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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...
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From the auction block to the Tinder swipe: Black women’s experiences with fetishization on dating apps New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Jasmine Banks, Mel Monier, Miranda Reynaga, Apryl Williams
The digital has been celebrated for its objectivity and lack of bias, yet digital media scholars have addressed the ways that inequity is embedded in technology. What is often missing from this discourse is the voices of Black women. Drawing on interviews with 20 self-identified Black and African American women, aged 18–30, who have used dating apps in the preceding 6 months, we invited participants
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Hyperpartisan, Alternative, and Conspiracy Media Users: An Anti-Establishment Portrait Political Communication (IF 6.176) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Ernesto de León, Mykola Makhortykh, Silke Adam
While there is growing academic attention to readers of hyperpartisan, alternative, and conspiracy (HAC) media, our understanding of these sites has developed in separate bodies of work. We make a ...
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The professional backstaging of diversity in journalism Journal of Communication (IF 5.75) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Ashley W Carter, Patrick Ferrucci
This study examines how diverse US-based journalists—both Black, Indigenous, and people of color and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer [or sometimes questioning] and others—perform their diversity within newsrooms. Applying Goffman’s theory of dramaturgy, the study illustrates the nuanced differences in terms of how journalists perform their diverse identities differently on both the frontstage
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The game of Ride-Pass in platform work: Implementation of Burawoy’s concept of workplace games to app-mediated ride-hailing industry in Poland New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Bartosz Mika, Dominika Polkowska
The article provides an argument that the platform is the site of Burawoy’s workplace games. The game observed on the platform used a pattern quite similar to one diagnosed by Burawoy, successfully employing coercion and consent to control the workforce. Control on the platform has a general nature which combines technological, organisational and normative aspects. Work on the app is coordinated by
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‘Conspiracy theories should be called spoiler alerts’: Conspiracy, coronavirus and affective community on Russell Brand’s YouTube comment section New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Robert Topinka
This article examines how conspiracy theories anchor affective communities through an analysis of the YouTube comment section for the actor and comedian turned political influencer, Russell Brand. Comparing videos before and after Brand’s shift to covid scepticism, I explore like counts, reply networks and other commenting patterns in a dataset of 217,157 comments and conduct an in-depth analysis of
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Making events: How anticipatory infrastructures produce shared temporalities New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Megan Finn, Mike Ananny
Anticipatory infrastructures assemble sensors that are ready to detect, networks primed to share data, scientists prepared to confirm events, and news organizations poised to tell stories. This article explains how public time is articulated through sensor-mediated communications by examining two anticipatory infrastructures. Each infrastructure uses similar earthquake data to detect, report on, and
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Divides in News Verification: Antecedents and Political Outcomes of News Verification by Age Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Rebecca Ping Yu
News verification has been an important practice to combat fake news, but relatively little work has explored the antecedents and outcomes of news verification outside of experimental settings. Thi...
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Boosting or Limiting? Examining How FoMO Influences Personal News Curation Through News Fatigue in Social Media Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Biying Wu-Ouyang
While the theoretical framework of curated flows provides valuable insights into the dynamics of the social media environment, it overlooks the interactions between curators and the mechanisms pert...
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The Power of Numbers: Four Ways Metrics are Transforming the News Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Dalia Elsheikh, Daniel Jackson, Nael Jebril
The benefits of analytics on news media organisations’ revenues and traffic have been well documented, yet their consequences for news production and content remain double edged. To date, most empi...
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The Infopolitics of feeling: How race and disability are configured in Emotion Recognition Technology New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Kerry McInerney, Os Keyes
In this article, we argue that facial emotion recognition technology (facial ERT) reproduces historical forms of pseudoscience based on the concept of quantifiable and unequally distributed emotional capacity. Drawing on Kyla Schuller’s Biopolitics of Feeling and Colin Koopman’s theory of infopower, we put forward the term ‘the infopolitics of feeling’ to describe how facial ERT encodes culturally
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Social Media Use and Political Engagement in Polarized Times. Examining the Contextual Roles of Issue and Affective Polarization in Developed Democracies Political Communication (IF 6.176) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Michael Chan, Jingjing Yi
Studies addressing the normative questions of whether social media use positively or negatively affects citizens’ levels of democratic engagement and satisfaction with democracy have produced mixed...
