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Too amused to stop? Self-control and the disengagement process on Netflix Journal of Communication (IF 6.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Alicia Gilbert, Leonard Reinecke, Adrian Meier, Susanne E Baumgartner, Felix Dietrich
Consuming media entertainment often challenges recipients’ self-control. While past research related self-control almost exclusively to whether individuals engage in media use, it might be equally relevant for the disengagement from media use. Testing core assumptions of the Appraisal of Media Use, Self-Control, and Entertainment (AMUSE) model, the present study investigates the situational interplay
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How Do Personal Opinions Relate to Online Expressions? An Experimental Study Among Muslim Minority Groups in The Netherlands Communication Research (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Nick Wuestenenk, Frank van Tubergen, Tobias H. Stark, Naomi Ellemers
There has been much debate about how cultural differences between ethnic groups may affect the cohesion of multicultural societies. Still, we know little about the extent to which cultural differences between groups also materialize into behavioral differences, especially in online settings. To study this, we conducted an experiment in which second-generation Moroccan and Turkish Dutch participants
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The Influences of Misinformation on Incidences of Politically Motivated Violence in Europe The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Mina Rulis
Misinformation has become increasingly prevalent in online media. Transnational misinformation, in particular, poses an increasing threat to the security and stability of modern nation-states. To this end, at least some anecdotal evidence suggests a direct relationship between misinformation and domestic acts of politically motivated violence. Yet, such claims lack systematic empirical evidence, especially
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Engaging Populism? The Popularity of European Populist Political Parties on Facebook and Twitter, 2010–2020 Political Communication (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Thomas R. Davidson, Jenny Enos
Scholars have argued that populists disproportionately benefit from social media, and there is evidence that they attract more engagement than other politicians and parties in several countries. We...
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Latent profiles of adolescents’ digital skills across six European countries New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Lauri Hietajärvi, Giovanna Mascheroni, Natalia Waechter, Jussi Järvinen, Katariina Salmela-Aro
Digital skills are considered critical for functioning in contemporary society, yet there are differences between adolescents’ skills depending on demographic and socioeconomic variables. This study, utilising data from six EU countries ( N = 6221; Mage = 14.5; SD = 1.4), takes a person-oriented approach to examine adolescents digital skill profiles and associations with socioeconomic, digital activity
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Editors’ Introduction: Global Crises, Contentious Politics and Social Media Political Communication (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Holli A. Semetko, S. Shyam Sundar
Published in Political Communication (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Epistemology of Fact Checking: An Examination of Practices and Beliefs of Fact Checkers Around the World Digital Journalism (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Michael Koliska, Jessica Roberts
Epistemologies of journalism differ across genres, and fact-checking, as an independent operation or feature within existing news media organizations, can be considered a genre of journalism with i...
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Googling Politics? Comparing Five Computational Methods to Identify Political and News-related Searches from Web Browser Histories Communication Methods and Measures (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Marieke van Hoof, Damian Trilling, Corine Meppelink, Judith Möller, Felicia Loecherbach
Search engines play a crucial role in today’s information environment. Yet, political and news-related (PNR) search engine use remains understudied, mainly due to the lack of suitable measurement m...
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The Effects of COVID-19 Infection on Opposition to COVID-19 Policies: Evidence from the U.S. Congress Political Communication (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Zachary P. Dickson, Tevfik Murat Yildirim
Elites’ skepticism of scientific consensus presents a formidable challenge in addressing critical issues like climate change and global pandemics. While extensive research has explored the capacity...
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Epistemic Vulnerability: Theory and Measurement at the System Level Political Communication (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Julien Labarre
Research about the epistemic crisis has largely treated epistemic threats in isolation, overlooking what they collectively say about the health of news environments. This study integrates the liter...
