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   Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 02:45:30 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

   Good morning, Luxembourg! Second day of the #HIVI conference about online virality https://hivi.uni.lu/2024/06/25/hivi-final-conference-online-virality-past-present-future/

   This morning, I give a small talk about the possibility of virality on the fediverse.

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     Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 02:45:19 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     Ben Els (Bibliothèque nationale du Luxembourg) about the Luxembourg Web Archive, which archives all the luxembourgish Web sites. (All the sites under .lu and a few others.)

     Plus extra collection for important events.

     They also have a special access to news sites with paywall like https://lequotidien.lu. (Harvest becomes more and more difficult, crawlers struggle with various barriers. For instance, crawling Facebook for pages of election candidates is hard.)

     #HIVI

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     Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 02:45:20 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     Roundtable on methods and archives at #HIVI.

     Fred Pailler starts: how do you study online virality? Which sources? Internet Archive, scientific datasets, commercial platforms (APIs less and less open to researchers), Wikipedia keeps track of some memes, etc

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     Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 02:45:21 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     Then the workshop where, in small groups, we worked on analyzing memes. The group I'm in worked on the "Put it back" meme after the #Evergiven was freed from the Suez Canal.

     https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Ever-Green-PUT-IT-BACK-by-llevine2934/74851521.SWO0S.XYZ

     #HIVI

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     Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 02:45:22 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     Sorry for not live tooting the roundtable this morning at the #HIVI conference but I was in it so I could'nt fediwriting at the same time.

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     I love the term "curated spontaneity".

     #HIVI

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     Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 02:45:24 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     Live experience: the speaker displays a crossover of two memes and asks who in the audience know what these memes are about. (Four hands raised. I had myself no idea.)

     #HIVI #niche

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     Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 02:45:25 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     NIche content is something which is not mainstream (does not an incredible number of likes/reposts) but has a lot of meaning for a specific group.

     Content does not need to be successfuli n numbers to be important. (As the speaker says "define success")

     #HIVI

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     Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 02:45:26 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     Bucher even acknowledges that social scientists do not use algorithm in the correct sense. For them, it is simply a synonymous of software taking decisions they don't like.

     "It's like we are talking of God"
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     #HIVI

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     Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 02:45:27 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     OK, let's start. Idil Galip (University of Amsterdam) on "Beyond Virality: The Triumph of “Niche” Content on Algorithmically Ordered Platforms"

     (Yes, every platform, including Matstodon or Pleroma interfaces, order according to an algorithm. But she talks about the platforms that do not follow a chronological order and choose which content to display.)
     
     #HIVI

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     Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 02:45:28 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     Coincidence, one of the authors of the book of the #HIVI project https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111311371/html just wrote in The Conversation about the number 1 viral thing: cats 🐈 https://theconversation.com/pourquoi-les-chats-ont-envahi-internet-243088

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     Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 02:46:02 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     Quentin Lobbé (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences – CAMS/CNRS, EHESS)

     Nice visualisations.

     #HIVI

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     Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 02:46:04 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

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     Alexandre Faye (Bibliothèque nationale de France)

     The Buzz-f project: track virality on the BnF Web archives (experimental).

     #HIVI