D Bondy Valdovinos Kaye
Biographic Data
| ID | 336751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Bondy Valdovinos Kaye |
| GIVEN NAMES | D Bondy Valdovinos |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaye |
| SIGNATURE | KAYE D B V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9684-2186 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Copyright at the margins
Platform governance research has prioritized formal mechanisms that can be codified in law or policy and audited with trace data. While such mechanisms merit attention, the focus risks overlooking informal yet influential practices that shape platform culture. We introduce a methodological approach for tracking informal platform governance through fan wikis, demonstrated through the case of copyright enforcement on YouTube. We annotated 149 copyr…
In the style of
This paper addresses the role of copyright in governing how generative AI replicates artistic style. Style is considered to be somewhat intangible and unfixed and is not typically protected by copyright law. Yet, a key affordance of generative AI the ability to create works ‘in the style of’ other works. The legal, creator and industry implications of copying style through generative AI have not yet been the focus of critical analysis or platform…
A safe, responsible, and profitable ecosystem of music”
This article analyzes music industry discourses about generative AI to understand competing and conflicting views across the industrial field. Our analysis mobilizes primary data from ethnographic fieldwork collected at music trade conferences between 2023 and 2024 and secondary data from trade press, corporate statements, reports published by governments, unions, and trade bodies. Our analysis illuminates tensions and contradictions among protec…
Renting royalties
This study presents a critique of assetization in the music industry through a case study of royalty shares and their effect on musicians. A royalty share is a form of securitized music copyright that is packaged and sold as an investment asset to buyers on royalty sharing marketplaces (RSMs). Royalty shares represent an evolutionary step in financialization of music markets that contributes to deepening inequalities by transforming copyright own…
What Do Musicians Think of Digital Platforms
Drawing on focus groups conducted with musicians based in England, we discuss how musicians with backgrounds in different genres evaluate the effects of a range of music-related digital platforms on musicians and music culture. Alongside criticisms, some of them familiar from recent public debate and academic research, we identify a number of more ambivalent and even positive perspectives on the platformisation of music. We analyse the divided re…
Diversity’ as multidisciplinary keyword for the politics of cultural recommender systems in global digital media platforms
‘Diversity’ is a heavily freighted and multivalent keyword in the global digital media environment. The recommender systems used by platforms are particularly acute sites of development and debate around the political, cultural and technical issues ‘diversity’ signifies. Drawing on a review of computer science publications on recommender systems in media and entertainment as well as a survey of recent advances in media and cultural policy scholar…
Commentary & Reflections from the TikTok Methodologies Discussion Forum
As methodologies for studying TikTok continue to develop, deliberation among research communities can offer valuable insights to incorporate different approaches and iterate on emerging research designs. In July 2021, the TikTok Cultures Research Network held a public research forum on TikTok methodologies that was attended by over two-hundred researchers and members of the public from around the world. The discussion-based event featured two pan…
Black summer on TikTok and ABC news
This study investigates the role of two intermediaries, a mainstream media outlet and a popular digital media platform, to shape cultural identity through a case study of the 2019-2020 Australian bushfire crisis (colloquially known as the ‘Black Summer’). Theoretically framed by networked publics, this study explores the vernacular creativity of social media users and mainstream media coverage during the Black Summer bushfire crisis. Findings dra…
Just a little hack’
As social media platforms adapt their rules to limit the presence, spread, and amplification of harmful content on their services, users develop strategies to circumvent content moderation policies. To better understand cultures of content moderation circumvention, including the types of rules that Facebook users seek to circumvent, we analysed a sample of YouTube videos and Reddit threads in which users discuss content moderation circumvention. …
"Introduction to the Media International Australia special issue on "TikTok cultures in the Asia Pacific
The editors of this Feature Topic are founding members of the TikTok Cultures Research Network that focuses on culturally-situated and qualitatively-grounded scholarship on TikTok in the Asia Pacific region. This Feature Topic collection for Media International Australia is our second in a string of Special Issues on TikTok, each primed to interrogate the platform from different scholarly vantage points while remaining committed to surfacing, hig…
