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The gendered lens of AI: examining news imagery across digital spaces J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Yibei Chen, Yujia Zhai, Shaojing Sun
This study investigates gender representation in artificial intelligence (AI)-related images across various digital spaces to understand potential biases and visual narratives in the AI domain. We analyzed a dataset of 28,199 images from news media, technology news websites, social media, knowledge-sharing platforms, and other digital spaces. Our findings revealed the prevalence of male faces and the
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Can social media combat gender inequalities in academia? Measuring the prevalence of the Matilda effect in communication J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Yunya Song, Xiaohui Wang, Guanrong Li
This study sought to investigate whether scholarly impact and academic influence differ between men and women in the field of communication and the extent to which the gender gap has persisted on social media platforms, an arena increasingly used for research dissemination. Data were collected from 10,736 articles, published in prominent communication journals between 2012 and 2022, using a combination
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Uncovering gender stereotypes in controversial science discourse: evidence from computational text and visual analyses across digital platforms J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Kaiping Chen, Zening Duan, Sang Jung Kim
This study examines how gender stereotypes are reflected in discourses around controversial science issues across two platforms, YouTube and TikTok. Utilizing the Social Identity Model of Deindividuation Effects, we developed hypotheses and research questions about how content creators might use gender-related stereotypes to engage audiences. Our analyses of climate change and vaccination videos, considering
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Programmed differently? Testing for gender differences in Python programming style and quality on GitHub J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Siân Brooke
The underrepresentation of women in open-source software is frequently attributed to women’s lack of innate aptitude compared to men: natural gender differences in technical ability (Trinkenreich et al., 2021). Approaching code as a form of communication, I conduct a novel empirical study of gender differences in Python programming on GitHub. Based on 1,728 open-source projects, I ask if there is a
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Quantifying gender disparities and bias online: editors’ introduction to “Gender Gaps in Digital Spaces” special issue J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Emőke-Ágnes Horvát, Sandra González-Bailón
This special issue collects studies about how gender divides manifest in digital environments, spanning online repositories, social media, and AI-powered technologies. Computational research helps in assessing the nature and prevalence of gender divides: Identifying differences and bias requires defining benchmarks, systematic departures, and overall incidence. This collection showcases evidence uncovered
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Smiling women pitching down: auditing representational and presentational gender biases in image-generative AI J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Luhang Sun, Mian Wei, Yibing Sun, Yoo Ji Suh, Liwei Shen, Sijia Yang
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) models like DALL·E 2 can interpret prompts and generate high-quality images that exhibit human creativity. Though public enthusiasm is booming, systematic auditing of potential gender biases in AI-generated images remains scarce. We addressed this gap by examining the prevalence of two occupational gender biases (representational and presentational biases) in
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Surviving or thriving political defeat on social media: a temporal analysis of how electoral loss exacerbates the gender gap in political expression J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Ross Dahlke, Yini Zhang
Extensive research reveals gender gaps in social media expression, particularly women’s reduced propensity for sharing political information and opinions. We examine the impact of political defeat on the gender gap in political expression on social media by pairing Twitter data from candidate supporters with a voter file. Our results indicate that Trump’s 2020 defeat reduced tweet volumes only among
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Categorizing the non-categorical: the challenges of studying gendered phenomena online J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Sarah Shugars, Alexi Quintana-Mathé, Robin Lange, David Lazer
Studies of gendered phenomena online have highlighted important disparities, such as who is likely to be elevated as an expert or face gender-based harassment. This research, however, typically relies upon inferring user gender—an act that perpetuates notions of gender as an easily observable, binary construct. Motivated by work in gender and queer studies, we therefore compare common approaches to
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Does mindless scrolling hamper well-being? Combining ESM and log-data to examine the link between mindless scrolling, goal conflict, guilt, and daily well-being J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 David de Segovia Vicente, Kyle Van Gaeveren, Stephen L Murphy, Mariek M P Vanden Abeele
