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... Record Details. Record ID, 1060047. Record Type, conference. Author, Lucia Vesnic-Alujevic [0... more ... Record Details. Record ID, 1060047. Record Type, conference. Author, Lucia Vesnic-Alujevic [000081073206] - Ghent University Lucia.VesnicAlujevic@UGent.be. Title, European Parliament on Facebook: Case study of the European Parliament elections 2009. ...

Het belangrijkste doel van dit proefschrift is om de rol van internet te begrijpen in electorale ... more Het belangrijkste doel van dit proefschrift is om de rol van internet te begrijpen in electorale campagnevoering en communicatie met kiezers, hoe en in welke mate internet en sociale media werden gebruikt tijdens de verkiezingscampagne 2009 voor het Europees Parlement; in welke mate de communicatie tussen burgers en politieke actoren werd gerealiseerd en de mogelijkheid voor de ontwikkeling van nieuwe of het toepassen van oude modellen van politieke marketing via internet, met name op blogs en sociale media zoals Facebook en YouTube. In het theoretisch kader wordt gebruik gemaakt van verschillende concepten: deliberatieve democratie (zie 2.1), burgerschap (zie 2.2), publieke sfeer (zie 2.3), Internet (zie 2.4) en politieke communicatie in de engere betekenis (zie 2.5). Op de eerste plaats hebben we de mogelijkheden voor online deliberatie via sociale media besproken, die zouden kunnen bijdragen aan de reductie van het democratisch deficit , vooral in de context van de Europese Unie ...

This document provides a set of policy recommendations, based on the findings of a three-year lon... more This document provides a set of policy recommendations, based on the findings of a three-year long case study on wearable sensors. The key objective was to assess state-of-the-art developments in this domain of innovation, using evaluation and analytic methods that correspond with the expertise and experience available on our study team and among our associates in industry and innovation, medicine, policy, grass roots activism, STS and ELS study traditions. Our aim is to provide guidelines for good governance of wearable sensors, in light of their potential roles in medical settings as well as their currency as consumer electronics for quasi-medical purposes. We provide recommendations for ongoing innovation in this field, considering the necessity of mutual recognition and reflexive knowledge exchange among innovators and industrial actors, medical expertise, scholarly and technical assessments, patient organisations and grass roots activism, policy developers and regulators.

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... Author Lucia Vesnic-Alujevic UGent Publishing year 2011 Type conference Publication status un... more ... Author Lucia Vesnic-Alujevic UGent Publishing year 2011 Type conference Publication status unpublished Subject: Social Sciences. Publication International political science association (IPSA)'s and the European consortium of political research (ECPR)'s joint conference ...

The goal of political campaigns is to attract citizens’ attention and they are narrowly linked to... more The goal of political campaigns is to attract citizens’ attention and they are narrowly linked to the most influential mass media, especially television. But, today, under the influence of internet and in particular web 2.0 applications, the situation changes. Campaigns are more and more adjusted to the new medium, in order to keep the attention of the audiences. The goal of this paper is to present the raising role of internet, especially social network sites like Facebook and YouTube in political communication and political marketing. It gives an overview of the theoretical notions with growing significance, like web sphere, e-democracy, digital divide etc. but also the manner in which Facebook and YouTube are used. The research shows that this kind of political marketing is becoming more and more popular especially on the territory of Europe and North America.

The appearance of digital interactive technologies opened up space where the audiences can expres... more The appearance of digital interactive technologies opened up space where the audiences can express themselves freely through the user generated content. Often these new possibilities have been associated with the concepts of ‘participation’ and ‘empowerment’ on one side, and ‘free labour’ and ‘exploitation’ on the other. Through literature published during the past decade, this paper explores the relationship, tensions and connections between different perspectives of cultural studies and political economy on these phenomena. In some places this relationship is explained more directly, in the others indirectly. While the cultural studies perspective considers media users as active and productive, the political economy perspective looks at the audience’s activities as producing profit for media industries. As both perspectives are important and interlaced in audiences’ experiences, this essay argues that there is a need for more studies that will try to build bridges between particip...

