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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...
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The Influence of Sexism and Incivility in WhatsApp Political Discussions on Affective Polarization: Evidence from a 2022 Multi-Party Election in India The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Taberez Ahmed Neyazi, Ozan Kuru, Subhayan Mukerjee
In contemporary political discourse, the concern of affective polarization, often fueled by uncivil and sexist discourse, is notably evident in digital communication contexts like WhatsApp. In this study, we examined the potential effects of uncivil and sexist messages as well as moderator interventions against these messages coming from political in- and out-group members in such political groups
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Protest Paradigm Revisited: Is Depicting Protestors’ (Counter)Violence Really Bad? Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Afrooz Mosallaei
This paper looks closely at the civil unrest in Iran sparked in 2022 by the murder of Mahsa Amini which visual documentation is flooded with imagery of violence and counter-violence. Through closel...
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Social comparison on Instagram among millennial mothers: The relationships between envy and parental stress New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Jung Ah Lee, Yeonsoo Cho, Youngju Jung, Jaeyee Kim, Yongjun Sung
Mothers are heavily engaged in social media, and mommy influencers have become key sources of information and targets for social comparison. This study investigates the psychological mechanisms by which mothers’ parental stress is affected by social comparison with mommy influencers. An online survey was conducted among South Korean millennial mothers ( N = 237). The results revealed that mothers who
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Conquering the COVID-19 Infodemic Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Allissa V. Richardson, Miya Williams Fayne
In 2020, as many Black people around the world fought both anti-Black racism and COVID-19, the Black press in the US was dealing with another widespread problem: an infodemic. Editors of Black digi...
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Generative Visual AI in News Organizations: Challenges, Opportunities, Perceptions, and Policies Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 T. J. Thomson, Ryan J. Thomas, Phoebe Matich
The use of AI-enabled text-to-image generators, such as Midjourney and DALL-E, raises profound questions about the purpose, meaning, and value of images generally, and the production, editing, and ...
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On the censoring of Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Srividya Ramasubramanian, Ahlam Muhtaseb
Published in Communication Monographs (Vol. 91, No. 1, 2024)
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Playing on hard: Algorithmic border objects and inequality among esports student-athletes New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Ben Scholl
Collegiate esports are a key contributor to the North American esports field’s fledgling talent pipeline, where varsity student-athletes identify the streaming platform Twitch as a major component. Exemplified by Twitch, this article theorizes the role of platform algorithms as border objects—an analytical concept which frames the shared use of classification systems when a powerful party’s practices
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Write, record, optimize? How musicians reflect on music optimization strategies in the creative production process New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Nick Polak, Julian Schaap
Musicians are believed to increasingly “optimize” their music to positively influence discoverability and engagement on music and social media platforms. Common examples of such optimization strategies are skipping intros, quickly moving to the chorus, or inserting danceable “hooks.” But to what extent are optimization strategies actively considered in the creative production process? And, if so, in
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Show Me the Facts: Newsroom-Affiliated and Independent Fact-Checkers’ Transparency Acts Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Seth Seet, Edson C. Tandoc Jr
In response to skepticism and criticisms of bias, fact-checkers attempt to be transparent in their work, a practice adopted from their journalistic roots. This study identifies the acts of disclosu...
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“A Hard Road With Personal Costs”: How Digital-First Nonprofit News Founders Navigate Precarity Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Louisa Lincoln
As the journalism industry descends further into economic collapse, precarity has become an increasingly useful concept in studies of newswork. While a growing body of literature has begun to consi...
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Recasting Twitch: Livestreaming, Platforms, and New Frontiers in Digital Journalism Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Maxwell Foxman, Brandon C. Harris, William Clyde Partin
Despite Twitch’s dominant position in Western livestreaming markets, institutional journalists rarely produce content on the platform. This paper investigates how journalistic practices, cultures, ...
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Mediated Clash of Civilizations: Examining the Proximity-Visual Framing Nexus in Al Jazeera Arabic and Fox News’ Coverage of the 2021 Gaza War Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Kareem El Damanhoury, Faisal Saleh
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is amongst the most polarizing topics today, particularly when comparing predominant U.S. and Arab perspectives. News media are often criticized for being pro-Israe...