This manuscript presents findings from a preregistered mixed-method study involving 67,762 ecological momentary assessments and behavioral smartphone observations from 1,315 adults. The study investigates (a) momentary associations between mindless scrolling, goal conflict, and guilt over smartphone use, and (b) whether guilt experiences during the day culminate into lower well-being. Results indicate
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Standing up to problematic content on social media: which objection strategies draw the audience’s approval? J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Pengfei Zhao, Natalie N Bazarova, Dominic DiFranzo, Winice Hui, René F Kizilcec, Drew Margolin
Problematic content on social media can be countered through objections raised by other community members. While intended to deter offenses, objections can influence the surrounding audience observing the interaction, leading to their collective approval or disapproval. The results of an experiment manipulating seven types of objections against common types of offenses indicate audiences’ support for
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I wanna share this, but…: explicating invested costs and privacy concerns of social grooming behaviors in Facebook and users’ well-being and social capital J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Jih-Hsuan (Tammy) Lin, Christine Linda Cook, Ji-Wei Yang
The social grooming model (SGM), which theorizes social media users’ social grooming behaviors based on invested costs, is robust, reflecting various and nuanced social grooming styles. However, its core assumptions have not been validated. Using a nationally representative sample of 1,001 Taiwanese social media users, we explored costs and privacy for each social grooming behavior via a survey. Our
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Codesigning community networking literacies with rural/remote Northern Indigenous communities in Northwest Territories, Canada J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Rob McMahon, Michael B McNally, Eric Nitschke, Kyle Napier, María Alvarez Malvido, Murat Akçayir
Digital literacy research and practice typically presume certain conditions, such as an urban orientation and adequate, affordable access to connectivity and devices. But these conditions are not universal; for example, people in small, rural/remote Indigenous communities may seek to balance connectivity challenges and digital innovations with land-based living specific to place and community. Drawing
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From context adaptation to context restoration: strategies, motivations, and decision rules of managing context collapse on WeChat J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Pengxiang Li, Hichang Cho, Cuihua Shen, Hangchen Kong
Context collapse occurs on social media platforms when different groups are mixed into one audience. To advance the understanding of the extensive and complex coping strategies people use to address context collapse, this study makes a conceptual distinction between passively adapting by sharing context-free, general information (context adaptation) and rebuilding contexts to satisfy the diverse needs
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The story of social media: evolving news coverage of social media in American politics, 2006–2021 J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Daniel S Lane, Hannah Overbye-Thompson, Emilija Gagrčin
This article examines how American news media have framed social media as political technologies over time. To do so, we analyzed 16 years of political news stories focusing on social media, published by American newspapers (N = 8,218) and broadcasters (N = 6,064) (2006–2021). Using automated content analysis, we found that coverage of social media in political news stories: (a) increasingly uses anxious
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Reclaiming agency in the digital neighborhood: an ethnographic exploration of ethno-religious minority youths’ performances of the masculine self J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Tom De Leyn
Self-presentation has been identified as a key practice within digital youth cultures. The scholarship on youths’ self-presentation has extensively investigated how young people negotiate affordances in ways that optimally support their transitions into adulthood. However, the scholarship’s focus on identity development and technological affordances risks constructing a homogeneous, de-contextualized
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A replication and extension of the Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Michael C Carter, Drew P Cingel, Samantha L Vigil, Jeanette B Ruiz
The recently forwarded Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework (PSMEF) allows researchers to study social media in terms of generalized types of user interfaces. This study formally extended the PSMEF via the Digital User Interface Model and replicated previous work by evidencing the existence of new (e.g., Overtly Algorithmic Content Pages) and validating previously identified types of user interfaces
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No judgment: value optimization and the reinvention of reviewing on YouTube J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Blake Hallinan
Social media platforms employ algorithmic recommendations to optimize the user's experience and incentivize particular forms of cultural production. While prior research shows that creators respond to these incentives and seek to optimize their content in return, the normative implications of this process are ambiguous and contentious. To examine the values promoted by platforms, this study focuses
