Aparajita Bhandari
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3650398 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Aparajita Bhandari |
| NOMBRES | Aparajita |
| APELLIDO | Bhandari |
| FIRMA | BHANDARI A |
| AFILIACIONES | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4844-209X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Techno-refusal as a generative orientation to the future
Social media-fication in the apposphere
In today’s digital landscape, platforms increasingly “feel like” social media. We observe the “social media-fication” of so-called “non-social media” platforms as expressive characteristics of traditional social media platforms are incorporated into mobile apps typically used for other purposes. We argue that this manifests through the repackaging of user behavioral data into expressive social updates, such as GPS maps capturing user movement or …
Digital Memory, Pandemic Temporalities
Digital memory studies is a field deeply attuned to social transformations, including the often abrupt and destabilizing impact of crisis events. It is also a field attuned to the role of time and temporalities in shaping how digital media propels experiences and interpretations of the past into the present and future. This panel is dedicated to bringing these two significant threads of digital memory studies research into concerted conversation …
Algorithms, Aesthetics and the Changing Nature of Cultural Consumption Online
This paper examines the development of digital subcultures and microtrends in a social media landscape increasingly driven by algorithms. We explore the increasing proliferation of subcultures defined by aesthetic categories which we refer to as “microtrends. In this paper we draw from a combined mixed-methods exploration– a visual discourse analysis taken in conjunction with critical technoculture analysis (CDTA) – of content shared to the popul…
Digital Traces, Social Residues
Self-representation is ubiquitous in digital spaces, but much of the existing literature discussing it is focused on social media contexts. Self-representation involves the creation of media traces that record users’ presence and existence through media, but these traces and the platforms that circulate them do not have to be explicitly or directly social. We study self-representation in alternative digital contexts: lifestyle apps focused on amb…
What Does the Internet Sound Like
When it comes to the study of internet phenomena, the visual constitutes a privileged mode of analysis, as seen by the ample and storied scholarship on visual media dn visually based methods. In order to disrupt this “hegemony of the visual,” and explore alternate ways of knowing and being online, this panel bring internet studies scholarship into meaningful dialogue with sound studies scholarship and poses the provocation: “how can sound be used…
Support local
Experiences within cities are increasingly mediated by digital platforms such as Google Maps; thus, it has become imperative to establish critical frameworks to understand the spatial relationships these platforms reinforce and produce. Google draws on “local” knowledge through its Local Guides platform to add location-based data in the form of reviews and rankings to Google Maps. Through a critical technocultural discourse analysis (CTDA) of the…
Time and Temporality
Shall AI moderators be made visible? Perception of accountability and trust in moderation systems on social media platforms
This study examines how visibility of a content moderator and ambiguity of moderated content influence perception of the moderation system in a social media environment. In the course of a two-day pre-registered experiment conducted in a realistic social media simulation, participants encountered moderated comments that were either unequivocally harsh or ambiguously worded, and the source of moderation was either unidentified, or attributed to ot…
Why's Everyone on TikTok Now? The Algorithmized Self and the Future of Self-Making on Social Media
The video-sharing social media platform TikTok has experienced a rapid rise in use since its release in 2016. While its popularity is undeniable, at the first glance, it seems to offer features already available on previously existing and well-established platforms such as Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. To understand processes of self-making on TikTok, we undertake two methods of data collection: a walkthrough of the app and its surrounding en…
An online home for the homeless
There is currently a little observational work exploring homeless peoples’ digital networking behaviors, with previous research relying on limited self-report data. This study fills this gap through a qualitative thematic analysis of the public subreddit r/homeless. We analyzed the 30 most commented posts on the subreddit from each month of 2019, examining a total of 360 posts. We find that r/homeless contributions primarily center around (a) com…
Do You Care Who Flagged This Post? Effects of Moderator Visibility on Bystander Behavior
This study evaluates whether increasing information visibility around the identity of a moderator influences bystanders’ likelihood to flag subsequent unmoderated harassing comments. In a 2-day preregistered experiment conducted in a realistic social media simulation, participants encountered ambiguous or unambiguous harassment comments, which were ostensibly flagged by either other users, an automated system (AI), or an unidentified moderation s…
Tiktok and the “Algorithmized Self”
Since its release in 2017, the video sharing app TikTok has been downloaded 1.5 billion times. While its popularity has been attributed to the abundance of celebrity users, its interactive features, and its short, palatable video length, it has been the subject of relatively few academic studies. This project employs the walkthrough method to examine TikTok within the context of identity negotiation and self-representation on social media. More s…
Why's Everyone on TikTok Now? The Algorithmized Self and the Future of Self-Making on Social Media
The video-sharing social media platform TikTok has experienced a rapid rise in use since its release in 2016. While its popularity is undeniable, at the first glance, it seems to offer features already available on previously existing and well-established platforms such as Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. To understand processes of self-making on TikTok, we undertake two methods of data collection: a walkthrough of the app and its surrounding en…
Support local
Experiences within cities are increasingly mediated by digital platforms such as Google Maps; thus, it has become imperative to establish critical frameworks to understand the spatial relationships these platforms reinforce and produce. Google draws on “local” knowledge through its Local Guides platform to add location-based data in the form of reviews and rankings to Google Maps. Through a critical technocultural discourse analysis (CTDA) of the…
Do You Care Who Flagged This Post? Effects of Moderator Visibility on Bystander Behavior
