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Curators of digital futures: The life cycle of pioneer communities New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Andreas Hepp
Research typically considers corporate actors such as large tech companies or government agencies as drivers of deep mediatization, the increasing saturation of society by digital media and their infrastructures. This article aims to focus on another group of collective actors: pioneer communities, exemplified by the Maker, Hacks/Hackers, and Quantified Self movements. They are characterized by their
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Enhancing children’s understanding of algorithmic biases in and with text-to-image generative AI New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Henriikka Vartiainen, Juho Kahila, Matti Tedre, Sonsoles López-Pernas, Nicolas Pope
Despite the growing concerns surrounding algorithmic biases in generative AI (artificial intelligence), there is a noticeable lack of research on how to facilitate children and young people’s awareness and understanding of them. This study aimed to address this gap by conducting hands-on workshops with fourth- and seventh-grade students in Finland, and by focusing on students’ ( N = 209) evolving explanations
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The Impact of Supervisory Communication on Newcomers’ Adjustment, Well-Being, and Relationships With Their Organization: A Longitudinal Study Communication Research (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Cen April Yue, Sifan Xu, Weiting Tao, Lei Vincent Huang
Integrating theories from relationship management, organizational socialization, and leadership communication, the current study examines how an essential component of internal communication—leaders’ use of motivating language—can facilitate newcomers’ socialization, strengthen their relationship with the organization, and promote psychological well-being over time. Our findings, based on a two-wave
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Trust is key: Determinants of false beliefs about climate change in eight countries New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Waqas Ejaz, Sacha Altay, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Science has established the human-caused nature of climate change, yet the prevalence of climate-related misinformation persists, undermining public understanding and impeding collective action. Strikingly, existing research on belief in misinformation about climate change has disproportionately focused on WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) countries. To move beyond this
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Beyond subcultures: A literature review of gaming communities and sociological analysis New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Giulio Pitroso
This article is a critical review of studies on gaming communities. In particular, it analyses the use of subcultural, post-subcultural and postmodern subcultural theorists in relation to video games players. Academic use of sociological concepts to study gaming communities, such as neo-tribe, subculture, lifestyle, and scene, is not always explained and almost all sociological instruments show limits
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“There’s Always a Way to Get Around the Guidelines”: Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Content Moderation on TikTok Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Valerie Lookingbill, Kimanh Le
The stigmatized nature of nonsuicidal self-injury may render TikTok, a short-form, video-sharing social media platform, appealing to individuals who engage in this behavior. Since this community faces biased scrutiny based on stigmatization surrounding mental health, nonsuicidal self-injury users may turn to TikTok, which offers a space for users to engage in discussions of nonsuicidal self-injury
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‘Disconnecting from my smartphone is a privilege I do not have’: Mobile connection and disconnection practices among migrants and asylum seekers in three migrant reception centres of Sicily New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Miriana Cascone, Tiziano Bonini
This article investigates online connection and disconnection practices among migrants and asylum seekers. It draws from an ethnography of three Sicilian reception centres that hosted migrants and asylum seekers between September and November 2020. We show how migrants, driven by different migratory motivations, enact different mobile connection and disconnection practices. We argue that these are
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Countering underproduction of peer produced goods New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Kaylea Champion, Benjamin Mako Hill
Peer produced goods, such as online knowledge bases and free/libre open source software rely on contributors who often choose their tasks regardless of consumer needs. These goods are susceptible to underproduction: when popular goods are relatively low quality. Although underproduction is a common feature of peer production, very little is known about how to counteract it. We use a detailed longitudinal
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Pseudo-scientific versus anti-scientific online conspiracism: A comparison of the Flat Earth Society’s Internet forum and Reddit New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Federico Pilati, Tommaso Venturini, Pier Luigi Sacco, Floriana Gargiulo
Attitudes of distrust and paranoia toward scientific and political institutions are increasingly identified as major troubles in online communication and often lumped together under the umbrella term of conspiracy theories. However, this term encompasses two distinct communication practices that deserve to be distinguished. Traditional conspiratorial thinking adopts pseudo-scientific arguments, while
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News participation is declining: Evidence from 46 countries between 2015 and 2022 New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Sacha Altay, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Digital media are often praised for having offered new ways to participate with news. But how has participation with news changed in recent years? A pre-registered analysis of survey data from 2015 to 2022 in 46 countries ( N = 577,859) shows that participation with news has declined. This decrease is observed in most countries and for most forms of participation, including liking, sharing, commenting