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Disclosing AI’s Involvement in Advertising to Consumers: A Task-Dependent Perspective Journal of Advertising (IF 6.528) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Linwan Wu, Naa Amponsah Dodoo, Taylor Jing Wen
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the advertising industry is widespread, yet there is no consensus on whether consumers should be informed of AI’s involvement in ad placement and ad creat...
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My news, your news, and our news: Self-presentational motivations and three levels of issue relevance in news sharing on social media New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jennifer Ihm, Eun-mee Kim
Research on news sharing has focused on the societal relevance of news as the core value of traditional journalism or the informational characteristics of viral news on social media. In contrast, this study reinterprets news-sharing behaviors as interpersonal communication of news sharers presenting themselves to their personal networks beyond the distribution of societally important information. Through
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Fear of missing out and social media use: A three-wave longitudinal study on the interplay with psychological need satisfaction and psychological well-being New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Ellen Groenestein, Lotte Willemsen, Guido M van Koningsbruggen, Peter Kerkhof
This three-wave longitudinal study ( n = 1341) examined between- and within-person effects linking fear of missing out (FoMO) and social media use to psychological need satisfaction and well-being over time. As such, this study tests the premise that FoMO can be understood as a self-regulatory limbo, arising from deficits in psychological need satisfaction and/or lower well-being. This limbo is suggested
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After Deception: How Falling for a Deepfake Affects the Way We See, Hear, and Experience Media The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Teresa Weikmann, Hannah Greber, Alina Nikolaou
With the emergence of artificial intelligence, deepfakes have rendered it possible to manipulate anyone’s and anything’s audio-visual representation, adding fuel to the discussion about the believability of what we hear and see in the news. However, we do not know yet whether deepfakes can actually impact (1) the credibility attributed to audio-visual media in general, as well as (2) the perceived
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Exploring responses to mainstream news among heavy and non-news users: From high-effort pragmatic scepticism to low effort cynical disengagement New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Sora Park, Caroline Fisher, Richard Fletcher, Edson Tandoc, Uwe Dulleck, Janet Fulton, Agata Stepnik, Shengnan Pinker Yao
Research shows the growth of online information has led to a decline in audience trust in mainstream news. However, how this lowered trust in the news affects different audiences’ attitudes and news consumption behaviour is less understood. Our thematic analysis of 40 semi-structured interviews with Australian heavy and non-news users of mainstream news shows that responses vary with respect to the
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Blaming the smurf: Using a novel social deception behavior in online games to test attribution theories New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Charles K Monge, Nicholas L Matthews
Despite their popularity, online video games possess pervasive toxicity. However, players do not categorically judge toxic behaviors as wrong. Attribution theories are well suited to disambiguate such judgment variance, but debate exists on the usefulness of motivated versus socially regulated blame perspectives. By exploring a new, potentially toxic behavior called “smurfing,” we innovate on methodological
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Picture me in person: Personalization and emotionalization as political campaign strategies on social media in the German federal election period 2021 New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Stephanie Geise, Katharina Maubach, Alena Boettcher Eli
Due to the possibilities of direct communication with voters, politicians successfully use social media for personalization and emotionalization in election campaigns. However, since much of the research is based on text-centered analyses of individual platforms, we examine multimodal strategies of personalization and emotionalization of political candidates across platforms. Through a qualitative
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Who Relies on Social Media Influencers for Political Information? A Cross-Country Study Among Youth The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Darian Harff, Desiree Schmuck
Social media influencers (SMIs) are defined as regular individuals who become well-known via self-branding on social media. Youth use content posted by SMIs not just for entertainment, but also for political information. However, we know little about which groups of young people are most likely to be exposed to their political messages or why some youth seem to favor SMIs’ political information over
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Crystallized Trans Identity: How Authenticity and Identity Communication Affect Job and Life Satisfaction Communication Research (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Rebecca J. Baumler, Cameron W. Piercy
This study analyzes survey data from 206 trans workers to test the premises of crystallized self theory by exploring how perceived authenticity and identity communication (i.e., explicit outness, implicit outness, and covering) relate to job and life satisfaction. Perceived authenticity was positively related to explicit outness (overt communication sharing trans identity) and implicit outness (advocacy
