Digital Creators Research Articles

NFTs for accessing, monetizing, and teleporting digital twins and digital artifacts in the metaverse

Digital twins and digital artifacts have become integral components of metaverse platforms, providing users with a rich, immersive, and interactive digital experience through the deployment of diverse digital twins and digital artifacts such as 3D avatars, images, and objects. To date, a significant challenge persists in the lack of practical mechanisms to enable seamless teleportation and cross-metaverse interoperability for these digital twins and digital artifacts. There is also a lack of trusted monetization methods that facilitate trading and leasing of digital twins and digital artifacts. To address these important challenges, this paper proposes a blockchain and Non-Fungible Token (NFT)-based solution that facilitates the integration and teleportation of these digital twins and digital artifacts by providing trusted metadata, verifying ownership, and ensuring the authenticity of digital creations in the virtual world. Key to our solution is the introduction of a bridging mechanism that enables cross-metaverse interoperability, allowing for the portable transfer of NFTs across decentralized metaverse platforms. In addition, our solution focuses on empowering original digital creators by enabling the monetization of their creations through the ownership management capabilities offered by NFTs. To reliably and securely store the metadata and content of tokenized digital twins and digital artifacts, we integrate into our solution the Interplanetary File System (IPFS), a decentralized storage system. To demonstrate the feasibility of our solution, we have developed and deployed all necessary smart contracts that govern the main functionalities and interactions of the proposed system on the Ethereum Goerli Testnet. We present our proposed system architecture, accompanied by informative sequence diagrams, algorithms, and testing details. We discuss how our proposed solution attains the main objectives outlined in the paper. We evaluate our proposed solution in terms of cost and security. We have made the complete source code of our smart contracts publicly available on GitHub.

INFÂNCIA, PRODUÇÕES DE CONTEÚDOS DIGITAIS E RELAÇÕES TRANSMÍDIA ENTRE O YOUTUBE E O TIKTOK

This article aims to investigate possible transmedia relationships between the YouTube and TikTok platforms within the context of content targeted at children, created by digital creators. Using an exploratory approach, three digital content creators, namely Luccas Neto, Manual do Mundo, and Enaldinho, were chosen as they operate on both platforms and produce content for children. The Socialblade platform provided data on the number of subscribers and the number of views of the most-watched videos, which were used as parameters in this study. Based on the results, we identified that content creators who focus on children's stories are more inclined to incorporate and utilize transmedia concepts and characteristics, as they produce and distribute their content across both platforms, with the intention of engaging children.

Unveiling informal learning of gender roles on Tik Tok: The #Stayathomegirlfriends phenomenon

This study delves into the emergent and polarising representations of women on social media by analysing the issue of #StayAtHomeGirlfriends (SAHGF) profiles on TikTok. These profiles depict young women showcasing their domestic lives, emphasising activities such as cooking, cleaning, relaxing, meditating and exercising while being financially supported by their partners. The SAHGF trend emerged on TikTok in 2022 and received over 328.3 million views in one year. The research method involved a thematic analysis of three TikTok SAHGF case studies from different social contexts, focusing on both the creators’ self-representations and the audience's reception, as reflected in user comments. The findings point to a contradictory relationship with instances of postfeminism and popular feminism, showing the use of social media as gender learning environments, where digital creators become informal educators transmitting norms, values and lifestyles, but also ‘triggers’ for dialogue and critical discussion.

Co-design of digital public health substance use resources: A collaboration between young people and experts.