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*READ**THIS*!! Spam as a threat for open science New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Johanna Cohoon
Drawing on multiple sources of qualitative data, I describe a case of open science infrastructure (OSI) abuse. The case illustrates how developers navigated scholarly value tensions and issues of epistemic and platform legitimacy while battling spam on their open science webapp. Notably, their struggle used precious financial resources and drew attention away from other development tasks like feature
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Online self-disclosure: An interdisciplinary literature review of 10 years of research New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Tamar Ashuri, Ruth Halperin
The term “self-disclosure” refers to actions by which individuals reveal information about themselves. The interest in such conduct has resurged with the development of networked participatory technologies, which enable creation, dissemination, analysis, and use of large amounts of personal information, thereby increasingly augmenting the effect of online self-disclosure on disclosers and disclosees
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Friction in the Netflix machine: How screen workers interact with streaming data New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Nina Vindum Rasmussen
Data-driven streamers like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have expanded into the European screen landscape with a significant appetite for locally produced content. These players leverage advanced data analytics to gain deep customer insights, but they prefer to keep a lid on their algorithmic operations. This article examines how screen workers interact with streaming data despite widespread secrecy
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Meso News-Spaces and Beyond: News-Related Communication Occurring Between the Public and Private Domains Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Ori Tenenboim
The concept of meso news-spaces refers to online spaces located between the private and public realms, where everyday users, more professional media actors, or both, can produce and share news-rela...
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“Scooped by the Town Drunk”: Unpacking the Effects of COVID-19 on Rural Journalism Work Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Ruth Moon, Mildred F. Perreault, Jessica Walsh, Gregory Perreault, Louisa Lincoln
Journalists serving rural communities are crucial sources of information across the U.S.; they also face challenges and opportunities unlike those of their peers at large urban outlets. In this stu...
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Reactance to Persuasive Messages Depends on Felt Obligation Communication Research (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Seungjoo Yang, John K. Kruschke
Psychological reactance theory suggests that the higher the threat-level of persuasive messages, the higher the reactance. Previous research has revealed ways to manipulate messages to either arouse or reduce psychological reactance. By contrast, the current work compares people’s reactance across different target actions while keeping the threat-level of the message consistent. We propose that reactance
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Refuse to Say Just What You Mean: Anti- “Woke” Rhetoric As an Exercise in Destructive Abstraction Political Communication (IF 6.176) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Meredith D. Clark
Published in Political Communication (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Governing the Resilient Self: Influencers’ Digital Affective Labor in Quarantine Vlogs Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Alkım Yalın
This article explores quarantine vlogs on YouTube to examine the cultural production of influencers during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. By using a grounded theory approach to analyze 9 quarantine vlogs filmed by woman creators along with 480 user comments, this article argues that quarantine vlogs are shaped by influencers’ competing desires of (1) offering care and soothing content to
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Understanding How Immersive Media Enhance Prosociality: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis Communication Research (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Fernando Canet, Sebastián Sánchez-Castillo
The aim of this article is to present a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature on the relationship between immersive media and prosociality, specifically in the discipline of social issues. The search was conducted in January 2023 and included research published up to and including 2022. Both parts of the review consider 43 studies. For the meta-analysis, by combining these studies we
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Book Review: Antiracist Journalism: The Challenge of Creating Equitable Local News by Andrea Wenzel The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Paula M. Poindexter
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Engaged interorganizational networks and resilience in the humanitarian sector Journal of Communication (IF 5.75) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Minkyung Kim, Marya L Doerfel
This study extends the communication theory of resilience (CTR) by examining social networks that facilitate resilience for refugee-oriented humanitarian organizations (ROHOs). This study draws on a network survey and interviews from ROHOs in the United States and South Korea during the height of coronavirus disease 2019. Results illuminate how refugees, generally seen as the subject of concern, become
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Analyzing Code: What a Critical Code Studies Approach Reveals About the Epistemology of Data Journalism Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Aman Abhishek, Lucas Graves
The last decade has seen consolidation of data journalism—defined broadly as reporting involving the collection, analysis, and presentation of quantitative datasets—as an established subfield of jo...
