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Webtoons, Desperately Seeking Viewers: Interactive Creativity in Social Media Platforms and Cultural Appropriation of Global Media Production Social Media + Society (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-11-06 Sunny Yoon
Webtoons optimize interactivity and participation of media users in the world of digital media by consolidating a unique digital culture. This article examines the role of users in interactive media by exploring the case of webtoons in the context of a changing global political economy and cultural dominance. Korean platform monopolies have established a new business model for webtoons and developed
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Bot Versus Humans: Who Can Challenge Corporate Hypocrisy on Social Media? Social Media + Society (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-11-06 Serena Armstrong, Caitlin Neal, Rongwei Tang, Hyejoon Rim, Emily K. Vraga
Social media offer opportunities for companies to promote their image, but companies online also risk being denounced if their actions do not align with their words. The rise of social media bots amplifies this risk, as it becomes possible to automate such efforts to highlight corporate hypocrisy. Our experimental survey demonstrated that bots and human actors who confront a corporation touting their
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The Power of Images: How Multimodal Hate Speech Shapes Prejudice and Prosocial Behavioral Intentions Social Media + Society (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-11-06 Sai Wang
While online hate speech has become a serious problem in multimedia environments, most studies in this area have examined text-based hateful content, with less attention paid to its other visual aspects. From a multimodal perspective, we conducted an online experiment ( N = 799) to investigate how multimodal hate speech (i.e., text and images presented together to convey hateful meanings) on social
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“PoV: You are reading an academic article.” The memetic performance of affiliation in TikTok’s platform vernacular New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-11-06 Tommaso Trillò
This article investigates the characteristics and communicative values of the popular PoV meme on TikTok to uncover mechanisms of community building on the platform. An analysis of the content, form, and stance of 250 videos revealed that creators of PoV memes lip-sync to audio remediated from pop culture and mimic how they imagine “you” would act in a given scenario. I offer the concept of “echoic
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Rage Against the Machine: Exploring Violence and Emotion in Conspiracy Narratives on Parler New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-11-06 Darja Wischerath, Lukasz Piwek, Jonathan F. Roscoe, Brittany I. Davidson
The mainstreaming of conspiracy narratives has been associated with a rise in violent offline harms, from harassment, vandalism of communications infrastructure, assault, and in its most extreme form, terrorist attacks. Group-level emotions of anger, contempt, and disgust have been proposed as a pathway to legitimizing violence. Here, we examine expressions of anger, contempt, and disgust as well as
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‘All naked at the gyno’: Psychosocial approach to the gynaecological examination from digital media in a French context New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-11-06 Sarah Roussel, Léa Restivo, Thémistoklis Apostolidis
The gynaecological examination (GE) is a major public health issue, with bad experiences of this examination widely reported as a disincentive to cervical cancer screening. In France, a movement to denounce gynaecological and obstetrical violence is expressed through a massive publication of testimonies on social networks. Via a socio-representational approach and from a critical gender perspective
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Group-swinging as a strategic approach to curating multiple minority identities online: A study of lesbian gamers New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-11-06 Zizhong Zhang, Haixin Mu, Don Lok Tung Chui
Building upon platform-swinging, this study introduces the concept of identity-driven “group-swinging” within a single platform, focusing on how users with multiple minority identities strategically curate corresponding identities through this process. Collecting all created and engaged posts ( n = 31,084) from 102 lesbian gamers in both lesbian gamer and female gamer groups, this research utilizes
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From bliss to burden: An ethnographic inquiry into how social, material and individual obstacles to digital well-being shape everyday life New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-11-06 Sara Van Bruyssel, Ralf De Wolf, Mariek Vanden Abeele
Drawing from a two-year ethnography with sixteen adults in Flanders and Brussels, Belgium, this study disentangles the social, material, and individual obstacles experienced in day-to-day life that hinder and foster digital well-being. Findings show how these obstacles are interrelated, laying bare the tensions that cut across social relations, digital devices, and spaces. Moreover, (gendered) responsibilities
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Deliberation in online political talk: exploring interactivity, diversity, rationality, and incivility in the public spheres surrounding news vs. satire Journal of Communication (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-11-05 Mark Boukes
