505 research outputs found
Patel v. Facebook, Inc.: The Collection, Storage, and Use of Biometric Data as a Concrete Injury under BIPA
Facebook, Inc. (âFacebookâ) amassed one of the most extensive facial- template databases in the world through the use of facial-recognition technology. However, Facebook is not alone; both private and public sector entities are heavily investing in improving their facial-identification technology. Facial geometry data are unique to each person and can be used to identify an individual. Once a facial image has been captured and stored in a facial-template database, âthe individual has no recourseâ because one cannot change facial geometry as quickly as a password or a social security number.
Although companies may use facial-recognition technology for valid purposes, uses of facial-recognition technology to target specific groups raise âquestions around abuse, consent, weaponization, and discriminatory uses of this technology.â From a privacy standpoint, the potential use of facial-recognition technology to search against millions of photographs without the consent of âlaw-abiding citizens is a major privacy violation.â These concerns have fueled an increase in data privacy legislation as well as litigation, such as Patel v. Facebook, Inc
Constructing group membership through talk in the field
Constructing group membership through talk in the fiel
A discourse analysis of âsocial constructionâ in communication scholarship
How has the phrase âsocial constructionâ been used among communication scholars over the past 45 years? This paper characterizes some of the ways in which âsocial constructionâ as an idea has been taken up in communication scholarship. In particular, the paper considers what is useful and what is problematic in the different ways social construction is used. First, this paper presents trends in usage, particularly from the early 1990s onward, in several top communication journals. Second, ways of using the concept are analyzed in published articles. Third, discourse about social construction and uses of the phrase are examined in three state-of-the art fora in light of the tensions and questions of doing social construction research. Finally, practical implications for the continuing usefulness of the term are considered
Exclusion in gossipy talk: Highjacking the preference structure for ingroup belonging
This paper employs discourse analysis and draws on interdisciplinary approaches to examine how identity is constructed in conversation. The purpose of the paper is twofold: to present an argument for a particular exclusionary practice in everyday life; and to show how this practice is revealed through discourse analytic methods. Specifically, the analysis describes how extremely negative moral assessments about outgroup identity-related behaviour constitute a high-risk strategy for ingrouping with co-participants in ordinary face-to-face interactions. Demonstrating this strategy shows how discourse analysis can provide a frame through which to understand what interactional resources are available to people and therefore how we might reflect on the relationship between local exclusionary practices and broader social phenomena such as racism and sexism
Extreme case (re)formulation as a practice for making hearably racist talk repairable
This article investigates the interactional organization of racism through participant production and uptake of explicit racial membership categories across a corpus of 50+ hours of audio-/video-recorded interaction in three U.S. states. The discourse analysis examines one participant method for addressing âhearably racistâ talk: echoing extreme versions of the problematic utterance to provide opportunities for repair work on inferable associations between membership categories and category-bound activities. Orienting to implicit inferential material as the source of trouble licenses participant account-seeking; treating the racism as a repairable downgrades its status as an overt instance of racism
Troubles with assessments in gifting occasions
This article analyzes gift-exchange occasions as both a sequentially organized activity and as a ritual practice imbued with social and cultural meaning. Specifically, the article focuses on the
role of assessments in gifting sequences, the distribution of assessments across participants, and some of the possible troubles which can arise in doing assessments of gifts based on discourse
analysis of 44 gifting situations in one familyâs 30 home videos spanning 13 years. I argue that participants encounter difficulties in the process of proffering assessments of gifts, and that such troubles revolve around the dilemma of constructing positive assessments as authentically given.
The analysis discusses the organization of action in gifting occasions, outlines the expectations and dilemmas involved in doing assessments of gifts, and presents participantsâ discursive practices for
managing potential troubles in gift assessment
Building up by tearing down
This paper analyzes mockery sequences among a group of friends to examine how this discursive
practice mobilizes categories to manage stances toward differences and to construct group norms
and boundaries. Using discourse analysis, I inspect how non-seriously tearing down or jocularly
teasing/mocking participants within a peer group manages the practical problem of ingroup
difference by reaffirming shared stances and norms around masculinity. The analysis highlights
some of the ways in which groups navigate difference and identity moment-to-moment in
interaction, showing how the moral organization of ingroup and outgroup assessments are built in the mundane world of conversation
Misunderstanding as a resource in interaction
The phenomenon of misunderstanding is a recurrent feature of everyday lifeâsometimes a
source of frustration, sometimes a site of blame. But misunderstandings can also be seen as
getting interactants out of (as well as into) trouble. For example, misunderstandings may be
produced to deal with disaffiliative implications of ânot being on the same page,â and as such
they may be deployed as a resource for avoiding trouble. This paper examines misunderstanding
as a pragmatic accomplishment, focusing on the uses to which it is put in interactions as a
practice for dealing with threats to intersubjectivity: the extent to which persons are aligned in
terms of a current referent, activity, assessment, etc. A multimodal discourse analysis of audio
and video recordings of naturally-occurring talk inspects moments in which misunderstandings
are purported or displayed (rather than overtly invoked) as well as how such misunderstandings
are oriented to as simply-repairable references, versus inferential matters more misaligned and
potentially fraught. Rather than being a straightforward reflection of an experience of trouble
with understanding, misunderstanding may also be collaboratively produced to manage practical
challenges to intersubjectivity
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Managing blame for racism in broadcast media
How do people negotiate blame for racism? In this article we focus on how participants manage the blameworthiness of racismâas a problem in society, and in relation to specific racist incidentsâby scrutinising how sources of racism are formulated in broadcast media. This research develops our understanding of how racism is constructed in society as well as how blame functions to allocate responsibility to different parties. By examining racism as a conversational topic and blaming as a social action, our analysis develops important research into how racism is understood at this time in history and considers what the consequences might be of how blame is allocated for it
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