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Alternative Media Vary Between Mild Distortion and Extreme Misinformation: Steps Toward a Typology Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Anna Staender, Edda Humprecht, Frank Esser
Social media has faced criticism for promoting misinformation. The role of alternative media in spreading misinformation, however, remains uncertain. We examined 1661 Facebook posts from 25 most po...
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The COVID-19 Pandemic, Adolescent Media Use, and Mental Health: Comparing Relationships Among Adolescents From South Korea and the United States Communication Research (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Drew P. Cingel, Jane Shawcroft, Hye Eun Lee
The COVID-19 pandemic had a detrimental impact on adolescent mental health, but few studies have explicitly compared adolescents’ mental health across countries, nor have they explored how different uses of media by adolescents in different countries may serve as protective or detrimental factors. To explore these associations, we use data collected from 958 South Korean adolescents and 1,253 United
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Creating “Safe Places” in Social Media: Japanese Youth’s Tactics of Self-Presentation During the COVID-19 Pandemic Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Kyounghwa Yonnie Kim, Kana Ohashi, Larissa Hjorth
This article explores the self-presentation strategies of young Japanese people (aged 19–21) on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a specific focus on their creative resistance to social constraints. Drawing from ethnographic investigations conducted with Japanese college students, we delve into the creative practices undertaken by these individuals to carve out “safe places” within the
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When Monument Battles Go Digital: Russian–Ukrainian Conflicts over Material Heritage on Telegram Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Anastasiya Pshenychnykh, Alena Pfoser, Sabina Mihelj
In the context of increasing conflicts over material heritage around the world, this article examines the role digital media play in battles over monuments. The rise of digital media brought significant changes to the cultural dynamics of heritage conflicts, which have not been adequately addressed in existing literature. Bringing together work on monuments, (digital) memory conflicts, and digital
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Digital platforms, Hindutva, and disinformation: Communicative strategies and the Leicester violence Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Mohan J. Dutta
The digital infrastructure of Hindutva seeds, circulates and amplifies Islamophobic hate, interacting bidirectionally with brick-and-mortar violence. This paper examines the circulation of Hindutva...
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Hate-sharing: A case study of its prevalence and impact on Gab New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Moira Weigel, Adina Gitomer
This article brings frameworks from literary and cultural studies and methods from network science to bear on a central topic in political communication research: polarization. Recent studies have called into question the argument that digital “echo chambers” exacerbate polarization by preventing members from encountering a diversity of information and opinions. Using Gab, a far-right social media
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Influence of hate speech about refugees in search algorithms on political attitudes: An online experiment New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Franziska Pradel
This article assesses the effects of hate speech compared to positive and neutral content about refugees in search engines on trust and policy preferences through a survey experiment in Germany. The study uncovers that individuals with an extreme-right political ideology become more hostile toward refugees after being exposed to refugee-related hate speech in search queries. Moreover, politically biased
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In Their Own Words: How Adolescents Use Social Media and How It Affects Them Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Amber van der Wal, Patti M. Valkenburg, Irene I. van Driel
The aim of this qualitative study was to uncover homogeneity (commonalities between adolescents), heterogeneity (differences between adolescents), and duality (differences within adolescents) in the relationship between adolescents’ social media use and well-being. To do so, 8 focus groups with 55 adolescents aged 14–17 were conducted. Anchored in the differential susceptibility to media effects model
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Beyond Affect Transfer: Attribute Associations in Video-Game Brand Placements and Their Impact on Brand Attitudes Journal of Advertising (IF 6.528) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Moritz Ingendahl, Leon Brückner, Tobias Vogel
Brand placements are omnipresent in video games. However, when and how they influence players’ brand attitudes is still insufficiently understood. Whereas previous research argued that positive aff...
