Digital Swarm Research Articles

The postmodern subject from a psychopolitical perspective: An analysis from logotherapy.

From a hermeneutic interpretation, this article analyzed the new psychic pandemic configuring a typology of psychopolitical man, provided by digital swarms and mass psychology, that, from logotherapy, can be perceived as a postmodern collective neurosis. We also analyze a self's hyper-reflection as a social phenomenon of psychopolitics, suffering as repression, and the love of narcissistic consumption. Consolidating a sense of life as a social ethos is the answer to finding compromises and responsibility for the individual mission that every human being has as a member of a community and society.

Management of crises of brazilian brands on social networks

Consumer behavior in a digital environment is the central element of this study and represents a relevant theme and a challenge for marketing managers. The starting question of this study is related to concepts such as transparency and digital swarm proposed by the South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han. These concepts are relevant to understand the Brazilian context of brands involved in the digital environment. This study uses a qualitative approach for data collection, through the methodology of multiple case studies. For data collection, the netnography method of research and content analysis were used for the evaluation of results. The findings reject the theory proposed by Byung-Chul Han, since Brazilian consumers seem to be avid to engage in storms caused by online crises. In addition, they present enough capability to articulate the promotion of concrete negative effects from the point of view of economic losses, political pressures, and shocks in the stock market segment. For future studies, analyses in other international contexts are suggested to compare and discuss about the exercise of freedom by citizens in a digital environment and its negative impacts on the corporate assets of organizations.

Utilizing a Digital Swarm Intelligence Platform to Improve Consensus Among Radiologists and Exploring Its Applications

Radiologists today play a central role in making diagnostic decisions and labeling images for training and benchmarking artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. A key concern is low inter-reader reliability (IRR) seen between experts when interpreting challenging cases. While team-based decisions are known to outperform individual decisions, inter-personal biases often creep up in group interactions which limit nondominant participants from expressing true opinions. To overcome the dual problems of low consensus and interpersonal bias, we explored a solution modeled on bee swarms. Two separate cohorts, three board-certified radiologists, (cohort 1), and five radiology residents (cohort 2) collaborated on a digital swarm platform in real time and in a blinded fashion, grading meniscal lesions on knee MR exams. These consensus votes were benchmarked against clinical (arthroscopy) and radiological (senior-most radiologist) standards of reference using Cohen’s kappa. The IRR of the consensus votes was then compared to the IRR of the majority and most confident votes of the two cohorts. IRR was also calculated for predictions from a meniscal lesion detecting AI algorithm. The attending cohort saw an improvement of 23% in IRR of swarm votes (k = 0.34) over majority vote (k = 0.11). Similar improvement of 23% in IRR (k = 0.25) in 3-resident swarm votes over majority vote (k = 0.02) was observed. The 5-resident swarm had an even higher improvement of 30% in IRR (k = 0.37) over majority vote (k = 0.07). The swarm consensus votes outperformed individual and majority vote decision in both the radiologists and resident cohorts. The attending and resident swarms also outperformed predictions from a state-of-the-art AI algorithm.