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Serial killers and the production of the uncanny in digital participatory culture New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Laura Glitsos, Mark Deuze
Many theorists have expounded on what serial killing says about the social in any given context and the ways in which serial killing and media are entangled, in particular, Mark Seltzer, Jon Stratton and Elliot Leyton. However, in this article, we ask, how is serial killer mythology developing in relation to participatory culture typical of our current digital environment? In scaffolding discourse
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Followers, fans, friends, or haters? A typology of the online interactions and relationships between social media influencers and their audiences based on a social capital framework New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Gaëlle Ouvrein
Little is known about the characteristics and dynamics within SMI–audience interactions and relationships from the side of SMI. Using interview data from 19 ( N = 19) SMI, this study aims (1) to increase the insights on the development (i.e. predictors and dimensions) and dynamics (i.e. outcomes and feedback loops) of SMI’s social capital and (2) use the social capital framework to develop a typology
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Gamification towards and alongside equity, diversity and inclusion: Looking back to move forward New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Ana Carolina Tomé Klock, Paula Toledo Palomino, Luiz Antonio Lima Rodrigues, Armando Maciel Toda, Sofia Simanke, Velvet Spors, Brenda Salenave Santana, Juho Hamari
Given the urgent need for environments that enable everyone in fulfilling their fullest potential, many new media innovations have focused on equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) actions. Gamification is one of these innovations, becoming a promising avenue to engage people towards effective social change. Yet, the intersection between EDI and gamification is incipient and fragmented, preventing a
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‘Normal news is boring’: How young adults encounter and experience news on Instagram and TikTok New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Jonathan Hendrickx
Instagram and TikTok constitute the fastest rising social media apps for news consumption. However, very little remains known on how young people encounter and experience news content on these platforms. Drawing on 25 in-depth interviews with young adult Belgians, including operationalising the walkthrough method, this qualitative research article fills this existing gap in scholarship. I contextualise
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Believe it or not: A network analysis investigating how individuals embrace false and true statements during COVID-19 Communication Monographs (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Sanguk Lee, Hyesun Choung, Tai-Quan Peng, Maria Knight Lapinski, Youjin Jang, Monique Mitchell Turner
As individuals make belief decisions on truths and falsehoods, a systematic organization of (mis)information emerges. In this study, we employ a network approach to illustrate how a sample of Ameri...
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Pre-onset relational investments and dementia caregiver wellbeing: Comparing theorizing from the investment model and the theory of resilience and relational load Communication Monographs (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 R. Amanda Cooper, Chris Segrin
Dementia alters relationships between family caregivers and their relatives living with dementia. Drawing from the theory of resilience and relational load (TRRL) and the investment model, this stu...
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A Self-Righteous, Not a Virtuous, Circle: Proposing a New Framework for Studying Media Effects on Knowledge and Political Participation in a Social Media Environment Social Media + Society (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Sangwon Lee, Sebastián Valenzuela
To explain the participatory effects of news exposure, communication scholars have long relied upon the “virtuous circle” framework of media use and civic participation. That is, news consumption makes people more knowledgeable, and trustful toward institutions and political processes, making them active and responsible citizens, which then leads them to engage in various political activities. In a
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Reflective smartphone disengagement as a coping strategy against cyberbullying: A cross-country study with emerging adults from the United States and Indonesia New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Maryam Khaleghipour, Kevin Koban, Anja Stevic, Jörg Matthes
Cyberbullying is a highly prevalent phenomenon among emerging adults, and it may lead to severe psychosocial harm for some targets. Understanding how emerging adults can cope with cyberbullying by altering their media use but without risking one of their crucial social lifelines, mobile social media, during the process is essential. To this end, this study examines a stress-coping process that involves
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The “Russian bots” between social and technological: Examining the ordinary folk theories of Twitter users New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Dragoș M Obreja
The bots’ activity is already frequently documented in the literature, and the war between Russia and Ukraine accentuated this scholarly interest for users’ sensemaking. Applying folk theories framework on 56 semi-structured interviews with users who tweet about “Russian bots,” I examine how bots might be understood as structural-computational entities, with complex roles in shaping digitally mediated
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The effects of augmented reality on prosocial behavior intentions in the disaster news context: The mediating role of physical presence and empathy New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Miaohong Huang, Sai Datta Mikkilineni, Jiyoung Lee, Madison Duboise
Despite the increasing adoption of augmented reality (AR) in journalism, there is limited scholarly attention devoted to understanding its effects compared to traditional modalities. This study investigates user engagement with AR-enabled disaster news through a between-subjects experiment ( N = 89), comparing AR, image, or text-only modalities. The results demonstrate that psychological responses
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Justifying an Invasion: When Is Disinformation Successful? Political Communication (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Jan Zilinsky, Yannis Theocharis, Franziska Pradel, Marina Tulin, Claes de Vreese, Toril Aalberg, Ana Sofía Cardenal, Nicoleta Corbu, Frank Esser, Luisa Gehle, Denis Halagiera, Michael Hameleers, David Nicolas Hopmann, Karolina Koc-Michalska, Jörg Matthes, Christian Schemer, Václav Štětka, Jesper Strömbäck, Ludovic Terren, Sergio Splendore, James Stanyer, Agnieszka Stępińska, Peter Van Aelst, Alon Zoizner
Conventional wisdom suggests that social media, especially when used by authoritarian powers with nefarious aims, leaves citizens of democratic countries vulnerable to psychological influence campa...