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Digital governance with smart sensors: exploring grid administration in Zhejiang’s “Future Community” J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Yuchao Zhao
This study explored sensor-based e-government practices in eight pilot “Future Communities” in Zhejiang Province, China. Adopting the approach of “e-government in everyday practice,” it examines how grid members at the grassroots level make sense of smart sensors and their mediated governance through the parameters of passive response, collaborative human and nonhuman networks, and calculability. In
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Communication about sensors and communication through sensors: localizing the Internet of Things in rural communities J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Chelsea Butkowski, Ngai Keung Chan, Talia Berniker, Alfredo Rodriguez, Kenneth Schlather, K Max Zhang, Lee Humphreys
Internet of Things (IoT) sensor networks are an emerging technology at the center of the datafication and optimization of far-reaching environmental infrastructures—from “smart cities” to workplace efficiencies. However, this low-power, low-cost technology is also well suited to local deployments in rural communities, which are often overlooked by digital development initiatives. Therefore, we used
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Negotiating the capacities and limitations of sensor-mediated care in the home J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Christine Hine, Ramin Nilforooshan, Payam Barnaghi
In-home sensor systems supported by machine learning are increasingly used to enhance communication between those living with long-term conditions such as dementia and healthcare professionals and carers who support them. Perspectives from the sociology of infrastructures are used to explore the development and deployment of such a system of smart care, drawing on interviews with researchers and developers
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Sensors as media and sensor-mediated communication: an introduction to the special issue J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Didem Özkul, Germaine R Halegoua, Rowan Wilken, Lee Humphreys
This special issue examines mediated communication through the rise of sensors. Sensors are increasingly in the phones we carry, in the cars we drive, and throughout the homes and communities in which we live. In this introduction to the special issue, we define sensor-mediated communication (SMC) and argue the embedded, automatic, and datafied nature of sensors belie the glitches and biases in sensor
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Digital parenting divides: the role of parental capital and digital parenting readiness in parental digital mediation J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Pengfei Zhao, Natalie N Bazarova, Natercia Valle
This study investigates digital parenting divides, or how parents' strategies for regulating their children’s online activities differ based on their available resources and digital parenting readiness (i.e., digital parenting self-efficacy, attitudes, and knowledge). We conducted a survey of 530 parents that reflected the composition of the U.S. population to explore how parents’ resources and digital
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Nalaquq (“it is found”): a knowledge co-production framework for environmental sensing and communication in Indigenous arctic communities J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Sean Gleason, Jonathan Lim, Lynn Marie Church, Warren Jones, Carl Nicolai, Joe Pleasant, Willard Church, Alice Watterson, Lonny Alaskuk Strunk, Richard Knecht, Charlotta Hillerdal
In 2007, the Yup’ik village of Quinhagak contacted archaeologists after locals found precontact artifacts on a nearby beach. This collaboration led to the subsequent excavation of Nunalleq, an important ancestral site threatened by climate change. Since then, an international research team has partnered with Yup’ik leadership in Quinhagak to address the larger impact of climate change. In turn, this
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“Sensing” productivity at home: self-tracking technologies, gender, and labor in Turkey J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Nazlı Özkan
This article explores how women in Turkey use sensing technologies to render visible their productivity at home in ways that contest home–workplace boundary under neoliberal, digital capitalism. It does so by focusing on a group of lower- and middle-class women, who work from home as both paid laborers and unpaid caregivers. Although neoliberalism makes it harder to distinguish home and workplace,
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Sensor work: enabling the interoperation of autonomous vehicles J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Sam Hind
This article examines the “sensor work” carried out in the development of autonomous vehicles which, without sensor data, would not and arguably still do not, have the capacity to decide on where, and how, to drive. I begin by discussing three aspects of sensor technologies considered to be the foundation for sensor work being carried out in autonomous vehicle settings, namely the distribution, processing
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Sensing technologies, digital inclusion, and disability diversity J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Sarah Nectoux, Liam Magee, Karen Soldatic
