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From civility to parity : Marxist-feminist ethics for context-aware algorithmic content moderation
Get PDFAlgorithmic content moderation governs online speech on large-scale commercial platforms, often under the guise of neutrality. Yet, it routinely reproduces white, middle-class norms of civility and penalizes marginalized voices for unruly and resistant speech. This paper critiques the prevailing ‘pathological’ approach to moderation that prioritizes sanitization over justice. Drawing on Marxist-feminist ethics, this paper advances three theses for the future of context-aware algorithmic moderation: (1) prioritizing participatory parity over civility, (2) incorporating identity- and context-aware analysis of speech; and (3) replacing purely numerical evaluations with justice-oriented, community-sensitive metrics. While acknowledging the structural limitations posed by platform capitalism, this paper positions the proposed framework as both critique and provocation, guiding regulatory reform, civil advocacy, and visions for mission-driven online content moderation serving digital commons
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
American abortion culture wars as religious populism : "truth" and "fight for truth" as floating signifiers
Get PDFThis paper explores the American abortion culture wars through the lens of religious populism, focusing on online discourse of the Christian pro-life confederation, Personhood Alliance. Drawing on Laclaudian post-foundationalist theories, the paper conceptualizes culture wars as a populist logic of meaning-making, where the floating signifier “truth” is central to mobilizing support and constructing Us-Them boundaries. The analysis identifies two key floating meanings of “truth”: restoring divine, cultural, and scientific truth about personhood, and battling the perceived conspiracies of the liberal abortion establishment. Hybrid media ecologies provide a controlled space for the movement to disseminate narratives circumventing platform moderation. The movement’s affective Us-Them construction portrays “Us” as righteous truth-seekers and saviours of the marginalized, while “Them” is cast as a corrupt liberal elite deceiving and exploiting the marginalised. This affective dichotomy expands abortion culture wars beyond the Christian pro-life base, inviting marginalized groups to join the fight against the establishment
American Abortion Culture Wars as Religious Populism : “Truth” and “Fight for Truth” as Floating Signifiers
No full textThis paper explores the American abortion culture wars through the lens of religious populism, focusing on online discourse of the Christian pro-life confederation, Personhood Alliance. Drawing on Laclaudian post-foundationalist theories, the paper conceptualizes culture wars as a populist logic of meaning-making, where the floating signifier "truth" is central to mobilizing support and constructing Us-Them boundaries. The analysis identifies two key floating meanings of "truth": restoring divine, cultural, and scientific truth about personhood, and battling the perceived conspiracies of the liberal abortion establishment. Hybrid media ecologies provide a controlled space for the movement to disseminate narratives circumventing platform moderation. The movement's affective Us-Them construction portrays "Us" as righteous truth-seekers and saviours of the marginalized, while "Them" is cast as a corrupt liberal elite deceiving and exploiting the marginalised. This affective dichotomy expands abortion culture wars beyond the Christian pro-life base, inviting marginalized groups to join the fight against the establishment.Peer reviewe
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Rush hour of populists : religious populism and hybrid media
Get PDFThe introduction to the special issue develops a framework for understanding religious populism in hybrid media environments, emphasizing its role as a mode of meaning-making that intertwines political and religious logics. Moving beyond conventional approaches that frame religious populism as either the politicization of religion or the sacralization of politics, we highlight its capacity to shape collective identities through transcendencies—the drive to move beyond immediate experience and construct systems of significance. We argue that religious populism extends beyond institutional structures, functioning as a culturally embedded process that reinterprets and reclaims meaning-making in contemporary society. Within hybrid media environments, where digital and traditional platforms intersect, these dynamics are intensified through algorithmic visibility, direct engagement, and the erosion of institutional religious gatekeeping. By situating religious populism within broader media and cultural transformations, this introduction underscores its influence in contemporary political and religious landscapes
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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