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Archive fever – one tweet at a time

Ooooh, perfect cue for self-promotion! Wrote a chapter on what kind of tweets get picked up by media as newsworthy (in the Korean context). https://t.co/pn40Hc3aeV

— yawningtree (@yawningtree) January 19, 2017

Chapter details here.

Wow. Oddly reminding me of a Thai user who was prosecuted for a post that could have been posted. https://t.co/0Z0HPhSywM

— yawningtree (@yawningtree) October 11, 2017

A few other equivalents to China's "50-cent party" and Russia's "30-ruble army": "cyber troopers" in Malaysia and Singapore, "buzzers" in Indonesia, "public opinion shapers" in Vietnam, "alba" and "shibaldan" in South Korea, "social media team" in Pakistan, and "bhakts" in India https://t.co/zpR0oueiTL

— yawningtree (@yawningtree) December 7, 2017

Crossposted here.

Interestingly comparable to this case study from a neighbouring country (though with a less happy ending). The fragile beauty of peer-to-peer activism: The public campaign for the rights of media consumers in South Korea. NMS. https://t.co/NBw3BH1cGS https://t.co/S7mj4xh9TM

— yawningtree (@yawningtree) December 21, 2017

I was referring to this case: https://t.co/bRCHJCMFGI. Here is a @freedomonthenet report from that year for a little more context: https://t.co/w4FbuZ8K7d. I recall L'Origine du monde was also among his posts.

— yawningtree (@yawningtree) February 4, 2018

Interesting, but also reminds me of this study by @UCLWhyWePost colleagues. In India, parents from the lower socioeconomic class see their children's use of social media as an IT competence that would lead to social mobility. https://t.co/C2wyJiTS8e https://t.co/KHckjv0EFu

— yawningtree (@yawningtree) October 23, 2018

Via #rawblog

Online Consequences of being Offline: A Gendered Tale from South Korea
by Dr. Yenn Leehttps://t.co/mi21gGC7VZ#Body #Gender #Privacy #MyLifeIsNotYourPorn #OfflineEssays pic.twitter.com/BVkSu8yDy4

— Centre for Internet and Society (@cis_india) January 23, 2019

And South Korea has been *showing* you for years. You don't need to look far. On this very platform, such services are advertised every hour. (Consciously choosing not to include the search term) https://t.co/Un7huuohIR

— yawningtree (@yawningtree) October 10, 2019

And South Korea remains "partially free" (64/100), due to a record number of content blocks/deletions, molka and other gender-based violences, and online defamation cases. Country report here: https://t.co/lfNpN0XgXy #FreedomOnTheNet

— yawningtree (@yawningtree) November 5, 2019

Interesting. This happens to resonate with something I have been pondering a lot lately: the moral policing power of the notion of 민폐. https://t.co/P99VPg6HdG

— yawningtree (@yawningtree) April 3, 2020

법 잘 아시는 분들께 여쭙니다. 예전에 언소주라고, 조중동 광고주 불매운동하던 다음카페의 개설자 포함 운영진 몇 명이 위력에 의한 업무방해죄에 공동정범으로 유죄 판결 받았는데요. 다음카페지기에게 공동정범이 성립하는데 N번방 운영자 기소에 범죄단체조직죄가 빠질 수가 있는 건가요?

— yawningtree (@yawningtree) April 13, 2020

An Estonian rep at #AoIR2017 said if anything were to go wrong in their e-gov, that would be due to the "analog elements of cyber security": i.e. misbehaving officials, passwords on post-its, changes of management etc. I think of it regularly. https://t.co/0QJ3lnz5CB

— yawningtree (@yawningtree) July 16, 2020

"[…] harcelée par des personnes avec des idées du Moyen Âge mais des moyens techniques du 21ème siècle. C'est souvent un mélange très compliqué, et c'est un mélange particulièrement explosif en Corée du Sud." https://t.co/v5fWyZif5U

— yawningtree (@yawningtree) August 14, 2021

South Korea 🇰🇷 saw a modest score improvement, attributable to the easing of real-name verification requirements during election periods, but continued to be marked by newer, digitally mediated forms of gender-based violence, such as molka and sextortion. #FreedomOnTheNet https://t.co/GUoAvG728D

— yawningtree (@yawningtree) September 21, 2021

.@yawningtree discusses how South Korean legislation has compelled private companies to censor content. pic.twitter.com/gpFeAErGvA

— Freedom on the Net (@freedomonthenet) November 18, 2021

South Korea is known for its high-internet access rates, but it also has one of the widest gender gaps in the world too.