This article focuses on uses and experiences of everyday sensory technologies by racially and ethnically diverse persons with disabilites, bringing our research to the junction of critical technology studies, migration studies, and critical disability studies. We draw on a large-scale qualitative project that involves new and second-generation migrants with disabilities from a socio-economically disadvantaged
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Mediating social support through sensor-based technologies for children’s health behavior change J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Joshua Baldwin, Joomi Lee, Allan D Tate, Christian D Okitondo, Kyle Johnsen, Michael D Schmidt, Stephen Rathbun, Eric Novotny, Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn
Sensor-based technologies (SBTs) allow users to track biometric data and feature interactions that foster social support. The social support from SBTs can increase intrinsic motivation to engage in and sustain positive health behaviors. Guided by technological affordances and self-determination theory, this study tested the long-term efficacy of an ecosystem of SBTs to strengthen social support for
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To intervene or not to intervene: young adults’ views on when and how to intervene in online harassment J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Anna Davidovic, Catherine Talbot, Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis, Adam Joinson
Incidents of online harassment are increasing and can have significant consequences for victims. Witnesses (“digital bystanders”) can be crucial in identifying and challenging harassment. This study considered when and how young adults intervene online, with the aim of understanding the applicability of existing theoretical models (i.e., Bystander Intervention Model; Response Decision-Making Framework)
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Positioning in a collaboration network and performance in competitions: a case study of Kaggle J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Marlon Twyman, Goran Murić, Weiwei Zheng
Online innovation competitions are ecosystems where institutions source numerous solutions from knowledge workers through a platform intermediary. By considering how an individual competitor’s performance varies based on their social positioning in a competition ecosystem’s collaboration network, we illustrate the value of social networks for individual outcomes in online competitions. The study reports
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Managing collapsed boundaries in global work J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Anu Sivunen, Jennifer L Gibbs, Jonna Leppäkumpu
Global workers have long contended with the challenges of working across geographical, temporal, and cultural boundaries enabled by communication technologies. However, the global work research has rarely intersected with the literature on work–home boundary management—which has been brought to the forefront due to the forced move to remote work during the Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing on a qualitative
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Surveillance and the future of work: exploring employees’ attitudes toward monitoring in a post-COVID workplace J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Jessica Vitak, Michael Zimmer
The future of work increasingly focuses on the collection and analysis of worker data to monitor communication, ensure productivity, reduce security threats, and assist in decision-making. The COVID-19 pandemic increased employer reliance on these technologies; however, the blurring of home and work boundaries meant these monitoring tools might also surveil private spaces. To explore workers’ attitudes
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Community health workers and the communicative transformation of work-life interrelationships during the COVID-19 pandemic J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Annis G Golden, Jane Jorgenson, Amy Williams
This study focuses on work-life interrelationships for community health workers (CHWs) during the COVID-19 pandemic. CHWs serve as liaisons between marginalized communities and health and human service organizations to facilitate access to services. Required physical distancing transformed their work from embodied, face-to-face interaction to almost wholly mediated by communication technologies. Interviews
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Navigating the empty shell: the role of articulation work in platform structures J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Linda Huber, Casey Pierce
This article explores platform workers’ strategies for producing sustainable, quality services within platform structures that simultaneously over- and under-determine their work. We present findings from interviews with U.S.-based mental health professionals (n = 48) working on teletherapy platforms. These therapists describe navigating both the presence of platformic controls and the absence of features
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Speech production under uncertainty: how do job applicants experience and communicate with an AI interviewer? J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Bingjie Liu, Lewen Wei, Mu Wu, Tianyi Luo
Theories and research in human–machine communication (HMC) suggest that machines, when replacing humans as communication partners, change the processes and outcomes of communication. With artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly used to interview and evaluate job applicants, employers should consider the effects of AI on applicants’ psychology and performance during AI-based interviews. This study