Political satire is often believed to enrich the public sphere in ways distinct from traditional journalism. This study examines whether deliberative qualities of online political talk in response to satire differ from those in response to regular news or partisan news. The analysis focuses on four normative standards: interactivity, diversity, rationality, and civility. A manual content analysis of
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Beyond “Lügenpresse”: How Politicians Criticize and Delegitimize the Media in Germany The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-11-05 Lina Buttgereit, Michael Hameleers, Katjana Gattermann, Andreas Schuck
Media criticism is a crucial part of meta-journalistic discourse, ensuring that journalists adhere to their democratic functions, such as informing citizens in an honest and complete manner. However, the profession increasingly faces hostile, nonevidence-based attacks from politicians that attempt to strategically fuel distrust among citizens and delegitimize opposed viewpoints. Despite this reality
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Computer Vision Models for Image Analysis in Advertising Research Journal of Advertising (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-29 Hairong Li, Nan Zhang
This study introduces computer vision models for image analysis in advertising research. It reviews the literature in social science and computer science and identifies three categories and nine ty...
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How Migrants Experience Information Uncertainty and Vulnerability: Lessons for (Dis)information Studies Social Media + Society (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-30 Ignacio Siles, María Fernanda Salas, Silvio Waisbord
This article develops a phenomenological approach to examine the intersection of global migration and rising concerns about disinformation. Drawing on interviews with Venezuelans en route to the United States-Mexico border through Central America, the article analyzes how undocumented migrants live amid information precarity, how they relate to disinformation, and how disinformation affects their decisions
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“It’s between me and myself”: Inverse parasocial relationships in addressing (imagined) podcast listeners New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-30 Tzlil Sharon, Nicholas A. John
This article explores how podcasters address their invisible—and thus imagined—audience. Based on in-depth interviews, we examine how different ways of imagining the listener evoke specific strategies of addressivity and analyze the connection between these imaginaries and the concept of intimacy as understood and performed by podcasters. We introduce a working definition of the “imagined podcast listener”
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Personality, Attachment, and Pornography: A Meta-Analysis Communication Research (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-29 Mehdi Akbari, Shiva Jamshidi, Zahra Sadat Hosseini, Sonay Sheikhi, Rezvaneh Asadi Asadabad, Mahshid Zamani, Paul J. Wright
Since Internet pornography (IP) is widespread and can become problematic for some users, investigating the personality traits which correlate with its consumption is important. Though many studies have been conducted on the relationship between IP, personality traits, and attachment, no meta-analysis has been conducted to synthesize this literature. We aimed to address this gap through a meta-analysis
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Beyond magic: Prompting for style as affordance actualization in visual generative media New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-29 Nataliia Laba
As a sociotechnical practice at the nexus of humans, machines, and visual culture, text-to-image generation relies on verbal prompts as the primary technique to guide generative models. To align desired aesthetic outcomes with computer vision, human prompters engage in extensive experimentation, leveraging the model’s affordances through prompting for style. Focusing on the interplay between machine
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“They don’t mean to hurt”: Female gamers’ reluctance in recognizing and confronting sexism in gaming as an online-offline juxtaposition New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-29 Ziyu Deng
Female gamers have long suffered from gender-based online abuse in the gaming community. Apart from commonly observed quitting and gender-masking behaviors from female gamers, this study explores what female gamers understand as sexism, how female gamers react to it, and why they choose certain reactions instead of others. Findings show that female gamers are keenly conscious of normalized sexism in
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Platform affordances, discursive opportunities, and social media activism: A cross-platform analysis of #MeToo on Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, 2017–2020 New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-29 Mengyu Li, Jiyoun Suk, Yini Zhang, Jon C. Pevehouse, Yibing Sun, Hyerin Kwon, Ruixue Lian, Rui Wang, Xinxia Dong, Dhavan V. Shah
