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Unpredictability and consequence in play-to-earn crypto gaming Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Trevor Zaucha
This study observes through qualitative textual analysis the Discord community of Virtually Human Studio’s play-to-earn (P2E), blockchain-based videogame ‘ZED Run’ to better understand the nature o...
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Resistance to platformization: Palantir in the Norwegian police Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Helene O. I. Gundhus, Christin Thea Wathne
In 2016, the Norwegian police signed a contract with Palantir Technology for the provision of the surveillance platform Gotham, a platform that enables agencies to integrate data stored in differen...
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Digital migration Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Catherina Wilson
Published in Information, Communication & Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Torquing patients into data: enactments of care about, for and through medical data in algorithmic systems Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Natalia-Rozalia Avlona, Irina Shklovski
The increasing digitisation of healthcare services has transformed healthcare provision into a data-centric enterprise. Thinking with Joan Tronto and her notion of care, we study medical data pract...
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Theorizing data analysis platforms – digital refractions and reconfigurations of pasts, presents and futures Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Mikkel Flyverbom
Digital platforms are a pervasive force in the transformation of business, organization and social order, but also an evolving phenomenon in need of further conceptualization and detailed analysis....
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Who cares about data? Data care arrangements in everyday organisational practice Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Juliane Jarke, Stefanie Büchner
The increasing datafication of social life has led to a growing body of research on data work which focusses on new data practices like self-tracking, new professions like data analysts or new occu...
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Visions of vectors: sense, race, and colonialism in machine learning practice Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Jolen Martinez
This paper interrogates the informational practices shared between human and computer machine learners as they train to sense the world through lines of order, or vectors. The paper does this by ex...
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‘I know that I know nothing’ – the perceptions of remote work competencies of the persons with disabilities Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Vladimir Simovic, Mihailo Paunovic, Milena Lazic, Ivana Domazet, Goran Boskovic
Remote work arrangements, facilitated through digital entrepreneurship and remote work platforms, represent employment inclusion strategy for persons with disabilities (PWD) who need to possess a c...
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The tensions of algorithmic thinking: automation, intelligence, and the politics of knowing Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Dmitry Muravyov
Published in Information, Communication & Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Open Banking and data reassurance: the case of tenant referencing in the UK Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Alexandra Ciocănel, Alison Wallace, David Beer, James Cussens, Roger Burrows
The promise of Open Banking (OB), as implemented in the UK, has been that consumers are no longer passive data producers but can also use and derive value from their personal data. OB has been appl...
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Online news in India: a quantitative appraisal of the digital news consumption landscape in the world’s largest democracy (2014–2018) Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Subhayan Mukerjee
How do people in the world’s largest democracy consume news online? In this paper, I aim to answer this question by conducting a quantitative assessment of the online news consumption behavior of a...
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Curating the news. Analyzing politicians’ news sharing behavior on social media in three countries Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Willem Buyens, Peter Van Aelst, Steve Paulussen
Social media platforms allow politicians to communicate to and with their followers directly, without the interference of news media professionals. Political actors have eagerly adopted these platf...
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Financialization of music: song management firms and fractionalized copyright Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Patryk Galuszka, Tomasz Legiedz
This paper examines the growing interest of financial markets in investing in music rights, arguing that this is a manifestation of the financialization of music. While music rights have been trade...
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Care, collaboration, and service in academic data work: biocuration as ‘academia otherwise’ Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Sarah R. Davies, Constantin Holmer
This paper discusses the emergent field of biocuration, taking it as a case of academic data work. Biocurators organise, manage, and enrich the now vast quantities of data that are produced by the ...
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Care-ful data studies: or, what do we see, when we look at datafied societies through the lens of care? Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Irina Zakharova, Juliane Jarke
In this special issue, we ask: What do we see when we look at datafied societies through the lens of care? Following the footsteps of feminist writers, activists, and academics who take care as a v...
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Sphere transgressions in health and social care: reflections on the role of the embedded social scientist Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Rik Wehrens, Iris Wallenburg, Lieke Oldenhof
Social scientists are increasingly involved in large health technology consortia to enhance the societal relevance and acceptability of the innovations that are developed, tested, or implemented. I...
