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Vol 17 (2023)

Table of Contents

Articles

Influence of Public Service Media Consumption on Citizens’ Perceptions of the Need for Public Media: The Moderating Role of Political Ideology ABSTRACT PDF
Marcela Campos Rueda 21 pgs.
The Ambivalent Governance of Platformed Chinese Feminism Under Censorship: Weibo, Xianzi, and Her Friends ABSTRACT PDF
Yijia Gu, Luke Heemsbergen 22 pgs.
Manufacturing Humanitarian Imagery: Explaining Norwegian Refugee Council’s Public Communication Strategies Toward the Syrian and Central African Crises ABSTRACT PDF
David Ongenaert, Stijn Joye, Øyvind Ihlen 23 pgs.
Subscribe Now: On the Effectiveness of Advertising Messages in Promoting Newspapers’ Online Subscriptions ABSTRACT PDF
Bartosz Wilczek, Ina Schulte-Uentrop, Neil Thurman 17 pgs.
Uncovering Protest Paradigm Effect Processes: Representations and Perceptions of Media Protest Coverage Among Greek Youth ABSTRACT PDF
Alexandros Vlazakis, Aphrodite Baka 20 pgs.
When Distancing Fails—How Journalists’ Discursive and Mnemonic Techniques Facilitated the Rise of Trump and Trumpism ABSTRACT PDF
Jennifer R. Henrichsen 19 pgs.
Persuasive Communication Strategies in Breast Self-Awareness Messages: An International Perspective ABSTRACT PDF
Christine Skubisz 21 pgs.
Bayesian Multilevel Modeling and Its Application in Comparative Journalism Studies ABSTRACT PDF
Chung-Hong Chan, Adrian Rauchfleisch 22 pgs.
International News Media Coverage of Black Lives Matter: Evidence From Norway ABSTRACT PDF
Hilmar Mjelde 21 pgs.
Popes as Public Diplomats: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Vatican’s Foreign Engagement and Storytelling ABSTRACT PDF
Phillip Arceneaux 23 pgs.
Reporting in the Age of Coronavirus: Alternating Between “Shoe-Leather” and “Slippers” Journalism ABSTRACT PDF
Mirjana Pantic 18 pgs.
Media Parallelism Beyond the Political World: How Newspapers Push Economic Agendas Through Editorial Journalism ABSTRACT PDF
Deivison Henrique De Freitas Santos, Francisco Paulo Jamil Marques 23 pgs.
Networked Platform Governance: The Construction of the Democratic Platform ABSTRACT PDF
Robyn Caplan 22 pgs.
Understanding Fake News Corrective Action: A Mixed-Method Approach ABSTRACT PDF
Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Manuel Goyanes, Chris Skurka 23 pgs.
Testing the Role of Inspirational and Crime News Use in Self-Report Empathic Concern and Helping ABSTRACT PDF
Chun Yang, Masahiro Yamamoto 20 pgs.
The Impact of Advertisers on Media and Journalism in Transitional Democracies: The Case of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq ABSTRACT PDF
Jiyan Faris, Pieter Maeseele, Kevin Smets 20 pgs.
TikTok and COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation: New Avenues for Misinformation Spread, Popular Infodemic Topics, and Dangerous Logical Fallacies ABSTRACT PDF
Morgan Lundy 24 pgs.
Probing the Coping Processes Between Social Media (WhatsApp) Addiction and Mental Health During Social Distancing ABSTRACT PDF
Adil S. Al-Busaidi, Victoria Dauletova, Jean Claude Kwitonda 26 pgs.
Perceived Social Sanctions and Deindividuation: Understanding the Silencing Process on Social Media Platforms ABSTRACT PDF
Mustafa Oz, Esra Nur Oz Cetindere 22 pgs.
Doing “Reputation” in the Indian Context: An Employee Perspective ABSTRACT PDF
Avani Desai, Asha Kaul, Vidhi Chaudhri 26 pgs.
Between the Homefront and Battleground, Between TV and Smartphone: Evaluating the Use of a Second Screen in the May 2021 Israel-Palestine Crisis ABSTRACT PDF
Vered Elishar Malka, Yaron Ariel, Dana Weimann-Saks 17 pgs.
How Information Factors and Attitudes Relate to Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Role of Uncertainty in the Case of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill ABSTRACT PDF
Zhiwen Xiao, Jaesub Lee 24 pgs.