This study proposes affordances for discursive opportunities (ADO) as a theoretical framework that leverages the concept of technological affordances and the theory of discursive opportunities to understand platform potential in shaping social media activism. Specifically, ADO underscores how social media platform affordances (e.g., algorithmic curation, shared group identity and culture, connectivity)
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Disinformation and the Ghost of Margaret Sanger Social Media + Society (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-28 Sarah Whitmarsh
This study sought to investigate the prominence of U.S. birth control pioneer and eugenicist Margaret Sanger in social media discourse through a critical disinformation studies lens. Using computational and qualitative analysis techniques, 60 months of public Facebook posts and Google search data were analyzed to explore the scope, reach, and engagement with messages that reference Sanger and examine
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What You Perceive Is What You Get: Enhancing Rumor-Combating Effectiveness on Social Media Based on Elaboration Likelihood Model Social Media + Society (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-28 Cheng Zhou, Qian Chang
Rumors spread on social media overshadow the truth and trigger public panic. One effective countermeasure to address this issue is online rumor-combating. However, its effectiveness on social media has not been fully verified. In this study, drawing on construal level theory, we use temporal distance—the time interval between a rumor-combating post being released and receiving responses from social
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Conversation-Related Advertising and Electronic Eavesdropping: Mapping Perceptions of Phones Listening for Advertising in the United States, the Netherlands, and Poland Social Media + Society (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-28 Claire M. Segijn, Joanna Strycharz, Anna Turner, Suzanna J. Opree
People report receiving ads on their mobile device that are seemingly related to previous offline conversations (i.e., conversation-related advertising). They may think that this is because their electronic devices are eavesdropping (i.e., e-eavesdropping). To gain insights into the scope and characteristics of conversation-related advertising and e-eavesdropping beliefs, we conducted a survey in the
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It’s Fine If Others Do It Too: Privacy Concerns, Social Influence, and Political Expression on Facebook in Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States Social Media + Society (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-28 Christian Pieter Hoffmann, Shelley Boulianne
Political expression is a focal point for understanding how digital media have transformed political engagement. Privacy concerns tend to impede online political expression, but this relationship is still poorly understood. Based on the theory of reasoned action, this study focuses on the role of social influence and institutional privacy concerns in political expression on Facebook. We draw on research
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Debunking the corporate paint shop: Examining the effects of misleading corporate social responsibility claims on social media New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-28 Britta C Brugman, Dian van Huijstee, Ellen Droog
Misinformation thrives on social media, prompting much research into social media interventions such as debunks. This paper tests debunking’s effectiveness against an understudied but prominent form of online misinformation: misleading organizational claims of corporate social responsibility, or CSR-washing. British participants ( N = 657) took part in a preregistered experiment with a 2 (debunk: present
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College students with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA): Unpacking the meaning of thriving through conversation with DACA friends and allies Communication Monographs (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-10-22 Hyojin Lee, Jennifer A. Kam, Monica Cornejo, Tamara D. Afifi, Walid Afifi
Prior research on thriving has primarily portrayed it as a positive experience, which it often is; however, we extend past theorizing by showing how there can be a “cost” to thriving. Specifically,...
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Biased Social Media Debates About Terrorism? A Content Analysis of Journalistic Coverage of and Audience Reactions to Terrorist Attacks on YouTube Social Media + Society (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-25 Liane Rothenberger, Valerie Hase
Social media are an important source of news during crises such as terrorist attacks. However, how news media and their audiences make sense of terrorism on social media is subject to bias, for example, given their differential treatment of terrorism by right-wing versus Islamist extremist perpetrators. In this study, we analyze how incident- and perpetrator-related characteristics of terrorist attacks
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“Baba, you’re not gonna live forever … . we need these stories”: Intergenerational storytelling in Palestinian families connecting history, identity, and (the loss of) place Communication Monographs (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-10-23 Amnee K. Elkhalid, Haley Kranstuber Horstman, Walid A. Afifi, Tamara D. Afifi
The current study integrates communicated narrative sense-making (CNSM) theory with the ecological systems model to investigate intergenerational family storytelling (IGFS) in Palestinian families....