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Information and communication technologies use among youth experiencing homelessness: associations with online health information seeking behavior Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 In Young Park, Anamika Barman-Adhikari, Jama Shelton, Diane Santa Maria, Hsun-Ta Hsu, Sarah C. Narendorf, Kristin M. Ferguson, Kimberly Bender, Robin Petering
Given reported high rates of transience and service disengagement among youth experiencing homelessness (YEH), new forms of information and communication technologies (ICT) may represent a novel av...
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Home in cybersymbiosis: making home with digital oddkin Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Sophia Maalsen
Acknowledging the history of more-than-human approaches in human geography, and the entrenchment of computational devices in the home, this paper advances the concept of cybersymbiosis as framework...
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Representing the adarsh biometric balak or the ideal biometric child: locating poor children’s care work in the Aadhaar welfare state Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Preeti Mudliar
This article spotlights the role of children from poor, underprivileged families who are drawn into care work to facilitate inclusion for their families in food security by performing fingerprint a...
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Trans vocabularies: topics, clashes, and affordances in YouTube streaming wars Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Helton Levy
After decades of invisibility in the media, trans content creators have established popular 6 channels on YouTube and other streaming platforms. This article investigates channels from Western and ...
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The relational, emotional and infrastructural work of older people in pandemic digital interventions Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Daniel López-Gómez, Israel Rodríguez-Giralt
This paper explores the dynamics of peer support and companionship among older adults on a social networking site during the COVID-19 lockdown. Drawing from the authors’ five-month experience as vo...
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Māori data sovereignty: contributions to data cultures in the government sector in New Zealand Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Spencer Lilley, Gillian Oliver, Jocelyn Cranefield, Matthew Lewellen
Māori data sovereignty, an extension of Indigenous data sovereignty, is gaining recognition as a vital element of data-related strategy, management, policy, and culture in New Zealand. Driven by th...
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Data phronesis and the duality of care in the air quality data politics Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Bartosz Ślosarski
This article delves into the intricate dynamics of air datafication as matters of care within the distinctive context of air quality data politics in Poland. It focuses on the implementation of dat...
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Twitter and divides in the Dutch parliament: social and political segregation in the following, @-mentions and retweets networks Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Jochem Tolsma, Niels Spierings
MPs communication on Twitter with other MPs may facilitate forming cross-party solidarity networks and provide public micro deliberation but may also be segregated leading to information bubbles an...
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‘A promising playground’: IDEMIA and the digital ID infrastructuring in Colombia Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Joan Lopez-Solano, Juan Diego Castañeda
This article explores how IDEMIA, a French security company, constructed an infrastructure for the identification and authentication services of the Colombian National Civic Registry (NCR) for more...
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Beyond ‘Lulz' and ‘Keyboard warriors': exploring the relationship between trolling and radicalization Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Katy Biddle, Brian Ekdale, Andrew C. High, Ryan Stoldt, Raven Maragh-Lloyd
Despite the similar psychological profiles of internet trolls and radicalized political actors, as well as the historical connections between trolling and the alt-right, little research has studied...
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Algorithmic Intimacy: The Digital Revolution In Personal Relationships Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Jiaxun Li
Published in Information, Communication & Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Impacts of broadband internet on adolescents’ academic outcomes: heterogeneous effects among lower secondary school students in Norway Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Erlend Nordrum, Pablo Gracia
The expansion of internet is likely to influence adolescents’ academic outcomes. Yet, how internet coverage impacts students’ educational performance remains poorly understood. To address this majo...
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TikTok and memetic activism against racism in South Africa Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Alette Schoon, Tanja Bosch
This article explores TikTok users’ responses to a racist incident at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. We analyse the content strategies of TikToks that received the most engagement as well a...
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Connective action in Myanmar: a mixed-method analysis of Spring Revolution Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Josephine Lukito, Taeyoung Lee, Zelly Martin, Katlyn Glover, An Hu, Zhe Cui
While scholars have studied democratic backsliding in the West, rapid democratic backsliding in the Global South is relatively underexplored, and the role of social media is unclear. Through a mixe...
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‘Why should we turn to fascists in their own language?’ Affordances and constraints of networked counterpublics as experienced by the group members Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Hila Lowenstein-Barkai
The emergence of social networking sites (SNSs) and new media has led to scholarly interest in the possibilities they offer for creating counter publics - discursive arenas where subordinated group...
