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Published: I/O: Reinforcing Newsmaking Practices Through Algorithmic Media

Recent developments in communication and information technology have disrupted the long-established dominance of mass media over the production and distribution of news. As an effort to reclaim their role of society’s information gatekeeper, media companies absorb digital technology as instruments…

Accelerating Sharing Economy

Several companies are investing in digital technology to improve urban infrastructure, reduce costs, and enhance the overall quality of public and private services. Based on sharing economy, these companies seek to optimize resources through the redistribution, sharing, and reuse of…

To Build a Human-Machine Territory:  The Refrain and Mobile technologies

The term “ritornello” means a recurring passage in baroque music for orchestra and chorus. It is a part of the music that returns periodically, like the chorus or refrain during the course of a song. The French term, “ritournelle,” used…

AI, Competitions, and Virtual Medals: A Critical Look at Kaggle, the World’s largest Data Science Community

Presented at the International Communication Association (ICA) in Toronto, Canada, 2023. The untampered development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has significantly amplified deep-rooted social, economic and political problems. Many scholars have contributed to understanding the assumptions inscribed in AI and the…

From deepfake to shallow truths: algorithmic subjectivation and the uncanny self

Paper presented at Canadian Communication Association (CCA) at York University, Toronto, Canada, 2023. Deepfake is a new form of synthetic media that merges, replaces, and superimposes images and video clips onto a video, creating fake content that appears authentic. Since…

A conveniência dos algoritmos: O papel do YouTube nas eleições brasileiras de 2018

O YouTube, por meio do seu sistema de recomendação de vídeos, vem sendo apontado como uma plataforma de disseminação de ideias conservadoras, na qual se desenvolve um modelo alternativo de influência que favorece a promoção de temas contrários às noções…

Step, step, rest, step: challenging age-related norms and biometric bodies through self-tracking data-rematerialization

This paper presents a research-creation project that aimed to explore how the experience of self-tracking and the data retrieved from self-tracking activities could be used to creatively critique the norms and regulatory mechanisms embedded within self-tracking devices and practices as…

The Political Narrative of YouTube Recommendation System: 2018 Ontario election

McKelvey, F., Frizzera, L. (2019) The Political Narrative of YouTube Recommendation System: 2018 Ontario election. Canadian Communication Association (CCA). Vancouver, Canada. Visualization available here: http://labs.fluxo.art.br/rankflow/ Check our findings for the Brazilian Federal Elections: http://luciano.fluxo.art.br/algorithms-and-disinformation-the-role-of-youtube-in-the-brazilian-political-scene/ Social media is both an important…

Loto-doc: Exploring chatbot in an interactive documentary

Salles, J., Frizzera, L. (2019) Loto-doc: Exploring chatbot in an interactive documentary. International Communication Association (ICA) Pre-Conference on Human-Machine Communication. Washington, USA Prototype is available here: https://onchance.net/ In recent years, human-machine interaction has been integrated into the audiovisual documentary language…

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