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An asymmetrical reinforcing spiral? Disentangling the longitudinal dynamics of media use and mainstream media trust Journal of Communication (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-10-22 Yariv Tsfati, Rens Vliegenthart, Jesper Strömbäck, Elina Lindgren
While numerous studies have documented an association between mainstream media trust and mainstream media use, only little is known about potential causal mechanisms underlying the association. We theorize that selective exposure, social influence, and the reinforcing spirals model offer three possible mechanisms that may underlie the association. These possibilities were studied using random intercept
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Expansion and Exploration of the Superdiffuser Model With Agent-Based Modeling Communication Research (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-22 Christopher J. Carpenter, Shannon M. Cruz, Reed M. Reynolds
The superdiffuser model predicts that the diffusion of a new behavior can be accelerated if superdiffusers (people who are connectors, persuaders, and mavens) are recruited to promote the behavior. We propose an expanded model where the importance of these traits varies by network structure and other network member characteristics. We assessed the plausibility of these proposed moderators using a simulation
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Why Infrastructure Studies for Journalism? Digital Journalism (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-18 Mary Lynn Young, Alfred Hermida
This article makes a case for the value of infrastructure studies in analyzing journalism’s evolving landscape. It argues that infrastructural thinking is valuable to understand the changing neighb...
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Using State Space Grids to Quantify and Examine Dynamics of Dyadic Conversation Communication Methods and Measures (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-17 Miriam Brinberg, Denise Haunani Solomon, Graham D. Bodie, Susanne M. Jones, Nilam Ram
This paper illustrates how to implement state space grid analysis for analyzing the back-and-forth multi-turn dynamics that manifest in dyadic conversations. In doing so, we contribute to a dynamic...
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Perceiving AI intervention does not compromise the persuasive effect of fact-checking New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-21 Je Hoon Chae, David Tewksbury
Efforts to scale up fact-checking through technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), are increasingly being suggested and tested. This study examines whether previously observed effects of reading fact-checks remain constant when readers are aware of AI’s involvement in the fact-checking process. We conducted three online experiments ( N = 3,978), exposing participants to fact-checks identified
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The Austrian Political Advertisement Scandal: Patterns of “Journalism for Sale” The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-10-21 Paul Balluff, Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Sarina Joy Oberhänsli, Jana Bernhard-Harrer, Hajo G. Boomgaarden, Andreas Fahr, Martin Huber
Mounting concern surrounds the influence of political actors on journalism, especially as media outlets face increasing financial pressures. These circumstances can give rise to instances of media capture, a mutually corrupting relationship between political actors and media organizations. However, empirical evidence substantiating such mechanisms and their consequences remains limited, particularly
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Burnt out and still single: Susceptibility to dating app burnout over time New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-19 Liesel L. Sharabi, Paige A. Von Feldt, Thao Ha
Despite the ubiquity of dating apps, there is little longitudinal research examining the mental health and well-being of dating app users. To fill this void, this study takes a social compensation approach to exploring dating app users’ burnout experiences (i.e., emotional exhaustion, inefficacy, and depersonalization) over time. Four hundred ninety-three active single dating app users were surveyed
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How to prevent deception: A study of digital deception in “visual poverty” livestream New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-19 Kun Yang
This study, grounded in the interpersonal deception theory (IDT), aims to analyze the new form of digital deception known as “visual poverty” in livestreaming rooms. Through a multimodal discourse analysis of the collected data, this study found three distinct linguistic strategies employed in “visual poverty” livestream: illocutionary strategy, discourse strategy, and nonverbal strategy. These strategies
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Computational Content Analysis in Advertising Research Journal of Advertising (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-15 Mojtaba Barari, Martin Eisend
Computational content analysis (CCA) has experienced a surge in popularity in the field of advertising research. Despite advancements, a comprehensive methodology guide in this area is lacking, pre...
