More Than Meets the Eyes
The Lens of Visibility in Internet Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22009602 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Myles (0000-0002-3839-0644), Daniel Trottier (0000-0001-8476-673X, Erasmus University Rotterdam), Mélanie Millette (0000-0001-9285-2670, Université du Québec à Montréal), Claudine Bonneau (0000-0001-8313-5565, Université du Québec à Montréal), Viviane Sergi (0000-0002-1585-395X, Université du Québec à Montréal), Nathalie Casemajor (0000-0001-7901-4859, Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST)), Sophie Toupin (0000-0001-7639-8180, McGill University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2162-3317 • E-ISSN: 2162-3317 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5210/spir.v2018i0.10469 |
| OpenAlex | W3045129719 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
The objective of this panel is to examine the analytical and empirical relevance of the “visibility lens” for Internet research. In the past decade, researchers have started to take a specific interest in the constitutive role of online visibility in the organization of social reality. Studies have underlined the fundamental role of visibility afforded by digital technologies in the social recognition or exclusion of individuals, groups, and communities. They have also identified visibility and its management as being constitutive of social identities, relations, and practices among actors in a variety of fields. So far, Internet researchers have provided various definitions and operationalizations of online visibility. For example, visibility can be apprehended as both a political lever for individuals and collectives or as a conceptual category for researchers to make sense of social reality. Visibility is also frequently associated with digital materiality. As such, it is sometimes used as a criterion to categorize digital technologies regarding the control they allow for users to manage and disclose personal contents or activities. Furthermore, visibility can also be conceptualized as an affordance that is enabled by the functionalities of digital technologies and enacted through their situated uses. In this panel, presenters will raise theoretical, methodological, and ethical issues linked to visibility by drawing from a series of case studies. They will then draw similarities and contrasts between cases, as well as discuss the implications and, indeed, the relevance of formalizing the lens of visibility in the field of Internet research
Affordance · Empirical research · Epistemology · Geography · Human–computer interaction · Internet privacy · Political science · Sociology · The Internet · Through-the-lens metering · Visibility · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Engineering · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Open Source Software Innovations · Social Media and Politics
Affective Publics
Instagrammatics and digital methods
Surveillance after Snowden
Modalities of opposition
Digital Vigilantism as Weaponisation of Visibility
Alternative and activist new media
Social Media Use in Organizations
Uppity civilians’ and ‘cyber-vigilantes’
Social camouflage
Re-constructing digital democracy
Radicals of presentation
Want to be on the top? Algorithmic power and the threat of invisibility on Facebook
Crime, Fear and Civil Policing
The Presentation of Self in the Age of Social Media
Visibility in Social Theory and Social Research
Rethinking the Public Sphere
Leveraging Visibility, Gaining Capital? Social Media Use in the Fight Against Child Abusers
Social Media Activism at the Margins
Mechanisms of invisibility
Powers of the Mask
Shifting Boundaries of Public and Private Life
The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |