 2016. The proposal is to perform an analysis anchored on three bases: a content analysis, network analysis and argumentative analysis. It is intended to discover how the deputies argued and which are the discursive differences observed among those who voted for and who voted against the process
Desinformação e esfera pública no Twitter: Disputas discursivas sobre o assassinato de Marielle Franco
This study aims to analyze the discursive struggles on Twitter based on disinformation campaigns about Marielle Franco’s case. We used content analysis to identify how disinformation spread and which discursive struggles were involved in the conversation. We created two categories of tweets in our analysis: those that helped to reverberate disinformation, trying to disqualify Marielle, and those that tried to deny the false accusations, defending…
Using Social Network Analysis and Social Capital to Identify User Roles on Polarized Political Conversations on Twitter
In this article, we discuss the roles users play in political conversations on Twitter. Our case study is based on data collected in three dates during the former Brazilian president Lula's corruption trial. We used a combination of social network analysis metrics and social capital to identify the users' roles during polarized discussions that took place in each of the dates analyzed. Our research identified four roles, each associated with diff…
Political Fandoms and Superparticipants in Political Conversations on Twittertwitter, Social Network Analysis, Political Polarization, Fandoms
In this proposal, we discuss the role of superparticipants in political conversations on Twitter. Our hypothesis is that these highly active users show a clear political position and intentionally act to give visibility to some topics and to reduce the visibility of others, practices that are similar to those observed among fans in popular culture. In terms of methods, we use social network analysis metrics to identify the modularity of the netwo…
Disinformation Campaigns on Twitter During the Brazilian 2018 Presidential Election
This proposal focuses on discussing the results of two-year study about disinformation in political conversations on Twitter during the 2018 presidential campaign in Brazil. Based on a dataset of over 20 million tweets, we explore the research question: What are the key characteristics of the disinformation campaigns aimed to influence the Brazilian 2018 election through political conversations on Twitter? To discuss this question, we aligned our…
Discursive strategies for disinformation on WhatsApp and Twitter during the 2018 Brazilian presidential election
This paper aims to analyze and compare the discursive strategies used to spread and legitimate disinformation on Twitter and WhatsApp during the 2018 Brazilian presidential election. Our case study is the disinformation campaign used to discredit the electronic ballot that was used for the election. In this paper, we use a mixed methods approach that combined critical discourse analysis and a quantitative aggregate approach to discuss a dataset o…
How the Mainstream Media Help to Spread Disinformation about Covid-19
Introduction In this article, we hypothesise how mainstream media coverage can promote the spread of disinformation about Covid-19. Mainstream media are often discussed as opposed to disinformation (Glasser; Benkler et al.). While the disinformation phenomenon is related to the intentional production and spread of misleading and false information to influence public opinion (Fallis; Benkler et al.), mainstream media news is expected to be based o…
Infodemia e Instagram: Como a plataforma é apropriada para a produção de desinformação sobre a hidroxicloroquina
Neste artigo, analisamos as estratégias de apropriação do Instagram para a produção de discursos desinformativos sobre o Covid-19. O nosso estudo de caso é focado na divulgação do uso da hidroxicloroquina como tratamento para a doença. Para isso, coletamos publicações na plataforma que mencionavam o medicamento. Selecionamos as 67 publicações desinformativas com maior número de interações e utilizamos Análise de Conteúdo para identificar como a m…
Vachina: How Politicians Help to Spread Disinformation About Covid-19 Vaccines
This paper focuses on how Brazilian politicians helped to spread disinformation about Covid-19 vaccines, discussing legitimation strategies and actors that played a significant role on Twitter and Facebook. Based on data gathered through CrowdTangle and Twitter API, we selected the 250 most shared/retweeted posts for each dataset (n=500) and examined if they contained disinformation, who posted it, and what strategy was used to legitimize this di…
Covid-19, desinformação e Facebook: Circulação de URLs sobre a hidroxicloroquina em páginas e grupos públicos1
Neste artigo, analisamos a circulação de URLs desinformativas no Facebook. Nosso estudo de caso é o uso da hidroxicloroquina como cura ou profilaxia para o Covid-19. Analisamos a presença de URLs em mais de 70 mil publicações de páginas e grupos públicos no Facebook. Utilizamos a Análise de Redes Sociais para mapear a circulação das URLs em redes de páginas e grupos e a Análise de Conteúdo para identificar as fontes das informações e a presença d…
Hashtag Wars: Political Disinformation and Discursive Struggles on Twitter Conversations During the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Campaign
In this article, we analyze the spread of political disinformation in events of discursive struggles on Twitter, during the 2018 presidential election in Brazil. These were disputes for the hegemonic narrative between two stories based on opposed hashtags: one based on news from mainstream media and the other, based on disinformation, mostly from hyperpartisan outlets. Our goal was to understand how hyperpartisan outlets created and shaped these …
Youtube as a Source of Information About Unproven Drugs for Covid-19: The Role of the Mainstream Media and Recommendation Algorithms in Promoting Misinformation
In this study, we address how YouTube videos promote misinformation about hydroxychloroquine in Brazil. We follow two research questions. RQ1: How is pro-hydroxychloroquine content propagated on YouTube? RQ2: How does YouTube’s recommendation system suggest videos about hydroxychloroquine on the platform? We use mixed methods (content analysis and social network analysis) to analyze 751 YouTube videos. We found that most pro-HCQ videos in our dat…