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JST and rJST: joint estimation of sentiment and topics in textual data using a semi-supervised approach Communication Methods and Measures (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-10-18 Christian Pipal, Martijn Schoonvelde, Gijs Schumacher, Max Boiten
This paper demonstrates the performance of the Joint Sentiment Topic model (JST) and the reversed Joint Sentiment Topic model (rJST) in measuring sentiment in political speeches, comparing them aga...
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Decoding Online Narratives and Unraveling Complexities in the Rohingya Refugee Crisis Social Media + Society (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-18 Tanvir Ahammad, Siam Ahmed, Selina Sharmin
The Rohingya refugee crisis, a humanitarian tribulation involving the persecution of the Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority group in Myanmar, has led to a massive exodus of refugees, primarily women and children, to neighboring Bangladesh. Analyzing public opinion toward the Rohingya crisis poses a challenge due to the time complexity of manually assessing individual expressions from the vast amount of
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“I’ll Change My Beliefs When I See It”: Video Fact Checks Outperform Text Fact Checks in Correcting Misperceptions Among Those Holding False or Uncertain Pre-Existing Beliefs Communication Research (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-18 Viorela Dan, Renita Coleman
Widespread concerns about the pervasiveness of misinformation have propelled one antidote to the center of scholarly attention: the journalistic fact check. Yet, fact checks often do not work as intended. While most fact checks are text only, a compelling theoretical argument can be made for using a video format instead. In this pre-registered experiment conducted in Germany ( N = 1,093), we investigated
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“None of Us Wanted to be at This Party, But What a Guest List”: How Technology Workers Position Themselves on LinkedIn Following Layoffs Communication Research (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-18 Camille G. Endacott, Lauren Millender, Jordan Duran, Miguel Wilson
Mass layoffs offer a unique and understudied context to understand how affected workers communicate the involuntary, collective nature of their organizational exit. In this study, we explored the communicative strategies that workers affected by mass layoffs in the technology industry used to engage in impression management by analyzing LinkedIn posts ( N = 362). Our findings showed that workers engaged
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Networked privacy and its broader implications Journal of Communication (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-10-17 Lee Humphreys, Rosie Nguyen
In this article, we review Alice Marwick’s book, The Private is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media, published by Yale University Press in 2023. In the book, Marwick argues that the digital nature of the social media landscape fundamentally changes contemporary notions of privacy. We trace three specific elements of her argument, namely: (1) the design of networked technologies to connect
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The Listening Public in Public Diplomacy: How Did the Public Respond to President Zelensky on Twitter? Social Media + Society (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-17 Lassi Rikkonen, Pekka Isotalus
This exploratory study focuses on the public as a listening ensemble that takes part in public diplomacy on Twitter. Here, listening is considered as the receiving component of communication, and responsive behavior as its visible product. The focus is on public communication that followed Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. A total of 4,392 quote tweets (citing the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky’s
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Caught Within the Family System: An Examination of Emerging Adults’ Dilemmas in Navigating Sibling Depression Communication Research (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-17 Jade Salmon, Tamara D. Afifi
This study investigated the dilemmas faced by emerging adults serving as supporting siblings (SS) for their sibling with depression (SWD). A thematic analysis of 49 interviews revealed the family system as central to sibling depression. Family histories of dysfunction contributed to SWDs’ lasting symptoms, prompting SSs’ felt obligation to their sibling. SSs managed mental health communication in the
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Not All Protests are Created Equal to be News: Does Mobile Digital Connectivity Level the Playing Field in the Hybrid Media System? The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-10-17 Frankie Ho Chun Wong
This study investigates how digital connectivity may influence news coverage of protests globally. Scholars argue that the arrival of the digital age did not overthrow legacy media but built a hybrid media system where old and new media logics work together. Although some recent studies highlighted that mobile internet access enabled protestors to gain media attention internationally, evidence also
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People, Power, Platforms and the Business of Journalism Digital Journalism (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-15 Mary Lynn Young, Alfred Hermida
This special issue marks a growing complexity and complicatedness in research on the business of digital journalism. This shift is appropriate and reflects a necessary deepening and increased rigor...