Exploring Resilience and Communicated Narrative Sense-Making in South Africans’ Stories of Apartheid ABSTRACT PDF
Haley Kranstuber Horstman, Athena Pedro, Tessa Goldschmidt, Olivia Watson, Maria Butauski 19 pgs.
The Fabulous East: On Peripheral Media Capitals and the Streaming Fantasy Television Genre ABSTRACT PDF
Timothy Havens 18 pgs.
Clusters of Dark Patterns Across Popular Websites in New Zealand ABSTRACT PDF
Cherie Lacey, Alex Beattie, Tristam Sparks 25 pgs.
Postmodern Without Modernization: Ages, Phases, and Stages of Political Communication and Digital Campaigns in Brazil (2010–2020) ABSTRACT PDF
Arthur Ituassu 21 pgs.
I am an Influencer and I Approve This Message! Examining How Political Social Media Influencers Affect Political Interest, Political Trust, Political Efficacy, and Political Participation ABSTRACT PDF
Ben Wasike 23 pgs.
Toward a Sociologically Enriched Understanding of Anti-Media Populism: The Case of Enough is Enough! ABSTRACT PDF
Torgeir Uberg Nærland 19 pgs.
Partners, Competitors, Frenemies: How Australian Advertising Professionals Understand the Market Power of Facebook and Google ABSTRACT PDF
Samuel Kininmonth, Ramon Lobato 19 pgs.
Social Audience and Emotional Bonding in Marvel's Transmedia Phenomenon: An Exploration of Peruvian Digital Communities ABSTRACT PDF
Tomás Atarama-Rojas, Beatriz Feijoo 18 pgs.
Politicizing, Personalizing, and Mobilizing in Online Political Communication: Drivers and Killers of Users’ Engagement ABSTRACT PDF
Milica Vuckovic 21 pgs.
Community Diversity Climate Impact on the Well-Being of Asian Americans Amid Anti-Asian Sentiment During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Two-Way Symmetrical Communication by Local Governments ABSTRACT PDF
Jo-Yun Li, Weiting Tao, Yeunjae Lee 21 pgs.
Are People Easily Duped by Disinformation? Experimental Evidence for Open Vigilance ABSTRACT PDF
Wuyao Ding, Yan Ge 24 pgs.
What Leads to Audience Issue Fatigue? A Linkage Analysis Study on the Effects of News Coverage on Fatigue From Ongoing News Issues ABSTRACT PDF
Gwendolin Gurr, Julia Metag 21 pgs.
Communication for Social Changemaking: A “New Spirit” in Media and Communication for Development and Social Change? ABSTRACT PDF
Jessica Noske-Turner 23 pgs.
Is Ubiquitous a Good Thing? The Vulnerability of Using Smartphones Among Seniors in Taiwan ABSTRACT PDF
Luc Chia-Shin Lin 23 pgs.
A Survey of U.S. Science Journalists’ Knowledge and Opinions of Open Access Research ABSTRACT PDF
Teresa Schultz 22 pgs.
Express Yourself? Political Conversation, Emotion Regulation, and the Expression of Political Emotions ABSTRACT PDF
Christina M. Henry, William P. Eveland, Jr. 22 pgs.
Chinese LGBTQ+ Online Social Movements: A Comparative Study Between the Collective Identity Framings in the #IAmGay and #IAmLes Protests ABSTRACT PDF
Xing Huang 21 pgs.
“Influencers” or “Doctors”? Physicians’ Presentation of Self in YouTube and Facebook Videos ABSTRACT PDF
Noha Atef, Alice Fleerackers, Juan Pablo Alperin 24 pgs.
Media Use and Political Trust in Kenya: Media Malaise or Virtuous Circle? ABSTRACT PDF
Gilbert Kipkoech 22 pgs.
Predicting Romantic Comedy Success From Content ABSTRACT PDF
Melissa M. Moore, Yotam Ophir 22 pgs.
Microaggression Terminology in Communications on Twitter: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis ABSTRACT PDF
Iain Alexander Smith, Amanda Griffiths, Kevin Harvey 25 pgs.
Changing Narratives: An Evaluation of Pakistan’s Public Diplomacy Efforts Under Imran Khan ABSTRACT PDF
Ravale Mohydin 23 pgs.
Platformization in Local Cultural Production: Korean Platform Companies and the K-Pop Industry ABSTRACT PDF
Seoyeon Park, Hyejin Jo, Taeyoung Kim 22 pgs.
Does Relational Polarization Entail Ideological Polarization? The Case of the 2017 Norwegian Election Campaign on Twitter ABSTRACT PDF
Bernard Enjolras 28 pgs.
