Legal and Ethical Implications of Mobile Live-Streaming Video Apps

The introduction of mobile apps such as Meerkat, Periscope, and Facebook Live has sparked enthusiasm for live-streaming video. This study explores the legal and ethical implications of mobile live-streaming video apps through a review of public-policy considerations and the computing literature as well as analyses of a mix of quantitative and qualitative user data. We identify lines of research inquiry for five policy challenges and two areas of the literature in which the impact of these apps is so far unaddressed. The detailed data gathered from these inquiries will significantly contribute to the design and development of tools, signals or affordances to address the concerns that our study identifies. We hope our work will help shape the fields of ubiquitous computing and collaborative and social computing, jurisprudence, public policy and applied ethics in the future

Sharing Is Scaring: Legal + Ethical Issues with Shared Content in Social Media and Mobile Messaging Apps

Even if you can reuse, aggregate or share that photo, video, meme or text, should you? Our mixed-methods study explores the legal and ethical issues involved in content-sharing practices in social media and messaging apps through analysis of public policy challenges, related work in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) literature and quantitative and qualitative data. Key concepts in the study include copyright law, plagiarism, user-generated content (UGC) and fair use

What Drives Streamers? Users’ Characteristics and Motivations on Social Live Streaming Services

With platforms such as YouNow, Periscope and Ustream, a new type of social networking services (SNSs) became popular, namely general social live streaming services (SLSSs). SLSSs combine Live-TV and social media, leading to video-based social computing. In the empirical part of the paper, we are going to answer three research questions: (1) What are the motivations of the streamers? (2) Is there a relation between motivations and streamed contents? (3) Do gender-specific and generational differences in motivation exist? As research methods, we worked with the systematic observations and content analysis of live online videos (N = 7,667)

Social media live streaming (SMLS) in the digital news media

El social media live streaming (SMLS) ofereix la possibilitat de realitzar i distribuir vídeos en directe, en diferents formats, a través de les xarxes socials. A més, permet a l'emissor rebre retroacció de manera instantània: conèixer el nombre d'usuaris connectats i rebre missatges i emoticones dels espectadors. A través d'una anàlisi comparativa i d'estudis de casos, s'explorarà com Periscope i Facebook Live utilitzen les tecnologies SMLS i quina funció tenen com a agents destacats dins de la innovació i les tendències del periodisme digital. Així mateix, es durà a terme una revisió exhaustiva tant de les publicacions com de les iniciatives prèvies relacionades amb l'SMLS. Tot això es fa amb la finalitat d'assegurar la màxima qualitat i la solvència conceptual de les anàlisis realitzades.Social media live streaming (SMLS) offers the possibility of making and broadcasting live videos in different formats via the social networks, at the same time enabling broadcasters to obtain instant feedback about the number of users connected as well as to receive messages and emoticons from their audiences. Here, we undertake a thorough review of existing publications and previous initiatives related to SMLS. We illustrate our discussion with a number of different case studies and undertake a specific comparative analysis to explore the way in which Periscope and Facebook Live can exploit SMLS technologies, and to understand their role as leading agents in the innovation of digital journalism