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Behind the screen: The perception–reality gap in cybersexual harassment between remote coworkers New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-15 Nitzan Navick, Allison P Mazur, Jennifer L Gibbs
This study examines the perception–reality gap regarding the influence of technological affordances on cybersexual harassment (CSH) between remote workers. While previous research has recognized the existence of gender stereotypes and discrimination in online spaces, little attention has been given to how technological affordances impact—or are perceived to impact—incidents of CSH. By employing a theoretical
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Beyond dislike counts: How YouTube users react to the visibility of social cues New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-15 Maggie Mengqing Zhang, Yee Man Margaret Ng
This study investigates the impact of YouTube’s 2021 policy, which hides dislike counts and limits a form of negative social feedback. It examines how this change affects social media herding behavior—the tendency of users to align with the majority opinion. We adopted a mixed-method approach, incorporating an online experiment that simulates the YouTube interface and an Interrupted Time Series analysis
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Analyzing narrative contagion through digital storytelling in social media conversations: An AI-powered computational approach New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-15 Xinyan Zhao, Zexin Ma, Rong Ma
Despite the growing popularity of digital narratives, research on digital storytelling and its spread through social media interactions remains limited. Inspired by the social contagion theory, we introduce the concept of narrative contagion—where a story shared by a person or organization prompts others to share their stories—and investigate its process and outcome in online cancer communities. Utilizing
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What’s on and who’s Watching? Combining People-Meter Data and Subtitle Data to Explore Television Exposure to Political News Political Communication (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-10-11 Susan Vermeer, Damian Trilling, Sjoerd Stolwijk, Sanne Kruikemeier, Claes de Vreese
Understanding television viewing behavior is highly relevant, as it remains an important source of political news for many. Nowadays, viewers can choose between a growing diversity of formats cover...
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User-Centric Behavioral Tracking: Lessons from Three Case Studies with Do-It-Yourself Computational Pipelines Journal of Advertising (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-14 Alvin Zhou, Danaë Metaxa, Young Mie Kim, Kokil Jaidka
User-centric behavioral tracking, a cutting-edge computational social science tool, holds tremendous promise for advertising research. The article introduces the technique and presents three do-it-...
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Lost in a Maze? On the Philosophical Problems With Differential and Individual-Level Susceptibility in Research on Media Effects Communication Research (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-13 Lennert Coenen
This paper provides a philosophical discussion of moderators and person-specific differences (referred to as “hedges”) in research on media effects. It is shown that while, historically, the reliance on hedges has been regarded as a sign of theoretical sophistication (the “hedges-as-progress-perspective”), it has left the field behind in a maze of epistemological problems. The paper therefore urges
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A Querpolitics Approach to the Far Right? Notes from Germany and India Political Communication (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-10-13 Srirupa Roy
This essay relates the resurgence of contemporary far-right1 politics to a distinctive querpolitics (a transverse or diagonal politics) of socially, politically, and ideologically heterogeneous ass...
