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Vol 18 (2024)
Table of Contents
Articles
| Civil Society Chatbots: A Plurality of Conceptual Approaches |
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Sophie Toupin |
20 pgs. |
| Finding Sarah Everard: A Critical Discourse Analysis Exploring the First Two Weeks of News Media Coverage Following Her Disappearance and Murder |
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Sim Gill |
20 pgs. |
| Discussing the Role of TikTok Sharing Practices in Everyday Social Life |
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Andreas Schellewald |
18 pgs. |
| Information Sources, Credibility, Knowledge, and Risk Perceptions: Findings From the National Tuberculosis Survey in South Korea |
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Jarim Kim, Sunouk You, Yesolran Kim |
21 pgs. |
| The Daily Show’s Climate Change Content: Two Decades of Late-Night Science Communication |
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Charlotte Gehrke |
19 pgs. |
| The Role of Second Screening in Online Political Participation in Jakarta and Islamabad |
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Drina Intyaswati, Qasim Mahmood, Hermina Simanihuruk |
19 pgs. |
| Engaging International Students via Dialogic Communication |
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Rachel Dean, Linjuan Rita Men |
24 pgs. |
| Knowledge Migration and the Politics of Innovation |
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Saskia Witteborn |
19 pgs. |
| Getting out of Debt: The Communication Begets Communication (CBC) Typology as an Approach to Theoretical Advancement in the Field |
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Nathan Walter, R. Lance Holbert, John Jennings Brooks, Camille J. Saucier, Sapna Suresh, Floor Fiers |
20 pgs. |
| Ambiguity Undermines Persuasive Effectiveness: Ego Involvement, Motivated Reasoning, and Message Ambiguity |
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David M. Keating, Qinjun Fan |
19 pgs. |
| Cryptid Communication: Media Messages and Public Beliefs About Cryptozoology |
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Wyatt Dawson, Paul R. Brewer, Liam Cuddy |
22 pgs. |
| The Labor of Cultural Conception and Uncertainty in Cultural Work: The Work of Korean Drama Writers |
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Hoyoung Kim |
18 pgs. |
| “A Significant Impact on our Democracy”: Chilean Media Audiences’ Claims for Dignity |
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Mónica Humeres-Riquelme, Claudia Jordana-Contreras, Jorge Saavedra-Utman |
20 pgs. |
| Trust Divide in Health Information Sources? Investigating the Role of Techno-Capital and Social Capital: A Comparative Analysis of General and Low-Income Populations |
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Jaewon R. Choi, Joseph Straubhaar, Soyoung Park, Maria Skouras, Melissa Santillana, Sharon Strover |
24 pgs. |
| Effects of Intergroup Communication on Intergroup Anxiety and Prejudice Through Single Sessions of Peer Counseling in Online Settings |
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Romy RW, Nick Joyce |
24 pgs. |
| Journalistic Theater: A Case Study of Reporting on People’s Emotional Response to Current Affairs With the Body as Medium |
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Stijn Postema |
21 pgs. |
| Talking Facts and Establishing (In)Justice: Discussing Public Matters on Instagram |
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Luise Salte |
19 pgs. |
| Chilling Effects as a Result of Corporate Surveillance in Digital Communication: A Comparison Between American and Dutch Media Users |
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Joanna Strycharz, Claire M. Segijn |
24 pgs. |
| Janus-Faced Portrayal: News Representation of Migrant Workers in Malaysian Newspapers Amid COVID-19 |
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Huihuang Lai, Hanizah Idris, Jiankun Gong |
21 pgs. |
| Public Service Media and the Internet: Two Decades in Review |
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Alessandro D'Arma, Steven Barclay, Minna Aslama Horowitz |
20 pgs. |
| Uncertainty Communication in a High-Trust Society: Source Type, Political Preference, and Trust |
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Øyvind Ihlen, Audun Fladmoe, Kari Steen-Johnsen |
29 pgs. |
| Online Toxicity Against Syrians in Turkish Twitter: Analysis and Implications |
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Hala Mulki, Samir Alabdullah, Ahmed Halil, Nawari Al-Ali, Maria Kyriakidou, Ludek Stavinoha |
28 pgs. |
| “I Care Where You Come From”: Testing the Conditional Moderated Mediation of Country-of-Origin Effect in Multinational Enterprises’ Corporate Social Responsibility Communication |
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BaoBao Song |
22 pgs. |
| Convergent Television Audiences, Digital Inequalities, and Social Support in Getting Audiovisual Content |
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Štěpán Žádník, Jakub Macek |
21 pgs. |