Immigrant Characters in Spanish Audiovisual Broadcast on Platforms ABSTRACT PDF
María Marcos-Ramos, Ariadna Angulo-Brunet, Beatriz González-de-Garay 27 pgs.
The Great Reset and the Cultural Boundaries of Conspiracy Theory ABSTRACT PDF
Michael Christensen, Ashli Au 19 pgs.
Seeking Online Health Information for Aged Parents in China: A Multigroup Comparison of the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking Based on eHealth Literacy Levels ABSTRACT PDF
Xin Ma, Liang Chen 22 pgs.
Imagined Audiences and Activist Orientations of Migrant Advocacy Organizations ABSTRACT PDF
Sara DeTurk 17 pgs.
Reconsidering Misinformation in WhatsApp Groups: Informational and Social Predictors of Risk Perceptions and Corrections ABSTRACT PDF
Ozan Kuru, Scott W. Campbell, Joseph B. Bayer, Lemi Baruh, Richard S. Ling 23 pgs.
Far Removed From Heteronormativity: Marriage and Same-Sex Couples in a Spanish TV News Program (2011–2020) ABSTRACT PDF
Adolfo Carratalá 21 pgs.
The Development of Local News Collaboration: A Population Ecology Perspective ABSTRACT PDF
Wilson Lowrey, Nicholas R. Buzzelli, Ryan Broussard 22 pgs.
#TrendingNow: How Twitter Trends Impact Social and Personal Agendas? ABSTRACT PDF
Maggie Mengqing Zhang, Yee Man Margaret Ng 20 pgs.
Perceived Exposure to Misinformation and Trust in Institutions in Four Countries Before and During a Pandemic ABSTRACT PDF
Shelley Boulianne, Edda Humprecht 24 pgs.
A Cross-Country Study of Comparative Optimism About Privacy Risks on Social Media ABSTRACT PDF
Hichang Cho, Miriam Metzger, Sabine Trepte, Elmie Nekmat 21 pgs.
Media Representations of Nüding in China (2005–2015) ABSTRACT PDF
Chao Lu, Ke Zhang, Jingyuan Zhang 19 pgs.
Visual Models for Social Media Image Analysis: Groupings, Engagement, Trends, and Rankings ABSTRACT PDF
Gabriele Colombo, Liliana Bounegru, Jonathan Gray 28 pgs.
Comparing the Effects of Traditional Media and Social Media Use on General Trust in China During the COVID-19 Pandemic ABSTRACT PDF
Mengru Sun, Xiang Meng, Wencai Hu 21 pgs.
Fans’ Practice of Reporting: A Study of the Structure of Data Fan Labor on Chinese Social Media ABSTRACT PDF
Haoyang Zhai, Wilfred Yang Wang 22 pgs.
“I Have Learnt These Things by Myself, Because I Always Thought That I Must Overcompensate for My Disability”: Learning to Perform Dis/abled Identity in Social Media ABSTRACT PDF
Nomy Bitman 20 pgs.
Digital Patronage: Toward a New Model of Building a Radio Station ABSTRACT PDF
Patryk Galuszka, Piotr Chmielewski 19 pgs.
Governmentality in North American and Post-Soviet Political Discourses: An Analysis of Presidential Speeches and Their Analogues in the United States, Canada, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan Delivered From 1993 to 2021 ABSTRACT PDF
Anton Oleinik 24 pgs.
When Right-Wing Populism Becomes Distorted Public Health Communication: Tracing the Roots of Jair Bolsonaro’s Epidemiological Denialism ABSTRACT PDF
Stuart Davis, João V. S. Ozawa, Joseph Straubhaar, Samuel Woolley 19 pgs.
10,000 Social Media Users Can(not) Be Wrong: The Effects of Popularity Cues and User Comments on Sharing Controversial Social Media News Stories ABSTRACT PDF
Arjen van Dalen 20 pgs.
Online Pre-Events During the COVID-19 Pandemic ABSTRACT PDF
Luigi Di Martino, Lukasz Swiatek 21 pgs.
“We’re Not Just Telling Stories, We’re Changing Lives”: Dhar Mann’s Progressive Neoliberalism ABSTRACT PDF
Sean T. Leavey 18 pgs.
Contact-Tracing Apps as Boundary Objects of Pandemic Governance: The State-by-State Approach to Contain the Spread of COVID-19 in the United States ABSTRACT PDF
Eugene Jang, Jeeyun (Sophia) Baik, Katrin Fischer 22 pgs.