Senior Lecturer Yenn Lee offers insight into how gender-based violence plays out in a digital setting. https://t.co/fjOFowU1jA

— SOAS University of London (@SOAS) September 2, 2022

i.e. when such law is abused for political control and when such law is hacked for money. The former is well documented in the #FreedomOnTheNet reports since 2009, and how the #molka industry operates is an exemplar of the latter. https://t.co/PdZG0AAMaF

— yawningtree (@yawningtree) January 26, 2023

Hear, hear. I know this article has done the rounds already, so I don't intend to add on. Though I was particularly amused that the one-line bio of the columnist specifies that he is a "South Korean-born" writer and journalist. What an encapsulating choice of words. https://t.co/aeLmT054Yr

— yawningtree (@yawningtree) April 12, 2023

Déjà vu, déjà entendu [24]

Seen all these.

OpenAI is using third-party content moderators to ensure ChatGPT and Dall-e don't spit out violence and porn. Great scoop from @ReedAlbergottihttps://t.co/T2mMp7EnFm

— Louise Matsakis (@lmatsakis) December 14, 2022

This McDonalds is “fully automated” in the same way an automat or dumb waiter is fully automated: they’re designed to hide the (poorly paid) human labor and make it look like your food appears out of nowhere. https://t.co/C82KkkMTVV

— Paris Marx (@parismarx) December 23, 2022

Modern day feudalism
Dear Customer too much society's Delivery boys "DO NOT RING DOOR BELL" not allowed to use the lift buildings. A notice from the housing society in India. @amazon @DTDCIndia @Flipkart @bigbasket_com @Swiggy @zomato Triggering online delivery Workers in India. pic.twitter.com/0kyAKqIGzn

— Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union (@TGPWU) January 17, 2023

Being human, becoming human, and ceasing being human [2]

A few illustrations.

• “Tech support” (R. Kikuo Johnson, The New Yorker, 16 October 2017)

Artist R. Kikuo Johnson's "Tech Support" cover for The New Yorker, 2017 pic.twitter.com/eLOGKTj1PC

— Scott Kerr (@scott_kerr) April 5, 2022

• “Humans are hooked. Machines are learning.” (Source unknown)

pic.twitter.com/jTMt1fHeGz

— Tech Burrito (@TechBurritoUno) November 27, 2022

• Yes, master. (Design Museum Gent, 2017)

https://www.tumblr.com/yawningtree/167282663716/yes-master

Déjà vu, déjà entendu [23]

The Home Office is not Suella Braverman's personal office.

It is wholly inappropriate for a politically neutral government department, responsible for enforcing the law, to request a private organisation takes an unflattering video of their Secretary of State down. https://t.co/ujKWGCn0ZW

— Chris Annous (@chris_annous) January 14, 2023

South Korea's foreign ministry has filed a lawsuit against MBC, requesting that the broadcaster issue a "correction" to its reporting of President Yoon's "hot mic" foul language scandal last year.

Yoon claimed MBC was "malicious" and "fake news".https://t.co/w8AeAlpPLs

— Raphael Rashid (@koryodynasty) January 15, 2023

We ship you and we ship you hard. [6]

Can’t stop laughing 🤣 #2. See also this whole thread and its QTs. Explains why I am still on that Titanic of a platform.

하지만 그들은 젊은 여성들이 관우로 어디까지 해괴한 짓을 할 수 있는지 알면 울며 도망칠 것이다… https://t.co/qZGckIEOon

— Jieun (@byguilty) December 16, 2022

Kind but creepy [6]

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Extracting audio from visual information (MIT News, 4 August 2014)

Never, ever, ever use pixelation for redacting text (Bishop Fox, 15 February 2022)

A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? (MIT Technology Review, 19 December 2022)

We ship you and we ship you hard. [5]

RT @fanlore_wiki Are you thinking of leaving #Twitter? This isn’t the first time fans have decided to move platforms, nor will it be the last. The video essay “Life and Death of Fandom Platforms” details @cfiesler’s research into why and how fans change platforms: http://bit.ly/3VOBRwT (28 November 2022)

Metaphors we teach by

🫶 Why I have been insisting that my CAQDAS workshop is a food festival, not a cook-along show (image via @danielagduca).

We ship you and we ship you hard. [4]

Goncharov: why has the internet invented a fake Martin Scorsese film? (The Guardian, 25 November 2022, first learnt via this tweet; see also the Shazaam story)

Neil Gaiman: With the greatest possible respect, “has decided they are in love” is fandom’s default mode. I could have put up pictures of Maggie and Nina and talked about how they hate each other and were each other’s worst enemies and fandom would have nodded its collective head and muttered “ah. Friends to enemies trope. They are in love.” I’m just looking forward to everyone loving Maggie and Nina as much as I do. (7 October 2022, via this tweet)

RT @DiscussingFilm A feature film adaption of Ali Hazelwood’s ‘THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS’, a novel that was originally ‘Reylo’ fanfiction, is in the works. (Source: Deadline) (7 October 2022)

RT @Stormy_Robyn *whispers* my favourite fanfic author just posted a story after years of silence and I am freaking the fuck out (18 April 2016; apparently this is not an uncommon experience, as shared in similar tweets such as this and this, especially during the heights of the pandemic…)