| What You See from These Survival Games is What Machines Get and Know: Squid Game, Surveillance Capitalism, and Platformized Spectatorship |
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Jihoon Kim |
17 pgs. |
| “These Parents, Themselves, Are Using These Children as Pawns”: The Politicization of Childhood at the U.S.-Mexico Border |
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Alyvia Walters |
19 pgs. |
| Spreading Like Wildfire: The Securitization of the Amazon Rainforest Fires on Twitter |
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Natalia Umansky |
21 pgs. |
| Trust and Online Privacy Concerns in a General Population of Internet Users |
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Stelios Stylianou |
21 pgs. |
| Two-Sided Narration and In-Group Narrator: Examining the Effects of Different Strategies of Mediated Public Diplomacy |
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Tianru Guan, Yue Yin, Yilu Yang |
22 pgs. |
| Visual Hate Speech and Its Discontents: Young Adult Chinese and Malaysians’ Perception of Visual Hate Speech |
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Jamaluddin Bin Aziz, Holger Briel |
21 pgs. |
| Mapping the Russian Media Field Through Audience Networks and Agenda Choice |
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Alla Loseva, Anna Moroz, Egor Shmidt, Daniel Alexandrov |
26 pgs. |
More Articles
Special Sections
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Rethinking Artificial Intelligence: Algorithmic Bias and Ethical Issues| Mapping Scholarship on Algorithmic Bias: Conceptualization, Empirical Results, and Ethical Concerns |
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Seungahn Nah, Jun Luo, Jungseock Joo |
22 pgs. |
| Rethinking Artificial Intelligence: Algorithmic Bias and Ethical Issues| How Gender and Type of Algorithmic Group Discrimination Influence Ratings of Algorithmic Decision Making |
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Sonja Utz |
20 pgs. |
| Rethinking Artificial Intelligence: Algorithmic Bias and Ethical Issues| The Realienation of the Commons: Wikidata and the Ethics of “Free” Data |
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Zachary J. McDowell, Matthew A. Vetter |
19 pgs. |
| Rethinking Artificial Intelligence: Algorithmic Bias and Ethical Issues| Rage Against the Artificial Intelligence? Understanding Contextuality of Algorithm Aversion and Appreciation |
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Tessa Oomen, João Gonçalves, Anouk Mols |
25 pgs. |
| Rethinking Artificial Intelligence: Algorithmic Bias and Ethical Issues| Making Algorithms Public: Reimagining Auditing From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern |
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R. Stuart Geiger, Udayan Tandon, Anoolia Gakhokidze, Lian Song, Lilly Irani |
22 pgs. |
| Rethinking Artificial Intelligence: Algorithmic Bias and Ethical Issues| How Process Experts Enable and Constrain Fairness in AI-Driven Hiring |
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Ignacio Fernandez Cruz |
21 pgs. |
| Rethinking Artificial Intelligence: Algorithmic Bias and Ethical Issues| Questioning Artificial Intelligence: How Racial Identity Shapes the Perceptions of Algorithmic Bias |
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Soojong Kim, Joomi Lee, Poong Oh |
23 pgs. |
| Rethinking Artificial Intelligence: Algorithmic Bias and Ethical Issues| Algorithmic Bias or Algorithmic Reconstruction? A Comparative Analysis Between AI News and Human News |
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Seungahn Nah, Jun Luo, Seungbae Kim, Mo Chen, Renee Mitson, Jungseock Joo |
30 pgs. |
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Forum
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Sociotechnical Change: Tracing Flows, Languages, and Stakes Across Diverse Cases| Creating a Language of and for Sociotechnical Change: Interdisciplinary Sites, Stakes, and Senses of Transformation—Introduction |
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Mike Ananny, Simogne Hudson |
8 pgs. |
| Sociotechnical Change: Tracing Flows, Languages, and Stakes Across Diverse Cases| From AAA TripTik to Google: Maps as Sites of Sociotechnical Change |
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So Yun Ahn |
10 pgs. |
| Sociotechnical Change: Tracing Flows, Languages, and Stakes Across Diverse Cases| Disautomated Realities in South Africa: Loadshedding, Poultry Death, and the Promises of Failure |
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Ziyaad Bhorat |
7 pgs. |
| Sociotechnical Change: Tracing Flows, Languages, and Stakes Across Diverse Cases| Digital Nations and the Future of the Climate Crisis |
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Alfonso Hegde |
7 pgs. |
| Sociotechnical Change: Tracing Flows, Languages, and Stakes Across Diverse Cases| Plasticity: Accounting for Adaptation in Sociotechnical Systems |
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Renyi Hong |
7 pgs. |
| Sociotechnical Change: Tracing Flows, Languages, and Stakes Across Diverse Cases| Humanitarian Innovation in Forced Displacement |