This study evaluates whether increasing information visibility around the identity of a moderator influences bystanders’ likelihood to flag subsequent unmoderated harassing comments. In a 2-day preregistered experiment conducted in a realistic social media simulation, participants encountered ambiguous or unambiguous harassment comments, which were ostensibly flagged by either other users, an automated system (AI), or an unidentified moderation s…
Shall AI moderators be made visible? Perception of accountability and trust in moderation systems on social media platforms
This study examines how visibility of a content moderator and ambiguity of moderated content influence perception of the moderation system in a social media environment. In the course of a two-day pre-registered experiment conducted in a realistic social media simulation, participants encountered moderated comments that were either unequivocally harsh or ambiguously worded, and the source of moderation was either unidentified, or attributed to ot…
An online home for the homeless
There is currently a little observational work exploring homeless peoples’ digital networking behaviors, with previous research relying on limited self-report data. This study fills this gap through a qualitative thematic analysis of the public subreddit r/homeless. We analyzed the 30 most commented posts on the subreddit from each month of 2019, examining a total of 360 posts. We find that r/homeless contributions primarily center around (a) com…
Tiktok and the “Algorithmized Self”
Since its release in 2017, the video sharing app TikTok has been downloaded 1.5 billion times. While its popularity has been attributed to the abundance of celebrity users, its interactive features, and its short, palatable video length, it has been the subject of relatively few academic studies. This project employs the walkthrough method to examine TikTok within the context of identity negotiation and self-representation on social media. More s…
An online home for the homeless
There is currently a little observational work exploring homeless peoples’ digital networking behaviors, with previous research relying on limited self-report data. This study fills this gap through a qualitative thematic analysis of the public subreddit r/homeless. We analyzed the 30 most commented posts on the subreddit from each month of 2019, examining a total of 360 posts. We find that r/homeless contributions primarily center around (a) com…
Do You Care Who Flagged This Post? Effects of Moderator Visibility on Bystander Behavior
This study evaluates whether increasing information visibility around the identity of a moderator influences bystanders’ likelihood to flag subsequent unmoderated harassing comments. In a 2-day preregistered experiment conducted in a realistic social media simulation, participants encountered ambiguous or unambiguous harassment comments, which were ostensibly flagged by either other users, an automated system (AI), or an unidentified moderation s…
Time and Temporality
Shall AI moderators be made visible? Perception of accountability and trust in moderation systems on social media platforms
This study examines how visibility of a content moderator and ambiguity of moderated content influence perception of the moderation system in a social media environment. In the course of a two-day pre-registered experiment conducted in a realistic social media simulation, participants encountered moderated comments that were either unequivocally harsh or ambiguously worded, and the source of moderation was either unidentified, or attributed to ot…
Why's Everyone on TikTok Now? The Algorithmized Self and the Future of Self-Making on Social Media
The video-sharing social media platform TikTok has experienced a rapid rise in use since its release in 2016. While its popularity is undeniable, at the first glance, it seems to offer features already available on previously existing and well-established platforms such as Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. To understand processes of self-making on TikTok, we undertake two methods of data collection: a walkthrough of the app and its surrounding en…
Digital Memory, Pandemic Temporalities
Digital memory studies is a field deeply attuned to social transformations, including the often abrupt and destabilizing impact of crisis events. It is also a field attuned to the role of time and temporalities in shaping how digital media propels experiences and interpretations of the past into the present and future. This panel is dedicated to bringing these two significant threads of digital memory studies research into concerted conversation …
Algorithms, Aesthetics and the Changing Nature of Cultural Consumption Online
This paper examines the development of digital subcultures and microtrends in a social media landscape increasingly driven by algorithms. We explore the increasing proliferation of subcultures defined by aesthetic categories which we refer to as “microtrends. In this paper we draw from a combined mixed-methods exploration– a visual discourse analysis taken in conjunction with critical technoculture analysis (CDTA) – of content shared to the popul…
Digital Traces, Social Residues
Self-representation is ubiquitous in digital spaces, but much of the existing literature discussing it is focused on social media contexts. Self-representation involves the creation of media traces that record users’ presence and existence through media, but these traces and the platforms that circulate them do not have to be explicitly or directly social. We study self-representation in alternative digital contexts: lifestyle apps focused on amb…
What Does the Internet Sound Like
When it comes to the study of internet phenomena, the visual constitutes a privileged mode of analysis, as seen by the ample and storied scholarship on visual media dn visually based methods. In order to disrupt this “hegemony of the visual,” and explore alternate ways of knowing and being online, this panel bring internet studies scholarship into meaningful dialogue with sound studies scholarship and poses the provocation: “how can sound be used…
Support local
Experiences within cities are increasingly mediated by digital platforms such as Google Maps; thus, it has become imperative to establish critical frameworks to understand the spatial relationships these platforms reinforce and produce. Google draws on “local” knowledge through its Local Guides platform to add location-based data in the form of reviews and rankings to Google Maps. Through a critical technocultural discourse analysis (CTDA) of the…
Techno-refusal as a generative orientation to the future
Social media-fication in the apposphere
In today’s digital landscape, platforms increasingly “feel like” social media. We observe the “social media-fication” of so-called “non-social media” platforms as expressive characteristics of traditional social media platforms are incorporated into mobile apps typically used for other purposes. We argue that this manifests through the repackaging of user behavioral data into expressive social updates, such as GPS maps capturing user movement or …
Computer Science (8 obras) · World Wide Web (8 obras) · Social media (7 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Internet privacy (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Social Media and Politics (4 obras) · Social Psychology (4 obras) · Art (3 obras)