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The fifth estate: the power shift of the digital age Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Thomas O’Brien
Published in Information, Communication & Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Does the type of privacy-protective behaviour matter? An analysis of online privacy protective action and motivation Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Eva Orszaghova, Grant Blank
Individual decisions to protect privacy online are complex. Most research has treated privacy protection measures as a single, unitary category. This paper challenges this notion by looking at mult...
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Determinants of willingness to donate data from social media platforms Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Zoltán Kmetty, Ádám Stefkovics, Júlia Számely, Dongning Deng, Anikó Kellner, Edit Pauló, Elisa Omodei, Júlia Koltai
Social media data donation through data download packages (DDPs) is a promising new way of collecting individual-level digital trace data with informed consent. Nevertheless, given the novelty of t...
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Valuing lived experience and co-design solutions to counter racial inequality in data and algorithmic systems in UK’s digital services Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Aunam Quyoum, Mark Wong
In the United Kingdom, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the movement towards large-scale digitisation of everyday services: from healthcare, social housing, social security to utilities. Howev...
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Examining adolescents’ systematic and heuristic credibility evaluation strategies of online news Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Joyce Vissenberg
In an online environment where mis- and disinformation are flourishing, credibility evaluations of online news have become vital. The information processing literature suggests that individuals can...
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Sphere transgressions in medical research: tactical engagements with Apple’s ResearchKit Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Marthe Stevens
In the last decade, large technology companies have started many initiatives to stimulate and innovate in the sphere of medical research. A prominent example is the ResearchKit software framework l...
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Mediating access: unpacking the role of algorithms in digital tenancy application technologies Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Linda Przhedetsky
Digital tenancy application technologies (DTATs) are becoming the dominant means through which renters in the private rental sector (PRS) apply for housing. These PropTech tools, which claim to str...
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Smarter, greener extractivism: digital infrastructures and the harnessing of new resources Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Patrick Brodie
The past several years have seen increased scholarly attention to the concept of ‘extraction’ and ‘extractivism’ as critical frameworks in the humanities and social sciences. These are not only con...
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Memes, humor, and the far right’s strategic mainstreaming Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Ursula Kristin Schmid, Heidi Schulze, Antonia Drexel
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 render...
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Social media influencers as new agents on parenthood? A systematic literature review of parent influencer research and a future research agenda Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Emma Beuckels, Ralf De Wolf
Parents frequently turn to social media and blogs to find information, advice, and support on parenting. In recent years, social media influencers and specifically ‘parent influencers’ have become ...
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Credibility cues of conspiracy narratives: exploring the belief-driven credibility evaluation of a YouTube conspiracy video Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Juliane A. Lischka
YouTube provides an exhaustive collection of videos that promote conspiracy narratives. Conspiracy narratives deviate from orthodox views and are grounded in non-falsifiable premises. This study ai...
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Patrons of commerce: asymmetrical reciprocity and moral economies of platform power Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Aaron Shapiro, Courtlyn Pippert, Jacob Kenton Smith, Zari A. Taylor
What do platforms owe their users, and what do users owe platforms? We adapt the concept of asymmetrical reciprocity from political anthropology as a framework for critiquing the moral economies of...
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Using social impact games to overcome intractable conflicts: the case of Fact Finders and PeaceMaker Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Ronit Kampf, Iolie Nicolaidou
Is there a spillover effect in multiperspectivity regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict among Israeli and Palestinian undergraduate students that results from playing a social impact game abou...
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Algorithmic agenda-setting: the subtle effects of news recommender systems on political agendas in the Danish 2022 general election Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Árni Már Einarsson, R. Helles, S. Lomborg
As news media strive to enhance their data science capabilities to compete with digital platforms, news recommender systems (NRSs) provide viable solutions for enhancing relevance, engagement, and ...
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AI competitions as infrastructures of power in medical imaging Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Dieuwertje Luitse, Tobias Blanke, Thomas Poell
This article examines how platform-based AI competitions structure power relations in medical imaging research. It focuses on two leading platforms, Kaggle and Grand Challenge, which provide organi...
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Citizens’ perspectives on platformisation of police work: a scenario and story-based exploration in Estonia and Sweden Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Anu Masso, Tayfun Kasapoglu, Anne Kaun, Vasilis Galis
The integration of automated decision-making systems has transformed police work and our understanding of security and surveillance. Despite a growing theoretical literature on shifts in policing d...
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The new ‘lettings agent’s window’: interface design and discrimination on online rental platforms Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Jed Meers
Accessing the private rented sector is now an almost exclusively online activity. In the UK 96% of renters found their property from one of the four leading online rental platforms: Rightmove, Spar...
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Tracing the dynamics of misinformation and vaccine stance in Finland amid COVID-19 Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Ali Unlu, Sophie Truong, Nitin Sawhney, Jonas Sivelä, Tuukka Tammi
This study analyzed 1,683,700 vaccine-related tweets in Finnish using FinBERT language model, Botometer, and BERTopic, from December 2019 to October 2022. A strong correlation was identified betwee...
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Random access memories or clichéd representations? Exploring historical photographs of the troubles on Instagram Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Paul Reilly
Social media provide unprecedented opportunities for the distribution of photographs capturing experiences of conflict. Instagram in particular renders conflict photography searchable, whilst also ...
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Competing digital capacities: between state-led digital governance and local data center tradeoffs Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Lauren E. Bridges
Governments worldwide are embracing digital transformation, envisioning limitless data capacities for public policy. However, this paper uncovers a crucial oversight: the neglect of material resour...
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Objectivity vs affect: how competing forms of legitimacy can polarize public debate in data-driven public consultation Information, Communication & Society (IF 5.054) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Alison B. Powell
How do data and objectivity become politicized? How do processes intended to include citizen voices instead push them into social media that intensify negative expression? This paper examines the p...
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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 ...