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Information sharing in a hybrid workplace: understanding the role of ease-of-use perceptions of communication technologies in advice-seeking relationship maintenance J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Y Jasmine Wu, Brennan Antone, Leslie DeChurch, Noshir Contractor
Shifts to hybrid work prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic have the potential to substantially impact social relationships at work. Hybrid employees rely heavily on digital collaboration technologies to communicate and share information. Therefore, employees’ perceptions of the technologies are critical in shaping organizational networks. However, the dyadic-level misalignment in these perceptions may
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Building relational confidence in remote and hybrid work arrangements: novel ways to use digital technologies to foster knowledge sharing J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Samantha M Keppler, Paul M Leonardi
Remote and hybrid workers know fewer of their colleagues and have fewer strong workplace relationships. If strong relationships support knowledge sharing, workers will have a harder time getting knowledge they need. Prior research shows that digital communication technologies increase workers’ network-level knowledge of “who knows what” and “who knows who.” Yet, knowledge seekers may be hesitant to
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Pre-framing an emerging technology before it is deployed at work: the case of artificial intelligence and radiology J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Mohammad Hosein Rezazade Mehrizi
Various occupations are increasingly confronted with promises that new technologies will transform their work long before these technologies are deployed in their workplace. Although we know how new technologies are framed when they are introduced to work, we have limited understanding of how practitioners frame an emerging technology before it is deployed. Building on frame literature and examining
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Signaling and meaning in organizational analytics: coping with Goodhart’s Law in an era of digitization and datafication J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Jeffrey W Treem, William C Barley, Matthew S Weber, Joshua B Barbour
The future of work will be measured. The increasing and widespread adoption of analytics, the use of digital inputs and outputs to inform organizational decision making, makes the communication of data central to organizing. This article applies and extends signaling theory to provide a framework for the study of analytics as communication. We report three cases that offer examples of dubious, selective
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Transparency, openness and privacy among software professionals: discourses and practices surrounding use of the digital calendar J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Vanessa Ciccone
Research on the groupware calendar system (GCS) has sought to understand its situated use in workplace contexts, revealing insights around design, culture, and self-understanding. A critical look at how knowledge workers use the GCS, and conceptualize of this use, reveals often overlooked sociotechnical values that figure prominently in workers’ lives. At a time when the public–private entanglement
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Toward work’s new futures: Editors’ Introduction to Technology and the Future of Work special issue J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Nancy Baym, Nicole B Ellison
This special issue is based in the belief that theoretically informed, methodologically diverse, and sociotechnically inspired research is our best approach for understanding contemporary entanglements between the technological and social aspects of work, and for grappling with what that means for our futures. In this Editors’ Introduction to JCMC’s Technology and the Future of Work special issue,
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Facts are hard to come by: discerning and sharing factual information on social media J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Fangjing Tu, Zhongdang Pan, Xinle Jia
How credulous are we when engaging information on social media? Addressing this question, this article aims to understand how individuals’ epistemic vigilance, a set of cognitive mechanisms that comprise our system of precaution in social interactions, may operate and fall short. Reporting findings from two survey experiments (Study 1, N = 413; Study 2, N = 392), we show that participants tended to
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The effects of disagreement and unfriending on political polarization: a moderated-mediation model of cross-cutting discussion on affective polarization via unfriending contingent upon exposure to incivility J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Han Lin, Yi Wang, Janggeun Lee, Yonghwan Kim
Cross-cutting discussion is the foundation of deliberative democracy. However, previous research has reported inconsistent results regarding the effects of exposure to dissimilar perspectives on political polarization. This study aims to extend the literature by exploring how cross-cutting discussion influences affective polarization through unfriending and how this indirect effect is contingent upon
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Differential perceptions of and reactions to incivil and intolerant user comments J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Anna Sophie Kümpel, Julian Unkel