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‘Taking the router shopping’: How low-income families experience, negotiate, and enact digital dis/connections New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Kate Mannell, Estelle Boyle, Jenny Kennedy, Indigo Holcombe-James
Within digital media scholarship, there are significant bodies of literature investigating forced disconnection (‘digital exclusion’) and voluntary disconnection (‘digital disconnection’) but there is little research addressing entanglements between them. This article explores how bringing together these bodies of literature through an empirical study offers new pathways and considerations for both
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Children’s, parents’ and educators’ understandings and experiences of digital resilience: A systematic review and meta-ethnography New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Simon P Hammond, Gainfranco Polizzi, Claire Duddy, Y’etsha Bennett-Grant, Kimberley J Bartholomew
Supporting children to be digitally resilient when facing online adversity is an increasingly important developmental task. However, conceptual knowledge underpinning digital resilience and how this operates among children and across their home, community and societal contexts is embryonic. A systematic review and meta-ethnography of research focusing on the understandings and experiences of digital
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Digital Affect Culture and the Logics of Melodrama: Online Polarization and the January 6 Capitol Riots through the Lens of Genre and Affective Discourse Analysis Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Megan Boler, Yoon-Ji Kweon, Míchílín Ní Threasaigh
Drawing on our 3-year digital ethnography of cross-partisan debates in the context of the 2020 US election and January 6 Capitol insurrection, this essay examines the affective and discursive dimensions of online polarization, contributing new understandings of how genre functions as a system of norms that shapes emotional performance online. Through a cross-disciplinary theoretical framework, we demonstrate
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Empowering social media users: nudge toward self-engaged verification for improved truth and sharing discernment Journal of Communication (IF 5.75) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Fangjing Tu
How can we empower social media users to better discern the veracity of news and share less false news? This survey experiment (N = 636) assessed the effectiveness of two interventions—signing a Pro-Truth Pledge and utilizing a Fact-Checking Guide. Results showed that utilizing the Fact-Checking Guide increased skepticism of news posts, likelihood to verify news posts, verification engagement, and
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Twitter Communication Among Democracy Actors: How Interacting With Journalists and Elected Officials Influence People’s Government Performance Assessment and Trust Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Manuel Goyanes, Araceli Mateos
Prior research highlights broad democratic benefits of sustained public trust in the government, and the confidence that the government performs responsively addressing citizens’ problems (i.e., unemployment, cost of living). As social media enhances citizens’ opportunities to interact with journalists and elected officials, little is known about these communication effects on people’s government trust
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The Honest Broker versus the Epistocrat: Attenuating Distrust in Science by Disentangling Science from Politics Political Communication (IF 6.176) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Senja Post, Nils Bienzeisler
People’s trust in science is generally high. Yet in public policy disputes invoking scientific issues, people’s trust in science is typically polarized, aligned with their political preferences. Th...
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How do we speak about algorithms and algorithmic media futures? Using vignettes and scenarios in a citizen council on data-driven media personalisation New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Ranjana Das, Yen Nee Wong, Rhianne Jones, Philip JB Jackson
‘New’ media and algorithmic rules underlying many emerging technologies present particular challenges in fieldwork, because the opacity of their design, and, sometimes, their real or perceived status as ‘not quite here yet’ – makes speaking about these challenging in the field. In this article, we use insights from a three-stage citizens council investigating citizens’ views on developments in data-driven
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The silicon future New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 John Cheney-Lippold
This article proposes the concept of the silicon future—a privileged temporal position that functionally precedes the present—to argue for an increased focus on temporality and the role it plays in technodeterminist discourse. By interpreting how Silicon Valley firms employ this silicon future as an inevitability that they themselves have already reached, the article describes a temporal paternalism—a
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A Meta-Analysis of the Antecedents and Consequences of Advertising Value Journal of Advertising (IF 6.528) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Guoquan Ye, Xin Guan, Liselot Hudders, Yi Xiao, Jingyu Li
Advertising value is a concept representing the overall usefulness and worth of advertising to consumers. While the concept is valuable in assessing consumers’ appreciation of advertising, the find...