Exploring children's TikTok cultures in India
TikTok is a popular platform allowing users to view and make short videos. The platform's embeddedness among youth cultures is key to TikTok's commercial success, to attract and sustain a diverse array of international users. The discourse around children and social media especially TikTok is laced with technopanics, as is the case in India. Although sparse, literature shows children in India want to explore social media but parental mediation us…
From content moderation to visibility moderation
TikTok, a short‐video app featuring video content typically between 15 and 60 s long, has become immensely popular around the world in the last few years. However, the worldwide popularity of TikTok requires the platform to constantly negotiate with the rules, norms and regulatory frameworks of the regions where it operates. Failure to do so has had significant consequences. For example, for content‐related reasons, the platform has been (tempora…
Platform Specificities
Social media platforms shape our lives on micro, meso and macro levels. They have transformed our everyday practices as individuals, or social practices as small and large groups, and have multiple, entangled impacts on rituals of democracy and cultural (re)production, organization of labor and industry. This panel brings together five papers, each by authors of recently published or forthcoming platform books. Together, the papers offer an analy…
PositiveEnergy Douyin
In Chinese political discourse, “positive energy” (zheng nengliang) is a popular expression that has embodied mainstream political ideology in China since 2012. This term has also become prominent on Douyin, a prominent Chinese short-video platform. By June 2018, over 500 Chinese governmental accounts on Douyin had promoted positive energy in videos, and the content was viewed over 1.6 billion times. Douyin even created a separate trending sectio…
Media Censorship
This article draws on a political economy approach to examine the politics of censorship that undergirds the current Indian online audio-visual sector. Through our analysis of interviews with media creators, government policies and trade press literature, we probe the implications of censorship on India’s burgeoning online production culture and we contest the Indian government’s ideological motives in spearheading the censorship process. We conc…
Everyday Data Cultures
This panel deploys a range of qualitative methodologies to investigate how processes of datafication meet with the subjective experiences of ordinary people, and the practices of everyday life. We draw on the model of 'everyday data cultures' proposed by Burgess (2017) to explore the ways diverse data practices - including the production and circulation of data visualisations, modes of data storage and vernacular engagements with data literacy - …
Copyright Gossip
This study investigates copyright discourses on YouTube. Through a qualitative content analysis of 144 YouTube videos, we explore how YouTube creators understand copyright law, how they minimize risks posed by copyright infringement, and how they navigate a highly technical and dynamic copyright enforcement ecosystem. Our findings offer insights into how digitally situated cultural producers are impacted by and respond to automated content modera…
Copyright Gossip
This study investigates copyright discourses on YouTube. Through a qualitative content analysis of approximately 200 YouTube videos, we explore how YouTube creators understand copyright law, and how they navigate a highly technical and dynamic copyright enforcement ecosystem. Our findings offer insights into how digitally situated cultural producers are impacted by and respond to automated content moderation. This is important because increasingl…
The co-evolution of two Chinese mobile short video apps
TikTok is the international twin of China’s mobile short video app, Douyin, and one of the fastest growing short video platforms in the world. Owned by Chinese tech giant, ByteDance, TikTok and Douyin share many similarities in terms of appearance, functionality, and platform affordances; however, they exist in radically different markets and are governed by radically different forces. Unlike other popular mobile media platforms in China and inte…
Reclaiming policy in the Myanmar popular music industry
This article considers music policy developments in the Myanmar popular music industry following rapid technological and political transformations beginning in 2010. Previous research has identified the cultural policies designed to promote the military government’s nationalistic cultural ideal, while simultaneously repressing popular music. The military’s abdication of power in 2011, the liberalisation of the telecommunication sector, and the de…
Pushing the Next Level
