JCMC: The Discussion Section

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JCMC: The Discussion Section is a podcast where Nicole Ellison, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and her colleagues Lee Humphries and Scott Campbell dive into more of what one would see in the discussion section of JCMC, where it is okay to discuss things that have not happened yet. The podcast will discuss how findings impact future theories and designs, as well as just be a space to discuss the important work that others are doing in the field.

Episodes

  1. 05/23/2023

    JCMC: The Discussion Section - Study of Group Interactions over Time in the Metaverse

    Joining Nicole Ellison in this episode of JCMC: The Discussion are Eugy Han and Dr. Kristine Nowak, two of the authors behind the recently published “People, Places, and Time: A Large-scale, Longitudinal Study of Transformed Avatars and Environmental Context in Group Interaction in the Metaverse”. In addition to discussing their findings, Han and Dr. Nowak share how their transition to remote learning, and subsequent experimentations with VR, informed and inspired this recent study. Han and Dr. Nowak go on to share some advice for scholars interested in integrating VR into their work as well as further discuss potential future applications for VR in academia and research.  Click here for the episode transcript   Featuring Nicole Ellison  Eugy Han  Kristine Nowak More from our guests:    Nicole Ellison  Karl E. Weick Collegiate Professor of Information | School of Information   University of Michigan  Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Twitter: @nicole_ellison; @ica_jcmc Eugy Han PhD Candidate & SGF Fellow | Department of Communication Scholar | Virtual Human Interaction Lab  Stanford University Twitter: @eugyhan LinkedIn: Eugy Han Kristine Nowak Professor | Department of Communication  Director | Human-Computer Interaction Lab  University of Connecticut  Fulbright Scholar & Visiting Professor | Department of Engineering  University of Palermo  Twitter: @profknowak  LinkedIn: Kristine Nowak  Works Referenced In Episode: Han, E., Miller, M. R., DeVeaux, C., Jun, H., Nowak, K. L., Hancock, J. T., ... & Bailenson, J. N. (2023). People, places, and time: a large-scale, longitudinal study of transformed avatars and environmental context in group interaction in the metaverse. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 28(2), zmac031.Han, E., Nowak, K. L., & Bailenson, J. N. (2022). Prerequisites for Learning in Networked Immersive Virtual Reality. Kraut, R., Scherlis, W., Mukhopadhyay, T., Manning, J., & Kiesler, S. (1996, April). HomeNet: A field trial of residential Internet services. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 284-291). Mystakidis, S. (2022). Metaverse. Encyclopedia, 2(1), 486-497. Copy and Audio Editor:   Sharlene Burgos  Executive Producer:DeVante Brown

    20 min
  2. 04/27/2023

    JCMC: The Discussion Section - Typology of Social Media Rituals

    This episode features the trio behind the recently published “A Typology of Social Media Rituals”, Limor Shifman, Blake Hallinan, and Tommaso Trillò, in conversation with Nicole Ellison. Shifman, Hallinan, and Trillò discuss how they developed their typology of social media rituals and what this typology has revealed about digital communications and social media participation across platforms and cultures. They further discuss future applications of their developed typology and their individual next steps in the world of computer-mediated communications. Click here for the episode transcript   Featuring Nicole Ellison  Limor Shifman  Blake Hallinan  Tommaso Trillò  More from our guests:    Nicole Ellison  Karl E. Weick Collegiate Professor of Information | School of Information   University of Michigan  Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Twitter: @nicole_ellison; @ica_jcmc Limor Shifman Professor | Department of Communication and Journalism  Vice Dean | Faculty of Social Sciences The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Twitter: @limor_shifman Blake Hallinan Senior Lecturer | Department of Communication and Journalism  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Twitter: @blakeplease IG: @nightmerrily Tommaso Trillò Postdoctoral Fellow | Department of Communication and Journalism  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Twitter: @tommytrillo Works Referenced In Episode: Hallinan, B., Kim, B., Mizoroki, S., Scharlach, R., Trillò, T., Thelwall, M., ... & Shifman, L. (2023). The value (s) of social media rituals: A cross-cultural analysis of New Year’s resolutions. Information, Communication & Society, 26(4), 764-785. Hillis, K. (2020). Online a lot of the time: Ritual, fetish, sign. Duke University Press. Trillò, T., Hallinan, B., & Shifman, L. (2022). A typology of social media rituals. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 27(4), zmac011. Dayan, D., & Katz, E. (1992). Media events: The live broadcasting of history. Harvard University Press. Copy and Audio Editor:   Sharlene Burgos Executive Producer:DeVante Brown