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Rethinking #thedress: On the social aesthetics of viral ambiguity illusions New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Jordan Schonig
The social media phenomenon known as #thedress, a photograph of a dress that appeared to be either blue and black or white and gold, has been called one of the most viral debates of the twenty-first century. While many scientific explanations have been offered to explain the image’s mysterious color ambiguity, this article analyzes #thedress as an example of a broader genre that I call viral ambiguity
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Curating hope in chronocracy: TikTok creation and the offline lives of young men from Pakistan in Greece New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Rachael Lindsay
This article investigates the disparity between the everyday lives of young men from Pakistan living in Greece and the impressions created through their TikTok profiles. It asks how creating and curating TikTok content counters the multifarious temporal exclusions, or chronocracy, they experience as they work undocumented and attempt to stay under the radar of the authorities. By shedding light on
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“The rubber band is already broken”: An extended case study of UNDP transformative resilience framework in the context of Palestine Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Rana Elhendi, Patrice M. Buzzanell
We critically explore the resilience discourse of the website for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the lead agency for resilience in the Palestinian context, through engagement with...
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On being nice: Conceptualizing the communication of niceness through relational prioritization, care, and adaptability Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Elizabeth S. Parks
In this article, I offer a metatheoretical conceptualization of U.S. American niceness as facework and identity performance comprised of prioritization, care, and adaptability. I integrate a theore...
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Social media and the mediation of everyday violence: A study of Colombian young adults’ experiences New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Esteban Morales
Social media is a critical element of contemporary ecologies of violence, especially in countries with a long-standing history of armed conflicts – such as Colombia, the setting of this study. In this context, this article explores how violence is mediated through and within social media platforms among Colombian young adults. More specifically, by drawing on Jesús Martín-Barbero, this study explores
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A different playbook for the same outcome? Examining Google’s and Meta’s strategic responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Diana Bossio, Andrea Carson, James Meese
In March 2021, Australia enacted the News Media Bargaining Code (NMBC) legislation, which compels Google and Meta to pay for third-party news content on their platforms. To date, Australian newsrooms have made deals with both platforms totalling approximately AUD$200 million (US$126.4 million). The 1-year review of the Code has prompted questions about not just the legislation but also the lack of
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Hostile knowledge performances Communication Monographs (IF 2.695) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Jared T. Jensen, Shelbey R. Call, Joshua B. Barbour
Struggles over meaning are inherent to knowledge performances – the communicative accomplishment of knowledge. This study analyzes an interdisciplinary team’s communication as they designed a novel...
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Publish and perish: mental health among communication and media scholars Journal of Communication (IF 5.75) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Thomas Hanitzsch, Antonia Markiewitz, Henrik Bødker
Studies point to a significantly higher prevalence of mental health issues among academics compared to most other working populations. However, we know relatively little about the situation within the field of media and communication studies. Based on an international survey of 1028 researchers within this field, we found mental health issues to be widespread. Early career researchers, women, and those
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Source Matters? Exploring the Effects of Source Congeniality on Corrections of False Information on Twitter The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Luxuan Wang, Lauren Feldman
This study examines the impact of source congeniality and its interaction with partisanship on the effectiveness of debunking false information on Twitter in the United States. Conducted in February 2022, a survey experiment revealed that most respondents paid little attention to correction source information. Politically congenial sources failed to enhance the effectiveness of corrective tags, whereas
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Give the Media What They Need: Negativity as a Media Access Tool for Politicians The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Željko Poljak
Recent studies indicate that politicians’ negativity usage fails to enhance their approval ratings among the general public, yet politicians regularly use it. This begs the following question: why are politicians so negative if this strategy does not bolster their prospects for re-election? In this paper, I argue that the media, driven by audience engagement, plays a pivotal role in shaping politicians’
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Some Ideas to Update “Comparing Media Systems” to the Digital Age Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Paolo Mancini
In recent years, we have enjoyed a flourishing of studies, books, and articles on comparative research on “legacy” journalism. Fewer have been the attempts to study in a comparative way how digital...