Film, television, and music form a major domestic and export product in India. Whereas, in the past, content production has been restricted to professional producers, digital media platforms have drastically altered the landscape of content production in India. Through in-depth interviews of ten online content creators, the article describes motivations of online content creation in India. Discussion themes include professional activities, identi…
The co-evolution of two Chinese mobile short video apps
TikTok is the international twin of China’s mobile short video app, Douyin, and one of the fastest growing short video platforms in the world. Owned by Chinese tech giant, ByteDance, TikTok and Douyin share many similarities in terms of appearance, functionality, and platform affordances; however, they exist in radically different markets and are governed by radically different forces. Unlike other popular mobile media platforms in China and inte…
Everyday Data Cultures
This panel deploys a range of qualitative methodologies to investigate how processes of datafication meet with the subjective experiences of ordinary people, and the practices of everyday life. We draw on the model of 'everyday data cultures' proposed by Burgess (2017) to explore the ways diverse data practices - including the production and circulation of data visualisations, modes of data storage and vernacular engagements with data literacy - …
Exploring children's TikTok cultures in India
TikTok is a popular platform allowing users to view and make short videos. The platform's embeddedness among youth cultures is key to TikTok's commercial success, to attract and sustain a diverse array of international users. The discourse around children and social media especially TikTok is laced with technopanics, as is the case in India. Although sparse, literature shows children in India want to explore social media but parental mediation us…
Media Censorship
This article draws on a political economy approach to examine the politics of censorship that undergirds the current Indian online audio-visual sector. Through our analysis of interviews with media creators, government policies and trade press literature, we probe the implications of censorship on India’s burgeoning online production culture and we contest the Indian government’s ideological motives in spearheading the censorship process. We conc…
Pushing the Next Level
Film, television, and music form a major domestic and export product in India. Whereas, in the past, content production has been restricted to professional producers, digital media platforms have drastically altered the landscape of content production in India. Through in-depth interviews of ten online content creators, the article describes motivations of online content creation in India. Discussion themes include professional activities, identi…
Renting royalties
This study presents a critique of assetization in the music industry through a case study of royalty shares and their effect on musicians. A royalty share is a form of securitized music copyright that is packaged and sold as an investment asset to buyers on royalty sharing marketplaces (RSMs). Royalty shares represent an evolutionary step in financialization of music markets that contributes to deepening inequalities by transforming copyright own…
A safe, responsible, and profitable ecosystem of music”
This article analyzes music industry discourses about generative AI to understand competing and conflicting views across the industrial field. Our analysis mobilizes primary data from ethnographic fieldwork collected at music trade conferences between 2023 and 2024 and secondary data from trade press, corporate statements, reports published by governments, unions, and trade bodies. Our analysis illuminates tensions and contradictions among protec…
Just a little hack’
As social media platforms adapt their rules to limit the presence, spread, and amplification of harmful content on their services, users develop strategies to circumvent content moderation policies. To better understand cultures of content moderation circumvention, including the types of rules that Facebook users seek to circumvent, we analysed a sample of YouTube videos and Reddit threads in which users discuss content moderation circumvention. …
"Introduction to the Media International Australia special issue on "TikTok cultures in the Asia Pacific
The editors of this Feature Topic are founding members of the TikTok Cultures Research Network that focuses on culturally-situated and qualitatively-grounded scholarship on TikTok in the Asia Pacific region. This Feature Topic collection for Media International Australia is our second in a string of Special Issues on TikTok, each primed to interrogate the platform from different scholarly vantage points while remaining committed to surfacing, hig…
Copyright Gossip
This study investigates copyright discourses on YouTube. Through a qualitative content analysis of 144 YouTube videos, we explore how YouTube creators understand copyright law, how they minimize risks posed by copyright infringement, and how they navigate a highly technical and dynamic copyright enforcement ecosystem. Our findings offer insights into how digitally situated cultural producers are impacted by and respond to automated content modera…