    24 min
  3. 02/28/2023

    JCMC: The Discussion Section Ep. 3 - Jessica Vitak and Katie Shilton on Data Ethics for Researchers, IRBs, and Journal Reviewers

    In this episode of JCMC: The Discussion Section, host Nicole Ellison, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication and Karl E Weick Collegiate professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan, is joined by Katie Shilton and Jessica Vitak to discuss data ethics in computational research. Jessica and Katie talk about their work with the Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research (PERVADE) project, outlining ethical concerns around big data, the current and future roles of IRBs in data ethics, and how researchers, reviewers, and editors can build best practices into their process. Click here for the episode transcript    Featuring Nicole Ellison Katie Shilton Jessica Vitak Sponsor: Oxford University Press More from the host & speakers:  Nicole Ellison Editor-in-Chief | Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Karl E Weick Collegiate Professor | School of Information University of Michigan Twitter - @nicole_ellison   Katie Shilton Associate Professor | College of Information Studies University of Maryland, College Park Principal Investigator | PERVADE Project Twitter - @KatieShilton Twitter - @pervade_team   Jessica Vitak Associate Professor, HCIL Director | College of Information Studies University of Maryland Principal Investigator | PERVADE Project Twitter - @jvitak Twitter - @pervade_team Works referenced in episode:  D'ignazio, C., & Klein, L. F. (2020). Data feminism. MIT Press. Scholars and Organizations referenced in episode: PERVADE Project Association of Internet Researchers reports on Ethics ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems Researchers (CSST) Casey Fiesler Nick Proferes Sarah Gilbert Copy and Audio Editor:   Kate In Executive Producer:DeVante Brown

    24 min
  4. 02/27/2023

    JCMC: The Discussion Section Ep. 2 - Exploring the Vast Social & Creative Agencies of Marginalized Communities in the Digital Age

    In this episode of JCMC: The Discussion Section, host Scott Campbell, Constance F., and Arnold C. Pohs Professor of Telecommunication at the University of Michigan, are joined by Will Marler and Adriana de Souza e Silva to discuss the academic studies on mediated communications and the aspects of marginalization in the digital media environment. They talk about ways to overcome the issues of marginalization. Click here for the episode transcript    Featuring Scott Campbell Will Marler Adriana de Souza e Silva More from the host & speakers:  Scott W. Campbell Constance F. and Arnold C. Pohs Professor | Department of Communication and Media University of Michigan Facebook - Scott Campbell   Will Marler Assistant Professor | Department of Communication and Cognition Tilburg University, The Netherlands Twitter - @willmarler   Adriana de Souza e Silva Professor | Department of Communication North Carolina State University (USA) Twitter - @souzaesilva Facebook - asouzaesilva LinkedIn - Adriana de Souza e Silva Works referenced in episode: Marler, W. (2022). “You can connect with like, the world!”: Social platforms, survival support, and digital inequalities for people experiencing homelessness. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 27(1), zmab020. Marler, W. (2019). Accumulating phones: Aid and adaptation in phone access for the urban poor. Mobile Media & Communication, 7(2), 155-174. Noble, S. U. (2018). Algorithms of oppression. In Algorithms of oppression. New York University Press. Eubanks, V. (2018). Automating inequality: How high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor. St. Martin's Press. Fritz, N., & Gonzales, A. (2018). Privacy at the Margins| not the normal trans story: negotiating trans narratives while crowdfunding at the margins. International Journal of Communication, 12, 20. Ang, M. W., Tan, J. C. K., & Lou, C. (2021). Navigating sexual racism in the sexual field: Compensation for and disavowal of marginality by racial minority Grindr users in Singapore. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 26(3), 129-147. Chib, A., Nguyen, H., & Lin, D. (2021). Provocation as agentic practice: Gender performativity in online strategies of transgender sex workers. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 26(2), 55-71. Lane, J., Ramirez, F. A., & Pearce, K. E. (2018). Guilty by visible association: Socially mediated visibility in gang prosecutions. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 23(6), 354-369. de Souza e Silva, A., & Xiong-Gum, M. N. (2021). Mobile networked creativity: Developing a theoretical framework for understanding creativity as survival. Communication Theory, 31(4), 821-840. de Souza e Silva, A., Duarte, F., & Damasceno, C. S. (2017). Creative Appropriations in Hybrid Spaces: Mobile Interfaces in Art and Games in Brazil. International Journal of Communication (19328036), 11. De Souza e Silva, A., Sutko, D. M., Salis, F. A., & de Souza e Silva, C. (2011). Mobile phone appropriation in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. New Media & Society, 13(3), 411-426. Scholars referenced in episode: Amy Gonzales  Niki Fritz Safiya Noble Virginia Eubanks  Seeta Pena Ganghadaran Eszter Hargittai Ellen Helsper Alexander van Deursen Jose van Dijck François Bar Roberto daMatta

