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Factions: acts of worldbuilding on social media platforms ...
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Abstract:
The surge in social media as a primary source for communication—basic interpersonal relations, news, and entertainment—means that modern humans have a steep learning curve for interpreting and creating messages in digital spaces. In addition to the difficulties of communication between multi-lingual and multi-cultural online communities, there is now the complication of computer languages (or “code”) that often do not overlap between software programs, let alone with humans. Additionally, humans use definitions and labels as artificial intelligence (AI) training methods. AI bias comes from the human labels, categorizations, and linguistic perimeters embedded in the code. The objective of Factions, the thesis website, is to represent a speculative future showing what communication may look like if we follow on the current trajectory of interaction in social media spaces—with less agreement on basic linguistic, audio, and visual terms and definitions coupled with more insistence on personal perspective as ...
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Keyword:
Social media, digital media, search engine optimization, SEO, creative writing, practice-based research, design fiction, design faction, hybridity, tech, hi-tech, futurism, appropriation, algorithms, artificial intelligence, AI, digital twin, human-computer interaction, human-computer collaboration, genre, genre analysis, faction, templature, pastiche, satire, irony, Internet memes, science fiction, sci-fi, SF, fantasy, SF/F, speculative fiction, worldbuilding, performance, persona, mysticism, pop culture, expression, spintax, impact of AI on journalism, social media contracts, group dynamics, communication, codes, coding, neologisms, linguistics, semantics, labels, labeling, intercultural communication, politics, race, spirituality, gender, hypertext, links, branch narratives, network narratives, tooltips, WordPress, web-building, websites, blogs, audio content creation, video content creation, digital storytelling
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.5525/gla.thesis.81994
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/81994
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