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Pride or Rainbow-Washing? Exploring LGBTQ+ Advertising from the Vested Stakeholder Perspective Journal of Advertising (IF 6.528) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Tiziana Schopper, Anna Berbers, Lukas Vogelgsang
Brands increasingly address social inequalities by means of advertising. Inclusive advertising can, however, damage brands if consumers suspect insincere and extrinsic motivations. For instance, ma...
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Tactile transformation in flying airplanes: From hands-on to fingers-on aviation New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Brian McDonough
Portable laptops, cell phones, touchscreen equipment and other mobile devices are changing the way commercial airplane pilots are handling information used for flying aircraft. Pilot expertise and skill are being transformed by a new approach in which fingertips are replacing traditional hands-on methods of controlling airplanes. Drawing on participatory and interview methods at a UK airbase, this
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Historical figures on Instagram: A typology of themes and modes of representation New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Maria Schreiber, Christian Schwarzenegger, Christine Lohmeier
Following the notion that a greater variety of actors can engage in practices of memory work, the aim of our study is to understand how the polyphony of memory evolves in social media networks. We thus conducted an explorative study of accounts for historical figures on Instagram. The accounts were analysed regarding their thematic accentuations, the kind of material employed and presented, the level
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Under Pressure? Longitudinal Relationships between Different Types of Social Media Use, Digital Pressure, and Life Satisfaction Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Anja Stevic
Social media became the predominant medium for communicating, sharing updates, and monitoring other users. However, due to increasing use of social media, individuals might feel availability pressure to be online and production pressure to post content, which might result in negative consequences. The present study aims to disentangle the relationships between active social media use (private interactions)
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Stepping on Toes? Role Dynamics between Journalists and Lobbyists Regarding Big Tech’s Accountability Agenda The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Alexandra Schwinges, Irina Lock, Toni G. L. A. van der Meer, Rens Vliegenthart
The expanding political role of Big Tech(nology) corporations has triggered concerns about the role of the media in holding corporate power to account. This study provides a comprehensive understanding of role dynamics between journalists and lobbyists toward the agenda for Big Tech’s responsibilities. Based on semi-structured interviews with European journalists ( n = 15) and lobbyists representing
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The War in Ukraine Through the Prism of Visual Disinformation and the Limits of Specialized Fact-Checking. A Case-Study at Le Monde Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Pauline Zecchinon, Olivier Standaert
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 led to a flood of disinformation circulating online, making fact-checking and verification crucial for journalists covering the conflict. Based on f...
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Countering the “Climate Cult” – Framing Cascades in Far-Right Digital Networks Political Communication (IF 6.176) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Curd Knüpfer, Matthias Hoffmann
In many contemporary democracies, digital networks on the far-right have established themselves as “alternatives” to liberal institutions. Within this nexus of parties, hyper-partisan news, and soc...
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Local News in National Elections: An “Audit” Approach to Assessing Local News Performance During a National Election Campaign Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Martin Moore, Gordon Neil Ramsay
As local news organizations struggle to adapt to new economic realities while suffering structural disadvantages in an engagement-driven online media environment, there is a critical need for empir...