A Transactional Framework of Parenting for Children’s Internet Use: A Narrative Review of Parental Self-Efficacy, Mediation, and Awareness of Online Risks ABSTRACT PDF
Seffetullah Kuldas, Aikaterini Sargioti, James O'Higgins Norman, Elisabeth Staksrud 20 pgs.
The Linguistic and Message Features Driving Information Diffusion on Twitter: The Case of #RevolutionNow in Nigeria ABSTRACT PDF
Oluwabusayo Okunloye, Kerk F. Kee, R. Glenn Cummins, Weiwu Zhang 22 pgs.
Two Trusts and a Court: Adapting Legal Mechanisms for Building Trust in Technology Governance ABSTRACT PDF
Opeyemi Akanbi, Stephanie Hill 20 pgs.
Do Not Use This Hashtag: Fat Acceptance (Mis)information and Discursive Boundary-Work as Content Moderation on Instagram ABSTRACT PDF
Melissa Zimdars 21 pgs.
Race, Class, and Sonic Autonomy in the Tower Blocks: Pirate Radio’s Exilic Possibilities ABSTRACT PDF
Larisa Kingston Mann 20 pgs.
Political Relational Influencers: The Mobilization of Social Media Influencers in the Political Arena ABSTRACT PDF
Anastasia Goodwin, Katie Joseff, Martin J. Riedl, Josephine Lukito, Samuel Woolley 21 pgs.
Changing Mass Media Consumption Patterns Before/After Relocation: East Asian International Students’ Mass Media Use and Acculturation Strategies ABSTRACT PDF
Lin Li, Chengyuan Shao 21 pgs.
Temporal Citizen Science After Fukushima ABSTRACT PDF
Yasuhito Abe 19 pgs.
Managing Pandemic Communication Online: Turkish Ministry of Health’s Digital Communication Strategies During COVID-19 ABSTRACT PDF
Emel Ozdora Aksak, Ergin Şafak Dikmen, Nilüfer Pinar Kiliç 22 pgs.
Journalistic Role Performance of the Thai Press on the Issue of Transgender Rights ABSTRACT PDF
Nattawaj Kijratanakoson 23 pgs.
From Westernization to Internationalization: Research Collaboration Networks of Communication Scholars From Central and Eastern Europe ABSTRACT PDF
Marton Demeter, Dina Vozab, Francisco José Segado Boj 21 pgs.
Morally Driven and Emotionally Fueled: The Interactive Effects of Values and Emotions in the Social Transmission of Information Endorsing E-cigarettes ABSTRACT PDF
Jiaxi Wu, Yunwen Wang, Yusi Aveva Xu, Jessica L. Fetterman, Traci Hong 21 pgs.
Knowledge Work in Platform Fact-Checking Partnerships ABSTRACT PDF
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, Rebekah Larsen, Lucas Graves, Oscar Westlund 21 pgs.
Plant-Based Meat and the Perceived Familiarity Gap Hypothesis: The Role of Health and Environmental Consciousness ABSTRACT PDF
Pengya Ai, Sofia Contreras-Yap, Shirley S. Ho 22 pgs.
Googling in Russian Abroad: How Kremlin-Affiliated Websites Contribute to the Visibility of COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories in Search Results ABSTRACT PDF
Florian Toepfl, Anna Ryzhova, Daria Kravets, Arista Beseler 21 pgs.
Echo Chambers, Cognitive Thinking Styles, and Mistrust? Examining the Roles Information Sources and Information Processing Play in Conspiracist Ideation ABSTRACT PDF
Brian McKernan, Patrícia Rossini, Jennifer Stromer-Galley 24 pgs.
Meditating the Revolution: Analysis of the Sudanese Professionals Association Communicative Strategies During Sudan’s 2018–2019 Revolution ABSTRACT PDF
Hala A. Guta 19 pgs.
A Persuadable Type? Personality Traits, Dissonant Information, and Political Persuasion ABSTRACT PDF
Alessandro Nai, Yves Schemeil, Chiara Valli 22 pgs.
More a Red Herring Than a Harbinger of Democracy: Myanmar’s Experiment With Media Freedom and Domestic Media Coverage of the Rohingya ABSTRACT PDF
Halle M. Young, Nicole Anderson, Mona S. Kleinberg, Jenifer Whitten-Woodring 23 pgs.
The Politics of Being a K-Pop Fan: Korean Fandom and the “Cancel the Japan Tour” Protest ABSTRACT PDF
Jennifer M. Kang 19 pgs.