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Facebook as an Avenue to News: A Comparison and Validation of Approaches to Identify Facebook Referrals Political Communication (IF 6.176) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Felix Schmidt, Frank Mangold, Sebastian Stier, Roberto Ulloa
Given that Facebook is still the most widely used social networking site in the world, its influence on democratic processes is under constant scrutiny. Academics have put a special focus on Facebo...
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Dynamics of scale shift: Contentious places and hybrid activism on social media New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Zozan Baran, Daniela Stoltenberg
This article investigates the role of social media in scale shift of contention. Contentious politics research grapples with questions of scale shift, while digital activism explores connective potential of social media. Yet, the potential of social media is not fully explored in the scale shift processes. We conduct an explorative semantic network analysis to understand how activists create connections
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Infrastructural platform violence: How women and queer journalists and activists in Lebanon experience abuse on WhatsApp New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Martin J Riedl, Azza El-Masri, Inga K Trauthig, Samuel C Woolley
Technology-facilitated abuse and violence disproportionately affect marginalized people. While researchers have explored this issue in the context of public-facing social media platforms, less is known about how it plays out on more private messaging apps. This study draws on in-depth interviews with women and queer journalists and activists in Lebanon to illustrate their experiences of infrastructural
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When Meaningful Movies Invite Fear Transcendence: An Extended Terror Management Account of the Function of Death in Movies Communication Research (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Enny Das, Anneke de Graaf
Meaningful movies can serve as an anxiety buffer against the fear of death, unless death plays a central role in the movie. This invites the question what happens when death is central to a movie storyline. The present research introduces and tests the so-called fear transcendence route, a second terror management route in which meaningful movies about death invite viewers to virtually confront and
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Connected Yet Cognitively Drained? A Mixed-Methods Study Examining Whether Online Vigilance and Availability Pressure Promote Mental Fatigue Communication Research (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Kyle Van Gaeveren, Stephen L. Murphy, David de Segovia Vicente, Mariek M. P. Vanden Abeele
This mixed-methods study investigates whether online vigilance promotes mental fatigue, and whether this effect is greater when under pressure to be available online. Additionally, it examines whether passively sensed smartphone behavior can serve as a digital proxy for online vigilance. Data were collected from 1,315 adult participants, who received 84 experience sampling questionnaires over 14 days
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VR technology and humanitarian crisis: Political ideology and the intention to donate in the case of the Syrian refugee crisis New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Porismita Borah, Bimbisar Irom, Lee Yoon Joo, Danielle Ka Lai Lee, Di Mu, Anastasia Vishnevskaya, Eylul Yel, Ron Price
Scholars have studied the role of technology in humanitarian crises and have noted an increase in positive attitudes and behavior. Of interest to us is Virtual Reality (VR). We set out to understand the role of VR technology and its relationships with empathy, sympathy, and donation intention in case of the Syrian refugee crisis. We conducted two experimental studies to examine these relationships
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To whom do people reply in comment sections? Effects of attitude (un)congeniality, age, confidence, and knowledge New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Jürgen Buder, Nadia Said
Phenomena like echo chambers and societal polarization have often been linked to an individual preference for like-minded information (selective exposure). This view has been challenged recently: behavior on comment sections in online forums suggests the opposite dynamic, with users more likely to reply to attitudinally uncongenial content. Three experimental studies (total N = 1524) explore boundary
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Do inclusive incentive systems encourage prosocial or competitive behavior in online communities? New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Lichen Zhen, Marlon Twyman
Platform designers create and implement incentive systems to encourage users to contribute content to online communities. This article examines the effect of a multidimensional incentive hierarchy in motivating users to engage in competitive and prosocial activities. Utilizing an external change observed in the data science community, Kaggle, and applying a quasi-experimental design, we compared users’
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“You Could Hear a Hair Pin Drop”: Queer Utopianism and Informal Knowledge Production in the Gaylor Closeting Conspiracy Theory Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Yvonne M. Eadon
Rumors about Taylor Swift’s sexuality have persisted since the early days of her career. They have coalesced into an online subculture known as “Gaylor.” Gaylor is a novel kind of conspiracy theory known as a “Closeting Conspiracy Theory” (CCT). CCTs involve speculating about a public figure’s sexuality, gathering pertinent evidence, and producing fan knowledges, often informally, on social media.