Building on recent research that challenges the notion that norm violations in online discussions are inherently detrimental, this study relies on a distinction between incivil and intolerant user comments and investigates how online users perceive and react to these distinct forms of antinormative discourse online. Conducting a preregistered factorial survey experiment with a nationally representative
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Using time travel in virtual reality (VR) to increase efficacy perceptions of influenza vaccination J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Joomi Lee, Dai-Yun Wu, Jih-Hsuan (Tammy) Lin, Jooyoung Kim, Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn
This study examined the unique affordance of time travel in virtual reality (VR) to enhance the perceived efficacy of influenza vaccination. Effective vaccine communication hinges on raising awareness of the risk of contracting a contagious virus and spreading the infection to others. According to the extended-parallel process model, behavioral changes are achieved when an individual perceives sufficient
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Habitual social media and smartphone use are linked to task delay for some, but not all, adolescents J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Adrian Meier, Ine Beyens, Teun Siebers, J Loes Pouwels, Patti M Valkenburg
There is a popular concern that adolescents’ social media use, especially via smartphones, leads to the delay of intended, potentially more important tasks. Automatic social media use and frequent phone checking may especially contribute to task delay. Prior research has investigated this hypothesis through between-person associations. We advance the literature by additionally examining within-person
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Choreographing digital love: materiality, emotionality, and morality in video-mediated communication between Chinese migrant parents and their left-behind children J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Yumei Gan
Video-mediated communication (VMC) has become particularly important for geographically dispersed families. Drawing on a 2-year video-based ethnographic study of under-resourced Chinese rural-to-urban migrant parents and their left-behind children, this article captures on-site distant parent–child VMC. Applying qualitative video analysis to study video calls, this article focuses on how people “choreograph”
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Gay employees on social media: Strategies to portray professionalism J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Lucas Amaral Lauriano
This study explores how gay male employees represent themselves on social media. Research shows that online self-representations vary according to imagined audiences and platforms’ affordances, but little is known about the possible roles of work in this process. In a qualitative study based on interviews and observations in the Brazilian subsidiary of a multinational automaker, I show how employees’
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A tale of two concepts: differential temporal predictions of habitual and compulsive social media use concerning connection overload and sleep quality J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Kevin Koban, Anja Stevic, Jörg Matthes
Given how strongly social media is permeating young people’s everyday lives, many of them have formed strong habits that, under specific circumstances, can spiral out of control and bring harmful experiences. Unlike in extant literature where habitual and compulsive behaviors are often conflated, we report findings from a two-wave panel study examining the individual predictive value of both habitual
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Different platforms, different uses: testing the effect of platforms and individual differences on perception of incivility and self-reported uncivil behavior J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Daniel J Sude, Shira Dvir-Gvirsman
Two large surveys with adult samples of Americans (N = 1,105; N = 1,035) investigated differences in perceived incivility between seven social media platforms. Perceptions of incivility were targeted, given both their inherent societal relevance and the personalized nature of each user’s platform experience. Utilizing a novel approach, observations per platform were nested within each user, facilitating
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When national identity meets conspiracies: the contagion of national identity language in public engagement and discourse about COVID-19 conspiracy theories J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Anfan Chen, Kaiping Chen, Jingwen Zhang, Jingbo Meng, Cuihua Shen
There are growing concerns about the role of identity narratives in spreading misinformation on social media, which threatens informed citizenship. Drawing on the social identity model of deindividualization effects (SIDE) and social identity theory, we investigate how the use of national identity language is associated with the diffusion and discourse of COVID-19 conspiracy theories on Weibo, a popular
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Fighting cheapfakes: using a digital media literacy intervention to motivate reverse search of out-of-context visual misinformation J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Sijia Qian, Cuihua Shen, Jingwen Zhang
As a significant source of misinformation, out-of-context visual misinformation refers to visuals presented in an unrelated context. This study explores whether a digital media literacy intervention that features reverse image search tools has significant effects on participants’ message credibility judgment, discernment of visual misinformation, and intention of using reverse image search tools. Data