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Distinction and alternative tech: Exploring the techno-critical disposition New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Michael Stevenson, Carolina Valente Pinto
How should we understand alternative social media and open-source technologies that seek to challenge the dominance of Big Tech? Are these ethical substitutes for monopolistic platforms and technological infrastructures, or “alternative” in the sense we might talk of alternative forms of culture? Here we offer new perspective on these questions by conceptualizing alternative tech through Bourdieu’s
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Unpacking the network dynamics of online political discussions: Stochastic actor-oriented modeling with political/sociopsychological/linguistic factors New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Sujin Choi
The underlying mechanisms of online political discussions which may involve power dynamics have seldom been explored through a dynamic network approach, even though discussions themselves are inherently relational and dynamic processes. It remains unclear how discussions are shaped over time between egos/alters with different political/sociopsychological/linguistic attributes as well as by the existing
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The growing partisan politicization of non-political online spaces: A mixed-method analysis of news app reviews on Google Play between 2009 and 2022 New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Rui Wang, Sagarika Suresh Thimmanayakanapalya, Yotam Ophir
Drawing on theories of identity politics and partisan polarization, we explored the politicization of Google Play’s news app reviews—an explicitly non-political domain. Using a mixed-methods approach, Analysis of Topic Model Networks (ANTMNs), combining topic modeling, network analysis, community detection, and theory-driven qualitative reading, we analyzed 759,143 reviews from 2009 to 2022 across
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The backrooms and liminal spaces: Explorations of a digital urban legend New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Bradley Earl Wiggins
Urban legends form an important part of socio-cultural narratives of shared fears and anxieties, and their presence online has developed similarly. This contribution explores the online urban legend the backrooms and examines its narrative construction offering possible reasons for the popularity and participatory aspect of the backrooms. Appearing on 4chan in May 2019, the backrooms represent an endless
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Taking back and giving back on TikTok: Algorithmic mutual aid in the platform economy New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Elena Maris, Robyn Caplan, Hibby Thach
This article explores three genres of TikTok content in which creators and users collaborate to re(direct) the value they create on-platform toward specific needs, people, and causes. Drawing from literatures on platform economies, user and creator labor, algorithmic imaginaries and resistance, and mutual aid, we used algorithmic ethnography to identify and define major genres of content, eventually
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“I stand up for us”: Muslims’ feelings of stigmatization in response to terrorism on social media New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Ruta Kaskeleviciute, Helena Knupfer, Jörg Matthes
Terrorism has the potential to divide societies. It is particularly relevant to investigate how Islamist terrorism on social media is associated with Muslim minorities’ attitudes and behaviors. This study examined how seeing terrorism on social media relates to Muslim minority individuals’ perceived stigmatization. We further investigated how perceived stigmatization translates to social media behaviors
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Can AI Become Walter Cronkite? Testing the Machine Heuristic, the Hostile Media Effect, and Political News Written by Artificial Intelligence Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Joo-Wha Hong, Ho-Chun Herbert Chang, David Tewksbury
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) in news writing are ushering in significant changes in journalism. This study examined how the nature of a story’s author (human or news bot journalist) aff...
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Effects of acculturation stress and identity gaps on Mexican-heritage adolescent depressive symptoms and substance use behavior Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 YoungJu Shin, Megan Stephenson
Children of immigrant families are placed at high risk of acculturation stress due to their role serving as a cultural broker for their family members. Communication theory of identity (CTI) explai...
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Have courage and be kind: gender depictions, female empowerment, and modern audience ratings in film adaptations of Cinderella from 1914 to 2022 Journal of Communication (IF 5.75) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Jane Shawcroft, McKell A Jorgensen-Wells, Sarah M Coyne, Adam A Rogers, Madeleine Meldrum
Fairytales may represent a unique genre of media well-suited to depict feminine traits as valuable to characters of all genders by positioning traditionally feminine-coded traits as sources of strength and power to characters in fairytale plots. To examine this theoretical supposition, this study examines the association between indices of female empowerment (United States), modern audience ratings
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Mindful Immersion: Curating Awe-Inducing Experiences to Increase Brand Salience Journal of Advertising (IF 6.528) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Amy Errmann
Mindfulness is gaining traction as an advertising tactic to boost audience engagement. Despite this, existing research provides limited insight into the impact of advertisements with integrated min...
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Automatically Finding Actors in Texts: A Performance Review of Multilingual Named Entity Recognition Tools Communication Methods and Measures (IF 11.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Paul Balluff, Hajo G. Boomgaarden, Annie Waldherr
Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a crucial task in natural language processing and has a wide range of applications in communication science. However, there is a lack of systematic evaluations of ...
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Impact of misinformation from generative AI on user information processing: How people understand misinformation from generative AI New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Donghee Shin, Amy Koerber, Joon Soo Lim
This study examines the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the ways in which users process and respond to misinformation in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) contexts. Drawing on the heuristic–systematic model and the concept of diagnosticity, our approach examines a cognitive model for processing misinformation in GenAI. The study’s findings revealed that users with a high-heuristic
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Curating Emergent Publics Through Domain Crossing Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Joshua M. Scacco, Adam J. Saffer
Audiences for messages divide attention among a variety of media outlets, sources, and venues. Such segmentation creates a challenge for message creators to (re)engage audiences’ attentional capacities. This research investigates how domain elites may curate emergent attentive publics for public affairs content by engaging in processes of domain crossing to potentially redirect audience attention.