Playing Conspiracy

Playing Conspiracy

Curitiba, minha linda: média digitais, identidade e cidadania

Este artigo trata da comunicação via design voltada para as cidades inteligentes. Ser uma
 cidade inteligente tem sido uma estratégia adotada por várias cidades. Com base nas tecnologias
 da informação e comunicação (TIC), cidades inteligentes visam atrair investimentos, aumentando
 a competitividade, e, assim, melhorar a qualidade de vida de seus moradores e visitantes. Por
 isso, a geração de objetos e elementos de comunicação disponibilizados pelos municípios, tanto
 na forma física quanto na digital, faz parte desse processo. Nesse sentido, estudos sobre o papel
 do design nas cidades vêm sendo desenvolvidos, principalmente na Europa, com repercussões
 recentes no Brasil. Porém, pouco se sabe como os municípios se apropriaram dessas novas
 tecnologias para fortalecer a identidade local e promover a cidadania, caracterizando-as como
 cidades inteligentes. Assim, este artigo discute o papel do design associado aos média digitais
 atualmente em uso, buscando entender sua contribuição para o comportamento do cidadão
 auto consciente, independente e atento. Considerando que Curitiba se auto nomeia uma cidade
 inteligente, o estudo aqui apresentado tem como objetivo identificar a maneira pela qual o governo
 da cidade considera os elementos de comunicação associados aos seus projetos. Como método,
 realiza um estudo de campo, levando em consideração as imagens postadas no Instagram,
 link da mesma cidade, e os estudos sobre a sociedade em rede (Castells, 2006), os conceitos de
 não-lugar (Augé, 1994) e de “enxame digital” (Han, 2018). Como resultado, o estudo aponta a
 relevância no avanço de pesquisas que considerem o papel político dessas inserções, para que o
 resultado das ações venha a contribuir para a construção da cidadania.

¿De qué estamos hablando cuando hablamos de lo popular en la era digital?

For some decades now Nestor Garcia Canclini raised a question, as lucid as radical, that has not lost, at all, its freshness: What are we talking about when we talk about the popular? We have organized this article, precisely, as a comment and above all as an obstinate insistence on that question about the popular. So then, we propose a critical reading of that text by Garcia Canclini, dated in 1983, in the current context of the socalled digital swarms.

Towards a nonlinear, material history of digital swarms

ABSTRACTIn contemporary internetworked societies, digital media and networks have increasingly become a “battlefield” where, following the emergence of novel power relations, new forms of resistance have come to the fore. Amongst these resistances, there are the so-called “digital swarms”. This is a communicational disruption also technically known in computing as “Distributed Denial-of-Service” (DDoS): a form of political dissent that, in the last years, has hit the headlines, thanks to the digital media actions of Anonymous. This article focuses on these forms of mediation, approaching digital swarms via a historical analysis that stresses nonlinearity and materiality. I argue that digital swarming actions cannot be read as an issue of obtaining attention through media visibility, and that the disruptions these lead to cannot be accounted as mere metaphors of street political action, finding conversely their cultural history in other forms of media disruptiveness. This historical excavation points, then, towards a different genealogy for digital swarms, acknowledging the key material dimensions at stake via the infrastructural character of disruptive mediations as well as via non-anthropomorphic patterns of enunciation.

The new world of wireless: how to compete in the 4G revolution

The New World of Wireless is an impressive, thoughtful journey that helps business leaders see over the horizon to our unwired future, where we belong. --John Chen, Chairman, CEO, and President, Sybase, Inc. Snyder's book provides a thought-provoking look into the 4G future. While technical details abound, the importance of this work relates more to the social, business, and political implications of 4G technology. Snyder has provided us a glimpse of how different our lives will be in the not-so-distant future, and done so with amazing insight. It is truly a must-read. --StantonSloane, PhD, CEO, SRA International Prepare for a Wireless Revolution That May Prove Even More Disruptive Than the Internet Revolution Why next-gen 4G technology will lead to a radical, qualitative shift in how you use wireless How to leverage digital swarms of distributed, self-organizing groups to transform your business Indispensable new insight for CXOs, board members, strategists, and consultants in all industries Next-generation 4G wireless technology won't just be faster: It will offer breakthrough opportunities for competitive advantage. 4G will accelerate a massive power shift that's already well underway: the emergence of decentralized, self-organizing digital swarms both inside and outside the enterprise. This book will help you understand both the technology and the radically new organizations it will make possible. You'll discover how these changes will affect you...how to innovate around 4G wireless to build profitability and market share...how to anticipate and manage business risks you've never even imagined before...how to harness the relentless digital swarms that are now rising to power in your company and your marketplace!

Teaching the Media Child in the Digital Swarm

(2001). Teaching the Media Child in the Digital Swarm. Arts Education Policy Review: Vol. 102, No. 6, pp. 25-27.