    21 min
  5. 11/11/2022

    JCMC: The Discussion Section Ep. 1 - The Evolution of Social Media

    In this installment of JCMC: The Discussion Section, host Nicole Ellison, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC), and her guests delve into the evolution of CMC, the theorizing of social media, and the constantly changing social media landscape. Joined by three of her Associate Editors Lee Humphreys, Caleb Carr and Katy E. Pearce, they discuss their favorite pieces in past issues of JCMC as well as up-and-coming research areas about which they are excited. Tune in to get more insight into JCMC and studies of computer-mediated communication.    Click here for the episode transcript   Featuring Nicole Ellison Lee Humphreys Caleb Carr Katy E. Pearce   More from the host & speakers:    Nicole Ellison Professor | School of Information University of Michigan Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Twitter - @nicole_ellison Lee Humphreys Professor and Chair | Communication Department Cornell University Director of the Qualitative and Interpretive Research Institute Associate Editor of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Twitter - @leehumphreys Caleb Carr Professor | School of Communication Illinois State University  Associate Editor of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Twitter - @CalebTCarrPhD Katy E. Pearce Associate Professor | Department of Communication University of Washington.Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies and the Center for an Informed Public Associate Editor of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Twitter - @katypearce Works referenced in episode:  Humphreys, L., Von Pape, T., & Karnowski, V. (2013). Evolving mobile media: Uses and conceptualizations of the mobile internet. Journal of computer-mediated communication, 18(4), 491-507. Rafaeli, S., & Sudweeks, F. (1997). Networked interactivity. Journal of computer-mediated communication, 2(4), JCMC243.Lange, P. G. (2007). Publicly private and privately public: Social networking on YouTube. Journal of computer-mediated communication, 13(1), 361-380. Madianou, M. (2014). Smartphones as polymedia. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 19(3), 667-680.Humphreys, L. (2018). The qualified self: Social media and the accounting of everyday life. MIT press. Donner, J. (2007). The rules of beeping: Exchanging messages via intentional “missed calls” on mobile phones. Journal of computer-mediated communication, 13(1), 1-22.Marler, W. (2022). “You can connect with like, the world!”: Social platforms, survival support, and digital inequalities for people experiencing homelessness. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 27(1), zmab020.

    24 min

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JCMC: The Discussion Section is a podcast where Nicole Ellison, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, and her colleagues Lee Humphries and Scott Campbell dive into more of what one would see in the discussion section of JCMC, where it is okay to discuss things that have not happened yet. The podcast will discuss how findings impact future theories and designs, as well as just be a space to discuss the important work that others are doing in the field.