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Netnographic Analysis and Sociocybernetics of Software Mediated Societies
Abstract Submissions Closed
RC51 Sociocybernetics (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
Millions of people around the world embrace Internet. They work, negotiate, play, flirt and live by different devices. The information and communication technologies have transformed the traditional way of life. Now it is evidence. Our digital societies are mediated by software and hardware. This requires a theoretical framework to consider the effects of the ‘Internetization’ and ‘digitalization' of our lives and especially, its effects in the emergence of social movements, new political challenges and ‘fake news’. Online social networks have become a parallel universe of socialization from which interactive dynamics are generated until recently unknown.
This session aims to explore and discuss the relevance of netnography, from a sociocybernetical perspective, as a methodology of network analysis, analysing the characteristics of the social structure observed online. The netnography allows to show the ways of interacting and the significant polarization patterns in the online conversations.
We expect selected papers applying netnography and also theoretical debate base on Sociocybernetics. Nevertheless, be free to submit papers imaginative and speculative regarding possible developments of this methodology. We will expect a dynamic session; it will provide ample time for discussion.