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A careful approach to artificial intelligence: the struggles with epistemic responsibility of healthcare professionals Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Marthe Stevens, Anne Beaulieu
Machine learning approaches are being developed to contribute to the treatment of patients and the organisation of care. These new approaches are created in complex environments that include data a...
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Posting and framing politics: a content analysis of celebrities’, athletes’, and influencers’ Instagram political content Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Anaëlle Gonzalez, Desiree Schmuck, Laura Vandenbosch
Instagram and its famous personae are nowadays an important news source for many users, which may stem from celebrities’ and social media influencers’ (SMIs) repeated engagement with political topi...
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Health and toxicity in content moderation: the discursive work of justification Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Anna D. Gibson, Niall Docherty, Tarleton Gillespie
Within academia, industry, and government, the terms ‘health’ and ‘toxicity’ are widely used to describe and justify decisions around online content and its removal. However, the meanings of these ...
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The marketplace of interpretations: a method to trace diversity in digital interpretive traces Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Lillian Boxman-Shabtai
Over the past half century, qualitative reception studies have provided powerful in-depth accounts of the interpretive diversity of media audiences. However, despite the growing availability of dig...
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Digital platforms and the future of news: regulating publisher-platform relations in Australia and Canada Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Terry Flew, Petros Iosifidis, James Meese, Agata Stepnik
This article provides an overview of news media bargaining codes as a way of regulating relations between digital platforms and news publishers. Taking the Codes developed in Australia and Canada a...
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Self-censorship among online harassment targets: the role of support at work, harassment characteristics, and the target’s public visibility Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Magdalena Celuch, Reetta Oksa, Noora Ellonen, Atte Oksanen
Online harassment of professionals with public visibility has many potentially harmful societal consequences, including its probable silencing effect. Targeted individuals may refrain from voicing ...
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‘I get suppressed:’ pro- and anti-abortion activists’ folk theories of platform governance and shadowbanning Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Martin J. Riedl, Zelly C. Martin, Samuel C. Woolley
In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court ended a federal right to abortion access in the country. Ensuing disparate abortion legalization throughout the country made pertinent the question of whether and ho...
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Towards an epistemology of digitally mediated temporality: from ethics to empiricism Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Tim Markham
The aim of this article is to lay the epistemological groundwork for investigating how the digital present is experienced as present. This is significant because, given the ontological priority of ...
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Women and digital political communication in non-Western societies Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Sally Osei-Appiah, Bruce Mutsvairo, Kristin Skare Orgeret
This special issue brings together contributions and theoretical insights that probe ways through which gender interacts with context to shape non-Western-based political communication trends. It s...
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The feel of algorithms Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 David Beer
Published in Information, Communication & Society (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Caring for data in later life – the datafication of ageing as a matter of care Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Vera Gallistl, Roger von Laufenberg
This article examines the datafication of ageing by drawing on a practice approach toward care. We describe the datafication of ageing as a matter of care, achieved through the local tinkering of a...
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Decolonising the internet: an introduction to the #AoIR2022 special issue Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Andrew Iliadis, Eugenia Siapera, Tetyana Lokot
This paper introduces the ‘Decolonising the Internet’ themed special issue which includes research presented at the 23rd annual Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference (2022). The con...
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What do participants participate in? Insights from the community of Peccioli Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Manuela Farinosi, Adriano Cirulli, Leopoldina Fortunati
This research is part of a broader study investigating citizen participation in public decisions affecting the present and future of the community of Peccioli, a small village in Tuscany (Italy), t...
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Why are sector transgressions so hard to govern? Reflections from Europe’s pandemic experience Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Linnet Taylor, Aaron Martin, Siddharth Peter de Souza, Joan Lopez-Solano
In this commentary, we address the notion of ‘sector transgressions’, which we define as a problem of infrastructural power with features of regulatory capture. During the pandemic, new markets wer...
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Automation hesitancy: confidence deficits, established limits and notional horizons in the application of algorithms within the private rental sector in the UK Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 David Beer, Alison Wallace, Alexandra Ciocanel, Roger Burrows, James Cussens
Drawing upon a qualitative research project examining the use of algorithms in decisions relating to access to housing, this article develops the concept of automation hesitancy. It reflects on the...