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“Living the stories of your great-grandmother”: Making sense of Russia’s war in Ukraine through Polish intergenerational family storytelling Communication Monographs (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Haley Kranstuber Horstman, Jennifer Bohanek, Ewelina Łapińska, Olivia Watson, Anna Cierpka, Karolina Małek
After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Polish people were tasked with making sense of war in close proximity while supporting millions of Ukrainian refugees fleeing to Poland. In times of ...
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“She takes rest as seriously as working:” Communicative resilience and professional caregivers’ meanings of rest Communication Monographs (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Katherine Ann Rush, Ryan S. Bisel
Are resilient employees so tough that they neglect to rest? To answer this question, eleven extraordinarily resilient professional caregivers (positive deviants [PD]) were interviewed about their m...
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Fighting Fakes on WhatsApp—Audience Perspectives on Fact Bots as Countermeasures Digital Journalism (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Lena Frischlich, Johanna Klapproth, Sara Frank, Mara Heckmann, Susanne Elizabeth Kunze, Thalía Murgas
The messengerization of society and the rise of meso-communication spaces have created new opportunity structures for spreading misinformation. Countermeasures in this context must meet other priva...
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Media Use, Feelings of Being Devalued, and Democratically Corrosive Sentiment in the US The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Bruce Bimber, Julien Labarre, Daniel Gomez, Ilia Nikiforov, Karolina Koc-Michalska
We take two approaches to understanding democratically corrosive sentiment (DCS) in the US, which we operationalize in terms of populist attitudes, conspiracy beliefs, and expectation of fraud in the next election. Our first approach is media use, which is not well understood as a correlate of DCS beyond generalities about the harms of social media and partisan news. We distinguish between mainstream
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Toward a Datafied Mindset: Conceptualizing Digital Dynamics and Analogue Resilience Social Media + Society (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Rita Figueiras, Göran Bolin, Veronika Kalmus
This article explores the ways in which what we call the analogue and the datafied mindsets perceive the functioning of the datafied world. Based on a qualitative interview study of two generations of media users in Estonia, Portugal, and Sweden, we present and analyze underlying patterns in participants’ media attitudes and related practices. We show that belonging to a media generation does not always
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What we know and don’t know about deepfakes: An investigation into the state of the research and regulatory landscape New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Alena Birrer, Natascha Just
The emergence of deepfakes has raised concerns among researchers, policymakers, and the public. However, many of these concerns stem from alarmism rather than well-founded evidence. This article provides an overview of what is currently known about deepfakes based on a systematic review of empirical research. It also examines and critically assesses regulatory responses globally through qualitative
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In/visible hurdles: US collegiate esports participants’ perceived barriers to play and involvement New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Andrew J Wilson, Amanda Cote, Maxwell Foxman, Brandon Harris, Jared Hansen, Onder Can, Md Waseq Ur Rahman
Gaming and esports communities possess cultural barriers that exclude potential participants, limiting their access to social, cultural, and economic opportunities. In the United States, for instance, varsity esports players are increasingly supported by scholarships and tournament prizes, but persistent challenges make these benefits accessible to only a limited portion of the student body. Using
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Greenfluencing Through the Power of Emotions? Impact of Message Frames and Emotionally Matching Background Music on the Effectiveness of Influencers’ Environmental Communication Social Media + Society (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Zoe Olbermann, Fabian Mayer, Holger Schramm
Social media influencers have become increasingly important in persuading people to become environmentally sensitive. As “greenfluencers” have been studied primarily in the context of advertising, it is crucial to investigate the mechanisms and effects of their non-product–related environmental messages. In two studies, we tested different message frames, a well-known persuasion strategy, in the context
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When Social Media Gets Political: How Message–Platform Match Affects Consumer Responses to Brand Activism Advertising Journal of Advertising (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Xuan Zhou, Chen Lou, Xun (Irene) Huang
Social media has sparked a surge in online activism and sociopolitical movements. Numerous companies have also launched brand activism advertising campaigns to voice their stances on sociopolitical...