Substance use and mental illness remain critical issues for young Australians, however, engagement with evidence-based health resources is challenging among this age group. This study aimed to develop engaging, useful digital health resources, underpinned by neuroscience principles, to build awareness of the harms of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and concurrent alcohol and antidepressant use. A mixed-methods approach was adopted to co-design two evidence-based videos resources. The resources were co-designed with the Matilda Centre's Youth Advisory Board Centre's Youth Advisory Board through a series focus groups and individual feedback reviews. Young people residing in New South Wales were then invited to complete a survey to evaluate the usefulness, relatability and impact on perceived harms associated with each substance pre- and post-viewing resources. A total of 100 participants completed the survey (mean age = 21.5 years, SD = 2.77, 42% Female, 2% Non-binary). The animated videos were well received, with the large majority (91% and 87% respectively) of participants rating them 'excellent' or 'very good'. After viewing the videos, there was a significant increase in the perception of harm associated with e-cigarette use, monthly (t(99) = 2.76, p = .003), weekly (t(99) = 4.82, p < .001) and daily (t(99) = 4.92, p < .001), and consuming alcohol whilst taking antidepressants both weekly (t(100) = 2.93, p = .004) and daily (t(100) = 3.13, p = .002). This study describes a successful co-design process demonstrating how meaningful involvement of young people, alongside traditional research methods, can produce substance use prevention resources that are useful, engaging and increase knowledge of harms among young people. SO WHAT?: To achieve meaningful public health impact researchers, experts and digital creators can work together to co-create substance use educational materials that are engaging, well-liked, while imparting important health knowledge.

Cultural netizenship as platformization of popular culture in Nigeria

The Instagram content of Nigerian digital creator Olalekan Olaleye illustrates how cultural netizenship stresses the centrality of platformization to the articulation of new genres of African popular representations. This article develops the argument by examining how platform aesthetics shape the trajectories and performative acts of cultural producers, something Olaleye's Nigerian context also modulates. By lingering on the digital and aesthetic labors of the cultural netizen, the article pinpoints the interactions between creative adaptations and social media texts. Olaleye's Instagram content demonstrates the way digital platforms have become integral to the production and circulation of popular forms and genres and the artistic responses everyday digital subjects make to institutions of the state.

Exploring online social platform affordances for digital creators: a multi-method approach using qualitative and configurational analysis

PurposeThis study explores the key platform affordances that online social platform providers need to offer digital creators to strengthen the creator ecosystem, one of the leading accelerators for platform growth. Specifically, it aims to investigate how these affordances make the dynamic combinations for high platform quality across diverse platform types and demographic characteristics of digital creators.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts a multi-method approach. Drawing upon the affordance theory, Study 1 aims to identify the key affordances of online social platforms based on relevant literature and the qualitative interview data collected from 22 digital creators, thereby constructing a conceptual framework of key platform affordances for digital creators. Building on the findings of Study 1, Study 2 explores the dynamic combinations of these platform affordances that contribute to platform quality using a configurational approach. Data from online surveys of 185 digital creators were analyzed using fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA).FindingsThe results of Study 1 identified key online social platform affordances for digital creators, including Storytelling, Socialization, Design, Development, Promotion, and Protection affordance. Study 2 showed that the combinations of these platform affordances for digital creators are diverse according to the types of platforms, creators’ gender, and their professionality.Research limitations/implicationsLike many studies, this research also has several limitations. One limitation of the research is the potential constraint of the extent of how well the data samples represent the group of creators who are actively producing digital content. Despite the addition of screening questions and meticulous data filtering, it is possible that we did not secure sufficient data from creators who are actively engaged in creative activities. In future research, it is worth contemplating the acquisition of data from actual groups of creators, such as creator communities. Future researchers anticipate obtaining more in-depth and accurate data by directly involving and collaborating with creators.Practical implicationsThis study highlights the need for online social platforms to enhance features for storytelling, socializing, design, development, promotion, and protection, fostering a robust digital creator ecosystem. It emphasizes clear communication of these affordances, ensuring creators can effectively utilize them. Importantly, platforms should adapt these features to accommodate diverse creator profiles, considering differences in gender and expertise levels, especially in emerging spaces like the Metaverse. This approach ensures an equitable and enriching experience for all users and creators, underlining the importance of dynamic interaction and inclusivity in platform development and creator support strategies.Social implicationsThis study underscores the social implications of evolving digital creator ecosystems on online platforms. Identifying six key affordances essential for digital creators highlights the need for platforms to enhance storytelling, socializing, design, development, promotion, and product protection. Crucially, it emphasizes inclusivity, urging platforms to consider diverse creator profiles, including gender and expertise differences, particularly in transitioning from traditional social media to the Metaverse. This approach nurtures a more robust creator ecosystem and fosters an equitable and enriching experience for all users. It signals a shift towards more dynamic, adaptive online environments catering to diverse creators and audiences.Originality/valueFor academics, this study builds the conceptual framework of online social platform affordances for digital creators. Using the configurational approach, this study identified various interdependent relationships among the affordances, which are nuanced by specific contexts, and suggested novel insights for future studies. For practices, the findings specified by creators and platform types are expected to guide platform providers in developing strategies to support digital creators and contribute to platform growth.