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The Algorithmic Gut Feeling – Articulating Journalistic Doxa and Emerging Epistemic Frictions in AI-Driven Data Work Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Hartley Jannie Møller, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup
This article explores the epistemic practices and doxa of data workers in a news organisation in Denmark that is currently developing and experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI)-driven reco...
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From Sporadic Sympathy to Devoted Skepticism. Alternative Media Use as an Affective Sense-Making Practice Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Maud Peeters, Pieter Maeseele
Alternative media users have long been an empirical and theoretical blind spot. This study addresses this gap by exploring the affective dimensions of alternative media use in the context of post-t...
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Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, and the Ubuntu Robot in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards a Normative Framework Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Gregory Gondwe
This study investigates the integration of Ubuntu philosophy into AI-driven journalism practices in Subs-Saharan Africa. With a particular focus on its challenges, opportunities, and implications f...
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The Threat of Misinformation on Journalism’s Epistemology: Exploring the Gap between Journalist’s and Audience’s Expectations when Facing Fake Content Digital Journalism (IF 6.847) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Enrique Núñez-Mussa, Andrea Riquelme, Sebastián Valenzuela, Valeria Aldana, Fabián Padilla, Renato Bassi, Sebastián Campos, Eliana Providel, Marcelo Mendoza
This study analyzes the discourse of reporters, editors and audiences in focus groups and in-depth interviews, examining the expectations on journalists when facing misinformation. While both group...
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Politicians, Newspapers, and Immigration Referendums: Exploring the Boundaries of Media Effects Political Communication (IF 6.176) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Judith Spirig
Does acquiring a media company pay off politically? A growing body of literature suggests that politically motivated media owners shape media coverage and that media coverage affects political beha...
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Building resilience to misinformation in communities of color: Results from two studies of tailored digital media literacy interventions New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Angela Y Lee, Ryan C Moore, Jeffrey T Hancock
Interventions to build resilience to misinformation should consider the needs of communities of color, who experience (mis)information in unique ways. We evaluated digital media literacy interventions to improve misinformation resilience among four communities of color in the United States (Black, Latino, Asian American/Pacific Islander, Native American), which were designed by the nonprofit PEN America
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Serial mediation effects of ubiquity and notification on the relationship between habitual social media checking behaviors and self-control failures New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Hyun Jee Park
This study investigated the correlation between habitual checking behavior and self-control failure during social media use among South Korean university students. The study also examined how the ubiquity of and immediate responses to social media notifications affect this relationship, both independently and serially. An online survey was conducted with 400 undergraduate students at South Korean universities
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Peripheral Creator Cultures in India, Ireland, and Turkey Social Media + Society (IF 4.636) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Tugce Bidav, Smith Mehta
Drawing on Indian, Irish, and Turkish YouTube creators’ perceptions of their work, this article focuses on peripheral creator work cultures to broaden the understanding of creator labor precarity. We situate creator labor within not only the platform architectures but also within the geographical specificities of media production, distribution, and consumption. In doing so, we demonstrate that peripheral
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Why do Citizens Choose to Read Fact-Checks in the Context of the Russian War in Ukraine? The Role of Directional and Accuracy Motivations in Nineteen Democracies The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.495) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Marina Tulin, Michael Hameleers, Claes de Vreese, Toril Aalberg, Nicoleta Corbu, Patrick Van Erkel, Frank Esser, Luisa Gehle, Denis Halagiera, David Nicolas Hopmann, Karolina Koc-Michalska, Jörg Matthes, Sabina Mihelj, Christian Schemer, Vaclav Stetka, Jesper Strömbäck, Ludovic Terren, Yannis Theocharis
The recent surge of false information accompanying the Russian invasion of Ukraine has re-emphasized the need for interventions to counteract disinformation. While fact-checking is a widely used intervention, we know little about citizen motivations to read fact-checks. We tested theoretical predictions related to accuracy-motivated goals (i.e., seeking to know the truth) versus directionally-motivated
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Beyond extraction: Data strategies from the Global South New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Heather A Horst, Adam Sargent, luke gaspard
This article draws upon a desk-based review and expert interviews with practitioners in the Global South to understand the diverse forms of data mediation that have become increasingly visible in the wake of the global coronavirus disease-19 pandemic. In contrast to accounts that frame the Global South solely as a site for the extraction of data and cheap, unskilled digital labor, we explore alternative