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Curators of digital futures: The life cycle of pioneer communities New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Andreas Hepp
Research typically considers corporate actors such as large tech companies or government agencies as drivers of deep mediatization, the increasing saturation of society by digital media and their infrastructures. This article aims to focus on another group of collective actors: pioneer communities, exemplified by the Maker, Hacks/Hackers, and Quantified Self movements. They are characterized by their
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Enhancing children’s understanding of algorithmic biases in and with text-to-image generative AI New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Henriikka Vartiainen, Juho Kahila, Matti Tedre, Sonsoles López-Pernas, Nicolas Pope
Despite the growing concerns surrounding algorithmic biases in generative AI (artificial intelligence), there is a noticeable lack of research on how to facilitate children and young people’s awareness and understanding of them. This study aimed to address this gap by conducting hands-on workshops with fourth- and seventh-grade students in Finland, and by focusing on students’ ( N = 209) evolving explanations
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“There’s Always a Way to Get Around the Guidelines”: Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Content Moderation on TikTok Social Media + Society (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Valerie Lookingbill, Kimanh Le
The stigmatized nature of nonsuicidal self-injury may render TikTok, a short-form, video-sharing social media platform, appealing to individuals who engage in this behavior. Since this community faces biased scrutiny based on stigmatization surrounding mental health, nonsuicidal self-injury users may turn to TikTok, which offers a space for users to engage in discussions of nonsuicidal self-injury
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The Impact of Supervisory Communication on Newcomers’ Adjustment, Well-Being, and Relationships With Their Organization: A Longitudinal Study Communication Research (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Cen April Yue, Sifan Xu, Weiting Tao, Lei Vincent Huang
Integrating theories from relationship management, organizational socialization, and leadership communication, the current study examines how an essential component of internal communication—leaders’ use of motivating language—can facilitate newcomers’ socialization, strengthen their relationship with the organization, and promote psychological well-being over time. Our findings, based on a two-wave
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Trust is key: Determinants of false beliefs about climate change in eight countries New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Waqas Ejaz, Sacha Altay, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Science has established the human-caused nature of climate change, yet the prevalence of climate-related misinformation persists, undermining public understanding and impeding collective action. Strikingly, existing research on belief in misinformation about climate change has disproportionately focused on WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) countries. To move beyond this
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Beyond subcultures: A literature review of gaming communities and sociological analysis New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Giulio Pitroso
This article is a critical review of studies on gaming communities. In particular, it analyses the use of subcultural, post-subcultural and postmodern subcultural theorists in relation to video games players. Academic use of sociological concepts to study gaming communities, such as neo-tribe, subculture, lifestyle, and scene, is not always explained and almost all sociological instruments show limits
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‘Disconnecting from my smartphone is a privilege I do not have’: Mobile connection and disconnection practices among migrants and asylum seekers in three migrant reception centres of Sicily New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Miriana Cascone, Tiziano Bonini
This article investigates online connection and disconnection practices among migrants and asylum seekers. It draws from an ethnography of three Sicilian reception centres that hosted migrants and asylum seekers between September and November 2020. We show how migrants, driven by different migratory motivations, enact different mobile connection and disconnection practices. We argue that these are
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Countering underproduction of peer produced goods New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Kaylea Champion, Benjamin Mako Hill
Peer produced goods, such as online knowledge bases and free/libre open source software rely on contributors who often choose their tasks regardless of consumer needs. These goods are susceptible to underproduction: when popular goods are relatively low quality. Although underproduction is a common feature of peer production, very little is known about how to counteract it. We use a detailed longitudinal
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“Because the News is Depressing as Hell”: Journalists’ Explanations of News Avoidance Digital Journalism (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Ruth Palmer, Stephanie Edgerly
What journalists believe about the growing phenomenon of news avoidance will affect the way they address it. In this paper we use an iterative, mixed-methods approach to analyze responses to an ope...