#MADRES. Parodic Motherhood Discourses on Peruvian TikTok

TikTok’s increasing cultural pervasiveness, leading to a myriad of practices and discourses, has turned the platform into a rich digital field site to interpret local dynamics. Here, we analyze visual and textual discourses on (urban) Peruvian TikTok as sociocultural processes to reflect on popular media cultures and contribute to media studies and anthropology. This study examines 80 videos and more than 10,000 user comments around the content of two young male Peruvian digital creators—@mikkele and @zagaladas, who upload humorous, parodic clips of themselves re-enacting their mothers—to better understand how motherhood is articulated, exposed, criticized, accepted, and contested. Filled with intergenerational tensions and gender differences, these videos and their comments are fruitful terrain to explore both legitimized and rejected maternal subjectivities. We focus here on three emerged themes: “the unfair, aggressive mother,” “technology in dispute,” and “madre latina vs. madre gringa.”

Islamic Animation: Netnographic Analysis on Digital Processing Transformation in Social Media

A phenomenon that is currently widely discussed is the massive growth of digital creators who are actively sharing unique and popular da'wah concepts, primarily through Islamic animation. The objective of this study is to explore and analyze Islamic animated content on social media and identify the recurring themes found in these contents. The research team collected data by utilizing advanced search features and relevant keywords to locate content that met the specified criteria. Between June 2022 and June 2023, the research team evaluated a total of 5,000 pieces of content sourced from various virtual communities on Indonesia's prominent social media platforms, namely Instagram and YouTube. The first two rounds of evaluation focused on identifying qualitatively significant themes, while rounds 3 to 4 expanded on the initial findings for each social media platform. Employing the Netnography method for analysis, four distinct themes emerged from all Islamic animated content on social media: "Ustadz in Animation," "Life Advice," "Stories of Prophets and Apostles," and "Indonesian Muslim Children."

The filed of biography in the Ismaili Literature.

Talking about digital text or digital literature is a controversial conversation because of the intellectual differences and conflicts that the topic carries, and a great controversy taking place in the critical and literary arena. Which carries in itself the features and characteristics of digital technology, to reveal a new aspect of creative experimentation and identification between what is technological and what is literary, despite the distance of the two fields from each other, but the digital creator was able to produce a hybrid text that bears the characteristics of the two fields, and this text in turn is directed towards The digital receiver who possesses a privacy comparable to the privacy of the creator and the text together, which opens a window for us towards worlds and labyrinths that transcend all impossible and transcend all limits

The digital poem between the poles of creativity and reception

Talking about digital text or digital literature is a controversial conversation because of the intellectual differences and conflicts that the topic carries, and a great controversy taking place in the critical and literary arena. Which carries in itself the features and characteristics of digital technology, to reveal a new aspect of creative experimentation and identification between what is technological and what is literary, despite the distance of the two fields from each other, but the digital creator was able to produce a hybrid text that bears the characteristics of the two fields, and this text in turn is directed towards The digital receiver who possesses a privacy comparable to the privacy of the creator and the text together, which opens a window for us towards worlds and labyrinths that transcend all impossible and transcend all limits

Deep echo state networks in data marketplaces

Data Marketplaces are the digital platform for data buyers and data sellers to trade information as valuable products or items. The expectation taken for granted from the users of a data marketplace is the truth of the exchanged information. However, the trade of factual data also means the marketable product is no longer unique but a series of replicas. If every user within the data marketplace owns the same information, this data eventually becomes valueless. There are specific instances where the traded products are sought to be always unique, for instance predictions or digital art. This article applies Deep Echo State Networks (ESNs) in data marketplaces that map tradeable data into a larger dimensional space via the dynamics of reservoirs with fixed and non-linear properties. These reservoirs generate unique tradeable data products that cannot be replicated, therefore ensuring its exclusivity and commercial value. The validation results show that ESNs can also be applied to generate random tradeable products in different dimensional spaces. Specifically, the reservoir with its associated neural perturbation emulates a digital creator that generates unique and exclusive content based on 1D functions and 2D images.