Pushing the Next Level
Film, television, and music form a major domestic and export product in India. Whereas, in the past, content production has been restricted to professional producers, digital media platforms have drastically altered the landscape of content production in India. Through in-depth interviews of ten online content creators, the article describes motivations of online content creation in India. Discussion themes include professional activities, identi…
Copyright Gossip
This study investigates copyright discourses on YouTube. Through a qualitative content analysis of approximately 200 YouTube videos, we explore how YouTube creators understand copyright law, and how they navigate a highly technical and dynamic copyright enforcement ecosystem. Our findings offer insights into how digitally situated cultural producers are impacted by and respond to automated content moderation. This is important because increasingl…
The co-evolution of two Chinese mobile short video apps
TikTok is the international twin of China’s mobile short video app, Douyin, and one of the fastest growing short video platforms in the world. Owned by Chinese tech giant, ByteDance, TikTok and Douyin share many similarities in terms of appearance, functionality, and platform affordances; however, they exist in radically different markets and are governed by radically different forces. Unlike other popular mobile media platforms in China and inte…
Reclaiming policy in the Myanmar popular music industry
This article considers music policy developments in the Myanmar popular music industry following rapid technological and political transformations beginning in 2010. Previous research has identified the cultural policies designed to promote the military government’s nationalistic cultural ideal, while simultaneously repressing popular music. The military’s abdication of power in 2011, the liberalisation of the telecommunication sector, and the de…
Platform Specificities
Social media platforms shape our lives on micro, meso and macro levels. They have transformed our everyday practices as individuals, or social practices as small and large groups, and have multiple, entangled impacts on rituals of democracy and cultural (re)production, organization of labor and industry. This panel brings together five papers, each by authors of recently published or forthcoming platform books. Together, the papers offer an analy…
PositiveEnergy Douyin
In Chinese political discourse, “positive energy” (zheng nengliang) is a popular expression that has embodied mainstream political ideology in China since 2012. This term has also become prominent on Douyin, a prominent Chinese short-video platform. By June 2018, over 500 Chinese governmental accounts on Douyin had promoted positive energy in videos, and the content was viewed over 1.6 billion times. Douyin even created a separate trending sectio…
Media Censorship
This article draws on a political economy approach to examine the politics of censorship that undergirds the current Indian online audio-visual sector. Through our analysis of interviews with media creators, government policies and trade press literature, we probe the implications of censorship on India’s burgeoning online production culture and we contest the Indian government’s ideological motives in spearheading the censorship process. We conc…
Everyday Data Cultures
This panel deploys a range of qualitative methodologies to investigate how processes of datafication meet with the subjective experiences of ordinary people, and the practices of everyday life. We draw on the model of 'everyday data cultures' proposed by Burgess (2017) to explore the ways diverse data practices - including the production and circulation of data visualisations, modes of data storage and vernacular engagements with data literacy - …
Copyright Gossip
This study investigates copyright discourses on YouTube. Through a qualitative content analysis of 144 YouTube videos, we explore how YouTube creators understand copyright law, how they minimize risks posed by copyright infringement, and how they navigate a highly technical and dynamic copyright enforcement ecosystem. Our findings offer insights into how digitally situated cultural producers are impacted by and respond to automated content modera…
From content moderation to visibility moderation
TikTok, a short‐video app featuring video content typically between 15 and 60 s long, has become immensely popular around the world in the last few years. However, the worldwide popularity of TikTok requires the platform to constantly negotiate with the rules, norms and regulatory frameworks of the regions where it operates. Failure to do so has had significant consequences. For example, for content‐related reasons, the platform has been (tempora…
Commentary & Reflections from the TikTok Methodologies Discussion Forum
As methodologies for studying TikTok continue to develop, deliberation among research communities can offer valuable insights to incorporate different approaches and iterate on emerging research designs. In July 2021, the TikTok Cultures Research Network held a public research forum on TikTok methodologies that was attended by over two-hundred researchers and members of the public from around the world. The discussion-based event featured two pan…