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Nudging News Readers: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Understanding When and How Interface Nudges Affect News Selection Digital Journalism (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Nicolas Mattis, Tim Groot Kormelink, Philipp K. Masur, Judith Moeller, Wouter van Atteveldt
Building on research on nudging as well as democratic news recommender design, this preregistered study employed a mixed-methods design to explore how interface nudges and article positioning affec...
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Different Media, Different Audiences, Different Harassment? How the Journalist-Audience Relationship Shapes Experiences of Harassment Digital Journalism (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Manuel Menke, Christina Seeger
Many journalists regularly experience harassment in their daily work. Audiences in Western democracies have become increasingly aggressive in their communication due to the spread of anti-press sen...
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Emotionalized Social Media Environments: How Alternative News Media and Populist Actors Drive Angry Reactions Political Communication (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Edda Humprecht, Michael Amsler, Frank Esser, Peter Van Aelst
This study employs a comparative analytical framework to enhance our understanding of the conducive opportunity structures that foster emotionally charged political discourse. We examined 175,539 F...
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Investigating 55 years of mass shooter statements in the United States: A study of perpetrators’ stated motivations and their association with attack severity Communication Monographs (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Katherine Schibler, Lindsay Hahn, Adam Lankford
Mass shootings are a prevalent and terrible problem in the U.S. As a foundation for communication-focused research into the media-related causes and effects of mass shooters’ stated grievances, and...
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The Nature of Visual Disinformation Online: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Alternative and Social Media in the Netherlands Political Communication (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Michael Hameleers
Online political disinformation often relies on decontextualized or manipulated images. Visual content can make disinformation more attention-grabbing and credible as it offers a direct index of re...
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Pseudo-scientific versus anti-scientific online conspiracism: A comparison of the Flat Earth Society’s Internet forum and Reddit New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Federico Pilati, Tommaso Venturini, Pier Luigi Sacco, Floriana Gargiulo
Attitudes of distrust and paranoia toward scientific and political institutions are increasingly identified as major troubles in online communication and often lumped together under the umbrella term of conspiracy theories. However, this term encompasses two distinct communication practices that deserve to be distinguished. Traditional conspiratorial thinking adopts pseudo-scientific arguments, while
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News participation is declining: Evidence from 46 countries between 2015 and 2022 New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Sacha Altay, Richard Fletcher, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Digital media are often praised for having offered new ways to participate with news. But how has participation with news changed in recent years? A pre-registered analysis of survey data from 2015 to 2022 in 46 countries ( N = 577,859) shows that participation with news has declined. This decrease is observed in most countries and for most forms of participation, including liking, sharing, commenting
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Gender and Advertising: A 50-Year Bibliometric Analysis Journal of Advertising (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Gülten Adalı, Fatma Yardibi, Şükrü Aydın, Ayşad Güdekli, Emel Aksoy, Sibel Hoştut
This study aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of research on gender and advertising. For this, a bibliometric review of 2,735 research articles was conducted using performance an...