Teachers implementing new primary school digital technology areas: What are we teaching now?

New digital technology areas were added to the New Zealand primary school technology curriculum in 2020. These areas aim to grow students who are not just passive users of technology but, instead, students who understand how computers work, who are digital creators, informed by design processes and critical thinking. The new digital areas of the technology curriculum appear to have created tension between the expectations of teachers and their relative capabilities. Examining three primary teachers' implementation of the new digital areas, this project utilised a participatory action research (PAR) methodology to review teachers’ journey of adoption. Findings indicated that implementing the curriculum areas was not as complex as teachers first imagined and that unplugged activities (those without devices) played a significant role in the new digital technology areas’ successful implementation in the classroom. The main themes that appeared from the data included levels of teacher knowledge, teacher confidence and curriculum learning area integration.

The Paradox of Digital Creator: Identity and Simulacrum in Digital Dreams by Edmundo Paz-Soldán

This article about the novel Sueños digitales (2000) by Edmundo Paz-Soldán focuses on the transformation of the identity of the protagonist, Sebastián, who finds himself in a virtual world full of simulations. This study demonstrates the transformation of the identity through surveillance, isolation, and alienation based on the theory of Jean Baudrillard. Not only the protagonist but also other characters are presented as an illusion, which reflects the characteristics of contemporary subjects in a postmodern society dominated by hyperreality. Likewise, the mirage and the multiplication of the image are duplicated in the virtual simulation to the point of revealing a subject converted into a simulation. Although more than twenty years have passed, the novel reaches a greater resonance in today

Digital intelligence of a modern economist: an exploratory case study

In the current context of digitalization of various spheres of life, an important characteristic of participants in a digital society is the level of their digital intelligence. The level at which future economists develop their digital intelligence skills during university depends on their successful employment and career development. The presented article analyses the concept of digital intelligence of an economist on the basis of the Digital Quotient framework developed by the Digital Intelligence Institute, characterizing the levels of “Digital Citizen”, “Digital Creator”, “Digital Entrepreneur” for such components of digital intelligence as: Digital Changemaker Identity, Digital Use, Safety Digital, Digital Security, Digital Emotional Intelligence, Digital Communication, Digital Literacy, Digital Rights. For the first time, the contents of an academic discipline of a university training programme for future economists have been proposed, in the course of which digital intelligence skills can be developed. The authors demonstrate the stages of formation, indicators for different levels of formation, content and examples of educational representation of material. They offer the stages of Digital intelligence development in the framework of studying the course modules, the implementation of project work and the solution of the real case studies during academic training. The results of the pilot study for achieving all three levels of digital intelligence. A statistical analysis of the results of the experiment was carried out and their relevance proved.

Ctrl+Alt+Delete: The changing landscape of the uncanny valley and the fear of second loss

We are living in a digital era where ubiquitous social media are becoming part of the everyday lives of many. These social media platforms were designed for the living; however an estimated 8000 Facebook members die daily. It is therefore no surprise that the phenomena of how social media platforms are adopted to discuss death dying and grieving have become a growing area of research across numerous disciplines. Using qualitative methods, this article adds to and moves beyond existing research by focusing on the creation and inheritance of Facebook pages, thanablogs, posthumous chatbots, posthumous messages and posthumous avatars, to explore whether digital afterlives enabled by the Internet affect how people grieve. In order to examine how these messages and memories are experienced this study used in-depth qualitative interviews with participants from 3 distinct areas: Digital Creators (DC), Digital Inheritors (DI) and Service Providers (SP) the findings presented here explore three emerging themes (1) the link between comfort and control (2) the changing landscape of the uncanny valley and (3) the fear of ‘second loss’.