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Alphoncina Lyamuya |
8 pgs. |
| Sociotechnical Change: Tracing Flows, Languages, and Stakes Across Diverse Cases| Digital Diaspora and Nationhood: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Practices of Nationhood |
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Azeb Madebo |
7 pgs. |
| Sociotechnical Change: Tracing Flows, Languages, and Stakes Across Diverse Cases| “A Fountain Pen Come to Life”: The Anxieties of the Autopen |
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Pegah Moradi, Karen Levy |
9 pgs. |
| Sociotechnical Change: Tracing Flows, Languages, and Stakes Across Diverse Cases| The Stadium as Sociotechnical Change |
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Cerianne Robertson, Pratik Nyaupane |
7 pgs. |
| Sociotechnical Change: Tracing Flows, Languages, and Stakes Across Diverse Cases| Structures of Capital and Sociotechnical Change: The Case of Tech Startups and Venture Capital |
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Benjamin Shestakofsky, Caitlin Petre |
8 pgs. |
| Sociotechnical Change: Tracing Flows, Languages, and Stakes Across Diverse Cases| Counting on Stability: The Social Construction of the Los Angeles Homeless Count |
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Will Orr |
7 pgs. |
| Sociotechnical Change: Tracing Flows, Languages, and Stakes Across Diverse Cases| Pedestrian Mobilities at the Crossroads: The Contestation and Regulation of Jaywalking |
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Josh Widera |
7 pgs. |
More Forum
Features
| Members in Good Standing? The Relationship Between NoFap/Reboot Communities and the Manosphere |
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David S. Smith |
14 pgs. |
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Book Reviews
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Alex Preda, The Spectacle of Expertise: Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media |
PDF
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Reviewed by
Micky Lee |
3 pgs. |
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Dan McQuillan, Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence |
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Reviewed by
Florencio Cabello Fernández-Delgado |
4 pgs. |
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Eszter Hargittai (Ed.), Handbook of Digital Inequality |
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Reviewed by
Christopher Ali |
4 pgs. |
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Moya Bailey, Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance |
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Reviewed by
Hyejin Jo |
3 pgs. |
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E Cram, Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making The North American West |
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Reviewed by
Shelby R. Crow |
3 pgs. |
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Jennifer McClearen, Fighting Visibility: Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC |
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Reviewed by
Evan Brody |
3 pgs. |
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Larisa King Mann, Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Popular Music, Copyright, and the Reverberations of Colonial Power |
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Reviewed by
Jiaxi Hou |
3 pgs. |
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Meredith Broussard, More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech |
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Reviewed by
Melike Asli Sim |
3 pgs. |
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Sara Shaban, Iranian Feminism and Transnational Ethics in Media Discourse |
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Reviewed by
Laila Abbas |
3 pgs. |
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Amanda D. Lotz and Ramon Lobato (Eds.), Streaming Video: Storytelling Across Borders |
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Reviewed by
Melina Meimaridis |
4 pgs. |
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Janaki Srinivasan, The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India |
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Reviewed by
Rajdeep Pakanati |
4 pgs. |
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Johanna Dunaway and Kathleen Searles, News and Democratic Citizens in the Mobile Era |
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Reviewed by
Ana Melro |
4 pgs. |
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Richard Rogers and Sabine Niederer (Eds.), The Politics of Social Media Manipulation |
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Reviewed by
Qing Xu |
4 pgs. |
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Cory Barker, Social TV: Multi-Screen Content and Ephemeral Culture |
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Reviewed by
Aidan Moir |
3 pgs. |
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