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Headlines, Pictures, Likes: Attention to Social Media Newsfeed Post Elements on Smartphones and in Public Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Anna-Theresa Mayer, Jakob Ohme, Ewa Maslowska, Claire M. Segijn
Scrolling through a social media newsfeed has become almost ubiquitous. Yet, it remains unknown what specific post elements people pay attention to and whether this varies depending on how they access social media newsfeeds. In an eye-tracking experiment among university students ( N = 201), we compare user attention to specific post elements like source, title, or picture, in a dynamic Facebook newsfeed
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Bridging Activism and Party Politics: Mapping Frame Alignment Processes in Politicians’ Use of Hashtags Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Emma Östin, Simon Lindgren
The use of hashtags has become an effective tool for activists to mobilize public support. This study explores whether, and in what ways, such hashtags have been adopted by politicians in power. Conducting a systematic, cross-national analysis, we examine how politicians use, what we call, activism-related hashtags. Using data from the Twitter Parliamentarian Database, we analyze the hashtagging practices
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Strategic Invisibility: How Creators Manage the Risks and Constraints of Online Hyper(In)Visibility Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Hanne M. Stegeman, Carolina Are, Thomas Poell
This article examines how sexual content creators manage their (in)visibility, as they navigate the constraints of online hyper(in)visibility. So far, research has focussed on how creators more generally attempt to enhance their visibility through social media platforms. Yet, especially for sexual content creators, platform visibility is not straightforward. These creators are hyper(in)visible: facing
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who Is the Whitest of All? Racial Biases in Social Media Beauty Filters Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Piera Riccio, Julien Colin, Shirley Ogolla, Nuria Oliver
Digital beauty filters are pervasive in social media platforms. Despite their popularity and relevance in the selfies culture, there is little research on their characteristics and potential biases. In this article, we study the existence of racial biases on the set of aesthetic canons embedded in social media beauty filters, which we refer to as the Beautyverse. First, we provide a historic contextualization
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Auditing Entertainment Traps on YouTube: How Do Recommendation Algorithms Pull Users Away from News Political Communication (IF 6.176) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Shengchun Huang, Tian Yang
Recommendation algorithms that customize information feeds for individuals have raised concerns about exacerbating inequalities in news exposure among citizens. In response to these concerns, we co...
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Battle of the Brand: Brand Attachment Inoculates Against the Negative Effects of Ad Repetition Journal of Advertising (IF 6.528) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Nelson B. Amaral, Joseph P. Redden
Substantial research has shown the negative effects of repeated ad exposures. The present research contributes to this literature by introducing an important moderator: personal attachment to the b...