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Capturing social presence: concept explication through an empirical analysis of social presence measures J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 James J Cummings, Erin E Wertz
Initially the province of telecommunication and early computer-mediated communication (CMC) literature, multiple systematic reviews suggest “social presence” is now used for an increasingly diverse set of phenomena across various communication settings. Drawing upon Chaffee’s (1991) description of concept explication as the dialectic process between the conceptual and operational aspects of research
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The effects of self-viewing in video chat during interpersonal work conversations J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Soo Yun Shin, Ezgi Ulusoy, Kelsey Earle, Gary Bente, Brandon Van Der Heide
With the growing use of video chat in daily life, it is critical to understand how visual communication channels affect interpersonal relationships. A potentially important feature that distinguishes video chats from face-to-face interactions is the communicators’ ability to see themselves during the interaction. Our purpose was to determine the effects of self-viewing on the process and outcome of
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Retweet for justice? Social media message amplification and Black Lives Matter allyship J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Jessica Roden, Valerie Kemp, Muniba Saleem
White allies can advance racial justice on social media by amplifying Black activists and educating their White friends. Social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram have different affordances for message amplification, with some showcasing the message creator and others the message amplifier. How might these visibility differences influence the reception of a message created by a Black activist
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How do people react to AI failure? Automation bias, algorithmic aversion, and perceived controllability J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 S Mo Jones-Jang, Yong Jin Park
AI can make mistakes and cause unfavorable consequences. It is important to know how people react to such AI-driven negative consequences and subsequently evaluate the fairness of AI’s decisions. This study theorizes and empirically tests two psychological mechanisms that explain the process: (a) heuristic expectations of AI’s consistent performance (automation bias) and subsequent frustration of unfulfilled
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Time counts? A two-wave panel study investigating the effects of WeChat affordances on social capital and well-being J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Lianshan Zhang, Eun Hwa Jung
Drawing from the social capital framework and socioemotional selectivity theory, this study examines how individuals’ future time perspective (FTP) alters their social capital processes, which further influences their well-being. A two-wave survey was conducted across WeChat users possessing different FTPs. The findings showed that bonding and bridging social capital accumulation were attributed to
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Like, share, and remember: Facebook memorial Pages as social capital resources J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Sarit Navon, Chaim Noy
This study focuses on users’ practices involved in creating and maintaining Facebook memorial Pages by adapting the theoretical perspective of the social capital approach. It examines 18 Pages in Israel, which are dedicated to ordinary people who died in nonordinary circumstances. We employ qualitative analysis based on a digital ethnography conducted between 2018 and 2021. Our findings show how memorial
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“Come on f––er, just load!” Powerlessness, waiting, and life without broadband J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Nick Mathews, Christopher Ali
Waiting is a way of experiencing the effects of power. This article finds those waiting for fixed broadband connection are powerless to end the waiting and increasingly frustrated with the powerful—the governmental officials, policy makers, and broadband providers—who control their waiting. This article, built on 19 interviews with residents of a rural county in the United States, details the lived
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Understanding darkness: age, sex, and tech-proficiency in knowledge and perceptions of technology-mediated abuse J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Jessica J Eckstein
This article examines how people understand technology-mediated abuse (TMA) between adult romantic partners. Because knowledge and attitudes regarding sensitive issues are created and shaped via technology, users’ interpretations are crucial to understanding life-threatening relational situations such as TMA. In this study, 551 individuals were recruited via community-based chain-referral sampling
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Children’s mobile communicative practices and locational privacy J. Comput. Mediat. Commun. (IF 7.432) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Didem Özkul
Children start using smartphones increasingly from early ages. This makes it more difficult for them to develop an understanding of online privacy and managing their personal data. Many parents monitor and regulate children’s online media use. However, they also encourage using smartphones to ensure the safety and security of their children. This study explores how children use smartphones in relation