“Seeing but not Believing”: Undergraduate Students’ Media Uses and News Trust ABSTRACT PDF
Ana Isabel Melro, Sara Pereira 26 pgs.
Blame It on the Algorithm? Russian Government-Sponsored Media and Algorithmic Curation of Political Information on Facebook ABSTRACT PDF
Elizaveta Kuznetsova, Mykola Makhortykh 22 pgs.
Making Sense of Human Advocacy Narrative: Raising Support for People Seeking Asylum Among Diverse Audiences ABSTRACT PDF
Merrilyn Delporte, Bree Hurst, Jennifer Bartlett, Caroline Hatcher 24 pgs.
Migrating Counterpublics: German Far-Right Online Groups on Russian Social Media ABSTRACT PDF
Vadim Voskresenskii 21 pgs.
Diraya.media—Learning Media Literacy With and From Media Activists ABSTRACT PDF
Philipp Seuferling, Ingrid Forsler, Gretchen King, Isabel Löfgren, Farah Saati 19 pgs.
“We Have No Newspapers . . . Dull! Dull!”: Mass Media Dependency During the American Civil War ABSTRACT PDF
Betty Houchin Winfield, Chad Painter 19 pgs.
From the Global to the Local and Back Again: MFAs’ Digital Communications During COVID-19 ABSTRACT PDF
Ilan Manor, Moran Yrachi 22 pgs.
Collaborative I-Docs Beyond the Screens: Face-to-Face Participation Processes in Interactive Non-Fiction ABSTRACT PDF
Juanjo Balaguer, Arnau Gifreu-Castells 19 pgs.
Cuteness in Mobile Messaging: An Exploration of Virtual “Cute” Sticker Use in China and the United States ABSTRACT PDF
Dongdong Yang, Laura Labato, Shardé M. Davis, Yuren Qin 22 pgs.
Health, Concerns, and Finance: News Framing of Wearing Masks in China From 2001 to 2020 ABSTRACT PDF
Zhifei Mao, Huaxin Peng, Di Wang, Mengfan He, Kun Zhou 18 pgs.
Language Ideologies and Behavioral Attitudes Toward Ethnolinguistic Outgroups: Perceived Linguistic Competence and Intergroup Anxiety as Explanatory Variables ABSTRACT PDF
Gretchen Montgomery-Vestecka, Yan Bing Zhang 21 pgs.
Social Entrepreneurship Versus Conventional Entrepreneurship: How Entrepreneurship Orientation Moderates the Effects of Human Capital and Social Capital Signals on Media Crowdfunding Success ABSTRACT PDF
Jiyoung Cha 25 pgs.
Crisis Communication on Twitter: Differences Between User Types in Top Tweets About the 2015 “Refugee Crisis” in Germany ABSTRACT PDF
Sanja Kapidzic, Felix Frey, Christoph Neuberger, Stefan Stieglitz, Milad Mirbabaie 20 pgs.
“A Very Difficult Choice”: Bolsonaro and Petismo in Brazilian Newspapers ABSTRACT PDF
Juliana Gagliardi, Camilla Tavares, Afonso de Albuquerque 19 pgs.
Processing Vaccine Misinformation: Recall and Effects of Source Type on Claim Accuracy via Perceived Motivations and Credibility ABSTRACT PDF
Michelle A. Amazeen, Arunima Krishna 23 pgs.
From System to Skill: Palo Alto Group’s Contested Legacy of Communication ABSTRACT PDF
Yonatan Fialkoff, Amit Pinchevski 19 pgs.
User Perceptions and Trust of Explainable Machine Learning Fake News Detectors ABSTRACT PDF
Jieun Shin, Sylvia Chan-Olmsted 23 pgs.
Activists and Journalists as Co-Creators and Co-Revisionists of U.S. Histories: The 1619 New York Times Project ABSTRACT PDF
Elaine Almeida, Sue Robinson 19 pgs.
When Do Data Collection and Use Become a Matter of Concern? A Cross-Cultural Comparison of U.S. and Dutch Privacy Attitudes ABSTRACT PDF
Jessica Vitak, Yuting Liao, Anouk Mols, Daniel Trottier, Michael Zimmer, Priya C. Kumar, Jason Pridmore 28 pgs.
Cues Signaling Gender Segregation and Gender Inclusion in Public Spaces Affect Adolescents’ Binary Conceptualization of Gender and Attitudes Toward Transgender and Nonbinary People ABSTRACT PDF
Traci K. Gillig, Sonia Jawaid Shaikh, Leila Bighash 24 pgs.