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The concept of normalization in the production of LGBTIQ+ media imaginaries: the scriptwriters’ conceptions Journal of Communication (IF 5.75) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Isabel Villegas-Simón, Maria T Soto-Sanfiel
The representation of the LGBTIQ+ community in TV series has received major attention from academia, mostly from textual and reception perspectives. However, the creative and industrial processes behind the production of media content, including the writers’ views and experiences, remain under-explored, especially outside of the United States and Northern Europe. Drawing on Queer Production Studies
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Curating Virality: Exploring Curated Logics Within #BlackLivesMatter on Twitter/X Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Yiran Duan, Jeff Hemsley, Alexander O. Smith, Una Joh, LaVerne Gray, Christy Khoury
This study examines what types of messages users posted and spread about #Black/Blue/AllLivesMatter during the Black History Month of 2022. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, about one million tweets were analyzed to test if different levels of opinion leaders tend to spread different kinds of messages related to the context. Using the curation logic of Thorson and Well and Lakoff’s semantic
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What News Is Shared Where and How: A Multi-Platform Analysis of News Shared During the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Christine Sowa Lepird, Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Anna Wu, Kathleen M. Carley
News journalism has evolved from traditional print media to social media, with a large proportion of readers consuming their news via digital means. Through an analysis of over 1.3 million posts across three social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Reddit) pertaining to the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections, this analysis examines the difference in sharing patterns for four types of news sites—Real News
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Embodied Political Influencers: How U.S. Anti-Abortion Actors Co-Opt Narratives of Marginalization Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Zelly Martin, Gabrielle D. Beacken, Inga K. Trauthig, Samuel C. Woolley
U.S. anti-abortion activists use social media to advocate for their cause. While influencer scholarship has proliferated within media studies, the advent of political influencers remains understudied, despite their ability to influence public opinion. Through 16 interviews with anti-abortion political influencers combined with digital observation, we examine the emergent tactics of “progressive” anti-abortion
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Posting vulnerability on LinkedIn New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Shani Orgad
Digital spaces such as LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional digital network, constitute central sites for self-promotion, where job seekers and the employed present their polished “best” professional selves. However, in recent years, LinkedIn members are increasingly publishing accounts that highlight their vulnerabilities and struggles. This article examines the emergence of vulnerability on
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Alternative Epistemologies as Distinguishing Features of Right-Wing and Left-Wing Media in the United States Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Mark Coddington, Logan Molyneux
This study builds on efforts to understand what alternative media are becoming by examining differences in epistemology among them and as compared with mainstream media. We find that alternative me...
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Coding and Capability-Building in Nonprofit Digital-Native News Organizations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Latin America (LATAM) Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Wafa Khalfan, Jairo Lugo-Ocando, José Luis Requejo Alemán
Digital journalism scholars highlighted a gap in scholarly knowledge concerning data journalism in the Global South, emphasizing the importance of data literacy in newsrooms. This article investiga...
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Disentangling the Effects of Cognitive, Affective, and Sociocultural Factors on Risk Information Avoidance: A Meta-Analysis Communication Research (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Ke Liu, Meng Chen
Risk information avoidance (RIA) has become an increasingly ubiquitous behavior for people to deal with massive volumes of information. Given its detrimental impact, abundant studies were conducted to explore its antecedents. Nevertheless, the results are scattered and, in some cases, inconsistent. We thereby conducted a meta-analysis to present a synthesis of the current findings by identifying the
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Exploring the presence of Cymraeg on TikTok New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Daniel Cunliffe
Many of the world’s languages are endangered or vulnerable. For some of these languages, a presence in technological domains can illustrate vitality and demonstrate relevance to the lives of younger speakers. A presence on social media is often seen as particularly significant for younger speakers due to their high levels of social media use. This article explores the presence of Cymraeg (the Welsh
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Images of protest in movement parties’ social media communication New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Matthias Hoffmann, Christina Neumayer
This research investigates the strategic use of protest imagery on social media by movement parties, bridging the gap between protest and institutional politics. We apply a mixed-methods analysis of 9584 Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram image posts by seven movement parties between 2015 and 2021. We find that protest images frequently serve to amplify movement grievances. Yet, parties’ involvement
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Immaterial intimacy: The neoliberal entanglement of digital technologies in social movement volunteer work New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Jessica Gantt-Shafer
Outside of visible moments of mass mobilization, ongoing latent work, such as direct service and mutual aid, is a long-standing tradition in social movements. Yet, like all labor, personal digital devices have changed the norms and practices of direct service social movement work. In this article, as situated in the technology–media–movement complex (TMMC), I analyze qualitative interview data ( N
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Puzzle Pictures: A Study on Reversible Figures in Advertising Journal of Advertising (IF 6.528) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Praggyan (Pam) Mohanty
Reversible figures have fascinated researchers in the psychological sciences since the 1800s, and these investigators have generated a massive amount of information on the psychological underpinnin...