The period after the collapse of the communist Yugoslav state was marked by wars in several exYug... more The period after the collapse of the communist Yugoslav state was marked by wars in several exYugoslav states. Therefore the state-building period overlapped with the transition from communism to capitalism and processes of reconciliation between the disputed states. This is reflected in the transformation of the media audiences in the Western Balkans region as well. Drawing upon the reception studies tradition, the goal of this paper is to explore media consumption in several ex-Yugoslav states, namely: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia and to find similarities and differences in audiences’ behaviour. The changes in media consumption are connected to the transition processes in the media that brought new opportunities and challenges as well as different audiences’ responses to them. The selection of countries was determined by their shared history, but also by the possibilities for audiences from those countries to easily access programmes broadcast by the othe...

... Author Lucia Vesnic-Alujevic UGent Publishing year 2011 Type misc Miscellaneous type bookRevi... more ... Author Lucia Vesnic-Alujevic UGent Publishing year 2011 Type misc Miscellaneous type bookReview Publication status in press Subject: Social Sciences. Publication CEU Political Science Journal Volume 6 Issue 4 ISSN 1992 ...

This document reports on the events of the networking/embedding event, organised by the Epinet WP... more This document reports on the events of the networking/embedding event, organised by the Epinet WP3 team in Brussels Nov 2013. It summarises observations and key findings. The aim of the event was to involve the expertise of professionals from a range public and private agencies involved in the development of wearable sensor technologies and ICT innovation policy. We learn from their input of new-emerging roles for wearable sensors, how they are situated in visions of the future of healthcare and self care, of changing lifestyles and occupations. We learn of complications in clinical practice and in medical devices regulation. We learn of expectations, of what personalisation can stand for, of conceptions of behaviour and of well-being more generally. Finally, we observe a distinct disconnect between top-down policy developments on the future delivery of personalised healthcare to European citizens and grass-roots developments in self care and in the self-management of medical condit...

The year 2030 seems to be beckoning a fair amount of prospection and critical speculation, with r... more The year 2030 seems to be beckoning a fair amount of prospection and critical speculation, with regard to the roles of ICTs in governance, public policy in a variety of sectors, and its interfaces with digital futures, with the arrival of Big Data. In the context of a book located theoretically within the long tradition of audience studies, we report in this chapter, from the unique third step of our foresight analysis—a horizon scanning exercise on the future of audiences in the year 2030, anticipating the ubiquity of connected technologies and the Internet of Things (IoT), amidst interfaces governed by algorithms, and the rise of datafication and its myriad consequences. Tracing a set of future scenarios along the dimensions of diverging responses to the IoT on the one hand, and the changing nature of institution-individual relationships on the other, we follow a set of 16 drivers of societal change, as audiences, users, and those who analyze them move towards 2030. We conclude, b...

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We are only at the beginning of a rapid period of transformation of our economy and society due t... more We are only at the beginning of a rapid period of transformation of our economy and society due to the convergence of many digital technologies. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is central to this change and offers major opportunities to improve our lives. The recent developments in AI are the result of increased processing power, improvements in algorithms and the exponential growth in the volume and variety of digital data. Many applications of AI have started entering into our every-day lives, from machine translations, to image recognition, and music generation, and are increasingly deployed in industry, government, and commerce. Connected and autonomous vehicles, and AI-supported medical diagnostics are areas of application that will soon be commonplace. There is strong global competition on AI among the US, China, and Europe. The US leads for now but China is catching up fast and aims to lead by 2030. For the EU, it is not so much a question of winning or losing a race but of finding the way of embracing the opportunities offered by AI in a way that is human-centred, ethical, secure, and true to our core values. The EU Member States and the European Commission are developing coordinated national and European strategies, recognising that only together we can succeed. We can build on our areas of strength including excellent research, leadership in some industrial sectors like automotive and robotics, a solid legal and regulatory framework, and very rich cultural diversity also at regional and sub-regional levels. It is generally recognised that AI can flourish only if supported by a robust computing infrastructure and good quality data: â€¢ With respect to computing, we identified a window of opportunity for Europe to invest in the emerging new paradigm of computing distributed towards the edges of the network, in addition to centralised facilities. This will support also the future deployment of 5G and the Internet of Things. â€¢ With respect to data, we argue in favour of learning from successful Internet companies, opening access to data and developing interactivity with the users rather than just broadcasting data. In this way, we can develop ecosystems of public administrations, firms, and civil society enriching the data to make it fit for AI applications responding to European needs. We should embrace the opportunities afforded by AI but not uncritically. The black box characteristics of most leading AI techniques make them opaque even to specialists. AI systems are currently limited to narrow and well-defined tasks, and their technologies inherit imperfections from their human creators, such as the well-recognised bias effect present in data. We should challenge the shortcomings of AI and work towards strong evaluation strategies, transparent and reliable systems, and good human-AI interactions. Ethical and secure-by-design algorithms are crucial to build trust in this disruptive technology, but we also need a broader engagement of civil society on the values to be embedded in AI and the directions for future development. This social engagement should be part of the effort to strengthen our resilience at all levels from local, to national and European, across institutions, industry and civil society. Developing local ecosystems of skills, computing, data, and applications can foster the engagement of local communities, respond to their needs, harness local creativity and knowledge, and build a human-centred, diverse, and socially driven AI. We still know very little about how AI will impact the way we think, make decisions, relate to each other, and how it will affect our jobs. This uncertainty can be a source of concern but is also a sign of opportunity. The future is not yet written. We can shape it based on our collective vision of what future we would like to have. But we need to act together and act fast.

Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies

With the rise of social media, media professionals have got more information sources now than eve... more With the rise of social media, media professionals have got more information sources now than ever before. An interesting phenomenon is the use of social media posts with political content as political news sources in traditional media in Croatia. This article explores the use of Facebook posts as political information source in eight news media. Its main objective is to contribute to the understanding of the impact of social media on news production and journalistic practices and the implications on the relationship between the source, journalists and news consumers in the news production cycle. The results show how this new practice has brought novelties and changes in news sourcing techniques, influenced the public agenda and impacted the use of Facebook by political actors. One of our main findings shows that sourcing Facebook posts shifts the power balance from journalist towards the source. The article concludes that although journalistic practice has changed with the use of s...

Telecommunications Policy

Abstract This paper offers a critical review on conditions and impacts of AI/ML in society, with ... more Abstract This paper offers a critical review on conditions and impacts of AI/ML in society, with a dedicated overview of the European AI policy framework. Through the analysis of policy papers produced by European institutions, European national governments and other organisations situated between research and policy-making, we bring an overarching outlook of key ethical and societal issues currently under discussion at the intersection of European policy agendas and recent literature on the topic. Our findings show that 21 analysed documents look both at individual and societal impacts, with their understanding generally aligned in calls for more responsibility, accountability, transparency, safety or trust. Furthermore, our findings also point to the necessity of more integrated approaches between governments, industry and academia stakeholders, and above all, to the need of applied multidisciplinary frameworks, supported by both anticipatory outlooks and public engagement exercises able to tackle the often excessive technicality of the debate.

The Ethics of Memory in a Digital Age, 2014

The history of the future is now written in bytes. Current and emerging information technologies ... more The history of the future is now written in bytes. Current and emerging information technologies are mediating and shaping the narratives we build both about ourselves as individuals and ourselves as a collective. These will eventually constitute our future memories. The diffusion of Internet-based technologies has been changing the approach that people take to accessing information, managing their data, constructing a self, establishing relationships, constructing knowledge, relating to world events, reflecting upon past events, imagining the future, and so on. To upload and retrieve information (data) on the ‘web’ has become a quotidian automatic, often automated, operation. In particular, the ease with which personal data can be disclosed and private matters exposed in public has changed people’s ideas of ‘public space’ and of ‘private space’ as well as privacy. First computers and the Internet, then mobile devices and soon any mundane object or space (Internet of Things) have all been unnoticeably blurring or even hybridising these spaces. Perhaps following the enthusiasm for the connectivity hype that heralds ‘sharing’ as a good thing, many people are now demanding the ownership and control of their data across all processing phases, including the erasure of their presence on the web.