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More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Will Mari
Published in Information, Communication & Society (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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On or off topic? Understanding the effects of issue-related political targeted ads Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Xiaotong Chu, Lukas Otto, Rens Vliegenthart, Sophie Lecheler, Claes de Vreese, Sanne Kruikemeier
Whilst data-driven strategies are allegedly prevalent in political campaigns, evidence regarding their actual effectiveness is scarce. This study investigates, from an individual perspective, the e...
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Producing green users: environmental protection practice in a platform society Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Qing Yan, Hanbo Hou, Meiling Du, Fan Yang
In a platform society, the realization of the public value of platforms is not only affected by goals constructed based on national interest but also closely related to the rights and interests of ...
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Multi-site domestication: taming technologies across multiple institutional settings Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Lars E. F. Johannessen, Maja Nordtug, Marit Haldar
ABSTRACT This article advances domestication theory by developing the concept of multi-site domestication. Whereas domestication theory traditionally focuses on the ‘taming’ of technologies at a single site (most often, the household), the concept of multi-site domestication captures how technologies often require different taming processes across multiple institutional settings. In this article, we
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Breaking the social media prism: how to make our platforms less polarizing Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Maham Sufi
Published in Information, Communication & Society (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Transgressing local, national, global spheres: the blackboxed dynamics of platformization and infrastructuralization of primary education Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Niels Kerssens, José van Dijck
ABSTRACT This article analyzes how platformization and infrastructuralization are currently reshaping the educational sector by engaging in ‘sphere transgressions’, resulting in the merging of a local and national public sector into a transnational and global digital market. It elaborates on the adaptive learning application Bingel as a case-in-point to exemplify how sphere transgressions are conducive
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Algorithmic futures: the intersection of algorithms and evidentiary work Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Ciaran B. Trace, James A. Hodges
ABSTRACT The role of algorithms in decision-making is now so consequential that we agree that algorithmic systems must be designed, implemented, and managed in ways that are understandable to interested parties. Anchored in a tradition of capturing, contextualizing, and preserving evidence of analog and digital technologies, this article draws out the roles adopted or tried on by the recordkeeping
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Performing the care crisis through the datafication of elderly welfare care Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Michela Cozza
ABSTRACT Demographic changes associated with contemporary society are often framed as a ‘care crisis’ where the aging population is portrayed as threatening the financial security and the future of younger generations. To rationally intervene in these issues, welfare states – particularly in Nordic countries – increasingly rely on digital technology as a ‘remedy’ and ‘promise’ of more effective and
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News consumption, expressive social media activities, political discussions, and political consumerism: examining reciprocal relations with panel data Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Ole Kelm
ABSTRACT Empirical studies have shown that news consumption, expressive social media activities, and political discussions are positively related to political consumerism. However, political consumerism is usually conceptualized as boycotting and/or buycotting, neglecting discursive and lifestyle political consumerism. Moreover, most studies are based on cross-sectional data and do not explore potential
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Metavoicing, trust-building mechanisms and partisan messaging: a study of social media usage by selected South African female politicians Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Trust Matsilele, Sisanda Nkoala
This study investigates social media usage patterns, Twitter’ frequency use and message typologies of selected South African female politicians’. Using the digital public sphere theory as a lens, t...
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Challenging the legacy of the past and present intimate colonialization – a study of Ugandan LGBT+ activism in times of shrinking communicative space Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Cecilia Strand, Jakob Svensson
Through a mixed-methods approach consisting of a directed content analysis of five established LGBT+ organizations’ use of Twitter and Facebook during a month in 2022, and semi-structured qualitati...
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‘Does she know how to read?’ An intersectional perspective to explore Twitter users’ portrayal of women Mapuche leaders Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Ximena Orchard, Magdalena Saldaña, Isabel Pavez, Claudia Lagos
Social media offer new opportunities for women in politics, but also new ground for the expression of bias and stereotypes. Drawing upon literature about mediated representations of women in politi...
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Netflix recommends: algorithms, film choice, and the history of the taste Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Zizheng Yu
Published in Information, Communication & Society (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The unhomed data subject: negotiating datafication in Latin America Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Esteban Morales, Katherine Reilly
Critical scholarship about datafication reveals the implications of algorithmically driven digital transformations for both social processes and human experiences of subjectivity. Digital transform...