Self- and Social Corrections on Instant Messaging Platforms ABSTRACT PDF
Sheryl Wei Ting Ng, Taberez Ahmed Neyazi 21 pgs.
Is the MENA Surfing to the Extremes? Digital and Social Media, Echo Chambers/Filter Bubbles, and Attitude Extremity ABSTRACT PDF
Kevin M. Wagner, Jason Gainous, Allison Warnersmith, Dane Warner 21 pgs.
The New American Dream: Neoliberal Transformation as Character Development in Schitt’s Creek ABSTRACT PDF
William Joseph Sipe 17 pgs.
Distinction and Cosmopolitanism: Latin American Middle-Class, Elite Audiences and Their Preferences for Transnational Television and Film ABSTRACT PDF
Joseph Straubhaar, Melissa Santillana, Vanessa de Macedo Higgins-Joyce, Luiz G. Duarte 23 pgs.
Social Media and Protest Behavior in a Restrictive Traditional Media Environment: The Case of the Philippines ABSTRACT PDF
Jason P. Abbott, Jason Gainous, Kevin M. Wagner 20 pgs.
The Mediating Role of Depression in the Relationship Between News Consumption and Interparty Hostility During Covid-19 ABSTRACT PDF
Meital Balmas, Renana Atia, Eran Halperin 27 pgs.
“They Just Want to Erase Us”: Triumphant Modernity and Catastrophic Witnessing in Debates About Genocide in Xinjiang ABSTRACT PDF
Stephen J. Hartnett, Andrew Gilmore 23 pgs.
A Systematic Literature Review of Research From 2010 to 2020 Addressing User-Generated Online Comments Related to Health Issues and Recommendations for Future Research ABSTRACT PDF
Muhammad Ittefaq, Mauryne Abwao, Ioana A. Coman, Waqas Ejaz 25 pgs.
A Leader and a Lady? A Computational Approach to Detection of Political Gender Stereotypes in Facebook User Comments ABSTRACT PDF
Aliya Andrich, Emese Domahidi 20 pgs.
Believing in Credibility Measures: Reviewing Credibility Measures in Media Research From 1951 to 2018 ABSTRACT PDF
Anina Hanimann, Andri Heimann, Lea Hellmueller, Damian Trilling 22 pgs.
A Multiple-Stakeholder Perspective of Patient–Provider Communication Among Families With Rare Diseases in Taiwan Through a Cross-Cultural Lens ABSTRACT PDF
Jinli Wu, Hsinyi Hsiao, Lei Chen, Chun-Ying Weng, Pao-Sheng Chang, Shao-Yin Chu 22 pgs.
Intergroup Contact, Traditional and Social Media Use, and Attitudes Toward Chinese People in COVID-19: U.S. College Students’ Perspective ABSTRACT PDF
Yan Bing Zhang, Teri Terigele, Molly Han, Sile Li, Yang Yu, Racheal Ruble 21 pgs.
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Carman K. M. Fung 21 pgs.
Queer Cultures in Digital Asia| Tracing Dystopian Insta-Emotions Among Hong Kong Trans Men ABSTRACT PDF
Denise Tse-Shang Tang 19 pgs.
Queer Cultures in Digital Asia| Participatory Censorship and Digital Queer Fandom: The Commercialization of Boys’ Love Culture in China ABSTRACT PDF
Yiming Wang, Jia Tan 19 pgs.
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Manuel Menke, Berber Hagedoorn 12 pgs.
Digital Memory and Populism| Populists’ Use of Nostalgia: A Supervised Machine Learning Approach ABSTRACT PDF
Lena Frischlich, Lena Clever, Tim Wulf, Tim Wildschut, Constantine Sedikides 25 pgs.
Digital Memory and Populism| Commemorative Populism in the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Strategic (Ab)use of Memory in Anti-Corona Protest Communication on Telegram ABSTRACT PDF
Christian Schwarzenegger, Anna Wagner 19 pgs.
Digital Memory and Populism| Radical-Right Populist Media Discourse in Social Media and Counter Strategies: Case Study of #ConfederateHeritageMonth 2021 Twitter Campaign ABSTRACT PDF
Krzysztof Wasilewski 23 pgs.
Digital Memory and Populism| Deploying Private Memory in the Virtual Sphere: Feminist Activism Against Gender-Based Violence in Mexico ABSTRACT PDF
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