Black summer on TikTok and ABC news
This study investigates the role of two intermediaries, a mainstream media outlet and a popular digital media platform, to shape cultural identity through a case study of the 2019-2020 Australian bushfire crisis (colloquially known as the ‘Black Summer’). Theoretically framed by networked publics, this study explores the vernacular creativity of social media users and mainstream media coverage during the Black Summer bushfire crisis. Findings dra…
Just a little hack’
As social media platforms adapt their rules to limit the presence, spread, and amplification of harmful content on their services, users develop strategies to circumvent content moderation policies. To better understand cultures of content moderation circumvention, including the types of rules that Facebook users seek to circumvent, we analysed a sample of YouTube videos and Reddit threads in which users discuss content moderation circumvention. …
"Introduction to the Media International Australia special issue on "TikTok cultures in the Asia Pacific
The editors of this Feature Topic are founding members of the TikTok Cultures Research Network that focuses on culturally-situated and qualitatively-grounded scholarship on TikTok in the Asia Pacific region. This Feature Topic collection for Media International Australia is our second in a string of Special Issues on TikTok, each primed to interrogate the platform from different scholarly vantage points while remaining committed to surfacing, hig…
Exploring children's TikTok cultures in India
TikTok is a popular platform allowing users to view and make short videos. The platform's embeddedness among youth cultures is key to TikTok's commercial success, to attract and sustain a diverse array of international users. The discourse around children and social media especially TikTok is laced with technopanics, as is the case in India. Although sparse, literature shows children in India want to explore social media but parental mediation us…
Diversity’ as multidisciplinary keyword for the politics of cultural recommender systems in global digital media platforms
‘Diversity’ is a heavily freighted and multivalent keyword in the global digital media environment. The recommender systems used by platforms are particularly acute sites of development and debate around the political, cultural and technical issues ‘diversity’ signifies. Drawing on a review of computer science publications on recommender systems in media and entertainment as well as a survey of recent advances in media and cultural policy scholar…
Renting royalties
This study presents a critique of assetization in the music industry through a case study of royalty shares and their effect on musicians. A royalty share is a form of securitized music copyright that is packaged and sold as an investment asset to buyers on royalty sharing marketplaces (RSMs). Royalty shares represent an evolutionary step in financialization of music markets that contributes to deepening inequalities by transforming copyright own…
What Do Musicians Think of Digital Platforms
Drawing on focus groups conducted with musicians based in England, we discuss how musicians with backgrounds in different genres evaluate the effects of a range of music-related digital platforms on musicians and music culture. Alongside criticisms, some of them familiar from recent public debate and academic research, we identify a number of more ambivalent and even positive perspectives on the platformisation of music. We analyse the divided re…
Copyright at the margins
Platform governance research has prioritized formal mechanisms that can be codified in law or policy and audited with trace data. While such mechanisms merit attention, the focus risks overlooking informal yet influential practices that shape platform culture. We introduce a methodological approach for tracking informal platform governance through fan wikis, demonstrated through the case of copyright enforcement on YouTube. We annotated 149 copyr…
In the style of
This paper addresses the role of copyright in governing how generative AI replicates artistic style. Style is considered to be somewhat intangible and unfixed and is not typically protected by copyright law. Yet, a key affordance of generative AI the ability to create works ‘in the style of’ other works. The legal, creator and industry implications of copying style through generative AI have not yet been the focus of critical analysis or platform…
A safe, responsible, and profitable ecosystem of music”
This article analyzes music industry discourses about generative AI to understand competing and conflicting views across the industrial field. Our analysis mobilizes primary data from ethnographic fieldwork collected at music trade conferences between 2023 and 2024 and secondary data from trade press, corporate statements, reports published by governments, unions, and trade bodies. Our analysis illuminates tensions and contradictions among protec…
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