Social Sciences for People

In this article, Chen shows that Taiwan's digital initiatives have rather shaped a type of monitorial democracy, where citizens are encouraged to pursue private interests, not necessarily public ones.

Strong or thin digital democracy? The democratic implications of Taiwan's open government data policy in the 2010s - Terrence Ting-Yen Chen, 2024 What kind of “democracy” do new government-led digital initiatives facilitate? This paper discusses the issue by investigating the open government data policy i...

In this article, it is shown how seemingly individual algorithmic realities actually reflect the activity of institutional agents (politicians, teachers, priests) on TikTok. These agents thus rethink the socialization process to adapt to realities where you have to go viral in order to exist.

When Stories Turn Institutional: How TikTok Users Legitimate the Algorithmic Sensemaking - Dragoș M. Obreja, 2024 Educational, political, or moral/religious content is increasingly present on TikTok, so contemporary social dynamics legitimize the process of digital mediatio...

In their article, Băluță and Tufiș (2023) notice the emergence of "traditional family" topic in the Romanian parliamentary debates. They notice how the hegemonic discourse about heteronormativity and traditional family is carefully conceived on anti-gender campaigns, by a constant reimposing of the gender order. Article available below

Preaching the “Traditional Family” in the Romanian Parliament: The Political Stakes and Meanings of a Hegemonic Narrative - Ionela Băluță, Claudiu Tufiș, 2023 In this article, we examine a decade of parliamentary debates related to the topic of family to understand the reasons and the rhetorical strategies that drive ...

Could we design games more inclusively when it comes to disability?
In the study written by Brown and Anderson (2020), several design innovations were observed in improving gamic features in the case of four key areas: auditory, visual, motor, and difficulty.

Such a study is important because it shows the concrete ways in which video games follow more inclusive trajectories through flexible design features for disabilities.

Designing for Disability: Evaluating the State of Accessibility Design in Video Games - Mark Brown, Sky LaRell Anderson, 2021 This project evaluates the current state accessibility of video games, specifically in terms of designing for disability. We evaluate 50 games chosen for their ...