Mel Stanfill’s research while affiliated with University of Central Florida and other places

... In for example de Castro Leal et al. (2021), authors describe how the social justice turn in HCI often foregrounds a complex activist stance, discussing possible ways forwards to 'contribute to a more just world'. In addition Klassen (2023), frames her future social justice research project to attune 'disenfranchised communities' while Marks and Stanfill (2023) seeks to provide initial steps toward a multidisciplinary field called 'social justice informatics'. This field would bring in a better composition of social justice toward all areas on information and technology as they build on the ideas by philosopher Iris Marion Young in that 'as long as an inhabitant of this world suffers institutional domination and oppression, they are a legitimate subject of justice'. ...

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Social Justice in HCI: Current Streams, Considerations, and Ways Forward

... However, as the Digital Humanities are an emerging field, defining and delineating them is still an ongoing endeavour as well as a favourite pastime of scholars in the field, as evidenced by several publications attempting to shed light on this question (cf. Callaway et al. 2020;Gold and Klein 2020;Schreibman et al. 2016;Terras et al. 2013). It is also a recurring topic at panels, on blogs, social media accounts, 2 dedicated websites 3 and, anecdotally, countless conference dinner discussions. ...

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14. Humanities in a Digital World

... In many respects, SilverVale's video points to an affective economy of joy and nostalgia, on the one hand, and pain, sadness, and anger, on the other, that was not only driving engagement with the game, but also contributing to the labeling of protesters as sources of hatred within what should have been, from the perspective of SilverVale, a cozy gaming space. While this definition of coziness echoes concerns raised by Sullivan et al. (2023) over the constraints that the aesthetic demands of cozy games are placing on queer forms of expression, it is important to point out that the majority of the comments visible in SilverVale's livestream feeds were supportive, as SilverVale cited Twitter users as the primary source of her haters. ...

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Bodies, Brands, and Bullies: Culture Jamming and the Livestreaming of Engagement

... Engagement in difficult dialogue may bring awareness to one's implicit attitudes that are incongruent with their explicit attitudes. Such awareness raising can cause negative emotions or discomfort and prompt resistance (Stanfill and Zwilling 2023). ...

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Race Talk: Assessing Awareness and Mood After a Difficult Dialogue

... Other scholars have already demonstrated how deputizing creators to moderate comments on their content offloads the labour of moderation and market risks from platforms to creators on Twitch and YouTube (Tarvin and Stanfill 2022;Thach et al. 2022). Likewise, Instagram claims that the moderation feature "gives content creators tools to keep their own spaces safer than before" (Lumb 2022). ...

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“Anyone Who’s Watching Can See That You’re Watching, Too”: A Case Study of Prosumption and Visibility Labours on Instagram Live

... Bhattacharya et al. (2019) proposed an ABM that incorporates social and cognitive agents that model online human-decision making. Garibay et al. (2020) proposed DeepAgent that can simulate social dynamics in a multi-resolution setting at the user, community, population, and content levels. Murić et al. (2022) developed an ABM that provides support for simulations of cognitive behavior and shared state across multiple compute nodes. ...

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Modeling information diffusion in social media: data-driven observations

... For example, some fans who are predominantly white, male, and heterosexual, and steeped in the comics, resist diversification, calling for more "canonical fidelity" (Proctor 2018). Condis and Stanfill (2021) trace the recent history of such backlash to events such as Comicsgate and Gamergate, in which [prominently white] fans expressed that "progressive causes [were] an unwelcome intrusion by the forces of political correctness in a space imagined as reserved for apolitical escapist fantasy" (4). Of course, "apolitical" is often code for conservative comfort with the status quo. ...

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One-above-all: Stratifying communication within Marvel fandom

... 196-197), the men are never explicitly described as a couple in the way heteronormative couples are. Similarly, Dumbledore, who was "outed" by Rowling after the publication of The Deathly Hallows (2007), is never explicitly described as gay in the septet (e.g., Duggan, 2019;Pugh, 2011;Salter and Stanfill, 2020;Tosenberger, 2008b). The novels thereby subtly suggest to readers that the traditional family is the sole viable way of living, or at very least, the preferable one. ...

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Transformative Readings: Harry Potter Fan Fiction, Trans/Queer Reader Response, and J. K. Rowling

... OSS shares many similarities with other communities that do not have direct and consistent financial incentives. Fandom communities (Winter et al., 2021), modding communities, Wikipedia (Halfaker et al., 2011), crowdsourcing (Brabham, 2010) and activism groups all struggle with issues around abandonment, a lack of leadership, funding and diversity. They also struggle to transition between different leaders and leadership structures. ...

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Invisible Labor: The Backbone of Open Source Software

... They give interviews, hold forth on blogs or Twitter, opine on the latest political events, talk back to prize committees, appear in full or half-empty auditoriums -not titans to be worshipped but promoters of their work and participants in numerous networks" (89). Audiences thus often attribute paramount relevance to the stated or purely hypothetical intentions of prominent author figures, including directors and showrunners (for a newer narratological conception of authors and their hypothetical intentions see Patron 2021; on their overall role within transmedia franchises see Salter and Stanfill 2020). In cases where pieces of narrative information are clearly unintended, audiences will readily disregard them: Such is the case for "goofs" in films or "bugs" in video games. ...

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Cartoonish Characters in Comic Books and Animated Films