A Matter of Design Making Society Through Science and Technology, Jun 6, 2014

Wearable sensors are new devices used in health sector that allow communicating patient’s state o... more Wearable sensors are new devices used in health sector that allow communicating patient’s state of health to their physicians without the need of their physical presence. They offer grand promises in the domain of medicine to both patients and doctors. This research is a part of the larger project called EPINET which deals with the assessment of societal impacts of new technologies within epistemic networks. Our objectives here are to explore and examine visions and knowledge production by stakeholders and citizens in the area of wearable sensors. We are focusing on the EU policies in the field of telemedicine as well as the opinion of different stakeholders. For the analysis of our data, we have used the knowledge assessment methodology. This approach is focused on the quality and fitness for purpose of knowledge produced around wearable sensors. Specifically, in this paper we have analysed several EU policy papers in the domain of telemedicine and interviews conducted with experts belonging to different epistemic groups connected to wearable sensors (EU policy makers, medical doctors, NGOs, developers). The findings present the common and disjointed visions and the way knowledge is produced and (not) shared between different epistemic groups with regards to wearable sensors. It shows that there is a great deal of different “disconnects” between uses, users and policy makers with regards to this issue. Furthermore, our analysis gives insights about the main imaginaries that drive policy making and including the rhetoric and justifications underpinning the adoption of wearable sensors in the health-care sector . Normal 0 false false false EN-US ZH-CN X-NONE

The development and widespread use of information and communication technologies (ICT) are having... more The development and widespread use of information and communication technologies (ICT) are having a profound impact in many aspects of our daily lives, transforming the conditions and procedures of work, changing the modes of communication and social interaction, and altering the fundamental nature of human action, insofar as they play an important role in shaping what we do and how we experienced the world. In fact, the re-conceptualisation of the very foundational assumptions of modern societies, the new configurations of natural and social life, and the blurring of ontological categories upon which our political, social and legal orders are based, point to fundamental aspects of the human condition that have been reshaped by the hybridisation processes characterising modern human entanglements with emerging technologies. Despite the constitutional nature of these transformations, the basic rules that bind a state to its citizens have undergone small adjustments and accommodations...

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Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies

Telecommunications Policy

The Ethics of Memory in a Digital Age, 2014

A Matter of Design Making Society Through Science and Technology, Jun 6, 2014

by Bojana Romic, David Mathieu, Jelena Kleut, Niklas Alexander Chimirri, Ana Jorge, Lucia Vesnic-Alujevic, Sander De Ridder, Ike Picone, Frederik Dhaenens, Gilda Seddighi, Juliane Finger, Maria Francesca Murru, Maria José Brites, Rafal Zaborowski, and Tereza Pavlickova

Edited by Ranjana Das and Brita Ytre-Arne, with contribution from the CEDAR network. This repor... more Edited by Ranjana Das and Brita Ytre-Arne, with contribution from the CEDAR network.

This report brings together the work done by CEDAR - Consortium of Emerging Directions in Audience Research, an Arts & Humanities Research Council funded consortium of early-career European audience researchers. CEDAR came together to map trends, gaps and priorities emerging over the past decade in the field of audience studies.

Potaknuti medijskim praćenjem izbjegličke krize koja se intenzivirala u Hrvatskoj, Srbiji i susje... more Potaknuti medijskim praćenjem izbjegličke krize koja se intenzivirala u Hrvatskoj, Srbiji i susjednim zemljama 2015. godine, ali i uopće medijskim izvještavanjem o manjinskim zajednicama i marginalnim društvenim skupinama, a posebno o djeci, sedmu regionalnu konferenciju Vjerodostojnost medija naslovili smo Novinarstvo i ljudska prava. Konferencija se održala na Fakultetu političkih znanosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu od 19. do 21. svibnja 2016., a zadaća joj je bila otvoriti raspravu o ulozi medija u promociji koncepta ljudskih prava i osiguravanja vidljivosti svih građana i građanki, bez obzira na njihovu ekonomsku i političku moć i probleme s kojima se u društvu suočavaju.
Cilj konferencije Vjerodostojnost medija lokalnog je (regionalnog) karaktera – umrežavanje i predstavljanje rezultata relevantnih istraživanja iz područja medija, komunikacija i novinarstva koji se odnose na medijske sustave i medijska tržišta zemalja u regiji: Bosnu i Hercegovinu, Crnu Goru, Hrvatsku, Makedoniju, Sloveniju i Srbiju. Do sada su održane konferencije u Zagrebu (2010., 2015. i 2016.), Beogradu (2011.), Sarajevu (2012.), Dubrovniku (2013.) i Mostaru (2014.).
Ovaj zbornik radova s konferencije donosi tekstove koji se bave analizom medijskog izvještavanja i medijske reprezentacije dvije izrazito osjetljive društvene skupine: izbjeglica i migranata te djece, iz perspektive ljudskih prava.