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Collective victimhood narratives in far-right communities on Telegram

Constantine Boussalis, Craig Callum, Aaron F. Rudkin

Information, Communication & Society (2024), 18 pp.

"Feelings of collective victimhood have been demonstrated to have a strong effect on ingroup bias, outgroup hostility and support for violence. The use of narratives stirring these feelings in far-right communications is especially concerning given their inclusion in the manifestos of several mass k ... more

Contesting personalized recommender systems: A cross-country analysis of user preferences

Christopher Starke, Ljubisa Metikos, Natali Helberger, Claes de Vreese

Information, Communication & Society (2024), 20 pp.

"Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) such as Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube wield substantial influence over digital information flows using sophisticated algorithmic recommender systems (RS). As these systems curate personalized content, concerns have emerged about their propensity to amplify polar ... more

A ‘design justice’ approach to developing digital tools for addressing gender-based violence: Exploring the possibilities and limits of feminist chatbots

Nicola Henry, Alice Witt, Stefani Vasil

Information, Communication & Society (2024), 24 pp.

"Digital tools, such as safety apps, reporting portals, and chatbots, are increasingly being used by victim-survivors of gender-based violence to report unlawful activity and access specialized support and information. Despite their limitations, these interventions offer a range of potential benefit ... more

Memes, humor, and the far right’s strategic mainstreaming

Ursula Kristin Schmid, Heidi Schulze, Antonia Drexel

Information, Communication & Society (2024), 20 pp.

"The far right is increasingly relying on visual and less extreme online communication, for instance by using memes, to strategically mainstream their ideology. The use of humor in particular renders their communication more relatable to a mainstream audience. However, little is known about the actu ... more

Digitalization in China: Who’s left behind?

Anson Au

Information, Communication & Society, volume 27, issue 6 (2024), pp. 1247-1265

"In an age of digitalization, who still refuses to use digital technology? Drawing on nationally-representative Chinese General Social Survey data, this article finds that about half of Chinese households do not actively use the Internet or epayment systems, despite their ubiquity. This article esti ... more

Persisting inequalities in the digitalized society: Migrant women facing coercive dimensions of everyday digitalization

Ulla Buchert, Sirpa Wrede, Anne Kouvonen

Information, Communication & Society, volume 27, issue 5 (2024), pp. 935-950

"Understanding the ubiquitous digitalization of everyday life and associated inequalities presupposes rich conceptualizations of the associated social dynamics. Accordingly, we investigate digital service domestication as a social dimension of people’s lives, building on concepts that center users ... more

JIM-Studie 2024: Jugend, Information, Medien. Basisuntersuchung zum Medienumgang 12- bis 19-Jähriger

Stuttgart: Medienpädagogischer Forschungsverbund Südwest (mpfs) (2024), 72 pp.

Exploring the Security Landscape of Telegram: Insights and Concerns

Nikola Tulechki, Martin Stamenov

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2024), 9 pp.

Haarlem Declaration: Championing AI for Advancing Inclusive, Safe, and Reliable Digital Media Spaces!

RNW Media (2024), 11 pp.

En la mira: Seguridad y principales amenazas digitales en América Latina

Valentín Díaz

Derechos Digitales (2024), 41 pp.

AI and the future of journalism: An issue brief for stakeholders

Anya Schiffrin

Paris: UNESCO (2024), 18 pp.

Discussing the Role of TikTok Sharing Practices in Everyday Social Life

Andreas Schellewald

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 909-926

"A crucial element of TikTok consumption is the act of sharing TikTok videos with others, such as friends. In this article, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork with young adult TikTok users based in the United Kingdom to investigate this practice. I show how people use TikTok’s “For You” page as ... more

“O Ever Youthful, O Ever Weeping”: Exploring Youth Empowerment through Platform-Dependent Creative Labor in China

Yunyi Hu

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 1225-1245

"This study presents “platform-dependent creative labor” as a typology for exploring youth empowerment through the performance of creative labor on Bilibili, the most prevalent Chinese digital entertainment platform among young people. It employs digital ethnography and semistructured interviews ... more

Self-Deprecating Cyberculture on TikTok: Experiences of Young Indonesians

Anindita Widiastuti, Atwar Bajari, Ira Mirawati

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 2201-2223

"The TikTok self-deprecating (SD) cyberculture is built on the exchange of SD memes among users who deprecate aspects of themselves on a daily basis. Predominantly composed of young people, SD memes on Indonesian TikTok reflect discourses on the daily struggles faced by young Indonesians. To explore ... more

Parenting With Chinese Characteristics in the Digital Age: Chinese Parents’ Perspectives and Parental Mediation of Children’s Media Use

Cecillia Yuxi Zhou

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 3292-3311

"This study explores parental views of early adolescents’ media use and parental mediation among urban middle-class families in mainland China through a sociocultural perspective. By interviewing 18 Chinese parents, this research found that parents’ concerns with media, such as children’s eyes ... more

Communicating Through Chaos in the Webtoon Parasocial Intimacy Chamber

Brian Yecies, Dingkun Wang, Mehrdad Amirghasemi, Ming Lu, Kishan Kariippanon

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 2919-2947

"This study investigates some of the communicative practices displayed by readers of vertically scrolling digital comics known as webtoons. A big-data emotion detection technique is used to identify, categorize, and analyze the contents of more than 14 million comments posted during the first year o ... more

(Mis-)Connected: Web Series, Digital Culture, and Everyday Life in Lockdown

Nicola Evans, Mark Ryan, Steinar Ellingsen, Meredith Burkholder, Leandro da Silva

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), 2902-2918

"Web series are, in some ways, tailored for capturing everyday life in a pandemic. As shortform episodic content distributed via online platforms, the creators of Web series commonly work with tight budgets, recruiting crew and cast from their own networks, and making use of the home as an inexpensi ... more

The Construction of Distributed Trust on Bilibili Under the COVID-19 Pandemic

Siwen Lu, Sijing Lu

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp, 2859-2881

"This study explores the construction of distributed trust under today’s networked environment. Focusing on diaspora micro-influencers’ COVID-19-related videos on Bilibili, this study aims to explore: How platform-specific features of Bilibili enhance the construction of distributed trust; the d ... more

Knowledge Workers of the Digital World, Unite! Knowledge Workers’ Workplace Surveillance and Hidden Transcripts in China

WeiMing Ye, Luming Zhao

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 3163-3184

"In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a growing use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for the purposes of labor control and surveillance. This trend significantly affects the knowledge workers who are deeply connected with ICT. However, there is a lack of studies tackl ... more