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*READ**THIS*!! Spam as a threat for open science New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Johanna Cohoon
Drawing on multiple sources of qualitative data, I describe a case of open science infrastructure (OSI) abuse. The case illustrates how developers navigated scholarly value tensions and issues of epistemic and platform legitimacy while battling spam on their open science webapp. Notably, their struggle used precious financial resources and drew attention away from other development tasks like feature
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Online self-disclosure: An interdisciplinary literature review of 10 years of research New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Tamar Ashuri, Ruth Halperin
The term “self-disclosure” refers to actions by which individuals reveal information about themselves. The interest in such conduct has resurged with the development of networked participatory technologies, which enable creation, dissemination, analysis, and use of large amounts of personal information, thereby increasingly augmenting the effect of online self-disclosure on disclosers and disclosees
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Friction in the Netflix machine: How screen workers interact with streaming data New Media & Society (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Nina Vindum Rasmussen
Data-driven streamers like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have expanded into the European screen landscape with a significant appetite for locally produced content. These players leverage advanced data analytics to gain deep customer insights, but they prefer to keep a lid on their algorithmic operations. This article examines how screen workers interact with streaming data despite widespread secrecy
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“Scooped by the Town Drunk”: Unpacking the Effects of COVID-19 on Rural Journalism Work Digital Journalism (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Ruth Moon, Mildred F. Perreault, Jessica Walsh, Gregory Perreault, Louisa Lincoln
Journalists serving rural communities are crucial sources of information across the U.S.; they also face challenges and opportunities unlike those of their peers at large urban outlets. In this stu...
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Meso News-Spaces and Beyond: News-Related Communication Occurring Between the Public and Private Domains Digital Journalism (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Ori Tenenboim
The concept of meso news-spaces refers to online spaces located between the private and public realms, where everyday users, more professional media actors, or both, can produce and share news-rela...
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The Same Views, the Same News? A 15-Country Study on News Sharing on Social Media by European Politicians Political Communication (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Willem Buyens, Peter Van Aelst, Cristian Vaccari
Social media allow politicians to circumvent the gatekeeping role of news media by providing a platform on which they can communicate directly with and to their electorates. Still, politicians shar...
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The Role of Psychological Distance in Enhancing Identity-Relevant Brand Awareness Journal of Advertising (IF 5.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Scott Connors, Katie Spangenberg
Advertisers are increasingly prioritizing brand awareness, as it has become a top marketing objective, yet market trends suggest that much of consumers’ brand knowledge is not easily retrieved from...
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Reactance to Persuasive Messages Depends on Felt Obligation Communication Research (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Seungjoo Yang, John K. Kruschke
Psychological reactance theory suggests that the higher the threat-level of persuasive messages, the higher the reactance. Previous research has revealed ways to manipulate messages to either arouse or reduce psychological reactance. By contrast, the current work compares people’s reactance across different target actions while keeping the threat-level of the message consistent. We propose that reactance
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Refuse to Say Just What You Mean: Anti- “Woke” Rhetoric As an Exercise in Destructive Abstraction Political Communication (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Meredith D. Clark
Published in Political Communication (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Governing the Resilient Self: Influencers’ Digital Affective Labor in Quarantine Vlogs Social Media + Society (IF 5.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Alkım Yalın
This article explores quarantine vlogs on YouTube to examine the cultural production of influencers during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. By using a grounded theory approach to analyze 9 quarantine vlogs filmed by woman creators along with 480 user comments, this article argues that quarantine vlogs are shaped by influencers’ competing desires of (1) offering care and soothing content to
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Understanding How Immersive Media Enhance Prosociality: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis Communication Research (IF 4.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Fernando Canet, Sebastián Sánchez-Castillo
The aim of this article is to present a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature on the relationship between immersive media and prosociality, specifically in the discipline of social issues. The search was conducted in January 2023 and included research published up to and including 2022. Both parts of the review consider 43 studies. For the meta-analysis, by combining these studies we
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Book Review: Antiracist Journalism: The Challenge of Creating Equitable Local News by Andrea Wenzel The International Journal of Press/Politics (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Paula M. Poindexter
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Message-level Claims Require Message-level Data Analyses: Aligning Claims and Evidence in Communication Research Communication Methods and Measures (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Daniel J. O’Keefe
Researchers often invoke individual-level correlations (correlations between properties of individuals) as a basis for message-level claims (claims about properties of messages). For example: “Peop...