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The awareness, acceptance, and appreciation of transience in the domain of eudaimonic media experiences New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-12 Zijian Lew, Andrew ZH Yee
The research comparing hedonic and eudaimonic media experiences has often conceptualized the two categories as monolithic wholes. Although thematic differences within each category have been identified, these differences are usually theoretically inconsequential: They are merely variations in hedonic or eudaimonic content. Adopting a conditional effects approach, this research shows that transience-themed
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Metaverse risks and harms among US youth: Experiences, gender differences, and prevention and response measures New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-12 Sameer Hinduja, Justin W Patchin
Research indicates that participation in metaverse environments and with virtual reality (VR) is increasing among younger populations, and that youth may be the primary drivers of widespread adoption of these technologies. This will more readily happen if their experiences are safe, secure, and positive. We analyze data from a nationally representative sample of 5005, 13- to 17-year-olds in the United
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Dating algorithms? Investigating the reciprocal relationships between partner choice FOMO, decision fatigue, excessive swiping, and trust in algorithms on dating apps New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-12 Alice Binder, Anja Stevic, Jörg Matthes, Marina F Thomas
Dating apps have changed the way people establish contact with potential romantic partners. However, more and more dating apps use algorithms to keep their users’ engagement high. Studies suggest that trust in algorithms can shape offline dating experiences. We theorize that excessive swiping, driven by fear of missing out, predicts trust. We also explore the role of decision fatigue. Findings from
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The Impact of Journalistic Cultures on Social Media Discourse: US Primary Debates in Cross-Lingual Online Spaces Digital Journalism (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-10 Lea Hellmueller, Lindita Camaj, Sebastián Vallejo Vera, Peggy Lindner
This cross-lingual project examines how social media posts of Spanish- and English-language media impact incivility in user comments during the 2020 primary political debates in the United States. ...
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The Contemporary Far Right from Contra to Control Political Communication (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-10-09 Andrea L. P. Pirro
The far right has moved from oppositional force to control over the last decades. This outcome is the result of a long-term process of renewal ultimately aimed at dismantling the liberal order. As ...
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The Ethoses of (Dis)Connecting with Friends on Social Media: Digital Cocooning and Entrepreneurial Networking among People with Eating Disorders Social Media + Society (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 Paula Saukko, Helen Malson, Anna Brown
Recent media studies conversations on disconnection or reducing mainly the quantity of engagement with social media so as to enhance well-being have suggested that these practices articulate a contemporary spirit focused on self-care and performance (productivity) that does not consider others or collective solutions. Drawing on and pushing forward disconnection research, we put forward a Foucauldian
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Visualizing Authority: Rise of the Religious Influencers on the Instagram Social Media + Society (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 Harry Febrian
Roles of various social media influencers—ranging from health and beauty to security—in our society have increasingly become essential topics in the study of social media. However, little is known about the rise of religious influencers in the Global South and the way they negotiate the idea of religious authority in today’s society. To address this gap, this study investigates the way in which religious
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The Influence of BookTok on Literary Criticisms and Diversity Social Media + Society (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 Alysia De Melo
BookTok, a TikTok community where creators discuss and review books, influences the publishing industry as books that gain popularity on TikTok have seen mainstream success. BookTok is believed to be a diverse space where stories about marginalized identities are celebrated. This is in opposition to the traditional publishing world that is dominated by White, heterosexual, cis-gendered men. However
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Journalism as a Service: How Tablet News Service Influences Subscriber Retention and Long-Term Profitability Digital Journalism (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 Su Jung Kim, Edward Malthouse, Yayu Zhou, Penelope Abernathy
With the decline of advertising revenue, the newspaper industry faces the challenge of increasing audience-supported revenue. While news organizations must provide quality journalism to their reade...
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Dynamic and Daily Partner-Specific Processes of Relationship Uncertainty and Enacted Relationship Talk Communication Research (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 San Bolkan, Alan K. Goodboy, Megan R. Dillow, Rebekah M. Chiasson, Megan A. Vendemia
Guided by relational turbulence theory (RTT), this intensive longitudinal study examined how within-person daily fluctuations in relationship uncertainty corresponded with individuals’ decisions to engage in daily enacted relationship talk. Using a person-specific approach, this study also examined how individuals’ attachment insecurity predicted within-person differences in month-long processes predicted