How coordinated link sharing behavior and partisans' narrative framing fan the spread of Covid-19 misinformation and conspiracy theories
This study examines the presence and role of Coordinated Link Sharing Behavior (CLSB) on Facebook around the "America's Frontline Doctors" press conference, and the promotion of several unproven conspiracy theories including the false assertion that hydroxychloroquine is a "cure" for COVID-19 by Dr. Stella Immanuel, one of the doctors who took part in the press conference. We collected 7,737 public Facebook posts mentioning Stella Immanuel using …
“Made in China”: Desinformação e sinofobia no Facebook durante a pandemia de Covid-19 no Brasil
Neste estudo, analisamos postagens no Facebook para explorar o papel da desinformação e da sinofobia no contexto da pandemia de Covid-19 no Brasil. Embora o discurso sinofóbico não seja novo, tem sido frequentemente associado à desinformação sobre a Covid-19 no país (Recuero; Soares, 2022). Depois de coletar postagens relacionadas à China de grupos públicos no Facebook, utilizamos a Análise de Redes Sociais para explorar as redes e analisar melho…
Falling for Russian Propaganda: Understanding the Factors that Contribute to Belief in Pro-Kremlin Disinformation on Social Media
As Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, social media was rife with pro-Kremlin disinformation. To effectively tackle the issue of state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, this study examines the underlying reasons why some individuals are susceptible to false claims and explores ways to reduce their susceptibility. It uses linear regression analysis on data from a national survey of 1,500 adults (18+) to examine t…
Trust and Safety on Social Media: Understanding the Impact of Anti-Social Behavior and Misinformation on Content Moderation and Platform Governance
The Special Issue on Trust and Safety on Social Media delves into two pressing and interlinked concerns: the growing prevalence of anti-social behavior and the widespread presence of misinformation within and across various social media platforms. The collection of articles featured in the issue collectively examines factors that contribute to these concerns and proposes potential strategies to mitigate their negative impact on social media users…
Wrap Your Head Around It: Brazilian Users’ Algorithmic Imaginaries of Spotify Wrapped
‘Spotify Wrapped’ is a promotional initiative offered by the music platform consisting of a summary of each user’s yearly listening habits. Although Spotify is generally classified as a streaming service, initiatives such as Wrapped have a clear component of sociability (Hagen & Lüders 2017) – in this case, not only because they are based on the harvesting of users’ behavioural data but also because they are created to be shared on platforms such…
Controversies, Problematic Information, and Polarisation: Case Studies Across Six Countries
Political trends around the world have drawn further scholarly attention to the study of polarisation, especially also as it is expressed and potentially deepened by public communication on digital and social media platforms. The very concept of polarisation itself, however, remains ill-defined especially in communication research, where it is often used as a mere buzzword without sufficient definition – even in spite of a wide range of conceptua…
Reverse influence: The social production of disinformation in the 2022 Brazilian general election
This paper examines the shortcomings of applying prescriptive notions of disinformation to the 2022 Brazilian general election. We unpack the disinformation framework based on the assumption of linear cascades of influence with three case studies drawing from the visual analysis of Facebook posts during the election, text analysis of posts by elected representatives on Twitter, and four in-depth interviews with Brazilian fact-checkers. The case s…
Social Media and Society: Platforms, Publics, and Anti-Publics
The Special Issue on Platforms, publics, and anti-publics focused on the complex intersection of platforms, including issues around their ownership, datafication, business models, and algorithms; and the emergence of publics and anti-publics online, which has been increasingly impacted by platforms infrastructures and designs. This Special Issue underscores the need to understand how online publics are influenced by sociotechnical affordances and…
Have Digital Media Platforms a Role in Fostering a Polarized Public Debate? Evidences From Latin America
In recent years, democracies worldwide have experienced a sharp rise in political polarization, coinciding with the global spread of digital media platforms (Yarchi et al., 2021). After the Pink Tide in Latin America, which brought left-wing leaders to power following years of autocratic rule, the past decade has seen a resurgence of a new conservative right, leading to protests and the rise of illiberal populism. Over the past two years, several…
The sky is bluer on the other side: Fleeing from toxic vibes on #Xodus
Although Twitter has been subject to modifications since its conception, the acquisition by Elon Musk in 2022 represented perhaps its most dramatic vibe shift. The rebranding to X and the extremist political orientation increasingly encouraged by Musk have recently led to a mass exodus of users to alternative platforms – a pattern of migration many referred to as #Xodus. We explore this transition in which ordinary users have decided that it was …
Wrap your head around it: Algorithmic self-making and performances of taste on Spotify Wrapped
This paper examines how Spotify Wrapped is perceived and understood by Brazilian users, exploring the algorithmic imaginaries (Bucher, 2017). that surround its appropriation in everyday life and how the datafication and the dashboarding of music consumption are incorporated into performances of taste (Airoldi, 2021; Prey, 2018). Focusing on Wrapped as an annual ‘algorithmic event' (Annabell & Rasmussen, 2024) we contextualise it as part of ongoin…
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