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A Study on Mobile Phone Technology Adoption & Usage Among Urban Poor Women in Resettlement Sites Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 P. Rekha, Sunitha Don Bosco, Maartje Van Eerd, C. Velayutham
Digital transformation and the use of interconnected digital technologies have opened up new opportunities across the world and hold promises for enhanced productivity and development for all. However, research from around the globe has proven that urban poor women are less likely to be digitally active, limiting the realization of its benefits. This study provides an insight into the mobile phone
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Right-Wing Twitter Users in France Exhibit Growing Homophily Compared With Left and Center Users Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Muhammad Umer Gurchani
The purpose of this research is to enhance our understanding of homophilic behaviors—where individuals prefer to associate with others like themselves—on Twitter, particularly focusing on how these behaviors vary across different political affiliations. While a general increase in homophily is a well-documented phenomenon in social networks, its expression within the diverse political contexts on Twitter
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No Targets, Just Vibes: Tuned Advertising and the Algorithmic Flow of Social Media Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Maria-Gemma Brown, Nicholas Carah, Brady Robards, Amy Dobson, Lillian Rangiah, Chiara De Lazzari
Digital advertising’s cultural surround is algorithmically tuned. The popular narrative about digital advertising is that it is hyper-targeted and customized. In this article, we argue that digital platforms’ targeted advertising is more productively understood as tuned advertising, where algorithmic models optimize the resonance between ads and consumers in a continuous rhythmic flow of images, videos
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Corrigendum for The emotional and financial impact of de-platforming on creators at the margins Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-03-20
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Media Coverage, Advertising, and Electoral Volatility: The Crucial Role of Party Competence Political Communication (IF 6.176) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Adrien Petitpas
This paper aims to clarify the mechanism linking media coverage and advertising to electoral volatility. It is argued that the link is indirect rather than direct: Parties’ communication affects el...
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Who relates to whom and according to which rationale? Visibility and advocacy in the Ugandan LGBT+ Twittersphere New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Jakob Svensson, Anders Olof Larsson, Cecilia Strand
An increase in international funding for LGBT+ rights advocacy in Uganda has resulted in not only a mushrooming of organizations but also intra-community competition for visibility, attention, and limited resources. Against this backdrop, we set out to study how organizations relate to each other in the Ugandan LGBT+ Twittersphere. Following an analytical framework around rationalities of mediated
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Safeguarding the Peaceful Transfer of Power: Pro-Democracy Electoral Frames and Journalist Coverage of Election Deniers During the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Heesoo Jang, Daniel Kreiss
This study develops a new normative and analytical framework of “democracy-framed electoral coverage” grounded in literatures that stress the role of governmental and communicative institutions in protecting democracies from threats. We define “democracy-framed electoral coverage” as journalism that embraces fairly contested elections as an established norm and political ideal, and clearly alerts the
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Presidential Authority and the Legitimation of Far-Right News The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Allison M. N. Archer, Carolyn E. Schmitt, Shannon C. McGregor, Heesoo Jang
What position do far-right news outlets occupy in contemporary U.S. politics, and how did Trump use the power of the presidency to contribute to their rise among Republican legislators and mainstream American media? We posit that Trump’s position as president, in conjunction with his populist communication style that favored far-right outlets, contributed to the legitimation of such outlets. We first
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(Re)sharing feminisms: Re-sharing Instagram Stories as everyday feminist practices New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Sofia P. Caldeira
Contemporary experiences of everyday feminisms often include the use of social media platforms like Instagram. The introduction of Instagram Stories created a space for emerging feminist engagements, allowing for practices of re-sharing content that serve as small acts of political engagement, accommodating the participation of otherwise reluctant users. This article explores the feminist potential
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‘’Reenviado Muchas Veces”: How Platform Warnings Affect WhatsApp Users in Mexico and Colombia Political Communication (IF 6.176) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Kevin Munger, Angel Villegas-Cruz, Jorge Gallego, Mateo Vásquez-Cortés
Digital literacy affects how people use the internet. However, we argue that the concept of “digital literacy” cannot usefully be applied to all internet users; there is simply too much heterogenei...