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Where are the pandemic drones? On the ‘failure’ of automated aerial solutionism New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Anna Jackman, Michael Richardson, Madelene Veber
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, excitement broke out around the potential for drones to generate aerial solutions to devilish pandemic problems. But despite the hype, pandemic drones largely failed to take to the sky and far from the scale initially imagined. This article pursues the failure of the pandemic drone to materialise, showing how it nevertheless functioned as a locus of experimentation
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Disaster, facial recognition technology, and the problem of the corpse New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Christopher O’Neill
The overlapping disasters of the Australian 2019–2020 bushfire season and the COVID-19 pandemic, figured alongside the imaginary of projected future disasters, have provided a space of legitimation to experiment with controversial facial recognition technologies (FRTs). Drawing upon interviews conducted with senior Australian government administrators and researchers, I argue that FRTs are being used
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Acting like a bot as a defiance of platform power: Examining YouTubers’ patterns of ‘inauthentic’ behaviour on Twitter during COVID-19 New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Louisa Bartolo, Betsy Alpert
This article examines YouTubers’ ‘bot like’ behaviour on Twitter and conceptualises it as a defiance of platform power in delimiting the boundaries of ‘authenticity’. This entrepreneurial capture of ‘botness’ is understudied and deserves attention. We focus on a platform with a clear monetisation scheme, YouTube, and on patterns of ‘inauthentic’ behaviour in how people shared YouTube videos on Twitter
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Future notification: Living and breathing in post-pandemic climate change New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Sarah Pink, Yolande Strengers, Hannah Korsmeyer
In a post-pandemic context, everyday life, technology and media have become increasingly focused in the home. This has implications for how people will live with automated and smart technologies in possible futures, for electricity demand, transition to net zero emissions and ultimately planetary health. Here, we explore these unfolding circumstances through the prism of notifications, and their capacity
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The artificial intelligence divide: Who is the most vulnerable? New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Chenyue Wang, Sophie C Boerman, Anne C Kroon, Judith Möller, Claes H de Vreese
This study investigates users’ artificial intelligence (AI)-related competencies (i.e., AI knowledge, skills, and attitudes) and identifies the vulnerable user groups in the AI-shaped online news and entertainment environment. We surveyed 1088 Dutch citizens over the age of 16 years and identified five user groups through the latent class analysis: the average users, the expert advocates, the expert
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Granular biopolitics: Facial recognition, pandemics and the securitization of circulation New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Mark Andrejevic, Chris O’Neill, Gavin Smith, Neil Selwyn, Xin Gu
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided opportunities for facial recognition technology and other forms of biometric monitoring to expand into new markets. One anticipated result is the wholesale reconfiguration of shared and public space enabled by the automated identification and tracking of individuals in real time. Drawing on data from several industry trade shows, this article considers the forms of
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Automated responses to the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic: An overview New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Mark Andrejevic, Chris O’Neill
The pandemic response was a thoroughly mediated phenomenon – one that paired digital information technologies with automated logistical systems to address inter-related crises of circulation. In the logistical sphere, automated media were used to manage flows of people, commodities and even (in the case of ‘smart’ ventilation systems) air itself. In the media realm, automated systems played a role
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Supermarket ‘dark jobs’ and rapid grocery delivery: Transformations in labour, technology and logistics New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Lauren Kelly
As demand for rapid grocery delivery surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia’s supermarket duopoly set about transforming relations of labour, technology and logistics to secure dominance in the growing sector. I consider the rise of ‘dark jobs’ of the supermarket and what this means for affected workers. My research encompasses in-depth interviews with 17 supermarket workers, including personal
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Beyond the ‘critical incident’: COVID-19, data journalism and the slow road to editorial automation in Australian newsrooms New Media & Society (IF 5.31) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Silvia X Montaña-Niño, Jean Burgess
This article draws on a qualitative interview-based study and the framework of the ‘critical incident’ to explore whether, how and for whom the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic saw an increased uptake of data-driven automation in Australian newsrooms and with what implications for the field. Our findings show that, while news workers combined and adapted existing technologies to meet increased demands