{"id":508,"date":"2023-05-16T14:25:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T14:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hosting.northumbria.ac.uk\/cocreate\/?p=508"},"modified":"2023-07-19T14:24:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T14:24:50","slug":"curator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hosting.northumbria.ac.uk\/cocreate\/curator\/","title":{"rendered":"CuRAtOR"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Challenging Online Fear and Othering<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Funder:<\/span>\u00a0ESRC, EPSRC, AHRC and Dstl<\/p>\n

Team:<\/span>\u00a0Shaun Lawson,\u00a0John Vines<\/span>, Tom Feltwell, Gavin Wood,\u00a0Kiel Long<\/span>, Ioannis Petridis, Scarlett Rowland (Northumbria University); Julie Barnett, Phil Brooker (University of Bath), Vanessa Pupavac, Karen Salt (Univeristy of Nottingham).<\/p>\n

Website:\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/curator.ac.uk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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CuRAtOR was a three-year multi-disciplinary research project which investigated the cultures of fear that are propagated through online\u00a0othering, and set out to explore how this can lead\u00a0to subsequent mistrust and stigmatization of groups or communities. The project also set out to explore how new interactive digital experiences might be designed to counteract the resultant problematic outcomes of othering, and lead to more critical and balanced online debate around contemporary socio-political issues.<\/p>\n

Cultures of fear can be propagated, either deliberately or unwittingly, by a wide range of agents including the media, government, science, the arts, industry and politics. The ease with which fear can be generated means that society remains inordinately fearful of improbable harms and dangers. A good deal of societal fear stems from mistrust of the\u00a0other; a term used to describe individuals or groups that are, quite simply, \u2018not like us\u2019. While recognition of difference is central to the construction of cultural and societal identity, it also leads to others being seen as \u201canomalous,\u201d \u201cpeculiar,\u201d or \u201cdeviant\u201d, and hence being negatively perceived, stigmatised, excluded, marginalised and discriminated against.<\/p>\n

In the project we were interested in how online platforms and social media helped propagate some of these issues, either through their designed features and functions or through how they were adopted and used by organisations and agencies. For example, we looked at how Twitter became used a place for stigmatising welfare state claimants, and how broadcast media stimulated such othering. We also looked at how social platforms were used by grassroots and state agencies to counter such othering. This led to the development of a series of digital prototypes, each of which took different approaches to countering online other practices by promoting more critical engagement with broadcast media, with online news, and with the information people share on sites like Twitter.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Feltwell, T., Wood, G., Rowland, S., Long, K., Elsden, C., Brooker, P., Vines, J., Briggs, P., Barnett, J., and Lawson, S. 2019. Designing Second-Screen Experiences for Social Co-Selection and Critical Co-Viewing of Reality TV. In: Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI \u201919), In Press.<\/p>\n\n

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Brooker, P., Barnett, J.,\u00a0Vines, J.,\u00a0<\/span>Lawson, S., Feltwell, T., and Long, K. 2018. Doing stigma: Online commenting around weight-related news media.\u00a0New Media & Society<\/em>, 20 (9), pp. 3201-3222.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177%2F1461444817744790<\/a><\/p>\n

Brooker, P., Barnett, J., Vines, J., Lawson, S., Feltwell, T., Long, K., and Wood, G. 2018. Researching with Twitter timeline data: A demonstration via \u201ceveryday\u201d socio-political talk around welfare provision. Big Data and Society.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/2053951718766624<\/a><\/p>\n

Wood, G., Long, K., Feltwell, T., Rowland, S., Brooker, P., Mahoney, J.,\u00a0Vines, J.,\u00a0<\/span>Barnett, J., and Lawson, S. 2018. Rethinking Engagement with Online News through Social and Visual Co-Annotation. In:\u00a0Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems\u00a0<\/em>(CHI \u201918), Article 576.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3173574.3174150<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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Feltwell, T., Wood, G., Long, K., Brooker, P., Schofield, T., Petridis, I., Barnett, J.,\u00a0Vines, J.,\u00a0<\/span>and Lawson, S. 2017. \u201cI\u2019ve been manipulated!\u201d: Designing Second Screen Experiences for Critical Viewing of Reality TV. In:\u00a0Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems\u00a0<\/em>(CHI \u201917), pp. 2252-2263.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3025453.3025833<\/a><\/p>\n

Feltwell, T.,\u00a0Vines, J.,\u00a0<\/span>Salt, K., Blythe, M., Kirman, B., Barnett, J., Brooker, P., and Lawson, S. 2017. Counter-Discourse Activism on Social Media:\u2028The Case of Challenging \u201cPoverty Porn\u201d Television.\u00a0Computer Supported Cooperative Work<\/em>, 26 (3), pp. 345-385.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10606-017-9275-z<\/a>\n\n

Long, K.,\u00a0Vines, J.,\u00a0<\/span>Sutton, S., Brooker, P., Feltwell, T., Kirman, B., Barnett, J., and Lawson, S. 2017. \u201cCould You Define That in Bot Terms?\u201d: Requesting, Creating and Using Bots on Reddit. In:\u00a0Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems\u00a0<\/em>(CHI \u201917), pp. 3488-3500.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3025453.3025830<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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