Being Jacob: Young Children, Automedial Subjectivity, and Child Social Media Influencers

Being Jacob: Young Children, Automedial Subjectivity, and Child Social Media Influencers

Online content creation: looking at students’ social media practices through a Connected Learning lens

As the boundaries between technology and social media have decreased, the potential for creative production or participatory practices have increased. However, the affordances of online content creation (OCC) are still taken up by a minority of internet users despite the opportunities offered for engagement and creativity. While previous studies have addressed creative production by university students for specific purposes, there is a research gap concerning OCC in the everyday lives of African university students. This paper describes the stories of three students who are online creators of content, the social media they utilised; their trajectories; their linkages with career interests; the types of online presences they created, maintained or discontinued into their university lives. As the case studies spanned digital practices that were informal and extracurricular yet peer-supported as well as interest-driven and academically oriented, the pedagogical framework of Connected Learning proved an appropriate heuristic. The study shows that being a digital creator gives students a competitive edge in our globally competitive society.

The Gradual Immersion Method (GIM): Pedagogical Transformation into Mixed Reality

Through increased user interaction in mixed reality environments, the concept of user perception and living space evolves, adapts or is reconstructed. What criteria, however, define the contemporary hybrid learner's perception? Should current educational methods be adapted to this transformation, or is it necessary to reinvent them altogether? This study proposes the Gradual Immersion Method (GIM), a transformation-sensitive form of creativity and learning exploration involving a collaborative approach to 3D digital creation. Supported by Augmented Reality (AR) technique, which promotes intuitive learning, the GIM focuses on concepts such as familiarization, reflection, technological appropriation, perception, and creative cognition. The result is a sequence of learning objects, from 2D to 3D, and finally in a mixed reality environment, which reveals the perceptions of hybrid learners during their performance as digital creators; while the overall method characterizes their perceptions in the context of contemporary learning.

Descategorizar e recategorizar a poiésis a partir do digital

In this interview, which is the first of the new section Conversations with Brazilian Digital Creators of Texto Digital , the writer and director of audiovisual and multimedia Alvaro Garcia Andrade tells us about his journey in printed poetry, in videopoetry and digital creation - a process that is intertwined with the history of multimedia and the emergence and evolution of digital media. In addition, he discusses some of his most important works, as the digital poems Fogo e Grao, and presents his work developed with designer and programmer Lucas Junqueira, in the creation of a free software for publishing digital works: the Managana.

Protecting Your Online You: A New Approach to Handling Your Online Persona After Death

People create online personas through email, social networking, and virtual world services. Upon signing up for one of these services, a person enters into a contractual agreement governing the terms of use. These agreements include limitations on what will happen to his account after he dies. The conditions governing what happens to the account after the creator dies vary widely, which gives rise to a situation where it is nearly impossible to know how all of one’s digital assets will be handled after death. Due to the increased use of these services, the lack of clarity in what happens to one’s online persona after death is becoming a greater problem. This Note proposes treating one’s online persona as part of one’s estate and handling it in a similar manner as other assets, which can be bequeathed to a designated person. An exception to this general probate treatment, however, arises when a person’s digital assets are left unresolved in his will. In much the same way that past love letters from a deceased husband offer a window into his life, a person’s e-mail, social network postings, and other digital artifacts should also be available after death and the solution proposed here makes that a more likely reality while still protecting the creator’s potential privacy interest. Such a system will result in the fulfillment of the digital creator’s wishes, better guarantees of privacy, and the assurance of a more equitable and better defined legal system for addressing one’s online persona after death. © 2012 Noam Kutler. This Note is the first-place winner of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal ’s annual student writing competition. † Associate, KL B.A., Rutgers University (2004). I would like to thank Professor Naomi Cahn, Christopher Healey, Andrew Emerson, and the editors of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal for their thoughtful comments and assistance in completing this Note. I would also like to thank my wife Stephanie for her unending support and encouragement. 1641-1670_KUTLER_041712 (DO NOT DELETE) 4/17/2012 2:27 PM 1642 BERKELEY TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL [Vol. 26:1641